Exactly. Stories on Genius children generally bring out the Slashdot users who declare that they would never wish the "curse" of genius level intellect on another person. Heck, the article just the other day about giving extra perks to the smart students in school was filled with comments about how it would be bad to reward intellect and how that should be stopped, but little call to end the perks for athletics in the schools.
My guess would be to counter the endless complaints of favoritism to specific submitters. Perhaps Slashdot is trying to widen their net for submitters, and they feel that most people don't think their submission will even be considered. Thus they make a point to show that they do in fact take first time submitters.
I recall reading that there has been some progress recently. One of the music storage companies successfully won a lawsuit concerning them storing CDs remotely. Of course, that is why you do it with a spin off. Just in case.
There never will be extra resources either. The public school system is a black hole for money that will suck in every penny that gets within it's reach, never to be seen again. Never satisfied, and the more money that goes into it, the stronger it's pull becomes for more money.
Good luck finding 33 year olds that can tell the difference. OK, OK, many 33 year olds can tell the difference, but in all fairness, it likely isn't a majority.
People in his own age bracket generally don't have a decent psychological profile. They have a "normal" psychological profile, which is a far cry from decent. It is sad how many bright kids are encouraged to screw themselves up so that they can fit in with other screwed up people who just happen to be the same age.
Why join the Scouts then? Why not just start the Renegades? You clearly are not the only parent that thinks the scouts have gone soft. Once word got out with the kids about the actual cool stuff they got to do in the Renegades, you should have a problem with membership.
Bingo. My son isn't quite at the level of this kid, but at 7, he is well into Jr. High school math. His reading is better than most high school graduates, and his other language skills sit well against most Jr. High school students.
Home schooling was the only sane and humane solution for him. As you say, Cub Scouts, 4-H, and other non-"school" activities give him plenty of time to socialize. It is also important to teach him that not everyone else is as smart as him, and that that is OK. It's a little like being Superman. Having super powers is really cool, and sometimes it will save the day. Most of the time you have to convince the public that you are Clark Kent. Mild mannered reporter for the Daily Planet.
When he was 2 and 3, he had not yet learned that he needed a secret identity, and we found that it made other parents uncomfortable when a he would try to play chess with other 3 year olds, invite them to play video games online with them, or would start coaching their 6 or 7 year olds in reading. When we saw this happening, we spent a little bit of time teaching him how to keep from making the other kids parents feel bad without diminishing himself. ( The other kids never seemed offended. Uninterested in what he was wanting to do sometimes, but never offended.)
One of the things that ends up causing problems for Prodigies is that a good many of them are just early bloomers. So, when they complete the bulk of their education at 12 or 13 and settle into the more normal rate of learning that we have as adults, their parents and mentors see it as a let down. The expect the accelerated learning to continue forever instead of just appreciating it as the head start that it is.
At his current rate, I would expect my son to be able to ace the SATs in approx. 3 more years. If he doesn't achieve that, it is OK. He is just bordering on the level of education that most people graduate from HS with, so he will be fine no matter what. Parents break their Prodigy children. They either drive them at a rate that is unsustainable, they dissuaded them from being smart because they don't want them to burn out or they think that being really smart inherently makes you unable to socialize. Rarely do you see the parents of exceptional children let the children be themselves and learn at the rate the child is comfortable with.
The smart thing to do would be to fund a "separate" company that would test the legal waters of purchasing one physical disk for each stream that is being run at a time. Thus, they wouldn't be "streaming movies". They would be "space shifting" the rented disk. They could call this service something like "Quikster". If the spin off company wins in the court but dies due to the cost, that just becomes part of the legal cost. Netflix itself can then start using that tactic. If the company takes off and eclipses Netflix itself, Quikster is born and is more healthy than Netflix could have hoped to be as a negotiated streaming service. If Quikster loses in the courts, then it is still just part of the legal costs, but Netflix is free to continue on their current path.
Anyone that had you build an HTPC specifically for Netflix was making a VERY poor choice. Roku boxes cast from $60-$100 and will add further ongoing savings through lower power usage. HTPCs are great for those of us with local libraries of media, and those that want to play PC games on their TVs. If you already have an HTPC for one of the other uses, running Netflix on it can make sense, but it is a poor choice for Netflix only.
They shouldn't mean anything now. You are correct that Colleges are little more than their paper mill High School counterparts. I have literally had conversations with people who were just graduating with a degree, and when asked "What line of work are you planning to go in to?" There response was "Business. I got a degree in business, so that is what I plan to do."
Our colleges have become a joke.
The hiring companies are working from business plans that are decades out of date.
A major reason that this happens is because of the Elephant in the room. The Elephant? Yes. It is the fact that the schools promote the jocks, assholes, bullies and whatnots' behaviors. They praise them. They put up statues and monuments in their honor. They give them extra freedom, and do not hold them to the same standards that others must live by.
We already have a perks program for muscle. I would bet money that the school in question that is cancelling the perks program for intelligence still has there perks program in place for muscle.
We already do that. Most kids spend more waking hours under the care of the state than they do their biological "parents". Many kids are fed more meals by the state than by their biological "parents". Your suggestion is heard, and is well underway.
Don't worry. There is no political dissent on the subject.
And yet we do it in pretty much every High School in America. A big letter blazoned across the students chest to show that they are excelling. It is sad that so many people think this is a great idea right up to the point that we start doing it for intelligence instead of muscle.
Not to mention that we do publicly identify the students that are good a sports. We have no problem dividing the students between the "Winners" and "Losers" categories when it comes to football or baseball. We have no problem offering special perks to the sports "Winners". Given that the sports "Winners" literally get assigned a big letter blazoned across their chest, it is completely dishonest to claim that hiding academic achievement is because the school doesn't want to segregate the kids. This is a situation where schools (and parents) don't want intellect to be praised in our schools. We have an anti-intellectual society, so we put muscle on a pedestal and hide the brains in a closet.
It isn't "Credit Theft". It is "Theft via Identity Impersonation". This has been shortened to "Identity Theft". I don't particularly think it is a good name, but it does make more sense than calling copyright violation "Theft". I would prefer "Identity Fraud". I would guess that with most people, it would carry just as much weight, and would be more accurate, in the shortened term.
Crack down on the 'homeschooling' moms who ditch their kids and hang out at the cocktail lounge all afternoon.
That is a new kind of 'homeschooling' mom that I have never seen. 100% of the "I don't want to deal with my kid. I just want to go out drinking" moms I have ever seen have been huge fans of the school system. The school facilitates daytime drinking in parents. I'm not saying that there is no one that fit's your homeschool drunk mom demographic, but it is certainly rare. Public school drunk moms (and dads for that matter) are WAY more prevalent. Even then it is a very small percentage.
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Exactly. Stories on Genius children generally bring out the Slashdot users who declare that they would never wish the "curse" of genius level intellect on another person. Heck, the article just the other day about giving extra perks to the smart students in school was filled with comments about how it would be bad to reward intellect and how that should be stopped, but little call to end the perks for athletics in the schools.
My guess would be to counter the endless complaints of favoritism to specific submitters. Perhaps Slashdot is trying to widen their net for submitters, and they feel that most people don't think their submission will even be considered. Thus they make a point to show that they do in fact take first time submitters.
I recall reading that there has been some progress recently. One of the music storage companies successfully won a lawsuit concerning them storing CDs remotely. Of course, that is why you do it with a spin off. Just in case.
Exactly. As I understand it, TB is an external version of an internal bus. Putting a USB port on it is just one of it's many uses.
There never will be extra resources either. The public school system is a black hole for money that will suck in every penny that gets within it's reach, never to be seen again. Never satisfied, and the more money that goes into it, the stronger it's pull becomes for more money.
Good luck finding 33 year olds that can tell the difference. OK, OK, many 33 year olds can tell the difference, but in all fairness, it likely isn't a majority.
People in his own age bracket generally don't have a decent psychological profile. They have a "normal" psychological profile, which is a far cry from decent. It is sad how many bright kids are encouraged to screw themselves up so that they can fit in with other screwed up people who just happen to be the same age.
Why join the Scouts then? Why not just start the Renegades? You clearly are not the only parent that thinks the scouts have gone soft. Once word got out with the kids about the actual cool stuff they got to do in the Renegades, you should have a problem with membership.
Bingo. My son isn't quite at the level of this kid, but at 7, he is well into Jr. High school math. His reading is better than most high school graduates, and his other language skills sit well against most Jr. High school students.
Home schooling was the only sane and humane solution for him. As you say, Cub Scouts, 4-H, and other non-"school" activities give him plenty of time to socialize. It is also important to teach him that not everyone else is as smart as him, and that that is OK. It's a little like being Superman. Having super powers is really cool, and sometimes it will save the day. Most of the time you have to convince the public that you are Clark Kent. Mild mannered reporter for the Daily Planet.
When he was 2 and 3, he had not yet learned that he needed a secret identity, and we found that it made other parents uncomfortable when a he would try to play chess with other 3 year olds, invite them to play video games online with them, or would start coaching their 6 or 7 year olds in reading. When we saw this happening, we spent a little bit of time teaching him how to keep from making the other kids parents feel bad without diminishing himself. ( The other kids never seemed offended. Uninterested in what he was wanting to do sometimes, but never offended.)
One of the things that ends up causing problems for Prodigies is that a good many of them are just early bloomers. So, when they complete the bulk of their education at 12 or 13 and settle into the more normal rate of learning that we have as adults, their parents and mentors see it as a let down. The expect the accelerated learning to continue forever instead of just appreciating it as the head start that it is.
At his current rate, I would expect my son to be able to ace the SATs in approx. 3 more years. If he doesn't achieve that, it is OK. He is just bordering on the level of education that most people graduate from HS with, so he will be fine no matter what. Parents break their Prodigy children. They either drive them at a rate that is unsustainable, they dissuaded them from being smart because they don't want them to burn out or they think that being really smart inherently makes you unable to socialize. Rarely do you see the parents of exceptional children let the children be themselves and learn at the rate the child is comfortable with.
The smart thing to do would be to fund a "separate" company that would test the legal waters of purchasing one physical disk for each stream that is being run at a time. Thus, they wouldn't be "streaming movies". They would be "space shifting" the rented disk. They could call this service something like "Quikster". If the spin off company wins in the court but dies due to the cost, that just becomes part of the legal cost. Netflix itself can then start using that tactic. If the company takes off and eclipses Netflix itself, Quikster is born and is more healthy than Netflix could have hoped to be as a negotiated streaming service. If Quikster loses in the courts, then it is still just part of the legal costs, but Netflix is free to continue on their current path.
Anyone that had you build an HTPC specifically for Netflix was making a VERY poor choice. Roku boxes cast from $60-$100 and will add further ongoing savings through lower power usage. HTPCs are great for those of us with local libraries of media, and those that want to play PC games on their TVs. If you already have an HTPC for one of the other uses, running Netflix on it can make sense, but it is a poor choice for Netflix only.
Hah! I doubt I've seen 16 movies this week!
Oh...wait...That's now where were were going, was it?
Welcome to the same situation as every other career.
They shouldn't mean anything now. You are correct that Colleges are little more than their paper mill High School counterparts. I have literally had conversations with people who were just graduating with a degree, and when asked "What line of work are you planning to go in to?" There response was "Business. I got a degree in business, so that is what I plan to do."
Our colleges have become a joke. The hiring companies are working from business plans that are decades out of date.
A major reason that this happens is because of the Elephant in the room. The Elephant? Yes. It is the fact that the schools promote the jocks, assholes, bullies and whatnots' behaviors. They praise them. They put up statues and monuments in their honor. They give them extra freedom, and do not hold them to the same standards that others must live by.
We already have a perks program for muscle. I would bet money that the school in question that is cancelling the perks program for intelligence still has there perks program in place for muscle.
We already do that. Most kids spend more waking hours under the care of the state than they do their biological "parents". Many kids are fed more meals by the state than by their biological "parents". Your suggestion is heard, and is well underway.
Don't worry. There is no political dissent on the subject.
And yet we do it in pretty much every High School in America. A big letter blazoned across the students chest to show that they are excelling. It is sad that so many people think this is a great idea right up to the point that we start doing it for intelligence instead of muscle.
Wow. You are one hard core racist.
Not to mention that we do publicly identify the students that are good a sports. We have no problem dividing the students between the "Winners" and "Losers" categories when it comes to football or baseball. We have no problem offering special perks to the sports "Winners". Given that the sports "Winners" literally get assigned a big letter blazoned across their chest, it is completely dishonest to claim that hiding academic achievement is because the school doesn't want to segregate the kids. This is a situation where schools (and parents) don't want intellect to be praised in our schools. We have an anti-intellectual society, so we put muscle on a pedestal and hide the brains in a closet.
Yes. It does. Save your search, and you have a filter.
Yes. It does. Maybe you hate Notes because you decided to ignore any part that you might like.
It isn't "Credit Theft". It is "Theft via Identity Impersonation". This has been shortened to "Identity Theft". I don't particularly think it is a good name, but it does make more sense than calling copyright violation "Theft". I would prefer "Identity Fraud". I would guess that with most people, it would carry just as much weight, and would be more accurate, in the shortened term.
Crack down on the 'homeschooling' moms who ditch their kids and hang out at the cocktail lounge all afternoon.
That is a new kind of 'homeschooling' mom that I have never seen. 100% of the "I don't want to deal with my kid. I just want to go out drinking" moms I have ever seen have been huge fans of the school system. The school facilitates daytime drinking in parents. I'm not saying that there is no one that fit's your homeschool drunk mom demographic, but it is certainly rare. Public school drunk moms (and dads for that matter) are WAY more prevalent. Even then it is a very small percentage.
Which is sad, because you don't recover kidnapped kids via fingerprints.
That is the piece that everyone seems to be missing. If this stuff costs $100/GB, it isn't going to change much of anything at all.