I hear you... I think a more appropriate ratio for class grade would be something similar to:
25% combined homework scores 25% combined "mid-term" or quiz scores 50% final examination
oh, but wait... if 50% of the grade were for the final exam, then the teachers would actually have to *teach* the subject... Do you know how much the median score would fall if they graded like this?? Imagine the havoc it would cause to their funding and justification of what they do (or fail to do). I guess I can see why they'd rather do:
I went to San Rafael High ('87) and while it wasn't the worst education I could imagine, it certainly left a lot to be desired -- my councellor sucked, and in the end I got far less out of high school than I did the 3 years of private school I had before that.
Actually, I dropped-out in my final semester because my english teacher failed me and I didn't want to do summer-school....
twenty years later I decided to go to college and hit the 98th percentile on my english scores for the entrance exam.... Not that I'm holding a grudge or anything, but I think the evidence shows that Mrs. McLellan (I think that was her name) was a pompous horses-ass for failing me. (okay, so I'm not the best speller, but my comprehension, vocabulary, and grammer skills are well above average).
(I also got failed by my algebra teacher -- I just finished an "upgrading course" to refresh my high-school math, and got an A+ doing 2 years of high-school math in 6 weeks.)
The teachers were (in general) actually too stuck on homework -- I was able to absorb the material without doing the homework, but for some teachers... well, they didn't like me skipping the homework, so they failed me. C'est la vie -- I hated high school, but now I'm enjoying going back to "finish" my education.
Back then, the graduation requirements included eight semesters of physical education. I looked at their current requirements and the curriculum has only gotten worse since I attended.
Keep the old business model in place, for the time being, and branch out. Start signing artists to contracts specifically for digital distribution -- do it without DRM or other inconveniences. This is an important detail: sign a huge variety of artists, not just the few that fall into the lowest-common-denominator-pop paradigms.... sign *talent* that has something new and different. Set up distribution and commerce channels that make it not only easy, but *inviting* for people to check-out the music you're publishing, and purchase it in a format that can be format shifted an infinite number of times, that is not watermarked, etc...
I'd stake my life savings on this model... If you give people something of quality, make it easy for them to get it, and don't overcharge for it, your business is bound to do very, very well. Once they see the ratio of profit to expenditure on the new "product" they'll either change or absolve the old businesses, as they'd largely be a ball-and-chain around their ankle.
Actually, the garden allotment been a very good thing for my son. And honestly, I don't see how having a private garden for the kids is any better than having a park/playground nearby.... but maybe I've missed your point.
As a visual learner, I find audio books to be a complete waste of my time... without a visual aid to help me stay focused my mind quickly wanders when I've tried listening to audiobooks. Sure, some readers can raise the level of interest with a nice reading style, but even then I still can't stay focused on them. C'est la vie.
It'd certainly be nice to be able to go to the library (or library website) to get material for a device like this "on-demand" instead of what can be a long, long, long, wait for the library to share a handful of books among hundreds of people interesting in reading it...
One of my holds at the TPL has been active since Oct. 11 -- I'm now number 300 in a line of 408 people...
Of course, not having to return the book in 1-3 weeks would also be a bonus, since I'm so busy it can be hard or impossible to read a book in that span of time.
Both you and the parent are obviously single geeks in large cities. All you need space for is your bed and computers. Try living in a condo/apartment with three children under the age of 6 and a packrat wife. Hopefully your apartment is on a high enough floor so when you jump out the window your receive a quick death.
Well, that's a bit naive. While it's true I live in a large city, I do in fact have a family. As to having three kids under six and a packrat wife -- well, that sounds like a personal problem. Maybe you're the one looking for a high place from which to jump?
Smaller place - covered. I'd rather be dead than crammed into a tiny living area
Living in an apartment doesn't mean you have to be "crammed into a tiny living area"... However, there's a big difference between a 1000-2000 ft^2 apartment, and a two story house with five bedrooms, three baths, and a pool and tennis-court in the backyard. Personally, I feel that given the state of things it's quite selfish to take so much space and energy for a single family -- you are not required to agree with me, it's a personal choice on my part.
more time for yourself - depending on which office I go to, my commute is 10 - 30 minutes, how long is your commute? Please make sure to include all the time waiting for mass transit, etc. I'm probably home swimming in my pool before you walk in the door. Oh, and I prefer my own pool to the super chlorinated pool of kiddy piss that is available to the public.
I applaud you for having the luck(?) to live so close to your job. It must be nice. When I lived in Sommerville I worked just down the street in Cambridge. When I lived in Berkeley I rode my bike to/from work in Oakland. These days, my commute is from 30-60 minutes on a combination of trains and busses. Alternatively, I could get there faster by driving but then pay for it in gas and maintenance costs... Also, on the train/bus I can relax, read, etc...
It's not unreasonable to prefer your own personal pool, of course, but it's not a choice I'd make....
you don't need to mow the lawn - I like mowing the lawn and other physical activity. I wouldn't dream of taking away the memories of making a huge pile of leaves and having the kids jumping around in it. In your world it sounds like things like grass and trees are better off being replaced by concrete.
I get the sense that you're feeling a bit defensive. I never claimed that there was only one way to live, and certainly didn't mean to imply that everyone with a house is an open sore on the world, but it seems as if you read that into my comments. Living in an apartment doesn't steel opportunities to make a 2 meter tall pile of leaves... we live across the street from a park where we can (and do) do this. We rent a garden allotment from the city and grow flowers and vegetables. I live in Toronto, which while it has no shortage of concrete is a much greener city than any city I ever lived in when I was in the States -- there are parks and bike-paths all over the city, always many within walking distance.
you might actually get to know some of your neighbors - even though I live in a 2 acre min. zoned area, the neighborhood gets together every summer for a 'block' party so everyone can meet each other. Most neighbors have friendships where they have things in common (kids of similar ages, retired folk, etc). Some want to be left alone and that is fine. As a geek I'm curious as to exactly how many of your neighbors you know and what you have in common (or not) with them.
That's very nice -- I wonder how many suburban communities do the same? Again, when I lived in the states, not a single neighborhood did anything like this. I do know of several communities here in Toronto that do similar things, including my own community. As to your curiosity, I might not be a very good case-study, as I'm not very a very skilled socializer (I have Asperger's Syndrome) but nevertheless, I do know (i.e. better than acquaintances) about half a dozen families in my apartment building, and have a number of things in common with them. When the weather is nice we hang out together in the park, too.
I agree with what you're saying, but I don't see it as being two mutually exclusive situations....
As to the gardening & what-not, my wife and I rent a garden allotment from the city, which is a nice arrangement. You don't have to have a home in suburbia to have things that require responsibility and are a source of pride:)
Smaller place - less to heat/cool (and furthermore, typically you have only 1-3 exterior "walls" vs. a minimum of 5 for a house, meaning that your radiant environmental stabilization is being re-cycled by your neighbors in a condo or apartment, and being completely wasted in a house).
Not driving as far (and typically, better access to mass transit.. less energy to get to/from work, school, shopping, etc.)
Also, when trash pickup is done for your apartment there's one truck that takes 2 minutes to get the weeks trash (and recycling) from hundreds of families -- unless you live in a house and that costs hundreds of times as much energy per family.
For those that don't give a hoot about these "environmental" reasons to live in a smart space there are other advantages to an apartment in the city vs. a house in the burbs:
more time for yourself -- less time stressing out in traffic jams.
you don't need to mow the lawn, water the flower beds, rake the leaves, or shovel the snow.
you might actually get to know some of your neighbors.
I'd like to see what others can add (or detract) to/from this post!
That's not so bad, really, why if we were to plant 1x10^11 trees every second (in fertile areas with climate conducive to rapid growth) and ensured that the carbon fixated in those trees was not released back into the atmosphere, we could achieve a zero-sum on current CO2 emmissions... Of course we'd need to continue to ramp-up the program as more countries (China, India, etc.) become more "developed", but we could build rafts and float the forests on the oceans...
Say you squeeze your trees into a raft, giving each tree 4.472m^2 to grow in, then you can get 50,000 trees on a raft that's 1km^2. If you built 2,000,000 of these rafts every second you could make a significant dent in atmosphereic CO2 levels!
(Please ignore the fact that at this rate you'd cover all the Earth's oceans in 2.834 minutes and make the $25 million check out to cash.... I'll pick it up on my way to Switzerland.)
* Yes, it's possible to obtain DNA in ways equally (or less) invasive than collecting finger prints.
* Yes, a catalog of finger prints seems rather bening.
* Yes, there is a difference between a finger print catalog and a DNA catalog.....
DNA can show if you are a carrier for a variety of genetically based health problems, and as has been mentioned already, the chances are that this information would most likely be managed if not also obtained by the private sector at the behest of the government. Now, how much do you think insurance company "A" will pay DNA warehouse "B" for access to such records? Is it okay to be denied health insurance for a genetic fingerprint?
There are certainly other similar issues that could arrise, not to mention that we're still learning just what the DNA can tell us... who knows what they'll be able to gleen from your DNA in 5, 10, 20 years...
Yes, my gut reaction is first to laugh about this whole thing, but then to wonder about the folks who set up this "ad campaign"... When I lived in the states (including MA.) there was an understanding that you don't leave your $#!^ lying around, no matter what it is... either you get a permit to have it on public property, or you lease a space from a land-owner...
WTF were they thinking? This viral/gorilla/wtfe marketing is just pollution -- I hear they've already made an arrest, and I think the moron(s) involved should all be slapped down hard for their idiocy.
Personally, I always saw the doctor/I.T. comparrison more like:
You go to your chiropodist and say you have an ear-ache.... you expect yout foot doctor to be able to diagnose/fix a problem in your sinuses...
Well, this is how everyone treats anybody who "work in I.T."... if you do, then clearly you know everything about all software, O.S., network protocols, etc...
Oh, and you are expected to work for free if you're not at work...
I'm on Rogers HighSpeed in Canada, and lately they've been shaping BT traffic, and the past few months having intermittent connectivity issues -- just a couple or few days ago the service wasn't working, but the lights on the modem all appeared fine... Needless to say, I didn't want to call customer support to be on hold for an hour or more and finally be told that they were working on the problem and to try it again the next day (useless!) so after a few hours and several resets of the modem I decided to try a ping from my router and lo and behold, it worked...
I punched in the IP for a DNS server that I knew of, and used that to get the numbers for OpenDNS and now have my router issuing those with DHCP requests instead of the Rogers DNS servers. Funny -- everything has been working just fine since I made that change.
Is Telecom Itialia also owned by Ted Turner?!? At any rate, it seems they went to the same "We've Oversubscribed, What Can We Do Now?" convention as each other.... Bastards!
Thanks for the tip -- while I didn't bother to Google about this I had already enabled encryption, but in the "allow encryption" mode, vs. the "encrypted only" mode... BTW, you might want to try being a tad less abrasive -- despite what you may have assumed, it's not actually required to be an asshat to qualify as a geek.
It may be that your ISP is attempting to detect the BT streams, and if it decides you're "BTing" throttles you... It would seem Rogers here in Canada is doing just that.... I can typically get capped downloads via http or ftp, but minutes after launching a BT session I'm throttled to around 1/3rd my subscribed downstream rate. (Bastards!) I can't say when they started doing this -- A couple years ago I got torrents at full speed.
My understanding is that google already does something to search queries so that a search for either cat or cats will actually draw results from both sets... I think they call it "smart search" or something like that, and they've been doing it for quite a while.
Although I agree, it'd be nice to be able to do wildcard searching... talk about handy when crosswording!
non sequitor: you ought to check out kartoo http://www.kartoo.com for an interesting twist on searching!
I've got to jump in here and call B.S., sorry mate....
1. If you're 'gifted' then you should be able to self-start, and get the education you need without being reliant upon being spoonfed by your public school.
2. Many special needs kids are also gifted, but if we toss them all into a backroom with one 40w lightbulb and no support, they're much less likely to bloom than your 'normal' kids.
3. Perhaps you don't care for any socialist policies, but most of the world has discovered the immeasurable benefit of certain social programs, such as assuming all kids have a right to an education and a certain quality of life that in generations past has likely been denied to certain groups.
4. The people who "might help benefit society", by and large, are not the 'gifted' ones... people with high IQ and low EQ (the traditionally 'gifted' group) tend to perform quite well in academia, but quite poorly 'in the real world'. Special needs kids have as much chance of having high EQ as any other kids... so, how about we put kids with low EQ into underfunded programs? Seriously though, if your school can't provide support to some 'gifted' children, don't blame the special needs kids, blame your district, your politicians, and last (but certainly not least) get involved -- start a program for 'gifted' kids on your own dime, or coordinate a bake sale or something... i.e. Don't complain about what you see as a problem -- DO something about it!:)
Not to mention -- to put enough smog/sulpher into the upper atmosphere to make a significant impact will take how much energy, exactly? And how will that alter the warming/dimming/polluting types of equations?
okay, I'm going slightly non-sequitor here but here goes!
I was looking over some Reuters online polls today and saw one (recalling from memory here) "Do you think the economy is better served by a Republican or Democrat administration?" >50% of respondents said Republican. A few polls further down the list, "Will you be spending more, less, or the same this Christmas as last Christmas?" >50% of respondents said less.
I'm sensing a substantial disconnect with reality here... If the 'pubs are better at managing the economy, then why are so many of the (potentially) same respondants spending less this Christams than last?
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I hear you... I think a more appropriate ratio for class grade would be something similar to:
25% combined homework scores
25% combined "mid-term" or quiz scores
50% final examination
oh, but wait... if 50% of the grade were for the final exam, then the teachers would actually have to *teach* the subject... Do you know how much the median score would fall if they graded like this?? Imagine the havoc it would cause to their funding and justification of what they do (or fail to do). I guess I can see why they'd rather do:
50% meaningless drivel "homework"
35% attendance
10% combined quiz scores
05% final examination
I went to San Rafael High ('87) and while it wasn't the worst education I could imagine, it certainly left a lot to be desired -- my councellor sucked, and in the end I got far less out of high school than I did the 3 years of private school I had before that.
Actually, I dropped-out in my final semester because my english teacher failed me and I didn't want to do summer-school....
twenty years later I decided to go to college and hit the 98th percentile on my english scores for the entrance exam.... Not that I'm holding a grudge or anything, but I think the evidence shows that Mrs. McLellan (I think that was her name) was a pompous horses-ass for failing me. (okay, so I'm not the best speller, but my comprehension, vocabulary, and grammer skills are well above average).
(I also got failed by my algebra teacher -- I just finished an "upgrading course" to refresh my high-school math, and got an A+ doing 2 years of high-school math in 6 weeks.)
The teachers were (in general) actually too stuck on homework -- I was able to absorb the material without doing the homework, but for some teachers... well, they didn't like me skipping the homework, so they failed me. C'est la vie -- I hated high school, but now I'm enjoying going back to "finish" my education.
Back then, the graduation requirements included eight semesters of physical education. I looked at their current requirements and the curriculum has only gotten worse since I attended.
Sure -- off the top of my head...
Keep the old business model in place, for the time being, and branch out. Start signing artists to contracts specifically for digital distribution -- do it without DRM or other inconveniences. This is an important detail: sign a huge variety of artists, not just the few that fall into the lowest-common-denominator-pop paradigms.... sign *talent* that has something new and different. Set up distribution and commerce channels that make it not only easy, but *inviting* for people to check-out the music you're publishing, and purchase it in a format that can be format shifted an infinite number of times, that is not watermarked, etc...
I'd stake my life savings on this model... If you give people something of quality, make it easy for them to get it, and don't overcharge for it, your business is bound to do very, very well. Once they see the ratio of profit to expenditure on the new "product" they'll either change or absolve the old businesses, as they'd largely be a ball-and-chain around their ankle.
Actually, the garden allotment been a very good thing for my son. And honestly, I don't see how having a private garden for the kids is any better than having a park/playground nearby.... but maybe I've missed your point.
As a visual learner, I find audio books to be a complete waste of my time... without a visual aid to help me stay focused my mind quickly wanders when I've tried listening to audiobooks. Sure, some readers can raise the level of interest with a nice reading style, but even then I still can't stay focused on them. C'est la vie.
It'd certainly be nice to be able to go to the library (or library website) to get material for a device like this "on-demand" instead of what can be a long, long, long, wait for the library to share a handful of books among hundreds of people interesting in reading it...
One of my holds at the TPL has been active since Oct. 11 -- I'm now number 300 in a line of 408 people...
Of course, not having to return the book in 1-3 weeks would also be a bonus, since I'm so busy it can be hard or impossible to read a book in that span of time.
Well, that's a bit naive. While it's true I live in a large city, I do in fact have a family. As to having three kids under six and a packrat wife -- well, that sounds like a personal problem. Maybe you're the one looking for a high place from which to jump?
Smaller place - covered. I'd rather be dead than crammed into a tiny living areaLiving in an apartment doesn't mean you have to be "crammed into a tiny living area"... However, there's a big difference between a 1000-2000 ft^2 apartment, and a two story house with five bedrooms, three baths, and a pool and tennis-court in the backyard. Personally, I feel that given the state of things it's quite selfish to take so much space and energy for a single family -- you are not required to agree with me, it's a personal choice on my part.
more time for yourself - depending on which office I go to, my commute is 10 - 30 minutes, how long is your commute? Please make sure to include all the time waiting for mass transit, etc. I'm probably home swimming in my pool before you walk in the door. Oh, and I prefer my own pool to the super chlorinated pool of kiddy piss that is available to the public.I applaud you for having the luck(?) to live so close to your job. It must be nice. When I lived in Sommerville I worked just down the street in Cambridge. When I lived in Berkeley I rode my bike to/from work in Oakland. These days, my commute is from 30-60 minutes on a combination of trains and busses. Alternatively, I could get there faster by driving but then pay for it in gas and maintenance costs... Also, on the train/bus I can relax, read, etc...
It's not unreasonable to prefer your own personal pool, of course, but it's not a choice I'd make....
you don't need to mow the lawn - I like mowing the lawn and other physical activity. I wouldn't dream of taking away the memories of making a huge pile of leaves and having the kids jumping around in it. In your world it sounds like things like grass and trees are better off being replaced by concrete.I get the sense that you're feeling a bit defensive. I never claimed that there was only one way to live, and certainly didn't mean to imply that everyone with a house is an open sore on the world, but it seems as if you read that into my comments. Living in an apartment doesn't steel opportunities to make a 2 meter tall pile of leaves... we live across the street from a park where we can (and do) do this. We rent a garden allotment from the city and grow flowers and vegetables. I live in Toronto, which while it has no shortage of concrete is a much greener city than any city I ever lived in when I was in the States -- there are parks and bike-paths all over the city, always many within walking distance.
you might actually get to know some of your neighbors - even though I live in a 2 acre min. zoned area, the neighborhood gets together every summer for a 'block' party so everyone can meet each other. Most neighbors have friendships where they have things in common (kids of similar ages, retired folk, etc). Some want to be left alone and that is fine. As a geek I'm curious as to exactly how many of your neighbors you know and what you have in common (or not) with them.That's very nice -- I wonder how many suburban communities do the same? Again, when I lived in the states, not a single neighborhood did anything like this. I do know of several communities here in Toronto that do similar things, including my own community. As to your curiosity, I might not be a very good case-study, as I'm not very a very skilled socializer (I have Asperger's Syndrome) but nevertheless, I do know (i.e. better than acquaintances) about half a dozen families in my apartment building, and have a number of things in common with them. When the weather is nice we hang out together in the park, too.
I agree with what you're saying, but I don't see it as being two mutually exclusive situations....
:)
As to the gardening & what-not, my wife and I rent a garden allotment from the city, which is a nice arrangement. You don't have to have a home in suburbia to have things that require responsibility and are a source of pride
Adding to your point #2:
Smaller place - less to heat/cool (and furthermore, typically you have only 1-3 exterior "walls" vs. a minimum of 5 for a house, meaning that your radiant environmental stabilization is being re-cycled by your neighbors in a condo or apartment, and being completely wasted in a house).
Not driving as far (and typically, better access to mass transit.. less energy to get to/from work, school, shopping, etc.)
Also, when trash pickup is done for your apartment there's one truck that takes 2 minutes to get the weeks trash (and recycling) from hundreds of families -- unless you live in a house and that costs hundreds of times as much energy per family.
For those that don't give a hoot about these "environmental" reasons to live in a smart space there are other advantages to an apartment in the city vs. a house in the burbs:
more time for yourself -- less time stressing out in traffic jams.
you don't need to mow the lawn, water the flower beds, rake the leaves, or shovel the snow.
you might actually get to know some of your neighbors.
I'd like to see what others can add (or detract) to/from this post!
oh damn, we might have to ask spam^H^H^H^Hadvertizers to switch from flash/jpg/gif to text ads!
32 ton/second?
That's not so bad, really, why if we were to plant 1x10^11 trees every second (in fertile areas with climate conducive to rapid growth) and ensured that the carbon fixated in those trees was not released back into the atmosphere, we could achieve a zero-sum on current CO2 emmissions... Of course we'd need to continue to ramp-up the program as more countries (China, India, etc.) become more "developed", but we could build rafts and float the forests on the oceans...
Say you squeeze your trees into a raft, giving each tree 4.472m^2 to grow in, then you can get 50,000 trees on a raft that's 1km^2. If you built 2,000,000 of these rafts every second you could make a significant dent in atmosphereic CO2 levels!
(Please ignore the fact that at this rate you'd cover all the Earth's oceans in 2.834 minutes and make the $25 million check out to cash.... I'll pick it up on my way to Switzerland.)
Personally, I'd have modded that one as insightful -- seems like a perfect solution!
* Yes, it's possible to obtain DNA in ways equally (or less) invasive than collecting finger prints.
* Yes, a catalog of finger prints seems rather bening.
* Yes, there is a difference between a finger print catalog and a DNA catalog.....
DNA can show if you are a carrier for a variety of genetically based health problems, and as has been mentioned already, the chances are that this information would most likely be managed if not also obtained by the private sector at the behest of the government. Now, how much do you think insurance company "A" will pay DNA warehouse "B" for access to such records? Is it okay to be denied health insurance for a genetic fingerprint?
There are certainly other similar issues that could arrise, not to mention that we're still learning just what the DNA can tell us... who knows what they'll be able to gleen from your DNA in 5, 10, 20 years...
Yes, my gut reaction is first to laugh about this whole thing, but then to wonder about the folks who set up this "ad campaign"... When I lived in the states (including MA.) there was an understanding that you don't leave your $#!^ lying around, no matter what it is... either you get a permit to have it on public property, or you lease a space from a land-owner...
WTF were they thinking? This viral/gorilla/wtfe marketing is just pollution -- I hear they've already made an arrest, and I think the moron(s) involved should all be slapped down hard for their idiocy.
that's funny!
Personally, I always saw the doctor/I.T. comparrison more like:
You go to your chiropodist and say you have an ear-ache.... you expect yout foot doctor to be able to diagnose/fix a problem in your sinuses...
Well, this is how everyone treats anybody who "work in I.T."... if you do, then clearly you know everything about all software, O.S., network protocols, etc...
Oh, and you are expected to work for free if you're not at work...
Curious!
I'm on Rogers HighSpeed in Canada, and lately they've been shaping BT traffic, and the past few months having intermittent connectivity issues -- just a couple or few days ago the service wasn't working, but the lights on the modem all appeared fine... Needless to say, I didn't want to call customer support to be on hold for an hour or more and finally be told that they were working on the problem and to try it again the next day (useless!) so after a few hours and several resets of the modem I decided to try a ping from my router and lo and behold, it worked...
I punched in the IP for a DNS server that I knew of, and used that to get the numbers for OpenDNS and now have my router issuing those with DHCP requests instead of the Rogers DNS servers. Funny -- everything has been working just fine since I made that change.
Is Telecom Itialia also owned by Ted Turner?!? At any rate, it seems they went to the same "We've Oversubscribed, What Can We Do Now?" convention as each other.... Bastards!
Thanks for the tip -- while I didn't bother to Google about this I had already enabled encryption, but in the "allow encryption" mode, vs. the "encrypted only" mode... BTW, you might want to try being a tad less abrasive -- despite what you may have assumed, it's not actually required to be an asshat to qualify as a geek.
(did I just say that out loud?)
"why is BT so slow?"
It may be that your ISP is attempting to detect the BT streams, and if it decides you're "BTing" throttles you... It would seem Rogers here in Canada is doing just that.... I can typically get capped downloads via http or ftp, but minutes after launching a BT session I'm throttled to around 1/3rd my subscribed downstream rate. (Bastards!) I can't say when they started doing this -- A couple years ago I got torrents at full speed.
Great publicity for AllOfMP3.com, however... don't you think?
My understanding is that google already does something to search queries so that a search for either cat or cats will actually draw results from both sets... I think they call it "smart search" or something like that, and they've been doing it for quite a while.
Although I agree, it'd be nice to be able to do wildcard searching... talk about handy when crosswording!
non sequitor: you ought to check out kartoo http://www.kartoo.com for an interesting twist on searching!
Sorry, EQ is about emotional intelligence.... self-awareness, managing emotions, motivation, empathy, & interpersonal types of aptitude and knowledge.
I've got to jump in here and call B.S., sorry mate....
:)
1. If you're 'gifted' then you should be able to self-start, and get the education you need without being reliant upon being spoonfed by your public school.
2. Many special needs kids are also gifted, but if we toss them all into a backroom with one 40w lightbulb and no support, they're much less likely to bloom than your 'normal' kids.
3. Perhaps you don't care for any socialist policies, but most of the world has discovered the immeasurable benefit of certain social programs, such as assuming all kids have a right to an education and a certain quality of life that in generations past has likely been denied to certain groups.
4. The people who "might help benefit society", by and large, are not the 'gifted' ones... people with high IQ and low EQ (the traditionally 'gifted' group) tend to perform quite well in academia, but quite poorly 'in the real world'. Special needs kids have as much chance of having high EQ as any other kids... so, how about we put kids with low EQ into underfunded programs? Seriously though, if your school can't provide support to some 'gifted' children, don't blame the special needs kids, blame your district, your politicians, and last (but certainly not least) get involved -- start a program for 'gifted' kids on your own dime, or coordinate a bake sale or something... i.e. Don't complain about what you see as a problem -- DO something about it!
Not to mention -- to put enough smog/sulpher into the upper atmosphere to make a significant impact will take how much energy, exactly? And how will that alter the warming/dimming/polluting types of equations?
okay, I'm going slightly non-sequitor here but here goes!
I was looking over some Reuters online polls today and saw one (recalling from memory here) "Do you think the economy is better served by a Republican or Democrat administration?" >50% of respondents said Republican. A few polls further down the list, "Will you be spending more, less, or the same this Christmas as last Christmas?" >50% of respondents said less.
I'm sensing a substantial disconnect with reality here... If the 'pubs are better at managing the economy, then why are so many of the (potentially) same respondants spending less this Christams than last?
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Domain Name: UTUBE.COM
Administrative Contact:
Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment Corporation sales@UTUBE.COM
27475 Holiday Lane - P.O. Box 287
Perrysburg, OH 43552
US
(419) 872-2364 fax: 999 999 9999
Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC. customerservice@networksolutions.com
13861 Sunrise Valley Drive
Herndon, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 25-Oct-2008.
Record created on 26-Oct-1996.
Then, we compare youtube.com:
Record expires on 15-Feb-2009.
Record created on 15-Feb-2005.
Looks like utube.com's been around a while longer than youtube.com, for what it's worth