Judging from the remarkable benefits of risk-taking, its no wonder that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have gone so well. As for risk taking be a "more general activity" than education, just go ahead and do some risk taking without any education. We should all advocate kids sticking thier fingers in wall sockets and playing Russian-roullette rather than going to school because after all the absence of significant risk-taking is the fundamental flaw of our education system.
Merit pay is GOP concept to fire as many teachers as possible to "shrink the size of government". It does seem odd that the biggest proponents of merit pay are NEVER serious advocates of "merit pay" for politicians.
CEO pay is largely a cultural issue. In the US the average CEO makes about 300-400 times the wage of the average worker. In Japan they only make about 30-40 times that of the average worker. CEO's here have found that they can essentially cut themselves a larger slice of the corporate pie by granting themselves stock options that are "in principle" supposed to align them with the shareholders better, but instead simply underscore why stock prices are so low (only a fool would invest in a scheme where others can skim off the top) and serve to consolidate their grip on the boards that they are "in principle" to answer to.
Funny, that the incentive given to most other company employees of "do a good job or get fired", doesn't really work for CEO's. The reason of course is that they pay Ruppert Murdoch to provide enough PR to keep the average American oblivious as to why their cost of living is deteriorating. Better to talk about repeal of the 14th amendment than say uncle Ruppert's million dollar bribe to GOP gubenatorial candidates to readjust the percentage of markets that can be monopolized by a single media conglomerate.
Vote GOP and replace teachers with tests. Tests can be administered by minimum wage workers and be graded by computer. It is working for George Bush's brother.
What he is saying is, in essence, is vote republican and bring back the repeal of child labor laws, the end of social security for the young, and the abolition of departments of education across the country. Once this is accomplished America can then look forward to prosperity in direct proportion to the number of monopolies that can send campaign contributions to the republican party, much as Ruppert Murdoch is now proposing as the future of American democracy. No wonder, EBay, has drawn up plans to increase their advertising fees more than 30% next year.
Given that it is unreasonable to presume that all the problems of the American educational system rest with teachers, teachers should demand as part of the bargaining, inclusion of evaluations for principals, school boards, deans, university presidents and in particular politicians and parents. It doesn't make any sense to single out teachers to bear the burden of cuts to school budgets just to let politicians and business "leaders" off the hook for their glaring failure to provide leadership. Might not hurt to lay some of the blame on students as well. The person most responsible for your education is you.
Perhaps linking poor performance of politicians and parents to say reductions in salary for politicans, businessmen, parents, and school board administrators as a direct percentage of failing students in the electoral district, market areas, school in which their students are enrolled, or schools they administer respectively. That should make such inadequate performance unpopular enough for everyone to start shouldering their own responsibilities. Heaven knows we need to do something before we fall from 28th place internationally into the lower 66th percentile.
As it is now, teachers are by and large scapegoats for the larger failings of politicians and society as a whole. Its hard to conceive of just how bad our educational system will become with even more disincentive for the best and brightest to become teachers. Its time for teachers to demand that their critics put their money where their mouth is.
Given that it would seem the jury pool will consist only of people who don't own a cell phone or a computer, which should really provide a crap shoot for all involved. Might as well let the judge be that octopus that perfectly predicted the World Cup results.
Sounds as if once the SCO case went bust, the lawyers went shopping for a new source of revenue and successfully appealed to Ellison's ego. Rather sad that Oracle has decided the first thing they would do with Sun technology is to kill Java as a platform of choice for developers. The damage that human ego and greed can do continues to amaze me. The irony is that Java may do for Oracle what it did to Sun. The temptation of "run everywhere" being translated into "control everywhere" is just too much for some to think through the consequences. The longer the case goes on the greater the damage to Oracle's reputation as a vendor that can't be trusted to do anything but grab the gold. For a database vendor that is probably over time the kiss of death.
If you could install a brain fungus in 20% of the people, there is a high probability you would increase their intelligence no what what species of fungus was introduced.
I just knew those bicycles were evil. Why soon those riders would be demanding that the state hire Appalachian coal companies to flatten all those darn mountains that make biking too difficult.
Neither is a perfectly acceptable answer. As you correctly note the business of business is money. As a result product lock-in becomes more expensive in the long run that these products are worth, both in terms of money and loss of control for those who wish to do more in life than just add to CEO's retirement funds.
If you want a haircut, go ahead and get one. No one is stopping you.
using Telepresence technologies, such as that marketed by Cisco and others to simply stay home to do all their commuting. Its a lot cheaper to lay fiber than rails or building roads and generates a lot less pollution. You could get their much faster than any other form of transportation.
You would think this would catch on much faster in America, where a couch placed in front of a TV set is America's favorite mode of transportation already.
""The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher."
Funny, how it never stopped the iron lady from collecting her "socialist" pension. Eliminate social security and health care and privatize the military - Vote republican.
Gas prices will go up and there will be a reason (in addition to the natural greed of oil company CEO's). The Chinese economy, unlike our own is growing, so they will buy more oil to fuel it. They have the distinct advantage of having the money to pay for it, unlike America which borrows from the Chinese, Saudis, and Japanese to pay for it. So to compete for it, we will have to pay more, much, much more.
"Think about it: a good number of Americans are willing to go to war to keep gas prices low. "
By such reasoning one might have thought that after two wars, gas prices would have gone down. Might want to think twice before pursuing that economically "rational" option, which was all part of the big lie anyway. Remember the republicans telling us how oil would pay for the cost of the wars? How did that work out for ya?
Yes, America should become hard-hearted and develop a truly individualistic credo of "every man for himself". That way guys like Milton Friedman can be admired for turning over America to the Chinese, who have an entirely different view of the role of government.
Unless they are republicans or anti-government types, who simply want all government, except police-state services, to decay into ineffectiveness so they can continue to plunder without regulation.
China has 3696100 sq. miles and is building high-speed rail lines at a rate more than double that of Japan, UK, and Germany combined. In 5-10 years Chinese high-speed rail will extend to Europe. They believe in the role of government to get things done. Thats the biggest difference with Texas and most of the US. Its no wonder they have passed Japan as the second largest economy and will overtake the US in 10 years at their and our current rate of economic growth.
It will be interesting to see how the anti-government, "don't tax me" crowd is going to come up with SOLUTIONS to deal with that. I suspect they will simply base America's future transportation and economies on watching FOX News, which the Chinese help Murdoch operate to keep America in ahyper-reflexive catatonic state, totally oblivious to a rapidly approaching reality of a Chinese dominated world. That can be done without a transportation infrastructure, thereby allowing Americans to live their lives on the sofa, without the need for jobs or expensive train tickets.
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Judging from the remarkable benefits of risk-taking, its no wonder that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have gone so well. As for risk taking be a "more general activity" than education, just go ahead and do some risk taking without any education. We should all advocate kids sticking thier fingers in wall sockets and playing Russian-roullette rather than going to school because after all the absence of significant risk-taking is the fundamental flaw of our education system.
Merit pay is GOP concept to fire as many teachers as possible to "shrink the size of government". It does seem odd that the biggest proponents of merit pay are NEVER serious advocates of "merit pay" for politicians.
"Unions, however, are legally protected entities".
I guess that puts them on equal footing with big banks and large Wall Street brokerage houses, hedge-funds, and insurance and oil companies.
CEO pay is largely a cultural issue. In the US the average CEO makes about 300-400 times the wage of the average worker. In Japan they only make about 30-40 times that of the average worker. CEO's here have found that they can essentially cut themselves a larger slice of the corporate pie by granting themselves stock options that are "in principle" supposed to align them with the shareholders better, but instead simply underscore why stock prices are so low (only a fool would invest in a scheme where others can skim off the top) and serve to consolidate their grip on the boards that they are "in principle" to answer to.
Funny, that the incentive given to most other company employees of "do a good job or get fired", doesn't really work for CEO's. The reason of course is that they pay Ruppert Murdoch to provide enough PR to keep the average American oblivious as to why their cost of living is deteriorating. Better to talk about repeal of the 14th amendment than say uncle Ruppert's million dollar bribe to GOP gubenatorial candidates to readjust the percentage of markets that can be monopolized by a single media conglomerate.
Vote GOP and replace teachers with tests. Tests can be administered by minimum wage workers and be graded by computer. It is working for George Bush's brother.
Vote GOP and privatize the police like they now do the prisons and much of our military support infrastructure.
What he is saying is, in essence, is vote republican and bring back the repeal of child labor laws, the end of social security for the young, and the abolition of departments of education across the country. Once this is accomplished America can then look forward to prosperity in direct proportion to the number of monopolies that can send campaign contributions to the republican party, much as Ruppert Murdoch is now proposing as the future of American democracy. No wonder, EBay, has drawn up plans to increase their advertising fees more than 30% next year.
Given that it is unreasonable to presume that all the problems of the American educational system rest with teachers, teachers should demand as part of the bargaining, inclusion of evaluations for principals, school boards, deans, university presidents and in particular politicians and parents. It doesn't make any sense to single out teachers to bear the burden of cuts to school budgets just to let politicians and business "leaders" off the hook for their glaring failure to provide leadership. Might not hurt to lay some of the blame on students as well. The person most responsible for your education is you.
Perhaps linking poor performance of politicians and parents to say reductions in salary for politicans, businessmen, parents, and school board administrators as a direct percentage of failing students in the electoral district, market areas, school in which their students are enrolled, or schools they administer respectively. That should make such inadequate performance unpopular enough for everyone to start shouldering their own responsibilities. Heaven knows we need to do something before we fall from 28th place internationally into the lower 66th percentile.
As it is now, teachers are by and large scapegoats for the larger failings of politicians and society as a whole. Its hard to conceive of just how bad our educational system will become with even more disincentive for the best and brightest to become teachers. Its time for teachers to demand that their critics put their money where their mouth is.
Given that it would seem the jury pool will consist only of people who don't own a cell phone or a computer, which should really provide a crap shoot for all involved. Might as well let the judge be that octopus that perfectly predicted the World Cup results.
More likely the lawyers want a jury so they can drag this thing out and continue the revenue stream that dried up after the SCO case.
Sounds as if once the SCO case went bust, the lawyers went shopping for a new source of revenue and successfully appealed to Ellison's ego. Rather sad that Oracle has decided the first thing they would do with Sun technology is to kill Java as a platform of choice for developers. The damage that human ego and greed can do continues to amaze me. The irony is that Java may do for Oracle what it did to Sun. The temptation of "run everywhere" being translated into "control everywhere" is just too much for some to think through the consequences. The longer the case goes on the greater the damage to Oracle's reputation as a vendor that can't be trusted to do anything but grab the gold. For a database vendor that is probably over time the kiss of death.
" Google would have to know how Oracle's patented code works".
Not at all. It would only show that it knows how to translate Java binaries. You can neither patent nor copyright a string of 0's and 1's.
Unicycles are not fair and balanced.
If you could install a brain fungus in 20% of the people, there is a high probability you would increase their intelligence no what what species of fungus was introduced.
They're now running for Governor of Colorado.
I just knew those bicycles were evil. Why soon those riders would be demanding that the state hire Appalachian coal companies to flatten all those darn mountains that make biking too difficult.
Neither is a perfectly acceptable answer. As you correctly note the business of business is money. As a result product lock-in becomes more expensive in the long run that these products are worth, both in terms of money and loss of control for those who wish to do more in life than just add to CEO's retirement funds.
If you want a haircut, go ahead and get one. No one is stopping you.
using Telepresence technologies, such as that marketed by Cisco and others to simply stay home to do all their commuting. Its a lot cheaper to lay fiber than rails or building roads and generates a lot less pollution. You could get their much faster than any other form of transportation.
You would think this would catch on much faster in America, where a couch placed in front of a TV set is America's favorite mode of transportation already.
Linksys, where are you?
""The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people's money" - Thatcher."
Funny, how it never stopped the iron lady from collecting her "socialist" pension. Eliminate social security and health care and privatize the military - Vote republican.
Gas prices will go up and there will be a reason (in addition to the natural greed of oil company CEO's). The Chinese economy, unlike our own is growing, so they will buy more oil to fuel it. They have the distinct advantage of having the money to pay for it, unlike America which borrows from the Chinese, Saudis, and Japanese to pay for it. So to compete for it, we will have to pay more, much, much more.
"Think about it: a good number of Americans are willing to go to war to keep gas prices low. "
By such reasoning one might have thought that after two wars, gas prices would have gone down. Might want to think twice before pursuing that economically "rational" option, which was all part of the big lie anyway. Remember the republicans telling us how oil would pay for the cost of the wars? How did that work out for ya?
"How do you suppose that the Tea Parties have gained so much ground at the expense of the Republicans here in the United States?"
New Corporation. Both the republican and tea parties have become wholly owned subsidiaries.
Yes, America should become hard-hearted and develop a truly individualistic credo of "every man for himself". That way guys like Milton Friedman can be admired for turning over America to the Chinese, who have an entirely different view of the role of government.
Unless they are republicans or anti-government types, who simply want all government, except police-state services, to decay into ineffectiveness so they can continue to plunder without regulation.
Looks as if bacteria will soon win out, perhaps because they never evolved highly self-destructive and inefficient mechanisms for "intelligence".
China has 3696100 sq. miles and is building high-speed rail lines at a rate more than double that of Japan, UK, and Germany combined. In 5-10 years Chinese high-speed rail will extend to Europe. They believe in the role of government to get things done. Thats the biggest difference with Texas and most of the US. Its no wonder they have passed Japan as the second largest economy and will overtake the US in 10 years at their and our current rate of economic growth.
It will be interesting to see how the anti-government, "don't tax me" crowd is going to come up with SOLUTIONS to deal with that. I suspect they will simply base America's future transportation and economies on watching FOX News, which the Chinese help Murdoch operate to keep America in ahyper-reflexive catatonic state, totally oblivious to a rapidly approaching reality of a Chinese dominated world. That can be done without a transportation infrastructure, thereby allowing Americans to live their lives on the sofa, without the need for jobs or expensive train tickets.