Why not set up some sort of apprentice system for the student who excels, yet is too socially inept or immature for College? Let them enter the workforce for a couple of years before they move on in school. I know it sounds crazy, but maybe offer a tax incentive for small businesses to take on these students, or maybe subsidize their wages. I'm sure there are many ways to encourage the idea.
IMO the real benefit would be from having the students experience the drudgery of the low level, "real" job and hopefully encourage them to take College that much more seriously once they get there.
Your mention of Hubble-quality images made me think that there are plenty of lesson opportunities that can come from this.
"Why doesn't it look like the pictures?" Can be answered with lessons about the atmosphere and/or light refraction. I'm assuming that pre-observation lessons will cover the capabilities of a 4" telescope vs an observatory-sized one, or even a space-based one.
I remember the best science lessons always left me with more (read: new & exciting) questions than were answered in the lesson.
TFA and TFS both say that ISP's are required to block access to TPB's "Tracker". TFA goes on to mention "sites offering torrent links" but doesn't seem to make a distinction between.torrent files and the notorious "tracker".
Seriously, it would be a hell of a lot of fun, and probably a challenge to learn to fly as competently as a good driver drives a car.
But the day they open a dealership in Toronto is the day I stop driving. Not that pedestrians are all that safe in this city these days, but I'm already concerned enough with a significant portion of the other people on the road. No way I'm going to share airspace with them too!
Once you've "eaten enough algae to steal the necessary chloroplasts", you'll be good to go!
I would happily endure eating algae for X days/weeks/months in order to get photosynthesis going in my body. I realize that I'd have to start going outside, but it sounds like a fair trade off to me.
My guess would be the reflecting light from the planet. I figure it's probably like the effect you see in many Apollo moon photos that the tinfoil folks pitch as a light source, but is just reflection off the lunar surface.
"You'd be surprised at how many computers would survive on the ISS. I can't think of an occurrence when we've have a computer fail from the radiation itself. It may reduce the lifetime of how long we can keep the equipment in orbit, but most of the time the failures are just like the ones here on the ground -- we'll have a hard-drive failure or we'll have an application problem and end up reloading the machine."
Lucky Day: Wherever there is injustice, you will find us. Ned Nederlander: Wherever there is suffering, we'll be there. Dusty Bottoms: Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find... Lucky Day, Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms: The Three Amigos!
"...the Vancouver police acknowledge that the case did not involve an ISP request and the suspect is now in custody."
So no, there was no reason that any legislation like this would have sped up the apprehension of the kidnapper because they weren't looking to the ISP for evidence in the first place. Unfortunately that means YES, it was definitely a lie. Even if it's only from a position of ignorance, the MINISTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY better get his facts straight before spewing forth on any topic, let alone one that impacts every online citizen in the country.
It's almost unheard of for Canadian politicians to be removed from office outside of an election but I'd say if the PM wants to keep any sort of respectability, he will need to remove Mr Van Loan from cabinet first thing on Monday morning.
--yet another thing that baffles me about the American system. You've WON a PRIZE -- why does the government.... No, wait, strike that: Why do the citizens of your country continue to allow the government to take 30-40% of it away? I'm pretty sure that it's the same with gambling at a casino and winning the big prize on The Price is Right. Am I mistaken?
In Canada there are no taxes paid on prize winnings. None at all. However, if you win the billion dollars and earn interest off of it, those proceeds are taxed at the standard rate.
I drank the Google kool-aid about six months ago and moved my personal domain's mail over to the free gmail service. I've been extremely happy with it ever since.
I think it's interesting that I couldn't access my personal domain gmail during this outage, but my @gmail.com account worked without issue.
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That, sir sounds dangerously like socialism and we all know that make you a commie.
Why not set up some sort of apprentice system for the student who excels, yet is too socially inept or immature for College? Let them enter the workforce for a couple of years before they move on in school. I know it sounds crazy, but maybe offer a tax incentive for small businesses to take on these students, or maybe subsidize their wages. I'm sure there are many ways to encourage the idea.
IMO the real benefit would be from having the students experience the drudgery of the low level, "real" job and hopefully encourage them to take College that much more seriously once they get there.
Your mention of Hubble-quality images made me think that there are plenty of lesson opportunities that can come from this.
"Why doesn't it look like the pictures?" Can be answered with lessons about the atmosphere and/or light refraction. I'm assuming that pre-observation lessons will cover the capabilities of a 4" telescope vs an observatory-sized one, or even a space-based one.
I remember the best science lessons always left me with more (read: new & exciting) questions than were answered in the lesson.
TFA and TFS both say that ISP's are required to block access to TPB's "Tracker". TFA goes on to mention "sites offering torrent links" but doesn't seem to make a distinction between .torrent files and the notorious "tracker".
Which is it? Because TPB shut down their tracker a couple of months ago
Seriously, it would be a hell of a lot of fun, and probably a challenge to learn to fly as competently as a good driver drives a car.
But the day they open a dealership in Toronto is the day I stop driving. Not that pedestrians are all that safe in this city these days, but I'm already concerned enough with a significant portion of the other people on the road. No way I'm going to share airspace with them too!
Once you've "eaten enough algae to steal the necessary chloroplasts", you'll be good to go!
I would happily endure eating algae for X days/weeks/months in order to get photosynthesis going in my body. I realize that I'd have to start going outside, but it sounds like a fair trade off to me.
Space. The online frontier. Where everyone will be, all the time.
I believe you are mistaken. "seedy looking gentleman carrying a large bag" is burned in my Zork memory.
Lurking horror may have borrowed the description but it was definitely in Zork
You see a seedy looking heckler carrying a large bag.
Reasons # 23,463 - 23,466 why I plan to never marry and never have kids.
Time to brush up on your Bugs Bunny?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
My guess would be the reflecting light from the planet. I figure it's probably like the effect you see in many Apollo moon photos that the tinfoil folks pitch as a light source, but is just reflection off the lunar surface.
Then again, I'm no expert.
Really? Losing links to the various News Corp sites will "inflict damage" on Google's business?
Really?
I just knew it. The drummer isn't counting. They always say that they're counting but here's the proof!
How can you tell a drummer's at the door?
The knocking speeds up.
Unless the future belongs to degenerate savages and murderous rat-men
Not the greatest movie, but this tells about a step in that direction: Idiocracy
Definitely stupid, but believable enough to make you feel uneasy about the next hundred years!
You're not kidding!
FTFA:
"You'd be surprised at how many computers would survive on the ISS. I can't think of an occurrence when we've have a computer fail from the radiation itself. It may reduce the lifetime of how long we can keep the equipment in orbit, but most of the time the failures are just like the ones here on the ground -- we'll have a hard-drive failure or we'll have an application problem and end up reloading the machine."
"How do you like GMO's now?"
Lucky Day: Wherever there is injustice, you will find us.
Ned Nederlander: Wherever there is suffering, we'll be there.
Dusty Bottoms: Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find...
Lucky Day, Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms: The Three Amigos!
My mistake!
...If the office of the PM wants to keep any respectability...
From TFS:
"...the Vancouver police acknowledge that the case did not involve an ISP request and the suspect is now in custody."
So no, there was no reason that any legislation like this would have sped up the apprehension of the kidnapper because they weren't looking to the ISP for evidence in the first place. Unfortunately that means YES, it was definitely a lie. Even if it's only from a position of ignorance, the MINISTER OF PUBLIC SAFETY better get his facts straight before spewing forth on any topic, let alone one that impacts every online citizen in the country.
It's almost unheard of for Canadian politicians to be removed from office outside of an election but I'd say if the PM wants to keep any sort of respectability, he will need to remove Mr Van Loan from cabinet first thing on Monday morning.
--yet another thing that baffles me about the American system. You've WON a PRIZE -- why does the government.... No, wait, strike that: Why do the citizens of your country continue to allow the government to take 30-40% of it away? I'm pretty sure that it's the same with gambling at a casino and winning the big prize on The Price is Right. Am I mistaken?
In Canada there are no taxes paid on prize winnings. None at all. However, if you win the billion dollars and earn interest off of it, those proceeds are taxed at the standard rate.
18 months? I was meta-moderating front page stories last week.
Alex P. Keaton is an MCSE? Is there anything that guy can't do?
I drank the Google kool-aid about six months ago and moved my personal domain's mail over to the free gmail service. I've been extremely happy with it ever since.
I think it's interesting that I couldn't access my personal domain gmail during this outage, but my @gmail.com account worked without issue.