Obviously you have to fund on a per-student basis, but perhaps there needs to be a base level as well.
So, if a school isn't doing well you want to take money away from it and that'll make it better? Can you explain how this works? This seems rather bass ackwards...
Are you even aware of the people that use schools? They're called children, they have no say, they are the ones that are suffering because of this. Yes, some school administrations may be the problem, but they get paid whether the students get a decent education or not. Teachers get paid WAY to little already. Class sizes are way too big. These are things that are easily solved with a little more money. How would you solve them without money?
The basic idea behind vouchers is flawed. The idea behind the public education system is that there's a baseline that everyone gets. If you want something other than the baseline you'll have to pay for it yourself, you will, however, still be required to pay your taxes, part of which funds the public schools.
I agree that public schools need work, but taking money away from them is clearly NOT the answer.
Ok what wiseass and his blind followers marked this as "funny"? It's not especially funny, in fact, I find it rather insightful and interesting (both valid options). At the very worst it's something you disagree with.
Um, besides the Sun our only other fuel sources are nuclear and geothermal, both of which, for the most part, come from the star (or stars) that preceded the Sun.
In case you're wanting to argue with me that gasoline, coal, natural gas, etc. are also other fuel sources: Fossil fuels come from plants who got their energy from the sun. Wind and water power are also powered by the Sun.
I really think that's what AC meant by "figure it out" I too had to "figure it out". I kept thinking some branch of Microsoft had suddenly decided to stop wandering around with it's eyes closed. (Which is about as crazy a concept as an oil tycoon saying drilling for oil won't get us out of this mess...)
My HDTV runs Linux. It's got the slow startup time to prove it too!
I have yet to figure out where a back door might be, it's got a USB port but it's apparently only for doing firmware upgrades and it doesn't look like there are any hacked firmwares around.
Choose a theme, then name things after those things. People can learn remarkably well that Dexter is where you go for mail, Rome is where you go to store and retrieve files, The Sopranos is the firewall, etc. It does make it easier if the name has something to do with its function.
On the otherhand, it could be location and function sfo-mail, nyc-fileserver, pdx-webserver, etc.
I favor the theme idea with functions matching the name (MrMcFeely for the mailserver, KingFriday for the fileserver, MrRodgers as the web server, OfficerClemens for the firewall, etc)
If it's doing business in the wrong place then it is malware.
I can't think of a really good example because I'm stoned off my ass sitting here, nude, in my apartment. I'm glad I've got internet at home, because sitting in the library, nude and stoned; which, by your logic, doesn't make me bad, just doing my business in the wrong place.
Ahh. but you see, I was talking about internally written apps, not enterprise apps.
I've written some very simple web apps myself, and I understand the technologies and code. It takes some very careful stupid planning to make it only work on IE. You have to do something like choose IE specific javascript or ActiveX (one of the worst ideas in the history of computers, IMHO).
There's almost nothing that you can do with IE jscript and activex that you can't do with regular javascript. (Granted there may be some functions that you'll need to write yourself or find a pre-written library for)
Nobody who knows anything about IE and is mostly sane would ever make IE standard. Have the option, sure, but you should STRONGLY recommend people not use it.
Perhaps the problem is that someone's written an internal app that only runs on IE. They should be fired. At my work there are a couple internal apps that have full functionality only when used in Firefox (it'll still work, but with less functionality, in IE).
Well coded sites should degrade gracefully in the absence of CSS. Yeah, exactly. How many major sites are well coded? Hell, when the vast majority of users are still using a browser with broken CSS most people are not coding well, they're coding with silly workarounds.
That's a very good point. The reason I said Vista was that I'd seriously doubt MS would put any more effort into XP. They tend to want to simply ignore, as much as possible, everything that isn't the most recent release.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd much rather ineptitude and apathy (aka not caring and leaving citizens to their selves) than oppressive and murderous...
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Legislature AND Governor thank you.
Our governor is one of the dumbest in office at the moment.
Yup, I'm from Kahleeforneeuh
The real cause of cancer is cellular replication. If we can get rid of that we won't have cancer anymore!
Obviously you have to fund on a per-student basis, but perhaps there needs to be a base level as well.
So, if a school isn't doing well you want to take money away from it and that'll make it better? Can you explain how this works? This seems rather bass ackwards...
Are you even aware of the people that use schools? They're called children, they have no say, they are the ones that are suffering because of this. Yes, some school administrations may be the problem, but they get paid whether the students get a decent education or not. Teachers get paid WAY to little already. Class sizes are way too big. These are things that are easily solved with a little more money. How would you solve them without money?
OOXML is not a good format. Pretty easy to see that if you really look at the strategy behind it.
(Really this is just a post to negate my 'funny' mod as I didn't mean to mark this clearly unfunny post as funny)
The basic idea behind vouchers is flawed. The idea behind the public education system is that there's a baseline that everyone gets. If you want something other than the baseline you'll have to pay for it yourself, you will, however, still be required to pay your taxes, part of which funds the public schools.
I agree that public schools need work, but taking money away from them is clearly NOT the answer.
You just made a pretty strong argument for bringing in the voucher system.
And see, here I was thinking that it made a pretty strong argument for putting MORE money into the public schools, not less.
Ok what wiseass and his blind followers marked this as "funny"? It's not especially funny, in fact, I find it rather insightful and interesting (both valid options). At the very worst it's something you disagree with.
These days it's probably more like 20% - 25% or more.
Probably about 3 years or so before the empire strikes back.
using only the sun for fuel.
Um, besides the Sun our only other fuel sources are nuclear and geothermal, both of which, for the most part, come from the star (or stars) that preceded the Sun.
In case you're wanting to argue with me that gasoline, coal, natural gas, etc. are also other fuel sources: Fossil fuels come from plants who got their energy from the sun. Wind and water power are also powered by the Sun.
</thinking with the anal retentive geek>
I really think that's what AC meant by "figure it out" I too had to "figure it out". I kept thinking some branch of Microsoft had suddenly decided to stop wandering around with it's eyes closed. (Which is about as crazy a concept as an oil tycoon saying drilling for oil won't get us out of this mess...)
My HDTV runs Linux. It's got the slow startup time to prove it too!
I have yet to figure out where a back door might be, it's got a USB port but it's apparently only for doing firmware upgrades and it doesn't look like there are any hacked firmwares around.
Choose a theme, then name things after those things. People can learn remarkably well that Dexter is where you go for mail, Rome is where you go to store and retrieve files, The Sopranos is the firewall, etc. It does make it easier if the name has something to do with its function.
On the otherhand, it could be location and function sfo-mail, nyc-fileserver, pdx-webserver, etc.
I favor the theme idea with functions matching the name (MrMcFeely for the mailserver, KingFriday for the fileserver, MrRodgers as the web server, OfficerClemens for the firewall, etc)
If it's doing business in the wrong place then it is malware.
I can't think of a really good example because I'm stoned off my ass sitting here, nude, in my apartment. I'm glad I've got internet at home, because sitting in the library, nude and stoned; which, by your logic, doesn't make me bad, just doing my business in the wrong place.
They are a bunch of militaristic and racist bigots.
Right, unlike everyone else.
We Americans are far better than those chinks, we should'v f**k'n killed 'em all the last time we were there!
</sarc>
Ahh. but you see, I was talking about internally written apps, not enterprise apps.
I've written some very simple web apps myself, and I understand the technologies and code. It takes some very careful stupid planning to make it only work on IE. You have to do something like choose IE specific javascript or ActiveX (one of the worst ideas in the history of computers, IMHO).
There's almost nothing that you can do with IE jscript and activex that you can't do with regular javascript. (Granted there may be some functions that you'll need to write yourself or find a pre-written library for)
Just lazy programming.
Your company is insane.
Or just stupid.
Nobody who knows anything about IE and is mostly sane would ever make IE standard. Have the option, sure, but you should STRONGLY recommend people not use it.
Perhaps the problem is that someone's written an internal app that only runs on IE. They should be fired. At my work there are a couple internal apps that have full functionality only when used in Firefox (it'll still work, but with less functionality, in IE).
Or combine all the major aquisitions they've made: Blogger Yahoo DoubleClick Google Writely Picasa YouTube Postini -> YahblooglasaClicklyTubestini
Yeah, isn't that something they often go out of their way to do? Granted it's usually done with CG, but the effect is the same...
That's a very good point. The reason I said Vista was that I'd seriously doubt MS would put any more effort into XP. They tend to want to simply ignore, as much as possible, everything that isn't the most recent release.
I'd still rather that than having tanks run over me...
I have, and most of what I said still stands for CE.
I don't know about anyone else, but I'd much rather ineptitude and apathy (aka not caring and leaving citizens to their selves) than oppressive and murderous...