Ah. So that she would most likely not have any chance to rise above the poverty line.
But she wasn't. She was just saddled with huge amounts of debt that did absolutely nothing to help her income earning ability. And she didn't need to be moved above the poverty line - she just needed to get herself into a position to stay above it.
In a very real way I need a car to live. That fact doesn't mean I can go buy any car at any cost and expect things to work out and be angry with someone else when they don't. It's the same thing here. (I haven't used a car analogy in this discussion yet and I couldn't take it any more.)
I'm not disagreeing that there are significant issues at play. I'd like to see the educational system change significantly and I'm a part of doing things that I hope will make that change come to be a reality. (Mostly focused around mobile learning systems with free/open content)
That said - there are so many routes to a good job that don't include huge amounts of student debt. Many, many routes. So while I do have some sympathy, it is hard to come by and limited.
I didn't say I don't have sympathy for the OWS movement. I said I have a difficult time being sympathetic with people who take out loans in the amounts stated in TFA. That's it.
There are so many things wrong that are out of the control of the normal person. Taking out school loans is not one of them.
It's interesting that you equate not taking out huge loans with not going to college at all. Can't imagine something else - like going to college without huge amounts of debt? I know too many people who've done it, including myself to buy into this idea that getting a degree absolutely requires giant loans.
Oddly enough - my parents are not upper class, I received no scholarships, and no funds from my parents or other relatives. I completed a 4 year degree with no debt.
The idea that school loans are inevitable unless one wants to be a part of the poor downtrodden masses is false.
Too many people go to college so it will be good if that get's adjusted. I met someone a number of years back that held over $40,000 in debt - that she accrued earning a masters degree in social work. When I met her she was in a program that cost $20,000 to earn a teaching certificate that would allow her to teach elementary school. She viewed the student loan program as a way to live and accepted that the debt would "always be there."
With that kind of thinking, someone else needs to stop these kinds of people. They wont stop themselves. She should never been able to get those loans in the first place.
I wont be the first or last to say it, but I have a hard time sympathizing with anyone who has voluntarily taken on large amounts of debt and doesn't understand that they made a poor choice.
Articles like this make me think OWS is a condemnation of the American educational system more than anything else. I would think anyone taught math in elementary school would see the problem with taking out hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans.
I can't believe you are comparing a Kindle to a palm pilot or that you considered a Kindle to be a replacement for a palm pilot. They are two completely different devices intended for completely different uses. Reading a book on an m105 (I had one until about 3 months ago) would be a total joke compared to reading a book on a Kindle. The Kindle can't even do most of what made the m105 an awesome device. What a weird comparison.
I'm unsure how anyone could have imagined that the on-screen keyboard for the $79 model would be touch. Every bit of info. I've seen from Amazon comparing the models makes it incredibly clear that it doesn't have a touch screen. The models that do, surprisingly enough, have touch in the name (except for the fire but I don't think anyone is confused about what's going on there.)
The 3g limitations on the touch are a bit disappointing, but I can't imagine too many people will be impacted greatly. Using the browser on an e-ink kindle is not something anyone would really be looking to do if they had other options. The only time I'm really seeing 3g browsing as something desirable is when I'm traveling and data on my phone is prohibitively expensive. If I'm not data roaming, I can just use my phone as wi-fi hot spot for the kindle, but if I want to be on the web I'll be doing it on my phone. I doubt the majority of kindle users are also international travelers who use it as a way to get cheap data access for the web.
When I got my first Kindle I got on the web quickly, just to do it. I don't think I've done it again since. I do have a friend who was traveling in Austria and got into a bind. His wife was able to get on the web with her kindle, as they were driving, and find a place to stay in the next town ahead. I think they were data roaming so that's why they didn't just use a phone.
I like the idea that emailed docs will get stored by Amazon especially if they get stored as part of my archive and they are available to all my registered kindles. Right now my family reads a lot of stuff that on our kindles that I don't get from Amazon. So I have to email it to each one, and I have to have the machine available that has the original documents. If I could email the doc once, then have it available to all kindles any time I want - that would be sweet.
I'm getting a couple of the $79 Kindles as soon as I can. Probably next time I'm in the states. That's the cost of a tank of gas for my car for a great ebook reader.
I moved to Hungary in July. I'll file an extension in April. When I do file my taxes I'll qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion, which means excluding over $90,000 of my income. Which for me, means all of it. My budget for living here counts on the fact that I don't pay any US income tax. (I still pay social security, etc.)
I live in one. It's a mess. Everyone cheats on their taxes. VAT is about to become 27% so when you shop at a store they ask, "Do you need a reciept?" because that affects the price. The effective income tax is something like 50% - if everyone payed it they couldn't live. Yet the government is broke, infrastructure is a mess and the solutions I hear being tossed around all center on new taxes. I wonder how that will go.
The original post is correct. Government plans the revenue based on everyone paying this thing - but it wont come close to generating the revenue projected and the debt will get worse, not better.
This has nothing to do with bugs but something that would be nice - a method for exporting journals. I have 9 years of them now. A long while back leoPetr (when he was still lpetrazickis I think) wrote a journal archiver in Python but it doesn't work any more as the site has changed quite a bit since back then. I've hacked a way at it since then but my coding fu is weak. Anyway, it would be nice.
On the page that lists my journals ( https://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=454276 ) and when I write a new journal entry at https://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=edit I end up with 4 identical slashboxes. The one with my profile and my User Space. The extra one is in the center column and so I need to scroll down to get to the actual page content. You can see a couple screen shots here and here.
I didn't read the article - so I don't know where they got the $80 part. I think we pay $100 in Nairobi. So I didn't think $140 in the US was bad. And there may be better deals in the US. I just knew I could get it at Newegg and I like dealing with them. No idea why you'd pay so much in Mexico though. Is no one else competing at a lower price point with another device?
I'm on my way out the door - but google something along the lines of "developing world mobile coverage". Cell phones have been a huge boon to the developing world and are making a huge difference in improving people's lives. It's really an exciting thing to watch. I think it's also a big driver in why we'll see mobile access of the web eclipse pc usage.
It's been shown that putting cell phones in the hands of people in developing countries is a way to really improve their well being. I'd say that this is much better than sending over water or food.
People in Kenya aren't just getting started with mobile telephony. Getting smart phones may be a little newer for many but many, many people have been using cell phones for a while. A password is not a big issue. In fact they are already used to being more secure with their phones as many people have been using services like M-PESA to pay bills and store funds. In a number of ways the typical Kenyan is more mobile phone savvy than the average American.
We've been using them in Nairobi for a mobile learning project. The students get one of the Ideos phone with a micro SD card loaded with the videos, reading material and tests for the class.
I liked them enough that I bought one for my wife. Newegg sells them in the US for $140. She needed a new phone before we moved to Europe and it's been great. The screen is not too big, the camera is pretty crappy and it doesn't have the horsepower of a phone like my Galaxy S, but it does really well with calls and has better connectivity than my phone. We are on the same carrier and half the time when I can't get data, she can.
when I was in the navy we practically bathed in the stuff. I had a friend hack off the end of his finger when we were in port one time and they took him to a hospital off the boat. A nurse was trying to get his hand clean so the doctor could stitch it up and was having a hard time. She asked, "How do you get this stuff off your hands?" His answer was, "You don't want to know."
Every year we had to fill out forms listing all the toxic stuff we'd been exposed to during the course of our work - trichlor was one of many.
They aren't all from Packt. I know this because I have submitted, and had accepted reviews for books from O'Reilly, Tor, Penguin, Manning, Addison-Wesley and others.
I have submitted reviews for Packt books that were not green-lit for the front page.
The book reviews at slashdot work like all the other submissions. A person writes one, submits it and if the editors o.k. it, it goes to the front page. It's that simple. They don't take them all, and they don't explain why, just like with other submissions. I guess it is possible that there are people getting payed to write reviews and submit them, but I would guess that this is less likely than so many commenters seem to imply.
In a lot of cases, it's folks like me, that enjoy writing reviews. I haven't been able to do any in a while because life has been too busy and writing them is a lot of work, but I'll probably start again later this year if things slow down a bit as I expect.
Once I had a review green-lit on slashdot I did receive emails from others that would like me to review books. They are willing to provide a book, but there's no payment, no conspiracy, nothing. And on some of those books I was given, I wrote negative reviews. But usually if I didn't like a book I didn't take the time to review it. I rather let people know about books I like, rather than spending effort and time complaining. I think this explains some of the positive skew that is seen in review scores.
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Ah. So that she would most likely not have any chance to rise above the poverty line.
But she wasn't. She was just saddled with huge amounts of debt that did absolutely nothing to help her income earning ability. And she didn't need to be moved above the poverty line - she just needed to get herself into a position to stay above it.
In a very real way I need a car to live. That fact doesn't mean I can go buy any car at any cost and expect things to work out and be angry with someone else when they don't. It's the same thing here. (I haven't used a car analogy in this discussion yet and I couldn't take it any more.)
Finding it hard to sympathize != no sympathy.
I'm not disagreeing that there are significant issues at play. I'd like to see the educational system change significantly and I'm a part of doing things that I hope will make that change come to be a reality. (Mostly focused around mobile learning systems with free/open content)
That said - there are so many routes to a good job that don't include huge amounts of student debt. Many, many routes. So while I do have some sympathy, it is hard to come by and limited.
I didn't say I don't have sympathy for the OWS movement. I said I have a difficult time being sympathetic with people who take out loans in the amounts stated in TFA. That's it.
There are so many things wrong that are out of the control of the normal person. Taking out school loans is not one of them.
It's interesting that you equate not taking out huge loans with not going to college at all. Can't imagine something else - like going to college without huge amounts of debt? I know too many people who've done it, including myself to buy into this idea that getting a degree absolutely requires giant loans.
And it is completely possible to get a degree without taking on crushing debt. I'm not sure how what you are saying relates to what I posted.
Oddly enough - my parents are not upper class, I received no scholarships, and no funds from my parents or other relatives. I completed a 4 year degree with no debt.
The idea that school loans are inevitable unless one wants to be a part of the poor downtrodden masses is false.
Too many people go to college so it will be good if that get's adjusted. I met someone a number of years back that held over $40,000 in debt - that she accrued earning a masters degree in social work. When I met her she was in a program that cost $20,000 to earn a teaching certificate that would allow her to teach elementary school. She viewed the student loan program as a way to live and accepted that the debt would "always be there."
With that kind of thinking, someone else needs to stop these kinds of people. They wont stop themselves. She should never been able to get those loans in the first place.
I wont be the first or last to say it, but I have a hard time sympathizing with anyone who has voluntarily taken on large amounts of debt and doesn't understand that they made a poor choice.
Articles like this make me think OWS is a condemnation of the American educational system more than anything else. I would think anyone taught math in elementary school would see the problem with taking out hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans.
I can't believe you are comparing a Kindle to a palm pilot or that you considered a Kindle to be a replacement for a palm pilot. They are two completely different devices intended for completely different uses. Reading a book on an m105 (I had one until about 3 months ago) would be a total joke compared to reading a book on a Kindle. The Kindle can't even do most of what made the m105 an awesome device. What a weird comparison.
I'm unsure how anyone could have imagined that the on-screen keyboard for the $79 model would be touch. Every bit of info. I've seen from Amazon comparing the models makes it incredibly clear that it doesn't have a touch screen. The models that do, surprisingly enough, have touch in the name (except for the fire but I don't think anyone is confused about what's going on there.)
The 3g limitations on the touch are a bit disappointing, but I can't imagine too many people will be impacted greatly. Using the browser on an e-ink kindle is not something anyone would really be looking to do if they had other options. The only time I'm really seeing 3g browsing as something desirable is when I'm traveling and data on my phone is prohibitively expensive. If I'm not data roaming, I can just use my phone as wi-fi hot spot for the kindle, but if I want to be on the web I'll be doing it on my phone. I doubt the majority of kindle users are also international travelers who use it as a way to get cheap data access for the web.
When I got my first Kindle I got on the web quickly, just to do it. I don't think I've done it again since. I do have a friend who was traveling in Austria and got into a bind. His wife was able to get on the web with her kindle, as they were driving, and find a place to stay in the next town ahead. I think they were data roaming so that's why they didn't just use a phone.
I like the idea that emailed docs will get stored by Amazon especially if they get stored as part of my archive and they are available to all my registered kindles. Right now my family reads a lot of stuff that on our kindles that I don't get from Amazon. So I have to email it to each one, and I have to have the machine available that has the original documents. If I could email the doc once, then have it available to all kindles any time I want - that would be sweet.
I'm getting a couple of the $79 Kindles as soon as I can. Probably next time I'm in the states. That's the cost of a tank of gas for my car for a great ebook reader.
dude, first was deprecated a long time ago. frosty prost was too I think.
If you live in Thailand for an entire year and pay the same US taxes you would have payed if you had lived in the U.S. - you are an idiot.
Foreign Earned Income Exclusion
I moved to Hungary in July. I'll file an extension in April. When I do file my taxes I'll qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion, which means excluding over $90,000 of my income. Which for me, means all of it. My budget for living here counts on the fact that I don't pay any US income tax. (I still pay social security, etc.)
I live in one. It's a mess. Everyone cheats on their taxes. VAT is about to become 27% so when you shop at a store they ask, "Do you need a reciept?" because that affects the price. The effective income tax is something like 50% - if everyone payed it they couldn't live. Yet the government is broke, infrastructure is a mess and the solutions I hear being tossed around all center on new taxes. I wonder how that will go.
The original post is correct. Government plans the revenue based on everyone paying this thing - but it wont come close to generating the revenue projected and the debt will get worse, not better.
I don't think anyone is supporting Python in netbeans any more.
Thank you for the info.
This has nothing to do with bugs but something that would be nice - a method for exporting journals. I have 9 years of them now. A long while back leoPetr (when he was still lpetrazickis I think) wrote a journal archiver in Python but it doesn't work any more as the site has changed quite a bit since back then. I've hacked a way at it since then but my coding fu is weak. Anyway, it would be nice.
thanks again.
On the page that lists my journals ( https://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=454276 ) and when I write a new journal entry at https://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=edit I end up with 4 identical slashboxes. The one with my profile and my User Space. The extra one is in the center column and so I need to scroll down to get to the actual page content. You can see a couple screen shots here and here.
Thanks
Since this is a time to talk about Slashdot and what will happen to it -- any time line on fixing the layout for Journal pages?
I didn't read the article - so I don't know where they got the $80 part. I think we pay $100 in Nairobi. So I didn't think $140 in the US was bad. And there may be better deals in the US. I just knew I could get it at Newegg and I like dealing with them. No idea why you'd pay so much in Mexico though. Is no one else competing at a lower price point with another device?
I'm on my way out the door - but google something along the lines of "developing world mobile coverage". Cell phones have been a huge boon to the developing world and are making a huge difference in improving people's lives. It's really an exciting thing to watch. I think it's also a big driver in why we'll see mobile access of the web eclipse pc usage.
There are a lot of services that don't require a data plan. Google has been one player that has developed services that rely only on SMS.
It's been shown that putting cell phones in the hands of people in developing countries is a way to really improve their well being. I'd say that this is much better than sending over water or food.
People in Kenya aren't just getting started with mobile telephony. Getting smart phones may be a little newer for many but many, many people have been using cell phones for a while. A password is not a big issue. In fact they are already used to being more secure with their phones as many people have been using services like M-PESA to pay bills and store funds. In a number of ways the typical Kenyan is more mobile phone savvy than the average American.
We've been using them in Nairobi for a mobile learning project. The students get one of the Ideos phone with a micro SD card loaded with the videos, reading material and tests for the class.
I liked them enough that I bought one for my wife. Newegg sells them in the US for $140. She needed a new phone before we moved to Europe and it's been great. The screen is not too big, the camera is pretty crappy and it doesn't have the horsepower of a phone like my Galaxy S, but it does really well with calls and has better connectivity than my phone. We are on the same carrier and half the time when I can't get data, she can.
when I was in the navy we practically bathed in the stuff. I had a friend hack off the end of his finger when we were in port one time and they took him to a hospital off the boat. A nurse was trying to get his hand clean so the doctor could stitch it up and was having a hard time. She asked, "How do you get this stuff off your hands?" His answer was, "You don't want to know."
Every year we had to fill out forms listing all the toxic stuff we'd been exposed to during the course of our work - trichlor was one of many.
They aren't all from Packt. I know this because I have submitted, and had accepted reviews for books from O'Reilly, Tor, Penguin, Manning, Addison-Wesley and others.
I have submitted reviews for Packt books that were not green-lit for the front page.
The book reviews at slashdot work like all the other submissions. A person writes one, submits it and if the editors o.k. it, it goes to the front page. It's that simple. They don't take them all, and they don't explain why, just like with other submissions. I guess it is possible that there are people getting payed to write reviews and submit them, but I would guess that this is less likely than so many commenters seem to imply.
In a lot of cases, it's folks like me, that enjoy writing reviews. I haven't been able to do any in a while because life has been too busy and writing them is a lot of work, but I'll probably start again later this year if things slow down a bit as I expect.
Once I had a review green-lit on slashdot I did receive emails from others that would like me to review books. They are willing to provide a book, but there's no payment, no conspiracy, nothing. And on some of those books I was given, I wrote negative reviews. But usually if I didn't like a book I didn't take the time to review it. I rather let people know about books I like, rather than spending effort and time complaining. I think this explains some of the positive skew that is seen in review scores.