Education costs have risen faster than any other cateogy [zerohedge.com] for the last 20 years. Faster than housing or even healthcare.
And it's happening at a time when universities are replacing full faculty with very low-paid adjuncts who don't even get basic benefits.
The sad part is that of the three (housing, healthcare and education), higher education would be the easiest to reform, but university administrators and board members, who are increasingly coming from private industry, have little to no incentive to do so. I'm glad I got out of the game when I did.
The point Scentcone is trying to make is that the press is trying to quash a story that would be front page news for weeks if it happened under a Republican administration.
And it would be on the front page too if it weren't for the fact that the current president is just so goddamn newsworthy while he sells the White House silverware to his favorite Russian fence.
That, and the fact that the same surveillance of US citizens that was going on during Obama is still fucking going on.
So what is the part of for-profit journals that is worth the money that they're paid, if they're not editing and they're not paying reviewers and they're not producing paper versions that anyone cares about?
I agree with you about all of that, except your conflation of editing and proofreading.
For-profit journals are a scam. Not the journal part, but the for-profit part. Where there is a need for journals, there's no reason they should be for-profit. But then, I agree with Pierre-Joseph Proudon that all profits are little more than a tax on productivity.
Oh, you mean the thing that's done, for free, by volunteer academics? Yes, I do that. No, I'm not paid for it.
Nor should you. Paying academics to edit journals would open the system up to a lot of corruption. When you write a paper that is published in the journal, you are also not being paid directly.
It's just part of the job. When you're a scientist, you're expected to publish in peer-reviewed journals. You're also expected to participate in the peer-review process for other scientists.
Mostly? No one. If they were actually doing a reasonable job of copyediting,
When "editing" is used in regard to scientific journals, it doesn't refer to copyediting, but to the editorial process of assembling and vetting content. Peer review for example.
The Active Cyber Defense Certainty Act, drafted by Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) in March
Republicans have seen too many Hollywood hacker movies. They want people to believe that after someone steals their personal information, they'll be able to click a big red EXECUTE button on the screen and it will launch a counterattack and steal back their data.
In reality, the people who are victims of this type of data theft aren't going to have access to these "Beacon" tools. But copyright trolls and malware thugs almost certainly will. In the end, this will be just another corporate giveaway.
What I was dissatisfied with was having 200 channels of mostly unwatchable garbage, paying $100 a month for commercial ridden shows that I didn't really want to watch.
I'm old enough to remember when cable TV was originally sold as "commercial free". See, we were going to pay for a subscription to have all this wonderful programming sent to us without the annoying ads.
Also, it was sold as "interactive". I mean, there were special controllers and everything. And there would be plenty of bandwidth for public interest programming on the local level. It turned out to be regular old bullshit television on steroids.
The entire thing has been a huge boondoggle. A gift to the telecoms.
When the economy crashes and the US becomes a post-apocalyptic wasteland, I'm gonna be sitting fat and happy on my bitcoins while the rest of you scrounge for caps and Nuka-cola.
That's why I've been keeping my bitcoins in my mattress since 2009. To protect them from ransomware.
You realize your current frothing has absolutely nothing to do with your original comment, right? Trump Derangement Syndrome will be an official diagnosis soon.
That's deflection, right there. It means there's no refutation.
So returning to your original outrageously disingenuous proposition that all of a sudden America is for sale:
No, you don't understand at all.
It's the White House that's for sale, from the Russian "loans" to the visas for wealthy Chinese to the cheap jewelry that Ivanka hawks out of the West Wing. To the Trump Hotels, to Mar-a-Lago to the bottled water on Air Force One. To the overpriced suites at Trump Tower that the Secret Service has to stay in to the (now-doubled) country club fees that are on sale to those who want access to the administration. Right down to hiring his kids to unspecified jobs in the administration. Down to the unprecedented (as in never before) number of lobbyists who have been hired to work in the administration. Drain the swamp my ass.
There's never been a presidency this corrupt. There's never been such a flaunting of the ethics rules. Not ever. You wanna step into the ring to defend this shit? Then you better hose that muck off your hip boots first, motherfucker.
I'll give you better credit for reading comprehension than you may deserve, and conclude you're just flat ignoring what I pointed out about Anthony Rodham because it's just too inconvenient to your meme. Party on.
Was Hillary president when her brother was selling visas? Was Bill?
Better check that article again.
I'll stand by my statement:
And this is the first time a president's family sought to profit directly from that program
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Memorial Day is a good day to learn something new.
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It's nothing to be ashamed of. It's too hard for most people.
It's all their land.
And it's happening at a time when universities are replacing full faculty with very low-paid adjuncts who don't even get basic benefits.
The sad part is that of the three (housing, healthcare and education), higher education would be the easiest to reform, but university administrators and board members, who are increasingly coming from private industry, have little to no incentive to do so. I'm glad I got out of the game when I did.
Your mom smells fishy to me, but that hasn't stopped anyone.
Was the pilot texting while flying again?
You mean like Trump's secret foolproof plan to defeat ISIS in his first 30 days? That kind of secret?
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Is it common for senior advisers to go to the Russian embassy to use their equipment to contact those foreign leaders in secret?
Remember, the "secret" part is that they were trying to keep it secret from Americans.
And it would be on the front page too if it weren't for the fact that the current president is just so goddamn newsworthy while he sells the White House silverware to his favorite Russian fence.
That, and the fact that the same surveillance of US citizens that was going on during Obama is still fucking going on.
I agree with you about all of that, except your conflation of editing and proofreading.
For-profit journals are a scam. Not the journal part, but the for-profit part. Where there is a need for journals, there's no reason they should be for-profit. But then, I agree with Pierre-Joseph Proudon that all profits are little more than a tax on productivity.
Nor should you. Paying academics to edit journals would open the system up to a lot of corruption. When you write a paper that is published in the journal, you are also not being paid directly.
It's just part of the job. When you're a scientist, you're expected to publish in peer-reviewed journals. You're also expected to participate in the peer-review process for other scientists.
When "editing" is used in regard to scientific journals, it doesn't refer to copyediting, but to the editorial process of assembling and vetting content. Peer review for example.
Republicans have seen too many Hollywood hacker movies. They want people to believe that after someone steals their personal information, they'll be able to click a big red EXECUTE button on the screen and it will launch a counterattack and steal back their data.
In reality, the people who are victims of this type of data theft aren't going to have access to these "Beacon" tools. But copyright trolls and malware thugs almost certainly will. In the end, this will be just another corporate giveaway.
The cyber is hard.
You stupid sonofabitch. Who do you think edits the journals? They're supposed to be in bed together.
Or would you be more comfortable if we turned to "regular folks" to edit the Journal of Computational Physics?
Translation: "I need more one-syllable words!"
How about premium ones like ESPN, TNT, FX, etc? Are they no-commercial too?
I'm old enough to remember when cable TV was originally sold as "commercial free". See, we were going to pay for a subscription to have all this wonderful programming sent to us without the annoying ads.
Also, it was sold as "interactive". I mean, there were special controllers and everything. And there would be plenty of bandwidth for public interest programming on the local level. It turned out to be regular old bullshit television on steroids.
The entire thing has been a huge boondoggle. A gift to the telecoms.
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When the economy crashes and the US becomes a post-apocalyptic wasteland, I'm gonna be sitting fat and happy on my bitcoins while the rest of you scrounge for caps and Nuka-cola.
That's why I've been keeping my bitcoins in my mattress since 2009. To protect them from ransomware.
Not according to the number of dead British people. If someone sets off a pipe bomb next to you, does their motivation really matter?
That's deflection, right there. It means there's no refutation.
I'm old enough to remember when bombings like Manchester were commonplace in England, but they still let Irish Catholics into the country.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Italy just let this guy in, so go figure.
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No, you don't understand at all.
It's the White House that's for sale, from the Russian "loans" to the visas for wealthy Chinese to the cheap jewelry that Ivanka hawks out of the West Wing. To the Trump Hotels, to Mar-a-Lago to the bottled water on Air Force One. To the overpriced suites at Trump Tower that the Secret Service has to stay in to the (now-doubled) country club fees that are on sale to those who want access to the administration. Right down to hiring his kids to unspecified jobs in the administration. Down to the unprecedented (as in never before) number of lobbyists who have been hired to work in the administration. Drain the swamp my ass.
There's never been a presidency this corrupt. There's never been such a flaunting of the ethics rules. Not ever. You wanna step into the ring to defend this shit? Then you better hose that muck off your hip boots first, motherfucker.
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Was Hillary president when her brother was selling visas? Was Bill?
Better check that article again.
I'll stand by my statement: