I can't even believe 20k total debt after college, from my own experience I owed 60k after 3 1/4 years my first time I couldn't get much if anything in grants (being 'white' and male kills most of these alone) and work study paid for me to not starve and usually have gas in my car (and not much else). Having gone back to college it's even worse now and I'm looking at as much as 120k in debt before I finish even though my 'new' college is a partially state funded one and so a year is about 12k (I'm getting crap for transfer credits though, which isn't helping)...
At least locally to me there isn't much in the one of investors, nor is there a desire from the teachers or staff in general to mentor students (though that seems a trend in general from those I know who are in college). I know how valuable 'networking' is, but it seems more and more schools aren't the way to do this.
I gotta say you most likely need to add location to the things you need. I grew up only a year or two behind you, but... My consulting never got me any real money (two many already larger and better funded competitors) so I ended up going to school for my associates when I was finding it impossible to get hired after my failed consulting business and education looked to be a good way to look better to those looking to hire me as they all complained at my lack of education. Out of college with my associates in CIS I got hired as the Director of Technology for a school district. Then about a year ago I lost that job so the school board could balance the budget (dropping IT as a department in the budget all together). In the last year I have applied everywhere and most won't even look at me because I don't have at least a bachelor's to work at that level. They also won't hire me for 'lesser' jobs, stating I'm either A) to expensive (without asking me what I would want!) or B) overqualified for what they need (which tends to scare my potential bosses). So After a year with nothing I decided my only option was to go back to school _again_ for my bachelor's...
It's great things worked for you, but your situation only applies to you even with other factors nearly identical.
I've avoided buying from them for a decade, so far this hasn't seemed to bother Sony...
Of course those few of us who avoid them don't have much impact because to many people _will_ buy regardless of how Sony acts... it's why boycotts so rarely work, you need to hurt them enough in sales that it truly effects their bottom line. And even then they are likely to blame A) 'piracy' B) economic condition C) their own employees before admitting that we actually got to them. Hence they sue more, whine about the economy, and then fire employees to try to regain balance of the pocket book... At times this even raises prices... Only after all that will they actually go 'this boycott is killing us!'.
For the US this would make even less sense... Only 4 companies handle packages like: UPS, Fedex, USPS, and one I can't recall because I've never actually used it myself... Which would imply rather than every single person having to make their driving more efficient 4 companies would... That seems an order of magnitude easier to me...
I have a fear of falling (and the more likely to my brain falling is the more the fear kicks in), glass or transparent anything that I'd stand, sit, or other hope to hell is going to support me would give me a full blown panic attack...
Btw lots of people tell me it's just a fear of heights, except I'm fine on high things that seem solid and unlikely to fall... A cabin on the top of a 'mountain', won't bother me. A thin metal bar on the edge of a bridge 200 feet overlooking the ground (or water) makes me nervous. The transparent flooring on the upper level of a skyscrapper I once visited was another to have me curled up on the floor...
"The anger and fear that corporations will take over is silly."
I think you missed how they already have more influence then all of us put together... Want an example? Listen to Lawernce Lessig. He has some great talks discussing how it's already happened with ideas about how to change it.
On Impulse (& Steam) games like Academagia & Star Ruler (as examples) Actually seem to do this. Both release regular updates and patches as people continue to buy the games. Fixing bugs, adding content, and developing new features as they progress. I happen to own both of those... And neither is quite yet what I'd like, but both have alot of potential and active devs as well as communities...
Actually Japanese are usually considered fairly racist... Against anyone not Japanese. They have sizable Korean and Chinese populations in their country that they actively discriminate against for instance (both are 'second class citizens'). Though even among themselves they still discriminate against a certain class of their own people, though they do have a law against discovering who is of that class (though it's badly worded and stops nothing).
It's also really really hard to get citizenship. I know of a few people who have married Japanese women and moved to Japan... Then spent the next 15 years gaining citizenship... They are considered one of the hardest countries to immigrate to in the world.
Combine that with long lifespans and a dwindling population growth (family size is often 1 or 2 at most), then toss in a whole generation with issues like NEATS and generally high unemployment as companies don't hire as many new workers (since the old ones often never retire)... And you may start to see why they are having issues...
The case will hinge around the fact that while Android is open these companies wanted to use Skyhook+google apps, which as skyhook competes with part of google apps is disallowed under google's rules for use of google apps. Most likely these companies mentioned by Skyhook weren't forced per se to stop using skyhook, but given a choice of not using google apps or not using skyhook. These companies chose not to use skyhook in favor of having google apps.
If you search for the requirements to use google android and then apps you'd notice where the key lies. Frankly I think they should have sued those who were actually their clients and who did the actual breaking of contract. Reaching out to a third party (google) and defaming them this way seems a good way to get hit with countersuits from google....
A probably with the XR3 and many other types of vehicles like it (including everything in the X-prize I've seen). Is that they don't seem to design for inclement weather. Namely snow and ice. Which makes them useful for maybe 8 months in the year where I live. Not to mention things like rain since at least half lack things as simple as defoggers and windshield wipers. They are all also light, which does not help in traction and the (generally) low acceleration hurts their ability to work their way up steep snow covered hills...
I'd just as well buy a motorcycle for where I live and it would be cheaper (I've priced them before I'd want one around $5-6k). The problem is I'd still need to maintain a real car for the other 4 months (which is really more like 5 or 6). So until global warming makes my area more temperate, I need something more multipurpose. I choose a 4 door sedan that gets about 32 MPG for gas mileage for this. My parents who live in the same area chose a 12 MPG SUV... Which I tease them about constantly, since it doesn't get around any better in the winter then I do unless the snow is over the wheel height of my car (it's happened, but it's rare).
It's nearly impossible to get diesel cars in the US.
Chrysler made a variant of almost every car they sold in the 2009 model year with a diesel engine, all cars gained about 10 MPG from being diesel alone (Most of which were getting 32 MPG on gasoline, so 42 MPG on the switch). They wouldn't sell to the US though, either direct or through a dealer. I'd have to drive to Canada to have boughten one and have it imported home...
Ford won't sell any of their performance diesels in the US either citing no demand and how people still assume diesel = smelly tractor trailers...
Part of the real reason is more current regulations on diesels, that was brought up here on slashdot over 2 years ago. These regs are designed for fleets of industrial vehicles (ie big trucks), but are written to apply to all vehicles using diesel engines and make selling a diesel car within the US both expensive and a pain.
I'd love to run a modern diesel powered car, but right now it's not going to happen.
I betaed APB, That was enough to prove to me their were issues no one seemed to address...
Like cheating. Cheating was huge, people that couldn't be taken down and could shoot through other objects were fairly common. When I was in the zone I could give people way out of my league a run for their money, but unkillable people wielding miniguns with sniper accuracy is silly. I'm not quite sure how the cheaters could even enjoy themselves...
On the other hand, some of the work behind the game made fun highly customizable characters that it was fun to work with... Though in beta it was never working opened all the way (lots of options had to be unlocked and they didn't make getting levels easy).
The 'goal' these people claim with laws like this is the same as what actually does exist now. In fact the ESRB has had better success getting retailers to play along then states have had banning the sale of cigarettes to minors! I can't believe so many people are complaining about a system that works!
It's been years since kids could just wander up to a counter and purchase a game with 'mature content' (which btw, I want more games with truly 'adult' content, most are dumbed down because they can't get rated and ever get into stores with real 'adult' content). Their odds of getting 'mature' CD's and Videos is even higher than games! Stop bitching over games and adding laws we don't need!
lol, keeping ancient (in computer terms) hardware running was part of my job... I had started detailing a program to replace hardware on a fairly typical 5 year cycle like business, but their was 9 and even 10 year old PC's in use in the building still. The 'mobile lab' of laptops was the first to go (8 years old when replaced and useless).
Btw as for what 15% really means in perspective... A tutoring program such as school-wide title 1 (and which requires a person for about every 3-4 classrooms as it's usually done) provides ~10% improvement in the topics tutored. The average such person makes 30k a year and costs the school ~60k including benefits. How many laptops can you fit in 60k?
If you want some more real world examples, I know a scientist studying education in India (originally, he's now in the UK). He did some amazing work showing that with pure access to information (even in another language!) kids can teach themselves anything they are interested in (up to and including microbiology!). Really amazing stuff to see. And really very traditional when you look at the origins of 'college' where students would wander around listening to what they felt like form lectures given by teachers.
Where I live (And I'm guessing where the OP is from) They can 'Suspend from work without pay', this was done to me once to 'teach me a lesson' by the dictator in charge of the company for supposedly 'not staying in communication well enough' even when sending weekly issue notices via email and having him decline to see me in person each week to discuss the same (ie he just had a stick up his ass)... The don't ask you to take a leave without pay, if you step on their property during the time they state they will call the police and escort you out (and probably fire you). You get no choice in suspension from work.
Their is also a variant with pay, but unless your a 'C' level employee you can't usually get that... Even as 'Director of Technology' I was suspended without pay.
Btw said dictator died suddenly of cancer a month or so later, so I really right it up to mental instability due to illness as the real cause of my 'incident'.
Non-standardized testing is not universal... and therefore very hard to measure except within a very small sub-set... So that isn't done much except internally for a school. Mine did informal non-standardized testing throughout the year to measure progress.
But schools with programs tracked performance from inception to current. I was usually looking at 5-10 years with of results from schools with such programs.
I should also note that this was what administrations and those who work on the 'back end' of education IT were seeing. These studies weren't done by any companies that sell anything. So the results are fairly reliable. Most laptop companies loved to sell schools laptops, but had no real interest in pushing 1:1 laptop programs.
Unless you work in education, you don't really see what work goes into improving the current education system. Now some administrations go off into la-la land because they saw an article about 'X', but others actually invest around and experiment to try to constantly improve the education they offer. Those track results and see how good an investment their ideas have been. That becomes the solid basis for other schools to look into similar experiments until so many schools are doing it, that it becomes just 'good sense'.
It can't be cheap if you literally do not have it.
Where I live their are no employment lawyers, when I wanted to consult one I found the closest lived 128 miles away (2nd largest city in the state, while I live in the fifth). So that's a 128 mile drive, and then however much such a lawyer costs for a consultation.
Five years ago when I wanted to use one I found a phone number and was told their consultation rate was $400/hour and it was suggested that unless I seriously thought I had something serious to level against them (harassment before being fired wasn't serious FYI) I shouldn't bother. This wasn't helped by a clause in the employment paperwork you are required to sign by 90% of employers stating employment issues go to an arbiter.
Most of the lawyer's time I talked to was not dealing with severance or any such thing, but acting as a consultant to HR for companies. The jist however being "Your fucking screwed in this state, deal." If his is like mine, it's doubtful he can win anything without it costing several times more to 'win', then to lose... even looking at a lifetime's employment... I mean taking out loans you can't afford to pay to get the lawyer into the courtroom isn't going to do him any good in the long run either unless he can get money from his former employers.
He also won't be collecting any money until the case is over and it could go on years (usually costing the company very little extra and far less than ever paying him anything). This includes unemployment. So he'll have zero income with which to settle this and will most likely have to try to find a new job ASAP.
Even college feels that skills depreciate, I started and never finished my first time going to college and ended up getting an associates instead. However being unemployed during the recent downturn I decided to go back and finish my degree. Very little work was available in my field and I was either 'overqualified' or 'underdegreed' by the terms of those I applied to. Now the college looks at my ten year old credits and tells me classes in COBOL, Systems analysis, C++, etc have all somehow managed to 'depreciate' and I'd need to take them again... Instead only accepting a few gen ed credits for 2.5 years toward my original degree in the exact same subject... It's taken me over a year to work out more credits from my previous experience because somehow people feel C++ has changed in 10 years (or COBOL which btw is way funnier, has it even changed at all since like the early 90's...?). I really cna't understand this thinking, or lack there of.
6% is high when you look at the 4% rate for those with bachelor's degrees... and is even somewhat high compared to the 5% rate for those with associates degrees... It suggests tech regardless of degree level is worse off then either type of degree in general is.
I worked as the Director of Technology for a charter school for 3 years and I looked at pretty good reporting on how one-laptop-per-child programs saw a 15% gain in performance on standardized testing. So I'd lay pretty good odds they will see some sort of increase from this, but probably not as great as they expect since they are doing a weird one-subject parallel.
The last candidate to come close to making a true third party run for president was Perro (sp?) and he even won a few states. I think he ended up with something along the lines of 25-33% of the overall popular votes...
I can live without furniture... I'd be fine with a few pillows and a tatami mat... But most other people would think I'm fairly strange if that's all I had...
Clothes are almost the same... I could live with about 7 outfits until they wore down to bare threads, but people will think I'm pretty weird...
Food we need, but most of us don't eat bland uninteresting and cheap food. We want variety...
So yes, we can't entirely do without them, but we can minimize them and eventually put them out of business if we only bought the barest necessities. The same applies to music, movies, and art.
I was once told in middle school by a teacher that I had to 'grow up' and 'let yourself be abused', because the teacher refused to act to discourage it and would only punish me (and not the bully in question) if I stood up to him.
How about you tax that companies that make non-green shit, not the people who can't afford to buy the green stuff? The poor regularly get the items in their price range that is the worst for the environment. The richer you are the better your access to 'green' tech/food/living is.
If we actually taxed the 'non-green' stuff it would make it harder on the poor people, but at least it's taxing the right thing! Every plan of this sort I've ever seen taxes the consumer, who doesn't always get to really chose what they buy.
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I can't even believe 20k total debt after college, from my own experience I owed 60k after 3 1/4 years my first time I couldn't get much if anything in grants (being 'white' and male kills most of these alone) and work study paid for me to not starve and usually have gas in my car (and not much else). Having gone back to college it's even worse now and I'm looking at as much as 120k in debt before I finish even though my 'new' college is a partially state funded one and so a year is about 12k (I'm getting crap for transfer credits though, which isn't helping)...
At least locally to me there isn't much in the one of investors, nor is there a desire from the teachers or staff in general to mentor students (though that seems a trend in general from those I know who are in college). I know how valuable 'networking' is, but it seems more and more schools aren't the way to do this.
I gotta say you most likely need to add location to the things you need. I grew up only a year or two behind you, but... My consulting never got me any real money (two many already larger and better funded competitors) so I ended up going to school for my associates when I was finding it impossible to get hired after my failed consulting business and education looked to be a good way to look better to those looking to hire me as they all complained at my lack of education. Out of college with my associates in CIS I got hired as the Director of Technology for a school district. Then about a year ago I lost that job so the school board could balance the budget (dropping IT as a department in the budget all together). In the last year I have applied everywhere and most won't even look at me because I don't have at least a bachelor's to work at that level. They also won't hire me for 'lesser' jobs, stating I'm either A) to expensive (without asking me what I would want!) or B) overqualified for what they need (which tends to scare my potential bosses). So After a year with nothing I decided my only option was to go back to school _again_ for my bachelor's...
It's great things worked for you, but your situation only applies to you even with other factors nearly identical.
I've avoided buying from them for a decade, so far this hasn't seemed to bother Sony...
Of course those few of us who avoid them don't have much impact because to many people _will_ buy regardless of how Sony acts... it's why boycotts so rarely work, you need to hurt them enough in sales that it truly effects their bottom line. And even then they are likely to blame A) 'piracy' B) economic condition C) their own employees before admitting that we actually got to them. Hence they sue more, whine about the economy, and then fire employees to try to regain balance of the pocket book... At times this even raises prices... Only after all that will they actually go 'this boycott is killing us!'.
For the US this would make even less sense... Only 4 companies handle packages like: UPS, Fedex, USPS, and one I can't recall because I've never actually used it myself... Which would imply rather than every single person having to make their driving more efficient 4 companies would... That seems an order of magnitude easier to me...
I have a fear of falling (and the more likely to my brain falling is the more the fear kicks in), glass or transparent anything that I'd stand, sit, or other hope to hell is going to support me would give me a full blown panic attack...
Btw lots of people tell me it's just a fear of heights, except I'm fine on high things that seem solid and unlikely to fall... A cabin on the top of a 'mountain', won't bother me. A thin metal bar on the edge of a bridge 200 feet overlooking the ground (or water) makes me nervous. The transparent flooring on the upper level of a skyscrapper I once visited was another to have me curled up on the floor...
"The anger and fear that corporations will take over is silly."
I think you missed how they already have more influence then all of us put together... Want an example? Listen to Lawernce Lessig. He has some great talks discussing how it's already happened with ideas about how to change it.
more specifically: http://www.x3d-shop.de/shop/catalog/details?sessid=sLj0f5goZLJPRcsCgtkhjXnEGJRrPR5tbCBSB2XfNGJzT0s1TOFT2Rss5cj1Svaq&shop_param=aid%3D17188182%26
Not sure I'd want to pay 989 EUR for one though... ouch...
Also it does seem the team modded it to reduce those really long (compared to the rest of it) antennas....
On Impulse (& Steam) games like Academagia & Star Ruler (as examples) Actually seem to do this. Both release regular updates and patches as people continue to buy the games. Fixing bugs, adding content, and developing new features as they progress. I happen to own both of those... And neither is quite yet what I'd like, but both have alot of potential and active devs as well as communities...
Actually Japanese are usually considered fairly racist... Against anyone not Japanese. They have sizable Korean and Chinese populations in their country that they actively discriminate against for instance (both are 'second class citizens'). Though even among themselves they still discriminate against a certain class of their own people, though they do have a law against discovering who is of that class (though it's badly worded and stops nothing).
It's also really really hard to get citizenship. I know of a few people who have married Japanese women and moved to Japan... Then spent the next 15 years gaining citizenship... They are considered one of the hardest countries to immigrate to in the world.
Combine that with long lifespans and a dwindling population growth (family size is often 1 or 2 at most), then toss in a whole generation with issues like NEATS and generally high unemployment as companies don't hire as many new workers (since the old ones often never retire)... And you may start to see why they are having issues...
The case will hinge around the fact that while Android is open these companies wanted to use Skyhook+google apps, which as skyhook competes with part of google apps is disallowed under google's rules for use of google apps. Most likely these companies mentioned by Skyhook weren't forced per se to stop using skyhook, but given a choice of not using google apps or not using skyhook. These companies chose not to use skyhook in favor of having google apps.
If you search for the requirements to use google android and then apps you'd notice where the key lies. Frankly I think they should have sued those who were actually their clients and who did the actual breaking of contract. Reaching out to a third party (google) and defaming them this way seems a good way to get hit with countersuits from google....
A probably with the XR3 and many other types of vehicles like it (including everything in the X-prize I've seen). Is that they don't seem to design for inclement weather. Namely snow and ice. Which makes them useful for maybe 8 months in the year where I live. Not to mention things like rain since at least half lack things as simple as defoggers and windshield wipers. They are all also light, which does not help in traction and the (generally) low acceleration hurts their ability to work their way up steep snow covered hills...
I'd just as well buy a motorcycle for where I live and it would be cheaper (I've priced them before I'd want one around $5-6k). The problem is I'd still need to maintain a real car for the other 4 months (which is really more like 5 or 6). So until global warming makes my area more temperate, I need something more multipurpose. I choose a 4 door sedan that gets about 32 MPG for gas mileage for this. My parents who live in the same area chose a 12 MPG SUV... Which I tease them about constantly, since it doesn't get around any better in the winter then I do unless the snow is over the wheel height of my car (it's happened, but it's rare).
It's nearly impossible to get diesel cars in the US.
Chrysler made a variant of almost every car they sold in the 2009 model year with a diesel engine, all cars gained about 10 MPG from being diesel alone (Most of which were getting 32 MPG on gasoline, so 42 MPG on the switch). They wouldn't sell to the US though, either direct or through a dealer. I'd have to drive to Canada to have boughten one and have it imported home...
Ford won't sell any of their performance diesels in the US either citing no demand and how people still assume diesel = smelly tractor trailers...
Part of the real reason is more current regulations on diesels, that was brought up here on slashdot over 2 years ago. These regs are designed for fleets of industrial vehicles (ie big trucks), but are written to apply to all vehicles using diesel engines and make selling a diesel car within the US both expensive and a pain.
I'd love to run a modern diesel powered car, but right now it's not going to happen.
I betaed APB, That was enough to prove to me their were issues no one seemed to address...
Like cheating. Cheating was huge, people that couldn't be taken down and could shoot through other objects were fairly common. When I was in the zone I could give people way out of my league a run for their money, but unkillable people wielding miniguns with sniper accuracy is silly. I'm not quite sure how the cheaters could even enjoy themselves...
On the other hand, some of the work behind the game made fun highly customizable characters that it was fun to work with... Though in beta it was never working opened all the way (lots of options had to be unlocked and they didn't make getting levels easy).
The 'goal' these people claim with laws like this is the same as what actually does exist now. In fact the ESRB has had better success getting retailers to play along then states have had banning the sale of cigarettes to minors! I can't believe so many people are complaining about a system that works!
It's been years since kids could just wander up to a counter and purchase a game with 'mature content' (which btw, I want more games with truly 'adult' content, most are dumbed down because they can't get rated and ever get into stores with real 'adult' content). Their odds of getting 'mature' CD's and Videos is even higher than games! Stop bitching over games and adding laws we don't need!
lol, keeping ancient (in computer terms) hardware running was part of my job... I had started detailing a program to replace hardware on a fairly typical 5 year cycle like business, but their was 9 and even 10 year old PC's in use in the building still. The 'mobile lab' of laptops was the first to go (8 years old when replaced and useless).
Btw as for what 15% really means in perspective... A tutoring program such as school-wide title 1 (and which requires a person for about every 3-4 classrooms as it's usually done) provides ~10% improvement in the topics tutored. The average such person makes 30k a year and costs the school ~60k including benefits. How many laptops can you fit in 60k?
If you want some more real world examples, I know a scientist studying education in India (originally, he's now in the UK). He did some amazing work showing that with pure access to information (even in another language!) kids can teach themselves anything they are interested in (up to and including microbiology!). Really amazing stuff to see. And really very traditional when you look at the origins of 'college' where students would wander around listening to what they felt like form lectures given by teachers.
Where I live (And I'm guessing where the OP is from) They can 'Suspend from work without pay', this was done to me once to 'teach me a lesson' by the dictator in charge of the company for supposedly 'not staying in communication well enough' even when sending weekly issue notices via email and having him decline to see me in person each week to discuss the same (ie he just had a stick up his ass)... The don't ask you to take a leave without pay, if you step on their property during the time they state they will call the police and escort you out (and probably fire you). You get no choice in suspension from work.
Their is also a variant with pay, but unless your a 'C' level employee you can't usually get that... Even as 'Director of Technology' I was suspended without pay.
Btw said dictator died suddenly of cancer a month or so later, so I really right it up to mental instability due to illness as the real cause of my 'incident'.
Non-standardized testing is not universal... and therefore very hard to measure except within a very small sub-set... So that isn't done much except internally for a school. Mine did informal non-standardized testing throughout the year to measure progress.
But schools with programs tracked performance from inception to current. I was usually looking at 5-10 years with of results from schools with such programs.
I should also note that this was what administrations and those who work on the 'back end' of education IT were seeing. These studies weren't done by any companies that sell anything. So the results are fairly reliable. Most laptop companies loved to sell schools laptops, but had no real interest in pushing 1:1 laptop programs.
Unless you work in education, you don't really see what work goes into improving the current education system. Now some administrations go off into la-la land because they saw an article about 'X', but others actually invest around and experiment to try to constantly improve the education they offer. Those track results and see how good an investment their ideas have been. That becomes the solid basis for other schools to look into similar experiments until so many schools are doing it, that it becomes just 'good sense'.
It can't be cheap if you literally do not have it.
Where I live their are no employment lawyers, when I wanted to consult one I found the closest lived 128 miles away (2nd largest city in the state, while I live in the fifth). So that's a 128 mile drive, and then however much such a lawyer costs for a consultation.
Five years ago when I wanted to use one I found a phone number and was told their consultation rate was $400/hour and it was suggested that unless I seriously thought I had something serious to level against them (harassment before being fired wasn't serious FYI) I shouldn't bother. This wasn't helped by a clause in the employment paperwork you are required to sign by 90% of employers stating employment issues go to an arbiter.
Most of the lawyer's time I talked to was not dealing with severance or any such thing, but acting as a consultant to HR for companies. The jist however being "Your fucking screwed in this state, deal." If his is like mine, it's doubtful he can win anything without it costing several times more to 'win', then to lose... even looking at a lifetime's employment... I mean taking out loans you can't afford to pay to get the lawyer into the courtroom isn't going to do him any good in the long run either unless he can get money from his former employers.
He also won't be collecting any money until the case is over and it could go on years (usually costing the company very little extra and far less than ever paying him anything). This includes unemployment. So he'll have zero income with which to settle this and will most likely have to try to find a new job ASAP.
Even college feels that skills depreciate, I started and never finished my first time going to college and ended up getting an associates instead. However being unemployed during the recent downturn I decided to go back and finish my degree. Very little work was available in my field and I was either 'overqualified' or 'underdegreed' by the terms of those I applied to. Now the college looks at my ten year old credits and tells me classes in COBOL, Systems analysis, C++, etc have all somehow managed to 'depreciate' and I'd need to take them again... Instead only accepting a few gen ed credits for 2.5 years toward my original degree in the exact same subject... It's taken me over a year to work out more credits from my previous experience because somehow people feel C++ has changed in 10 years (or COBOL which btw is way funnier, has it even changed at all since like the early 90's...?). I really cna't understand this thinking, or lack there of.
6% is high when you look at the 4% rate for those with bachelor's degrees... and is even somewhat high compared to the 5% rate for those with associates degrees... It suggests tech regardless of degree level is worse off then either type of degree in general is.
I worked as the Director of Technology for a charter school for 3 years and I looked at pretty good reporting on how one-laptop-per-child programs saw a 15% gain in performance on standardized testing. So I'd lay pretty good odds they will see some sort of increase from this, but probably not as great as they expect since they are doing a weird one-subject parallel.
The last candidate to come close to making a true third party run for president was Perro (sp?) and he even won a few states. I think he ended up with something along the lines of 25-33% of the overall popular votes...
I can live without furniture... I'd be fine with a few pillows and a tatami mat... But most other people would think I'm fairly strange if that's all I had...
Clothes are almost the same... I could live with about 7 outfits until they wore down to bare threads, but people will think I'm pretty weird...
Food we need, but most of us don't eat bland uninteresting and cheap food. We want variety...
So yes, we can't entirely do without them, but we can minimize them and eventually put them out of business if we only bought the barest necessities. The same applies to music, movies, and art.
I was once told in middle school by a teacher that I had to 'grow up' and 'let yourself be abused', because the teacher refused to act to discourage it and would only punish me (and not the bully in question) if I stood up to him.
Try that for a message from the 'administration'.
How about you tax that companies that make non-green shit, not the people who can't afford to buy the green stuff? The poor regularly get the items in their price range that is the worst for the environment. The richer you are the better your access to 'green' tech/food/living is.
If we actually taxed the 'non-green' stuff it would make it harder on the poor people, but at least it's taxing the right thing! Every plan of this sort I've ever seen taxes the consumer, who doesn't always get to really chose what they buy.