Posted on 11/28/2014 7:16:00 PM PST by Coleus
See how each seat has a microphone? That is the only way people can hear each other across the table.
kean university named after the (tom) kean family who donated the land. What I don’t understand is that the college is pronounced: keen and the politician is pronounced: cane.
It’s Christie’s NEW JERSEY. Whaddidyouthingwasgoingtohappen?
That is the only way people can hear each other across the table. >>
yea it’s so big, I’m surprised they weren’t furnished with a pair of binoculars or a digital surveillance system so they can see each other clearly..
They can have a chat room open too, so they can actually communicate across the world there. That table has its own postal code.
Dollars to doughnuts the bureaucrat who made this purchase is one of Eric Holder’s people. They are very comfortable squandering other people’s money.
And guess who controls all the microphones....
Brings to mind singing around the grand piano in the ballroom of the Titanic as the ship goes down.
The communications goodies for that table could easily cost $100,000.
I’ve seen the contract for a home theater setup around here run over $50K.
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I like the story of Fidelity Investments. They bought a building that formerly housed a bank. Somebody had the bright idea of re-purposing the vault door into a conference table.
If Joe Cryan is against it, it must be the best idea to come along in the state since women's beach volleyball. (I wouldn't be surprised if one of Cryan's buddies lost out on a contract for a table at twice the price.)
And all the spyware servers hidden inside.
This puts Shield's Triskelion HQ to shame. They've upped the ante for the next world-class academy.
Now who will have the nerve to fly a drone nearby for a closer look?
This is a school of architecture?
Measure twice and pay once.
How do they clean the center of the table?
With spittle on the glass from all the shouting.
I bet the wood shop at the local penitentiary could have made it for a whole lot less and provide valuable skills for the inmates
It can also serve as a lazy susan.
I attended this college in the mid 1970s. To go there full time for four years cost less than $3000, or approximately $15,000 in today’s dollars.
The extra $25,000 has to be going to buildings and administrators.
Federal education dollars have made this waste and bloat possible.
And a generation of young Americans will carry the bill to their old age.
When I went to school many of the classrooms were non-permanent structures trailered to the site and they stayed in use for over 20 years. Now even grade schools are getting mall-like atriums. A sign about a recent addition to our rural grade school touted a $7 million dollar budget. Why on earth would they spend that much money on a building when the building has nothing to do with education? The best engineer I ever hired had English as a second language. He wrote beautifully. He spent much of his learning years in a dirt floored hut in Nicaragua with three grades in the same room.
A good analogy, considering the state of affairs here in NJ; this state can’t meet its pension obligations, and is going to waste this money at a state school.
One of the problems is that they don’t care about tuition impact on Americans; for decades they’ve been trafficking Asian students because they can charge a higher tuition.
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