Comment Re:I love reading about this stuff... (Score 1) 129
The people in your TV set
All are welcome.
The people in your TV set
All are welcome.
I for one don't want to give Physics research a blank check to investigate some unobservable math fantasy.
Why not? And who exactly is asking for a "blank check"?
Once you are a full teacher, it takes a basic test to be able to teach other subjects. As in, so basic that back when I was in high school, if I were a licensed teacher, there were no subjects I looked at that I'd be unable to teach.
That doesn't sound like being a 'content expert.' Unless you count getting an education degree to be a content expert. And don't get me wrong, teachers do need expertise, it's not an easy job, but not necessarily in the subject they are teaching.
Since most of the artists I listen to on streaming services are dead, should they be paying me?
A bunch of workers hanging their body weight on the lever end would raise the stone a foot or two. You prop the stone with some timbers, shorten the lifting rope, and repeat. When the stone gets to the next level of the pyramid, you rotate the lever arm horizontally and pivot the stone to the next step.
Sounds plausible, except how does that lever get the stones to the top of a 455' structure? The widest "step" doesn't seem like it would allow room for enough guys to exert 800 lbs on a lever, much less for the lever itself. And we're talking a pretty long lever by the time you get halfway up. Then, you've got all the limestone sheathing to put up and you have to make sure the inside chambers are there, and accessible..
However they did it, it's pretty remarkable. I got to see it once up close and it's amazing.
If we do this, we'll achieve equity by destroying the entire system and smearing the remains into an inch-high paste, using BS like this as a binding agent. Meanwhile, the children of the highly paid "super-teachers" will probably go to traditional private schools, just like the children of the rich do now.
I left off the most important part of the Baldwin quote, the second half:
This perpetual justification empties the heart of all human feeling. The emptier our hearts become, the greater will be our crimes.
In the words of the great James Baldwin:
The world has never lacked for horrifying examples; but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.
The "Runaway Galaxies" was the name of my garage band in the 70s.
Hell, I won't even use digital thermometers out of concern that they'll upload my body temperature to the internet. I'm not going to be uploading my vitals to some app developer in Mencino.
Honestly, I think we're seeing late-stage Apple at this point. Each new product announcement makes a smaller and smaller blip on the radar, and Apple is entirely a company whose fortunes are tied to the faddish vitality of a brand name. Every year Apple does less and less to differentiate itself, and their older products are starting to whither a bit. The people who were excited about OSX 16 years ago have less and less to be excited about with each passing year and those aren't the same people who are going to get excited over a watch or something that will tell them they need to exercise more.
I'm not saying Apple is going to crash and burn or disappear, but when a company's capitalization is their biggest news don't make the mistake of thinking the future is a foregone conclusion. (see: IBM).
But you didn't eat it
Well...
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League