I don't think the Russians would ask you for permission.

Wait, you really think you could stop them if you wanted? Now that's cute.

Switzerland is great, Austria is better. Same language but FAR better social services and more foreigner friendly. Payment is lower, though, but so is cost of living.

It's got nothing to do with "socialism". Quite far from it. What it has to do with is completely fucked up tax and tax money politics in Germany. There is a very easy fix for it: Stop bailing out banks, stop pumping money into bailout funds for high risk investment banks (actually, tax the fuckers 'til it's no longer profitable to leech the industry to death), stop destroying the middle class and instead tax capital gains more and you're set.

Of course, nobody really wants that. Especially not "Mutti". And as long as you keep voting that ... thing in, no pity from this side of the border.

You don't really spend a lot of time working with EU military, do you?

I had my share of work with various armies of this planet. Including Russian, various European countries and of course US. Without wanting to start a flame war, but if the average US soldier is about as motivated, trained and bright as the people I had to deal with, waiting for the US to bail the EU out is NOT really something that I'd consider a sound strategy...

Stop bailing out banks, stop "saving" Greece so they keep buying your submarines and there's suddenly a whole lot of money for education without bleeding the middle class dry.

As long as you keep voting in that helmet hairdo she-male, you should not expect any pity from me!

If you don't mind having a room in a multi-room apartment and sharing the apartment (not the room, of course) with a few other students, you can actually live fairly cheaply... ok, not in Paris or London, but almost everywhere else.

A quick search didn't turn up any universities that are free either. But there are quite a few where 1000 bucks a semester or less buy you the ticket to ride.

And let's be honest here, if 1500-2000 bucks a year break your back (with a minimum wage that revolves around 8-10 bucks an hour, depending on country), I guess you have worse problems to deal with.

Actually yes, your chances that you will get an education for free are pretty high.

What? Oh. No, of course not if you only speak English and not the local language. Silly me, I thought you wanted to learn, not just get a sheet of paper for free.

Actually yes, your job prospects are quite great. Most universities here have a quite shining international rep.

Just because YOU don't pay for it doesn't mean nobody does. I do. My taxes do. By far not enough if you ask me, and they keep cutting back on money for education to bail out a few banks, but my taxes pay for education here.

Just because public schools are completely fucked up in the US doesn't mean that it can't be done right. All it takes is people in control who actually WANT public schools to succeed rather than enjoying watching them fail because they themselves come from expensive private schools and don't like the idea that someone could get for free what they had to pay through the nose for.

Oh, food sure is a problem around here, too, but tuition fees are not. I don't know what's the current going rate, but back when I went to university, they wanted somewhere around 400 bucks a semester from me.

That's manageable with a part time job, trust me. Just work through the 3 months of breaks you get per year and you should be golden.

Yeah, yeah... what said the philosophy major with a job to the one without? "Want fries with that?"

Getting to the point? We're there. We passed that threshold a while ago. We're already on our way of getting to the point where you cannot recover your college fees during the rest of your working years.

Some movie directors are still bitching over the disappearance of film grain. There are companies putting unnecessary film grain in digital images.

We need to get to 48FPS or better, so slow pans over detailed backgrounds look right. No more strobing!

(Instead, we're getting 4K resolution, which is only useful if the screen is in front of your face and a meter wide.)