My parent didn't, she just didn't couldn't afford to pay me for the grades. Since the work was particularly boring even though I had a passion for learning I had no interest in school or institutionalism. So instead I pursued what was hard for me, socializing. This led to drugs, skipping class, and dropping out. Of course I always aced the final exams of each class I failed.
It wasn't until later that I matured, began to think longer term and of course went back and got the education I needed... and the massive debt and higher price tags that come with not doing it right the first time.
'Even if they are getting better grades, it is developing a sense of entitlement, which will be far more damaging than bad grades in the future. The world in general seems to already suffer from an overdose of self-entitlement.'
You may be right. But none of that has anything to do with school. Schools are not to mold your children into anything good or bad. Schools are to impart a knowledge of logic, history, mathematics, science, language, etc. Making the child they impart that knowledge upon a decent person is the parents problem.
"If those kids get used to be bribed like that, what stops them from taking bribes once they have jobs, to do something not very, eh, ethical perhaps?"
Well first of all these kids are being paid to do something ethical so it doesn't follow that it teaches them its okay to be paid to do something unethical. But even if they did grow up to take bribes to do unethical things... how would that be any different than whatever we are doing now?
I doubt the system could get much more corrupt. In the U.S. the general populace takes it in the rear about as much as in any nation on earth. The difference is that in the U.S. when they sodomize you they smile, use lubrication, and give you a sucker afterward and say it was for your own good. Besides they immediately point at those other evil nations that don't use lube, how cruel that they don't get lube. That seems to be enough to prevent enough righteous indignation against those who are sodomizing us to actually take any sort of action to stop it.
It seems reasonable to me to pay them through high school at least by that point they should be mature enough to understand the intrinsic value of education. Before that they are children and children might be intelligent enough to intellectually understand the value of education and parrot back that education is good mmkay but they don't actually appreciate the value of education, knowledge, and its long term ramifications. They haven't been around long, how can we expect them to appreciate the importance of long term ramifications?
The educational system is pretty poor and grades aren't really based on learning but if we can make them follow the system like good little soldiers its like slinging shit at a wall. Even though it won't all stick at the end of the day you should recognize the smell.
Education is important enough that we shouldn't risk compromising it for the sake of teaching moral and social lessons. Those topics belong at home. Teaching your child values (beyond logic and critical analysis and thinking skills) and principles that lead to making good choices is the responsibility of the parent. In other words, school provides knowledge so that you might make an educated choice, and logic skills so you can make your choice based on accurate information. Parents teach you the principles required to go a step further and make the sensible choice from the options remaining.
These aren't college students, for the most part they do not yet have the maturity to appreciate the intristic value of education. Oh they might parrot the concept back to you because they have been taught it but it is only after it is too late or has done permanent damage that most people come to appreciate the value of education. For instance, adults can return to study and education but they will have permanently lost an advantage that their peers who did the right thing (usually because of parental pressure) in the first place have.
Anything feasible we as a society can do to mitigate the negative impacts of poor choices made as a child should be done. It is very sad that we have mature adults who will never achieve the american dream due to poor choices made in high school. Especially since an adult who appreciates the value of education will no doubt take more away from the exact same education as a youth who 'made the right choices' the first time.
All jokes aside everyone knows that the latest research indicates that marijuana use does not have any long last impact on brain function. The effects are temporary, they go away if you stop smoking for a period of time.
'First, pensions in govt. and military jobs. They do encourage people to sign on, but I'll bet you could achieve the same incentive with a smaller, shorter-term payout that wouldn't put society on the hook for vast sums later on.'
That is poor economic theory my friend. You should always pay your debts but organize your affairs so that cash actually leaves your hands at as late a date as possible. That way the money can work for you in the meantime rather than the person to whom you are paying it. For instance, the stimulus package gave an additional $250 to individuals drawing social security disability. However, the SSA (or their payout entity anyway) delayed and staggered this payout rather than paying it all at once in one lump sum. I would not be surprised to find that the delays garnered them millions of dollars in interest on that money.
Although I've never heard of med school paying, interns are in fact paid but they are paid on a salary. I think a better course would be making med school free to those who pass aptitude tests (along with all other higher education, it societies investment in society), do not require a four year degree before attending, making doctors immune to lawsuits and establishing an ACTIVE policing board that people can hold accountable for malpractice that in turn holds doctors responsible.
Most often "celebrity" refers either to a network tv personality (who will generally have some sort of higher education, in broadcasting if nothing else) or an actor/actress. Successful actors and actresses study a great deal to learn their art, most have studied ballet, dance, singing, and countless other skills they can add to their resume. Not to mention the numerous topics that must be studied for the individual roles, martial arts, fencing, foreign languages, rock climbing, period history and character history.
Sure there is an occasional fluke, but they normally don't last.
Interesting I've never heard of such a thing. I mean yes there are honors classes but beyond that...
In most schools things like attendance, disciplinary measures, homework completion, and how well instructions were followed impact grades as well despite having nothing to do with the purpose of a class which is to convey a volume of knowledge to the child. If the child understands the material covered in the class the appropriate grade is A and all other factors are irrelevant.
But since schools are not set up to recognize actual learning and instead push discipline, conformity, attendance, neatness, physical education, needless extra effort on assignments, etc then honors classes are not a valid way to divide the classes.
And even without corruption it isn't as if a grade actually reflects how well the material was learned. Grades reflect all sorts of things that have nothing to do with education, like dedication and the ability to brown nose the teacher. Teachers reward those who repeat what the book rather than those who demonstrate actual understanding of the material.
In many schools they remove credit from students grades for frequent absence, frequent tardiness, or as a result of in school suspension. Those things have no impact on whether the student understands the material taught but school funding is determined largely by attendance metrics. Any student who fully understands the material taught in a class, at any level of education from K to Masters should receive an A in the class if the purpose of a class is for students to learn the material and the grade is a measure of how well they have learned it.
Can't speak for the current version but at least a couple years ago there were functions built into KDE but they didn't work out to the box. Could not browse the network, could not connect to encrypted smb (which was the default configuration on the past several versions of windows), etc. Probably fixed now. In any case, no more than two or three years ago all the *nix browse windows gui utils included with distros were broken.
This is included with Ubuntu, it works reasonably well but could be better. Full file and printer sharing.
I think it has more to do with the fact that forking is a great deal of effort and work. A fork requires substantial support from the community in order to work and well... if I wanted to talk to 'the community' the best singular place I know of to do that would be Slashdot.
I mean sure, not everyone is on Slashdot but I'll be damned if this isn't a great place to begin a quest for a critical mass consensus among the community.
I for one heard about and decided to support the X.org fork based on discussions held right here. We had everything from goatse.cx to ac trolls to respected project and open source community leaders chiming in on the topic and everything between. Anecdotal? Yup, but I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a few others who can say the same.
With one popular Slashdot topic you can reach key people in all the major distros, all the major tangent projects, even other talented people who were turned off by your project for the same reasons you are forking in the past.
'Stallman and the FSF were proven wrong about DRM'
When did this happen? Its true most of the worst DRM stuff was never implemented (likely because of the backlash that resulted in no small part because of stallman and the fsf) but there are no shortage of problems caused by DRM. DRM locked hardware, netflix and network DRM, etc, etc, etc.
'nVidia having binary-only drivers hasn't destroyed FOSS'
You can't destroy FOSS. But nVidia's binary only drivers (while better than nothing) hinder FOSS a great deal.
Actually it is kind of surprising to me. Forgive my ignorance but my understanding is that they have been working on implementing the win32 api for 14 years. Every windows app should be working by this point so long as it uses the win32 api.
"its not pretty enough" may be short but is hardly to the point. To the point means actually stating what is wrong with it in some sort of brief but constructive summary.
That would be silly you eliminate the first one before ever speaking with her. If she IS pretty enough you would then speak to her, this solves for problem number two. You just ditch the bitch right there if she has a whiny voice.
As for three, if she is hot and not immediately whining, who cares if she stuffs her hole and pukes later?
Unfortunately the dreaded number 4 doesn't usually rear its head until later and mostly she will hide this until you make some sort of commitment. The best way to avoid this is to never let one sucker you into committing. Trust me, just because you are comfortable and she gives good head is no reason to commit.
However, aside from three which is only a problem after a couple dates (a point you should never reach if you listened to point four) all of those are very good reasons to walk away and never look back.
What are you supposed to do, date ugly fat chicks chewing on hoe hoes with a voice that sounds like fingernails screeching on a chalk board and who bitches about every spec on the floor? Serious buddy, your desperation is showing.
That or they can establish that serial number blah blah was shipped to and sold by retailer x who is two blocks away from the main suspect. That gets them the warrant.
Welcome to the real world where you need concrete evidence that can survive things like police with guns forcing you to hand it over in order to sue the police for anything.
The police are a big club that consider one another like brothers and they are all crooked. Some less than others, most think they are the good guys but you can bet that even the mostly dudley do right among them will happily add his false witness to the testimony of another cop or vanish evidence for one.
Good luck suing the department with no evidence. Oh yeah, and that camera in the cops car that you think is going to help you, the cop can turn it off at will and the department can lose the tapes.
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My parent didn't, she just didn't couldn't afford to pay me for the grades. Since the work was particularly boring even though I had a passion for learning I had no interest in school or institutionalism. So instead I pursued what was hard for me, socializing. This led to drugs, skipping class, and dropping out. Of course I always aced the final exams of each class I failed.
It wasn't until later that I matured, began to think longer term and of course went back and got the education I needed... and the massive debt and higher price tags that come with not doing it right the first time.
Sure, of course it takes more like $300/month to buy HEALTHY food for two people for a month in the US.
Thanks to yuppies and food network the unprocessed foods which are healthiest are more expensive than the foods the companies spend money to process!
'Even if they are getting better grades, it is developing a sense of entitlement, which will be far more damaging than bad grades in the future. The world in general seems to already suffer from an overdose of self-entitlement.'
You may be right. But none of that has anything to do with school. Schools are not to mold your children into anything good or bad. Schools are to impart a knowledge of logic, history, mathematics, science, language, etc. Making the child they impart that knowledge upon a decent person is the parents problem.
"If those kids get used to be bribed like that, what stops them from taking bribes once they have jobs, to do something not very, eh, ethical perhaps?"
Well first of all these kids are being paid to do something ethical so it doesn't follow that it teaches them its okay to be paid to do something unethical. But even if they did grow up to take bribes to do unethical things... how would that be any different than whatever we are doing now?
I doubt the system could get much more corrupt. In the U.S. the general populace takes it in the rear about as much as in any nation on earth. The difference is that in the U.S. when they sodomize you they smile, use lubrication, and give you a sucker afterward and say it was for your own good. Besides they immediately point at those other evil nations that don't use lube, how cruel that they don't get lube. That seems to be enough to prevent enough righteous indignation against those who are sodomizing us to actually take any sort of action to stop it.
It seems reasonable to me to pay them through high school at least by that point they should be mature enough to understand the intrinsic value of education. Before that they are children and children might be intelligent enough to intellectually understand the value of education and parrot back that education is good mmkay but they don't actually appreciate the value of education, knowledge, and its long term ramifications. They haven't been around long, how can we expect them to appreciate the importance of long term ramifications?
The educational system is pretty poor and grades aren't really based on learning but if we can make them follow the system like good little soldiers its like slinging shit at a wall. Even though it won't all stick at the end of the day you should recognize the smell.
Education is important enough that we shouldn't risk compromising it for the sake of teaching moral and social lessons. Those topics belong at home. Teaching your child values (beyond logic and critical analysis and thinking skills) and principles that lead to making good choices is the responsibility of the parent. In other words, school provides knowledge so that you might make an educated choice, and logic skills so you can make your choice based on accurate information. Parents teach you the principles required to go a step further and make the sensible choice from the options remaining.
These aren't college students, for the most part they do not yet have the maturity to appreciate the intristic value of education. Oh they might parrot the concept back to you because they have been taught it but it is only after it is too late or has done permanent damage that most people come to appreciate the value of education. For instance, adults can return to study and education but they will have permanently lost an advantage that their peers who did the right thing (usually because of parental pressure) in the first place have.
Anything feasible we as a society can do to mitigate the negative impacts of poor choices made as a child should be done. It is very sad that we have mature adults who will never achieve the american dream due to poor choices made in high school. Especially since an adult who appreciates the value of education will no doubt take more away from the exact same education as a youth who 'made the right choices' the first time.
damn straight, so long as teachers grade on a curve!
All jokes aside everyone knows that the latest research indicates that marijuana use does not have any long last impact on brain function. The effects are temporary, they go away if you stop smoking for a period of time.
ummm... condoms DON'T really stop AIDS... they just reduce the chance of transmission by a very small amount.
'First, pensions in govt. and military jobs. They do encourage people to sign on, but I'll bet you could achieve the same incentive with a smaller, shorter-term payout that wouldn't put society on the hook for vast sums later on.'
That is poor economic theory my friend. You should always pay your debts but organize your affairs so that cash actually leaves your hands at as late a date as possible. That way the money can work for you in the meantime rather than the person to whom you are paying it. For instance, the stimulus package gave an additional $250 to individuals drawing social security disability. However, the SSA (or their payout entity anyway) delayed and staggered this payout rather than paying it all at once in one lump sum. I would not be surprised to find that the delays garnered them millions of dollars in interest on that money.
Although I've never heard of med school paying, interns are in fact paid but they are paid on a salary. I think a better course would be making med school free to those who pass aptitude tests (along with all other higher education, it societies investment in society), do not require a four year degree before attending, making doctors immune to lawsuits and establishing an ACTIVE policing board that people can hold accountable for malpractice that in turn holds doctors responsible.
Most often "celebrity" refers either to a network tv personality (who will generally have some sort of higher education, in broadcasting if nothing else) or an actor/actress. Successful actors and actresses study a great deal to learn their art, most have studied ballet, dance, singing, and countless other skills they can add to their resume. Not to mention the numerous topics that must be studied for the individual roles, martial arts, fencing, foreign languages, rock climbing, period history and character history.
Sure there is an occasional fluke, but they normally don't last.
Interesting I've never heard of such a thing. I mean yes there are honors classes but beyond that...
In most schools things like attendance, disciplinary measures, homework completion, and how well instructions were followed impact grades as well despite having nothing to do with the purpose of a class which is to convey a volume of knowledge to the child. If the child understands the material covered in the class the appropriate grade is A and all other factors are irrelevant.
But since schools are not set up to recognize actual learning and instead push discipline, conformity, attendance, neatness, physical education, needless extra effort on assignments, etc then honors classes are not a valid way to divide the classes.
And even without corruption it isn't as if a grade actually reflects how well the material was learned. Grades reflect all sorts of things that have nothing to do with education, like dedication and the ability to brown nose the teacher. Teachers reward those who repeat what the book rather than those who demonstrate actual understanding of the material.
In many schools they remove credit from students grades for frequent absence, frequent tardiness, or as a result of in school suspension. Those things have no impact on whether the student understands the material taught but school funding is determined largely by attendance metrics. Any student who fully understands the material taught in a class, at any level of education from K to Masters should receive an A in the class if the purpose of a class is for students to learn the material and the grade is a measure of how well they have learned it.
Can't speak for the current version but at least a couple years ago there were functions built into KDE but they didn't work out to the box. Could not browse the network, could not connect to encrypted smb (which was the default configuration on the past several versions of windows), etc. Probably fixed now. In any case, no more than two or three years ago all the *nix browse windows gui utils included with distros were broken.
This is included with Ubuntu, it works reasonably well but could be better. Full file and printer sharing.
I think it has more to do with the fact that forking is a great deal of effort and work. A fork requires substantial support from the community in order to work and well... if I wanted to talk to 'the community' the best singular place I know of to do that would be Slashdot.
I mean sure, not everyone is on Slashdot but I'll be damned if this isn't a great place to begin a quest for a critical mass consensus among the community.
I for one heard about and decided to support the X.org fork based on discussions held right here. We had everything from goatse.cx to ac trolls to respected project and open source community leaders chiming in on the topic and everything between. Anecdotal? Yup, but I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a few others who can say the same.
With one popular Slashdot topic you can reach key people in all the major distros, all the major tangent projects, even other talented people who were turned off by your project for the same reasons you are forking in the past.
'Stallman and the FSF were proven wrong about DRM'
When did this happen? Its true most of the worst DRM stuff was never implemented (likely because of the backlash that resulted in no small part because of stallman and the fsf) but there are no shortage of problems caused by DRM. DRM locked hardware, netflix and network DRM, etc, etc, etc.
'nVidia having binary-only drivers hasn't destroyed FOSS'
You can't destroy FOSS. But nVidia's binary only drivers (while better than nothing) hinder FOSS a great deal.
Actually it is kind of surprising to me. Forgive my ignorance but my understanding is that they have been working on implementing the win32 api for 14 years. Every windows app should be working by this point so long as it uses the win32 api.
"its not pretty enough" may be short but is hardly to the point. To the point means actually stating what is wrong with it in some sort of brief but constructive summary.
That would be silly you eliminate the first one before ever speaking with her. If she IS pretty enough you would then speak to her, this solves for problem number two. You just ditch the bitch right there if she has a whiny voice.
As for three, if she is hot and not immediately whining, who cares if she stuffs her hole and pukes later?
Unfortunately the dreaded number 4 doesn't usually rear its head until later and mostly she will hide this until you make some sort of commitment. The best way to avoid this is to never let one sucker you into committing. Trust me, just because you are comfortable and she gives good head is no reason to commit.
However, aside from three which is only a problem after a couple dates (a point you should never reach if you listened to point four) all of those are very good reasons to walk away and never look back.
What are you supposed to do, date ugly fat chicks chewing on hoe hoes with a voice that sounds like fingernails screeching on a chalk board and who bitches about every spec on the floor? Serious buddy, your desperation is showing.
Fuck that, it was bloody insightful. My code IS flawless and this chap predicted the need for me to say so and typed it in advance. Bravo.
That or they can establish that serial number blah blah was shipped to and sold by retailer x who is two blocks away from the main suspect. That gets them the warrant.
Welcome to the real world where you need concrete evidence that can survive things like police with guns forcing you to hand it over in order to sue the police for anything.
The police are a big club that consider one another like brothers and they are all crooked. Some less than others, most think they are the good guys but you can bet that even the mostly dudley do right among them will happily add his false witness to the testimony of another cop or vanish evidence for one.
Good luck suing the department with no evidence. Oh yeah, and that camera in the cops car that you think is going to help you, the cop can turn it off at will and the department can lose the tapes.
You are aware that usage of italics, bold, and all caps is a question of style and not consistent from book to book in the first place?
Seriously, who cares? Once you can distinguish between narrative, dialog, thoughts, and inner monologue then what difference does it make?
I'm a geek, who reads ebooks, and I've never heard of it. What are the benefits of your epub vs html, txt, and pdf?
Does it successfully block all forms of DRM and all forms of execution?