Making poorly thought out diagnoses of Asperger's, sounds like ilx
― badg, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
That's golden, but I loved the bit where the headmistress is diagnosing the kids though best. "Aspergers, definitely. And Paul is going to be a violent schizophrenic. And Claude is showing all the signs of a teenage bedwetter. Just letting you know in advance."
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
So let me get this straight. Super rich parents are sending their kids to an unlicensed, un-inspected, illegal daycare run out of somebody's home where a dude in a robe makes food and a vindictive lady with a Montessori certificate hands out psych diagnoses like Flintstone vitamins because it's invite only and that makes people think it's special? That is like some limited edition Beanie Babies, manufactured scarcity, straight bullshit right there.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I'm sorry. A chef makes the food. The crepe lurking around in his bathrobe is the owner. It all makes sense now.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 01:56 (thirteen years ago) link
TBF, (1) it is free, and (2) I get the sense that people either (a) are afraid to refuse or (b) don't know what they're getting into and then are afraid to leave when they find out. Which is perhaps the quintessential agony of the ruling class.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
What are they afraid of? I mean, if they are really worried that refusing to send their kids to this crazy ass daycare would result in some thing really bad, why the hell are they entrusting their little kids to these crazy ass mofos' care? "Oh, sorry Caleb, but I'm going to send you to stay with these vengeful weirdos all day because if I don't, they might black ball us from the yacht club and then you'll never get into Stanford."
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
basically
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
The chef serves crepes out of his bathrobe?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Or they may be mistaking her nastiness for strictness in the beginning and not bolting when the scales fall from their eyes.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
weird fucking scene man
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Mrs. Getty — who runs the school as “a gift to the community,”
rich on rich philanthropy is the worst - eg donating to harvard or w/e - way to give to people who dont need it
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
um, pretty sure donating to harvard = scholarships for people who actually do need it.
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean at least it can = that.
they have like a 5b endowment youre aware
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
'scholarships for people who actually do need it' = pretty inconsequential part of the harvard money machine
― iatee, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
no way, it's way more than that
(looks it up)
27b
― iatee, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
ok actually
― for real molars who ain't got no fillings (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
*marin of error +/- 22b
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 02:41 (thirteen years ago) link
The preschool director's website states that "never before have people wanted to be parents more than the current generation". That doesn't seem right. I thought population growth was slowing down.
http://www.lipplan.com/
― badg, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
harvard does have a pretty generous financial need program, but its purpose is to breed future billionaires who will donate back to harvard
my friend worked in a development office once, its pretty scary what they do
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
oh yeah no doubt it's pretty sweet to be a poor kid admitted to harvard in 2011 but if the school was really interested in helping the disadvantaged they could increase their class size and admit way more poor kids / fewer philips exeter types
― iatee, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
lol yeah they have tons of ways of manipulating the data. one commonly bandied fact is that more than half the undergrad pop is on financial aid - well, even if you're just receiving like a 2,000 loan or getting like a 5,000 grant that counts. and that means that about half the kids are paying full sticker. and harvard fin-aid is need-based, so if you're due fin-aid in some form, you're gonna get it - which means those kids paying sticker come from some pretty rich families.
― dayo, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 07:37 (thirteen years ago) link
a bit off topic and minute but anyone else notice the times been fucking around w/their favicon
http://grab.by/9up2
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean three different ones right there!
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the oldest one the bold one on the top right there is still active on some pages, then came the one on my bookmark bar which is live on the home page AND then some pages have this newest transparent one!
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean chill out nytimes dudes!
um, pretty sure donating to harvard = scholarships for people who actually do need it
LMAO at this, so far from the truth. Harvard could easily pay for the education of all their students just off the interest they earn from their endowment. They have no interest in doing this. Instead they use their vast resources to aggressively buy up land in Cambridge and Boston.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Harvard's endowment is the size of panama's GDP
― iatee, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
paywall deets http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/18/opinion/l18times.html
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp0145.html
20 free articles a month then $15-$35 dollars a month depending on how you wish to access it
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
fivethirtyeight Nate Silver FYI II: ALL incoming links to NYT from Twitter and Facebook, and up to 5/day from Google, will be free reads. Not just a 538 thing.47 minutes ago
fivethirtyeight Nate Silver FYI: even if you hit the 20 article/mo. paywall, you will ALWAYS be able to read any 538 articles, for free, by linking over from Twitter.54 minutes ago
who will be the first to set up an account tweeting every article
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
huh, at those prices you might as well subscribe to the weekender or whatever its called--wonder if theyre trying to goose their print subscriber rate
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this is nagl imo - plummeting readership ahead - $35 a year i could see
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
but w/e limting access idk - what abt incoming links - what will the bloggers think
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
prob won't be too hard to get around this but I think I'll probably just end up reading fewer 'marginal' nyt articles
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
the real effect will be in the link economy imo
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that links from blogs will go through
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean the aim here is to wring as much as possible from the people who read NYT every day, have it as their home page or w/e... ppl who only visit thru bloglinks arent going to subscribe anyway
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah im not sure of the details on that - silver there says 5 a day from google - so theres a limit there - unlimited from twitter
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like this might actually be financially successful but the long-term effect will also be a pretty significant decline in the times' influence
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
eh i cant imagine this is gonna work out much better than their last paywall attempt
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
eh, i doubt it. the times was influential when you had to buy a paper. 90% of newspaper websites are gonna be subscriber-based within the next few years. xp
― max, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i really dont want to pay for the times
― B0hn J. (Lamp), Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
ah ok via faq incoming links are always good but do count against yr monthly total
12. Can I still access NYTimes.com articles through Facebook, Twitter, Google or my blog? Back to topYes. We encourage links from Facebook, Twitter, search engines, blogs and social media. When you visit NYTimes.com through a link from one of these channels, that article (or video, slide show, etc.) will count toward your monthly limit of 20 free articles, but you will still be able to view it even if you've already read your 20 free articles.
When you visit NYTimes.com by clicking links in Google search results, you'll enjoy up to five free articles per day.
http://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subscriptions-and-purchases.html
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah even though it's the only american newspaper site I visit regularly I don't think I'm gonna feel like I'm missing out on much, I get my 'news'-news elsewhere.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
also surely they could save money by significantly downscaling and just trying to be the last man standing when it came to solid old school journalism? but I guess they know they get more hits online w/ stupid opinion pieces and trend pieces.
― iatee, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― max, Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:05 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i feel like this wont be a realistic business model until more newspapers die off - theres still way too much redundancy - people will just go elsewhere - and it may never be a a money making approach - arriana huffpost is surely enjoying this announcement v much
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
*buys subscription, registers curatedtimes.com*
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link