God-damn! Where are my mod points when I need them?

Very insightful post!

student loans bankruptcy can fix so many things
High fees
BS filler classes nice to have but not at today's costs
forced residency rules at high cost
The push to make Masters the new HS

That was a result of new laws passed in 1977 to prevent the "Son of Sam" killer from making a killing from selling his story to the tabloids.

Let me see if I have this right...

We have some whining petty social justice bitches not liking what someone else said, so they go running to whine, bitch, and moan, to their other petty whiners to complain to where these people got their money. It worked for a while and so the people targeted insulated themselves from this method of petty retaliation. Seeing some success with this tactic they decide to turn up the heat. They want to not just get some of them denied some of their money for some of the time, they wanted to get all the opposing voices denied all their funding for all time.

Then came the people that wanted to hear these opposing voices, they started buying mugs, t-shirts, and subscriptions, to keep these voices in business. They like free speech and are using the free market to make it work.

The plan failed so miserably that this tactic will likely never work again, they highlighted their tactic so plainly that nearly everyone sees it now, and they exposed themselves to be the whiny petty bitches that they are. This didn't just make the opposition stronger, they may have just put themselves out of business.

Instead of making a better argument in an exchange of ideas they thought they could sling some mud to win. Now they are just sinking in their own foul mess.

Sound about right?

You're measuring potential problems of CO2, and ignoring the actual problems of mercury in the atmosphere. More people have died from sulfur dioxide than from CO2, but you ignore it when talking about pollution.

GDP per capita is about 50% higher in the US than in the EU. And the difference is likely to be higher if we include non-EU European countries.
Also, taxes tend to be higher in Europe, more regulations, more protection. Culture too. Facebook is an american company, so it fits the american culture better, that includes language. Some Facebook products may also be only available in the US. I think Europeans also tend to use ad blockers a bit more.

"What a degree gets you is stability. And stability is still better than constantly losing everything every 10 years when the economy goes pop because Americans don't believe in Government Regulation."

Hahahahahahaha. No.

I have literally watched my company lay off THOUSANDS ( ~2k just within the past two weeks ) and not give a flying damn if you are college educated or not. They don't care what skills you have, what wisdom you possess or unique expertise you can provide the company. ( Yes, this is coming back to haunt them now. )

They simply used your zip code as the metric to determine if you got to keep your job or not. Seriously. If you didn't report to work in one of the designated cities, they simply said good-bye. Thanks for the 25+ years you gave us. Sorry you were a year or two shy of retirement. Gotta bring down that debt and make the stock holders happy.

Ask those folks how well their degrees contributed to " stability ".

In a SANE company, your degree might mean something. This, however, is not a sane world we live in I'm afraid.

And he also refused to put the Aircraft Identification Number anywhere on it.

"people who made decisions with a higher return on investment are happier with their decisions." Headline:

Two-Thirds of American Employees Regret Their College Degrees

It follows that even more non-employees regret paying for a degree.

Seems to me that a lot of people confuse getting a degree with obtaining useful and marketable knowledge and skills, so they're disappointed when they finally realize there's often a difference.

Yes indeed. Regret, anyway, is just a soul-eater.

The only thing you can change about the past is how you feel about it.

now every time I go out it won't smell like a mess of cotton candy and potpourri.

Off topic? really? what's the topic then? you red caps are such a pack of little bitches.

There's a rule of thumb that your total loan debt shouldn't exceed your first year of salary (assuming a job in your major).

Also, "big name" universities may not be worth the extra cost for some majors. State-U is usually a better lifetime bargain, but it does depend on the major. Resist a focus on status or bragging rights; egos can't pay off debt, and the money you save can buy other ego boosters anyhow.

Similarly, get your basic ed. at a community college if possible. The "name power" of starting at a 4-year university is usually minimal, as long as you finish well when you do get to a 4-year university.

A painted plane takes up as much space as a green one. But parking them unfinished is going to seriously mess up the production schedule once they have to go back and perform out of sequence work. Furthermore, if the MCAS fix is quickly implemented (software and maybe some minimal h/w mods), having them ready to deliver is going to clear the backlog (and get payments rolling in) much faster. And if they finish them and can get a conditional airworthiness certificate, they can fly them to off site storage and never have to bring them back for added work.

There's a reason they are parking them half done and I don't think we are hearing the whole story.

The temperatures haven't been games, and thermodynamics ain't theory

Crazy idea, but maybe YouTube isn't a neo-fascist website like Twitter that forces you to conform to their very narrow standards of what is "correct" and what is "hate" or "fake news". Maybe as an American company they respect the American ideal of free speech and don't want to kick people off the platform for wrongthink. Maybe they just remove monetization on creators of wrongthink to keep the advertisers happy, but only outright ban people when they do things that are illegal or flagrant abuses of the rules like uploading porn. Wouldn't that be crazy?

Have a whole lot of links does not prove your case but provides some mixed evidence.

e.g. (from your barely related sources) In reality, there are 50 different answers to this question,
and The overarching message is that there is no single cause of the tuition boom.
But in short it is a supply and demand situation, students willing to pay more and lack of serious competition so ...

From one of your links: one big cause is the generosity of federal student aid: Some institutions may be raising tuition in order to capture as much government-backed money as possible.

There are many problems but the Govt throwing money at higher education will simply increase the cost of it (even more) throwing debt at it has increased the cost already. If you don't see the issue with govt funding education then you don't know any students, they are very happy to spend up large on other peoples money on their passion of the moment and spending debt is simply a case of lemmings, it might be stupid but everyone is doing it. I for a number of years went to help run projects for engineering students as part of my job. Also lectured for a short time (6 weeks) for an engineering paper. Many students are wasting time and money in engineering, I assume in other departments/majors it is worse not better.

The artificial hydro is pretty ridiculous, but using gravity as a battery doesn't have to be ridiculous. Swap out the electric generator in the wind turbine for a winch that hauls a huge weight up into the air, and attach THAT to an electric generator, using its slow, regulated descent to generate electricity and you've got constant, predictable electricity production out of wind power, which runs even when there is no wind.

There are obvious issues with such a system on the face of it, but my point is that there are solutions to these problems out there, we just need to find them and figure out how to deal with them.

Hand. It's where the hand goes.

Topology is weird.

Back in the days of Shock and Awe
We came to liberate them all
History was the cruel judge of overconfidence
Back in the days of shock and awe

Back in the days of "mission accomplished"
Our chief was landing on the deck
The sun was setting on a golden photo op
Back in the days of "mission accomplished"

Thousands of bodies in the ground
Brought home in boxes to a trumpet's sound
No one sees them coming home that way
Thousands buried in the ground

Thousands of children scarred for life
Millions of tears for a soldier's wife
Both sides are losing now
Heaven takes them in
Thousands of children scarred for life

We had a chance to change our mind
But somehow wisdom was hard to find
We went with what we knew and now we can't go back
But we had a chance to change our mind. - Neil Young

I can see it now. "Well yeah, those liberal arts degrees are worthless."

No, not really. In fact, employers are looking for those with liberal arts majors.

Why? Because those with liberal arts degrees are, on the whole, more creative, flexible, communicative, and adaptable than those with a fixed degree, not to mention their skillsets readily transfer to any industry. Not to mention numerous highly successful business people have liberal arts degrees.

They've successfully made smoking actual cigarettes unpopular among kids. Then e-cigs reversed the trend of youth smoking.

Ultimately, the government decided its better to prevent a new generation from being addicted, than (possibly, studies cut both ways) help older smokers transition to a slightly healthier option instead of quitting. I agree with that decision.

Going into debt to buy happiness doesn't seem very intelligent.

Perhaps their debts make them sad.

Which strengthens his point, rather than weakens it. Also, he didn't say the oven self cleaning occurs at 500F, he said "at least 500F", that is, 500F or higher. He said that because his oven goes up to 500F without cleaning, so the cleaning temperature must be much higher.

And what do you know! It is much higher (nearly double, in fact). Just like he said.

This also means no matter how the article was counting it - whether from 0C (seems more likely) or 0K, it was wrong. Starting from 0F gets you the widest disparity, and it is less than 3x, not 4x as the article claimed. Starting from 0K it's not even 2x.

Anyone with very modest technical skills can reinstall firmware.

Not if the OS has been trashed to the point that you can't run the firmware update tools. This thing (if successful) scribbles random junk all over the flash and reboots THAT.

Then you need to open the box and attach a flashing tool. by a possibly vendor-specific connector or probing pads. You need an appropriate COMPLETE image, not just the app part. If the flash is not internal to the MCU you need to know how that manufacturer connected it. You may need to know how to jumper a flash write-enable. And on and on and on.

For many IoT devices you'd need an "in" with the manufacturer to get enough info to perform this operation, and without it you'd have a non-trivial reverse-engineering job ahead of you - costing you far more than the price of the device even if you ARE successful.

Indeed. To the elect-ability of the incumbent, the President carried a number of swing states in the the 2016 election that he will be unlikely to carry in 2020.

It'll probably get interesting if he loses, since he seems unlikely to step aside like a good loser.

I regret my degree, but I also dont. I have a good job-that doesn't match my degree, but my graduate degree helped me stand out when I interviewed for the job-making decent money, and I got to study a topic I enjoyed (history) and was frankly good at. I also went to a smaller school and got to play college football. Sure, I could have gone to a major, well known university and studied biomedical engineering and I'd be making probably double what I do now, but I also likely would never have met my wife.

Basically, theres no way to know for sure that my life would have been better had I gotten a different degree. I only know that it would be different. And I'm ok with that.

Citation?

My brother managed to graduate high school and became a union electrician making $150K per year. Try the skilled trades instead of gender studies and you might be able to support yourself instead of become a professional snowflake.