Just Coli It *Ask A Question Thread*

[Pool_Shark]

-Got the idea from Serious so props to him


-Also from a thread I made earlier this week where I and got sonned by Jello



-This thread is for asking questions to things you might not know or understand in regards to the topics Higher Learning is about.



-Not for big important questions like "What's the meaning of life?" just simple things you might not understand or don't know but scared to make a thread about it.




-I'll also post threads where a question was asked and a detailed response came through and snooped the buildings.



-Example:
http://www.the-coli.com/higher-learning/40845-how-does-national-debt-affect-average-citizen.html



-Don't be a bastid and hopefully this thread takes off and BarNone can show some love and sticky it.




?First question:
Can someone breakdown filibusters in the simplest possible way? And why their important?

 

[Techniec]

props for the thread and props for admitting when u fuked up, takes a man to do that

 

[Type Username Here]

Can somebody explain to be an MBA? I know what it stands for obviously, but what are the advantages of getting one? Is it helpful for STEM majors who don't want to do research or academia, and want to move into the business world?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Pool_Shark]

*cough* *cough*

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

?First question:
Can someone breakdown filibusters in the simplest possible way? And why their important?

filibusters are the last weapon that the minority party has against the majority in order to stop a vote from taking place....talk until time runs out.

 

[Pool_Shark]

filibusters are the last weapon that the minority party has against the majority in order to stop a vote from taking place....talk until time runs out.

so what it is is running out the clock on new laws?

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

so what it is is running out the clock on new laws?

yeah, it's a very extreme measure to take and is rarely used...the last one was 13 years ago.

 

[Serious]

Good shyt, breh.

I was watching the Science Channel the other night and had a moment.

"Tha GAWD" Neil Degresse Tyson said the most in reference to an alien encounter.



If we ever to come in contact, with an aliens. It would probably be a neutral visit, simply because Aliens would be sohh advanced in their intelligence, that the concept of war would be nonexistent. Due to that fact, they that themselves would already posses ability to end their own civilization too . And why come to earth, when there other planets throughout the galaxy, with an abundance of natural resources like Diamonds.

I just wanted to see, how many people agree or disagree with that
statement.

Here's the video. It's from the 30m mark to 31:30
Disclosure Scenario Summer 2012 - Alien Encounter - YouTube

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Why are humans the only organisms on the planet that developed speech? It isn't a matter of brain size or physiology.​

 

[fewflowfatal]

props for the thread and props for admitting when u fuked up, takes a man to do that

Word. I would have played it off like a mother...er!

 

[VerbalIntercourse]

Can somebody explain to be an MBA? I know what it stands for obviously, but what are the advantages of getting one? Is it helpful for STEM majors who don't want to do research or academia, and want to move into the business world?

Honestly, I don't think an MBA is worth it unless it is from a Top tier school.

A MBA program isn't anything but a big sieve. Imagine that below the Population of the world there is a sift. The application process (NOT the graduation process)shakes sift. On the underside of that sift, there are the few of us that can be Business leaders or the applicants that were accepted into the program.

that's all an MBA program is. They don't really teach you anything of any real world value (except for Accounting and finance).

The lower tier the school is, the larger holes the sifter has. The other thousands of non-elite MBA programs let in people who aren't really fit for leadership, and they output people that aren't fit for leadership. So now, because there are millions of MBA programs, the MBA award means nothing, but the institution that issued it means everything.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

Why are humans the only organisms on the planet that developed speech? It isn't a matter of brain size or physiology.​

organisms "speak" to each other all the time.
the real question is why are we the only ones to come up with written language and symbolic representations for complex ideas...

 

[No1]

Can somebody explain to be an MBA? I know what it stands for obviously, but what are the advantages of getting one? Is it helpful for STEM majors who don't want to do research or academia, and want to move into the business world?

Thanks in advance.

My friends at a top tier business school don't do shyt. Literally 95% of a top tier MBA program is networking. Every single class they take has a budget just for socializing. They don't do shyt. An MBA is worthless unless you already have previous experience working. To quote Buffet, "I have no use for MBAs." Or something along those lines. If you haven't worked for at least two years, an MBA means nothing.

 

[MikelArteta]

I have no idea how the stock market works.

Why are some big companies stock like 40 bucks a share, an another company is like 2 dollars a share or even like 300 a share when they are about the same size.

 

[No1]

yeah, it's a very extreme measure to take and is rarely used...the last one was 13 years ago.

so what it is is running out the clock on new laws?

What fetus said is incorrect. Mainly because fillibusters are used informally all the time and this Congress has done it to the president more than any other Congress in history. The thing about it is one no longer has to talk for the entire period of a filibuster, the entire Congress doesn't even have to be session. In the old school you had to be up there. Those segregationists would sit there and just start reading the bible. Literally. They would hit you with poetry too.

These days, it's not done officially because only one person has to be there and really just the threat of it is enough. So even then, that isn't necessary. Once the other party threatens to filibuster something, its almost pointless to pursue it aside from getting the public to see their bullshyt. So the majority just moves onto another topic. Imagination if Obama sat there on his judicial appointments for like 3 months.

In other words, a filibuster is a means to hold up a final majority vote on a piece of legislation, an appointment, change to Senate bylaws, etc. It can be overturned by instituting cloture to end all debate, but that requires 60 votes.

Essentially, the Republican party has made it so that every bill the president passes that they agree with to whatever degree requires a supermajority. That is why shyt doesn't get done.