I've gone back at least ten times. The story element took that long to piece together between repeat visits and online discussion. Also, they've managed to pull some exceptional music performances that normally would have never come here, which has made it worth going repeatedly.
Our courts here in New Mexico got bamboozled by the use of the "Arnold Tool"which is basically the same thing. Anyways, Yada Yada Yada, we're now worst in nation for auto theft because of it and we have no recourse against it unless we want to change our state constitution because our Supreme Court mandated it as it was sold as being more fair. All it did was put repeat offenders on the street the next day. My car has been broken into three times since the change. Garbage in, garbage out.
The best accounting book I've read is called "Double Entry, a history of accounting." pay particular attention to chapter 4, if you want a good primer on basic double entry accounting.
My first job was here at the Chuck E. Cheese here in Albuquerque. I learned an incredible amount from that job, which was good because the job started me at $4.25 an hour and worked me like a horse. Building a place that sucked in kids to play video games was a great idea, and it worked like a charm. The change machines brought in about half of our revenue. It's been twenty years since I worked there but recently went to another one and was surprised to see that the place is run almost exactly how I remember it.
I can confirm what others have said about the behavior of parents, generally they were OK but we ended up limiting beer to two after two parties got in a fight with each other. I can see how some places would attract some consistent riff raff.
It was a great first job for a sixteen year old.
2016 is the year I began focusing my reading on subject histories and anything that places the western canon in clearer context, so reading Ceasars journal, Plato, stoics, and later writings from Hobbes have been influential.
Histories of accounting (Double Entry, a history of accounting, probably the best thing I read this year), general math (Taming the unknown, a history of algebra), management (A history of management thought) statistics (The lady tasting Tea), computing (The Innovators) education (anything John Taylor Gatto) and recently business law.
The change in my reading from latching onto whatever is new/popular/recommended to delving into the development of basics is one of the better changes I made to my readings, it's creating a richer, more clear, much more useful mental model of the world over the onslaught of articles and books that have X amount of tips on doing Y.
I've worked for a medical laboratory as a courier for eleven years. I don't think all of these jobs will be completely wiped out, for several reasons hit on by people in this thread.
Many of the things I do on a daily basis can be automated, (I know because I've been able to automate parts of my job), but other parts will prove to be such a high bar, it will be twenty years before they will be cost effective and/or the technology is created. I worry more about low cost, easy to use scanning technologies displacing my job more than I do automated vehicles, at least in the near term.
Retraining those of us who want it really wouldn't be as daunting a task as it sounds. I've been able to listen to thousands of hours of audio while I drive, both audio books and university classes, and I encourage my coworkers to do the same.
Most of us understand that this line of work will be disrupted at some point. Places like Uber will lead the front of the change. Business like where I am at, where I handle hazardous materials, and places like ups, which have unions blocking automation, will take quite a bit longer in switching over to autonomous vehicles.
The system works as its designed to. It produces standardized young adults that are compliant to authority. Standardized tests don't really tell us a whole lot about how functional these kids are, outside of how compliant they are. The two (yes two) professionals that helped produce common core, now lecture against it.
Do something completely different. Go on a road trip. Join an art collective. Volunteer to help others. Perspective comes from contrast and new experiences.
Agreed. The Prussian model was designed to turn the product of the entire state into a machine that supported the military, so that it was on constant war footing. The idea that it was primarily for industrial purposes is incorrect. In addition, the author completely misses mentioning the sophists, who started doing this kind of highly manipulated education 2000+ years ago. The author probably would have been served better if she had read Quigley, and understood the ideas that Gato presents in full, rather than argue against Khan, who doesn't seam to understand that this is the way that certain structures maintain their base of power, by creating heiarchy. As Gato puts it, it all comes own to the Calvinist idea that only the elect and few are saved. https://youtu.be/Ho7PPR93XJk