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We need a college ged or some kind badges system.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

The cost of college is killing us and having loans that are very hard to get rid of just lets colleges drive prices up.

...no, no -- that's not how it's going to be "picked up".

Let's take a look:

NBC News: Particle confirmed as Higgs boson

Associated Press: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

Reuters: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Wall Street Journal: New Data Boosts Case for Higgs Boson Find

FOX News: Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson

Washington Post: A closer look at the Higgs boson particle that helps explain what gives matter size and shape

Chicago Tribune: Strong signs Higgs boson has been found: CERN

Sky News: Higgs Boson: Experts Sure Of 'God Particle'

New York Daily News: Physicists say they have discovered crucial subatomic particle known as Higgs boson

Boston Globe: Physicists say they have found a Higgs boson

BBC (UK): LHC cements Higgs boson identification

BusinessWeek: Case for Higgs Boson Strengthened by New CERN Analysis

The Daily Mail (UK): Scientists say they HAVE found the 'God particle' - but admit they still aren't sure what type of Higgs boson it is

The Independent (UK): Have they found the Higgs boson at last? Cern physicists say they're confident of 'God particle' breakthrough

Telegraph (UK): Higgs boson: scientists confident they have discovered the 'God particle'

News Limited (AU): Higgs boson, the God particle, discovered by CERN

US News and World Report: Physicists Observe Higgs Boson, the Elusive 'God Particle'

None of these articles make any links to "God" other than a few -- mostly UK, not US -- sources referring to it as the so-called "God particle", but even those explain exactly what this particle is theorized to be, not anything supernatural, "proving God exists", or having anything whatever to do with God.

Psychologists used to use a group of Minnesotans "the Minnesota Normals" to classify behavior as "normal" or not.

A hot woman licking her lips doesn't make you think of Ludevisk? - Pervert.

Well, they abandoned the "Minnesota Normals" years ago. (Come to think of it, the two words don't really go together well.)
But now they tell us that Americans aren't the most accurate global standard either? - How shocking! Who knew?!

Not so much any more, given a hygenic restaurant.

And there's citations for you too.

and in the us Factorys are saying there are skills gaps with people and they are pushing advanced manufacturing programs from community colleges
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-26/news/ct-met-new-harper-college-jobs-program-20120627_1_manufacturing-summit-harper-college-production-workers

Thanks for yet another business example of why you don't put all your eggs in one basket. I.e. Zynga -> Facebook relationship, or sort of similar situation in Chicago with Areawide Cellular and Cingular. At least the family that ran Areawide Cellular also ran nursing homes. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-04-28/business/0304270544_1_wireless-carriers-cingular-wireless-at-t-wireless

I am sure you also tried to sell Dish/Direct for that same commission hit as a diversification measure. Problem is the carriers and satellite have no intrest in developing agent businesses as a franchisee/ franchiser would.

Just being in the "agent" business is at most a decade business run.

This is why you see companies sending out letters and even suing people who use their trademarks.

For example McDonald's vs. Clan McDonald.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-02-02/news/9702020275_1_ronald-mcdonald-mcdonald-s-restaurants-scot

However that isn't really 'expiring'. It's losing the trademark for other reasons.

Heck in some cases it's not even the refineries themselves which blend ethanol but rather the distribution terminals. Although there is a trend towards making refineries do the blending since they have an in house lab and if they certify the product they can actually hit the octane target.

Even then there can still be problems. Just see the recent contaminated gas in the Chicago-land.

so know illegal aliens getting arrested for blocking traffic is the same as jailing someone for posting something some peoples club considers offensive?

*winces at the bad english* Freedom of expression must have a very different definition in your world.

your violent crime examples of homicides, not violent crime. Of course, rape and violence on women is rarely reported, and even less frequently documented. so you link is less facts and more half truth.

Yeah, what was I thinking, using the most reported and documented violent crime as a baseline reference? Silly me.

The crime rate was low in Germany During the Nazi regime. Is that really an argument that Nazi Germans is better then the US, or any country?

You Godwin'd yourself. But ignoring that, there's about 11 million dead Jews and political prisoners that would disagree about the crime rate. But you know, other than that, there's also the problem of there not being any statistics on the crime rate or population of the Third Reich for the past 67 years.

That said, I suspect that there rate of imprisonment is lower then the US. The USs prison increase is doe toy the privatization of prisons.

Every time you post something to the internet, God kills a dictionary. The ownership of our prisons has as much relationship to the reasons why so many are jailed each year as your literary shortcomings do to the number of books Amazon sells each year.

the truth is, they aren't better. All your metrics ignore what life is like for over half their population.

I will admit I have more confidence that the CIA, the United Nations, The Harvard Institute of Law, and a handful of major news outlets got the numbers right than I do in a person on the internet literary abilities of a fifth grader, who is backing up his argument with no citations, logical reasoning, or even an anecdotal story.

However our country can, and has many times, changed without needing a revolution.

I'm skeptical of this claim that stuff has happened many times. I don't think stuff happens many times. In fact, I'd even go as far as to call myself a stuff skeptic. I'm going to need a citation from you that the country has done stuff, and that this stuff has happened many times. Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary proof, you know.

We do live in a country where you can have a different house of worship on each corner at an intersect and nothing violent happens.

Can I suggest you open a newspaper someday?

47 million on food stamps

Immagrant kidney transplant

You don't have to lose your job to get the free money, I didn't. Just find what company the fed is pumping money into, buy its stock and sell when it gets higher. Works like a champ every time. Warning... Don't buy companies Obama puts money in, those are scams to give government money to his buddies, but the Fed Reserve is what you want. I'm able to make about $2k a month doing this now, its completely immoral and unethical, but if the government is going to take my money in the future to pay for their spending today I'll take advantage of it. However, the poor who can't do what I do are who gets really screwed by this.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-illegal-immigrant-kidney-transplant-20121209,0,3537821.story

The transplant was free for the recipient as Loyola University Medical Center covered the surgery cost.

...And, somehow....they have to be honored, I mean, people worked their whole lives and are dependent on that as their means of retirement.....Sure, you honor your contracts with those till now, but WTF are we not stopping said practice immediately going forward?

The Preckwinkle gentleman from this article

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-10-22/news/ct-met-pensions-teacher-perk-20111023_1_state-teachers-pension-fund-teachers-union-public-pension

    worked only one day for the state and will wind up with a pension of $108,000 a year. I'm sorry, there are some games that were played that are simply not defensible.

Dude, bad example.

You forgot to work the phrase "one weird old trick" into your example, or is that a trademarked phrase or something? Interestingly, that advertiser is (apparently) in hot water with the FTC http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-22/news/ct-met-online-ad-crackdown-20120322_1_ftc-cracks-news-sites-acai-berries.

There weren't any cameras, only cops. I'll bet he's from Chicago. And race does matter to a cop (I'm lucky I'm white).

Obryckaâ(TM)s lawyers contended a code of silence protected former Chicago cop Anthony Abbate from punishment until the damning videotape was made public.

Obrycka contended during the trial that Abbate, other officers and higher-ups tried to cover up and minimize her February 2007 beating as part of an unofficial "code of silence" policy within the department.

The trial in federal court came nearly six years after Abbate attacked Obrycka at Jesse's Short Stop Inn when he went behind the bar.

The eight-woman, three-man jury found that Abbate was part of the conspiracy to cover up the beating and that the Police Department had a widespread code of silence that emboldened Abbate to beat up Obrycka.

The videotape of Abbate pummeling a woman about half his size marked one of the most embarrassing chapters in recent Chicago Police Department history and contributed to the resignation of then-Superintendent Philip Cline.

For Cook County voters, the Chicago Tribune has published a guide to the judicial races, including recommending several circuit court judges be thrown out. One such judge was arrested in her own courtroom for battery.

"You mean the "Clever Hans" effect where the handler provides the cues instead of the smell? It's a know issue, both handlers and dogs are trained to try and avoid it."

No, they are usually not, and even when they are, they are still notoriously, and ridiculously, unreliable.

Study after study and analysis after analysis prove you wrong.

Drug-sniffing dogs are TERRIBLE at their jobs. In the Chicago review of actual police statistics, the average reliability of drug-sniffing dogs was only 44% true positives (vastly too small a number to qualify as probable cause), and in the case of one minority (can you say "Handler bias?" Sure, I knew you could) it was only 27%. That's not theory, those are actual historical figures.

Unless some vastly better method of training comes up, drug-sniffing dogs need to be taken out of the picture. They are responsible for a huge amount of injustice in this country.

In reality, police don't teach their dog this sort of thing precisely because it would completely undermine and destroy any subsequent legal action stemming from a search with the dog if the defendant could trivially ask the courts to demand prove that the dog's actions were legit.

It is not necessary that the dog be taught this type of thing, but only that they learn this type of thing. The dog can be great at finding stuff, but if also has significant times when it finds things that are not there (the false-positive rate), for whatever reason, then that is a problem, open to abuse, even if unintended.

Lack of consistent regular training clearly makes dog units less reliable than they potentially could be according to this source:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2011-01-06/news/ct-met-canine-officers-20110105_1_drug-sniffing-dogs-alex-rothacker-drug-dog

A similar test often used is when a luggage band at an airport, where the dog must mark the specific bags containing explosives or narcotics. So the dogs and handlers certainly have to prove that they are able both to identify the substance and and that they know when it's not there.

That's all well and good in a training situation, but in the real world dogs learn how to please their handlers. Dogs are smart enough to fake a tell when their master really wants a search. We can see that this is true, because drug dog accuracy varies as a function of the suspect's race.

So take your "ignorant" comment and shove it up your ass, bootlicker. In actual practice, a K9 unit is a blank warrant to search anyone.

Large companies are complicated. AT&T for example recently posted $3.64 billion profit on $31.46 billion in revenue. Compared with the quarter before where profit was $3.62 billion (slightly lower) on $31.48 billion (slightly higher) in revenue. Two things to note. First is that cost in each quarter was different by about $40 million. Second is profit went up when revenue went down. New customers cost more so slow customer growth meant decreasing revenue but increasing profits. To make matters more complicated this is all while carrying $64.5 billion in debt.

Harper College to announce advanced manufacturing program

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-26/news/ct-met-new-harper-college-jobs-program-20120627_1_manufacturing-summit-harper-college-production-workers

now IT needs to have some thing like this.

"When asked what the most they would pay for a smaller iPad was, our respondents on average said that they would pay $242 for a 7-inch iPad and $268 for an 8-inch iPad," said William Power, Baird Equity Research analyst.

Whereas a coal plant can dump megatonnes of CO2 and sulphur into the air and just collect the money from selling power, leaving the rest of us to pay the cost for the next centuries.

Except that they no longer can get away with this. EPA regulations requiring retrofits were going to make it so prohibitively expensive that coal plants planned to retire in droves. Then that regulation got knocked back, but the coal plants are still closing because of other regulations around mercury, etc.

Couple points.

http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2012/03/trayvon-martin-shooting-death-initial-police-reports.html

Travon is 6' and 158-160 pounds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin
Zimmerman's height is shown as 5â8â and his weight as 185 pounds

185-158 = 27 pounds and 4" shorter. And out of shape.

Travion martin was an athlete, fit and Zimmerman was pudgy and in bad shape.

And the stalking included talking on the phone to 911, standing still. Read the transcript. Zimmerman stopped immediately when 911 told him to stop. He didn't move again while on the phone. Travon had plenty of time to cover the 300' to his house unless he was hiding very close to Zimmerman.

It is not okay or legal to start punching someone for following you and asking you questions.

If you are on your back and afraid someone is beating you to death, and you shoot them, it's self defense.

We'll know more facts when the trial happens.
It's tragic.

Before you start in with the 100lbs lighter, do a little research.

Turned out, the dogs were responding to very subtle cues from their handlers, rather than their own senses. Which renders them completely inappropriate for law-enforcement use.

Please Mod -1000: Utter Bullshit.

Dogs are the absolute best tool we have for the job. There's a reason we use dogs to hunt animals, guard animals, property, and people, track fugitives, search for survivors, bodies, drugs, and explosives, detect cancer or seizures, lead the blind, etc. They have incredible senses and are very intelligent.

Please link to proof of your "literally unacceptable percentage of false positives" for properly trained canines and handlers.

Seems to me that she wasn't saying anything about properly trained handler and dog teams, but about the likelihood that so many trainers have biases that lead to false positives that dogs cannot be relied upon. She said "the dogs were responding to very subtle cues from their handlers." I don't see anything in that post about well trained dogs paired with unbiased trainers. It is very well documented that handler bias frequently leads to false positives. For example, this article notes that sniffer dogs got it wrong four out of five times in 14,102 searches. This articleclaims that over a three year period only 44 percent of alerts by dogs led to the discovery of drugs or paraphernalia. A UC Davis study found that if handlers expected their dogs to find drugs they consistently found drugs, even when there weren't any. A little bit of searching will turn up plenty of other examples. In some cases defenders of using dogs claim that the high rate of false positives is due to drug residue being left in a vehicle or on a person. That the mere presence of someone carrying a substance the dog was trained to detect, like marijuana, in a vehicle hours earlier could result in a false positive. Medical marijuana is legal in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Which means that just transporting someone to legally obtain some marijuana for a medical condition could result in being searched and detained.

That first link above didn't show up. It is here.

"Erm, source? I find it really, really hard to believe LG (or Motorola, or Nokia) isn't making a fair amount of money selling cell phones."

Motorola

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-05-01/business/chi-motorola-mobilitys-loss-widens-in-q1-20120501_1_motorola-mobility-holdings-google-s-android-mobile-devices

Nokia:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577536440351488600.html

LG:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/25/lg-q2-2012-earnings/

For the lazy (note "filibuster proof" means 60 votes in the Senate):

111th U.S. Congress
Senate: 58% Democrat, 42% Republican (although Democrats had 60 for about 4 months, if you count the independents and blue-dog Dems who didn't always vote along party lines)

House: 59% Democrat, 41% Republican (although there is no filibuster in the House of Representatives)

I have relatives in the Midwest of the US that apparently don't pay per litre, but in every other country I've ever been, water usage is metered just like electricity or any other utility.

Yea, we call that "having a well."

FYI, having a well is far from free.

The largest city in the Midwest only has metered water for a small percentage of houses. For everyone else you are charged a flat fee. Chicago is trying to convince people to install meters, saying that metered water can result in lower bills if you use less than what you'd be billed for. So what's happening is that people who use very little water are installing meters and people who use a lot don't. This shouldn't be a big deal because we have a truly massive lake right beside the city, but the water level is a problem because they reversed the Chicago River to flow out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. Anyway, as of late September, only 41% of Chicago water accounts were metered.

So this deserves to stay up while footage of the Mars rover should be taken down? Right-o.

Google deserves no praise for this. The making of 'Innocence of Muslim' was likely illegal because the guy who made it was legally obligated to not use the internet for the duration of his probation. As other comments have pointed out, if someone was offended by this movie and wanted it to disappear a simple DMCA takedown notice would have sufficed. Instead, people invested in seeing conflict in the Middle East want this video up so that they can stoke the flames of anti-American sentiment. Google, with all of their idiotic policies, is playing right into this. Shame on all of you.

I suggested making corporate funded lobbyists illegal. I didn't say anything about you and a couple of hundred others lobbying in another structure. A non-profit organization might be a good choice. Even a Political action committee might be appropriate. As bad as those are, they're still downright transparent compared to how corporate lobbyists and lawmakers interact. At best we get these lame lobbyist activity reports, often only after the laws they're involved in are passed.

We've made corporations into people, and letting them dump unlimited funds into lobbyists makes that pseudo-person able to influence our laws to their benefit too. This is not a theory in regards to the topic here, it's documented fact in several places now. Here in Maryland where today's article focuses on, we had Speed Camera Lobbyist charged with Ethics Violations. Chicago has Mayor's speed cameras would help political ally. And the speed camera lobbyists were well represented on the first half of the year's busiest lobbyist reports.

My comments on how these laws are advancing were not speculation; I was commenting on exactly how things have happened in Maryland. A deeper bit of fact checking only suggests I didn't hit all the sources that funded the speed camera lobbying though. Rather than completely bootstrapping itself legally, speed camera lobbying has also been funded by revenue made from red light cameras, another area where for-profit companies lobby in ridiculous ways. Note the comment there on how the red light camera companies have even managed to bypass standard law enforcement rules in some places.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-26/news/ct-met-new-harper-college-jobs-program-20120627_1_manufacturing-summit-harper-college-production-workers

That is a community college offering a trades based learning plan with real PAID work as part of class plan.

this Chinese thing seems like we don't care what your field is go work in this factory doing a line job with no learning plan tied to the work.

GM to idle Michigan Volt plant for four weeks

That is despite $15,000 in dealership subsidies as well as local governments getting grants to buy them as well.

Under current US law, it doesn't make one iota of difference whether he was raped, or even if he was way under the age of consent and the adult woman in question was in a position of power over him - child support is for the benefit of the kids, and everyone knows it benefits kids to be brought up by a kiddy-rapist enough to justify making one of her victims pay for it.

Here is one example of this. There's more on google too.

But CS is not IT and there are other good tech / trades schools out there.

College isn't for everyone. Some very bright students thrive better while learning a hands-on trade, for example, than they do in a classroom. Others simply can't afford the time or tuition of college because of their personal circumstances.

For some stuff the college time table does not work that well. and there is lot's of NON degree IT classes out there as well.

College also has the well rounded idea that adds a lot fluff and filler that most people do not need.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

"As college costs rise," he said, "people are asking: Aren't there cheaper ways of certifying competence and skills to employers?"

" Author of the 2004 book "Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much," Vedder sees a disconnect between the cost of college and the needs of the job market. He has found as many as one out of three college graduates today to be in jobs that historically were filled by people with less education.

"These are jobs that do not require higher-level learning skills, critical thinking skills, or writing skills or anything of that nature," he said in a telephone interview."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-25/news/ct-oped-0325-page-20120325_1_collegiate-learning-assessment-college-students-richard-arum

"One new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, questions whether a large chunk of today's college students are learning much on campus that they didn't already know."

"Ohio University's Richard Vedder, my former economics professor who gave me the collegiate GED test idea, is even more blunt in his assessment of today's academia: "Universities are becoming more like country clubs," he said, with climbing walls, indoor tracks and other luxuries that give students "something else to do with their free time besides drink and have sex."

"That would be just another reason for us Americans to develop more innovative alternatives to college, like alternative GED-style certifications of what individuals actually know and how eagerly they will learn, not just how many classes they have taken."

But CS is not IT and there are other good tech / trades schools out there.

College isn't for everyone. Some very bright students thrive better while learning a hands-on trade, for example, than they do in a classroom. Others simply can't afford the time or tuition of college because of their personal circumstances.

For some stuff the college time table does not work that well. and there is lot's of NON degree IT classes out there as well.

College also has the well rounded idea that adds a lot fluff and filler that most people do not need.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

"As college costs rise," he said, "people are asking: Aren't there cheaper ways of certifying competence and skills to employers?"

" Author of the 2004 book "Going Broke by Degree: Why College Costs Too Much," Vedder sees a disconnect between the cost of college and the needs of the job market. He has found as many as one out of three college graduates today to be in jobs that historically were filled by people with less education.

"These are jobs that do not require higher-level learning skills, critical thinking skills, or writing skills or anything of that nature," he said in a telephone interview."

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-25/news/ct-oped-0325-page-20120325_1_collegiate-learning-assessment-college-students-richard-arum

"One new book, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses," by sociologists Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, questions whether a large chunk of today's college students are learning much on campus that they didn't already know."

"Ohio University's Richard Vedder, my former economics professor who gave me the collegiate GED test idea, is even more blunt in his assessment of today's academia: "Universities are becoming more like country clubs," he said, with climbing walls, indoor tracks and other luxuries that give students "something else to do with their free time besides drink and have sex."

"That would be just another reason for us Americans to develop more innovative alternatives to college, like alternative GED-style certifications of what individuals actually know and how eagerly they will learn, not just how many classes they have taken."

what about other NON college education.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

"Yet, give Santorum his due. He touched on a reality that deserves more public discussion: College isn't for everyone. Some very bright students thrive better while learning a hands-on trade, for example, than they do in a classroom. Others simply can't afford the time or tuition of college because of their personal circumstances."

College is not for all and there others ways to learn then going to a big 4 year plan. College needs to be cut down / cut up into small chunks that can better fit fasting moving tech and can work for people who are working and want to gain more skills but can't fit into the college time table.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-25/news/ct-oped-0325-page-20120325_1_collegiate-learning-assessment-college-students-richard-arum

"I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED." Like the current GED test for high school equivalency, it would award certification to bright, hardworking job applicants who want to show potential employers how much they know, even though they never graduated from college/"

community colleges and trade schools are not the party schools that some colleges are.

"Ohio University's Richard Vedder, my former economics professor who gave me the collegiate GED test idea, is even more blunt in his assessment of today's academia: "Universities are becoming more like country clubs," he said, with climbing walls, indoor tracks and other luxuries that give students "something else to do with their free time besides drink and have sex."

what about other NON college education.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

"Yet, give Santorum his due. He touched on a reality that deserves more public discussion: College isn't for everyone. Some very bright students thrive better while learning a hands-on trade, for example, than they do in a classroom. Others simply can't afford the time or tuition of college because of their personal circumstances."

College is not for all and there others ways to learn then going to a big 4 year plan. College needs to be cut down / cut up into small chunks that can better fit fasting moving tech and can work for people who are working and want to gain more skills but can't fit into the college time table.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-25/news/ct-oped-0325-page-20120325_1_collegiate-learning-assessment-college-students-richard-arum

"I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED." Like the current GED test for high school equivalency, it would award certification to bright, hardworking job applicants who want to show potential employers how much they know, even though they never graduated from college/"

community colleges and trade schools are not the party schools that some colleges are.

"Ohio University's Richard Vedder, my former economics professor who gave me the collegiate GED test idea, is even more blunt in his assessment of today's academia: "Universities are becoming more like country clubs," he said, with climbing walls, indoor tracks and other luxuries that give students "something else to do with their free time besides drink and have sex."

in IT we need to look past degrees and go to a differnt system.

maybe a apprenticeship system or a mixed class room / real work plan

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/18/manufacturing-industry-taps-colleges-help-alternative-credential

may a GED like system as well.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-25/news/ct-oped-0325-page-20120325_1_collegiate-learning-assessment-college-students-richard-arum?goback=.gmp_2084356.gde_2084356_member_141583962

"I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED." Like the current GED test for high school equivalency, it would award certification to bright, hardworking job applicants who want to show potential employers how much they know, even though they never graduated from college."

in IT we need to look past degrees and go to a differnt system.

maybe a apprenticeship system or a mixed class room / real work plan

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/18/manufacturing-industry-taps-colleges-help-alternative-credential

may a GED like system as well.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-25/news/ct-oped-0325-page-20120325_1_collegiate-learning-assessment-college-students-richard-arum?goback=.gmp_2084356.gde_2084356_member_141583962

"I recently wrote about the possibility of testing and certification for what I called a "college-level GED." Like the current GED test for high school equivalency, it would award certification to bright, hardworking job applicants who want to show potential employers how much they know, even though they never graduated from college."

For entry level jobs at least other places do say Associates or Bachelor Degree OR X years of work experience.

Any ways for most IT jobs I say Associates + other NON Degree class loads should be a the max.

As college Degrees don't really fit to well in to IT and there needs to be bridge from NON degree classes / on the job leering to a GED like system.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/news/ct-oped-0311-page-20120311_1_college-costs-rise-kayla-heard-college-attendance

Chic-Fil-A is a private company serving the interests of a private owner. Microsoft soft is a publicly held company which primarily exists to serve the interests of their shareholders.

The same sex marriage debate is divisive and there are strong beliefs on both sides. Does a public company exist to sell a product and provide a profit to its shareholders, or help enact social change even if it means the cost of business? Even if it hurts shareholders?

It simply does not make sense to take sides on a on a highly divisive social issue.

In Chic-Fil-A's case, Rahm Emmanuel shot his mouth off saying "Their values are not our values" and supported his alderman's postion to stop Chic--Fil-A from building a restaurant based on Chic Fil A's president stance on opposing same sex marriage. Which subsequently led to the anti-boycott and Chic-Fil-A's single biggest sales day in the history of the company Aug 1

The corn yield this year is due to the "largest drought in 50 years". http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-27/news/sns-rt-us-usa-grains-tourbre86q1hf-20120727_1_crop-tour-soy-crops-corn Our records on droughts in the continental US only go back about 110. The climate models predict continental centers drying out - a cycle of drought does not disprove or counter this.

Zuckerberg beat Wall Street at their own game, and they can't stand it.

That's correct. Zuckerberg doesn't have a problem. Morgan Staley has a problem. UBS has a problem. Knight Capital Group has a problem. Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital, the Carlyle Group, and the NASDAQ have a problem.

Everybody with a clue knew the Facebook IPO was way overpriced. But the underwriters thought that retail investors and pension funds, not themselves,would end up holding the bag.

Like there needs to be more trades like Education.

We need more people teaching who have done the real work and are not lifers in academia AKA apprenticeships / tech schools.

Higher edu needs to be in smaller chunks and in not so tied to a college time table.

Some needs to be done about sports (maybe even offer sports only degree / plans)

Some of Junk degrees in college like underwater basket weaving need to go or be cut down or maybe even become stuff for the football team at sports colleges.

There should be something along the lines of a GED for the college level or some kind of way to gap real work skills to college with out there being a big time sink.

More skills based classes and stuff like this.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/palatine/ct-tl-harper-manufacturing-congress-20120719,0,690738.story

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-06-29/news/ct-met-seven-year-old-shot-20120629a_1_homicide-victims-gang-violence-stray-bullet

Well, as of current reports. . . . 2.5 million are without power in Virginia, 800 Thousand in Maryland, 400+ thousand in DC. I've seen numbers in the 3.5 million region between Ohio and New Jersey. We got power back early this morning ~0400, but we STILL don't have phone, net, or cable at home. The real question, since some areas in DC Metro are not supposed to get power back for nearly a week is. . . . do the emergency fuel generators have sufficient fuel bunkers ???

Quite surprising to see Roberts cross the aisle on this decision.

Indeed a surprise, there's speculation that Roberts pulled the old switcheroo on Scalia at some point after the initial vote to protect the Supreme Court's legitimacy and 'prove' that it is not a political body after some of Scalia's recent stunts.

I was Googling around looking for articles on compulsory insurance, and found this little gem from 1988.

Mandatory insurance means prices go up for everyone. Hooray!

From this Chicago Tribune article, it sounds like there were 4 major manufacturers and now there will be 3. Celestica apparently made the Blackberry Bold & Curve models, and the article seems to indicate that those models will be moved over to one of the other manufacturers.