Is it good policy to give financial aid to liberal arts majors?

[Asher]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
a low-paid civil service peon...

GePap focuses on his dreams, not the reality.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by GePap


Wow. 1. I am sure they grealty outnumber the graduates from the MBA programs. Or the econ PhD's.

There are so many things wrong with this argument that it's silly.

1) In quant stuff physics PhDs might well outnumber any other discipline. I suspect you have no ****ing clue.

2) The question is not outnumbering, but proportion of graduates.

3) Many econ PhDs have undergrad backgrounds in physics. The proportion working in quant stuff will be even higher because of their superior math skills

[KrazyHorse]

In the end, it is the ones who make the decisions, the ones who wield the power who have the most control and decide the shape of the world.

Given that the prime minister of Poland and the chancellor of Germany are both physicists, this is funny...

[Kuciwalker]

But neither of those have NUKES!!!

[GePap]

Originally posted by Asher
It's hilarious to me as so many Liberal Arts graduates seem to think they're the only people who can make big decision.

Here's an idea: they're called civil servants for a reason. You are here to serve the people.

Politicians are scum, and most scientists are above that. That's why you get to decide "who gets nuked", and that's why the world is so ****ed up. Look at Bush.

Cute view.

But we are in the real world here Asher, not in Ahser fantasy land.

And yes, lets take Bush. My dislike of the man is well known, but he wields far more power, and makes far greater decisions that have far graved implicationbs for more people than say the author of that book you linked too. Say all you weant asbout politicans, act as if you don;t care. BUt its the politicians who have the power to decide whether your lifestyle is criminal or not-whether you can be forced to go nto the military and be cannon fodder. Or what your tax rate is.

And as for your endless attempt to denigrate my job. Hell, my job is a hell more interesting than yours. And that is a fact.

[GePap]

damn server

[Drake Tungsten]

Given that the prime minister of Poland and the chancellor of Germany are both physicists, this is funny...

[GePap]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse

In the end, it is the ones who make the decisions, the ones who wield the power who have the most control and decide the shape of the world.

Given that the prime minister of Poland and the chancellor of Germany are both physicists, this is funny...

Wow. 2. Out of 190 plus soverign nations....

Great. Really, really great there. Good job....

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by GePap
Cute view.

But we are in the real world here Asher, not in Ahser fantasy land.

And yes, lets take Bush. My dislike of the man is well known, but he wields far more power, and makes far greater decisions that have far graved implicationbs for more people than say the author of that book you linked too. Say all you weant asbout politicans, act as if you don;t care. BUt its the politicians who have the power to decide whether your lifestyle is criminal or not-whether you can be forced to go nto the military and be cannon fodder. Or what your tax rate is.

So, get a liberal arts degree and you get to be President?

If we're going that route, study CS and you can be Bill Gates!

And as for your endless attempt to denigrate my job. Hell, my job is a hell more interesting than yours. And that is a fact.

Is this the kind of thinking your liberal arts degree taught you?

[KrazyHorse]

Our westward expansion cannot be stopped. Next France, the the UK and finally the US

[CrONoS]

@Asher
You're right, but again, higher fee will discourage people with less passion. And it will be a better way!

If you higher the requirement you will penalize people who have make some error in their youth (like myself) but are able to do it in university. And you don’t want human resources to be unused or used at a bad place.

I got bad scores when I was in highschool(drugs, party, no parental support and I was really lazy). I worked 4 years as an autonomous worker and decided to take a step back in school.

I decide to make a submission in Economy and Anthropology. I was refused in Economy, but not in Anthropology.
So I decided to do some course in college (Mathematics and Economics 101) and I get really good scores (it was easy). After this I was accepted in Economics (with one year of probation). And for now, since one years and half I got good scores in what I study.

Whatever the point I wanted to say: If we higher the requirement we need a way to see if people can be useful and successful in university, even if in high school they get bad scores.

You dont want to have wasted valuable (like Myself) ressources... .

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by GePap


Wow. 2. Out of 190 plus soverign nations....

Great. Really, really great there. Good job....

Given that there are 40000 physicists in the world, it is a pretty good job.

Now find me a degree that does better than 1 in 20000

[Asher]

What is it that you do, exactly, GePap? Are you the guy that takes the phonecalls for animal control?

[CrONoS]

Stupid lag

[Drake Tungsten]

Given that there are 40000 physicists in the world, it is a pretty good job.

Don't forget that your boy Fujimori was a physicist. Chalk another one up in your column.