I submitted the article to slashdot, but slashdot would not publish it:
California University Launches Book Opposing Use of Electric Cars
> "The University of California at Berkeley is opposing the expanding use of electric cars saying these are neither clean nor green, as per a recent report."
I submitted the article to slashdot, but slashdot would not publish it:
California University Launches Book Opposing Use of Electric Cars
> "The University of California at Berkeley is opposing the expanding use of electric cars saying these are neither clean nor green, as per a recent report."
Where do you think the electricity comes from? Most likely: diesel generators.
California University Launches Book Opposing Use of Electric Cars
> "The University of California at Berkeley is opposing the expanding use of electric cars saying these are neither clean nor green, as per a recent report."
Tradition universities are massively inefficient, and - in many cases - are not needed especially in the internet age.
Consider what it costs to have a huge, sprawling campus, huge numbers of full time staff: instructors, librarians, grounds keeper, janitors, security, administrators, on an on. Consider the insurance, the utilities,
And practically none of it is really needed. You could learn US history, or Finance 101, just as well on-online - and without any of the expenses I mentioned above.
Still, $100 for a graduate degree seems awfully low. But maybe $2000?
Looks like six of the seven scientists were Americans. How could that be? I thought all Americans were stupid and lazy, and incapable of STEM work? Looks like the only non-American to win is from Germany.
Published: May 31, 2012
> The $1 million awards, sponsored by the physicist, businessman and philanthropist Fred Kavli, are given every two years by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for work in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, “the biggest, the smallest and the most complex,” in the words of Mr. Kavli.
> Mildred S. Dresselhaus, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Cornelia Isabella Bargmann of Rockefeller University > Winfried Denk of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany > Ann M. Graybiel of M.I.T. McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. > David C. Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles > Jane X. Luu of M.I.T.’s Lincoln Laboratory > Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology
Smart Americans would have be to stupid to pursue a STEM career. You will just end up having your job offshored, or being forced to train your H1B replacement.
STEM careers are for chumps, and smart students know it.
So on the whole the entire immigration mess is political and it's xenophobic. The reality for the people on the visa is they are second class slave labor waiting for a permanent residence.
Don't you think US employers prefer this slave labor? If so, then it's hardly "xenophobic" to realize that US workers are being replaced by such "slave labor" - your own words.
America is a country of immigrants the last time I checked
Visa workers are not "immigrants" they are temporary labor. An immigrant is somebody who leave his/her home country and permenantly settles in another country.
These visa workers are far from the "best and brightest" they are ordinary workers, taking ordinary jobs. This while the US suffers it worst long-term unemployment since the great depression.
I used to work for such a company. A used car salesmen found about this scam. So he started a computer business, and put it in his wife's name. His wife was also of Mexican heritage - she did not look it, or even speak Spanish.
He would sell computers, or computer equipment, at about 4X retail. After he made the sale, he would buy at retail, and ship the stuff.
He used FOIA to find out about how well government contractors were fulfilling their SMB quotas. And he used that as his pitch. He would threaten to expose companies that below their quotas, and did not buy from him.
As I understand this is not unusual. Lots of SDBs operate like this.
Lawsuits are huge part of Apple's business model. Apple patent trolling keeps competitors off the market. There is also the chilling effect of having a $500 billion company ready to slaughter you with lawsuits, whether you are right or wrong.
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Just to keep the kids from lugging around books.
He blasted the OLTP project, saying that poor people don't need cheap PCs.
I guess he is for whatever serves his interests at the moment.
I submitted the article to slashdot, but slashdot would not publish it:
California University Launches Book Opposing Use of Electric Cars
> "The University of California at Berkeley is opposing the expanding use of electric cars saying these are neither clean nor green, as per a recent report."
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1211736-california-university-launches-book-opposing-use-electric-cars
I submitted the article to slashdot, but slashdot would not publish it:
California University Launches Book Opposing Use of Electric Cars
> "The University of California at Berkeley is opposing the expanding use of electric cars saying these are neither clean nor green, as per a recent report."
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1211736-california-university-launches-book-opposing-use-electric-cars
Where do you think the electricity comes from? Most likely: diesel generators.
California University Launches Book Opposing Use of Electric Cars
> "The University of California at Berkeley is opposing the expanding use of electric cars saying these are neither clean nor green, as per a recent report."
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1211736-california-university-launches-book-opposing-use-electric-cars
Comparing this lawsuit to Apple's lawsuits, makes no sense at all. These are completely different types of cases, different issues.
Blows my mind that Oracle would even file the lawsuit. It was obviously BS.
Sick to death of having movies ruined because some jackass can't stop running his his mouth for ten seconds.
This, more than anything else keeps me out of theaters.
You make a very good point. I think health-care would also take some hands-on.
But what about business, history, sociology, and many other fields?
Or, maybe it would make sense to take some courses hands-on, and other courses on-line?
The idea has been around for decades, at least. When did CLEP start?
The funny thing is: upper division credits tend to be extremely expensive, often more than traditional universities.
This makes no sense at all, and is a complete rip-off. All this is about is bring the cost down to something reasonable. What is wrong with that?
I work for the federal government, and I have for years.
If you think there is no such thing as influence, then you are seriously naive.
Tradition universities are massively inefficient, and - in many cases - are not needed especially in the internet age.
Consider what it costs to have a huge, sprawling campus, huge numbers of full time staff: instructors, librarians, grounds keeper, janitors, security, administrators, on an on. Consider the insurance, the utilities,
And practically none of it is really needed. You could learn US history, or Finance 101, just as well on-online - and without any of the expenses I mentioned above.
Still, $100 for a graduate degree seems awfully low. But maybe $2000?
Looks like six of the seven scientists were Americans. How could that be? I thought all Americans were stupid and lazy, and incapable of STEM work? Looks like the only non-American to win is from Germany.
Published: May 31, 2012
> The $1 million awards, sponsored by the physicist, businessman and philanthropist Fred Kavli, are given every two years by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for work in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, “the biggest, the smallest and the most complex,” in the words of Mr. Kavli.
> Mildred S. Dresselhaus, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Cornelia Isabella Bargmann of Rockefeller University
> Winfried Denk of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany
> Ann M. Graybiel of M.I.T. McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT.
> David C. Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles
> Jane X. Luu of M.I.T.’s Lincoln Laboratory
> Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/science/seven-scientists-win-kavli-prizes.html?_r=1
Smart Americans would have be to stupid to pursue a STEM career. You will just end up having your job offshored, or being forced to train your H1B replacement.
STEM careers are for chumps, and smart students know it.
Don't you think US employers prefer this slave labor? If so, then it's hardly "xenophobic" to realize that US workers are being replaced by such "slave labor" - your own words.
Visa workers are not "immigrants" they are temporary labor. An immigrant is somebody who leave his/her home country and permenantly settles in another country.
These visa workers are far from the "best and brightest" they are ordinary workers, taking ordinary jobs. This while the US suffers it worst long-term unemployment since the great depression.
The GAO has proved that 93% of visa workers do not work at the advanced level, and 54% of visa workers are entry level.
These visa programs are designed to replace US workers with cheaper offshore workers.
It is not as if the US is suffering it's highest long-term unemployment since the great depression, or anything like that.
The truth is: 93% of visa workers are ordinary people, doing ordinary jobs. The GAO has proved this.
Visa programs are not designed to let in the "best and brightest" they are designed to replace US workers with cheaper foreign workers.
Care to cite your source on that? Or are you just bigoted, and discriminatory?
They don't. We have had an equal pay for equal work law for decades.
The reason woman have, historically, earned less than men is because woman tend to chose lower paying professions.
SDBs == small disadvantaged businesses.
I used to work for such a company. A used car salesmen found about this scam. So he started a computer business, and put it in his wife's name. His wife was also of Mexican heritage - she did not look it, or even speak Spanish.
He would sell computers, or computer equipment, at about 4X retail. After he made the sale, he would buy at retail, and ship the stuff.
He used FOIA to find out about how well government contractors were fulfilling their SMB quotas. And he used that as his pitch. He would threaten to expose companies that below their quotas, and did not buy from him.
As I understand this is not unusual. Lots of SDBs operate like this.
Hard core criminals might start stealing IDs by physically cutting chips out of people.
I have never seen any borg like activities from Google.
But that's not the idea. The idea is bully the competition out of business.
IP scams are huge part of Apple's business.
Lawsuits are huge part of Apple's business model. Apple patent trolling keeps competitors off the market. There is also the chilling effect of having a $500 billion company ready to slaughter you with lawsuits, whether you are right or wrong.
Apple zealots everywhere are cheering. Amazing how much other companies allow Apple to get away with.