The joke is that when most people say "diploma mill" what they mean is "Any school less prestigious, however slightly, than the one I attended." But the term means something specific: fake schools that offer no instruction and just sell unrecognized credentials for cash. Many for profit schools may be expensive and unremarkable, but that doesn't mean they're diploma mills.
They have been testing a lightweight system to protect astronauts and spacecraft components from harmful radiation and working with colleagues in America to design a concept spaceship called Discovery that could take astronauts to the Moon or Mars.
Shouldn't a ship called Discovery take them to Europa? (Or Iapetus?)
Look, let me put it in terms you can understand: If your company is losing market share to a bunch of people who do this for shits and giggles in their spare time, maybe you should be polishing up your resume instead of bemoaning the situation. I mean, that's the free market at work, right?
Yes, actually. Unfortunately, though, not everyone who runs a business believes in competing in a free market. Many of them, especially executives at large corporations, believe in exploiting government to given themselves an artificial advantage over their competition. Copyright is related to this, because it's a state-granted entitlement, so it wouldn't even exist in a free market.
The assumption seems to be that the U.S. federal government is the moral equivalent to the Assad regime. I may have a lot of concerns about the former, but I don't believe it's as bad as the latter.
Well, you get points for snarkiness, but you should have a few beers with me before you decide it's either paranoia or a delusion of grandeur. I don't think I'm important, if that's what you mean, but I used to do moneypunk stuff (like Bitcoin, except with gold and it was twelve years ago) and a number of people I worked with in that time have been imprisoned. Besides, I expect their watchlist is long, that the threshold for being on it is low, and that being on it doesn't lead to immediate obvious consequences.
Not exactly. The Russians are arming a mass murdering dicatator, the Americans are arming the allies of al-Qaeda. The responsible thing would be to do neither.
You know your civil liberties are in trouble when you're desperate enough to pretend that involving the UN wouldn't be an even bigger anti-freedom clusterfuck.
Read below, I already responded to why I don't think it matters what would work best in a clean room implementation of economics, and it's not from being thick or simplistic (although nice ad hominem there).
Okay, that was kind of flippant of me. And in theory I can see how you're right. In practice, though, I doubt once the situation is so dire that even those in Congress are willing to implement far reaching spending cuts, I don't think they'll still have the luxury of deciding how they'll go about it -- I think they'll just keep up the pretence that they can spin gold out of straw until it all crashes.
That would be my experience from watching friends of mine. They would be going on in English for forever and then throw out the occasional Chinese word.
Your friends aren't named Mal, Inara, and Jayne, are they?
Or, maybe Charles realises how lucky he is to be a 64-year-old whose parents are both alive and well and hopes the day never comes when he takes on that "job". The Windsors may not impress me, but don't strike me as being like the Borgias.
Slashdot Mirror
Hades isn't the same place as Hell.
Hey, hold on there, this is a pretty exclusive place.
Speaking of 80's rock, even worse would be a moon named 'Europe'. Oh wait...!
You definitely want to attempt no landing there!
These terrible jokes! I've gotten weary and I've had enough!
So, you're saying that both Safari and Slashdot need these special new contact lenses?
The joke is that when most people say "diploma mill" what they mean is "Any school less prestigious, however slightly, than the one I attended." But the term means something specific: fake schools that offer no instruction and just sell unrecognized credentials for cash. Many for profit schools may be expensive and unremarkable, but that doesn't mean they're diploma mills.
Maybe not -- at this rate it will probably take us until 2061 to get out of LEO again anyway.
They have been testing a lightweight system to protect astronauts and spacecraft components from harmful radiation and working with colleagues in America to design a concept spaceship called Discovery that could take astronauts to the Moon or Mars.
Shouldn't a ship called Discovery take them to Europa? (Or Iapetus?)
Look, let me put it in terms you can understand: If your company is losing market share to a bunch of people who do this for shits and giggles in their spare time, maybe you should be polishing up your resume instead of bemoaning the situation. I mean, that's the free market at work, right?
Yes, actually. Unfortunately, though, not everyone who runs a business believes in competing in a free market. Many of them, especially executives at large corporations, believe in exploiting government to given themselves an artificial advantage over their competition. Copyright is related to this, because it's a state-granted entitlement, so it wouldn't even exist in a free market.
When did the foundation become a money transmitter? Oh yeah, it didn't.
Neither was e-gold, but this is exactly what the feds used to bring them down.
The assumption seems to be that the U.S. federal government is the moral equivalent to the Assad regime. I may have a lot of concerns about the former, but I don't believe it's as bad as the latter.
Well, you get points for snarkiness, but you should have a few beers with me before you decide it's either paranoia or a delusion of grandeur. I don't think I'm important, if that's what you mean, but I used to do moneypunk stuff (like Bitcoin, except with gold and it was twelve years ago) and a number of people I worked with in that time have been imprisoned. Besides, I expect their watchlist is long, that the threshold for being on it is low, and that being on it doesn't lead to immediate obvious consequences.
Not exactly. The Russians are arming a mass murdering dicatator, the Americans are arming the allies of al-Qaeda. The responsible thing would be to do neither.
Sad about it, I agree with you. But only that.
As a male I feel ashamed that such a male exists among us.
That's muddle-headed thinking. Be proud or ashamed of your own actions, not those of strangers.
Since mods use Troll as a substitute for "I think you're wrong" about opinions, perhaps they're just also using it that way now for facts.
You know your civil liberties are in trouble when you're desperate enough to pretend that involving the UN wouldn't be an even bigger anti-freedom clusterfuck.
Read below, I already responded to why I don't think it matters what would work best in a clean room implementation of economics, and it's not from being thick or simplistic (although nice ad hominem there).
Okay, that was kind of flippant of me. And in theory I can see how you're right. In practice, though, I doubt once the situation is so dire that even those in Congress are willing to implement far reaching spending cuts, I don't think they'll still have the luxury of deciding how they'll go about it -- I think they'll just keep up the pretence that they can spin gold out of straw until it all crashes.
So you'd rather pull the band-aid off a little at a time than just rip it off and get it over with?
CAG members get a period of exclusivity in their markets.
How can they if it's really all open source?
That would be my experience from watching friends of mine. They would be going on in English for forever and then throw out the occasional Chinese word.
Your friends aren't named Mal, Inara, and Jayne, are they?
Especially MacBeth?
Thank you for this. Given all the haterade flowing around here, I was starting to think I was the only person who thought this was a great movie.
Or, maybe Charles realises how lucky he is to be a 64-year-old whose parents are both alive and well and hopes the day never comes when he takes on that "job". The Windsors may not impress me, but don't strike me as being like the Borgias.