Generally, in the US you're free as long as you're not into the sexual exploitation of children or not going to try to kill a bunch of people as a terrorist.
You may not have identified yourself as part of a study group, but from what you've written above, you were part of one.
Study groups don't have to be formal. They are not fixed groups of people. They are simply people getting together, discussing the assignments and coursework, and trying to figure things out together.
This nonsense about not being the fastest one in the group and how that's going to somehow impede your learning experience is just plain wrong. I had groups in college that I met with to help with math, and most of the time i was pretty quick at figuring things out, and so I'd help explain it to others and I learned by trying to explain it, but we would turn the page, and there'd be some problem that I didn't get that someone else did. It's not about one person knowing everything. It's about a group effort, and generally everyone helped. One person would get it, then they'd share, and this could happen four or five times across the study material in a single assignment, from different individuals. It's very efficient. Further, when no one in the group could figure it out in a way sufficient to explain to the satisfaction of everyone in the group, we'd know that it was time to take it to the TA or the Professor.
It's a very efficient means of digesting information. The numbers approx. 7000 students out of 1.3 million forming groups is pretty bad. I am tempted to question just how well the material is mastered if there's isn't more interraction.
There are a number of reasons scientists spin their work.
1. Science is quite boring. By nature it's supposed to be, objective, logical, and devoid of feelings. But Scientists themselves are not typically boring people, they're humans, and humans are emotional beings.
2. Scientists aren't communications experts and suck at making dry discipline accessible to the public. Never was this more obvious than when I was in college. How many brilliant researchers really sucked at teaching? Pretty much most of them.
3. Scientists want to think their work matters, and therefore are inclined to extrapolate applications of their science to the public. When those applications get reported as a sure thing, then an exaggeration is bound to happen.
4. And of course, Science that can be show to be of great public benefit gets funding. Cha-ching!
Even if this is true, and the tests are bad, your conclusion is entirely counterproductive to the point of the test. If the tests are bad, the IQ scores would go up the more you take the tests, because you'd know the tests, but Potheads IQ's went DOWN when they took the tests repeatedly over their teen years. So in a way even if the tests are bad, it only understates the problem that Pot has on teenage brains.
It is a common misconception to see a person seeking help through therapy as weak. This is a falsehood. One who seeks help, admits weakness, is a person of strength and should be praised. What's interesting about the story is how viewing the material affected how he saw the world. I applaud the fellow for sharing his experience. I knew these positions existed, but was unaware of its toll. It sounds like a real grind that no amount of free meals and cool corporate logos can really compensate for.
I found my university Linear Algebra course to be worthless, not because the content wasn't useful (we use it all the time in 3d graphics for example) but because of the way it was taught. I think many people taking abstract courses are hindered by the level of educators rather than education. Practical application and accessibility should matter, but often at the unversity level it becomes less about comprehension and more about a weird elitist obfuscation for the sake of a professor's ego. (And this doesn't just apply to Math Education.)
I've been reading the whole Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, in preparation for the release of Brandon Sanderson's completion of the series this next year. I discovered that I'd misplaced a copy or two of the middle hardcover books that I bought over the past 20 years in the fourteen book series, so I bought the missing copies on Kindle. At first I didn't expect to enjoy reading it, but after discovering how to zoom the font, and the relative light weight (considering the size of the Wheel of Time books are huge) I have decided I will no longer buy books of paper. My family all shares the same kindle account with multiple kindles in the family, so we don't have to bother with the restrictions that come with borrowing a book. I can have multiple copies out at once this way. Unfortunately I have hardcovers for the last two in the series, so I have to lug them around, but I've been sorely tempted just to buy another copy of the book in ebook form because it's so convenient to have.
knowing the fine quality programming on the CW, chances are, if it has even a particle of popularity, it'll be the next big series and run for 7 or 8 seasons...:) And they'll bring back Felicia Day's character and then kill her over and over...
Actually the 50% number counts all marital relations, not the individuals. But a certain percentage of individuals who marry and divorce marry and divorce again. Assuming that those who get multiple divorces are bringing down the numbers, technically your odds of staying together will be slightly in favor of staying together. That is, if you base your marriage solely on statistical chance... which seems kinda silly.
The Terms of Use agreement sounds just as unreasonable as my regular Dungeon Master... so this is one big "who cares"? Unless, of course, you've never actually had a real DM, then you're probably all up-in-arms... but think about it. You're playing a role-playing game. This is to be expected. DMs that arbitrarily tweak the game world... well that just comes with the territory.
Great... so an evil mastermind billionaire buys his own island... as if we can't see through that! Could Mr. Ellison be anymore cliche? Hopefully Mr. Bond is ready.
unfortunately for little boys, female dominated school systems send many boys the message that school is just for girls, so many boys never give higher thinking a try, and focus on fruitless efforts of becoming a goofball.
I would hope we could all work together to create a moonbase, sort of like the international space station. If all the countries who can, race to the moon as individuals, I'd expect there be a turfwar over the few areas that might have more value to a colony (like fighting over polar ice). It'd be a sad thing to expand the worst of our nature to the moon and make the sands of that distant void red with blood.
Perl is a beautiful language. I love the use of list operators and the concept of list context. Every symbol has meaning. No language does a better job of incorporating and taking full advantage of regular expressions. There are plenty of modules to assist in specific tasks, and because it doesn't enforce one programming paradigm, it allows those who use it the chance to be flexible and still maintain good structure if that's what's key. It takes some time to learn, but the benefits are rich and well worth the experience. The community is very mature, and there's a lot of free and minimally cost-based training available, without the fear of running to the edge of what's feasible or buggy. I highly suggest my favorite perl experts site: http://perlmonks.org/ if you want to learn the language. There are some amazing experts there, willing to share their knowledge and expertise, and thousands of tutorials and helpful comments.
I have to maintain a large body of legacy C code and guess what... It's also a nightmare.
I love Perl. I use it daily to help me organize and maintain my archives, compare code, and manage it. Of course, I understand the language and have taken care to document the times I get overly idiomatic or use cryptic syntax, so that when I return to my perl scripts later, they aren't entirely unintelligible.
Luckily Slashdot is prepared for anti-global warming trollers with a whole army of anti-anti-global warming trollers! And we can throw in a few anti-DMCA freedom fighters too.
The world is growing more tolerant of skepticism, else we would have a lot more than two stories from remote locations like Mumbai and Kuwait. The problem is, that when everyone's skeptical, exactly how does one show tolerance? We jab at each other in a continual battle, not for freedom from persecution, but for the sake of advocacy. If we can't prove our belief system is the best, one has founded their beliefs in the sinking sand of doubts and the possibility that there exists a better belief system out there. What we all need is tolerance. We need the ability to change our beliefs, not hold to them so rigorously that we have no ability to think them through. Skepticism can be a tool for enlightenment, or it can be a tool of self-embitterment. A component of skepticism is a sort of intellectual intolerance and dissatisfaction. Atheism's problem isn't its intellectual rigor, but the danger that its motivating skepticism becomes an emotional response to all forms of creativity and imagination expressed in religious context. That intolerance is the same beast that inspires religious zealots to attrocities against humanity.
The truth is that no one ever proved their religion was true by tearing down the beliefs of someone else. If one's atheism (or any other faith) is based upon tearing down belief systems, then you're worshiping a void.
My own religious convictions are based upon intellectual and emotional experiences. By faith and evidences collected and cherished. I love that people have the freedom to believe and worship and not worship as they see fit. I hope that that freedom is fostered, because all belief is a process. One isn't inborn with a perfect knowledge of anything, and just like the hard sciences, a religious education doesn't come just because one is born into a faith. We must be free to choose our own path--I believe it's a fundamental purpose of our existence.
I'm mormon, and my wife's not barefoot nor pregnant. It's interesting how desperate the lies get when there's political interest at stake. You almost sound religious.
who's to say omnipotence isn't the ultimate reward? The question in this life is whether or not we could be trustworthy of such a gift. personally that's where my religious struggle gets interesting. All this stuff about miracles and controlling others who decide to believe otherwise is a distraction from the real point of a religious existence. Learn first to control yourself, then worry about what everyone else is doing.
I used to read all JMS's (J. Michael Stracynzki) posts. He took fan feedback, he did conventions, he was very responsive to the people there. To my knowledge, he didn't take story suggestions, and in fact i seem to recall him specifically asking fans NOT to post suggestions in case they would later come against him with fraudulent claims that he stole from them, but I also remember he would talk about fan feedback was crucial in him judging exactly how well his story arcs were catching on. He would state that sometimes the fans would miss things he thought were obvious and other times when fans complained that his arcs were to obvious he'd adjust. I found reading his feedback and comments very enlightening as to how the whole creative process worked for him. JMS was an incredible writer, though, in that he wrote more or less 5 seasons (with very few guest writers) of the show all by himself.
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To heck with that... I just want to know where I can get paid for derailing discussions. I could make some serious D'oh!
Generally, in the US you're free as long as you're not into the sexual exploitation of children or not going to try to kill a bunch of people as a terrorist.
It's clearly a conspiracy. Someone's trying to slander the president by making him look like a monkey that eats bananas. Don't fall for it!
You may not have identified yourself as part of a study group, but from what you've written above, you were part of one. Study groups don't have to be formal. They are not fixed groups of people. They are simply people getting together, discussing the assignments and coursework, and trying to figure things out together. This nonsense about not being the fastest one in the group and how that's going to somehow impede your learning experience is just plain wrong. I had groups in college that I met with to help with math, and most of the time i was pretty quick at figuring things out, and so I'd help explain it to others and I learned by trying to explain it, but we would turn the page, and there'd be some problem that I didn't get that someone else did. It's not about one person knowing everything. It's about a group effort, and generally everyone helped. One person would get it, then they'd share, and this could happen four or five times across the study material in a single assignment, from different individuals. It's very efficient. Further, when no one in the group could figure it out in a way sufficient to explain to the satisfaction of everyone in the group, we'd know that it was time to take it to the TA or the Professor. It's a very efficient means of digesting information. The numbers approx. 7000 students out of 1.3 million forming groups is pretty bad. I am tempted to question just how well the material is mastered if there's isn't more interraction.
1. Science is quite boring. By nature it's supposed to be, objective, logical, and devoid of feelings. But Scientists themselves are not typically boring people, they're humans, and humans are emotional beings.
2. Scientists aren't communications experts and suck at making dry discipline accessible to the public. Never was this more obvious than when I was in college. How many brilliant researchers really sucked at teaching? Pretty much most of them.
3. Scientists want to think their work matters, and therefore are inclined to extrapolate applications of their science to the public. When those applications get reported as a sure thing, then an exaggeration is bound to happen.
4. And of course, Science that can be show to be of great public benefit gets funding. Cha-ching!
Even if this is true, and the tests are bad, your conclusion is entirely counterproductive to the point of the test. If the tests are bad, the IQ scores would go up the more you take the tests, because you'd know the tests, but Potheads IQ's went DOWN when they took the tests repeatedly over their teen years. So in a way even if the tests are bad, it only understates the problem that Pot has on teenage brains.
It is a common misconception to see a person seeking help through therapy as weak. This is a falsehood. One who seeks help, admits weakness, is a person of strength and should be praised. What's interesting about the story is how viewing the material affected how he saw the world. I applaud the fellow for sharing his experience. I knew these positions existed, but was unaware of its toll. It sounds like a real grind that no amount of free meals and cool corporate logos can really compensate for.
I found my university Linear Algebra course to be worthless, not because the content wasn't useful (we use it all the time in 3d graphics for example) but because of the way it was taught. I think many people taking abstract courses are hindered by the level of educators rather than education. Practical application and accessibility should matter, but often at the unversity level it becomes less about comprehension and more about a weird elitist obfuscation for the sake of a professor's ego. (And this doesn't just apply to Math Education.)
I've been reading the whole Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, in preparation for the release of Brandon Sanderson's completion of the series this next year. I discovered that I'd misplaced a copy or two of the middle hardcover books that I bought over the past 20 years in the fourteen book series, so I bought the missing copies on Kindle. At first I didn't expect to enjoy reading it, but after discovering how to zoom the font, and the relative light weight (considering the size of the Wheel of Time books are huge) I have decided I will no longer buy books of paper. My family all shares the same kindle account with multiple kindles in the family, so we don't have to bother with the restrictions that come with borrowing a book. I can have multiple copies out at once this way. Unfortunately I have hardcovers for the last two in the series, so I have to lug them around, but I've been sorely tempted just to buy another copy of the book in ebook form because it's so convenient to have.
knowing the fine quality programming on the CW, chances are, if it has even a particle of popularity, it'll be the next big series and run for 7 or 8 seasons... :) And they'll bring back Felicia Day's character and then kill her over and over...
Actually the 50% number counts all marital relations, not the individuals. But a certain percentage of individuals who marry and divorce marry and divorce again. Assuming that those who get multiple divorces are bringing down the numbers, technically your odds of staying together will be slightly in favor of staying together. That is, if you base your marriage solely on statistical chance... which seems kinda silly.
The Girlfriend(tm) could solve a lot of problems young adolescent males have... someone should patent that...
The Terms of Use agreement sounds just as unreasonable as my regular Dungeon Master... so this is one big "who cares"? Unless, of course, you've never actually had a real DM, then you're probably all up-in-arms... but think about it. You're playing a role-playing game. This is to be expected. DMs that arbitrarily tweak the game world... well that just comes with the territory.
...by releasing their documentation under the Creative Commons license, Intel saved enough money in lawyer fees to purchase a new fab...
Great... so an evil mastermind billionaire buys his own island... as if we can't see through that! Could Mr. Ellison be anymore cliche? Hopefully Mr. Bond is ready.
unfortunately for little boys, female dominated school systems send many boys the message that school is just for girls, so many boys never give higher thinking a try, and focus on fruitless efforts of becoming a goofball.
I would hope we could all work together to create a moonbase, sort of like the international space station. If all the countries who can, race to the moon as individuals, I'd expect there be a turfwar over the few areas that might have more value to a colony (like fighting over polar ice). It'd be a sad thing to expand the worst of our nature to the moon and make the sands of that distant void red with blood.
Perl is a beautiful language. I love the use of list operators and the concept of list context. Every symbol has meaning. No language does a better job of incorporating and taking full advantage of regular expressions. There are plenty of modules to assist in specific tasks, and because it doesn't enforce one programming paradigm, it allows those who use it the chance to be flexible and still maintain good structure if that's what's key. It takes some time to learn, but the benefits are rich and well worth the experience. The community is very mature, and there's a lot of free and minimally cost-based training available, without the fear of running to the edge of what's feasible or buggy. I highly suggest my favorite perl experts site: http://perlmonks.org/ if you want to learn the language. There are some amazing experts there, willing to share their knowledge and expertise, and thousands of tutorials and helpful comments.
I have to maintain a large body of legacy C code and guess what... It's also a nightmare. I love Perl. I use it daily to help me organize and maintain my archives, compare code, and manage it. Of course, I understand the language and have taken care to document the times I get overly idiomatic or use cryptic syntax, so that when I return to my perl scripts later, they aren't entirely unintelligible.
Luckily Slashdot is prepared for anti-global warming trollers with a whole army of anti-anti-global warming trollers! And we can throw in a few anti-DMCA freedom fighters too.
http://pdl.perl.org does lots of math and is still going strong...
The world is growing more tolerant of skepticism, else we would have a lot more than two stories from remote locations like Mumbai and Kuwait. The problem is, that when everyone's skeptical, exactly how does one show tolerance? We jab at each other in a continual battle, not for freedom from persecution, but for the sake of advocacy. If we can't prove our belief system is the best, one has founded their beliefs in the sinking sand of doubts and the possibility that there exists a better belief system out there. What we all need is tolerance. We need the ability to change our beliefs, not hold to them so rigorously that we have no ability to think them through. Skepticism can be a tool for enlightenment, or it can be a tool of self-embitterment. A component of skepticism is a sort of intellectual intolerance and dissatisfaction. Atheism's problem isn't its intellectual rigor, but the danger that its motivating skepticism becomes an emotional response to all forms of creativity and imagination expressed in religious context. That intolerance is the same beast that inspires religious zealots to attrocities against humanity.
The truth is that no one ever proved their religion was true by tearing down the beliefs of someone else. If one's atheism (or any other faith) is based upon tearing down belief systems, then you're worshiping a void.
My own religious convictions are based upon intellectual and emotional experiences. By faith and evidences collected and cherished. I love that people have the freedom to believe and worship and not worship as they see fit. I hope that that freedom is fostered, because all belief is a process. One isn't inborn with a perfect knowledge of anything, and just like the hard sciences, a religious education doesn't come just because one is born into a faith. We must be free to choose our own path--I believe it's a fundamental purpose of our existence.
I'm mormon, and my wife's not barefoot nor pregnant. It's interesting how desperate the lies get when there's political interest at stake. You almost sound religious.
who's to say omnipotence isn't the ultimate reward? The question in this life is whether or not we could be trustworthy of such a gift. personally that's where my religious struggle gets interesting. All this stuff about miracles and controlling others who decide to believe otherwise is a distraction from the real point of a religious existence. Learn first to control yourself, then worry about what everyone else is doing.
I used to read all JMS's (J. Michael Stracynzki) posts. He took fan feedback, he did conventions, he was very responsive to the people there. To my knowledge, he didn't take story suggestions, and in fact i seem to recall him specifically asking fans NOT to post suggestions in case they would later come against him with fraudulent claims that he stole from them, but I also remember he would talk about fan feedback was crucial in him judging exactly how well his story arcs were catching on. He would state that sometimes the fans would miss things he thought were obvious and other times when fans complained that his arcs were to obvious he'd adjust. I found reading his feedback and comments very enlightening as to how the whole creative process worked for him. JMS was an incredible writer, though, in that he wrote more or less 5 seasons (with very few guest writers) of the show all by himself.