Sadly, graduate level math classes are not necessarily a requirement to teach HS math.

But you need to be sure that you are measuring the right things. Teaching to the test is not necessarily the best approach. Hopefully this will work out better than some of our professional certs for predicting job performance, but I doubt it. What is the problem that they are trying to solve, other than employers are lazy and don't want to look at resumes and transcripts?

Not sure where you were going with that, but the bridge to nowhere was sponsored by Republicans.

I agree that his goal was to get people up in arms. His job is to stay i the public eye. Those offended aren't his audience anyway. Now people are talking about him.

For those that know of him, they probably already know he is an atheist. For those that don't, a little internet searching on his name will lead to that conclusion. I know I don't care what most people think about religious stuff one way or the other. It doesn't bother me that they think that way, only when they try to get laws and such changed based solely on their religious beliefs does it bother me. Sure, he goes out of his way to keep his name in the public eye, but I don't think this tweet was intended as a lobbying effort, so who cares? If you don't like what he says just ignore him and pray for his soul; be sure to send him a note that you are doing so.

And yet I can take the stock brakes off my car and install after market, or even home built custom components to alter the performance of one of the most safety critical systems on the vehicle. I can even custom build an entire vehicle if I want to. (Well, I probably shouldn't).

I would suggest that the skill/coordination/attention/mental stability of the driver is by orders of magnitude a larger risk than anyone tinkering with the ECU or other electronic systems on the vehicle today.

This is typical. They will offer you a choice, something like: 2 weeks of severance pay and you don't have to sign anything, or 4 weeks + 2 weeks per year of employment and you sign the agreement. The agreements often say you will stay quiet about the company and you give up your right to sue over the termination.

I don't know about spyware, but with apps at least you don't have to worry about lead or melamine.

All the facts given by the guy who was assigned to prosecute the officer. He made a point of saying he was going to present ALL the evidence he had.

I wonder what provisions the government put on the license. Perhaps something about infrastructure to aid in surveillance?

/Tinfoil?

A congressional coder takes requirements from lobbyists and translates them into a design and set of instructions that aren't readable by the average person but can be executed by a large bureaucratic machine. Note that the machine is subject to frequent single event upsets and has an executive that is prone to write it's own instructions.

You miss the point entirely that one of the main drivers of highway construction is congestion, which is largely caused by passenger vehicles. Building more lanes has a cost. Maintaining more lanes has a cost.

How about a compromise? Make the last mile providers utilities and require them to allow other ISPs to sell on their infrastructure. Since the infrastructure in many areas was a government granted monopoly when it was put in, regulate the rates that they can charge ISPs, but let the ISPs compete on prices, speeds and features. I remember when DSL was this way and I thought it worked pretty well.

They know not to ask questions to which they do not want to know the answers.

Yes, but if you look at the second derivative of each curve it doesn't look so lopsided.