the biggest problems in academia range from "we have open policies", to political problems.
Universities should have open policies. That's what universities are there for: the open exchange of information. IT's job is to make technology available, not unavailable, even if unavailable is more secure.
Trick is, you HAVE to be ready to go pro... & the tech interviews pretty much assure that (you either make it thru them, rounds of them, or you don't get employ). 3 of my profs knew it (2 did the same is why - working for a bit, going back to 'chipping away @ the stone' of the degree when time & monies permitted).
Having been to both highschool and university. I find it ironic that anyone at university would be complaining about the educational value of highschool.
Try teaching a science class to students who don't understand proportionality, can't convert from feet to meters, and don't know what a logarithm is.
The cost dynamics never made sense to me - it really wouldn't cost that comparatively much to make teaching a desirably paid position, and the research positions that go along with them. Instead, what we get are colleges charging historically absurd cost increases every year to have, well, better sports teams, I can only guess.
Most of the growth is in the number of administrators. Who don't teach at all.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The Fifth only protects against self-incrimination. There is no "paradox".
It's a start. And then, watch how long the dismantling goes and how high the costs will be end the end - and watch very closely who foots the bill...
Vermont Yankee has $543.2 million already set aside in a decomissioning fund. Current estimates of the cost to decomission are about $620 million, meaning that the current fund is about 12% short of the projected cost.
All they learned was what anybody who does a lot of camping already knows: tortillas keep well, freeze-dried vegetables are a good way to add variety to a dreary and repetitive menu of preserved meat.
This kind of shit is exactly why, as soon as I got an Android smartphone, I also installed a second wireless router, with its own encryption password, outside my firewall. Anybody who wasn't already assuming that smartphones and tablets are anything other than hostile network actors is an idiot.
From Jorgenson's unbelievably-full-of-himself rebuttal:
The idea that programming is something anyone can learn if they just sit down with a book and type examples is not just offensive to programmers—it’s a dangerously misleading idea
That's funny. Most of the best programmers I know learned (at first) exactly that way.
My first experience with programming was reading a book on BASIC. This was before the widespread availability of personal computers like the Apple II or TRS-80, so I had to work out all the exercises with pencil and paper. This led to a successful career as a programmer, despite the fact that I think I only took one programming course ever (Fortran in college).
I have a friend (still working as a professional software engineer) who first learned by reading a used book on PDP-11 assembly language.
Maybe everybody doesn't need to know how to program. But even if that is true, Jorgenson is still an asshole.
The fundamental problem is that we don't value education enough to invest in it. We are especially falling short at the beginning and the end of a child's education, i.e. early childhood, and university. The U.S. needs a massive push for universal preschool, which is highly labor-intensive and expensive, but pays tremendous social dividends. We need a similarly massive push to rejuvenate state university systems, which are rapidly becoming a semi-private system. Not everybody should go to college, but those that will benefit from it should have a high-quality and totally free public education available to them.
Don't tell me we can't afford it. This sort of investment in our national human capital will reap enormous benefits for the society and the economy.
The only reason that things like shale oil and tar sands are economically viable is because the price of oil is so high. Bring oil back down under $50 a barrel or so, and it will be too expensive to extract. Undersea mining? Good grief!
Not here in Massachusetts. He will be taken to a world-class hospital and his wounds treated. Once he is well, he will await trial in a comfortable jail, with access to his lawyer so he can prepare his defense. If he can't afford a lawyer we'll hire one for him. In such a high profile case, he may even get a top drawer lawyer working pro-bono to ensure his defense doesn't get steamrollered by public opinion. If he chooses to plead not guilty he will have the fairest trial we can possibly contrive, and the burden of proof will be on the prosecutor. If the prosecutor proves he is guilty, and he escapes the Federal death penalty (we don't have a state death penalty), he will be housed for the rest of his life in a correctional facility that is humanely operated to the maximum extent consistent with ensuring public safety.
And I'm proud that's we do things. It's civilized. Some people may kill, maim or hurt people because they're feeling angry, but we as a people don't do things like that. That's what makes us better than they are.
We got the job done, there's no reason to spike the ball. In fact there's plenty reason *not* to. We give the state power to kill people, to inflict pain, to deprive them of their freedom, but those powers ought to be limited to their proper application by strict rules. They should not be used at the whim of an individual government official or group of officials.
Had Tsarnaev continued resisting arrest and got himself shot, I'd shake the hand of the officer who shot him. But now that he's given up, I'd call for the prosecution of any official who uses excessive force on him.
Parent quoted in its entirety. Thank you very much. You are a true American.
... the most idiotic paper I have read all year. It's a silly collection of straw-man arguments, with no actual science in it at all.
What they claim is "universally accepted" (actually, they claim it is almost "universally accepted", quotes theirs), isn't. Which is why they have to use the silly quotation marks.
Inflation has always had a problem with initial conditions. Guess what? It's still there.
"A challenge for the inflationary paradigm in light of the Planck2013 data is to explain why no significant multiverse effects have been observed" Wuh? Maybe, um, because there might not be a multiverse at all?
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the biggest problems in academia range from "we have open policies", to political problems.
Universities should have open policies. That's what universities are there for: the open exchange of information. IT's job is to make technology available, not unavailable, even if unavailable is more secure.
Trick is, you HAVE to be ready to go pro... & the tech interviews pretty much assure that (you either make it thru them, rounds of them, or you don't get employ). 3 of my profs knew it (2 did the same is why - working for a bit, going back to 'chipping away @ the stone' of the degree when time & monies permitted).
Too bad nobody ever taught you to write.
And were the students any better off after your class? Or was the next teacher lamenting their lacking education even more than you were?
I would like to think that they were better off, but every hour spent teaching them remedial math was an hour spent not teaching them science.
Having been to both highschool and university. I find it ironic that anyone at university would be complaining about the educational value of highschool.
Try teaching a science class to students who don't understand proportionality, can't convert from feet to meters, and don't know what a logarithm is.
Most of the growth is in the number of administrators. Who don't teach at all.
Nuts. There was supposed to be a link there.
The cost dynamics never made sense to me - it really wouldn't cost that comparatively much to make teaching a desirably paid position, and the research positions that go along with them. Instead, what we get are colleges charging historically absurd cost increases every year to have, well, better sports teams, I can only guess.
Most of the growth is in the number of administrators. Who don't teach at all.
Here's the text of the Fifth Amendment:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
The Fifth only protects against self-incrimination. There is no "paradox".
Dude. Well said. Wish I hadn't used my mod points on trivial shit shit this morning.
Thanks for the figures - do you know who will fund the deficit? The taxpayer like in many european countries?
Read TFA. The NRC is requiring Entergy Nuclear to provide a letter of credit to cover the shortfall.
It's a start. And then, watch how long the dismantling goes and how high the costs will be end the end - and watch very closely who foots the bill...
Vermont Yankee has $543.2 million already set aside in a decomissioning fund. Current estimates of the cost to decomission are about $620 million, meaning that the current fund is about 12% short of the projected cost.
The brass plaques on the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft show the location of the Earth using a map of nearby pulsars.
we also consider the two donkeys carrying all the supplies when we start out as a part of the meal plan so we dont waste space.
You could do that with half the astronauts! Hell, there's no shortage of volunteers for a one-way trip.
All they learned was what anybody who does a lot of camping already knows: tortillas keep well, freeze-dried vegetables are a good way to add variety to a dreary and repetitive menu of preserved meat.
NASA for the fail. Again.
Oh, joy. Yet another in a never-ending series of "this phone is the HOT THING" tech porn. In two years, it will be somebody else.
This kind of shit is exactly why, as soon as I got an Android smartphone, I also installed a second wireless router, with its own encryption password, outside my firewall. Anybody who wasn't already assuming that smartphones and tablets are anything other than hostile network actors is an idiot.
The idea that programming is something anyone can learn if they just sit down with a book and type examples is not just offensive to programmers—it’s a dangerously misleading idea
That's funny. Most of the best programmers I know learned (at first) exactly that way.
My first experience with programming was reading a book on BASIC. This was before the widespread availability of personal computers like the Apple II or TRS-80, so I had to work out all the exercises with pencil and paper. This led to a successful career as a programmer, despite the fact that I think I only took one programming course ever (Fortran in college).
I have a friend (still working as a professional software engineer) who first learned by reading a used book on PDP-11 assembly language.
Maybe everybody doesn't need to know how to program. But even if that is true, Jorgenson is still an asshole.
Facebook can just give them the data if they ask.
Great. A photo of every citizen with a bong.
Mod parent up.
The fundamental problem is that we don't value education enough to invest in it. We are especially falling short at the beginning and the end of a child's education, i.e. early childhood, and university. The U.S. needs a massive push for universal preschool, which is highly labor-intensive and expensive, but pays tremendous social dividends. We need a similarly massive push to rejuvenate state university systems, which are rapidly becoming a semi-private system. Not everybody should go to college, but those that will benefit from it should have a high-quality and totally free public education available to them.
Don't tell me we can't afford it. This sort of investment in our national human capital will reap enormous benefits for the society and the economy.
The only reason that things like shale oil and tar sands are economically viable is because the price of oil is so high. Bring oil back down under $50 a barrel or so, and it will be too expensive to extract. Undersea mining? Good grief!
I don't want to fund research on gun violence either.
The problem ISN'T guns.
So you've already made up your mind, and you're opposed to research that might provide evidence that would force you to change your mind? Nice.
Let's see. We'll only fund research proposals that support the idea that America is always right, no matter what.
What could possibly go wrong?
...then we're all fucked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w26WMRstQUk
Not here in Massachusetts. He will be taken to a world-class hospital and his wounds treated. Once he is well, he will await trial in a comfortable jail, with access to his lawyer so he can prepare his defense. If he can't afford a lawyer we'll hire one for him. In such a high profile case, he may even get a top drawer lawyer working pro-bono to ensure his defense doesn't get steamrollered by public opinion. If he chooses to plead not guilty he will have the fairest trial we can possibly contrive, and the burden of proof will be on the prosecutor. If the prosecutor proves he is guilty, and he escapes the Federal death penalty (we don't have a state death penalty), he will be housed for the rest of his life in a correctional facility that is humanely operated to the maximum extent consistent with ensuring public safety.
And I'm proud that's we do things. It's civilized. Some people may kill, maim or hurt people because they're feeling angry, but we as a people don't do things like that. That's what makes us better than they are.
We got the job done, there's no reason to spike the ball. In fact there's plenty reason *not* to. We give the state power to kill people, to inflict pain, to deprive them of their freedom, but those powers ought to be limited to their proper application by strict rules. They should not be used at the whim of an individual government official or group of officials.
Had Tsarnaev continued resisting arrest and got himself shot, I'd shake the hand of the officer who shot him. But now that he's given up, I'd call for the prosecution of any official who uses excessive force on him.
Parent quoted in its entirety. Thank you very much. You are a true American.
... the most idiotic paper I have read all year. It's a silly collection of straw-man arguments, with no actual science in it at all.
What they claim is "universally accepted" (actually, they claim it is almost "universally accepted", quotes theirs), isn't. Which is why they have to use the silly quotation marks.
Plateau-like models are not the only ones consistent with Planck. See: the Planck paper on inflationary constraints
Inflation has always had a problem with initial conditions. Guess what? It's still there.
"A challenge for the inflationary paradigm in light of the Planck2013 data is to explain why no significant multiverse effects have been observed" Wuh? Maybe, um, because there might not be a multiverse at all?