punishments with no legal review or DMCA checks

Partly. That he ran against she who will not be named perhaps played a larger role.

What have we learned from the Trump Presidency? Truth is not an essential Presidential ingredient.

This is unauthorized use of computing resources and vandalism... Not terrorism

Which universities offer a bachelors degree in "healthcare"?

Which jobs in the healthcare field require that degree?

Citation needed.

Much of that crap goes right into the sewers, which is an environmental crime - as it should be. But let's get all in a wad about global warming.

Gotta love syringe needles littered all over the streets as well.

But, at least they banned e-cigarettes. That is the most pressing issue.

I mean you ended up taking one path, but you can have regrets about tons of paths you didn't take. And since we never went down that path we can have a rosy colored imagination of what that would be like. Money is easy to like, for a while. Then when you have enough of it, people will start feeling they should have chosen something that's more of a passion or on working so much in the first place. Personally I've decided to look on it this way, if I want to beat me up over things I did ten years ago I'd also have to try doing what future me would want ten years from now. I don't want that dark cloud on my horizon, so I do what I feel like doing now and if future self wanted a say he should have been here.

Indeed. TFA doesn't list the actual questions asked, and uses a lot of weasel words. The vague wording implies that what many people "regret" is taking on so much debt, not their degree.

TFA is very poorly written, likely by a journalism major.

no they banned the sale unless there fda approved. being none of them are its essentially a blanket ban. of course that whont stop people from getting them online.

That's true of untreated wood, but the latest super dense woods are stronger and lighter than steel, and less compressible than concrete. That suggests they'll be useful for building the next skyscrapers, as well as cars and anything else that could use a strong, lightweight material. It's also made almost the exact same way you make paper, so there are a lot of people who should know a whole lot about what needs to be done to produce it cheaply and efficiently.

As far as I'm aware it's not in mass production anywhere yet, but there are certainly interesting things on the horizon!

Spotify is seeking a refund. They may get it. Or, they may not. But it's not a case where anything will fundamentally change.

And telling people to fuck off is impolite. And generally counterproductive.

Solution: ironically, educate potential students about degrees BEFORE they act- what they are, what fields are out there, what they cost, what each degree disciplines means, if they are marketable, if that person has any aptitude for any degree (much less the one they pick), alternative choices, etc.

Strongly agreed. We need to start giving kids a taste of lots of interesting subjects really early (e.g. a half-semester-long CS class in elementary school), and should teach them how to choose a degree program (no later than 9th grade), so that by the time they get to college, they have an idea of what they are going to do there.

Causing it and making it worse: having government subsidize student loans, trying to get more people to have degrees, making it "free" (yeah, as if it is free), "forgiving" trillions of dollars of debt for people being irresponsible and shifting that debt to everyone else who was/is responsible, telling everyone they have to have a degree, rewarding colleges for doing the "wrong thing", etc.

The increasing cost of education cannot possibly be caused by increased government subsidies. Thirty or forty years ago, government paid somewhere around 70–80% of the cost of college at public institutions. Now, government pays more like 20–30%. Increases to government funding have not even remotely kept up with the increases in the cost of education.

And although the pressure for everyone to get a college degree does mean that those dollars are spread across more students, over the past two decades, the percentage of high school students going on to college has only gone up from 65% to 69%. So this also cannot explain the skyrocketing costs.

Fundamentally, the problem, as best I can tell, is that budgeting in universities is done in stupid, wasteful ways. Colleges (and government in general) typically require departments to fully spend all of the money in their budgets by the end of the fiscal year. Any money that doesn't get spent has to be given back. And worse, if you don't spend all of your budget each year, you'll usually get a smaller budget in the following year, because it proves that you didn't need that much money. This encourages small amounts of waste at every single level in the hierarchy that, when added up, add up to real money.

You can't fix the cost of education without addressing the fundamentally flawed, wasteful mentality that causes so much unnecessary government spending. And the way you address it is to give individuals at every level a financial incentive to point out waste and reduce it. Give out big bonuses for the manager/chairperson/dean/* who cuts the most wasteful spending. Give bonuses for coming up with ideas for combining resources across departments or for spending small amounts of human time to create tools that save large amounts of time. Make each department's excess money at the end of the year go into a pool of money that can be saved up for larger projects in the future. Make large grants harder to get, to encourage departments to save up money a bit at a time to pay for future expenses, rather than asking for a big chunk of money all at once. And so on.

You're just wrong.

cement
noun
1. a powdery substance made with calcined lime and clay. It is mixed with water to form mortar or mixed with sand, gravel, and water to make concrete.

I think the main problem for Boeing is that they've had deliveries on hold for 3 months now, and the planes at their plant are backing up. A lot were still only partially painted - they are the ones that were scheduled to be there, but there are also a lot of finished planes among them, that were probably scheduled to go out to customers who now refuse to take delivery until the issues are resolved. Pretty soon they'll have to halt the production line if they are running out of space to put them, which is when it really starts to cost them in the long term, rather than being a short term cashflow issue that will resolve itself once they can start shipping out those finished planes.

You can? Regardless, my point is more about tax revenue than morals...

That reinforces my point. Living the rest of your life in space would be even suckier than living the rest of your life in an RV with the door welded shut.

Is that what it says about this Slashdot account on your spreadsheet?

You have way too much free time. Why not log in and become one of us? We won't make you wear women's clothes (or men's clothes, if you happen to be female) as an initiation rite.

layoffs are coming. Massive ones. A huge (Yuge?) recession is coming that'll make 2008 seem like a picnic. Thing is college grads were and continue to be mostly unaffected by the recessions. High School grads not so much.

See, companies couldn't care less how much experience you've got. Not when they've got their pick 'o the litter of college grads. 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.

Slashdot did feature that story yesterday, here's a link

Lots of places with 'Computer Engineering' degrees aren't schools accredited by the IEEE. It's more of an 'IT' degree. There are three kinds of college-degree engineers: Chemical, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineers. Obviously there are specialized branches for all three disciplines. And for the shovel-ready there are Civil Engineers.

Many of these teenagers are still minors when they start vaping.

Unlike nicotine, none of these are addictive.

Soy contains feminizing estrogenic flavonoids, but in SF, that helps male teenagers fit in.

I wonder who, exactly, the copyright mafia are.

don't make it worse, and I wish we could kill this myth immediately. Here are four links to prove otherwise:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_in_the_United_States#Funding_of_universities_and_colleges

https://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/funding-down-tuition-up

https://www.educationnext.org/higher-ed-lower-spending-as-states-cut-back-where-has-money-gone/

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/fancy-dorms-arent-the-main-reason-tuition-is-skyrocketing/

Education isn't the problem (which makes sense on so many levels). The problem is we don't value the next generation. We've become extremely short sighted.

Think about this, you're not gonna pay for these kids to be education (e.g. tuition free college like the rest of the free world). They're not your kids, why should you have to pay, right?

Like having a 401k? Like doctors? Plan on retiring on Social Security & Medicare? Where do you think that money comes from? It comes from a growing economy. Do you think an uneducated population or one burdened with debt equal to 1/10 the GDP can keep up with that? They'll come for you, you know. They'll see you sitting high with your nice house bought before prices went crazy, your single payer healthcare (Medicare) and your work free income.

They'll start by eliminating Medicare (we can't afford it). Next will come Social Security. Maybe you've saved enough. Maybe you were a VP and have a Pension and free medical care. A venture capitalist will buy/merge your old company and your pension and healthcare will go with it. You'll do a reverse mortgage to pay for your pills, but the laws'll change and you'll find yourself making payments somehow. You'll scream at the guy on the phone about how they can't do this, but they can. The Millennials will sell you out because you sold them out. Or if you're a Millennial Gen Z will do it.

This is what happens when we're all at each other's throats. The only ones that live are the butchers cutting us up and feasting on our flesh.

Yes, the survey by Payscale is a meta-interpretation of overall well-being, regardless of remuneration.

The 'Retail Box' MacOS 8.0 copy that I own is one I bought on eBay. I bet that makes me notorious and I'm tracked everywhere because of it.

Thank you! Even though I have the book (somewhere), I could not for the life of me remember the title.

Someone with mod points, please give them.

You appear to be new to this discussion.

My favorite version of Pokemon is Emerald. Played on a Gameboy Advance SP.

But you'd be ashamed to hold a conversation here with somebody like me. Better scutter off now.

Looking at the worldcement article, it shows "cemfree" (as in cement-free) as a direct replacement for portland cement. From the stats in the article, it performs better than portland cement. It looks like they have done load and sheer testing. Surely if it performs as well as stated, it could be incorporated into building codes quickly (with will). On the other hand the article specifies its use with blast furnace slag, so it might not scale. Also cost is probably more, of course, but this isn't insurmountable.

I don't see why you are so negative about it. So, we should do nothing because it's too hard? Any positive developments are to be denigrated because they aren't perfect and fully realised? Surely if there was as much research effort in this area as there is in solar cells and batteries, solutions would be found.

In apartheid, it was apportioned by luck, too (to whom you happened to have been born).