http://news.yahoo.com/barry-apologiz...215408295.html
I can only imagine the outrage if the races of the groups involved were switched.
http://news.yahoo.com/barry-apologiz...215408295.html
I can only imagine the outrage if the races of the groups involved were switched.
Hope is the denial of reality
Google Goggles. One step closer to mass production and retail sales. Wearing glasses that keep a constant web screen and digital information in front of the eyes. A future combo of smart phones and iPads, using rapid reading skills and verbal commands, worn on the face like any other glasses.
Skype-Twitter-Facebook, coordinate networks, check email, pay e-bills, ask a question and get a Siri type answer complete with GPS coordinates....and alerts when your "friends" are within shouting distance. Convenient, especially while driving.
A computer worn in glasses and placed on the human face, that can "talk" with a car computer, a home computer...any other computer in the world. Intriguing but also WTF? If that's the future, then I gotta ask....what are people doing with all the extra time and convenience something like Google Glasses would offer?
Doing many more activities halfheartedly. It's been shown that the over-reliance on technology in today's society has decreased the attention span of most people, and made it much harder for them to spend much time on a single task. Looks like we as a society managed to catch ADHD.
Hope is the denial of reality
The future of romantic googely eyes, and direct face-to-face interludes, are bound to change. Couples won't find those long hours of talking face-to-face (without distractions or interruptions) as part of courtship or intimacy. Everyone will be looking at their watches, which are synched to their smart phones, and comparing everything to Time. Two dates to fucking, two years to exclusivity, two years of engagement, a couple of two year old kids.....enter the seven year itch.
http://gma.yahoo.com/jersey-womans-s...opstories.html
Go government.
Hope is the denial of reality
Well, on the other hand, 91K in student loans is a WTF all on its own.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Considering that the average college grad earns an extra million dollars, I don't think $91k is much to pay. The article also doesn't mention if she got a masters, which tend to be really pricey.
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God, that has to suck. At the very least they should be willing to spread that out over 10-30 years.Originally Posted by Loki
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
I don't get that either. Student loans don't have to get paid back all at once, yet someone who was unable to pay back the student loans is suddenly required to pay back a quarter in one shot...
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Averages all nice and well. What does the median look like?
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
The median person gets out of college with $25k in debt.
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And median income?
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
$46k a year (compared to $26k for a high school graduate). Once you take out the taxes, the degree pays for itself in about 2 years for a median person. Even $91k isn't particularly bad if you have 10-15 years to pay it back (which you do). Now there are some majors out there that have huge unemployment rates and low salaries, but people should know that before applying and taking gigantic loans.
Hope is the denial of reality
Summat unbalanced, but still interesting:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0202/060.html
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Is there a source for this? The most common number I see is $25,250, and thats the average calculated by the Project on Student Debt.
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"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
This may be of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/ed...lege.html?_r=1
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
So he got into a second rate law school despite going to a pretty good college (i.e. he got lousy grades), knowing that only 60% of the people in that school get jobs as lawyers (material is available online). Despite the odds, both this guy and his wife got 6-digit salaries (let's say they earned $250k together). After taxes and deductions (including for interest payments), they're probably left with $200k a year. Since they owed about $200k, a rough estimate would have them paying about $50k a year for 10 years (granted, they wouldn't be paying off the principal for a while).
With that in mind, what exactly prevented them from living on $100k a year, and paying an extra $50k each year to get rid of the principal (you could reduce it to $30k a year and still pay off the whole thing in 5-6 years)? At that pace, they'd pay off their loan in perhaps 4 years, and then be debt-free with cushy jobs. Of course we know what the real problem is; these people wanted to live a $250k lifestyle on their $250k salaries, despite being wildly in debt. Remind me what the problem is if these people lived outside of their means (despite having great jobs) and went bust in the end?
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It's the least important and most dubious part of the article, so I'm disinclined to defend it
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
I'm not going to deny that part of the difference between the salaries of college grads and non-grads is that the former might have skills that would result in them earning higher wages even without college. Would be interesting to see just what portion of the extra million is a result of this fact. But even with that in mind, there are numerous jobs that require college degrees, and no matter how smart you are, you're not getting them without the degree. So sure, you could be an entrepreneur without a degree (but how many people actually do that?), and you could get some well-paying manual labor jobs (though how many would want to work in a mine or on an oil platform?), but most people stand to get more intellectually demanding and higher-paying jobs thanks to the college diploma alone.
Hope is the denial of reality
That "extra million" is spread out over a "working lifetime", using past college grad rates and labor stats. Since about 10-20% of today's college-aged kids can expect to live closer to 100 years old, with better health, and work well into their 80's....changing careers at least two or three times.....that million dollar differential is practically meaningless.
Um, it's using the current difference in wages.
Hope is the denial of reality
No man alive can criticize the Age of Industry...
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I always used to enjoy the free money from nowhere that the various governments would randomly throw at me. I never planned on getting it, so it often wound up being blown on luxuries since I always made sure I could fund my tuition on my own without help.I wasn't sure if my funding for next year would go through (it has), so I applied for financial aid for next year. I was offered a $45k loan by the government (don't need it now).
You mean you can't just pay tuition outright, from your cash savings? Even with lower in-state resident fees, or reduced rates for TAs? Why aren't you able to "fund" your own education without financial aid? What are you, some kind of slacker or government mooch?I wasn't sure if my funding for next year would go through (it has), so I applied for financial aid for next year. I was offered a $45k loan by the government (don't need it now).
Out of curiosity, was that $45k loan from the state of Illinois, or from the federal government?
http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09...of-bad-design/
I always knew that PHP was bad. But this bad?
Seriously, you can't take a language seriously when their solution to an integer overflow vulnerability consists of this particular gem:
And yes, they corrected that mistake. Somewhat. As in: Not at all.PHP Code:if (size > INT_MAX) return NULL;
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I never bothered to apply for in-state tuition since I don't pay the tuition. If I did have to pay it, I'd obviously apply. I'd probably be able to afford a year here even without the financial aid, but it's generally not a good idea to have no cash left over.You mean you can't just pay tuition outright, from your cash savings? Even with lower in-state resident fees, or reduced rates for TAs? Why aren't you able to "fund" your own education without financial aid? What are you, some kind of slacker or government mooch?
Out of curiosity, was that $45k loan from the state of Illinois, or from the federal government?
It was two federal loans. Illinois takes loans; it doesn't give loans.
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http://www.myfoxboston.com//dpp/news...court-20120410
DEDHAM (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Video of a student restrained and shocked for hours at the Judge Rotenberg Center was played in court on Tuesday after a years-long battle by the center to keep it from the public eye.
The video, which shows former resident Andre McCollins screaming, writhing in pain, and begging for help, was played at the start of McCollins’ trial against the Canton-based Judge Rotenberg Center.
The Rotenberg Center convinced a judge eight years ago to seal the video, and the battle continued up until Tuesday morning when their attorneys asked Superior Court Judge Barbara Dortch-Okara to bar FOX Undercover’s camera from recording the video as it was played.
Dortch-Okara denied the center’s request, clearing the way to give the public the first look at how these controversial electric shocks are used. The video was taken by one of the center’s classroom cameras.
McCollins, then 18 years old, was shocked 31 times that day in 2002. Lawyers for the center and its clinicians say it was part of the treatment he needed to quell his aggressive behavior.
“These are dramatic tapes, there’s no question about that,” said attorney Edward Hinchey, who represents two of the Rotenberg Center’s clinicians. “But the treatment plan at the Rotenberg Center, the treatment plan that Andre had in place on October 25, was followed.”
It was an emotional day for McCollins’ mother, Cheryl, who was in court watching as the beginning of her son’s ordeal was played.
Andre is shown seated at a desk inside a classroom as a staff member asks him several times to remove his coat. He stays still, apparently not responding or removing his coat, until he is given a shock.
He screams and falls to the floor, yelling as he tries to hide under his desk. He was eventually restrained face-down, a helmet on his head, without breaks for food, water or the bathroom.
“I never signed up for him to be tortured, terrorized and abused,” Cheryl McCollins told the jury. “I had no idea, no idea, that they tortured the children in the school.”
She also testified what her son was like when she visited him three days later after the incident. She said she found him in a “catatonic” state.
“I couldn’t turn Andre’s head to the left or the right. He was just staring straight. I took my hands and went like this,” she said, waving them as if in front of his eyes. “He didn't blink.”
McCollins did get Andre to Children's Hospital that day, where he was diagnosed with acute stress response caused by the shocks. The jury also heard her testify about watching the video and hearing staff members laughing while her son was on the floor.
More video is expected to be played Wednesday as testimony continues.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I love the sound of wailing and the gnashing of teeth in the morning
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Brits are upset that Apple paid all of 0.16% in taxes on 10B USD in profits from the UK. There's going to be an investigation and everything. What I don't understand is what there is to investigate. It's perfectly legal tax avoidance after all. What are they going to do, scold the EU?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Let the rest of us in on it? I'd literally be willing to kill 10 billion people for a 0.16% tax rate, which is incidentally probably the only way for a person to achieve that goal.Brits are upset that Apple paid all of 0.16% in taxes on 10B USD in profits from the UK. There's going to be an investigation and everything. What I don't understand is what there is to investigate. It's perfectly legal tax avoidance after all. What are they going to do, scold the EU?
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
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