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> If they just start printing money

too late. Inflation and QE already happened.

Because these are statewide standardized tests that intend to treat everyone equally, not to help students learn.

And in social science, as we have here.

Algebra, not calculus, but yes. And not accuracy on basic skills, but regurgitating keywords and choosing plausible multiple choice options.

Per that quote, the problem is that the tests are too-low stakes.

How did university turn out? Why go if you don't want to learn?

Google is more about "burying the giants in piles of money, and standing on that."

You are falling for the fallacy of infallibility. You assume they are successful because they have some magic secret, not just a lot of hard work.

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That's a myth.

And people got bored of the gimmick controller pretty quick, and it was too uncomfortable to use for standard game controls.

"Billion dollar business" is a miserable failure at MSFT current size.

iPhone sexy hardware and OS made the market, not the lack of an app store

99% of America is worth less than 4 years ago. We had a recession.

Page Brin and Schmidt own over half of GOOG voting shares, and intend to never sell off their majority stake.

I expect Jobs was similar, but what happened with his estate?

Yeah MS business software is the worst, except for everything else.

It's a profitable business.

They competently extracted patent license revenuen

On business, The only score worth keeping is present/future. Past isn't really relevant, except for how it is prologue.

Kazaa already did it. That was their business model.

It's b. Producers pay radio stations to advertise their music. It is called payola.

That's doctrine of first sale, not fair use, btw.

Content will become scarce indeed if no one pays for it, unless clever side-channel monetization props it up. It is not clear that is desirable. Are you familiar with copyright's justification in the US Constitution, by the way? It is a time-imited monopoly designed to promote progress in science and arts.

Pirating is sharing something not rightfully yours, not taking. Making and circulating copies is illegal, not receiving copies.

Proxy the transfers through the host site?

Oh, wait.

1.0 is too high since the original server is willing to serve a reasonable amount of content and that doesn't even really count as seeding.

A firewall rule on your router should work?

Couldn't he put the file in Dropbox or Google docs get free downloads?