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What We Can’t Learn from Finland’s Schools: Apples, Oranges, and Denial(huffingtonpost.com)
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by dbrannan 11y ago
Only because major U.S. corporations complained, which tells you who owns congress.
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by dbrannan 11y ago
It was most likely a licenced and insured pilot - looked like battery failure to me, but usually large unit (this was an X8) would have had dual batteries for redundancy. Being an X8 it would have dual motors and props, so if one failed it
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by dbrannan 11y ago
Can we get Adobe to open source the flash player plugin as well? Can anyone think of a reason Adobe continues to refuse?
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by dbrannan 11y ago
Would we live longer if gravity was higher than 9.81 m/s2? I think it might be difficult to actually test this, but it is a fun question.
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by dbrannan 11y ago
I would assume that registration would be free, but now that I think about it I wonder if it will be that way (or stay that way). It seems like this may be less about the "protection" of people and just another revenue source for
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by dbrannan 11y ago
I got hit by two of these (1/27 to Feb 4th and 6/4 to 6/22), and they were relentless. It was difficult to know where the attack originated because many proxies were involved - most inside the USA). We only managed a 62% upti
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by dbrannan 12y ago
You get what you pay for.
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by dbrannan 12y ago
I can clearly see the popular opinion (reddit/hacker news) is that marijuana is harmless. My professional opinion is different, however, and over the course of my career I have seen its affects first hand. Laugh and down vote me if you
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by dbrannan 12y ago
It is true that small amounts of pot has been legal in Alaska, but my concern is geared towards greater accessibility. Now that it is legal and will be sold commercially it will be much easier for young adults to attain. Usually the youth w
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by dbrannan 12y ago
I live in Alaska as a high school teacher. We lead the nation in welfare, alcohol abuse and fetal alcohol effects, suicide, sexually transmitted disease, credit card debt, number of women murdered, and domestic abuse. Now we are all going t
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by dbrannan 12y ago
I remember asking my father why he never drank alcohol. He said, "My dad (your grandfather) and three brothers couldn't leave it alone, so I figure I wouldn't be able to either. If you are wise you will do the same." I
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by dbrannan 13y ago
I'm a teacher and this is great practice for students learning to type. I thought a full screen mode would be helpful. I had a hard time reading the words at times.
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by dbrannan 13y ago
Sounds like taxation without representation to me.
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by dbrannan 13y ago
I recently at a conference and sat in on a session on 3D printing. There were several materials to choose from now, mostly plastic, but I saw rubber and a few other materials.
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by dbrannan 14y ago
Sounds like the outline of a good book. I'm not being facetious, you are on to some great truths in your comments.
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by dbrannan 14y ago
Perhaps iTunes 11 needs to index your library over again before the speed improves?
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by dbrannan 14y ago
To be fair summer vacation is shorter in most areas than it used to be due to an extended school year. The standard used to be 180 instructional days for kids, per year but it keeps creeping up there every year teachers renegotiate their c
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by dbrannan 14y ago
Pick two... 1. Job security 2. Job satisfaction 3. Good pay I've never had a job that had all three, and it is really critical you avoid jobs that only give you one of these options.
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by dbrannan 14y ago
This is why I hate twitter for limiting us to 140 characters. I love this quote, but the darn thing doesn't fit!
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by dbrannan 15y ago
I've had luck with bulkregister.com (they have auto-renew, at least).
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by dbrannan 15y ago
I registered on your site and took it for a spin - very well done. We initially geared our site towards teachers, but later learned that wasn't the market that was willing to pay for our services. Maybe your experience will be different. It
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by dbrannan 15y ago
Here is my experience: • I took my family to see the Incredibles - cost $7.50 x $5.00 = $37.50 • I like it so much we purchased the DVD - cost $19.50 • Somehow the DVD broke, so in a fit I purchased it through iTunes - $14.95 • Lost that ha
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by dbrannan 15y ago
I have a start up in the black since 2006. All three partners contribute to the code, help debug, and provide customer support. All of us work at other jobs, or independently. Currently we use profits to pay anyone willing to work on the co
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by dbrannan 15y ago
A relevant article: http://www.newstatesman.com/200009180009
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by dbrannan 16y ago
Try this: On your VCR and/or Blue-Ray hit STOP STOP PLAY. In many instances it will skip the previews and go straight to the movie.
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by dbrannan 16y ago
Take a good look at the number of plugins you are already running. If you are using Chrome type in about:plugins in the URL. I think you might be surprised. I see many people have this hate towards Flash because it is a plug-in, but what a
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by dbrannan 16y ago
It takes some perspective to see (gathering stats from wwikipedia.org): --------------------------------------- Gross Domestic Product of Top Ten Countries ======================================= United States 13,843,825,000,000 Japan
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by dbrannan 16y ago
There are like 100 forms of asbestos with 6 types being extremely harmful. The manufactures started using the cheapest of the materials (which are extremely difficult to tell apart). http://www.asbestos.com/asbestos/types.php
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by dbrannan 16y ago
Try Alaska. I keep getting phone calls at 4 AM several times a month.

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