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  1. Re:Looking at it wrong on Federal Student Aid Requirements At For-Profit Colleges Overhauled · · Score: 1

    That is what CCs do. CCs dont care about your SATs, they give you a small test to see if you need remedial classes. They care typically cheap and prepare you for work, of if you get a transfer degree, advancement to a 4 year.

  2. Re:Wrong target on Federal Student Aid Requirements At For-Profit Colleges Overhauled · · Score: 1

    If you go to a community college you can get an associates degree, and then you can typically find a 4 year that will accept you, even for online classes.

  3. Re:Please.... on Google Sued Over Children's In-App Android Purchases · · Score: 1

    You mean under light supervision, otherwise the password would not have been entered. Also google gives you the option of getting the app off the play website and downloading it. If you dont trust your kids to make good decisions why would you not do that instead?

  4. Re:And... on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    And that is because it wa spent on other things and not SS. If it was not for that reason we would not have an issue atm.

  5. Re:They still will be but, on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    -Or a race to more perks

    -Smaller but not more responsive, look at the Duke disaster here in NC

    -States cant team up on projects? If there was not fed I bet they would

  6. Re:Makers and takers on 70% of U.S. Government Spending Is Writing Checks To Individuals · · Score: 1

    But that is not what he said, you are looking at it from everyone perception but the business, where that is who the OP is talking about. The business buys low and sells high, not buys high and sells low. the worker gets paid atleast what he thinks he is worth (in theory) and the buyer buys what he thinks is a bargin, but that is not how the business itself works.

  7. Re:Given the Obama Admin a pass on everything else on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 1

    Sort of like the journalists reporting faux news for lying...Maybe those sort of things are not partisan like you make them out to be.

  8. Re:Given the Obama Admin a pass on everything else on Senator Accuses CIA of Snooping On Intelligence Committee Computers · · Score: 1

    Obama? This predates Obama, this goes back to the start of the patriot act and Bush.

  9. Re:Heh on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Nice strawman. We are not there yet, I would rather spend money on desalination plants, to get them perfected, but that is a strawman, because we dont have that yet. That means they are not ignoring the bigger picture, you are. Your short term pleasure seems to be more important than long term survivability of the species.

  10. Re:And Environmentalists Just Dumped Thousands of on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    And your utilities water bills are the only thing that charge you for the cost of water? Bottled water pries never go up?

  11. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Except none of that was in my argument. The OP was providing an appeal to emotion fallacy to support his argument, I was merely pointing it out.

  12. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Sellers and buyers are separate groups...

  13. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 2

    Obviously you cant read. I eat meat, I just had a nice burger yesterday on the grill. That being said you are more worried about the monetary value of the meat, where I am worried about the long term social value of the meat, including the effect of you eating that meat on the availability of resources to your great great grandchildren. My issue is about sustaining the planet, where yours is about sustaining your wallet.

  14. Re:Delta Smelt on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Worked maybe, and even well for them, but not well overall. There are better places to grow crops, even places not being fully utilized, but they are not on the coast, which is the problem.

  15. Re:And Environmentalists Just Dumped Thousands of on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 2

    So in that state water costs less for the poor than the rich? The point is that while it may cost the same, it hurts one group more because it costs more of their money as a percentage of their money.

  16. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    So where is this happening? The article mentions nothing about men with guns being sent, or even them coming to houses who are doing it.

  17. Re: And Environmentalists Just Dumped Thousands of on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    So you are saying the smelt neither have a natural predator, or are the predator for any other items in its habitat? You seem to be making the assumption that preserving one animal has no other positive impacts, as though removing one species could not collapse a habitat. http://press.princeton.edu/cha...

  18. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    Computers can have a net benefit to society. We can figure out with their aid how to solve problems, including the ones they cause. Eating a steak solves nothing other than your own personal satisfaction.

  19. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 1

    You sell it without anyone elses involvement...Especially for something like water where ownership of our waterways is tenuous at best.

  20. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yea, sell a gallon of water for $1, then tomorrow have to buy it back for $10. Capitalism does not solve all problems, in fact it does not solve any really. Water, like oil, are societies resources, and is not unlimited. It is something that we need, as a nation, to survive, and therefore should not just be unilaterally sold with "yay capitalism".

    It does not matter if a juicy steak makes you 200 billion time happier if it harms the overall society in the end.

  21. Re:And Environmentalists Just Dumped Thousands of on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But what if, in prioritizing water for humans now, you cause more issues latter by destroying even more of the food chain's habitat?

  22. Re:Shill on Meat Makes Our Planet Thirsty · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can you dispute the statement, or do you just want to attack the person? I love my meat, but if the numbers are true then we have an issue, especially the exportation part.

  23. Re:Probably not Illegal. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    That being said, the more things change the more they stay the same. We now try and do those things in our own country now.

  24. Re:Safe just from prying eyes? on Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen Say Google Data Now Protected From Gov't Spying · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sure, the data might be safe from a government's prying eyes, but will it be safe from a government who kindly pays for the data, with the company acquiescing between it wants to maintain its lucrative business links with the authorities?

    FTFY

  25. Re:Denver? Atlanta? on Austin Has Highest Salaries For Tech Workers, After Factoring In Cost of Living · · Score: 1

    Cost of living here in RTP is dirt cheap, but so is the pay. There are some large entities, IBM/SAAS and the like, but they cannot bring up the Average, and the GOP in charge seems like it wants to keep salaries down in order to bring in more work.