I don't believe education needs to be de-funded. What I believe it needs to be is de-centrulized. I've observed for the past administrations, they seem to want to bring all education under one directly controlled off. An have one core plan that is implemented across the nation.
This would work if all school districts where the same. Well they are not. A class room plan designed for the south side of Chicago will not work in South California. The cultures are to different.
I believe that all the administrations, including the current, make the same mistake in thinking that their core supporters represent a majority in the country. The Obama administration drafted a progressive education plan that suited its goals. The Trump administration is doing the exact same thing but with a conservative slant.
Still a good point and it is true. But I guess it depends on what state you are in. Less so in the midwest and south. But more true in the new england and west cost regions.
I counsel any young person that is curious to stay out of IT.
That is actually very good advice. I have a IT job and I do love it but that is because I actually do like what I do. I know plenty of IT workers that hate their jobs because it's not what they do.
I plan to stick with IT for a few more years then go back to school and obtain my third degree in ether a science like physics or paleontology/archeology. Some thing like that.
The reason for this is the current generation looks down on blue collar work thinking that its beneath them. This myth is propagated by many high schools with the elimination of shop and auto mechanics classes.
This isn't helped at the university level where lots of liberal teachers preach that blue collar workers are nothing but a bunch of dumb hicks that are not smart enough to find something better.
Truth be told lots of the blue collar work today requires ether at least one advanced degree or months of apprenticeship.
4K monitors are not as great as you think they are. I upgraded to a samsung 28" monitor a year ago thinking the same thing. To actually be able to see anything I had to increase the UI to 150% of normal. So basically I had the same amount of deskspace just on a bigger monitor.
It does pretty good when I need to put a whole page of text on a screen but I imagine that could be done on a standard HD 28" screen.
Don't get me wrong, if you can get one get it. It does help with somethings. Just don't think it will be a night and day difference.
Very hard? I would almost say impossible. I've actually been pricing UHD tv's for the greater part of a year now. One of the requirements is I want a dumb one. But there are none to be had.
My current tv is a 6 year old visio. It started life as a smart tv then gradually all the apps stopped working and where never updated. I said "fuck it" and bought a ruko.
Keep it. I have a 4K monitor for gaming, but there are very few videos exist at 4K that make me go wow. There are a few, mostly nature documentaries that will do it. I have yet to see a 4K movie worth the extra cost.
You started it, hippie, I just ran with it, hippie. You know how I know you're hippie? Because you where the only one that responded with butt hurt, hippie.
An yes, Fukushima would never have happened if it wasn't for your smelly hippie groupies. So are you an original hippie or one of these new generation of hippies?
An your just a smelly hippie that has not concept of history.
Fukushima was a originally build General Electric which meant that it was a U.S. designed reactor. You, know one like your smelly brethren decided to protest the design of?
So, yes, if people like you, hippie, had kept your yaps shut and stuck to protesting stuff you know about. Mainly badly made bongs, then Fukushima would have more than likely been ether replace with a better design or build from the ground up with better technology.
So back in your hold smelly hippie, education isn't for you.
You think because we prefer streaming that we don't go to live performances or have large collections of CD and purchased mp3s? So wrong on so many levels. Actually, since I found Spoitfy I've bought more music in that time that I bought in the last 10 years.
Spotify has over 30 million songs, and that is not just the crap the RIAA says is "music." That is thousands of independent labels at artists too, thousands. Without Spotify most of these artists would remain unknown or only to niche regions. Thanks to Spotify these artists can have air play all over the world.
Yes, Spotify does have computer generated playlist of music that it recommends but instead of being forced on me industry heads that wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the ass, these playlists are generated based on what I like. Mostly smooth jazz and blues. An again thanks to that 30 million track database the play lists will include artist that I wouldn't normally every hear. Did you know the Netherlands has some damn good blues artists? I actually heard some at Fogbound one night and explored the offerings they had on streaming.
An then there is the social media aspect of Spotify. As a memeber I can publish my playlists for other members to listen too. There is one member with a smooth jazz playlist with 1200+ tracks and 63,000 followers. There is also a big honking Frank Sinatra playlist too but that isn't a big deal since I have almost all of Frank on CD anyway. I have a lot of Frank on vinyl but those are collectors items now. But I also have a friends list that and these "friends" like the same tastes in music that I do so I can see what they are listening too and get recommendations from them. So you see, its not just what Spotify recommends its also music lovers recommending music to other music lovers.
I do live performances too. Actually, since I joined Spotify I've went to 3 times as many live concerts as I normally would have last year. Under the artist profile if they are playing near me there will be a icon that has show dates and I can get tickets through them. Spotify makes it so easy.
To bad you view music as crap and has zero monetary value. Maybe since you view it as crap that probably means you have crap tastes in music. You should broaden your horizons. Grab a icecast streaming app, they are free, and explore.
It's not at tenuous as it looks if you think it all the way through. Sure, I admit that a lot of very iffy and there are a lot of different directions that we could have went with this.
I don't hold any thing against the hippies that just protested nuclear weapons, that was a good thing. Even some of those that protested peaceful use of nuclear power did raise awareness of some of the issues. But what gets me the most is they continued to protest nuclear research.
If nuclear research would have continued the "unsafe" designs we have today, designed in the '60 and the '70s would have been replaced long ago with cleaner and more efficient systems. We would have built new with the new designs instead of building a cheap coal plant. With continued research we might not even be using uranium as a fission resource any more. Thorumn and pebble bed reactors might be the norm instead of still in the research phase.
Project Orion and nuclear aircraft in the atmosphere where just plan foolishness. I'm thinking of nerva rockets and orion in space. Thanks to hippie bullshit this scared the establishment enough to add it to the list of banned things in space.
As for wars in Africa and the connection to fusion. Yeah, that is a bit of the stretch but there is a possibility. What are wars caused over? Mostly resources and ideological idiocy. We can't do much about the ideological idiocy, stupid is as stupid does, or something like that. With fusion we could have done something about the resources.
The problem with resource is, it not that we don't have enough resource. It is we don't have enough resources that are cheaply available. When it comes down to it what is the currency of civilization? It's not money or anything like that. Those are just tangible means that we use to place value on the real currency. The real currency is energy.
It costs energy to do everything from processing goods to moving them. If the promise that fusion might have delivered of cheap clean energy would have come true then cost would no lounger be an issue. With fusion energy desalination of sea water would not be a issue, so no more clean water problems. We could afford to mine and process resources that it wasn't economic to do before. We may have even moved those operations off planet completely.
I know the fusion connection is really really far out there, but it could have happened. To bad we will never know.
Cheap as fucking hell they are. I pay 15 a month for the family play. I have 5 people on my account. So basically we are paying $3 for each stream with unlimited access.
clean as chernobyl? reliable as three mile island? safe as fukushima?
Three Mile Island was over blown by the media and was caused by human error. The safety systems in place worked exactly as designed. No significant level of radiation was attributed to the TMI-2 accident outside of the TMI-2 facility
Chernobyl was a old style reactor designed in the '50. It was a cluster fuck waiting to happen.
Fukushima actually proves my point. Fukushima was a design from the '70. Since the fucking hippies had shut down all research into new nuclear systems there wasn't anything better available. If the hippies had just stuck to nuclear weapons then Fukushima wouldn't have happened be cause it wouldn't have existed. It would have been replaced long ago with a much safer system.
Jesus Christ, I'm pro-nuke and even I think your post is completely slanted horseshit
Oh I fully admit that it's slanted, it's slanted as hell. But it isn't horseshit. I wish it was but it isn't. In fact if you stretch it out you can almost tie every problem we have today from climate change to wars in Africa right at the feet of the '60s hippies.
You see, the anti nuke movement didn't just stick to protesting nuclear weapons. They protested everything nuclear, fucking thing. From nuclear weapons, to nuclear medicine, right down to peaceful use of nuclear energy. But they didn't limit their fucking bitching to real issues, they protested nuclear research.
Thanks to all this protesting nuclear research ground to halt. They are the reason that no new reactors have been commissioned and we are still stuck with coal burning plants. Their protest shut down all research in to new reactors so we are stuck with designs from '60s and '70s.
But the biggest crime is the protests also stopped almost all funding for fusion research. If the hippies had stopped at nuclear weapons we might have working fusion reactors, which would have solved all our energy problems.
I'll stop here now because you don't to get me bitch'n about what the hippy protest did to our expansion in to space with nuclear engines.
Give it up man, Ubuntu or Debian are both viable options + no spyware, what's not to love?
Well not being able to play most games for one. Two, not being able to take part in most computer related events. No real support for VR or 3d printer support.
There would be no secrecy. You maybe able to keep government source like NASA silent. You would still have to deal with all the university astronomy projects. But lets say you managed to keep the university programs secret, then you need to deal with the hundreds of thousands of amateur astronomers.
An these are only U.S. based projects. There are still 200 countries in the world, most with their own astronomy programs. You are not going to keep a extinction level asteroid secret for long.
Deep time is time scales on the hundreds of millions of years, up to the billions. Time scales so huge that entire contents can be subsided and reborn. Your gold coin tossed in the dirt would be slowly crushed and molded by forces over millions of years. So much so that it would be broken back up into is component atoms eventually.
We still don't know how life got its start on this planet alone. Not to mention other planets. We have a good working theory, but its just a theory. Who really knows. Our planet could have been seeded by a advanced civilization 2 billion years ago with some kind of cosmic yeast. They would come back to our planet every few years and harvest the yeast as a food stock. Then that advance society could have went extinct, say some great telepathic war. Then over time we simply evolved from this yeast food stock in to our present civilization.
Why would an ancient civilization use nuclear power?
Because it's a clean, reliable, and safe means of generating electricity for a technologically advanced society to use. Assuming they don't have a bunch of smelly fucking hippies get in the way of developing into such clean, reliable, and safe source of power.
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Well damn. That is probably one of the best written things I've read here on /.. Well done.
Education needs de-funded
I don't believe education needs to be de-funded. What I believe it needs to be is de-centrulized. I've observed for the past administrations, they seem to want to bring all education under one directly controlled off. An have one core plan that is implemented across the nation.
This would work if all school districts where the same. Well they are not. A class room plan designed for the south side of Chicago will not work in South California. The cultures are to different.
I believe that all the administrations, including the current, make the same mistake in thinking that their core supporters represent a majority in the country. The Obama administration drafted a progressive education plan that suited its goals. The Trump administration is doing the exact same thing but with a conservative slant.
Still a good point and it is true. But I guess it depends on what state you are in. Less so in the midwest and south. But more true in the new england and west cost regions.
I counsel any young person that is curious to stay out of IT.
That is actually very good advice. I have a IT job and I do love it but that is because I actually do like what I do. I know plenty of IT workers that hate their jobs because it's not what they do.
I plan to stick with IT for a few more years then go back to school and obtain my third degree in ether a science like physics or paleontology/archeology. Some thing like that.
The reason for this is the current generation looks down on blue collar work thinking that its beneath them. This myth is propagated by many high schools with the elimination of shop and auto mechanics classes.
This isn't helped at the university level where lots of liberal teachers preach that blue collar workers are nothing but a bunch of dumb hicks that are not smart enough to find something better.
Truth be told lots of the blue collar work today requires ether at least one advanced degree or months of apprenticeship.
4K monitors are not as great as you think they are. I upgraded to a samsung 28" monitor a year ago thinking the same thing. To actually be able to see anything I had to increase the UI to 150% of normal. So basically I had the same amount of deskspace just on a bigger monitor.
It does pretty good when I need to put a whole page of text on a screen but I imagine that could be done on a standard HD 28" screen.
Don't get me wrong, if you can get one get it. It does help with somethings. Just don't think it will be a night and day difference.
Very hard? I would almost say impossible. I've actually been pricing UHD tv's for the greater part of a year now. One of the requirements is I want a dumb one. But there are none to be had.
My current tv is a 6 year old visio. It started life as a smart tv then gradually all the apps stopped working and where never updated. I said "fuck it" and bought a ruko.
Keep it. I have a 4K monitor for gaming, but there are very few videos exist at 4K that make me go wow. There are a few, mostly nature documentaries that will do it. I have yet to see a 4K movie worth the extra cost.
Your still paying for it. I just know the cost of what I'm paying.
Does Yahoo have 35 million laying around? I Yahoo even worth this much to verizon?
You started it, hippie, I just ran with it, hippie. You know how I know you're hippie? Because you where the only one that responded with butt hurt, hippie.
An yes, Fukushima would never have happened if it wasn't for your smelly hippie groupies. So are you an original hippie or one of these new generation of hippies?
An your just a smelly hippie that has not concept of history.
Fukushima was a originally build General Electric which meant that it was a U.S. designed reactor. You, know one like your smelly brethren decided to protest the design of?
So, yes, if people like you, hippie, had kept your yaps shut and stuck to protesting stuff you know about. Mainly badly made bongs, then Fukushima would have more than likely been ether replace with a better design or build from the ground up with better technology.
So back in your hold smelly hippie, education isn't for you.
You think because we prefer streaming that we don't go to live performances or have large collections of CD and purchased mp3s? So wrong on so many levels. Actually, since I found Spoitfy I've bought more music in that time that I bought in the last 10 years.
Spotify has over 30 million songs, and that is not just the crap the RIAA says is "music." That is thousands of independent labels at artists too, thousands. Without Spotify most of these artists would remain unknown or only to niche regions. Thanks to Spotify these artists can have air play all over the world.
Yes, Spotify does have computer generated playlist of music that it recommends but instead of being forced on me industry heads that wouldn't know good music if it bit them in the ass, these playlists are generated based on what I like. Mostly smooth jazz and blues. An again thanks to that 30 million track database the play lists will include artist that I wouldn't normally every hear. Did you know the Netherlands has some damn good blues artists? I actually heard some at Fogbound one night and explored the offerings they had on streaming.
An then there is the social media aspect of Spotify. As a memeber I can publish my playlists for other members to listen too. There is one member with a smooth jazz playlist with 1200+ tracks and 63,000 followers. There is also a big honking Frank Sinatra playlist too but that isn't a big deal since I have almost all of Frank on CD anyway. I have a lot of Frank on vinyl but those are collectors items now. But I also have a friends list that and these "friends" like the same tastes in music that I do so I can see what they are listening too and get recommendations from them. So you see, its not just what Spotify recommends its also music lovers recommending music to other music lovers.
I do live performances too. Actually, since I joined Spotify I've went to 3 times as many live concerts as I normally would have last year. Under the artist profile if they are playing near me there will be a icon that has show dates and I can get tickets through them. Spotify makes it so easy.
To bad you view music as crap and has zero monetary value. Maybe since you view it as crap that probably means you have crap tastes in music. You should broaden your horizons. Grab a icecast streaming app, they are free, and explore.
That is a graphic but very accurate way of putting. I will admit I know nothing about this appointment or that it was even pending today.
I'm doing my part. I'm eating as many of the damn things as I can!
Are we for or against this nomination, or do we not care?
That's REAL tenuous
It's not at tenuous as it looks if you think it all the way through. Sure, I admit that a lot of very iffy and there are a lot of different directions that we could have went with this.
I don't hold any thing against the hippies that just protested nuclear weapons, that was a good thing. Even some of those that protested peaceful use of nuclear power did raise awareness of some of the issues. But what gets me the most is they continued to protest nuclear research.
If nuclear research would have continued the "unsafe" designs we have today, designed in the '60 and the '70s would have been replaced long ago with cleaner and more efficient systems. We would have built new with the new designs instead of building a cheap coal plant. With continued research we might not even be using uranium as a fission resource any more. Thorumn and pebble bed reactors might be the norm instead of still in the research phase.
Project Orion and nuclear aircraft in the atmosphere where just plan foolishness. I'm thinking of nerva rockets and orion in space. Thanks to hippie bullshit this scared the establishment enough to add it to the list of banned things in space.
As for wars in Africa and the connection to fusion. Yeah, that is a bit of the stretch but there is a possibility. What are wars caused over? Mostly resources and ideological idiocy. We can't do much about the ideological idiocy, stupid is as stupid does, or something like that. With fusion we could have done something about the resources.
The problem with resource is, it not that we don't have enough resource. It is we don't have enough resources that are cheaply available. When it comes down to it what is the currency of civilization? It's not money or anything like that. Those are just tangible means that we use to place value on the real currency. The real currency is energy.
It costs energy to do everything from processing goods to moving them. If the promise that fusion might have delivered of cheap clean energy would have come true then cost would no lounger be an issue. With fusion energy desalination of sea water would not be a issue, so no more clean water problems. We could afford to mine and process resources that it wasn't economic to do before. We may have even moved those operations off planet completely.
I know the fusion connection is really really far out there, but it could have happened. To bad we will never know.
If you enjoy the crap that your "free" services tell you to listen too, along with the other crap they stick in, them more power to you.
Cheap as fucking hell they are. I pay 15 a month for the family play. I have 5 people on my account. So basically we are paying $3 for each stream with unlimited access.
clean as chernobyl? reliable as three mile island? safe as fukushima?
Three Mile Island was over blown by the media and was caused by human error. The safety systems in place worked exactly as designed. No significant level of radiation was attributed to the TMI-2 accident outside of the TMI-2 facility
Chernobyl was a old style reactor designed in the '50. It was a cluster fuck waiting to happen.
Fukushima actually proves my point. Fukushima was a design from the '70. Since the fucking hippies had shut down all research into new nuclear systems there wasn't anything better available. If the hippies had just stuck to nuclear weapons then Fukushima wouldn't have happened be cause it wouldn't have existed. It would have been replaced long ago with a much safer system.
Jesus Christ, I'm pro-nuke and even I think your post is completely slanted horseshit
Oh I fully admit that it's slanted, it's slanted as hell. But it isn't horseshit. I wish it was but it isn't. In fact if you stretch it out you can almost tie every problem we have today from climate change to wars in Africa right at the feet of the '60s hippies.
You see, the anti nuke movement didn't just stick to protesting nuclear weapons. They protested everything nuclear, fucking thing. From nuclear weapons, to nuclear medicine, right down to peaceful use of nuclear energy. But they didn't limit their fucking bitching to real issues, they protested nuclear research.
Thanks to all this protesting nuclear research ground to halt. They are the reason that no new reactors have been commissioned and we are still stuck with coal burning plants. Their protest shut down all research in to new reactors so we are stuck with designs from '60s and '70s.
But the biggest crime is the protests also stopped almost all funding for fusion research. If the hippies had stopped at nuclear weapons we might have working fusion reactors, which would have solved all our energy problems.
I'll stop here now because you don't to get me bitch'n about what the hippy protest did to our expansion in to space with nuclear engines.
Give it up man, Ubuntu or Debian are both viable options + no spyware, what's not to love?
Well not being able to play most games for one. Two, not being able to take part in most computer related events. No real support for VR or 3d printer support.
There would be no secrecy. You maybe able to keep government source like NASA silent. You would still have to deal with all the university astronomy projects. But lets say you managed to keep the university programs secret, then you need to deal with the hundreds of thousands of amateur astronomers.
An these are only U.S. based projects. There are still 200 countries in the world, most with their own astronomy programs. You are not going to keep a extinction level asteroid secret for long.
Deep Time? What does that even mean?
Deep time is time scales on the hundreds of millions of years, up to the billions. Time scales so huge that entire contents can be subsided and reborn. Your gold coin tossed in the dirt would be slowly crushed and molded by forces over millions of years. So much so that it would be broken back up into is component atoms eventually.
We still don't know how life got its start on this planet alone. Not to mention other planets. We have a good working theory, but its just a theory. Who really knows. Our planet could have been seeded by a advanced civilization 2 billion years ago with some kind of cosmic yeast. They would come back to our planet every few years and harvest the yeast as a food stock. Then that advance society could have went extinct, say some great telepathic war. Then over time we simply evolved from this yeast food stock in to our present civilization.
Well it could happen.
Why would an ancient civilization use nuclear power?
Because it's a clean, reliable, and safe means of generating electricity for a technologically advanced society to use. Assuming they don't have a bunch of smelly fucking hippies get in the way of developing into such clean, reliable, and safe source of power.