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Heard the grownups using the pejorative term 'chiseler' many times when I was little. Now I get the etymological origin.  | |||
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Wrong. The Half-Dollar is marked as such. --------------------- DJT-45/47 MAGA !!!!! “Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.” "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it." — Mark Twain “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
How about checking the coin return of every pay phone you passed by? ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
^^^ Absolutely! And I still pick up any coin I see on the street. They go into a special jar. SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I didn't see it in the image when I googled the coins. And in any case, in responding to the post, while I consider one cent and five cents as numeric values, I consider "dime," "quarter dollar," and "half dollar" as not (direct) numeric values. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| His Royal Hiney |
No. You're misunderstanding the issue. The issue isn't determining how many dimes are in $15; the issue is that students are not familiar with currency denominations. An analogy would be asking "How many dozens are in a gross? And how many units are in a gross?" To answer the question, you have to be familiar with what a gross is and what a dozen is. The key is not being able to do rocket science; the key is understanding the numerical value of a "dime." "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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The one guy got that the value was 10 after initially saying 5. The part that astounded me was he immediately jumped to multiplying ELEVEN x 15. Not ten. Almost zero critical thinking skill. In a way, less than zero because he couldn't have gotten where he did, and then screwed up that badly with zero thinking skill. He was never taught to think in the first place. That's just special brand of dumbass right there. | |||
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| No, not like Bill Clinton  |
A student in Philadelphia faces expulsion for posting this video of his fellow high school seniors that can barely read https://youtube.com/shorts/-rX...?si=w6G-pz-8UlgTEK9b | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Was the student white? ETA: Apparently not. Don't they know that it's racist to expel a black student? ________________________________________________________ It is long past time for a Convention of States. The Founding Fathers gave us this tool to fix an out of control government and we need to use it. | |||
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One common denominator in the video. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle  |
This always reminds me of two events. Event One: The 1987 documentary that arguably started it all, its the Harvard Graduation "what causes the Seasons" question. None of them got it right. While it was slow to get public, it is one of the earlier viral videos of the internet in the late 90's and was coupled with people lauding that 'any 5th grader can answer that question' which led to the show 'are you smarter than a 5th grader'. Then Event Two: JayWalking with Jay Leno. Specifically (I was a teacher in Texas) and they got VERY embarrassed that students who were standing in front of the capital not being able to identify where the capital was. There was a 911 and the state board made the executive decision to ADD Texas history back to the state achievement tests and overnight, we all stopped using Social Studies as study hall and started actually getting to teach . . . Texas History. I could not find the original video but this gets the point across: This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle |
Ok when I say started it all, We should arguably go all the way back to the early days of the 'Reagan Administration and review the "A Nation at Risk" report. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Yes. Not new at all. | |||
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| Why don’t you fix your little problem and light this candle |
*sigh* nice ad hominem, always a crowd pleaser. Yes, I should have finished editing. But if I start that 90% of the time I just delete the post. This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it. -Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Joshua Painter Played by Senator Fred Thompson | |||
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| probably a good thing I don't have a cut |
Just consider it snark. Don't take it personally. | |||
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The movie"Idiocracy" was not a comedy. It was a documentary. | |||
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