2013-07-11

thewayne: (Cyranose)
2013-07-11 09:09 am
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What to say?

"Cheap student loans keep people out of the labor market. This is a dangerous spiral."
—Tucker Carlson

Out of the 'cheap labor market' since they'd be without degrees and couldn't get anything except jobs that paid really poorly, perhaps? And what kind of an interest rate did Carlson get on his loans? I understand that interest rates should be competitive, but they're trying to gouge people preparing to enter the job market.

There is a need for highly educated people, also for highly trained tradespeople. Both need post-high school education.

This is ridiculous.
thewayne: (Cyranose)
2013-07-11 09:20 am

Sky Deutschland considering using bone conduction to force ads upon passengers

Basically the train riders, if they rested their head on the aluminum wall/frame, they'll get an advert beamed directly into their head. If they do this, and you need to ride their trains, get a 14" square sheet of quarter inch rubber to use as a head rest.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/07/05/1755258/sky-deutschland-considering-using-bone-conduction-to-force-ads-on-train-riders
thewayne: (Cyranose)
2013-07-11 05:34 pm

More books added to Humble Bundle 2!

They are:
Machine of Death, a short story collection which is nicely illustrate by a video called This is the Way You Die. The Machine of Death takes a quarter, a drop of your blood, and spits out a piece of paper that tells you how you will die. But it's not always as straight forward as the slip saying Old Age. Watch the video.

Also:
xkcd volume 0
The Poison Eaters, by Holly Black
and
Signal To Noise, by Neil Gaiman and David McKean

https://www.humblebundle.com