Ask yourself will this stop my users from getting laid?
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Considering the success and effects of WOW, flash games, and many other time wasters I think the real question should be:
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They'll just make encryption illegal. And record everything everybody does all the time. They never stop. Their objective is to take everything they can. As soon as this is passed they'll look into making even more restrictive laws. It will never stop, the only solution is to play their game and try and keep legislation from being passed, and get existing laws dismissed.
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Absolutely not. Highschool was by far the least productive time of my life. I'd have shot a few teachers if I had to put up with them six days a week.
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While I'm working I occasionally encounter incredibly subtle features of applications I'm using that amaze me. Examples:
1. Emacs iterative search ignores case unless you type a capital letter in the search-string. 2.Vim's move-cursor-left/right doesn't go to the next/previous line. 3.This site: whiting out downvoted comments. What's an application you use that has a subtle feature that surprises you? |
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I don't think anything high schools say should have any impact on admissions at all.
70 - 90% of my grades in high school were homework. I tested out of 2 years of math and 3 years of Japanese by studying the curriculum and learning everything. None of the classes I tested out of counted towards my GPA. I passed 4 AP tests, but my GPA was 2.4. If principal hadn't kept me there I would of been in and out in 2 years. I suspect he didn't let me leave because the high school gets funding from the state per student enrolled. I did four years of Japanese classes in one and got a five on the calculus test, but my GPA was below the cutoff for engineering, so I had to get a professor there to write a special recommendation to let me in. Somebody with a high GPA who passed no AP tests has preference in admissions over me. I've got nothing against using test scores for admissions, but grades are incredibly subjective. 99% of the time they're not a measure of ability, they're a measure of obedience, and your ability to persuade teachers. And colleges, by extension are choosing to admit people who are more concerned with appearances than with actually solving the problem at hand. |
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They don't need to do anything to solve the fat people problem. Just remove all crop subsidies and the problem will eventually solve itself. It's more expensive to eat healthy because the crops used in making unhealthy foods are heavily subsidized.
At my local Kroger two red bell peppers cost more than a twelve pack of generic soda. A sprig of cilantro costs $.75 inside, but a soda can be bought from a vending machine in the front for $.50.
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Most of my school's funding is and was not dependent on their student's skills, schools get funding for attendance. When I went to school they checked attendance 6 times every day (once for every class), and gave you 3 bathroom breaks/year/class. Taking attendance took about 5 mins/ class, every time you went to the bathroom a teacher had to sign a form verifying you had permission. This comes out to about* 340,000 HOURS of wasted time in ONE YEAR FOR ONE HIGHSCHOOL. This isn't even considering many, many fundamentally wrong things with how grades and classes are structured and credit is awarded. For every competent teacher teaching a useful subject there are 3-4 incompetents wasting people's time with sophistry and selectively blind adherence to stated rules.
Public high school education in this country is a net negative. High school "education" has nothing to do with teaching students skills, its there first to benefit the people running the school, and second to make people obedient for factory jobs. Math & science people tend to be humble & introverted because they're usually wrong about the solution to whatever problem they're trying to solve, and they spend all their time doing math/science and not talking to people. This is a bad thing. Every hour spent on spiffy presentations is an hour not spent on telling people public school's are doing it wrong. The author wasted his/her time on this* * , it's not going to change anything. Math/Science people who want to improve the state of math/science education should spend their time politicking, not science'ing. * (5mins/attendance * 6 classes * 10 mins bathroom break form filling/a day * 2000 students * 34 weeks/year / 60mins/hour = 340K) * * It is pretty cool, though. |
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Then what? It's better than complaining on a website where everybody agrees with you. I'm going to do something. We've got to do something. The situation's bad enough as it is.
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