The excellent documentary/drama hybrid "24 City" (made by talented Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke) has a lot of details on this practice (at least as it existed at one time). Many of the participants talk about mandatory factory internships in high school (considered a communist obligation, apparently). You got assigned to a factory in your junior year and worked there from then on (part time at first, apparently). Then you either go to college or move on to full-time. They made it sound pretty benign. But then again, they made it sound pretty benign when the government forced families to break up too.
I grew up in the South and once had a science teacher flat out tell us that she wouldn't teach us anything that wasn't *directly* from the approved text, because she wasn't going to risk her job just so we could learn. No kidding, if you asked her a question, she would find a relevant passage from the book and just start reading. If an answer wasn't in the book, she would just ignore the question. This was back when evolution and anything else remotely controversial wasn't even mentioned in textbooks, not in the South anyway. And of course, there are no teachers unions or anything like that, so good luck if you say the wrong thing.
Ha, you'll be lucky if *CNN* even runs it. They're way too busy showing important interviews with Whitney Houston's maid to fit such silly science news in.
They could try the old Scientology "These documents are copyrighted!" tact to stop people from posting them. But that presumes they've never heard of the Streisand Effect, and are stupid as hell.
Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. To counter this we are considering launching an effort to develop alternative materials for K-12 classrooms. We are pursuing a proposal from Dr. David Wojick to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools. Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science. His effort will focus on providing a curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain--two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science. We tentatively plan to pay Dr. Wojick $100,000 for 20 modules in 2012, with funding pledged by the Anonymous Donor.
Wow, they didn't even bother to put the "science" in quotation marks. Guess they *really* never thought these documents would get out. Pretty dumb to use that kind of language, even in purely internal communications. About all they can say at this point is that it was a poorly-proofed typo (that they *meant* to say "bad science" or something). But even that would qualify as a Freudian slip of the fingers, methinks.
Even creepier is the way they capitalize "the Anonymous Donor." Makes me think of a guy petting a cat in a secret island compound somewhere.
First you college boys, with your fancy book smarts, try to tell me my grandpa was a monkey. Now you're calling him pond scum! Jesus will make you commie elitists pay when you die!
I'm uploading myself into an iPad, then terminating my body. It will ensure my survival for about two years, at which point Apple will end support of that model of iPad and my battery will slowly die.
Show me a car from the 50s, 60s, or 70s that could go 100,000 miles with just oil changes and brake pads. Show me a 5 year, 50,000 mile warranty from back then.
That old 70's Merle Haggard song "Are The Good Times Really Over For Good" where he bitches like a sad old fart about how much things suck these days always cracks me up. One of the lines is something like "a car used to last 10 years, like it should." Little did Mr. Get-Off-My-Lawn realize that cars weren't getting worse they were getting BETTER. A car that only lasted ten years now would be considered a lemon. The Japanese kicking the U.S. auto industry in the head was the best thing to happen to them since Henry Ford pioneered the assembly line.
May I know what percentage of the garbage inside a landfill got the chance to be present in sunlight?
The GP's comment specified "The oceans are full of it and it clogs up beaches around the world in enormous quantities." In both of those environments, polypropylene would definitely degrade. In a landfill, it probably wouldn't. But then again, it wouldn't be much of a threat or nuisance in a landfill either.
Wasn't one of the stated goals of Lightsquared to help little companies compete with the big telcoms on the wireless broadband and mobile phone service fronts? If that's the case, I suspect way more was involved here than just GPS interference.
Texas, home state of NASA's Johnson Space Center, much of NASA's manned space program, and about 12,000 NASA jobs. A state that, unlike its counterpart in Florida, is solidly red and at open war with the President. So surprise, surprise most of the NASA stuff the President wants to cut is in Texas, and the Texas Senators are fighting him on it. Relevant article on the subject.
Just thought I would point that out in case any of you are actually still naive enough to think this debate is about science, exploration, and all that shit.
In other news, Texas and Alaskan Senators say oil industry is "over-regulated," midwestern Senators defend corn subsidies, and Michigan Senators defend auto bailout.
Well, you have to ask yourself why Vic Toews isn't allowing us 24-7 camera coverage inside his house. What exactly are you trying to hide from us, Vic?
That's crazy talk. It's talk like that which would take us back to that horrific era when kids didn't have to be put in a full suit of armor just to ride their bikes.
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The excellent documentary/drama hybrid "24 City" (made by talented Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke) has a lot of details on this practice (at least as it existed at one time). Many of the participants talk about mandatory factory internships in high school (considered a communist obligation, apparently). You got assigned to a factory in your junior year and worked there from then on (part time at first, apparently). Then you either go to college or move on to full-time. They made it sound pretty benign. But then again, they made it sound pretty benign when the government forced families to break up too.
What you've described is called fatalism.
I wonder if he has sharks with lasers.
I grew up in the South and once had a science teacher flat out tell us that she wouldn't teach us anything that wasn't *directly* from the approved text, because she wasn't going to risk her job just so we could learn. No kidding, if you asked her a question, she would find a relevant passage from the book and just start reading. If an answer wasn't in the book, she would just ignore the question. This was back when evolution and anything else remotely controversial wasn't even mentioned in textbooks, not in the South anyway. And of course, there are no teachers unions or anything like that, so good luck if you say the wrong thing.
Move farther east and the news will move with you.
Ha, you'll be lucky if *CNN* even runs it. They're way too busy showing important interviews with Whitney Houston's maid to fit such silly science news in.
They could try the old Scientology "These documents are copyrighted!" tact to stop people from posting them. But that presumes they've never heard of the Streisand Effect, and are stupid as hell.
Principals and teachers are heavily biased toward the alarmist perspective. To counter this we are considering launching an effort to develop alternative materials for K-12 classrooms. We are pursuing a proposal from Dr. David Wojick to produce a global warming curriculum for K-12 schools. Dr. Wojick is a consultant with the office of Scientific and Technical Information at the U.S. Department of Energy in the area of information and communication science. His effort will focus on providing a curriculum that shows that the topic of climate change is controversial and uncertain--two key points that are effective at dissuading teachers from teaching science. We tentatively plan to pay Dr. Wojick $100,000 for 20 modules in 2012, with funding pledged by the Anonymous Donor.
Wow, they didn't even bother to put the "science" in quotation marks. Guess they *really* never thought these documents would get out. Pretty dumb to use that kind of language, even in purely internal communications. About all they can say at this point is that it was a poorly-proofed typo (that they *meant* to say "bad science" or something). But even that would qualify as a Freudian slip of the fingers, methinks.
Even creepier is the way they capitalize "the Anonymous Donor." Makes me think of a guy petting a cat in a secret island compound somewhere.
First you college boys, with your fancy book smarts, try to tell me my grandpa was a monkey. Now you're calling him pond scum! Jesus will make you commie elitists pay when you die!
When I read the summary, that episode immediately came to mind for me too. Penn and Teller could teach us so much if we only listened.
Gold buys a lot of lawyers.
David Lightman was able to launch nukes with just a payphone and a pull-tab. Hackers are magic.
I'm uploading myself into an iPad, then terminating my body. It will ensure my survival for about two years, at which point Apple will end support of that model of iPad and my battery will slowly die.
Show me a car from the 50s, 60s, or 70s that could go 100,000 miles with just oil changes and brake pads. Show me a 5 year, 50,000 mile warranty from back then.
That old 70's Merle Haggard song "Are The Good Times Really Over For Good" where he bitches like a sad old fart about how much things suck these days always cracks me up. One of the lines is something like "a car used to last 10 years, like it should." Little did Mr. Get-Off-My-Lawn realize that cars weren't getting worse they were getting BETTER. A car that only lasted ten years now would be considered a lemon. The Japanese kicking the U.S. auto industry in the head was the best thing to happen to them since Henry Ford pioneered the assembly line.
May I know what percentage of the garbage inside a landfill got the chance to be present in sunlight?
The GP's comment specified "The oceans are full of it and it clogs up beaches around the world in enormous quantities." In both of those environments, polypropylene would definitely degrade. In a landfill, it probably wouldn't. But then again, it wouldn't be much of a threat or nuisance in a landfill either.
the FBI remotely monitored last month's raids and congratulated New Zealand police on their work
Did they FBI at least have the decency to give them the promised snausage treat?
Wasn't one of the stated goals of Lightsquared to help little companies compete with the big telcoms on the wireless broadband and mobile phone service fronts? If that's the case, I suspect way more was involved here than just GPS interference.
If I see a headline indicating that Apple wants to control my plumbing...that's it, I'm quitting humanity.
I think it's time to develop a killer open gaming platform.
Attempts to develop an open console or handheld have been tried many times. But no one has ever succeeded at it. Good luck.
I don't know what Sen. Hutchison is smoking
She's on the pork. Stuff is worse than crack.
Yeah, except it's the Republican senator in this case arguing for the government to build it. The Democrat President wants to privatize it.
That's how hypocrisy works with all politicians. And yes, "all" includes YOUR guy too.
Texas, home state of NASA's Johnson Space Center, much of NASA's manned space program, and about 12,000 NASA jobs. A state that, unlike its counterpart in Florida, is solidly red and at open war with the President. So surprise, surprise most of the NASA stuff the President wants to cut is in Texas, and the Texas Senators are fighting him on it. Relevant article on the subject.
Just thought I would point that out in case any of you are actually still naive enough to think this debate is about science, exploration, and all that shit.
In other news, Texas and Alaskan Senators say oil industry is "over-regulated," midwestern Senators defend corn subsidies, and Michigan Senators defend auto bailout.
Well, you have to ask yourself why Vic Toews isn't allowing us 24-7 camera coverage inside his house. What exactly are you trying to hide from us, Vic?
That's crazy talk. It's talk like that which would take us back to that horrific era when kids didn't have to be put in a full suit of armor just to ride their bikes.
Civil rights? Obviously you must be for child porn.