Um... no... they aren't forcing you to go to school. But they should invest in it. Not through the waste of private schools or expensive colleges, but efficient state level schools and online classes.
Personally, I can't think of a single time in 8 years of college that a tenured professor helped me. Non-tenured? Hundreds of great examples.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Hybrids aren't economical. It all comes down to dollars. For it to work, gas would have to be over $5/gallon and driving all stop-and-go for hybrids to make sense.
I can get a Honda Fit for more than $10k less and similar gas mileage and maintenance.
We should see another climb when we get economical plug-in vehicles. However, the long term trend for battery improvement is only 5% a year, so it'll be a while. As in a decade or three.
Therefore strict gun laws = fewer mass shootings, not no mass shootings.
No. Canada has a massive welfare system funded by their natural resource exploitation. They provide for mental health. The USA doesn't. There are a multitude of other cultural factors such as Canada being formed for Safety while the USA was formed for Opportunity, etc etc.
I've personally sat through a case where a bystander's filming was manipulated and only pieces of it brought to court. Without the full context, the film was a lie. That sent a good police officer to prison. The laws are far behind these double edged swords... whatever happened to "the full truth"?
Parents that I know aren't bothered that information is being gathered, but what is being gathered, who uses it, and how they use it. "Did he/she make friends in 1st grade" is not something you want dragging around decades later. We've already had laws passed banning the use of DNA for excluding people - now people are revolting against their digital DNA running into the same abuses. Maybe we should start calling it "eDNA" as a comparison that people understand.
People shouldn't HAVE to pay for bug fixes. I sell you a product for $100 and I promise it does a, b, and c. However, sometimes it does c incorrectly. You'd demand that I fix it, no? But no, I'm a software developer so I just say, "Sorry, I don't have time for that, but here's my new version you can have for (another) $100!" What other industry gets away with this?
Most markets get away with that. It's called Marketing. We now live in the Marketing generation - people demand lies over facts and results.
Ethanol cost me $2,000 in repairs to my motorcycle and a lot of hours of work on cleaning out carburetors from small engines.
Corn ethanol is an expensive way to turn good oil into bad gasoline. It was pushed as corporate welfare for ag stages. Everyone involved has always known that it was a big lie.
Once-a-century disasters are something to plan for. There was a host of badly designed pump systems - and business processes. It's not unreasonable to fix them given the cost of their expected failure.
Google doesnt have a monopoly over streaming, or over online video.
It's not about ability, its about marketing. Google has people's attention, so people go will to google for streaming. "Build it and they will come" was thoroughly debunked 2 recessions back.
IMHO that statement is 100% false and the example is a cherry picked outlier. Dollars are by far the most important thing in an election - especially the bigger elections. They pay for strategy and marketing to craft the proper lie then buy commercials to brainwash the populace.
Perception is reality. Zombies are popular. So... this is an excellent teaching tool because it engages the interest of students (not to mention good PR for a public that prefers lies over reality).
Wages have little to do with wealth. That's a fundamental lesson in becoming wealthy. The deck has always been stacked against us - so what? Just win anyways. Live below your means, accumulate wealth, and it's just a matter of "when".
When? I don't think I'd live 500 years. I have to deal with reality rather than the fantasy of reagonomics.
For most, retirement will never be more than a dream.
True, but largely self-inflicted. The only thing stopping people in the US from reaching financial independence after 30 or so years or work and investment is a lack of understanding/education about how money works. It's a profound failure of our culture, that such a tiny percentage of people succeed at a task that requires only understanding, willpower, and patience (exactly the sort of things a functional culture is supposed to instill in each generation).
And yet another factor is that when inflation, total benefits, and productivity are all factored, the median hourly wage is half of what it was 40 years ago. HALF. 50%. Sure, people can live on rice and beans to sock away more money, but the vast majority of people won't do that. Partly because, well, rice and beans suck, and partly because we are constantly educated (marketed to) that we deserve everything we want right now and that "later" will magically work out. "Can" is irrelevant - "Do" matters. Don't blame the people when the deck is overwhelmingly stacked against them.
You're probably on to something there. Projects fall into 2 areas: TCO (you have to do it) and ROI (its a profit driver). Show drivers to lower TCO and increase ROI. Charts and graphs are very good. Trending graphs are good, especially if you can place major event points in them.
Scientists and Engineers are despised in the North American and European cultures. It takes a lot of marketing to make them socially palatable.
Humanities stole a year of my college life. Utterly useless. Why? Not only do they not accomplish most of what the job-for-life-professor drones on about, but professors use them to weed out people thinking about the major instead of teaching anything useful.
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Um... no... they aren't forcing you to go to school. But they should invest in it. Not through the waste of private schools or expensive colleges, but efficient state level schools and online classes.
Personally, I can't think of a single time in 8 years of college that a tenured professor helped me. Non-tenured? Hundreds of great examples.
I have a 12 year old PC that is still running as well as the first day. Crap that I buy today often doesn't last 3 years.
The $3k difference has to be from government subsidies - so you pay another $7k in taxes.
In 10 years you have an expensive battery replacement.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Hybrids aren't economical. It all comes down to dollars. For it to work, gas would have to be over $5/gallon and driving all stop-and-go for hybrids to make sense.
I can get a Honda Fit for more than $10k less and similar gas mileage and maintenance.
We should see another climb when we get economical plug-in vehicles. However, the long term trend for battery improvement is only 5% a year, so it'll be a while. As in a decade or three.
Learning a language to accomplish this is a miss. Learn an architecture. The language is just there to make tweaks to RAD/XP/Agile designs.
It's about money as always. Airports typically charge $5 to the cab whenever it does a run to or from the airport.
Therefore strict gun laws = fewer mass shootings, not no mass shootings.
No. Canada has a massive welfare system funded by their natural resource exploitation. They provide for mental health. The USA doesn't. There are a multitude of other cultural factors such as Canada being formed for Safety while the USA was formed for Opportunity, etc etc.
I've personally sat through a case where a bystander's filming was manipulated and only pieces of it brought to court. Without the full context, the film was a lie. That sent a good police officer to prison. The laws are far behind these double edged swords... whatever happened to "the full truth"?
Parents that I know aren't bothered that information is being gathered, but what is being gathered, who uses it, and how they use it. "Did he/she make friends in 1st grade" is not something you want dragging around decades later. We've already had laws passed banning the use of DNA for excluding people - now people are revolting against their digital DNA running into the same abuses. Maybe we should start calling it "eDNA" as a comparison that people understand.
People shouldn't HAVE to pay for bug fixes. I sell you a product for $100 and I promise it does a, b, and c. However, sometimes it does c incorrectly. You'd demand that I fix it, no? But no, I'm a software developer so I just say, "Sorry, I don't have time for that, but here's my new version you can have for (another) $100!" What other industry gets away with this?
Most markets get away with that. It's called Marketing. We now live in the Marketing generation - people demand lies over facts and results.
We have the design and site. Yucca was killed because Reid runs the senate.
Ethanol cost me $2,000 in repairs to my motorcycle and a lot of hours of work on cleaning out carburetors from small engines.
Corn ethanol is an expensive way to turn good oil into bad gasoline. It was pushed as corporate welfare for ag stages. Everyone involved has always known that it was a big lie.
Once-a-century disasters are something to plan for. There was a host of badly designed pump systems - and business processes. It's not unreasonable to fix them given the cost of their expected failure.
Google doesnt have a monopoly over streaming, or over online video.
It's not about ability, its about marketing. Google has people's attention, so people go will to google for streaming. "Build it and they will come" was thoroughly debunked 2 recessions back.
Peak oil as Cost has been passed. A hard number as to how much pumped is irrelevant - demand must be factored in.
Dollars do not win elections.
IMHO that statement is 100% false and the example is a cherry picked outlier. Dollars are by far the most important thing in an election - especially the bigger elections. They pay for strategy and marketing to craft the proper lie then buy commercials to brainwash the populace.
Perception is reality. Zombies are popular. So... this is an excellent teaching tool because it engages the interest of students (not to mention good PR for a public that prefers lies over reality).
Tundra soil is not particularly fertile
Nor is current farmland. Crops are grown with fertilizer produced by oil and natural gas. Replacing those will be the problem.
Wages have little to do with wealth. That's a fundamental lesson in becoming wealthy. The deck has always been stacked against us - so what? Just win anyways. Live below your means, accumulate wealth, and it's just a matter of "when".
When? I don't think I'd live 500 years. I have to deal with reality rather than the fantasy of reagonomics.
For most, retirement will never be more than a dream.
True, but largely self-inflicted. The only thing stopping people in the US from reaching financial independence after 30 or so years or work and investment is a lack of understanding/education about how money works. It's a profound failure of our culture, that such a tiny percentage of people succeed at a task that requires only understanding, willpower, and patience (exactly the sort of things a functional culture is supposed to instill in each generation).
And yet another factor is that when inflation, total benefits, and productivity are all factored, the median hourly wage is half of what it was 40 years ago. HALF. 50%. Sure, people can live on rice and beans to sock away more money, but the vast majority of people won't do that. Partly because, well, rice and beans suck, and partly because we are constantly educated (marketed to) that we deserve everything we want right now and that "later" will magically work out. "Can" is irrelevant - "Do" matters.
Don't blame the people when the deck is overwhelmingly stacked against them.
Where I grew up, "old enough to be a grandfather" meant "30". Now my friends are having their first kids around 40.
Good point. The whole "over 65" is the underlying illusion. We're living longer. For most, retirement will never be more than a dream.
You're probably on to something there. Projects fall into 2 areas: TCO (you have to do it) and ROI (its a profit driver). Show drivers to lower TCO and increase ROI. Charts and graphs are very good. Trending graphs are good, especially if you can place major event points in them.
Scientists and Engineers are despised in the North American and European cultures. It takes a lot of marketing to make them socially palatable.
No Enforcement = No Law
Humanities stole a year of my college life. Utterly useless. Why? Not only do they not accomplish most of what the job-for-life-professor drones on about, but professors use them to weed out people thinking about the major instead of teaching anything useful.