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Comment Re:Duh (Score 2) 454

Perhaps you want to take your head out of your ass. We're not talking about someone working an McDonalds for minimum wage. We are talking about engineers. You know going to college for 4 years spending $40k for your education and the being told you can't find a job because some company decided to hire someone from India under the pre-tense of not being able to hire someone locally.

FYI H1B Visas certainly haven't curbed CEO pay. Makes one wonder why you can't get a guy from India with an MBA to run a company at a 1/3 of the pay.

Comment Re: It's still reacting carbon and oxygen... (Score 1) 143

Like it's a waste of money to refit the power plant.

"Dunkirk's operator, NRG, wanted to mothball the plant in 2012, saying it was not economical to run. "

"The utility, National Grid, said shutting it down could make local power supplies less reliable, a problem that could be fixed by boosting transmission capacity—at a lower cost than repowering Dunkirk."

The issue the Dunkirk was refitted was because of political reasons. It had nothing to do with energy needs. So your argument holds no water.

Comment Re:I concur! People should study Plato (Score 0) 134

Somebody failed reading comprehension:

" ...Khan Academy, which Duncan credits for 'changing the way my kids learn'..."

"...who complained last December that he "didn't have the opportunity to learn computer skills" while growing up attending the Univ. of Chicago Lab Schools and Yale,"

"...the University of Illinois was teaching kids how to program online in the '70s with its PLATO system..."

"...notes that 650 students were learning programming on PLATO during the Spring '75 semester..."

"...Khan Academy is boasting that it "helped over 2000 girls learn to code" in 2014 (after luring their teachers with funding from a $1,000,000 Google Award)."



So what did we learn? The education chief is making a big fuss out of nothing based on his ignorance of on-line learning systems and that Khan Academy could only educate 1350 more students - after bribing teachers - 39 years later.

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