Our planet is already a Death Star. Look at defense budgets and satellite counts.

They already jacked up the record. Go to the site!

It's way at the end, and all told, would be about $5000 in direct payments and another twenty thou in administrative costs, plus $1500/annum fee to maintain registration.

So, if every university that participates in Coursera applied and paid, it'd be a pretty peony.

"Unless Coursera are offering highly biased education or in some way poisoning the minds of those that take their courses the people that are opposing them are opposing the basic human right to knowledge."

Well, there went Liberty University!

"Is it because you are jealous of Him?"

Jealous of Whom?

The Ant God of Antares, and her quadrillions of subjects?

Wasn't that Buddhism?

Pot does all that. It doesn't take religious authorities to ban being laid back and mellow.

"better profit margins means more jobs"

No, it means more profit to the executives.

Beautiful response, luckyo. Beautiful.

Long ago, decades, I went to Sweden for the summer, to visit a friend there. I asked why the suicide rate was so high. They said, "Because it's OK to die on purpose here. There's no real disapproval." "Hmmm" I said.

It's been almost fifty years, and that explanation holds for me. When you think it's time for your life to end, you just do it. It doesn't shame you, your children, your friends and co-workers. It just is.

The USA has a weird culture, no question, and sometimes it scare the hell out of people from other cultures.

Occam's Razor doesn't apply to human behavior. It's a science theory thang.

Think for a second.
Three anonymous tactical nukes, one each, Mecca, Vatican, Jerusalem.
What would happen? Can you not think clearly about this?
Then maybe you're not ready for Prime Time Politics.