You make it known how you feel about behavior that does not belong in the schools. I do not mean prayer and God and such. I mean drugs, sex, violence and such. Belief in God may help or not. Those things definitely cause many problems.
And, while you are at it. Keep those things out of your home as well. Make sure what your kids watch and experience is good mind food. Just like computers, Garbage in, Garbage out.
How exactly are we supposed to have kids if we keep sex out of the home? Do we have to go on vacation?
Some things progress faster than others. The pencil-to-paper algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, long division, algebra, and probably even calculus predate the nuclear era too. And there's really no better way to teach them than to demonstrate on a large board (optionally) and to make people do them over and over again. Whiteboards work better than chalkboards these days, that's an innovation. Honestly, in terms of math the only good use of technology I can see is visualizing three-dimensional graphs, and that's a rare case. Languages? You learn them by reading them and writing them. Maybe you can read them off a screen. Maybe you can type in addition to writing longhand. And already you have most of primary and secondary education. The main problems in education won't be solved by technology, as much as technology may help.
So a guy who devotes his life to debunking spoonbenders and another guy who devotes his life to mocking theists give you more hope for humanity's intellectual progress than Einstein, Maxwell, and Newton put together?
Remember, glass is transparent in the visual spectrum, but can be opaque in the infrared. I know this from using Thermal Imaging Cameras in houses that are on fire.
Wow, all I do in houses that are on fire is try not to die. Clearly you are several steps ahead of me.
Mod parent "eww". Seriously, there are fetishists who pretend to have "real" relationships with dolls, and sometimes I wonder if their grip on reality is tenuous enough to try think they're justified in using the HOV lane instead of just cheating.
It wasted a lot of tax money that could have been better spent on American schools...
Funny, a lot of that tax money WAS spent on American schools. It's the legacy of Sputnik that the schools teach science and math to the extent that they do, as eroded as it has become in past decades.
Here it is. It's not anti-IE particularly, more of a comment on how the OS vendor from a broken-up Microsoft would end up licensing and distributing IE, back during the naive era when the government almost broke up Microsoft and we expected it to go through. Other anachronisms include a references to Bill Clinton, Denis Leary, K-Mart, Time-Warner-AOL, Corel, IE5, Win2K and Windows NT, a non-ironic use of the terms "synergy" and "M$", and an argument for porting Microsoft Office to Linux.
I have little interest in the issue citizenship, to be honest. In reality, no one is all that interested in granting citizenship to everyone who asks for it. All I really care about is allowing peaceful, law-abiding foreigners to live and work in this country, just as I would want to be able to live as an expatriate myself if I felt so inclined, and allowing them to do so without violating their human rights. If they want to become citizens, it should be possible, albeit not trivial. If they don't want to become citizens, they should be left be. The problem is that our travel and immigration regulations go far above and beyond ensuring these people are peaceful and law-abiding, and instead create restrictions for the sake of creating restrictions.
The American value system is what it is, billions of people on this planet don't subscribe to it, don't understand it, and we are not responsible for preserving the equality of opportunity of everyone else. When we try to do that now and then, people complain that America is being "imperialist", trying to "spread democracy" or "be the world's police force."
Are you seriously equating less restrictions on immigration to starting a war of aggression?
The fact that we've made something halfway decent for ourselves, and that many of those billions would like a share is not, in and of itself, reason to simply give it to them.
The essence of America is that you don't own my share. If I'm a landlord or employer and I want to hire or house an engineer who happened to be born in another country, that's my business. This isn't a communist state. We don't own everything in common, and unless this engineer is a hazard to public safety and order, his residing in my house or his work in my company is not your business. (Likewise, just being American doesn't guarantee that anyone should "give you" part of America. You may be a citizen, but I'm not morally obligated to house or employ you if you're a worse tenant or employee than the next person, regardless of the next person's citizenship.)
I don't know why it is so hard for many Americans to understand that. Does this country mean so little to them now?
My country means a great deal to me. What means little to me is where and when the next person was born. Peaceful people shouldn't be fired from honest jobs and thrown out of their duly-rented homes simply because they weren't born between the 49th parallel and Rio Grande. If we have to be the first country to address and fix this moral injustice, so be it. By my understanding, America was founded to address and fix the injustices of bad government. And we have a vast history of continuing to do so.
Indeed. But Apple isn't installing "stealth" software updates to the iPhone in the dead of the night. iPhone owners have every right and every ability to not update their firmware. Apple even told you the firmware update wouldn't work, which was actually rather sporting of them.
A minority can still be "large or considerable". "Many" does not imply "most" (although "most" does imply "many" in some cases), and the phrases "considerable minority" and "large minority" are well-attested. Even the phrase "many but not most" is attested.
You interpreted me as claiming that "most of the best grad schools are in the US". I did not intend to claim that, and my use of the word "many" is well-attested as not necessarily being synonymous with "most". It turns out I'm adequately educated on this point, and you are a jackass.
folks who decide they can't hack law school are likewise prone to changing subjects
To engineering?
Since the grandparent sees fit to state that engineering is at least somewhat harder than law, I'm curious to find the basis on which such a statement can be defended.
Ask someone who's studied both law and engineering. The results won't be scientific, but at least they have the additional advantage of not pretending to be scientific.
It sounds like you want the immigration laws to carefully distinguish between what's American and what's, I suppose, un-American. (Although on that note, I would support a law denying citizenship to avowed communists....) Of course, I am American simply because of the time and place of my birth. Preserving the equal opportunity of every human being, despite the circumstances of their birth, is a very American value, as I understand it, and so I must denounce your proposal as horrifically un-American.
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How exactly are we supposed to have kids if we keep sex out of the home? Do we have to go on vacation?
So instead of classes in Kelsey Grammer Studies, you studied his entire family?
Some things progress faster than others. The pencil-to-paper algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, long division, algebra, and probably even calculus predate the nuclear era too. And there's really no better way to teach them than to demonstrate on a large board (optionally) and to make people do them over and over again. Whiteboards work better than chalkboards these days, that's an innovation. Honestly, in terms of math the only good use of technology I can see is visualizing three-dimensional graphs, and that's a rare case. Languages? You learn them by reading them and writing them. Maybe you can read them off a screen. Maybe you can type in addition to writing longhand. And already you have most of primary and secondary education. The main problems in education won't be solved by technology, as much as technology may help.
Yes, and it was repealed shortly afterwards for that exact same reason.
So a guy who devotes his life to debunking spoonbenders and another guy who devotes his life to mocking theists give you more hope for humanity's intellectual progress than Einstein, Maxwell, and Newton put together?
Bullshit. 80-90% of the population drinks alcohol.
Wow, all I do in houses that are on fire is try not to die. Clearly you are several steps ahead of me.
Mod parent "eww". Seriously, there are fetishists who pretend to have "real" relationships with dolls, and sometimes I wonder if their grip on reality is tenuous enough to try think they're justified in using the HOV lane instead of just cheating.
Do you not know a joke when you see one?
Did Ronald Reagan eat too many jellybeans?
Yeah, let me know if that helps Burma any more than boycotting the Moscow Olympics helped Afghanistan.
Funny, a lot of that tax money WAS spent on American schools. It's the legacy of Sputnik that the schools teach science and math to the extent that they do, as eroded as it has become in past decades.
Here it is. It's not anti-IE particularly, more of a comment on how the OS vendor from a broken-up Microsoft would end up licensing and distributing IE, back during the naive era when the government almost broke up Microsoft and we expected it to go through. Other anachronisms include a references to Bill Clinton, Denis Leary, K-Mart, Time-Warner-AOL, Corel, IE5, Win2K and Windows NT, a non-ironic use of the terms "synergy" and "M$", and an argument for porting Microsoft Office to Linux.
I have little interest in the issue citizenship, to be honest. In reality, no one is all that interested in granting citizenship to everyone who asks for it. All I really care about is allowing peaceful, law-abiding foreigners to live and work in this country, just as I would want to be able to live as an expatriate myself if I felt so inclined, and allowing them to do so without violating their human rights. If they want to become citizens, it should be possible, albeit not trivial. If they don't want to become citizens, they should be left be. The problem is that our travel and immigration regulations go far above and beyond ensuring these people are peaceful and law-abiding, and instead create restrictions for the sake of creating restrictions.
The American value system is what it is, billions of people on this planet don't subscribe to it, don't understand it, and we are not responsible for preserving the equality of opportunity of everyone else. When we try to do that now and then, people complain that America is being "imperialist", trying to "spread democracy" or "be the world's police force."Are you seriously equating less restrictions on immigration to starting a war of aggression?
The fact that we've made something halfway decent for ourselves, and that many of those billions would like a share is not, in and of itself, reason to simply give it to them.The essence of America is that you don't own my share. If I'm a landlord or employer and I want to hire or house an engineer who happened to be born in another country, that's my business. This isn't a communist state. We don't own everything in common, and unless this engineer is a hazard to public safety and order, his residing in my house or his work in my company is not your business. (Likewise, just being American doesn't guarantee that anyone should "give you" part of America. You may be a citizen, but I'm not morally obligated to house or employ you if you're a worse tenant or employee than the next person, regardless of the next person's citizenship.)
I don't know why it is so hard for many Americans to understand that. Does this country mean so little to them now?My country means a great deal to me. What means little to me is where and when the next person was born. Peaceful people shouldn't be fired from honest jobs and thrown out of their duly-rented homes simply because they weren't born between the 49th parallel and Rio Grande. If we have to be the first country to address and fix this moral injustice, so be it. By my understanding, America was founded to address and fix the injustices of bad government. And we have a vast history of continuing to do so.
Because they're fundamentally related concepts.
Indeed. But Apple isn't installing "stealth" software updates to the iPhone in the dead of the night. iPhone owners have every right and every ability to not update their firmware. Apple even told you the firmware update wouldn't work, which was actually rather sporting of them.
I'm more worried about General Protection. Everything is his fault!
A minority can still be "large or considerable". "Many" does not imply "most" (although "most" does imply "many" in some cases), and the phrases "considerable minority" and "large minority" are well-attested. Even the phrase "many but not most" is attested.
You interpreted me as claiming that "most of the best grad schools are in the US". I did not intend to claim that, and my use of the word "many" is well-attested as not necessarily being synonymous with "most". It turns out I'm adequately educated on this point, and you are a jackass.
You're hotly contesting something that doesn't exist. "Many" implies at least a substantial minority. "Most" implies a majority. I said "many".
No, it means that his major is not in Kelsey Grammer Studies.
I was joking about the communists, as evil or misguided as they may be.
Fortunately, all he mentioned was "the lack of a space after the colon".
To engineering?
Since the grandparent sees fit to state that engineering is at least somewhat harder than law, I'm curious to find the basis on which such a statement can be defended.Ask someone who's studied both law and engineering. The results won't be scientific, but at least they have the additional advantage of not pretending to be scientific.
No, he means English singer-songwriter Peter Noone.
It sounds like you want the immigration laws to carefully distinguish between what's American and what's, I suppose, un-American. (Although on that note, I would support a law denying citizenship to avowed communists....) Of course, I am American simply because of the time and place of my birth. Preserving the equal opportunity of every human being, despite the circumstances of their birth, is a very American value, as I understand it, and so I must denounce your proposal as horrifically un-American.