I think i am the only U.S. teacher on the planet who thinks the U.S. teachers get paid plenty. Most of my teacher friends are making 40-50K per year, and have a million dollar retirement pension coming. $50k per year for 20 years = 1 million, though they may live for 30 years thus 1.5 million.
I know a teacher in an area where housing rates are not so cheap, with a masters degree in education and over 10 years experience making less than 40k, nevermind what they started at. No pension either. Yes, in some areas, teachers are paid well, but keep in mind there are vast portions of the united States where teachers are paid shit.
The reason we have so many crappy teachers is that the crappy ones are not removed. Everyoen knows who the crappy teachers are in each school, but the administration hires the teacher that makes their life the easiest (also coaches, probably will be quiet and not complain). Instead, the administrators need to have some sort of reason to hire good teachers.
I second that opinion. If anyone in the education system gets paid too much it's the administrators. Same district as above administrators get 100k+. The administration in general is too removed from the teaching process after several years on the job to be effective anymore, and in my opinion should have a "term limit" where they must return to teaching. That would also be the incentive to hire good teachers, because those would be the people would would be working *with* from now on.
I am probably the only teacher in favor of testing each and every year. I don't care if the teachers "teach to the test". If the test is written correctly, teaching to the test is exactly what should happen. Fire the teachers whose students don't learn anything over the course of 1 year. In order to do this, you have to test each and every student each year. FIRE THEM ALL if you have to.
I have yet to see a standardized test that was not built around the "A is for Average" mentality. I'm no genius, but I practicially (literally a few times) slept through every standardized test I took in school, as did many people I knew. The school boards don't have the resources to create truly good tests for everyone. Even the big name standardized tests have their problems. Again, I think this would be remedied with more administrative contact with the classrooms. I can count on two hands when a member of the administration *ever* sat in on one of my classes. As for firing the ineffective teachers, fire away.
I was referring to Ballmer's propoganda campaign. I'd rather point to a shaky source and declare it as such than point to a source that only says what I want it to say because it is taken massively out of context.
It's still better than what Microsoft comes up with most of the time. At least we don't quote references that actually prove the opposite of what we're trying to say.
They gain energy while out at sea, and then lose it when they pass over land. All the stuff on the land (trees, mountains, etc.) causes the winds of the storm to dissipate their energy.
Actually, the reason hurricanes lose energy over land is the same reason they gain energy at sea, they are gigantic heat engines. Hurricanes form when an area of low pressure and wind shear is over waters above 80 F. The low pressure causes the hot, humid air from the ocean to converge together, which pushes it high into the atmosphere and causes thunderstorms. The horrific winds of hurricanes are caused by the coriolis force acting upon the extreme convergance of air. Trees and small things less than 500 ft would mainly affect the wind gust speed by compressing and deflecting the air around (although I'm not sure what a wind farm would do). Mountains however would rip apart a hurricane. Hurricanes lose energy whenever they don't have a nice fuel supply, which is why hurricanes, even though they form in the Pacific, never hit California with it's 70 F waters. More info over at the NOAA.
We have found Iraq's WMD program. It was extensive. It was idled...
It was, as you say, "idling", NOT AN IMMINENT THREAT!
I find it interesting that lots of people forget about this:
From Wikipedia (this article)... "In particular, the United States, along with its allies (among them Britain, France and Italy), provided Iraq with biological and chemical weapons and the precursors to nuclear capabilities." (emphasis mine)
Saddam makes pond scum seem worthy of the papal robes, but we cannot forget the history that created this situation in the first place. Maybe you should forget about this "liberal" and "conservative" bullshit and learn to think for yourself.
Oh, man. You hit a button... I F-ING HATE PACKAGE MANAGERS UNDER LINUX. I try and update program X. Oh oh, dependency. Chase that down. That creates two more dependencies. Chase those down. Soon it cascades into a total nightmare.
I personally am uneducated as to what the research has been on children in gay civil unions, so I really don't know of any evidence at all. If you had any I would like to see it.
As far as the government is concerned, all there should be is the social contract part. Marriage is more than a piece of paper and that's kind of the point. Leave it to the two people involved and their God.
"Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. "
Matthew 7:1-2
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If the Gays and Lesbians truly are after civil rights and are not simply out to subvert the meaning of a word that millions of Americans hold sacred then why not just pick some other word for their civil unions?
That makes sense, and would probably work better for them, but in this great nation you absolutely do *NOT* have the right to be free from being offended. You have the right to turn the other way, hold up a sign, or do what you're doing right now and write about it. Personally I find large portions of modern christianity extremely offensive and a gross perversion of Christ's teachings, but you don't see me out there trying to keep people's mouths shut about it.
It is precisely for this reason that government at any level should not participate in marriage. As far as the government is concerned there should only be civil unions. Marriage is between two people and their God. The vast majority of people in the united States get married in churches, not courthouses. I just can't figure out why people go around calling this the land of the free then turn around and try to force their beliefs on others. At the end of the day, the marriage license is just a fucking piece of paper.
You are correct, most news agencys are crap, but Fox calling the 2000 election before even the CST polling places have closed is plain wrong.
On the other hand, if the police raid your house for drugs, but all they find are dead bodies, is it still not worth it?
Raiding houses for drugs is it's own problem, but we didn't raid Iraq for something relatively benign and find something horrible. We invaded for something horrible and found relatively benign things. Yes, he would have eventually developed into something that would be our immideate problem but I seriously doubt he would have come straight for us. Turning Israel into glass would have probably been his first objective. Regardless of the fact that nuking anybody is *NOT* in his best interests, as the same thing would instantaniously happen to his country. Remember, we support Israel at every turn. A nation that has consistently violated UN Security Council resolutions. And tell me such a disproportinately large percentage of our foreign aid goes there?
With all due respect, the Iraqis tried that. They were slaughtered. This isn't colonial times with muskets and sabres. Modern technology has made dictatorships all the more difficult to overcome.
You cannot force freedom on a people, even if it is people of your own nationality doing the liberating. If that enough people wanted it, then it would have happened. Whatever happened to open revolt of the populace? Why do we have to be "determined and resolved" for them?
A wise man once said: "If I can't support a war without having served in the military, then you can't support gay marriage without having taken it up the ass a few times."
I'm not trying to say that if you are not in a military you have no right to want to go to war. I'm saying that if you think that we should have invaded, then quit your job and start your own army. If there are enough people who think it will be worthwhile, then go overthrow a soverign nation. Don't send people that signed up to defend *their* country somewhere else to defend someone else's.
Uh, they claim to be "Fair and Balanced" when they clearly are not.
As to your sig, hindsight is always 20/20. Those were not the justifications given before the war. If they were, I doubt we would be there right now. What gives you the right to send our military there? If he's so bad, and everyone is so worried about it, why don't they form their own force and take over? It's easy to be the world's police when it's not your life on the line.
I've noticed that too, here in NC I've seen X pretty much exclusively, except once I saw Ka, that's of course when they have radar at all. Back in Maryland almost every cop has radar, and a growing number have laser.
What about the weather though? If these things are supposed to be flying 24/7 and being used by emergency personell, what if a nice thunderstorm comes through? Some of those cloud tops (thus updrafts, lightning and associated electromagnetic phenomena, etc..) reach about the altitude they plan on crusing around at. In a plane you can just go around it, but when its supposed to be in a certain place because an EMS worker just saw a tornado touch down and needs to report it...
I thought the browser was the shell in windows. If that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to be infected by just browsing to a directory containing an infected image with thumbnails enabled?
I would attribute the rejection to the fact that the article is crap. Microsoft is more secure because they issue fewer security advisories? Ok, how many security advisories did Diebold issue this year?
As someone else pointed out, a worm is self-propogating and self-contained. A virus piggybacks on some other program and copies itself, or "infects", other programs. A trojan is something that looks cool, but turns out to do stuff like this one does.
Uhh.. the DMCA says that ISPs can be liable for user's content, it is in their best interests to take it down as soon as possible. Repeal the law and you won't have this kind of atmosphere.
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I know a teacher in an area where housing rates are not so cheap, with a masters degree in education and over 10 years experience making less than 40k, nevermind what they started at. No pension either. Yes, in some areas, teachers are paid well, but keep in mind there are vast portions of the united States where teachers are paid shit.
The reason we have so many crappy teachers is that the crappy ones are not removed. Everyoen knows who the crappy teachers are in each school, but the administration hires the teacher that makes their life the easiest (also coaches, probably will be quiet and not complain). Instead, the administrators need to have some sort of reason to hire good teachers.
I second that opinion. If anyone in the education system gets paid too much it's the administrators. Same district as above administrators get 100k+. The administration in general is too removed from the teaching process after several years on the job to be effective anymore, and in my opinion should have a "term limit" where they must return to teaching. That would also be the incentive to hire good teachers, because those would be the people would would be working *with* from now on.
I am probably the only teacher in favor of testing each and every year. I don't care if the teachers "teach to the test". If the test is written correctly, teaching to the test is exactly what should happen. Fire the teachers whose students don't learn anything over the course of 1 year. In order to do this, you have to test each and every student each year. FIRE THEM ALL if you have to.
I have yet to see a standardized test that was not built around the "A is for Average" mentality. I'm no genius, but I practicially (literally a few times) slept through every standardized test I took in school, as did many people I knew. The school boards don't have the resources to create truly good tests for everyone. Even the big name standardized tests have their problems. Again, I think this would be remedied with more administrative contact with the classrooms. I can count on two hands when a member of the administration *ever* sat in on one of my classes. As for firing the ineffective teachers, fire away.
I was referring to Ballmer's propoganda campaign. I'd rather point to a shaky source and declare it as such than point to a source that only says what I want it to say because it is taken massively out of context.
It's still better than what Microsoft comes up with most of the time. At least we don't quote references that actually prove the opposite of what we're trying to say.
30 accepted stories since August 29th, 2004! Wtf is going on here?
Actually, the reason hurricanes lose energy over land is the same reason they gain energy at sea, they are gigantic heat engines. Hurricanes form when an area of low pressure and wind shear is over waters above 80 F. The low pressure causes the hot, humid air from the ocean to converge together, which pushes it high into the atmosphere and causes thunderstorms. The horrific winds of hurricanes are caused by the coriolis force acting upon the extreme convergance of air. Trees and small things less than 500 ft would mainly affect the wind gust speed by compressing and deflecting the air around (although I'm not sure what a wind farm would do). Mountains however would rip apart a hurricane. Hurricanes lose energy whenever they don't have a nice fuel supply, which is why hurricanes, even though they form in the Pacific, never hit California with it's 70 F waters. More info over at the NOAA.
It was, as you say, "idling", NOT AN IMMINENT THREAT!
I find it interesting that lots of people forget about this:
From Wikipedia (this article)... "In particular, the United States, along with its allies (among them Britain, France and Italy), provided Iraq with biological and chemical weapons and the precursors to nuclear capabilities." (emphasis mine)
Saddam makes pond scum seem worthy of the papal robes, but we cannot forget the history that created this situation in the first place. Maybe you should forget about this "liberal" and "conservative" bullshit and learn to think for yourself.
ever used apt?
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."
--Linus Torvalds
I personally am uneducated as to what the research has been on children in gay civil unions, so I really don't know of any evidence at all. If you had any I would like to see it.
"Do not judge and criticize and condemn others, so that you may not be judged and criticized and condemned yourselves. For just as you judge and criticize and condemn others, you will be judged and criticized and condemned, and in accordance with the measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt out again to you. "
Matthew 7:1-2
Click here for more.
If the Gays and Lesbians truly are after civil rights and are not simply out to subvert the meaning of a word that millions of Americans hold sacred then why not just pick some other word for their civil unions?
That makes sense, and would probably work better for them, but in this great nation you absolutely do *NOT* have the right to be free from being offended. You have the right to turn the other way, hold up a sign, or do what you're doing right now and write about it. Personally I find large portions of modern christianity extremely offensive and a gross perversion of Christ's teachings, but you don't see me out there trying to keep people's mouths shut about it.
It is precisely for this reason that government at any level should not participate in marriage. As far as the government is concerned there should only be civil unions. Marriage is between two people and their God. The vast majority of people in the united States get married in churches, not courthouses. I just can't figure out why people go around calling this the land of the free then turn around and try to force their beliefs on others. At the end of the day, the marriage license is just a fucking piece of paper.
On the other hand, if the police raid your house for drugs, but all they find are dead bodies, is it still not worth it?
Raiding houses for drugs is it's own problem, but we didn't raid Iraq for something relatively benign and find something horrible. We invaded for something horrible and found relatively benign things. Yes, he would have eventually developed into something that would be our immideate problem but I seriously doubt he would have come straight for us. Turning Israel into glass would have probably been his first objective. Regardless of the fact that nuking anybody is *NOT* in his best interests, as the same thing would instantaniously happen to his country. Remember, we support Israel at every turn. A nation that has consistently violated UN Security Council resolutions. And tell me such a disproportinately large percentage of our foreign aid goes there?
With all due respect, the Iraqis tried that. They were slaughtered. This isn't colonial times with muskets and sabres. Modern technology has made dictatorships all the more difficult to overcome.
You cannot force freedom on a people, even if it is people of your own nationality doing the liberating. If that enough people wanted it, then it would have happened. Whatever happened to open revolt of the populace? Why do we have to be "determined and resolved" for them?
A wise man once said:
"If I can't support a war without having served in the military,
then you can't support gay marriage without having taken it up the ass a few times."
I'm not trying to say that if you are not in a military you have no right to want to go to war. I'm saying that if you think that we should have invaded, then quit your job and start your own army. If there are enough people who think it will be worthwhile, then go overthrow a soverign nation. Don't send people that signed up to defend *their* country somewhere else to defend someone else's.
As to your sig, hindsight is always 20/20. Those were not the justifications given before the war. If they were, I doubt we would be there right now. What gives you the right to send our military there? If he's so bad, and everyone is so worried about it, why don't they form their own force and take over? It's easy to be the world's police when it's not your life on the line.
Sick of anti-gentoo zealots throwing plugs in completely unrelated topics? Me too!
Sorry, that was asking for it.
According to the Hindus, Brahma's day is 4.32 billion years.
Actually, smoking in such a limited atmosphere might overload the air handlers. Brownies would probably be a much better idea.
I've noticed that too, here in NC I've seen X pretty much exclusively, except once I saw Ka, that's of course when they have radar at all. Back in Maryland almost every cop has radar, and a growing number have laser.
Radar detectors don't detect laser. Hell, even laser detectors aren't very good at detecting laser. Found that out the hard way.
What about the weather though? If these things are supposed to be flying 24/7 and being used by emergency personell, what if a nice thunderstorm comes through? Some of those cloud tops (thus updrafts, lightning and associated electromagnetic phenomena, etc..) reach about the altitude they plan on crusing around at. In a plane you can just go around it, but when its supposed to be in a certain place because an EMS worker just saw a tornado touch down and needs to report it...
I thought the browser was the shell in windows. If that's the case, wouldn't it be possible to be infected by just browsing to a directory containing an infected image with thumbnails enabled?
I would attribute the rejection to the fact that the article is crap. Microsoft is more secure because they issue fewer security advisories? Ok, how many security advisories did Diebold issue this year?
As someone else pointed out, a worm is self-propogating and self-contained. A virus piggybacks on some other program and copies itself, or "infects", other programs. A trojan is something that looks cool, but turns out to do stuff like this one does.
Here's a bookmarklet to fix it.
duh.. forgot to rtfa, heh. s/DMCA/Directive 2000/31/EC of the EU Parliament/
Uhh.. the DMCA says that ISPs can be liable for user's content, it is in their best interests to take it down as soon as possible. Repeal the law and you won't have this kind of atmosphere.