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He said inter-city transport. I think he meant travel to and from different cities. I don't think he meant intra-city. Maybe he mistyped, I am not sure.

What I get from the article is that the economic prize is essentially a giant circlejerk, where members of a particular ideology pat each other on the back with prizes based on how well they promulgate the faith. I wouldn't be surprised, given the state of economics today.

How would you prevent people from falling behind in the lower tiers if they have periodic opportunities to elevate? Won't they be learning less intensive, different things in the first place? How would they be able to transition tiers? And are you using one metric as the basis?

One of the problems, at least at my university, is they overload you with education courses nd don't give you a consistent enough background depth in your content major. I have perhaps 2 + ed courses for every history course, but the ed courses are often repetitive, while the history courses are mos...

Just recently, I had a cretin actually try to argue that legalizing gay marriage in Vermont is oppression against the other states because of the full faith and credit clause in the Constitution. By recognizing it in place X, they must also recognize it in place Y, whether they want to or not, thus ...

I may have missed it, but is there some way around just hiring him back, conducting a new, pubic investigation, and then firing him again for different reasons related to his academic dishonesty?

Punarbhava, you moan about the nanny state and how it's wrong because it implies you can't take care of yourself, yet...the fact that one smokes or eats himself into obesity is pretty much evidence of just that. If you were responsible and could handle the freedom allowed to you, you wouldn't be in ...

I doubt it would be the case that the security guard with the 40 hour cert is doing more useful work than the 4 year science degree'd individual. But Mr. Wong didn't generalize to all security guards. He just said ordinary security like you see at the mall. Mallcops. Do you think mall cops should ge...

Corrections Corps of America, for example, treats his security personnel like crap. They work with immigration inmates. There is no union for the officers, so they routinely work the officers over 12 hour days (sometimes, it doesn't pay to come home, so the workers sleep there in their cars). It's a...

Evidence? My reasoning is that a maths and engineering degrees are exceptionally difficult, which requires high intelligence. These fields require critical thinking. Intelligence and critical thinking are qualities you generally want in decision-makers, no? Stupid people are already less prone to m...

Maybe they could adopt the professional organization standards from the requisite disciplines and then be held accountable to them, in part through those agencies as watchdogs.

Obviously, you need to have some sort of skill with working with others. But there are other potential problems. Politics is more complicated than merely working alone. Also, no one profession would be an expert on a specific content area, so that's a problem. An engineer might know nothing about ec...

If you are going to have a qualification, not all degrees are equal. A lot of the problem today is that there are little meaningful qualifications. We've got an overabundance of lawers and history majors and political science majors. Legislators should have some sort of technical expertise in the fi...

I would probably like to see the battle of the golden spurs. It's one of the more bizarre historical conflicts, comical insofar as Flemish farmers and townsfolk ended up winning against a larger, better equipped army, using the spurs on the enemy knights as trophies. http://www.historytoday.com/Main...

The early American Republic didn't elect officials in the same way we do today, either. It wasn't terribly "Democratic" compared to today's standards. Senators were chosen by the state legislature, and there were limitations on the vote for other positions, as well. Real adult male suffrag...

I don't think they actually think about it.

People probably mess the A.D. term up because B.C. is taught as "Before Christ." Some people probably make the association of Before and After.

Aside from the silliness of the Virtue of Selfishness, don't you find it grating that her biggest fans can't seem to pronounce her fucking name properly? How hard can it possibly be not to confuse Anne and Ayn. I just find that annoying, idk why. I had to deal with a few of these Randians today at ...

Well, yes, that too. Most of the people I have met, though, have read it....a few to many times. It's as if they memorized Galt's speech or something; they quote it verbatim. There's a guy on Youtube who has that as the centre piece of his bookclub discussion. It's amazing the following the book has...

Aside from the silliness of the Virtue of Selfishness, don't you find it grating that her biggest fans can't seem to pronounce her fucking name properly? How hard can it possibly be not to confuse Anne and Ayn. I just find that annoying, idk why. I had to deal with a few of these Randians today at t...

I don't know if everywhere is like that, but it seems to be the general attitude. When I took my Social Studies methods courses at University, the professor said the content of my lessons would never be accepted in the curriculum in many schools because they were controversial. One lesson involved a...

Well, I can understand why some of the myths are propagated; it happens even if the teachers know it to be false, not because they don't understand the truth, but because they are instructed not to "rock the boat." I don't know if this is universal, but it is where I am. At least as a youn...

There is also a big difference in the type of food supplies available in the New World, say in Mexico, compared to those available in Polynesia. The more reliable, storable food supplies of the Aztecs and Incas were instrumental in allowing them to build surpluses to feed larger populations that tro...

Did your friend actually bother to explain what evidence he overlooks? I read Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel, and they are generally good texts--must reads. A lot of people don't like him because he explains the rise and fall of civilizations, as well as why certain groups have done better than...

One of the accomplishments of TR was his role in creating a larger government regulatory process, as he pushed for programmes as part of the Square Deal (the three C's: conservation, control of trusts, and consumer protection) which was a vast improvement over previous conditions. Although far from ...