Sorry, but I've seen rural Alabama and rural Kentucky. From my experience, Kentucky's doing significantly better.

I think you're missing the real point here. Computer languages are NOT foreign languages. Foreign languages teach mental dexterity in the verbal domain and allow people to experiences worldviews other than their own. Computer languages teach systematic thinking.

So what you really need here is:

"Kentucky: Logic = Foreign Language."

Do they recognize you can kill political prisoners and make a fortune by selling their innards?

In the American south, prison labor used to be common. You'd pay the warden and he'd share that money downward to the guards and police, etc., and prisoners would be sent to work for you for no pay to them. Oddly, the prisons were always full of people who were guilty of being black. There was a financial incentive to keep the prisons full.

If we legalize pay for organs, there's a great incentive for people you don't like to not only wind up in prison, but for them to commit suicide, get shot trying to escape, have accidents, etc.

How about head of the TSA?

UNlikely.

Much subtler changes for facial work.

And these people are NOT doing real time translation. They're having people sign each sign stilted isolation.

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In ASL the bird is directional. Not sure about CSL. But you don't point it upward in ASL, you point it as the moron you're insulting.

After it shrinks, is a $5 Candian bill worth only 490 Canadian cents?

It's not priced like a modern board. It's WAY MORE.

This is hogwash. Elop killed the company's feature phone business which was doing fine for the time being. Yes, Nokia needed help. Yes, it was on a slope downward and needed to figure out how to compete. But Elop didn't do that. Elop jumped forward without covering the company's behind.

That he made a wrong choice of where to jump to, that it suspicious in hindsight, those are irrelevant. He didn't work to preserve the part of the business which worked and would have kept working for several more years if he hadn't driven a stake into it -- that is his massive sin of incompetance, or perhaps worse.

Why would a 'for profit' corporation go out of its way to not do something the goverment which it can charge for?

I suspect if the goverment didn't pay for this data, we'd see a bunch of lawsuits to "protect the rights of consumers."

Nicely put.

I like this idea a LOT. Security would go WAY down, lines would speed up, the searches would be polite. If a plane blew up, the airline would get sued for about a figure that an actuary could neatly estimate. They'd only inconvenience their customers up to a point where the chance that they'd lose repeat business was cost-effective. Perfect.

But the TSA grabs everyone at the start of the terminal. The terminals are used by multiple airlines. How do you see that getting broken up by airline? Pooling? That spoils the effect. Mutliple lines?

The airlines would be forced to get some real security on the tickets, to avoid them being forged. Heck we might see some real security instead of security theatre if someone's money was on the line, as opposed to a politician's job.

But some airlines would muff it badly. You'd need to issue some proof of going through security and verify it when you boarded, so that folks didn't go through some lax airline's security and then board their real flight.

What must be avoid at all costs is the airport providing the security as a service to the airline. Then there's no global standard, no one with a lot to lose, disregard for the customer, etc.

They don't charge for thier app. They charge for the ads on the videos inside their app. So all of the above is just noise.

They make more money by hitting more people, so they should have an adroid app.

(Their list of advertisers is small, but they show over and over. I have "Viking River Cruises" DRILLED into my head by so many repititions of their ad while watching videos on the iPad PBS app.)

The videos play and people watch them. The start with an ad and are interrupted by advertising. The advertizers pay PBS.

It's actually BETTER for PBS if people watch the shows on the app, rather than on TV.