A Harvard Education - the Benefits are Lost on Some

[mongers]

Man, this Neil level fuel to the cause here.

?  Grammar deficit.

Verbs are expensive these days.

We should start a triangular trade with somewhere which has a verb shortfall, but surplus of vowels. Something like this:

I prune my posts and ship the excess verbs to there, they transfer their extra vowels to The Ukraine and they in turn emigrate some of their Russsian over to Languish.   

[Norgy]

Hmm. That's a good idea. Most of the Slavic areas have a very clear vowel deficit, while for instance the Dutch have too many.

[crazy canuck]

By this new metric, Tamas might be a very rich man if he is permitted to trade Hungarian vowels.  But would there be a market?

[Norgy]

I will not buy his vowels, they are scratched.

[Grey Fox]

Man, this Neil level fuel to the cause here.

?  Grammar deficit.

Verbs are expensive these days.

A Verb is always mISsing.

[OttoVonBismarck]

Grey Fox's intelligence as assessed by me dropped massively after I read this thread.

[Jacob]

By this new metric, Tamas might be a very rich man if he is permitted to trade Hungarian vowels.  But would there be a market?

Well, if we're clever about our logistics we can have them cleaned up and assembled in, say, Puerto Rico and then market them as American vowels.

[Grey Fox]

Grey Fox's intelligence as assessed by me dropped massively after I read this thread.

You know damn well I right. Aren't you the one who fired his boss? That's powerfull proletariat, friend!

[Valmy]

Hans fired his boss.

[dps]

I am not in favor of non-governmental investment. You should know this about me.

I knew you were to the left, but I didn't know you were in favor of the government owning all businesses.  And even then, I still don't get your opposition to colleges and universities investing their endowments.  After, all most of them are government-run (though obviously not all of them, and certainly not Harvard).

[crazy canuck]

After, all most of them are government-run (though obviously not all of them, and certainly not Harvard).

You mean government funded - not government run. 

[Valmy]

After, all most of them are government-run (though obviously not all of them, and certainly not Harvard).

You mean government funded - not government run. 

Well UT is government run but not really government funded so much.  We're funky like that.

[crazy canuck]

After, all most of them are government-run (though obviously not all of them, and certainly not Harvard).

You mean government funded - not government run. 

Well UT is government run but not really government funded so much.  We're funky like that.

What do you mean by government run?

[Valmy]

What do you mean by government run?

Well all of us who work here are considered government employees.  The Board of Regents who oversee the University are appointed by the Governor, and the Legislature can dictate all sorts of specific policies (and I mean to us specifically not just passing laws that apply to all Universities or something).  All this despite the fact that tax money only supplies about 15% of the costs of operation.

[crazy canuck]

What do you mean by government run?

Well all of us who work here are considered government employees.  The Board of Regents who oversee the University are appointed by the Governor, and the Legislature can dictate all sorts of specific policies (and I mean to us specifically not just passing laws that apply to all Universities or something).  All this despite the fact that tax money only supplies about 15% of the costs of operation.

Wow, That is odd.  What happens with concepts like academic freedom?