I don't see the original comment as anti-religious, it is anti-bad-religion. Humans are hard-wired for animism and try to understand and manipulate the world using the spiritual. So I don't see the comment as a dig at Christianity, rather at animistic Christianity. This type of animism creeps into all religions, and makes them irrational. As many people pointed out, there is no reason to assume that God dictates the results of each weeks sporting events. Religion should be used as an inner compass, not as a tool for gaining worldly success.
What other fundamental rights can we marketize? Maybe we can pay off the government's debt by marketizing speech - put a tax or a fee on every letter of the alphabet that we use. Or a market in freedom itself - some people might start off as slaves, but they would have an incentive to invest and become free, and the market would solve the problems.
The fact that I have a fever does not preclude the occasional chill. The past two months have been record cold in Florida; that was preceded by 10 months of record heat in FL, in a 10 year period that is the warmest on record. Climate does not move in a smooth, continous fashion. But if pushed consistently by elevating gases that trap longwave radiation, the climate will warm.
JB
The debate over global warming is likely to continue until Miami is under water -- Dr. Byron
Riiiight. So the question is: do you want to learn about the world, or do you want to obtain as much bread as efficiently as possible. Still a personal decision.
College offers the opportunity to take all kinds of adventures, including study abroad in Kuala Lumpur. When looking for a trained person to write code 2000 hours per year, many employers don't value it. But in most fields, the "expanded" person with a college degree is valued more. College is a long-term investment that usually pays off.
In high school, the textbook and teacher are the ultimate authorities. In college, you should be getting close enough to the bleeding edge of knowledge that an instructor doesn't know everything and doesn't pretend to. In a field that is expanding as fast as computing, you won't find a professor who can keep up with it all. Of course, that doesn't excuse really bad professors, just ones that don't know everything. And many colleges don't put enough emphasis on continuing education for their faculty!?
(If you know the material already, test out of the class.)
It does boil down to a personal decision in the end. I can think of lots of reasons why college is a good thing, but then teaching at a university is what I do, so I might be biased.
Did anybody mention the difference between training and education?
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> the worst part about college is paying
> thousands of dollars for classes where you
> occasionally know more about the subject (or at > least the current state of the art) than the
> professor.
Florida is inexpensive - a 3/2 house runs around $100k. In most counties, your 'homestead' is protected in bankruptcy proceedings - scam artists can hang on to land and buildings up to $1 million when their schemes unravel. No state income tax, so add 6% to your take-home. The weather is nice if you like Turkish baths and lightning). We have beaches where the water is warm. And what snake-oil salesman wouldn't feel at home with alligators in his backyard??
The medical applications of this are pretty profound - image being able to do most of the blood work without needles, without having to send the work to a distant lab. Lots of diseases change the metabolism in ways that can be measured in the breath, or molecules coming off the skin. Using old fashioned evolution, there are some doctors that use dogs that can smell skin cancer and indicate which moles need more investigation.
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"The British and the Americans are a people divided by a common language" (Winston Churchill). This narky thing (or is it gnarky? I think I hear a silent 'g') is just another example of the charm of the old language that never made it to the new world. Don't Bother the People - You'll Just Irritate them.
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I don't see the original comment as anti-religious, it is anti-bad-religion. Humans are hard-wired for animism and try to understand and manipulate the world using the spiritual. So I don't see the comment as a dig at Christianity, rather at animistic Christianity. This type of animism creeps into all religions, and makes them irrational. As many people pointed out, there is no reason to assume that God dictates the results of each weeks sporting events. Religion should be used as an inner compass, not as a tool for gaining worldly success.
What other fundamental rights can we marketize? Maybe we can pay off the government's debt by marketizing speech - put a tax or a fee on every letter of the alphabet that we use. Or a market in freedom itself - some people might start off as slaves, but they would have an incentive to invest and become free, and the market would solve the problems.
The fact that I have a fever does not preclude the occasional chill. The past two months have been record cold in Florida; that was preceded by 10 months of record heat in FL, in a 10 year period that is the warmest on record. Climate does not move in a smooth, continous fashion. But if pushed consistently by elevating gases that trap longwave radiation, the climate will warm.
JB
The debate over global warming is likely to continue until Miami is under water -- Dr. Byron
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Riiiight. So the question is: do you want to learn about the world, or do you want to obtain as much bread as efficiently as possible. Still a personal decision.
College offers the opportunity to take all kinds of adventures, including study abroad in Kuala Lumpur. When looking for a trained person to write code 2000 hours per year, many employers don't value it. But in most fields, the "expanded" person with a college degree is valued more. College is a long-term investment that usually pays off.
In high school, the textbook and teacher are the ultimate authorities. In college, you should be getting close enough to the bleeding edge of knowledge that an instructor doesn't know everything and doesn't pretend to. In a field that is expanding as fast as computing, you won't find a professor who can keep up with it all. Of course, that doesn't excuse really bad professors, just ones that don't know everything. And many colleges don't put enough emphasis on continuing education for their faculty!?
(If you know the material already, test out of the class.)
It does boil down to a personal decision in the end. I can think of lots of reasons why college is a good thing, but then teaching at a university is what I do, so I might be biased.
Did anybody mention the difference between training and education?
RE:
> the worst part about college is paying
> thousands of dollars for classes where you
> occasionally know more about the subject (or at > least the current state of the art) than the
> professor.
Florida is inexpensive - a 3/2 house runs around $100k. In most counties, your 'homestead' is protected in bankruptcy proceedings - scam artists can hang on to land and buildings up to $1 million when their schemes unravel. No state income tax, so add 6% to your take-home. The weather is nice if you like Turkish baths and lightning). We have beaches where the water is warm. And what snake-oil salesman wouldn't feel at home with alligators in his backyard??
The medical applications of this are pretty profound - image being able to do most of the blood work without needles, without having to send the work to a distant lab. Lots of diseases change the metabolism in ways that can be measured in the breath, or molecules coming off the skin. Using old fashioned evolution, there are some doctors that use dogs that can smell skin cancer and indicate which moles need more investigation.
"The British and the Americans are a people divided by a common language" (Winston Churchill). This narky thing (or is it gnarky? I think I hear a silent 'g') is just another example of the charm of the old language that never made it to the new world. Don't Bother the People - You'll Just Irritate them.
JB