The educational effort was far more effective than expected. Medical personnel had very little to do with it. Ebola was stopped by convincing people that they should wash their hands with soap. That turned out to be easier than expected, in spite of low literacy rates.

... other than choosing who will be in the general election.

That is a terrible idea. Delaying results make it easier to cheat. Results should be reported immediately, as soon as they are available. If you don't want to hear preliminary results, there is a simple solution: turn off your TV.

No. It could be done with a handheld camera, plus some platforms and safety harnesses, and plenty of extra hours of work. Inspecting the tail fins, and the top of the fuselage is far easier, quicker, and cheaper with a drone.

You don't need a degree, just a brain. My 15 year old daughter makes $20/hour writing fake Amazon reviews on Fiver. If you can write well, create a webpage, or write a program, you can make more than $15/hour. If you are not smart enough to do that, you probably shouldn't be going to college.

Solutions:
1. Get a job.
2. Live in your mom's basement, and go to a community college for the first 2 years.
3. Delay college until you can afford it.
4. Spread college out over 5 or 6 years, instead of trying to do it in 4.

I was sorely disappointed with a few things about Fallout3 / Fallout: New Vegas that didn't follow the spirit of the original Fallout / Fallout2: the decision depth.

In the original Fallout titles, you could be the biggest bastard in California, and the game would adapt to that. You could steal anything not bolted down and only have a problem if you got caught, murder random people by sneaking lit dynamite into their pockets or by spamming super-stims on them, pickpocket people and then sell their own shit back to them, etc.; you could still get on in the game, sometimes with hilarious consequences.

With Fallout3, they tagged 90% of everything with a karma reduction so sneak became completely useless. You would even lose karma if you took stuff out of a house belonging to someone that was dead, and not dead by your hand. If you decided to play an "evil" character, half the NPCs just shut down and wall off half the game from you, rather than dealing with you begrudgingly like the earlier games would. It was like a sanitized version of the Fallout universe that was vaguely related, and with none of the creativity.

It doesn't. In state tuition at most public universities are around $10k. So for a four year degree that is $40k. I paid more than that for my car. Financial aid is widely available, so many people pay even less.

You can pay $100k for an art history degree, but you certainly don't need to.

With Bethesda, you often don't get to experience the game as the developer intended because of all the bugs that ship in the product. You experience the game as the product manager intended, and they intended to ship with bugs still in the product that weren't blockers.

Good - I didn't install 16GB to watch it sit there idle. If it's there, use it.

Even consoles have 8GB now. If your PC doesn't, add more - it's cheap.

It isn't ONLY useful for making money, but money is what you use to pay back your loans, so "making money" is ONE of the things your degree should be useful for, if you are going into debt to get it. Borrowing money to get a degree is philosophy is dumb.

I majored in engineering, at an in-state public university. I worked on weekends, and during the summer. The day I graduated, this was my total debt: $0.

Was this also the reason for the highly annoying partitioning of The Strip in Fallout: New Vegas?

I never played either Fallout3 or Fallout: NV on a console, and found it quite tiring to have to constantly click through the different sections of such a small area.

Here's another advantage of that $470 PC - if that GTX 750 isn't cutting it any more, take it out and put it something better. You would still be underneath $1k

Let's see you do that with a PlayStation / XBox.

I don't know about the eskimos but if you think native american indians didn't kill for entertainment you are sadly mistaken.

Native americans tortured captives for sport long before europeans landed in the americas.

Native americans practiced human sacrifice, infanticide, rape, as well as leisurely and creative torture such as roasting people alive and stopping to wait for victims to recover consciousness before continuing. They didn't do it because they were angry or evil (in their context)-- they did it because they enjoyed doing it. It was entertaining. It was fun.

They were no better- nor any worse- than the Europeans. Europeans also had a long history of enjoying torture- watching bears being torn apart by dogs- watching humans being "drawn and quartered" or burned alive. The religious ones were especially creative towards heretics and homosexuals.

Some particular tribes were friendlier than other tribes and didn't practice torture or practiced it less. Here I venture into speculation and speculate that they were less common. There's ample evidence that most native american tribes were constantly at war with other native american tribes.

I'm not dissing them- I have choctaw and cherokee blood. I'm just relating reality.

No, probably not.

I am sure that the people doing it see it that way.

That means that anyone can start such a thing, and no one is organized enough to stop them.

Why? If you don't like the way they do it, then start your own hall of fame. They don't owe you anything.