When I was in high school, there were plenty of teachers who taught subjects that they weren't necessarily trained in. Unfortunately, they happened to be the coaches for the sports teams:
Civics = Football Defensive Line Coach General Science = Baseball Coach History = Football Offensive Line Coach Free Enterprise = Men's Basketball Coach Physical Education = Track Coach (this one actually makes sense) Geography = Women's Basketball Coach
This isn't even the entire list.
Most of these people didn't have degrees in the fields they were teaching; they didn't even have education degrees. They were mostly in stuff like Kinesiology. I think it's pretty obvious that these people weren't hired primarily as teachers....they were hired as coaches and then put into a role as a teacher to keep budgets down. I think that this is a pretty good indicator as to where our priorities are as a society.
Yeah I hear mixed things. My car has the bare Sync from 2011. I have to pull the fuse and do a system reset every so often to reindex everything (I'm on the latest version that supports my car). I know the 1st gen MyFord Touch was widely hated, but I hear that the 2nd gen is much improved.
I'd like to see the 3rd gen that is going to be based off of QNX.
Grr... need to proof-read better. *** Very few people have actually suggested that law abiding people not get to keep their guns. ***
Try reading Bruce Perens' post above. He probably wants to take guns away but is fine with encryption and free speech because Constitution and fails to see the irony.
Help me out because I don't understand how it works with socialized healthcare....but how are they able to give patients lower prices for medication that the governments buy from America? How do they not have to pay the same price as private insurers? Seems like if only one company was making a drug, they could charge a price and choose not to sell it if someone wanted it cheaper.
Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which the King has very broad executive and legislative power. Any form of popular representation is somewhat of a facade....quite a few of their representatives are not elected by the populace but are appointed by the King, and there are actually quotas for the number of women and Christians that can serve in their congress. The Prime Minister, Cabinet, and regional governors are all appointed by the King. It's a borderline dictatorship, which is really the only thing keeping the populace from going full-blown Arab Spring. Does this sound familiar?
Fortunately the current King was educated in the West, and is willing to work with them since he can't use oil as a bargaining chip (most of their reserves are tied up in shale).
This argument keeps popping up, and I'm not sure what the intent is. Is it just to prove that there's panic surrounding this, or is it to say we shouldn't do anything about it? If it's the later, I have to disagree. The NHSTA modifies laws and we develop technology to reduce traffic accidents all the time, shouldn't we be doing something to stop ISIS as well? I don't think the problem will fix itself if we just ignore it.
During the first Gulf War, the A-10 destroyed "more than 900 Iraqi tanks, 2,000 other military vehicles and 1,200 artillery pieces". Although 4 were shot down by missiles, it had "flew 8,100 sorties, and launched 90 percent of the AGM-65 Maverick missiles fired in the conflict.".
Although the stats are pretty impressive, I hear mixed things from soldiers who had to rely on it for close air support. Some were displeased with it not having supersonic capabilities.....their argument was that it was better to have an F-16 or F-15E that could arrive at the battle much quicker. The other argument was that it was better to have a huge bomber, such as the B-52, that could loiter over a combat area for an extended period of time, and drop precision guided munitions as needed. The flip side is that the A-10 is much more durable than an attack helicopter, which is the Army's main method of providing close air support.
Another reason I always felt that MySQL had a bigger footprint in the open source RDBMS market was because it was one of the first to have a native Windows version (1998). Postgres didn't get that until about 10 years ago. Of course that's not as big of a deal nowadays....
"When did we turn into an anti-scientific society?"
There's quite a few incidents that happened between now and then that have shaken peoples' confidence in science. Think of Chernobyl, Bhopal, the Challenger/Columbia, Vioxx, etc. Unfortunately there's a disconnect here that people don't understand......that it was Science that proved these incidents were a problem, not that these incidents were problems because of Science.
"Based on the common definitions of "alternative medicine", your statement is false"
No, I think you're confusing "alternative medicine" with "natural medicine". I know full well that something like willow contains salicylate, which is one of the main ingredients of aspirin. When such plants and herbs pass through peer-review clinical trials and the proper dosing is determined, they are determined to be medicine, even though they contain natural ingredients. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who thinks aspirin or opium is an "alternative medicine", even though both are derived from plants.
"However, you missed my point that "homeopathic" is often a meaningless term used more as a marketing gimmick than anything else"
I didn't miss the point. The FDA has set guidelines that a product must follow in order for it to be labeled as homeopathic.
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I think you nailed it. There's already more than enough dick pics in there ;-)
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
When I was in high school, there were plenty of teachers who taught subjects that they weren't necessarily trained in. Unfortunately, they happened to be the coaches for the sports teams:
Civics = Football Defensive Line Coach
General Science = Baseball Coach
History = Football Offensive Line Coach
Free Enterprise = Men's Basketball Coach
Physical Education = Track Coach (this one actually makes sense)
Geography = Women's Basketball Coach
This isn't even the entire list.
Most of these people didn't have degrees in the fields they were teaching; they didn't even have education degrees. They were mostly in stuff like Kinesiology. I think it's pretty obvious that these people weren't hired primarily as teachers....they were hired as coaches and then put into a role as a teacher to keep budgets down. I think that this is a pretty good indicator as to where our priorities are as a society.
Yeah I hear mixed things. My car has the bare Sync from 2011. I have to pull the fuse and do a system reset every so often to reindex everything (I'm on the latest version that supports my car). I know the 1st gen MyFord Touch was widely hated, but I hear that the 2nd gen is much improved.
I'd like to see the 3rd gen that is going to be based off of QNX.
This is cool, but it would be great if they could start by having Google replace SYNC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You need to relax. If I somehow offended you with a single sentence about Ubuntu, you're way to sensitive.
> When it comes to ease of use, performance and backwards compatibility, Windows kills Linux all day long. And it always will.
Windows requires a massive multistep procedure to not leak data like crazy to Microsoft.
Ubuntu much?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/...
Grr... need to proof-read better. *** Very few people have actually suggested that law abiding people not get to keep their guns. ***
Try reading Bruce Perens' post above. He probably wants to take guns away but is fine with encryption and free speech because Constitution and fails to see the irony.
Guns are pretty reliable. Your brain isn't. Everybody has a crazy day in their life. Everyone.
So, I figure that not having guns all around us is better for our freedom overall.
So you'd be fine with taking guns away from law enforcement?
Help me out because I don't understand how it works with socialized healthcare....but how are they able to give patients lower prices for medication that the governments buy from America? How do they not have to pay the same price as private insurers? Seems like if only one company was making a drug, they could charge a price and choose not to sell it if someone wanted it cheaper.
Jordan is a great example.
Jordan is a constitutional monarchy in which the King has very broad executive and legislative power. Any form of popular representation is somewhat of a facade....quite a few of their representatives are not elected by the populace but are appointed by the King, and there are actually quotas for the number of women and Christians that can serve in their congress. The Prime Minister, Cabinet, and regional governors are all appointed by the King. It's a borderline dictatorship, which is really the only thing keeping the populace from going full-blown Arab Spring. Does this sound familiar?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Fortunately the current King was educated in the West, and is willing to work with them since he can't use oil as a bargaining chip (most of their reserves are tied up in shale).
This argument keeps popping up, and I'm not sure what the intent is. Is it just to prove that there's panic surrounding this, or is it to say we shouldn't do anything about it? If it's the later, I have to disagree. The NHSTA modifies laws and we develop technology to reduce traffic accidents all the time, shouldn't we be doing something to stop ISIS as well? I don't think the problem will fix itself if we just ignore it.
*within a constitutional framework of course
The article even admits it as much.
"In many ways, they were coerced into a bad contract, where they’re paid far less to lease the land than it’s worth."
So just come out and say it.....THEY WANT MORE MONEY. That's what religion is all about isn't it?
"but never got used for that mission"
I don't believe that's accurate. Straight from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
During the first Gulf War, the A-10 destroyed "more than 900 Iraqi tanks, 2,000 other military vehicles and 1,200 artillery pieces". Although 4 were shot down by missiles, it had "flew 8,100 sorties, and launched 90 percent of the AGM-65 Maverick missiles fired in the conflict.".
Although the stats are pretty impressive, I hear mixed things from soldiers who had to rely on it for close air support. Some were displeased with it not having supersonic capabilities.....their argument was that it was better to have an F-16 or F-15E that could arrive at the battle much quicker. The other argument was that it was better to have a huge bomber, such as the B-52, that could loiter over a combat area for an extended period of time, and drop precision guided munitions as needed. The flip side is that the A-10 is much more durable than an attack helicopter, which is the Army's main method of providing close air support.
Another reason I always felt that MySQL had a bigger footprint in the open source RDBMS market was because it was one of the first to have a native Windows version (1998). Postgres didn't get that until about 10 years ago. Of course that's not as big of a deal nowadays....
He graduated from Harvard, but taught at UC Berkeley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Timothy Leary did teach at Harvard though.....as well as UC Berkeley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"When did we turn into an anti-scientific society?"
There's quite a few incidents that happened between now and then that have shaken peoples' confidence in science. Think of Chernobyl, Bhopal, the Challenger/Columbia, Vioxx, etc. Unfortunately there's a disconnect here that people don't understand......that it was Science that proved these incidents were a problem, not that these incidents were problems because of Science.
Not to mention that I'm sure we can find over a dozen activities this kid takes part in that negatively impact the climate.
Douglas Engelbart. I'd love for him to show my family the Mother of All Demos in person.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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I forgot to include the sarcasm tag.
"Didn't we elect someone to get us the hell out of some sandy region"
No, but we did get free healthcare!
"Most studies that use non-human primates don't use chimps".
That's a good point, that's for bringing that up.
Today it was announced that the NIH has decided to retire all of their research chimps:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/...
No one is going to take you seriously if you can't get simple facts straight.
"Take Ford. By their own admission, they have killed over 125 (or is it 150 or 200 or ???) "
It was GM, not Ford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Based on the common definitions of "alternative medicine", your statement is false"
No, I think you're confusing "alternative medicine" with "natural medicine". I know full well that something like willow contains salicylate, which is one of the main ingredients of aspirin. When such plants and herbs pass through peer-review clinical trials and the proper dosing is determined, they are determined to be medicine, even though they contain natural ingredients. I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who thinks aspirin or opium is an "alternative medicine", even though both are derived from plants.
"However, you missed my point that "homeopathic" is often a meaningless term used more as a marketing gimmick than anything else"
I didn't miss the point. The FDA has set guidelines that a product must follow in order for it to be labeled as homeopathic.
http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/Compl...
"then those companies making real medicines under the “homeopathic” moniker"
One of those things is not like the other.
"But a lot of alternative medicine is total quackery, so it all gets a bad rap."
Because if it actually worked it would be called "medicine" and could lose the "alternative" moniker.