A diploma is just a crutch for lazy HR people. They figure anyone can get a diploma who has neither a mental or character deficiency, so why look any further into the true ability or potential of an applicant. It takes time and effort to assess a candidate properly so just go with the paper qualification. Most jobs today of a non-specialized nature do not require a college education: Just literacy, an enquiring mind, and good work habits. And in that I certainly include teaching, nursing and a host of other "professions". College is overhyped but the game has to be played as there is no percentage in being the only sane person in an insane world. Whatever did you learn in college that has been important in your work? Be honest. On the job experience is everything if you are just reasonably intelligent.
What do you mean " is the bar being lowered?" It was lowered a long time ago. The prevailing idea that everyone, anyone, should go to university (college) is nonsense. To keep the numbers up, colleges MUST lower their standards or most students would fail and mummy wouldn't like that. A degree is for the intellectually gifted. Perhaps no more than 25% of graduating high school students should go on to tertiary education. Most college education today is inefficient, ineffective vocational training at best and largely a waste of time. All that can be said for most college degrees is that it helps lazy HR people screen applicants (using irrelevant criteria). Today, if you can't get a college degree it means that you are either dead stupid or have a character defect. It says nothing about your intelligence and potential..
Has anybody figured out yet that the internet "kill switch" is a figure of speech, a metaphor? for ordering all the ISPs to shut down? Damn! It's like the Bible. People take everything too literally.
Yeh, I share your frustration. If it's not the Bible, it's the Constitution.
Yes, and better soldiers. When your soldiers don't reflect the composition and values of your society then its time to do some house-cleaning. Let's start with Marine Corps General Amos, and then maybe the Marine Corps itself if he accurately reflects its views.
There is nothing "conservative" about homophobia and the attitudes and beliefs it betrays. I can think of many other more appropriate descriptive adjectives.
Actually, a better explanation for the Fox news effect is "The Big Lie": Say it loud enough and often enough and people will start to believe it. The Nazi's did well with this technique.
Since Fox demonstrably and deliberately puts out misinformation, it is demonstrably true that people who rely on Fox for information are necessarily mis-informed, less-informed and un-informed. Fox relies on two never-fail money-making ideas:
1.The Big Lie: Say it loud enough and often enough and most people will start to believe it.
2. No-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American (substitute nationality of your choice) public.
AC wrote" "The way to understand the anti-abortion mindset is extremely simple, but very difficult (apparently) for many supposedly "rational" thinkers. They believe that a person is alive and has rights from the moment of conception. Potential life, in their eyes, is to be as revered as full life-- in fact in some ways more so because it has no adequate defenses or ability to survive without help*."
Yet these same people who "revere life" are overwhelmingly in favour of the death penalty; and are quite happy with selective assassinations and war with its "collateral damage" (read killing and wounding of civilians by American soldiers), as long as it is America doing the killing. Not to speak of the millions of Americans in the US who can't afford or get access to decent health care.
"Decent programming" is such that appeals to decent, intelligent, discriminating people. If such a program finds itself on Fox it is a fluke and must be killed by management. Fox has its reputation to think about.
Hitler and his Nazi party supporters have a lot in common with today's Republican/tea-party Americans:
Both are highly nativist, intolerant and ignorantly nationalistic. Both irrationally believe their country to be superior in all ways to other countries. Both blame foreigners and immigrants for their economic problems. Both hate socialists, communists, homosexuals, immigrants. liberals. Both consider certain ethnic groups inferior and a threat to society (Jews for one, Latino immigrants for the other) and would happily deprive them of their civil rights and legal protections. Both are militaristic and bellicose. Both like big government when it does what they like. Both misuse religion to promote their ideology of fear and cultural superiority. Both are primarily white, "middle-class", christian, poorly educated, ignorant, and gullible. Both rest on fear and resentment.
I could go on. Not my kind of folk. Ignorant, selfish, and dangerous for a modern democratic society. Such are their leaders and activists. Most of the run-of-the-mill supporters are simply stupid. Wake up America
Nonsense, I'm afraid. The reason is simply lack of competition. If the major network owners were obliged to make their networks available to other providers, as in Europe and much of the world, prices would come down since the entry costs for new market players would fall.
Whether you like teachers unions or not, I don't, they are right on this issue. Publishing this information on individuals is a gross violation of personal privacy. Information at this level of detail is none of the public's business and does nothing to promote good administration, which would be furthered simply with data on the percentage of teachers evaluated as underperforming and what the administration is doing about it. I hope the newspaper is successfully sued by some teacher.
The teachers union is correct too about the unreliability of evaluations based on student test results (if that is in fact the approach used here). There is not necessarily any reliable correlation between a students academic achievement and the individual teacher's competence in the classroom. Many students do well despite poor or mediocre teachers. Many students are behaviourly resistent to discipline and learning in the classroom.
I you want to find out who the good and bad teachers are, simply ask the students. You can't put anything over on them. Then go and ask the other teachers in the school. They know who the incompetents, burnouts and dead-wood are. Ask the parents although they are not very reliable on this. Finally, ask the administration, the least reliable of all, as they rarely enter the classroom to see how the class is being conducted and are more interested in whether the teachers compliance with rules and procedures than with classroom competence.
Engineering used here is just a pretentious word for "how things work". All kids are interested in that ( see Richard Scary's book "How Things Work") and spending time in school on it in the early grades should be normal practice, surely.
It is very easy to get people to decrease the amount of energy they use. You simply increase the price. Taxation can be a great instrument for influencing human behaviour and achieving societal goals. It is common-place to do this with tobacco(punitive taxation) and home ownership in the US (mortgage interest deduction). Why not energy?
Micromanagement by Congress and incoherent, patch-work legislation are at the root of America's problems. A politicized public service makes failure inevitable. People don't trust congress, they don't trust 'government'. Who can blame them? Who is out there with sufficient public trust to do the oversight and regulation than the economy desperately needs? Do professional, non-partisan technocrats exist in America? Where do they come from?
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So when does the boycott start?
A diploma is just a crutch for lazy HR people. They figure anyone can get a diploma who has neither a mental or character deficiency, so why look any further into the true ability or potential of an applicant. It takes time and effort to assess a candidate properly so just go with the paper qualification. Most jobs today of a non-specialized nature do not require a college education: Just literacy, an enquiring mind, and good work habits. And in that I certainly include teaching, nursing and a host of other "professions". College is overhyped but the game has to be played as there is no percentage in being the only sane person in an insane world. Whatever did you learn in college that has been important in your work? Be honest. On the job experience is everything if you are just reasonably intelligent.
What do you mean " is the bar being lowered?" It was lowered a long time ago. The prevailing idea that everyone, anyone, should go to university (college) is nonsense. To keep the numbers up, colleges MUST lower their standards or most students would fail and mummy wouldn't like that. A degree is for the intellectually gifted. Perhaps no more than 25% of graduating high school students should go on to tertiary education. Most college education today is inefficient, ineffective vocational training at best and largely a waste of time. All that can be said for most college degrees is that it helps lazy HR people screen applicants (using irrelevant criteria). Today, if you can't get a college degree it means that you are either dead stupid or have a character defect. It says nothing about your intelligence and potential..
Has anybody figured out yet that the internet "kill switch" is a figure of speech, a metaphor? for ordering all the ISPs to shut down? Damn! It's like the Bible. People take everything too literally.
Yeh, I share your frustration. If it's not the Bible, it's the Constitution.
All it takes is a phone call from the Ministry of Interior to the ISP and the plug is pulled. Intimidation is so '30's.
All in the interest of "balanced reporting".
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The process is already completely perverted. Haven't you been paying attention?
Yes, and better soldiers. When your soldiers don't reflect the composition and values of your society then its time to do some house-cleaning. Let's start with Marine Corps General Amos, and then maybe the Marine Corps itself if he accurately reflects its views.
There is nothing "conservative" about homophobia and the attitudes and beliefs it betrays. I can think of many other more appropriate descriptive adjectives.
Actually, a better explanation for the Fox news effect is "The Big Lie": Say it loud enough and often enough and people will start to believe it. The Nazi's did well with this technique.
Since Fox demonstrably and deliberately puts out misinformation, it is demonstrably true that people who rely on Fox for information are necessarily mis-informed, less-informed and un-informed. Fox relies on two never-fail money-making ideas:
1.The Big Lie: Say it loud enough and often enough and most people will start to believe it.
2. No-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American (substitute nationality of your choice) public.
AC wrote"
"The way to understand the anti-abortion mindset is extremely simple, but very difficult (apparently) for many supposedly "rational" thinkers. They believe that a person is alive and has rights from the moment of conception. Potential life, in their eyes, is to be as revered as full life-- in fact in some ways more so because it has no adequate defenses or ability to survive without help*."
Yet these same people who "revere life" are overwhelmingly in favour of the death penalty; and are quite happy with selective assassinations and war with its "collateral damage" (read killing and wounding of civilians by American soldiers), as long as it is America doing the killing. Not to speak of the millions of Americans in the US who can't afford or get access to decent health care.
"and could care less"
I think you mean "and could NOT care less".
If you "could care less" then you are obviously caring too much.
A friendly message from the correct English usage police.
"Decent programming" is such that appeals to decent, intelligent, discriminating people. If such a program finds itself on Fox it is a fluke and must be killed by management. Fox has its reputation to think about.
You forgot Garfield
Hitler and his Nazi party supporters have a lot in common with today's Republican/tea-party Americans:
Both are highly nativist, intolerant and ignorantly nationalistic.
Both irrationally believe their country to be superior in all ways to other countries.
Both blame foreigners and immigrants for their economic problems.
Both hate socialists, communists, homosexuals, immigrants. liberals.
Both consider certain ethnic groups inferior and a threat to society (Jews for one, Latino immigrants for the other) and would happily deprive them of their civil rights and legal protections.
Both are militaristic and bellicose.
Both like big government when it does what they like.
Both misuse religion to promote their ideology of fear and cultural superiority.
Both are primarily white, "middle-class", christian, poorly educated, ignorant, and gullible.
Both rest on fear and resentment.
I could go on. Not my kind of folk. Ignorant, selfish, and dangerous for a modern democratic society. Such are their leaders and activists. Most of the run-of-the-mill supporters are simply stupid. Wake up America
Forget begging spam mail.
He should save himself the trouble and apply for a government grant.
I don't think you understand political satire.
As for "a few fringe members" of the tea party movement, one is judged by the company one keeps.
Nonsense, I'm afraid. The reason is simply lack of competition. If the major network owners were obliged to make their networks available to other providers, as in Europe and much of the world, prices would come down since the entry costs for new market players would fall.
Whether you like teachers unions or not, I don't, they are right on this issue. Publishing this information on individuals is a gross violation of personal privacy. Information at this level of detail is none of the public's business and does nothing to promote good administration, which would be furthered simply with data on the percentage of teachers evaluated as underperforming and what the administration is doing about it. I hope the newspaper is successfully sued by some teacher.
The teachers union is correct too about the unreliability of evaluations based on student test results (if that is in fact the approach used here). There is not necessarily any reliable correlation between a students academic achievement and the individual teacher's competence in the classroom. Many students do well despite poor or mediocre teachers. Many students are behaviourly resistent to discipline and learning in the classroom.
I you want to find out who the good and bad teachers are, simply ask the students. You can't put anything over on them. Then go and ask the other teachers in the school. They know who the incompetents, burnouts and dead-wood are. Ask the parents although they are not very reliable on this. Finally, ask the administration, the least reliable of all, as they rarely enter the classroom to see how the class is being conducted and are more interested in whether the teachers compliance with rules and procedures than with classroom competence.
Engineering used here is just a pretentious word for "how things work". All kids are interested in that ( see Richard Scary's book "How Things Work") and spending time in school on it in the early grades should be normal practice, surely.
It is very easy to get people to decrease the amount of energy they use. You simply increase the price. Taxation can be a great instrument for influencing human behaviour and achieving societal goals. It is common-place to do this with tobacco(punitive taxation) and home ownership in the US (mortgage interest deduction). Why not energy?
Motives are very important: that is why we have judges. There are no absolute rights and wrongs.
Instead of manually entering your scripts, menu items, stylesheets, and commands in a complicated text file
Comedy gold :)
Exactly how dumb does Apple think its users are that a text file is now considered 'complicated'?
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No-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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Micromanagement by Congress and incoherent, patch-work legislation are at the root of America's problems. A politicized public service makes failure inevitable. People don't trust congress, they don't trust 'government'. Who can blame them? Who is out there with sufficient public trust to do the oversight and regulation than the economy desperately needs? Do professional, non-partisan technocrats exist in America? Where do they come from?