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By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:36:46 +0000

I’ve heard about Discworld but the parts of the books I read did not interest me, so I have no either bad or good views about Terry P.

Winning wars is not about winning elections, just having the right priorities and the right timing. Do the right thing, at the right time. The Left could not usher in their New Utopia 60 years ago or even 100 years ago. That should tell people everything they need to know, to start learning more.

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:34:19 +0000

A friend of mine went to a new restaurant, and when she went up to the counter to pay, the staff begged her indulgence. It was their first day open, and they were having trouble with the cash register.

She went behind the counter and spent half an hour teaching them how to count back change.
It was a revelation to them — they had never been taught how.

By: barryg99

barryg99 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:48:27 +0000

Traditional math can be done poorly or well. When done poorly there is memorization without any reasons for what you're doing. Taught properly, procedures and skills are put in context. Traditional math is often mischaracterized as "rote memorization" and no understanding. For more discussion of this, see http://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/barry-garelick-the-myth-about-traditional-math-education/ Barry Garelick

By: Ron19

Ron19 — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:05:31 +0000

From Ymarsakar: Evil couldn’t pay people to be more accommodating to their plans. I used to be a Terry Pratchett fan, until his ideology and hidden agendas kept muscling further and further into the story lines. His Discworld novels from his early writing were fun, but later became an assualt on what other people believed in and how they lived their lives. Just about the last one of his novels that I read, Good Omens, followed the recent days of two angels, one bumblingly good and one very,very seriously and competently evil. They had long been friends, having met at the exit gate of the Garden of Eden, and towards the end of the book, the good angel asked the evil angel how he could think of so many bad things to encourage people to do, and so succesfully. The bad angel replied something like, "After a while, the humans became so good at what we were teaching them to do, that they started to think up their own evil things to do. We couldn't keep up with them, so we just turned them loose to do what they wanted to do." You're right, Ymarsakar, they don't need to be paid to do evil, although it's a good gateway incentive.

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:07:46 +0000

" The problem nowadays is the fiction, which is all fantasy and feelings." Hey, the fiction I read from Japan is full of quantum mechanics and other stuff like that. Plus it qualifies as "multicultural" transfusion of knowledge...

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:06:42 +0000

The Left brings their ultimate plan to fruition closer and closer to Critical Point, whereas everybody else is slapping each other on the face arguing about inconsequential and non-essential matters. Evil couldn’t pay people to be more accommodating to their plans.