I wonder how these guys would behave in real life. What kind of mind do you have, when you're one of the most productive in the area of spewing hate, anger and vitriol.
TFA mentioned that a tenth of the attacks came from the most active users (activity level 20+) so I would guess Wiki has become bit of an obsession for them and they believe they have some sort of right to always be right and any disagreement is taken personally. While they may need to get a life Wiki may have become their life.
There is a big misconception that workers are training their replacement. They are not training they are doing knowledge transfer. There is a lot of configuration and company specific practices in any IT setup. It would take considerable time to reverse engineer the details if proper documentation has not been done (which face it is not done otherwise the current employees would be efficient enough to not need replacement)
Exactly, which is why some folks I know simply forgot to tell them all the little gotchas while training them. Anyone who had any system experience on their system probably would know them, or learn them through trial and (possibly ) expensive error. They didn't teach them anything wrong, they just left out stuff that was obvious to them as long time users.
Heck the H1 was created for Models where the missing skill was bigger boobs.
While I agree non-union mem bers should not enjoy anything negotiated in the contract, such as wages,benefits, job protection iunless the employer wants to extend them to non union workers. For example they could nit use the grievence procedure and if the union negotiated job protections so that they are the last to get laid off then the non union memebers would have no recourse to being let go first. The union could laso negotiate contract terms that guaranties they get the same level of pay and benefits as non union employees to ensure the company doesn't sweeten the pot in an attempt to bust the union.
Exactly. You can't beat the market consistantly, and by removing emotion and focusing on small arbitrage opportunities and quickly making trades you can profit. Automation will also make it harder for humans to do just that sine the computer does it in real time instead of waiting to see what happens and trying to take advantage of that. Investers will buy into funds that auto trade to make money ; the question ia how long will the arbitrage opportunities remain as more computers try to take advantage of them.
Enterprise had 8 A2W reactors so there was a lot of cutting and fuel removal that had to take place. In contrast, the next Enterprise will have 2 propulsion reactors. It would be nice if they can turn he into a museum somewhere, much like was done with the Nautilus.
Used to be, though, that the incivility would sort-of peak in Fall as a load of new students got accounts, then slowly get beaten into politeness by May:-)
Now there are fools coming in all the time.
Yes, once we started having Eternal September it was time to give up all hope...
Along those lines, I think it may be time to return to the grotesque, detailed art that came from Zap Comixs, R. Crumb, and the other underground creators. Those are going to be the people closest to the metal (so to speak) in what the crowds are feeling. Hopefully the shocking expressions will be enough to get people unsettled enough to keep up the protests and calling their congress critters.
It does make a difference.
Where is George Carlin when the country really needs him...
Every time the Borowitz Report comes out, I have to correct a handful of outraged friends who share it seriously. We are, altogether, no longer skeptical readers.
Who needs skepticism when we can get all the alternative facts we want 24 x 7 with no need for real ones to creep in...
That may be the case, but IMO this shouldn't be admissible in court. In my opinion, it should be legally treated the same as one's own testimony, and law enforcement can't compel you to turn over any information contained in it.
It was treated no differently than any other records a person keeps. If you leave a trail, whether it is paper or electronic, it can be obtained with a warrant and used as evidence.
While you make some good points a counter arguement could be since it is alpha software and they released it knowing that and even potentially admitted it may be flawed they were negligent in releasing it. IIRC, you can't declaim negligence although many Agreements try to do that; the question here is not would the owner of the vehicle be liable but could the software developer also be liable.
Linux biggest problem is that they (Distro makers) were never willing to raise some serious money and actually try.
Yeah, it's a little hard to "sell" something for free and compete with the $$ marketing campaigns of major closed-source companies. Want to tell us about how easy it is for you to raise some "serious money"? I mean, whenever you decide you're willing to raise it.
Software that changed the world? World of Warcraft is a game, what about pageranking and crawling? Where's the search engines?
Why is a patent encumbered music compression format on the list, did music not get shared before it? I mean the most popular online music shops don't use that format, neither does digital radio. Why MP3 and not AAC, and isn't MP3 just a succession of a previous format and one that is under constant redevelopment?
On that list, Photoshop, MRIs and Wikipedia deserve the place. The rest should get the curators fired.
I like that they are including the historical context. In rush to create programs we forget they are often merely a new way to do something that has been done before. They are innovative and often provide capabilities and ease of use the previous incarnations lacked; but they aren't new ideas. D&D existed before WOW, Darkrooms before Photoshop, telegrams before texting, etc. Like sex, every generation thinks they discovered it while the previous ones just chuckle...
You are doing the mistake of comparing the top 1% of Accounting majors with the average engineers. Why dont you compare with the top 1% of Engineering majors (5 of the richest 10 men in the world are Engineering majors) Most Engineers may make 120K but most Accounting majors dont make even that.
True, not all accountants become a partner in the Big 4. However, if you look at mid career salaries engineers go from 90 to 180k (I should have been a petroleum engineer); an accounting manager can hit over 4100K and senior managers around $200K. It all depends on the type of engineer or accountant you are and where yo work. A civil might make $90K and a EE(% per BLS. My point is that many non-science majors can make as much as science majors, and the top end of their careers can be much higher than someone who remains an engineer. Engineering is not a bad place to start but plateaus after a while. As one fellow engineer put it: "I was in a meeting with a bunch of old guys wearing white socks, short sleeve shirts with pocket protectors and I decided I needed to get out of engineering."
Interestingly enough, if you look at Forbes's top 10, you have 4 engineers with actual degrees (2 Kochs, Bezos, and Slim) or 5 depending on the list (Bloomberg), a business major, several dropouts and / or never attended college. Engineering's not a bad starting point but not necessarily the best end point.
and sports provide a lot of experiences that are as valuable as what yo lean in the classroom
C'mon, man - I'm not going to bullshit you and claim that the ivory tower perfectly mirrors what the working world wants; but college athletics have nothing to do with anything in the real world.
College sports is a money-grab, period. Sure, the sports at bottom-tier schools may not directly bring in much revenue - But take a look at what any college sends its alums when begging for money. New library? One paragraph in the bottom left corner of page 9. Government and industry research ties? Half a page that focuses exclusively on possible military applications. SHINY NEW STADIUM? FRONT AND CENTER, MOTHER-FUCKERS! GIVE US MONEY!.
Yes, much of it is a money grab, at least at the revenue sports such as Football and Basketball. However, when hiring or putting together a team,I have found that an athlete often takes the same work ethic, determination and team spirit to the working world as is displayed on the athletic field. Many of them have had to balance a practice / game / academic schedule tay is quite demanding, a friend who rowed crew practiced for hours before going to class. College is about preparing people for doing things in the real world, being able to intelligently think about issues, and in general be a productive member of society. Do schools use sports to raise money? Is the focus too often on winning at the expense of an education? Hell yes; but that doesn't mean the have no place on a campus. Interestingly enough, my undergraduate institution, where sports are BIG, sends me money pitches touting what the engineering school has accomplished. Maybe they think engineers don't like sports?
Is it just me, or does the quartz report referenced in the summary have nothing to do with what the summary is referring to it for?
Quartz has a chart embedded in its report that shows the cost of education by major at the University of Florida.
I mean, I searched that entire article for any mention of 'education', 'tuition', or even 'florida' and found nothing. Did someone post the wrong URL?
Yup. For some reason the/. editor added the summary and then put the wrong link in the summary. I had left it out since TFA had the link already in it.
Except....not all students are educated equally. Students from inner cities and the sticks do not generally get a good education because the tax base to support it is not there. When they get to college, they need remedial work but that isn't really a substitute and they continue to struggle. Not educating them means they will be a drag on the rest of society, a notion that has never entered the head of a libertarian or conservative Republican. The Democrats flip the other way and think gender studies is somehow a growth industry.
Our education system is definitely broke, and your example is valid. If our K-12 education system does not prepare students that go to college for college level work than it isn't working. Community colleges could fill in the gap as well as keep a flow of prepared students at the 2-4 year entry points to keep 4 year school's classes full all 4 years.
I'd also be interested to see how much is contributed back by alum from each major. I'm sure that the liberal arts major who job is to ask "You want fries with that?" will give back a lot less than the engineer pulling 120k while designing chips.
True, but the accounting partner with a business degree, making over a million a year, may give back more than the poor engineer making a mere $120K. Engineers make good money but they plateau after a while unless they move beyond engineering, at that point they need more skills than what is taught as an engineer. Many of my coworkers are recovering engineers, as am I, who left engineering for more lucrative pursuits.
For college, athletics should be an entirely separate organization. They should have to pay for the rights to use the school's name, and otherwise be self-supporting. With all of the ticket sales, merchandizing, tie-ins to professional sports, etc - that should make it a profit center. Athletic scholarships should likewise be paid from the athletic organization, paid directly to the student as an offset to normal college costs. Nets the same to the scholarship'ed student, and prevents the masses of non-jocks from having to pay for that new stadium.
In some schools they are. At Ohio State for example, the athletic department is separate from the university from a fiscal standpoint, makes a profit and returns money to the school that funds scholarships for all students; beyond what pays for student athlete's scholarships, most of whom only receive a portion of their tuition as a scholarship, not a full ride. Unfortunately, many schools do not make a profit from the athletic department. Sports do, however, tie alumni to schools and result in donations, sometimes significant ones, so there is a financial impact beyond the actual department budget. For example, at many schools a donation of a certain size ensure you get football tickets, and the more you give the better the seats.
Th real question is at what point do you stop subsidizing activities that only a few students may use? Many school fund student organizations and you can make the same argument that why should all the non-engineers pay for engineering organizations? Should that brand new engineering lab be paid for only from money the College of Engineering generates or is it ok that theater students pay a part of it via their tuition; and thus engineering students pay for the new theatre as well? If a college can't generate enough grants to run a lab should the lab be shut down or subsidized by the school?
I also think the USA should do away with socialized sport. College sports moves focus away from academics in Universities and moves it on athletics, giving scholarships and grants to people who really don't belong in University and are taking the place of someone who could actually use a degree. The socialized sports program is an unnecessary distraction from learning and education, what universities are supposed to be about.
I disagree here . While the major revenue sports get a lot of publicity, schools offer many other sports that have real student athletes. College is about learning how to function in the world beyond just learning a skill, and sports provide a lot of experiences that are as valuable as what yo lean in the classroom. personally, when I look at a resume i give preference to someone whose played a team sport or been involved in other activities beyond class such as writing for the school paper, etc. over someone who hasn't, even if the other one has a higher GPA, because in my experience the former tend to be better to work with since the have been par of a team.
The US, has a hard time keeping minor league and privately owned smaller sports teams in business because their socialized sports programs take away business from the smaller teams
In the US minor league teams, such as baseball ones, are often far more profitable than major league teams.
Perhaps they should be harder to get into. There is no reason that someone who is going to be a hairdresser or a sales clerk needs a college degree. Ability, not money, should determine which of our population is educated to a higher level.
I agree, and that is what we see at US schools where state programs offer free tuition - the applicant pool gets better as students who might have gone elsewhere apply there because of the free tuition. Unfortunately, the college degree has replaced the high school diploma as the base qualifier for many jobs; even if it's simply because so many more people are getting them now than say 20 years ago.
We've also undervalued skilled trades to the point that educational programs in them have languished although some areas are seeing companies ally with community colleges to feed programs that produce people with the skills needed to operate the very increasing complex machinery companies use. That is where community colleges really offer value - teaching skills such as auto mechanics, HVAC work, etc. so people can get the basic technical education needed to certify and get good jobs.
Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.
I'd like to se that as well, perhaps with a sliding scale where your GPA determines how much of a tuition discount you get. First year us free and then on above some number it's free, and so on done until failing students pay full freight. Of course, you'd probably need to have some forced curve so grade inflation wouldn't make everyone an A student. Of course, if it's totally free then that would increase demand and costs to the point where you'd have to make admissions that much harder. That is not necessarily bad, but it means state schools would become much more selective than they already are and even the tier 2 schools in a state would be harder to get into, even if they are free. Free is a good idea but implementing it is a challenge. Then the question becomes - what about foreign and non-resident students? Do you let them in for free as well?
I get tired of developers who seem to think I'll give them a good review if they keep asking for one; that is especially true if I paid for the app. I don't mind a one time ask when I first start using it or after an update; but periodic asks is just as likely to get a 3 star so so review as a good one even if I like the app.
I wouldn't put too much weight behind what he said 10+ years ago, he almost certainly doesn't remember it and would deny ever saying it at this point. He is, after all, the post-truth president - where facts don't matter and reality is only whatever he says it is. On top of that he has changed his opinion on almost every conceivable position in the past 5 years - on some of them multiple times - so saying that back then does not in any way preclude him from saying the opposite now and having the entire GOP believe him when he says it.
How true. he's even has a new term for lies - alternative facts. We are in for a wild ride.
Wishful thinking, there. He has the sacred letter after his name now, forever associated with his name and his brand. What he says is now gospel to the party, he couldn't piss them off if he ordered McConnell and Paul Ryan to walk naked down Pennsylvania Ave for his own amusement.
I'm not so sure about that. Politicians are, first and foremost, adept at defending their own political careers and if Trump goes against what they need to survive they'll turn on him and simply accuse him of being a RINO. Not that will bother him, in fact it may bolster his viewpoint that he alone is always right.
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I wonder how these guys would behave in real life. What kind of mind do you have, when you're one of the most productive in the area of spewing hate, anger and vitriol.
TFA mentioned that a tenth of the attacks came from the most active users (activity level 20+) so I would guess Wiki has become bit of an obsession for them and they believe they have some sort of right to always be right and any disagreement is taken personally. While they may need to get a life Wiki may have become their life.
There is a big misconception that workers are training their replacement. They are not training they are doing knowledge transfer. There is a lot of configuration and company specific practices in any IT setup. It would take considerable time to reverse engineer the details if proper documentation has not been done (which face it is not done otherwise the current employees would be efficient enough to not need replacement)
Exactly, which is why some folks I know simply forgot to tell them all the little gotchas while training them. Anyone who had any system experience on their system probably would know them, or learn them through trial and (possibly ) expensive error. They didn't teach them anything wrong, they just left out stuff that was obvious to them as long time users.
Heck the H1 was created for Models where the missing skill was bigger boobs.
Hence the B...
While I agree non-union mem bers should not enjoy anything negotiated in the contract, such as wages,benefits, job protection iunless the employer wants to extend them to non union workers. For example they could nit use the grievence procedure and if the union negotiated job protections so that they are the last to get laid off then the non union memebers would have no recourse to being let go first. The union could laso negotiate contract terms that guaranties they get the same level of pay and benefits as non union employees to ensure the company doesn't sweeten the pot in an attempt to bust the union.
Exactly. You can't beat the market consistantly, and by removing emotion and focusing on small arbitrage opportunities and quickly making trades you can profit. Automation will also make it harder for humans to do just that sine the computer does it in real time instead of waiting to see what happens and trying to take advantage of that. Investers will buy into funds that auto trade to make money ; the question ia how long will the arbitrage opportunities remain as more computers try to take advantage of them.
Enterprise had 8 A2W reactors so there was a lot of cutting and fuel removal that had to take place. In contrast, the next Enterprise will have 2 propulsion reactors. It would be nice if they can turn he into a museum somewhere, much like was done with the Nautilus.
Used to be, though, that the incivility would sort-of peak in Fall as a load of new students got accounts, then slowly get beaten into politeness by May :-)
Now there are fools coming in all the time.
Yes, once we started having Eternal September it was time to give up all hope...
When the going gets weird, the weird turns pro.
Along those lines, I think it may be time to return to the grotesque, detailed art that came from Zap Comixs, R. Crumb, and the other underground creators. Those are going to be the people closest to the metal (so to speak) in what the crowds are feeling. Hopefully the shocking expressions will be enough to get people unsettled enough to keep up the protests and calling their congress critters.
It does make a difference.
Where is George Carlin when the country really needs him...
Every time the Borowitz Report comes out, I have to correct a handful of outraged friends who share it seriously. We are, altogether, no longer skeptical readers.
Who needs skepticism when we can get all the alternative facts we want 24 x 7 with no need for real ones to creep in...
That may be the case, but IMO this shouldn't be admissible in court. In my opinion, it should be legally treated the same as one's own testimony, and law enforcement can't compel you to turn over any information contained in it.
It was treated no differently than any other records a person keeps. If you leave a trail, whether it is paper or electronic, it can be obtained with a warrant and used as evidence.
While you make some good points a counter arguement could be since it is alpha software and they released it knowing that and even potentially admitted it may be flawed they were negligent in releasing it. IIRC, you can't declaim negligence although many Agreements try to do that; the question here is not would the owner of the vehicle be liable but could the software developer also be liable.
Yup. To bad they don't build nuke power plants...
No officer, I wasn't texting while driving...
Linux biggest problem is that they (Distro makers) were never willing to raise some serious money and actually try.
Yeah, it's a little hard to "sell" something for free and compete with the $$ marketing campaigns of major closed-source companies. Want to tell us about how easy it is for you to raise some "serious money"? I mean, whenever you decide you're willing to raise it.
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Software that changed the world? World of Warcraft is a game, what about pageranking and crawling? Where's the search engines?
Why is a patent encumbered music compression format on the list, did music not get shared before it? I mean the most popular online music shops don't use that format, neither does digital radio. Why MP3 and not AAC, and isn't MP3 just a succession of a previous format and one that is under constant redevelopment?
On that list, Photoshop, MRIs and Wikipedia deserve the place. The rest should get the curators fired.
I like that they are including the historical context. In rush to create programs we forget they are often merely a new way to do something that has been done before. They are innovative and often provide capabilities and ease of use the previous incarnations lacked; but they aren't new ideas. D&D existed before WOW, Darkrooms before Photoshop, telegrams before texting, etc. Like sex, every generation thinks they discovered it while the previous ones just chuckle...
You are doing the mistake of comparing the top 1% of Accounting majors with the average engineers. Why dont you compare with the top 1% of Engineering majors (5 of the richest 10 men in the world are Engineering majors) Most Engineers may make 120K but most Accounting majors dont make even that.
True, not all accountants become a partner in the Big 4. However, if you look at mid career salaries engineers go from 90 to 180k (I should have been a petroleum engineer); an accounting manager can hit over 4100K and senior managers around $200K. It all depends on the type of engineer or accountant you are and where yo work. A civil might make $90K and a EE(% per BLS. My point is that many non-science majors can make as much as science majors, and the top end of their careers can be much higher than someone who remains an engineer. Engineering is not a bad place to start but plateaus after a while. As one fellow engineer put it: "I was in a meeting with a bunch of old guys wearing white socks, short sleeve shirts with pocket protectors and I decided I needed to get out of engineering."
Interestingly enough, if you look at Forbes's top 10, you have 4 engineers with actual degrees (2 Kochs, Bezos, and Slim) or 5 depending on the list (Bloomberg), a business major, several dropouts and / or never attended college. Engineering's not a bad starting point but not necessarily the best end point.
and sports provide a lot of experiences that are as valuable as what yo lean in the classroom C'mon, man - I'm not going to bullshit you and claim that the ivory tower perfectly mirrors what the working world wants; but college athletics have nothing to do with anything in the real world. College sports is a money-grab, period. Sure, the sports at bottom-tier schools may not directly bring in much revenue - But take a look at what any college sends its alums when begging for money. New library? One paragraph in the bottom left corner of page 9. Government and industry research ties? Half a page that focuses exclusively on possible military applications. SHINY NEW STADIUM? FRONT AND CENTER, MOTHER-FUCKERS! GIVE US MONEY!.
Yes, much of it is a money grab, at least at the revenue sports such as Football and Basketball. However, when hiring or putting together a team,I have found that an athlete often takes the same work ethic, determination and team spirit to the working world as is displayed on the athletic field. Many of them have had to balance a practice / game / academic schedule tay is quite demanding, a friend who rowed crew practiced for hours before going to class. College is about preparing people for doing things in the real world, being able to intelligently think about issues, and in general be a productive member of society. Do schools use sports to raise money? Is the focus too often on winning at the expense of an education? Hell yes; but that doesn't mean the have no place on a campus. Interestingly enough, my undergraduate institution, where sports are BIG, sends me money pitches touting what the engineering school has accomplished. Maybe they think engineers don't like sports?
Is it just me, or does the quartz report referenced in the summary have nothing to do with what the summary is referring to it for?
I mean, I searched that entire article for any mention of 'education', 'tuition', or even 'florida' and found nothing. Did someone post the wrong URL?
Yup. For some reason the /. editor added the summary and then put the wrong link in the summary. I had left it out since TFA had the link already in it.
Except....not all students are educated equally. Students from inner cities and the sticks do not generally get a good education because the tax base to support it is not there. When they get to college, they need remedial work but that isn't really a substitute and they continue to struggle. Not educating them means they will be a drag on the rest of society, a notion that has never entered the head of a libertarian or conservative Republican. The Democrats flip the other way and think gender studies is somehow a growth industry.
Our education system is definitely broke, and your example is valid. If our K-12 education system does not prepare students that go to college for college level work than it isn't working. Community colleges could fill in the gap as well as keep a flow of prepared students at the 2-4 year entry points to keep 4 year school's classes full all 4 years.
I'd also be interested to see how much is contributed back by alum from each major. I'm sure that the liberal arts major who job is to ask "You want fries with that?" will give back a lot less than the engineer pulling 120k while designing chips.
True, but the accounting partner with a business degree, making over a million a year, may give back more than the poor engineer making a mere $120K. Engineers make good money but they plateau after a while unless they move beyond engineering, at that point they need more skills than what is taught as an engineer. Many of my coworkers are recovering engineers, as am I, who left engineering for more lucrative pursuits.
>Then, there's the costs of athletic programs,
For college, athletics should be an entirely separate organization. They should have to pay for the rights to use the school's name, and otherwise be self-supporting. With all of the ticket sales, merchandizing, tie-ins to professional sports, etc - that should make it a profit center. Athletic scholarships should likewise be paid from the athletic organization, paid directly to the student as an offset to normal college costs. Nets the same to the scholarship'ed student, and prevents the masses of non-jocks from having to pay for that new stadium.
In some schools they are. At Ohio State for example, the athletic department is separate from the university from a fiscal standpoint, makes a profit and returns money to the school that funds scholarships for all students; beyond what pays for student athlete's scholarships, most of whom only receive a portion of their tuition as a scholarship, not a full ride. Unfortunately, many schools do not make a profit from the athletic department. Sports do, however, tie alumni to schools and result in donations, sometimes significant ones, so there is a financial impact beyond the actual department budget. For example, at many schools a donation of a certain size ensure you get football tickets, and the more you give the better the seats.
Th real question is at what point do you stop subsidizing activities that only a few students may use? Many school fund student organizations and you can make the same argument that why should all the non-engineers pay for engineering organizations? Should that brand new engineering lab be paid for only from money the College of Engineering generates or is it ok that theater students pay a part of it via their tuition; and thus engineering students pay for the new theatre as well? If a college can't generate enough grants to run a lab should the lab be shut down or subsidized by the school?
I also think the USA should do away with socialized sport. College sports moves focus away from academics in Universities and moves it on athletics, giving scholarships and grants to people who really don't belong in University and are taking the place of someone who could actually use a degree. The socialized sports program is an unnecessary distraction from learning and education, what universities are supposed to be about.
I disagree here . While the major revenue sports get a lot of publicity, schools offer many other sports that have real student athletes. College is about learning how to function in the world beyond just learning a skill, and sports provide a lot of experiences that are as valuable as what yo lean in the classroom. personally, when I look at a resume i give preference to someone whose played a team sport or been involved in other activities beyond class such as writing for the school paper, etc. over someone who hasn't, even if the other one has a higher GPA, because in my experience the former tend to be better to work with since the have been par of a team.
The US, has a hard time keeping minor league and privately owned smaller sports teams in business because their socialized sports programs take away business from the smaller teams
In the US minor league teams, such as baseball ones, are often far more profitable than major league teams.
Perhaps they should be harder to get into. There is no reason that someone who is going to be a hairdresser or a sales clerk needs a college degree. Ability, not money, should determine which of our population is educated to a higher level.
I agree, and that is what we see at US schools where state programs offer free tuition - the applicant pool gets better as students who might have gone elsewhere apply there because of the free tuition. Unfortunately, the college degree has replaced the high school diploma as the base qualifier for many jobs; even if it's simply because so many more people are getting them now than say 20 years ago.
We've also undervalued skilled trades to the point that educational programs in them have languished although some areas are seeing companies ally with community colleges to feed programs that produce people with the skills needed to operate the very increasing complex machinery companies use. That is where community colleges really offer value - teaching skills such as auto mechanics, HVAC work, etc. so people can get the basic technical education needed to certify and get good jobs.
Community college and state colleges should be free, like it is in civilized countries.
I'd like to se that as well, perhaps with a sliding scale where your GPA determines how much of a tuition discount you get. First year us free and then on above some number it's free, and so on done until failing students pay full freight. Of course, you'd probably need to have some forced curve so grade inflation wouldn't make everyone an A student. Of course, if it's totally free then that would increase demand and costs to the point where you'd have to make admissions that much harder. That is not necessarily bad, but it means state schools would become much more selective than they already are and even the tier 2 schools in a state would be harder to get into, even if they are free. Free is a good idea but implementing it is a challenge. Then the question becomes - what about foreign and non-resident students? Do you let them in for free as well?
I get tired of developers who seem to think I'll give them a good review if they keep asking for one; that is especially true if I paid for the app. I don't mind a one time ask when I first start using it or after an update; but periodic asks is just as likely to get a 3 star so so review as a good one even if I like the app.
I wouldn't put too much weight behind what he said 10+ years ago, he almost certainly doesn't remember it and would deny ever saying it at this point. He is, after all, the post-truth president - where facts don't matter and reality is only whatever he says it is. On top of that he has changed his opinion on almost every conceivable position in the past 5 years - on some of them multiple times - so saying that back then does not in any way preclude him from saying the opposite now and having the entire GOP believe him when he says it.
How true. he's even has a new term for lies - alternative facts. We are in for a wild ride.
Wishful thinking, there. He has the sacred letter after his name now, forever associated with his name and his brand. What he says is now gospel to the party, he couldn't piss them off if he ordered McConnell and Paul Ryan to walk naked down Pennsylvania Ave for his own amusement.
I'm not so sure about that. Politicians are, first and foremost, adept at defending their own political careers and if Trump goes against what they need to survive they'll turn on him and simply accuse him of being a RINO. Not that will bother him, in fact it may bolster his viewpoint that he alone is always right.