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100k in loans for an English degree

Demand a refund not a handout

Something equivalent that teen boys "adore" like girls and boy bands and twilight?

I can only think of video games.. perhaps anime, possibly comics.

All of which are widely mocked.

Its not that girl's interests are taboo - its that when any gender gets too wrapped up in something that it becomes part of their identity society should mock to encourage adoption of other interests.

Some juicy federal crimes we're all expected to know from @CrimeADay on Twitter

26 USC §5674(b) & 27 CFR §25.144(a) make it a federal crime for a brewer to remove beer from a brewery in a keg that has the name of more than one brewer on it.

21 USC §§331, 333 & 21 CFR §169.115(a) make it a federal crime to sell French dressing if less than 35% of its weight is vegetable oil.

43 USC §1733 & 43 CFR §6302.20(e) make it a federal crime to pick someone up from a federal wilderness area using a hot air balloon.

7 USC §8303, §8313 & 9 CFR §93.318(b) make it a federal crime to bring an American horse back into the United States after being in a Canadian rodeo without a health certificate.

42 USC §6928 & 40 CFR §257.3–8(b) make it a federal crime to start a dangerous garbage fire.

21 USC §331, 333, 343 & 21 CFR §155.201(a)(2)(v) make it a federal crime to sell canned "random sliced" mushrooms unless they were sliced in a random manner.

Net Neutrality is a solution in search of a problem.

The only argument for it is a fictional story based on photoshopped ads. Government should not be regulating internet content.

I think the app should be called "Captain Hindsight"

I agree it wouldn't sell very well.

But postmortems in the tech world do trend sometimes

a news cycle postmortem - someone pitch this in an elevator

That's why such a news app would be so interesting.

I remember comments from back then slightly differently.

I would pay a subscription to a news site if they spent all their time evaluating 2-5 year old events and determining which side was right.

2 years ago comments of "this will only benefit the lawyers" would be -50 points. Turns out... actually yeah.

A deal like this would likely be worth half a million at least. Perhaps even a couple billion.

Not true actually. The majority of employees do not get fired. Only a minority do

And the minority that is let go get 3-6 months of severance and unemployment benefits until they inevitably find a new job - which btw is far easier to do when you are not an executive of a floundering business.

But as I pointed out in the original post - the 10B in fees is in line with revenue the banks receive during normal times. And going off the earnings the banks posted last week, they are losing millions every day just keeping the lights on.

There is no increased earnings there is in fact very big losses. Which is another thing people tend to forget when discussing exec pay. The execs take a hit when business is bad, but the majority of employees continue getting paid.

Exec pay is high but you can't forget that much of the risk / responsibility should the business do poorly is on their heads not the majority of the workforce.