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  1. Re:STEM means nothing on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    No, calling out the fraud from the basket weavers trying to make their programs look better by putting stones around STEM's neck.

  2. Re: How about degree specialty on a sliding scale? on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Make the student loans dischargeable and not government guaranteed and none of the useless degree people will be able to get loans. Which would be a very good thing.

  3. Re:Damn Statistics on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Not in all states of the USA. I lied about my age to start working in a kitchen at 14 (had to claim I was 16). Between that, selling fake IDs, pot etc and mowing money from even younger, it paid for my first computer. Fake ID came in handy two years later to buy fucking 3.2 beer, that didn't last long before I made another to get real beer.

    Typical limits for 16 year olds are 20 hours a week during the school year and no work after 10pm on school nights. Fucking nannies.

    By the time I got my EE and CompE (age 24), I had a solid handle on the building trades, stick welded pretty well, spoke 'machine shop' and had a couple of summers experience working as an Engineering tech. With my two brothers we could also swap a bug motor in under 20 minutes (on a baja, no sheetmetal to unscrew and clutch installed on the new motor before starting). Graduated into a recession, but found work, _good_ work took a little while.

    You can't teach hustle, but you can interview for it.

  4. Re:STEM means nothing on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    Maybe you weren't paying attention, about 6-8 years ago they shoehorned a bunch of 'air thief degrees' into the STEM category.

    Fucking liberals gonna try and redefine terms out from under you, it's what they do.

  5. Re: Not much for those stuck *right now* on Canadian Millennials Struggle As College Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    You don't know what a co-op is do you?

    Hint: It's not an unpaid internship.

  6. Re:Market manipulation driving up electricity cost on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    You can get economists to say _anything_. It's called the dismal science for a reason.

    I'm proud to say I'm not an economist. Which means I know you can't print money forever. Like I say: if you meet that moron, kick him square in the nuts.

  7. Re:Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Unfounded assumption they are using rotary irrigation and sprinkler heads. Ditches and flood.

  8. Re:A cure for which there is no disease on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Broken? Not unless you used too large a magnet to stop them.

    It was best to use an electromagnet on a timer, so the meter would be running when the reader came by and your bill wasn't 0.

  9. Re: Batteries from Nevada to Australia? on Elon Musk: I Can Fix South Australia Power Network in 100 Days Or It's Free (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure. I did some consulting work for them years ago. In any case, it's not the S. Australian government.

  10. Re:A better question on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fair enough. Browsing the web, angry birds and candy crush.

  11. Re:Netbooks are gone? on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    Better? Have you tried to run eclipse on a fondleslab? Dev Studio? Photoshop? Gimp? Unity? A decent local database? You're posting on /.

    I'm not arguing in favor of crowdsourced netbooks, just in favor of _cheap_, semi disposable laptops that already exist.

    Even if you have great connectivity, can you run a terminal server client on android?

    Speech to text? Just no.

  12. How do you make them read low? on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    No really usefull comments yet. How do I use this to get something for nothing.

  13. Re:That's pretty smart on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bad case of 'Paranoia' you've got there.

  14. Re:Why aren't the generators using Diesel? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I don't want to put words in your mouth. Are you saying the costs will come down if they just spend more?

  15. Re:Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I don't live in Queensland, but I've been there.

    IIRC most of the cane fields are right near the coast (they were burning them when I was there). There is a range of hills near the coast. But that land is relatively expensive as it doesn't flood in cyclones. Near any cities or towns the hills are full of homes of retired people/pot growers/junkies (Thai genetic buds the size of small children). Further out not so much, but still not likely to be owned by the farmers.

    The point isn't pumped storage for energy, it's water storage. As such 3 meters of elevation should be more than enough.

  16. Re: Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    I don't think you've ever met a farmer. You're just repeating some durp somebody else told you.

  17. Re:Netbooks are gone? on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 0

    Did you read the same comment I posted? You aren't responding to it.

  18. Re:I give it about 4 years on Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Short memory. You were laughing six months ago weren't you?

  19. Re:Market manipulation driving up electricity cost on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    A quick bit of Googling on Bill leads to this:

    William Francis "Bill" Mitchell is a professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia and a notable proponent of Modern Monetary Theory.

    Wikipedia: 'Bill Mitchell (economist)

    Modern Monetary Theory (MMT or Modern Money Theory, also known as Neo-Chartalism) is a macroeconomic theory which describes and analyses modern economies in which the national currency is fiat money, established and created by the government. The key insight of MMT is that "monetarily sovereign government is the monopoly supplier of its currency and can issue currency of any denomination in physical or non-physical forms. As such the government has an unlimited capacity to pay for the things it wishes to purchase and to fulfill promised future payments, and has an unlimited ability to provide funds to the other sectors. Thus, insolvency and bankruptcy of this government is not possible. It can always pay

    Wikipedia: Modern Monetary Theory

    Put simply, so you can understand: He is a fucking moron, who should forever be ignored. Unless you get a chance to kick him square in the nuts.

  20. Re:Irrigation pump on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Watts are the same thing as horsepower you halfwit.

  21. Re: Why would you use batteries? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 0

    Double down on delusional. Good plan.

  22. Re:Netbooks are gone? on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Netbooks are cheap, almost disposable, laptops with small screens. Today all you can get are cheap, almost disposable, laptops with medium sized screens.

  23. Re:Why aren't the generators using Diesel? on Australian Farmers Switch To Diesel Power As Electricity Prices Soar (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's what Australia did. Apparently, it is _not_ cheaper in actual real world cases.

  24. Re:Fuck Denton on Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Has he paid off his judgement? How can he afford to waste money on a NYTimes sub? He should be spending his days blowing sailors to raise funds to satisfy the judgement.

  25. Re:I give it about 4 years on Nick Denton Predicts 'The Good Internet' Will Rise Again (pcworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Ds sure look like they will pivot left. Trump has a decent chance at a second term if they do.