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Comment Re:stupid (Score 1) 165

Not all US citizens. If you're a student or faculty member at a primarily undergraduate institution and not a Carnegie D1 research institution, you probably don't have access to all of the scientific publications as those at the main research schools. This is simply because you're library doesn't have the budget to subscribe to everything.

Comment Re:This can't be true (Score 1) 72

I think that's the major issue. The vast majority of homes and buildings in Puerto Rico are not built to code. In fact, many were built illegally due to cost issues. Sure, there are going to be some rich people with homes that have their own generators and/or solar panels. But the vast majority of the population is screwed.

Comment Re:Not piracy (Score 1) 132

Works by the government

There is a difference in works published by a federal government agency itself and works published by a scientist funded by a government grant who works for an institution of higher learning but not an employee of the federal government. Only works produced directly by agencies and employees of the federal government go into the public domain. The vast majority of research is not conducted by federal employees, but contractors (grantees). However, Congress has passed a law requiring work funded by federal grants to be "open access". Open access is not exactly the same thing as public domain.

Comment Re:Not piracy (Score 1) 132

Content producers are thieves.

The content producers are not thieves. The content producers are the scientists that publish the research, and their peers that peer review the research articles for free. The thieves are the ones whose job it is to provide the research and make it available to the community -- the "middle men". What they are doing is pretty much the textbook definition of extortion.

Comment Re:Private Institution Public Money (Score 1) 689

It's not a violation of the first amendment to prevent someone from attending Harvard, or any university in the nation (public or private) for that matter. You have the RIGHT to freedom of speech, which means that you cannot be arrested for sharing your views. You do not have the right to attend college, anywhere. You have the PRIVILEGE of attending colleges for which you apply, are accepted to, and either pay the tuition or find the tuition via scholarships. But once you are 18, you don't have to go to school anymore, anywhere. You choose to attend school to advance your knowledge, skills and career prospects, and so you can avoid making minimum wage until retirement. If you choose to attend college, you follow all of the rules of the institution you choose to attend, which may or may not be more stringent than the laws that apply to everyone.

Comment Re:Private group? (Score 1) 689

So, how did Harvard get into a Facebook private group?

That's actually pretty trivial to do, and doesn't involve any complicated hacking beyond social engineering. You have somebody create a fake account on FB posing as a student, and monitoring the official FB groups. When they see a bunch of students creating a private group and attracting people to it, they ask to join the group. And the student admins of the group think they're one of them and let them in. Most high school students a pretty nieve and think think that what they post is pretty harmless and won't be detected by "authorities", when in fact, those that need or want to know already know everything they need to know. Remember, people that work for Harvard are, by definition, already smarter than students that have not attended Harvard in the first place. That's why they are paid to educate them.

Comment Re:Not stupid at all (Score 1, Informative) 189

Millennials spend most of their income on paying back their student loans, so they don't have the extra cash for $200 tickets and up. And GenX is currently too busy paying for their kids, and can't afford to spend $200 per ticket for a family of four ($800 and up) on a single game. That leaves the Boomers in the stands, who have been robbing their kids for years to pay for everything. Maybe one day, these old farts will retire and give us their season tickets,. . .

Comment JFK (Score 1, Insightful) 444

Let's all remember that the President that put our nation on the path towards landing on the moon was JFK in the early 60s. We did not land on the moon during his presidency. Even if JFK were to not have been shot and been re-elected, he would have left office just shy of the first moon landing on July 20, 1969. If Trump actually thinks that we're going to go even further and solve even more scientific problems necessary to make a Mars mission successful within his presidency, he's even more delusional than we originally thought, and that's probably grounds for invoking the 25th amendment.

Comment Re:That's actually debateable (Score 2) 326

The H1Bs put in 80 hour work weeks not because they want to, but because they have to. If they don't, they're ass is on the first plane back to India, because their H1B sponsorship ends. Corporations can do this because the law lets them; plus, there is an almost endless supply of new H1Bs willing to take their place.

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