Comment Re:That's a howler (Score 1) 331
"requirements apply to public colleges"
Not "non-profit" ones.
"requirements apply to public colleges"
Not "non-profit" ones.
We can't have any pressure on public colleges to stop producing $useless_degree graduates, can we.
"didn't personally want to make his private life so public" somehow clashes with "I'm so proud
"money was taken from you in order to provide yourself a retirement in your old age"
That relationship is only putatively causal. The money taken from "you" has already been spent, several times over.
You might note that it is because of social engineers that taxpayers are paying those transfers in the first place.
no, just meh
Hello, "cynical".
Way to miss the whole original point. Budding social engineers should do their experiments in such a way that -they- pay the price for failure, not everyone else.
I would gladly opt entirely out of the corresponding system here if I only could.
Try that experiment at your own expense, not someone else's.
... yeah, or not.
At least one indubitable fact today was that the only thing that stopped the bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun.
That naivete is darned charming.
"I nearly died of shame."
Did W say nothing reasonable & quotable?
"The exception is where sunlight is unavailable"
Don't forget the inverse-square law either.
"if you were to take into account mining, pollution, and adverse health impacts of coal and gas
What are the chances that those costs can be "taken into account" (imagined) differently by different people?
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?