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Submission + - Calling Bullshit on Unpaid Internships 1

Submitted by theodp on Saturday July 02, 2011 @12:51PM

theodp writes: 'Getting an intern is so hot right now,' writes Stewart Curry. 'It's also bullshit 99% of the time. IrishStu also provides his list of Interning's Big Lies: 1. 'You'll get training.' 2. 'We might hire you after the internship.' 3. 'You get to work with an awesome team.' 4. 'It will look great on your CV.' 5. 'You'll make great contacts.' So, who does it really hurt, Stu? 'Here's who it hurts — interns. You have them working for nothing...Here's who it hurts — people who need a wage in order to survive...Here's who it hurts — companies that want to pay people a decent wage for work they do.' Inside Higher Ed also checks in on The Great Intern Debate.

ThePirateBay.org Raided and Shut Down 1189

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 31, 2006 @09:14AM from the surprised-it-lasted-this-long dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ThePirateBay.org, a longtime fixture of the BitTorrent community, is currently under investigation. Slyck.com is reporting their servers have been seized by the Swedish police." What's really interesting about them is the strange political power that they held in their homeland. There was much discussion even of a political party. This will be interesting to watch unfold.

NASA Reaffirms Big Bang Theory 313

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 17, 2006 @03:57PM from the kabooom dept.

Peretz writes "NASA has found evidence reinforcing a theory of what took place post-Big Bang and time expansion. They claim: 'Over the course of millions of years, gravity exploited the density differences to create the structure of the universe---stars and galaxies separated by vast voids.' Thereby creating a 'structure' to the universe -- a kiddush cup. '...finds that the first stars---the forebears of all subsequent generations of stars and of life itself---were fully formed remarkably early, only about 400 million years after inflation. This is called the era of reionization, the point when the light from the first stars ionized hydrogen atoms, liberating electrons from the protons.'"

Comment Re:Matrix Online Beta (Score 1) 96

by robot captain on Saturday October 09, 2004 @02:30PM (#10480213) Attached to: Online World News

The news post says:

Starting next week FilePlanet will be giving away 20,000 Beta Slots for The Matrix Online. The Beta starts early next month, and between now and then there will be many opportunities to gain access to the closed Beta.

I think you are being way too picky with how he words it. He states that the 20,000 slots being added to the beta starts next month. In fact he even states that the closed beta is currently going on when he says there will be many opportunities to gain access to it BEFORE the 20,000 slots are added.

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