or merely carelessness on your part, but you implied that the things you emphasized were all requirements for those jobs:
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements in addition to the Basic Education Requirement:
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements in addition to the Basic Education Requirement: a. One year of appropriate professional experience at least equivalent to the GS-5 grade level; or b. One full academic year of graduate level education in an appropriate field, or any equivalent combination of experience and graduate study; or c. Completion of all requirements for a bachelor's degree which meets one of the following SUPERIOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS: 1. Standing in the upper third of college class or major subdivision at time of application; or 2. Grade point average of 2.9 of a possible of 4.0 or its equivalent for all courses completed at time of application or during last two years of undergraduate curriculum
[emphasis mine] I think that gives a good idea that you don't, in fact, need to have prior experience or a graduate education.
And "WooHoo with 3 Sims" is just the beginning... Keep playing and you can get such wonderful aspirations as "Public WooHoo with 10 Sims" and "Have 30 Lovers at Once."
From what I can tell from the article Shacknews linked to (which actually gives information on the issue rather than just saying "OMG CoH makes people sick!"), the CoH issue is completely different and concerns people who have epilepsy. It's got nothing to do with in-game bugs or griefing. It's a particular graphic that has triggered reactions in a handful of sensitive players.
Data from Earth's climate is not available for thousands of years. We have models for what Earth's climate was like thousands of years ago, extrapolated from much more recent data, but the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians, and Romans didn't keep much in the way of climate data (that we have now, anyway). We also have geological evidence of what the climate may have been like. But we do not, strictly speaking, have data on Earth's climate more than what, maybe 100 years? 150 at the extreme? Certainly not 500 (i.e. one half of one thousand and thus not at all thousands, plural).
Your other two points are correct, though obviously correlation between Earth's climate and Mars' climate does not imply that one is causing the other. I don't think anyone is claiming that.
From a statistical point of view, that statement is true. Observed correlation does not imply causation. Ever. That is not to say that they are mutually exclusive concepts, just that you cannot draw conclusions about causation simply by observing correlation. This is why we have controlled experiments, to remove as many random variables as possible so that we can start to see causation. Obviously, it is impossible to do good controlled experiments on global warming, since we can't just take a bunch of planets and assign greenhouse gasses to some and not to others. We can use computer models to simulate these experiments, but then we have to look at how good our models really are and wonder if we're seeing what is really going on at all.
When will parents realize their childs education is THEIR responsibility not the schools?
I don't entirely agree with this idea. Of course raising a child is the parents' responsibility, but good parents want their children to have opportunities they did not have themselves. Not every parent (or pair of parents) can effectively teach their children on their own, which is why we have schools in the first place.
What if a child shows interest or talent in a field a parent knows nothing about? I could do a fair job teaching my (hypothetical) children mathematics, I think, and I might be competent in some other areas as well. I know nothing about physics, however, and perhaps my (hypothetical) child would excel at physics if he had the right teachers.
Yes, parents should be actively involved in the education of their children. They should know what they are being taught and help their child to perform as best they can. But to say that the responsibility for education is not the schools' is somewhat ridiculous. If it isn't, then what is the purpose of a school at all?
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or merely carelessness on your part, but you implied that the things you emphasized were all requirements for those jobs:
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements in addition to the Basic Education Requirement:
Applicants must meet one of the following requirements in addition to the Basic Education Requirement:
a. One year of appropriate professional experience at least equivalent to the GS-5 grade level; or
b. One full academic year of graduate level education in an appropriate field, or any equivalent combination of experience and graduate study; or
c. Completion of all requirements for a bachelor's degree which meets one of the following SUPERIOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS:
1. Standing in the upper third of college class or major subdivision at time of application; or
2. Grade point average of 2.9 of a possible of 4.0 or its equivalent for all courses completed at time of application or during last two years of undergraduate curriculum
[emphasis mine] I think that gives a good idea that you don't, in fact, need to have prior experience or a graduate education.
The proper terminology is "WooHoo!"
And "WooHoo with 3 Sims" is just the beginning... Keep playing and you can get such wonderful aspirations as "Public WooHoo with 10 Sims" and "Have 30 Lovers at Once."
Romance Sims have all the fun.
Actually if you're talking volume, the sun is over a million times the size of our planet. If you're talking mass it's about 350,000 times massive.
From what I can tell from the article Shacknews linked to (which actually gives information on the issue rather than just saying "OMG CoH makes people sick!"), the CoH issue is completely different and concerns people who have epilepsy. It's got nothing to do with in-game bugs or griefing. It's a particular graphic that has triggered reactions in a handful of sensitive players.
Your other two points are correct, though obviously correlation between Earth's climate and Mars' climate does not imply that one is causing the other. I don't think anyone is claiming that.
From a statistical point of view, that statement is true. Observed correlation does not imply causation. Ever. That is not to say that they are mutually exclusive concepts, just that you cannot draw conclusions about causation simply by observing correlation. This is why we have controlled experiments, to remove as many random variables as possible so that we can start to see causation. Obviously, it is impossible to do good controlled experiments on global warming, since we can't just take a bunch of planets and assign greenhouse gasses to some and not to others. We can use computer models to simulate these experiments, but then we have to look at how good our models really are and wonder if we're seeing what is really going on at all.
I don't entirely agree with this idea. Of course raising a child is the parents' responsibility, but good parents want their children to have opportunities they did not have themselves. Not every parent (or pair of parents) can effectively teach their children on their own, which is why we have schools in the first place.
What if a child shows interest or talent in a field a parent knows nothing about? I could do a fair job teaching my (hypothetical) children mathematics, I think, and I might be competent in some other areas as well. I know nothing about physics, however, and perhaps my (hypothetical) child would excel at physics if he had the right teachers.
Yes, parents should be actively involved in the education of their children. They should know what they are being taught and help their child to perform as best they can. But to say that the responsibility for education is not the schools' is somewhat ridiculous. If it isn't, then what is the purpose of a school at all?