The worst part is that these loans cannot be discharged, even if you go bankrupt. In a way, I guess it makes sense. Once you finish university, you could just go bankrupt and have a free education. However, if you're stuck working low-wage jobs the rest of your life, you will never get rid of this debt.

I wonder if the language police got a whiff of programming languages being in English only. I would love to see them legislate a french programming language.

Germans split the kids into 3 different streams after grade 4. That's far too young for parents and teachers to decide whether the kid is interested is suitable for University or not.However, Germany has really great vocational schools though. Every plumber, electrician, construction worker, even baker knows their field extremely well.

Too bad that Windows is so bloated, that money savings will be eaten up by extra hardware.

Don't you see that Microsoft is secretly helping us prevent degenerative brain diseases? Forcing us to learn a new UI is like learning a new language, which is correlated with better brain health. Thank you Microsoft! I bet their next step is to randomly move buttons around after every boot. Now that would be a great workout for the brain!

Great, now I can have my blue screen of death on my smartphone too?

I'm not defending the dude, just pointing out how corrupt the justice system is.

His biggest mistake was not being politically connected, like HSBC, where they have laundered money for drug dealers and terrorists. They just got a slap on the wrist with a fine. There are two classes of people in America, those who are politically connected, and are immune to jail time, and the rest of America, who are bound to infinite arbitrary laws which are selectively enforced.

This is Germany, where they love to play hot potato with responsibility. That's why it's essentially illegal to have a non-encrypted wireless connection. They want to be able to easily place the blame on someone. And Germans comply, well, because they're Germans.

They receive a notice of copyright infringement from some company. How are they supposed to know if that's legit? Some random person can send the same e-mail. What is obvious copyright infringement? What if the artist intends to share his material? Are they supposed to read their minds? Actually, the court should be the one to determine this and be the ones to send out a court order to shut a site down. If this is a precedent, Google should be taken offline because they make it possible to search for pirated material. Besides, they should be happy people give a shit about Robin Thick. It would be nice if the RIAA et al got their way, and everyone just simply stopped pirating their music, and stopped caring about mainstream pop music.

Exactly. No matter how easy and user-friendly you make graphical programming, you still need to implement complicated logic. You still need someone who can think logically, think of the corner cases, implement error handling properly, and debug unexpected problems. I think a lot of management people are fooled into thinking they can shortcut "expensive" developers, and have non-technical people implement everything. In reality, it is the developers who are taking care of the dirty work of handling those corner cases and error scenarios.

This is absolutely false. The Fed essentially bailed out Wall Street and gifted the 1% in the range of trillions of dollars via zero interest. Have you gotten a 0% loan from the bank lately? The Fed essentially funded the stock market would rise, which the 1%'ers are piled into, enriching them even more, while pretty much none of the lower income Americans were able to participate in. What are corporations doing with their record profits? Stock buybacks. That money isn't going into hiring people.

Inflation has been quite high in food and energy (and very high in the stock market), which hurts the 99% because they spend a larger portion of their income on food and energy. Why is food stamp usage highest on record? Why is the labour participation rate the lowest since the 70s? The economy is not well. The 1% is pretty much the only winner in the recent GDP gains.

I'm not saying the general idea what the Fed did was bad. Just that it was implemented in a way to make the 1% even richer while taking away from the 99%. I think it would have been better if the money was distributed to the 99%, rather than gifted to the 1%.

Isn't this question really only relevant to companies considering buying ad time? To the average Joe, who cares. It's just interesting how high price is. The price is determined by the market. If it really was a waste of money, then advertisers buy and the price would go down.

Why did they have to destroy all the microchips on the motherboard too? It seems like a lot of work for nothing. Plus, who knows how poisonous ground up microchips are.

Like Detroit, or South Central LA?