Yeah, it seems like the only truly "green" thing to do is simply pave over the entire property for zero carbon emission maintenance! Let's hear it for concrete and astroturf, your only rational choice for a "green" lawn! Gets rid of pesky gophers and moles once and for all! You can even park your car on it! No mowing or herbivores required!
If there is a per-message fee for text messages but regular IP over 3G doesn't have any per-byte costs, my prediction would be that text messages wouldn't be used at all 2 to 10 years from now.
My favorite is the reason why ATM data is broken up into 48 byte cells. It seems that at the standards meeting, there was one group adamant about 64 byte cells, while another wanted 32 byte cells. After much arguing and not being able to reach agreement, they finally decided to compromise -- on 48 bytes! (Of course, like many standards that were designed to be implemented in hardware (e.g. ISDN), ATM is horribly inefficient if you try to do it in software, so the fact that the size isn't a power of 2 doesn't really matter.)
Initially, Hillebrand's team could fit only 128 characters into that space, but that didn't seem like nearly enough. With a little tweaking and a decision to cut down the set of possible letters, numbers and symbols that the system could represent, they squeezed out room for another 32 characters.
So basically they re-invented Radix-50??? Brilliant! I wonder if they got a patent on this?
Why is this informative. It's ignorant.
You admit you don't know any of the facts of the case, but you are assuming the parent is ignorant? That's uh... ignorant.
We don't know what the person's problem with the teacher was it could be anything from "my daughter told me the teacher looked at her funny" or "my daughter got a C but she's really an A student" to "my daughter would never threaten a teacher". Maybe this person's daughter isn't the little angel they believe her to be.
Fact: At my daughter's school, only 33% of black students meet the state minimum proficiency standards for math. 86% of white students do. This 2nd teacher flat out told my wife "You're daughter isn't capable of doing First Grade level math!" Funny... her first grade teacher didn't have any complaints about her math ability. Fact: The teacher treats my daughter different from the other students, and told my daughter "It doesn't matter what you do on the homework, we'll pass you anyway." I'm sure it is just a coincidence that my daughter is mixed race, and that has nothing to do with the teacher's lowered expectations. Fact: After sending a threatening cease-and-desist letter to me, the same teacher told my daughter "You tell you father I'm not playing games here!" Yeah, that's real professional -- enlisting my daughter to deliver threats to me! Did it ever occurs to you that some teachers actually ARE dangerously mentally unstable? From experience the average parent is only concerned about their child while the average teacher has to deal with thousands of students over the course of their career. And the moment one teacher upsets the little balance they've built around their child it's the teacher's problem not their own.
Actually, I agree with you on this, and have taken it into consideration. It's not that I'm unsympathetic to teachers; my mother works as a substitute teacher. I've also taken into consideration that fact that 26 students per class is just too many, and it may be impossible for the teacher to do her job properly. But that doesn't excuse her just refusing to do her job. Furthermore, it is not the job of the union to tell teachers how to teach, that is the Board of Education's responsibility for laying down curriculum and policy in the classroom. The union is their to protect the lawful rights of its members, which is exactly why you can find that on the website.
And when teacher's fail to follow the policy laid down by the School Board, it is the Union's responsibility to sue parents for complaining about it? And by the way, I repeatedly requested my daughter be transferred to another classroom or another school, and was repeatedly refused... until I pulled my child out of school and started home schooling her. At that point, the school district realized that they would lose the funding they were getting for her if they didn't re-enroll her withing 2 weeks -- funny, they were much less hostile and uncooperative after that.
the first thing you can start with is bringing the teacher to student ratio from 25-30 down to 15-20
I agree with you 100%. But this is definitely a resource problem. Ask most parents, and they would agree they would like to see better student/teacher ratios. Ask them if they are willing to pay twice as much in state and local taxes to achieve this, and I suspect you'll get a much different answer! Other than relying more heavily on volunteers and getting rid of some district administrative staff, I really don't know how to deal with this issue.
In any setting, one must assimilate oneself into the dominant culture in order to be successful. Yes, there is a dominant culture in the US. But I think it is racist to assume that the dominant culture is an entirely white culture, and that all whites are raised as part of that culture, while all blacks are not. I come from a long line of rednecks, and I have had to work hard to assimilate myself into the dominant culture, just as most minorities and immigrants must.
The assumption that there is one monolithic "black" culture is pure racist bullshit. All of the blacks I know actually value education very highly; but then most of them are actually African immigrants (nothing like coming from a country with free public education to make you appreciate education.) However, I do believe some Black and Latino students are given grief by their peers for "acting white" if they study hard and excel at academics. I know an African immigrant who is an officer in the US Navy. He said he was given the most grief not by the whites he served with, but by Black subordinates who complained that he didn't talk like them or dress like them!
Kids who aren't university inclined need to be told they aren't university material and they should go to a polytechnic
Who exactly has the right to make that determination? What makes you think they wont be swayed more by appearance than by potential? You think teachers are purely objective? When I requested my daughter get speech therapy in kindergarten, they "evaluated" her and decided she didn't need it -- based more on the fact that it would cost them money. The evaluated her again in second grade and decided she did need speech therapy after all! Of course, by now her speech development has already suffered and been delayed. All teachers have bias; some much more so than others. None of them have the right to tell students what they can or cannot do.
While I agree that coming from a culture that does not value education does put you at a disadvantage, your generalizations come off as racist. Look at my daughter's school district. At Barnes Elementary, 87% of blacks meet the state math minimum proficiency standard, as opposed to 86% for whites. At Hazeldale Elementary, only 33% of blacks meet the math proficiency standard, as opposed to 83% of whites. This is not a cultural difference -- Barnes has far more lower income students; if anything they should have more anti-learning culture. I believe the difference lies almost entirely in the teachers' expectations of students. Hazeldale has a (literally) all white staff that doesn't expect minority students to do well and thus focuses their attention on the white students. Barnes has a Latino principal and a more racially diverse staff; apparently they have the same high expectations for all their students.
I complained about my daughter's teacher, and the Beaverton Education Association sent me a cease and desist order threatening to sue me for defamation and interfering with the teacher's business relationships! Wanna know what teacher's priorities are? Visit the teacher's union web sites sometime. Hint: They contain no content about helping students learn; all everything there is concerned with how to avoid be held accountable for your actions or for you lack of educational results.
You know, my initial reaction was "Translating Klingon?!? Yeah, right... that's a real marketable skill!" But as it turns out, it may actually become a marketable skill
You are correct, I was confusing Ali Khamenei with his predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini. Sorry, I guess all those guys in gray beards and black turbans look alike to me!;-) Anyway, point still stands: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently says things that are interpreted as offensive (especially by Israelis) while Khamenei goes out of his way to appear conciliatory and respectful of all the Abrahamic religions.
I find your intimate knowledge of some of the most disgusting content on the internet rather disturbing. In fact, I would appreciate it if you would post your browsers logs, so that firewall admins can add all the URLs on them to their blacklist.
I too think it is wrong for one sect to have complete control of a country (as do most of the Ayatollahs in Iran). However, given what I've seen of Ahmadinejad's shoot from the hip, I don't care who I piss off, fiery rhetoric versus Khomeini's quietly cautious even though overly conservative and dogmatic style, I'm personally thankful that Khomeini has all the real political power, not Iran's duly elected president.
Lots of animals have mating "dances". The scientist's criteria was "Can the animal keep a beat". The significance of the study is that apparently you have to be a natural mimic to move in time to a beat. In which case many other bird species qualify. So the unanswered question is, "Could dinosaurs dance?" (Actually, the real question is, "Why are our minds pre-wired to detect rhythms?" I don't see any evolutionary advantage conferred to animals able to move to beat, at least not before the advent of MTV and Disney.
Suppose we have the capacity to make it possible for the president of the United States at will to communicate with hundreds of thousands of Iranians at no risk or limited risk? It just changes the world. You're assuming those thousands of Iranians would actually want to download messages from Obama, rather than downloading porn. As a general rule, the more repressed people's public lives are, the more sleazy their secret, private lives become. Iran has a huge surplus of educated but unemployed young men. I suspect that "free porn" is pretty high on their list of motivations for defeating filters, while "hearing what Obama has to say" is pretty low. Especially given that Obama doesn't speak Farsi. Porn is universal, it needs no translation. When was the last time you saw a foreign language porn flick with subtitles? One doesn't really need to understand the language to follow the plot line in a porn flick. And their stage direction is mostly just:
In!
Out.
In!
Out.
In!
Out.
In!
Out.
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Just think of all the money they will save on retirement benefits and elder care!
how do we motivate the unwashed masses to educate themselves?
Most men have known for a long time that "boobies" was the answer to that question.
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Yeah, it seems like the only truly "green" thing to do is simply pave over the entire property for zero carbon emission maintenance! Let's hear it for concrete and astroturf, your only rational choice for a "green" lawn! Gets rid of pesky gophers and moles once and for all! You can even park your car on it! No mowing or herbivores required!
If there is a per-message fee for text messages but regular IP over 3G doesn't have any per-byte costs, my prediction would be that text messages wouldn't be used at all 2 to 10 years from now.
Surely u r jk?
At appears commonly used words have already been tokenized by the users.
kthx
My favorite is the reason why ATM data is broken up into 48 byte cells. It seems that at the standards meeting, there was one group adamant about 64 byte cells, while another wanted 32 byte cells. After much arguing and not being able to reach agreement, they finally decided to compromise -- on 48 bytes! (Of course, like many standards that were designed to be implemented in hardware (e.g. ISDN), ATM is horribly inefficient if you try to do it in software, so the fact that the size isn't a power of 2 doesn't really matter.)
Gee... I thought it was because the collision rate for morons reading text messages while driving went way up for messages longer than 160 characters!
Initially, Hillebrand's team could fit only 128 characters into that space, but that didn't seem like nearly enough. With a little tweaking and a decision to cut down the set of possible letters, numbers and symbols that the system could represent, they squeezed out room for another 32 characters.
So basically they re-invented Radix-50??? Brilliant! I wonder if they got a patent on this?
Why is this informative. It's ignorant.
You admit you don't know any of the facts of the case, but you are assuming the parent is ignorant? That's uh... ignorant.
We don't know what the person's problem with the teacher was it could be anything from "my daughter told me the teacher looked at her funny" or "my daughter got a C but she's really an A student" to "my daughter would never threaten a teacher". Maybe this person's daughter isn't the little angel they believe her to be.
Fact: At my daughter's school, only 33% of black students meet the state minimum proficiency standards for math. 86% of white students do. This 2nd teacher flat out told my wife "You're daughter isn't capable of doing First Grade level math!" Funny... her first grade teacher didn't have any complaints about her math ability. Fact: The teacher treats my daughter different from the other students, and told my daughter "It doesn't matter what you do on the homework, we'll pass you anyway." I'm sure it is just a coincidence that my daughter is mixed race, and that has nothing to do with the teacher's lowered expectations. Fact: After sending a threatening cease-and-desist letter to me, the same teacher told my daughter "You tell you father I'm not playing games here!" Yeah, that's real professional -- enlisting my daughter to deliver threats to me! Did it ever occurs to you that some teachers actually ARE dangerously mentally unstable?
From experience the average parent is only concerned about their child while the average teacher has to deal with thousands of students over the course of their career. And the moment one teacher upsets the little balance they've built around their child it's the teacher's problem not their own.
Actually, I agree with you on this, and have taken it into consideration. It's not that I'm unsympathetic to teachers; my mother works as a substitute teacher. I've also taken into consideration that fact that 26 students per class is just too many, and it may be impossible for the teacher to do her job properly. But that doesn't excuse her just refusing to do her job.
Furthermore, it is not the job of the union to tell teachers how to teach, that is the Board of Education's responsibility for laying down curriculum and policy in the classroom. The union is their to protect the lawful rights of its members, which is exactly why you can find that on the website.
And when teacher's fail to follow the policy laid down by the School Board, it is the Union's responsibility to sue parents for complaining about it? And by the way, I repeatedly requested my daughter be transferred to another classroom or another school, and was repeatedly refused... until I pulled my child out of school and started home schooling her. At that point, the school district realized that they would lose the funding they were getting for her if they didn't re-enroll her withing 2 weeks -- funny, they were much less hostile and uncooperative after that.
the first thing you can start with is bringing the teacher to student ratio from 25-30 down to 15-20
I agree with you 100%. But this is definitely a resource problem. Ask most parents, and they would agree they would like to see better student/teacher ratios. Ask them if they are willing to pay twice as much in state and local taxes to achieve this, and I suspect you'll get a much different answer! Other than relying more heavily on volunteers and getting rid of some district administrative staff, I really don't know how to deal with this issue.
In any setting, one must assimilate oneself into the dominant culture in order to be successful. Yes, there is a dominant culture in the US. But I think it is racist to assume that the dominant culture is an entirely white culture, and that all whites are raised as part of that culture, while all blacks are not. I come from a long line of rednecks, and I have had to work hard to assimilate myself into the dominant culture, just as most minorities and immigrants must.
The assumption that there is one monolithic "black" culture is pure racist bullshit. All of the blacks I know actually value education very highly; but then most of them are actually African immigrants (nothing like coming from a country with free public education to make you appreciate education.) However, I do believe some Black and Latino students are given grief by their peers for "acting white" if they study hard and excel at academics. I know an African immigrant who is an officer in the US Navy. He said he was given the most grief not by the whites he served with, but by Black subordinates who complained that he didn't talk like them or dress like them!
Kids who aren't university inclined need to be told they aren't university material and they should go to a polytechnic
Who exactly has the right to make that determination? What makes you think they wont be swayed more by appearance than by potential? You think teachers are purely objective? When I requested my daughter get speech therapy in kindergarten, they "evaluated" her and decided she didn't need it -- based more on the fact that it would cost them money. The evaluated her again in second grade and decided she did need speech therapy after all! Of course, by now her speech development has already suffered and been delayed. All teachers have bias; some much more so than others. None of them have the right to tell students what they can or cannot do.
Correction: at Barnes it is 86% of Black students and 88% of white students that meet the state minimum proficiency standards for math.
While I agree that coming from a culture that does not value education does put you at a disadvantage, your generalizations come off as racist. Look at my daughter's school district. At Barnes Elementary, 87% of blacks meet the state math minimum proficiency standard, as opposed to 86% for whites. At Hazeldale Elementary, only 33% of blacks meet the math proficiency standard, as opposed to 83% of whites. This is not a cultural difference -- Barnes has far more lower income students; if anything they should have more anti-learning culture. I believe the difference lies almost entirely in the teachers' expectations of students. Hazeldale has a (literally) all white staff that doesn't expect minority students to do well and thus focuses their attention on the white students. Barnes has a Latino principal and a more racially diverse staff; apparently they have the same high expectations for all their students.
I complained about my daughter's teacher, and the Beaverton Education Association sent me a cease and desist order threatening to sue me for defamation and interfering with the teacher's business relationships! Wanna know what teacher's priorities are? Visit the teacher's union web sites sometime. Hint: They contain no content about helping students learn; all everything there is concerned with how to avoid be held accountable for your actions or for you lack of educational results.
Not sure, but it sounds like something John Taylor Gatto would say.
You know, my initial reaction was "Translating Klingon?!? Yeah, right... that's a real marketable skill!" But as it turns out, it may actually become a marketable skill
You are correct, I was confusing Ali Khamenei with his predecessor, Ruhollah Khomeini. Sorry, I guess all those guys in gray beards and black turbans look alike to me! ;-) Anyway, point still stands: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently says things that are interpreted as offensive (especially by Israelis) while Khamenei goes out of his way to appear conciliatory and respectful of all the Abrahamic religions.
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I find your intimate knowledge of some of the most disgusting content on the internet rather disturbing. In fact, I would appreciate it if you would post your browsers logs, so that firewall admins can add all the URLs on them to their blacklist.
I too think it is wrong for one sect to have complete control of a country (as do most of the Ayatollahs in Iran). However, given what I've seen of Ahmadinejad's shoot from the hip, I don't care who I piss off, fiery rhetoric versus Khomeini's quietly cautious even though overly conservative and dogmatic style, I'm personally thankful that Khomeini has all the real political power, not Iran's duly elected president.
Lots of animals have mating "dances". The scientist's criteria was "Can the animal keep a beat". The significance of the study is that apparently you have to be a natural mimic to move in time to a beat. In which case many other bird species qualify. So the unanswered question is, "Could dinosaurs dance?" (Actually, the real question is, "Why are our minds pre-wired to detect rhythms?" I don't see any evolutionary advantage conferred to animals able to move to beat, at least not before the advent of MTV and Disney.
Suppose we have the capacity to make it possible for the president of the United States at will to communicate with hundreds of thousands of Iranians at no risk or limited risk? It just changes the world. You're assuming those thousands of Iranians would actually want to download messages from Obama, rather than downloading porn. As a general rule, the more repressed people's public lives are, the more sleazy their secret, private lives become. Iran has a huge surplus of educated but unemployed young men. I suspect that "free porn" is pretty high on their list of motivations for defeating filters, while "hearing what Obama has to say" is pretty low. Especially given that Obama doesn't speak Farsi. Porn is universal, it needs no translation. When was the last time you saw a foreign language porn flick with subtitles? One doesn't really need to understand the language to follow the plot line in a porn flick. And their stage direction is mostly just:
In!
Out.
In!
Out.
In!
Out.
In!
Out.
Actor 1 moans...