Posts by Daniel

Google gives Chrome spit 'n' polish treatment, says report

How can they pull it out of Beta so quickly?

I mean GMail is STILL in Beta and that's been going on for four and a half YEARS now.

US judge says University can ignore Christian course credits

The Alternative...

Book Description - From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools.

What's really going at your local public school? In From Crayons to Condoms: The Ugly Truth About America's Public Schools, Steven Baldwin and Karen Holgate let parents, concerned teachers and students speak for themselves about the dismal state of government education in America today.

The conclusion? Today's schools are laboratories for disaster, where failed methodologies and policies continually find new life thanks to bureaucracies more interested in maintaining power than in educating.

Lavishly armed with your tax dollars, government at every level encourages mass social experimentation on our kids - success optional. In From Crayons to Condoms you'll discover...

* The lesbian gym teacher who hands out a paper called "101 Ways To Do It Without Going All The Way" in every class.

* The "Inventive Spelling" curriculum which demands of parents that they "avoid giving in to our natural desire to correct the mistakes" because it's "harmful to the children"

* The "innovative name-calling" program for kindergarteners and first graders that teaches new words and concepts like "dyke" and "faggot."

* The required courses in "death education" that actually encourage teen depression and suicide.

* The math classes in which students write down how they "feel" about math problems...as opposed to learning fractions, algebra and multiplication tables.

Today's public schools are not just rife with bizarre, inaccurate textbooks and failed teaching practices - they encourage classroom activities that produce dangerous, even deadly, results.

More than Just the Christian Schools

"...failed to adequately teach critical thinking and modern historical analytic methods."

Unfortunately, that describes most Public High School history curricula as well. Typically in America, history is taught simply as a bunch of facts with little to string them together. Analyzing historical data isn't taught until college - if even then.

I have mixed feelings about the ruling. I personally feel a college should be able to dismiss out of hand anything it feels like. That license comes with a caveat though - I don't support public funding in education to begin with. All universities should be private - the UC shouldn't exist in the first place :)

Oh, and for the reading impaired

those are High school credits from a curriculum designed by a University. They are NOT University credits as some commenters seem to believe.

Former beauty queen cuffed for torturing ex

Should have read the book first...

Did anyone pay attention to the list of stuff the police found at the scene?

"The search-warrant inventory filed in court says that police subsequently found 'an expended bullet at a home in the 1200 block of East Knox Drive along with .45-caliber ammunition, plastic gloves, marijuana, the victim's wallet and briefcase, and a book, How to Win Friends and Influence People', as well as 'duct tape at a home in the 2400 block of North Bryant Avenue'."

Nine-second delay sinks unfair dismissal claim

Re: Wait

This isn't a private industry that might be worried about customer satisfaction. It's the government. They set the rules to reflect their convenience, not the customer's. Since they state explicitly that the requirement is for when they receive it, the law student hasn't a case.

Sun's activity not to blame for climate change

CO2

"CO2 is a greenhouse gas. This an absolute, and undisputable scientific fact. (yes, we actually have some of those in science, it is not all models and hypotheses). This we know from looking at the CO2-molecule in particle physics and radiation physics. We can accurately decide the absorption and emmission properties of the molecule, as well as its scattering properties, all as a function of wavelenght. CO2 does interact effectively with infrared light, "heat radiation", of the wavelenghts the Earth emmits. Spectroscopy will tell you the same thing."

Here's another undisputed fact - Carbon dioxide makes up about 350 parts per million in our atmosphere. That's approximately one third of one tenth of one percent.

and another undisputed fact - carbon dioxide makes up less than 5 percent of the greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

Oh, and one more - the VAST majority of Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere is STILL naturally occuring.

Any more facts we should consider?

Woman cleans keyboard... in dishwasher

That's what sock bags are for!

"Says Michele: 'Just like with socks in the laundry, somehow a couple of our matching keys disappeared in the process. Luckily they were F10 and F11. We never use those anyhow.'"

That's what sock bags are for - at least I don't THINK the keys will fit through the holes...

Strange spoofing technique evades anti-phishing filters

Gaming Common Sense

Someday, someone who is fluent in English will make one of these - and it'll spoof an initial signup screen too (you know, when you actually DO have to give some of that sort of info out).

I'm not saying give up common sense, I'm just saying eventually a phisher who isn't a sixteen year old Latvian in his mother's basement will actually launch an attack that won't raise your God given bs detectors either.

Gaming Common Sense

Someday, someone who is fluent in English will make one of these - and it'll spoof an initial signup screen too (you know, when you actually DO have to give some of that sort of info out).

I'm not saying give up common sense, I'm just saying eventually a phisher who isn't a sixteen year old Latvian in his mother's basement will actually launch an attack that won't raise your God given bs detectors either.