Universities are not supposed to be vocational training facilities.
Yes they are. That is not their sole purpose, but if you are paying for college with borrowed money, you better be damn sure you are learning something with a positive ROI.
That means kick those programs off public school campuses.
What? Private for-profit colleges have a way worse track record than public colleges. Both the dropout rate and the loan default rate are higher than at public institutions.
A generation of 'poetry majors' publicly starving in the streets will also help kids focus
No it won't. At 17 years old, a HS senior is way to naive and oblivious to make the connection. They need better guidance, from either their parents or their high schools,... or maybe their loan officers. My daughter wanted to major in psychology, and it took me quite a while to dissuade her. I finally convinced her by showing her a list of salaries by major (psychology is at the absolute bottom) and a list of typical jobs for a graduate (under psychology it listed "Uber driver"). She is currently studying biotech.
Because too many people are wasting 4 years of their lives in education just so they can get a job.
The problem is that there is a negative feedback loop. Too many people go to college and get worthless degrees, so the job market is flooded with psychology grads. Therefore there is no downside to employers demanding degrees since these grads are plentiful and willing to accept the same low wages as a HS grad... which puts pressure on the HS grad to go to college and get a degree in something.
I don't know what the solution is. One reasonable proposal is to require taxpayer subsidized student loans to be combined with an internship or apprenticeship to match up students with employers and ensure they are learning something useful.
But "Lite Salt" is a good way to flood your body with potassium. Half the sodium is replaced with potassium. If you buy "No Salt" instead, 100% of the sodium is replaced with potassium, but it tastes funny. I use "Lite Salt" and it tastes just like normal NaCl to me. I use it mainly to lower my blood pressure. Resistance to radiation poisoning is just a side benefit.
"Lite Salt" and "No Salt" are both available at most grocery stores.
A typical lightning bolt lasts about 0.2 seconds and dissipates about a billion joules of energy. So 1.2 Jigawatts would be a small bolt.
There are about 20 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in America per year. At a billion joules each, averaged over a year, that would be about 6 GW (or JW) of power.
That should not surprise you. Most intrusions and data thefts are not detected. Some estimates are that for every breach you hear about, there are ten that you don't.
Neither of these is a big problem with proper preparation and remediation. Cesium behaves biologically like potassium, so if you take potassium supplements your body will flush the cesium out in your pee. Iodine is a micronutrient, and you only need a small amount. So if you take iodine supplements, most of it will be excreted.
Potassium iodine tablets are readily available since KI can also be used for water sterilization. I have a vial in my home, and in the survival kit in my car. You can buy them at any camping store, or on Amazon for $5.
Instead of acting helpless and curling up in the fetal position when someone mentions "radiation", you should educate yourself and prepare. KI tablets are a sensible place to start.
"there is no need for government regulation in a market until avarice becomes the single driving force of progress".
That is a very blurry line. Most game companies, and most other companies as well, are driven primarily by greed from the day they are founded. Greed is the engine of capitalism. If you let the government's nose into the tent to fix this one little peeve of yours, you have already surrendered your liberty to game as you like.
EA has overstepped and overstepped with more and more greedy business practices
it's a good thing for a single person to command that much wealth.
The total net worth of all Americans is about $90 trillion. $100 billion is less than 0.1% of that. John Rockefeller once owned 2% of all the wealth in America, so Bezos is 20-fold poorer.
A democracy can't survive that kind of power imbalance.
That would be a concern if all "the rich" were on the same side. They aren't. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. The WaPo exposed Roy Moore's sexploits, and has championed other liberal causes. This cancels out the Koch Brothers.
Something's got to give.
"The rich" have had undue influence for at least the last 10,000 years (wealth accumulation mostly coincided with the invention of agriculture). Yet somehow we have muddled through.
Also there seems to be a push worldwide to do away with cash completely, I think a couple of countries already have.
No countries have eliminated cash. Sweden has gone the furthest, but even there the cash in circulation has only gone down 7% since the peak in 2011.
Even if "official" money is eliminated, some sort of cash equivalent is likely to arise. In prisons, this is usually cigarettes, which even non-smokers hoard and use for transactions. Way too many people and businesses have a need for anonymous transactions.
I carry a $20 bill inside my cellphone case for emergencies, but otherwise I am cashless and use CCs for nearly all transactions. I pay my CC bill on-time every-time through bank auto-payment so I never pay a cent in interest. I earn about $500 in airline flight credits every year.
Businesses should always be prepared for a system failure or power outage. I was in a local shop recently when the power failed. It took them less than a minute to get a box of paper based "kerchunkers" from the manager's office and put one at each register. Sales lost: $0.
Age of consent is irrelevant. There are plenty of jurisdictions where it is legal for a person to have sex, but illegal for the same person to take a nude selfie.
The difference is that the sex does not require technology.
Aren't you worried that your libido will be further monetized? It clearly is already if you bought a sex bot
I didn't buy it. My wife bought it.
She was worried that I would "hike the Appalachian Trail" while she was out of town. I told her not to worry, I have never been unfaithful, and can't imagine I ever would be. But she felt more reassured if I had the bot.
It turned out to be better than I expected, but I would have never bought it on my own.
but imagine once they get more interactive and start wanting you to pay for "extras" and "apps".
I don't think I would ever prefer a bot to "real" sex.
I imagine vaginal lubricant is already competing with HP printer ink on cost.
I go with the Walmart generic brand. A $3 tube lasts for several months. It actually feels better if you use a minimal amount.
The average married American has sex less than twice a week. Only 5% report 5 or more times a week over the long term. So your experience is not typical. You are not only doing way better than most, but you hit the jackpot twice.
Or maybe you are not American: In France, married couples average 4 times per week.
I'm not sure how much I would pay for something like that.
If it could clear the table, wash & dry the dishes, put them in the cupboard, and do it all reliably and without maintenance problems, I would pay $20 per day. That would be 365 * 20 = $7300/yr. For a five year amortization that would be $7300 * 5 = $36,500. That is likely more than most people would be willing to pay, but even at $10k, they could sell a few million, and that would be a 10-20 billion dollar market.
A household robot that could cook, vacuum, and dust, would sell even better and likely wouldn't need additional actuators. I hope Google, or somebody, is working on this.
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The problem with people pursuing those kinds of degrees right now is that they can wind up being starving artists
Why is that a bad thing? Throughout history starving artists have produced far better art than well-fed artists.
Universities are not supposed to be vocational training facilities.
Yes they are. That is not their sole purpose, but if you are paying for college with borrowed money, you better be damn sure you are learning something with a positive ROI.
That means kick those programs off public school campuses.
What? Private for-profit colleges have a way worse track record than public colleges. Both the dropout rate and the loan default rate are higher than at public institutions.
A generation of 'poetry majors' publicly starving in the streets will also help kids focus
No it won't. At 17 years old, a HS senior is way to naive and oblivious to make the connection. They need better guidance, from either their parents or their high schools, ... or maybe their loan officers. My daughter wanted to major in psychology, and it took me quite a while to dissuade her. I finally convinced her by showing her a list of salaries by major (psychology is at the absolute bottom) and a list of typical jobs for a graduate (under psychology it listed "Uber driver"). She is currently studying biotech.
Because too many people are wasting 4 years of their lives in education just so they can get a job.
The problem is that there is a negative feedback loop. Too many people go to college and get worthless degrees, so the job market is flooded with psychology grads. Therefore there is no downside to employers demanding degrees since these grads are plentiful and willing to accept the same low wages as a HS grad ... which puts pressure on the HS grad to go to college and get a degree in something.
I don't know what the solution is. One reasonable proposal is to require taxpayer subsidized student loans to be combined with an internship or apprenticeship to match up students with employers and ensure they are learning something useful.
But "Lite Salt" is a good way to flood your body with potassium. Half the sodium is replaced with potassium. If you buy "No Salt" instead, 100% of the sodium is replaced with potassium, but it tastes funny. I use "Lite Salt" and it tastes just like normal NaCl to me. I use it mainly to lower my blood pressure. Resistance to radiation poisoning is just a side benefit.
"Lite Salt" and "No Salt" are both available at most grocery stores.
A typical lightning bolt lasts about 0.2 seconds and dissipates about a billion joules of energy. So 1.2 Jigawatts would be a small bolt.
There are about 20 million cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in America per year. At a billion joules each, averaged over a year, that would be about 6 GW (or JW) of power.
Heavy water is made by painstakingly separating it from ordinary water. Diluted it's completely natural.
Even concentrated D2O is nearly harmless. You would need to drink a gallon or more before it had significant toxicity.
Heavy water toxicity in humans
They didn't even know it happened.
That should not surprise you. Most intrusions and data thefts are not detected. Some estimates are that for every breach you hear about, there are ten that you don't.
Do you trust Zuck and Eric Schmidt to look out for you?
I trust Zuck and Eric a lot more than I trust Comcast.
Zuck and Eric don't have monopoly control over the series of tubes leading to my house. Comcast does.
Like radioactive cesium. Like radioactive IODINE.
Neither of these is a big problem with proper preparation and remediation. Cesium behaves biologically like potassium, so if you take potassium supplements your body will flush the cesium out in your pee. Iodine is a micronutrient, and you only need a small amount. So if you take iodine supplements, most of it will be excreted.
Potassium iodine tablets are readily available since KI can also be used for water sterilization. I have a vial in my home, and in the survival kit in my car. You can buy them at any camping store, or on Amazon for $5.
Instead of acting helpless and curling up in the fetal position when someone mentions "radiation", you should educate yourself and prepare. KI tablets are a sensible place to start.
The total gross worth of all Americans is about $17tn. Hence the term Gross Domestic Product.
GDP is a measure of annual production, not accumulated wealth.
So that means that the net worth of all Americans is somewhere in the negatives.
Baloney.
but what is the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)? Maybe the batteries are ridiculously expensive to maintain?
My wife has a Tesla Model S. Here are the maintenance costs so far:
Battery maintenance: $0
Oil changes: $0
New oil filters: $0
Brake pads: $0
Tire rotation: Free
Windshield wiper fluid: $6
New spark plugs: $0
Radiator fluid: $0
Air filters: $0
Total: $6
We also need to ban Cracker Jack. I once bought 18 boxes just to get one decoder ring.
Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.... So we need to ban boxes of chocolate.
"there is no need for government regulation in a market until avarice becomes the single driving force of progress".
That is a very blurry line. Most game companies, and most other companies as well, are driven primarily by greed from the day they are founded. Greed is the engine of capitalism. If you let the government's nose into the tent to fix this one little peeve of yours, you have already surrendered your liberty to game as you like.
EA has overstepped and overstepped with more and more greedy business practices
Obvious solution: Stop buying their products.
it's a good thing for a single person to command that much wealth.
The total net worth of all Americans is about $90 trillion. $100 billion is less than 0.1% of that. John Rockefeller once owned 2% of all the wealth in America, so Bezos is 20-fold poorer.
A democracy can't survive that kind of power imbalance.
That would be a concern if all "the rich" were on the same side. They aren't. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. The WaPo exposed Roy Moore's sexploits, and has championed other liberal causes. This cancels out the Koch Brothers.
Something's got to give.
"The rich" have had undue influence for at least the last 10,000 years (wealth accumulation mostly coincided with the invention of agriculture). Yet somehow we have muddled through.
Never borrow money unless it's for something you can make money with.
Since my credit card company pays me to use the card, I make money with it.
Also there seems to be a push worldwide to do away with cash completely, I think a couple of countries already have.
No countries have eliminated cash. Sweden has gone the furthest, but even there the cash in circulation has only gone down 7% since the peak in 2011.
Even if "official" money is eliminated, some sort of cash equivalent is likely to arise. In prisons, this is usually cigarettes, which even non-smokers hoard and use for transactions. Way too many people and businesses have a need for anonymous transactions.
I carry a $20 bill inside my cellphone case for emergencies, but otherwise I am cashless and use CCs for nearly all transactions. I pay my CC bill on-time every-time through bank auto-payment so I never pay a cent in interest. I earn about $500 in airline flight credits every year.
Businesses should always be prepared for a system failure or power outage. I was in a local shop recently when the power failed. It took them less than a minute to get a box of paper based "kerchunkers" from the manager's office and put one at each register. Sales lost: $0.
Very much uncanny valley stuff.
Simple solution: dim the lights.
Another problem is temperature. I use an electric blanket set to "low". But you could skip that if you are into necrophilia.
Age of consent is irrelevant. There are plenty of jurisdictions where it is legal for a person to have sex, but illegal for the same person to take a nude selfie.
The difference is that the sex does not require technology.
these companies are deliberately trying to cause a mental illness to increase profits.
Are they causing it? Or are they just exploiting a pre-existing condition?
Aren't you worried that your libido will be further monetized? It clearly is already if you bought a sex bot
I didn't buy it. My wife bought it.
She was worried that I would "hike the Appalachian Trail" while she was out of town. I told her not to worry, I have never been unfaithful, and can't imagine I ever would be. But she felt more reassured if I had the bot.
It turned out to be better than I expected, but I would have never bought it on my own.
but imagine once they get more interactive and start wanting you to pay for "extras" and "apps".
I don't think I would ever prefer a bot to "real" sex.
I imagine vaginal lubricant is already competing with HP printer ink on cost.
I go with the Walmart generic brand. A $3 tube lasts for several months. It actually feels better if you use a minimal amount.
The average married American has sex less than twice a week. Only 5% report 5 or more times a week over the long term. So your experience is not typical. You are not only doing way better than most, but you hit the jackpot twice.
Or maybe you are not American: In France, married couples average 4 times per week.
This would work a lot better if the dishwashers were installed at eye level, rather than the standard shin level.
I'm not sure how much I would pay for something like that.
If it could clear the table, wash & dry the dishes, put them in the cupboard, and do it all reliably and without maintenance problems, I would pay $20 per day. That would be 365 * 20 = $7300/yr. For a five year amortization that would be $7300 * 5 = $36,500. That is likely more than most people would be willing to pay, but even at $10k, they could sell a few million, and that would be a 10-20 billion dollar market.
A household robot that could cook, vacuum, and dust, would sell even better and likely wouldn't need additional actuators. I hope Google, or somebody, is working on this.