"administration" was figured into the cost per credit hour fee structure just as it is today
Today instead of 4-10 people to process a University payroll, today everyone enters time cards on a website leaving 1 PR clerk.. Also when I was in college class scheduling was mostly manual. Instructors sat at tables in a massive stadium - you went from table to table for the classes you wanted - trying to get past hundreds/thousands of others doing the same - and hoped like hell the roster wasn't filled or try to arase kiss your way into the class. That's all gone now with automated scheduling - aka less cost.
Education budgeting doesn't work the way you suggested. It's a much higher level. All they (conservative state representatives) look it is "the State is paying X millions to education and our State budget is upside down. Cut education by 20%!:" Then the Regents decide what to cut and where to load the difference - which ultimately is increasing the credit per hour frees.
The "raw cost" to educate has decreased due to efficiency and technology. What has flipped is the subsidized percentage. When I earned a BS in the 80's, tuition, room board & fees was (c)$3k per semester. Costs were subsidized by the State by over 80% leaving the 20% residual to students as tuition. . Tight State budgets, screaming conservatives and greed have flipped State sponsorship to 20% leaving 80% on the backs of students. Throw in predatory lenders and for profit schools and the result is a disaster. Like the guy above saying "i don't have kids, I shouldn't pay for schools!" - but you do pay when uneducated, unemployable criminals break into your home and steal your stuff. Either we as a society value education and the benefits it delivers or we do not. and if we collectively decide there is value in education, we must fund it.
Clutches, transmission, breaks, bearings do not "wear out" just sitting. Engine seals can dry rot if a vehicle is ignored too long. Diesels actually wear at 25 miles per hour of idling. There's a reason the FED's allow mileage deductions - driving costs money. I used to be a pharmacy rep and drove 1500 miles a week. It really takes it toll on a car - even a new one.
sitting in traffic doesn't spin the odometer... so there's no mileage or costs (outside of your time, if you value that sort of thing)... Again, reading through the Uber forms, drivers tend to agree if you're doing 55+ hours a week, you're diving 300 miles a day.
1B user accounts hacked in 2013 & 500M in 2014? Sounds like Verizon could probability purchase Yahoo from Russian hackers for a few hundred bitcoin rather than $4B in USD.
P. T. Barnum famously quoted "There's a sucker born every minute". If these idiots want to slave for sub-minim wages, spending days away from their family, sleeping in cars, subjected to high risk of street crime, let them. True freedom includes the freedom to fail.
I think on a bigger scale, the real travesty is that there seems to be a general decline of critical thought process in modern America.
Seattle for example, just voted to have "safe" places where heroin users could use their drugs while being "safely" monitored. http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
BBD- Beyond Brain Damage!
a mere $3B? no big deal, chump change
The liberal voters in Seattle pushed through a $54B transportation bill for only 64 MILES of track....Ya, with "B".. http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
Every property owner in 2 counties will get the benefit of higher taxes ($400+ per year) on top of our already 10+% sales tax.
Sure, traffic is awful, but I can't fathom over $843M per mile of light rail. What a testament to government bloat, payola and incompetence...
California tax payers should consider themselves lucky with such a paltry number.
Selling guns to criminals is a felony.
So is selling guns to individuals with mental heath problems (been in the whowho house) and a myriad of other reasons
Guns are not specifically designed for illegal activity, as this software was.
So a seller, who is also the manufacturer of any product is devoid of any responsibility, given the product is from conception specifically for nefarious and illegal activity just because the product happens to be "software"?
fail.
This entire scam stems from Americans obsession with pretty, youthful, success. The US was so busy idolizing Holmes, nobody stopped and asked if it was real. Somewhere along the line we gave up critical thinking skills.
UK lawyer? So what!
In the US, any contract with a minor is NULL AND VOID. Therefore, minors can not legally accept the "accept clauses" on use license, which is a contract. It is neither enforceable or binding. I submit it is ILLEGAL for corporations like FaceBook to profiteer off minors when said minors can not legally consent to post sell ANY of their data.
The entire company is nothing more than the hubris of a self-absorbed mega-ego maniac. Patient health be damned, she got to be another poster child for women success stories; riding the talk show circuit like a goddess all the while pimping dangerous snake oil that every other researcher and doctor she talked with said the device wasn’t practical.
It astonishes me that after everything that has come to light, the board doesn’t toss her out first.
The republicans are gearing up to appeal the Affordable Care act, appoint a couple of conservative SCOTUS's, undo all Obama's environmental, labor, and trade relation edicts... effectively erasing the entire Obama Presidency - and with mere days left of his presidency, spitting out a NEO CYA plan is of primary importance... there's an effective use of tax money...
I purchased a Surface 4 a couple months ago with the fastest processor available. I get maybe 1-1/2 hours of use off the battery. Crappy battery life if my only complaint. Other than that, it's fantastic... I would gladly sacrifice some thickness for additional battery life. $2200 for a mobile device that’s not mobile 2 hours is just pointless.
Not if the GOP gets their way - slash costs on fossil fuel production by rolling back EPA requirements or gutting them all together. Dismember unions to lower wages, eliminate watch dog groups to turn on the payola spiggot, cut research and federal $$ support for any renewable program...
We're going to be like Beijing by the time the next election rolls around.
Seems more like a "Which was First" type scenario. Would have Instagram have increased its user base if not for Facebook? I doubt it. It’s really less about “genius” and more about what FB can do with 1.2B users.
We still have a couple of hundred acres back in the midwest that's cash leased - so I hear ya. From what I understand, crime gets worse the farther South of Seattle you go. My daughter lives down in Auburn, she calls Tacoma "Tacompton". Tacoma was rated the highest crime rate in Washington State this past week. JBLM doesn't help.
Seattle has been in the top 5 relocation destinations for almost a decade. On the positive side - there are lots of jobs, the social scene has anything anyone wants. I live a couple of blocks from the Puget Sound (fishing, crabbing, whale watching), I'm a hour from the mountains. You can't beat the hiking, camping and outdoor activities. The culture is very pro work/life values. AND - DONT FORGET THE HAWKS! (if you're into sports, it's like a religion out here) - I moved here from the midwest 4 years ago (Yes, I have a tech management gig). The liberalism takes a bit to get used to, but I doubled my salary and don't have the 70 hours per week Midwestern slave mentality over my head. All in all, I would move again in a second.
I live 30 miles North of Seattle. Housing prices are doing the same thing here. People are paying $400K for run down shacks. Tiny 2 bedroom apartments have gone from $800 - $1600/mo in 3 years. 2000sqft new construction in Edmonds are going for $1.4M. The biggest problem is infrastructure. The commute 30 miles to Seattle has gone from 40 minutes per way 3 years ago to 1-2 hours per way today - and getting worse by the month. Seattle has punted on public transportation so long they had to shove $54B transportation spending bill down land owners throats that will take 25 years to build and won't fix the problems now or in 3-5 years. The streets are undriveable. Homeless are everywhere and growing. Crime is on the rise. If you're not pulling in $100K+, you can't afford to live in Seattle. .
Flippers are everywhere. But I don't see all the negatives turning the trend.
If you look at California, housing prices are still insane and higher than they are in Seattle. By CA comparison, there's a long way to go - on the up side - for pricing.
Reminds me of Good Morning Vietnam when they talk about Finding Charlie "Well, we walk up to someone and say, 'Are you the enemy? And, if they say yes, then we shoot them."
Unfortunately this is reality and someone in the US Govt. actually had this as an idea and it was approved, not just a joke.
In other stories on this/. - the Chinesehakced into the FDIC for years and the Russian hacking may have disrupted the US election... Yet, the most important thing for law enforcement is to ensure a couple of kids don't illegally download music thereby potentially shorting the entertainment cartel out of a couple of dollars. Clear proof the virtually unlimited strength and might of Federal Law enforcement is at the beckon call of a few rich. This ensures the systems put in place by the oligarchy and their bought and paid for political puppets continue wealth extraction from working people. Welcome to 'Merica 2.0.
As fewer and fewer real jobs exist and governments lose the ability to provide "basic income" be actual basic income or existing social security due to the erosion of tax base, what's left? Who's left with jobs to purchase the goods and services of the few rich who own the automated factories that produce the automation?
We're already seeing AI attorneys diagnosis systems with better results than real people.. it's only a matter of time before these human jobs just become the "licensed" human "support" person for an office full of AI.
As far as civil unrest - we're heading there anyway. Read about "Behavior Sink" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as a result of over crowding.
We already know this phenomenon happens in human populations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) see Cabrini Green. Any comparison with what Cities like Seattle are trying to do with homeless? We're refusing to learn from mistakes of the past.
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"administration" was figured into the cost per credit hour fee structure just as it is today /thousands of others doing the same - and hoped like hell the roster wasn't filled or try to arase kiss your way into the class. That's all gone now with automated scheduling - aka less cost.
Today instead of 4-10 people to process a University payroll, today everyone enters time cards on a website leaving 1 PR clerk.. Also when I was in college class scheduling was mostly manual. Instructors sat at tables in a massive stadium - you went from table to table for the classes you wanted - trying to get past hundreds
Education budgeting doesn't work the way you suggested. It's a much higher level. All they (conservative state representatives) look it is "the State is paying X millions to education and our State budget is upside down. Cut education by 20%!:" Then the Regents decide what to cut and where to load the difference - which ultimately is increasing the credit per hour frees.
The "raw cost" to educate has decreased due to efficiency and technology. What has flipped is the subsidized percentage. When I earned a BS in the 80's, tuition, room board & fees was (c)$3k per semester. Costs were subsidized by the State by over 80% leaving the 20% residual to students as tuition. . Tight State budgets, screaming conservatives and greed have flipped State sponsorship to 20% leaving 80% on the backs of students. Throw in predatory lenders and for profit schools and the result is a disaster. Like the guy above saying "i don't have kids, I shouldn't pay for schools!" - but you do pay when uneducated, unemployable criminals break into your home and steal your stuff. Either we as a society value education and the benefits it delivers or we do not. and if we collectively decide there is value in education, we must fund it.
Clutches, transmission, breaks, bearings do not "wear out" just sitting. Engine seals can dry rot if a vehicle is ignored too long. Diesels actually wear at 25 miles per hour of idling. There's a reason the FED's allow mileage deductions - driving costs money. I used to be a pharmacy rep and drove 1500 miles a week. It really takes it toll on a car - even a new one.
sitting in traffic doesn't spin the odometer... so there's no mileage or costs (outside of your time, if you value that sort of thing)... Again, reading through the Uber forms, drivers tend to agree if you're doing 55+ hours a week, you're diving 300 miles a day.
1B user accounts hacked in 2013 & 500M in 2014? Sounds like Verizon could probability purchase Yahoo from Russian hackers for a few hundred bitcoin rather than $4B in USD.
P. T. Barnum famously quoted "There's a sucker born every minute". If these idiots want to slave for sub-minim wages, spending days away from their family, sleeping in cars, subjected to high risk of street crime, let them. True freedom includes the freedom to fail.
I think on a bigger scale, the real travesty is that there seems to be a general decline of critical thought process in modern America.
Seattle for example, just voted to have "safe" places where heroin users could use their drugs while being "safely" monitored.
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
BBD- Beyond Brain Damage!
This just so exemplifies the scam aka – Gig Economy.
Looking at his numbers
Let say he makes $300/day, that’s $230 after gas and a couple of 711 munchies.
Well, since he’s self employed, he pays full SS & Medicare tas of 13.85% - which goes against GROSS receipts of $300 = $41.55
Secondly, reading through most Uber forms, people who work 55+ hours per week drive © 300 miles a day. A DAY!. The Federal allowance for vehicle maintenance is $.54 / mile. At 300 miles = $162.
The reality is he will have to change his tires, breaks, engine oil, much more often, and that costs Probably not far from the fed estimates.
So, take is net after gas, subtract $41.55 in SS/MC taxes, subtract $162 in maintenance leaves $96.45, which he as to pay Federal Income Tax of 10%.. or $9.65..
This leaves him with a NET of $86.81, for a 10 hour shift – or $8.91 with zero benefits.
You’re WAY better off flipping burgers.
a mere $3B? no big deal, chump change
The liberal voters in Seattle pushed through a $54B transportation bill for only 64 MILES of track....Ya, with "B"..
http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
Every property owner in 2 counties will get the benefit of higher taxes ($400+ per year) on top of our already 10+% sales tax.
Sure, traffic is awful, but I can't fathom over $843M per mile of light rail. What a testament to government bloat, payola and incompetence...
California tax payers should consider themselves lucky with such a paltry number.
Selling guns to criminals is a felony.
So is selling guns to individuals with mental heath problems (been in the whowho house) and a myriad of other reasons
Guns are not specifically designed for illegal activity, as this software was.
So a seller, who is also the manufacturer of any product is devoid of any responsibility, given the product is from conception specifically for nefarious and illegal activity just because the product happens to be "software"?
fail.
This entire scam stems from Americans obsession with pretty, youthful, success. The US was so busy idolizing Holmes, nobody stopped and asked if it was real. Somewhere along the line we gave up critical thinking skills.
UK lawyer? So what!
In the US, any contract with a minor is NULL AND VOID. Therefore, minors can not legally accept the "accept clauses" on use license, which is a contract. It is neither enforceable or binding. I submit it is ILLEGAL for corporations like FaceBook to profiteer off minors when said minors can not legally consent to post sell ANY of their data.
The entire company is nothing more than the hubris of a self-absorbed mega-ego maniac. Patient health be damned, she got to be another poster child for women success stories; riding the talk show circuit like a goddess all the while pimping dangerous snake oil that every other researcher and doctor she talked with said the device wasn’t practical.
It astonishes me that after everything that has come to light, the board doesn’t toss her out first.
I think the GOP would love to be branded the SMOD of OBAMA
The republicans are gearing up to appeal the Affordable Care act, appoint a couple of conservative SCOTUS's, undo all Obama's environmental, labor, and trade relation edicts... effectively erasing the entire Obama Presidency - and with mere days left of his presidency, spitting out a NEO CYA plan is of primary importance... there's an effective use of tax money...
I purchased a Surface 4 a couple months ago with the fastest processor available. I get maybe 1-1/2 hours of use off the battery. Crappy battery life if my only complaint. Other than that, it's fantastic... I would gladly sacrifice some thickness for additional battery life. $2200 for a mobile device that’s not mobile 2 hours is just pointless.
Not if the GOP gets their way - slash costs on fossil fuel production by rolling back EPA requirements or gutting them all together. Dismember unions to lower wages, eliminate watch dog groups to turn on the payola spiggot, cut research and federal $$ support for any renewable program...
We're going to be like Beijing by the time the next election rolls around.
Seems more like a "Which was First" type scenario. Would have Instagram have increased its user base if not for Facebook? I doubt it. It’s really less about “genius” and more about what FB can do with 1.2B users.
We still have a couple of hundred acres back in the midwest that's cash leased - so I hear ya. From what I understand, crime gets worse the farther South of Seattle you go. My daughter lives down in Auburn, she calls Tacoma "Tacompton". Tacoma was rated the highest crime rate in Washington State this past week. JBLM doesn't help.
Seattle has been in the top 5 relocation destinations for almost a decade. On the positive side - there are lots of jobs, the social scene has anything anyone wants. I live a couple of blocks from the Puget Sound (fishing, crabbing, whale watching), I'm a hour from the mountains. You can't beat the hiking, camping and outdoor activities. The culture is very pro work/life values. AND - DONT FORGET THE HAWKS! (if you're into sports, it's like a religion out here) - I moved here from the midwest 4 years ago (Yes, I have a tech management gig). The liberalism takes a bit to get used to, but I doubled my salary and don't have the 70 hours per week Midwestern slave mentality over my head. All in all, I would move again in a second.
I live 30 miles North of Seattle. Housing prices are doing the same thing here. People are paying $400K for run down shacks. Tiny 2 bedroom apartments have gone from $800 - $1600/mo in 3 years. 2000sqft new construction in Edmonds are going for $1.4M. The biggest problem is infrastructure. The commute 30 miles to Seattle has gone from 40 minutes per way 3 years ago to 1-2 hours per way today - and getting worse by the month. Seattle has punted on public transportation so long they had to shove $54B transportation spending bill down land owners throats that will take 25 years to build and won't fix the problems now or in 3-5 years. The streets are undriveable. Homeless are everywhere and growing. Crime is on the rise. If you're not pulling in $100K+, you can't afford to live in Seattle. .
Flippers are everywhere. But I don't see all the negatives turning the trend.
If you look at California, housing prices are still insane and higher than they are in Seattle. By CA comparison, there's a long way to go - on the up side - for pricing.
They don't always fail.... Scientology is still going strong.
Reminds me of Good Morning Vietnam when they talk about Finding Charlie "Well, we walk up to someone and say, 'Are you the enemy? And, if they say yes, then we shoot them."
Unfortunately this is reality and someone in the US Govt. actually had this as an idea and it was approved, not just a joke.
In other stories on this /. - the Chinesehakced into the FDIC for years and the Russian hacking may have disrupted the US election ... Yet, the most important thing for law enforcement is to ensure a couple of kids don't illegally download music thereby potentially shorting the entertainment cartel out of a couple of dollars. Clear proof the virtually unlimited strength and might of Federal Law enforcement is at the beckon call of a few rich. This ensures the systems put in place by the oligarchy and their bought and paid for political puppets continue wealth extraction from working people. Welcome to 'Merica 2.0.
As fewer and fewer real jobs exist and governments lose the ability to provide "basic income" be actual basic income or existing social security due to the erosion of tax base, what's left? Who's left with jobs to purchase the goods and services of the few rich who own the automated factories that produce the automation?
We're already seeing AI attorneys diagnosis systems with better results than real people.. it's only a matter of time before these human jobs just become the "licensed" human "support" person for an office full of AI.
As far as civil unrest - we're heading there anyway. Read about "Behavior Sink" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... as a result of over crowding.
We already know this phenomenon happens in human populations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) see Cabrini Green. Any comparison with what Cities like Seattle are trying to do with homeless? We're refusing to learn from mistakes of the past.