3 engineering majors at once would break most people. Guaranteed.
The gunman may well have been stressed, and 3 engineering majors at VT may well be very hard, but seriously... a lot of people in the world get to deal with much more -- academically, domestically, financially -- in their lives. 60 hours a week of work is hardly a justification for becoming a sociopath. I know, as I'm sure you do, people -- students included -- who work much harder and longer than the gunman probably did. Do they open fire everytime they get stressed? Comments like yours are well-intended in speculating about the problem's cause, but they're in danger of almost justifying the incident.
Anyway, I heard that the guy was looking for his girlfriend, and shot everyone else out of rage. Any idea if that story is right?
Yes, but someone Jewish or Muslim might see Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Orthodox Unitarian and Quaker as being nearly the same. And will you deny that Christian sects don't feel some kind of unity as Christians versus non-Christians, us versus them? There are sects and castes among Hindus too, and if you really want me to draw an analogy between the sects of Christianity and those of Hinduism (and the intra-religious conflicts), I will. But people don't tout the government representation of various sects as some kind of diversity.
America is about 80% Christian, 1% Jewish, 10% other. The religious conflict in the country is mostly about anti-Islam and anti-Judaism -- both groups are in a severe minority, and Muslims are in a power-minority, and you _don't_ see people commiting arson and murder out of religious hate. 80% of Indians are Hindu, but there is a 14% Muslim population, with a strong history of Hindu-Muslim conflict. The fact that India has a Muslim president when there are religious riots on a very regular basis is hence a lot more significant than a Jew taking on a comparable post in the US.
That's basically what the so-called 'computer science' degrees in most colleges in India consist of. There's no point in them teaching real CS because all jobs are services anyway,
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Yup... I was just thinking that. A 'contract' with iTunes to purchase $20 worth of songs a month, or something.
I wish more people would say that about Microsoft.
He meant 10000 students and 63 laureates. Which is correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_laureates _by_university_affiliation.
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3 engineering majors at once would break most people. Guaranteed. The gunman may well have been stressed, and 3 engineering majors at VT may well be very hard, but seriously... a lot of people in the world get to deal with much more -- academically, domestically, financially -- in their lives. 60 hours a week of work is hardly a justification for becoming a sociopath. I know, as I'm sure you do, people -- students included -- who work much harder and longer than the gunman probably did. Do they open fire everytime they get stressed? Comments like yours are well-intended in speculating about the problem's cause, but they're in danger of almost justifying the incident. Anyway, I heard that the guy was looking for his girlfriend, and shot everyone else out of rage. Any idea if that story is right?
... And most former British colonies.
Right. Which reiterates my original point. How would America deal with a Muslim in a high governmental post now?
Yes, but someone Jewish or Muslim might see Catholic, Baptist, Lutheran, Orthodox Unitarian and Quaker as being nearly the same. And will you deny that Christian sects don't feel some kind of unity as Christians versus non-Christians, us versus them? There are sects and castes among Hindus too, and if you really want me to draw an analogy between the sects of Christianity and those of Hinduism (and the intra-religious conflicts), I will. But people don't tout the government representation of various sects as some kind of diversity. America is about 80% Christian, 1% Jewish, 10% other. The religious conflict in the country is mostly about anti-Islam and anti-Judaism -- both groups are in a severe minority, and Muslims are in a power-minority, and you _don't_ see people commiting arson and murder out of religious hate. 80% of Indians are Hindu, but there is a 14% Muslim population, with a strong history of Hindu-Muslim conflict. The fact that India has a Muslim president when there are religious riots on a very regular basis is hence a lot more significant than a Jew taking on a comparable post in the US.
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That's basically what the so-called 'computer science' degrees in most colleges in India consist of. There's no point in them teaching real CS because all jobs are services anyway,