[rant] What the Hell is Pound-feet?

[johninct]

I own some torque wrenches--not as many as y'all, but as many as I need. They're calibrated in Foot-Pounds:








I don't see no Pound-Feet there, and that's about eighty years of tools.

Pound-Feet sounds like what I do when caught with another man's wife--and he's armed.

Seems I just started hearing and seeing it in the last decade or so. Did I miss the memo? Is Foot-Pounds somehow offensive to feet?

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It is the same thing. Also, if you want to convert ft lb to say in lb, just multiply by 1.

 

[rancherbill]

I'm going to call ******** on that one. The issue isn't the subject, it's the teachers...

I'm going to call ******** on that one. The issue isn't the subject, it's the teachers...

Teacher? It's the teachers fault?

Here the top 10 in the world on the PISA TEST Program for International Student Assessment

https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/pisa-scores-by-country#top

The US is 15th. Canada got serious 25 years ago and put in some common sense policies. For example a HS teacher teaching math has to have a math degree. Then they have to get a teacher diploma. They are paid a the Master level. When I went to school the teacher was reading the book before they taught the subject next day. The same applies to science, chemistry, PE, Art, English. You have to love your topic to have gotten a degree in these areas. They bring their knowledge skill and love to the room

I hear stories in the US about teacher leaving because of wages. I hear comments that they make too much money and only work short hours. You're hemorrhaging talent.

Asians are conquering the world.
https://www.reuters.com/world/yelle...hief-presses-case-excess-capacity-2024-04-08/

https://qz.com/janet-yellen-china-competition-ev-solar-clean-energy-1851394510

The world is supper competitive. Don't blame teachers. Roast the politicians to make sure that education is fully supported. Support change like the current foot pond change and embrace it that emphasis on STEM will employ your children and grand children.

 

[whateg01]

Teacher? It's the teachers fault?

Here the top 10 in the world on the PISA TEST Program for International Student Assessment

https://www.datapandas.org/ranking/pisa-scores-by-country#top

The US is 15th. Canada got serious 25 years ago and put in some common sense policies. For example a HS teacher teaching math has to have a math degree. Then they have to get a teacher diploma. They are paid a the Master level. When I went to school the teacher was reading the book before they taught the subject next day. The same applies to science, chemistry, PE, Art, English. You have to love your topic to have gotten a degree in these areas. They bring their knowledge skill and love to the room

I hear stories in the US about teacher leaving because of wages. I hear comments that they make too much money and only work short hours. You're hemorrhaging talent.

Asians are conquering the world.
https://www.reuters.com/world/yelle...hief-presses-case-excess-capacity-2024-04-08/

https://qz.com/janet-yellen-china-competition-ev-solar-clean-energy-1851394510

The world is supper competitive. Don't blame teachers. Roast the politicians to make sure that education is fully supported. Support change like the current foot pond change and embrace it that emphasis on STEM will employ your children and grand children.

Kansas has or was working on legislation to allow pretty much anybody that wanted to teach to do so. They don't care about credentials. They just want to not pay

 

[f121]

Can we compromise and just adopt meter newtons to avoid confusion?

 

[rancherbill]

Kansas has or was working on legislation to allow pretty much anybody that wanted to teach to do so. They don't care about credentials. They just want to not pay

...and the small minded person will be happy his taxes are low. I bet they will wonder why all the people with 'get and go' have gone. Hey but their taxes are low.

You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to see that's not going to end well for public education. I am sure there is some sort of voucher system so the rich folks can use public money at their private schools. They will have qualified teachers. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/205466/poverty-rate-in-kansas/

 

[Firebrick43]

Pound feet is what you do when your buddy decides to taunt the tiger at the San Fransico zoo.

Hopefully you can just do it faster than him.

 

[whateg01]

...and the small minded person will be happy his taxes are low. I bet they will wonder why all the people with 'get and go' have gone. Hey but their taxes are low.

You don't need to be a rocket surgeon to see that's not going to end well for public education. I am sure there is some sort of voucher system so the rich folks can use public money at their private schools. They will have qualified teachers. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/205466/poverty-rate-in-kansas/

I have a friend who complains about his tax money going to fund public education. He also complains when the fast food worker can't make change. He fails to see the connection.

 

[milky2k]

Wait until they tell the OP that speed and velocity are not the same thing.

 

[dchawk81]

I have a friend who complains about his tax money going to fund public education. He also complains when the fast food worker can't make change. He fails to see the connection.

The spectrum of intelligence in public schools is vast and doesn't directly correlate with funding.

 

[Shoreline_]

The spectrum of intelligence in public schools is vast and doesn't directly correlate with funding.

It's true. Horizontal or vertical - it doesn't matter.

 

[The Cobbler]

Thread now closed. gone off track