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The college loan racket

lundi 26 août 2013 à 14:00

The college loan racket screws all young Americans unless they are rich. If you go to college, you'll spend your life in debt; otherwise you can't get a job except at McDonalds.

Even if you're really smart and get a good job after college, you're not safe; you will be ruined permanently if you get fired or disabled.

Oregon's plan might be a solution: paying students' tuition in exchange for a share of their income.

However, people with poverty level incomes, or living on disability or other assistance, should not have to pay anything. They can barely get by anyway.

Google Play deletes man's whole collection of downloaded books

lundi 26 août 2013 à 14:00

Google Play deleted a man's whole collection of downloaded books because it saw he was in Singapore.

Android normally comes with Google Play, which is nonfree, so it's no surprise that it is malware too. Replicant, the free version of Android, does not contain Google Play.

The elimination of 165 countries' equivalents of Glass-Steagall

lundi 26 août 2013 à 14:00

Greg Palast: How Larry Summers and Geithner bullied 165 countries into eliminating their equivalents of Glass-Steagall through the WTO.

And Obama is closely connected to their gang.

California considers putting RFIDs into drivers' licenses

lundi 26 août 2013 à 14:00

California is considering putting RFIDs for tracking into drivers' licenses.

Teens do care about being tracked through phones

lundi 26 août 2013 à 14:00

American teens do care about being tracked through portable phones. Over half of teenage girls have turned off location tracking — by their parents.

However, there is no way to stop Big Brother from tracking them, except to take the batteries out.