Aka, a really bright flashlight. With a flashlight, the headache inducing effect can be magnified by flipping it around and bonking the target on the head with the handle.
I was one who did great on standardized tests, and also on other tests as long as they were well designed, but tended to earn C's D's and E's in class because of the homework, and also because of badly designed tests. 'What year was George Washington born?' is a lousy question versus 'Write an essay describing three of the main causes of the American Revolution.' . I couldn't remember the names of all the Egyptian Pharoahs either. Who the hell cares about trivia?
Tests like that basically give kids who won't think a bar to jump over and get a grade. The students get to prove they learned something and the teacher gets to prove they taught something. Asking the important questions on tests requires something important to have been taught, and for something important to have been learned which makes nobody ( who matters ) happy at all. It's harder for the teacher, it pisses most of the parents off that their kids are suddenly doing poorly ( since they have been required to think to pass ), it pisses
most of the kids off because it's easier for most of them to cram a bunch of trivia than learn to think, especially the ones who are accustomed to getting the 'good grade' sticker on their report card. ( It takes a certain type of person to be able to do this. These people grow up thinking they are smart whether or not they really are. Fortunately, thinking you are smart usually makes you at least passably smart eventually. )
The students for whom requiring thought to pass would be a benefit are few. The ones who don't care either way are many. And the ones pissed off by it or inconvenienced by it are many.
Standardized tests are certainly not all there is, and teachers shouldn't be judged based upon whether students pass them, but given the 'clusterfuck' that school is, it's the only proof alot of students have that they aren't stupid. Teachers should be judged by whether the students found their class worthwhile. And students should not be required to take classes they don't think are worthwhile. If students are wrong about what subjects are worthwhile, then they will find themselves lacking in important knowledge and come back to school later in life to seek it, taking the classes that ought to provide it. If they don't feel lacking and never come to seek a certain bit of knowledge then possibly the knowledge was not that important to begin with.
In education, you can provide a horse with water, but you can't make it drink.
I don't think you'd want to line a fire hose. Aren't they made from cloth because cloth seeps water slowly so that if the hose is run through a firey area it won't burn? If you lined the hose then fire would burn it.
ALTHOUGH, you can boil water in a paper cup held over a candle, but then the cup is thin. If you lined the hose, then the liner would burn if it it was on the outside, and the structural cloth would burn if it were on the inside, I think.
I'm thinking that in the event of apocalypse other than Zombie Apocalypse, the frozen remains stored in a place like that would still be fresh enough and nutritious enough to live off for quite some time..
You're younger than me, but when I went through, there was no gifted, but AP was just like the level under it, except with more homework. Not more learning, just more hours of homework.
That said, the biggest time waster is doing homework for things you already understand, teaching you nothing, and leaving the homework for things you don't understand undone, likewise teaching you nothing. You get better grades for a given level of commitment doing the 'easy' useless homework and leaving the 'hard' useful homework undone. For many this means barely passing enough math and science to graduate.
College is different. The professors don't have the time or inclination to grade homework. Homework boils down to some suggested exercises that you should be able to do if you've understood enough to do well on the exams. You don't hand it in. If you understand the material there is no need to do it. If there is just one problem that seems worth doing, you can spend all your homework time doing just that one hard problem. You get no extra points for doing any others. So you spend 100% of your study time LEARNING instead of 0%.
In college, there are far less hours of class, yet far more learning happening. It's because the students want to be there, and the professors aren't judged on their students' test scores. They teach, it's the students' responsibility to learn.
The culture of trying to force students to learn is why school past 6th or 7th grade is largely useless. Society should give everyone the OPPORTUNITY to learn, but allow some children to be left behind. When and if they should decide to get their act together, then there should always be adult learning opportunities. The alternative is to leave all the children behind.
If the system were working well, far less students would be 'left behind', and moreover standards of education would rise a couple orders of magnitude.
'No child left behind' is just the idiotic culture that was in place before given a name and taken to further extremes. Obama's more hours of school idea is just more of the same. There is probably 10% value and 90% waste in the time students spend in school and at home doing schoolwork. That ratio needs attention before we increase the time in school, diluting, and probably even reducing the small amount of existing value even further.
Saying you are 'Fair and Balanced' is neurolinguistic programming for 'Completely biased'. If it was 'Fair and Balanced', then there would be no need to state this at every commercial break, as that would be apparent.
Yep I don't think the law should provide any recourse. This would foster a 'follow the money' mentality in truth seekers. Also, people would not be so quick to believe negative remarks without proof. Basically, customers would likely not desert because of something some idiot said. They would however listen to a REPUTABLE opinion such as Consumer Reports. Also some random person could still blow the whistle, and if it were the truth, it might be picked up by a REPUTABLE journalist with the resources to investigate further and determine what the truth really is. People would be less likely to believe slander if it were legal, because if it were legal, then it would be far more common, and negative comments would therefore become far LESS reputable.
I wonder if this is inherent in the universe representing some absolute barrier to doing Quantum Entanglement computations, 'Yes the universe will do your computation instantly, but not until you provide umpteen zillion entangled qbits. The universe will take 10^100 years to aquire sufficient randomness, please use/dev/urandom for quicker testing.
Vexillogically, what do you think a good 'bad guys' flags would be?
And the Jolly Roger and variants won't work. Pirates feel too cute nowadays. I want a great flag for absolute evil. The Nazi flag IMHO was a great flag, red ( blood ), black and white for contrast, It made a great bad guys flag, but there was nothing overtly evil about it, it just feels 'bad-guy-ish'
Time to think of a new bad guys flag for the next evil empire.
Yes, but now some politician has to be publically *for* removing the laws which means this issue has to be more important to them than about a million of other issues which really are important unlike whether or not schwa stickers are allowed.. So... This poitician with questionable priorties may also have questionable ideologies ( since this minor thing was so important to them ) which means they likely wouldn't get elected in the first place.
I mean unless you were a nazi why risk something that matters over advocating repealing anti-nazi laws? A non-nazi who wanted the anti-nazi laws repealed might mention that restricting free speech is a bad idea, but free speech minus schwa stickers is free speech still. Hardly anyone misses the schwa sticker, and of those that do miss it the vast majority hardly ever miss it. There happens to be no compelling need for the schwa sticker itself. Of course it's absence probably makes it more conspicuous.
Send in back under warranty, and bust the kid's ass on the 3rd watch when they figure out it wasn't malfunctioning after all.
Or they could determine that the company makes a piece of crap. Still, someone that would do this is likely to be such a prick that their kids have likely lost all respect for them and will tend to tell them to pound sand sooner or later. They are at the brink of losing all control since the more one tightens their fingers the more star systems slip through one's fingers.
My pets had the most awful flea infestation ever this year, that would not yeild to poison of any kind!!! If there had been plague going around then it would have killed all my pets and probably my whole family ( if there were not antibiotics ).
I would give the animals flea shampoos ( which is not easy for cats! ) every three days. I also bought flea powders, flea coat sprays, Frontline, and other brands of flea drops that are supposed to work for thirty days. Let me tell you that nothing got rid of all the fleas except shampoos, but that the animals would be reinfested in one day after a shampoo. The drops which are supposed to work a month meant I couldn't very well wash them off with a fleabath, those drops ( including Frontline Hartz and Seargeants ) never lasted more than three days. I changed every piece of cloth covering in the house ( and I have not a bit of carpet in the house ) and used a bunch of bug bombs, and still saw some fleas after a few days. Though I did put a flea COLLAR on each of the animals. While a flea collar won't kill all fleas, they do seem to keep the number of them under control unlike any other measure. With collars in place fall came, and I think my house is finally flea free. Phew!
If you print, then the examiners will be able to read it. You can write as fast as you want and as long as you print, they can decipher it. If you use cursive, then you can write even faster, but if you do, then nobody but you will be able to read it, and you will be marked down. If you're in a time crunch it's VERY difficult to have the discipline to write in cursive at a slow enough rate that it remains readable. You don't have time to go back and rewrite, so you're best off just printing.
Cursive is usually less readable than print because people slip into it when they are in a hurry. I find that when writing cursive, I can't read it myself if I look at it more than a couple of days later. That's why I've given up on cursive entirely and write in print. It's possible to write passably fast in print and most importantly it's possible to read hastily written print most of the time. Printing forces you to take at least enough time on each letter that it can be deciphered. In cursive, I find myself skipping the entire middle of a lot of words, reducing them to wavy lines that look like a dying patient's heartbeat readout. Once I tried to teach myself shorthand. Not possible for me. I will never learn that even though it sounds enticing, I could just never ever do it.
However, you need to be able to read cursive. You will be presented with legible cursive papers in life, and be ridiculed if you can't read them.
But as long as you can print at a highish rate of speed in a manner that people can read, you will be able to take notes, and do hand written essays. Those are the only things you will ever need handwriting for.
An elevator is often a faraday cage too. A kid would probably be fine just hotwiring it by finding the wire that detects if the device is attached, and connecting a bypass wire. It may require taking the thing off once, connecting a small unobtrusive wire bypassing the wristband, taking the 'heat' for removing it, but putting it back on once the parents arrive to look. Then with the thin wire in place behind the face and the band reattached, the watch appears to be in place and functioning, but can now be removed at will. You can take it with you and leave it where you want them to think you are.
I actually can not wear a wristwatch. It hurts my wrist when I'm typing.
It's better to set of the alarm (repeatedly) and then claim that it was a malfunction in the device. What are they going to do send you back to jail? Oh wait, you're not a criminal.
Well, if the kid just prys up the case cover, and puts a drop of water inside, then the device will fail in short order, and the parents send it back for not being waterproof as advertised. When a new one appears in the mail 3 weeks later, rinse and repeat until the parents give up.
Hehe, I haven't seen the picture, but maybe being unfashionable enhances it's deterrent value. "If you don't behave, then I'll have to make you wear the stupid watch for a week. Your friends will laugh themselves silly at your expense!"
Of course these will be primarily purchased by overprotective and controlling parents who want to keep tabs on their children's every movement like they were under some kind of house arrest. However, they do have legitimate uses, such as hiking. It would be nice to know that if your 4 year old somehow wanders off when you should have been looking, while walking in the woods, that you can track them by GPS on your blackberry. I can see why anyone might want to wear one of these, just so that someone knows where you are. ( again walks in the woods come to mind - if you fall down a hill and break your leg, it would be nice if someone could find you ) There's probably a code that you have to enter to remove it though. If the child knows their numbers, they ought to know the code.
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Aka, a really bright flashlight. With a flashlight, the headache inducing effect can be magnified by flipping it around and bonking the target on the head with the handle.
I was one who did great on standardized tests, and also on other tests as long as they were well designed, but tended to earn C's D's and E's in class because of the homework, and also because of badly designed tests. 'What year was George Washington born?' is a lousy question versus 'Write an essay describing three of the main causes of the American Revolution.' . I couldn't remember the names of all the Egyptian Pharoahs either. Who the hell cares about trivia?
Tests like that basically give kids who won't think a bar to jump over and get a grade. The students get to prove they learned something and the teacher gets to prove they taught something. Asking the important questions on tests requires something important to have been taught, and for something important to have been learned which makes nobody ( who matters ) happy at all. It's harder for the teacher, it pisses most of the parents off that their kids are suddenly doing poorly ( since they have been required to think to pass ), it pisses most of the kids off because it's easier for most of them to cram a bunch of trivia than learn to think, especially the ones who are accustomed to getting the 'good grade' sticker on their report card. ( It takes a certain type of person to be able to do this. These people grow up thinking they are smart whether or not they really are. Fortunately, thinking you are smart usually makes you at least passably smart eventually. )
The students for whom requiring thought to pass would be a benefit are few. The ones who don't care either way are many. And the ones pissed off by it or inconvenienced by it are many.
Standardized tests are certainly not all there is, and teachers shouldn't be judged based upon whether students pass them, but given the 'clusterfuck' that school is, it's the only proof alot of students have that they aren't stupid. Teachers should be judged by whether the students found their class worthwhile. And students should not be required to take classes they don't think are worthwhile. If students are wrong about what subjects are worthwhile, then they will find themselves lacking in important knowledge and come back to school later in life to seek it, taking the classes that ought to provide it. If they don't feel lacking and never come to seek a certain bit of knowledge then possibly the knowledge was not that important to begin with.
In education, you can provide a horse with water, but you can't make it drink.
I don't think you'd want to line a fire hose. Aren't they made from cloth because cloth seeps water slowly so that if the hose is run through a firey area it won't burn? If you lined the hose then fire would burn it. ALTHOUGH, you can boil water in a paper cup held over a candle, but then the cup is thin. If you lined the hose, then the liner would burn if it it was on the outside, and the structural cloth would burn if it were on the inside, I think.
I gotta wear shades!
I'm thinking that in the event of apocalypse other than Zombie Apocalypse, the frozen remains stored in a place like that would still be fresh enough and nutritious enough to live off for quite some time..
You're younger than me, but when I went through, there was no gifted, but AP was just like the level under it, except with more homework. Not more learning, just more hours of homework.
That said, the biggest time waster is doing homework for things you already understand, teaching you nothing, and leaving the homework for things you don't understand undone, likewise teaching you nothing. You get better grades for a given level of commitment doing the 'easy' useless homework and leaving the 'hard' useful homework undone. For many this means barely passing enough math and science to graduate.
College is different. The professors don't have the time or inclination to grade homework. Homework boils down to some suggested exercises that you should be able to do if you've understood enough to do well on the exams. You don't hand it in. If you understand the material there is no need to do it. If there is just one problem that seems worth doing, you can spend all your homework time doing just that one hard problem. You get no extra points for doing any others. So you spend 100% of your study time LEARNING instead of 0%.
In college, there are far less hours of class, yet far more learning happening. It's because the students want to be there, and the professors aren't judged on their students' test scores. They teach, it's the students' responsibility to learn.
The culture of trying to force students to learn is why school past 6th or 7th grade is largely useless. Society should give everyone the OPPORTUNITY to learn, but allow some children to be left behind. When and if they should decide to get their act together, then there should always be adult learning opportunities. The alternative is to leave all the children behind.
If the system were working well, far less students would be 'left behind', and moreover standards of education would rise a couple orders of magnitude.
'No child left behind' is just the idiotic culture that was in place before given a name and taken to further extremes. Obama's more hours of school idea is just more of the same. There is probably 10% value and 90% waste in the time students spend in school and at home doing schoolwork. That ratio needs attention before we increase the time in school, diluting, and probably even reducing the small amount of existing value even further.
Yeah, well at least you got Acetaminophen. In Britain where the Government runs health care you'd have to settle for Paracetamol.
Saying you are 'Fair and Balanced' is neurolinguistic programming for 'Completely biased'. If it was 'Fair and Balanced', then there would be no need to state this at every commercial break, as that would be apparent.
And you'd probably fry his pacemaker as well...
Yep I don't think the law should provide any recourse. This would foster a 'follow the money' mentality in truth seekers. Also, people would not be so quick to believe negative remarks without proof. Basically, customers would likely not desert because of something some idiot said. They would however listen to a REPUTABLE opinion such as Consumer Reports. Also some random person could still blow the whistle, and if it were the truth, it might be picked up by a REPUTABLE journalist with the resources to investigate further and determine what the truth really is. People would be less likely to believe slander if it were legal, because if it were legal, then it would be far more common, and negative comments would therefore become far LESS reputable.
I wonder if this is inherent in the universe representing some absolute barrier to doing Quantum Entanglement computations, 'Yes the universe will do your computation instantly, but not until you provide umpteen zillion entangled qbits. The universe will take 10^100 years to aquire sufficient randomness, please use /dev/urandom for quicker testing.
Hitler was but a spectre projected into this dimension by his moustache.
And the Jolly Roger and variants won't work. Pirates feel too cute nowadays. I want a great flag for absolute evil. The Nazi flag IMHO was a great flag, red ( blood ), black and white for contrast, It made a great bad guys flag, but there was nothing overtly evil about it, it just feels 'bad-guy-ish'
Time to think of a new bad guys flag for the next evil empire.
I mean unless you were a nazi why risk something that matters over advocating repealing anti-nazi laws? A non-nazi who wanted the anti-nazi laws repealed might mention that restricting free speech is a bad idea, but free speech minus schwa stickers is free speech still. Hardly anyone misses the schwa sticker, and of those that do miss it the vast majority hardly ever miss it. There happens to be no compelling need for the schwa sticker itself. Of course it's absence probably makes it more conspicuous.
Or they could determine that the company makes a piece of crap. Still, someone that would do this is likely to be such a prick that their kids have likely lost all respect for them and will tend to tell them to pound sand sooner or later. They are at the brink of losing all control since the more one tightens their fingers the more star systems slip through one's fingers.
My pets had the most awful flea infestation ever this year, that would not yeild to poison of any kind!!! If there had been plague going around then it would have killed all my pets and probably my whole family ( if there were not antibiotics ).
I would give the animals flea shampoos ( which is not easy for cats! ) every three days. I also bought flea powders, flea coat sprays, Frontline, and other brands of flea drops that are supposed to work for thirty days. Let me tell you that nothing got rid of all the fleas except shampoos, but that the animals would be reinfested in one day after a shampoo. The drops which are supposed to work a month meant I couldn't very well wash them off with a fleabath, those drops ( including Frontline Hartz and Seargeants ) never lasted more than three days. I changed every piece of cloth covering in the house ( and I have not a bit of carpet in the house ) and used a bunch of bug bombs, and still saw some fleas after a few days. Though I did put a flea COLLAR on each of the animals. While a flea collar won't kill all fleas, they do seem to keep the number of them under control unlike any other measure. With collars in place fall came, and I think my house is finally flea free. Phew!
If you print, then the examiners will be able to read it. You can write as fast as you want and as long as you print, they can decipher it. If you use cursive, then you can write even faster, but if you do, then nobody but you will be able to read it, and you will be marked down. If you're in a time crunch it's VERY difficult to have the discipline to write in cursive at a slow enough rate that it remains readable. You don't have time to go back and rewrite, so you're best off just printing.
Cursive is usually less readable than print because people slip into it when they are in a hurry. I find that when writing cursive, I can't read it myself if I look at it more than a couple of days later. That's why I've given up on cursive entirely and write in print. It's possible to write passably fast in print and most importantly it's possible to read hastily written print most of the time. Printing forces you to take at least enough time on each letter that it can be deciphered. In cursive, I find myself skipping the entire middle of a lot of words, reducing them to wavy lines that look like a dying patient's heartbeat readout. Once I tried to teach myself shorthand. Not possible for me. I will never learn that even though it sounds enticing, I could just never ever do it.
However, you need to be able to read cursive. You will be presented with legible cursive papers in life, and be ridiculed if you can't read them.
But as long as you can print at a highish rate of speed in a manner that people can read, you will be able to take notes, and do hand written essays. Those are the only things you will ever need handwriting for.
An elevator is often a faraday cage too. A kid would probably be fine just hotwiring it by finding the wire that detects if the device is attached, and connecting a bypass wire. It may require taking the thing off once, connecting a small unobtrusive wire bypassing the wristband, taking the 'heat' for removing it, but putting it back on once the parents arrive to look. Then with the thin wire in place behind the face and the band reattached, the watch appears to be in place and functioning, but can now be removed at will. You can take it with you and leave it where you want them to think you are.
I actually can not wear a wristwatch. It hurts my wrist when I'm typing.
It's better to set of the alarm (repeatedly) and then claim that it was a malfunction in the device. What are they going to do send you back to jail? Oh wait, you're not a criminal.
Well, if the kid just prys up the case cover, and puts a drop of water inside, then the device will fail in short order, and the parents send it back for not being waterproof as advertised. When a new one appears in the mail 3 weeks later, rinse and repeat until the parents give up.
Hehe, I haven't seen the picture, but maybe being unfashionable enhances it's deterrent value. "If you don't behave, then I'll have to make you wear the stupid watch for a week. Your friends will laugh themselves silly at your expense!"
Of course these will be primarily purchased by overprotective and controlling parents who want to keep tabs on their children's every movement like they were under some kind of house arrest. However, they do have legitimate uses, such as hiking. It would be nice to know that if your 4 year old somehow wanders off when you should have been looking, while walking in the woods, that you can track them by GPS on your blackberry. I can see why anyone might want to wear one of these, just so that someone knows where you are. ( again walks in the woods come to mind - if you fall down a hill and break your leg, it would be nice if someone could find you ) There's probably a code that you have to enter to remove it though. If the child knows their numbers, they ought to know the code.
Fractions are so underrated. They are so much easier to deal with than decimals.
Yes, I'm talking about removing all legal accountability for slanderous statements. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.