The US is strong enough to endure this. The idea of China is going to cash in all at once is ludicrous because if the US economy is killed so is China's.
They'd suffer economic dislocations, but I don't think they have a material need for the pieces of paper we send them. I wouldn't be surprised if the Party leaders one day decide that sinking the Superpower is worth a little economic dislocation.
I don't know. I've read a good deal of what she wrote and was rabidly into her for quite some time.
Were you a "low-life sociopath" at the time? Otherwise, I don't see the relevance to the comments above.
Yes, of course humans essentially perform better when motivated by self-interest...
So she was basically correct on the desirability and morality of egoism and a market economy?
I'm not an Objectivist, and I disagree with Rand in fundamental ways. But I've generally found Objectivists and their sympathizers a better class of people, and certainly preferable to the know nothing nit wits who feel the need to shriek their ignorant disapproval of Rand at every opportunity.
Yeah, I suppose there are a lot of nitwits who buffoonishly yuck it up as they snicker and jeer at Rand.
Rand is an interesting cultural phenomenon. She was opposed to theism and collectivism, but pooh poohing Rand is largely only a collectivist shibboleth - the theists are usually indifferent to positive. The amusing thing is she had already perfectly portrayed today's detractors of her books in the books themselves more than half a century ago.
Donaldson finds a way to say Yes to a world full of tragedy and pain. I find the first two trilogies extremely moving.
"He was a sick man, a victim of Hansen’s disease. But he was not a leper – not just a leper. He had the law of his illness carved in large indelible letters on the nerves of his body; but he was more than that. In the end, he had not failed the Land. And he had a heart which could still pump blood, bones which could still bear his weight; he had himself. Thomas Covenant: Unbeliever. A miracle. Despite the stiff pain in his lip, he smiled at the empty room. He felt the smile on his face and was sure of it. He smiled because he was alive."
But there is a danger in reading Donaldson. The world is really not so grim. It is not a series of ordeals to wrack your heart. Beauty and happiness are not so rare. If you spend too much time in grim fantasy, the world can start feeling that way.
People in Australia got retardedly-high feed-in rates (ie. every kWh they feed into the grid provides a power bill rebate of ~50c compared to every kWH they pull out of the grid costing them ~15c)...
Hmm. Why bother with solar panels at all? Seems like there should be a way to make money when you can buy at 15c and sell at 50c. How do they know where you're getting the energy that you're selling?
I am a bit jaded, but it seems to me that the most important skills one can learn is the skill of how to get someone else to do the work.
The most important thing to figure out is how to have a large collective effort that isn't primarily consumed and controlled by parasites. It just may be the nature of a large collective enterprise, and the only option is to work in smaller groups.
Mathematics is a tool, but it's not a tool everyone uses to its fullest extent. In my high school, we teach all the way up to Calculus 2, and what percentage of the population actually uses that kind of mathematics? My Uncle, and cousins run a very successful business with revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars. My cousin is dyslexic and has terrible trouble reading and doing mathematics, but he's sitting pretty on a pile of cash and he's great at his job. Would he be better at his job if he knew how to integrate? Maybe.... but it's not necessary for him, which is what the article is asking.
Apparently he doesn't really need to read either. We've got rid of reading and arithmetic, let's make a clean sweep of it an get rid of writing too.
First, the fact that some parents would choose teaching skills poorly just does not imply that "the fact that some parents would choose you has no bearing on your competence."
Second, the complete dismissal of the judgment and wishes of parents is not surprising - those who support government schools are supporting the kidnappers in a hostage situation. The teacher's unions use their legal power over other people's children to extort money out of them. Clearly the wishes of the parents are only relevant to the extent that they can be manipulated to extort more money out of them.
Third, claiming that I do wish to be evaluated is complete hypocritical BS. It's the teacher's unions who refuse to submit to objective, impartial testing. I say, let's have an open competition every summer. A week of "math teaching olympics", with objective standards where possible, and judges outside the government educational bureaucracy - maybe some of those parents you have so much contempt for. Or how about some successful, experienced *private* school teachers? Think the government teacher's unions will go along with that?
And yes, I don't wish to give a year of my life and 20K to an idiot "teaching college". I have better things to do with my time and money.
Finally, your "facts" are ridiculous. I'm the guy who knows math, remember? Do you think you can blow smoke up my ass with bogus statistics? Or are you just that ignorant?
If you think this is evidence for the quality of *teacher's* unions, you are a buffoon. > When you do studies of educational achievement around the US, students in the heavily-unionized regions, like the northeast, do better on standardized tests than students in the non-unionized south.
> I don't know of any successful school systems around the world where they just turn engineers and scientists loose on K-12 students without any training in education.
A public university turned me loose to teach college aged students with no idiotic pedagogical training before hand. But I guess teaching college freshman must be completely different from teaching 12th graders.
And please, what a joke, pretending that public school teachers spend their days reading up on the latest STEM teaching research.
I went to probably the best STEM private school in Hawaii (and no, it wasn't Punahou, Barack). Maybe I'll give them a call and see what requirements they have for incoming teachers. I seriously doubt they require a certificate from a teaching college. I simply can't imagine our lunatic of a math teacher, who got by far the best results in the state, would have ever consented to wasting a year of his life at a teaching college.
At least with the advent of places like Khan Academy, more and more kids can escape from having their minds crippled as youths by government schools.
Just because you have a PhD in electrical engineering, that doesn't mean you can teach 5th grade students.
And having a degree from a teaching college doesn't mean you can teach 5th grade students math either.
Because life doesn't come with a guarantee, the relevant question isn't whether anyone is guaranteed to be a good teacher, but which of the uncertain options is the best bet. I think most parents would rather bet on me than your randomly sampled public school math teacher. But whether I got the majority vote or not, no parent is *allowed* to pick me. I'm not legally an option to teach 5th grade math or highschool math in a public school, though I was an option *as a graduate student* to teach their children college level and graduate level engineering courses. Go figure.
Except for a paper write down which only acknowledged a fact of reality established years ago, they made 5.7billion. And that's in anticipation of a big release in the near future, that is probably limiting current sales until the release.
Buy now.
It would be interesting to see if they piled on a few other write downs.
I got my PhD in Electrical Engineering. I taught lab sections, quiz sections, and served as the sole instructor (effectively the Professor) for a graduate course on neural networks.
But I'm "unqualified" to teach math anywhere in K-12. In 5th grade I knew things my math teachers didn't, but after a PhD and teaching graduate level work, I still can't replace the teacher I knew more than when I was in 5th grade.
The teachers unions are destroying lives, one child at a time.
That may very well be the cause, but unless the Haudenosaunee made up a sizeable fraction of the worlds population, "the majority" still stands.
And your characterization of Haudenosaunee women as holding "equal rights" isn't correct on the face of it, except in the Orwellian sense: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". You describe them as having rights their men folk did not.
He put his penis in a woman who did not have the legal right to consent or not. He abused his position of power as a slaveowner (which is another issue altogether) to have sex with a slave. In no case did this woman have any legal protection to object. You can argue whether she loved him or not. That is unknown. Would she still have had sex with him if he didn't own her and she had full citizenship rights?
In any case, he is clearly a rapist. These morals should have been evident even centuries ago.
Until very recently in human history, the vast majority of women were first the property of their fathers, and then the property of the man their father gave them to, called her husband, who could put his penis in her without her having any legal right to consent or not. That is, if she wasn't just taken from her father or husband by someone with the power to do so.
Many women are still in this position today. Your outrage would be better targeted on their predicament, instead of on a man with few competitors for liberating mankind from oppression.
Once upon a time, parents spent a good chunk of change on encyclopedias. I grew up with one in my room. and read most of it as a child.
What a childhood it would have been to have a tablet with access to wikipedia and Khan academy. Maybe I would have just home schooled and learned everything in the universe instead of wasting my childhood in public schools.
Waah waah waah, I don't have a keyboard, and no one is wiping my ass for me. Waah waah waah.
The ADA is intended to make sure that the disabled can live as normal a life as possible.
Laws don't have intent, people do.
If we're going to play psychic detective about people's intent, my psychic powers tell me that the congress critters who passed the law intended to get reelected by twits who get a self righteous glow from confiscating the wealth of others for their own purposes.
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The US is strong enough to endure this. The idea of China is going to cash in all at once is ludicrous because if the US economy is killed so is China's.
They'd suffer economic dislocations, but I don't think they have a material need for the pieces of paper we send them. I wouldn't be surprised if the Party leaders one day decide that sinking the Superpower is worth a little economic dislocation.
Thank you. Saved me the trouble.
I don't know. I've read a good deal of what she wrote and was rabidly into her for quite some time.
Were you a "low-life sociopath" at the time? Otherwise, I don't see the relevance to the comments above.
Yes, of course humans essentially perform better when motivated by self-interest...
So she was basically correct on the desirability and morality of egoism and a market economy?
I'm not an Objectivist, and I disagree with Rand in fundamental ways. But I've generally found Objectivists and their sympathizers a better class of people, and certainly preferable to the know nothing nit wits who feel the need to shriek their ignorant disapproval of Rand at every opportunity.
Insightful?
I see Slashdot has officially joined the roving bands of nit wits who show tribe solidarity by pooh poohing Rand.
Funny?
Yeah, I suppose there are a lot of nitwits who buffoonishly yuck it up as they snicker and jeer at Rand.
Rand is an interesting cultural phenomenon. She was opposed to theism and collectivism, but pooh poohing Rand is largely only a collectivist shibboleth - the theists are usually indifferent to positive. The amusing thing is she had already perfectly portrayed today's detractors of her books in the books themselves more than half a century ago.
I would say, grim, but exalting.
Donaldson finds a way to say Yes to a world full of tragedy and pain. I find the first two trilogies extremely moving.
"He was a sick man, a victim of Hansen’s disease. But he was not a leper – not just a leper. He had the law of his illness carved in large indelible letters on the nerves of his body; but he was more than that. In the end, he had not failed the Land. And he had a heart which could still pump blood, bones which could still bear his weight; he had himself.
Thomas Covenant: Unbeliever.
A miracle.
Despite the stiff pain in his lip, he smiled at the empty room. He felt the smile on his face and was sure of it.
He smiled because he was alive."
But there is a danger in reading Donaldson. The world is really not so grim. It is not a series of ordeals to wrack your heart. Beauty and happiness are not so rare. If you spend too much time in grim fantasy, the world can start feeling that way.
People in Australia got retardedly-high feed-in rates (ie. every kWh they feed into the grid provides a power bill rebate of ~50c compared to every kWH they pull out of the grid costing them ~15c) ...
Hmm. Why bother with solar panels at all? Seems like there should be a way to make money when you can buy at 15c and sell at 50c. How do they know where you're getting the energy that you're selling?
I am a bit jaded, but it seems to me that the most important skills one can learn is the skill of how to get someone else to do the work.
The most important thing to figure out is how to have a large collective effort that isn't primarily consumed and controlled by parasites. It just may be the nature of a large collective enterprise, and the only option is to work in smaller groups.
Mathematics is a tool, but it's not a tool everyone uses to its fullest extent. In my high school, we teach all the way up to Calculus 2, and what percentage of the population actually uses that kind of mathematics? My Uncle, and cousins run a very successful business with revenue in the hundreds of millions of dollars. My cousin is dyslexic and has terrible trouble reading and doing mathematics, but he's sitting pretty on a pile of cash and he's great at his job. Would he be better at his job if he knew how to integrate? Maybe.... but it's not necessary for him, which is what the article is asking.
Apparently he doesn't really need to read either. We've got rid of reading and arithmetic, let's make a clean sweep of it an get rid of writing too.
Lots more time for self esteem classes this way.
...I'm not sure being a Manatee is any day at the beach either.
Boooo!
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap!
Wah! Wah! Wah! I destroy your kid's future and you don't pay me enough to do it. Wah! Wah! Wah!
So many mistakes, and so little time.
First, the fact that some parents would choose teaching skills poorly just does not imply that "the fact that some parents would choose you has no bearing on your competence."
Second, the complete dismissal of the judgment and wishes of parents is not surprising - those who support government schools are supporting the kidnappers in a hostage situation. The teacher's unions use their legal power over other people's children to extort money out of them. Clearly the wishes of the parents are only relevant to the extent that they can be manipulated to extort more money out of them.
Third, claiming that I do wish to be evaluated is complete hypocritical BS. It's the teacher's unions who refuse to submit to objective, impartial testing. I say, let's have an open competition every summer. A week of "math teaching olympics", with objective standards where possible, and judges outside the government educational bureaucracy - maybe some of those parents you have so much contempt for. Or how about some successful, experienced *private* school teachers? Think the government teacher's unions will go along with that?
And yes, I don't wish to give a year of my life and 20K to an idiot "teaching college". I have better things to do with my time and money.
Finally, your "facts" are ridiculous. I'm the guy who knows math, remember? Do you think you can blow smoke up my ass with bogus statistics? Or are you just that ignorant?
If you think this is evidence for the quality of *teacher's* unions, you are a buffoon.
> When you do studies of educational achievement around the US, students in the heavily-unionized regions, like the northeast, do better on standardized tests than students in the non-unionized south.
> I don't know of any successful school systems around the world where they just turn engineers and scientists loose on K-12 students without any training in education.
A public university turned me loose to teach college aged students with no idiotic pedagogical training before hand. But I guess teaching college freshman must be completely different from teaching 12th graders.
And please, what a joke, pretending that public school teachers spend their days reading up on the latest STEM teaching research.
I went to probably the best STEM private school in Hawaii (and no, it wasn't Punahou, Barack). Maybe I'll give them a call and see what requirements they have for incoming teachers. I seriously doubt they require a certificate from a teaching college. I simply can't imagine our lunatic of a math teacher, who got by far the best results in the state, would have ever consented to wasting a year of his life at a teaching college.
At least with the advent of places like Khan Academy, more and more kids can escape from having their minds crippled as youths by government schools.
Just because you have a PhD in electrical engineering, that doesn't mean you can teach 5th grade students.
And having a degree from a teaching college doesn't mean you can teach 5th grade students math either.
Because life doesn't come with a guarantee, the relevant question isn't whether anyone is guaranteed to be a good teacher, but which of the uncertain options is the best bet. I think most parents would rather bet on me than your randomly sampled public school math teacher. But whether I got the majority vote or not, no parent is *allowed* to pick me. I'm not legally an option to teach 5th grade math or highschool math in a public school, though I was an option *as a graduate student* to teach their children college level and graduate level engineering courses. Go figure.
Except for a paper write down which only acknowledged a fact of reality established years ago, they made 5.7billion. And that's in anticipation of a big release in the near future, that is probably limiting current sales until the release.
Buy now.
It would be interesting to see if they piled on a few other write downs.
I got my PhD in Electrical Engineering. I taught lab sections, quiz sections, and served as the sole instructor (effectively the Professor) for a graduate course on neural networks.
But I'm "unqualified" to teach math anywhere in K-12. In 5th grade I knew things my math teachers didn't, but after a PhD and teaching graduate level work, I still can't replace the teacher I knew more than when I was in 5th grade.
The teachers unions are destroying lives, one child at a time.
Lived maybe a 1/4 mile from Clear's headquarters in Kirkland, WA.No signal.
Going with Sprint was a horrible call for me. Is there any reason to believe they'll do a better job with their 4g LTE?
Isn't it horrible when hypocrites liberate mankind?
That may very well be the cause, but unless the Haudenosaunee made up a sizeable fraction of the worlds population, "the majority" still stands.
And your characterization of Haudenosaunee women as holding "equal rights" isn't correct on the face of it, except in the Orwellian sense: "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". You describe them as having rights their men folk did not.
He put his penis in a woman who did not have the legal right to consent or not. He abused his position of power as a slaveowner (which is another issue altogether) to have sex with a slave. In no case did this woman have any legal protection to object. You can argue whether she loved him or not. That is unknown. Would she still have had sex with him if he didn't own her and she had full citizenship rights?
In any case, he is clearly a rapist. These morals should have been evident even centuries ago.
Until very recently in human history, the vast majority of women were first the property of their fathers, and then the property of the man their father gave them to, called her husband, who could put his penis in her without her having any legal right to consent or not. That is, if she wasn't just taken from her father or husband by someone with the power to do so.
Many women are still in this position today. Your outrage would be better targeted on their predicament, instead of on a man with few competitors for liberating mankind from oppression.
I second the film recommendation.
You've got it backwards - if they were witches, then they'd be made of wood, and they'd float.
Whaddya mean?
Everyone knows humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. It was on tv, for Christ's sake. Ever hear of the Flintstones?
Once upon a time, parents spent a good chunk of change on encyclopedias. I grew up with one in my room. and read most of it as a child.
What a childhood it would have been to have a tablet with access to wikipedia and Khan academy. Maybe I would have just home schooled and learned everything in the universe instead of wasting my childhood in public schools.
Waah waah waah, I don't have a keyboard, and no one is wiping my ass for me. Waah waah waah.
Now get offa my lawn, you ungrateful punks.
The ADA is intended to make sure that the disabled can live as normal a life as possible.
Laws don't have intent, people do.
If we're going to play psychic detective about people's intent, my psychic powers tell me that the congress critters who passed the law intended to get reelected by twits who get a self righteous glow from confiscating the wealth of others for their own purposes.