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Problem #3 is relatively easy to address: shift from journals to conferences. Organizing fake conferences is a lot harder than setting up paper mill journals.

Once you get that annuity you wind up embroiled in the fighting to decide who gets tenure next. Your proteges or other people's.

From 1945 to about 2000, academia in the western world was slowly growing. That made the pool of positions not-quite-zero-sum, and way too many people went into it expecting a much more genial environment.

> Detectives are "masked thugs to pop out of unmarked vehicles and grab people off the streets".

The moment they make an actual arrest (which is rare, since they prefer to maintain their cover), they identify and are held accountable for how they do it.

Something ICE is not doing.

Yes, we've had decades of assholes trying to worm exceptions to the 14th Amendment. But read the plain letter of it.

RIght, because a detective going undercover to gather evidence means it's perfectly okay for masked thugs to pop out of unmarked vehicles and grab people off the streets.

Dude, WTF

> You're not really arguing in good faith when your response is "Fuck. No."

If you don't already know that keeping the name & badge number visible is the most important part of proper policing, and established as such by the world's first police force and its founder, Robert Peel, there's no point arguing much of anything with you.

It's literally the difference between a police force and a Geheime Staat Polizei.

> - Whether unlawful presence is a civil or criminal law, countries should control who enters the country.

Yes. And it's disingenuous to call for brutal police tactics with enormous collateral damage for something the letter of the law regards as the equivalent of a parking ticket.

> - Masked police seem like a reasonable response to doxxing of police officers?

Fuck. No.

> Calling immigration detention “concentration camps” makes no sense.

When they are meant for detaining people who are literally not guilty of any crime, and they are deliberately designed to feature inhumane conditions, it makes every sense.

> - - Most importantly, the US enforcing its own immigrations laws does not make it an outlier

I'll ask the same question again: which civil offenses do you think should also be addressed with secret police and concentration camps?

The EU is stricter with immigration than the US. But it does not use secret police and concentration camps.

And you can be arrested for overstaying a visa. It used to be that after a process that does not include being swiped off the streets by masked thugs. Now we're doing it this way.

The president of the United States is literally fighting in court to get the authority to treat natural born newborns as aliens even though the plain letter of the United States Constitution says these babies are citizens.

In an environment like that, legal status doesn't mean shit.

Yes. Jumping the border is a misdemeanor if you don't immediately self report to request asylum.

But the majority of people getting rounded up right now are for unlawful presence.

And a lot of them have no idea that their presence was marked unlawful until ICE gets them. There's a reason civil offenses are supposed to be handled with proper notification and court summonses instead of this shit.

No. They don't get in trouble. They could, but they don't.

Perhaps you should read the law. "Unlawful presence in the United States" is a civil offense, just like a parking ticket.

What other civil offenses you think should be enforced with secret police and concentration camps?

The "right of self determination" does not exist in the US constitution or law. It's a rhetorical slogan coined by Woodrow Wilson, and his idea of "self determination" came from growing up as a racist southerner who felt the South should have been allowed to self-determine a continuation of chattel slavery.

How this has anything to do with the immigrants in my city trying to live normal lives, perhaps you can explain.

Unlawful presence on US soil is a civil offense. It's literally the same class of offense as a parking ticket.

Are there any other civil offenses that you think should be dealt with using masked police and concentration camps?

The film appears to be "inspired" by the story of Janusz Kurchark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak

It annihilated the VDV.

The biggest Russian fuckup in this war was to put their elite soldiers in one plane for Hostomel Airport without knowing that Ukraine had SAMs in position and enough intelligence to know this was coming.

After that the Russian "elite" units were elite in name only.

This was in hour 8 of the war and it's worth bearing in mind that this war could have gone very, very differently.

The Mitnick files contain information about innocent people who are alive and whose privacy rights remain paramount.

First there was the expansion to recover from WW2. Then there was expansion in science to prepare for the Cold War. There was also expansion from the Great Society's education efforts. And the influx of women and minorities into college. And expansion from other countries sending students to the US to kickstart their own universities.

It kept the academic sector growing for decades, gradually, and people just forgot the mindset you have to have for the day the growth stops. And that day came.

It was both. The universities needed help recovering from WW2, and they got that plus more thanks to Vannevar Bush.

I would have loved it. NO doubt.

"It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research. "

Frankly, no. Because as beautiful as that concept is, it's 6 years in your younger decades, where the magic of compound interest makes every dollar you save or spend count a lot more than any money you make later in life.

Add tuition and loans, also with compound interest, and well, I have no resentment against people from wealthy enough backgrounds that they can just do this. If that's how want to use your privileged background, nothing but respect from me.

But 99% of us have to consider the money.

Good. Academia is done growing. We're in a steady state, which means if you're in grad school, look at your advisor. Look at the other grad students who have him. Look at the work of the grad students who came before you, with this advisor. Think about the ones that will come after.

Only ONE of you will take your advisor's place, statistically speaking.

If you an afford to pursue a PHD for the sake of doing the work and getting the education, go for it. If you have to make the PhD pencil out financially, think long and hard before enrolling. And if your ambition is to be a full professor, reread the first paragraph.

Exactly. The people who think they can bring their ideology to a platform where you have to obey the captain.

> Do you keep a 5 gallon jug of spare gas in your garage? 165 kWhr

If you keep a 5 gallon jug in the garage, your risk is higher than if you don't. If you keep a lawnmower in your garage, your risk is higher than if you don't.

Like I said: the higher the amount of potential energy, the greater the risk of it being released in a way that will make you sad. It's a straightforward derivation from thermo.

The ship has to fly a flag, and be captained by a master mariner licensed for that tonnage, by the country flying the flag.

What kind of employment does INRIA offer?

If I did put batteries in my house, I'd want them mounted on wheels so if they overheat I can push them out before things get exciting. Those do exist, and apart from storing juice for your house they can also take you places...

Never ceases to amaze me that glibertarians think they can do their thing on board a ship more than on land.