yes, they would kick out people paying them lots of money to get in. There certainly is no incentive in a pure capitalist university to keep rich well paying people enrolled.

Correct - aggregate reputation is more valuable than individual tuition payments. It's simply a matter of maximizing value. Western universities kick out tuituion-paying students all the time, for many reasons.

That would imply that the university would also be honest.

It doesn't have to be intellectually honest (my god, saying this about a "university"). It can merely value the increased revenue (assign bonus targets if greed is the only available motivator). Though we ought to hope for more.

Did you know that in America most private schools are worse at educating students than public schools?

This article isn't about America - corruption, violence and bribery isn't how grades are determined here. India has different problems and requires different solutions.

Are you aware of the self-organization of private schools in India (and other poor countries) that parents prefer? Even very poor parents find a way to pay for their children to avoid the government schools there (the schools are very cheap by Western standards).

Have you heard Malala Yousafzai talk about government schools in the region? It's a disaster from top to bottom.

this is why university degrees from India are about as valuable as a high school diploma in the U.S.

Prime Minister Modi's approach is different. He's trying to change things. There is a new regulation system for higher education. Funding for universities increased by about a fifth in the most recent Five Year Plan from central government.

Are these public universities? Because a private university would have a strong incentive to catch and remove cheaters so that the value of their degrees are not diminished. There are no "rights" when you agree to abide by a student Code of Conduct, there is an agreement with pre-ordained consequences for both parties (at least outside a government apparatus).

The Universities that confer meaningful degrees would obviously place graduates more ably and thus command higher tuition - the incentives seems to be aligned for the university. Individuals would still be incentivized to accept bribes, but the universities should see those administrators as costing them tuition dollars by sullying their reputation.

Careful ... as soon as you imply that the income tax is a contributing factor to childhood obesity, a singularity forms and obligate statists lose coherence.

Eat more real food and less carrageenan?

Protip: any article that uses the phrase "God particle" is also wrong on the facts.

I can't think of any impediments I have to uploading more video to Facebook right now. If I wanted to upload more videos I'd upload more videos, but they don't usually make sense where text, stills, or links do.

So Mark must be betting that they'll make sense in five years when they don't now - I wonder what his reasoning could possibly be.

I hope he doesn't mean that people will be video recording their status updates. There's a reason many people call it "Dumpbook" - the tile wall in the background is sort of a giveaway.

And no, she won't let me restrict and lock down the machine, I've tried that.

"Son, there's no way I'm wasting my time changing the oil in my car - you will fix the engine for me if you love me."

There is ALWAYS the question "but what caused THAT?"

Causation implies action and result, a before and after. Those concepts are a function of time, which didn't exist before the universe.

It's like asking what the length and width of the universe were at the singularity - the question doesn't have meaning even though our reptile brains insist that time is always present (which is tremendously useful for hunting crickets, so no flags down).

"if you die while engaging in a risk sport you're SOL"

note to self: check policy before going to Walmart on Black Friday.

People are quick to yell "games" as if the entire desktop hasn't been 3D-accelerated for a decade.

In many cases if a chip can be done 30% faster, not only is the user happy with the visuals, but that silicon can enter low-power mode more quickly. A laptop user might get a few more minutes' battery life with this bit on and the world might burn a few less tons of coal for all of the systems.

Because they can't accept death.

What in the actual fuck?

The idea of imaginary property is so frail that it needs massive legal edifices erected around it, and those create security risks for both person and real property.

But, ya know, profits above all, right? Let's get some of that back to the campaigns, eh?

The only real hope is a constitutional amendment limiting the interstate commerce clause.

We're going on 80 years of oppression under /Wickard/ - it's not good strategy to hold out hope for something where you'd need to get a supermajority of Congress to vastly limit their own power and roll-back nearly a century of power and bureaucracy.

Nay, the only thing (within the State mechanism assumption) that is having success in limiting Federal power is nullification through initiative measures and that's even only on one very narrow power. Everything else is going wildly in the other direction, over any long-enough timescale.

It appears that the only real chance of sanity now lies outside the State mechanism - /Wickard/ may well have been the point of no return. Every system on earth ever run by power-lusty men has had a point of no return from which it's never recovered.

Be careful of 'hope' - you can die waiting for it to show up.

Apparently the law was intended to be used against fishermen and not CEOs of banks.

Well now, see, by going after a fisherman once in a while, they can ward off the people calling for an end to Sarbox since it's never enforced, but gives license to Wall Street to run amok. Given a conviction, they can keep it on the books, not risk having it ruled "void for vagueness" and whenever the People complain about getting screwed, they can point to Sarbox and say "we have a law for that" while still never prosecuting Wall Street (gotta keep that sweet campaign money rolling in).

The trouble is the people who are getting screwed are complaining to the people who are ultimately screwing them, if they'd care to look even a millimeter past first-order effects.

If they were unhappy, they would have walked in one direction long enough to "discover" others. Leave them be.

if we were to find natives in the US...

Team Blue:
But are they paying "their" taxes? They were born within the geographic confines of a nation state, so they implicitly agreed to a the Social Contract.

Team Red:
Do they not benefit from the clean air and logging bans the government provides? Why should they not have to pay for those benefits? We can't have any free riders taking advantage of the system. They should be working and have ID's.

like another comment said, sometimes a quiver of arrows is the most sensible policy.