Those who have resources tend to do better than those that don't.
Minority students tend to have less resources than white students.
None of the 'tests' look at innate ability because that is almost impossible to test for in an unbiased way. They look at learned and studied tasks. They do this through standardized testing regimens that are a learned behavior in and of itself.
The only way to change this is to give disadvantaged students the resources that the non disadvantage students have. Unfortunately, that essentially means pulling them out of the entire socioeconomic ecology for years at a time, not just giving them iPads and an Internet connection. Nobody has those kind of resources.
The nature of mankind is conflict. When we had rocks, we threw rocks. When we had bombs, we dropped bombs. When we had nuclear weapons we stepped back a bit, continued with the rocks and bombs and added computers.
He said Out West. They don't even have gas stations in some places. I'd love to see a supercharger station in the middle of butt fuck Wyoming but that's a bit in the future.
OTOH, you could conceivably make one with solar panels and huge capacitor and battery banks that didn't need to be hooked to the grid. It would be the size of a large truck stop and costs tens of millions of dollars but it wouldn't require fuel deliveries. Interesting concept.
Two to three times a day? Yeah, that would be a hassle. I charge my iPhone 6 every couple of days via the nice lightening cable that I can put in without seeing it. Really doesn't interfere with my lifestyle at all.
I just want really stable, logical, predictable delivery. I dont want people on bicycles trying to find my address. Sweet Christ on a Pogo Stick, is that really too much to ask?
Send it to a business location then. Like your place of employment. I get stuff dropped there all of the time. The nice person in the warehouse signs for it, puts in in or under my mailbox. No fuss, no muss. UPS / FedEx loves that. No driving in the hinterlands to drop off a single package. Much easier to drop the pallet off and pick it up later.
I've noticed UPS just delivering packages to the local post office recently. This is just BS.... as USPS takes another extra day to deliver stuff.
Because USPS can do last mile cheaper than UPS, at least under certain circumstances. FedEx has shipped "Ground" to Alaska by flying it to Anchorage and letting the Post Office deliver it. It's just business.
When you sign up to work for this, I would doubt that you get to restrict your deliveries to a couple of gated communities. Unless you're really hard up, very patient or preternatrally stupid, there are much easier ways of casing upper class houses.
Deliver pizzas. Pretend you're from 'Mission Impossible'. Wear decent clothes and walk through the area.
That's for pure water. Perchlorate enhanced water can remain liquid at much lower pressures and temperatures. FTFA:
Ojha and his co-authors interpret the spectral signatures as caused by hydrated minerals called perchlorates. The hydrated salts most consistent with the chemical signatures are likely a mixture of magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Some perchlorates have been shown to keep liquids from freezing even when conditions are as cold as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 Celsius). On Earth, naturally produced perchlorates are concentrated in deserts, and some types of perchlorates can be used as rocket propellant.
Dust storms on Mars? You're reading too much into The Martian.
The big problem with engineering devices to work on Mars and the Moon is going to be weight. Weight (actually mass) is precious and expensive. You don't want to send any more than necessary. So by having to spec a device to work in both environments you're going to add mass at various points in time. For Mars stuff, you have a higher gravity - you can get by with lighter materials / structures on the moon. The moon doesn't have any atmosphere to speak of, so your aerobraking and parachute gear is pretty useless on the moon.
At this stage in our ability to do stuff in space, we aren't building a TIE fighter that can navigate to Denaba and destroy the Death Star.
"They can fix a spine, but not on VA benefits, not in this economy."
This is actually seriously cool - bypassing the broken wiring (or extending unbroken wiring). Obviously first baby steps but give it a decade or two, could be very, very interesting.
Same thing happened with the space shuttle disaster. They launched despite cold weather outside the required limits to make a deadline. Most people including engineers don't have the moral courage to make a stand.
Bad example. The Thiokol engineers were yelling at NASA to delay the flight for exactly the reason the Shuttle exploded. They just did not have the authority to cancel the flight.
You know, you don't need full on techo world to get oppressive. Throughout our previously low tech history, dozens of regimes have oppressed / killed / kidnapped / jailed / tortured vast swaths of its citizenry without anything more complex than a walkie talkie.
All it has ever taken is someone to go 'Bob there - he's a terrorist' and there you go. No, I don't like the 'always on' society and it has the real chance of making our lives worse rather than better (really, who cares if Facebook puts your name on a photo - what does that get you?). But the No Sparrow Shall Fall scenario really doesn't sound plausible.
Although most of Heinlein's other dystopic futures have come true.
> Does not scan. If there were a shortage of employees,...
Your post is illogical. Because there is a shortage, we all have to work harder to make-up for all of the open positions. Yes, I have negotiated large raises every year for the past decade, but I have been unable to negotiate even a single day off in the nearly five years at my current company. I can't because the company needs me. We have deadlines set by our state government that we have to meet or the business is shutdown. We would all lose our jobs if everyone took just one week of the four weeks off a year that we get. This isn't the company's fault. They have the money and are willing to hire employees, but no one qualified is applying.
There are literally thousands of excellent developers with a least a modicum of command of the English language sitting around doing virtually nothing useful all day. Dice just has to figure out how to leverage this site correctly.
He was the botanist - so he had botanical samples. So they could create a longstanding habitat on Mars. That, at least is plausible. Other parts, no so much.
But it was a modestly enjoyable read (didn't like the overweening upbeat attitude - nobody pulls that one off). Sounds like it will be a modestly enjoyable movie.
Remember, we're really not able to do that kind of 'deconstruction / rehab' in space. All we've managed to do is bolt / unbolt things and plug some wiring harnesses together. Unless the item was specifically designed to be replaced in space, it will be very difficult to do so.
Now, this would be an interesting and useful exercise in and of itself but I don't see it as sexy enough to get funding.
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Those who have resources tend to do better than those that don't.
Minority students tend to have less resources than white students.
None of the 'tests' look at innate ability because that is almost impossible to test for in an unbiased way. They look at learned and studied tasks. They do this through standardized testing regimens that are a learned behavior in and of itself.
The only way to change this is to give disadvantaged students the resources that the non disadvantage students have. Unfortunately, that essentially means pulling them out of the entire socioeconomic ecology for years at a time, not just giving them iPads and an Internet connection. Nobody has those kind of resources.
Snowden didn't penetrate the NSA. He worked for them.
Remember this folks. We have met the enemy and he is us.
The nature of mankind is conflict. When we had rocks, we threw rocks. When we had bombs, we dropped bombs. When we had nuclear weapons we stepped back a bit, continued with the rocks and bombs and added computers.
May you live in interesting times.
That's why Tesla has built and is building more supercharger stations.
http://www.teslamotors.com/sup...
He said Out West. They don't even have gas stations in some places. I'd love to see a supercharger station in the middle of butt fuck Wyoming but that's a bit in the future.
OTOH, you could conceivably make one with solar panels and huge capacitor and battery banks that didn't need to be hooked to the grid. It would be the size of a large truck stop and costs tens of millions of dollars but it wouldn't require fuel deliveries. Interesting concept.
Two to three times a day? Yeah, that would be a hassle. I charge my iPhone 6 every couple of days via the nice lightening cable that I can put in without seeing it. Really doesn't interfere with my lifestyle at all.
I just want really stable, logical, predictable delivery. I dont want people on bicycles trying to find my address. Sweet Christ on a Pogo Stick, is that really too much to ask?
Send it to a business location then. Like your place of employment. I get stuff dropped there all of the time. The nice person in the warehouse signs for it, puts in in or under my mailbox. No fuss, no muss. UPS / FedEx loves that. No driving in the hinterlands to drop off a single package. Much easier to drop the pallet off and pick it up later.
I've noticed UPS just delivering packages to the local post office recently. This is just BS.... as USPS takes another extra day to deliver stuff.
Because USPS can do last mile cheaper than UPS, at least under certain circumstances. FedEx has shipped "Ground" to Alaska by flying it to Anchorage and letting the Post Office deliver it. It's just business.
You're gonna spend your days infiltrating peoples toilet paper and associated sundries? Whatever floats your boat, I suppose.
I think the NSA workbook is just a bit farther along than this.
When you sign up to work for this, I would doubt that you get to restrict your deliveries to a couple of gated communities. Unless you're really hard up, very patient or preternatrally stupid, there are much easier ways of casing upper class houses.
Deliver pizzas. Pretend you're from 'Mission Impossible'. Wear decent clothes and walk through the area.
Use a spelling checker?
That's for pure water. Perchlorate enhanced water can remain liquid at much lower pressures and temperatures. FTFA:
Ojha and his co-authors interpret the spectral signatures as caused by hydrated minerals called perchlorates. The hydrated salts most consistent with the chemical signatures are likely a mixture of magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Some perchlorates have been shown to keep liquids from freezing even when conditions are as cold as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 Celsius). On Earth, naturally produced perchlorates are concentrated in deserts, and some types of perchlorates can be used as rocket propellant.
It would be like drinking rocket fuel.
The ultimate energy drink!
Cthulhu gave up and went home after seeing how much the 2016 Republicans outclassed him in both evil and inhumanity.
Must have been steaming mad. Now that might explain the loss of the Antarctic Ice Shelf and Global Warming.
It Bush's fault. I just knew it.
Cruz/Palin 2016 - Restoring America from the Liberal War against common sense
Nah.
Cthulhu / Dagon 2016 - Why vote for the lesser evil?
Lots of words, means nothing.
Iran is allowed to take their own soil samples.
Syrian "red line"? BWAAA HAAA HAAA!!! Yeah, right.
To be fair, digging holes is about the most we can expect out of the Iranians. Gotta let them do something.
Dust storms on Mars? You're reading too much into The Martian.
The big problem with engineering devices to work on Mars and the Moon is going to be weight. Weight (actually mass) is precious and expensive. You don't want to send any more than necessary. So by having to spec a device to work in both environments you're going to add mass at various points in time. For Mars stuff, you have a higher gravity - you can get by with lighter materials / structures on the moon. The moon doesn't have any atmosphere to speak of, so your aerobraking and parachute gear is pretty useless on the moon.
At this stage in our ability to do stuff in space, we aren't building a TIE fighter that can navigate to Denaba and destroy the Death Star.
This is an antitrust investigation, not a scumbaggery one. That is down the hall to the left.
"They can fix a spine, but not on VA benefits, not in this economy."
This is actually seriously cool - bypassing the broken wiring (or extending unbroken wiring). Obviously first baby steps but give it a decade or two, could be very, very interesting.
Same thing happened with the space shuttle disaster. They launched despite cold weather outside the required limits to make a deadline. Most people including engineers don't have the moral courage to make a stand.
Bad example. The Thiokol engineers were yelling at NASA to delay the flight for exactly the reason the Shuttle exploded. They just did not have the authority to cancel the flight.
Didn't think there was that much sex at the ISS.
You know, you don't need full on techo world to get oppressive. Throughout our previously low tech history, dozens of regimes have oppressed / killed / kidnapped / jailed / tortured vast swaths of its citizenry without anything more complex than a walkie talkie.
All it has ever taken is someone to go 'Bob there - he's a terrorist' and there you go. No, I don't like the 'always on' society and it has the real chance of making our lives worse rather than better (really, who cares if Facebook puts your name on a photo - what does that get you?). But the No Sparrow Shall Fall scenario really doesn't sound plausible.
Although most of Heinlein's other dystopic futures have come true.
> Does not scan. If there were a shortage of employees, ...
Your post is illogical. Because there is a shortage, we all have to work harder to make-up for all of the open positions. Yes, I have negotiated large raises every year for the past decade, but I have been unable to negotiate even a single day off in the nearly five years at my current company. I can't because the company needs me. We have deadlines set by our state government that we have to meet or the business is shutdown. We would all lose our jobs if everyone took just one week of the four weeks off a year that we get. This isn't the company's fault. They have the money and are willing to hire employees, but no one qualified is applying.
There are literally thousands of excellent developers with a least a modicum of command of the English language sitting around doing virtually nothing useful all day. Dice just has to figure out how to leverage this site correctly.
No, she's very nicely angular.
He was the botanist - so he had botanical samples. So they could create a longstanding habitat on Mars. That, at least is plausible. Other parts, no so much.
But it was a modestly enjoyable read (didn't like the overweening upbeat attitude - nobody pulls that one off). Sounds like it will be a modestly enjoyable movie.
Remember, we're really not able to do that kind of 'deconstruction / rehab' in space. All we've managed to do is bolt / unbolt things and plug some wiring harnesses together. Unless the item was specifically designed to be replaced in space, it will be very difficult to do so.
Now, this would be an interesting and useful exercise in and of itself but I don't see it as sexy enough to get funding.