Many college students would also take exception to being told that they don't take responsibility for their lives.
Please define "taking responsibility" as you see it. Not to be argumentative, but there's a point here that is very, very important in relation to the topic of this page. Is taking responsibility finding a job and doing it well? Then to take responsibility for your life, you must find something offered by somebody else and convince them to give it to you. That would mean that the first step of taking responsibility for your life is performed by somebody other than you. Is it being rich enough to offer other people jobs? Then it's luck and nothing more.
I've been on my own since age 15, and I know what you mean. But you're saying something so cliched and taken for granted that people say it without thinking anymore.
But if it's simply working hard to be productive and paying your way, then college students do take responsibility for their lives. The fact that they're not yet part of our dysfunctional, kafkaesque working economy has nothing to do with the fact of the matter. When was the last time you saw somebody by the interstate on ramp with a cardboard sign that reads, "In college, please help"?
The relevant-to-topic point is that the students' instructors are shaping their competence and worldview during their first days of self reliance. You don't want that done by people carrying cardboard signs either.
There is only one thing to blame. One. Money. Period.
The moment post-secondary education was made a for-profit matter, it was doomed. Higher profit will always mean providing an ever shittier product for ever higher cost, just like everything else on the market. What got us here is that we're a nation ruled by unreasonable ideologues who think that economy is a one-size-fits-all affair. Capitalism zealots who think it's the answer to every single problem in the world. And why? Because it benefits them to. It makes them money.
When people start to learn that economic models are more a matter of, "Use the right tool for the job," on a per-market basis, we'll stop having problems like this. Until then, we'll incentivize the slow motion destruction of every institution our civilization relies upon to function, and therefore, the slow motion dismantling of our civilization to be sold off as scrap.
I am a little harsh by judging only politicians on this. It's a cultural problem. Nothing -- absolutely nothing -- in life fits a model of, "This one idea works for everything!" But because this one idea of capitalizing on everything makes money, it's "evil" to think that some markets are better not treated like whores.
These changes most certainly do correspond to security vulnerabilities, but they're inherent in the language; not the platform. Microsoft could easily argue that their API need not address security pitfalls introduced by the language itself. And they would be correct.
It's a death spiral for the cable industry. People began to prefer the Internet due to the misinformation on cable and social connectivity online. So, sub rates dropped. As sub rates dropped, sub prices went up to compensate. The remaining viewers are less informed and often don't engage in critical thought at all, so the quality of programs dropped off. As quality has dropped off, more people have left cable behind. The cycle continues.
The best things on television are on premium channels that require a basic subscription plus some ridiculously pricey package just to watch the one channel a viewer might be interested in for an hour every week or every other week. That's a ripoff unless you simply have money to throw away. So, the problem persists and worsens.
Meanwhile, the FCC is determined to solve the problem by giving cable companies the right to price gouge Internet services. I guess the plan is that the Internet will slowly fall apart, with the expectation that people will switch to cable. But now it's a matter of grudge. Thanks to this, I will never again subscribe to cable television, period. The sooner it dies, the better off the world will be, so I hope that many people join me.
It doesn't matter if they do destroy the Internet. It's not a matter of competing content anymore. It's the principal of the matter that they aim to seize the commons for themselves solely to perpetuate their outmoded and worthless service while simultaneously overcharging and providing the worst customer service of any telecom industry. No thank you. I'd rather burn every electronic device I own than pay them one red cent.
As for family, I see what a childhood spent glued to the boob tube did not only to our generation but the one that preceded ours. People who rely upon television as their primary source of fiction and information treat reading like it's a chore, and the only ideas about reality that they'll accept are those that entertain them or feed their massive egos. I refuse to allow my children to be tainted by that curse.
I'm not worried about mod points or anything of the sort. The truth is what it is.
Reading is too difficult for most Americans, and they are deathly afraid of being wrong about anything. So, they make up whatever they want to be true, never check it, and flip out when somebody tries to point out the truth. Every little correction to any incorrect "fact", regardless of where they heard it or whether they simply made it up, leads them to react like they're being called stupid. As a result, they're stupid.
I'm generalizing above, but this is the most prevalent reality among laypersons and laborers in the United States.
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Many college students would also take exception to being told that they don't take responsibility for their lives.
Please define "taking responsibility" as you see it. Not to be argumentative, but there's a point here that is very, very important in relation to the topic of this page. Is taking responsibility finding a job and doing it well? Then to take responsibility for your life, you must find something offered by somebody else and convince them to give it to you. That would mean that the first step of taking responsibility for your life is performed by somebody other than you. Is it being rich enough to offer other people jobs? Then it's luck and nothing more.
I've been on my own since age 15, and I know what you mean. But you're saying something so cliched and taken for granted that people say it without thinking anymore.
But if it's simply working hard to be productive and paying your way, then college students do take responsibility for their lives. The fact that they're not yet part of our dysfunctional, kafkaesque working economy has nothing to do with the fact of the matter. When was the last time you saw somebody by the interstate on ramp with a cardboard sign that reads, "In college, please help"?
The relevant-to-topic point is that the students' instructors are shaping their competence and worldview during their first days of self reliance. You don't want that done by people carrying cardboard signs either.
There is only one thing to blame. One. Money. Period.
The moment post-secondary education was made a for-profit matter, it was doomed. Higher profit will always mean providing an ever shittier product for ever higher cost, just like everything else on the market. What got us here is that we're a nation ruled by unreasonable ideologues who think that economy is a one-size-fits-all affair. Capitalism zealots who think it's the answer to every single problem in the world. And why? Because it benefits them to. It makes them money.
When people start to learn that economic models are more a matter of, "Use the right tool for the job," on a per-market basis, we'll stop having problems like this. Until then, we'll incentivize the slow motion destruction of every institution our civilization relies upon to function, and therefore, the slow motion dismantling of our civilization to be sold off as scrap.
I am a little harsh by judging only politicians on this. It's a cultural problem. Nothing -- absolutely nothing -- in life fits a model of, "This one idea works for everything!" But because this one idea of capitalizing on everything makes money, it's "evil" to think that some markets are better not treated like whores.
Children? The people aged generally 17 to 80 who attend university might take exception to that.
These changes most certainly do correspond to security vulnerabilities, but they're inherent in the language; not the platform. Microsoft could easily argue that their API need not address security pitfalls introduced by the language itself. And they would be correct.
It's a death spiral for the cable industry. People began to prefer the Internet due to the misinformation on cable and social connectivity online. So, sub rates dropped. As sub rates dropped, sub prices went up to compensate. The remaining viewers are less informed and often don't engage in critical thought at all, so the quality of programs dropped off. As quality has dropped off, more people have left cable behind. The cycle continues.
The best things on television are on premium channels that require a basic subscription plus some ridiculously pricey package just to watch the one channel a viewer might be interested in for an hour every week or every other week. That's a ripoff unless you simply have money to throw away. So, the problem persists and worsens.
Meanwhile, the FCC is determined to solve the problem by giving cable companies the right to price gouge Internet services. I guess the plan is that the Internet will slowly fall apart, with the expectation that people will switch to cable. But now it's a matter of grudge. Thanks to this, I will never again subscribe to cable television, period. The sooner it dies, the better off the world will be, so I hope that many people join me.
It doesn't matter if they do destroy the Internet. It's not a matter of competing content anymore. It's the principal of the matter that they aim to seize the commons for themselves solely to perpetuate their outmoded and worthless service while simultaneously overcharging and providing the worst customer service of any telecom industry. No thank you. I'd rather burn every electronic device I own than pay them one red cent.
As for family, I see what a childhood spent glued to the boob tube did not only to our generation but the one that preceded ours. People who rely upon television as their primary source of fiction and information treat reading like it's a chore, and the only ideas about reality that they'll accept are those that entertain them or feed their massive egos. I refuse to allow my children to be tainted by that curse.
I'm not worried about mod points or anything of the sort. The truth is what it is.
Reading is too difficult for most Americans, and they are deathly afraid of being wrong about anything. So, they make up whatever they want to be true, never check it, and flip out when somebody tries to point out the truth. Every little correction to any incorrect "fact", regardless of where they heard it or whether they simply made it up, leads them to react like they're being called stupid. As a result, they're stupid. I'm generalizing above, but this is the most prevalent reality among laypersons and laborers in the United States.