First session of our orientation course in our first year, our professor from industrial engineering (our dept) dept, who was flying to m.i.t. to deliver lessons and back from time to time, (one of the youngest professors in this country back then) had told us that we would only remember 4% of ALL that we were going to learn during the course of next 4 years of academic education. and ALL of that would only serve the purpose of giving us a 'formation'. a formation of scientific/engineering mind.
he was right. despite we were studying in a university that sent academicians to teach in a lot of respectable universities of the world, despite we were a university that was geared more towards practical (applied) education, (a few of my classmates are in top 4-5 people of some fortune 10 companies now), the next 4 years of education was really in that manner. after a while, you come to learn - this is the reality of an education system that has descended from scholastic roots, and there are few universities and colleges exempt from these around the world, and these are considered radical.
so in short, even our education system, even if it is conducted with a 'modern' approach, is, 96% inefficient. we load 96% crap into brains of people, only to give a formation that is worth 4%.
it is stunning that, up until this point, noone was able to bring a method that would give 100% formation without loading 96% crap.
but hey - education and textbooks are lucrative businesses. so, our youth has to endure 96% crap.
Much better kids get some basic education in high school, then directly go about doing what they want to do, and learning in the process. times have changed. we had to shell out $50-90 on a single textbook to get to what would be considered advanced information back then - now we have google, and unfathomable amount of information that it indexed, thanks to what crowds put on the web. and yeah, what you can get from web, can be as good as what is put into textbooks. (and at times, more advanced and deep than you would want in a coursebook).
Just today, i was reading innumerable passages and articles while researching the decline of the roman army and decline of roman empire, and their correlation. (whether there was, or wasnt).
in the process, i learned a lot about immediate post-roman britain, post-roman gaul, and what transpired there - from how gallo-roman gauls had preserved a lot of gallic cultural traits well into the fall of roman empire to the return of the romans one last time to britain in order to give bretons blueprints and tools to teach them how to build roman arms and armor because from that point on they would have to defend themselves. (roman emperor apparently told britons they would have to defend themselves circa 406 ad or so).
yeah, i have a habit of reading history. as a hobby to learn stuff. back before wikipedia, researching history was VERY hard, and what you could find was rather impossible to gauge in regard to bias. there may be bias in wikipedia, but at least, you have the references to judge it yourself, instead of having to swallow what rare piece you found like before wikipedia. if we compare my last 4-5 years' of online history reading to ALL the effort i spent in the 15 years preceding it - well, lets not. they are incomparable to the point that i am not even able to scale the difference in a meaningful fashion.
im a web developer, and i have been contacting with my clients through skype when they chose it. now, i will be moving out of skype and to other instant messenger / voip applications. i have numerous clients, and will probably have a lot of clients into the future at this rate, and i have the clout and goodwill to require them to contact me without skype.
im doing this, to prevent experiencing usual microsoft bullshit like one regularly encounters while dealing with them.
enjoy your new acquisition microsoft. without me and my clients.
living and operating outside a FREE country, producing and selling censorship materials for finding, repressing and silencing freedom in other countries.
whores have integrity at least. they conduct their trade.
They may be opting not to have potential nuclear poisoning devices humming in their backyard - but it cant be !!! how can a society choose caution, wisdom and security over * gasp * profits !?!?!?!
if we build our nuclear reactors safe enough, they would......
i quit. the above sentence is not possible to complete, even in the most extreme sarcastic way. there is no complicated structure which could withstand a near 9 magnitude earthquake, and any person who would play the 'we are safe until a megadisaster hits our nuclear facility' gamble is a witless moron. no - i really mean moron. morondom is not erased with higher education.
there is direct correlation in between right wing parties and copyright fascism. right wing believes everything is for sale. this includes army, police, judiciary. they just havent been able to outright do these up till now, but with the 'security contractor' bullshit in bush era they had enabled private armies.
and, no, it was the republicans who prepared acta, in first 1-1.5 years of bush administration. democrats are just serving the meal republicans cooked. had republicans been at it undisrupted until now, things would be much worse, as you can understand from what kind of filth acta was.
anyway ? if you delve into specifics, you will see that current higher education is not too changed from its roots in spirit back from its start in 13th century.
if you even temporarily be a moron enough to vote any right-wing party, that happens. thats all that there is to it. the reason for you voting for the right wing party, does not matter. in this case, french voted for right mainly because of the culture clash in between migrant population, and anti-immigrant sentiments.
right wing parties dont do any shit for what you have actually voted for, but what they want to do when they are in power. and this is what's happening in france. its as simple as that.
any group of people who band together and form a 'company' have the right to privately fuck all other people as they will. and, if they are not even wanting to come to your locale and screw you over privately - you shouldnt do anything - because their right to fuck you whenever they want, however they want should be preserved over what YOU want. crooked ? that's capitalism. until a capital owner decides to fuck you over, you people should just shut up and wait.
im all up for it. tell me - who is this person and what he has done. i am even going to activate my twitter account that i only used for 3 times, just for him/her. quick. and im in turkey. turks who have no business with that person, and brit tourists who flock to turkey will all know about that idiot. just let us know.
there is no rapture in mayan calendar. tzolkin count of mayan calendar, which is the REAL mayan calendar (tracks cycles of the sun) ends in oct 2011. not 2012. the two calendars that end in 2012 vicinity are long count and the other. they are both adjusted for daily life, tasks etc with 360 earth days. tzolkin count, is the calendar that pyramids were built to represent. (all pyramids have nine levels).
this is 'just' a 'proposed injunction by plaintiffs' somewhere in some state, another is just another thing by some other party in other state, something else is 'just' something else someplace else.
one needs to be a moron in order not to realize that these kind of 'just this, that' things are on the increase, and even worse ones are up, and these will eventually become the norm at this rate. because, 'somewhere', 'someone' will manage to make 'something' fly, and from that point on it will be repeated everywhere else, and others will push the boundaries constantly from that new frontier.
This would inevitably happen when ownership moved into thought space.
and no - there is no limit, line, format you can define that will prevent such things from happening - 'rights holders' will eventually push their 'rights' onto you, with THEIR interpretations over and over. it will just end up as an 'interpretation battle' in between 'the people' (me, you all of us) and those who jumped on the 'intellectual property/copyright' bandwagon.
Its not only vintage but also wise to keep hardware just in case. Also, there are things software cant do - try playing to original, pc version star control 2, by using pc speaker only for example - and no - it wont bleep - it used mod based music, and that small speaker, even without a soundcard, could create wonders and shivers in your spine. so much that when i actually bought a sound card (sb16) at last, i didnt feel the difference much because i was used to hearing good sound from pc speaker from star control 2.
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First session of our orientation course in our first year, our professor from industrial engineering (our dept) dept, who was flying to m.i.t. to deliver lessons and back from time to time, (one of the youngest professors in this country back then) had told us that we would only remember 4% of ALL that we were going to learn during the course of next 4 years of academic education. and ALL of that would only serve the purpose of giving us a 'formation'. a formation of scientific/engineering mind.
he was right. despite we were studying in a university that sent academicians to teach in a lot of respectable universities of the world, despite we were a university that was geared more towards practical (applied) education, (a few of my classmates are in top 4-5 people of some fortune 10 companies now), the next 4 years of education was really in that manner. after a while, you come to learn - this is the reality of an education system that has descended from scholastic roots, and there are few universities and colleges exempt from these around the world, and these are considered radical.
so in short, even our education system, even if it is conducted with a 'modern' approach, is, 96% inefficient. we load 96% crap into brains of people, only to give a formation that is worth 4%.
it is stunning that, up until this point, noone was able to bring a method that would give 100% formation without loading 96% crap.
but hey - education and textbooks are lucrative businesses. so, our youth has to endure 96% crap.
Much better kids get some basic education in high school, then directly go about doing what they want to do, and learning in the process. times have changed. we had to shell out $50-90 on a single textbook to get to what would be considered advanced information back then - now we have google, and unfathomable amount of information that it indexed, thanks to what crowds put on the web. and yeah, what you can get from web, can be as good as what is put into textbooks. (and at times, more advanced and deep than you would want in a coursebook).
it is time to reform.
Heaven knows what the update pushed to people. It probably also caused the load.
continued reading on any given subject from multiple sources eventually make biases come out.
Just today, i was reading innumerable passages and articles while researching the decline of the roman army and decline of roman empire, and their correlation. (whether there was, or wasnt).
in the process, i learned a lot about immediate post-roman britain, post-roman gaul, and what transpired there - from how gallo-roman gauls had preserved a lot of gallic cultural traits well into the fall of roman empire to the return of the romans one last time to britain in order to give bretons blueprints and tools to teach them how to build roman arms and armor because from that point on they would have to defend themselves. (roman emperor apparently told britons they would have to defend themselves circa 406 ad or so).
yeah, i have a habit of reading history. as a hobby to learn stuff. back before wikipedia, researching history was VERY hard, and what you could find was rather impossible to gauge in regard to bias. there may be bias in wikipedia, but at least, you have the references to judge it yourself, instead of having to swallow what rare piece you found like before wikipedia. if we compare my last 4-5 years' of online history reading to ALL the effort i spent in the 15 years preceding it - well, lets not. they are incomparable to the point that i am not even able to scale the difference in a meaningful fashion.
im grateful. thanks to all who contributed.
im a web developer, and i have been contacting with my clients through skype when they chose it. now, i will be moving out of skype and to other instant messenger / voip applications. i have numerous clients, and will probably have a lot of clients into the future at this rate, and i have the clout and goodwill to require them to contact me without skype.
im doing this, to prevent experiencing usual microsoft bullshit like one regularly encounters while dealing with them.
enjoy your new acquisition microsoft. without me and my clients.
when ending existing series in an open ended fashion that allows for producing new seasons and movies that is - 'Our fight really begins here on !'
living and operating outside a FREE country, producing and selling censorship materials for finding, repressing and silencing freedom in other countries.
whores have integrity at least. they conduct their trade.
as opposed to facebook just selling it to 3rd parties behind its users' backs.
whoredom.
They may be opting not to have potential nuclear poisoning devices humming in their backyard - but it cant be !!! how can a society choose caution, wisdom and security over * gasp * profits !?!?!?!
......
if we build our nuclear reactors safe enough, they would
i quit. the above sentence is not possible to complete, even in the most extreme sarcastic way. there is no complicated structure which could withstand a near 9 magnitude earthquake, and any person who would play the 'we are safe until a megadisaster hits our nuclear facility' gamble is a witless moron. no - i really mean moron. morondom is not erased with higher education.
there is direct correlation in between right wing parties and copyright fascism. right wing believes everything is for sale. this includes army, police, judiciary. they just havent been able to outright do these up till now, but with the 'security contractor' bullshit in bush era they had enabled private armies.
and, no, it was the republicans who prepared acta, in first 1-1.5 years of bush administration. democrats are just serving the meal republicans cooked. had republicans been at it undisrupted until now, things would be much worse, as you can understand from what kind of filth acta was.
anyway ? if you delve into specifics, you will see that current higher education is not too changed from its roots in spirit back from its start in 13th century.
if you even temporarily be a moron enough to vote any right-wing party, that happens. thats all that there is to it. the reason for you voting for the right wing party, does not matter. in this case, french voted for right mainly because of the culture clash in between migrant population, and anti-immigrant sentiments.
right wing parties dont do any shit for what you have actually voted for, but what they want to do when they are in power. and this is what's happening in france. its as simple as that.
its not because those companies are not 'honestly' profiting from their patents. its that the system is crooked from the start.
thought is a fluid thing that changes shape and leads to other thought. once you allow ownership of any thought, it creates chain reactions.
any group of people who band together and form a 'company' have the right to privately fuck all other people as they will. and, if they are not even wanting to come to your locale and screw you over privately - you shouldnt do anything - because their right to fuck you whenever they want, however they want should be preserved over what YOU want. crooked ? that's capitalism. until a capital owner decides to fuck you over, you people should just shut up and wait.
and save yourself all this shit.
im all up for it. tell me - who is this person and what he has done. i am even going to activate my twitter account that i only used for 3 times, just for him/her. quick. and im in turkey. turks who have no business with that person, and brit tourists who flock to turkey will all know about that idiot. just let us know.
I guess orthodox christians were not included in this.
there is no rapture in mayan calendar. tzolkin count of mayan calendar, which is the REAL mayan calendar (tracks cycles of the sun) ends in oct 2011. not 2012. the two calendars that end in 2012 vicinity are long count and the other. they are both adjusted for daily life, tasks etc with 360 earth days. tzolkin count, is the calendar that pyramids were built to represent. (all pyramids have nine levels).
because eu + legislation is bad, people in europe have higher health standards, quality standards, and standard of living than the rest of the world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
that.
When we were saying the same thing to apple fans here, we were getting bashed, modded down etc.
Im wondering what will they come up with against this article.
this is 'just' a 'proposed injunction by plaintiffs' somewhere in some state, another is just another thing by some other party in other state, something else is 'just' something else someplace else.
one needs to be a moron in order not to realize that these kind of 'just this, that' things are on the increase, and even worse ones are up, and these will eventually become the norm at this rate. because, 'somewhere', 'someone' will manage to make 'something' fly, and from that point on it will be repeated everywhere else, and others will push the boundaries constantly from that new frontier.
This would inevitably happen when ownership moved into thought space.
and no - there is no limit, line, format you can define that will prevent such things from happening - 'rights holders' will eventually push their 'rights' onto you, with THEIR interpretations over and over. it will just end up as an 'interpretation battle' in between 'the people' (me, you all of us) and those who jumped on the 'intellectual property/copyright' bandwagon.
Its not only vintage but also wise to keep hardware just in case. Also, there are things software cant do - try playing to original, pc version star control 2, by using pc speaker only for example - and no - it wont bleep - it used mod based music, and that small speaker, even without a soundcard, could create wonders and shivers in your spine. so much that when i actually bought a sound card (sb16) at last, i didnt feel the difference much because i was used to hearing good sound from pc speaker from star control 2.
im not european, and yes, europeans are way better than americans, and the rest, in regard to modern standards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index
see your country at measly #10.