http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125554704
NPR Correspondent Yuki Noguchi talked with Matt Jones, a 2008 graduate of Michigan State law school. He has 6-figures of student loan debt. This debt can never be discharged, even in bankruptcy.
Since graduating, Mr. Jones...
After reading the thread on "personal responsibility": http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2050026
I have come to the conclusion that participating in P&N is no longer in my best interests.
P&N does not IMO support an environment where civil debate can take place, and I have...
This should be addressed, even though I really have nothing more to say to anyone on this topic.
Ignorance has little to do with intelligence. Ignorance is lack of knowledge. One could be an expert on physics, and completely ignorant on the subject of iPhone applications or Digital Rights...
They can all go out of business as far as I'm concerned. Limbaugh is a moron who doesn't know what he is talking about, and Olbermann froths at the mouth like a confused mental patient who should be in a mental ward instead of MSNBC.
They are little more than clowns.
The non-partisan CBO concluded that the bill would have saved money and insured tens of millions of currently uninsured. The basic ideas behind the bill were sound: a mandate of insurance in exchange for no denial for prior conditions, and subsidies for the poorest of Americans. The vast...
The first two phrases are taken from things that people here on the left wrote or put in their signatures. These are not lines from the liberal political leadership. And nobody in their right mind seriously believes that the US invaded Iraq for oil. It was a failed attempt to spread...
I claimed no such thing. What I said was that Engineers evaluate choices based on quantitative factors. Numbers. Physical and chemical properties. Cost/benefit analysis. Engineers design systems. You don't evaluate your design choices based on whether a particular design might be...
Your school is very likely ranked higher than mine. I'm not going to pretend that Temple (an inner city state-school) is great shakes in the grand scheme of things, though I feel it is respectable in Pennsylvania.
Bringing up school rank though... doesn't that make you an elitist? How's...
Not nearly as much as Republicans. That's why the Democratic party failed to communicate on the Health Care issue. It takes time to explain the various components of proposed health care reform, and time to explain why it matters for the long term fiscal viability of the US.
"gut reaction"...
In my experience, engineers (there are a lot of Chemical and Biotech engineers in my area) are largely either Democrats are Libertarians. Engineers generally evaluate issues on a quantitative basis. The sort of ignorant emotional appeals that the radical right uses to appeal to people are less...
Sure it's a problem. But what I am talking about is the use of the code-phrase "illegal immigrant" to mean "anyone of Hispanic descent".
I seriously do not understand the hostility towards immigrants who move here and do not speak English, or speak it badly. I have Indian neighbors (Hindi...
While it is not my favorite response, I find that there is deafening silence from the opposition when they are presented with a balanced and reasonable look at a subject.
Example:
thread on Health Care systems in other countries
Aside from a single crazed and irrational response that...
I don't have contempt for people because they are "liberal" or "conservative". I do have contempt for people who are willfully retarded or blind basic things that they should have learned in elementary school.
Here is one example:
Food Stamp Thread
We had morons in the above thread...
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