No, because we spend $10-25K/student per year on public school education (K-12). If Kids are our future, and collectively we all contribute (all property owners at least), then I stand by my statement. Thirteen years of $15K education is a significant investment, round about $200K per kiddie.
True, but many (not ALL, but many) teachers are forced to pay into their unions, AARP is purely optional - you don't have to pay in to AARP if you don't want to, teachers are a bit more coerced into "contributing" to their union.
Also, Teacher's Unions ostensibly have votes on major issues, so in theory the union does represent the will of the teachers it counts as members, at least the majority of them. AARP didn't ask it's members to vote on HCR to determine AARP's position on it, instead AARP took alook at it's medi-gap insurance program and the mney it generates and decided it could make more money after HCR passed. I don't think the majority of seniors, not even those that belong to AARP wanted the Gov't to cut $500BN in provider compensation for medicare/medicaid, that will impacts their ability to find a doctor that accepts medicare...
Sorry, got a bit long-winded, but while I agree with you on the surface, you needn't scrath too deep before you realize that the Teacher's Union, has a responsibility to represent teachers in a much more profound way than AARP...
Any chance you pay taxes that support the local schools you "avoid having anything to do with"? Wouldn't that qualify as a "collective commitment" (or lack therof?)
I thought our public schools "represent the collective commitment of a community to their future," not our libraries. (Though I suspect that too many districts reflect our "collective commitment" in an accurate, yet unflattering way.)
That mis-statement was from 0ryan0, not CmdrTaco - just pointing out the attribution, but CmdrTaco choose to retain it, so he's not blameless... I'm just sayin'.
Everything in the article summary is wrong EXCEPT the link!
0ryan0 opined:
"Utah lawmakers passed a bill today to force public school teachers to teach that the USA is a republic, not a democracy, because a 'Democracy' would have 'Democrat' in it."
No, that statement isn't supported by the article you linked to...
And CmdrTaco threw in with
The good news must be that all issues of unemployment, finance and social service must be resolved in Utah for their legislature to spend time on this. It must be a utopia!
Which really added nothing to the point, but then again, that is his right;^)
What I find fascinating is the number of posts that slam the legislature for bothering with this, and then they'll add hundreds of words defining precisely what form of Gov't they believe we have in the US of A...
Any chance folks would want to slough-off the topic if the legislature wanted to emphasise the word "theory" when describing evolution?
The goal of the legislature is that students be taught what the form of government we have here in US of A is, and based on the nearly 1,000 posts on this topic, to consider this "settled science" is a bit premature. If the debate here is any indication, clarity on this topic has not been in our education system for a number of years.
I don't get it - you list specific protections in the agreement and conclude they are there by accident? What, like someone forgot to remove them,so they are there by "accident"?
There was $350M put aside for this map in the 2009 ARRA bill, and despite spending a bit more than $1/citizen, not one American will enjoy a faster internet connection because of the expenditure.
Bravo! A victory for style over substance! Why spend money to provide broadband connectivity when you can instead create a website for those folks with broadband connections to play the age-old game of comparing to who's got the faster connection speed!
Many people dislike Glenn Beck and openly mock him, fair enough - free country and all...
Many people dislike Google, for what they believe to be violations of privacy and other rights, as well as going against (in their mind at least) the company's motto of "Don't be Evil" - again, fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinions...
But, where it gets interesting is where these two populations intersect - Glenn-bashing Google-haters - how will they resolve the conflicting ideas that Glenn is always wrong, yet he agrees with them when it comes to Google?
I know, they'll trot out that old stand-by, "Even a broken clock is right two times a day."
She pandered to her constituents, and Slashdot dutifully picked up the story assuming it was a sincere effort to effect change in America...
You want to make the internet "fair" - fine, everyone can only have one datacenter. Why shoud some companies have a multi-site advantage just beciase they are better funded - what about the unfairness of Google being able to buy all the servers they want while my technologically advanced start-up* can not? Their success should be taxed, regulated and restrained to allow me the chance to compete, right? By setting regulations to "help the little guy" (me) you are hurting the "big guy" (Google)...
I keep hearing about Broadband adoption monies in the various stimulus plans, so the answer is the government (us) is taking our money (they don't have any of their own) and giving it to broadband companies to run miles and miles of fiber and coax into under-served neighborhoods that were never economically viable for the cable companies/ISPs (if they were, they would have expanded into them already, unless they knew if they dragged their feet they could get free/cheap government monies to help reduce the capital expenditure to expand their market.
Nearly every public school, library, and municipal building has "E-Rate" subsidised internet access, based on taxes imposed on consumer phone service.
Hundreds of thousands, if not a million or more low-income houses have subsidised phone service, either the gov't directly subsidises their phone bill OR their carrier has been given Rural Access monies to pay for infrastructre to expand into underserved area.
But as I understand Net Neutrality, the groups that support it don't want ISP to be able to charge higher fees for faster/better access to their networks, right? If so, how does that make other connections slower? It's like arguing that Priority Mail service makes First Class mail slower.
Just because something faster exists, it doesn't make everything else slower.
Now, making a competitors packets actually travel slower through your network IS wrong, and I get that, but everytime I hear the argument expressed, I hear the confusing, illogical definition I first presented (can't sell faster access because it makes everyone else slower)...
BTW - While "'a climate of openness and innovation" surely helped Google, I suspect butt-loads of Internet Bubble cash didn't hurt their chances for success...
I don't get it - this bill protects teachers that want to teach THE WEAKNESSES of EVOLUTION from reprimand. What it really means is a teach can present both sides of a current debate with fear of punishment - reminds me of the argument most teachers have for tenure (allows them to teach without undue concern for appeasing administration whims)...
I can't imagine shooting a massive fire hose directly into the water is exactly "stealthy", I'm not sure how stable the guy floating on that water jet is, making recon photos (at the least) blurry, and if you have to keep a boat and a tether with you, what are you saving versus a boat with a scissor-lift.
Or, perhaps you could use one of those "mobile surveillance towers" I've seen in some parking lots/sporting events
Every player gets updates to their playbook, and there are as many as 100 playbooks "in circulation" before a game. Remember, it's nice if the coaching staff knows the plays, the players HAVE TO know the plays.
5,000 pages by 100 playbooks means a very manageable 50 pages per player, per game. I suspect they include full-page diagrams of the opposing teams plays, along with a page dedicated to an analysis of the play.
That Then-AG Blumenthal was pandering to the masses as part of his campaign for the US Senate?
No, that couldn't be it - kinda like he had a really, really good reason for going after legally earned bonus/balloon payments for AIG employees - despite the fact he couldn't cite any law that justified his attempts. None. When grilled on one talk show on the justification, he had nothing, sputtering about a responsibility to see the Gov't money was well-spent (despite the fact that the bonus/balloon payments were offered by the Gov't to key AIG employees to stay with the firm and see it through recovery, helping to keep stability in the market).
Blumenthal is a political hack, plain and simple.
It's interesting that only now, after a year+ of saber-rattling by politicians does it occur to anyone in Gov't to suggest people should make efforts to protect their home computers/Internet connections.
I'm at a loss - this is a second-year college student that is trying to shape the course taught by a professor to first-year college students? How much are the students paying for this class?
The lab should compliment the lectures, not the other way around. It sounds like this second-year student wants to make converts out of windows users, I don't think that's why they are taking the class.
It is your job to help the students work with the tools provided to complete the projects for the course your lab period supports, try to evangelize Linux and you'll lose students attention, period. If students want to know more than the basics, they can come to you OR research it on their own...
To be honest, the poster sounds like too many Linux 'enthusiasts' - they want you to embrace Linux as deeply & completely as they themselves do, and won't take no for an answer.
If you can't put together a decent "how to work with the Linux-based CS lab for class CS101" pamphlet, consider using selected portions of existing works, like Kier Thomas' Linux Pocket Guide:
It was written for Ubuntu 8.04, but could easily serve as the basis for a how to get started guide (and the students will appreciate not having to buy another textbook)...
If I understand the technology employed here, it is the same tech my corner stop light uses to detect cars waiting for the light to change, only instead of using the data on car presence to influence a stop light, they are using coaxial cable to send the info to a server which makes it available to a web server... All of this is fairly common technology - you can literally find most if not all of it on any major intersection in America.
Oh but wait, your smartphone is using it's GPS to determine where your car is, and while I guess that is 'technically' space technology (it involves geosynchronous satellites to determine position of the device), it isn't really so fantastical, people have been using the same technology to 'geotag' family snapshots for years on their iPhones...
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No, because we spend $10-25K/student per year on public school education (K-12). If Kids are our future, and collectively we all contribute (all property owners at least), then I stand by my statement. Thirteen years of $15K education is a significant investment, round about $200K per kiddie.
True, but many (not ALL, but many) teachers are forced to pay into their unions, AARP is purely optional - you don't have to pay in to AARP if you don't want to, teachers are a bit more coerced into "contributing" to their union.
Also, Teacher's Unions ostensibly have votes on major issues, so in theory the union does represent the will of the teachers it counts as members, at least the majority of them. AARP didn't ask it's members to vote on HCR to determine AARP's position on it, instead AARP took alook at it's medi-gap insurance program and the mney it generates and decided it could make more money after HCR passed. I don't think the majority of seniors, not even those that belong to AARP wanted the Gov't to cut $500BN in provider compensation for medicare/medicaid, that will impacts their ability to find a doctor that accepts medicare...
Sorry, got a bit long-winded, but while I agree with you on the surface, you needn't scrath too deep before you realize that the Teacher's Union, has a responsibility to represent teachers in a much more profound way than AARP...
Any chance you pay taxes that support the local schools you "avoid having anything to do with"? Wouldn't that qualify as a "collective commitment" (or lack therof?)
I thought our public schools "represent the collective commitment of a community to their future," not our libraries. (Though I suspect that too many districts reflect our "collective commitment" in an accurate, yet unflattering way.)
That mis-statement was from 0ryan0, not CmdrTaco - just pointing out the attribution, but CmdrTaco choose to retain it, so he's not blameless... I'm just sayin'.
Everything in the article summary is wrong EXCEPT the link!
0ryan0 opined:
No, that statement isn't supported by the article you linked to...
And CmdrTaco threw in with
Which really added nothing to the point, but then again, that is his right ;^)
What I find fascinating is the number of posts that slam the legislature for bothering with this, and then they'll add hundreds of words defining precisely what form of Gov't they believe we have in the US of A...
Any chance folks would want to slough-off the topic if the legislature wanted to emphasise the word "theory" when describing evolution?
The goal of the legislature is that students be taught what the form of government we have here in US of A is, and based on the nearly 1,000 posts on this topic, to consider this "settled science" is a bit premature. If the debate here is any indication, clarity on this topic has not been in our education system for a number of years.
Borders has TVs now!
I don't get it - you list specific protections in the agreement and conclude they are there by accident? What, like someone forgot to remove them,so they are there by "accident"?
Exactly!
There was $350M put aside for this map in the 2009 ARRA bill, and despite spending a bit more than $1/citizen, not one American will enjoy a faster internet connection because of the expenditure.
Bravo! A victory for style over substance! Why spend money to provide broadband connectivity when you can instead create a website for those folks with broadband connections to play the age-old game of comparing to who's got the faster connection speed!
Many people dislike Glenn Beck and openly mock him, fair enough - free country and all...
Many people dislike Google, for what they believe to be violations of privacy and other rights, as well as going against (in their mind at least) the company's motto of "Don't be Evil" - again, fair enough, everyone is entitled to their opinions...
But, where it gets interesting is where these two populations intersect - Glenn-bashing Google-haters - how will they resolve the conflicting ideas that Glenn is always wrong, yet he agrees with them when it comes to Google?
I know, they'll trot out that old stand-by, "Even a broken clock is right two times a day."
She pandered to her constituents, and Slashdot dutifully picked up the story assuming it was a sincere effort to effect change in America...
You want to make the internet "fair" - fine, everyone can only have one datacenter. Why shoud some companies have a multi-site advantage just beciase they are better funded - what about the unfairness of Google being able to buy all the servers they want while my technologically advanced start-up* can not? Their success should be taxed, regulated and restrained to allow me the chance to compete, right? By setting regulations to "help the little guy" (me) you are hurting the "big guy" (Google)...
* I don't realy have a start-up.
I keep hearing about Broadband adoption monies in the various stimulus plans, so the answer is the government (us) is taking our money (they don't have any of their own) and giving it to broadband companies to run miles and miles of fiber and coax into under-served neighborhoods that were never economically viable for the cable companies/ISPs (if they were, they would have expanded into them already, unless they knew if they dragged their feet they could get free/cheap government monies to help reduce the capital expenditure to expand their market.
Nearly every public school, library, and municipal building has "E-Rate" subsidised internet access, based on taxes imposed on consumer phone service.
Hundreds of thousands, if not a million or more low-income houses have subsidised phone service, either the gov't directly subsidises their phone bill OR their carrier has been given Rural Access monies to pay for infrastructre to expand into underserved area.
But as I understand Net Neutrality, the groups that support it don't want ISP to be able to charge higher fees for faster/better access to their networks, right? If so, how does that make other connections slower? It's like arguing that Priority Mail service makes First Class mail slower.
Just because something faster exists, it doesn't make everything else slower.
Now, making a competitors packets actually travel slower through your network IS wrong, and I get that, but everytime I hear the argument expressed, I hear the confusing, illogical definition I first presented (can't sell faster access because it makes everyone else slower)...
BTW - While "'a climate of openness and innovation" surely helped Google, I suspect butt-loads of Internet Bubble cash didn't hurt their chances for success...
I don't get it - this bill protects teachers that want to teach THE WEAKNESSES of EVOLUTION from reprimand. What it really means is a teach can present both sides of a current debate with fear of punishment - reminds me of the argument most teachers have for tenure (allows them to teach without undue concern for appeasing administration whims)...
Jet packs, by comparison, average about 20 seconds...
Put a 10 meter scissor-lift on a boat?
I can't imagine shooting a massive fire hose directly into the water is exactly "stealthy", I'm not sure how stable the guy floating on that water jet is, making recon photos (at the least) blurry, and if you have to keep a boat and a tether with you, what are you saving versus a boat with a scissor-lift.
Or, perhaps you could use one of those "mobile surveillance towers" I've seen in some parking lots/sporting events
Every player gets updates to their playbook, and there are as many as 100 playbooks "in circulation" before a game. Remember, it's nice if the coaching staff knows the plays, the players HAVE TO know the plays.
5,000 pages by 100 playbooks means a very manageable 50 pages per player, per game. I suspect they include full-page diagrams of the opposing teams plays, along with a page dedicated to an analysis of the play.
That Then-AG Blumenthal was pandering to the masses as part of his campaign for the US Senate?
No, that couldn't be it - kinda like he had a really, really good reason for going after legally earned bonus/balloon payments for AIG employees - despite the fact he couldn't cite any law that justified his attempts. None. When grilled on one talk show on the justification, he had nothing, sputtering about a responsibility to see the Gov't money was well-spent (despite the fact that the bonus/balloon payments were offered by the Gov't to key AIG employees to stay with the firm and see it through recovery, helping to keep stability in the market).
Blumenthal is a political hack, plain and simple.
It's interesting that only now, after a year+ of saber-rattling by politicians does it occur to anyone in Gov't to suggest people should make efforts to protect their home computers/Internet connections.
I'm at a loss - this is a second-year college student that is trying to shape the course taught by a professor to first-year college students? How much are the students paying for this class?
The lab should compliment the lectures, not the other way around. It sounds like this second-year student wants to make converts out of windows users, I don't think that's why they are taking the class.
It is your job to help the students work with the tools provided to complete the projects for the course your lab period supports, try to evangelize Linux and you'll lose students attention, period. If students want to know more than the basics, they can come to you OR research it on their own...
To be honest, the poster sounds like too many Linux 'enthusiasts' - they want you to embrace Linux as deeply & completely as they themselves do, and won't take no for an answer.
If you can't put together a decent "how to work with the Linux-based CS lab for class CS101" pamphlet, consider using selected portions of existing works, like Kier Thomas' Linux Pocket Guide:
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/index_main.html
It was written for Ubuntu 8.04, but could easily serve as the basis for a how to get started guide (and the students will appreciate not having to buy another textbook)...
Video of song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HfbRdclvkM
If I understand the technology employed here, it is the same tech my corner stop light uses to detect cars waiting for the light to change, only instead of using the data on car presence to influence a stop light, they are using coaxial cable to send the info to a server which makes it available to a web server... All of this is fairly common technology - you can literally find most if not all of it on any major intersection in America.
Oh but wait, your smartphone is using it's GPS to determine where your car is, and while I guess that is 'technically' space technology (it involves geosynchronous satellites to determine position of the device), it isn't really so fantastical, people have been using the same technology to 'geotag' family snapshots for years on their iPhones...
But they painted them into a corner RE: private jets when they decided to skewer the auto execs...
Jack Murtha had an airport named after him that was exceptionally-lightly used - it wasn't hsi own. There is a difference.
I think we, as taxpayers subsidise every passenger out of that airport to the tune of $150 or so...
Not really...
I thought Rick Santelli worked for CNBC - He is widely attributed with "sparking" the creation of various "tea parties"