Er, that's exactly the point he was making. He was criticising the people who say the US has the best healthcare system in the world without comparing it to other healthcare systems. So his point isn't wrong.
In case you missed it, this is for people who prefer to read from paper over reading from a screen.
I see your Palm and raise you my iPhone. I can download books to that and have a very nifty app for doing so without having to turn pages (the phone's tilt controls the speed of the scroll) but to be honest I'm more inclined to read paper books. There's just something distracting about it being on a screen.
is to remove manditory PE from the schools. Use it as time to learn music, or have a out of class work for an hour to help kids deal with homework.
Here is the thing: 30 minutes of half hearted PE exercise in a gym where you mostly goof off really doesn't provide anything. If the child isn't getting exercise at home and learning proper diets then this isn't going to help them.
Use the money for PE top provide a healthy lunch. No more pizza and cheap hot dogs.
Kids that are inclined to exercise will play at home. Many kids do not get an opportunity to learn music in the home, and just learning to play a little each day stimulates the brain.
no, I do not play music, but I wish all the effort schools spent to get me to wear shorts and sweat had been put into making learn an instrument..any instrument
Mother of god, so much stupidity crammed into a single post I hardly know where to start.
Oh that's a great idea. Just when the obesity epidemic couldn't get much worse, let's drop the one chance many people get to burn a few transfats just because one fatass wanted to learn more music. (Hint: if you regret that you didn't learn how to play an instrument, why don't you just go and learn how to play an instrument?)
"Kids that are inclined to exercise will play at home."
OMG, I can't believe that A I just read that, and B you got modded Insightful. Here's a question, what about those who are not inclined to exercise? What do you suggest we do for them? Annual liposuction? What about those who aren't inclined to exercise now but would be more inclined to if they learn an appreciation for sport in school? Would you prefer them to become diabetic pianists? What about those who are inclined to exercise? Would you prefer to deprive them of a shot at some athletic enjoyment during their school years?
30 minutes of half hearted PE exercise in a gym where you mostly goof off is...
...is obviously what you got but that doesn't mean everybody else got it. I learned to play basketball in school and would never have had a chance to learn it anywhere else. I also got great tennis lessons and a chance to shine on the athletics track in front of the chicks. Guess what? It felt great!
As Barny Frank would say, on what planet do you spend most of your time? Ma'am, having a conversation with you would be like having a conversation with the dining room table! I have no interest in doing it!
Good point. Trucks cause the most damage. In Europe they have tax incentives for haulage/trucking companies to use tri-axle trailers and extra axles on the tractor units since they spread the load out better and do less damage to the road. You never seen these in the US (I've never seen them in California anyway).
You make good points, but I disagree with this bit:
Scientists usually have enough on their plates with little things like research, grant writing, internal politics, etc., without some science writers who completely lack data to back up their thesis telling them to start up and maintain a blog, column, or attend even more conventions. Those who do maintain such things tend to be either 1) incredibly busy, busier than I'd like to be, or 2) have a lighter research load than is desired by many. I'm not badmouthing option 2), it includes scientists who do try to focus more on public outreach and teaching, which is very admirable and valuable. Just don't expect every person interested in scientific research to want to devote their time to it.
An airline pilot has a lot on his plate, but he still needs to be a good communicator so that he can talk to Air Traffic Control intelligibly and reassure the passengers when there's turbulence.
A software engineer has a lot on his plate, but still needs to be a good communicator so that he can work in a software team since very few applications these days are written by one man.
A surgeon has a lot on his plate, but he still needs to be a good communicator so that he can get the job done with his assistants.
A bus driver has a lot on his plate, but he still needs to be a good communicator if he wants to work in a public-facing role.
We ALL have to be better communicators in today's world in just about every walk of life. Communication is essential.
I mean, even iPhones are now getting pretty good at performing multiple functions. Is it too much to ask that we expect people to do the same?
What is needed is some good old fashioned competition. When other countries start to drastically exceed the US in science innovations and applications to daily life, then some of us will wake up from the stupor and numbness of "reality" tv.
There already is competition. But you only have to look at the racist "thank you, come again" comments that get modded up on/. every time another technical development in India is posted. You can see from that that even the more tech savvy people in the US still don't get it. There is still this idea that the developing world is just a big joke, that the US is still #1, and that is the way it will always be. The British had lost their empire for many decades before they woke up to their loss of status. Maybe there will be the same delayed reaction in the US after the Chinese plant their flag on the moon.
No school teacher could explain to me Roman numerals,... No school teacher taught me the alphabet, how to read or write....... No school teacher taught me arithmetic,
WTF?! What kind of dumbass teachers did you have? What country are you from?
No, but it might be great for actually learning something. I don't know about the majority of people here, but I learned despite my school, not because of it - every skill I now use professionally is a skill that my school took great effort to teach glacially, incorrectly, and uselessly.
On the other hand, the year in which I basically dropped out of high school, I learned a huge amount.
I don't know if this will be better than conventional education, but, honestly? It'd be hard for it to be worse.
I don't know what kind of school you went to but I learned to read, write, and count at school. It wasn't perfect, but I would have been a whole lot worse off without it.
Child A is taught to be inquisitive about everything around him. As he encounters things in his daily life he figures out how they work, rather than accepting them as magical black boxes.
Child B sits in a classroom with 40 other students doing multiplication tables until he has them all memorized.
Who do you think is going to be a better engineer someday?
Child B. I went through a little goofing off phase in primary school. Unfortunately it coincided with the time when we were learning multiplication tables. My math suffered all the way through high school, college, and university. I'm convinced I could have gotten a whole lot further, could have been an aeronautical engineering student. I learned my tables eventually, but the damage was done and my math just wasn't strong enough.
From TFA:
"Kids up around 8:30 or so, played Lego til breakfast was ready, dropped off lunch to my mom."
"Visited Patapsco State Park: Searched for crayfish, tossed different size rocks in water to make big splashes ⦠caught [an amphibian] and skate bug and observed before setting free ⦠found a clam shell in the stream and talked about how it might have ended up there ⦠headed home, had lunch."
"Made ice cream (we started it the day before) with mint from our garden. When we went out to pick the mint, we found that our parsley plant was being devoured by three giant green and black striped caterpillars, which we caught and observed for a few hours."
"Picked some squash from the garden and checked on the status of all of our plants ⦠while the ice cream was freezing we watched and noticed that as it froze, it expanded and filled up the freezing bowl more."
"After dinner we read a few books before bedtime ⦠Marcus played a few computer games after the little boys were in bed (map and strategy games online)."
Taking a walk in the park and observing nature is fine, giving kids some sort of an occasional say in what they learn is fine, but if that's all they're doing then good luck with heading out into the world with that kind of education, coz you're going to need it.
Sorry, but there comes a time when there's just no getting around the fact that you have to sit at a desk and do some fucking work.
I don't know where they were manufacturing before, but I have noticed a huge drop in the quality of Apple's hardware. I've bee a Mac aficionado since the early 1990s but my latest computer from them, a Macbook, is the first Mac I have actually hated. First there are the sharp edges that hurt my wrists. Then there are the edges that soon broke off. Then there's the fact that it freezes and applications seem incapable of quitting without crashing. Then there's the power adapter that heats up so much I have to use an oven glove to unplug it. Then there's the battery that heats up so much I can't even set the damn thing in my lap. I never thought I'd say this, but I hate my Mac!
Is all the defensive Americans marking as Troll anything that highlights the ridiculousness of calling this particular game "Football". As a European, I had exactly the same reaction as another poster: that putting the Wiim-mote inside a football would be dangerous.
As it transpires, it's not actually a football, but for some twisted reason, it's still called that.
The Brits also invented a football game where the ball is mostly thrown and seldom kicked with the foot. It was called Rugby, which split into Rugby Union and Rugby League, but both games are still called Rugby Football.
Football games aren't so-called because of the kicking action, of the seven or so flavours of football in this world only one of them predominantly uses the foot to deliver the ball. The 'foot' in 'football' comes from the fact that these games are descended from pastimes that were played by the peasants 'on foot' as opposed to the games that were played by the nobles on horseback.
Billions of EU money never accounted for more than 5% of GDP. Quoth The Economist (from memory): "Nor is it the result of EU handouts. The Irish success is of Irish making, as successive governments have reduced taxation, improved education, and managed the public accounts in a sensibly austere manner."
Sorry, but when someone sees a blimp illuminated at night in the distance and thinks it's an alien spaceship, I think pareidolia is a pretty good word to use.
Since the site has been/.'ed and I can't RTFA, I have to ask... Is this really a Diesel Electric engine (as in locomotives) where the diesel engine is used solely to create electricity and is not connected to the drive train? Or is this actually a Diesel Hybrid?
It's a Diesel Hybrid. Interestingly, the first hybrid I remember seeing in the 1980s / early 90s was a converted diesel VW Golf.
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Er, that's exactly the point he was making. He was criticising the people who say the US has the best healthcare system in the world without comparing it to other healthcare systems. So his point isn't wrong.
The point is valid
Pluto isn't in the solar system anymore.
Of course it bloody is, it just isn't a planet anymore. Or something.
I can download public domain books to my Palm.
In case you missed it, this is for people who prefer to read from paper over reading from a screen.
I see your Palm and raise you my iPhone. I can download books to that and have a very nifty app for doing so without having to turn pages (the phone's tilt controls the speed of the scroll) but to be honest I'm more inclined to read paper books. There's just something distracting about it being on a screen.
The BBC is not the Daily Telegraph
is to remove manditory PE from the schools. Use it as time to learn music, or have a out of class work for an hour to help kids deal with homework.
Here is the thing:
30 minutes of half hearted PE exercise in a gym where you mostly goof off really doesn't provide anything. If the child isn't getting exercise at home and learning proper diets then this isn't going to help them.
Use the money for PE top provide a healthy lunch. No more pizza and cheap hot dogs.
Kids that are inclined to exercise will play at home. Many kids do not get an opportunity to learn music in the home, and just learning to play a little each day stimulates the brain.
no, I do not play music, but I wish all the effort schools spent to get me to wear shorts and sweat had been put into making learn an instrument..any instrument
Mother of god, so much stupidity crammed into a single post I hardly know where to start.
Oh that's a great idea. Just when the obesity epidemic couldn't get much worse, let's drop the one chance many people get to burn a few transfats just because one fatass wanted to learn more music. (Hint: if you regret that you didn't learn how to play an instrument, why don't you just go and learn how to play an instrument?)
OMG, I can't believe that A I just read that, and B you got modded Insightful. Here's a question, what about those who are not inclined to exercise? What do you suggest we do for them? Annual liposuction? What about those who aren't inclined to exercise now but would be more inclined to if they learn an appreciation for sport in school? Would you prefer them to become diabetic pianists? What about those who are inclined to exercise? Would you prefer to deprive them of a shot at some athletic enjoyment during their school years?
...you, maam, are batshit insane!
As Barny Frank would say, on what planet do you spend most of your time? Ma'am, having a conversation with you would be like having a conversation with the dining room table! I have no interest in doing it!
Sheesh!
Good point. Trucks cause the most damage. In Europe they have tax incentives for haulage/trucking companies to use tri-axle trailers and extra axles on the tractor units since they spread the load out better and do less damage to the road. You never seen these in the US (I've never seen them in California anyway).
You make good points, but I disagree with this bit:
An airline pilot has a lot on his plate, but he still needs to be a good communicator so that he can talk to Air Traffic Control intelligibly and reassure the passengers when there's turbulence.
A software engineer has a lot on his plate, but still needs to be a good communicator so that he can work in a software team since very few applications these days are written by one man.
A surgeon has a lot on his plate, but he still needs to be a good communicator so that he can get the job done with his assistants.
A bus driver has a lot on his plate, but he still needs to be a good communicator if he wants to work in a public-facing role.
We ALL have to be better communicators in today's world in just about every walk of life. Communication is essential.
I mean, even iPhones are now getting pretty good at performing multiple functions. Is it too much to ask that we expect people to do the same?
He's not trolling, his points are in order and on topic whether you agree with them or not.
What is needed is some good old fashioned competition. When other countries start to drastically exceed the US in science innovations and applications to daily life, then some of us will wake up from the stupor and numbness of "reality" tv.
There already is competition. But you only have to look at the racist "thank you, come again" comments that get modded up on /. every time another technical development in India is posted. You can see from that that even the more tech savvy people in the US still don't get it. There is still this idea that the developing world is just a big joke, that the US is still #1, and that is the way it will always be. The British had lost their empire for many decades before they woke up to their loss of status. Maybe there will be the same delayed reaction in the US after the Chinese plant their flag on the moon.
Why are we so hung up on making a 2D display look 3-dimensional? Why not just create a 3D display? (I realize "just" was a bit disingenuous.)
I've seen it done and seen it in action. I was a bit disappointed when I read TFS and saw that this still relies on the user wearing special glasses.
Ok, then call an Irishman "British," because Ireland is in the British Isles. *NOW* do you see his point?
I think you mean the Irish Isles.
Unshcooler seven years, Elijah age seven.
What about him?
No school teacher could explain to me Roman numerals,... No school teacher taught me the alphabet, how to read or write... .... No school teacher taught me arithmetic,
WTF?! What kind of dumbass teachers did you have? What country are you from?
No, but it might be great for actually learning something. I don't know about the majority of people here, but I learned despite my school, not because of it - every skill I now use professionally is a skill that my school took great effort to teach glacially, incorrectly, and uselessly.
On the other hand, the year in which I basically dropped out of high school, I learned a huge amount.
I don't know if this will be better than conventional education, but, honestly? It'd be hard for it to be worse.
I don't know what kind of school you went to but I learned to read, write, and count at school. It wasn't perfect, but I would have been a whole lot worse off without it.
Child B. I went through a little goofing off phase in primary school. Unfortunately it coincided with the time when we were learning multiplication tables. My math suffered all the way through high school, college, and university. I'm convinced I could have gotten a whole lot further, could have been an aeronautical engineering student. I learned my tables eventually, but the damage was done and my math just wasn't strong enough.
From TFA:
Taking a walk in the park and observing nature is fine, giving kids some sort of an occasional say in what they learn is fine, but if that's all they're doing then good luck with heading out into the world with that kind of education, coz you're going to need it.
Sorry, but there comes a time when there's just no getting around the fact that you have to sit at a desk and do some fucking work.
Excuse me, but why would you think I'm a troll?
I don't know where they were manufacturing before, but I have noticed a huge drop in the quality of Apple's hardware. I've bee a Mac aficionado since the early 1990s but my latest computer from them, a Macbook, is the first Mac I have actually hated. First there are the sharp edges that hurt my wrists. Then there are the edges that soon broke off. Then there's the fact that it freezes and applications seem incapable of quitting without crashing. Then there's the power adapter that heats up so much I have to use an oven glove to unplug it. Then there's the battery that heats up so much I can't even set the damn thing in my lap. I never thought I'd say this, but I hate my Mac!
Actually, rugby players don't have all those protection, figure-, and crotch-enhancing paraphernalia.
Probably because they're not colliding head-on at full speed and sliding across an artificial surface.
Is all the defensive Americans marking as Troll anything that highlights the ridiculousness of calling this particular game "Football". As a European, I had exactly the same reaction as another poster: that putting the Wiim-mote inside a football would be dangerous.
As it transpires, it's not actually a football, but for some twisted reason, it's still called that.
The Brits also invented a football game where the ball is mostly thrown and seldom kicked with the foot. It was called Rugby, which split into Rugby Union and Rugby League, but both games are still called Rugby Football.
Football games aren't so-called because of the kicking action, of the seven or so flavours of football in this world only one of them predominantly uses the foot to deliver the ball. The 'foot' in 'football' comes from the fact that these games are descended from pastimes that were played by the peasants 'on foot' as opposed to the games that were played by the nobles on horseback.
It was only saved by billions of EU money.
Billions of EU money never accounted for more than 5% of GDP. Quoth The Economist (from memory): "Nor is it the result of EU handouts. The Irish success is of Irish making, as successive governments have reduced taxation, improved education, and managed the public accounts in a sensibly austere manner."
Huh? Anyone?
So the war started in 1991?
Sorry, but when someone sees a blimp illuminated at night in the distance and thinks it's an alien spaceship, I think pareidolia is a pretty good word to use.
Since the site has been /.'ed and I can't RTFA, I have to ask... Is this really a Diesel Electric engine (as in locomotives) where the diesel engine is used solely to create electricity and is not connected to the drive train? Or is this actually a Diesel Hybrid?
It's a Diesel Hybrid. Interestingly, the first hybrid I remember seeing in the 1980s / early 90s was a converted diesel VW Golf.