<p>^^^If your afraid of your kids not having the math skills enroll them in the nearest IB program (come high school). I was behind coming to university compared to my peers as individuals from some IB programs/foreign countries have at least done integration and some have completed differential equations and linear algebra. Whereas my high school system didnt even teach integration. </p>
<p>Granted IB is a little too intense IMO</p>
<p>My kids are just fine because they have me to explain things to them. But if you want to ask where did all the engineers go and why don’t more kids go into engineering then you have to look to the schools. In order to have decent high school physics and chemistry they have to have a solid understanding of fractions, decimals, and algrebra in middle school. Yet k-6th grade teachers can get away with taking one 3 hour college algebra class (in some places) and 7-12 grade teachers are only getting 42 minutes a day. I’m looking to fix the system. I already fixed my kids - mostly by DNA because that is how hubby and I are wired, but I also explain whatever needs explaining.</p>
<p>Same here, MomfromKC. I do worry about kids whose parents aren’t mathematically inclined.</p>
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<p>But they’re not duplicates. They may be variations on a theme, but they’re not the same. After all, the oeuvres of most artists and musicians are largely similar. But nobody complains about that. </p>
<p>I must return to my basic point - if you don’t like my posts, then fair enough, don’t read them, and certainly, don’t comment upon them. After all, if you think that most Katy Perry songs are similar (which they are), and you don’t like them, fine, then don’t listen to her songs. </p>
<p>Look, I don’t complain about the posts that anybody else makes, regardless of how repetitive I may find them. So why do you care so much about my posts? For example, I’m often times bored by the perpetual posts that ask about admissions chances at this-or-that school. But hey, some people may want to talk about that, so let them have at it. I don’t read them and I certainly don’t complain, because this is supposed to be a free discussion board, is it not? </p>
<p>We should all be free to post about whatever we care about.</p>
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<p>Um, I utterly fail to see how the articles I posted somehow ‘completely lack logic’, of even if they did, why that would necessarily be a problem. After all, no article can raise every possible point that pertains to the article. So why should we expect them to do so? If anything, it is up to us as commentators to exposit upon those other points.</p>
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I think you’re missing my point. I’m not trying to argue that your posts are repetitive; that was just my example. I could also post a chapter from Oliver Twist, for instance. My only point is that the argument “if you don’t like my posts, don’t read them” isn’t really satisfactory when defending your actions in a public forum. If such an argument were satisfactory, there would be absolutely no need for moderators, at all, ever, in any forum.</p>
<p>Like I said, I’m not taking sides. While I’ll agree with others that you do post on this particular topic a lot, it’s one I actually find interesting. That you and I are interested in it doesn’t necessarily justify putting it here, though. Just thoughts.</p>
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Maybe that’s true, but that doesn’t justify anything. For instance, even if I don’t agree with a law and wouldn’t turn in anybody I saw breaking it, that doesn’t mean I should expect the same from others. Social conventions aren’t laws, but they’re similar in almost every way.</p>
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<p>Um, I don’t recall moderators intervening to block my posts. </p>
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<p>And where would you like me to put it then? </p>
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<p>Seems to me that I’m a member of this society of posters from which the social conventions are generated just as much as anybody else. We together generate the social conventions. </p>
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<p>And have I broken any of the terms of agreement? Can you point to me exactly which term I have broken? I believe I’m well within my rights to post as I have. Like I said, I don’t see the mods complaining. </p>
<p>Like I said, I’m not interested in most of the other posts posited on this board. Heck, I even find some of them to be irritating. But I recognize that those other posters have a right to post them, so I let them be.</p>
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<p>And if there was a CC section regarding the work of Dickens, I’m sure you would be welcome to do exactly that.</p>
<p>Look, this is the engineering section of CC. Do my posts pertain to engineering? Yes. Do they generate interesting commentary from other posters? For the most part, yes. So what’s the problem?</p>
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Not saying they had, just using that to point out the inadequacy of your defense.</p>
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Somewhere where people don’t reply to your posts by complaining about the content? Beats me.</p>
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Terms can change, and they’re certainly open to interpretation. The lack of moderator intervention isn’t a justification in itself; that would be like saying crimes aren’t illegal until the police arrest you. In a certain philosophical sense that is a reasonable position, but people are noticing what you’re doing, and pointing out disapproval. The response is milder, but not so different, from what you’d expect if a moderator were to get involved.</p>
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<p>So the question isn’t what the problem is, it’s whether the problem is a real problem or a fake problem. It seems like everybody - including you - agrees that you have posted relatively often and relatively lots on this particular subject; my impression was that some were saying they thought it was excessive, whereas clearly you don’t. How this plays out is anybody’s guess, but my money says that nothing changes, and everybody goes about their business as usual. And that’s all fine and dandy, but it doesn’t mean they’re right to call you out, and it doesn’t mean you’re right to persist.</p>
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<p>I would argue that that speaks to the inadequacy of your complaints. Without sounding arrogant, the fact is, you don’t run this discussion board. You have no right to tell other people what they can post. </p>
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<p>And those other people are free to not read my posts as well. </p>
<p>Look, I’m not here to win a popularity contest. There are plenty of other posts here that I dislike, but I don’t bother their authors. They are free to post as they wish, and so am I. </p>
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<p>Well, until such time as the terms of service change, then I will continue to proceed as I have. </p>
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<p>Like I said, if it’s a problem for certain people, then they are perfectly free to ignore my posts. So what’s the issue? Am I hurting those other people? Am I insulting them? Am I interfering with their ability to express their opinions? I think not. So why the controversy?</p>
<p>I feel like we’re just going in circles at this point. Either you have understood my points by now, or you are willfully ignoring them. Either way, I think that’s all I’ve got.</p>
<p>I understand your points perfectly, but they are, frankly, not relevant to me. You guys are attempting to infringe upon my free speech through social suasion. But like I said, I’m not here to win a popularity contest.</p>
<p>The points are very relevant to you, or you wouldn’t keep posting. All they said is that you’re annoying. Keep posting, you can do whatever you want.</p>
<p>But sakky all these articles are quoting each other. You have become boring and annoying. If you find an article based on new research in say a month or so certainly feel free to post it, but stop recycleing the same thing based on limited research and English majors who are just copying what they read somewhere else and adding one quote from some 19 year old. If you have new material fine, but this isn’t new. Just like you, these articles are recycled. Your community is telling you to stop! Try listening.</p>
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<p>It’s boring and annoying to you. Not to me!
So don’t stop sakky. I think it’s a good think you take the time to read these articles and make us aware of it.</p>
<p>I quite frankly like sakky’s post. If you guys don’t like it, don’t read it. Keep in mind that there are also people who enjoys his post.</p>
<p>Here is a comparsion of two of my friends who graduated last year</p>
<p>Friend 1 Morgan Stanley investment banking
Salary 62+10k bonus
hours: 80-90 per week
Location: NYC
Cost of living index: 212</p>
<p>Friend 2- Pepsi Co.
Salary 58k
Hours: 45-50
Location: Chicago
Cost of living index 128.6 </p>
<p>According to a cost of living calculator 58k in Chicago is equal to 81k in NYC. Not that bad of a deal in my opinion. But this is just me. Maybe salaries don’t increase as much but Wall Street has massive layoffs something the engineering field has limited to a certain extent.</p>
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<p>Look, there are plenty of threads on CC that I’m not interested in. Hence, I don’t read them. For example, I don’t read the engineering thread entitled ‘Best Calculator’. But apparently that thread is one of the most popular in the history of CC, having acquired over 35000 page views and counting.</p>
<p>And that’s fair enough. The (apparently numerous) people who want to read a discussion regarding the best calculator are perfectly free to do so. I’m not interested, so I don’t read it, and I certainly don’t bother the participants of that thread. So why do people bother me? If you don’t like my posts, fine, simply don’t read them. I don’t understand why that’s so controversial.</p>
<p>Well…</p>
<p>If you all are gonna allow lazy-a** posters to not use the “search” feature and create…</p>
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<li>Does prestige matter?</li>
<li>Does school matter?</li>
<li>Which major is hardest?</li>
<li>Does ABET accreditation matter?</li>
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<p>threads, when there are ALREADY 1,262,373 of EACH of those threads, there is no need to get on Sakky for his threads/topics.</p>