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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
03 Oct 13 UTC
NFL Week 5: Pick 'em--Wherein, Hey, There Are Actually a Lot of Good/Interesting Games!
So we kick off the week tonight with a game which looked like crap at the beginning of the year and now...looks slightly less like crap with the Bills and Browns going at it. Seattle meets Indy, the Niners and Texans square off on Sunday Night, the Raiders and Chargers play a LATER Sunday Night game no one outside California will watch, Pats/Bengals, Lions/Packers, and so on...so, once again, we ask you to...PICK 'EM!
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krellin (80 DX)
02 Oct 13 UTC
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Federal Education Spending
We'll starting cutting the budget here...No more Dept of "Education"

http://www.cato.org/blog/should-americas-ceos-listen-ed-sec-arne-duncan?utm_content=buffer44265&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
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Putin33 (111 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
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"The vast majority of students in this country do make it through school, do graduate, do go on to be productive citizens, etc."

If we failed every kid who deserved to fail we'd have a very low graduation rate.

We live in a customer service world where the customer is always right, if they're almost always an asshole and the cause of the problem. This applies to virtually every occupation now, especially education.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
.....ahhh....there it is again - yeah, HATE on those students, ass clown. Yeah...sure...you're a teacher...Ahhhhhhh ha ha ha ha. If you are, then you are a stoooopid dumbfuck.

and here again, previously you claimed that the education system is great and working perfectly...and now you say the education system is a failure and lies when it gives kids passing grades.

I'm literally laughing out loud at you right now, ass clown. I think you are now up to about 15 contradictions in a single thread. If you can hit 25, we'll send you a new gerbil to replace the one you smothered earlier....<shudders at the thought....>
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
kaner -- you didn't miss it, because i didn't go in to the details, nor do I care to, as the specific details of her particular admission are not relevant to the current discussion. But if you were reading what was said, I told you that *SHE* first brought to the attention of all the parents that there was an issue with her instruction methods, and I pursued with her at conferences an issue that *she* first brought to light, and for which she expressed dissatisfaction in the system in which she is forced to work, and in which she is not allowed to teach the material by the methods she has used in the past, or in the order and manner in which she chooses. The complaint began *with the teacher*, not me. THAT is the relevant point of the discussion, because a teacher has confessed that the government is forcing her to teach in a way that she, as a highly qualified, experience educator, does not feel is best for her students.
Putin33 (111 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
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You forgot to say hypocrite and shit sucking, you're slipping Krellbot.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
No Putin, my pathetic little puppet...as predicted, you chose to insult yourself. I guess your guilty conscience got the best of you and you decided to confess your sins when I failed to point them out.

Good boy. Maybe you'll get the gerbil after all.
Putin33 (111 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
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"kaner -- you didn't miss it, because i didn't go in to the details, nor do I care to, as the specific details of her particular admission are not relevant to the current discussion."

Because you don't have a clue about pedagogical method and probably made this story up.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Yes, the entire thing is a brilliant construct...and it sucked you in like...well, for an analogy, I'll use you! It sucked you in like Putin kneeling behind a naked fat man that ate too much 5-alarm chili...
Krellin once said he used to work as an english teacher. Surprised this hasn't come up in this discussion.
But I'm sure it will now...
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
I said I once taught an English class when I was asked to volunteer to do so. And your point?
Draugnar (0 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
He has no point except the one on top of his head.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Well, I have grown tired of making Putin look like a fool. I will let him continue to humiliate himself without me for a while now.

Carry on, ass clown. The floor, as it were, is yours....
Nah you said you were once an english teacher to win an argument, I said you lied and that went on for a while.
Draugnar (0 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Link to a thread and page or it never happened.
Get the replies page going again and I'd love to
SantaClausowitz (360 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
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And shouldn't you be putting in your 70 hours wage slave?
Putin33 (111 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
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"I said I once taught an English class when I was asked to volunteer to do so. And your point?"

LOL! I would pay to see Krellin teach English.

this is.....HOW YOU WRITE A SENTENCE....you stupid dumbfucks....MAKE SURE YOU USE PLENTY OF ELLIPSES JACKASSES....and also - randomly insert dashes, especially when COMPLETELY appropriate - ABSOLUTELY UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SPELLCHECK YOUR WORK....and make sure your syntax makes no sense whatsoever fucktards - ....now - IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND HUMILIATE YOURSELVES....hypocrite morons...THEN YOU CAN CAPITALIZE THE BEGINNING OF A SENTENCE and INCLUDE PUNCTUATION WHERE APPROPRIATE....but JACKASS HYPORITE MORON RETARD SHIT SUCK....that would be waste of time.
krellin (80 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Ahhhh...Putin....sad little man. I challenge you to a write off...

If I cared to take the time to edit and refine my writing, I could write circles around you, even back in my worst days of alcoholism. As it stands, what I write here, and the manner in which I write it, is designed to evoke a response. You, my Pavlovian pal, are proof of exactly how effective I am at what I do. I play you like a fiddle without even trying. Look at you up there...blustering on and on, vainly attempting to mimic me. It's sheer delight to watch you spin and froth...and every action you take is in response to what? My written word, Puppet.

So...would you care to address how effective my writing is again? lol Come on, boy...you can do it!
Oh shit, in this bitch

http://iliketowastemytime.com/sites/default/files/best_animated_images_car_jump_in.gif
orathaic (1009 D(B))
04 Oct 13 UTC
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Success at school largely depends on the attitude of the student - which in turn is largely determined by their peers and parents. There is also a huge class divide, in the UK at least (where i have taught) schools aim for middle class aspirations - which are not relevant to lower class kids/kids from non-working families. Without relevance there is little chance of getting through, teaching science to a kid who can never see themselves using it in their life is like pouring water into a seive. You might get some info remembered until the end of the class, but it's forgotten by the time they walk out the door.

Flexibility to make subject matter relevant is vital if any learning is expdcted. But even the best teacher can't make people care about education if peers and parents aren't supportive.
Draugnar (0 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Enough Santa. That was posted at almost 10:30 pm. I am actually back down to 40-50 for a week or two as the client is in UAT testing and so far they have found only small issues. But regardless, billing 80 hours is *billing* 80. I had one of my smaller clients agree to a three day (24 hours) rate yesterday. I did the work in 6. I billed them for 12 with their acknowledgement that I had done it so quickly, it was worth the extra 6 hours.
Oh you are back to your 40-50 hour week? That was NOT what you said before draugydraug! The story is unraveling. The best part about this is that you lied, tried to cover it up by staying away from the computer but you are so compulsively drawn to this place that you couldn't!
Draugnar (0 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
I have said that for the next two weeks I am back to 40 or 50 hour weeks. I have repeatedly said that downtown between major clients brings me back down to full time and that the current run was because I had two active full time clients with deadlines. So, you can call Cincom Systems, ask for Eloy in the Acquire group y boss) and ask him to verify the last 10 weeks of billing for Robert Bolin or you cam shut the fuck up.

Either way, I don't give a fuck. I may be hospitalized today and I run the risk of losing my lower left leg to extreme cellulitis so your opinion and you constant attacks just prove that Obi is right about you.
Draugnar (0 DX)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Did you ever go back and meet my challenge to look at my posting times over the last 2 months? No. Or maybe you did but won't admit I was right that I wasn't constantly posting during business hours in the Eastern Time Zone where Cincinnati is located.
Invictus (240 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
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Oh, you're from Cincinnati?
If obi said I like to hold people accountable when they make personal attacks on me if I have the time and wherewithal.

And don't get it twisted, you calling me a "lazy gubement worker" for no apparent reason started this whole thing. I might not know you or your job but you sure as fuck don't know me or mine, so perhaps you should shut the fuck up about it as well. Just a thought.

Hopefully you don't lose your leg, that would be bad.
Putin33 (111 D)
05 Oct 13 UTC
"But regardless, billing 80 hours is *billing* 80"

Isn't this fraud?
krellin (80 DX)
05 Oct 13 UTC
It depends on the contract language and agreements you have with your client. If the client agreed to pay 80 hours regardless of actual time, then you bill 80 hours.
bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
05 Oct 13 UTC
Wait... you mean people don't work every second they're paid for? What a travesty!
krellin (80 DX)
05 Oct 13 UTC
Bo - it's not even that nuanced...Putin just can't the concept because he's a piece of shit government employee and wouldn't know honest work if it crawled up his gerbil-infested ass. Putin questioning anybody's work ethic is freaking hilarious on the face of it...the self-proclaimed educator that has utter disdain for children/students and openly confesses that the education system is fraudulent and passes students that don't deserved to be passed...meaning PUTIN is a fraud and a liar by default...*this* is the asshole questioning someone else's ethics. Too funny.

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Hamilton Brian (811 D(B))
07 Oct 13 UTC
Openings for a learning game
I enjoyed both the School of War and Dojo of War experiences this summer. Doing both at the same time was idiocy on my part, and I still owe an EoG for Dojo. However, the amount of learning was good, and humbling. I am proposing another learning game.
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
05 Oct 13 UTC
Best way to make more money out of money?
So there's a bunch of money I'm not planning to spend for at least 2 years. Can I best keep it on a bank account as usual or are there more lucrative options that have about the same risk level as a bank account (practically none, since in this case the government returns the money if the bank goes boom)?
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Yonni (136 D(S))
07 Oct 13 UTC
Advice on building a media server
Figure there must be some expertise on this forum...
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tendmote (100 D(B))
06 Oct 13 UTC
When is it OK to start watching basketball again?
I stopped watching basketball altogether after the LeBron James "Decision" and strike-shortened season turned the NBA into a soap opera telenovela. Is the nonsense over yet? Are people playing basketball again? Like they mean business? Is there a new Bill Laimbeer out there fouling out and taking a bow before a booing crowd?
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
07 Oct 13 UTC
Interesting Poll
What would happen if during an election between two candidates for a political office a poll was held, where instead of preference for either candidate, people could "mix" the candidates, assigning percentages to each..? That should yield interesting and data on your electorate distribution..
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semck83 (229 D(B))
07 Oct 13 UTC
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Interview with Antonin Scalia
I thought this was a very interesting interview. I'm sure many here hate the man, but irrespective of that, he's always interesting. So I thought I'd post this for y'all.

http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
07 Oct 13 UTC
Why is John Kerry a twat?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24424933
"I think it's a credit to the Assad regime, frankly. It's a good beginning and we welcome a good beginning."
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MadMarx (36299 D(G))
29 Sep 13 UTC
Anonymous/Blind GR Challenge Tournament
If you post in this thread, you will be automatically disqualified from participating, you must PM me your interest. More info within.
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The Fox (115 D)
06 Oct 13 UTC
1day 50pts WTA
I was looking for a fair paced standard diplomacy game to enter, but there were none, so here it is. Come one come all
gameID=127129
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blankflag (0 DX)
02 Oct 13 UTC
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reputation
i think you can get along fine until you pass a certain threshold of douchebaggery, then you get a reputation, and a flood of stories get brought up in everyday gossip and your cause is lost.

so does anybody have strategies for maximizing douchebaggery without losing reputation? i think the only hope is to conform. if you are a nonconformist, then any small thing will seem big because people will constantly hear of it because you are often talked about.
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redhouse1938 (429 D)
21 Sep 13 UTC
Mercilessness
for those responsible

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/21/world/africa/kenya-mall-gunbattle/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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Putin33 (111 D)
06 Oct 13 UTC
European migration policy is a disgrace
http://www.dw.de/search-postponed-for-migrant-shipwreck-victims-in-lampedusa/a-17135414
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Crazy Anglican (1067 D)
06 Oct 13 UTC
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My first triathlon tomorrow
I'm 46. What am I thinking?
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
06 Oct 13 UTC
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String theory, God particle, A Capella, Agent Based Modeling and YOU
My wife, who's learning agent based modeling --> which makes my brain hurts<--, found these videos that just made my day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rjbtsX7twc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtItBX1l1VY
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krellin (80 DX)
05 Oct 13 UTC
Gov Shutdown? 83% Disagree...
http://washingtonexaminer.com/wheres-sense-of-crisis-in-a-17-percent-government-shutdown/article/2536862

That's right, 83% of Federal Spending is still flowing. Time to take the 17% that is "non-essential" and give it to the states where it belongs, or let private industry perform the same functions.
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LakersFan (899 D)
06 Oct 13 UTC
17/17 tournament thread
What happened to it? Did I mistakenly mute it or something?
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2ndWhiteLine (2601 D(B))
12 Sep 13 UTC
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Daily Big Lebowski Reading
For those of us who may not get as much from the Bible, but still like reading something every day.
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
04 Oct 13 UTC
Animal Day dilemma
This day makes me wonder: what's better for the animals? Buy biological meat instead of standard meat or donate the money you would otherwise pay extra to an organisation supporting animals? Discuss.
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philcore (317 D(S))
05 Oct 13 UTC
where are the stars?
The threads that I've posted on no longer have stars next to them. Did I miss a discussion about this? Did I even comment on said discussion and just can't find it because the star is gone?
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SantaClausowitz (360 D)
03 Oct 13 UTC
Place your bets
Who fired the shots at the capital?
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
05 Oct 13 UTC
Tell Me This Isn't the Play of the Year
http://nesn.com/2013/10/smus-garrett-gilbert-completes-unbelievable-two-point-conversion-to-force-overtime-video/
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NigeeBaby (100 D(G))
04 Oct 13 UTC
Stop paying the politicians
Politicians keep paid to do a job. If they stop doing that job why not stop paying them ........ there won't so many tea parties then if they have no money.
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SantaClausowitz (360 D)
01 Oct 13 UTC
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Who else isn't allowed to work tomorrow?
… or get paid?
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Sep 13 UTC
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10 Years Ago...
Give 1 pop culture thing you liked 10 years ago you now like less/dislike, and then 1 pop culture thing you disliked/liked less 10 years ago that you now like.
Give 1 religious/political thought/stance you agreed with 10 years ago that you now disagree with, and 1 religious/political thought/stance you disagreed with that you now agree with.
And to cap it off--1 book that's risen in your estimation over the last 10 years, and 1 that's fallen.
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fulhamish (4134 D)
04 Oct 13 UTC
Isolationism
I don't know all that much about American history (self evident some might say), but I found this piece in the New York Review of Books challanged some of my preconceptions. The piece is a review of a recently published book on the New Deal. I found this section on isolationism as a function of US sectionalism particularly thought provoking -
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
02 Oct 13 UTC
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LET'S GO PITTSBURGH PIRATES!
We have far more important things to worry about--I'll just leave the government shutdown talk for you all...you can probably guess who I back anyway--but for now, let's take a minute and unite in rooting the Pittsburgh Pirates on tonight! After *21 YEARS* of futility, they've FINALLY made it back to the postseason for this Wild Card Playoff against the Reds! The Mets were out of this before the season began...so let's all root for the Buccos (and their long-suffering fans!)
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
03 Oct 13 UTC
Kill Your Neighbor for Bitcoins
THIS IS AWESOME.

http://news.yahoo.com/silk-road-website-dealt-drugs-guns-assassins-bitcoins-190640637--abc-news-topstories.html
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
02 Oct 13 UTC
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RIP Tom Clancy
Legendary.
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