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Comment: He's right (Score 1) 335

by HangingChad (#43761635) Attached to: Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber

But doesn't address how we could reshape our educational system to fit that new model. Perhaps make high school six years, with the last two intensive training in trade specialties, for those going that route, and college core courses for those going on.

That would change college from 4 years to 2 and let them focus on specialties, almost like a finishing school.

Everyone goes to school until they're 20, with an option to learn a trade, then you're on your own.

Comment: Re:I believe I speak for a dozen people when I say (Score 1) 162

by HangingChad (#43756301) Attached to: Amtrak Upgrades Wi-Fi

Of course, it's just a coincidence that the lines that carry the most politicians are actually funded and effective,

If memory serves the Obama administration tried to put more money into high speed rail and Republicans in Florida made a big show about turning the money down.

In an efficient transportation system planes would carry passengers between major airports and trains would fill in for commuter airlines. We subsidize every form of transportation in one way or the other, I don't see why passenger trains get singled out for ridicule.

Comment: Don't you feel safer? (Score 2) 115

by HangingChad (#43254711) Attached to: US Gov't To Scan More Civilian Infrastructure Traffic

Finally something progressives and conservatives can team up to fight.

The last briefing I heard there were something like 200 Chinese front companies operating in the U.S. gathering data on Americans, particularly those with security clearances.

Maybe we stop the obvious stuff and the cloud databases being stored all over the world before we go all 1984 on our own citizens.

In the same briefing I found out the French are also spying on our defense related industries. And the Israelis. Some allies we have. The ones not spying on us think we're idiots.

+ - Amazon Star Engineer Lives and Works From His Boat->

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HangingChad writes "James Hamilton is the engineer responsible for keeping Amazon's $4.5 billion tech infrastructure business running while inventing new ways to make its data centers more efficient. But this is no office job, he does most of his work from his boat, Diorona, which he often sails to Hawaii and works remotely from there."
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Comment: Re:Big deal... (Score 4, Insightful) 848

by HangingChad (#42928247) Attached to: Billionaires Secretly Fund Vast Climate Denial Network

It is fine that everyone can have their say.

The real problem we're facing is that the 'say' you get with billions in corporate money is worth more than the 'say' you and I get as individuals.

You can have your say, I can have mine, but when ExxonMobile speaks they blanket the airwaves.

The Koch family billions also go to business schools, provided they let them make faculty appointments. How many faculty appointments have you made recently?

Corporations use our own money against us and have a bigger say in government and policy.

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. -- Carl Sandburg

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