probalby we already have developed a... darwinian adaptation...
Well, I have to call shenanigans right back at you then, since I have lived in California all my life, have met plenty of homeschoolers (as well as other alternative education ideas such as Waldorf and Montessori), and so far all of the homeschooling parents I've met were nutballs.
Roughly half of the homeschooling parents I've met have been fundamentalist Christian nutballs who didn't want their kids learning about evolution or sex. These ones I find particularly amusing, since their daughters invariably dropped out of college by the middle of their second year with a drug habit, and often pregnant to boot.
The rest have been adherents to the hippie philosophy. They have various things they don't want their kids learning about, such as violence, societies imposed gender roles, etc... basically anything you can name that is fundamental to being human animals, instinct if you will, and therefore cannot be avoided, only dealt with.
Yes, they are all nutjobs. It seems perfectly reasonable to call them so given that my observation of their results has been adults who were utterly unprepared to function as adults in the real world, and invariably turned to drugs and/or alcohol when they finally had to face it. Even the one exceptional result I mentioned previously was an avid pot smoker. So really, I think calling them nutballs is perhaps even a bit generous.
I know people that have to homeschool because their kids are sick exist, and that is a perfectly commendable reason, but I've met only one of them. That particular kid is doing as well as can be expected, given that her health problem is congenital and at 30 she's doubled all medical predictions of her lifespan. I don't include her in my above assessment since she has so many emotional issues related to her illness that it would be rather unfair to start blaming them on homeschooling.
I'm sure that other varieties of non-nutty homeschooling parents exist -- your reasons seem quite sensible for example -- but I've never met any of them (on the internet doesn't count.)
At any rate, my intention was not to bash homeschooling in general, but to hopefully provide some useful food for thought. Perhaps you should go and read the last paragraph of my previous post again, and you will see that was my intention.
As for my observations, you can deny them all you want, but that doesn't make them untrue. Perhaps I have only noticed the crazy ones, it's not like I go around asking everyone I know if they were homeschooled. however, my experiences with the products of homeschooling are common enough that it has become the stigma of homeschooling in the US. That's something you're just going to have to live with. I sincerely hope is that your kid doesn't turn out like the others I've met, and that was my only reason for posting.
One last point: I personally believe that math and reading are very important, take great pleasure in being good at both, and make every effort to share those joys (along with the fun of science) with my own daughter. However, my time in the corporate world has taught me that in "the real world", sadly, mere attendance does win out.
As is already the case with credit transfers, ATM cash withdrawals and card payments, the cost of a cross-border direct debit in euro will become the same as the cost of a national direct debit.
Ack, Chee, Eek!
That was a game.
But you'd have to calibrate the system, which would require something that most slashdotters don't have access to....
don't be insensitive, there are enough slashdotters that can afford an inflatable doll
This happens because there is a conflict of interests. If everybody life is in danger by an external cause, everybody will be frightened equally. When a true danger exists, and it is of everybody -real- interest, a very good coordination, something to be remembered for centuries, will exist.
Seconded. 1.6 is a complete solution. Time-tracking. Tickets. Knowledge base. Document management. All this is constructed around the project management function. eGW can hook into existing e-mail systems. All locally installable as a web app.
I was standing on top of a mountain and could get 4 networks.
Same thing happened to me. Standing at the top of a mountain and noticed that I had full signal. Then I turned around, and noticed that the restaurant behind me had a radio mast on top of it.
Sad, the whole case should have hinged upon whether Psystar was buying their copies of Mac OS X.
The judge should have thrown *this* case out based upon the doctrine of first sale. In response, Apple should have then changed their upgrade path to "free for people with genuine Apple hardware", sued psystar a second time. Apple should have then won easily once their upgrade path no longer required a "sale".
Instead, the case hinged upon the fact that Psystar didn't have trained monkeys sticking each separate Mac OS X disk into each machine, retarded.
It depends on what you're doing I guess. I used to do factory and warehouse work, jobs that were mentally undemanding and more or less stress free. I would regularly come to work on 4 hours of sleep or less, and have a very active evening and weekend schedule. Now that I work as a programmer, I'm doing work that is no longer physically strenuous, but mentally exhausting. I find I'm able to do very little in the evenings save make dinner and go to bed, and at the weekends I have to spend the whole of Saturday asleep to be able to do anything interesting on Sunday.
Is Windows sold or licensed?
From November's ruling:
[MacOS...] are covered by software license
2 agreements that provided that the software is “licensed, not sold to [the user] by Apple Inc.
3 (“Apple”) for use only under the terms of this License” (Chung Exh. 26 at 1). Apple’s license
4 agreements restricted the use of Mac OS X to Apple computers, and specifically prohibited
5 customers from installing the operating system on non-Apple computers.
"Aww, if you make me cry anymore, you'll fog up my helmet." -- "Visionaries" cartoon
