I was unschooled after fifth grade. I plan to do the same for my kids from the beginning. Big governments are exceptionally bad at everything they do - with the exception of a few key things like interstate transit and the common defence - and our education system is the best example of this.
People like to solve such problems with government, but this is a problem that rests firmly on the backs of parents. Parents who really commit to their children - whether that means homeschool, unschool, private school, or public school - will have children who are effective learners in whatever way they wish to apply themselves. Sometimes that means making sacrifices, like - gasp! - having one parent stay home. And don't tell me you need two incomes to get by - I'll bet if you left out all your luxuries and lived in a reasonably-sized apartment, you'd find that your thriving children were all the luxury you really needed.
Okay, to be fair. The first time I watched the video I did so without sound, and mistook some of his flailings under the taser for resistance. Still, he quite plainly was trying as hard as he could to passively resist. I remember years ago, my grandmother used to have me try to lift my brother while he was trying to be 'light as a feather' and then 'heavy as a rock'. You don't have to flail around to be hard to move.
And, I'll bet you a dollar that they are discouraged from physically removing a subject due to a lawsuit from some fool with a broken wrist.
Please don't misunderstand; I am well aware of the differences. I was just making what I thought was a rather clever joke. I wasn't trying to imply that this has anything to do with embryonic stem cells, I was making a joke based on the fact that they are different.
I'm glad you support this view well enough to identify yourself. I guess I can see some reason to AC, but I'll take your comment with an extra grain of salt.
Bullshit. I've met cops in the US and Australia (where I live) who were basically jerks. The majority of those I've had interactions with are great people, doing a shit job I wouldn't wish on anyone, but there are arseholes as well.
I've met asshole cops too, don't get me wrong. But if you're really not doing anything non-trivial wrong, then eventually it sorts itself out. Except perhaps in the worst cases. Of course the emotional human response is to become offended when confronted with injustice, real or perceived, but civilized life demands that from time to time we suppress such responses until the appropriate time and place.
If you were minding your own business and a few cops made a beeline for you and strated asking for ID although everyone else was being ignored, would you feel hassled? If you asked why you were targeted and were told to shut up, would you be annoyed? If you were asked to leave, would you get vocal? What if it was a regular event?
That's one question: did the student patrol officers target him unfairly, and have they done this regularly. There are lots of legitimate channels if that is the case. Perhaps he could have left the library and gone directly to speak with an administrator or an advocate if he felt wronged, rather than taking the opportunity to start a scene in front of a crowd? (By the way, my father and my wife both happen to be the type to make a scene, so I'm something of an expert in the irrational mind:P)
It's the job of a law enforcement officer to be as polite and restrained as possible while getting their job done. They don't threaten force if it's not required, they don't go for a taser when there are other options, and they definitely don't repeatedly shock someone for exhibiting behaviour that's reasonably typical of being shocked.
I assume you disagree with my main point, that once they were on scene, the police officers had to make a tactical decision about how to maintain control. I can assure you that at the moment these officers arrived, they were quickly trying to refer back to their training about how to avoid inciting a riot - because that's how it must have felt, outnumbered twenty to one. And also, as has been pointed out elsewhere, the man was almost certainly well capable of using his legs a moment after being shocked. He is obviously trying to gain as much attention as possible, reacting emotionally rather than logically. I can't say I don't blame him.
Can we give these officers the benefit of the doubt for once, and try to find out if they were following procedure by ordering him to stand before removing him from the building? There's got to be a reason.
:: Insted its ment to be used to defend yourself from a target that will cause harm to you, thus paralyzing them for your own safty.There were 5 policemen and one student, i really dont think any of those police were in danger.::
Ever try to restrain a person who's resisting with all his might? It takes a lot to wrestle a guy into handcuffs when he's kicking and flailing. Not to mention, it was not '5 policemen and one student'; it was 5 policemen and some unknown number of students forming what could loosely be described as a mob. The police have to pay attention to the bystanders to make sure the sitation doesn't get out of hand. If they're wrestling the person to the ground, they cannot maintain control of the situation around them, and a person whose intent is worse than civil disobidience might steal a sidearm and cause a real problem.
I can understand, in today's tense world, how this young man might have felt that he was being targeted. Heck, maybe he was. The fact is that if you resist the police, you deserve whatever comes to you, becuase the police in the US are easy to get along with.
"Hold up, you must be a white man," you say. That's true, but it's all about respect. If you treat the police with respect, they will treat you with respect, and we have a system where conflicts - even with the police - can be solved peacefully if you can keep your emotions in check. It doesn't matter the disposition of your DNA.
Its not like he cares. One thing I can say about getting my news from my local newspaper, at least it's got it's punctuation straight. Duck's in a row, you know?
...that Google has now made Dr. House obsolite? Seriously, that dude is wrong way more than 54% of the time. Then you don't have to put up with the vicious, cutting sarcasm and depressing world view.
The future will eliminate that differentiation. Data will not be 'here' or 'there'. Rather, it will be. Data will simply exist and we will access it as if it were immediately 'here' all the time.
That sounds neat! We just need to come up with a standard way to reference all this data. Oh, I know! We need a uniform standard for locating our resources. I'll start an RFC for it right away.
Oh, you're on to something now! Let's take this idea and extend it to... voting! Yeah, we'll have special machines designed to take the human error factor out of voting. Then everyone can stop bitching about 'accuracy' and 'fairness' and 'disenfranchisement'.
Interesting link. It's obvious that there's been some big failures at this already. Lets hope these guys have solved it.
From the article: >> Few other toxins will be generated, if any at all, Geoplasma says.
After perusing that (well-cited) PDF, that could be something of an understatement. Also, it seems strange to me that they have decided to go for such a huge facility first, without running a smaller-scale setup first. It was just a matter of, who will bite the worm, it seems. Sure, the corporation has agreed to be responsible for the interest, but if the facility bombs, it's on the taxpayers.
The optimist in me says, this could be a useful technology that just needs the kinks worked out. We shall see.
The vehicle in that picture is a HMMWV-type like the Army (and Ahnold) uses, not one of these 'H2' luxury tanks. I've always had the (unfounded) understanding that there's a big difference. Certainly there is if the HMMWV in question is the armored sort.
The GP suggested that image searching would show that H2s are not as "accident-friendly" as some would say. After trying various keywords on GIS, I'm finding perhaps a dozen pictures of bad H2 accidents, but honestly I don't see any where the H2 is more smashed up than I would expect.
Of course in the bigger vehicle you have a certain advantage... unless you end up in a bad situation because of top-heaviness, lack of maneauverability, and poor visability. Personally, I'll stick with my little $12k four-door five-speed sedan and my 35-45mpg, thank you very much.
You might look at it in a different way: the employee in this case is really the _product_. All his customers need is a good experience for *their* customers, and of course low prices.
Trying out the test, it *appears* that the tool connects to port 25 and checks for a banner. There is no information about timeouts. I presume that 'Closed' means 'Timeout' or 'Connection Refused', but they don't tell us.
It seems that Yahoo! has blocked their server or something; the tool works fine on my domains but I can't get a result for yahoo.com.
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I was unschooled after fifth grade. I plan to do the same for my kids from the beginning. Big governments are exceptionally bad at everything they do - with the exception of a few key things like interstate transit and the common defence - and our education system is the best example of this.
People like to solve such problems with government, but this is a problem that rests firmly on the backs of parents. Parents who really commit to their children - whether that means homeschool, unschool, private school, or public school - will have children who are effective learners in whatever way they wish to apply themselves. Sometimes that means making sacrifices, like - gasp! - having one parent stay home. And don't tell me you need two incomes to get by - I'll bet if you left out all your luxuries and lived in a reasonably-sized apartment, you'd find that your thriving children were all the luxury you really needed.
Homeschool has the best class sizes anywhere.
Okay, to be fair. The first time I watched the video I did so without sound, and mistook some of his flailings under the taser for resistance. Still, he quite plainly was trying as hard as he could to passively resist. I remember years ago, my grandmother used to have me try to lift my brother while he was trying to be 'light as a feather' and then 'heavy as a rock'. You don't have to flail around to be hard to move.
And, I'll bet you a dollar that they are discouraged from physically removing a subject due to a lawsuit from some fool with a broken wrist.
Please don't misunderstand; I am well aware of the differences. I was just making what I thought was a rather clever joke. I wasn't trying to imply that this has anything to do with embryonic stem cells, I was making a joke based on the fact that they are different.
I'm glad you support this view well enough to identify yourself. I guess I can see some reason to AC, but I'll take your comment with an extra grain of salt.
The President was right the whole time! These evil stem cell things really are evil!
Bullshit. I've met cops in the US and Australia (where I live) who were basically jerks. The majority of those I've had interactions with are great people, doing a shit job I wouldn't wish on anyone, but there are arseholes as well.
:P)
I've met asshole cops too, don't get me wrong. But if you're really not doing anything non-trivial wrong, then eventually it sorts itself out. Except perhaps in the worst cases. Of course the emotional human response is to become offended when confronted with injustice, real or perceived, but civilized life demands that from time to time we suppress such responses until the appropriate time and place.
If you were minding your own business and a few cops made a beeline for you and strated asking for ID although everyone else was being ignored, would you feel hassled? If you asked why you were targeted and were told to shut up, would you be annoyed? If you were asked to leave, would you get vocal? What if it was a regular event?
That's one question: did the student patrol officers target him unfairly, and have they done this regularly. There are lots of legitimate channels if that is the case. Perhaps he could have left the library and gone directly to speak with an administrator or an advocate if he felt wronged, rather than taking the opportunity to start a scene in front of a crowd? (By the way, my father and my wife both happen to be the type to make a scene, so I'm something of an expert in the irrational mind
It's the job of a law enforcement officer to be as polite and restrained as possible while getting their job done. They don't threaten force if it's not required, they don't go for a taser when there are other options, and they definitely don't repeatedly shock someone for exhibiting behaviour that's reasonably typical of being shocked.
I assume you disagree with my main point, that once they were on scene, the police officers had to make a tactical decision about how to maintain control. I can assure you that at the moment these officers arrived, they were quickly trying to refer back to their training about how to avoid inciting a riot - because that's how it must have felt, outnumbered twenty to one. And also, as has been pointed out elsewhere, the man was almost certainly well capable of using his legs a moment after being shocked. He is obviously trying to gain as much attention as possible, reacting emotionally rather than logically. I can't say I don't blame him.
Can we give these officers the benefit of the doubt for once, and try to find out if they were following procedure by ordering him to stand before removing him from the building? There's got to be a reason.
:: Insted its ment to be used to defend yourself from a target that will cause harm to you, thus paralyzing them for your own safty.There were 5 policemen and one student, i really dont think any of those police were in danger.::
Ever try to restrain a person who's resisting with all his might? It takes a lot to wrestle a guy into handcuffs when he's kicking and flailing. Not to mention, it was not '5 policemen and one student'; it was 5 policemen and some unknown number of students forming what could loosely be described as a mob. The police have to pay attention to the bystanders to make sure the sitation doesn't get out of hand. If they're wrestling the person to the ground, they cannot maintain control of the situation around them, and a person whose intent is worse than civil disobidience might steal a sidearm and cause a real problem.
I can understand, in today's tense world, how this young man might have felt that he was being targeted. Heck, maybe he was. The fact is that if you resist the police, you deserve whatever comes to you, becuase the police in the US are easy to get along with.
"Hold up, you must be a white man," you say. That's true, but it's all about respect. If you treat the police with respect, they will treat you with respect, and we have a system where conflicts - even with the police - can be solved peacefully if you can keep your emotions in check. It doesn't matter the disposition of your DNA.
Its not like he cares. One thing I can say about getting my news from my local newspaper, at least it's got it's punctuation straight. Duck's in a row, you know?
Thank's,
"The Management"
...that Google has now made Dr. House obsolite? Seriously, that dude is wrong way more than 54% of the time. Then you don't have to put up with the vicious, cutting sarcasm and depressing world view.
The future will eliminate that differentiation. Data will not be 'here' or 'there'. Rather, it will be. Data will simply exist and we will access it as if it were immediately 'here' all the time.
That sounds neat! We just need to come up with a standard way to reference all this data. Oh, I know! We need a uniform standard for locating our resources. I'll start an RFC for it right away.
Subject: One Perl Hacker; four-space indentation; 12% comments; averaging 34 lines per sub; prefers OO interface when available; abhores cuddly elses.
Cm'on now, can't we even get our terminology straight?.
Oh, you're on to something now! Let's take this idea and extend it to... voting! Yeah, we'll have special machines designed to take the human error factor out of voting. Then everyone can stop bitching about 'accuracy' and 'fairness' and 'disenfranchisement'.
Interesting link. It's obvious that there's been some big failures at this already. Lets hope these guys have solved it.
From the article:
>> Few other toxins will be generated, if any at all, Geoplasma says.
After perusing that (well-cited) PDF, that could be something of an understatement. Also, it seems strange to me that they have decided to go for such a huge facility first, without running a smaller-scale setup first. It was just a matter of, who will bite the worm, it seems. Sure, the corporation has agreed to be responsible for the interest, but if the facility bombs, it's on the taxpayers.
The optimist in me says, this could be a useful technology that just needs the kinks worked out. We shall see.
Better link: http://www.musclecars.faketrix.com/car-crashes-aut o-accidents-wrecks-picture-4.htm
The vehicle in that picture is a HMMWV-type like the Army (and Ahnold) uses, not one of these 'H2' luxury tanks. I've always had the (unfounded) understanding that there's a big difference. Certainly there is if the HMMWV in question is the armored sort.
The GP suggested that image searching would show that H2s are not as "accident-friendly" as some would say. After trying various keywords on GIS, I'm finding perhaps a dozen pictures of bad H2 accidents, but honestly I don't see any where the H2 is more smashed up than I would expect.
Of course in the bigger vehicle you have a certain advantage... unless you end up in a bad situation because of top-heaviness, lack of maneauverability, and poor visability. Personally, I'll stick with my little $12k four-door five-speed sedan and my 35-45mpg, thank you very much.
Or is it evidence to the contrary: that MS is strong enough to survive without Bill at the helm?
</devil's advocate>
You might look at it in a different way: the employee in this case is really the _product_. All his customers need is a good experience for *their* customers, and of course low prices.
I'll bet a days' wage that Amazon beat you to it. ...
s oftware_.html
Wait, it was Schwab!
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2005/11/silly_
Trying out the test, it *appears* that the tool connects to port 25 and checks for a banner. There is no information about timeouts. I presume that 'Closed' means 'Timeout' or 'Connection Refused', but they don't tell us.
It seems that Yahoo! has blocked their server or something; the tool works fine on my domains but I can't get a result for yahoo.com.
No wonder the idea of SELinux seems so backwards to me...
(It's a tool in the box, sure, but...)
Right. Then as a side benefit, the cat's wails of anguish don't echo through the facility; they stay neatly where they belong.
She could also identify a helicopter by its sound
Now that's a talent. Rather like Calleigh Duquesne's ability to recognize firearms by sound.Wow, what a novel idea! I think we've got an awesome new theory here.
Let's give it a name. How about panspermia?
Or, you could just RTFA.
You missed one:
http://www.perl.org/
Mmmmm.... SPORE...
Notice the three (apparently) buttons? In, synchronize, out? Offering to burn CDs from your iPod, or back up music to an internal drive?
Interesting. I wonder how much hardware this thing has. It looks big enough.