It's the faucet-like availability of government-backed loans and too-easy education money that is directly responsible for driving tuition prices through the roof in the first place.
Maybe the free-flowing loans is an effect not a cause?
IE- the faucet is open to distract from the fact that public funding has gone done considerably over the last several decades: "Sure, we let college tuition rise at double the inflation rate, but don't worry a minute about it- you can get loans lickety-split!"
There are a pile of folks who whish to believe they are "in the know" and it's not hard to find somebody who *thinks* they are more knowledgeable than they really are. Such "I know everything" is common among college age people, who have still not completely developed their adult mental capacity and still have the adolescent tendencies. It's an age and maturity thing.
That attitude isn't just a college-age thing, for example there's this guy who thinks he knows everything about everything:
https://www.axios.com/everythi... . I see the age, still waiting on the maturity. Sigh.
Just like my friends Grandma who was told by the very same Canadian health care system: Yes you have cancer, but according to the Canadian government you're too old to start treatments. Here is a bunch of pain pills. Please go home and die, and that is just what she did.
I know you posted this to get the emotional reaction, but the story doesn't include some basic background info:
- how old was your friend's grandma?
- what was the prognosis (factoring in her whole health situation, not just the stage of cancer) if she got treatment?
- what was her life-prognosis if she didn't get treatment?
"Too old to start treatments" is really sad, but it can be a legitimate answer. eg- if chemo/rad will likely buy someone maybe one more year before another already-existing condition takes them, do they want to spend six of those extra twelve months going through absolute *hell*? And is it ethical for doctors to sign off on the six months of hell, if that's the situation?
Look at those list of qualifications for the things that are not really shut down.
Basically "anything that is really at all useful carries on".
There's a small but growing list of jobs being done by federal employees who are not currently being paid. You might count this as "carrying on", but most rational people would categorize this right into "unsustainable".
* Disclaimer: yes, I know these employees will eventually get back pay, but the ability to work-then-back-pay is the reason "anything that is really at all useful carries on".
"If you do live in a house, try to leave your keys either upstairs or... as far away from the vehicle as possible," he said. "The other thing that you can do is there are products out there that you can put your key fob into," such as a faraday cage -- a box used to block radio signals -- a key pouch, which works similarly, or even a steel box.
They bring a steal box, you bring a steel box. That's the Chicago way!
It is virtually impossible to calculate ALL the costs in providing wind and solar power.Do you start with the costs of mining the materials needed to produce the components of a wind generator? Wait! How about starting with the costs of producing the machinery that mine those elements? No, that doesn't take into account the lab time and personnel needed to come up with the idea in the first place...etc., etc.
Yeah, thank $diety that coal and oil are made out of unicorn-farts, and are hand-delivered by Jesus...
And yet coal-ash disasters can destroy tons of square miles, pollute rivers for hundreds of miles, and cost over a $billion to clean up, and nobody says a word. The coal industry better thank $diety that "nuclear" is a now a curse-word...
Thats putting it mildly. Not only does it use a fossil fuel to obtain the H2 and require energy to run the process, it also ends up getting LESS energy out of the gas itself than if the gas had just been burnt directly.
The same is true for electricity- takes an energy source (possibly fossil fuel) to create, which means we get LESS energy than if we had burnt the fuel directly.
But all of this is irrelevent- electricity is a power *transport* mechanism not a power source. Just like H2.
Instead of voting for a candidate, have the electorate vote on a number of issues (combination of recent past issues and issues on the docket). Then take the average, and the candidate of the political party that is closest to the average, wins. Parties can do whatever they want to determine candidates.
Trouble is this doesn't account for some things. Eg-
- I don't believe candidate/party X will do what they claim
- candidate/party Y has the moral fiber of a cup of jello
But arguing rewewables subsidies are underfunded compared to fossil fuels based on total dollar amount is just plain ignorant. (...snip...) The proper comparison in that case would be federal highway dollars per mile of road (or perhaps miles driven on said roads). Just like the proper comparison for energy subsidies is per kWh or per megajoule.
By that reasoning, the bigger and more successful a company becomes, the more subsidies it should get.
Unless the Trump administration is seeking increased NASA funding for this fiscal year, you can just ignore anything they say about space.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case I'm cautiously optimistic, if only because VP Pence seems to be a genuine NASA fanboi...
If Pence is a NASA fanboi that's nice and all, but just being a fanboi goes about zero percent of making something like this happen. It takes money+commitment to do the planning+design+building of the stuff that turns ambitious ideas into reality.
When you do this you even get a blurb of text on the screen "Disconnecting from {wifi name}." NOT "I've powered the WiFi radios down."
In a consumer electronic device, you shouldn't have to read the gui blurbs with a "practically interpreting legalese" mindset.
If I clicked the disconnect-wifi button (or what I reasonably think was the button), I'd interpret "Disconnecting from {wifi name}" as meaning "Disconnecting from {wifi name} because I'm shutting off the damn WiFi".
Usually mice are afraid of the scent of cats, and steer clear.
But toxoplasma gondii-infected mice lose their fear of cats, and are actually attracted to the scent. They'll seek it out and hang out close to cats, where they'e more likely to be eaten, thus transferring the toxoplasma to the cat, where it can continue its life cycle.
That has nothing to do with this article, but I think it's really cool.
Except they insist that the rest of the US bend to their will in all things, without exception. There won't be any high density Syrian refugee build-outs appearing in this neighborhood, but the rest of the US is racist when it objects to the same.
The bay area itself has taken a number of refugees (source: http://www.mercurynews.com/201...), although the exact number is unlikely to ever be huge due to the extreme cost-ineffectiveness: why would anybody relocate people into one of the most expensive housing markets in the world?
but it cannot juggle 64-bit and 16-bit simultaneously.
More specifically, x64 won't do real or virtual-8086 modes and 64-bit mode simultaneously. 16-bit protected mode (like what I guess you'd see in win-3.1 or win-95 apps?) can run under a 64-bit OS just fine, as long as the OS supports them.
And finally, the nail in the coffin, is once in 64-bit mode it cannot get back to 16-bit mode without a power down/reset.
Incorrect. I've worked in AMD's x86 division continuously since before x64 was invented, and as long as you know what you're doing you can make this transition just fine. I've done it plenty of times myself.
Not saying s/w should do it, just that s/w can do it.
Income inequality is an indirect, at best, and irrelevant at worst, measurement.
One cares about the average health, wealth, and longevity of a population.
A thousand people pack into a conference hall: Bill Gates plus 999 homeless people. "Average wealth" says that the average person there is a multi-millionaire. Is that an appropriate measurement to use?
A week later msoft's stock has a major uptick, and "average wealth" says the average person there gained 15% . Still a right measurement?
My car uses voice-recognition to pick songs on the MP3 player. One time I told it to play "When I First Kissed You", and it started playing "Two Steps From Hell".
I think my car is going through a bad break-up with the Chevy down the block.
Because it's about the trustworthyness of the election system- these calls aren't about changing this month's election results, they're about reliable future elections.
Put another way, if someone told your org about a potentially serious glitch in their public-facing firewall, would you wait for a major intrusion before checking it out?
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Maybe the free-flowing loans is an effect not a cause?
IE- the faucet is open to distract from the fact that public funding has gone done considerably over the last several decades: "Sure, we let college tuition rise at double the inflation rate, but don't worry a minute about it- you can get loans lickety-split!"
Hearing Nintendo complain about gouging surprised me so much that I almost knocked over my Amiibo collection with my $70 Switch controller!
That attitude isn't just a college-age thing, for example there's this guy who thinks he knows everything about everything: https://www.axios.com/everythi... . I see the age, still waiting on the maturity. Sigh.
I know you posted this to get the emotional reaction, but the story doesn't include some basic background info:
- how old was your friend's grandma?
- what was the prognosis (factoring in her whole health situation, not just the stage of cancer) if she got treatment?
- what was her life-prognosis if she didn't get treatment?
"Too old to start treatments" is really sad, but it can be a legitimate answer. eg- if chemo/rad will likely buy someone maybe one more year before another already-existing condition takes them, do they want to spend six of those extra twelve months going through absolute *hell*? And is it ethical for doctors to sign off on the six months of hell, if that's the situation?
There's a small but growing list of jobs being done by federal employees who are not currently being paid. You might count this as "carrying on", but most rational people would categorize this right into "unsustainable".
* Disclaimer: yes, I know these employees will eventually get back pay, but the ability to work-then-back-pay is the reason "anything that is really at all useful carries on".
They bring a steal box, you bring a steel box. That's the Chicago way!
Cisco removed seven backdoor accounts, huh? How many more are in there?
That's not rhetorical- I'd really like to know.
Yeah, thank $diety that coal and oil are made out of unicorn-farts, and are hand-delivered by Jesus...
And yet coal-ash disasters can destroy tons of square miles, pollute rivers for hundreds of miles, and cost over a $billion to clean up, and nobody says a word. The coal industry better thank $diety that "nuclear" is a now a curse-word...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://appvoices.org/coalash/d...
(and more I'm too lazy to look up)
The same is true for electricity- takes an energy source (possibly fossil fuel) to create, which means we get LESS energy than if we had burnt the fuel directly.
But all of this is irrelevent- electricity is a power *transport* mechanism not a power source. Just like H2.
Trouble is this doesn't account for some things. Eg-
- I don't believe candidate/party X will do what they claim
- candidate/party Y has the moral fiber of a cup of jello
By that reasoning, the bigger and more successful a company becomes, the more subsidies it should get.
"Never have" is nice, but would you put it in writing that you never will?
If Pence is a NASA fanboi that's nice and all, but just being a fanboi goes about zero percent of making something like this happen. It takes money+commitment to do the planning+design+building of the stuff that turns ambitious ideas into reality.
In a consumer electronic device, you shouldn't have to read the gui blurbs with a "practically interpreting legalese" mindset.
If I clicked the disconnect-wifi button (or what I reasonably think was the button), I'd interpret "Disconnecting from {wifi name}" as meaning "Disconnecting from {wifi name} because I'm shutting off the damn WiFi".
It doesn't sound as cool for the mice...
The state of California has taken more Syrian refugees than another state (source: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.c...).
The bay area itself has taken a number of refugees (source: http://www.mercurynews.com/201...), although the exact number is unlikely to ever be huge due to the extreme cost-ineffectiveness: why would anybody relocate people into one of the most expensive housing markets in the world?
Why do they need a smart-label for this?
Food => throw it away when it starts turning colors.
Cosmetics => throw it away when it STOPS turning colors.
Did anybody else read this title as "Game of Thrones Pirates Being Murdered By HBO, Warnings On The Way" ?
For a minute there, I thought HBO was getting REALLY agressive about stopping this sort of thing!
More specifically, x64 won't do real or virtual-8086 modes and 64-bit mode simultaneously. 16-bit protected mode (like what I guess you'd see in win-3.1 or win-95 apps?) can run under a 64-bit OS just fine, as long as the OS supports them.
Incorrect. I've worked in AMD's x86 division continuously since before x64 was invented, and as long as you know what you're doing you can make this transition just fine. I've done it plenty of times myself.
Not saying s/w should do it, just that s/w can do it.
Isn't VAT paid by the people who BOUGHT the iphones?
A thousand people pack into a conference hall: Bill Gates plus 999 homeless people. "Average wealth" says that the average person there is a multi-millionaire. Is that an appropriate measurement to use?
A week later msoft's stock has a major uptick, and "average wealth" says the average person there gained 15% . Still a right measurement?
After all, that DOS network driver wasn't going to put itself into high memory...
My car uses voice-recognition to pick songs on the MP3 player. One time I told it to play "When I First Kissed You", and it started playing "Two Steps From Hell".
I think my car is going through a bad break-up with the Chevy down the block.
Because it's about the trustworthyness of the election system- these calls aren't about changing this month's election results, they're about reliable future elections.
Put another way, if someone told your org about a potentially serious glitch in their public-facing firewall, would you wait for a major intrusion before checking it out?