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Comment PhD Scientists working in industry (Score 1) 77

Heaven forbid that a scientist would work outside academia...... I have worked with plenty of MS and PhD scientists who were "lured away" from academia to work in industry. Not by billionaires. Turns out there's lots of interesting work outside of academia, and not everyone wants to play the academia political games.

Comment It's the **families** (Score 5, Insightful) 94

I served at two locales with DoD school systems..... the kids were kids like everywhere. The teachers were teachers like everywhere. The parents, though, had expectations of their children's effort and performance. Not for teachers to give out easy A's, but for their children to work for their grades.

Comment Community TV channels - On YouTube! (Score 4, Insightful) 103

Money, money, other people's money.... of course politicians think that is the answer.... Right now, when I want to view videos in my "communities of interest", I find them on YouTube. And there's probably no reason that those 200 "absolutely essential" community access channels couldn't just be yet another YouTube channel.

Comment A wash? (Score 1) 62

In a prior lifetime I was a military helicopter ground and (occasional) aircrew.... Plenty of exposure to jet fuel and exhaust fumes, lubricants, solvents which probably doesn't explain all increased diagnoses of cancer. Rather than comparing to the general population they should have compared to civilian ground and aircrew. But the good news is that mortality is not increased, but slightly less than the general population.

Comment NIMBY's and BANANA's (Score 2) 209

People don't want to actually see where their electricity is coming from whether it's wind or solar (or coal, gas, oil or nuclear). They want the juice, but they'll fight like hell to have it come from somewhere else. And then they'll fight the pipelines and transmission lines to bring the power or fuel to them....

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