I am lucky enough to homeschool. I do it primarily for the reason you would like to homeschool. In theory, public education should be able to offer a better education than homeschooling. Unfortunately, our public education system is so broken on every level, from parent to president. Most kids leave high school with what I would consider about a 7th grade education. Even colleges are spitting out graduates with only an 8th or 9th grade education.
The whole power outage thing has always seemed like a red herring. If the power goes out, my phone is going to get a couple of hours worth of calling before it dies. It will sit for two days ready to go if I am not making calls. If all that fails, I can go start my car and charge it there and that is only if I don't have a back up battery for my phone.
On the other hand, if a branch falls on the phone line, there is no phone. Plus, power and phone are generally put on the same poles, so if a pole goes down, you lose it all anyway.
My cell phone works when the power goes out too. Not only that, it also works when someone plows into a telephone pole, tearing the phone cables free from the line.
With how cheap phone plans can be now, I just have a spare cell phone that I leave at the house. I ported the number I have had since 1990 to it and use it for all of those people/companies that I would rather have leaving a message.
It isn't just hysteria leading to the real allergy. There is also, the effects of our victim society. As sick as it may sound, there are a lot of parents that actually want their children to have some kind of health problem. It is kind of like a mass Munchhausen by Proxy. There is also terrible diagnosis by doctors. We took our son for an allergy test panel to find out what plants were causing his itchy eyes and runny nose. One of the items in the panel is a test for peanut allergies. They tried to convince use that he was severely allergic to peanuts, even though he eats peanut butter all the time. Including eating spoons of it straight just that morning.
Live bookmarks was a feature that had me firmly stuck on Firefox. I have recently been giving Chrome a try since some kind sole has written Foxish Live RSS. It adds Live bookmarks to Chrome.
You would be surprised at the number of people who do want to wallow in ignorance. I'm not talking about people who have not thought about it. I am talking about the people who have actively, consciously chosen that they want to be ignorant. It is a sad reality, but reality none the less. That being said, you can't concern yourself with those people. They are already lost. Work for those those that do want to learn things. There are plenty of those kinds of people too.
Librarians are becoming irrelevant because we have lost the knowledge of what a Librarian is. I have heard rumors that they once could help you find just about any piece of knowledge in the library. In practice, at 42, all I have ever seen them as is stock boys like you would find working the night shift at a grocery store, and sound police.
It seems that Librarians are a vastly under used resource, and most people don't know that they are trained professionals with an agenda beyond keeping the room quite and stocking shelves.
Well, it is considered gospel around these parts that if someone does not immunize their child against chicken pox then they are a murdering sociopath who should have their children taken from them and should possibly be executed for their crimes against humanity. The pre-vaccine death rate was approx 100/year. 50% of those were in adults even though only 5% of the infections were in adults.
Clearly, the number of unacceptable deaths is whatever number applies to the activity that the person already decided was unacceptable behavior.
Apparently, not being a Nintendo fanboy makes you a prick. I didn't buy him an Ouya. I bought ME an Ouya. He plays with it when he wants, but he didn't ask for it and didn't get it.
Pretty well. It makes for a superior emulation machine. There are some native games that are decent. The controllers were really laggy when I first got it, but they did an update, and they work fine now. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but if it hits your demographic, it is worth the $100. One nice thing is that by using the USB receiver designed for the PC, we can use our XBox360 controllers for multiplayer.
If they could get an update out that enabled CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), I would be recommending it to a lot more people. XBMC runs as snappy on the Ouya as it does on a full blown PC. Needing to use a gamepad as a remote is a non-starter. Even though the UI is sluggish, being able to control all of the day to day functions of XBMC with the TV remote has us still using a RaspberryPi for XBMC.
They say that the system's hardware is capable of doing CEC, so there is hope.
OK, there appear to be a few real time multiplayer games. They are pretty few and far between, and then they require network connections. Nintendo still completely crushes phones in this area.
They can be when you don't ship your kids off to be raised by the state for most of the day. You are working from the idea that you ship your kid off to someone else to raise them, and the first opportunity you get to talk to them is at dinner. You also have no idea what your kid has been doing for the majority of their day. On the other hand, I already know what my kid has been doing the rest of the day, as I have spent the day with my child. Thus, not only am I not trying to find out what he has done all day, but I have already had 8 to 10 hours to have had intriguing and stimulating conversation with him.
No, you can't. First you have to write the games that play multiplayer. Besides, the need for a WiFi network is frequently a physical barrier. A barrier that the 3DS does not have.
Good point. I did forget about Minecraft. Unfortunately, as you point out, you have to have access to a wireless LAN. With the 3DS, the system seamlessly makes an Ad-Hoc network. A huge number of games even let the extra players download the game from the first player so that you can play multiplayer with people who don't already have the game.
I disagree. My son wants a Wii-U. I'm just not prepared to spend $300 on a system with a questionable future when we currently have thousands of video games at home already. At $150, I would just get one. Same as I did with the Ouya.
One thing the 3DS has that smartphone and tablets still don't have is real time multiplayer. We have three 3DSs because we can sit down and play a game all together. When we go out to eat, we will often play a few rounds of Mario Kart while we wait for our meal. It gives us time to play with our son at a time and location that would otherwise be a pretty boring wait.
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I am lucky enough to homeschool. I do it primarily for the reason you would like to homeschool. In theory, public education should be able to offer a better education than homeschooling. Unfortunately, our public education system is so broken on every level, from parent to president. Most kids leave high school with what I would consider about a 7th grade education. Even colleges are spitting out graduates with only an 8th or 9th grade education.
The whole power outage thing has always seemed like a red herring. If the power goes out, my phone is going to get a couple of hours worth of calling before it dies. It will sit for two days ready to go if I am not making calls. If all that fails, I can go start my car and charge it there and that is only if I don't have a back up battery for my phone.
On the other hand, if a branch falls on the phone line, there is no phone. Plus, power and phone are generally put on the same poles, so if a pole goes down, you lose it all anyway.
My cell phone works when the power goes out too. Not only that, it also works when someone plows into a telephone pole, tearing the phone cables free from the line.
With how cheap phone plans can be now, I just have a spare cell phone that I leave at the house. I ported the number I have had since 1990 to it and use it for all of those people/companies that I would rather have leaving a message.
Usually the answer to the question of "Is it enviornment or genetics?" is YES.
I previously worked at a steel mill. The old timers there were down right ashamed of the the stuff they were dumping in the 60's and 70's.
Don't forget the ones where the yearly maximum coverage is less than the yearly premiums.
It isn't just hysteria leading to the real allergy. There is also, the effects of our victim society. As sick as it may sound, there are a lot of parents that actually want their children to have some kind of health problem. It is kind of like a mass Munchhausen by Proxy. There is also terrible diagnosis by doctors. We took our son for an allergy test panel to find out what plants were causing his itchy eyes and runny nose. One of the items in the panel is a test for peanut allergies. They tried to convince use that he was severely allergic to peanuts, even though he eats peanut butter all the time. Including eating spoons of it straight just that morning.
Live bookmarks was a feature that had me firmly stuck on Firefox. I have recently been giving Chrome a try since some kind sole has written Foxish Live RSS. It adds Live bookmarks to Chrome.
Jesus didn't tell people that. His dad did.
You would be surprised at the number of people who do want to wallow in ignorance. I'm not talking about people who have not thought about it. I am talking about the people who have actively, consciously chosen that they want to be ignorant. It is a sad reality, but reality none the less. That being said, you can't concern yourself with those people. They are already lost. Work for those those that do want to learn things. There are plenty of those kinds of people too.
Librarians are becoming irrelevant because we have lost the knowledge of what a Librarian is. I have heard rumors that they once could help you find just about any piece of knowledge in the library. In practice, at 42, all I have ever seen them as is stock boys like you would find working the night shift at a grocery store, and sound police.
It seems that Librarians are a vastly under used resource, and most people don't know that they are trained professionals with an agenda beyond keeping the room quite and stocking shelves.
Well, it is considered gospel around these parts that if someone does not immunize their child against chicken pox then they are a murdering sociopath who should have their children taken from them and should possibly be executed for their crimes against humanity. The pre-vaccine death rate was approx 100/year. 50% of those were in adults even though only 5% of the infections were in adults.
Clearly, the number of unacceptable deaths is whatever number applies to the activity that the person already decided was unacceptable behavior.
Apparently, not being a Nintendo fanboy makes you a prick. I didn't buy him an Ouya. I bought ME an Ouya. He plays with it when he wants, but he didn't ask for it and didn't get it.
Pretty well. It makes for a superior emulation machine. There are some native games that are decent. The controllers were really laggy when I first got it, but they did an update, and they work fine now. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone, but if it hits your demographic, it is worth the $100. One nice thing is that by using the USB receiver designed for the PC, we can use our XBox360 controllers for multiplayer.
If they could get an update out that enabled CEC (Consumer Electronics Control), I would be recommending it to a lot more people. XBMC runs as snappy on the Ouya as it does on a full blown PC. Needing to use a gamepad as a remote is a non-starter. Even though the UI is sluggish, being able to control all of the day to day functions of XBMC with the TV remote has us still using a RaspberryPi for XBMC.
They say that the system's hardware is capable of doing CEC, so there is hope.
OK, there appear to be a few real time multiplayer games. They are pretty few and far between, and then they require network connections. Nintendo still completely crushes phones in this area.
I didn't miss it. I just had nothing to add on that subject. You enjoy playing games on the big screen with your kids. Me too.
They can be when you don't ship your kids off to be raised by the state for most of the day. You are working from the idea that you ship your kid off to someone else to raise them, and the first opportunity you get to talk to them is at dinner. You also have no idea what your kid has been doing for the majority of their day. On the other hand, I already know what my kid has been doing the rest of the day, as I have spent the day with my child. Thus, not only am I not trying to find out what he has done all day, but I have already had 8 to 10 hours to have had intriguing and stimulating conversation with him.
No, you can't. First you have to write the games that play multiplayer. Besides, the need for a WiFi network is frequently a physical barrier. A barrier that the 3DS does not have.
Good point. I did forget about Minecraft. Unfortunately, as you point out, you have to have access to a wireless LAN. With the 3DS, the system seamlessly makes an Ad-Hoc network. A huge number of games even let the extra players download the game from the first player so that you can play multiplayer with people who don't already have the game.
None of those are real time multi-player. They are all turn based.
Your parents just didn't spend enough time with you to do both.
I disagree. My son wants a Wii-U. I'm just not prepared to spend $300 on a system with a questionable future when we currently have thousands of video games at home already. At $150, I would just get one. Same as I did with the Ouya.
The 3DS does. It is about the only system available that really does real time hand held multiplayer.
One thing the 3DS has that smartphone and tablets still don't have is real time multiplayer. We have three 3DSs because we can sit down and play a game all together. When we go out to eat, we will often play a few rounds of Mario Kart while we wait for our meal. It gives us time to play with our son at a time and location that would otherwise be a pretty boring wait.