... then people are actually suffering from 'degradation effect' after they've grown up

... that "Please educate yourself" thing

Do you really think that sheeples are capable of educating themselves??

The fact is that they remain sheeples because they ...

1. They are not willing to change
2. They are satisfied with what / who they are
3. They do need some kind of 'leaders' to lead them
4. Their lives would be empty if they do not regurgitate whatever their 'leaders' told them

Where I was from it was 100% Asians

Where I am now it's a mix

Where I was in the HS it was 80% Blacks, less than 2% Asians

But when I get to the U the ones who can compete against me are the Whites

So don't gimme that " 95% Asian / 4.9% Caucasian " thing. You know it ain't true

It might probably be in the ratio of 30% Asian / 68% Caucasian / 2% others, but if that is what it is, I say let it be

I just have to laugh when reading the crap that you have written!

I came from China, and when I landed on the US soil, I actually went to Chinatown to work (kitchen helper) because I was practically penny-LESS at that time

I did not go to school for at least 8 months and when I did, I went to a public school where the blacks were like 80% of the school population

Don't you tell me about broken school, lack of new books and all those shits, I have been through all that

And yet, I went to college on my own (without any help from anybody) and from there I move up my career ladder

Do I have to tell you that I didn't speak one word of English (nor understand anything) when I arrived at the US of A?

I just have to laugh at you guys regurgitating the same old SHIT every single time when AA has been questioned --- if an Asian kid like me could move up, why can't the Blacks/Hispanics?

And no, I didn't have my "tiger mom" with me --- I came to USA by my own, as a refugee, my family was still in China at that time

Fuck you!

I am an Asian American and I will tell you to stuff that goddamn 'historical racist/sexist' excuse back where the sun never shines

I never need any affirmative action to get to where I am

I never applied for any aid, and never receive any either

And in academic study I never get - and never even thought of getting - any break just because I am a "minority"

I do not believe in the bullshit that because of some 'historical event' I am in any way 'disadvantaged'

And I will say the same "Fuck You!" to those who say that "Affirmative Action" is still needed

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That said, regarding the TFA, I do not know why they complaint about the 140 point above the White thing when the fact is that the Hispanic and the Blacks are being enrolled into ivy league colleges (and all other colleges as well) with really, and I mean, unbelievably low scores!

What they are doing is that they are forcing the talented individuals to share the same class with idiots, they are actually discriminating against those with genuine talents

I dunno man ... This AA thing is a fucked up thing to begin with and it's 2015 and we still getting stuck with this fucked up thing

When will America grow up?

In Japan, in Korea, in China they do not have AA --- and their economies are growing leaps and bounds and everybody can attest to their technological achievements

America should get rid of this fucked up AA thing, or else we can never catch up to those living in East Asia

No-fault is about taking money away from lawyers, who used to litigate each and every auto accident as a lawsuit in court before the insurers would pay. Eventually the insurers decided that they spent more on lawyers than accident payments, and they had no reason to do so.

If you want to go back to the way things were, you are welcome to spend lots of time and money in court for trivial things, and see how you like it. I will provide you with expert witness testimony for $7.50/minute plus expenses. The lawyers charge more.

In general your insurer can figure out for themselves if you were at fault or not, and AAA insurance usually tells me when they think I was, or wasn't, when they set rates.

If we don't have more than two children per couple, the human race would've died out a long time ago.

I think the proper way to state that is "If we didn't in the past", not "If we don't". If we were to have 2 children per couple (approximately, the real value is enough children to replace each individual but not more) from this day on, it would not be necessary to adjust the number upward to avoid a population bottleneck for tens of thousands of years.

The Northern California Amtrak is actually pretty good for commuting from Sacramento to the Bay Area and back because the right of way is 4 tracks wide in critical places and it has priority over other trains for much of the time.

Acela in the Boston/NY/DC corridor is also good, because the right of way is 4 tracks or more for most of the way, and it has a track to itself along a lot of the route. Other railroads run on parallel tracks.

For the most part, though, Amtrak suffers from not having exclusive track. It runs on freight lines that host cars so heavy that the rail bends an inch when the wheels are on top of it (I've seen this first hand).

And Germany is a nation the size of New Mexico with an economy the 5th largest in the world. Starting pretty much from zero 70 years ago.

Maybe having good trains is part of that.

No. If anything, I assert that good trains are a hallmark of the set of good economic policies that lead to the general well-being of the citizenship.

Poor people are poor because they can't get jobs. One of the reasons is that they can't get to jobs. Can't afford a reliable car and insurance and gas in the US? Can't work! Too often, that's the equation.

The other reasons they are poor are that we were equally bad in investing in other things we should have spent more upon publicly, like good primary education. This is caused by more wealthy folks not wanting to pay the necessary taxes.

I have a lawn and there are turkeys and quail in the front yard today and we can hear the coyotes howling some nights (that's on the edge of Berkeley where it meets Contra Costa county). If I want to be in San Francisco, I have to get to the train station, which is a mile away (convenient, by the way, to lower income homes). And then it's all train from there, under the Bay, out again in the middle of the city.

In two more years, I will be able to get to San Jose that way. Right now, that is an hour and twenty minute drive if I start at 6 AM, and two hours if I start later. It will be a shorter time on the train, more relaxing, a hell of a lot safer, and will allow me to work on the way.

This is what railroad transportation can mean for people with lawns.

Well, I am not convinced by the auto ownership report that failed to include the purchase price (really!)

I think there's a lot about European behavior you're not taking into account - like the kind of car they actually buy (really small compared to ours) and what they use it for (often, just getting to the railroad station), and the clear indication that car ownership was because of their larger middle class which is itself an indication of better economic policies - like having good mass transit.

I think you have the tax picture wrong, and it's still the better-off people who are contributing the most to mass transit through their taxes.

Regarding the bus, I'm not convinced. The biggest problems are that it can't be connected to electricity efficiently (San Francisco's catenary busses can't exceed 40 MPH while on the wire, and rarely approach that speed because they share the route with cars), it is labor intensive compared to rail, and it has the traffic and safety issues of an automobile. And too often light rail is little better than a bus. It's only when there's an exclusive right-of-way that you get efficiency.

And ultimately there may still be people who vote against mass transit, but they are shooting themselves in the foot.

That's the average for the entire country.

Read the figures in the brochure. I think a lot of people don't realize all of the separate expenses that should be counted as part of automobile ownership.