And what, exactly is the school doing? They are no longer pretending anyone pays 'list price' at Utica, they are lowering the list price to more closely match what students historically actually paid to attend Utica. Utica will still 'pick up the difference' between the cost of running the school and what students actually pay.
Fire professors? Why? The school is simply reducing the published tuition rate to better reflect what students actually pay. The school had been acting like a 'rich uncle' and paying 61% of the tuition bills for their students, by changing the number printed in the catalog the school is still paying the difference between what students pay and what the school actually costs - just like always.
But until AI really gets good, sexbots are only going to appeal to the tiny minority of men who are already using Real Dolls. No threat to society as a whole.
Right, what man is going to want a sexual plaything that is incapable of maintaining a three hour conversation about her feelings?
The secret to academic success is simple: be born to smart, rich parents.
You've never spent much time with the children of rich parents, have you. I have, the richer the parents, the dumber the kid. I had classmates whose last names were on major consumer products and named partners at national brokerage firms, the kids were dumber than a box of hammers.
The poorest kids in my school were the ones on full scholarship, they typically had GPAs of 4.0 or better.
Amazing how fast topic went off the rails - personal anecdotes aside, this study was not about particular topics in certain grades, it considered the effectiveness of the collected education system across entire nations...
Nations with less emphasis on putting 'computers in the classroom' typically achieve better test scores than nations that emphasize putting 'computers in the classroom.'
Problem 2: Text books aren't being produced 1:1 print and digitally. The devices are useless if the don't provide a better experience than print. 2a) Digital books are lighter 2b) Digital books can be "higlighted", notes taken, etc 2c) Digital books are more sanitary, as print books might be harboring infectious diseases.
Digital textbooks are licensed per user, per year, and rarely license at a cost lower than printed books, once the cost of supplying and maintaining eReader devices (tablets, laptop, desktop, whatever).
In a debate, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden would eat Donald Trump's lunch.
I think you overestimate the rhetorical abilities of Joe Biden (a twice-failed Democrat candidate for President) and Hillary Clinton (who has only lost one campaign for President so far)... I'm happy to extend Bernie Sanders the benefit of the doubt as I've not seen him debate yet.
Joe Biden is often referred to as 'the human gaffe machine', and Hillary has a mountain of distractions that would keep her from being able to advance her ideas, if in fact she has any.
Like him or hate him, Trump has shifted the national debate on several issues in his brief involvement in the campaign, Biden hasn't decided to enter the race, and Hillary can't seem to resonate with a majority of voters within her own party.
Get back to me in 7 years, when your then 23 year-old daughter finds it hard to land a job because of her drunk texts and selfies on all the popular social media sites throughout high school and college years...
Or consider this, imagine you are a restaurant owner and your competitor down the street has nothing better to do than create new email accounts and post negative comments about your business every day... What is the proper response?
Did you know Hsliburton found the Middle East conflicts so profitable that they tried to sell the division that serves those wartime contracts but... Wait for it... No one wanted it. Why?
Because there was too little profit in it.
And why did Haliburton's bids have no competitors? Because no one else could do the job Haliburton did.
We are heading towards $1B spent just to provide a website for people to sign up for healthcare coverage - and after several years it STILL isn't finished.
Maybe just maybe you could sling the fiber from existing power poles to keep you costs down. But even then you wont get under 2k.
They don't have to get the cost under $2K, that $2K/household is the SUBSIDY, it is designed to encourage the investment and speed up the return on investment for the cable company/ISP... Who will still charge every customer the same amount, with or without subsidy on their install.
Without this money, rural customers would be forced to pay the actual cost of their service...
I guess instead they should do what the US does, and give boatloads of money to the "Defence" industry.
The U.S. spends much, much more on what most people would call 'welfare' programs than it does on 'defense'.
It took us ten years to spend a trillion dollars in the various gulf wars and other military actions, we spend that much (and more) each year on programs that most would describe as 'welfare' programs.
The vast majority of 'Border Patrol Agents' are deployed not on the border, but sixty miles away, and they are not focused on discouraging border crossers as much as they are on housing, feeding, and caring for the border crossers before releasing them into the U.S. for their planned court date in 12-18 months.
Here in the U.S. we have a problem with our immigration system - this is something everyone involved (Left and Right) agrees is a problem.
In the past the right has proposed incremental changes to the immigration system, only to be shut down by the Left's insistence that we need 'Comprehensive' immigration reform, not small, piecemeal changes around the edges...
We can't enforce e-verify, because we need comprehensive reform.
We can't secure the border, because we need comprehensive reform.
We can't deport illegals, because we need comprehensive reform.
Etc.
We have seen this same tactic play out in tax code reform and in the case of healthcare the Left got their way and rammed thru 'comprehensive' reform legislation that was so broad in it's scope that we are still struggling to implement the majority of it's changes - this has left many to be skeptical of 'comprehensive' reform measures.
The Stingray needs an active tower to allow it to be a 'man in themiddle', so they could only monitor completed calls.
Do you think there might have been phone calls like "hey steve, we're heading over to the rich side of town to go 'shopping'" or "we're heading over to the hospital to steal OxyContin"...
After Katrina hit, New Orleans was essentially a lawless region for a handful of days - shouldn't federal law enforcement ramp up their efforts to enforce the law?
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And what, exactly is the school doing? They are no longer pretending anyone pays 'list price' at Utica, they are lowering the list price to more closely match what students historically actually paid to attend Utica. Utica will still 'pick up the difference' between the cost of running the school and what students actually pay.
Fire professors? Why? The school is simply reducing the published tuition rate to better reflect what students actually pay. The school had been acting like a 'rich uncle' and paying 61% of the tuition bills for their students, by changing the number printed in the catalog the school is still paying the difference between what students pay and what the school actually costs - just like always.
on a related note, the federal government spent $3.5 M to find out why lesbians are obese...
Right, what man is going to want a sexual plaything that is incapable of maintaining a three hour conversation about her feelings?
You've never spent much time with the children of rich parents, have you. I have, the richer the parents, the dumber the kid. I had classmates whose last names were on major consumer products and named partners at national brokerage firms, the kids were dumber than a box of hammers.
The poorest kids in my school were the ones on full scholarship, they typically had GPAs of 4.0 or better.
Amazing how fast topic went off the rails - personal anecdotes aside, this study was not about particular topics in certain grades, it considered the effectiveness of the collected education system across entire nations...
Nations with less emphasis on putting 'computers in the classroom' typically achieve better test scores than nations that emphasize putting 'computers in the classroom.'
Digital textbooks are licensed per user, per year, and rarely license at a cost lower than printed books, once the cost of supplying and maintaining eReader devices (tablets, laptop, desktop, whatever).
make you a deal, we'll issue these 'bitch-slap' bullets to cops just as soon as every criminal is forced to use the same wimpy bullets.
It will become very hard to find people to go into dangerous situations with these kinder, more-friendly, bullets.
I think you overestimate the rhetorical abilities of Joe Biden (a twice-failed Democrat candidate for President) and Hillary Clinton (who has only lost one campaign for President so far)... I'm happy to extend Bernie Sanders the benefit of the doubt as I've not seen him debate yet.
Joe Biden is often referred to as 'the human gaffe machine', and Hillary has a mountain of distractions that would keep her from being able to advance her ideas, if in fact she has any.
Like him or hate him, Trump has shifted the national debate on several issues in his brief involvement in the campaign, Biden hasn't decided to enter the race, and Hillary can't seem to resonate with a majority of voters within her own party.
Get back to me in 7 years, when your then 23 year-old daughter finds it hard to land a job because of her drunk texts and selfies on all the popular social media sites throughout high school and college years...
Or consider this, imagine you are a restaurant owner and your competitor down the street has nothing better to do than create new email accounts and post negative comments about your business every day... What is the proper response?
Reputation management serves a useful function.
Did you know Hsliburton found the Middle East conflicts so profitable that they tried to sell the division that serves those wartime contracts but... Wait for it... No one wanted it. Why?
Because there was too little profit in it.
And why did Haliburton's bids have no competitors? Because no one else could do the job Haliburton did.
No, it won't - this money is to build out the physical plant so that unserved neighborhoods get broadband service.
Think poor neighborhoods in cities Centurylink already serves, not farm country.
We are heading towards $1B spent just to provide a website for people to sign up for healthcare coverage - and after several years it STILL isn't finished.
Really, because that 1.2M number is 100% accurate?
They don't have to get the cost under $2K, that $2K/household is the SUBSIDY, it is designed to encourage the investment and speed up the return on investment for the cable company/ISP... Who will still charge every customer the same amount, with or without subsidy on their install.
Without this money, rural customers would be forced to pay the actual cost of their service...
You don't understand, it is the people in the cities that are footing the bill for the rural subsidies.
Right, no one complains about $100+ tickets at football stadiums - everyone's OK with it.
Uh-huh.
Ha-ha, that's funny.
Why doesn't that apply for football stadiums that are built with taxpayer subsidies?
That works out to just over $2,000 per subscriber ($3B/1.2M subscribers)...
The U.S. spends much, much more on what most people would call 'welfare' programs than it does on 'defense'.
It took us ten years to spend a trillion dollars in the various gulf wars and other military actions, we spend that much (and more) each year on programs that most would describe as 'welfare' programs.
Now she can afford an iPhone!
The vast majority of 'Border Patrol Agents' are deployed not on the border, but sixty miles away, and they are not focused on discouraging border crossers as much as they are on housing, feeding, and caring for the border crossers before releasing them into the U.S. for their planned court date in 12-18 months.
Here in the U.S. we have a problem with our immigration system - this is something everyone involved (Left and Right) agrees is a problem.
In the past the right has proposed incremental changes to the immigration system, only to be shut down by the Left's insistence that we need 'Comprehensive' immigration reform, not small, piecemeal changes around the edges...
We can't enforce e-verify, because we need comprehensive reform.
We can't secure the border, because we need comprehensive reform.
We can't deport illegals, because we need comprehensive reform.
Etc.
We have seen this same tactic play out in tax code reform and in the case of healthcare the Left got their way and rammed thru 'comprehensive' reform legislation that was so broad in it's scope that we are still struggling to implement the majority of it's changes - this has left many to be skeptical of 'comprehensive' reform measures.
The Stingray needs an active tower to allow it to be a 'man in themiddle', so they could only monitor completed calls.
Do you think there might have been phone calls like "hey steve, we're heading over to the rich side of town to go 'shopping'" or "we're heading over to the hospital to steal OxyContin"...
After Katrina hit, New Orleans was essentially a lawless region for a handful of days - shouldn't federal law enforcement ramp up their efforts to enforce the law?
There is a large, unservered population of women without access to a gynecologist but do have access to a 3D printer?