Which one? You'd have hoped with that experience he might have had some idea how to balance the books. Did his restaurant go broke?

Woooosh!!

That says a lot about the society we live in now.
Goldberg was clearly obese. But that would only take a few years off his otherwise 80-year life expectancy. Unlikely to be relevant.

Oh please. Political marriages of young girls were common in those days. He waited until she was nine to consummate it.

Yeah. Wilders has a large armed guard in the Netherlands too, where the gun homicide rate is seven percent of that of Texas.
And Netherlands gun violence is high by European standards - a lot of the crime is related to North-African gangs.

Not for long. TV ratings dropped fast after the first landing. Even blowing up Apollo 13's service module was not enough to save the program from early cancellation.

The "vicious cycle" is a myth, or at least a common assumption not backed by evidence. Numerous adoption studies show that the home environment and immediate community has only a small effect in childhood, and that fades away to zero as the child gets older. Parenting is not the problem, even though it looks that way, the science says otherwise. The real "cycle" is genetic, but that is even less politically correct.

    Poor communities in the US don't need iPads, they don't even need more books. Ownership of books is correlated, not causal, to economic success.
What they need is things like a respectable minimum wage, affordable healthcare, child-care, policing, ...

    People who once had a reliable well-paid job on an assembly line might now be stacking shelves at Walmart and unable to afford the rent, let alone a mortgage.

Doesn't matter. For one, NAPLAN is not an admissions test. There is not a lot of motivation for individuals to cheat.
And it is a literacy test, so the accuracy of content is irrelevant.
The test does not need to be especially accurate for individuals. Collectively they provide data to compare classes and schools.

Yes, people will try to game the system. Australia already has lots of after-school coaching classes, full of kids of Asian immigrants, teaching cramming and exam technique. No doubt they are already drilling kids on every smuggled past-paper they can find, even though Naplan results are not supposed to be important.

Its not completely fake.
There is a real hologram sticker on the media packaging.

So is Ceres, and Ceres was discovered 130 years before Pluto.
It was demoted from planet to asteroid, but you don't hear anyone bitching about that. Did Ceres run around screaming "I'm the 10th planet!" ?
At least Ceres is by far the biggest asteroid. Pluto is probably just one of many large Kuiper Belt objects.

Thirty years ago we learned OSI networking, on the assumption that the awful clumsy hack that was TCP/IP would soon be replaced.
Life is full of disappointment.

"More that 3 million" had clearance, according to the Guardian. And there appears to have been no auditing of access.

http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Empathy? That is a reason _not_ to read about it and watch the news. The pointless loss and suffering is sickening.
So why is it "news"? To answer my own above rhetorical question - it is disaster porn.
The same reason people gawk at traffic accidents, stopping even after the ambulance is there. The same reason CNN still makes money showing 9/11 or any other disaster over and over.

    Of course some disasters are more newsworthy than others. Fresh pictures are vital - if it takes a week for photos to get from a remote area, then too late - stale news.
  And earthquakes sell more papers than floods. How many people know that floods in Bangladesh kill more people every year that this earthquake in Nepal. They didn't tell you that? No, all we remember is that building collapse that made better photos, but fewer deaths.

I hope those who can make a difference - nearby Indian and Chinese authorities - can get in fast. Time is everything.
But us? The Red Cross will be calling for donations, but while that might help them prepare for the next disaster, it makes no difference to this one.

It makes me suspect that Santa Claus is neither omnipotent nor omniscient. And only seasonally omnipresent.

Poor undeveloped country has insufficient building standards for regular predictable natural disaster. People die.

Its not going to affect me, there is nothing I can do to help, and its hardly surprising, so why care? Not news for anyone, let alone nerds.