They are equating e-commerce sites with colonization - the comparison is asinine. If Amazon can sell curry to Indians cheaper than native Indian e-commerce sites can sell it, the issue isn't Amazon, it's the Indian culture and business practices that make their costs higher. What these politicians are saying is rather than change their practices and customs, they want Indian citizens to pay a premium and support local businesses... This is something many nations struggle with, it is not a uniquely Indian issue.
Wow, you have a limited understanding of IBMs offerings & technology.
Maybe take a moment and look into a little thing IBM made real popular in the 1970s - virtual machines, particularly their VM and later MVS operating systems (through all their various forms). IBM was making computers for decades before they dropped Microchannel on the PC industry - and for the record, microchannel was successful in the non-PC AIX workstation market for a while.
Doesn't surprise me - I can easily imagine the local officials saying 'hey, it's not like they are going to walk away from a 750 million customer country!'
Yes, they would.
Those curious about government attempts would do well to research the US government's purchasing requirement to only buy computers/periphersls that use ASCII character representation. The US gov't thought they could change 'Big Blue', but they were wrong...
In the 1970s Harvard cost $4K/year ( https://www.thecrimson.com/art... ) and the minimum wage was $2.50-3.00/hr? You'd have to work A LOT of hours at McDonalds to pay for Harvard in the 1970s.
Near me, In-And-Out pays $12/hr starting pay, work there 20hrs/week, more on vacations and breaks, and suddenly state college is affordable... but hey, it's more fun to push the payments off four years and act surprised when you see $500/month student loan payments for the next 120 months!
If you can't afford to support yourself after attending college and having loan payments of $500 or more a month, why did you go to college? I mean seriously, if the cost exceeds the expected benefit it was a bad financial decision.
College isn't a trade school, and it's foolish to pretend it is when making life decisions.
How about letting NASA decide where it is best to do things, regardless of political desires.
It has never been that way. Do you think it is a coincidence that NASA facilities are located in the states/district of powerful politicians in the 60's?
I'd love to hear the case for picking up mission control from a Houston and moving it somewhere more suitable? What, particularly is so awful about Houston that keeping mission control there would be detrimental to future space programs?
Windows 10 licenses are currently free for devices that comply with certain hardware limitations (screen size, RAM).
Every student wants a MacBook, most wind up with a Windows laptop, and a few will likely settle for a chromebook, but at $600 there are a dozen alternative windows laptops sitting in the same aisle as these 'premium' chromebooks with prices lower than the chromebook and similar hardware specs.
When was the last time a kid said 'I prefer my chromebook to a windows or Mac laptop?' Do you think a faster processor, more ram, bigger screen will change their opinion if chromebooks?
Microsoft will try to kill it; offer incentives, eg: reduced/zero app store fee if they don't sell the Chromebook port.
With 95% desktop market share, MS isn't going to lose much sleep over $600 chromebooks - the threat isn't real, people who like chromebooks rely on Corp/school district IT departments to make the chrome os environment as useable as say a windows notebook - remove IT Department support and Chrome OS is less attractive to the average user than a Linux notebook/netbook, and at $600 you can get a very capable windows laptop from any major manufacturer (except Apple, which really starts at $1K).
Ars Technica sees new $600 "premium Chromebooks" Dell, Samsung, HP, and Lenovo as a growing challenge to Windows, proving that Chrome OS is reaching beyond the education market. These $600 machines aren't aimed at those same students.
Can we dial down the 'techtonic shift' rhetoric until these more expensive chrome books start actually selling in large numbers?
It's one thing to sell a literal truckload of chronebooks to a school district where users have no choice in the platform and it's a completely different thing to sell $600 chrome books next to $500 windows laptops and $1k MacBooks in your local Best Buy showroom.
How 'wonderful' is the chrome book environment when you don't have your school district's IT department managing it for you?
My understanding is that it's less about being forgiven and more about being able to get out from under these loans the same way you can get out from other kinds of loads trough bankruptcy.
We tried that, up until the seventies you could get rid of federa! College debt by declaring bankruptcy, millions did it, and the taxpayers got sick of paying for others college educatiins.
The current system is a reaction to what you describe when it was the policy.
Those bailouts you describe are paid back, these students can't pay back their loans - you are using loans that were repaid to justify gifts that are not paid back.
No. 30% of college graduates aren't working professionals earning less than the janitor to serve humanity - they are the victims of a series of bad decisions, made by themselves, starting with the decision to put two to four years (or more) of their lives on credit cards and wait four years to make payments to study something that doesn't pay enough to cover the expense of college.
2. Cost of living is VERY VERY HIGH. You can't attack the kids for not planning when your first jobs pay $35,000 a year with no experience. How the fuck can you pay rent of $1500 a month with that kind of salary? Let alone pay off the loan and a car payment?
So you want your own apartment, and car (with repairs, gas, and insurance) upon leaving college? Get a roommate, ride the bus, and work towards getting a better job.
Did no one explain how loan repayments accomplished interest works to you, mr. College graduate?
You shouldn't borrow money for room and board, that is literally living off a credit card for four years, and needlessly adds to the size of your loan.
I once saw a kid dry when he had to get for a substitute teaching job to try and pay off his quarter million dollar student loan for his degree from Brown university in Theater Management... Who advised him to borrow so much money for that degree?
High schools should be forced to pay for the remedial classes their graduates need when they go off to college. Making a student take out an unsecured loan so they can achieve 12 grade math/English skills is horrible.
Betsy DeVos? How many people entered college, then left college, and fell years behind on their loan payments under Betsy DeVos? (Reminder, she's been in office less than two years.)
Betsy doesn't set admission criteria, Betsy doesn't set tuition rates, and she definitely didn't establish student loan repayment regulations... Pseudoscience ill-equipped, borrowing tens of thousands of dollars to finance remedial math and english classes to compensate for their miserable high school educations are a bit responsible? When you borrowed $60-100K to study some useless major (like womensstudies, French literature, or philosiphy) how big you plan on paying back? Didn't you understand that $60K over 10 years is $500/month, every month, for the next ten years - that's $500/month before you pay rent, but food, a car, or utilities/cellphone/etc?
Is there some element of this story that is controversial?
Should Houston sit back and give some other city a chance to host Mission Control?
Is it inappropriate for Texas lawmakers to suggest re-establishing mission control in Houston, where it had been for the previous half century?
Is the two Senators sending a letter to NASA supporting this idea somehow unusual?
This is basic politics, nothing even slightly inappropriate is hinted at in the story, and no better suggestion is made. This strikes me as a 'Dog bites Man' story, not the other way around.
would simply restore the federal rules that telecom companies operated under from 2015 until the 2017 repeal, which only went into effect a few months ago.
So we enjoyed a net-neutrality provided Nirvana for "a few month" last year?
In other words, we need net neutrality to re-establish the long-standing principles of a free and open internet, just like we had for a few months last year - never mind that these "absolutely mandatory regulations" only existed for a few brief weeks, we simply can't go on without them!
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They are equating e-commerce sites with colonization - the comparison is asinine. If Amazon can sell curry to Indians cheaper than native Indian e-commerce sites can sell it, the issue isn't Amazon, it's the Indian culture and business practices that make their costs higher. What these politicians are saying is rather than change their practices and customs, they want Indian citizens to pay a premium and support local businesses... This is something many nations struggle with, it is not a uniquely Indian issue.
Wow, you have a limited understanding of IBMs offerings & technology.
Maybe take a moment and look into a little thing IBM made real popular in the 1970s - virtual machines, particularly their VM and later MVS operating systems (through all their various forms). IBM was making computers for decades before they dropped Microchannel on the PC industry - and for the record, microchannel was successful in the non-PC AIX workstation market for a while.
Doesn't surprise me - I can easily imagine the local officials saying 'hey, it's not like they are going to walk away from a 750 million customer country!'
Yes, they would.
Those curious about government attempts would do well to research the US government's purchasing requirement to only buy computers/periphersls that use ASCII character representation. The US gov't thought they could change 'Big Blue', but they were wrong...
and restrictions on the ability of foreign-owned e-commerce companies to undercut local businesses on price.
What is the incentive for Indian companies to lower prices?
In the 1970s Harvard cost $4K/year ( https://www.thecrimson.com/art... ) and the minimum wage was $2.50-3.00/hr? You'd have to work A LOT of hours at McDonalds to pay for Harvard in the 1970s.
Near me, In-And-Out pays $12/hr starting pay, work there 20hrs/week, more on vacations and breaks, and suddenly state college is affordable... but hey, it's more fun to push the payments off four years and act surprised when you see $500/month student loan payments for the next 120 months!
If you can't afford to support yourself after attending college and having loan payments of $500 or more a month, why did you go to college? I mean seriously, if the cost exceeds the expected benefit it was a bad financial decision.
College isn't a trade school, and it's foolish to pretend it is when making life decisions.
How about letting NASA decide where it is best to do things, regardless of political desires.
It has never been that way. Do you think it is a coincidence that NASA facilities are located in the states/district of powerful politicians in the 60's?
I'd love to hear the case for picking up mission control from a Houston and moving it somewhere more suitable? What, particularly is so awful about Houston that keeping mission control there would be detrimental to future space programs?
If everyone can code, then coding wil be a worthless skill, meaning employers will assume you have it and won't pay a premium for the skill.
American public schools - preparing today's students for yesterday's lucrative jobs!
Windows 10 licenses are currently free for devices that comply with certain hardware limitations (screen size, RAM).
Every student wants a MacBook, most wind up with a Windows laptop, and a few will likely settle for a chromebook, but at $600 there are a dozen alternative windows laptops sitting in the same aisle as these 'premium' chromebooks with prices lower than the chromebook and similar hardware specs.
When was the last time a kid said 'I prefer my chromebook to a windows or Mac laptop?' Do you think a faster processor, more ram, bigger screen will change their opinion if chromebooks?
Microsoft will try to kill it; offer incentives, eg: reduced/zero app store fee if they don't sell the Chromebook port.
With 95% desktop market share, MS isn't going to lose much sleep over $600 chromebooks - the threat isn't real, people who like chromebooks rely on Corp/school district IT departments to make the chrome os environment as useable as say a windows notebook - remove IT Department support and Chrome OS is less attractive to the average user than a Linux notebook/netbook, and at $600 you can get a very capable windows laptop from any major manufacturer (except Apple, which really starts at $1K).
Ars Technica sees new $600 "premium Chromebooks" Dell, Samsung, HP, and Lenovo as a growing challenge to Windows, proving that Chrome OS is reaching beyond the education market. These $600 machines aren't aimed at those same students.
Can we dial down the 'techtonic shift' rhetoric until these more expensive chrome books start actually selling in large numbers?
It's one thing to sell a literal truckload of chronebooks to a school district where users have no choice in the platform and it's a completely different thing to sell $600 chrome books next to $500 windows laptops and $1k MacBooks in your local Best Buy showroom.
How 'wonderful' is the chrome book environment when you don't have your school district's IT department managing it for you?
My understanding is that it's less about being forgiven and more about being able to get out from under these loans the same way you can get out from other kinds of loads trough bankruptcy.
We tried that, up until the seventies you could get rid of federa! College debt by declaring bankruptcy, millions did it, and the taxpayers got sick of paying for others college educatiins.
The current system is a reaction to what you describe when it was the policy.
Those bailouts you describe are paid back, these students can't pay back their loans - you are using loans that were repaid to justify gifts that are not paid back.
No. 30% of college graduates aren't working professionals earning less than the janitor to serve humanity - they are the victims of a series of bad decisions, made by themselves, starting with the decision to put two to four years (or more) of their lives on credit cards and wait four years to make payments to study something that doesn't pay enough to cover the expense of college.
2. Cost of living is VERY VERY HIGH. You can't attack the kids for not planning when your first jobs pay $35,000 a year with no experience. How the fuck can you pay rent of $1500 a month with that kind of salary? Let alone pay off the loan and a car payment?
So you want your own apartment, and car (with repairs, gas, and insurance) upon leaving college? Get a roommate, ride the bus, and work towards getting a better job.
Did no one explain how loan repayments accomplished interest works to you, mr. College graduate?
Walk around any college campus and marvel at the facilities - they do nothing for the students education and only cause functional escalate.
$300/yr in France doesn't cover cost of education, it's a co-pay.
You shouldn't borrow money for room and board, that is literally living off a credit card for four years, and needlessly adds to the size of your loan.
I once saw a kid dry when he had to get for a substitute teaching job to try and pay off his quarter million dollar student loan for his degree from Brown university in Theater Management... Who advised him to borrow so much money for that degree?
High schools should be forced to pay for the remedial classes their graduates need when they go off to college. Making a student take out an unsecured loan so they can achieve 12 grade math/English skills is horrible.
Betsy DeVos? How many people entered college, then left college, and fell years behind on their loan payments under Betsy DeVos? (Reminder, she's been in office less than two years.)
Betsy doesn't set admission criteria, Betsy doesn't set tuition rates, and she definitely didn't establish student loan repayment regulations... Pseudoscience ill-equipped, borrowing tens of thousands of dollars to finance remedial math and english classes to compensate for their miserable high school educations are a bit responsible? When you borrowed $60-100K to study some useless major (like womensstudies, French literature, or philosiphy) how big you plan on paying back? Didn't you understand that $60K over 10 years is $500/month, every month, for the next ten years - that's $500/month before you pay rent, but food, a car, or utilities/cellphone/etc?
Is there some element of this story that is controversial?
Should Houston sit back and give some other city a chance to host Mission Control?
Is it inappropriate for Texas lawmakers to suggest re-establishing mission control in Houston, where it had been for the previous half century?
Is the two Senators sending a letter to NASA supporting this idea somehow unusual?
This is basic politics, nothing even slightly inappropriate is hinted at in the story, and no better suggestion is made. This strikes me as a 'Dog bites Man' story, not the other way around.
Dementia, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Cancer
None of which lowers one's intelligence.
Big telcom is using robocalls to sway public opinion! That tool should only be employed by politicians and causes I support, not those I don't!
would simply restore the federal rules that telecom companies operated under from 2015 until the 2017 repeal, which only went into effect a few months ago.
So we enjoyed a net-neutrality provided Nirvana for "a few month" last year?
In other words, we need net neutrality to re-establish the long-standing principles of a free and open internet, just like we had for a few months last year - never mind that these "absolutely mandatory regulations" only existed for a few brief weeks, we simply can't go on without them!
I'm not trying to say all Trump supporters are morons, the data says that. Indictments too.
Citation please? You said there was "data", which implies a study - possibly even a peer-reviewed one - that supports this claim of yours.