No. Most parents don't want to home school. Most can if they want to. Public education has condemned hundreds or thousands of genius's to a life of ignorance, not to mention non-genius's. In sparsely populated areas piling up garbage until you can go to the dump can work. In densly populated areas it doesn't.
It is great that we can afford to have both garbage and free public schools, but the untouchable status of our schools and belief that they are the "single most important job in America" is both BS, and self destructive.
You won't find any post where I say that we shouldn't have free public education. The closest you will find is a statement that if I had to choose between sanitation and free public education, I would take sanitation. Perhaps you should think about how disgustingly unsanitary many of the people around you are, and consider what it would be like if there was even less. What it would be like with the dirty diapers piling up in the streets. Take a look at countries that don't have sanitation systems.
It is the complete unwillingness of people to objectively look at education that has lead to our free public education failure. Most people are leaving school with no better than a 6th or 7th grade education. This is after 13 years. All of those ignorant people you are refering to... The vast majority of them were educated in the public school system. Refusing to acknowledge problems in your system so that you can fix them isn't progress.
As for how bad it is in countries that don't provide free public education... That is a BS standard. Countries that have lots of money are going to be more likely to offer the luxury of free public education. Those without money are more likely to put that money into other things. The free public education follows the good standard of living. Not the other way around. Maybe you think that Mexico with their free public education is the standard of living we should strive for. I do not.
Are you saying that smart people don't use the public school system? Go figure.
Actually, the "Self Selecting" tripe is a feeble attempt to contradict the facts. Kids don't choose whether they are home schooled or not. The parents do. Parents don't look at their children and say "They are smart, so I am going to pull them out of public school". In fact, a very common reason for pulling kids out of public school is due to poor performance on the part of the kid.
An average handyman can drill two holes in the metal plate. A snap in plug that attaches to the port and passes power through so that the lock can be charged, but data cannot pass And snaps into the two holes drilled by the handyman would allow charging but require breaking the lock to pass data. The point isn't to make the lock unbreakable. No lock is or ever will be. The point is to prevent crimes of opportunity and hopefully leave an indication if someone has broken in.
It is true that these locks will likely not be replaced until a remodel because the rooms are so insecure anyway that this hack doesn't put them at any more significant of a risk than they previously were. Either way though, a physical fix to the lock is trivial and cheap.
No. You are not a highly technical person. Either that or you are a liar. A highly technical person would not have to spend significant time trying to figure out how to use an Android phone. A highly technical person would know that the OS version you want is whatever is the highest number, and would already know that one version back is fine. A highly technical person would know that getting the one product that isn't the best can be head and shoulders above the 'best' of a competing product. A highly technical person would know that worrying about what apps will run on Android makes no more sense than worrying about what apps run on iOS.
In fact, you don't even have to be mildly technical to follow the regularly given advice for getting a phone that is as good or better than an Apple phone, that runs everything that can get run, and to make sure you always have the best version of the OS. Just buy a phone with the name Nexus.
Every single lock will not have to be changed. There are several ways to fix this without replacing the entire lock. Fill the hole. Cover the whole with an exterior lock. Put a more secure circuit between the exterior plug and the lock's main board. That more secure circuit only need to handle NOT letting you read the memory. Given that the article is completely wrong about having to change the locks, I would question whether there really isn't a way to fix it via firmware. Either way though, the fix does not require a new lock, and it is a task that the hotel's regular handyman can perform.
Your splitting hairs. First, it is highly debatable whether you need actual gods for something to be religion. Second, there were magic creatures with powers that would easily be comparable to the Greek gods. Heck, Ultima IV literally came with an ankh in the box.
If you think that the demographic for Android is limited to 14 year old boys, or that all the other media doesn't get used by 14 year old boys, you are delusional. And yes, Rom burners.
Given that home-schooled kids consistently outperform their public school counterparts, it is clear that professional teachers are not all they are cracked up to be. The public schooled kids that do the best are the ones who's parents end up home schooling them at night even though they go to the public school during the day. Garbage men on the other hand... Do you know what happens in cites when the garbage stops getting collected? Even in a best case scenario for the teachers, it is better to have an uneducated child than one that is dead from disease. Of course, it isn't a best case scenario for public schools. So, if you chose the teachers over the garbage men, you would end up with uneducated kids AND disease.
The problem isn't that having public school teachers is bad. The problem is that the system has failed, and no one is willing to admit that the problem runs from the parent to the president, and that includes teachers.
Your example is BS. While it is technically possible that you somehow live in some special place that is different from the vast majority of the country, but enough of us have seen the teachers parking lots at 7am and 5pm to know that 10 hour days at the school are not even close to the norm. Also, claiming that we should all count various non-school activities you decide to attend is wrong. Many of us in many careers attend conferences and events related to your field. Only teachers claim it as work hours. If you want people to take a more factual look at teaching careers, you first have to stop trying to deceive them.
Funny you mention garbage men. They are my example to counter the "Teachers are the most important job." tripe. I can tell you if I had to choose between getting rid of all professional teachers and getting rid of all professional garbage men, the garbage men would still be working. Professional teachers wouldn't even make the top 20 most important jobs.
I like that we have public education, but it is vastly over rated, and it won't improve until we stop seeing it as an untouchable paragon of virtue.
You do realize that link is to a propaganda piece right? Teachers do not average 11.5 hours a day. I have known plenty of teachers personally, and 11.5 hours a day is complete BS. About the only teachers that work any significant about beyond the 6-7 hour school day are teachers that must grade essays. So, your myth is already busted.
You point out 1st year pay. That shows a complete lack of integrety on your part. Some jobs have pay front loaded, and some have them back loaded. Again, your myth is busted.
You point out that the pay you list is "is before taxes, so the take-home is significantly less than this". Again, total lack of integrity. ALL salaries get discussed in pre-tax amounts.
Finally, The point about a Senior Software Engineer... So what if someone else can make more money. There is no reason that public school teacher should be the single highest paid job on the planet. Thinking it should be is just stupid. Not to mention you are comparing a 1st year salary with someone who has been in their field for many years.
Obviously you are fully aware that teachers are well paid, or you wouldn't have to resort to deceit to try and make your point.
Because some people have other interests. There is this thing about civilization. Everyone can't do the same job. Asking why the AC isn't a teacher makes about as much sense as asking every teacher why they don't have some other job.
First, we are talking about High School and lower teachers. College teachers are a different pay system. Second, since public school teachers are in the top 50% of earners based on YEARLY salaries, either A) they are incompetent with their money, B) they are lying to you about how much they make, or C) half of the nation's population fails to survive each summer.
Yes, teachers are only in the top 75% (not counting benefits) of earners in the country when you don't count the months they don't work. When you count the months they don't work, they drop down to being paid in the top 50% (plus year long benefits).
Anyone else notice that while teachers are in the top 50% of earners in the country on a yearly basis, and in the top 75% in an hourly basis, we constantly hear how every teacher is in poverty?
You are correct. You don't understand it. It isn't that people hate teachers. They just hate hearing the whining that they are all in poverty when they are in the top half of earners in the country. This while the vast majority of them continuously fail miserably at their jobs and continuously attack those who want to properly educate their children.
That's what I am thinking. I have yet to see a single pirated Android App. There would have to be some kind of grand conspiracy against me personally for piracy on that platform to be even close to the levels they claim.
I can honestly say that I have purchased more PC games from GoG in the last 12 months than I purchased from all other sources put together over the last 10 years.
Dude, you are an idiot. At 40 years old, no one is going to be calling me a kid, and Microlith is right. I have been making a good living writing software for the last 18 years, and I have not once had to take the asshole stance that you claim is required. Maybe I am just smarter than you, or maybe your just wrong and too much of an asshole to stop long enough to figure out what is wrong with what you are saying. Personally, I have a hard time believing that I am so special that the impossible is an every day activity for me.
So, tell me. Am I really that good, or are you really that bad?
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No. Most parents don't want to home school. Most can if they want to. Public education has condemned hundreds or thousands of genius's to a life of ignorance, not to mention non-genius's. In sparsely populated areas piling up garbage until you can go to the dump can work. In densly populated areas it doesn't.
It is great that we can afford to have both garbage and free public schools, but the untouchable status of our schools and belief that they are the "single most important job in America" is both BS, and self destructive.
You won't find any post where I say that we shouldn't have free public education. The closest you will find is a statement that if I had to choose between sanitation and free public education, I would take sanitation. Perhaps you should think about how disgustingly unsanitary many of the people around you are, and consider what it would be like if there was even less. What it would be like with the dirty diapers piling up in the streets. Take a look at countries that don't have sanitation systems.
It is the complete unwillingness of people to objectively look at education that has lead to our free public education failure. Most people are leaving school with no better than a 6th or 7th grade education. This is after 13 years. All of those ignorant people you are refering to... The vast majority of them were educated in the public school system. Refusing to acknowledge problems in your system so that you can fix them isn't progress.
As for how bad it is in countries that don't provide free public education... That is a BS standard. Countries that have lots of money are going to be more likely to offer the luxury of free public education. Those without money are more likely to put that money into other things. The free public education follows the good standard of living. Not the other way around. Maybe you think that Mexico with their free public education is the standard of living we should strive for. I do not.
Are you saying that smart people don't use the public school system? Go figure.
Actually, the "Self Selecting" tripe is a feeble attempt to contradict the facts. Kids don't choose whether they are home schooled or not. The parents do. Parents don't look at their children and say "They are smart, so I am going to pull them out of public school". In fact, a very common reason for pulling kids out of public school is due to poor performance on the part of the kid.
An average handyman can drill two holes in the metal plate. A snap in plug that attaches to the port and passes power through so that the lock can be charged, but data cannot pass And snaps into the two holes drilled by the handyman would allow charging but require breaking the lock to pass data. The point isn't to make the lock unbreakable. No lock is or ever will be. The point is to prevent crimes of opportunity and hopefully leave an indication if someone has broken in.
It is true that these locks will likely not be replaced until a remodel because the rooms are so insecure anyway that this hack doesn't put them at any more significant of a risk than they previously were. Either way though, a physical fix to the lock is trivial and cheap.
No. You are not a highly technical person. Either that or you are a liar. A highly technical person would not have to spend significant time trying to figure out how to use an Android phone. A highly technical person would know that the OS version you want is whatever is the highest number, and would already know that one version back is fine. A highly technical person would know that getting the one product that isn't the best can be head and shoulders above the 'best' of a competing product. A highly technical person would know that worrying about what apps will run on Android makes no more sense than worrying about what apps run on iOS.
In fact, you don't even have to be mildly technical to follow the regularly given advice for getting a phone that is as good or better than an Apple phone, that runs everything that can get run, and to make sure you always have the best version of the OS. Just buy a phone with the name Nexus.
Every single lock will not have to be changed. There are several ways to fix this without replacing the entire lock. Fill the hole. Cover the whole with an exterior lock. Put a more secure circuit between the exterior plug and the lock's main board. That more secure circuit only need to handle NOT letting you read the memory. Given that the article is completely wrong about having to change the locks, I would question whether there really isn't a way to fix it via firmware. Either way though, the fix does not require a new lock, and it is a task that the hotel's regular handyman can perform.
Your splitting hairs. First, it is highly debatable whether you need actual gods for something to be religion. Second, there were magic creatures with powers that would easily be comparable to the Greek gods. Heck, Ultima IV literally came with an ankh in the box.
If that was the case, I wouldn't know anyone that pirates on any other platforms either, which isn't the case.
They do on every other platform, so what is your theory on why they would single out Android for hiding their infringement?
If you think that the demographic for Android is limited to 14 year old boys, or that all the other media doesn't get used by 14 year old boys, you are delusional. And yes, Rom burners.
Given that home-schooled kids consistently outperform their public school counterparts, it is clear that professional teachers are not all they are cracked up to be. The public schooled kids that do the best are the ones who's parents end up home schooling them at night even though they go to the public school during the day. Garbage men on the other hand... Do you know what happens in cites when the garbage stops getting collected? Even in a best case scenario for the teachers, it is better to have an uneducated child than one that is dead from disease. Of course, it isn't a best case scenario for public schools. So, if you chose the teachers over the garbage men, you would end up with uneducated kids AND disease.
The problem isn't that having public school teachers is bad. The problem is that the system has failed, and no one is willing to admit that the problem runs from the parent to the president, and that includes teachers.
Wouldn't it make more sense to go into the future to put an end to arguments over AGW?
Your example is BS. While it is technically possible that you somehow live in some special place that is different from the vast majority of the country, but enough of us have seen the teachers parking lots at 7am and 5pm to know that 10 hour days at the school are not even close to the norm. Also, claiming that we should all count various non-school activities you decide to attend is wrong. Many of us in many careers attend conferences and events related to your field. Only teachers claim it as work hours. If you want people to take a more factual look at teaching careers, you first have to stop trying to deceive them.
Yes.
Funny you mention garbage men. They are my example to counter the "Teachers are the most important job." tripe. I can tell you if I had to choose between getting rid of all professional teachers and getting rid of all professional garbage men, the garbage men would still be working. Professional teachers wouldn't even make the top 20 most important jobs.
I like that we have public education, but it is vastly over rated, and it won't improve until we stop seeing it as an untouchable paragon of virtue.
You do realize that link is to a propaganda piece right? Teachers do not average 11.5 hours a day. I have known plenty of teachers personally, and 11.5 hours a day is complete BS. About the only teachers that work any significant about beyond the 6-7 hour school day are teachers that must grade essays. So, your myth is already busted.
You point out 1st year pay. That shows a complete lack of integrety on your part. Some jobs have pay front loaded, and some have them back loaded. Again, your myth is busted.
You point out that the pay you list is "is before taxes, so the take-home is significantly less than this". Again, total lack of integrity. ALL salaries get discussed in pre-tax amounts.
Finally, The point about a Senior Software Engineer... So what if someone else can make more money. There is no reason that public school teacher should be the single highest paid job on the planet. Thinking it should be is just stupid. Not to mention you are comparing a 1st year salary with someone who has been in their field for many years.
Obviously you are fully aware that teachers are well paid, or you wouldn't have to resort to deceit to try and make your point.
Because some people have other interests. There is this thing about civilization. Everyone can't do the same job. Asking why the AC isn't a teacher makes about as much sense as asking every teacher why they don't have some other job.
And they still are in the top 50% of earners in the nation.
First, we are talking about High School and lower teachers. College teachers are a different pay system. Second, since public school teachers are in the top 50% of earners based on YEARLY salaries, either A) they are incompetent with their money, B) they are lying to you about how much they make, or C) half of the nation's population fails to survive each summer.
I'm going with B.
Yes, teachers are only in the top 75% (not counting benefits) of earners in the country when you don't count the months they don't work. When you count the months they don't work, they drop down to being paid in the top 50% (plus year long benefits).
Anyone else notice that while teachers are in the top 50% of earners in the country on a yearly basis, and in the top 75% in an hourly basis, we constantly hear how every teacher is in poverty?
I don't understand all the hate towards teachers.
You are correct. You don't understand it. It isn't that people hate teachers. They just hate hearing the whining that they are all in poverty when they are in the top half of earners in the country. This while the vast majority of them continuously fail miserably at their jobs and continuously attack those who want to properly educate their children.
That's what I am thinking. I have yet to see a single pirated Android App. There would have to be some kind of grand conspiracy against me personally for piracy on that platform to be even close to the levels they claim.
I can honestly say that I have purchased more PC games from GoG in the last 12 months than I purchased from all other sources put together over the last 10 years.
Dude, you are an idiot. At 40 years old, no one is going to be calling me a kid, and Microlith is right. I have been making a good living writing software for the last 18 years, and I have not once had to take the asshole stance that you claim is required. Maybe I am just smarter than you, or maybe your just wrong and too much of an asshole to stop long enough to figure out what is wrong with what you are saying. Personally, I have a hard time believing that I am so special that the impossible is an every day activity for me.
So, tell me. Am I really that good, or are you really that bad?