Comment: Re:Ozymandias (Score 1) 246
Um, when you quote someone else's poem you really need to state the author's name.
For those who don't know, this one is by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who YOU callin' a "bysshe", bysshe?
Comment: Re:Ozymandias (Score 1) 246
Um, when you quote someone else's poem you really need to state the author's name.
For those who don't know, this one is by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Mr. Shelly and I are on first-name basis, despite his untimely expiration on the capsize of the Ariel, some two centuries nigh. I thought nearly all speakers of English to also be so familiar. Please forgive the oversight.
Comment: Re:Huh? (Score 1) 214
Don't you think having AC's live forever is a good idea?
Comment: Doesn't pass the laugh test (Score 4, Insightful) 193
But the big G doesn't contribute anything to the work of creatives.
You never use a search engine while writing? They're awfully handy for fact-checking, looking up sources, and so on.
But I suppose those sorts of activities are not required these days
Comment: Re:Huh? (Score 3, Insightful) 214
Because you haven't submitted any better articles.
Man. This is a barrel scraper 'tho.
I have one proposition for Gennady. Why not stop killing each other first? Work that angle on the "Death is Wrong" gig. Then, when we have problem A solved, get to the advanced degree shit. You dig?
Comment: Re:Facebook provides online identity, not just soc (Score 1) 225
Huh? Log in to what websites? I see the icon all over the place, but I've never used it. It's not de-facto, but rather your own personal choice.
Federal Student Aid Requirements At For-Profit Colleges Overhauled 250
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from the new-rules dept.
from the new-rules dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The U.S. Department of Education has released a proposal for new regulations that would hold colleges that receive federal student aid accountable for the employment success of their graduates. The overhaul is prompted by the fact that students from for-profit colleges account for nearly 50% of all loan defaults yet only account for about 13% of the total higher education population. '[O]f the for-profit gainful employment programs the Department could analyze and which could be affected by [the proposed regulations], the majority--72%--produced graduates who on average earned less than high school dropouts.'"
The Billionaires Privatizing American Science 213
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Soulskill
from the easy-funding-in-four-words:-lab-rat-reality-show dept.
from the easy-funding-in-four-words:-lab-rat-reality-show dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Government-funded science is struggling in the United States. With the unstable economy over the past decade and the growing hostility to science in popular rhetoric, basic research money is getting hard to find. Part of the gap is being filled by billionaire philanthropists. Steven Edwards of the American Association for the Advancement of Science says, 'For better or worse, the practice of science in the 21st century is becoming shaped less by national priorities or by peer-review groups and more by the particular preferences of individuals with huge amounts of money.' Vast amounts of research are now driven by names like Bill Gates, Michael Bloomberg, David Koch, and Eric Schmidt. While this helps in some ways, it can hurt in others. 'Many of the patrons, they say, are ignoring basic research — the kind that investigates the riddles of nature and has produced centuries of breakthroughs, even whole industries — for a jumble of popular, feel-good fields like environmental studies and space exploration. ... Fundamentally at stake, the critics say, is the social contract that cultivates science for the common good.'"
Comment: I misread the headline many times (Score 0) 104
"Solar Powered Toilet Torches deemed a Waste to the Public Health budget" is one example misreading.
Comment: Not again (Score 1) 302
Bill, we've been over this before. Snowden tried the legal channels, informing his superiors 10x, and got nowhere. If you bothered to closely follow the story, you'd see your suggestions were tried and failed.
Armchair critics are stupid. "Why couldn't Rosa Parks just ask the bus driver for permission, did she really need to get arrested?"
Comment: Re:does it add up? (Score 1) 418
But why bother using up fuel saving the plane for later use when you can just fly into your target immediately? It's not that easy to land, refuel and take off in a plane that size unnoticed.
You're assuming the desired target is within range...
Comment: Long LONG time. (Score 1) 3
How'd you remember the PW?
Comment: Re:A a naive moral relativist (Score 1) 302
A free thinker. Which means I will perform thought experiments, with assumed values that are contrary to my observation or bias, and see where that leads. Often an otherwise undiscovered insight or new set of observable conditions can arise - to be confirmed with primary documentary sources.
One thing I can assure you - the USA is no inherently or morally "better" than Russia. Their murdered millions were mostly within the borders of their assumed territory. US's are continual, in secondary economic fiefdoms.
Comment: Re:O Boy is Just a Tool of Rahm's People (Score 1) 8
He's a third generation fascist terrorist.
Comment: id 39371 signing off (Score 2) 154
Holy crap. Fuck you, non-editors.