We need to protect our nation from hardened criminals like Puerto Rican American citizens who speak Spanish, but should marshal the might of the government to protect our national treasures like sex traffickers.
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and for only $5M each they can stay here forever w a gold card
Have they been convicted? Iâm surprised theyâre admissible to the US. Also a bit surprised that Trump is so anxious to invite foreign criminals into the country
ETA: sounds like they have US citizenship
Trial hasnât happened yet and Romania has said that they want them returned for the trial. Weâll see if that happens.
Have right-wing money grease a few palms, declare that Romania hasnât paid into NATO enough and if theyâre not holding up the deal, they donât get to prosecute American citizens. Something as stupid and simple as that seems likely to occur.
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We need to downsize academia. One simple thing I would do is get rid of many departments and re-focus resources on things that academia has historically focused on. Community colleges and polytechnics can teach engineering, business, etc and have less of a focus on research. These CCs and polytechnics can be funded by employers. If they want to do applied research then so be it but traditional Universities need to focus more on fundamental science. Thatâs just one thing I would change. There are many others, especially with regards to training and selecting researchers.
I think the way it works is that they develop the engineering before the science, and then they hope that they get lucky and the science suddenly appears. Itâs just âfake it till you make itâ. The engineering dazzles investors, investors pony up the money, R&D funding increases, etc. Elon Musk is a master in this regard.
This may be true. If it is true, there are right ways and wrong ways to do it. You imply as much by suggesting one possible right way.
I may need to lose weight, but fasting for 3 weeks is still a really dumb way to pursue it. The fasting is much riskier than my being overweight.
I see no reason to think the current effort to shrink academia is in the right way. It seems more like the dangerous fasting. (Iâm not sure whether you agree with me.)
You are probably more right about that than you should be.
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There are a lot of research ccâs?
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So employers who currently push the cost of training onto the employee are going to accept this why?
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Quebec works like that.
The state there has a lot of power to make employers comply.
ObviouslyâŚno chance of that ever working in the US
Thats the point: they donât do research. All engineering, business, and very applied areas would be housed outside of the formal University system (academia) and into new industry funded institutions like polytechnics and community colleges. This is a better system as incentives are aligned more properly and costs are assigned to the right entities.
Coding bootcamps actually work like that. They get paid by employers who hire their graduates. The bootcamps are very attentive to the needs of employers, so the curriculum is always very relevant.
The current system doesnât make sense. Employers should have control over the curriculum and training so that they can get what they want and students have the marketable skills. Itâs a win-win. Right now the system is ridiculous. Students paying through the nose and employers complaining that they are not trained in what is relevant.
Traditional Universities would still teach things like math, physics, philosophy, chemistry, biology, etc. Focus would be on research and theory. Large graduate student body compared to undergrad.
ive thought that since i was in grad school. i figured half the schools who might hire me maybe shouldnât even exist.
larger research driven schools that also push grad students to be the primary instructors for 99% of the people who take classes in that department donât defend themselves against the suggestion that those classes could be in a CC/Tech environment all that well.
thatâs before addressing the hording of gazillions in endowment to some sort of end.
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Itâs okay, Iâm sure the SCOTUS will rush to take on all these cases, sometime during Trumpâs third presidency.
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I worked with a colleague who had a sign on his door that said âIf we knew what we were doing, it wouldnât be called research.â
A lot of stuff comes up in unexpected places. If you only direct money at the things you are certain are going to work out, youâre going to miss out on a lot. Kind of like how if you only invest in the company that grew the most last year each year, youâre probably going to lag the S&P 500.
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Totally understand Cameronâs feelings as NZ is heaven on earth. I would happily live out the rest of my life in NZ if my family all moved there with me.
I visited NZ several times on business in the 1980s and applied for a job that I ended up not pursuing. A number of Canadian actuaries that I knew did relocate there as NZ was actively recruiting foreign actuaries.
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