Somebody mod this up! GP has no idea what the point of higher education is. The faculty aren't just "employees". While administrators job-hop from school to school, the faculty are the long-term caretakers of the institution. They largely determine whether the degree granted means anything or if the place is a clown college. It's sad that the idea of being able to safely point out shortcomings (= tenure) in an enterprise as large as a university is seen as such a crazy perk by those who work at the whim of others.

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Heard a long time ago that God owned a Plymouth because "He drove them out in His Fury"

Where did he say lower price point? He said their suckers (i.e., students) have more debt.

Perhaps you should do a little research on salaries before declaring that they are outrageous. Keep in mind that, first, there's about a ten year period of grad school and postdoc positions before you land the tenure track job, and then it's six years of busting your hump before you get tenure. After all that, a 9-month salary of $50K is by no means abnormal. There might be some outrage there, but we probably disagree on the direction of it. Remember that for every big-name Harvard or Caltech superstar making $200K, there are 40 other academics working at least as hard as anyone in the "real world" for a small fraction of that salary (and no, they don't all have grad students to teach for them, and no, they don't just work 3 hours per week).

6000 m/s = 13400 mph. That makes the energy a factor of 11 too large.

Yes - the profits would go to the buyer or seller (I don't see the exchange's profits changing, but maybe they would), but they are the only ones *providing* something. The HFT is just a middleman. I'm OK with him not making anything since he's not bringing anything to the party.

Will "Nanorod" describe something men want associated with their junk?

B) what exactly does lack of mass have to do with anything? Light (which can't escape either) is a massless boson.

Could someone mod this up to 11?

The police have nothing to do with libel or slander. Google "Tort vs Crime". And if the police have ever restrained anyone they suspected was going to yell fire in a theater, I'd love to see the case history.

"Go look up crime statistics and you will find that the number of crimes committed with machine guns is either zero every year or in single digits."
So it seems that the idea that guns can't be effectively regulated (if we outlaw guns, only criminals will have them) doesn't apply to machine guns. Maybe we should regulate all guns the same way machine guns are regulated.

I thought he'd only use it inside a walled garden.