A good science/engineering university library subscribes to hundreds of technical journals and keeps them in stacks going back decades.
Lots of universities simply can't afford all the journals they ought to have.
I don't know the NSF's exact rule, but for the last few years every grant proposal has been required to include a Data Dissemination Plan.
as well as undertaking odd and unexpected projects like trying to bring Internet access to developing nations via balloons and blimps.
In this case they're trying to bring internet access to pirates.
IE 11 ain't done until Google won't run.
Has a vaguely familiar ring...
Gee, never heard that one before.
What the people pushing these ideas don't seem to know is that it's not the tools, it's the way of thinking about a problem. I once worked at a place where we made a manager a tool that would let him create his own reports, and he immediately started adding up all flavors of apples and oranges (e.g., dollars of this and pounds of that). Then he wanted the small IT staff to help him make sense out of his reports.
What is the problem that so many Americans have with socialised medicine? A healthy community is a productive community and pays more taxes to get the job done. I just don't understand why you have a debate about it.
Because doing it your way would destroy the huge profits people are making off of doing it our way.
Democrats are reluctant to provide good government at the expense of someone's profits; for Republicans, it's completely out of the question.
Clinton era plan, Obama era plan, same thing.
When asked as he left the podium whether he believed America would be going through all this political turmoil again in a few months, the President didn't waste words. "No."'"
. . . still naive.
I dunno... some people are still trying to kill Social Security.
it's interesting to hear that it falls short of your ideal. i haven't heard many people state that opinion.
Its backers accepted a lot of compromises in order to get it out of committee and onto the floor for a vote. A lot of people think the original was somewhere between "substantially better" and "much better".
They all need to go.
Fortunately the Capital bathrooms are open again.
I suspect it will be massaged over the years to work out little wrinkles, with the end result being a single payer system.
I didn't think the Democrats were capable of not caving in.
Don't forget the international drug and arms markets.
More to the point, the Federal Government disassembled the last Tea Party movement and the consequence is they've now radicalized the remaining dissidents.
Oh, please. The Tea Party movement has never been anything but angry young white men & retirees cluelessly carrying water for the rich.
However all electronics, toys, whatever says "Made in China".
Along with damn near everything else.
I'm starting to think it's all the free trade agreements that are screwing us. They were sold by claims that "you'll be able to buy the same stuff cheaper", but in fact we pay the same as before for low-quality substitutes, while the nation's ability to do anything but count money and flip burgers withers away.
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
