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    If pigs had wings, maybe they could fly. The trend continues to be up, with an increasing ratio of extreme highs to extreme lows. www.ucar.edu/news/releases/2009/images/temps_2.jpg !Pick your metric and stick with it. Enough of moving the goalposts! How, exactly, have the goalposts been moved? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Scroll back up and look at that tiny extra-wide blank gap between messages #10 and #12. Gee, I wonder what happened to message #11? Whatever it was, I'm sure it's deletion is well deserved, and the moderators were reallly on the ball to catch it fast before everyone saw it. Another job well done! That's nothing. The mods deleted an entire thread started by Skymama earlier today. That was just the repost police! Well, if she had posted it first, she would have owed beer! Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Scroll back up and look at that tiny extra-wide blank gap between messages #10 and #12. Gee, I wonder what happened to message #11? Whatever it was, I'm sure it's deletion is well deserved, and the moderators were reallly on the ball to catch it fast before everyone saw it. Another job well done! That's nothing. The mods deleted an entire thread started by Skymama earlier today. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Oh, the irony! Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    The last decade or so is an excellent example of low business taxes not stimulating job growth. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    There are always external factors that contribute to a business' success or failure that are beyond the business owner's control. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Bane is a fictional character who appears in comic books published by DC Comics. The character's origin was in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (January 1993), and was created by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench, and Graham Nolan. One would think they'd use the FutureCam to buy winning lottery tickets or something. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    That's pretty much why I think that eliminating the budget deficit will require tax increases. Cutting spending makes for good rhetoric, but if no one can agree on which expenditures need to be cut and which ones should be kept, the cuts won't happen. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    You're welcome. Personally, I didn't listen to it. From the evidence I've seen thus far, Zimmerman is guilty of at least manslaughter, whether or not he is a racist. However: 1. I'm not familiar with the letter of the applicable laws. 2. I'm not on the jury, so it doesn't matter what I think. 3. I'm reasonably confident that there is more relevant evidence in the case than will be provided by the media. I think it's tragic that Trayvon Martin was killed, and I hope George Zimmerman gets a fair trial. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Exactly. Businesses need society in order to be successful as much as society needs businesses in order to be successful. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Here's a recording of the coworker's interview, under oath, with an investigator at the state attorney's office, for those too lazy to search. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    I missed that, can you steer me to the artical or anything. I'm serious, I really have tried to follow everything about this and I missed that and would like to read about it. If there have been two perhaps there might be something to it. I'm googling it and haven't found it. Not to say it isn't there! http://loop21.com/life/george-zimmerman-co-worker-harassed-racist-jokes Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    I'm skeptical. edit to add: SkyDekker beat me to it. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    The businesses also benefit more than many member of society from having access to a labor supply educated at the public's expense. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Incorrect. Also incorrect. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Roads were initially paved for bicyclists, not motorists. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    I see them arguing that they shouldn't have to support all the other social programs in a disproportionate way, despite benefiting from society disproportionately. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    That's why I think providing incentive for individual states and/or school districts to address the problem as laboratories of democracy is the best path to solution. Perhaps many of the attempted solutions will be largely ineffective, but there will likely be some that are both effective and can be scaled up while maintaining that effectiveness. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    That's the crux. We don't know exactly what is being done wrong. That doesn't mean we should stick our heads in the sand and ignore the fact that there is a disparity in the participation rates in math and science in universities and the professional world. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Do you really think reevaluating how math and science are presented to young students and presenting the material in a manner that appeals to the girls as much as the boys constitutes a "really intrusive society"? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Out of curiosity, what math beyond multivariate calculus and differential equations is necessary for an aerospace engineer? Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    I didn't see where he made that point. I saw where he said MIT had about a 50:50 male:female ratio, but that doesn't mean much, since a university as prestigious as MIT is going to have more qualified applicants of each gender than they can admit. When the enrollment at typical state universities is about 50:50 throughout the STEM programs, then we can claim the disparity is corrected. Alternately, if we could conclude with a high level of confidence that the disparity is due to nature, and not nurture, then we could dismiss it as not really being a problem. It's pretty common to see young girls encouraged to play with dolls while young boys are discouraged from doing so, so I'm not inclined to believe the problem has already been corrected or that boys and girls are not nurtured differently. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    I suspect it does. In an Advanced Calculus class some math ed. majors were talking about how, after they received their high school teaching certification, they could take a fairly easy test that would allow them to teach middle school, also. It was also mentioned that the reverse was also true. They could initially get their certification in middle school, and take a relatively easy test to also be certified to teach high school. The difference is that the major for the middle school teaching certification didn't require the rigorous math class classes, such as Advanced Calculus, required for the secondary math education major. So, at least in principle, it is possible for those who haven't proven themselves to be competent in mathematics to be certified to teach mathematics. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    From the article: "The woman, who contacted prosecutors after Martin's killing, said she was 6 and Zimmerman was 8 when the alleged molestation began. It continued until she was 16, she said." Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!
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    Agreed. She'd also take votes away from Romney. Like it or not, there is a real group of voters who favor Romney over Obama for no other reason than because he's white. (I'm in no way implying that everyone who opposes Obama is racist.) She's also fairly liberal, as Republicans go, as is Romney, so they don't balance out well. Rice on the ticket might inspire some conservatives to stay home in November. Her effect on the election notwithstanding, from what I know of her, I think she'd make a fine VP, better than many of the other (Republican) options, maybe all of them. Math tutoring available. Only $6! per hour! First lesson: Factorials!