Clarification: I grew up in a country where High School started at grade 9 (not 10) and that was the grade in which this book was taught. The book did have somewhat mature content, but it was teachable at the upper-grade-school level (e.g., grade 8.)
Many nerds were forced to read his book in grade school before going on to a non-English-lit major and making several times the salaries of the teachers who forced them to read it.
And arguably are the better for it. (I remember the book fondly.)
Just about everything you read in High School is "forced" on you. I still appreciate the teachers who taught me, who knew full-well the majority of their students would out-earn them.
So it's a problem to encourage new grads to focus on charity. They are at the peak of their earning potential
New grads aren't at the "peak" of their earning potential. That happens a few decades later.
I think what you meant to say is that it's a problem to encourage new grads to maintain their focus on charity.
focusing on altruism is a quick way to retard their ability to make potentially world-changing decisions later, when their potential has been realized.
Less than half a second after reading that I thought "what about Ghandi - he did exactly that and ended up running a country of hundreds of millions of people". If that's not "world-changing" then what is?
Wait, what?
Ghandi was never elected to any public office. He didn't "run" any country.
Yes, he changed the world -- as an activist, not a politician.
It's voila, not viola.
Actually it's voilà, with a grave accent over the a.
That might help to regulate a heartbeat, but it would take energy away from the heart that could be used to pump blood. If the heart is weak in the first place, then I'm not sure you'd want to to tax it further by making it power its own pacemaker. Better to power the pacemaker by some other bio-electrical source, such as the electricity-generating artificial organ described in TFA.
Then again, if we can just print someone a new "super-heart" then sure, put a dynamo in it and make it power whatever you want. Run your cell-phone, wearable Christmas lights, a human-mobile WiFi access-point, whatever. But how would this compare with other ways to create electricity inside the body, such as the new electricity-generating organ proposed in TFA?
Internet rule 34. 'Nuff said.
Lost in this whole discussion is whether the Tea Party deserves tax-exempt status in the first place.
The law says groups granted such status must engage in activities exclusively for the public good.
The IRS guidelines softened that to primarily for the public good.
Arguably, many Tea-Party groups fail both criteria. And probably so do a number of political organizations over the spectrum from left to right.
I can't wait for the marketing campaign. How ironic would it be if Pink Floyd licensed "Welcome to The Machine" for the media blitz?
Not as ironic as the campaign for Windows 95, which used The Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up." Recall that the lyrics included the phrase "You make a grown man cry."
There's just no way this research is not winning an IgNobel Prize. It fits the ethos: first it makes you laugh, then it makes you think.
At San Jose Family Camp in the middle of the Tuolumne River writing a Perl/CGI script to generate sendmail.cf files.
There's a saying: If you edit a sendmail.cf file once, you're a sysadmin. If you edit a sendmail.cf file twice, you're insane.
Writing Perl/CGI scripts to generate them seems so far down the rabbit hole, there's no way back. And in the middle of a river? Dude, you have my vote.
What's more, his analogy actually supports Comcast NOT charging Netflix, rather than the other way around.
Being a Canadian resident, if I want to send a letter to someone in Canada, I pay Canada Post to deliver it.
If, on the other hand, I want to send a letter to someone in a different country, say, the USA, or England, I pay Canada Post to deliver it. I do not have to pay the United States Postal Service or Royal Mail to deliver my letter sent from Canada.
In this analogy, countries and regional postal services are equivalent to ISPs. If I want to send a network packet (letter) to someone on a different ISP (in a different country), I pay my local ISP (postal service) to deliver it. Any ISP (country) beyond that is not my responsibility.
I made the same point back in March:
you can send one to anyone and not have to worry about what they have installed
Except that they need to be running Windows or Mac, with Microsoft Office installed.
Actually, LibreOffice/OpenOffice are pretty good at importing and exporting
You can even import
That said, I agree with TFA: don't go overboard with fancy spreadsheets. Keep them simple, for the sake of your own mental health and that of your co-workers.
She's just a political Kardashian, why do people pay any attention to her?
Well, her dad was POTUS, and her mom just might be the same in the near future. That, and she's intelligent and well-spoken (PhD in International Studies.)
I don't think the Kardashian sisters can match the above.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
