Paper maps, too, tell you where a gas station is.
And a church if you need that...
When actually was it that you last time looked on a paper map?
You have to have a paper map with those on it. Paper maps can also show you individual houses and countour lines, altitude and all manner of things. I don't often travel with those.
Because a paper map won't answer me whan I ask it where the closest gas station is.
As for the last time I looked at a paper map, it was the Pennsylvania Gazetteer, about 5 days ago. A very handy thing with the back roads I like to use. Chillaxe Bro, you have such an undercurrent of anger in your posts.
Our new president has made a major effort to find election irregularities and so far has come up empty.
He just didn't find the irregularities he wanted.
It is a pity that a Demoncrat didn't get elected with a minority of the votes cast. Then we would see the Republicans dismantling the Electoral college and pronto.
Then there is the question of exactly why a candidate who loses the popular vote is winning via the electoral college. Presidents Hayes, Harrison, Bush, and Trump all took office with a minority of votes cast. We'll ignore Jackson vs Adams for this argument. What is especially concerning is that only 16 years separate the last two anomalies. In addition, in the 2016 election, winning the popular vote by 2.1%, yet losing the electoral college, is indicative of a deep problem.
It certainly speaks to a election system that does not represent the will of the people who vote.
There are some ridiculous issues with the US election system. Gerrymandering needs to go away. I saw a gerrymandered district that looked like a Dumbbell a few years back. It had two blobs east and west, with a 300 foot corridor about 20 miles long, connecting them. We are at a stage where the gerrymandering can be worked out via computer to give one party or another, an almost insurmountable lead in representation at the state and federal level. A computer an easily do that math, which leads to some pretty bizzare shaped districts.
Of course, the electoral college needs to go. Those who want to strut around and bray about how it is the law will quickly change their tune when a Democrat is elected under the same circumstances. It needs to be turned into a system where the candidate with the most votes wins. Eliminate the controversy.
I want Voter ID. But not the kind of voter ID that is brought out every election to disenfranchise voters. A phased in process where you get your photo taken when you first register, and a card issued. Right there. People who are already registered can get cards at the courthouse, or when they vote. then over time, coming to a point where we all just have voter ID cards.
Now there is the matter of computers and voting machines. We need to get the tallies before putting anything on the internet. Voting machines are trivial to break into and alter the results. Sending voting data through the intertoobz is just inviting trouble. There was some troubling events in Ohio in two elections recently, where exit polls favored one presidential candidate, but another won the state, then in the election before last, where Karl Rove had his famous election night meltdown, refusing to accept it when Fox News called Ohio for O'Blama. The back story rumor was that the voting tally wasn't "coming out" like he expected.
Just a strange coincidence from the same state, which proved pivotal in two elections. I make no judgement other than to bring it up.
But none of this will happen until one of the parties suffers from the present system.
But as you noted, we can pay attention to more than one problem at a time.
That's basically how I still do all my road trips. Get out the paper maps!
I use both paper maps and gps guidance. The idea in the story that we somehow re-enter a paradise of relaxation and restoration of the road trip as how God meant it to be is silly. It's like deciding that you'll have only one wrench in the toolbox. and no other.
The strengths of each mode complement each other. The GPS guidance can tell me where a gas station is, yet doesn't have a "big picture" mode, while the paper maps can show me a huge area, and a reality check in case the GPS things I should do something stupid.
Really helpful is the construction and accident feature of my GPS traveling guidance, which is a good replacement for the superannuated CB radio as well.
The summay does seem to be off the mark in that regard. But, as you point out, grid storage is a different ball game. And even for wheeled vehicles, a somewhat lower energy density isn't necessarily prohibitive because there's regenerative braking and a lot of the energy that does get lost goes into fighting aerodynamic friction rather than rolling resistance.
This got me to thinking about nickle-iron batteries, the lumbering Ox of battery technology. Poor specific energy, poor charge retention, but about indestructable. The NiFe batteries Seem to invite abuse, putting up with being constantly on charge, many charge discharge cycles, rugged as rocks, and crazy reliable. The New York City Subway system uses them, as well as the London Underground locos. A lot of mining cars use them as well
Then I started thinking about a 30 pound smartphone that lasted an hour per charge...... anyhow, that's my rechargeable battery free association for the morning.
The rest of the storage, distribution and usage infrastructure is already in place, so the challenge is creating an efficient factory that takes in air + water, splits it up, and cranks out gas as an output.
And quite the challenge it is. I saw no mention of the water used, so I am assuming it is fresh. So either saline water will have to be desalinated before use, creating disposal issues or local hypersalinization ocean conditions, or fresh water will be used, creating yet another pressure upon the ecosystem. This means the source will be erratic. We are to the point in the northeast where trees are falling over because the soil is saturated, but that isn't always the case. But even we have had droughts, and more aquifer pumping isn't the answer.
The real kicker is that we have an electrical delivery infrastructure already in place, and given the constant improvement in EV technology, installing those charging ports to finish the job is looking pretty good.
Personally, I see most of the country shifting to EV's for most purposes, and for those uses that require portable internal combustion, like over the road trucking, trains and many construction type jobs will slowly switch to natgas.
Then the highly dense and portable fuel needs - think aviation - will remain using petrofuels or synthetic versions of them.
So this is how Russia "influenced" our election? By spreading fake news and being Internet trolls?! For fuck's sake, that's it???
Careful, you gotta use the right language here: they didn't just "influence" the election, they "hacked" it!
Two different things Boris, but thanks for the conflation attempt.
If you don't understand that your comrades had information that was quite targeted to very specific places, you haven't been paying very close attention.
But then therre is the very specific term "Hacked" If you don't know that voting machines have been quite effectively hacked, and by us
I've been trying ot find the cite from 2005, but it seems to be a little hard to come by these days, but an outfit, http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... Carnegie Mellon, took the actual voting machines that were in use at the time and hacked them.
And tell me Boris, if you could get into an enemies voting system and change the election results to a person who would do your bidding - answer me why you would not do exactly that.If you wouldn't, it would be stupid, and one thing we know Boris, your people aren't stupid.
If you don't use the right terms, people might start thinking the Democrats fucked up really, really badly, and we can't let that happen
Well Boris - yes, the Democrats have been an aboiminable fuckupfest for a long time.
However, explain how that has fuck-all to do with this election and your people's efforts.
might find themselves out in the cold, unable to pay for their third summer home in the Caribbean!
It's Mar-a-Lago Boris, your boy built that with some of your money.
Be a good winner Boris, we have a man in the White House who will do our bidding. We are discussing whether or not you get your rubles, stand by.
Correct. Even the plugs are different. I have no idea how anyone thought this could be an option. Tsh!
And dropping my sarcasm, for the fellow that thought this would be a big pain in the ass, even here in the US, where almost everything is too hard these days, what is happening is businesses and hotels are installing charge ports. The concept is you don't draw the batteries down so far that they need a full recharge. When you are in town, you have a charging port at home. You might even have a solar powered charger. Then you do your daily travels, maybe charge it some at work, come home and finish a charge overnight. Only inconvenient if a person finds charging a smartphone too much of a problem.
As more people start using EV's, you'll see charge ports showing up at parking meters. The concepts are already proven in Alaska where parking meters have outlets to run battery and block heaters in the winter. It won't happen overnight, but as demand increases, it will be met.
That we could make rechargeable Alkaline batteries is pretty obvious when we already have them.
But if these are supposed to compete with Li-Po batteries in energy density they will run into the same issues that the Li-Po batteries have.
So at best, its a wash regarding batteries for our toys. Where this technology just might be really useful is in the energy storage and leveling schemes for solar and wind power. There a rechargeable battery of less energy density might just be the ticket, because extreme small size will not be an issue. Add a few more batteries to the farm. And if they are cheaper, great.
That way we can free up the demand on the not so common minerals that go into the really high energy density batteries we use now.
It really is kind of unfair to penalised investors who have zero involvement in the bonus pumping scam
Nope. The investors supply the economic power. They are responsible, so it's absolutely fair. Don't like it? The simple remedy is to make an effort to invest your money ethically. Just handing it to big corporations doesn't fit the bill there.
Exactly. We are reminded on a daily basis that corporations are amoral, and geared toward making profit, and nothing else. That sounds a lot like a recipe for selling heroin and cocaine, and murdering your competition. Servicing the stockholders, you know. And dare I mention that we live in an age where the stockholders can even be serviced nicely when the fine doesn't approach the profit? Cost of doing business, perhaps.
But let's back away from that slippery but illustrative slope for a moment.
If the janitor gets caught stealing 5 grand worth of toilet paper, of course, the janitor should be fired, perhaps even prosecuted. That's pretty simple.
But when you have a systemic and obvious fraud that blatantly and purposely breaks multiple laws, and one that demands a lot of coordination to pull off, we're in a whole new regime.
So perhaps honesty, morals, and ethics on the part of the people at the top is a good idea. Since they have the power, and can enforce it, and are being paid a very comfortable salary, some responsibility is in order.
Nothing cures a problem like making it the problem of the person(s) who have the power to fix the problem.
I'm out of the game now, but my wife is still an active math professor, so I get to see first-hand what's going on. Higher education is eating itself, and they wonder why they're being challenged by online diploma mills.
Their salad days are going to come to an end. They have priced themselves out of the market.
A better punishment would be to punish the company as a whole:
Nah - if a few CEO's get to spend some time in jail, and if others know this can happen to them, it won't take long at all for companies to have wonderful ethics.
Otherwise, he just gets to shrug his shoulders and lament about that custodian that "caused" the whole problem.
I'd love to see one of these turds get a life sentence. Problem cured in a minute.
It is all about having a business plan that actually works.
I hate to tell you, but your business plan that actually works is falling apart. I'm not certain if you've noticed or not, but outside of a very few disciplines, young people are graduating with a mountain of debt, and with precious little prospects. For many schools, the football attendance is down, and then there is the actuarial tables. A lot of wealthy alumni give a lot of money to the schools. But they are dying off.
Now we are looking at those young folks I told you about before. That guy with the philosophy major, or the woman with a gender studies degree. And a hundred K of debt. Working min wage at McD's.
There is a math problem there. Having spent three decades in the system, you can see it coming
Because this smart business you talk about has missed out on one thing. Teaching people.
Of course some wag will come on and note that University isn't there to enable people to have careers. Well then, looks like that kinda kills the business model. When the business is centered around pecuniary extraction while offering nothing but giving people cool buildings and football, it isn't sustainable.
Administrators are getting bigger and bigger raises and bonuses, while full professors get replaced by adjuncts who make less than the minimum wage. So those lectures with 150 students are given by someone with little experience and who doesn't even get basic benefits like health care or a sick day, while administrators are being given seven figure salaries.
A smaller and smaller percentage of the money in higher education is actually being spent on educating students, but the football coach is the highest-paid public employee in the state.
As cynical as that sounds, it is absolutely correct. Having spent over 30 years in the arena, the takeover of universities by management is nothing short of shocking.
There are now more people shuffling papers around and pulling down 6 figure salaries keeping track of 5 thousand dollars worth of pencils than there are academics.
And if you want to know why college is so much more expensive now, they'll tell you they would have to hire 50 new accountants, 30 middle managers, 2 staff assistants, and have a building built to house them.
Then a year later, they'll release a report saying that the University needs to hire more accountants and managers.
Should it come as a shock that something that would cause girls to mature early would also impact males?
I'm asking, I don't know.
Yes is the short answerThe precocious puberty issue isn't conclusive, some of this could be related to the weight and age of the girl, and since people in general are getting heavier, this could have an effect on menarche. But something appears amiss. I looked at my high school yearbook from the 1970's, and especially the 18 year old young ladies looked like 13 year old girls today. Hypersexualization and too much makeup is one thing, but good grief, somthing is amiss. That's just an observation.
Now for some scary stuff. The most common birth defect in males born today is Cryptorchidism and hypospadias. Essentially that the penis doesn't form correctly. The Urethra exits where it shouldn't. Specifically there is a gene problem, but the cause is very likely chemical.
Untrue. Cats eat plants in nature. There are even plants named for them, ie. cat grass and catnip.
Cats are frank carnivores. They eat grass as an emetic, and catnip for the obvious reasons. We had a cat that liked popcorn, and one that for some reason liked malt, but that's just an animal eating something they usually don't. Beyond some small amount of starch in gravy, they should be eating all meat.
This is wny the hatred for men on the part of academic women, the very people who should be having more children, is taking us straight to idiocracy.
Nature does not select for intelligence unless it gives increased survival for the species.
The intelligent, educated, but misandrist women in academia and the rest of society have removed themselves from the gene pool.
Now is this going to lead to idiocracy? Probably not. I'm pretty certain that if humanity survives we'll just go back to the dark ages. No electricity, no mechanical transportation. But religion will probably find ascendancy.
As Einstein is attributed saying, "I know not what weapons World War three will be fought with, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones"
No, this denier is uninterested in AlGore. Much more interesting to Michael E Mann twist in the wind refusing to show his data to a Canadian court. Way more fun to the claimers explain just how hard it is to measure the actual temperature anywhere, reliably, over a period of time.
These arguments are neither new nor exceptional. Some believe, some do not.
Ready to talk actual science? Tell me the law tha Mann broke. But I don't care, because you are now venturing into tjh area where you belive that AWG can be put to a vote. Perhaps we need to change the speed of light via a vote as well.
Enough of that. Let's talk some physics, if you are capable.
I'll start with a simple question. Do you believe that there are certain gases that cause energy retention based upon their prevalence in an atmosphere?
If you do, do you believe that the retained energy just goes away, and has no effect?
If no, explain the 100 percent reproduceable effect, one in use every day around the World, and likelwise proven in thousands of science fair projects with a plausible differential analysis of why it only seems to be happening, but really isn't.
We'll start there, as I have no doubt at alll that you don't understand the basics and will need to fall back upon silly attacks like Your irrelevant Canadian court nonsense. AGW is not a thing that is proven or disproven via court cases. It does'nt matter if Michael man is caught killing someone.
It's a well known law of physics, and arguing against it is right up there with the earth being created in 4004 BCE, or vaccines cause autism, or crystal resonances running the universe.
Stop making excuses and just get in with it. Eurostar has totally out performed the airlines and you could expect something between many US cities.
Come on now - what I wrote doesn't even rise to the level of a Poe. Its pretty obvious that the US was a world leader at one time in installing ad using train transportation. The idea that we need to catch up with the rest of the world because we don't have any experience in train transportation is silly.
The reason that the US is behind the curve with high speed trains is because we have lost the will to do such things, and are well along the way to ceding technological superiority to the rest of the world.
That's NOT SCIENCE nor is it even rationality or based on reason.
Are you some fakenewsbot? I automatically believe the opposite of anything anyone tells me.
This is sometimes awkward, because like the Red queen in Alice, I have to believe several wrong things before breakfast. But I don't believe them or anything either, most importantly myself.
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Paper maps, too, tell you where a gas station is. And a church if you need that ...
When actually was it that you last time looked on a paper map?
You have to have a paper map with those on it. Paper maps can also show you individual houses and countour lines, altitude and all manner of things. I don't often travel with those.
Because a paper map won't answer me whan I ask it where the closest gas station is.
As for the last time I looked at a paper map, it was the Pennsylvania Gazetteer, about 5 days ago. A very handy thing with the back roads I like to use. Chillaxe Bro, you have such an undercurrent of anger in your posts.
Our new president has made a major effort to find election irregularities and so far has come up empty.
He just didn't find the irregularities he wanted.
It is a pity that a Demoncrat didn't get elected with a minority of the votes cast. Then we would see the Republicans dismantling the Electoral college and pronto.
Then there is the question of exactly why a candidate who loses the popular vote is winning via the electoral college. Presidents Hayes, Harrison, Bush, and Trump all took office with a minority of votes cast. We'll ignore Jackson vs Adams for this argument. What is especially concerning is that only 16 years separate the last two anomalies. In addition, in the 2016 election, winning the popular vote by 2.1%, yet losing the electoral college, is indicative of a deep problem.
It certainly speaks to a election system that does not represent the will of the people who vote.
There are some ridiculous issues with the US election system. Gerrymandering needs to go away. I saw a gerrymandered district that looked like a Dumbbell a few years back. It had two blobs east and west, with a 300 foot corridor about 20 miles long, connecting them. We are at a stage where the gerrymandering can be worked out via computer to give one party or another, an almost insurmountable lead in representation at the state and federal level. A computer an easily do that math, which leads to some pretty bizzare shaped districts.
Of course, the electoral college needs to go. Those who want to strut around and bray about how it is the law will quickly change their tune when a Democrat is elected under the same circumstances. It needs to be turned into a system where the candidate with the most votes wins. Eliminate the controversy.
I want Voter ID. But not the kind of voter ID that is brought out every election to disenfranchise voters. A phased in process where you get your photo taken when you first register, and a card issued. Right there. People who are already registered can get cards at the courthouse, or when they vote. then over time, coming to a point where we all just have voter ID cards.
Now there is the matter of computers and voting machines. We need to get the tallies before putting anything on the internet. Voting machines are trivial to break into and alter the results. Sending voting data through the intertoobz is just inviting trouble. There was some troubling events in Ohio in two elections recently, where exit polls favored one presidential candidate, but another won the state, then in the election before last, where Karl Rove had his famous election night meltdown, refusing to accept it when Fox News called Ohio for O'Blama. The back story rumor was that the voting tally wasn't "coming out" like he expected.
Just a strange coincidence from the same state, which proved pivotal in two elections. I make no judgement other than to bring it up.
But none of this will happen until one of the parties suffers from the present system.
But as you noted, we can pay attention to more than one problem at a time.
That's basically how I still do all my road trips. Get out the paper maps!
I use both paper maps and gps guidance. The idea in the story that we somehow re-enter a paradise of relaxation and restoration of the road trip as how God meant it to be is silly. It's like deciding that you'll have only one wrench in the toolbox. and no other.
The strengths of each mode complement each other. The GPS guidance can tell me where a gas station is, yet doesn't have a "big picture" mode, while the paper maps can show me a huge area, and a reality check in case the GPS things I should do something stupid.
Really helpful is the construction and accident feature of my GPS traveling guidance, which is a good replacement for the superannuated CB radio as well.
Using both is good.
The summay does seem to be off the mark in that regard. But, as you point out, grid storage is a different ball game. And even for wheeled vehicles, a somewhat lower energy density isn't necessarily prohibitive because there's regenerative braking and a lot of the energy that does get lost goes into fighting aerodynamic friction rather than rolling resistance.
This got me to thinking about nickle-iron batteries, the lumbering Ox of battery technology. Poor specific energy, poor charge retention, but about indestructable. The NiFe batteries Seem to invite abuse, putting up with being constantly on charge, many charge discharge cycles, rugged as rocks, and crazy reliable. The New York City Subway system uses them, as well as the London Underground locos. A lot of mining cars use them as well
Then I started thinking about a 30 pound smartphone that lasted an hour per charge...... anyhow, that's my rechargeable battery free association for the morning.
The rest of the storage, distribution and usage infrastructure is already in place, so the challenge is creating an efficient factory that takes in air + water, splits it up, and cranks out gas as an output.
And quite the challenge it is. I saw no mention of the water used, so I am assuming it is fresh. So either saline water will have to be desalinated before use, creating disposal issues or local hypersalinization ocean conditions, or fresh water will be used, creating yet another pressure upon the ecosystem. This means the source will be erratic. We are to the point in the northeast where trees are falling over because the soil is saturated, but that isn't always the case. But even we have had droughts, and more aquifer pumping isn't the answer.
The real kicker is that we have an electrical delivery infrastructure already in place, and given the constant improvement in EV technology, installing those charging ports to finish the job is looking pretty good.
Personally, I see most of the country shifting to EV's for most purposes, and for those uses that require portable internal combustion, like over the road trucking, trains and many construction type jobs will slowly switch to natgas.
Then the highly dense and portable fuel needs - think aviation - will remain using petrofuels or synthetic versions of them.
We're America. We can't do things any more.
I call my invention Li-Po Suction. Investors, call me!
Not bad, not bad at all!
So this is how Russia "influenced" our election? By spreading fake news and being Internet trolls?! For fuck's sake, that's it???
Careful, you gotta use the right language here: they didn't just "influence" the election, they "hacked" it!
Two different things Boris, but thanks for the conflation attempt.
If you don't understand that your comrades had information that was quite targeted to very specific places, you haven't been paying very close attention.
But then therre is the very specific term "Hacked" If you don't know that voting machines have been quite effectively hacked, and by us I've been trying ot find the cite from 2005, but it seems to be a little hard to come by these days, but an outfit, http://thehill.com/policy/cybe... Carnegie Mellon, took the actual voting machines that were in use at the time and hacked them.
And tell me Boris, if you could get into an enemies voting system and change the election results to a person who would do your bidding - answer me why you would not do exactly that.If you wouldn't, it would be stupid, and one thing we know Boris, your people aren't stupid.
If you don't use the right terms, people might start thinking the Democrats fucked up really, really badly, and we can't let that happen
Well Boris - yes, the Democrats have been an aboiminable fuckupfest for a long time.
However, explain how that has fuck-all to do with this election and your people's efforts.
might find themselves out in the cold, unable to pay for their third summer home in the Caribbean!
It's Mar-a-Lago Boris, your boy built that with some of your money.
Be a good winner Boris, we have a man in the White House who will do our bidding. We are discussing whether or not you get your rubles, stand by.
Correct. Even the plugs are different. I have no idea how anyone thought this could be an option. Tsh!
And dropping my sarcasm, for the fellow that thought this would be a big pain in the ass, even here in the US, where almost everything is too hard these days, what is happening is businesses and hotels are installing charge ports. The concept is you don't draw the batteries down so far that they need a full recharge. When you are in town, you have a charging port at home. You might even have a solar powered charger. Then you do your daily travels, maybe charge it some at work, come home and finish a charge overnight. Only inconvenient if a person finds charging a smartphone too much of a problem.
As more people start using EV's, you'll see charge ports showing up at parking meters. The concepts are already proven in Alaska where parking meters have outlets to run battery and block heaters in the winter. It won't happen overnight, but as demand increases, it will be met.
That we could make rechargeable Alkaline batteries is pretty obvious when we already have them.
But if these are supposed to compete with Li-Po batteries in energy density they will run into the same issues that the Li-Po batteries have.
So at best, its a wash regarding batteries for our toys. Where this technology just might be really useful is in the energy storage and leveling schemes for solar and wind power. There a rechargeable battery of less energy density might just be the ticket, because extreme small size will not be an issue. Add a few more batteries to the farm. And if they are cheaper, great.
That way we can free up the demand on the not so common minerals that go into the really high energy density batteries we use now.
It really is kind of unfair to penalised investors who have zero involvement in the bonus pumping scam
Nope. The investors supply the economic power. They are responsible, so it's absolutely fair. Don't like it? The simple remedy is to make an effort to invest your money ethically. Just handing it to big corporations doesn't fit the bill there.
Exactly. We are reminded on a daily basis that corporations are amoral, and geared toward making profit, and nothing else. That sounds a lot like a recipe for selling heroin and cocaine, and murdering your competition. Servicing the stockholders, you know. And dare I mention that we live in an age where the stockholders can even be serviced nicely when the fine doesn't approach the profit? Cost of doing business, perhaps.
But let's back away from that slippery but illustrative slope for a moment.
If the janitor gets caught stealing 5 grand worth of toilet paper, of course, the janitor should be fired, perhaps even prosecuted. That's pretty simple.
But when you have a systemic and obvious fraud that blatantly and purposely breaks multiple laws, and one that demands a lot of coordination to pull off, we're in a whole new regime.
So perhaps honesty, morals, and ethics on the part of the people at the top is a good idea. Since they have the power, and can enforce it, and are being paid a very comfortable salary, some responsibility is in order.
Nothing cures a problem like making it the problem of the person(s) who have the power to fix the problem.
I'm out of the game now, but my wife is still an active math professor, so I get to see first-hand what's going on. Higher education is eating itself, and they wonder why they're being challenged by online diploma mills.
Their salad days are going to come to an end. They have priced themselves out of the market.
I don't want an EV.
In Germany . . . owning an EV will turn out to be a major pain in the ass . . . where do you charge it . . . ?
Lots of folks here live in rented apartments, where charging facilities just don't plain exist . . .
Truly an insurmountable problem with no solutions possible.
I don't want an EV.
Well for god's sake, don't buy one!
A better punishment would be to punish the company as a whole:
Nah - if a few CEO's get to spend some time in jail, and if others know this can happen to them, it won't take long at all for companies to have wonderful ethics.
Otherwise, he just gets to shrug his shoulders and lament about that custodian that "caused" the whole problem.
I'd love to see one of these turds get a life sentence. Problem cured in a minute.
It is all about having a business plan that actually works.
I hate to tell you, but your business plan that actually works is falling apart. I'm not certain if you've noticed or not, but outside of a very few disciplines, young people are graduating with a mountain of debt, and with precious little prospects. For many schools, the football attendance is down, and then there is the actuarial tables. A lot of wealthy alumni give a lot of money to the schools. But they are dying off.
Now we are looking at those young folks I told you about before. That guy with the philosophy major, or the woman with a gender studies degree. And a hundred K of debt. Working min wage at McD's.
There is a math problem there. Having spent three decades in the system, you can see it coming
Because this smart business you talk about has missed out on one thing. Teaching people.
Of course some wag will come on and note that University isn't there to enable people to have careers. Well then, looks like that kinda kills the business model. When the business is centered around pecuniary extraction while offering nothing but giving people cool buildings and football, it isn't sustainable.
Administrators are getting bigger and bigger raises and bonuses, while full professors get replaced by adjuncts who make less than the minimum wage. So those lectures with 150 students are given by someone with little experience and who doesn't even get basic benefits like health care or a sick day, while administrators are being given seven figure salaries.
A smaller and smaller percentage of the money in higher education is actually being spent on educating students, but the football coach is the highest-paid public employee in the state.
As cynical as that sounds, it is absolutely correct. Having spent over 30 years in the arena, the takeover of universities by management is nothing short of shocking.
There are now more people shuffling papers around and pulling down 6 figure salaries keeping track of 5 thousand dollars worth of pencils than there are academics.
And if you want to know why college is so much more expensive now, they'll tell you they would have to hire 50 new accountants, 30 middle managers, 2 staff assistants, and have a building built to house them.
Then a year later, they'll release a report saying that the University needs to hire more accountants and managers.
Should it come as a shock that something that would cause girls to mature early would also impact males?
I'm asking, I don't know.
Yes is the short answerThe precocious puberty issue isn't conclusive, some of this could be related to the weight and age of the girl, and since people in general are getting heavier, this could have an effect on menarche. But something appears amiss. I looked at my high school yearbook from the 1970's, and especially the 18 year old young ladies looked like 13 year old girls today. Hypersexualization and too much makeup is one thing, but good grief, somthing is amiss. That's just an observation. Now for some scary stuff. The most common birth defect in males born today is Cryptorchidism and hypospadias. Essentially that the penis doesn't form correctly. The Urethra exits where it shouldn't. Specifically there is a gene problem, but the cause is very likely chemical.
http://www.loe.org/shows/segme... is a script from a radio show with some interesting information.
We are getting dosed with stuff, and no doubt.
Untrue. Cats eat plants in nature. There are even plants named for them, ie. cat grass and catnip.
Cats are frank carnivores. They eat grass as an emetic, and catnip for the obvious reasons. We had a cat that liked popcorn, and one that for some reason liked malt, but that's just an animal eating something they usually don't. Beyond some small amount of starch in gravy, they should be eating all meat.
TFS mostly compares CO2 output caused by diet.
...for the very obvious reason that cats and dogs don't drive cars.
Hold thine tongue citizen! Hast thou not heard of Toonces, the driving cat?
This is wny the hatred for men on the part of academic women, the very people who should be having more children, is taking us straight to idiocracy.
Nature does not select for intelligence unless it gives increased survival for the species.
The intelligent, educated, but misandrist women in academia and the rest of society have removed themselves from the gene pool.
Now is this going to lead to idiocracy? Probably not. I'm pretty certain that if humanity survives we'll just go back to the dark ages. No electricity, no mechanical transportation. But religion will probably find ascendancy.
As Einstein is attributed saying, "I know not what weapons World War three will be fought with, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones"
I have no idea how you missed so much US history
I have no idea how you missed severely obvious sarcasm.
No, this denier is uninterested in AlGore. Much more interesting to Michael E Mann twist in the wind refusing to show his data to a Canadian court. Way more fun to the claimers explain just how hard it is to measure the actual temperature anywhere, reliably, over a period of time.
These arguments are neither new nor exceptional. Some believe, some do not.
Ready to talk actual science? Tell me the law tha Mann broke. But I don't care, because you are now venturing into tjh area where you belive that AWG can be put to a vote. Perhaps we need to change the speed of light via a vote as well.
Enough of that. Let's talk some physics, if you are capable.
I'll start with a simple question. Do you believe that there are certain gases that cause energy retention based upon their prevalence in an atmosphere?
If you do, do you believe that the retained energy just goes away, and has no effect?
If no, explain the 100 percent reproduceable effect, one in use every day around the World, and likelwise proven in thousands of science fair projects with a plausible differential analysis of why it only seems to be happening, but really isn't.
We'll start there, as I have no doubt at alll that you don't understand the basics and will need to fall back upon silly attacks like Your irrelevant Canadian court nonsense. AGW is not a thing that is proven or disproven via court cases. It does'nt matter if Michael man is caught killing someone.
It's a well known law of physics, and arguing against it is right up there with the earth being created in 4004 BCE, or vaccines cause autism, or crystal resonances running the universe.
Stop making excuses and just get in with it. Eurostar has totally out performed the airlines and you could expect something between many US cities.
Come on now - what I wrote doesn't even rise to the level of a Poe. Its pretty obvious that the US was a world leader at one time in installing ad using train transportation. The idea that we need to catch up with the rest of the world because we don't have any experience in train transportation is silly.
The reason that the US is behind the curve with high speed trains is because we have lost the will to do such things, and are well along the way to ceding technological superiority to the rest of the world.
That isn't sarcasm.
My god man - "Consensus"?! "Experts"!?
That's NOT SCIENCE nor is it even rationality or based on reason.
Are you some fakenewsbot? I automatically believe the opposite of anything anyone tells me.
This is sometimes awkward, because like the Red queen in Alice, I have to believe several wrong things before breakfast. But I don't believe them or anything either, most importantly myself.
I am modern man.