Mark the date! Almost everyone seems to agree that the Virginia Board of Education are either idiots or racists. Maybe NPR too since they didn't post the objection until the last paragraph.
The definition of a Conservative used to be "a Liberal who's been mugged". Now is it "a Liberal who's been groped"?
The arrogant phrasing of that statement is no different from anyone in the past who made similar statements. Anyone foolish enough to make a categorical statement about a theory (even one that the evidence suggests is true) is open to derision in the next century. Now, let's get back to global warming, global cooling, and the Mayan calendar.
Engineers tend to look to using the government to solve things, because that's the tool at hand. When all you have is a hammer, the world is full of nails. The problem with that approach is that it grows government and centralizes power. Engineers may be the least capable of legislators, but this gentleman may be an exception.
Does anyone really believe that these lawyers or any scientist willing to support their cause is really working for free? This has all of the legal ethics that you expect from a class action shake-down, the government will pay the lawyer fees plus expenses. This is just a political scam.
The fellow should have practiced the game before going online in front of the whole city though!
Most often the cards get canceled and their owners get issued new cards. Any charges on the card that were fraudulent have to be fixed, but at least there's an expiration date on the cards KNOWN to be compromised.
..."The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" isn't in the Kindel store.
“Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.” - L. Long
We are educating kids to be users of technology, but not developers or inventors. Every time I've taken a computer or a disk drive or other electronics apart for a demonstration to the Scouts or just kids, they are always amazed. They are never taught beyond a mouse click. A lot of kids coming out of college are no better these days. Another problem is that in our zeal to bring girls into higher education, we are losing boys - those who would be most interested in engineering ( see Carpe Diem website archives for all the graphs and tables on subject preferences, Prof J does a great job of laying that argument out from high school on ).
Getting information out of the hard corners of the world is difficult. Reporters would rather be trashing a civilized society than go some place where they could get killed! That's just the sorry fact of journalism. Look at the number of women reporters who were sexually assaulted in Egypt during the "Arab Spring". Now go somewhere the government really hates you (because you are a westerner, or worse yet - an American)!
Truth be told, he should have come with better sourcing; but the story does match up with some of the problems reported recently about sexual assaults from within the Peace Corps.
The article was more about national problems where slavery is illegal, but seems to overlook international problems where slavery is ether condoned or allowed by law.
Reduce service to your customers when you are having financial problems? Of course, those are more related to pensions and health care than operations, but who's going to care that there letters will be intentionally delayed? What could go wrong?
Only the government thinks this way.
If it's the same project, you can the the project office to waive the requirement in the prior contract.
When I went to a state school in 1977, I had to work roughly 11 hours to pay for 1 credit hour. In 2011, a state school education costs on the order of 20-30 hours of labor depending on the school. That represents a decline in the real worth of labor; it’s not just currency inflation.
In the meantime, administration and professor salaries have gone up, a lot. Schools have nice new buildings with landscaping. Dorms are nicer and roomier than my first three apartments. Carpet has replaced linoleum tile and electronic white boards replaced chalk.
How was all this financed? Government subsidized student loans of course. The banks can make the long term loans at reduced rates of interest because the government subsidized and insured them. Of course, the government now OWNS STUDENT LOANS eliminating the middleman. How is that going to make an education any cheaper? It won’t. There isn’t any reason for a university or college to reduce anything. The money spigot is going to keep pouring dollars into the system.
People should remember that a student loan is a voluntary contract. You aren’t required to get a student loan to go to a school you can’t afford any more than you are required to buy a car you can’t afford. You can choose to go to a less expensive school or pay your own way by working or saving.
BTW, an earlier video cut shows the police warning the protesters that they were going to get pepper sprayed and the protesters agreeing to it. The occupy movement isn’t a civil rights movement. Berkley isn’t Atlanta.
Just read the two statements in the summary. Nothing else is necessary.
Republican: "Our Democratic friends were never able to do the entitlement reforms. They weren't going to do anything without raising taxes."
Democrat: "The wealthiest Americans who earn over a million a year have to share too. And that line in the sand, we haven't seen Republicans willing to cross yet."
I mean, one of those is clearly a bald-faced misrepresentation: this is made clear within the statement itself. In the first sentence he flatly claims that Democrats would not "do the entitlement reforms". In the very next sentence he makes it clear that this is simply a lie: Democrats were entirely ready to do entitlement reforms, but on the condition that they were accompanied by tax increases. You know, compromise. That thing two sides who don't agree are supposed to do for the greater good.
The Democrat, by contrast, simply states that the Republicans would not agree to anything that included tax rises - whatever entitlement cuts were involved.
I just don't see where's the room for interpretation or greyness there. From their own statements it's quite clear that the Republicans are a) fundamentally dishonest and b) utterly unwilling to compromise.
This is called making a straw man and then beating him with his own arm.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
