True, back then most modern Republicans were still Democrats. The change over starting with the Dixiecrats and Nixon is still progressing as the South has only become solid Republican in the last few years.

Certainly not my experience at the two state schools I went to. Every single teacher had office hours and some practically begged students to come in for what would essentially be private tutoring. The matter of the fact was that if people who needed that tutoring were willing to put as much time into it as going to class in the first place, they probably would have done their homework and not be in the spot they were in. Most sat in there offices for those hours waiting for students to come to them for help and while they would get the occasional person flunking who did really want to pass, most of the people that ever went were the students that were already doing great and wanted to ask questions about the topic. On top of that there were study groups, grad students, and other resources to help undergrads that rarely got used. Universities want you to graduate because that's longer you'll be in school and the better chance they can hit you up for money as an alumni.

Well, there is lots of evidence for something out there. This something, after coming up with other options and rejecting them through testing, must not interact with electromagnetic forces to a degree we can detect and have mass. Thus the "dark" and "matter". I am pa physicist and what you aren't seeing when you read these articles is a lot of math. It's complicated because physics at this level is really complicated and to come up with these hypothesis, they have to come up with something that fits what we already know about matter and the universe. That's going to involve a lot of graduate level mathematics and physics that describe a world that even physicists have a hard time wrapping their heads around. That's how particles get predicted, the math works out that way, and physics without the math is just philosophy. Sometimes you end up with something like string theory where the math works out (or seems to) but it can't be easily tested. At least these options can be tested.

I work in health care and have seen everything from care to billing, and you are correct about it being because of the insurance industry, but not because of staff overhead (at least on the hospital side). Historically, insurance companies pay a certain percentage on the dollar of hospital costs. Usually around 33 cents but some of the better insurances pay up to 66 cents on the dollar based on the hospital's master charge record, the official cost of their procedures. Therefore, to break even, hospitals have to up their official prices to at least two or three times of what it actually costs just to break even. Of that $325 dollars the OP was charges, the hospital will most likely only see around a $108 of from the insurance company. As for self payers that get charged the $325, hospitals through experience have already written than off as non-payment. Sure some people pay the full amount, others work out a deal after months or years of nonpayment, but that is usually just considered bonus as they never expected to see that money anyway.

Of course, what is happening now, is that clinics are opening up and then contacting the insurance companies and making contracts for a set price per procedure. Thus they advertise their prices which are half to one third of the other hospitals and don't have to have the additional personel or equipment to do things like run tests, diagnose, or deal with inpatients. The regular hospitals are thus having their patients taken away after all the hard work is done. They'd like to redo their master charge record to reflect the actual costs too, but that includes new contracts with all the insurers and getting them to agree to do so, pretty much all at the same time.

Then expect to pay for a professional for his time and equipment for what is probably a three days worth of contract work. Besides just showing up at the beginning and leaving at the end after taking all those photos, there is usually quite a lot of post production work that goes into those wedding photos to make them look as good as the ones that were on their website or in their portfolio that caused you to want to hire them. They really want that because if nothing else, if they let you have a bunch of unfinished photos or ruin it by turning it into a B&W and tell everybody they took them, their business is what is being harmed, not your wedding. No matter what, a professional photographer has to make his money to stay in business, and where they used to charge for prints, now it's becoming a service industry and people will have to pay for time and like about any time a person wants to hire a professional to do something, it's going to cost more money than they were expecting.

The other option is to have your friend or cousin take the photos or otherwise gather up all the photos everybody there takes. It might turn out fine, or it might not, same as if you had a friend come over and build your computer or code your program for free.

I don't know about that. The network guys at the company I have worked at for the last twenty years have been preaching that entire time about the advantages of an X-term or some other type of thin client. Any day now, all our computers are going to be replaced by them according to them.

Great! Somebody should build it in Minecraft.

Hush. Remember your Puritan training. There can be no satisfying of lusts, only repression of them.

You can always give it away. That's what all the coffee camps, bars, and food places at Burning Man do.

No, the tea party WERE dixiecrats. Since when have "traditional republicans" been pro-state's rights Southerners?

Jails are usually local and run by the city or county. If you get arrested, you go to jail. If you have to stay in because you are awaiting trial and can't afford bail, you stay in the jail. If you are convicted and receive a short sentence (usually for anything less than a year) or waiting to go to the prison, you are in jail. Prisons are run by the states or the federal government and hold people convicted of either state or federal laws respectively for sentences generally longer than a year.

Don't think it's possible actually. There's simply too much stuff that still needs to be worked out. Heavy launchers haven't even shown up yet. After that we still had to work out long term deep space habitats that despite the knowledge to even try and build them will take a while to work out the engineering bugs and get them good enough that they'll work for a two and half year trip away from help. Once we actually get to Mars, there is a whole series of problems with getting something capable of carrying a man down to the surface and back due to an atmosphere that isn't quite thick enough to help us and too thick to ignore. Apollo 1 didn't take men to the moon and the first in the Mars mission series won't take people to Mars.

You can read about it here. Being a nerd in high school that di things like read novelizations of TV shows (the Srt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Band one actually made sense out of the movie), I got it and tried to read it. I seem to remember giving up halfway through as he was still recovering from the crash and in the middle of a very dry discussion on how well he can use his remaining body parts as he crawled around in his hospital room.

Better is a subjective value based upon whatever situational criteria is decided upon by the speaker. As entertainment, yes, I'd say that the story of the movies are better than Tolkein. As an example of English creation of pseudo-folklore based on Scandanavian heritage and language, then yes, Tolkien is probably better. There is a gap between writing for academics and writing for the public. Each one is going to consider their own favorites as better. Take Tom Bombadil for example. Doesn't move the story forward. Essentially has nothing to do with the story even as a false lead or false Chekov's Gun. However, take it in with all his other writings and how he fits into the world as created rather than just the singular story, and becomes something more and probably considered better by people who want different things. take Lovecraft's works. I like them but wouldn't consider them great writing. However, take it as a shared mythology and themes that was compeling enough to be adopted by other writers even at the time, and you have a sum that is better than the parts.

Thank you for supporting my point. Hollywood has always been like they are now. The current era is not anything special.