The problem with high school is that it usually leaves you with little or no time to get into any real academic pursuits.
My high school day is 7 hours long. I usually have something to do or read every night (since I'm in several AP classes).
The problem is that such a long school day is exhausting - all of my idle time has been spent listening to underqualified teachers try to "teach" and spoon feed the class with worksheets and heavily structured study plans (read this chapter this night, then do this, etc).
The waste of time IS high school. It does not allow motivated students to get into the subject on their own, nor does it leave much time for students to learn something completely independently thats not part of school.
High School puts shackles on the motivated and the intelligent and says that State mandated cirriculum and State standardized tests are more important than what you want to learn.
The problem is with teachers getting education degrees that are not challenging to receive and gives the teacher little academic experience in the subject they will be teaching.
What good is a teacher if the teacher has little or no experience in the area he or she is teaching?
If you are really interested in the problems with modern schooling, the book Dumbing us Down does an excellent job of detailing them (from a teacher, no less).
I'm not trying to devalue their accomplishments. I am simply stating an opinion on that particular one.
I suppose you have some more non-sequiturs to go along with your next reply?
Nice ad-hominem at the end. Shows your level of intelligence. (I will not degrade myself by going down to your level, so I will not end this post the same way as yours).
As much as I appreciate being intelligent at such a young age, getting good grades on a standardized test is hardly a standard to look up to. Unless, of course, you are going to be taking tests as a career in life.
Hey thanks for backing me up. I wanted to provide some more evidence myself, but I just didn't have time earlier.
Now I've gotten modded down because I expressed an opinion that didn't seem to settle well with the "SCO/MS are evil and don't you question that!" groupthink crowd here.
Mods and others, how do you feel now that you have been proven wrong?
I'm sorry if I offended you in some way (though I find it higly immature of you to question why it was modded up in order to get me modded down), but do you mean to tell me that Ford and GM are these perfect angel corporations that play by the rules?
I agree, what SCO is doing is way more wrong than what car companies typically do, but geez, wake up and see the light. Campaign contributions, advertisements that aren't exactly 100% objective, etc are all part of the game that corporations play and if you can't handle that, you have no business being in this discussion.
You can ignore moderation results, too. There are settings for each moderation category that allow you to modify the scores.
Yes, but if you are modded down too many times because you express the wrong opinion, you get banned from posting for a time.
Its rather hard to "ignore" that.
What damage? Your karma score?
IP bans and people who may have default settings that will hide your post from view. They do not nessicarily know that there is unfair moderation going on and assume any posts hidden from view are not worth looking at when instead the post was simply a statement of unpopular opinion that got censored.
imple: He wants others to be accountable, but by posting as an AC he can't be held accountable himself. That's hypocrisy.
No its not. He can be banned from posting by getting modded down too many times.
Also, if he is protesting the accountability system Slashdot currently employs, why would he become "accountable" in a way that he doesn't agree with is being "accountable"?
P.S. You can take your childish dictionary links out of the discussion. I am perfectly capable of looking them up myself, had I not known what the word means.
There's no accountability for posting trolls of flaimbait either, so it makes little sense to put accountability into the moderation system.
Yes there is, its called ignoring them.
There is metamoderation, however, that if you actually care will provide you with both feedback and the opportunity to "right the wrongs" in a sense. All while being anonymous (which is good).
Once the bad moderation is done, the damage is permanent. And its quite easy to make multiple accounts to get multiple mod points. I dont see any reduction in the frequency of bad moderation either.
As someone posting as an AC, cearly accountability is not something you're interested in. That's hypocrisy!
The FAQ is stupid. There is no reason why Slashdot cannot get permission (hell, Google doesn't get even bother to get permission for its caching, so why bother?).
CmdrTaco has publically stated on the last IRC fourm that he doesn't care about DoSing small websites that cannot take the load through the Slashdot effect, so why would he care in the first place?
I think 911 is a good idea, but why should it be forced down people's throats? VoIP is cheap for a reason and its uptime is not guaranteed in the same way a regular phone line is.
A POTS line is regulated 9 ways to Sunday by the FCC and your State public utilites agency. A VOIP line is not. People are generally aware of this when they sign up (and if the customer has never had a single minute of internet downtime, they are lucky beyond belief) for service.
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The problem with high school is that it usually leaves you with little or no time to get into any real academic pursuits.
My high school day is 7 hours long. I usually have something to do or read every night (since I'm in several AP classes).
The problem is that such a long school day is exhausting - all of my idle time has been spent listening to underqualified teachers try to "teach" and spoon feed the class with worksheets and heavily structured study plans (read this chapter this night, then do this, etc).
The waste of time IS high school. It does not allow motivated students to get into the subject on their own, nor does it leave much time for students to learn something completely independently thats not part of school.
High School puts shackles on the motivated and the intelligent and says that State mandated cirriculum and State standardized tests are more important than what you want to learn.
The problem is with teachers getting education degrees that are not challenging to receive and gives the teacher little academic experience in the subject they will be teaching.
What good is a teacher if the teacher has little or no experience in the area he or she is teaching?
If you are really interested in the problems with modern schooling, the book Dumbing us Down does an excellent job of detailing them (from a teacher, no less).
I've been victimized by the anti-slash.org trolls. They saw my +5 post and then claimed it was a repost and had a link on their front page.
Do not mod down a post that someone claims is a re-post unless you see a link to a previous post to prove it. Otherwise you've been trolled!
I did not use ad hominem. I pointed out something that you did.
Do you have any actualy replies to my original point, or are you going to continue to try to insult my intelligence?
I'm not trying to devalue their accomplishments. I am simply stating an opinion on that particular one.
I suppose you have some more non-sequiturs to go along with your next reply?
Nice ad-hominem at the end. Shows your level of intelligence. (I will not degrade myself by going down to your level, so I will not end this post the same way as yours).
Going through that many unsuccessful relationships hardly seems like something to aspire to.
If anything, that will end up depressing him more. Unless you are that emotionally detached, then why would you want one in the first place?
As much as I appreciate being intelligent at such a young age, getting good grades on a standardized test is hardly a standard to look up to. Unless, of course, you are going to be taking tests as a career in life.
I guess all the RIAA lawyers profiting off of suing middle class people swapping files are here to help us too, huh?
I think it would be prudent to point out that whoever this person is has been dying to get modded up so badly.
Why is that? Normally I would associate this kind of activity with anti-slash.org, but I cannot make that determination at this point.
Mod with caution.
What the hell is a college doing blocking websites?
The second my college starts blocking anything (bandwidth hogging issues aside) is the second I leave.
So you think SCO/MS are the only bad companies and that the car companies are behaving perfectly?
That was my point, I do not know why that does not seem to be clear here.
Hey thanks for backing me up. I wanted to provide some more evidence myself, but I just didn't have time earlier.
Now I've gotten modded down because I expressed an opinion that didn't seem to settle well with the "SCO/MS are evil and don't you question that!" groupthink crowd here.
Mods and others, how do you feel now that you have been proven wrong?
I'm sorry if I offended you in some way (though I find it higly immature of you to question why it was modded up in order to get me modded down), but do you mean to tell me that Ford and GM are these perfect angel corporations that play by the rules?
I agree, what SCO is doing is way more wrong than what car companies typically do, but geez, wake up and see the light. Campaign contributions, advertisements that aren't exactly 100% objective, etc are all part of the game that corporations play and if you can't handle that, you have no business being in this discussion.
And you don't think that Ford wants to use your money to try to keep you and others from buying GM?
You can ignore moderation results, too. There are settings for each moderation category that allow you to modify the scores.
Yes, but if you are modded down too many times because you express the wrong opinion, you get banned from posting for a time.
Its rather hard to "ignore" that.
What damage? Your karma score?
IP bans and people who may have default settings that will hide your post from view. They do not nessicarily know that there is unfair moderation going on and assume any posts hidden from view are not worth looking at when instead the post was simply a statement of unpopular opinion that got censored.
imple: He wants others to be accountable, but by posting as an AC he can't be held accountable himself. That's hypocrisy.
No its not. He can be banned from posting by getting modded down too many times.
Also, if he is protesting the accountability system Slashdot currently employs, why would he become "accountable" in a way that he doesn't agree with is being "accountable"?
P.S. You can take your childish dictionary links out of the discussion. I am perfectly capable of looking them up myself, had I not known what the word means.
There's no accountability for posting trolls of flaimbait either, so it makes little sense to put accountability into the moderation system.
Yes there is, its called ignoring them.
There is metamoderation, however, that if you actually care will provide you with both feedback and the opportunity to "right the wrongs" in a sense. All while being anonymous (which is good).
Once the bad moderation is done, the damage is permanent. And its quite easy to make multiple accounts to get multiple mod points. I dont see any reduction in the frequency of bad moderation either.
As someone posting as an AC, cearly accountability is not something you're interested in. That's hypocrisy!
How so?
Only a spammer would talk like that.
Where have I heard this line of argumentation before?
Oh, yeah...
"Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists" - Bush
not to mention Senator McCarthy and others...
Talk about specific Linux development companies instead.
Debian might fall into this category, but I wouldn't know about others
Uhh, there is no such thing as a whine of a digital nature. You're spewing complete crap.
Any whine is a result of really crappy audio amplification or something that was RECORDED onto the CD.
I am an EE so shut the fuck up with your elitist prick know-it-allism.
The FAQ is stupid. There is no reason why Slashdot cannot get permission (hell, Google doesn't get even bother to get permission for its caching, so why bother?).
CmdrTaco has publically stated on the last IRC fourm that he doesn't care about DoSing small websites that cannot take the load through the Slashdot effect, so why would he care in the first place?
And which binaries would that be you distribute, Mr. MooKore?
Lets see the most common American radar bands..
a nds.htm
X Band operates on ~10.5Ghz
K Band operates on ~22.4Ghz
Ka Band operates on ~34-35Ghz
(source: http://www.snooper-uk.com/radar_laser_speedtrap_b
The article states the frequency being used of is 24Ghz, so the only possibly problem might be with K band detectors.
I dont think they would put both in the same band anyway.. wouldn't that interfere with the radar guns themselves?
Didn't google very well did you?
t m
here you go:
http://www.geekly.com/entries/archives/00000155.h
Good luck.
What about the Operton?
I think 911 is a good idea, but why should it be forced down people's throats? VoIP is cheap for a reason and its uptime is not guaranteed in the same way a regular phone line is.
A POTS line is regulated 9 ways to Sunday by the FCC and your State public utilites agency. A VOIP line is not. People are generally aware of this when they sign up (and if the customer has never had a single minute of internet downtime, they are lucky beyond belief) for service.