I'm pretty sure birth control exists.

I guess it worked

Yeah, this is what is sad to me, the hopelessness people have.

The person who is submitting this has cornered the market on Amiga machines, step two is to shill the products to increase the price. I don't think people are going to buy computers just for nostalgia. If so, I have a stash of Apple /// computers.

I never had a problem with SCSI. As a matter of fact, it was as plug and play as you could get a the time. For instance, the IOmega tape drives came in SCSI and parallel. Installing the parallel PC option was very difficult, even following instructions. On a Macintosh with SCSI, it was plug and play. The biggest issue I saw was just getting it plugged in and either using a setting a terminator. In other words, following instructions.

From documentaries/etc that I've seen there were a few issues:

1. An airline timetable that was used to check published routes was improperly adjusted for timezone, thus missing the planned takeoff.
2. The operator interrogating the aircraft transponder kept the aircraft selected for a long time - which caused it to keep a different aircraft's response after they had separated on the screen. If they had re-interrogated it they'd probably have picked up the civilian transponder code.
3. I believe there had been threats or an actual attack on another ship recently, putting pressure on the captain to not let hostiles get too close.

The only reason that more events like this happen is that the Iranians (or anyone else) haven't actually fired on a US ship. So, US ships accept risky situations that would be likely to get them sunk in an actual conflict. The fact that an aircraft is using a civilian transponder code and is on an airline timetable doesn't in any way ensure that it isn't a hostile aircraft. If somebody actually launched an attack by masquerading as a civilian aircraft it would make air travel a LOT less safe overnight. Either the US would have to stop putting naval ships in constrained waters like the Persian Gulf, or it would have to announce fairly large no-fly zones (extending over national airspace), or it would have to accept losing the occasional ship when somebody decides to sink one (unless Aegis really is that good).

No it isn't, the point of the article is to help people who already agree with that feel good about themselves. If you have any logical sense at all, if this were an article about a topic you disagreed with, I'm sure you could find logical holes in it.

The fact that you haven't tried to poke holes in an argument you agree with shows a cognitive bias on your part. Now the question is whether you'll fix that cognitive bias, or remain the way you were before.

Allons-y!

Someone tell me there's a difference on this issue...Just this issue please.

The main thing I'm trying to point out is that the title of your post is wrong. Of course advertising works. However, I suspect you were just being inaccurate for purposes of hyperbole

Any student that is disciplined, self motivated, and has learned how to learn, will be more able to learn in a an independent fashion that students who do not have these skills. In a traditional education one went to school where one listened to a professor lecture or read books on the subject. The actual pedagogy, after the teen age years, was minimal, and often involved simple discipline, not teaching of the skills one needed to learn more independently in later life. As long as we could live with the vast majority population engaged in semi-skilled labor, this was fine. However, now we really have more a need for skilled labor. This requires more people to have than a high school education. So we need an advanced pedagogy to help people reach the potential where they can learn more.

All these computer classes are great for the natural learner, the 20% or so of students who have that ability. But these are the same students who have been graduating high school for year, who can go to the public library and learn everything that they would if they got an MBA(one of good friends did this), who, like reported in the NYT today, did not complete school but invented Scotch Tape.

While we need to make sure not to apply negative pressure to these kids, which means to let them take the online courses, give them independent study, allow to explore, we also cannot use this an excuse to stop the more expensive education of the kids who really need to be taught. The correlation between online courses and independent skills(Or as it says, habits of the mind) in no way indicates that online courses teach independent skills. Sure, you could put a kid a computer and give him an F if she does not complete statistics, but is that teaching? Some would say yes. I would say we are accepting that most of kids will be semi-skilled laborers without the jobs to insure a high rate of employment, which means more welfare checks.

Indeed, the rest of us are lucky that there are enough clueless users to distract malware writers. If the focus were on finding all the vulnerabilities in our OS, all of us would be owned.

Push the button, Frank.

Oh oh, this is often a sign that someone is about to say something stupid.

Right, so you, without looking at data, with a half-minute of speculation, think they could be wrong because you found a way they could be wrong. You don't think people who spend all day looking at this kind of data, might have already thought of that?

You argue that advertising doesn't work, although there are studies that show it does, because you're an idiot. You didn't think about what you were going to say before you typed it, and idiocy spewed forth from your fingers.

Well yes, but the US total liability is something like $150trillion, something like 12 times GDP. And that's not even counting the states.....

Anyway, I'll watch out for GB, see what happens, but I'm not convinced it's going to lead the way to the crash.......