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by newbie12 13y ago
There is a deliberate effort in academia to downplay, or in the case of this piece, distort and even place blame on the Protestant Christian educational movements of early America. The Great Awakenings that spurred the creation of U.S. col
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by newbie12 13y ago
Another key constituency are the school builders. Schools are in constant need of construction and renovation (often because they are poorly built). It is one of the larger budget items in any school district.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Hey, Finland pays their teachers less than the U.S. does. http://www.cato.org/blog/no-teachers-finland-are-not-paid-do... Also, charter schools are public schools. They just have more flexible management and curriculu
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by newbie12 13y ago
Actually most U.S. cities are in a huge rebound...from better policing and the memory of the 1960s riots is fading. Houston is our new Chicago.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Today's Boston can't even build a traffic tunnel. The Big Dig was a disaster-- took decades, costs billions more than planned, and was so shoddy the finished roof fell and killed someone. http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by newbie12 13y ago
The actual problem was the federal Interstate Commerce Commission regulated routes and ticket prices and wouldn't give passenger rail companies the flexibility needed to compete with cars and growing air travel. Central planning faile
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by newbie12 13y ago
The main obstacle in the U.S. is that the interstate passenger rail system was nationalized by Congress. Congress forces unprofitable long-distance routes on Amtrak and keeps the monopoly company undercapitalized. Amtrak owns amazing asset
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by newbie12 13y ago
There's also SilverStripe, a pretty well known CMS. http://www.silverstripe.com/
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by newbie12 13y ago
You should control for geographical differences in pay and language distribution. California likely has more Ruby programmers-- the higher cost of living and higher salaries there may explain the entire difference between Ruby and PHP.
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by newbie12 13y ago
"...the nation’s journalists have moved a bit to the right since the 1990s, but are still considerably more liberal than the general public." http://www.journalism.org/node/2304
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by newbie12 13y ago
California is so large it has many great public schools, but other states like Virginia (UVA and William & Mary) have public schools that rival the best in California, and most large states have an elite public school (Texas, Michigan,
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by newbie12 13y ago
Student loans are unsecured, so if they could be discharged, the market rate would be akin to a credit card with a huge balance-- 15% to 20% a year in the current interest rate environment. Plus if they could be discharged, such action wou
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by newbie12 13y ago
These entrepreneurs all appear to be legal immigrants. Most of the "ranting" in the U.S. is towards the law-breaking immigrants who now want amnesty. There is a consensus in America in favor of legal immigration, the political f
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by newbie12 13y ago
Haitian immigrants?
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by newbie12 13y ago
It is a UK developed plane and did do well in the Falklands-- a testament to the skill of British pilots as much as anything. In the U.S., one third of our Harrier fleet has crashed, here's the article cited in the parent: http:&#x2F
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by newbie12 13y ago
When the carriers are sunk, it is our submarine fleet with its cruise missiles that will carry the day.
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by newbie12 13y ago
It's actually really stupid. Car sharing models mean you'll have a car waiting for you at the destination. There's no reason to bring your own steel and rubber.
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by newbie12 13y ago
American high speed rail was more advanced in the 1930s than it is today. The Zephyr diesel passenger engine was faster than Amtrak's Acela speeds today.
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by newbie12 13y ago
There were two fatal high speed accidents just this summer in Europe-- the Spanish one killed 80 people.
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by newbie12 13y ago
I'm sure that kid will feel the same way about paying for your Social Security someday.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Musk is not financially Gates but he's already had a greater impact. PayPal, Telsa, SpaceX, and even that Solar company could easily be more important than creating the most successful PC operating system. The PC boom would have happ
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by newbie12 13y ago
Absurd to blame Murdoch for a war that had majorities of Congress vote for it. If any media outlet deserves some blame for Iraq, it was the New York Times. In any event, the Iraq war has saved lives compared to the sanctions regime that i
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by newbie12 13y ago
I want a straw that tests for adulterated alcohol-- specifically for a bar serving filtered rubbing alcohol instead of the real stuff.
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by newbie12 13y ago
That's not really a useful definition. More specifically fascism elevates the interests of the state over the interests of individuals. While similar to communism in that regard, fascism uses private economic production rather than s
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by newbie12 13y ago
Keith Olbermann is a dreadfully partisan and negative person. I can't believe they are bringing him back.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Actually ESPN doesn't create much original TV content-- they are so expensive because they pay for the rights to sports events. A la carte ESPN likely means less money for pro athletes, and if you spend the saved money on actual chann
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by newbie12 13y ago
You're wrong about this. Mice and other small mammals carry deer tick nymphs, which are the most common source of Lyme in people, but deer are necessary to sustain the adult ticks that bring new generations of ticks. If there are no
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by newbie12 13y ago
They are the ticks that carry Lyme.
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by newbie12 13y ago
A friend of mine in college suffered terribly from Lyme in the early 1990s, when the disease wasn't as readily diagnosed and treatment protocols weren't established. He lost 100 pounds and dropped out of school. Lyme today is th
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by newbie12 13y ago
There are actually clinical trials underway for a new Lyme vaccine: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260471.php The core problem with the original vaccine is that 80% effectiveness is terrible-- that's not

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