Hell in A Handbasket

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I might nitpick a bit with that. But my main contention is that new jobs are always being created, and that saying someone has a 'right' to work and then preventing the use of machines to replace them holds us back as a society, instead of allowing us to advance economically and with new innovations. I'd much rather give displaced workers some technical training.

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But then the state must step in to prevent these individuals from causing, ah, 'acute economic disruptions'. Whether it's social welfare or riot troops, the marginalized elements of society need to be accounted for.

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

Actually, my point was that Eugene is the perfect example of the cognitive dissonance that infects our spoiled society. Spoiled rich kids come to our town, go to our college, trash our streets--our cops can't even afford to do anything about it, in fact the jail has been full to the point of not taking anyone new for quite some time--while the average middle-class citizen of Eugene exists solely because of the money these rich kids bring into the town. These same middle-class citizens clamor for laws that allow the police to arrest homeless people for being, quite literally, in the wrong part of town at the wrong time while proclaiming to be beacons of liberal intellectualism as they give their kids some weed money and tell them to go play. And they wonder why they wind up with english degrees or homeless.

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Putting English degrees on a par with homelessness is a tad harsh. Mario Cuomo, Michael Eisner, Sally Ride, Giamatti, for example, were all English majors. A degree in one of the humanities does NOT condemn one to a life of poetical pontification.

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Originally Posted by Seamus Fermanagh

Putting English degrees on a par with homelessness is a tad harsh. Mario Cuomo, Michael Eisner, Sally Ride, Giamatti, for example, were all English majors. A degree in one of the humanities does NOT condemn one to a life of poetical pontification.

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It is perfectly apt to point out that a non professional degree will not generate professional income without further education.

Dr Sally Ride had a Ph D in Physics
Governor Mario Coumo had a first in class Law degree
Paul Giamatti is an actor so his degree level isn't as important as his theatrical training. But he also has a Masters in Fine Arts.
Leaving Eisner the only one listed solely with the Mickey Mouse degree. :drummer:

It depends on the subject matter. I'm doing a major in what I think is part of the "liberal arts" in America (major: Arabic languages & culture, minor: Persian language&culture), which will probably have guys on the harder sciences looking down at me.

That's fine. You can laugh now. At least I'll be able to save my life and my beloved when the Muslims conquer us.

On a serious note, though, and I talked about this with my co-ordinator, and he basically said that if I continue studying Persian and focus on areas that haven't been discussed ad tedium, I'll probably be able to figure something out. The hell, I plan to stay in academia anyway.

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Originally Posted by Hax

On a serious note, though, and I talked about this with my co-ordinator, and he basically said that if I continue studying Persian and focus on areas that haven't been discussed ad tedium, I'll probably be able to figure something out. The hell, I plan to stay in academia anyway.

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Ambassador Hax

00Hax

In the latest diplomatic row between the two countries, the Republic of Iran expelled the Dutch ambassador.

The Iranian minister for foreign affairs was quoted as saying "omgwtf hax!!111!"

Ugh no, I was at a lecture on the history of the faculty of Arabic and there were some ambassadors there. They looked like Iraqi maffia or something. No thank you.