Comment Re:Not convinced (Score 1) 152
People seem to be ignoring how quickly your arm will get tired from hold it up. Try an experiment- point at your screen and see how long before it's annoying...
If you can start at a community college and TRANSFER to Yale or Harvard or Stanford, you'll be better off. A big name helps a lot on paychecks. At 35, you'd think he'd be better off going to a doctoral program (assuming he has SOME degree and an interest) where he'd pay little for it and could wash out after a year and a half to two years with a master's degree and little to no debt.
http://www.edububble.com/dpp/
You can download his book for free. His thesis: that the "education bubble" will eventually break just like housing. (What were we ever thinking?! That $200k in debt is "worth it"?!)
Even law and medical students are being screwed. They won't escape debt and make decent money until many years after graduation.
Education is priceless. Today's university system is essentially a giant credit card scam.
People will not give up their cash without a fight, particularly in the current circumstances (not that anyone ever trusted banks, private companies or government).
Sounds like a "gold standard" argument.... The best standard of all is: absolutely anything. You can use gold, lead, or bananas if you want. And people do -- it's called a futures market.
Basing all of your wealth on bananas might sound silly, but there are doubtlessly people who have made millions doing just that. Fruit, gold, and "trust" - they are all exactly the same in economic terms.
Wealth is between you, and whatever the next person is willing to trade.... before you inevitably break even and die taking NONE of it with you.
It's gonna be interesting when we finally move to a cashless society. Things like this will be unforgivable in such a society.
That would be nice.
How many times have we read passionate arguments that "nobody should be in prison for non-violent crimes!"
Remember this story the next time you see those stupid posts modded +5 insightful.
When we have energy in surplus, at the (general) expense of no one, the world may move much more easily to peaceful respect and cooperation.
Ultra-cheap energy will create devices that require materials and technology which yield other shortages. Wars will continue over those items.
War itself will be cheaper to wage due to the low energy costs, removing a major incentive not to wage it.
"Whether or not you were ever a fan, it was a sad scene."
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Circuit City was found dead this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss them - even if you didn't enjoy their work, there's no denying their contributions to layoffs and unemployment. Truly an American icon.
It also cites specific cases where Craigslist was used to facilitate the abuse of child sex slaves. Is anyone here concerned with that, and that Craigslist is profiting from that traffic?
In your world, if a criminal is wearing bluejeans- then Levi is partly responsible for his crime.
Anything can be used to facilitate anything else, and anyone can profit directly from another person's crime. The TASER corporation, for example.
What you get is a pleasant evening out with a lady.
You act like girls don't want to have sex. Do you know how badly most of them would love to skip the phony dinner and go straight to bed... but guys like you make them feel ashamed so they need stupid rituals to validate the affair.
Then you deprive them of any excitement by paying for dinner without strings attached, still on the thesis that she doesn't want cock, and shouldn't.
Then you wonder why she went home with "that guy"... really she was only too happy to make some "gentleman" pay for her meal, and then ditch him for what was truly on her mind.
I was glad to see Firewire 800 on it, but it would be much better if they just gave an eSATA jack on the back.
I would have preferred the next generation Firewire (1600 or 3200). I would have purchased.
I won't buy now, I really want faster ports.
Today you can easily see that if there's any question that the constitution will protect us in trivial and petty cases, there's NO chance it will protect us when it's important.
Reminds me of those anonymous 'terrorists' at the Boston Tea Party, with their 'defamatory' statements toward the King of England.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
