BTW, the Dems had both houses of Congress for most of Obama's first term. So I guess you can blame those damned dirty Dem Congress members too.
I call bullshit. Democrats had 59 votes + 1 Lieberman (who is hardly Democrat). Every time Republicans chose to filibuster (which was nearly always), requiring 61 votes to push something through, the majority meant nothing.
this is a large part of the reason I'm a Paul supporter -- he actually has a long voting history that almost invariably matches his rhetoric.
I highly admire that fact -- if only we had more honest politicians like Ron Paul...
But he is planning to eliminate IRS, Dept. of Public Health, public schools, etc. How far can one get with that plan? Having principles is good. Not being realistic is bad.
To the sibling poster who claims that you "need to vote for him the next time, too", that's patently ridiculous.
Oh, but you really do. That's what Obama must be counting on. Have you even _heard_ what the (viable) Republican contenders are saying? Gingrich/Romney/Santorum must be walking close to (if not past) the mark of being declared clinically insane.
TFA states that it was an airline official who refused to allow the passenger to board, not an agent of the government.
This is not an accident! The airlines are purposely referring to all their rules as "government mandated" to stop customers from arguing. As I understand it, many of their rules aren't actually mandated by anyone but the airlines themselves.
I dislike the fines, but this is EXACTLY the way things like this should be tried out. Try things at relatively small scale and on a population that volunteers for it. This is exactly the way medical research is carried out.
Aha, so the equivalent medical research would be to start with 100 sick patients and then charge fines (scare off by fees) and expel the patients that are feeling sicker. You are guaranteed to do better than all the other studies (that have to evaluate all 100 patients at the end)!
I'm glad some schools out there are trying something different, esp if it seems to be working.
I would not argue if that's a good or a bad thing (though I disagree with you). However, I think you are missing the point. It is not working because students learn better as a result of strict rules/fines/etc. It is working by filtering because bad students are held back/fined/scared off. This model only works for small private schools, since public schools don't get to eliminate bad students.
If you don't want your kid to be educated with a strict set of rules in the school, then choose a different school.
Oooh, you are SO missing the point. There is no problem with a private school running like that. But they are being compared to public schools. And there is least talk about replacing some schools, because "these do better". But they do better by essentially scaring off undisciplined and underprivileged (i.e. poor) students. Public schools can't do that.
They're not imposing fines on a whim. You sent your kids to their school, their rules were agreed to.
They are posing as and comparing themselves to a public school! And they are lobbying to replace more public schools. This "miracle" system will break down if they are unable to charge money and then scare off poor and undisciplined students. Public schools don't get to filter their students to focus on the good ones only.
A splash screen says "Don't worry Mr. Computer User, this program has successfully launched and is now loading." Without the splash, you'd sit and wonder if the program was loading or not...
Most developers clearly don't know what the splash screens are for, though. Many applications (that I dealt with) show NO progress bar. All they do is stick mandatory "always on top" flag, lest I try to use something else while the app loads. It is obviously preferable that the user stare at the static splash screen and try to intuit where the load progress happens to be at the moment.
They are good for really long processes (OS or window-system startup, game loading), because they give confirmation that something is really happening.
Most of the splash screens I have seen do not have a progress bar, so it tells you nothing about whether something is happening. What they do all remember to enforce is the "always on top" option, however. So while the splash screens provide no useful information, they do make it difficult to use anything else while the application loads. I always stop and wonder who thought "This is what users want!"
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