OK, so you graduate at 22. You pay off your loans in 25 years or at age 47. That gives you 33 years to save for retirement; how is that not enough time?
Because you actually used the ribbon interface, instead of just looking at it (or not even that) and parroting the "Everything M$ does is terrible" line.
"Because that's how the world works. You think I can just go run someone over with my car and say, "ooops sorry," without consequences? No way. I should be held, by government, to compensate that person (or jailtime if the person is dead)."
Why would you be liable? In libertarian paradise, there's no traffic laws to say that you're any more at fault than the person you ran over.
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So they'd come to my house and confiscate it?
"My neighbor could be the guy who cures cancer, lowers food prices, or educates others!"
If he really is motivated to do that he is able to get an education already.
The fact is that most people feel lucky to get an education. Paying back the amount you agreed to is not too much to ask.
OK, so you graduate at 22. You pay off your loans in 25 years or at age 47. That gives you 33 years to save for retirement; how is that not enough time?
The thing is, with union teachers, it is pretty much impossible for a bad teacher to be fired, or an excellent teacher to advance based on merit.
7 years is a hell of a lot better than the rest of your life.
"they can demand students to only major in disciplines that give them a career."
Which disciplines are those?
It gets you an education and a job though; that's what you sign up for, you can't really do it and then expect to skip out on the bill can you?
Your business would be ruined if you declare bankruptcy.. however your education can not be taken away.
"The reality is, there are very, very few people who actually accrue student loans who can't pay them back over 20 years."
That was the reality; not anymore.
"I've been paying into the system since I was 16 years old and those payments were based on a 65 yo retirement age."
And a life expectancy of 70.
Gotta spend money to make money. That's always been the case.
What state was this in?
Because you actually used the ribbon interface, instead of just looking at it (or not even that) and parroting the "Everything M$ does is terrible" line.
Some people are less comfortable with stealing.
"My webcam used to take 3600 photos ... AN HOUR ... you know, once a second"
Did you put your webcam in a place where a reasonable person would have known it was very likely to capture images of naked children?
"Because that's how the world works. You think I can just go run someone over with my car and say, "ooops sorry," without consequences? No way. I should be held, by government, to compensate that person (or jailtime if the person is dead)."
Why would you be liable? In libertarian paradise, there's no traffic laws to say that you're any more at fault than the person you ran over.
The UK does not have free speech.
"Where presently it's almost always assumed that the following car didn't maintain an appropriate following distance"
If you rear-end another car, then you either didn't maintain enough distance or you weren't paying attention.
I know right? It's much better to hook together a bunch of command-line utilities with arcane syntax that pass bytes between one another.
If you don't like it, don't sign. Get it?
"A higher-level language, when you assign from rhs, will generally just automagically duplicate all member arrays and objects, even strings."
Java doesn't do this. You have to either construct a new object or use clone().
"seeing as how they are REQUIRED BY LAW to advertise the location of these check points."
Not in California. They are required to give the date of the checkpoint in advance, but not the exact location.
Well there are only about a million articles about how the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses, so that's probably true.
You signed a contract. In America, you can't break a contract without penalty.