qantravon

State crime

Depends, some are some aren't.

However, in my opinion, the thing that makes student loans crazy is how the payments are structured.

With other big lifetime loans (mortgage, car, etc.), they are structured with a fixed term and the interest is factored in from the beginning. You pay $X a month for Y years, and that's it, it's all paid off. All you have to do is keep up with those payments, and you know how much they'll be from the time you agree to the loan.

Student loans are structured more like credit cards. If you just pay how much they tell you to, interest will accrue, the loan grows, it capitalizes, and the term is indefinite. You can pay on it consistently for decades and never make any progress.

There's practically no assistance to figure out how much you really need to pay, and sometimes even attempting to overpay to cover the interest doesn't help, as they'll apply the extra towards the next payment instead, and so extra interest still accrues.

The rules for using copyrighted content are the same on FOSS platforms as for the big players, legally speaking. The difference is the FOSS platforms simply don't have the same enforcement mechanisms in place, so they won't give you warnings directly and automatically. If a rights-holder comes across something that uses their content, however, they can still come after you under the law using things like the DMCA.

The whole point of a corporation is so that the people involved don't get held personally responsible when bad things happen. It's virtually impossible for them to be held accountable with our current laws.

A few quibbles.

1. I would argue that Insurrection also qualifies as a feature-length Star Trek episode. It has good moral quandaries, an interesting sci-fi premise, all the hallmarks of classic Trek.

2. Code of Honor is the worst Trek episode.

This is pretty much what I used to do before I got a password manager. Only difference is I would take that short phrase and randomly drop letters or replace them with numbers or symbols, and also random capitalization. Then I'd just practice typing it for 5 minutes until it was muscle memory. After about a week, I could no longer consciously remember the specifics of the password, just the key phrase and the associated muscle memory.

Being a master isn't just about skill, it's also about wisdom and experience, perhaps even more than skill. It's perfectly reasonable that they wouldn't want to elevate him to that rank yet, given his behavior.

Yeah, that's why he's putting several of its chief architects in his cabinet...

The problem with that is, if we were to detect them even attempting a launch, we also launch. Meaning even if their missiles turn out to be duds, millions still die.

As I understand it, Arnie is actually fairly intelligent, and also surrounded himself with competent people who knew how to do the jobs he asked of them.

It's not even an official government department, it's something like an advisory council. So, something like that, yes