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Before the circlejerking Slashdot hero's welcome to Snowden starts up consider this and weigh that against how much more private your matters are than they were pre-Snowden.

You need look no further than the Congress/POTUS stealth repealing of the 2012 STOCK Act to know exactly who and what we are dealing with here. We live in a land where "good" laws are fabricated during election years and silently shit-canned once the voters have been duped.

Oh, and because I didn't realize neavs's bias at first, a couple more links:
NPR, and BBC.

What we really need is a human body simulator, down to the molecules.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

According to some of the people interviewed for this NPR piece, some authors are indeed making more through Amazon. So despite Amazon making what appears to be an inordinate margin for simple digital distribution, it might still be better deal for authors than going through traditional publishers who take a larger margin, and spend significantly more overhead to support the older physical distribution model.

relevant XKCD http://xkcd.com/1357/

Right to free speech doesn't mean you can go around saying what you want without repercussions. It means the government can't stop you or hold it against you. Corporations can mostly do what they want minus some fairly flexible laws around eavesdropping and discrimination and a few other choice things.

Constitutional rights don't translate in to private corporation -> employee/customer rights
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...

"What most Americans generally don't know is that the Constitution doesn't apply to private corporations at all."

Of-course I completely forgot to mention all of the service prices that are rising, from accounting, to lawyers, to court fees, to mailing, to education, to car repair, etc.

Did I forget to mention coffee and coffee shops?

Obviously water

They will talk about drought and bandits and weather and climate and every single excuse under the Sun except for the actual real cause of this nonsense: inflation.

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

Fireworks businesses, gun businesses, casino owners are all legal business – mind you heavily regulated.

Marijuana is illegal under federal laws even if it legal under state. A bank dealing with a marijuana dispensary runs the risk of violating laws on money laundering, which can be very bad for banks. So banks simply won't deal with them.

A place to start: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

You're new to molecular genetics.

http://www.curioustaxonomy.net...

http://mentalfloss.com/article...

http://www.npr.org/templates/s...
Fruit Fly Scientists Swatted Down Over 'Cheap Date'

There used to be a chart with a nice breakdown of how much the average cable subscriber's bill goes to each of the content providers. ESPN was by far the biggest chunk, Disney/ABC took a good portion, etc. I'd love to see a recent breakdown if anyone has one.

Here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

I think that objection is irrelevant. It doesn't matter for whom it "works out well". What matters is if the competition successfully advances the technology. Western civilization has a pretty long history of successfully advancing technology using competitions with prizes. My favorite example is Napoleon incentivizing the invention of canned food.

Planet Money has had some good discussions about this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

If I recall the tl;dr version it goes something like this:
Automakers screwed dealers during the great depression so the dealers ran for legislative cover. Dealers now make lots of money and pay lots of taxes so they have maintained that cover ever since. And now are the ones screwing everybody else.

No, they most definitely delete it.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...

Several entities have popped up that try to cache it before it goes away. Why are you making shit up?

Again, no, TPB is non-relevant. Foreign entity attempting to compel a foreign entity to produce data when there is no incorporation in any jurisdiction of party A. Full Stop. You're just making shit up.

While it may be true that there are some criminals more likely to return to crime than others, if you don't allow people to return to society, they're more likely to return to crime.

Of course you do need to balance that with the needs of society and there should be a way to do that but allow for the rehabilitation of criminals... And I've even got a citation

Wrong, they're made for circulation, they're just making sets with all the presidents, like they did with all the states and Washington DC on quarters.

No, sorry, but you are wrong here. The US mint is sitting on roughly a billion of these coins, minted in previous years, which may never see circulation because there is no demand. Thus, the mint is NOT minting any new coins for the purpose of circulation. Unlike quarters (which circulate and wear out and needed to be replaced, new designs or not), at current demand levels, the mint has enough dollar coins in storage to last for decades.

Thankfully, the mint was able to stop this idiocy of minting new coins just to shove into vaults a few years ago, so now they are only producing new coins to sell as uncirculated coins for collectors (which they can actually make some money off of). Sure, the new coins CAN be put in circulation, but their primary purpose is to be sold for premium prices to collectors.

I am sephardi, from mexico. I did the Aliyah and went to israel. I was not happy with what I saw. I found converted indigenous people from Latin america living in the farthest settlements. To me It felt as if they were being used as a shield.

Apostates!

And before 1947 Beersheba was a town of mostly Palestinians. Then in October 1948 the Israeli goverment decided to truck the palestinian's to Gaza. Shortly after having displaced the palestinians their houses got occupied by people from the newly formed Israel. I am sure there are still people alive in Gaza who remember when their house was stolen.

And before _whatever_date_is_inconvenient_for_somebody_else Beersheba was a town of Jews. You can go back as far or as close as you want and find somebody living here. I mention that in my other posts.

I do believe that it was the King of Morocco who moved most of the Muslims out of Beersheba in 1947, with a promise of returning them after the Jews were exterminated. I do know of the forced evacuations at the hand of the Israeli army as well, much as the Jews were forced out of Morocco, Algers, Tunis, Lybia, Egypt, and other nations during the same time frame.

You might want to research other population swaps, both forced and non-forced. I am aware of what was done to the Muslims who stayed in Beersheba, which is nothing in comparison to what happened to the Jews who were forced out of their homes in Muslim states at the same time. Your recollection of history is one sided.

I am sephardi, from mexico. I did the Aliyah and went to israel. I was not happy with what I saw. I found converted indigenous people from Latin america living in the farthest settlements. To me It felt as if they were being used as a shield.

That is an amazing article, thank you.

Why the hell are you still living there?

It's my home.

And before 1947 Beersheba was a town of mostly Palestinians. Then in October 1948 the Israeli goverment decided to truck the palestinian's to Gaza. Shortly after having displaced the palestinians their houses got occupied by people from the newly formed Israel. I am sure there are still people alive in Gaza who remember when their house was stolen.
I am sephardi, from mexico. I did the Aliyah and went to israel. I was not happy with what I saw. I found converted indigenous people from Latin america living in the farthest settlements. To me It felt as if they were being used as a shield.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41...

http://jlr.sagepub.com/content...

http://works.bepress.com/leah_...

http://www.npr.org/2009/08/28/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03...

http://www.literacytrust.org.u...:

Educational programming has also aimed to elevate knowledge of texts and literacy as in the programmes Barney and Friends (Guofang, 1999) and Reading Rainbow (Wood and Duke, 1997), which offer content on reading books and raising childrenâ(TM)s knowledge of books. This is important since researchers at the University of Sheffield have also suggested that pre-schoolers who develop an ability to talk about texts become familiar with literacy and have greater success with learning to read once they enter school (Hannon, 2000; Hannon, Weinberger and Nutbrown, 1991). "

Whatever the truth turns out to be I suspect it will be fascinating!

Or terrifying. Or both!

Whats next in this free market slaughter hurting the public's long-standing service industry??? Car dealerships?? http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

I would argue that racists and sexists are taken very seriously, and they are often the ones doing the shouting down. Only two years ago, Gingrich made more or less explicitly racist statements on the campaign trail against Obama (http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/26/opinion/mosley-gingrich-food-stamp-president/, http://www.npr.org/2012/01/17/...) and he was the Republican party front runner for some time. Lest anyone think I'm picking on Republicans only, Biden was quoted saying the following about Obama: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." These are some of the most powerful people in the United States, hell in the world. And the catalogue of sexist comments from politicians and pundits of all ideological stripes is not insignificant either (http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/110242/top_50_most_sexist_quotes is a sample that doesn't even include politicians like Todd Akin).

Smokers tend to be less productive during their working life, so contribute less in the first place. Smoking breaks and coughing fits, plus time off sick etc.

Yep, and some of the cited studies take that into account. It's mostly the studies that are done by strong anti-smoking folks that magically seem to find more "lost productivity." For example, this study, which is fairly typical, estimates about $3500/year lost due to smoking breaks and "withdrawal" symptoms that happen when a smoker is struggling to wait for the next break.

Let's set aside various big issues with this, like whether all or even most smokers are the kind who need a continuous "fix" to survive the day. (Many people I've known who smoked were not "pack-a-day" types -- they would have occasional cigarettes a few times per day to relax.) The larger question is whether we can actually assume that non-smokers are productive continuously throughout the day and don't take their own "breaks" around the water cooler or coffee maker or just spacing out for a few minutes at the desk. Many studies on productivity would suggest that we should NOT assume a worker is continuously productive throughout an 8-hour workday... that's one of the reasons for mandated breaks, but most people end up having their own "downtime" anyway. Are smokers really costing more for breaks, or are they just more visible about how and when they take them? Also, if we're going to factor in lost time for unfocused smokers needing a fix, we need to factor in gained productivity for occasional smokers who might only take a smoking break once in a while to relieve stress and for whom it might actually make them feel better (and thus MORE productive).

Same deal with sick days. $500 for extra sick days for smokers, but studies also show that people who take more time off often gain productivity from additional rest and time away from work. What's the balance here? Again, smokers probably cost more, but we shouldn't always assume that a sick day equals lost productivity -- to the contrary, productivity studies show that most workers would be MORE productive if they more frequently took sick days or personal days when needed.

Bottom line -- I'm sure many smokers DO cost more in lost productivity, but estimating the actual effect is quite difficult, and studies that have tried to come to mixed conclusions. Regardless, you'd need a lot of lost productivity to offset the extra cost of non-smokers in additional healthcare expenses, retirement expenses, and end-of-life care for people with chronic degenerative diseases. Even if the worst-case studies are accurate and smokers cost an extra $5000/year or something to employers, over a 40-year career, that comes to $200,000. Estimates are that smokers save about $100,000 in health-care costs alone. Add in savings in retirement and pension payouts, as well as kids paying for long-term care facilities for old people, etc., and you're very likely going to surpass any productivity losses in care for old people.

Smokers tend to damage other people's health as well, so any study that only looks at their own life expectancy is flawed.

Do you think these study authors are idiots? Of course they factor this in. The dangers of second-hand smoke have been known for decades, so most studies include societal costs due to illnesses caused to others. In the U.S., though, smoking in public places has been greatly restricted in the past decade or so, so those costs will be significantly reduced compared to what they were in the past (where, even with second-hand smoke illnesses, cost due to smokers was a wash).

Again, I'm focusing on cost here. Obviously there are social and moral reasons not to let people harm others, so I'm all for smoking bans in a lot of public venues. But that's a different question from whether smoking ac

> When politicians running for election start getting in real trouble for stealing songs

It is very rare for a poilitician to use unlicensed songs because the venues they play them at all have BMI and ASCAP licenses.

That often leads to them making egregious mistakes in their music choice - the most common one is for republicans to play Springsteen's "Born in the USA" which is a straight-up critique of policies that are traditionally associated with republicans. But it is set to a catchy hook and that's all the politicians know (kind of symbolic in fact).

I think international enrollment may very well start to be a thing.

But I would point out that in Europe, there's people crossing countries on a daily basis just commuting to work, while in the US, there are families who haven't left the country except for brief vacations, or not at all. Living in the US is all they know, and all they want, and the parents are already twisted up inside about having their kids leave home, to consider sending them halfway around the world adds to their stress.

For many years college has been seen as the indispensable class gateway to access the middle-class life. No introductory price could be high enough to offset the prosperity the graduates would see on in their career. This vision changed VERY suddenly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

The cost of college grew at a lightning pace since the time the parents had gone to college, the kids had never dealt in financial matters, and the intangible debts accrued were a problem for the future when the kids would already be enjoying a successful career that would allow them to pay it down...except that with the recent financial crisis and recent-graduate employment rates falling off a cliff as recently laid-off middle-age workers are taking up entry-level positions, the young graduates found themselves with significant debt but without the middle-class career path they'd counted on to help pay down that debt. I think that international enrollment will indeed grow in response to this problem unless something else is done to address it. It's just that this problem had hit so suddenly that the culture of choosing colleges hasn't shifted quickly enough to keep up. Colleges transformed from a gold mines to minefields in a short time span. We're seeing the opinions shifting now though.

It's important to bear in mind that the massive spike in tuition is at least, a progressive pricing structure (though it has its flaws and gaps). US colleges defend their pricing by saying that the ridiculously high tuition is the list price that gets charged to the more affluent families, and that inflated price helps allow for tuition discounts to the less affluent families to get into the college.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

There is some nuance to that pricing structure. TL;DR, if a student goes to a reputable STEM college to major in STEM, then that high tuition is funding the salaries of famous professors and their projects that make your STEM college reputable (and your degree as well). If a student goes to that college to major in art history, they're probably going to get a very bad deal out of it.

Interesting but it's been proven that multitasking is a myth so operating a vehicle and a cell phone are mutually exclusive activities. Do one or the other but not both.

Because the law of conservation of power shows that taking power away from the government won't make the power disappear, it will just end up directly in the hands of the rich.

And that's different from the way it is now? Majority In Congress Are Millionaires

There will always be a need for car dealerships, but there is no good reason to ban direct sales. This is pure rent-seeking behavior. The dealerships should position themselves as Tesla's partners in buying/selling used Teslas and in repairs.

I'm not so sure about that. While I'm no expert on the subject I found this podcast. It's from NPR and 16 minutes long, but I thought it very informative.

More reading:

http://www.npr.org/2012/06/26/...

> why shouldn't the IRS scrutinize applications for a tax-exempt status which disallows political activity* where the applicant group has 'Tea Party' in its title and description?

Because the rules apparently say otherwise, they are supposed to ignore the group's name and the description of the group and instead look for other signs of political acitivty. Sorry, not enough of an expert to say what those other signs are. What it does look like is the employees themselves thought it was too hard (and they were understaffed) to follow the "rules" so they short-cutted.

From the report by the Inspector General of the Treasury:

Even employees in the IRS's tax-exempt unit were stupefied by the rules about which they had to make decisions. They were so confused, their bosses decided they needed hands-on training — after which an absurdly low and slow 2 percent application approval rate soared. Given the political sensitivity of this part of the IRS's work, you might have expected the training to happen sooner. The problems remain, however, according to the IG, and the guidance the workers labor under is vague at best. (Page 14)

They should fix it even more so with auto drive cars.

  so you can not get lost in Death Valley

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/...

directs drivers to trun on to runway at an airport

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/20...

The road looked clear, at low tide - but the map forgot to show the 9 miles of water and mud between the island and the mainland

http://news.yahoo.com/gps-trac...

takes goat trail up mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

sending cars down an private road that has no thru access.

Clearly false:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...
and
http://www.debt.org/faqs/ameri...

> Yup, more effective to point a laser at the window and measure the vibrations from the noises within the building.

Laser microphones are not that precise.

No they can't. Read further up the thread. Most cities, and all the cities the article cites, have a limit on the number of cabs. All of these cities have hit their limit ages ago. When new licenses are issued they are costly. Last I heard New York was selling newly minted licenses at over a million.

The entire points of the licenses are to constrain the number of cabs out there at an artificially low level – that is the limiting factor on new competitors. I am arguing it should be the free market that determines it.

See this link for more info.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money...

According to this NPR story:
http://www.npr.org/2014/03/31/...

Scott Oldham of Edmunds.com had a test drive of the Cobalt in 2004, with a GM engineer in the car. Multiple times Oldham's knee hit the key fob and car shut down.

Also, a major factor preventing identification of the ignition switch issue (or at least providing plausible deniability) is the part number. GM had 2 sets of cars: one set supposedly had this issue, the other did not. Both had the same ignition switch, so if there was a difference between the two sets, the ignition switch was not it.

Now we know the ignition switch was changed, but the part number stayed the same, making it difficult to correctly identify the issue. We're supposed to believe a single engineer was responsible for changing a part but not the part number?

Not that it matters much to me. My car searches start with Consumer Reports reviews and reliability ratings, and so no GM car has been in consideration for a while.

Is there any reason that reducing pointless barriers to trade has to occur in one giant all-or-nothing pact, instead of lots of little treaties over a period of years that don't depend on each other?

Because lots of small packs could actually make trading harder. The big issue is not tariff items (taxes charged on imports) but non-tariff items.

Consumer safety regulations are a big one. American and European auto safety regulations are about equivalent but have some minor variations. But there are enough minor differences that the car has to be redesigned and retested effectively blocking trade. Sometimes it is just bureaucracy but other times it is just a thin veil for protectionism. For example, the US barely exports any rice to Japan because it does not meet their quality standards – which are basically set up to excluded any rice not grown in Japan.

The idea is to reduce the number of differences between countries. Small treaties might lower the differences in regulations between countries but could increase the number of permutations and complexity of differences.

http://www.npr.org/2014/04/30/...

My point is that while people on the low end are being automated so are people on the high end. It's already happening.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/03/...

The payoff for automating a well paid job that requires a smart human is much bigger than the payoff for automating a poorly paid job that even a below average iq human can do.

That is a key assertion, especially if broadened to, say, the top 20%. What is your source?

Here is some info:

61% of U.S. households will break into the top 20% of incomes (roughly $111,000) for at least 2 consecutive years.

39% of U.S. households will break into the top 10% of incomes (roughly $153,000) for at least 2 consecutive years.

5% of U.S. households will break into the top 1% of incomes (roughly $360,000) for at least 2 consecutive years.

That said, 20% of U.S. households will fall into poverty (roughly $23,850 for a family of 4) for at least 2 consecutive years..

Source info here.

Wow, you Republicans are getting more brazen...The legal system would become instead of 80% biased for the Republicans...

Blaming "loser pay" advocacy on political affiliation shows you haven't done your homework.

The local high school here only has 4 classes during a day, and I'm pretty sure the teachers get a free class period. They at least got them when I attended. The teachers I know are some of the few great teachers you don't want to miss out on having. Such employees are almost always underpaid.

Lets stop talking about anecdotes, and look at some hard facts. The median compensation package for public teachers is $75k/yr (source) and they have a median of around 3 (maybe 4) years of experience (source). The BLS states that teachers are paid 11% higher than other professionals (source). At 53 hours/wk (source, it sounds like a lot of work, but it is 3 hours fewer than most professionals, even without considering vacation time (source). Considering vacation time, teachers who use all of their days of leave work an average of 171.5 days/yr vs 220 days/yr for private sector professionals with 10 years of experience (source), which isn't quite a fair comparison because professionals with 10 years of experience get more vacation than people with 3-4 years of experience.

If you multiply this out, most professionals are working over 1/3 more hours than teachers for 10% less pay. They generally get off of work early enough to make a dentist appointment, avoiding the need to shift hours around like other professionals, and their extra hours outside of the school day are free for scheduling as they see fit. Really good teachers might be working long hours for their money. However, when they're getting paid 50% more per hr, it's clear that most are not.

If you want to argue the difficulty and stress of a job, then that would be a different matter than I've discussed. It won't be fixed by reducing hours or increasing pay, but fixing polity.

Will it get lost in Death Valley.

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/...

Disastrous - well, that's a loaded term. One organism's disaster is another's dinner. The world / universe just is.

But humans, along with all sorts of other plants and animals, have been changing the environment for a very long time.

For quite a bit more detail on South America, read 1493 and some of his other books.

TL;DR - there is no such thing as purely 'natural'.

Anyone remember the guy who outsourced his own job to China?
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetw...

And it turns out that the job done in China was above par -the employee's "code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building," according to the Verizon Security Blog.

"All told, it looked like he earned several hundred thousand dollars a year, and only had to pay the Chinese consulting firm about fifty grand annually," according to the Security Blog.

Guess how much the real developers in China doing the "best developer in the building" job earn? I doubt it's 50K/year.

People who say there will always be jobs when the robots take over are idiots. Guess what the Chinese workers will be doing when Foxconn replaces more and more of them with robots. They'll be doing the jobs the US workers are supposed to learn to do.

All this report shows is the the grid can handle a few EVs it says nothing about handling a lot of EVs.

Some quick googling shows lots of similar articles and studies. The utilities don't seem to be worried. My guess is that they are happily anticipating becoming the energy provider for transportation in addition to their current business. And, if BEV takes a decade to become commonplace they have a full decade to upgrade the grid.

"As the power grid stands right now, it can already handle millions of electric vehicles without bringing any further power plants online."
( http://science.howstuffworks.c... )

"Kjaer is less concerned about transmission or generation being overtaxed, as long as consumers are taught to charge their plug-in cars at night, during off-peak demand periods, to smooth the load. "
( http://www.scientificamerican.... )

"Doggett is CEO of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas – which oversees the state’s electric grid. On Tuesday he told lawmakers on the Senate Natural Resources Committee that he doesn’t believe even widespread adoption of electric vehicles would have any negative effect on the transmission system."
( https://stateimpact.npr.org/te... )

"“Surprisingly, we found that in general, the electric utility infrastructure is already prepared to meet the President’s 2015 challenge. Our research revealed that utilities will not likely need to upgrade or expand transmission or generation capacity in the next ten years specifically to meet electric demand from EVs at projected adoption rates."
( http://www.forbes.com/sites/pe... )

And here is a paper from Southern California Edison which doesn't seem too worried about the impact of BEV on their grid:
http://newsroom.edison.com/int...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/healt... TL;DR We suck and the suckage is increasing.

The science is settled

He also said the Arctic would be ice-free by now.

FCC Gives Initial OK To New Internet Rules

We already have a good idea of what happens when ISPs are treated like common carriers -- more competition; better and faster internet access. The UK is a perfect example.

This planet money podcast is great overview on how both the US and the UK arrived at their respective situations. It's a fascinating listen:

http://podcastdownload.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/510289/299232999/npr_299232999.mp3?_kip_ipx=1217487091-1400085519/

There was no evidence beforehand that there are significant problems with US K-12 education on average

Until I read the rest of your post I assumed you were being sarcastic with this statement. The US spends more than any other country on education, but still ranks below average when compared to other developed countries. We have known this for a long time, but things keep getting worse. While none of this means teachers are the primary cause of these problems, it is ignorant to say that there are not significant problems in our K-12 education system.

but there was and is absolutely zero evidence that the vast majority of teachers weren't already working hard 'to achieve results' before Grover Norquist and Michelle Rhee got involved to "improve" the situation.

My employers don't care much if I am trying hard. They care what my results are. There are times when I fail, and most of the time my employer agrees that the cause of the failure was outside of my control. But the next step isn't to ignore the failure, it is to determine how I will mitigate and compensate for those outside factors. Our educational system has been showing us very clearly that it is not doing a very good job finding solutions that will make the US compare well with the rest of the world. There are not easy answers to any of these problems, as evidenced by the lack of success that many renovators are having to suffer through. Sadly I believe this means we need more revolution than evolution, but I'm not sure how that could ever happen politically.

On the other hand, there is over 100 years of evidence as to why schools tend to evolve toward seniority systems (hint: not to protect "incompetent" teachers), all of which was ignored.

Everyone would love to be insulated from office politics. If teachers unions want to be part of the solution instead of the problem, they need to find a way to identify good teachers by some metric other than seniority (which doesn't work at all). This will allow great teachers to be paid well (I see no reason why the top 1% of teachers shouldn't be making $200k+) and will allow us to remove poor ones. This is an incredibly hard problem to solve, but current teachers unions just bury their head in the sand instead of trying to find solutions. That is why you have so many outside interests getting involved.

Actually, none of us are technically 'adults' until the age of 25. The brain has been proven to develop well past the age of our legal adulthood.

What parts of the brain are still "under development"?
"Their prefrontal cortex is not yet fully developed. That's the part of the brain that helps you to inhibit impulses and to plan and organize your behavior to reach a goal."

Here is the link to the talk that quote was taken from:
http://www.npr.org/templates/s...

I personally feel society should reflect the reality of our biological maturity set the legal age of adulthood to end no sooner than 25 and that public education should also extend to this age.