Money is a bunch of poker chips. If you hand out similar amounts to everyone, then everyone is happy. Socialism is great!
And yes, I'm able to speak those languages almost natively (grew up multi-lingual).
Print money. Borrow money. Money is just ultimately a social construct. A grand illusion which banksters tell us is real. Defaulting isn't a crime, it's a heroic act of telling the bankers to go shove it.
Population decline is ultimately a good thing. Automation is the solution for taking care of the old -- that and multi-generational families. Declining population will also solve unemployment since there will be approximately the same number of jobs as otherwise, but with fewer interested parties.
Unemployment? Czech, Polish, Dutch, and German rates are similar or lower than the US... France is about 2x higher, but skilled workers can still find jobs.
Parents shouldn't have the right to ruin their kids' future by sending their kids to a school that doesn't educate them. Creationism isn't education, it's bullshit.
What disastrous consequences of cohabitation? That people can actually live together if they love each other, vs being chained together by a legal contract and needing the blessing of some clown in a funny robe (judge or priest)?
Protestant work ethic: You're a go-getter. I'm not. I want to work 35-40 hour weeks at a semi-governmental job, get my 4-5 weeks off mandated by law, spend time with family, live a bit. I don't want my work to be the focus of my entire life.
A little bit of Communism/Socialism isn't such a terrible thing.
4. Move to a state that heavily subsidizes college. Work at a shit job for a year so you get permanent residency. Go to college on the public dime, graduate with a small amount of debt, profit!
Amherst is BA only, and has very rigourous science courses. As do many liberal arts schools similar to it. Amherst grads tend to have zero problem getting into med schools or other programs that require a rigorous science background.
Interestingly, a close friend of mine in HS was Trinidadian. She wasn't able to get into Honors/AP in a small city in NJ despite being whip smart. Once her family moved to NYC, things worked out much better for her. Vastly depends on the individual school district and how insular the people running it are.
That's not necessarily true -- some schools are BA-only but have very rigorous science curricula. BA just means that you need additional humanities courses to graduate, not that the science courses are any less difficult.
Also, some schools offer a BS degree only for engineers.
Er mer freakin' gerd! They're offering something that's available to anyone over the air, with a Mohu HDTV antenna, for "free." Frankly, I'd rather have the cell plan be $5 per month cheaper.
The "solution" to the problem is to make the public schools laughably bad and offer grouchers... I mean vouchers. Every private school or charter school that takes the grouchers in a 50 mile radius also teaches creationism or other Conservative bullshit. Or you can send your kid to a public school without even enough money to buy toilet paper.
I might agree that you're a decent human being. I won't agree that anyone who serves automatically deserves respect. You respect someone because they're a good human being, not because they've signed up to be part of a war machine. I'm not a nationalist, sorry to sad.
As far as Europe, don't read into the US propaganda -- going to university in many EU countries is still fine and safe. It not being the Europe you grew up in is also a GOOD thing. There's not as much threat of the Russians steamrolling West through Poland and Germany, and half of Europe is no longer a Soviet prison camp.
Third option as far as college: if someone works for a year somewhere like New York State, they can take advantage of the heavily subsidized public university system afterward.
Kerry told it like it is, unfortunately. Also, don't assume that your daughter will be safe just because she joined the Air Farce. She could be exposed to a lot of interesting chemicals -- imagine having a grandchild with trisomy. She could be a munitions loader: accidents happen. She could be a mechanic in a dangerous part of the world.
My point is that schools shouldn't enable a North Korean style system by taking grades from abusive institutions into high account.
Also, if everyone in North Korea suddenly decided to protest and fight against the Great Leader, the Great Leader would suddenly just be one man shouting orders that no one obeys.
Bad leaders are enabled by people willing to follow them, or who are cowed into following them. If everyone were more rebellious, the world would be a better place, and leaders like Kim would get the Ceausescu treatment very quickly.
I'd sleep better at night if there weren't as many people willing to do such things. Most of the wars in the past 70 years have been either pointless, ill-targeted, or both. If we'd have left well enough alone in the Middle East and Latin America since the 1940s, maybe there wouldn't be so many people who hate our guts, and there wouldn't be as much "need" for a military.
As far as your daughter, hope she comes out tired, disillusioned, and chooses to break off all contact with you for encouraging her to "join up" instead of going to college full-time and then getting a real job. I pity her, and I pity brainwashed people like you.
"War and genocide within living memory" isn't such a bad thing. The alternative is war being seen as something that happens to other people abroad. Fear of war and genocide is a very healthy emotion.
That's untrue. Late 90s had A=5.0 B=3.75 C=2.5, D=1.25 for AP-level classes. GPAs > 4.0 have been around for a long time.
The problem is that getting into AP/Honors classes was a corrupt process. Teachers and department heads were the "gatekeepers", and their selection process was opaque. Opaque but ended up favoring white, Asian, and rich kids over ones of different ethnicity or economic status.
And how many teachers hold such views in private, and end up giving lower grades to students whom they see as "rebellious?" I'd much rather see students rated by objective tests than subjective grades. Have something like the NY Regents' exam required to graduate in every state. Make transcripts confidential, only provide the Regents' scores to universities. Allow for several re-takes to compensate for illness, family issues, etc.
I have no problem with learning about religion in school. Catholic schools even in the US are actually fine.
I'm talking about "Christian" schools run by fundamentalists, which push right-wing politics and Creationism on students.
Also, what's "legal" in public schools isn't always what's done. And states have introduced loopholes to allow the teaching of Creationism. Remember that individual grades are often down to a single teacher or department head.
As far as being a "true believer," I like what I'm seeing in much of Europe. Marriage falling by the wayside to be replaced with co-habitation. Organized religion becoming less important. Somewhat functional safety nets. Education standardized across countries rather than being a local/municipal responsibility.
You're confusing "Catholic" vs "Christian." I wasn't discussing Catholic schools at all.
Catholic schools typically teach science fairly well.
"Christian" schools run by fundamentalist Christians are a whole different animal. They'll literally punish students for discussing evolution.
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The badge often makes them worse people. Look at the Stanford Prison Experiment... power and order-following corrupt.
Money is a bunch of poker chips. If you hand out similar amounts to everyone, then everyone is happy. Socialism is great! And yes, I'm able to speak those languages almost natively (grew up multi-lingual).
Print money. Borrow money. Money is just ultimately a social construct. A grand illusion which banksters tell us is real. Defaulting isn't a crime, it's a heroic act of telling the bankers to go shove it.
Population decline is ultimately a good thing. Automation is the solution for taking care of the old -- that and multi-generational families. Declining population will also solve unemployment since there will be approximately the same number of jobs as otherwise, but with fewer interested parties.
Unemployment? Czech, Polish, Dutch, and German rates are similar or lower than the US... France is about 2x higher, but skilled workers can still find jobs.
Costs of living and benefits differ, so not exactly.
Parents shouldn't have the right to ruin their kids' future by sending their kids to a school that doesn't educate them. Creationism isn't education, it's bullshit.
What disastrous consequences of cohabitation? That people can actually live together if they love each other, vs being chained together by a legal contract and needing the blessing of some clown in a funny robe (judge or priest)?
Protestant work ethic: You're a go-getter. I'm not. I want to work 35-40 hour weeks at a semi-governmental job, get my 4-5 weeks off mandated by law, spend time with family, live a bit. I don't want my work to be the focus of my entire life.
A little bit of Communism/Socialism isn't such a terrible thing.
Western/Northern Europe has a lower % of poor, but a higher % of lower-middle class. I'd rather by lower middle class in Europe than poor in the USA.
Thailand laws are stricter than the US in some respects -- firing squad if you get caught with more than (a relatively small quantity) of drugs.
4. Move to a state that heavily subsidizes college. Work at a shit job for a year so you get permanent residency. Go to college on the public dime, graduate with a small amount of debt, profit!
Amherst is BA only, and has very rigourous science courses. As do many liberal arts schools similar to it. Amherst grads tend to have zero problem getting into med schools or other programs that require a rigorous science background.
Interestingly, a close friend of mine in HS was Trinidadian. She wasn't able to get into Honors/AP in a small city in NJ despite being whip smart. Once her family moved to NYC, things worked out much better for her. Vastly depends on the individual school district and how insular the people running it are.
Whereas high school grades are a good measure of how good you are at sucking up to teachers who are often dumber than you..
That's not necessarily true -- some schools are BA-only but have very rigorous science curricula. BA just means that you need additional humanities courses to graduate, not that the science courses are any less difficult.
Also, some schools offer a BS degree only for engineers.
Er mer freakin' gerd! They're offering something that's available to anyone over the air, with a Mohu HDTV antenna, for "free." Frankly, I'd rather have the cell plan be $5 per month cheaper.
The "solution" to the problem is to make the public schools laughably bad and offer grouchers... I mean vouchers. Every private school or charter school that takes the grouchers in a 50 mile radius also teaches creationism or other Conservative bullshit. Or you can send your kid to a public school without even enough money to buy toilet paper.
I might agree that you're a decent human being. I won't agree that anyone who serves automatically deserves respect. You respect someone because they're a good human being, not because they've signed up to be part of a war machine. I'm not a nationalist, sorry to sad.
As far as Europe, don't read into the US propaganda -- going to university in many EU countries is still fine and safe. It not being the Europe you grew up in is also a GOOD thing. There's not as much threat of the Russians steamrolling West through Poland and Germany, and half of Europe is no longer a Soviet prison camp.
Third option as far as college: if someone works for a year somewhere like New York State, they can take advantage of the heavily subsidized public university system afterward.
You can make multiple-choice tests arbitrarily hard. Is it A, B, C, B and C, none, or all?
Kerry told it like it is, unfortunately. Also, don't assume that your daughter will be safe just because she joined the Air Farce. She could be exposed to a lot of interesting chemicals -- imagine having a grandchild with trisomy. She could be a munitions loader: accidents happen. She could be a mechanic in a dangerous part of the world.
My point is that schools shouldn't enable a North Korean style system by taking grades from abusive institutions into high account.
Also, if everyone in North Korea suddenly decided to protest and fight against the Great Leader, the Great Leader would suddenly just be one man shouting orders that no one obeys.
Bad leaders are enabled by people willing to follow them, or who are cowed into following them. If everyone were more rebellious, the world would be a better place, and leaders like Kim would get the Ceausescu treatment very quickly.
I'd sleep better at night if there weren't as many people willing to do such things. Most of the wars in the past 70 years have been either pointless, ill-targeted, or both. If we'd have left well enough alone in the Middle East and Latin America since the 1940s, maybe there wouldn't be so many people who hate our guts, and there wouldn't be as much "need" for a military.
As far as your daughter, hope she comes out tired, disillusioned, and chooses to break off all contact with you for encouraging her to "join up" instead of going to college full-time and then getting a real job. I pity her, and I pity brainwashed people like you.
"War and genocide within living memory" isn't such a bad thing. The alternative is war being seen as something that happens to other people abroad. Fear of war and genocide is a very healthy emotion.
That's untrue. Late 90s had A=5.0 B=3.75 C=2.5, D=1.25 for AP-level classes. GPAs > 4.0 have been around for a long time.
The problem is that getting into AP/Honors classes was a corrupt process. Teachers and department heads were the "gatekeepers", and their selection process was opaque. Opaque but ended up favoring white, Asian, and rich kids over ones of different ethnicity or economic status.
And how many teachers hold such views in private, and end up giving lower grades to students whom they see as "rebellious?" I'd much rather see students rated by objective tests than subjective grades. Have something like the NY Regents' exam required to graduate in every state. Make transcripts confidential, only provide the Regents' scores to universities. Allow for several re-takes to compensate for illness, family issues, etc.
I have no problem with learning about religion in school. Catholic schools even in the US are actually fine.
I'm talking about "Christian" schools run by fundamentalists, which push right-wing politics and Creationism on students.
Also, what's "legal" in public schools isn't always what's done. And states have introduced loopholes to allow the teaching of Creationism. Remember that individual grades are often down to a single teacher or department head.
As far as being a "true believer," I like what I'm seeing in much of Europe. Marriage falling by the wayside to be replaced with co-habitation. Organized religion becoming less important. Somewhat functional safety nets. Education standardized across countries rather than being a local/municipal responsibility.
You're confusing "Catholic" vs "Christian." I wasn't discussing Catholic schools at all. Catholic schools typically teach science fairly well. "Christian" schools run by fundamentalist Christians are a whole different animal. They'll literally punish students for discussing evolution.