It's always nice to see my alma mater in the national news again, and bonus points for the news item NOT involving the administration!
Last time it was for being one of the worst colleges for free speech, and the time before that it was for having the highest paid president.
Progress!
This might be related to how current climate models don't predict the kinds of extreme weather events we're already experiencing.
I wonder why that might be...
This differs slightly from this definition, but in both cases it looks as if there is no comes-before requirement for an act to be censorship. Perhaps it was the case before the information age but no longer, it appears.
I can't speak to how other states run their jury pools.
Your analogy is invalid for one very obvious reason...
*sigh* OK, the analogy isn't perfect. I was simply trying to illustrate by example the principle that expensive new technology tends to get cheaper with time. It's true that we may never cure all cancers but I firmly believe that the available treatments will get better and dramatically cheaper given enough time.
the price of treating cancer is not going to decrease to any reasonable level
You clearly have more thoughts on this issue, but we'll have to agree to disagree with one another. I trying to help you see GP's point, not debate the merits of his argument.
I fail to see your point here. At all.
OK, let me try to make an analogy.
The first commercially-available computer was the UNIVAC I priced at $159,000 in 1951 ($1.5M 2018 dollars). Compare that cost to the computer you're using now. ANY new technology starts prohibitively high-cost and decreases as the state of the art improves, or patents expire, or competition increases.
It's a shame that cancer treatments are so expensive, and it's a shame that the costs aren't decreasing more quickly, but that's how it is.
egrep -n '^[a-z].*\(' $ | sort -t':' +2.0