Anyone here playing poker and using HEM etc on a virtual machine? Getting sick and tired of using Windows so I want to virtualize this box and set up Win7+poker stuff in a VM.
Regarding school...I think it's about time for a paradigm shift anyways. I obviously have an IT background and it's a lot easier in IT than in other fields but the idea of
hackspaces could/should be extended to other areas as well.
Formal degrees are really boring stuff in many fields(I do have a formal degree), getting together in random places and swapping expert knowledge in one field for expert knowledge in another field seems way more exciting. It's probably fairly easy for adults but ultimately I'd like to see this extended to all ages...basically just let kids learn whatever they want with some helpfull people around that can give them pointers and ideas (I know there's some schools like this in the US).
If companies can't adapt you can have some set of "corporate skills by field" + standardized tests in job assesment centers or something.
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The government pumps a bunch of money into something that is suppose to be a "free market". It only increases cost and funnels government money (ie our money) to the businesses that involved.
University level education is pretty much sozialized both in the US and Europe imo. Kind of interesting what different turns it took though. Public universities in the US are mad expensive and in Europe they are more or less "free". I don't think the quality of education is much worse over here than it is in public universities in the US but the socialist concept got applied more directly here (i.e. it's flat out stated that taxation is needed to finance education and that society benefits from it) and masked behind a thicker vail of pseudo-capitalism in the US.
[obviously I think neither outcome is optimal, I'd prefer fully privatized education]
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Taxes are taxes and they should be payed regardless of what you think of the government. Sucks, but taxes keep things going.
Unless of course there's no representation...P
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You think anyone likes paying their taxes? Because your job is unproductive in an underground economy
Please define what an unproductive job is.
Last edited by clowntable; 01-29-2012 at 03:19 PM.