On the contrary, my expectations were higher than anyone else's. That was one of the things that infuriated me about her teachers was their low expectations.
That's because, like most Christians, you think God asks of you what is convenient for you.
You think you know what I think? You're a mind-reading psychic? Is it "convinient" to let a few homeless folks store their stuff in my basement? Is it "convinient" to forgive debts when my bills are behind?
And by the way, if you include among your "friends" several prostitutes that you frequent, this could be a pretty good indication as to why you have not found a good woman yet
I was celibate for three years after my ex wife left; I caouldn't get as much as a dinner date. Then I met Ralph.
the law protects the creators' rights (or tries to).
Yes, but not his "wishes". The law does NOT say that I have to respect ANYONE'S "wishes". The artist doesn't want me to make MP3s of my legally purchased CDs? Tough shit, the law says I have the right to do just that. Crysler "wishes" that I would only use their factory approved parts? Tough shit, I'll use any damned brand of spark plugs I want.
Legally stores don't sell music -- they sell a license to listen to it in certain ways
No, they most certainly do NOT sell a "license", they sell recordings on physical media. If ZZ Top wants to record an Elvin Bishop song they get the license, not me. I am buying a physical item, which I own. The law says I can't sell or distribute copies, and that's ALL it says.
I'm against prohibition. My point was that prohibition is not only still around, but that some (IMO dimwitted) people are actually FOR prohibition.
My personal opinion is that an adult should have the right to screw his life up any way he wants; by drugs, drinking, tobacco, gambling, getting married, you name it.
Your link reinforces my opinion; cocaine use is up, prices are down. Most US prisoners are nonviolent drug offenders.
My guess is that they use "refurbished" items to replace ones that come from the factoty with defects, which is a pretty bad idea from a PR point of view. Had the original not been defective they would have had a repeat customer. Had the replacement not also been defective they likely still would have had a repeat customer. But as the saying goes, "fool you once, shame on you. Fool me twoice, shame on me." They replaced a defective phone with an even more defective phone, I'd be a fool to buy another product from them.
Making liquor illegal only drove liquor production and distribution underground, brought about the rise of organized crime (remember Al Capone?), and probably increased the amount of alcoholism prevalent at the time.
My late grandmother was born a few months before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, my grandfather was born in 1896 (the same year as Michelob beer) and they were young adults during prohibition. Grandpa had a beer making kit in his barn.
Grandma told me that before prohibition, the only people in the salloons were men and floozies. Drinking was a man's pastime, and the few women who drank did it secretly, at home. But during prohibition the salloon was replaced by the speakeasy, where both men and women drank.
Alcohol prohibition did indeed increase the prevalance of drinking.
I hate to break it to you, but prohibition and all the damage it causes society, from the violence of the gangsters to the huge numbers of nonviolent offenders in prison, is still with us.
The RIAA is always shouting that it's because of piracy, but how much is due to other reasons?
Actually, piracy is one of the biiggest reasons I stopped buying RIAA music - I'm boycotting the majors because of their suits against their "pirate" customers. Of course, since I don't like much of what's on the radio these days either that nmakes boycotting that much easier. I've found that the local bands and their CDs are hgeads and shoulders above the RIAA dreck, while 1/4 to 1/2 the price.
The indies are the "pirates" who are eating away at "their" profits.
I would have pointed to Confession of a college downloader's father, a Bill McLellan piece from the St Louis Post Dispatch that I submitted yesterday, but I can't find it in the Firehose (even though my user page says it's "pending").
He paid $4k to the record company for his son's downloading at college, even though he didn't even know what downloading was! He likens it to a $7k bill he had for fixing a broken sewer line. No clue why he's paying but was advised to do so by a lawyer.
Or it could be that the music industry is turning altruistic in it's old age and they wish to slash their profit margins by condoning free downloads.
Advertising isn't altruistic. Giving out free samples isn't altruistic. These dumbasses need to realise that they are RECORD companies and start selling RECORDS again - physical media with full fidelity music on them. Give away the MP3s.
Of course, this will be the death knell of losers who put out a CD's worth of crap that has one decent single they play on the radio. But with some bands it's the opposite. By the time Aerosmith came out, I'd given up buying an album on the strength of a song on the radio, and I REALLY was unimpressed with the minor key whiney Aerosmith song they played on the radio, Dream On. It turned out that that was the only sucky song on the album! But if you had liked that song, you likely wouldn't have liked the rest of the album. I bought it after I heard the LP at a friend's house.
It it was today, and the songs were posted in the internet, I'd have bought it right away.
I always liked Santanna, and when Supernatural came out they weren't playing any of it on the radio here. So I went to CD NOW and listened to the 30 second clips of its songs, and was incredibly unimpressed. "When did they start sucking?" I asked.
Well, my daughter didn't know this but knew I liked Santanna, and bought tha CD for me for Christmas. It was a great CD! Had she not bought it, they would have lost a sale. But had she not bought it and they had posted full MP3s on the internet, I would have bought it.
Advertisers will tell you "sell the sizzle, not the steak". If brains were dynamite, record company execs wouldn't have enough to blow their noses. If they had any brains they would post MP3s and make sure everyone believed in MP3's inferiority to CDs.
That said, the RIAA labels have pissed me off to the point where I only buy indie; the last dozen CDs I've bought have been from bar bands.
Finally a record label who is starting to 'get it'.
The old (modified today by me) joke goes "what do you call a busload of RIAA lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start."
They're only STARTING to get it. When they stop being members of the RIAA and IFPI then we'll have something. Cutting funding? How about NOT FUNDING AT ALL??
You assume that all educators are competent, when in actuality very few (at least in the US public school system) are.
these parents (quite separately) identify with their children
I see you don't have children. OF COURSE you will identidy with your children. You're going to expect them to pull the same sorry shit you did, and try to compensate for it, to keep them from it. You'll know when they do. You'll also know that out of all the teachers you had from first grade to 12th, you might have had three who shouldn't have been asking if I want fries with that.
The point is that it's possible to attribute your failure to others
Lets be clear here -YOU are the teacher. If a kid in your class gets an F, it is YOU who have failed, not the child. It is YOUR job to teach. If the child doesn't learn, YOU have failed. Don't go blaming others for you own failures.
Both my kids have their HS diplomas now. The youngest starts college soon, where she will experience a completely different world than the (mostly) incompetents in the public school system.
Bonus points if their child has the same teacher they did.
If she was incompetent 20 years ago it's a pretty good bet she's even worse now.
...will bring up issues from before I even started working there to explain why I don't like her son, and why he has below 60%.
How could something that happened before you started make you dislike a student? That's just stupid. However, you have the kid's record, yet you act as if you are impartial. If a kid has a history of behavioral problems you wil OF COURSE not look at him the same way as a student who has no disciplinary problems.
Below 60% of what? How can someone wiith poor communication skills impart knowlege? And if you're a teacher as you imply, you know full well that the principal has a very large effect on the education of every kid in the school.
Take my youngest daughter, for example, the gifted one. She loved school and excelled in it, until she got to 7th grade. The assistant principal was a racist black man who did everything he could to put the white kids, particularly the ones who hadn't been in trouble and made good grades, in detention. It didn't matter one bit that my daughter had exceptional teachers that year, she wound up hating school. You're not going to learn if you hate school.
That Ass. Principal was eventually removed, but the damage was done. Now he's damaging kids in another district.
denial - some parents are crazy and think their children are perfect, should never be penalized when they do something wrong
IMO there isn't nearly enough discipline in the schools. And the teachers are the ones in denial. Nobody's perfect, but the educators think they are and that the kids should be. And very few realize that each kid is different and responds to different teaching methods.
But although I'm hyperlex myself, with an IQ of 142, I disagree. I think you have it backwards; reading doesn't cause you to be intelligent. Being intelligent makes you read.
It's never been that way with any other endeavor, but I found when learning the guitar that when I hit a wall, putting the instrumment down for a while was the best thing to do.
The schools fail in so many ways. And I mean that in both senses, as when a child fails, it's the teacher who fails the child.
One of my daughters is "gifted" and one is mentally handicapped. Their schools were ill-equipped to deal with either of them.
Educators keep writing letters to newspaper editors bemoaning lack of "parental involvement" when the only involvement they really want from parents is fund raising (We're having a fun razor? Yippee!)
None of either of my daughters' teachers listened to a word I said. If they had, their jobs would have been a hell of a lot easier, as I knew my kids better than anybody, including their mother. Invariably toward the end of the year these know it all teachers would admit to me that I was right and they should have listened.
Mod parent up! You cannot teach, you can only help to learn. Kids are (usually) born with curiosity and imagination. Nurture these, and if you are American know that the public school system will do its damndest to destroy both.
/For the record, I've been doing a lot of reading on the subject lately, as I'm a fairly new father of a girl -- and I'm always looking for insight.
As the father of two grown daughters (one 20 and one 22) the first lesson I'll impart to new parents is that the experts are wrong. Throw those parenting books away! If your grandparents are still alive, ask them. They've been through it, twice. And follow your own instincts; millions of years ov evolution are on your side.
Nothing imparts insight like experience. Doctor Spock was a dimwit who ruined entire generations of kids.
she get's her hands dirty, can change a distributor
Classic car buff?
-mcgrew (from the above link:
The automobile distributor and points Unless you are a classic car collector, or a geezer, you have no idea how much of a pain in the butt these things were. About every oil change or two, your car's performance and gas mileage would go down, and you would need a tuneup.
To tune your car, you could simply hire someone. That is, if you were a sissy.
A real man changed his own oil and tuned his own car up. You could tell a real man by the scars and scabs on his knuckles from working on his car.
First you had to change all eight of your spark plugs. What? You only have six? Pussy! Make sure you don't get the wires on wrong, or if your car will start at all, it will lurch and backfire and run like crap.
Then you had to take off the distributor cap, usually held on by two clips that would cut your fingers and were harder than a rubic cube solution to get clipped back on.
Under the distributor cap was the contact points. These had to be replaced. Then you had to adjust the gap on the points. Oh shit, I forgot to adjust the gaps on the spark plugs... do that all over again...
Now that the plugs are gapped and the points are replaced and gapped, you put the new distributor cap on... Come on... SHIT... GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHI... ok, there it goes. Good. Gimme a bandaid, would ya?
Now you have to set the points' dwell. What's "dwell?" Beats the hell out of me, maybe it's the amount of time the points are closed. But you have to set it with a dwell meter or your car will run like it's powered by gerbils and will suck gas like Bush sucks at being President.
Then you have to get out your strobe and set the timing. You loosen the distributor, point your strobe at the mark on the... wait a minute... I can't see the damned mark. Stop the engine, would you?
Damn, it's all rusty and... to hell with it, start it back up and I'll time the God damned thing by ear, piece of shit...
Thank God and modern electronics for electronic ignition!
I'm gonna have to vote for "have genes that make you smart" as the answer to raising smart kids.
That only applies to men, whose contribution to intelligence from conception to birth is genes alone.
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, one of my daughters has an IQ of 65 and one 135. Since the fish have lots of mercury, I don't think eating lots of it as you suggest will do anything for your kids except make them dumb.
It's mostly up to the mother. The way for her to have smart kids is
don't work an a physically demanding job (lifting is bad for fetuses; I believe that was what caused my eldests's distress in her mother's labor. Th edoctor told us when she was born that she would likely have problems)
Don't drink alcohol or take any other drugs (fetal alcohol syndrome is the #1 cause of mental retardation)
stay the hell away from tuna fish sandwiches
Take a good multivitamin suppliment (Doctors are prescribing them now)
Get lots of rest
Get pregnant by a slashdot nerd. Oh wait...
Once they're born, read to them every day! This is not any guarantee; I read to Leila as much as I did Patty. If you're born without legs you're not going to be a professional hockey player.
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I finally traded the LG for a motorola and didn't have any problems at all... until I dropped it in a toilet.
On the contrary, my expectations were higher than anyone else's. That was one of the things that infuriated me about her teachers was their low expectations.
I would guess that the folks at whitehouse.gov would consider the folks at whitehouse.com to be terrorists.
But you're right, this being slashdot most here are more likely to be familiar with whitehouse.com.
That's because, like most Christians, you think God asks of you what is convenient for you.
You think you know what I think? You're a mind-reading psychic? Is it "convinient" to let a few homeless folks store their stuff in my basement? Is it "convinient" to forgive debts when my bills are behind?
And by the way, if you include among your "friends" several prostitutes that you frequent, this could be a pretty good indication as to why you have not found a good woman yet
I was celibate for three years after my ex wife left; I caouldn't get as much as a dinner date. Then I met Ralph.
the law protects the creators' rights (or tries to).
Yes, but not his "wishes". The law does NOT say that I have to respect ANYONE'S "wishes". The artist doesn't want me to make MP3s of my legally purchased CDs? Tough shit, the law says I have the right to do just that. Crysler "wishes" that I would only use their factory approved parts? Tough shit, I'll use any damned brand of spark plugs I want.
Legally stores don't sell music -- they sell a license to listen to it in certain ways
No, they most certainly do NOT sell a "license", they sell recordings on physical media. If ZZ Top wants to record an Elvin Bishop song they get the license, not me. I am buying a physical item, which I own. The law says I can't sell or distribute copies, and that's ALL it says.
I'm against prohibition. My point was that prohibition is not only still around, but that some (IMO dimwitted) people are actually FOR prohibition.
My personal opinion is that an adult should have the right to screw his life up any way he wants; by drugs, drinking, tobacco, gambling, getting married, you name it.
Your link reinforces my opinion; cocaine use is up, prices are down. Most US prisoners are nonviolent drug offenders.
Prohibition is madness.
My guess is that they use "refurbished" items to replace ones that come from the factoty with defects, which is a pretty bad idea from a PR point of view. Had the original not been defective they would have had a repeat customer. Had the replacement not also been defective they likely still would have had a repeat customer. But as the saying goes, "fool you once, shame on you. Fool me twoice, shame on me." They replaced a defective phone with an even more defective phone, I'd be a fool to buy another product from them.
screw the consumer with having them actually enjoy it
Perhaps they should take lessons from prostitutes?
Making liquor illegal only drove liquor production and distribution underground, brought about the rise of organized crime (remember Al Capone?), and probably increased the amount of alcoholism prevalent at the time.
My late grandmother was born a few months before the Wright Brothers took off at Kitty Hawk, my grandfather was born in 1896 (the same year as Michelob beer) and they were young adults during prohibition. Grandpa had a beer making kit in his barn.
Grandma told me that before prohibition, the only people in the salloons were men and floozies. Drinking was a man's pastime, and the few women who drank did it secretly, at home. But during prohibition the salloon was replaced by the speakeasy, where both men and women drank.
Alcohol prohibition did indeed increase the prevalance of drinking.
-mcgrew
perhaps DRM will go the way of prohibition
I hate to break it to you, but prohibition and all the damage it causes society, from the violence of the gangsters to the huge numbers of nonviolent offenders in prison, is still with us.
-mcgrew
PS- DRM on music can never work
The RIAA is always shouting that it's because of piracy, but how much is due to other reasons?
Actually, piracy is one of the biiggest reasons I stopped buying RIAA music - I'm boycotting the majors because of their suits against their "pirate" customers. Of course, since I don't like much of what's on the radio these days either that nmakes boycotting that much easier. I've found that the local bands and their CDs are hgeads and shoulders above the RIAA dreck, while 1/4 to 1/2 the price.
The indies are the "pirates" who are eating away at "their" profits.
-mcgrew
I would have pointed to Confession of a college downloader's father, a Bill McLellan piece from the St Louis Post Dispatch that I submitted yesterday, but I can't find it in the Firehose (even though my user page says it's "pending").
He paid $4k to the record company for his son's downloading at college, even though he didn't even know what downloading was! He likens it to a $7k bill he had for fixing a broken sewer line. No clue why he's paying but was advised to do so by a lawyer.
-mcgrew
Or it could be that the music industry is turning altruistic in it's old age and they wish to slash their profit margins by condoning free downloads.
Advertising isn't altruistic. Giving out free samples isn't altruistic. These dumbasses need to realise that they are RECORD companies and start selling RECORDS again - physical media with full fidelity music on them. Give away the MP3s.
Of course, this will be the death knell of losers who put out a CD's worth of crap that has one decent single they play on the radio. But with some bands it's the opposite. By the time Aerosmith came out, I'd given up buying an album on the strength of a song on the radio, and I REALLY was unimpressed with the minor key whiney Aerosmith song they played on the radio, Dream On. It turned out that that was the only sucky song on the album! But if you had liked that song, you likely wouldn't have liked the rest of the album. I bought it after I heard the LP at a friend's house.
It it was today, and the songs were posted in the internet, I'd have bought it right away.
I always liked Santanna, and when Supernatural came out they weren't playing any of it on the radio here. So I went to CD NOW and listened to the 30 second clips of its songs, and was incredibly unimpressed. "When did they start sucking?" I asked.
Well, my daughter didn't know this but knew I liked Santanna, and bought tha CD for me for Christmas. It was a great CD! Had she not bought it, they would have lost a sale. But had she not bought it and they had posted full MP3s on the internet, I would have bought it.
Advertisers will tell you "sell the sizzle, not the steak". If brains were dynamite, record company execs wouldn't have enough to blow their noses. If they had any brains they would post MP3s and make sure everyone believed in MP3's inferiority to CDs.
That said, the RIAA labels have pissed me off to the point where I only buy indie; the last dozen CDs I've bought have been from bar bands.
-mcgrew
"Someone was terribly incompetent and he was afraid it might be him" -Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Finally a record label who is starting to 'get it'.
The old (modified today by me) joke goes "what do you call a busload of RIAA lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start."
They're only STARTING to get it. When they stop being members of the RIAA and IFPI then we'll have something. Cutting funding? How about NOT FUNDING AT ALL??
these parents (quite separately) identify with their children
I see you don't have children. OF COURSE you will identidy with your children. You're going to expect them to pull the same sorry shit you did, and try to compensate for it, to keep them from it. You'll know when they do. You'll also know that out of all the teachers you had from first grade to 12th, you might have had three who shouldn't have been asking if I want fries with that.
The point is that it's possible to attribute your failure to others
Lets be clear here -YOU are the teacher. If a kid in your class gets an F, it is YOU who have failed, not the child. It is YOUR job to teach. If the child doesn't learn, YOU have failed. Don't go blaming others for you own failures.
Both my kids have their HS diplomas now. The youngest starts college soon, where she will experience a completely different world than the (mostly) incompetents in the public school system.
Bonus points if their child has the same teacher they did.
If she was incompetent 20 years ago it's a pretty good bet she's even worse now.
How could something that happened before you started make you dislike a student? That's just stupid. However, you have the kid's record, yet you act as if you are impartial. If a kid has a history of behavioral problems you wil OF COURSE not look at him the same way as a student who has no disciplinary problems.
Below 60% of what? How can someone wiith poor communication skills impart knowlege? And if you're a teacher as you imply, you know full well that the principal has a very large effect on the education of every kid in the school.
Take my youngest daughter, for example, the gifted one. She loved school and excelled in it, until she got to 7th grade. The assistant principal was a racist black man who did everything he could to put the white kids, particularly the ones who hadn't been in trouble and made good grades, in detention. It didn't matter one bit that my daughter had exceptional teachers that year, she wound up hating school. You're not going to learn if you hate school.
That Ass. Principal was eventually removed, but the damage was done. Now he's damaging kids in another district.
denial - some parents are crazy and think their children are perfect, should never be penalized when they do something wrong
IMO there isn't nearly enough discipline in the schools. And the teachers are the ones in denial. Nobody's perfect, but the educators think they are and that the kids should be. And very few realize that each kid is different and responds to different teaching methods.
I guess nobody can call you an Apple fanboy!
But although I'm hyperlex myself, with an IQ of 142, I disagree. I think you have it backwards; reading doesn't cause you to be intelligent. Being intelligent makes you read.
-mcgrew
You are born as intelligent as you will ever be. You are also born as ignorant as you will ever be.
It's never been that way with any other endeavor, but I found when learning the guitar that when I hit a wall, putting the instrumment down for a while was the best thing to do.
The schools fail in so many ways. And I mean that in both senses, as when a child fails, it's the teacher who fails the child.
One of my daughters is "gifted" and one is mentally handicapped. Their schools were ill-equipped to deal with either of them.
Educators keep writing letters to newspaper editors bemoaning lack of "parental involvement" when the only involvement they really want from parents is fund raising (We're having a fun razor? Yippee!)
None of either of my daughters' teachers listened to a word I said. If they had, their jobs would have been a hell of a lot easier, as I knew my kids better than anybody, including their mother. Invariably toward the end of the year these know it all teachers would admit to me that I was right and they should have listened.
Mod parent up! You cannot teach, you can only help to learn. Kids are (usually) born with curiosity and imagination. Nurture these, and if you are American know that the public school system will do its damndest to destroy both.
/For the record, I've been doing a lot of reading on the subject lately, as I'm a fairly new father of a girl -- and I'm always looking for insight.
As the father of two grown daughters (one 20 and one 22) the first lesson I'll impart to new parents is that the experts are wrong. Throw those parenting books away! If your grandparents are still alive, ask them. They've been through it, twice. And follow your own instincts; millions of years ov evolution are on your side.
Nothing imparts insight like experience. Doctor Spock was a dimwit who ruined entire generations of kids.
Classic car buff?
-mcgrew
(from the above link:
Yue musspilled "skule"
That only applies to men, whose contribution to intelligence from conception to birth is genes alone.
As I mentioned in an earlier comment, one of my daughters has an IQ of 65 and one 135. Since the fish have lots of mercury, I don't think eating lots of it as you suggest will do anything for your kids except make them dumb.
It's mostly up to the mother. The way for her to have smart kids is
- don't work an a physically demanding job (lifting is bad for fetuses; I believe that was what caused my eldests's distress in her mother's labor. Th edoctor told us when she was born that she would likely have problems)
- Don't drink alcohol or take any other drugs (fetal alcohol syndrome is the #1 cause of mental retardation)
- stay the hell away from tuna fish sandwiches
- Take a good multivitamin suppliment (Doctors are prescribing them now)
- Get lots of rest
- Get pregnant by a slashdot nerd. Oh wait...
Once they're born, read to them every day! This is not any guarantee; I read to Leila as much as I did Patty. If you're born without legs you're not going to be a professional hockey player.