they're talking about high schools, not 6th grade.

The guy teaching programming at my old high school didn't know jack shit. Well okay he knew enough to explain the elementary concepts in the book but he was far, far far from an expert in CS. Usually the job falls on math teachers or science teachers because generally speaking the number of CS grads from a reputable school (not ITT tech) available to teach high school is zero.

Having math teachers teach programming might be OK for getting the kids' feet wet and letting them know that such as thing exists, it might be okay for the average student, but even a slightly above average student such as myself back in the day (yes i was only slightly above average) will be bored to tears. But I suppose in today's world where everyone gets an equal education and no student is allowed to be left behind or get ahead, this may be desirable.

I think the somewhat bright kids are done the most disservice. The super bright Zuckerbergs of the world will just figure stuff out by themselves and do any kind of coding they want. The average and below will be happy to just follow along and get a passing grade. It's the somewhat bright kids who could benefit most from an expert teacher explaining advanced concepts and answering questions and pushing them to higher standards that they wouldn't have had otherwise.

If you play multiplayer online games, latency is a big issue.

If you talk to people over the internet, latency is an issue. Like, you say something in Skype. The person at the other end hears it and replies. By the time you hear the reply, a regime change has taken place and there's a new president in power. Currently internet video chatting over long distances is an unpleasant experience due to the lag.

I hear this a lot from anti-gold people. Yes if the entire world civilization collapses and 98% of humans on earth die, then gold will be worthless. However I would point out that such a scenario has never happened in all of recorded history.

I'm not saying a worldwide apocalypse is impossible... of course it's possible. It's just very unlikely. A far more likely scenario is a local collapse of civilization, like a famine and civil war in Middle East or a governmental collapse/economic ruin in South America or Germany getting frisky again and getting bombed into oblivion by Russians/Americans.

Such local collapses (local SHTF in survivor speak) have occurred many times in history, some quite recently. And in all such cases, gold has never become worthless. In fact gold has been the gold standard of stored wealth.

As long as there is civilization somewhere that people can hope to escape to, gold will be what people will expect to hold value.

Rhode Island is supposed to be an island. The rising sea levels are only helping it to achieve its natural state!

Although we haven't tested the long term effects of living in gravity between 0G and 1G, it's one of those things where we pretty much know what the outcome will be, even if the exact value is unknown.

Like, we know the effect of not getting hit by a punch. We also know the effect of getting hit by a Mike Tyson uppercut. And although no one has been hit by a Justin Bieber punch yet, we can predict that the result will be somewhere between not getting hit by a punch and a Mike Tyson uppercut.

and their website looks like it's from 1995 as well!

I don't recall people of Seattle complaining about how Bill Gates ravaged their city in the 90's...

whoever thought running scripts from random sites and ads was a good idea?

My plan:

1. Kill the Senate Launch System and bury it in a landfill
2. Fire everyone who thought it was a good idea
3. Wait around a few years and play Kerbal Space Program
4. Buy a ride on Falcon Heavy R and save a billion bucks per launch
5. Now you can afford to haul more stuff to Mars for a city

Thank you, I'll take the $5000 in cashier's check, Visa or Mastercard.... but definitely NOT American Express.

That's an understatement. If everything goes according to Elon's plan, we might have weekly or even daily Dragon launches in the future. Calling the US Navy and having them send out aircraft carriers every day to retrieve capsules from the Pacific would get pretty expensive!

Having the capsule return to the launch site and land with precision is gonna be a big money-saver.

If Shuttle had a launch escape system, it would've been used at least once (Challenger) with 7 lives being saved.

You mean attach a cord to the USB thumb drive, tie the other end to your wrist, and insert the thumb drive into your computer before using it?

Seems like a hassle. The cord would have to be pretty short for this to work. It might be ok for temporary sessions on a laptop at the public library, but not for daily use with your home desktop (which is likely not on your desk but on the floor).

Someone should make a wireless version. Using a USB wireless mouse with those little snub receivers you plug into the USB port could work.

You leave the snub plugged into the computer. When the mouse is turned on, USB state changes and you have a live USB human interface. Then you type in your disk encryption key and use the computer. If the mouse is turned off OR if the mouse goes out of range of the receiver, USB state changes and computer shuts down. Now you just need to pull the guts out of the mouse and put it on a fashionable wristband or whatever.

See, this is why climate change is still such a contentious topic. You sound exactly like a religious fanatic. Anyone who does not agree with you is stupid (you said it four times in your two-sentence post). They are denialists. What you really mean is, they are heretics.

People like you living in an echo chamber might not hear this, but there are reasonable, non-Republican, not paid by Big Oil, non-stupid people out there who harbor some level of skepticism for various reasons. Not the least of which is the religious fervor with which Climate Change (nee Global Warming) believers attack their opponents.

For me personally, it was the history revision, deleting of hundreds of mentions of Medieval Warm period off of Wikipedia by climate crusaders. And the attempts to dismiss other historical records as garbage ramblings of primitive people. The Romans and the medieval monks and the Renaissance people were all stupid, right, because they didn't live in the enlightened age of computer models?

So you have to think in absolutes? Either (education = intelligence) or (education != intelligence) ?

Statistics will bear this out, but simple common sense says more intelligent people will tend to be better educated. People with 80 IQ do not spend 8 years and a hundred thousand dollars trying to obtain a PhD. There is a correlation. Of course there will be degrees and exceptions.

Direct IQ tests are even better correlated with intelligence than education level. But even that is not an absolute.

Maybe it's not new physics, but old physics. Would the universal aether from ~18th century explain this phenomenon?