"The program, run by the FCC and administered by a not-for-profit corporation, is widely credited for helping poor and rural schools get wired, giving students better learning tools."..
Of all the problems with poor and rural schools, they spend money on this? Technology is a good thing, but when my rural school only had an 800 average SAT score (of the people motivated enough to take it), you have to wonder why resources get wasted like this.
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You can get them to pump out horsepower far beyond what their little crankshafts & main bearings were intended to support.
Honda cranks are very strong, considering they are forged, it's the rest of the package that goes to hell.
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"The program, run by the FCC and administered by a not-for-profit corporation, is widely credited for helping poor and rural schools get wired, giving students better learning tools." ..
Of all the problems with poor and rural schools, they spend money on this? Technology is a good thing, but when my rural school only had an 800 average SAT score (of the people motivated enough to take it), you have to wonder why resources get wasted like this.
You can get them to pump out horsepower far beyond what their little crankshafts & main bearings were intended to support. Honda cranks are very strong, considering they are forged, it's the rest of the package that goes to hell.
www.lightandmatter.com has some free introductory physics texts that are pretty interesting.