In other countries the education is largely paid by the public sector (government) and the government sets limits on how much more Universities are allowed to charge.
This is exactly the direction we need to move in. That would be comparable to how medicare controls costs, while non-medicare patients get screwed by hospitals charging whatever they want. The gov't should dictate what Universities are allowed to charge in tuition to _all_ students, and also require that a certain percentage of the student body be from lower income brackets (and these disadvantaged student could pay even less).
Additionally, the government should limit how much employees of non-profit universities are allowed to be paid. It is very common to have university administrators making millions of dollars a year at so-called "non profit" universities. Sorry, you shouldn't be able to run a non-profit (tax-exempt) institution and also make yourself filthy rich.
Parse their words. They are denying a very pointed question that wasn't asked. They are all saying, "We don't allow the government direct access to our servers" This isn't the denial you think it is.
THIS. Notice that all their responses are very similar. They may have even asked the government "the press is asking about PRISM, how should we respond to this?"
"Direct access to our servers" could mean a lot of things, for example, they could be copying user data directly to NSA servers, and their statement would still be true.
As we see from the resounding success of social policy in Europe, where every country has coffers full of tax revenues and a vibrant, healthy workforce to support the millions upon millions of pensions.
Assuming you were being sarcastic: compared to what, the US? Yes we certainly have a "vibrant, healthy workforce" (such great healthcare, such great labor rights)! And isn't it great that our government doesn't have any funding concerns right now like those darned Europeans...
You must of missed all the news for the past month. "Guns" are the new "terrorism".
Except unlike terrorism, guns actually kill a whole lot of people in the US every year; the threat of gun violence is clearly not just FUD.
We are talking about the same SCOTUS that fucked up Citizen's United right?
No, we're talking about the same SCOTUS that got Citizen's United perfectly *right*, and protected the right of corporations and anonymous political organizations with untraceable funding to engage in political speech.
Fixed that for you.
If this is more of that "state's rights" bullshit, let me remind you once again: the original and most powerful argument both for and against state's rights was slavery.
What's wrong with states' rights? Personally I think any group of citizens in any nation should have the right to self-determination. Assuming they are not doing anything morally bankrupt (like slavery), I think pushing the power base down to the state level has several benefits:
1. oversight is easier, as the centers of power are shifted closer to the local level
2. people would have a greater stake in their government - it is a lot easier to interact with your state officials than your reps in Washington
3. it makes it much easier to vote with you feet if the state you live in is politically intolerable (compared to having to move out of the US entirely)
4. the US is politically polarized with most states strongly red or strongly blue, if the states had more authority they could really unleash their own respective philosophies
Personally I think a number of states (California for example) would be well-suited to leave the Union entirely, and master their own destiny. Oh and it _would_ be nice if the US played well with the international community
So, the area from Boston to Washington DC counts as one metro area then?
No, definitely not. Boston to DC is a far larger area than the bay area. It takes around 7+ hours to drive from DC to Boston (I've done this drive many times). In 1 hour, you can drive from San Jose, through Oakland, and into San Francisco. So yes, it can count as the same metro area. Note that these drive times assume traffic is light.
Elliptic paraboloids for sale.
