"The political philosophy of America's Founding Fathers is so thoroughly buried under decades of statist... " - Ayn Rand
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"The political philosophy of America's Founding Fathers is so thoroughly buried under decades of statist misrepresentation on one side and empty lip-service on the other, that it has to be re-discovered, not ritualistically repeated." - Ayn Rand
"The political philosophy of America's Founding Fathers is so thoroughly buried under decades of statist misrepresentation on one side and empty lip-service on the other, that it has to be re-discovered, not ritualistically repeated." - Ayn Rand
About the best thing I can say about the Founders as a group, especially the writers of the Constitution, is that given the knowledge available, they did about the best possible job of designing a system that would last a long time before abuses crept in. But it's way past its sell-by date now.
I'd like to start or join an effort to do a good, scholarly job of improving on that design, even though it will take a miracle -- or at least very good luck -- for anyone to get a chance to put the result into practice, here or anywhere else.
Txs Alex.
It doesn't stop at having to rediscover the political philosophy of the fournders of the country. How long will it be before people have to rediscover the word "I"? Ayn Rand wrote about that, too -- Anthem.
Most importantly, they can't think. All their sentences start with "I feel like that Russia, should maybe think about..." or the equivalent.
Whether intentional or not our public education system has failed...
“I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms.” (Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Samuel Johnson, August 23, 1750.)
Regards,
O.A.
txs.
I would hate to publicly admit I was a teacher these days even if I was one of the few remaining real teachers.No wonder school budgets are votes down and the students leave early to attend GED classes at the JC's.
"Here's the thing. Huuuh?, y'know?"
My typing is atrocious. My fingers are too fat or imprecise I guess. My caps button hates me... Too close to the vowel a. I must constantly proofread. I can write cursive much better and faster than typing or printing, but unless I slow down only I can decipher it. :) Still I think it should be taught for the human touch and individuality it brings and value the (albeit limited) security a signature brings.
Regards,
O.A.
P.S. For clarity, that would be the caps lock button.
I learned cursive, but never used it, because it is illegible. I can print as fast as most people can write, and anyone can read it, even though it isn't pretty.
To me this is like learning an instrument to play, and if I had to pick one for my kids, it would be piano not cursive.
BTW - I used to be able to use a slide rule, and I can draw on a drafting board with a 30-60-90 triangle. Those make me a dino too.
That's the response one gets when one has won the debate and has the adversary against the wall with no place to go.
Answer: You can't type on a trombone, but you can triple-tongue. (3 very fast notes in a row.)
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=wood...
the piano was a cable baby grand, like this:::
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cabl...
-- j
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words with a ribbon -- examples:::
what to say
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/70...
watching
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/1a...
-- j
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late at night while everyone else was asleep. . liked
its tone, its feel. . women are far more intricate. . the
infinite supply of Os is intriguing. -- j
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26 letters, 10 numbers, eight notes. Everything else modifies. 44 symbols Don't count your trombone out. Good music speaks to us all as we read it's message via the computer we were born with and translate and understand.
the online mp3 rendition of a doobies song, and then gave them this:::
[the song::: "south city midnight lady"]
You think China Grove is a good song? . This song is its
delicious, elaborate prom-hug soul-mate! . With every hit
from every instrument (and they use Lots Of 'Em!) just perfect,
it leaves you with the taste of spicy sweet lips and magnificent
body-rubbing love all over. . Haunting, glorious, masterful love
through the night, with no dawn in sight. . Enjoy!!! -- 12spring
[and another comment:::]
This song reminds me of a lover's reply, afterwards, one night:::
"That's Not Fair!" . She enjoyed more ecstasy than she had ever
thought she could. . Haunting. . Love.
That Was Fun. . both the review, and the special night -- j
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-v...
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RemapCapsLock
Thank you very much. I was considering just popping the button off. I get so tired of typing away rapidly only to see a string of caps needing to be deleted and re-typed.
Regards,
O.A.
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Who said anything about a translation?
If they are unable to read it themselves, it must be translated into something they can read. A simple scan does not make it readable. Further processing either by OCR or a human is needed if you don't read corsive.
I'd be much happier if they really taught grammar (my kids don't really know what a preposition or gerund are).
There is limited time to learn things. Cursive is a dead art form, and wholly unnecessary today. In addition, teaching it ends up with 99% of the population writing is some stupid 1/2 cursive, 1/2 printing mess. Reading the Constitution or the Bill of Rights as it was originally written is a weak excuse to waste peoples time learning this writing style when a vast majority of the written communication today is typed.
My kids can't write cursive, but I just had my daughter recite the Constitution to me from the original. Separately from this, it just isn't that hard if it is written well. We seem to have backward-compatible reading.
This is a Luddite's argument.
I continually make the argument that people who want to use English well, and understand what they're doing, should study Latin. Those dumb rules that don't make any sense when applied to English were written for Latin, and once you understand them, you will know what a preposition is - and how to use it properly, not stiffly.
OK, your daughter can recite the Constitution. Can she explain it, using current events as examples either upholding or downpulling her choice of 5 important parts?
and modern cursive is NOT the way the Constitution was written - I have been a professional calligrapher, and I learned how to write copperplate with a modern "cheater" - a pen with an offset nib. I don't find much of it readable because it's too heavily ornamented.
I do think that people show know how to write by hand very quickly and very legibly by hand, and it does tend to result in a kind of print/cursive blend, and it doesn't have to be messy! and yes, I can show people how to do it.
It belongs to that list of skills, like Heinlein's list, that educated people should know - like "be able to make breakfast for 20 people".
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P.S. I would be happy to teach your children [depending on their ages] grammar long distance, if you like.
Would love to take you up on teaching grammar. My son (20) is not going to apply himself, but Katie (16) might be up for learning what they should've taught in grammar school!
I only seem to remember how to spell "grammar" because it is almost a palindrome. So weird how the mind works.
Why isn't printing adequate for handwriting?
Usually, because one can't do it fast enough, and it gets totally unreadable if done too fast - you need the [as the Brits say] joined-up parts to make it more efficient.
Here's one the best reasons for studying Latin I know: spelling. My favorite example is the word "necessary". People agonize over whether it's a c or an s in the first syllable. However, when they learn the phrase "necesse est" [and the c is always pronounced hard in Latin}, which means "it is necessary or required", the spelling problem usually disappears.
I would love to work on grammar with your daughter, and she'll ace her Latin classes! You are welcome to PM me any time.
The practical benefit to cursive writing over printing is that it is faster. to write. Unfortunately bad handwriting takes longer to read, but at least avoids the need for encryption :-)
Be it computer controlled, a typewriter, a pen or pencil the point of language is to communicate. If one cannot write a clear, concise sentence the method of passing that sentence to others is of no consequence. If one cannot communicate one is illiterate beyond him or herself.
My first wife was/is an art major looking for a teaching degtree. She saw no need for an understanding of English or any form of communication claiming art speaks for itself.
True but not sufficiently true for an instructor of those untrained in art. Those who rapidly become the lumps in the back of the classroom looking out the window.
She became a bank teller and never became an artist nor a teacher.
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/.../cogni......
A cognitive communication disorder is a broad term that's used to describe a wide range of specific communication problems that can result from damage to .
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/c... ."Quite simply, cognition refers to thinking."
com·mu·ni·ca·tion
kəˌmyo͞onəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
the imparting or exchanging of information or news.
"direct communication between the two countries will produce greater understanding"
synonyms: transmission, conveyance, divulgence, disclosure; More
2.
means of connection between people or places, in particular.
And those who can't communicate can not pass on their thoughts - except to themselves.
Communicate what? If you don't have concepts, which require words to designate, you have nothing to communicate. That cognition precedes communication does not mean to live in vacuum and not communicate.
Learning and knowledge is not a game with built in limitations. One can learn as much as they are willing or able to learn. If you don't want your kids to learn cursive, your call. Argue for limitations and soon enough they are yours.
One can learn what others are able to? 'One' is 'they'?
Even if learning grammar means me, it is still important :)
The problem with the sentence discussed is that we all know is rude to say "he" [as is "one can learn as much as he is able.."] so we revert to the plural "they". Objectivists, in general, are very good about having agreed that "he" applies to everyone, and usually use the singular easily. If you're willing to write around it, you can do without the convention but you have to think about it a bit.
--from one word -and-grammar geek to others
There is a big list of things to learn that will help one succeed and be happy. Grammar, literature, mathematics, history in context, music, art, foreign language, finance, law, sports, firearm safety, driving, bike riding, music theory, an instrument, typing, programming, public speaking...growing plants...cooking...cleaning house...carpentry...wiring, automechanics...1000 more...cursive is way down the list, not irrelevant, but not a priority.
And I stand by: it essentially teaches 99% of the people to have some illegible, mixed type of handwriting, while even poor printing is clear. It is a net negative form of communication, unless a nun stands over you with a ruler and make you a calligrapher. As practiced by most, it is the written equivalent of the Tower of Babel. Good riddance to cursive and slide rules.
You may not care for cursive, but it will be with us for some time to come.
In our business we have to deal with hand written correspondence every day. Delivered by fax or scanned and emailed, but hand written. So much so, that it limits suitability as an employee for someone who cannot read it reasonably well.
You are right that cursive handwriting is bad and is getting steadily worse. The high tech alternatives are a major driver of that. A skill you don't practice steadily erodes.
However, it is still too prevalent to either pretend it does not exist, or refuse to teach the skill.
I don't like cursive, but it is still here, yes. Bummer for me. Cursive is going to die, perhaps bummer for you, if you are still at this in 15 years (I will just be a curmudgeon yelling at kids on my lawn by then).
Computers like pencils are a tool. They augment but do not replace the mind. Want to turn off the motor of the world?
Create a blackout.
to make the point the scholarship commitees of the Alumni Association and local clubs like Kiwanis sent back a large percentage stamped Not University level material. The next step was to require a hand written paragraph on the subject of why the applicant should be awarded a scholarship and ended up with a verbal presentation. We were thus able to sift the wheat from the chaff.
One year we gave out no scholarships and another instituted a second year continuation as a better use of the funds
Nowadays they just get government loans with a free ride for the females and a signed volunteer for military service form for the males.
That paper the young men sign at age 18 to get loans and government jobs? No draft or them if Uncle calls. They already volunteered.
--the calligrapher
Henry Ford
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A Gulcher replied that there are different Tea Parties.
I'd love to see that fractured movement band together into a far more effective political movement.
The promise-making to be put in power spineless RINOpublincan Party is making me sick.
#1 best book: "Making of America" it is excellent and comprehensive but reads like a text book for a college course.
A few others
"Washington a Life" and "Hamilton"
1776 and "John Adams"
and although its a slightly later time period i would "The First Tycoon" which is about Vanderbilt but he is in some part responsible for the country not spinning back to government contracts and due to him beating repeatedly competitors who had government funding causing a great reduction in government funding of private industry. I would bet with him we would not have had the industrial revolution that followed.
But the industrial revolution was already well underway by then, and was even earlier in England. It was a result of many individuals operating in freedom under better philosophical conditions across the culture, not any one individual who participated in it.
I bring you greetings from the Porcupine Freedom Festival in NH. Live free or die!
Whenever it gets included.....
Children are not self-aware for a while, even after birth. They respond, but are not aware they are a separate being.
In your historical example, I'm sure the similar concept of self-awareness is different, but such a different perspective could account for a lot.
Yes. Some have forced us down the path of ruin. :(
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams
Regards,
O.A.
Nail meet hammer.
I like this kind of Surf.... much better. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFuUvPDu...
Regards,
O.A.
The result finally became the Constitution, which created our Nation and the Government of Force to Rule over the "citizens" aka slaves. Such breaches all common law of contracts, as it binds only the signators thereto (far fewer than everyone), and cannot properly bind others such as we much-later descendants.
http://no-ruler.net/3460/failures-of-the...
I would love to find a transcript of the Constitutional Convention. But we have now arrived at "Today" and "What Is".
What was arguably the best Constitution ever failed (yet again, as always) to protect individual sovereignty, bring America to this brink of human disaster. Governments of Force always fail.
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We may well see an attempt to replace the Patriot Act revision without benefit of amendment or convention.
I can't get it go up but your 1 is back.
But even in that realm the recent debate on the Patriot Act reauthorization did not even mention many NSA mass warrantless surveillance practices: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/arc...
The wire transmissions - the old telephones and the new fiber optics have a blanket warrant in force for suspicion of terrorism with no proof or probable cause required.
Lots of loopholes no one worried about it until the new Utah facility was begun.
Remember the big deal about sub-cutaneous implants? Now people line up to own and operate the replacement for that idea although chips in ID and credit/debit cards is another such device. The replacement is the cell radio phone. People pay hundreds to be bugged and monitored.
How do the eavesdroppers know it's crossing international boundaries or not? By monitoring..