That's what I thought about the TSA ball squeezing. Now I would say all bets are off. There was a comedy anime where the building destroying "heroes" had a catchphrase "anything can be done in the name of justice!". That's increasingly the line being taken in a slide towards authoritarianism. Papers please.
It took Neal Stephenson three doorstop sized books to write a vastly dumbed down but entertaining description of the proper value of modern money. Adding it to Civ is a bit of an ask. FreeCiv is available for alteration but since it's not the teachers looking for a game but the software vendors trying to push it into schools it's not being considered.
Seriously, schools these days are run for the benefit of the administrators first, and the teachers second
IMHO you've mentioned the fundamental problem just by naming the management structure. In other places with better outcomes you don't have the American fantasy of a manager who can run anything but instead a very experienced teacher who knows how to run a school effectively.
The ONLY solution is to tie the school up by continuously questioning the school at all levels, and it will take a lot of parents to do that
In those other places there are things like "parent's and citizens associations" who do that. It seems to work better in small towns instead of city suburbs but it does seem to work.
The above poster was complaining about some new-fangled thing in schools as if such things were not used in teaching before he was born. Please do try to keep up, it's not a very difficult thread to follow.
Back before you were born we were using Apple ][ computers to run a little simulation game in schools (Hamurabi or slightly different spelling) that was the forerunner to "Civilization", as an exercise in resource management.
Essentially everybody ended up surfing facebook or youtube or something, not doing anything the teacher told them to.
A lack of self-discipline has nothing to do with using a simulation game as a prop for teaching.
The BBC one is better. No God Mode Mary Sue trickster that could have dealt with Sauron in a minute but couldn't be bothered. Other chunks that let the books down have been removed as well.
As an aside the scene where two men fighting over possession of a rifle while Chaplin's character is keeping out of the way has something like the world record for the number of takes of a scene before the final cut. Since Chaplin owned the studio and had a lot of cash in reserve at the time he could afford to keep on going until he saw it as perfect. It's scenes like that one that inspired Jackie Chan and some of his similarly ridiculously over the top long take fight scenes,
But you don't go to jail because your idea of what your job entailed was judged illegal.
Many have. Many have argued that their corrupt activities were for the greater good instead of their own pocket. Courts either found otherwise or more often that it didn't matter why they were breaking the law that it was their illegal actions that mattered. I get that a lot of people here are very naive about politics but I cannot work out if you are exceptionally so or just pretending to be to wind me up.
The politics in healthcare are tough very hierarchal often with MD on top. IT without MD on staff tends to be under treated. As uneducated staff just the same as the people work in the cafeteria
An insight into that attitude was demonstrated a few years ago on Slashdot with the stories about the doctor who collected other people's linux kernel patches getting into an argument with Linus Torvalds.
Here is a movie clip with a joke making fun of the idiots that are bullshitting you about a different dialect. It's from the 1980 comedy "Airplane", a segment called "I speak jive" which is about a minute in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It was funny because the idea of it being a separate dialect needing a translator is absurd. You probably only fell for the bullshit by being too young to remember how fucking stupid and cynical the Ebonics suggestion was in the 1980s. As I wrote above it didn't even get majority support in the Republican party so it remained as nothing but a suggestion and a topic of jokes.
Did I say Europe anywhere? It's a big world out there but you chose as a strawman an area that is rarely even going to bother making much English language media so is not even attempting to compete for the same market.
and anybody can get on Netflix and Amazon
Exactly my point. Are you arguing just for the sake of it?
Crews don't hold copyrights, so where the movies get produced hardly matters.
And with computers Dell had the management and distribution so they thought the people who made their stuff would never matter - what could those ASUS guys do on their own after all? There are an increasing number of movies where the US involvement is not much more than the guy that talks to the banks, thus a tiny step away from being a foreign studio.
All hail the ministry of information! Yes I do know that Orwell deliberately based it on Stalin's Soviet Union and made no secret of it, but the message was that such things can happen where you live if things get bad enough.
The idea of accountability though criminal law sounds nice
It's not just nice, it's been a major part of law in English speaking countries since King John.
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." - Theodore Roosevelt
If you want a despotic King or a Tsar then just be honest about it instead of going on about "You live in a Democracy. If you think a politician has something wrong then it's the responsibility of you and your fellow voters to handle it".
It's really about having an established distribution network and barriers of entry to new players. That used to attract international talent to Hollywood so it was reinforced with the best "talent" from around the world, economies of scale etc. Today there are more barriers of movement to talented people into America and distribution is not so difficult today which means you don't need Fox or Disney behind you to get your stuff out there. The Hollywood advantage is vanishing. A major reason is self-inflicted as there are plenty of well trained crews in places where Hollywood movies were made offshore for tax reasons.
We can only hope for and wait for the total downfall and collapse of the US economy, before this madnes ends
The US keep on trying to do that and came close a couple of times so far in just this century but didn't quite pull it off. Maybe those people who want Trump as President (with Hillary being not much better) are pushing hard for a third time.
Personally I think the US economy collapsing would be a huge fucking disaster for everyone.
If you are going to go back that far why not just call your state a colony of slavery under the control of a mad King? The name hasn't changed after all, just like with the Democrats, Republicans and anything else with a long history.
The world has moved on. Pity you don't seem to be able to keep up with it.
I suggest you actually attempt to find out a little about the topic before deciding to deliver a lecture to us about it. Your "proof" that is wasn't Goldman Sachs having an impact in 2001 ignores that the problem and Goldman Sachs's involvement dates back to before then. Greece invested very heavily in US tech stocks in the tech bubble, on the direct advice of Goldman Sachs, and 99% of the problem since then is scrambling to find money to cover that but getting deeper and deeper into trouble. See also things like the city of Detroit building a casino in an attempt to solve all their money problems. When governments have huge debts they do all kinds of stupid shit based on a tiny chance that it may just work this time even if it didn't for anyone else.
The true irony is that this site is one (of many) that was singing the praises of the companies that Greece invested in right up until the bubble burst. I wonder how many of those people saying "stupid Greeks" would be more honest if they said "stupid Greeks, they believed people that were saying the same stuff I was saying".
You've been seriously bullshitted. All English is changed and transformed but a dialect is a pretty fucking huge change and transformation that mystifies the crap out of outsiders trying to get some idea about what is being said. There is not a different language called "jive" or a more recent one called "ebonics". Cockney slang is far more extreme but still well and truly English.
They are formed when a lot of people can understand each other.
Yes the myth is compelling but it's nothing but PR bullshit three decades beyond it's sell by date. Those "real" dialects have not shown up in those thirty years and that stupid cost saving policy that was never implemented remains as nothing other than a handy way to describe a very stupid idea.
Those things are one sided. For example - Australia and USA. Australia can't sell beef, steel, sugar and a pile of other things to the USA but got some pretty nasty copyright and other laws imposed as a consequence of the "free-trade deal". Australians can't buy software direct from the USA at a US price and can't buy some US audiobooks at all. Tents, boots, electronic equipment - so many things blocked from sale online - free trade was it?
The only thing that comes out of a free trade deal is boasting rights for the person who sat at the table as things are signed away, which is worth a few votes for three years or more until people work out that the deal was worthless or perhaps even damaging. That's long enough for a popularity boost and many in politics are happy to sell of the prosperity of other people or to fuck their nation over for personal benefit.
If it's with China expect the conditions to change without notice.
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That's what I thought about the TSA ball squeezing. Now I would say all bets are off.
There was a comedy anime where the building destroying "heroes" had a catchphrase "anything can be done in the name of justice!". That's increasingly the line being taken in a slide towards authoritarianism.
Papers please.
It took Neal Stephenson three doorstop sized books to write a vastly dumbed down but entertaining description of the proper value of modern money. Adding it to Civ is a bit of an ask. FreeCiv is available for alteration but since it's not the teachers looking for a game but the software vendors trying to push it into schools it's not being considered.
IMHO you've mentioned the fundamental problem just by naming the management structure. In other places with better outcomes you don't have the American fantasy of a manager who can run anything but instead a very experienced teacher who knows how to run a school effectively.
In those other places there are things like "parent's and citizens associations" who do that. It seems to work better in small towns instead of city suburbs but it does seem to work.
The above poster was complaining about some new-fangled thing in schools as if such things were not used in teaching before he was born. Please do try to keep up, it's not a very difficult thread to follow.
They can teach about Gold Rush era USA to cover that. It seemed to work out pretty well in the long run IMHO.
A lack of self-discipline has nothing to do with using a simulation game as a prop for teaching.
The BBC one is better. No God Mode Mary Sue trickster that could have dealt with Sauron in a minute but couldn't be bothered. Other chunks that let the books down have been removed as well.
As an aside the scene where two men fighting over possession of a rifle while Chaplin's character is keeping out of the way has something like the world record for the number of takes of a scene before the final cut. Since Chaplin owned the studio and had a lot of cash in reserve at the time he could afford to keep on going until he saw it as perfect. It's scenes like that one that inspired Jackie Chan and some of his similarly ridiculously over the top long take fight scenes,
Many have. Many have argued that their corrupt activities were for the greater good instead of their own pocket. Courts either found otherwise or more often that it didn't matter why they were breaking the law that it was their illegal actions that mattered.
I get that a lot of people here are very naive about politics but I cannot work out if you are exceptionally so or just pretending to be to wind me up.
An insight into that attitude was demonstrated a few years ago on Slashdot with the stories about the doctor who collected other people's linux kernel patches getting into an argument with Linus Torvalds.
Here is a movie clip with a joke making fun of the idiots that are bullshitting you about a different dialect.
It's from the 1980 comedy "Airplane", a segment called "I speak jive" which is about a minute in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It was funny because the idea of it being a separate dialect needing a translator is absurd.
You probably only fell for the bullshit by being too young to remember how fucking stupid and cynical the Ebonics suggestion was in the 1980s. As I wrote above it didn't even get majority support in the Republican party so it remained as nothing but a suggestion and a topic of jokes.
Exactly my point. Are you arguing just for the sake of it?
And with computers Dell had the management and distribution so they thought the people who made their stuff would never matter - what could those ASUS guys do on their own after all? There are an increasing number of movies where the US involvement is not much more than the guy that talks to the banks, thus a tiny step away from being a foreign studio.
Such as the USA and every other democracy?
All hail the ministry of information!
Yes I do know that Orwell deliberately based it on Stalin's Soviet Union and made no secret of it, but the message was that such things can happen where you live if things get bad enough.
It's not just nice, it's been a major part of law in English speaking countries since King John.
"No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it." - Theodore Roosevelt
If you want a despotic King or a Tsar then just be honest about it instead of going on about "You live in a Democracy. If you think a politician has something wrong then it's the responsibility of you and your fellow voters to handle it".
It's really about having an established distribution network and barriers of entry to new players. That used to attract international talent to Hollywood so it was reinforced with the best "talent" from around the world, economies of scale etc.
Today there are more barriers of movement to talented people into America and distribution is not so difficult today which means you don't need Fox or Disney behind you to get your stuff out there. The Hollywood advantage is vanishing. A major reason is self-inflicted as there are plenty of well trained crews in places where Hollywood movies were made offshore for tax reasons.
The US keep on trying to do that and came close a couple of times so far in just this century but didn't quite pull it off. Maybe those people who want Trump as President (with Hillary being not much better) are pushing hard for a third time.
Personally I think the US economy collapsing would be a huge fucking disaster for everyone.
If you are going to go back that far why not just call your state a colony of slavery under the control of a mad King?
The name hasn't changed after all, just like with the Democrats, Republicans and anything else with a long history.
The world has moved on. Pity you don't seem to be able to keep up with it.
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I suggest you actually attempt to find out a little about the topic before deciding to deliver a lecture to us about it. Your "proof" that is wasn't Goldman Sachs having an impact in 2001 ignores that the problem and Goldman Sachs's involvement dates back to before then. Greece invested very heavily in US tech stocks in the tech bubble, on the direct advice of Goldman Sachs, and 99% of the problem since then is scrambling to find money to cover that but getting deeper and deeper into trouble.
See also things like the city of Detroit building a casino in an attempt to solve all their money problems. When governments have huge debts they do all kinds of stupid shit based on a tiny chance that it may just work this time even if it didn't for anyone else.
The true irony is that this site is one (of many) that was singing the praises of the companies that Greece invested in right up until the bubble burst.
I wonder how many of those people saying "stupid Greeks" would be more honest if they said "stupid Greeks, they believed people that were saying the same stuff I was saying".
You've been seriously bullshitted. All English is changed and transformed but a dialect is a pretty fucking huge change and transformation that mystifies the crap out of outsiders trying to get some idea about what is being said.
There is not a different language called "jive" or a more recent one called "ebonics". Cockney slang is far more extreme but still well and truly English.
They are formed when a lot of people can understand each other.
Yes the myth is compelling but it's nothing but PR bullshit three decades beyond it's sell by date.
Those "real" dialects have not shown up in those thirty years and that stupid cost saving policy that was never implemented remains as nothing other than a handy way to describe a very stupid idea.
Wasn't Carter your best president?
Carter was the cautionary tale of how being honest loses you the Presidency. Nobody has made that same mistake since.
So corruption isn't really an issue in Greece?
I mentioned Goldman Sachs didn't I? Do you really think they were not a very major part of that corruption? They certainly are in other places.
Those things are one sided.
For example - Australia and USA.
Australia can't sell beef, steel, sugar and a pile of other things to the USA but got some pretty nasty copyright and other laws imposed as a consequence of the "free-trade deal". Australians can't buy software direct from the USA at a US price and can't buy some US audiobooks at all. Tents, boots, electronic equipment - so many things blocked from sale online - free trade was it?
The only thing that comes out of a free trade deal is boasting rights for the person who sat at the table as things are signed away, which is worth a few votes for three years or more until people work out that the deal was worthless or perhaps even damaging. That's long enough for a popularity boost and many in politics are happy to sell of the prosperity of other people or to fuck their nation over for personal benefit.
If it's with China expect the conditions to change without notice.