People will buy and use a Kindle anyway. Why not get a cut?

You're conflating skills training with education.

They both teach you how to get the most out of a set of tools, but formal education concentrates on the tool that is your brain -- how to think, how to organize information, how to accommodate new ideas and facts. How to use your brain.

JIT training is commonly known as on-the-job-training, and is not a new idea. But it works best when the student is already educated.

Imagine what we, as a nation, could achieve if we were well educated.

Basically, it's your paycheck given to you on a debit card.

Whoosh, you took the meaning backwards, but thanks for reaffirming two stereotypes at once!

It doesn't matter which email service(s) a foreign government uses, or where the mail is stored. What matters is where the email is routed on its way from sender to recipient. There's nothing to stop the NSA from reading the email if the messages or network packets are "accidentally" routed through the US on their way from one foreign address to another. Not even laws protecting citizens, since it's not a citizen's data.

That doesn't prove that copyright is broken, only that the licensing system doesn't work well (or fairly).

May I introduce you to the MacBook Wheel

The video was over a minute, watching two images flip back and forth every couple of seconds with cheesy music in the background.

No voice over, no explanation, no real utility to the video. Showing the two static snapshots in a super-imposable way would have been a cooler use of technology.

I don't think evolution had anything to do with that, and there's nothing intrinsically wrong with burying people in the garden. Europeans used to surround their churches with graves, with few ill effects to the people attending the church.

We bury or cremate our dead for sanitary reasons, but I think we confine our corpses to cemeteries for cultural reasons.

That particular line read like SimCity 2000's newspaper "articles"

See #1: middlemen don't like being cut out.

One thing they both have in common: neither is actually available for sale

Or not reproducing, as the case may be.

So you accelerate half-way there, turn around, and accelerate in the opposite direction for the remaining half. The engine never needs to shut down and bam! you're parked right where you need to be.