Who modded you up? The federal government spends (not including loans) about $140B/year on education (http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/education-federal-budget). Thats out of $3.4T so just about 4%. Total tax income is only ~$2.5T so some of that 4% comes from debt but I'll give you the higher percentage anyway. The median tax bracket is 25% so on a salary of $50k/year, the average person has to pay about $500/year on federal education costs.
States spend about 40% on education (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2783). The average american has a 10% state tax burden (http://taxfoundation.org/article/annual-state-local-tax-burden-ranking-fy-2011) so they are paying about $2k to the state for education.
A rough estimate for total public education cost to "Most of us" is $2500. How many private schools have yearly tuition for less than that? Community colleges? Colleges? pre-schools???
Thanks for your uniformed and incorrect comment. Sometimes one of these inspires me to (internet) research the topic enough for a properly cited rebuttal and in the process I learn something. Hopefully you do too.
Nahh, you're playing the conspiracy advocate. In light of additional supporting evidence for the established story you're adding more layers of increasingly unlikely scenarios to support your predetermined conclusion. Don't worry, most humans are hard wired to do it.
Like someone above posted, using a NK IP address as a proxy is extremely unlikely since they only have about 1000 total IP addresses. Lucky for you, the conspiracy onion can support an infinite number of layers...so no, I can't prove it wasn't aliens.
I do realize they are clouds, they look kinda like the growth of a mushroom cloud which to me suggested a point of origin. The weird part is that the pillars are linear and not radial. Anyway I'll buy that explanation...mostly cause I don't know any better but sounds plausible enough for me to not want to spend 5 years working out the equations myself.
I zoomed all the way in to the very far right of the image and with an incredibly crude estimation, determined there were about 10,000 stars displayed on my monitor. At the darkest part of the image. Whats weird is how close together they look. How come everything looks so far away from us?
Looks like the pillars have a leading edge with debris trailing off. What set something that massive, with that shape, in motion? And where is it going?
Defikopter, not to be confused with Defacopter. Something you probably don't want falling out of the sky on you when having a heart attack...or any other time for that matter.
But then where would you get your red herrings from?
1) Europe alone produces 10x CO2 emissions/year than all volcanic activity on the earth combined. Europe is only the 3rd biggest emitter behind China and the US 2) Volcanos are part of a balanced system. Their relatively constant CO2 contribution over the last few million years is easily handled by the earth's natural CO2 sinks 3) The CO2 you exhale was originally captured out of the atmosphere by plants, who will again capture what you're exhaling now (see: balanced system)
Side note: All the coal we are mining now is coming from 50 Million Years worth of carbon sequestration from a time when trees had evolved but no species had yet been able to digest them (wiki: Carboniferous). If nothing changes we can probably burn through all of that in a few centuries. You really think reversing a natural process at a rate 100,000 times faster isn't cause for concern?
I'm sure everyone here knows who he is. In my opinion, hes the most eloquent, humorous, reasonable, and personable ambassador from a hard core scientific discipline of this generation. Watch cosmos if you haven't already. His ability to break it down for the layman while preserving the incredible spectacle of the universe is right there with all the Carl Sagans of the past. And....he did it on Fox of all places!
Driverless cars? A better feature proposition (it'd make the commute much easier and enjoyable), but the feature is limited to certain roads/speeds, and after seeing the price hikes for a hybrid, one can only imagine what the driverless feature set will cost you as someone out shopping for a new car.
Do you mean like the price hike for power windows, automatic transmissions, disc brakes, powered brakes, fuel injection, stereo systems, air conditioning, power steering, etc...
All of those used to be expensive options and now even economy cars come standard with all of it. Hell you can buy a hybrid today for under $20k! Thats $12k less than the average new car price!
Didn't you read the last sentence in the summary? Google is looking decades ahead, to a time when lobbyists will have increased patent lifetimes to 20 decades!
Maybe so. The OP seemed to make it out that the palladium sheet was the limiting factor, hence my comment. Granted I don't know much about nuclear physics.
Why? We use vast quantities of things that must conform to very strict parameters, such as every semi conductor. When original research was going on they were extremely time consuming and low yield. Now 2m silicon crystals are commonly grown with impurities less than PPB and virtually zero defects at the molecular level! There's no reason to think this couldn't happen with palladium foil given sufficient resources.
Well, someone did DDOS their entire country offline,
Yeah, all 1000 NK IP addresses were DDOS attacked. The California University of Pennsylvania (you read that right) network dwarfs NK's. The only "defense" they need is some guy to call everyone on a landline to tell them to shut their computer down till tomorrow.
That reason is, the NK regime is keeping its bizarrely oppressed people from flooding into China as refugees. As long as Kim Jong XX is in power that's 24 million people China doesn't have to deal with.
Side note: NK's government is as legitimate as a dictatorship can be after being installed when the west and soviets divided up the spoils of WWII. That is, not legitimate at all.
Agree with this post as well...but possibly for a different reason. 2014's downward trend in unemployment is much steeper than 2004's was. For obvious reasons of course, but a good thing(TM) none the less. Thus quoting one month's statistic is misleading because it hides even better news.
The first place they should apply evidence to write news stories and make policy decisions is the one aspect of the world that has a very high likely hood of causing enormous problems in the next 100 years or so. Every other time the government has stepped in to improve the environment it has been successful and that's why we don't have to worry about acid rain and whats in our drinking water (mostly, outside WV). In addition to crime rates, things are mostly good in the environment...except for the thing that has a high potential of causing extreme societal upheaval in a generation or two.
Oh and if all the data (ALL the data) is wrong about AGW then its like the cartoon says, "We'll have made the world a better place for nothing!".
real-world policies are designed to entrap those foilks into dependency on the Glorious Liberal State,
Right on brother, the proven ulterior motives of heathcare, unemployment benefits, etc of this administration that hates america are the worst of all time. Things have never been this bad....wait what was this story about again? Something about sensationalism in the media making things look awful when they're really the best in history?
One thing I'm sure you (should) agree with is that today's conspiracy theory's are some of the best ever.
Agree with everything you said except your unemployment statistic (assuming we're talking USA here). November 2004 it was 5.5%. November 2014 it was 5.8%
Society does not have enough turmoil, so we have to invent and spew more...
The first half of that sentence may have been sarcasm but its true! Crime, teen pregnancy, car accident deaths are all historically low. Life expectancy has never been higher, the cold war is over, etc, etc. Thats why those in power need the war on terror and the left vs right political circle jerk.
The unfortunate part is, the one true long term existential threat facing society is the only one the aforementioned powerful ones choose to ignore. Yes, AGW. Everything else "wrong" with society can be fixed at any time and isn't at the point of no return...welp, if anything that's going to get me an offtopic mod.
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Who modded you up? The federal government spends (not including loans) about $140B/year on education (http://febp.newamerica.net/background-analysis/education-federal-budget). Thats out of $3.4T so just about 4%. Total tax income is only ~$2.5T so some of that 4% comes from debt but I'll give you the higher percentage anyway. The median tax bracket is 25% so on a salary of $50k/year, the average person has to pay about $500/year on federal education costs.
States spend about 40% on education (http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2783). The average american has a 10% state tax burden (http://taxfoundation.org/article/annual-state-local-tax-burden-ranking-fy-2011) so they are paying about $2k to the state for education.
A rough estimate for total public education cost to "Most of us" is $2500. How many private schools have yearly tuition for less than that? Community colleges? Colleges? pre-schools???
Thanks for your uniformed and incorrect comment. Sometimes one of these inspires me to (internet) research the topic enough for a properly cited rebuttal and in the process I learn something. Hopefully you do too.
Your a fucking idiot
Classic. My favorite kind of idiot.
Nahh, you're playing the conspiracy advocate. In light of additional supporting evidence for the established story you're adding more layers of increasingly unlikely scenarios to support your predetermined conclusion. Don't worry, most humans are hard wired to do it.
Like someone above posted, using a NK IP address as a proxy is extremely unlikely since they only have about 1000 total IP addresses. Lucky for you, the conspiracy onion can support an infinite number of layers...so no, I can't prove it wasn't aliens.
The collated data could create a false impression
could easily build up a "deeply personal and startlingly complete picture" of a person's lifestyle
Can both of those be true? I'd imagine corporations are going to work really hard to make sure they figure out the real you...
Yeah I understand the scale involved. I was just complaining. You can ignore my post and chalk it up to NSFPP (non-space-faring people problems)
I do realize they are clouds, they look kinda like the growth of a mushroom cloud which to me suggested a point of origin. The weird part is that the pillars are linear and not radial. Anyway I'll buy that explanation...mostly cause I don't know any better but sounds plausible enough for me to not want to spend 5 years working out the equations myself.
I zoomed all the way in to the very far right of the image and with an incredibly crude estimation, determined there were about 10,000 stars displayed on my monitor. At the darkest part of the image. Whats weird is how close together they look. How come everything looks so far away from us?
Looks like the pillars have a leading edge with debris trailing off. What set something that massive, with that shape, in motion? And where is it going?
Defikopter, not to be confused with Defacopter. Something you probably don't want falling out of the sky on you when having a heart attack...or any other time for that matter.
One need not be an alcoholic to enjoy alcohol.
But then where would you get your red herrings from?
1) Europe alone produces 10x CO2 emissions/year than all volcanic activity on the earth combined. Europe is only the 3rd biggest emitter behind China and the US
2) Volcanos are part of a balanced system. Their relatively constant CO2 contribution over the last few million years is easily handled by the earth's natural CO2 sinks
3) The CO2 you exhale was originally captured out of the atmosphere by plants, who will again capture what you're exhaling now (see: balanced system)
Side note: All the coal we are mining now is coming from 50 Million Years worth of carbon sequestration from a time when trees had evolved but no species had yet been able to digest them (wiki: Carboniferous). If nothing changes we can probably burn through all of that in a few centuries. You really think reversing a natural process at a rate 100,000 times faster isn't cause for concern?
How about this for debate: Is she the only one who deserves...whatever recognition /. is talking about recognizing?
I'm sure everyone here knows who he is. In my opinion, hes the most eloquent, humorous, reasonable, and personable ambassador from a hard core scientific discipline of this generation. Watch cosmos if you haven't already. His ability to break it down for the layman while preserving the incredible spectacle of the universe is right there with all the Carl Sagans of the past. And....he did it on Fox of all places!
Driverless cars? A better feature proposition (it'd make the commute much easier and enjoyable), but the feature is limited to certain roads/speeds, and after seeing the price hikes for a hybrid, one can only imagine what the driverless feature set will cost you as someone out shopping for a new car.
Do you mean like the price hike for power windows, automatic transmissions, disc brakes, powered brakes, fuel injection, stereo systems, air conditioning, power steering, etc...
All of those used to be expensive options and now even economy cars come standard with all of it. Hell you can buy a hybrid today for under $20k! Thats $12k less than the average new car price!
Didn't you read the last sentence in the summary? Google is looking decades ahead, to a time when lobbyists will have increased patent lifetimes to 20 decades!
Maybe so. The OP seemed to make it out that the palladium sheet was the limiting factor, hence my comment. Granted I don't know much about nuclear physics.
That sounds like a boondoggle,
Why? We use vast quantities of things that must conform to very strict parameters, such as every semi conductor. When original research was going on they were extremely time consuming and low yield. Now 2m silicon crystals are commonly grown with impurities less than PPB and virtually zero defects at the molecular level! There's no reason to think this couldn't happen with palladium foil given sufficient resources.
Well, someone did DDOS their entire country offline,
Yeah, all 1000 NK IP addresses were DDOS attacked. The California University of Pennsylvania (you read that right) network dwarfs NK's. The only "defense" they need is some guy to call everyone on a landline to tell them to shut their computer down till tomorrow.
China actually likes North Korea for some reason,
That reason is, the NK regime is keeping its bizarrely oppressed people from flooding into China as refugees. As long as Kim Jong XX is in power that's 24 million people China doesn't have to deal with.
Side note: NK's government is as legitimate as a dictatorship can be after being installed when the west and soviets divided up the spoils of WWII. That is, not legitimate at all.
Blast! Misquoted my own quote!
Agree with this post as well...but possibly for a different reason. 2014's downward trend in unemployment is much steeper than 2004's was. For obvious reasons of course, but a good thing(TM) none the less. Thus quoting one month's statistic is misleading because it hides even better news.
The first place they should apply evidence to write news stories and make policy decisions is the one aspect of the world that has a very high likely hood of causing enormous problems in the next 100 years or so. Every other time the government has stepped in to improve the environment it has been successful and that's why we don't have to worry about acid rain and whats in our drinking water (mostly, outside WV). In addition to crime rates, things are mostly good in the environment...except for the thing that has a high potential of causing extreme societal upheaval in a generation or two.
Oh and if all the data (ALL the data) is wrong about AGW then its like the cartoon says, "We'll have made the world a better place for nothing!".
real-world policies are designed to entrap those foilks into dependency on the Glorious Liberal State,
Right on brother, the proven ulterior motives of heathcare, unemployment benefits, etc of this administration that hates america are the worst of all time. Things have never been this bad....wait what was this story about again? Something about sensationalism in the media making things look awful when they're really the best in history?
One thing I'm sure you (should) agree with is that today's conspiracy theory's are some of the best ever.
Agree with everything you said except your unemployment statistic (assuming we're talking USA here). November 2004 it was 5.5%. November 2014 it was 5.8%
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries...
Society does not have enough turmoil, so we have to invent and spew more...
The first half of that sentence may have been sarcasm but its true! Crime, teen pregnancy, car accident deaths are all historically low. Life expectancy has never been higher, the cold war is over, etc, etc. Thats why those in power need the war on terror and the left vs right political circle jerk.
The unfortunate part is, the one true long term existential threat facing society is the only one the aforementioned powerful ones choose to ignore. Yes, AGW. Everything else "wrong" with society can be fixed at any time and isn't at the point of no return...welp, if anything that's going to get me an offtopic mod.
Top Tip: Anytime your plan needs something to be "perfect" you can rule out successfully applying that plan to humans.