I like learning languages myself. But.. Hey.. they set it up so that she didn't have to. Why should she not take advantage of that?

Um... no.

I'm not asking where are the parents in paying the bill. I'm asking where is their guidance? When a fresh out of high-school kid goes and gets him/herself into 100s of thousands of debt for a degree that is pretty obviously not in demand I have to wonder.. where the hell are their parents and why aren't they kicking their kids in the ass?!?!

Actually.. the parents probably have to co-sign for those loans. You can argue that the students are too inexperienced to know better. I don't know why.. I sure knew enough basic arithmetic at far younger than that to realize it was a bad idea. But... how about a little tough love from the adults?

Where are the parents?

You shouldn't buy anything if you don't have a good idea how you are going to pay for it. If you can afford to buy an education just for the benefit of having one then fine.. more power to you! For most of us that is too much money to spend unless it is an investment towards a future career that can pay for it. That is why a university degree is for career building and not for personal development.

Maybe if people actually looked at the cost of their degree and made responsible economic decisions about how far they are willing to go into debt and what they can expect to make afterwards the demand for non-career building degrees would fall. Maybe then the price would fall until a person could afford to get it just because they are inerested.

"Unless of course, you think that only the wealthy should be able to learn anything about art history..."

No. I think in todays internet enabled age anybody can make themselves an expert in anything if they are willing to do the work. If you want to know about art history... go find out about it! I don't think you are entitled to having someone prepare and teach a series of classes for you just because you want it!

This could be an opportunity to take swatting to a whole new level. I can just imagine gamer kidies dressing up as ISIS and taking selfies in front of their opponents houses now.

One refers to a people, the other refers to a place. Immigrants to the West from the middle east don't kill each other very often based on their ancestor's tribal conflicts.

Children who are raised inside all that BS and never make it out... well.. a few of them will eventually act on it. And.. it doesn't take many to ruin a neighborhood.

Exactly!

Surely there is a body somewhere that will one day be discovered by someone who isn't careful. Maybe somebody died in a strange place and hasn't been found yet. Or a sick murder victim. Or maybe somebody will dig up a grave that just doesn't know any better.

If we assume the virus is extinct forever and so don't immunize against it how far will it spread when this happens?

Well, when you learn to read yourself you can go back to the start of this thread and see that I was replying to someone who said that Google was being evil. You seem to be supporting that person's comment. I don't see how they can be evil (in regards to this report) unless they somehow owe the world all that information so I am aksing why they owe it.

It seems to me that they should hire the best applicants that apply (as best as they can determine that) and it's really nobody else's business.

He only said that the guy deserves it. I think we all agree with that. He didn't say that it was a good law.

Most will die quickly without a host to reproduce in. I do know that.

But... a small number will not. I certainly don't believe that every place a smallpox victim has been or every gravesite where one was buried still contains viri. But there were a lot of hosts before it was 'exterminated'. I do think it's probably out there somewhere.

Except that now you are talking about a very expensive and difficult report to create. You would end up creating a team of people whose sole job is to collect, organize and report this information while providing no benefit back to Google. Why do you feel Google owes this to you? Sorry, not doing that does not make them evil.

That's pretty dumb. Comparing a virus to macroscopic animals.

I'm skeptical it can even be done at all. So it's said that smallpox is gone. But.. it's just too big of a big world.

Besides the know laboratories there has to be somewhere that some viri have somehow managed to be preserved. Maybe a vial that has long since lost it's label, now stuck in an attic or basement waiting to be sold with a pile of antiques. Maybe it's in a body that has managed to be burried in just the perfect environment to preserve it. Maybe it's in a stain on some old antique, totally not obvious by site after decades of just sitting there that it's source was a bodily fluid.

Wherever it is it's only a matter of time before someone wakes it up.

"Google is being evil here"

Uh, Yah... they are being real evil.

They should fire a bunch of white people and hire a bunch of non-white people based solely on the color of their skin.

That would make them not evil.

They aren't testing the true capabilities of the airport screeners. If they sent there fake weapons through taped to the crotches of young children and elderly grandmothers they would see the agents really shine.