Oh I think there should be >2 levels, I just doubt that it'll happen over the entire country. Maybe I'm just too pessimistic, as my school system has managed.
I'd say that its more often parents who don't teach and who don't encourage learning that actual disabilities. Most people I know who are in the 'worse' classes or are doing poorly just don't care. There are people who are trying and just having trouble, but most seem to not be trying.
I did well in high school and now being in college I'm about 1-2 years ahead of every person in most of my classes. If my classes went at my pace, sure I'd learn more, but the majority of the class would be left in the dust. Then you'd need private tutors for most of the class. That just wouldn't work. I think the best way to go about it is it look at what the average of the class is, and try to pace the class to that average. The slower kids can either work harder or get tutoring, and the quicker kids can just go ahead at their own pace.
No, you really need multiple levels of classes. If they are falling too far behind, they belong in an easier class. Within the class no one should be hugely ahead of any other throughout the entire year. If there isn't a harder class, they should be able to test out of it or do it independent study. However, this would require more effort on the part of both teachers and probably students, so the best we can probably hope for is 2 levels per class maximum.
Of course, the slower kids probably wouldn't have any desire to catch up to the class. In my experience, students who fall behind in school, for the most part, fall behind because they don't care to begin with. They wouldn't want to have to do anything to catch up with the class.
That's the problem with our educational system. Schools don't teach things like the value of learning, and why it is important to learn and do well in school. You just sit in a desk and learn whatever is in the textbook. I think instead of worrying about "no child left behind" we should have a reform in our schools to teach more usable life skills like how to use the web properly, and how loans work. Many Americans have no clue about the world. Our public school system could change that.
I agree that the main problem is that the slower students just don't care. I'm not sure that this is really fixable after early elementary school - if the parents and the school haven't managed to get the kid to understand the importance of learning by then, I doubt that they'll often be able to do so later.
To me, "life skills" aren't something that should take up much of school time - people should be learning them on their own. Perhaps a couple of half-year courses should be required.
Also, in the U.S., the incentives are completely broken. There is no incentive at all to be a good teacher, only an incentive to be a teacher for a long time. The NEA is very powerful here, and they have the best interests of teachers in mind, not students. "Job security" means incompetent, lazy teachers never leave.
While your size argument may well be accurate (bigger = more bureaucracy + less efficiency way too often), this argument just supports the GP's point. Its not public schools in general that are the problem, its this specific implementation. There may not be a good implementation on a large scale for the costs people are willing to pay, but you'd have to show that some other way.
It is up to the person who makes the positive claim to provide evidence for his claim. The positive claim here is that those who engage in theft of undergarments are also likely pedophiles. The negative claim here is that an overlap between these two seperate populations has not been shown.
And even if this is true, you have decide whether or not you should mark them as a sex offender for this. Even if this is true, then it still doesn't seem (to me) to be worthy of that punishment.
Well, if they have an RFID chip or a (very) long barcode or magnetic strip, then you could include a bunch of info on the strip (at least name) and sign it with a public key algorithm. That should be relatively unbreakable.
That depends - with C/C++ you supposedly can't compile with a GPLed shared library unless your code is GPLed (technically you can't release it, but you know what I mean). This might be said to hold true for Java libraries as well, so if they are also opening the standard library sources under GPL (which isn't clear in the article), people might say that anything running under Sun's Java VM would have to be GPLed.
Since the information in the system CANNOT BE MADE PUBLIC, we are right back to the current Diebold situation. All it takes is a minor change in the programming that CANNOT BE MADE PUBLIC and the votes are going to another party. And this is, by design, UNVERIFIABLE by the public.
Yes it can - you just need a secure random number source. It doesn't matter if you know the algorithm when it is completely random.
Hmm, my verizon DSL modem has one ethernet out and one usb out, and nothing else. The service came with a wireless router though, and it was several years ago that we signed up. (its a westell wirespeed)
To legally enable wiretapping without judical oversight, they would need a supermajority to repeal or cripple the Fourth Amendment, and they wouldn't have had it. To legally enable torture, they would need a supermajority to repeal or cripple the Eighth Amendment, and they wouldn't have had it. To legally enable arbitrary incarceration without due process, they would need a supermajority to repeal or cripple the Fifth and Sixth Amendments (and part of Article I), and they wouldn't have had it.
Actually, they'd need even more than that. They would need 2/3 supermajorities to PROPOSE an amendment. They would then need 3/4 of the states to ratify it. Not gonna happen, just like any amendment only one party would vote for like the gay marriage amendment they wanted.
Works like that for me from firefox to KDE desktop. Only problem is that for some reason its not letting me stick icons on my second monitor's desktop.
It was unconstitutional, and then they amended the constitution. The sixteenth amendment:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Are you saying that doesn't allow the US gov to collect income tax from people?
Umm, yes just 'Wii owners'. Or rather, anyone who gets a binary copy of the OS must be able to get a source version easily and w/o real charge. You do NOT have to give the source to everyone.
However the US should still follow the rules in the Geneva Convention for humane treatment of prisoners because it is the right thing to do. Not to mention, if the US wants to claim the moral high ground, it looks kinda funny to be torturing people.
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Except that the US didn't lose infrastructure, so we made out good.
Oh I think there should be >2 levels, I just doubt that it'll happen over the entire country. Maybe I'm just too pessimistic, as my school system has managed.
I'd say that its more often parents who don't teach and who don't encourage learning that actual disabilities. Most people I know who are in the 'worse' classes or are doing poorly just don't care. There are people who are trying and just having trouble, but most seem to not be trying.
No, you really need multiple levels of classes. If they are falling too far behind, they belong in an easier class. Within the class no one should be hugely ahead of any other throughout the entire year. If there isn't a harder class, they should be able to test out of it or do it independent study. However, this would require more effort on the part of both teachers and probably students, so the best we can probably hope for is 2 levels per class maximum.
Of course, the slower kids probably wouldn't have any desire to catch up to the class. In my experience, students who fall behind in school, for the most part, fall behind because they don't care to begin with. They wouldn't want to have to do anything to catch up with the class.
That's the problem with our educational system. Schools don't teach things like the value of learning, and why it is important to learn and do well in school. You just sit in a desk and learn whatever is in the textbook. I think instead of worrying about "no child left behind" we should have a reform in our schools to teach more usable life skills like how to use the web properly, and how loans work. Many Americans have no clue about the world. Our public school system could change that.
I agree that the main problem is that the slower students just don't care. I'm not sure that this is really fixable after early elementary school - if the parents and the school haven't managed to get the kid to understand the importance of learning by then, I doubt that they'll often be able to do so later.
To me, "life skills" aren't something that should take up much of school time - people should be learning them on their own. Perhaps a couple of half-year courses should be required.
And more importantly, its incomplete right now. When its a complete implementation of .Net, then it may be comparable.
Simply, yes. However, most commercial software obviously isn't GPLed.
Well, if they have an RFID chip or a (very) long barcode or magnetic strip, then you could include a bunch of info on the strip (at least name) and sign it with a public key algorithm. That should be relatively unbreakable.
If those methods are generally considered to be torture, than yes that is condoning torture, even if they themselves don't engage in it.
Thats simple - if the song is 100kb, divide amount uploaded by 100kb and thats the number of songs uploaded.
If you are using port 25 for anything other than email you really shouldn't be, so I wouldn't list that as a real problem.
Why would you do that - 10k emails is a wakeup call. One email they won't notice.
That depends - with C/C++ you supposedly can't compile with a GPLed shared library unless your code is GPLed (technically you can't release it, but you know what I mean). This might be said to hold true for Java libraries as well, so if they are also opening the standard library sources under GPL (which isn't clear in the article), people might say that anything running under Sun's Java VM would have to be GPLed.
As long as they have to get a subpoena, then its ok - thats how the system is supposed to work.
Hmm, my verizon DSL modem has one ethernet out and one usb out, and nothing else. The service came with a wireless router though, and it was several years ago that we signed up. (its a westell wirespeed)
Well, Bush shouldn't be promising tax cuts - he has no control over the matter except to veto. If he still promises it, hold him to it.
Works like that for me from firefox to KDE desktop. Only problem is that for some reason its not letting me stick icons on my second monitor's desktop.
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Umm, yes just 'Wii owners'. Or rather, anyone who gets a binary copy of the OS must be able to get a source version easily and w/o real charge. You do NOT have to give the source to everyone.
Umm, so I can't scan in a book I own? If thats illegal it sure as hell shouldn't be! Distributing the electronic copy however, should be.
However the US should still follow the rules in the Geneva Convention for humane treatment of prisoners because it is the right thing to do. Not to mention, if the US wants to claim the moral high ground, it looks kinda funny to be torturing people.