For what it's worth, teachers work plenty through the month of June -- it's one of the busiest months of the school year. Also, teacher pay is based on a 10-month year. Most young teachers work some other job (and that's not "career," but "job": as in "shit") through the summer.
During the school year, teachers have far more work to do than can be accomplished during the school day. Their "preparation" time during the day is often taken up with inane parent conferences -- "inane" because the whole cause of this conference is many times (though not always) because these "parents" do nothing to discipline their kids, nor to encourage good work habits. As a result, most teachers spend many hours a day after school -- and weekends -- preparing lessons, correcting tests, and keeping up on bone-headed administrative paperwork
Ok, to be fair, maybe I have to read each chapter 12 times!
Okay, and now for me to be fair: one, my comment was a bit of a joke (glad to see you have a sense of humor); and two, the great thing about my comprehension and memory is that if I put a book down for a week, when I pick it back up it's like getting a new book for free;-)
I'm sorry, but I have only an imperfect understanding of this. Maybe it will ring a bell with someone out there who can explain it better.
In the US, sometime during the Reagan administration I believe, the tax code was changed, and this directly affected publishing companies in how they could depreciate inventory. If I remember correctly, publishers used to be able to print a large edition, warehouse the books for years, and write a part of that inventory off on their taxes.
From my understanding, the tax code changed so that it became far more expensive for publishing companies to warehouse books -- they couldn't enjoy the write offs they once could.
The result is, publishing houses print smaller editions, and come out with newer editions more frequently. These smaller printings are more expensive. This raises the price of books, and pressures schools to use the newest editions -- driving down the value of used books.
Okay, apparently I'm way outclassed. In all sincerity, from where are you getting all this? I'd love to read it.
I have the Silmarilion (somewhere), but read only parts, and many years ago. If you could give me an idea where I can find this part of the story, I'd appreciate it.
And when I left the movie I remember telling a friend that I feel I have almost no right to make this criticism, after seeing what a superb job Jackson did. Still, it's the only 30 seconds in the movie that made me a even a little uncomfortable.
I think this adaptation is fair. No one is perfect.
For me, I was only bothered in the first movie by what I would term 64.1: the scene when Frodo offers the Ring to Galadriel.
In the book, Galadriel remains in full control of herself and deliberately shows herself to Frodo as a terrible and powerful queen to illustrate what the Ring would make her into. In the movie, by contrast, it seems as if she is half-swept away by the temptation of the Ring, as she turns into some kind of bogey-monster.
The movie just made her seem a touch too out of control, and it violated her character, for me, as being one of the wisest and fairest of elves.
Other than that, I absolutely loved the first movie and think it the best of the three.
If you're selling water in the desert and it starts to rain, you change job and sell umbrellas.
I'm a free-market person, don't get me wrong. It's not the competition that I'm against; it's the idea that Americans are being robbed (by their own government) of money that they could be using for their own education and capital investments, to have that money funelled to foreign students who will return to their countries and out-bid American workers.
I know that many countries have excellent educational institutions, but it is true that there are plenty of foreign students in American universities. I see nothing wrong with that, per se. If they themselves are paying their tuition, or even if their socialist governments are paying their tuition for them, I don't see that any real harm is being done -- as long as American taxpayers aren't funding any of the cost of their tuition.
Now, many colleges in the U.S. have other sources of income aside from what they collect in tuition: namely, private contributions, government grants funding various research programs, and in the case of state schools, direct compensation via tax dollars. How a private school uses its private donations is up to them, and ultimately their donors; but when we are talking about government money, I think it's a very different issue.
The question is, if a foreigner comes to college in the United States, is he or she paying their way? Perhaps, a part of the cost of what they enjoy at university -- if you could do a kind of per-student cost accounting -- is funded by the American taxpayer. Just as an out-of-state student (say, a New Yorker attending a state school in Florida) pays a higher tuition than an in-state student, I would think an "out-of-country" student should pay an even higher tuition.
It's no secret that many foreign students are involved in government funded research projects. What other government monies find their way to foreign students -- directly or indirectly? When they then take this education and go back to their native country with it, and then compete with Americans on the open market, I ask, as an American taxpayer, what have we done to ourselves?
I'm only hoping -- for real -- that I have this all wrong, but I worry I don't. If tax dollars are undermining our industries, this is as great a mistake as the Romans allowing barbarians to serve in the Roman army. (Please, I'm not calling foreigners "barbarians" as some kind of slur. Use "Germanic peoples" if it pleases you.) These Roman trained barbarians then contributed to Rome's fall.
As far as I'm concerned, universities should be open and foreign students welcomed; but Americans should not have money taken out of their pockets for some kind of foreign job-works program, the result of which is to put Americans through a self-financed "economic dislocation."
Excuse me, but the confrontational attitude in this submission sounds like a troll itself. Have we all been taken in?
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I got asked -- and I'm still not quite sure why this bothered me so much -- "Tell me of a time when you exceeded expectations." I can still picture the phony-smiling HR witch now.
It's always good to get a second translation for comparison. Here's mine, courtesy the translation software that comes with Apple's Sherlock:
Kastjes under the radar
In a former shop in Palo alto a start up sits of which the oprichters
on a lukewarm Tuesday afternoon to Fry's Electronics has driven buy
components from which they have built these strange kastjes. I think
that within two years everyone with DSL - or cable connection has such
kastje in house. More cannot I of the oprichters say, because those
have the illusion that I get of it much and therefore much can give
away, a tragic misunderstanding. Them very adept in ' under the radar
' remain, but meanwhile run companies are such as Apple and Google the
door at them plat. I see Philips if Shell this way fast audientie
questions do not dig at a couple nerds from. Unfortunately.
Best I can tell, these oprichters are building some kind of kastjes.
I'm going to sign up as a beta tester -- I don't care how "strange" they are!
Sorry, to mislead by my comment. When I say the whole "a programming language and English" thing, I say that as encouragement -- not to suggest that Python is trivial.
I think Python is a terrific language.
P.S.
I have the first edition of O'Reilly's Learning Python by the way.
As I've read many times here on Slashdot every time someone comes to the defense of various enchroachments of civil liberties: "If the Democrats haven't done anything illegal, what have they to worry about?"
Wake up, for Christ's sake! This is how power given to the government is abused. It will always be abused, which is why we have to protect our privacy at all costs.
LoginWindow (always running in the background) starts the Dock if it isn't running. (the same goes for the Finder)
Thanks! I didn't know that.
By the way, it's a little off topic, but I had the strangest thing happen just today. My Finder locked up. The cursor just kept spinning -- and, I couldn't get the Finder to restart, or even kill it with a -9! What's up with that? I thought -9 is supposed to shut that baby down with no back talk.
Anyway, it's something I'm going to have to investigate.
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For what it's worth, teachers work plenty through the month of June -- it's one of the busiest months of the school year. Also, teacher pay is based on a 10-month year. Most young teachers work some other job (and that's not "career," but "job": as in "shit") through the summer.
During the school year, teachers have far more work to do than can be accomplished during the school day. Their "preparation" time during the day is often taken up with inane parent conferences -- "inane" because the whole cause of this conference is many times (though not always) because these "parents" do nothing to discipline their kids, nor to encourage good work habits. As a result, most teachers spend many hours a day after school -- and weekends -- preparing lessons, correcting tests, and keeping up on bone-headed administrative paperwork
Try it and see!
Oh, the irony!
And, what's more, no one ever slept an ugly member of the opposite sex (or same sex, for that matter) as a result of drinking too much coffee.
All kidding aside, here's the business model for 2004:
Good thing the Mob doesn't own any bars in NYC. Think of how that information could be misused!
Thanks for the link!
I just finished a "whois" and was wondering what the hell was going on. I see that this is old news!
Okay, and now for me to be fair: one, my comment was a bit of a joke (glad to see you have a sense of humor); and two, the great thing about my comprehension and memory is that if I put a book down for a week, when I pick it back up it's like getting a new book for free ;-)
I'm sorry, but I have only an imperfect understanding of this. Maybe it will ring a bell with someone out there who can explain it better.
In the US, sometime during the Reagan administration I believe, the tax code was changed, and this directly affected publishing companies in how they could depreciate inventory. If I remember correctly, publishers used to be able to print a large edition, warehouse the books for years, and write a part of that inventory off on their taxes.
From my understanding, the tax code changed so that it became far more expensive for publishing companies to warehouse books -- they couldn't enjoy the write offs they once could.
The result is, publishing houses print smaller editions, and come out with newer editions more frequently. These smaller printings are more expensive. This raises the price of books, and pressures schools to use the newest editions -- driving down the value of used books.
Who wins and who loses?
I don't think Mr. Neuberg will be requiring your services as a press agent any time soon.
Okay, apparently I'm way outclassed. In all sincerity, from where are you getting all this? I'd love to read it.
I have the Silmarilion (somewhere), but read only parts, and many years ago. If you could give me an idea where I can find this part of the story, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks!
And when I left the movie I remember telling a friend that I feel I have almost no right to make this criticism, after seeing what a superb job Jackson did. Still, it's the only 30 seconds in the movie that made me a even a little uncomfortable.
Exactly!
For me, I was only bothered in the first movie by what I would term 64.1: the scene when Frodo offers the Ring to Galadriel.
In the book, Galadriel remains in full control of herself and deliberately shows herself to Frodo as a terrible and powerful queen to illustrate what the Ring would make her into. In the movie, by contrast, it seems as if she is half-swept away by the temptation of the Ring, as she turns into some kind of bogey-monster.
The movie just made her seem a touch too out of control, and it violated her character, for me, as being one of the wisest and fairest of elves.
Other than that, I absolutely loved the first movie and think it the best of the three.
Bravo on putting words in my mouth, and red-neck ones at that. All I wanted to know is where the money comes from.
I've known plenty of foreign students, and I can't think of any I have a problem with. I'm just looking for some kind of accounting.
I just want to know what the deal is; I don't want to believe that foreigners are sucking away U.S. tax dollars.
Thanks for your post -- sincerely. I would like to find out what is really going on, and your information helps.
Good luck with school!
I'm a free-market person, don't get me wrong. It's not the competition that I'm against; it's the idea that Americans are being robbed (by their own government) of money that they could be using for their own education and capital investments, to have that money funelled to foreign students who will return to their countries and out-bid American workers.
I know that many countries have excellent educational institutions, but it is true that there are plenty of foreign students in American universities. I see nothing wrong with that, per se. If they themselves are paying their tuition, or even if their socialist governments are paying their tuition for them, I don't see that any real harm is being done -- as long as American taxpayers aren't funding any of the cost of their tuition.
Now, many colleges in the U.S. have other sources of income aside from what they collect in tuition: namely, private contributions, government grants funding various research programs, and in the case of state schools, direct compensation via tax dollars. How a private school uses its private donations is up to them, and ultimately their donors; but when we are talking about government money, I think it's a very different issue.
The question is, if a foreigner comes to college in the United States, is he or she paying their way? Perhaps, a part of the cost of what they enjoy at university -- if you could do a kind of per-student cost accounting -- is funded by the American taxpayer. Just as an out-of-state student (say, a New Yorker attending a state school in Florida) pays a higher tuition than an in-state student, I would think an "out-of-country" student should pay an even higher tuition.
It's no secret that many foreign students are involved in government funded research projects. What other government monies find their way to foreign students -- directly or indirectly? When they then take this education and go back to their native country with it, and then compete with Americans on the open market, I ask, as an American taxpayer, what have we done to ourselves?
I'm only hoping -- for real -- that I have this all wrong, but I worry I don't. If tax dollars are undermining our industries, this is as great a mistake as the Romans allowing barbarians to serve in the Roman army. (Please, I'm not calling foreigners "barbarians" as some kind of slur. Use "Germanic peoples" if it pleases you.) These Roman trained barbarians then contributed to Rome's fall.
As far as I'm concerned, universities should be open and foreign students welcomed; but Americans should not have money taken out of their pockets for some kind of foreign job-works program, the result of which is to put Americans through a self-financed "economic dislocation."
Does anybody have any better insight into this?
Excuse me, but the confrontational attitude in this submission sounds like a troll itself. Have we all been taken in?
I got asked -- and I'm still not quite sure why this bothered me so much -- "Tell me of a time when you exceeded expectations." I can still picture the phony-smiling HR witch now.
It's always good to get a second translation for comparison. Here's mine, courtesy the translation software that comes with Apple's Sherlock:
Best I can tell, these oprichters are building some kind of kastjes.
I'm going to sign up as a beta tester -- I don't care how "strange" they are!
Sorry, to mislead by my comment. When I say the whole "a programming language and English" thing, I say that as encouragement -- not to suggest that Python is trivial.
I think Python is a terrific language.
P.S.
I have the first edition of O'Reilly's Learning Python by the way.
As I've read many times here on Slashdot every time someone comes to the defense of various enchroachments of civil liberties: "If the Democrats haven't done anything illegal, what have they to worry about?"
Wake up, for Christ's sake! This is how power given to the government is abused. It will always be abused, which is why we have to protect our privacy at all costs.
When people ask me, I often tell them: "If you know English and one programming language, you already know Python."
It really takes anywhere from an afternoon to a weekend for someone who already programs to learn.
As I view this post it's at 0 points. It'll be interesting where it goes.
Thanks! I didn't know that.
By the way, it's a little off topic, but I had the strangest thing happen just today. My Finder locked up. The cursor just kept spinning -- and, I couldn't get the Finder to restart, or even kill it with a -9! What's up with that? I thought -9 is supposed to shut that baby down with no back talk.
Anyway, it's something I'm going to have to investigate.