Actually, that arguement against homeschooling is a little out of date in many areas. Some areas have organized group events for homeschooled students that parents can use to give their children chances to socialize with other kids. Some of these groups do things like museum visits, dances, and even allow the parents a place to pool their resources as far as lesson plans and to help make sure that they understand what they are teaching their children.
Actually, Orion IS a constellation in its own right. But you are correct. The "Big Dipper" is an asterism, just an easily recognizable part of Ursa Major.
Maybe I got out just in time or something, but I had several great teachers while I was in school up to '96. They knew how to push us to excel. As far as administrators, I remember when I started high school (our high school was 10-12 until my senior year when we finally moved 9th grades from the 8-9 Junior high), the new principal that year was my old elementary school principal. I was actually surprised when he remembered serveral us us, despite the 5 year gap and the multitude of students he'd seen back then and since. He was a very fair principal, but then, the wave of zero-tolerance bullcrap never hit my school while I attended.
And while I know that there are so many potentially great teachers out there, the schools are still filled with many who just shouldn't be there, ot at least need to be reigned in. My wife subbed for one teacher and had to give a student detention for disrespecting her and not doing her work. But when the teacher returned and the student had to sit in detention with her, the teacher allowed her to do whateer she wanted. The next time my wife had the student , the student bragged about it. My wife later came to find out that the teacher was one of those "friend of the popular girls" type, and the student was one of those girls. A few other teachers have had similar issues with the same teacher, even as recently as an end of the school year dance were the student (8th grade middle school) were dancing in ways that are, at least by many standards, inappropreate for 8th graders. When one teacher tried to get them the stop, the "friend of the popular girls" backed them up and let them continue. The administration told the teacher who tried to stop them them that she did the right thing, but, as to be expected, they didn't do anything about it.
I'm the product of the Georgia Public Schools, and I like to think myself quite educated. But then again, that was 10 years ago, and admittedly, things supposedly are worse at my old high school now.
As a whole, though, the state does seem to be getting worse.
My wife recently garduated with a degree in History and Minor in Anthropology. Her options:
1) Go back to school for 2 years for a teaching certificate.
2) Back to school for 3 years for a masters.
3) Back to school for 3 years for an education degree.
4) Substituting.
She went into substituting for a year, but it wasn't worth it. She made more this past year at Home Depot were she only worked part-time and got benifits. But she's still got a few friends teaching, and the horror stories that I hear from them - bad parents, bad fellow teachers, bad administrators - it's not pretty.
We are having our first child this year. We have a couple of other friends who have/will have children this year. My Wife will be home schooling them, with the rest of us piching in to help round things out.
The explicit contract says that the service has the right (and, in fact, the responsibility) to remove spam.
Then who gets to define spam? Who gets to decide that email X is spam or not? If I get an unwanted, yet "Blue Ribbon Certified" email from someone that I don't want, yet the email from my mother who emailed me from her office gets blocked. Which one is spam?
All black holes emit Hawking radiation, which is essentially black-body radiation (the object is trying to come into thermal equilibrium with the rest of the universe, so is emitting/absorbing radiation to do so).
Don't forget, Hawking Radiation is still in the realm of theoretical.
45/55 is actually very close enough to 50/50, when you account for percentage of error.
Let's not forget the wording of the questions asked to get that result. It probably would not be too hard for a true spin master to rephrase the question to get a flip of that(55 in favor of).
Reminds me of a quote for my stat professor: Statistics don't lie. Statisticians do.
Bush gets blanket immunity from impeachment under the guise of "war on terror"
Bush gets no such immunity due to his 'guise of "war on terror"'. He gets it becuase the Republican controlled House will never mount an impeachment against him unless they feel that the American people want it. If you really feel that he should be impeached, quit wasting your time telling me and tell it to your representative, then convence all the other people wasting their time telling me to do the same.
domestic economy goes down the shitter
The president has very little control over the domestic economy. The economy wasn't great under clinton becuase he was a great president (which he wasn't), but due to several other factors (growth of technology related companies being at the helm). With the right conditions, even a moron president can have a great economy. The reverse is also true. The current economy is largely due to shattered confidence in the wake of the dotcom bubble bursting and in corporate corruption. Even an brillant economic-minded president would have troubles dealing with that. (and Bush is by no means a brillant minded president).
constitutional rights are infringed upon
This one I have to agree with. Unfortunately, nearly half of Americans feel that this is okay if it makes us safer.
That's not how I read the parent. I read "more" as in "additional" not "greater than", as in "Here is another guy against the war, then later, we will have some additional people speaking out for the war".
Good idea in theory, but doesn't work in practice. That's part of the problem of dealing with a system that works in the favor of only two politcal parties. There are dozens of issues that thinking people evaluate when they vote. I wouldn't elect canidate X, who I disagree with on 80% of the issues just because canidate Y claims to be the same religion that I am, but doesn't reflect my beliefs concerning our religion.
Many scientist support SETI becuase logic tells us that given so many stars and planets, there HAS to be something out there. If there was an alien civilization out there that has been sending out signals such as ours for the last 100+ years, and they are around a 100ly away, then we should pick their signals up at some point (granted, the timing of it all is insane - they would have to point their signal at us at just the right time for it to pass earth as they move around their sun, as we move around ours, as both go around the galaxy, and we just have to be looking in the right direction when that signal passes by...)
The problem with climate change in the US is that some scientist are not sure if humans are such a major contributer, and that if we indeed are not, then there's probably nothing we can do. It's sickening, though, when you see some of these scientist getting paid by tree huggin' special interest groups or careless, thoughtless industry so therefore they lean one way or the other. But then, at the same time, I guess there wouldn't be a heck of a lot of high level science going on if they didn't get paid...
1 Timothy 3:1-3
1 Timothy 3:11-13
Titus 1:6
Now granted, these each refer to leadership of the church, but the idea, which is explained in 1 Timothy 3 is that the leadership of the church should be model christians. That means that the model christian should only have one wife.
Of course, if you are not a christian, then the verses above do not apply to you (God may still want you to have only one wife, but you don't beleave in God, or atleast the christian laws, so what do you care?). In that case, it is not the bible, but the law, that states you should have only one wife. If you still have a problem, contact your senator...
By solution, I meant a theory that yields correct results. In my thought, an incorrect solution is not a solution. Therefore, comparing two solutions is viable since there are no incorrect solutions being evaluated. So, that may be poor wording on my part.
Actually, the simpler solution is not always the best. There is a link below to Occam's Razor, give it a read. The idea is that given multiple solutions, choose the most simple. This works wonders in earth bound physics, where we have the option of Einstein's and Newton's equations. Either that you use will yield acceptable results, so why go through all of Einstein's cumbersome formulas? In a nutshell, the idea is to may the solution as simple as possible, while maintaining a working solution.
Of course, the most simple solution often may be correct, if for no other reason then the more convoluted solution has more variables that could be in error.
Actually, the opposite is true -- they are intertwined. Observations must be interpreted and interpretation cannot escape one's underlying worldview. And every worldview is built on premises that must be taken on faith (just as the axioms in geometry are taken on faith).
I was looking at the big picture - science is observable facts, religion is faith-base beliefs. This is the distenguishing characteristic for me, and for me, one does not invalidate the other, because they are seperate things.
If it is something that you belief because current observation and experimentation make it "fact", then it is science. Since faith based beliefs cannot be observed or experimented with, then they have no place in science. (You got Moses on my Einstien! You got Einstien on my Moses! Hmmmm...)
But, I have to admit, on a deeper level, you're right. The two are connected becuase one influences our perceptions of the other.
Which is why I replied to your post, becuase I agreed with your statement. We can be in agreement on the science front while having two seperate beliefs of faith, or no faith at all. Science, by its nature, works regardless and/or without religion.
The "Big Bong". This must be used in conjuction with that big ol' bottle of Absolute Vadka on the back of every Scientific American issue back in the 90's (I'm too poor to subscribe now, so I don't know if they still run those ads or not).
I consider myself to be both science-minded and religious, like a fellow poster above. I believe that science works the way it does because that's how God intended it. But do I think creationism or ID should be taught in a science class. Absolutely NOT! Religion is based on faith, science on observation. They are, to some degree, mutually excusive. Until we start seeing God in our telescopes chiseling away at some great nebula, then he does not belong in a science classroom.
Actually, the aborted launch attempt a couple of weeks ago didn't have any crew shots at t-30 either (probably since it was aborted a couple of hours before launch). I'm sure that there were plenty of crew shots up until they closed the latched.
Actually, I consider myself a "Christian" of the non-denominational variety. I disagree a great deal with the Baptist, I beleave in the possiblity of evolution, that it is possible for the universe to be 13.5 - 15 billion years old, that aspects of the Bible are figurative, not literal, I play D&D and hang out with other Christians of other denominations (my best man was Catholic), atheist (both my DM and host for my D&D game are), and one Wiccan. I try to hold myself to standards set by Christ, I fail, and I keep on going. And if I can't do it, I don't yell that all those others who can't will burn in hell (They may, but that's not for me to judge).
Oh, and I do vote - Libertarian. Just because I worship Christ doesn't mean that I think everyone should nor that our government should force Christian based standards on everyone else. My experience is that those who are likely to turn towards Christ will do so when it is time - forcing it down their throats only pushes them away.
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Actually, that arguement against homeschooling is a little out of date in many areas. Some areas have organized group events for homeschooled students that parents can use to give their children chances to socialize with other kids. Some of these groups do things like museum visits, dances, and even allow the parents a place to pool their resources as far as lesson plans and to help make sure that they understand what they are teaching their children.
Actually, Orion IS a constellation in its own right. But you are correct. The "Big Dipper" is an asterism, just an easily recognizable part of Ursa Major.
And while I know that there are so many potentially great teachers out there, the schools are still filled with many who just shouldn't be there, ot at least need to be reigned in. My wife subbed for one teacher and had to give a student detention for disrespecting her and not doing her work. But when the teacher returned and the student had to sit in detention with her, the teacher allowed her to do whateer she wanted. The next time my wife had the student , the student bragged about it. My wife later came to find out that the teacher was one of those "friend of the popular girls" type, and the student was one of those girls. A few other teachers have had similar issues with the same teacher, even as recently as an end of the school year dance were the student (8th grade middle school) were dancing in ways that are, at least by many standards, inappropreate for 8th graders. When one teacher tried to get them the stop, the "friend of the popular girls" backed them up and let them continue. The administration told the teacher who tried to stop them them that she did the right thing, but, as to be expected, they didn't do anything about it.
I'm the product of the Georgia Public Schools, and I like to think myself quite educated. But then again, that was 10 years ago, and admittedly, things supposedly are worse at my old high school now.
As a whole, though, the state does seem to be getting worse.
My wife recently garduated with a degree in History and Minor in Anthropology. Her options:
1) Go back to school for 2 years for a teaching certificate.
2) Back to school for 3 years for a masters.
3) Back to school for 3 years for an education degree.
4) Substituting.
She went into substituting for a year, but it wasn't worth it. She made more this past year at Home Depot were she only worked part-time and got benifits. But she's still got a few friends teaching, and the horror stories that I hear from them - bad parents, bad fellow teachers, bad administrators - it's not pretty.
We are having our first child this year. We have a couple of other friends who have/will have children this year. My Wife will be home schooling them, with the rest of us piching in to help round things out.
The explicit contract says that the service has the right (and, in fact, the responsibility) to remove spam.
Then who gets to define spam? Who gets to decide that email X is spam or not? If I get an unwanted, yet "Blue Ribbon Certified" email from someone that I don't want, yet the email from my mother who emailed me from her office gets blocked. Which one is spam?
I love that. You just found my sig...
Don't forget, Hawking Radiation is still in the realm of theoretical.
45/55 is actually very close enough to 50/50, when you account for percentage of error.
Let's not forget the wording of the questions asked to get that result. It probably would not be too hard for a true spin master to rephrase the question to get a flip of that(55 in favor of).
Reminds me of a quote for my stat professor: Statistics don't lie. Statisticians do.
Bush gets blanket immunity from impeachment under the guise of "war on terror" Bush gets no such immunity due to his 'guise of "war on terror"'. He gets it becuase the Republican controlled House will never mount an impeachment against him unless they feel that the American people want it. If you really feel that he should be impeached, quit wasting your time telling me and tell it to your representative, then convence all the other people wasting their time telling me to do the same. domestic economy goes down the shitter The president has very little control over the domestic economy. The economy wasn't great under clinton becuase he was a great president (which he wasn't), but due to several other factors (growth of technology related companies being at the helm). With the right conditions, even a moron president can have a great economy. The reverse is also true. The current economy is largely due to shattered confidence in the wake of the dotcom bubble bursting and in corporate corruption. Even an brillant economic-minded president would have troubles dealing with that. (and Bush is by no means a brillant minded president). constitutional rights are infringed upon This one I have to agree with. Unfortunately, nearly half of Americans feel that this is okay if it makes us safer.
That's not how I read the parent. I read "more" as in "additional" not "greater than", as in "Here is another guy against the war, then later, we will have some additional people speaking out for the war".
Good idea in theory, but doesn't work in practice. That's part of the problem of dealing with a system that works in the favor of only two politcal parties. There are dozens of issues that thinking people evaluate when they vote. I wouldn't elect canidate X, who I disagree with on 80% of the issues just because canidate Y claims to be the same religion that I am, but doesn't reflect my beliefs concerning our religion.
Many scientist support SETI becuase logic tells us that given so many stars and planets, there HAS to be something out there. If there was an alien civilization out there that has been sending out signals such as ours for the last 100+ years, and they are around a 100ly away, then we should pick their signals up at some point (granted, the timing of it all is insane - they would have to point their signal at us at just the right time for it to pass earth as they move around their sun, as we move around ours, as both go around the galaxy, and we just have to be looking in the right direction when that signal passes by...) The problem with climate change in the US is that some scientist are not sure if humans are such a major contributer, and that if we indeed are not, then there's probably nothing we can do. It's sickening, though, when you see some of these scientist getting paid by tree huggin' special interest groups or careless, thoughtless industry so therefore they lean one way or the other. But then, at the same time, I guess there wouldn't be a heck of a lot of high level science going on if they didn't get paid...
1 Timothy 3:1-3 1 Timothy 3:11-13 Titus 1:6 Now granted, these each refer to leadership of the church, but the idea, which is explained in 1 Timothy 3 is that the leadership of the church should be model christians. That means that the model christian should only have one wife. Of course, if you are not a christian, then the verses above do not apply to you (God may still want you to have only one wife, but you don't beleave in God, or atleast the christian laws, so what do you care?). In that case, it is not the bible, but the law, that states you should have only one wife. If you still have a problem, contact your senator...
By solution, I meant a theory that yields correct results. In my thought, an incorrect solution is not a solution. Therefore, comparing two solutions is viable since there are no incorrect solutions being evaluated. So, that may be poor wording on my part.
Actually, the simpler solution is not always the best. There is a link below to Occam's Razor, give it a read. The idea is that given multiple solutions, choose the most simple. This works wonders in earth bound physics, where we have the option of Einstein's and Newton's equations. Either that you use will yield acceptable results, so why go through all of Einstein's cumbersome formulas? In a nutshell, the idea is to may the solution as simple as possible, while maintaining a working solution. Of course, the most simple solution often may be correct, if for no other reason then the more convoluted solution has more variables that could be in error.
Actually, the opposite is true -- they are intertwined. Observations must be interpreted and interpretation cannot escape one's underlying worldview. And every worldview is built on premises that must be taken on faith (just as the axioms in geometry are taken on faith). I was looking at the big picture - science is observable facts, religion is faith-base beliefs. This is the distenguishing characteristic for me, and for me, one does not invalidate the other, because they are seperate things. If it is something that you belief because current observation and experimentation make it "fact", then it is science. Since faith based beliefs cannot be observed or experimented with, then they have no place in science. (You got Moses on my Einstien! You got Einstien on my Moses! Hmmmm...) But, I have to admit, on a deeper level, you're right. The two are connected becuase one influences our perceptions of the other.
Which is why I replied to your post, becuase I agreed with your statement. We can be in agreement on the science front while having two seperate beliefs of faith, or no faith at all. Science, by its nature, works regardless and/or without religion.
The "Big Bong". This must be used in conjuction with that big ol' bottle of Absolute Vadka on the back of every Scientific American issue back in the 90's (I'm too poor to subscribe now, so I don't know if they still run those ads or not).
You forgot the basic rule of moderation. If they want modded up, you mod down and vice-versa.
I consider myself to be both science-minded and religious, like a fellow poster above. I believe that science works the way it does because that's how God intended it. But do I think creationism or ID should be taught in a science class. Absolutely NOT! Religion is based on faith, science on observation. They are, to some degree, mutually excusive. Until we start seeing God in our telescopes chiseling away at some great nebula, then he does not belong in a science classroom.
Fool.
Actually, the aborted launch attempt a couple of weeks ago didn't have any crew shots at t-30 either (probably since it was aborted a couple of hours before launch). I'm sure that there were plenty of crew shots up until they closed the latched.
Actually, I consider myself a "Christian" of the non-denominational variety. I disagree a great deal with the Baptist, I beleave in the possiblity of evolution, that it is possible for the universe to be 13.5 - 15 billion years old, that aspects of the Bible are figurative, not literal, I play D&D and hang out with other Christians of other denominations (my best man was Catholic), atheist (both my DM and host for my D&D game are), and one Wiccan. I try to hold myself to standards set by Christ, I fail, and I keep on going. And if I can't do it, I don't yell that all those others who can't will burn in hell (They may, but that's not for me to judge).
Oh, and I do vote - Libertarian. Just because I worship Christ doesn't mean that I think everyone should nor that our government should force Christian based standards on everyone else. My experience is that those who are likely to turn towards Christ will do so when it is time - forcing it down their throats only pushes them away.