Study habits don't "rub off". I don't know where this nonsense idea came from that good study habits are a contagious disease that idiots can catch from smart kids.
I've been paired with an amazing number of idiots throughout my elementary/middle/high school "career". What actually happens is that in any case the dumbass takes credit for all the work the smart kid does. If you're lucky, the dumb kid admits that he doesn't know anything and shuts the fuck up while you do the work. If you're not lucky then the dumb kid expects you to explain everything to him.
"working in teacher assigned pairs" is really code for "Make the smart kids teach the dumb ones so the teacher can sit on their lazy ass".
Loans, student loans. I'm busting my ass during the summer working at a grocery store to get money mainly for rent/food. My tuition is partially funded my my parents (not much though), I'll be graduating with a very significant debt to pay off.
The problems with tests are well documented. For the sake of argument we'll ignore the kids who "don't test well".
Teachers teaching to the test is a very common problem. Teachers teach exactly what will be on a test and nothing more. This happened in my AP physics class in high school. The teacher would skip over very important concepts simply to tell us how to solve a common AP test problem. No education, simply "if you see this question, then plug these numbers into this formula and write the number you get on this line".
In this situation, kids don't learn a single goram thing. Measurable metrics would be absolutely wonderful to have, IF THEY FUCKING EXISTED WITHIN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. Unfortunately, they don't.
It just encourages the kids to jump through the hoops and complete the busywork. Nothing of value is gained, kids still aren't learning anything useful. They're just filling in the bubbles whereas before they didn't take the time to do it.
They weren't fraudulent wire transfers, idiot. They were perfectly legitimate, small value transfers. It just so happened that there was a processing fee greater than the value of the intended transfer amount. Furthermore, Occam razor doesn't mean jack shit. "The simplest solution is USUALLY correct". It doesn't mean that the simplest solution is ALWAYS correct.
It's perfectly legitimate to suspect that this guy did this himself to make the pirate party look more childish and discredit them. We've seen the anti-piracy fucks do weirder, stupider and more far fetched things in the past.
Actually, any reasonable sex position is damn near impossible in space. The missionary is the hardest, though not the most exciting anyway. I think someone actually developed a suit specifically designed for screwing in Null-G.
Long story short, the honeymoon wouldn't be that exciting.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the public school system has the ability to deal with kids with mental disorders. Everyone who isn't normal is just filed under "special education" which is basically a better way of saying "the class where everyone is taught exactly the same, but slower than normal... and grades don't matter as much" regardless of what mental problem they have.
You also failed to realize what your quoted post was referring to. "in the biz, blah blah, overprotective parent". He was DISCOURAGING anyone from buying these things.
And what's a "high traffic" area? Somewhere with lots of tall metal buildings?
Screaming at them makes them care. Schools couldn't give less of a shit about the kids they're in charge of. Their only objective is to do enough to get rid of annoying parents. Thus, if you're an annoying parent, they'll help you to make you go away.
Of course, if you start screaming about suing the school for losing your child, they'll jump to it. The only thing they're more afraid of than parents is lawyers.
I remember that in elementary school. Only it was just a scrap of construction paper and the bus driver put an identical colored piece of paper in the windshield. Of course, after a couple weeks the drivers stopped doing this. We were told to rely on this fancy new system called "numbers". We had to remember the number of the bus and get onto that bus at the end of the day. Really weird system, dunno if anyone else uses it.
Were your parents too retarded to find a baby/house sitter or a relative to watch you guys? Seems like your parents were just trying to get away from you but for some reason wanted to pretend that they actually cared about you guys and thus took you along on the trip, but left you alone everywhere.
This thread is a discussion and discussions entail the presentation of opinions. By your logic, no one should express their opinion because "it won't change reality". Neither will yours, so by your logic you should STFU as well.
It's not all Americans. Just the ones that voted for that dipshit Bush and this time Cheney.
And don't start an argument about how the popular vote not winning Gore the election illustrates how all Americans are idiots. Your government is just as messed up.
I hate the fact that I live in a country where a lot of people think that it's OK to give away your rights just because some politician promises you "safety". I also hate foreigners that are so narrow minded to think that all Americans are the same.
Just great, who wants to bet that the DHS will make a "No buying aerial plane kits" because they can be "terror weapons"? And of course everyone will have to register their model airplanes. And consent to a search of their home if they own one.
"And then you are stuck with a not-quite working semi-autonomous robot house that will make bad decisions based on wrong sensor inputs. And there are enough bad Hollywood movies on that subject already."
In a world where the lights don't turn off when they should... When everything you thought you knew about your house is wrong...
$100 per month? How many lights were you leaving on before you installed switches that turn off automatically? Seems like this isn't a savings associated with a good system, but rather an expense associated with an person that doesn't remember to turn off his lights as he leaves the room.
It's not remote control that's the biggest issue. It's automation. It isn't important that I can control my lights from my desk rather than walking over to the switch. The important thing is the ability for your house to realize that you just went to work in your car and you therefore don't need your lights on, the air conditioner doesn't need to keep the house as cool, the TV should be off, the computer monitor should be off, etc.
I don't want my power company having control over my dishwasher. That's complete nonsense.
Excel here wanted to install a device that would allow them to shut down the air conditioner for up to 40 minutes at a time. I think the max limit was something like 4 times per day. What were they willing to offer in return? $25. Not $25 PER BILL, just $25 ONCE. Again, complete nonsense.
I'd like to use less power and home automation seems like a convenient way to achieve that. But there's no way in hell that I'm going to let my power company decide when I can use the electricity I'm paying for.
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Study habits don't "rub off". I don't know where this nonsense idea came from that good study habits are a contagious disease that idiots can catch from smart kids.
I've been paired with an amazing number of idiots throughout my elementary/middle/high school "career". What actually happens is that in any case the dumbass takes credit for all the work the smart kid does.
If you're lucky, the dumb kid admits that he doesn't know anything and shuts the fuck up while you do the work. If you're not lucky then the dumb kid expects you to explain everything to him.
"working in teacher assigned pairs" is really code for "Make the smart kids teach the dumb ones so the teacher can sit on their lazy ass".
Loans, student loans. I'm busting my ass during the summer working at a grocery store to get money mainly for rent/food. My tuition is partially funded my my parents (not much though), I'll be graduating with a very significant debt to pay off.
The problems with tests are well documented. For the sake of argument we'll ignore the kids who "don't test well".
Teachers teaching to the test is a very common problem. Teachers teach exactly what will be on a test and nothing more. This happened in my AP physics class in high school. The teacher would skip over very important concepts simply to tell us how to solve a common AP test problem. No education, simply "if you see this question, then plug these numbers into this formula and write the number you get on this line".
In this situation, kids don't learn a single goram thing. Measurable metrics would be absolutely wonderful to have, IF THEY FUCKING EXISTED WITHIN THE SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT. Unfortunately, they don't.
You mean that you're going to pay more money to the teachers that teach to the test rather than the ones that actually teach anything useful.
It just encourages the kids to jump through the hoops and complete the busywork. Nothing of value is gained, kids still aren't learning anything useful. They're just filling in the bubbles whereas before they didn't take the time to do it.
They weren't fraudulent wire transfers, idiot. They were perfectly legitimate, small value transfers. It just so happened that there was a processing fee greater than the value of the intended transfer amount. Furthermore, Occam razor doesn't mean jack shit. "The simplest solution is USUALLY correct". It doesn't mean that the simplest solution is ALWAYS correct.
It's perfectly legitimate to suspect that this guy did this himself to make the pirate party look more childish and discredit them. We've seen the anti-piracy fucks do weirder, stupider and more far fetched things in the past.
I'm sorry, could you please restate your piss-poor analogy in terms of a car?
As long as I don't have to clean it up, it sounds like a totally awesome idea.
Actually, any reasonable sex position is damn near impossible in space. The missionary is the hardest, though not the most exciting anyway. I think someone actually developed a suit specifically designed for screwing in Null-G.
Long story short, the honeymoon wouldn't be that exciting.
You seem to be operating under the assumption that the public school system has the ability to deal with kids with mental disorders. Everyone who isn't normal is just filed under "special education" which is basically a better way of saying "the class where everyone is taught exactly the same, but slower than normal... and grades don't matter as much" regardless of what mental problem they have.
It would solve the problem of being "that kid whose parents track her with a GPS device". She'd be the coolest kid in school.
You also failed to realize what your quoted post was referring to. "in the biz, blah blah, overprotective parent". He was DISCOURAGING anyone from buying these things.
And what's a "high traffic" area? Somewhere with lots of tall metal buildings?
Screaming at them makes them care. Schools couldn't give less of a shit about the kids they're in charge of. Their only objective is to do enough to get rid of annoying parents. Thus, if you're an annoying parent, they'll help you to make you go away.
Of course, if you start screaming about suing the school for losing your child, they'll jump to it. The only thing they're more afraid of than parents is lawyers.
I remember that in elementary school. Only it was just a scrap of construction paper and the bus driver put an identical colored piece of paper in the windshield. Of course, after a couple weeks the drivers stopped doing this. We were told to rely on this fancy new system called "numbers". We had to remember the number of the bus and get onto that bus at the end of the day. Really weird system, dunno if anyone else uses it.
Were your parents too retarded to find a baby/house sitter or a relative to watch you guys? Seems like your parents were just trying to get away from you but for some reason wanted to pretend that they actually cared about you guys and thus took you along on the trip, but left you alone everywhere.
This thread is a discussion and discussions entail the presentation of opinions. By your logic, no one should express their opinion because "it won't change reality".
Neither will yours, so by your logic you should STFU as well.
It's not all Americans. Just the ones that voted for that dipshit Bush and this time Cheney.
And don't start an argument about how the popular vote not winning Gore the election illustrates how all Americans are idiots. Your government is just as messed up.
I hate the fact that I live in a country where a lot of people think that it's OK to give away your rights just because some politician promises you "safety". I also hate foreigners that are so narrow minded to think that all Americans are the same.
You aren't making sense. Has your light switch failed in the last 5 years?
If they used crap relays then they used crap relays. It doesn't matter what else they used. They should have used better relays.
Just great, who wants to bet that the DHS will make a "No buying aerial plane kits" because they can be "terror weapons"? And of course everyone will have to register their model airplanes. And consent to a search of their home if they own one.
"And then you are stuck with a not-quite working semi-autonomous robot house that will make bad decisions based on wrong sensor inputs. And there are enough bad Hollywood movies on that subject already."
In a world where the lights don't turn off when they should... When everything you thought you knew about your house is wrong...
There a difference between industrial grade products rated for high criticality applications and products that aren't shit.
We're aiming for somewhere in the middle.
$100 per month? How many lights were you leaving on before you installed switches that turn off automatically? Seems like this isn't a savings associated with a good system, but rather an expense associated with an person that doesn't remember to turn off his lights as he leaves the room.
They used to use variable resistors, yes. Not anymore though.
It's not remote control that's the biggest issue. It's automation.
It isn't important that I can control my lights from my desk rather than walking over to the switch. The important thing is the ability for your house to realize that you just went to work in your car and you therefore don't need your lights on, the air conditioner doesn't need to keep the house as cool, the TV should be off, the computer monitor should be off, etc.
I don't want my power company having control over my dishwasher. That's complete nonsense.
Excel here wanted to install a device that would allow them to shut down the air conditioner for up to 40 minutes at a time. I think the max limit was something like 4 times per day.
What were they willing to offer in return? $25. Not $25 PER BILL, just $25 ONCE.
Again, complete nonsense.
I'd like to use less power and home automation seems like a convenient way to achieve that. But there's no way in hell that I'm going to let my power company decide when I can use the electricity I'm paying for.