I think I agree with your statements but not you conclusions.

Schools with lower enrollment have less classes. Which means less room for variation because teachers need to teach a whole class. Within a class, it will usually be brought down to the lowest level (of those who want to learn), exactly as you say. But, with lots of different classes you have room to have advanced classes where the ahead-of-the-curve students may be placed. The "lowest" among them will be higher, raising the bar.

Private schooling (which costs more so parents are often more involved but pays teachers less), doesn't have as many classes so it doesn't have the scope to separate out as much. Now, they do have a reputation for being tough and good schools, and I thing as a generalization they will take moderately below to moderately above students (say, one standard deviation in either direction) and raise them above the average level of a public school level, but I don't think they are best suited to the extreme outliers.

Personalized attention is what the true ends of the spectrum need. I can see how, with the right "teacher", home schooling can fill that niche. Though with how far off the curve this child seems to be, I would assume adding in subject matter experts as tutors to keep him challenged (and therefore engaged).

You want to personally log into the box and bandwidth isn't an issue, feel free to use remote desktop. And be sure that whatever youre doign have a very limited audience, since you can only have a few (two?) active at once. It's a nice tool.

You want to automate, ssh beats writing Expect scripts for telnet. And doesn't send passwords (and the session) in cleartext. Any halfway competend administrator (and every sniffer and rootkit out there) can get cleartext.

You want to transfer information, scp (secure copy, part of ssh) is encrypted. See above.

Dogmatic like for one tool just because it's a good tool doesn't do anyoen any good. Telnet has it's place (though hopefully not anywhere that wants security), and remote desktop is great tool for a very limited number of users who need a GUI session. Don't let that blind you to other tools that can solve other needs, like automation and encryption.

BTW, this isn't windows bashing. I use remote desktop, and powershell is quite nice and I want to become more fluent. It's bashing because you don't use a tool thinking the tool isn't good for others.

At $149, HP (and anywhere else I went looking) sold out all of it's stock the 32gb tablets in less than a day. It definitely seems there is a demand for tablets above the $100 price point. If $149 sells that quick, $199 or $219 might be the "sell like hotcakes yet still cover costs" point. (Well, it won't cover costs for most current tablets, but I'm staying with you about manufacturing ramping up and parts getting cheaper, just like happened to laptops.)

Recruiters won't get it, but the other way. Every recruiter I've ever worked with has thrown resume after resume towards us, hoping something sticks. "Hmm, I need a senior DB2 DBA. This resume has experience with Word, Excel ... and Access."

HR on the other hand I've found you can work with. Basically, if you're willing to do all the pre-screening yourself (so they don't have to), in general they seem more than content to give you the raw flood of resumes. It's more work, but it leaves the "HR firewall" out of the equation.

For a development position, I'd prefer to hire someone who shows strong programming concepts, can and wants to teach themselves more about any subject, and is a bit hungry for a good chance. Though the one caveat to "know how to program and picking up a language is just syntax" is that there are some concepts like procedural vs. OO that are more that just learning a new vocabulary.

If you've taken my money to provide me a product, and then don't deliver the product, you're guilty of theft, fraud, or something. If you aren't going to delever the product because you don't want to do business with me, give me my money back.

Anyway, I don't want to live in a world where it's okay for a restaurant to discriminate against who it serves for where they work, or for employers who can do anything for what you do when not on the clock. Nor for companies that "sell" me something but still try to control it, including saying that I can't play it.

Except that if you read the article, it isn't a flaw, it's intentional in their EA Community terms of service. Those specifically will lock you out of content.

They were explicitly and willfully locking him out of any downloads for a reported forum post. It could have been no new content, it could have been five games he bought in a bundle. Either way, it's intentional by EA.

I like some of your ideas, others I don't think are workable.

Excellent!

Read about the Gilt Age in America. Prior to income tax the money could really get concentrated in a few hands. The Vanderbilts and Astors are good examples. The super rich made money faster than they spent it and it increased the divide between rich and poor.

Also of concern is how this would affect our national debt and payment for other projects (such as health care below).

Many big money corporations already move money overseas. Ireland was a big place to do so until very recently, Switzerland is another place. That's because the corporate tax rates are lower.

If multinational corporations have to pay more taxes in US, won't that encourage them to move more out of the country? The tariff will help keep some production jobs in the country, but more service jobs will flee overseas like we're already seeing with outsourcing.

The cost of the tariff will also be passed along to the final consumer, so the cost of living will increase while the service job market will shrink.

Good to promise, but see my concerns above about the government having any money.

Again, see comments about paying for it.

Excellent.

Though will this add additional job seekers to the shrinking job market?

Unalloyed Excellent. DHS is insta-government after the fear of 9/11.

Richard Feynman is my favorite scientist, but I don't think passes the young, and known to 3rd grades tests.

But yeah, if they knew him, he'd win. :)

But this isn't coming from ONE employer, it's coming from hundreds. The article mentioend soemthign abotu a new oen every seven seconds.

So, let's give it a try. You work freelance, no safety net. You only get paid if your bug solution is the first correct one. But there are new bugs posted every couple of seconds so that you can cherry pick the ones you are good at. It's not like a traditional employer where you need to do everything, you can just ignore problems you don't want.

I personally wouldn't want to work like that, but I wouldn't want to be a day trader of stocks either. But some people would thrive in that environment.

And those competing could get them experience and exposure that could lead to more traditional roles. Think of people straight out of college (or without a degree) that would love to be able to fluff up their portfolio with purchased product.

Pick a response:

1. You never played a spellthief, did you?
2. OMG, game does not perfectly simulate life.
3. I guess they'll have to errata it to give them +2 Str, +2 Con.
4. "Lawful good is the best alignment..." (oh wait, that's 3.0, not 3.5)
5. You think it was a poor class in 3.5, try 4e. (Okay, they salvaged it with Divine Power, but really.)
6. Sir Galahad: My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure and the Cleric cast Bull Strength on me last round.
7. Evil will always triumph, because Good is dumb.

It looks like the school originally claimed it was the minimal nutrition state policy, and then the Dept. of Agriculture (who's policy it is) wrote them a letter and said it didn't apply, and then the school changed it's story to the mess.

So the parents would have the option of declining to take liability? Since these were being used for school work, would it be acceptable that your child is missing out on that education? Or perhaps that teachers need to come up with split curriculum since some students can not complete the computer-enabled homework.

I am seriously for personal responsibility. But if the teachers set up curriculum requiring this then your plan creates a have/have-not divide where the parents that can afford the liability have better educated children while those that can't (or won't on principle) have their children receive lesser education.

(I am not saying non-computer education is lesser. I'm saying they invest in tools they think will improve their particular curriculum.)

Just to bring this back to the article, this is what insurance is for, to spread risks. Laptop spying on kids is amazingly ridiculous.

I'm in the US, and in NJ which is a state with at-will employment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment). If you don't have a contract, I can easily see a company saying "we're changing this position to require XX certification. You're in the spot so we'll give you first crack but you need in in 3 months." And I think it would be legal.

I think it would be foolish for the company. But I don't think illegal.

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By your own model you are incorrect. You said the plumber charged you $100. So you got $100 of services for your $133. Flat. Yes, the plumber has to pay his own taxes, but that doesn't mean you only got $75 worth of services, you got $100 worth of services. The fact that down the road the plumber also goes into a taxable transaction is irrelevant. And you have agreed that the services are worth $100 by agreeing to pay the plumber that.

Another way to show it's incorrect is to apply it to several iterations. So, You got $133, tax of $33. You give $100 to plumb. Plumber pays tax of $25, has $75. Thaqt $58 in taxes according to you.

But if you try to start from the plumbers point of view now, the plumber got $100, pays $25 in taxes, and pays $75 to the hardware store. Hardware store pays ~$19 in taxes, so the plumber's $100 was $44 in taxes. But the government didn't get $58 (your original transaction) plus $44 (plumber's transaction) in taxes, it only got the plumber's once. Your math breaks down.