As you point out, it's not aimed at them. For the marginal student, the most important question is: do you have a plan for your life? Do you have a specific goal for which a college degree is a necessity? If you don't, it's almost certainly a bad idea to go. As in all things, the children of the well-to-do can get away with doing things (going to college with no plan but to party) that are disastrous for the children of the working class.
I'd probably just tell them to go read Dave Ramsey, because his advice is perfect for people in that situation.
No, that's (at best) the net present value of the difference in earnings between the average holder of a college degree and the average person who doesn't have one. The two groups of people are not equivalent in ambition or intelligence, which is what Thiel is counting on.
In some fields, education is essential - engineering isn't really something you can pick up on the side these days. But not all fields are like that. In particular, you'll learn a lot more about business from running one than from going to school about how to run one - there isn't a huge base of knowledge you have to acquire before you can even begin to benefit from being around people who do it every day. Besides, you can always go back and learn accounting later if you find you need to know it personally.
Smartphones have expanded because they're capable of doing so much more than a Blackberry or Treo. I hate surfing on my Android phone if I have other options, but when you're out and about and don't have your other tech with you, there it is. That doesn't mean that the interface is good; it means that it works.
Wikipedia (quoting the CRC handbook; sorry, but I tossed mine a long time ago) says at -43C it has a vapor pressure of 10 torr, so if you apply a good vacuum you'll need to go colder than that. As someone else pointed out, dry ice and acetone would be just as effective. It's been a long time since I did this; sorry if I made a hash of it.
A hyphen is used to separate multiple adjectives when they modify the same noun.
Nitpick: in the phrase "fifteen-minute presentations", the words fifteen and minute are not adjectives that both modify "presentations". "Fifteen-minute", as a phrase, consists of two nouns functioning as a single adjectival phrase to describe yet another noun, "presentations". In construction, this is quite similar to an ablative absolute in Latin, although the lack of case in English nouns and the corresponding use of English words as multiple parts of speech makes the situation murky. Ask a linguist. Also, "fifteen minute presentations" is inherently ambiguous unless referring to 15 physically small presentations. One should use either "fifteen-minute presentations" or "fifteen one-minute presentations".
One might also point out that while the meaning of "newly described species" is unambiguous without the hyphen, its inclusion may assist the reader in quickly drawing the connection between the words, and thus be an appropriate stylistic device despite being grammatically unnecessary.
No, no, no. You don't want to metabolize the alcohol at night - you want to metabolize the alcohol just before waking up. You want it to hang around at night.
Methylene chloride does the job quite well, with minimal effect on taste, but some people get scared when they hear that a solvent has touched their coffee beans (never mind that it's long gone). As a result, decaf often is processed by some crappy extraction method. If you can get the real solvent stuff, it's quite good. Heck, you could even make your own... and once you pour off the methylene chloride, you can rotovap it and extract your caffeine for when you need it. (If you've got a liquid nitrogen trap, you can even recover the methylene chloride this way.)
I don't blame speed, but the way US law works, it does. I've actually been in an accident in which I was at fault by US standards, but I would have been cleared in Europe due to failure to clear the rear. (A person pulled into the fast lane, from the slow lane, right in front of me, doing 10 mph below the speed limit on the road. It was wet, I skidded when I hit the brakes, and despite my best efforts to break the skid (aka pumping the brakes), I slid into her.) Thankfully, I was actually doing the speed limit, so I didn't get a ticket on top of it all.
I'm not even jokingly advocating removing the secrecy from voting... but I'm pointing out why it is that it's easy to make an ATM that accurately tracks money but hard to secure voting.
see, I was 2km/h over the limit, whereas they were 45km/h over the limit
So, Mr. Jones, by your own admission, you were driving with reckless disregard for the law. Please explain to the court why it is that your insurance company should pay these damages - indeed, why it is that you should not be charged criminally for this behavior. After all, the bad actions of others are no excuse for your own criminal behavior.
To be fair, the problem with elections isn't that it's hard to secure computer voting... it's that it's really hard to secure secret ballots. If you get rid of that requirement, the security is dead simple.
You're trapped in the airport for three hours on a layover. There's a power plug in front of you. Wifi is free. If all you have is a phone, watching a movie seems like a pretty good idea.
People who root their phones are likely to have the technical know-how to be able to pirate movies safely and effectively, even if they don't actually do it, so your comparison was apt. In the US, if you can wait for movies to make it to Redbox (vending machine for DVDs, basically, with a 30-day delay between initial release for purchase and availability at the Redbox), they're $1/day, so $4 movies aren't likely to be big sellers.
Watching movies on a 4-inch screen is pretty awful, though SD television is fine. On a 10-inch screen like the iPad, though, Netflix looks good. I'd rather watch it in my living room, of course, but when you're traveling, you take what you can get. Thankfully, my laptop has an HDMI port...
No, you should have placed out of them. Many high schools - even many good high schools - lack any kind of introduction to programming.
I'm not a CS guy, or a programmer. But I did take the intro CS course as a senior in college, mostly to amuse myself. I learned that I already had some of the mindset for the actual CS part of it - thinking about the algorithms was pretty easy for me, although since it was a freshman course I'm not trying to claim any brilliance. But what I had to learn was how to code (in C++, for that course). Sometimes that was easy, sometimes it was hard, but it was definitely something that needed to be taught. If I had tried to piece it all together by myself, I would have learned some atrocious programming habits.
Technically, the citizens are already paying for it - your tax department, after all, runs on tax money. But it is one of the sillier things we have to deal with.
I use TurboTax these days, which includes free electronic filing of the federal return with their products. I file my state return on paper, because they want something like $20 to do it for me - no thanks, I'll just print it out and buy some stamps.
The stipulation of the program not being able to offer services below cost doesn't even seem to be a bad idea.
Many cities offer free or lower-cost services to elderly and disabled people, even when the services are actually run by private companies under contract (trash pickup and water/sewer for me). This bill appears to prevent that.
Based on TFS, though, the killer is the requirement that the system be run as a separate entity, unsubsidized. If a municipality wanted to do this, it would make sense for the municipal network to fall under the city's IT department. It looks like that's not possible. Furthermore, why should the state care? If a city wants to do this, surely the locals can figure out whether it's worth the taxes or not.
I'm a big fan of private business, but this is akin to the laws that prevent the government from competing with private business for anything - so instead of having electronic tax filing provided for free at the IRS site, we have to pay a private entity to do the filing for us. The IRS still has to have a back end paid for with tax money.
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Real, mechanical on/off switches take up a more space than a momentary contact switch. And they're susceptible to accidental triggering.
As you point out, it's not aimed at them. For the marginal student, the most important question is: do you have a plan for your life? Do you have a specific goal for which a college degree is a necessity? If you don't, it's almost certainly a bad idea to go. As in all things, the children of the well-to-do can get away with doing things (going to college with no plan but to party) that are disastrous for the children of the working class.
I'd probably just tell them to go read Dave Ramsey, because his advice is perfect for people in that situation.
No, that's (at best) the net present value of the difference in earnings between the average holder of a college degree and the average person who doesn't have one. The two groups of people are not equivalent in ambition or intelligence, which is what Thiel is counting on.
In some fields, education is essential - engineering isn't really something you can pick up on the side these days. But not all fields are like that. In particular, you'll learn a lot more about business from running one than from going to school about how to run one - there isn't a huge base of knowledge you have to acquire before you can even begin to benefit from being around people who do it every day. Besides, you can always go back and learn accounting later if you find you need to know it personally.
And yet violating the law may render your insurance invalid - making you personally responsible for the damages.
Actually, compulsory licenses do exist. The price may not be right, though.
Smartphones have expanded because they're capable of doing so much more than a Blackberry or Treo. I hate surfing on my Android phone if I have other options, but when you're out and about and don't have your other tech with you, there it is. That doesn't mean that the interface is good; it means that it works.
Wikipedia (quoting the CRC handbook; sorry, but I tossed mine a long time ago) says at -43C it has a vapor pressure of 10 torr, so if you apply a good vacuum you'll need to go colder than that. As someone else pointed out, dry ice and acetone would be just as effective. It's been a long time since I did this; sorry if I made a hash of it.
A hyphen is used to separate multiple adjectives when they modify the same noun.
Nitpick: in the phrase "fifteen-minute presentations", the words fifteen and minute are not adjectives that both modify "presentations". "Fifteen-minute", as a phrase, consists of two nouns functioning as a single adjectival phrase to describe yet another noun, "presentations". In construction, this is quite similar to an ablative absolute in Latin, although the lack of case in English nouns and the corresponding use of English words as multiple parts of speech makes the situation murky. Ask a linguist. Also, "fifteen minute presentations" is inherently ambiguous unless referring to 15 physically small presentations. One should use either "fifteen-minute presentations" or "fifteen one-minute presentations".
One might also point out that while the meaning of "newly described species" is unambiguous without the hyphen, its inclusion may assist the reader in quickly drawing the connection between the words, and thus be an appropriate stylistic device despite being grammatically unnecessary.
Oh, and it's your turn.
No, no, no. You don't want to metabolize the alcohol at night - you want to metabolize the alcohol just before waking up. You want it to hang around at night.
Methylene chloride does the job quite well, with minimal effect on taste, but some people get scared when they hear that a solvent has touched their coffee beans (never mind that it's long gone). As a result, decaf often is processed by some crappy extraction method. If you can get the real solvent stuff, it's quite good. Heck, you could even make your own... and once you pour off the methylene chloride, you can rotovap it and extract your caffeine for when you need it. (If you've got a liquid nitrogen trap, you can even recover the methylene chloride this way.)
I don't blame speed, but the way US law works, it does. I've actually been in an accident in which I was at fault by US standards, but I would have been cleared in Europe due to failure to clear the rear. (A person pulled into the fast lane, from the slow lane, right in front of me, doing 10 mph below the speed limit on the road. It was wet, I skidded when I hit the brakes, and despite my best efforts to break the skid (aka pumping the brakes), I slid into her.) Thankfully, I was actually doing the speed limit, so I didn't get a ticket on top of it all.
I'm not even jokingly advocating removing the secrecy from voting... but I'm pointing out why it is that it's easy to make an ATM that accurately tracks money but hard to secure voting.
see, I was 2km/h over the limit, whereas they were 45km/h over the limit
So, Mr. Jones, by your own admission, you were driving with reckless disregard for the law. Please explain to the court why it is that your insurance company should pay these damages - indeed, why it is that you should not be charged criminally for this behavior. After all, the bad actions of others are no excuse for your own criminal behavior.
To be fair, the problem with elections isn't that it's hard to secure computer voting... it's that it's really hard to secure secret ballots. If you get rid of that requirement, the security is dead simple.
Do you have a recommendation for where to look? Don't know where to start.
You're trapped in the airport for three hours on a layover. There's a power plug in front of you. Wifi is free. If all you have is a phone, watching a movie seems like a pretty good idea.
People who root their phones are likely to have the technical know-how to be able to pirate movies safely and effectively, even if they don't actually do it, so your comparison was apt. In the US, if you can wait for movies to make it to Redbox (vending machine for DVDs, basically, with a 30-day delay between initial release for purchase and availability at the Redbox), they're $1/day, so $4 movies aren't likely to be big sellers.
Watching movies on a 4-inch screen is pretty awful, though SD television is fine. On a 10-inch screen like the iPad, though, Netflix looks good. I'd rather watch it in my living room, of course, but when you're traveling, you take what you can get. Thankfully, my laptop has an HDMI port...
No, you should have placed out of them. Many high schools - even many good high schools - lack any kind of introduction to programming.
I'm not a CS guy, or a programmer. But I did take the intro CS course as a senior in college, mostly to amuse myself. I learned that I already had some of the mindset for the actual CS part of it - thinking about the algorithms was pretty easy for me, although since it was a freshman course I'm not trying to claim any brilliance. But what I had to learn was how to code (in C++, for that course). Sometimes that was easy, sometimes it was hard, but it was definitely something that needed to be taught. If I had tried to piece it all together by myself, I would have learned some atrocious programming habits.
Ah, but universities are just trade schools for academics.
Technically, the citizens are already paying for it - your tax department, after all, runs on tax money. But it is one of the sillier things we have to deal with.
I use TurboTax these days, which includes free electronic filing of the federal return with their products. I file my state return on paper, because they want something like $20 to do it for me - no thanks, I'll just print it out and buy some stamps.
Like I said, it's intuitive once you know how to use iOS.
Who cares if Qwest or Comcast can't make enough profit?
I'm wondering why more coops aren't showing up. They're very common in rural areas for providing water or power.
The stipulation of the program not being able to offer services below cost doesn't even seem to be a bad idea.
Many cities offer free or lower-cost services to elderly and disabled people, even when the services are actually run by private companies under contract (trash pickup and water/sewer for me). This bill appears to prevent that.
Based on TFS, though, the killer is the requirement that the system be run as a separate entity, unsubsidized. If a municipality wanted to do this, it would make sense for the municipal network to fall under the city's IT department. It looks like that's not possible. Furthermore, why should the state care? If a city wants to do this, surely the locals can figure out whether it's worth the taxes or not.
I'm a big fan of private business, but this is akin to the laws that prevent the government from competing with private business for anything - so instead of having electronic tax filing provided for free at the IRS site, we have to pay a private entity to do the filing for us. The IRS still has to have a back end paid for with tax money.