At the college level it is more likely to be by teacher's opinions (outside core or common classes), but high school and below they are usually chosen by school boards, which rarely have people on them that are actually familiar with eduction or the topics being taught.
The advance copies to teachers are usually so the publishers can get reviews which they then submit to school boards in aggregate.
Well, in the mythology I gather people just worked because they wanted to (since automation pretty much eliminates menial work I guess), though I have never seen a good explanation about how things like land ownership and transfer happens.
Well, money has existed for as long as there has been writing, and before that personal property was a pretty big deal.... so I hate to break it to you but 'scarcity' is how humans have been living for a very long time.
To make matters worse, since 'deep and intellectual' is so subjective, you end up with a niche inside a niche. One person's intellectual work is another's 'pseudo intellectual garbage', so there tends to be rather poor consensus on what counts which makes it difficult to get enough readership to make the writing worthwhile.
The problem with solving the global problem is that it requires some legal system to make everyone play the same, countries have an incentive to cheat or hope other countries do more about the problem then they do. While I think a project like this is kinda silly, it is within the scope of what they CAN do something about, all the land is contained within a single state which has the power to enforce whatever is decided.
With cash reserves like their's, they can just move instead. There is nothing special about the land they are using... the historical reason such projects made sense in the past was they were reclaiming farmable land, which is not quite as interchangeable as corporate parks.
POTUS holds dejure power, but their defacto power is not really the same. No matter how much power one has on paper, internal diplomacy is usually far more complex and holding on to any real authority requires a complex dance of satisfying entrenched and institutional powers.
When it comes down to it, research and advancement tend to work best when both paths are being worked on. Private industry really shines at some types of research, public funding really shines at others, and quite a bit really does well with mixed funding/goals.
I doubt that would actually help much. Look how protective they get over secrets and accountability when the only 'cost' is embarassment. Imagine how much energy they would put in to not being accountable if there were actual penalties.
Generally digital cameras have to have some on-board processing capability, the only thing that is unusual here is they used an off the shelf compact desktop system rather then some embedded board or system on a chip type solution.
Not only is it cheap, but the human cost is nice and far away, and many people feel that it is their own fault for living in poor areas.. thus if they just worked harder they could live somewhere like the people in Vermont do.
Just like why there are so few women in STEM, why so few enter is a complicated and often argued problem. Though one element that links them is the one of role models. Children growing up look for people to identify with in order to construct their self image, not just from the superstars but looking at the people around them. While some would claim it is genetics, role models can also account for why women who have STEM parents (who then have a STEM social network around them) are more likely to go into such careers themselves. It is not just raw intelligence or aptitude, but picturing themselves in those roles from a very young age.
Though I disagree that tech cuts women more slack. I generally see female developers have to work extra hard just to be considered competent, and if they are not one of the best people take it as evidence that women make bad developers.
One of the risks of working on DoD projects is they have a nice little loophole in patent law that allows them to take IP from one company and give it to another without risking legal consequences. There have been quite a few documented cases over the years of well connected 'buddy' contractors essentially going to the DoD and saying 'company X has cool stuff, but we do not want to pay for it, so how about we build it for you instead?' and getting the stolen IP. Since it is connected to 'national security' the normal laws are suspended.
What definition of 'privately owned' are the using to try to claim to be the only one available for contracts? There are all sorts of companies out there that rent or lease out vehicles for things like research, filming, and salvage.
Right now, too many careers and face are invested in the reboot. It does not matter how good or bad this would be, it is unlikely the IP owners would allow it to succeed since it would hurt the personal careers or people in charge right now.
Yeah, if they had produced an entire series like they had season 3 they probably would have had something pretty memorable. But instead season 2 bored off most of their audience and 4 just felt aimless.
Yeah, it kinda reminded me of when video game publishers take some new unknown game and reskin it with some existing franchise that is already popular... resulting in a game that probably could have stood just fine as an original work but instead feels a bit shoehorned with existing characters.
Meh, that is not saying much. Every summer we have 'highest grossing movie of all time!'. The big question will be how well it holds up over time, since the majority of summer blockbusters end up in the bargin bin within a couple of years and rarely have much of a following.
And true, Abrams put out a movie with mass appeal, but so what? The majority market already has pretty much everything catered to them, all he has really done was taken something that had a large following and used it as inspiration for attracting another market. Good business, but then again so is reality TV.
While optimism was always a major part of Star Trek, the franchise has shown over the years it can explore darker themes and still be intellectually interesting. If it is all phasers and boob shots I agree it is not really 'Trek and would (for me at least) be painfully boring,.. but there is a lot of potential in exploring a weak federation that has to make (and live with) more complex moral choices.
I imagine the devil will be in the details, and being good or bad will come down to what they actually do with this situation.
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At the college level it is more likely to be by teacher's opinions (outside core or common classes), but high school and below they are usually chosen by school boards, which rarely have people on them that are actually familiar with eduction or the topics being taught.
The advance copies to teachers are usually so the publishers can get reviews which they then submit to school boards in aggregate.
Well, in the mythology I gather people just worked because they wanted to (since automation pretty much eliminates menial work I guess), though I have never seen a good explanation about how things like land ownership and transfer happens.
Well, money has existed for as long as there has been writing, and before that personal property was a pretty big deal.... so I hate to break it to you but 'scarcity' is how humans have been living for a very long time.
To make matters worse, since 'deep and intellectual' is so subjective, you end up with a niche inside a niche. One person's intellectual work is another's 'pseudo intellectual garbage', so there tends to be rather poor consensus on what counts which makes it difficult to get enough readership to make the writing worthwhile.
Some day.. somehow.. I will actually manage to remember all the apostrophe rules.. ^_^
The problem with solving the global problem is that it requires some legal system to make everyone play the same, countries have an incentive to cheat or hope other countries do more about the problem then they do. While I think a project like this is kinda silly, it is within the scope of what they CAN do something about, all the land is contained within a single state which has the power to enforce whatever is decided.
With cash reserves like their's, they can just move instead. There is nothing special about the land they are using... the historical reason such projects made sense in the past was they were reclaiming farmable land, which is not quite as interchangeable as corporate parks.
POTUS holds dejure power, but their defacto power is not really the same. No matter how much power one has on paper, internal diplomacy is usually far more complex and holding on to any real authority requires a complex dance of satisfying entrenched and institutional powers.
When it comes down to it, research and advancement tend to work best when both paths are being worked on. Private industry really shines at some types of research, public funding really shines at others, and quite a bit really does well with mixed funding/goals.
States and Corporations are rather different beasts, each with their strengths and weaknesses.
I doubt that would actually help much. Look how protective they get over secrets and accountability when the only 'cost' is embarassment. Imagine how much energy they would put in to not being accountable if there were actual penalties.
People tend to vastly overestimate how much defacto power a president has.
Only carrying one device?
Generally digital cameras have to have some on-board processing capability, the only thing that is unusual here is they used an off the shelf compact desktop system rather then some embedded board or system on a chip type solution.
I don't know... people in WV seem rather heavily armed and have lots of trees to hide behind.....
Not only is it cheap, but the human cost is nice and far away, and many people feel that it is their own fault for living in poor areas.. thus if they just worked harder they could live somewhere like the people in Vermont do.
At least until dealerships find a way to make cutting them out illegal, oh wait....
Just like why there are so few women in STEM, why so few enter is a complicated and often argued problem. Though one element that links them is the one of role models. Children growing up look for people to identify with in order to construct their self image, not just from the superstars but looking at the people around them. While some would claim it is genetics, role models can also account for why women who have STEM parents (who then have a STEM social network around them) are more likely to go into such careers themselves. It is not just raw intelligence or aptitude, but picturing themselves in those roles from a very young age.
Though I disagree that tech cuts women more slack. I generally see female developers have to work extra hard just to be considered competent, and if they are not one of the best people take it as evidence that women make bad developers.
One of the risks of working on DoD projects is they have a nice little loophole in patent law that allows them to take IP from one company and give it to another without risking legal consequences. There have been quite a few documented cases over the years of well connected 'buddy' contractors essentially going to the DoD and saying 'company X has cool stuff, but we do not want to pay for it, so how about we build it for you instead?' and getting the stolen IP. Since it is connected to 'national security' the normal laws are suspended.
I don't know, I think time traveling space nazis fit in quite well if you consider it in context of transitioning to the ToS timeframe ^_^
What definition of 'privately owned' are the using to try to claim to be the only one available for contracts? There are all sorts of companies out there that rent or lease out vehicles for things like research, filming, and salvage.
Right now, too many careers and face are invested in the reboot. It does not matter how good or bad this would be, it is unlikely the IP owners would allow it to succeed since it would hurt the personal careers or people in charge right now.
Yeah, if they had produced an entire series like they had season 3 they probably would have had something pretty memorable. But instead season 2 bored off most of their audience and 4 just felt aimless.
Yeah, it kinda reminded me of when video game publishers take some new unknown game and reskin it with some existing franchise that is already popular... resulting in a game that probably could have stood just fine as an original work but instead feels a bit shoehorned with existing characters.
Meh, that is not saying much. Every summer we have 'highest grossing movie of all time!'. The big question will be how well it holds up over time, since the majority of summer blockbusters end up in the bargin bin within a couple of years and rarely have much of a following.
And true, Abrams put out a movie with mass appeal, but so what? The majority market already has pretty much everything catered to them, all he has really done was taken something that had a large following and used it as inspiration for attracting another market. Good business, but then again so is reality TV.
While optimism was always a major part of Star Trek, the franchise has shown over the years it can explore darker themes and still be intellectually interesting. If it is all phasers and boob shots I agree it is not really 'Trek and would (for me at least) be painfully boring,.. but there is a lot of potential in exploring a weak federation that has to make (and live with) more complex moral choices.
I imagine the devil will be in the details, and being good or bad will come down to what they actually do with this situation.