The author is half right; which makes his argument compleatly wrong.
The way Algebra is taught is just dreadful; it's as if educators have intentionally sought to obfuscate what algebra IS.
BUT, if you want to help kids learn, teach them about MORE facets of a subject; DO NOT water-down the subject and reduce it to total fragmentation and abstraction, and stop passing off bits and pieces of it as the actual subject.
Teach the HISTORY of Algebra, along side with the proofs and theorems. Show students how it is related to Philosophy, how philosophy is related to Reason. Teach the connections.
This, as opposed to advocating for people to grow increasingly ignorant and micro-specialized to the point that you can no longer teach them anything at all, because you've conned them into thinking that they actually have any grasp of a subject they are woefully ignorant of all but a tiny fragmented abstraction.
And yeah, it takes more resources to properly educate people by actually making the subject matter interesting and enlightening. But I'd argue, if you're an educator, and you can not or do not already do this, you need to get another job - because you suck at what you're doing now.
And a word of advice, if you can make a subject more interesting to yourself by simply fucking around on google and searching related terms in wiki, YOU need to be more proactive in your own education, and avoid at all costs educators that are just plain incompetent and lazy, as well as people like the author of the aforementioned article.
Or to deprive US corporations from their right to own the "content" representative of our lives.
Not that I blame the government or the corporations, they're just doing what comes naturally to them.
Now, the rest of you that use FB, etcetera, I have nothing but contempt and ridicule for the rest of you, you bunch of fucking stupid clones, YOU are what's wrong with the world.
Of which we've been fed hundreds of similar stories about HIV/AIDS over the decades.
1> You'll forget all about it in a day or so...
2> It won't change anything about the current theory on HIV/AIDS...
3> You'll come away from this feeling like everything's going to be OK, while still believing everything about HIV/AIDS you've been told by "the authorities", who constantly lie about HIV/AIDS stats, your risk of infection with "HIV", and your chances of developing "AIDS"...
Back in the early 90's Oprah promised us that half the heterosexual population in the US would have AIDS. Where's the US AIDS "epidemic" ?
Yes, you're absolutely correct, every man is a complete and perfect island, nobody needs anybody else, and nobody owes the society they develop in anything.
Both extremes of these ideal are nauseating, and really, something most people really should have transcended before they graduated HS.
"Escalating a robbery to a gunfight is a risky move--why does stating that fairly obvious fact upset people?"
Because it's not "fair", and reality doesn't match-up with the fantasy people hold as truth.
As usual, reasoned responses based on real data get dismissed by people who have no capacity to discuss the issue without name-calling and asserting passionately how right they are, and how stupid and crazy everybody else is for not taking part in their little fantasy of safety through an escalation of armaments.
Yes, a lot HAS changed... Businesses followed the lead, sold out and cashed in to overseas companies, and sat back and watched the jobs and industries go bye-bye.
The "American Dream" of a huge windfall, of taking out WAY more than you put in, THAT is what America is all about. Well that, and dressing it up as some sort of fucking great achievement.
I'd partially agree, but I'd also add that it's also refusing to accept the phony shame put on people by malicious people, by REFUSING to HIDE and CONCEAL yourself any longer.
Gay Pride is as much about being visible as it is refusing to play and rejecting the phony shame game. A game that is usually played by people who have something really serious to be ashamed of. The religious freaks.
of their HIV status being positive in the US, why is it that we aren't seeing the kid of crisis we saw back in the 80's, or the half of all Americans infected that Oprah promised us, back in the early 90's ?
On thing Americans can be counted on for is our remarkable selective amnesia.
Or could the estimates that a million and a half people in the US are HIV positive, but don't know it wrong. Again.
I wonder what has changed which makes it a good idea to hand-out HIV tests to anybody without any kind of screening or support.
Used to be, you couldn't even get your test results over the phone, without going in to talk to somebody.
This will make another drug company with FDA ties some big bucks, but it will do so at the cost of lives. I wonder why it is all those HIV/AIDS not for profits are not in an uproar over this - then again, they get the bulk of THEIR funding and perks from the drug companies, too.
So who is it that's doing real patient advocacy nowadays in the US, because it's sure not the not for profits, the government, or our doctors.
The only people that benefit by the flurry of false positives tests like these create are the people that insist that AIDS funding in all it's manifestations in the US is justified, even though it represents WAY more spending per person affected than with ANY other disease.
These tests are a scam, but not anything new, when it comes to the scam that is HIV/AIDS.
Your desperation is really showing, how about addressing the specific remarks I've made, as opposed to getting personal and attempting obfuscation via childish and impotent attempts at intimidation ?
That's right, you're incapable. My point precisely about most MMGW politicking. It isn't about understanding or discussing the actual science; it's ALL politics.
until we can figure out this whole air/water deal...
As usual, the politics of "scientists" vying for continued funding to do redundant *political* things is "news", and the elephant in the room remains ignored.
When you're looking for creative and intelligent people to solve problems, it would help if you have creative and intelligent people interviewing them and filtering them.
That's why the most successful US companies have good to excellent IT departments.
If you're applying for work at a company that sucks, it's your job to know everything about the company, and make your case to the right people why YOU need to be hired.
IT isn't a "job", it's a way of life, we are the solution creators, so much so that often times we have solutions to problems that don't even yet exist, but that we can see clearly on the horizon.
Stop whining about shitty American companies, and start your own fucking companies. Stop wasting your time.
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I have yet to meet one that wasn't a fucktard, and I am yet to met a Poly-Sci major that wasn't a waste of space.
I rate them a notch lower than an MBA.
The author is half right; which makes his argument compleatly wrong.
The way Algebra is taught is just dreadful; it's as if educators have intentionally sought to obfuscate what algebra IS.
BUT, if you want to help kids learn, teach them about MORE facets of a subject; DO NOT water-down the subject and reduce it to total fragmentation and abstraction, and stop passing off bits and pieces of it as the actual subject.
Teach the HISTORY of Algebra, along side with the proofs and theorems. Show students how it is related to Philosophy, how philosophy is related to Reason. Teach the connections.
This, as opposed to advocating for people to grow increasingly ignorant and micro-specialized to the point that you can no longer teach them anything at all, because you've conned them into thinking that they actually have any grasp of a subject they are woefully ignorant of all but a tiny fragmented abstraction.
And yeah, it takes more resources to properly educate people by actually making the subject matter interesting and enlightening. But I'd argue, if you're an educator, and you can not or do not already do this, you need to get another job - because you suck at what you're doing now.
And a word of advice, if you can make a subject more interesting to yourself by simply fucking around on google and searching related terms in wiki, YOU need to be more proactive in your own education, and avoid at all costs educators that are just plain incompetent and lazy, as well as people like the author of the aforementioned article.
Get a lawyer, and sue her.
instead of just sitting around eating donuts and having rough gay sex in dark alleys...
of the corporo-government surveillance program.
Or to deprive US corporations from their right to own the "content" representative of our lives.
Not that I blame the government or the corporations, they're just doing what comes naturally to them.
Now, the rest of you that use FB, etcetera, I have nothing but contempt and ridicule for the rest of you, you bunch of fucking stupid clones, YOU are what's wrong with the world.
Yes, it's true.
It's also true that most people are corrupt and cowardly, greedy little weasels, so why should anybody be surprised that your government sucks ?
I don't see anybody that complains about "the government" refusing money from it, or refusing to manipulate it to their own ends.
has always worked really well.
Look if you're hiring people who are so immature and who have such poor judgement that they can't behave around women, YOU are the problem.
Of which we've been fed hundreds of similar stories about HIV/AIDS over the decades.
1> You'll forget all about it in a day or so... 2> It won't change anything about the current theory on HIV/AIDS... 3> You'll come away from this feeling like everything's going to be OK, while still believing everything about HIV/AIDS you've been told by "the authorities", who constantly lie about HIV/AIDS stats, your risk of infection with "HIV", and your chances of developing "AIDS"...
Back in the early 90's Oprah promised us that half the heterosexual population in the US would have AIDS. Where's the US AIDS "epidemic" ?
Yes, you're absolutely correct, every man is a complete and perfect island, nobody needs anybody else, and nobody owes the society they develop in anything.
Both extremes of these ideal are nauseating, and really, something most people really should have transcended before they graduated HS.
Actually, his assertion was not based on "mere ownership of a gun".
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Most people can see through AC posts that are mere empty assertions based on little more than misrepresentation of statements.
Another big AC fail on
"Escalating a robbery to a gunfight is a risky move--why does stating that fairly obvious fact upset people?"
Because it's not "fair", and reality doesn't match-up with the fantasy people hold as truth.
As usual, reasoned responses based on real data get dismissed by people who have no capacity to discuss the issue without name-calling and asserting passionately how right they are, and how stupid and crazy everybody else is for not taking part in their little fantasy of safety through an escalation of armaments.
Yes, a lot HAS changed... Businesses followed the lead, sold out and cashed in to overseas companies, and sat back and watched the jobs and industries go bye-bye.
The "American Dream" of a huge windfall, of taking out WAY more than you put in, THAT is what America is all about. Well that, and dressing it up as some sort of fucking great achievement.
Sexism doesn't occur in a vacuum, and variable names that are sexist ARE part of the problem...
But not QUITE as much of a problem as naming variables things that aren't functionally descriptive - bad code is just plain bad code.
If you want to be a comedian, go do some stand-up at a comedy club, and leave the real work to the real pros.
is so far out of the realm of their comprehension, it may as well be religion.
The weird articles are just an attempt to make the science vaguely analogous to something that they can actually understand.
That, and most "journalists" are lazy assholes.
On the upside, you'll always have your job in the Catholic Church.
I'd partially agree, but I'd also add that it's also refusing to accept the phony shame put on people by malicious people, by REFUSING to HIDE and CONCEAL yourself any longer.
Gay Pride is as much about being visible as it is refusing to play and rejecting the phony shame game. A game that is usually played by people who have something really serious to be ashamed of. The religious freaks.
It's useful in that it keeps the focus on the exaggerated HIV threat and justifies more funding.
of their HIV status being positive in the US, why is it that we aren't seeing the kid of crisis we saw back in the 80's, or the half of all Americans infected that Oprah promised us, back in the early 90's ?
On thing Americans can be counted on for is our remarkable selective amnesia.
Or could the estimates that a million and a half people in the US are HIV positive, but don't know it wrong. Again.
I wonder what has changed which makes it a good idea to hand-out HIV tests to anybody without any kind of screening or support.
Used to be, you couldn't even get your test results over the phone, without going in to talk to somebody.
This will make another drug company with FDA ties some big bucks, but it will do so at the cost of lives. I wonder why it is all those HIV/AIDS not for profits are not in an uproar over this - then again, they get the bulk of THEIR funding and perks from the drug companies, too.
So who is it that's doing real patient advocacy nowadays in the US, because it's sure not the not for profits, the government, or our doctors.
The only people that benefit by the flurry of false positives tests like these create are the people that insist that AIDS funding in all it's manifestations in the US is justified, even though it represents WAY more spending per person affected than with ANY other disease.
These tests are a scam, but not anything new, when it comes to the scam that is HIV/AIDS.
Your desperation is really showing, how about addressing the specific remarks I've made, as opposed to getting personal and attempting obfuscation via childish and impotent attempts at intimidation ?
That's right, you're incapable. My point precisely about most MMGW politicking. It isn't about understanding or discussing the actual science; it's ALL politics.
For someone that ha such verbose posts, you certainly seem to have some serious reading comprehension issues.
Who said anything about the "entire scientific community" ?
Just you.
until we can figure out this whole air/water deal...
As usual, the politics of "scientists" vying for continued funding to do redundant *political* things is "news", and the elephant in the room remains ignored.
Stop your fucking breeding, you fucking retards.
"Denier=terrorist" is the type of hyperbole I'd expect from a crackpot politician.
A litany of gloom and doom predictions is what I'd expect from a crackpot Christian Armageddon convert now or die freak.
Funny how so many people seem to be working so hard to convince everybody that their ideas and exhortations have zero credibility.
When you're looking for creative and intelligent people to solve problems, it would help if you have creative and intelligent people interviewing them and filtering them.
That's why the most successful US companies have good to excellent IT departments.
If you're applying for work at a company that sucks, it's your job to know everything about the company, and make your case to the right people why YOU need to be hired.
IT isn't a "job", it's a way of life, we are the solution creators, so much so that often times we have solutions to problems that don't even yet exist, but that we can see clearly on the horizon.
Stop whining about shitty American companies, and start your own fucking companies. Stop wasting your time.
Oh yeah, pass a law.
Two stupids don't make a smart.