When your reaction to this picture is wishing they'd shown more of the Jeep... [maybe NSFW]

EatMoreFiber · 2012-05-25T15:03:24.581332+00:00

Careful, that Jeep is definitely jailbait. You may get this whole subreddit banned if you're not careful!

studentloans1 · 2012-05-25T13:50:07.691758+00:00

Spam.

Ghasssan · 2012-05-25T12:37:54.052595+00:00

What about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqCjhdbiot0

Codec pack to stream mkv to your ps3.

sophomorik · 2012-05-25T02:21:48.307124+00:00

I work for the federal government and would prefer not to identify myself. Not that it is particularly difficult to figure out what I do or who I am, but I'd prefer to keep this small level of anonymity.

I'm not sure I'm directly in a position to change anything, but can possibly offer a different perspective as to why some things are the way they are.

ItsAllCalypso · 2012-05-24T18:54:33.755652+00:00

So of course, we all know that in order to get that recommendation you have already liked "I Don't Read"

fox_mulder · 2 days

My friends can't understand how I can get into a song that takes 13:30 to get to the first sung word.

polarbobbear · 2 days

Hey, those rocks a few feet behind you are higher up than your feet. You lied! Do it again and drink another beer!

fobbymaster · 2 days

And Iowa didn't have a single player on the list.

seems about right <sigh>

volkovolkov · 2 days

I have a new arch enemy...

soon ...

volkovolkov · 2 days

Fuck you. I don't want to eat Broccoli.

I'm an adult and I can make my own damn decisions. I don't give a shit what you think about me and my eating choices. I don't care how it is prepared and I don't give a flying fuck how good you think it is. If it has broccoli in it. I ain't eating it.

DreadPirate2 · 2 days

Or you could also call it by even a simpler term ... debt

a12345678910 · 3 days

So why not black t-shirt, black jeans, black tennis shoes?

KurtGiessler · 3 days

But the $5b that Pearson earned didn't all come from the government and surely not from the federal government.

Your argument is similar to saying that "Annually this country give ten times as much to Exxon Mobil ($452b) as it did to Pell Grants.

So basically if we collectively eliminated Exxon Mobil we could give 10 times the students a Pell grant.

KurtGiessler · 3 days

I still don't know, but if they made $760 million in profit, whatever their net was must have been huge.

If their profit was $760m then that is the net. That's what the net means. It is the profit after taxes, depreciation, etc.

Their operating margins are at 16.1%. That means that for every dollar they earned, 16.1 cents were profit. That is decent profit margin but surely not gigantic.

http://www.pearson.com/media-1/announcements/?i=1523

kmoneybts · 3 days

Are you a freelance or employee of a company? How did you decide to go one way vs the other?

kmoneybts · 3 days

What sort of hours do you work? Is it a 9-5 thing in your office? Do you have crazy long sessions with some bands and then periods of nothing?

youshallnotpass1234 · 4 days

Or maybe not. Maybe I'm the only person in the world and everything I see and everyone I interact with is a projection from my mind.

ZhanglouriousBasterd · 4 days

I can assure you that getting on the metro after a Nats game is way worse. Lots of drunk sweaty stinky guys crowding in a small space.

Kikuness · 4 days

Much better than the earring picture frame holder that I first imagined. I wanted to click the pics to see if you got a tiny picture frame to hang off your ears or just had amazing ability to dangle heavy things off your ears.

yfront · 7 days

I'd love to find a good recipe for this. I've shared it with several women and they all love it.

skellybonz · 7 days

Can you provide some links? I'd love to learn more. The quick search I did on it talked about the educational model and didn't address the funding distribution at all.

skellybonz · 7 days

Sometimes yes and sometimes no. My position is that there is no other real metric that policymakers and budget makers are able to reliably use.

Things like NCLB and Rate to the Top (RTT) are ideas that are trying to drastically shake up how that money gets disbursed. But unfortunately, in my opinion, they're both someone's grand idea for how to fix things without a lot of hard facts supporting the policy. NCLB seemed like a great idea when it came out and has been a mess the whole time. RTT is too early to tell but I personally don't know if it will solve anything.

skellybonz · 7 days

I do agree Standardized tests are a good measure, in theory, however they have a piss-poor roll-out, internal validity, and too much weight is placed upon them.

Not going to disagree with that in any way. I'd state it like this: "Standardized testing is a shitty way to figure out how to spend the money. But it is the best way we know today."

skellybonz · 7 days

I've offered my opinion on this topic several times in /r/education and usually get downvoted into oblivion.

Standardized tests have one critical purpose and until a viable alternate exists, the tests are here to stay. Standardized test are provide a meaningful way for the US Department of Education, state education authorities and local education authorities (school districts) a decent way to divvy up the funding. We've known for decades that giving a fixed amount per student to a school isn't an effective way to educate students. We can use standardized test to see what schools (or states or districts) are in need of the most help. And the only tool that the federal government or state government has to use is giving money to schools.

Find an effective way to split up the education tax dollars and there will be no need for standardized tests. Until that time they will only be used more and more.

skellybonz · 7 days

I've offered my opinion on this topic several times in /r/education and usually get downvoted into oblivion.

Standardized tests have one critical purpose and until a viable alternate exists, the tests are here to stay.

Standardized test are provide a meaningful way for the US Department of Education, state education authorities and local education authorities (school districts) a decent way to divvy up the funding. We've known for decades that giving a fixed amount per student to a school isn't an effective way to teach. We can use standardized test to see what schools (or states or districts) are in need of the most help. And the only tool that the federal government or state government has to use is giving money to schools.

Find an effective way to split up the education tax dollars and there will be no need for standardized tests. Until that time they will only be used more and more.

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