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Comment Re:If Microsoft wants to survive (Score 1) 60

You know the little envelope overlay that's supposed to appear on the Outlook icon in the taskbar and systray to indicate you've gotten a new email? Mine randomly stopped working about a year ago. Icon never changes. Countless reports of this happening all over the internet. No clear cause or solution.

Comment Re:crazy idea, educate americans instead of foreig (Score 1) 255

Those universities will have to cut costs. Why is that so hard for you folks to grasp? It's basic budgeting. Useless degree programs can go. Administrative staff was already outnumbering students at many of these places. Cut them. Real estate holdings for all the recent resort-style housing and amenities? Never needed in the first place. Sell it all.

Comment Re:Prepare for tuitions and subsidies to skyrocket (Score 1) 255

No other possibilities? Just those two? You won't even consider dropping unsustainable degree programs that don't support themselves on their own and offer no prospect for employment for their students? Downsizing bloated administrative staff and facilities can't even be considered? Let me guess, you work in academia...

Comment Re:economic denial - Happened in the 90s (Score 1) 254

"Having a year over 2C has entered the 1% probability of happening before 2030. https://wmo.int/publication-se... [wmo.int]
In 2011, a year over 1.5C in the next decade had a probability of 10%. Happened in 2024.

1.5C is passed, 2C will be too."

And somehow we all survived. Imagine that!

Comment Re:Case for equity (Score 1) 337

The problem is measuring "equity". Someone above said "equity" just means fairness (you guys!) but it is not possible to measure "fairness". It is possible to measure outcomes though (graduation rates) so equal outcomes must then necessarily become the end result.

We are here. Everybody gets the piece of paper now it's just a meaningless piece of paper that none of them can even read.

Comment Re:How does this achieve their goal? (Score 1) 337

DEI is based on the premise that no special training or skills are required for anything, just the credential. If you are given a law degree from a diploma mill without ever passing a single exam that doesn't matter since you have a law degree now and that makes you just as good as every other lawyer! If you are elevated to CEO because of your skin color it doesn't matter if you know the first thing about running a company since you have the CEO title now that makes you just as good as every other CEO!

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