It doesn't necessarily contradict your statement, but from living for two decades in the "hipster part of town", I can pretty much say that a hipster is pretty much any early college age person doing what all the other 20 somethings are doing, just like they pretty much always have. The title stays the same as the looks, clothes, and music all continue to change. The people that most often use the term are usually no longer 20 somethings who are not in touch with youth culture any more, if they ever were.

We still have the original meaning, but it is has pretty much been limited to college logic classes for most of the last century. Giving pedants and excuse to bitch on the internet has probably boosted the original meanings usage an order of magnitude. If anything, the new meaning has probably saved the old meaning from obscurity and erosion.

The Republicans, the party of Lincoln that preserved the Union, has never been a small government party. The only RINOs are the Dixiecrats that joined the Republican Party under Nixon, were cultivated for their money and votes by Reagan, and now call themselves the Tea Party. How else do you think there came to be a Republican party that rules the South, claims to be state's rights, and is angry there is a black man as president?

They had one. They were called the Dixiecrats. Nixon invited them to join the Republican party as part of his campaign plan.

Found a record of the interview: "Rickover tells one applicant he has 10 seconds to make him mad or flunk the session. The midshipman hears Rickover tick down the seconds, then suddenly sweep’s half the contents of Rickover’s desk onto the floor. “I’m mad,” Rickover concedes before hiring the young officer."

I think I would have just answered the questions, even if to say I didn't want to answer them due to personal nature. They were pretty simple questions and if somebody can't answer them pretty simply, they probably aren't the person for the job where they might want thinking outside of the box. Reminds me of the story about when the navy was looking for a captain of the first nuclear sub. Figuring that the needed somebody who could think quick on their feet, the admiral's interview was non-standard and timed as "You have five minutes to make me angry." Most interviewees fumbled and didn't know how to act with a superior officer demanding that they make him angry. The guy that passed looked around, grabbed an award off the admiral's desk and smashed it on the floor.

At this point, while there might be some sort of MOND out there to describe what is going on, currently it would be such a bizarre and complicated theory that nobody can come up with a theoretical set of equations that fits current observational data, let alone could be otherwise tested. And trust me, there are plenty of grad students and other people working on the issue, that would love to find such and get their Nobel if not just playing with it as a mental exercise.

In one of Stross's novels, it's computonium, a material that absorbs energy and uses it as computational power. The sun is surrounded by successive layers of Dyson spheres with each outer layer absorbing the waste heat of the layer inside of it and radiates off increasing wavelengths of radiation. Subsequently, each outer layer runs at a slower rate than those father towards the interior and are the slums of the virtual society that exists inside all those layers of computonium.

I have college professor friends that have discussed things like this because we also have Evergreen College in the area where all their degrees are like this, all coursework is worked out as the student basically designs their own degree. Yes, it has the reputation for being a useless degree and lots of hippies and similar people go there and end up with underwater basket weaving degrees. The funny thing is that they highly recommend it for the exact opposite type of people, namely those like police officers and military personnel that have self discipline and are taking continuing education for their career path. In such cases, a college where professors help you to form you own course work to fine tune it to exactly what you want and need would be perfect. Meanwhile, they are trying to direct pot smoking teenagers into the normal colleges because they need to learn some discipline and structure before hoping to actually achieve a degree.

What they are talking about wouldn't get you out of such requirements. What they are discussing is breaking up courses into more and smaller courses. You'd still need 3 credit hours of humanities that you filled by taking sociology, but now, instead of one course worth three credit hours, you'd take three courses of 1 credit hour. That way you could hopefully at least take something dealing with sociology that you might use or at least find interesting.

Yes, but if you read TFA, you'll see that what they are really discussing is if courses would better serve people and education as a whole if they were further broken up into several smaller courses. Instead of a course lasting a semester or quarter, a course would basically be a month. The former course being broken up into several separate sections that still might have pre-reqs for each other but would otherwise stand seperately.

Now, now. They're probably not bashing America, but probably are American and just dumb.

No. If hidden by dust, we'd see more infrared heat in space as light emitted by stars has to go someplace. If hidden directly behind other solid objects (besides being so astronomically against the odds that things are only hidden from us), it wouldn't account for observations of galaxies rotations speeds that we see along the axis of rotation rather than against the edge. Even for the galaxies we see on edge, if they were all weighted with the mass on the other side of where we are, the rotations speeds, lensing, and other observational data would be different than what we see.

Don't think that dark matter is some quick answer to explain things away. All the obvious choices such as "it's all normal matter behind other normal matter", "it's just non-radiating normal matter", or "the laws of gravity might be different on the galactic scale" have all been suggested, tested, and found not to hold up first. Dark matter is the only real solution left standing at this point and the astronomers and scientists of the world had to be drug to that conclusion, kicking and screaming, over the decades, long before the public started hearing about it.

I have. I'd been having issues with my internet service going up and down and getting worse over a period of months. I finally called. I got a woman who listened to my problem, my troubleshooting steps and advised me to go to the connect, follow it back and see if there was a splitter. There was. Asked me to remove it and connect it directly to the internet box and everything worked perfectly. She then explained the various ways of how to get a new splitter, but as I only really use my Comcast for internet, didn't need one considered everything fixed. Listening to how I described the problem, she was able to get it fixed in the first troubleshooting step.

That being said. Having worked those type of phone technical support jobs before (at Adobe), it sounded like she'd been there a while and had seen this issue a lot. No doubt, she has gone off to a better job by now because those tech support jobs don't pay enough to keep around smart people who know what they are doing, and has been replaced by somebody who has to follow the script because they don't know the issues yet.

I disagree. I think he sees the long game and is even perhaps winning at it. He's pushing for all he can get and doing a decent job of it. He may have lost all of the Ukraine, but East Ukraine is still up for grabs and at this point, even if he had to fold, he'd walk away with Crimea. This is probably all about EU sanctions as the US won't do anything without the EU, and as long as the EU isn't going to put up some serious sanctions, they certainly aren't going to flex their military muscles. So he'll probably push up to the serious threat of sanctions and then ease off just enough to keep them from happening.