Comment: Re:Hey! Now we know (Score 2) 858
Comment: Re:A true American (Score 1) 999
Comment: Re:And the unions are pissed... (Score 1) 575
Automatic pay raises based on seniority, and not merit... I am all for paying good teachers a lot more.
How do you propose you quantify 'good' teachers exactly? Parent or student recommendations? Doesn't that create and awkward incentive for hot_starting_teacher_01 to give a blow job to little johnny's daddy to make sure she gets a good recommendation?
I've seen this excuse many times before. Are we saying that every single other profession is able to measure performance, except for teaching? Seriously, can we not spend a few months on identifying a way to do some type of qualitative 360 degree review?
Comment: Re:There is a reason for that (Score 1) 207
Comment: Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government (Score 2, Interesting) 624
Comment: Re:I liked it. (Score 1) 201
Did Hal actually USE the ring for anything interesting? I wouldn't say I'm the biggest fan, but I do have a few of the comics. I don't think a lot of people got that the rings power had to do with imagination, and that Hal's true power wasn't just the ring, but that he used it in such inventive ways. Since that time it seems like he's been reduced to shooting some green death ray from his ring and such instead of problem solving.
I was initially interested in the movie, but had the feeling it wouldn't touch on the theme of using imagination. From the trailers I didn't get that impression either.
He did at least one thing that I thought was pretty clever/funny with the ring, but I don't want to spoil it. It was more than just shooting green lasers.
Comment: I liked it. (Score 4, Interesting) 201
To summarize, I thought the movie was fun enough for your average summer movie goer and did better than expected from the POV of a long time GL fan. I would have liked some more inside type of stuff thrown in (even a mention of Alan Scott), but it was still pretty freaking cool hearing the Oath in a movie.
Comment: Re:slow news day? (Score 1) 211
Seriously - it didn't cross the minds of 12 engineers that everyone who uses facebook has hated every single one of the UI changes - and they still continue to do it?
The fact that they still have millions of users and continue to grow, lends one to believe that not everyone hates their updates. People don't like change and more than that they are terrible at imagining how they will use a something that is vastly different that what they currently do. A good business is able to derive a set of features from their customer's wants, and then design a way to meet those wants. Even when the customer may balk at first. If Facebook stayed with their original UI, someone else would have come into the market and replaced them.
The Real 'Stuff White People Like' 286
from the taking-a-closer-look dept.
Bill To Ban All Salt In Restaurant Cooking 794
from the too-stupid-to-live-as-long-as-possible dept.
Federal Deadline Hobbling eHealth IT Rollout 99
from the you-can't-hold-servers-together-with-red-tape dept.
Dying Man Shares Unseen Challenger Video 266
from the new-perspective-on-an-old-tragedy dept.