So what is your point with this? You want to bring back modern slavery? If you get an education paid by the state, you are not allowed to leave the state? Like in Soviet times?

It works in North Korea. OK, that's hyperbole, but someone has to counteract the usual "you mean like Somalia" bullshit every time someone says something remotely libertarian.

I'm not sure how someone could call the citizen's refusal to pay taxes, and the government's refusal to collect them, "fiscal conservatism". This reads like an unholy mating of "1984" Newspeak and MSNBC talking heads. It's lawlessness. Fiscal conservatism would be low taxes and low spending-- "small government". That's just what it is; you don't have to agree with it, that's what it's called. But what they have is big (spending) government, yet an unwillingness to demand compliance from the citizens. Even the basement-dwelling internet Marxist understands that a welfare state must be funded.

While Crystal Pepsi would be fun to bring back for the 90s college years nostalgia, it's really Vault Zero I miss. That stuff was killer. I liked the strawberry Pepsi Jazz too. I guess I'm good at picking losers in soft drinks, at least.

You are correct and the GP poster is wrong. NT 4 was quite stable as long as you set it up correctly (including using only the VGA driver, or maybe a very minimal ATI driver with no crapware (it seems like every server had an ATI Rage card back then) and left it the hell alone except for security patches.

He got us out of Iraq......then back in, in a worse situation than when we left.

"You know education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." - John Kerry

Of course they don't have jobs. There are no jobs to be had. Do you understand? THERE ARE NO WHITE COLLAR JOBS. If you send your hypothetical undereducated person to get a four year degree, now he is a well-educated, still-unemployed person. Most Americans-- heck, most people in the world-- are not looking to expatriate for employment, so the "world job market" is not relevant. Education is great, but it's not the cause of this problem.

It's easy to write them off, but the fact is that we already have an affirmative action infrastructure in the USA, which could easily be adapted for every conceivable "protected class". Affirmative action should have been retired 15-20 years ago, once it had outlived its usefulness. Now, it remains as a dangerous tool of political manipulation.

trying things that might fail

Unlike in government, in business you don't often get to fail, then redefine the objective and declare success.

Excuse me, but that's a red herring. I didn't suggest getting rid of all state schools, or even Penn State. I'm tired of writing them blank checks.

Soul-suckingly hilarious!

Isn't there anything in the law to penalize frivolous claims of ownership as harassment? Copyright does not need to be defended as voraciously as trademark, so there is no need for them to keep pumping the entire Youtube side through algorithms and blindly send takedown notices.

Even if there were, well-- you'll have to hire employees to vet the hits. That's the cost of doing business.

Obama just brought it up again this year. It's not forgotten.

Can we get the state colleges to stop operating with government hand-outs, too? Penn State has both the highest tuition, and the biggest budget, of any state school. They are a drain on Pennsylvania taxpayers.

The "L" command (e.g., ATL0) set the speaker volume, but perhaps it didn't work during dialing on your modem.

Clearly, the answer is for some smooth-talkin' Slashdotter to seduce Angie. Then, once the deed is done, put a nasty negative review on Angie's List. "C-, would not bang again." BOOM goes the dynamite!

Wait... smooth talkin' Slashdotter? Never mind. It will never work.