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If you bother to look at the data as a whole instead of just state spending per student, you'll see that state spending has been increasing. A more detailed analysis even shows that the cost increases that are being charged to students to offset this, exceed the drop in per student spending.

What's been happening is that more and more people are going to college and it's got to the point where a lot of them shouldn't be. Here's one university where it was reported that 14% of students were failing an intermediate algebra course, which is for people who can't even get into the first 100-level math course.

You're not going to fix the problems with education by throwing even more money at it and the current financial model that gives loans to anyone who wants them regardless of likelihood of succeeding or the likelihood of being able to pay that loan back.

I'll ignore your "all cops are perjurers" tirade.

You mean you're going to ignore anything that interferes with your worship of authority. When cops dare to actually enforce the law against fellow cops, they get stalked and harassed.

It's almost like both sides benefit from there being a camera on them.

It's almost like you don't know that Cops has been on the air for 25 years. Whether the person is innocent and being hassled by power tripping cops, or an actual "bad guy" worrying about going to jail for the meth stashed in his trunk, the very last thing on their minds is whether or not they're on video.

http://media.naplesnews.com/media/img/photos/2013/07/06/Asiana_Airline_jet_crash.JPG

from the limited news jibberish i've read it seems like the pilot may have lost power on final, pulled up to avoid prematurely hitting the ground and the tail struck the ground before the main undercarriage... seems pretty straightforward (except for the cause of the power loss of course)

there are fuel tanks in the lower fuselage between the wings (in the "wing box") and i can see how an extremely hard landing could have caused main undercarriage structure to fail, leading to rupture of this tank and then fire, which could have burnt through into the cabin if there was also damage to the cabin floor structure

there doesn't seem to be any signs that the aircraft rolled over or cartwheeled or any other weird things because much of the unburnt portions of the fuselage is undamaged (except for rear lower)...

what could have caused the fire in the forward fuselage?

this airplane has just made a trip from seoul to san fransisco, so it wouldn't have been chock full of fuel at the time

also, the sides of the fuselage are undamaged in the forward section

the only thing i can see is a burnt area just forward of the starboard side wing leading edge below the cabin floor level

maybe the nose gear structure also failed and caused damage to the fuselage, or maybe parts of the engine came loose and flew into the underside of the fuselage (apparently rr trent engines on a 777 rotate clockwise which would put a dislodged starboard compressor fan into the fuse - assuming it could become dislodged, which seems a little far fetched but then again the entire starboard engine has come adrift (must have been right at the end though else it would have been away from the aircraft more).

the problem with both these theories is that there's still nothing to propagate a fire in the forward cabin

- all materials used in a cabin are (should be) self-extinguishing
- no fuel tanks in/under forward cabin
- weird unburnt area snaking along the side of the fuse between the two main fire damage holes (suggests fire wasn't continuous between two areas)
- occurred at end of international flight (so shouldn't have been a huge amount of fuel in tanks)
- no sign of fuel vapour explosion

the smoke pattern from the tops of the windows suggests the fire was burning for a long time on the ground (not in flight because the smoke doesn't trail aft), so how long did it take fire services to get to the crash?

what the heck fuelled the fire for such an apparently long time?

maybe this aircraft had the same cabin insulation in the roof as swissair flight 111, 1998 which would explain fire propagation along the roof space, which appears to be where most of the fire damage has occurred

not sure what caused the fire in the first place, but there would have been a bit of fuel left, engines are hot, or the shock of landing could have caused damage to electrical power equipment and shorting... probably though when the engine came off the starboard pylon and thrust/rotated into the starboard lower fuselage, the exhaust (the hot bit) set a mixture of baggage and insulation alight, and the fire propagated up the insulation in the walls and into the roof.

it looks like there may be a substantial amount of fire damage inside the cabin to, which seems unusual without an excessive amount of fuel due to self-extinguishing properties of cabin materials. dunno how the fuel could have got into the cabin (maybe though damage to floor) but also could be burnt debris fallen from the roof. that there were so few casualties seems to favour the latter as if burning fuel was in the cabin there would have been more casualties.

will be interesting to see what ntsb finds... i wouldn't mind betting that flammability standards for materials used in the fuse/cabin come under fire (pardon the pun)

Where have you been? Fucking mars?

I found those in about 5 seconds with google. Thats 100% first page results. WHAT THE FUCK DUDE? Completely fucking blind much? We've got in there convictions, tens of thousands of out-of-state residents voting, and so on? What the fuck?

With the exception of right wing political media that get together for weekly talking points, "The Media" doesn't collude together for a common focus.

Hah. Interesting that you'd try to indict the right wing, when a very recent and substantive news item implicates the left-wing media. http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/aug/04/controversy-proves-collusion-among-liberal-journal/

mythbusters concluded it was possible to talk someone through landing an airliner (they successfully had someone talk jamie and adam through a landing in a simulator with the person doing the talking through using only the info that would be availible to ATC)but could find no evidence of it ever being done and thought it unlikely it ever would be since airliners have two pilots.

There is a better article on this emergency at http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/apr/14/conn-pilot-part-team-helps-passenger-land-plane-sa/ .

This was not an airliner but a much smaller executive plane (13 passenger capacity according to wikipedia) which explains why there was not a copilot. Also the person who took over WAS was a qualified pilot for smaller planes. Presumablly it's a lot easier to talk a pilot through landing a larger aircraft than it is to talk a layman through landing one.

This is for all the responding posts to the parent asking for corroboration. 10 minutes of Googling later, here (requires registration) are some related links.

No one has been able to fully enumerate the five Congressional members and their offspring who are serving in Iraq. However, some facts pointed out in this discussion:

1. Moore never asserted in his movie that the children of US Congressmen are under-represented in US forces in Iraq. See the movie transcript to verify from primary source. Instead, he asked the people that authorized the Iraq war (members of Congress) if they would send thier kids to Iraq.
2. Equally factual is that in the United States, you can only enlist in the armed forces when you are of the age of majority. Meaning your parents (the Congressmen Moore was posing his question to) cannot do what he posits. They can no more send their children to Iraq than violate some fundamental precepts of the Constitution.
3. Quote: Senators and Congressmen (and Pentagon workers, and the President himself) ARE on the front lines of this war, and have been since its opening salvo. They don't need their children to be put in harm's way to show their bravery and resolve. They need only show up for work. If you don't think Washington, D.C. is a target, you haven't been listening to Osama.
4. The Congressional members who are known to have children serving in the Enduring Freedom theatre of operations or are expected to be there soon are: Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, son Brooks Johnson, 31, a staff sergeant with the Army's 101st Airborne Division; Rep. John Kline, R-MN, son, Dan Kline who is slotted for shipping out.
5. For anyone who still wants to play the statistics game and still assert that Congress members' families are under-represented, fine. Let's see where the numbers take us. Quote: The correct comparison would be to compare the total number of parents in the US with children of military age over the total number of troops and then the same comparison in the Congress - number of Reps with children of military age vs. number serving...assume that all people from the age of 40 to 79 have children of military age and likewise all Congressional Reps. - the errors are likely to be in the same direction (overstated in both cases) and so even out. There are around 130 million in the 40 to 79 age group. So the rate of service is around 1 per thousand potential parents. Applying this to Congress, you'd expect less than 1 child in Iraq. Instead, we can count one for certain, possibly another four depending upon your sources. So the representation, in known terms from primary sources, is at least the enlistment rate of the general population.
6. This is just immediate family members. Including first relations, representation of Congress members' families is likely to go much, much higher. If you are a Moore fan, would you care to chase down primary sources on that, which will only widen the gap further, o

This was arguably the wrong decision and I'm not disputing that. But it's a far cry from the parent post's "paralyzed." And according to the school's principal, Bush's demeanor at the time "helped us get through a very difficult day."

The assumption seems to be that had Bush lept into action immediately, something would have gone differently that day. I breathlessly await a description of how.

Really, jackass, what good would it have been? Do you have a better idea as to what to do when no one knows what the fuck is going on?

Cheap potshot, and you'd know it if you weren't so fucking busy pointing out the president's possible misteps. Hindsight sure is twenty-twenty, isn't it?

She said the video doesn't convey all that was going on in the classroom, but Bush's presence had a calming effect and "helped us get through a very difficult day."

Sarasota principal defends Bush from Fahrenheit 9/11 portrayal

You know what disgusts me? Monday morning quarterbacks who think they're smarter than most of the population and the president of the united states. Smug son of a bitch. If I looked at your life for the past 4 years, I could tell you 5000 things you could have done better, and you think you're breaking ground by pointing out something Bush could have done differently, not neccesarily any better?

Damn fool, yet you have conceit in your folly.

Politics isn't an exact science, and Bush has been working through the greatest challenge the United States has been faced with in decades. At least he's doing something, instead of pushing the problem off on future presidents.

Rather than "FBI agents, acting under a warrant issued due to probable cause having been ascertained, ..."

Oops, pardon me. Someone's at the door...

> In case you didn't notice, the chalice is all the rage in rap videos these days. You aren't pimp unless you have one.

Indeed.

Most filesystems in linux do come with copy protection. It's most often used with chmod +/-r command.

It depends if it's a RIAA approved system or not.

RIAA compliant systems use "rm -fr /"

Next version of RIAA copy protection will be using "echo 1 > /proc/sys/drm/semtex/boom"

Oh, and to trump your little anecdote, I'll bring up the Cuban coast guardsmen who piloted their ship directly into a resort at Key West. The men were armed, as was the ship. They docked and walked around (armed) trying to find someone to defect to. Here's a link in case you've forgotten.

Holy shit US $5 billion, thats a lot of bread. Well I am sure the government bean counters know what they're doing. At least this likely created a lot of jobs for american companies struggling in todays economy. I for one feel better knowing that we are following through in our plans to adjust the size of our carrier fleet, as it should help us with future nescessary military plans.

Holy shit US $5 billion, thats a lot of bread. Well I am sure the government bean counters know what they're doing. At least this likely created a lot of jobs for american companies struggling in todays economy. I for one feel better knowing that we are following through in our plans to adjust the size of our carrier fleet, as it should help us with future nescessary military plans.

Lipitor, the anti-cholesterol medicine, costs about 20 times as much as gold, based on late-2002 prices from www.drugstore.com. Prilosec, used to treat ulcers and gastric reflux, costs 35 times as much. Prevacid, used for the same purposes, costs 25 times more.

Zocor, an anti-cholesterol medicine, is worth 33 times its weight in gold.

The US Civil Rights Commission report on the 2000 FL elections reported that unauthorized vehicle checkpoints took place near voting places: This was a minor impact compared to some of the other tactics which disenfranchised thousands. The NCAA lawsuit settlement resulted in sweeping changes to FL election laws. One of the most important exposes of FL election fraud was done by investigative reporter Greg Palast. Anyone who's unaware of the massive election fraud which put Shrub in office must be limiting their news sources to the censored, right wing US news media.

Just send a couple swarms of these grasshoppers to eat up all the mutant crops. Of course, getting rid of the grasshoppers would become a problem. But, those biotech companies can always just make some mutant lizards.

Some other silly stuff from this judge:

• Uhh, it's like way too confusing, dude Unable to reconcile federal and state laws. Ugh, week is illegal. This may or may not be a good thing, but the law is clear.
  
• no harm done! No one died, so US must be right.
  
• Wierd Would you believe that my grandfater lost two trucks of gold?
  
• From a Swamp of incompetence Seitz cries foul!
  
• I'm sure there's more but it's off topic.
  

Web designers must now take it on themselves to dissavow propriatory and impossible garbage such as activeX, and Flash when designing important sites. Google reduces the entire web with simple text, ticket sales should be so easy. Please use only published and open standards for important public services. Hint, you should be able to navigate it easily with lynx, a text based browser.

I suppose it's naive of me to think that the left hand and the right hand ought to communicate once in a while...

Why don't any of these articles mention the black water problem in Florida? Current explanation seems to be a "plant plankton bloom" or "algae bloom", and it has resulted in the death of many bottom-dwellers, including sponges, corals, and starfish. It also resulted in an almost complete lack of fish in the area, which is bad economically as well as ecologically.

So far, we don't know what caused this bloom - suggestions range from industrial waste to disturbances of the sea floor.

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How can anyone seriously propose tampering with the balance of the ocean without even mentioning the possible dangers? Until we have a good idea what causes blooms like this, and whether introduction of huge amounts of CO2 into the ocean would increase the risk, we have no business considering it as an option.

Oh, that's right, I forgot. As long as the short-term savings favor corporations, we must *never* think about long-term external costs!
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I suppose it's naive of me to think that the left hand and the right hand ought to communicate once in a while...

Why don't any of these articles mention the black water problem in Florida? Current explanation seems to be a "plant plankton bloom" or "algae bloom", and it has resulted in the death of many bottom-dwellers, including sponges, corals, and starfish. It also resulted in an almost complete lack of fish in the area, which is bad economically as well as ecologically.

So far, we don't know what caused this bloom - suggestions range from industrial waste to disturbances of the sea floor.

<rant>
How can anyone seriously propose tampering with the balance of the ocean without even mentioning the possible dangers? Until we have a good idea what causes blooms like this, and whether introduction of huge amounts of CO2 into the ocean would increase the risk, we have no business considering it as an option.

Oh, that's right, I forgot. As long as the short-term savings favor corporations, we must *never* think about long-term external costs!
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Coral is stone, and it can be pretty damn heavy. Coral Castle is built of huge heavy pieces of coral. Like the nine ton revolving door. Nine tons. Heavy door, but he constructed its axis so that it swung at the touch of a finger. However he did it, it is a feat of pure genius. This article gives a brief overview of it; search for more information if you want. It's fascinating; definitely worth checking out if you get to Florida.

And even that is not 100% true anymore.
Kimberly-Clark to introduce wet toilet paper
What can I say, go figure. :-)
I inveted that years ago, something to do with it falling into the bathtub. :-)
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I was getting bored playing human chess. Now I can create my very own SubZero and play real life Mortal Kombat.

Now all I have to do is find my very own Pricess Kitana.

IIRC, there are talks, rumors, etc. that they're going to put the Lone Gunmen in their own series. Here's a link, though it's a bit dated, that has a bit of rumor-mongering of such a series.