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Its very much like the market for French Literature, 1% of the graduates will get $100K/yr professorship jobs, the rest.... will not have a positive outcome.

Just a couple of quick comments:

1) professorships in the humanities take a Ph.D, and Ph.D.s in the humanities have a significantly longer time-to-degree than the sciences and much much weaker funding along the way.
2) Not even 1% of the French Literature Ph.D.s will get decent professorships (let alone French literature undergrads) Those that stay in education will mainly get adjunct teaching positions indefinitely. Finding a decent faculty position in the humanities is very very difficult, significantly harder than a faculty position in the sciences or engineering, which as already exceptionally hard.
3) An assistant professor in the humanities does not make $100k. A full professor in the humanities would be lucky to make that unless they are at an elite institution. See the AAUP database for overall faculty salaries by institution, and there are many public databases of faculty salaries. See here for one at George Mason university, where the median income in this search for language department personnel was about $55k.

Its very much like the market for French Literature, 1% of the graduates will get $100K/yr professorship jobs, the rest.... will not have a positive outcome.

Just a couple of quick comments:

1) professorships in the humanities take a Ph.D, and Ph.D.s in the humanities have a significantly longer time-to-degree than the sciences and much much weaker funding along the way.
2) Not even 1% of the French Literature Ph.D.s will get decent professorships (let alone French literature undergrads) Those that stay in education will mainly get adjunct teaching positions indefinitely. Finding a decent faculty position in the humanities is very very difficult, significantly harder than a faculty position in the sciences or engineering, which as already exceptionally hard.
3) An assistant professor in the humanities does not make $100k. A full professor in the humanities would be lucky to make that unless they are at an elite institution. See the AAUP database for overall faculty salaries by institution, and there are many public databases of faculty salaries. See here for one at George Mason university, where the median income in this search for language department personnel was about $55k.

But, "Is he in for a surprise," says Recording Industry vs The People's Ray Beckerman.

Virginia Tech is entirely Vista Incompatible

"The $350 software bundle required by the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech will not be entirely Microsoft Vista compatible by the fall semester, forcing the college to individually make the decision that they will not endorse the new Microsoft operating system."

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/1/ARTICLE/8809 /2007-03-29.html

What would be a headline is if someone was passed up because of their political or religious views, despite being an extremely talened content producer.

No, that wouldn't be a headline, because it happens every day. Even big budget TV shows get cancelled because they're not politically correct.

I'm a big fan of Elon Musk, who started SpaceX with the money he got from selling PayPal to eBay. He's a pretty good example of someone who grew up with dreams about space who's trying to make those dreams a reality. I think his efforts with towards dramatically decreasing the cost of space launch are quite important, and crucial for his (and my) long-term goal of making humanity a multi-planet species.

A number of people have been complaining about Musk and his three launch scrubs in the past few months, where the countdown was terminated for various reasons before the rocket left the ground. It should be noted though that these sorts of delays are pretty much the norm for the launch business. For example, there were eleven separate attempts to launch the ARGOS satellite on a Boeing Delta II rocket.

This set of notes by Michael Belfiore from their pre-launch press conference for their launch attempt late last year is a pretty interesting read and gives great insight into what Musk wants to do with SpaceX. Some excerpts:

SpaceX's second Gen rocket engine will be the biggest rocket engine in the world, though not the biggest in history. The F1 engine that sent people to the moon is no longer in production, so Musk doesn't count that. ...

Q: What customers will you put on Falcon 9?
A: We haven't thought a lot about it because it's speculative, but big customers would be NASA, Bigelow Aerospace, which is launching its first subscale space station module next year, and potentially people who just want to go to orbit and just spend some time on orbit. Also we could do a loop around the moon, which actually wouldn't require a huge rocket. [Space Adventures recently cut a deal with the Russian Space Agency to do just that, so that may be what inspired Musk to say that.] ...

Q: When will you go to space?
A: I'm not doing this to go into space myself, per se. I want to help build a space faring civilization. It would have been very easy for me to pay to go to the International Space Station myself. I want to help other people get to space. ...

Musk: The expansion of life on earth to other places is arguably the most important thing to happen to life on earth, if it happens. Life has the duty to expand. And we're the representatives of life with the ability to do so. ...

Q: When will you fly cargo missions to the space station?
A: I hope in the next 3 to 4 years. ...

Another question from me: Are you developing a manned vehicle right now, or have you thought that far ahead yet?
A: I can't comment on that right now. ...

Q: What's next in the entreprenurial space field?
A: Lots of people doing things--Paul Allen [who funded SpaceShipOne], Jeff Bezos with Blue Origin, John Carmack with Armadillo Aerospace...Musk thinks we're heading toward a Netscape moment, when someone turns a profit, and hopefully it'll be SpaceX, and then investment capital will start to flow in.

I went to Virginia Tech, and a certain quarterback who now plays in the NFL approached someone I knew and just said "Want to hit this?" She didn't because she didn't know who he was yet, but the girl next to her jumped at the chance.