Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 358
they probably lack the communication skills to get reach me in an interview.
Doesn't everybody?
they probably lack the communication skills to get reach me in an interview.
Doesn't everybody?
It's hard to understand why, after all these years, local and state governments STILL haven't figured out why it's pointless to spend one thin dime of tax incentives on projects like this.
Because they can point to a single structure and say "I helped make this happen." Even if it's a losing proposition most voters will still feel that at least the politician is doing something. It's a lot harder to keep tax laws equal for all and point to the gains which get spread around to everybody and in a re-election campaign say that the small growth everyone is realizing is due to your policies.
And couldn't it be solved by giving the kids Google Glasses to prompt them while they're doing the play?
Professionals use Teleprompters.
the other sentence in the article that worried me was the mention that kids now have trouble memorizing even simple lines for a play, since they are used to information being easily always available so they aren't putting in the effort of learning it.
Isn't that the same argument for not allowing calculators in school?
I gave my daughter a earfull having my granddaughter use the ipad at 2 to keep her entertained.
I'm sure after she appreciated how that information is now helping her manage your granddaughter. Did she show you her appreciation by handing you an iPad?
If you can't get a couple of blocks to snap together, how are you going to deal with tying your shoes?
Fair point. Children have never had an issue learning how to tie shoes.
or provide any meaningful distinction between "good" technologies like verbal language and "bad" technologies like iPads.
Definition: Technology: Anything that was invented after I was born.
The elephant in the room is that mental health services have been slashed for decades and even when people are identified as being unstable there is little that is or can be done to help them before they become violent.
That's because Hollywood loves portraying society's attempts at dealing with this difficult situation as nothing but mass screw-ups (think One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest). As a result, since no option is popular enough, the states have been forced to slowly back away from the problem and ignore it at all costs. A legislative body will get a little bit of flack for ignoring the problem, but receive a whole lot of damage if a nearly perfect system has a dramatizable misstep.
Homicide rates in the United States have been dropping and are the lowest since 1906 or so.
There's a difference between homicides and mass killings. Think frequency and magnitude.
guns dont cause mass shootings
True, but they sure are catalysts for them. It would be really difficult to pull off a mass shooting without any guns.
Does he really think curtailing guns will stop mass killings?
It has worked before. Australia & Gun Control's Aftermath
Today, if you would pit every civilian gun-owner in the US, with all their weapons, against the forces of a single aircraft carrier (one thenth of the aircraft carriers that the US government controls), the civilians would lose. Hellfire missiles beat automatic rifles every time.
Yes, but then there wouldn't be a tax base to supply the Aircraft carries. Once a large group of tax payers show up with weapons and say "We're willing to fight over this", policies start changing.
All a state would have to do is amend their constitution to proclaim that all their able bodied citizens are members of the state militia for defense of their lives, property, and the state if mustered into action. What can the feds do then?
Take away the guns from households where people have classifiable mental conditions, and aren't able bodied.
Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long. -- Howard Kandel
