Citation? Seriously, I dare you to campaign for it. I dare you. I bet you won't. Because if you do, you'll be labeled a "Mens rights activist", or MRA for short. And you'll have everybody attacking you for being a misogynist. Prove me wrong. I dare you. After all, if things are as you say, you have nothing to fear for campaigning for the courts to treat men and women equally in custody battles.
There are plenty of programs to try to get more men in nursing (and teaching). Here is just the first Google result I found, but you can find plenty more:
https://dailynurse.com/recruit...
...them teachers switched to something like WhatsApp.
Didn't see the sarcasm tag so I'm assuming that's serious. Teachers cannot use private messaging services like WhatsApp, at least in the US. All communication with students has to be archived as it should be accessible to parents via the Freedom of Information App. It also protects teachers from unfounded accusations by students.
The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources
You ignore the fact, driven home by every account of the Watergate story involving the journalists Woodward & Berstein - their editor, Ben Bradley, spent WEEKS reminding them they needed to get second or in some cases third sources for everything their "anonymous source" told them in the parking garage.
Are you saying that isn't going on today? Most stories I read involve multiple sources. Can you point to some instances that only relied on a single source?
Anonymous sources aren't always a reason to distrust a story. The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources and that's just one example of a high-profile story that was anonymously sourced.
It is good to treat anonymously-sourced stories with some skepticism, though. FiveThirtyEight had a great article over the summer that gave some tips on when to trust an anonymously-sourced article and when to be more skeptical.
What you signed up for two weeks ago was to give up your right to sue Equifax and agreed to binding arbitration. That is all. They were not planning to do anything with respect to credit freeze. Even now they want four months of damage control and get as many people to give up the rights as possible.
I didn't sign up for their credit check service on that shady Equifax Security 2017 website. I actually signed up for a credit freeze and I did so with the other two agencies as well. I used the site below.
Equifax Security Freeze
They are already offering credit freezes for free. I signed up for it two weeks ago and it did not ask for any credit card or other payment information. I'm not sure if they currently charge for unfreezing, though.
Pretty sure being a Registered Democrat makes a person a Democrat. In fact, pretty sure that it is the only thing that makes a person a Democrat.
I'm a registered Democrat, but that's because my state automatically registers you for a party when you vote in the primaries. Since I voted in the Democratic primaries this last time around I'm now registered as a Dem, but I've been registered as a Republican before when I've voted in the Republican primaries.
Point being, I think Snopes was right about the fact that being registered to a particular party doesn't mean you are really an adherent to that party.
The idea that having a CS degree makes you a competent programmer is laughable... Those "deep" algorithmic problem solving abilities are what pay so much, and more important, and interest in them. My value to my employer has little do with any degree and mostly due to the fact when I was given a problem, I could identify why the current solutions had failed because I knew how computers work.
The majority of CS majors I know can't even tell you how a processor works on basic principles. It's just a black box to them, and when things fail like a stack overflow, they don't know what that even means.
I agree that a CS degree on it's own doesn't make someone a competent programmer, but I think you're painting with a broad brush when you say the majority of CS majors can't tell you how a processor works. Every worthwhile CS program has at least one computer architecture course and probably a compiler course as well.
Why are people getting their news from John Oliver? If he is so concerned about the US then why, even after being married to a former US solider, is he still under green card residency? Nothing say you care about a country more that having a status of "I kinda want to live there, make money there, raise my kid there, but I can cut and run if it all becomes too much for me to deal with."
It can take months or years to get US citizenship from a green card. A friend of mine had his green card for 8 years before he finally got citizenship. I'm not saying that is Oliver's situation, but it can take a while.
But how come no story on Susan Rice having unmasked multiple people in the Trump camp. It should be noted that she stated "she didn't do it, and had no knowledge of it." And of course that was proven untrue. And now we're seeing the claims making the rounds of "It wasn't political" but why wasn't the FBI involved then? Why did she do something that was outside of the preview of her job(advise the President and consume intelligence summaries)? Why does this appear to have been a case of her setting a new precedent(the unmasking). Why were they unmasked by her, when all 3 letter agencies could do this on their own if they're conducting an investigation.
And of course, why are so many of the media silent on this. When they were all over other major events similar to this and licking their chops like a dog seeing a steak. Well you can all have fun now.
Name a media outlet that was silent on the Susan Rice story. I'll wait...
Unmasking is rare in her job, but not unprecedented. She most likely didn't know that she was unmasking Trump associates until she actually asked for them to be unmasked. Unmasking isn't something she can do without asking permission from the relevant intelligence agency.
People in Africa were already slaves; they were made slaves by black people.
The first legally recognized owner of slaves, under common law, in what would become the United States was Anthony Johnson, a black man.
Until Anthony Johnson, white people purchased African slaves and treated them instead as indentured servants, who would become freed men with their own land after a certain number of years of service; white men, such as the Irish, were also indentured servants in this way. White people were the last ones into the slave trade, and white people were then the ones who ultimately ended slavery.
So, yes. There was slavery, but you never get taught the whole story.
It sounds like you're trying to lay all the blame on slavery on black people. Yes, there was slavery in Africa, but the practice expanded greatly because of white Americans. Also, saying Anthony Johnson was the first legally recognized slaveowner is tricky because his case against a slave was the first ever brought to court even though he was not the first slave owner. There is plenty of evidence of slavery before Johnson.
My Surface Pro 3 dynamically figures out the time left. It will show me how much time I have left if I continue to use the computer in the same way. Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game.
That's exactly how it works on the Mac. It's frustrating that people can't understand that browsing the web and then switching to a videogame will change the amount of time remaining. I love the feature and will hate to see it go.
My school has used software like this in the past and the program we used didn't keep a log of anything. It was just to see in real-time what was happening on each student's computer. You could freeze the machines if you needed to get the attention of the class or broadcast the teacher's computer to the kids' machines. Software like this is almost essential for managing a computer class, but I would be wary if there was software that actually collected data, but that hasn't been the case in my experience.
What I don't get is why that requires Minecraft. It seems counter-productive due to complexity. A good fraction of people don't have very good 3d imagination and would finding a top-down 2d world much easier to comprehend.
Normally I would agree with that statement. In the past I tried 2D systems such as GameMaker and other block-like languages. I tried Alice the past two years which ventured into 3D. The difference with Minecraft is the kids already know it. I took a poll of the kids on the first day of class and only 2 out of 60 had never played Minecraft. That helps quite a bit with the learning curve so we can just focus on the logic. Their final grades were also much better this year and attribute a lot of that to the engagement Minecraft provided.
I used it in my Computer Science courses to teach kids the basics of loops, variables, if statements, etc. before introducing them to a "real" programming language. The kids loved it and they had a much better understand of those basic programming constructs than they did in years past when I used Alice to introduce concepts.
MinecraftEdu comes with "turtles" that the kids can program using a block-like language. Basically simulating the old Logo program.
Pair programming is how you engage in affirmative action without having to spell it out in school policy. You pair up the students who can't/won't succeed with the students who can and will succeed. The successful student will do all the work to keep up their GPA and the shit student can coast his/her way to a passing grade. All while avoiding the political minefield that would come with forcing more girls, more people of color, or more of whatever group is the cause de jour into programming through social promotion and affirmative action.
That's pretty cynical. I use pair programming in my classes, but the kids can choose their pairs. It's not meant to give kids better grades. In fact, I usually only use it for tasks I won't be grading. It's meant so the kids can work with someone else and bounce ideas off each other to see a different perspective and hopefully gain a better understanding of CS. The kids have to take turns on the keyboard so even if one kid is a much better programmer, they are forced to talk about what to do instead of just typing all the code themselves in silence.
I've used Minecraft's redstone logic to teach my computer science students logical reasoning, which they then apply to actual computer programs. I know there have been many failed edutainment options in the past, but they only fail when they are not used in a thoughtful manner. I won't argue that there are probably teachers out there who just throw Minecraft at the kids and think something magic will happen, but it is an incredible tool if used thoughtfully.
I teach APCS, and Maps are not a part of the tested curriculum. Maps in college are usually covered in a data structures class, not the intro CS class that APCS is meant to represent.
Colleges definetly use advanced courses such as AP as a basis for admission (Advice From a Dean of Admissions on Selecting High School Courses). Whether it's right or not, colleges consider academic "rigor" in high school to admit students, and the AP courses have a standardized curriculum which makes it easier for colleges to judge their difficulty.
Not sure how long their semester is, but most schools would be ending in the next few weeks so he should have stuck it out. If he failed the students he knew were misbehaving he would have been on much higher ground. Most universities have an appeal policy for grades, but the student has a high bar to pass to appeal a grade given by a professor. The university will almost always defer to the professor in a he-said, she-said scenario.
Definitely agree that both sides are at fault here. Classroom management is one of the toughest jobs for a teacher, and I think professors sometimes feel they don't need to worry about it since college students are paying their way and there won't be the discipline issues you have at lower grade levels. The students clearly demonstrated that isn't true, but the need for security guards showed this was building over a long period of time. I wish I had more details, but this should have been addressed much earlier.
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Citation? Seriously, I dare you to campaign for it. I dare you. I bet you won't. Because if you do, you'll be labeled a "Mens rights activist", or MRA for short. And you'll have everybody attacking you for being a misogynist. Prove me wrong. I dare you. After all, if things are as you say, you have nothing to fear for campaigning for the courts to treat men and women equally in custody battles.
First Google result: https://www.verywellfamily.com... There are plenty of men's-advocacy groups when it comes to custody battles.
There are plenty of programs to try to get more men in nursing (and teaching). Here is just the first Google result I found, but you can find plenty more: https://dailynurse.com/recruit...
...them teachers switched to something like WhatsApp.
Didn't see the sarcasm tag so I'm assuming that's serious. Teachers cannot use private messaging services like WhatsApp, at least in the US. All communication with students has to be archived as it should be accessible to parents via the Freedom of Information App. It also protects teachers from unfounded accusations by students.
The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources
You ignore the fact, driven home by every account of the Watergate story involving the journalists Woodward & Berstein - their editor, Ben Bradley, spent WEEKS reminding them they needed to get second or in some cases third sources for everything their "anonymous source" told them in the parking garage.
Are you saying that isn't going on today? Most stories I read involve multiple sources. Can you point to some instances that only relied on a single source?
Anonymous sources aren't always a reason to distrust a story. The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources and that's just one example of a high-profile story that was anonymously sourced. It is good to treat anonymously-sourced stories with some skepticism, though. FiveThirtyEight had a great article over the summer that gave some tips on when to trust an anonymously-sourced article and when to be more skeptical.
What you signed up for two weeks ago was to give up your right to sue Equifax and agreed to binding arbitration. That is all. They were not planning to do anything with respect to credit freeze. Even now they want four months of damage control and get as many people to give up the rights as possible.
I didn't sign up for their credit check service on that shady Equifax Security 2017 website. I actually signed up for a credit freeze and I did so with the other two agencies as well. I used the site below. Equifax Security Freeze
They are already offering credit freezes for free. I signed up for it two weeks ago and it did not ask for any credit card or other payment information. I'm not sure if they currently charge for unfreezing, though.
Pretty sure being a Registered Democrat makes a person a Democrat. In fact, pretty sure that it is the only thing that makes a person a Democrat.
I'm a registered Democrat, but that's because my state automatically registers you for a party when you vote in the primaries. Since I voted in the Democratic primaries this last time around I'm now registered as a Dem, but I've been registered as a Republican before when I've voted in the Republican primaries. Point being, I think Snopes was right about the fact that being registered to a particular party doesn't mean you are really an adherent to that party.
The idea that having a CS degree makes you a competent programmer is laughable... Those "deep" algorithmic problem solving abilities are what pay so much, and more important, and interest in them. My value to my employer has little do with any degree and mostly due to the fact when I was given a problem, I could identify why the current solutions had failed because I knew how computers work.
The majority of CS majors I know can't even tell you how a processor works on basic principles. It's just a black box to them, and when things fail like a stack overflow, they don't know what that even means.
I agree that a CS degree on it's own doesn't make someone a competent programmer, but I think you're painting with a broad brush when you say the majority of CS majors can't tell you how a processor works. Every worthwhile CS program has at least one computer architecture course and probably a compiler course as well.
Why are people getting their news from John Oliver? If he is so concerned about the US then why, even after being married to a former US solider, is he still under green card residency? Nothing say you care about a country more that having a status of "I kinda want to live there, make money there, raise my kid there, but I can cut and run if it all becomes too much for me to deal with."
It can take months or years to get US citizenship from a green card. A friend of mine had his green card for 8 years before he finally got citizenship. I'm not saying that is Oliver's situation, but it can take a while.
But how come no story on Susan Rice having unmasked multiple people in the Trump camp. It should be noted that she stated "she didn't do it, and had no knowledge of it." And of course that was proven untrue. And now we're seeing the claims making the rounds of "It wasn't political" but why wasn't the FBI involved then? Why did she do something that was outside of the preview of her job(advise the President and consume intelligence summaries)? Why does this appear to have been a case of her setting a new precedent(the unmasking). Why were they unmasked by her, when all 3 letter agencies could do this on their own if they're conducting an investigation.
And of course, why are so many of the media silent on this. When they were all over other major events similar to this and licking their chops like a dog seeing a steak. Well you can all have fun now.
Name a media outlet that was silent on the Susan Rice story. I'll wait...
Unmasking is rare in her job, but not unprecedented. She most likely didn't know that she was unmasking Trump associates until she actually asked for them to be unmasked. Unmasking isn't something she can do without asking permission from the relevant intelligence agency.
That guy purposefully destroyed evidence after a 2012 interview with the FBI. I imagine that is what led to the jail sentence.
People in Africa were already slaves; they were made slaves by black people.
The first legally recognized owner of slaves, under common law, in what would become the United States was Anthony Johnson, a black man.
Until Anthony Johnson, white people purchased African slaves and treated them instead as indentured servants, who would become freed men with their own land after a certain number of years of service; white men, such as the Irish, were also indentured servants in this way. White people were the last ones into the slave trade, and white people were then the ones who ultimately ended slavery.
So, yes. There was slavery, but you never get taught the whole story.
It sounds like you're trying to lay all the blame on slavery on black people. Yes, there was slavery in Africa, but the practice expanded greatly because of white Americans. Also, saying Anthony Johnson was the first legally recognized slaveowner is tricky because his case against a slave was the first ever brought to court even though he was not the first slave owner. There is plenty of evidence of slavery before Johnson.
My Surface Pro 3 dynamically figures out the time left. It will show me how much time I have left if I continue to use the computer in the same way. Light work naturally will show more time left than playing a video game.
That's exactly how it works on the Mac. It's frustrating that people can't understand that browsing the web and then switching to a videogame will change the amount of time remaining. I love the feature and will hate to see it go.
My school has used software like this in the past and the program we used didn't keep a log of anything. It was just to see in real-time what was happening on each student's computer. You could freeze the machines if you needed to get the attention of the class or broadcast the teacher's computer to the kids' machines. Software like this is almost essential for managing a computer class, but I would be wary if there was software that actually collected data, but that hasn't been the case in my experience.
Did Apple ever say it was sapphire all the way through? If not, and if it doesn't scratch from normal use, why is this a problem?
I get that.
What I don't get is why that requires Minecraft. It seems counter-productive due to complexity. A good fraction of people don't have very good 3d imagination and would finding a top-down 2d world much easier to comprehend.
Normally I would agree with that statement. In the past I tried 2D systems such as GameMaker and other block-like languages. I tried Alice the past two years which ventured into 3D. The difference with Minecraft is the kids already know it. I took a poll of the kids on the first day of class and only 2 out of 60 had never played Minecraft. That helps quite a bit with the learning curve so we can just focus on the logic. Their final grades were also much better this year and attribute a lot of that to the engagement Minecraft provided.
I used it in my Computer Science courses to teach kids the basics of loops, variables, if statements, etc. before introducing them to a "real" programming language. The kids loved it and they had a much better understand of those basic programming constructs than they did in years past when I used Alice to introduce concepts. MinecraftEdu comes with "turtles" that the kids can program using a block-like language. Basically simulating the old Logo program.
They could have legislated minimum efficiencies but NO
They DID legislate based on efficiency. The law states that future incandescents can come to market if they are more energy efficient. Wikipedia
Pair programming is how you engage in affirmative action without having to spell it out in school policy. You pair up the students who can't/won't succeed with the students who can and will succeed. The successful student will do all the work to keep up their GPA and the shit student can coast his/her way to a passing grade. All while avoiding the political minefield that would come with forcing more girls, more people of color, or more of whatever group is the cause de jour into programming through social promotion and affirmative action.
That's pretty cynical. I use pair programming in my classes, but the kids can choose their pairs. It's not meant to give kids better grades. In fact, I usually only use it for tasks I won't be grading. It's meant so the kids can work with someone else and bounce ideas off each other to see a different perspective and hopefully gain a better understanding of CS. The kids have to take turns on the keyboard so even if one kid is a much better programmer, they are forced to talk about what to do instead of just typing all the code themselves in silence.
I've used Minecraft's redstone logic to teach my computer science students logical reasoning, which they then apply to actual computer programs. I know there have been many failed edutainment options in the past, but they only fail when they are not used in a thoughtful manner. I won't argue that there are probably teachers out there who just throw Minecraft at the kids and think something magic will happen, but it is an incredible tool if used thoughtfully.
I teach APCS, and Maps are not a part of the tested curriculum. Maps in college are usually covered in a data structures class, not the intro CS class that APCS is meant to represent.
Colleges definetly use advanced courses such as AP as a basis for admission (Advice From a Dean of Admissions on Selecting High School Courses). Whether it's right or not, colleges consider academic "rigor" in high school to admit students, and the AP courses have a standardized curriculum which makes it easier for colleges to judge their difficulty.
Not sure how long their semester is, but most schools would be ending in the next few weeks so he should have stuck it out. If he failed the students he knew were misbehaving he would have been on much higher ground. Most universities have an appeal policy for grades, but the student has a high bar to pass to appeal a grade given by a professor. The university will almost always defer to the professor in a he-said, she-said scenario.
Definitely agree that both sides are at fault here. Classroom management is one of the toughest jobs for a teacher, and I think professors sometimes feel they don't need to worry about it since college students are paying their way and there won't be the discipline issues you have at lower grade levels. The students clearly demonstrated that isn't true, but the need for security guards showed this was building over a long period of time. I wish I had more details, but this should have been addressed much earlier.