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Comment Re:Dogmatic thinking is cross disciplinary (Score 1) 769

I disagree. Any thorough engineering degree encourages critical thinking. If you're unable to understand how and why the rules came about then you're less likely to understand their implications and use them properly. That's why engineering courses have prerequisites in math in physics. Otherwise you'd just take survey of cal like every other business major and only know it's basic applications.

I would argue that, of radicals, engineers understand the most effective way to cause people to take notice of their views.

Comment Re:Accusations of pedophilia?!?! (Score 1) 319

However uncomfortable jokes and parody's may be it comes with the job of working with youth. If you're unable rise above parody's created by students you have no business being in charge of children. TFA states "...no one, including the principal, took the profile seriously..." Stuff like this happens all the time it's just not often recorded on the web. If you're being considered by an organization that takes such things seriously you should be concerned about where you're applying.

Comment Re:And the cost? (Score 1) 648

A lot of people tend think "Oh, we would have to travel 100x faster, it's impossible" I just wanted to point out an article I stumbled across that said they've had plans for it since the 50's. I thought that was pretty cool.

As far as plausible? no of course we're not going to go to Alpha Centauri anytime soon, for numerous varied reasons.

If you think about it though it only costs 1/10th of the US GNP going to another f***ing star??? That's pretty unreal. I mean we do have 10% unemployment right now... works project anyone? I kid though.

Comment Re:As long as it's not Boxer, I'm ok (Score 5, Insightful) 471

It's most likely you can't know alleged criminals names for their protection. A concern I have with current US society is the media's influence on our views of 'alleged criminals'. If you're in a high profile case and it turns out you're not guilty the inertia of public opinion against you for being accused can haunt you for the rest of your life. I believe these laws are in response to such situations.

Comment Re:Complaining when you got what you asked for (Score 1) 382

It's true that bandwidth and infrastructure cost real money and it's not unreasonable to charge people for them. What is unreasonable is allow a company with a monopoly to charge whatever they want for people using higher tiers. When these people don't have an option to change to a competitively priced plan in their usage tier then the market is failing that segment of people. This seems to be what the legislation is trying to address.

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