The root issue is that colleges and universities are offering amenities and classes that colleges and universities never did before.
Campuses are now littered with 'activity' centers to entertain and amuse students, and an ever-increasing percentage of students enter college with deficient math or reading skills. Why are colleges and universities taking in students that can't read or write at a 12th grade level?
How can a college defend charging $500 or more per credit hour to sit in a room with 20-100 other students?
So-called 'obamacare' insurance plans cost $1,500/month (before subsidies) for a family of four, and have WILD co-pays and deductibles. Covering 100% of medical expenses will cost each family of four in excess of $3K/month - add a modest $1K/month UBI per person ($4K/month) and that family of four cost $7K/month - now multiply that by 100 million and pay that each month.
About half the people in this country make more than they need,
Funny, those are the only people that pay income taxes, since 47% of income tax filers either pay no income taxes or collect refunds that exceed any monies withheld from their paychecks.
Yeah, cool, take all the wealth from the 'wealthy' - sounds great, who'll pay the UBI bill in year two after you confiscate everyone's wealth the first year?
$1,000/month, times 320 million recipients each month, you'll burn through all 'wealthy people's' money in no time.
320 million times $1,000/month is $320 Billion/month, or just about $4 Trillion a year. It takes a thousand billionaires to make one trillion, how many billionaires are there in America? Do we really have 4K billionaires in America?
American 'poor' typically have subsidies for a roof over their head, drinkable water, cheap reliable electricity, cable/satellite TV, smartphones, internet access, free healthcare, and food assistance.
'Poor' is a lot wealthier than you may think. American 'Poor' typically receive more in gov't benefits than entry-level jobs pay, removing the incentive to get off the gov't teat.
It takes about 125 people to maintain and run a steam locomotive.
No, it doesn't and you look stupid when you say things like that.
There may be 125 tasks involved in maintaining a steam locomotive, but you claim that 125 people work 8 hr/day, 365 days/year maintaining a steam locomotive?
What could they all possibly do?
Now, did the Union Pacific railroad have 125 different tasks that were all required at various intervals over the course of the year to maintain a steam locomotive? Sure - some were hourly, some daily, weekly, after so many hours of run-time, etc., sure, makes perfect sense - but to imagine there were three shifts of 40+ workers on staff every day dedicated to maintain a single locomotive? Asinine. There'd have to be a coach car traveling behind the locomotive dedicated to transporting the 40+ person 'support staff' for each locomotive.
Does ESR really consider UPSs to be the 'next big thing' as ever more users transition to devices with built-in batteries (laptops and tablets) from devices that would benefit from a stand-alone UPS (like a desktop or server)?
So I guess the goal is 'everything open source' and then we won't need manufacturers, we'll all just download WIKI-how pages, round up some raw materials, and head off to a makerspace to build our next cellphone or TV set?
Seriously, because Intel declined to build CPUs for Apple in 2005 they are ever so slowly going out of business?
That's just stupid on the face of it - it displays a level of ignorance of the original poster, boing the entire industry down to his personal purchasing decisions and a random fact (billions of iPhones with non-Intel CPUs!).
How many jet liners full f people were smashed into buildings using nothing more than box cutters on September 11, 2001? As I recall inonly one plane did the passengers 'swarm' their attackers and foil their plans.
Why didn't anyone lift a finger to prevent the Parkland shooter from legally buying a gun?
His school banned him - for cause - but the federal government paid the school to not arrest him.
His friends knew he was crazy.
His roommate knew he was crazy.
People called the FBI and warned them about him, using his full name.
The police visited him 30+ times.
He referred to himself as a 'school shooter'.
He posted on line he wanted to be a 'professional school shooter'.
And NONE of these things caused anyone to follow through and take a needed step to prevent him from legally buying a gun.
This story played out previously in a small church in Texas, in a movie theater in Aurora Colorado, Andy's a grocery store with Gabby Giffords.
We have laws that would have prevented these shooters from buying guns, but society seems reluctant to take that step that prevents the crazies from buying guns... background checks are great, but the community needs to make sure the crazies are in databases to block gun sales to them.
So in recent memory, we've seen 'natural disasters' that were exacerbated by man-made choices:
New Orleans/Hurricane Katrina - what made Hurricane Katrina so bad was the decision to build a major coastal city on land below sea level.
Fukushima Reactor disaster - as bad as the event was, it was amplified by the decision to locate a nuclear reactor with an ocean front view and beach side parking.
San Francisco Airport (future problem) - the brilliance of locating an airport with easy access to the bay will be questioned when the impact of the decision to locate their runways at approximately sea level is made clear.
While there is no proof that anything nefarious is afoot...
Well then, by all means, make something up and act like it's real!
Today, there is some undeniably huge news -- Debian is joining SUSE, Ubuntu, and Kali in the Microsoft Store.Should the Linux community be worried?
OMG, MS is making it easy for a user to run Linux Distros and by extension Linux Application on a Windows computer - those BASTARDS!
My concern lately is that Microsoft could eventually try to make the concept of running a Linux distro natively a thing of the past. Whether or not that is the company's intention is unknown.
Oh My! Imagine a world where people only run Linux in a Hypervisor! How horrible! Except, you know, many/most/nearly all production server environments have run under some form of hypervisor for the last few decades, first on mainframes, now on x86 PCs and servers.
Why is it important to only run Linux Distros natively?
The take-away from this isn't that it's important for people to run Linux, it's important that they stop running Windows? Grow up.
The Windows maker gives no reason to suspect evil plans, other than past negative comments about Linux and open source. For instance, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once called Linux "cancer" -- seriously.
They do, but what they are doing is not false advertising, just dishonest. ISPs advertise the maximum speed and they are right that those are the maximum speed a customer (just not *you*) could theoretically attain. What they are suggesting here is not that the false advertisement stops, but the idea of a maximum being advertised stops and instead people get an average.
That is fantastic! Replace a concrete limit on connection speed with an absolutely meaningless "average" metric. If "people" can't understand what the phrase "up to" means, will they have any better grasp on what "average" is?
The second is that most of the connections are referred to as some form of "Broadband". Which is defined as somewhere around faster than dial up.
In America, according to the FCC, the term "broadband" has a very specific meaning - it was actually a cause of great gnashing of teeth here on Slashdot, when the average Slashdot reader apparently thought the FCC defining down the term for "mobile broadband" meant their *home* broadband connections would slow down.
Its a little work to define, but if the average user could notice they are not getting what they paid for, then the bill should be reduced to what they got.
Imagine two users - one gets a solid 50 Mbps connection to Amazon/Google/YouTube/Facebook/Netflix and the other gets an average of 2.5 Mbps connection to an obscure Asian anime fan website, should the "average user" pay 100% of their bill, and the "anime user" only pay 1/20th of their bill, because that's what they actually "got"?
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The root issue is that colleges and universities are offering amenities and classes that colleges and universities never did before.
Campuses are now littered with 'activity' centers to entertain and amuse students, and an ever-increasing percentage of students enter college with deficient math or reading skills. Why are colleges and universities taking in students that can't read or write at a 12th grade level?
How can a college defend charging $500 or more per credit hour to sit in a room with 20-100 other students?
Not only was this car speeding, but it did not recognise a road side hazard and drive by cautiously.
The police said the woman came "out of the shadows"
She wasn't a "roadside hazard", she was a person on the side of the road, and she made the decision to step in front of a moving car.
Did she not see the car?
Did she turn her head to try and see if there was an oncoming vehicle?
Gov't handouts aren't for buying real estate.
Nonsense. Show me your numbers.
So-called 'obamacare' insurance plans cost $1,500/month (before subsidies) for a family of four, and have WILD co-pays and deductibles. Covering 100% of medical expenses will cost each family of four in excess of $3K/month - add a modest $1K/month UBI per person ($4K/month) and that family of four cost $7K/month - now multiply that by 100 million and pay that each month.
About half the people in this country make more than they need,
Funny, those are the only people that pay income taxes, since 47% of income tax filers either pay no income taxes or collect refunds that exceed any monies withheld from their paychecks.
Yeah, cool, take all the wealth from the 'wealthy' - sounds great, who'll pay the UBI bill in year two after you confiscate everyone's wealth the first year?
$1,000/month, times 320 million recipients each month, you'll burn through all 'wealthy people's' money in no time.
320 million times $1,000/month is $320 Billion/month, or just about $4 Trillion a year. It takes a thousand billionaires to make one trillion, how many billionaires are there in America? Do we really have 4K billionaires in America?
No.
When 95% of the jobs are gone, either we all starve, yes even you Ayn Randians, or we yank back wealth from rent-seeking leeches.
Or we could, you know, spread out and take up farming and consider having fewer children per family.
American 'poor' typically have subsidies for a roof over their head, drinkable water, cheap reliable electricity, cable/satellite TV, smartphones, internet access, free healthcare, and food assistance.
'Poor' is a lot wealthier than you may think. American 'Poor' typically receive more in gov't benefits than entry-level jobs pay, removing the incentive to get off the gov't teat.
It takes about 125 people to maintain and run a steam locomotive.
No, it doesn't and you look stupid when you say things like that.
There may be 125 tasks involved in maintaining a steam locomotive, but you claim that 125 people work 8 hr/day, 365 days/year maintaining a steam locomotive?
What could they all possibly do?
Now, did the Union Pacific railroad have 125 different tasks that were all required at various intervals over the course of the year to maintain a steam locomotive? Sure - some were hourly, some daily, weekly, after so many hours of run-time, etc., sure, makes perfect sense - but to imagine there were three shifts of 40+ workers on staff every day dedicated to maintain a single locomotive? Asinine. There'd have to be a coach car traveling behind the locomotive dedicated to transporting the 40+ person 'support staff' for each locomotive.
Does ESR really consider UPSs to be the 'next big thing' as ever more users transition to devices with built-in batteries (laptops and tablets) from devices that would benefit from a stand-alone UPS (like a desktop or server)?
So I guess the goal is 'everything open source' and then we won't need manufacturers, we'll all just download WIKI-how pages, round up some raw materials, and head off to a makerspace to build our next cellphone or TV set?
Seriously, because Intel declined to build CPUs for Apple in 2005 they are ever so slowly going out of business?
That's just stupid on the face of it - it displays a level of ignorance of the original poster, boing the entire industry down to his personal purchasing decisions and a random fact (billions of iPhones with non-Intel CPUs!).
Intel CPUs are in$60 Windows tablets - they are in the tablet market, just not the Android tablet market.
Like Norway?
One interesting thing about the US: There are more fatal shootings done by police than by criminals in the past few years
Bullshit - more people are gunned down on a holiday weekend in Chicago than are killed by police west of the missippi in a year.
'It's the economy, stupid'
Look at workforce participation, shrinking public assitence rolls, the stock market, etc.
Not until the statute of limitations runs out.
She can still be charged for many posible crimes, that she hasn't yet doesn't mean she won't.
How many jet liners full f people were smashed into buildings using nothing more than box cutters on September 11, 2001? As I recall inonly one plane did the passengers 'swarm' their attackers and foil their plans.
Why didn't anyone lift a finger to prevent the Parkland shooter from legally buying a gun?
His school banned him - for cause - but the federal government paid the school to not arrest him.
His friends knew he was crazy.
His roommate knew he was crazy.
People called the FBI and warned them about him, using his full name.
The police visited him 30+ times.
He referred to himself as a 'school shooter'.
He posted on line he wanted to be a 'professional school shooter'.
And NONE of these things caused anyone to follow through and take a needed step to prevent him from legally buying a gun.
This story played out previously in a small church in Texas, in a movie theater in Aurora Colorado, Andy's a grocery store with Gabby Giffords.
We have laws that would have prevented these shooters from buying guns, but society seems reluctant to take that step that prevents the crazies from buying guns... background checks are great, but the community needs to make sure the crazies are in databases to block gun sales to them.
Like Norway?
Every acre of solar is one less acre of greenhouse gas-consuming plant life.
So in recent memory, we've seen 'natural disasters' that were exacerbated by man-made choices:
New Orleans/Hurricane Katrina - what made Hurricane Katrina so bad was the decision to build a major coastal city on land below sea level.
Fukushima Reactor disaster - as bad as the event was, it was amplified by the decision to locate a nuclear reactor with an ocean front view and beach side parking.
San Francisco Airport (future problem) - the brilliance of locating an airport with easy access to the bay will be questioned when the impact of the decision to locate their runways at approximately sea level is made clear.
While there is no proof that anything nefarious is afoot...
Well then, by all means, make something up and act like it's real!
Today, there is some undeniably huge news -- Debian is joining SUSE, Ubuntu, and Kali in the Microsoft Store. Should the Linux community be worried?
OMG, MS is making it easy for a user to run Linux Distros and by extension Linux Application on a Windows computer - those BASTARDS!
My concern lately is that Microsoft could eventually try to make the concept of running a Linux distro natively a thing of the past. Whether or not that is the company's intention is unknown.
Oh My! Imagine a world where people only run Linux in a Hypervisor! How horrible! Except, you know, many/most/nearly all production server environments have run under some form of hypervisor for the last few decades, first on mainframes, now on x86 PCs and servers.
Why is it important to only run Linux Distros natively?
The take-away from this isn't that it's important for people to run Linux, it's important that they stop running Windows? Grow up.
The Windows maker gives no reason to suspect evil plans, other than past negative comments about Linux and open source. For instance, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer once called Linux "cancer" -- seriously.
They do, but what they are doing is not false advertising, just dishonest. ISPs advertise the maximum speed and they are right that those are the maximum speed a customer (just not *you*) could theoretically attain. What they are suggesting here is not that the false advertisement stops, but the idea of a maximum being advertised stops and instead people get an average.
That is fantastic! Replace a concrete limit on connection speed with an absolutely meaningless "average" metric. If "people" can't understand what the phrase "up to" means, will they have any better grasp on what "average" is?
The second is that most of the connections are referred to as some form of "Broadband". Which is defined as somewhere around faster than dial up.
In America, according to the FCC, the term "broadband" has a very specific meaning - it was actually a cause of great gnashing of teeth here on Slashdot, when the average Slashdot reader apparently thought the FCC defining down the term for "mobile broadband" meant their *home* broadband connections would slow down.
Its a little work to define, but if the average user could notice they are not getting what they paid for, then the bill should be reduced to what they got.
Imagine two users - one gets a solid 50 Mbps connection to Amazon/Google/YouTube/Facebook/Netflix and the other gets an average of 2.5 Mbps connection to an obscure Asian anime fan website, should the "average user" pay 100% of their bill, and the "anime user" only pay 1/20th of their bill, because that's what they actually "got"?