Socializing something always means you buy the bad with the good. This means of course that I'll finance an unemployable Social Studies Maj... wait, I don't, that bullshit doesn't exist over here.
Odd. It seems our system produces more productive students.
University budgets are generally fixed due to being part of the state budget. They don't give a shit if you have to teach one or one million students. So the primary idea of any prof is to get rid of the slack. Students he can use for his research are an asset, those that just fill the rooms and he has to grade for no return are not.
Our profs aren't unreasonable and there are few that actually consider students a nuisance (yes, those exist too), but when you can manage 50 per semester and you have 500, 90% have to go.
How to duplicate this? Fixed budgets and being able to use higher grad students as assistants. That's basically what happens here. The fixed budgets encourage getting rid of as many students as you can, while needing them as assistants to keep the work manageable requires profs to keep the ones that know their shit.
WiFi included, as is a breakfast. Our trains are pretty much trying to compete with airlines by outdoing them on the service edge. The advantage trains have over planes is that space and weight isn't as big a concern, so they are going for the selling point of having more comfort for the same price.
And in Australia this would actually be a bit large for the idea. It works in Europe because the distances you usually have to cross are manageable with overnight train, but anything beyond 1000km gets unwieldy. Sydney-Brisbane would be doable, anything beyond is probably out of reach.
The overnight train sleeping cabin is on par with the price of a sardine class seat on a plane. With the difference that the train personnel treats you like you're one of their first class passenger, which you essentially are.
Sleeper cabins cost about 60 to 80 "extra" (i.e. take the normal fare and add 80 bucks). As soon as you're traveling closer to the 8 hours mark where a sleeper makes sense, you easily reach the break even point with at least halfway decent plane carriers. Of course, coconut airlines will always be cheaper, but I refuse to travel as freight.
Oh yes, please do that. You'll call the cops every single time without anything changing AT ALL. What are the cops going to do? Tell them to be quiet. Which they will probably even be.
Then the next day the next party crowd moves in and you get the cops again. At some point, the cops will simply stop showing up.
We turned it into yet another social contract. It's free/cheap to study over here. My whole university career has cost less than 5 grand. Including books and all. Well, I'm paying for it now. A sizable portion of my tax actually goes towards our schools and universities. Not only my tax, anyone's actually.
And that's just fine if you ask me.
What this entails is a lot. First, there is no risk involved in studying. There is no problem if you can't finish for some reason. If you make it, great, you'll earn more money and pay more tax that way. If you don't, well, so be it. No potential college debt looming overhead that you could only dream of repaying if you don't make it. Which in turn means that more students are starting and our universities can (and do) eliminate brutally anyone who isn't among the best. Those degrees actually mean something.
It's also much easier for me now to pay the price of my degree. Yes, a sizable portion of my paycheck goes to education. But I can easily afford it. Now that I have a pretty good job, in part certainly due to my degree. I couldn't even think of paying anything close to that as a student, and if I thought that I would have to pay that, I very likely would not have risked it altogether.
All in all I will most likely have paid about those 500k for my degree by the time I retire. That's ok, though, in a US model I probably would not have had the chance to study at all.
But we've seen the opposite happen since this flood of subsidy money into education. We've seen entire degree programs built upon what would have once just been a course or two within a general history degree. We're talking about things like "Gender Studies", "Indigenous Peoples Studies", "Art History", and "Social Justice Philosophy".
This is more of a problem than you even consider now. Because these people will hit the job market and realize that they are essentially unemployable. At the same time, how do I phrase that friendly... people who study this as a major usually belong to a rather vocal group.
In other words, just wait 'til there is suddenly a demand to create a law that corporations have to hire a "Gender Officer". I'd expect that to happen within the next 5 years.
Still, it's WAY different than in the US. Over here in Europe, nobody is holding your hand. Find your courses, find out where you're supposed to be when or as much as anyone there cares, get run over by a bus.
If there's one thing you learn at uni over here it's organization. Either you know how to get shit done when you have a degree over here, or you know how to make others do your work. So you're perfect for tech or management positions.:)
Quite the opposite, if ANYONE can get in and your budget is not dependent on parents' willingness to continue paying you, what comes out of your uni is usually a lot better in quality. Because you have zero incentive to keep the duds in the game just 'cause their parents are pumping money into your diploma mill. On the other hand, you have all the incentive to get rid of as man of the (many, many) idiots as possible so you can spend your resources on the students that are actually worth it.
Take a look at those "socialist" countries in Europe that do exactly that (i.e. stuffing money into the poor to keep them quiet) and tell me they're worse off than the US.
That does not solve any problems, though. Buying real estate is not consumption. And try, just TRY, to get a loan for anything that could be considered consumption. You won't get one.
We don't need money in the economy, we need money in the people. The poorer and worse educated, the better. Poor, dumb people spend money on shiny things and crap. That's exactly what our economy needs. People spending money on junk that doesn't survive the night and needs to be replaced the next morning.
Generally I think it's a good idea and a move in the right direction, but I would also like to see more responsibility for AirBnB hosts for their guests. Living next to an apartment that's being used more or less exclusively for AirBnB can be taxing if it is handed around between people who enjoy to party, and some apartment are actually being sold as "party location".
The least I'd expect if you turn the apartment next to mine into the noise equivalent of a frat house is that I get an easy way to have fines coming down on your that make you reconsider.
From the article: Moore Police found the teen – who has a history of soliciting for sex on Craigslist, according to his parents – and Shortey in the hotel room with evidence of condoms and a strong smell of marijuana.
Based on the police affidavit and prosecutors, Shortey sought to exchange money for sex with the teen.
Typical liberal socialist commie press who wish to prosecute our youth for showing some entrepreneurial spirit!
My last flight was in 2010. I replaced air travel by overnight train travel. It's awesome! Benefits all around.
- I have to sleep anyway. - I have to get up at 7, not at 4. - No ass groping and penis pic perverts - A fucking HUGE room compared to the cramped... well, let's be generous and call it seat, next stage would probably be more aptly called a perch. With my own toilet and washing place to use for as long or short as I please without some asshat knocking at the door. - Better food
And it's not even more expensive. Yes, it takes 10 hours instead of 2. SO WHAT? I get to sleep those 10 hours. Instead of getting maybe 4 hours of sleep, then hurrying to the airport, wrestling with airport security who is just as awake as I am, squeezing myself into a seat, getting my stuff all wrinkled and fucked up and be sleep deprived at my destination, I have a full night sleep, with my gear being in pristine condition after I had a through morning toilet.
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Yes I do.
Socializing something always means you buy the bad with the good. This means of course that I'll finance an unemployable Social Studies Maj... wait, I don't, that bullshit doesn't exist over here.
Odd. It seems our system produces more productive students.
University budgets are generally fixed due to being part of the state budget. They don't give a shit if you have to teach one or one million students. So the primary idea of any prof is to get rid of the slack. Students he can use for his research are an asset, those that just fill the rooms and he has to grade for no return are not.
Our profs aren't unreasonable and there are few that actually consider students a nuisance (yes, those exist too), but when you can manage 50 per semester and you have 500, 90% have to go.
How to duplicate this? Fixed budgets and being able to use higher grad students as assistants. That's basically what happens here. The fixed budgets encourage getting rid of as many students as you can, while needing them as assistants to keep the work manageable requires profs to keep the ones that know their shit.
WiFi included, as is a breakfast. Our trains are pretty much trying to compete with airlines by outdoing them on the service edge. The advantage trains have over planes is that space and weight isn't as big a concern, so they are going for the selling point of having more comfort for the same price.
And in Australia this would actually be a bit large for the idea. It works in Europe because the distances you usually have to cross are manageable with overnight train, but anything beyond 1000km gets unwieldy. Sydney-Brisbane would be doable, anything beyond is probably out of reach.
It's so obvious that they're just projecting.
The overnight train sleeping cabin is on par with the price of a sardine class seat on a plane. With the difference that the train personnel treats you like you're one of their first class passenger, which you essentially are.
Sleeper cabins cost about 60 to 80 "extra" (i.e. take the normal fare and add 80 bucks). As soon as you're traveling closer to the 8 hours mark where a sleeper makes sense, you easily reach the break even point with at least halfway decent plane carriers. Of course, coconut airlines will always be cheaper, but I refuse to travel as freight.
Oh yes, please do that. You'll call the cops every single time without anything changing AT ALL. What are the cops going to do? Tell them to be quiet. Which they will probably even be.
Then the next day the next party crowd moves in and you get the cops again. At some point, the cops will simply stop showing up.
Repeatedly.
Noooo, think of the poor guy that has to clean that cannon. Human garbage is really disgusting if mixed with gunpowder.
We turned it into yet another social contract. It's free/cheap to study over here. My whole university career has cost less than 5 grand. Including books and all. Well, I'm paying for it now. A sizable portion of my tax actually goes towards our schools and universities. Not only my tax, anyone's actually.
And that's just fine if you ask me.
What this entails is a lot. First, there is no risk involved in studying. There is no problem if you can't finish for some reason. If you make it, great, you'll earn more money and pay more tax that way. If you don't, well, so be it. No potential college debt looming overhead that you could only dream of repaying if you don't make it. Which in turn means that more students are starting and our universities can (and do) eliminate brutally anyone who isn't among the best. Those degrees actually mean something.
It's also much easier for me now to pay the price of my degree. Yes, a sizable portion of my paycheck goes to education. But I can easily afford it. Now that I have a pretty good job, in part certainly due to my degree. I couldn't even think of paying anything close to that as a student, and if I thought that I would have to pay that, I very likely would not have risked it altogether.
All in all I will most likely have paid about those 500k for my degree by the time I retire. That's ok, though, in a US model I probably would not have had the chance to study at all.
But we've seen the opposite happen since this flood of subsidy money into education. We've seen entire degree programs built upon what would have once just been a course or two within a general history degree. We're talking about things like "Gender Studies", "Indigenous Peoples Studies", "Art History", and "Social Justice Philosophy".
This is more of a problem than you even consider now. Because these people will hit the job market and realize that they are essentially unemployable. At the same time, how do I phrase that friendly ... people who study this as a major usually belong to a rather vocal group.
In other words, just wait 'til there is suddenly a demand to create a law that corporations have to hire a "Gender Officer". I'd expect that to happen within the next 5 years.
Still, it's WAY different than in the US. Over here in Europe, nobody is holding your hand. Find your courses, find out where you're supposed to be when or as much as anyone there cares, get run over by a bus.
If there's one thing you learn at uni over here it's organization. Either you know how to get shit done when you have a degree over here, or you know how to make others do your work. So you're perfect for tech or management positions. :)
Quite the opposite, if ANYONE can get in and your budget is not dependent on parents' willingness to continue paying you, what comes out of your uni is usually a lot better in quality. Because you have zero incentive to keep the duds in the game just 'cause their parents are pumping money into your diploma mill. On the other hand, you have all the incentive to get rid of as man of the (many, many) idiots as possible so you can spend your resources on the students that are actually worth it.
So in Germany the deciding factor whether you have a college education is your brain.
In the US your (or rather, your parents') wallet.
I can't help it, the German model still sounds more sensible and viable.
No.
Fired out.
Of a cannon.
That's basically the way to go.
For now.
Oh cool, you pay for me to have an unmetered connection available?
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Take a look at those "socialist" countries in Europe that do exactly that (i.e. stuffing money into the poor to keep them quiet) and tell me they're worse off than the US.
Well then, supply-side Jesus, enlighten us.
That does not solve any problems, though. Buying real estate is not consumption. And try, just TRY, to get a loan for anything that could be considered consumption. You won't get one.
We don't need money in the economy, we need money in the people. The poorer and worse educated, the better. Poor, dumb people spend money on shiny things and crap. That's exactly what our economy needs. People spending money on junk that doesn't survive the night and needs to be replaced the next morning.
I'm not kidding.
Generally I think it's a good idea and a move in the right direction, but I would also like to see more responsibility for AirBnB hosts for their guests. Living next to an apartment that's being used more or less exclusively for AirBnB can be taxing if it is handed around between people who enjoy to party, and some apartment are actually being sold as "party location".
The least I'd expect if you turn the apartment next to mine into the noise equivalent of a frat house is that I get an easy way to have fines coming down on your that make you reconsider.
From the article:
Moore Police found the teen – who has a history of soliciting for sex on Craigslist, according to his parents – and Shortey in the hotel room with evidence of condoms and a strong smell of marijuana.
Based on the police affidavit and prosecutors, Shortey sought to exchange money for sex with the teen.
Typical liberal socialist commie press who wish to prosecute our youth for showing some entrepreneurial spirit!
If you fail to pay severance benefits, one has to help oneself!
We over here in Europe don't give a fuck what your hicksville GOP politicians kill. Yes, I do enjoy high speed rail.
And yes, internet is available. At reasonable speed, never bothered to make a speed test, it's fast enough for pretty much anything I wanted to do.
Easiest fix would be to move it from HKCU (where it has no reason to be in the first place) to HKLM. Problem solved.
My last flight was in 2010. I replaced air travel by overnight train travel. It's awesome! Benefits all around.
- I have to sleep anyway. ... well, let's be generous and call it seat, next stage would probably be more aptly called a perch. With my own toilet and washing place to use for as long or short as I please without some asshat knocking at the door.
- I have to get up at 7, not at 4.
- No ass groping and penis pic perverts
- A fucking HUGE room compared to the cramped
- Better food
And it's not even more expensive. Yes, it takes 10 hours instead of 2. SO WHAT? I get to sleep those 10 hours. Instead of getting maybe 4 hours of sleep, then hurrying to the airport, wrestling with airport security who is just as awake as I am, squeezing myself into a seat, getting my stuff all wrinkled and fucked up and be sleep deprived at my destination, I have a full night sleep, with my gear being in pristine condition after I had a through morning toilet.
Fuck planes, trains is where my money is!
Let's hope the same is true for 10 when 11 is about to surface...