Actually quite a few places allow you to get in without such deposits. I've lived here since my last two years of college - totaling 8 years now - and never had an issue getting in with almost zero down aside from rent and guarantor company fee. My rents have ranged from $350/month to now $1600/month.
On the private side:
コンフォリア
On the public support side (subsidized housing):
UR (Urban Renewal)
JKK Tokyo (東京都住宅供給公社)
Putting an icon on the home screen isn't the interesting thing here, chrome has done that for years too. The news is the banner that prompts users to add it.
You might be surprised to find that your assertion, reduced to a stereotype, then used in a metaphor about familiar situations meets the connotation if not also the definition of a trope for my earlier upvoters.
Professors have tons of leadership experience. They direct their own labs (attracting + allocating resources), train future leaders (graduate students + postdocs), collaborate with other labs, communicate their work to a general audience.... and so on. A tenured professor is also unbiased, in principle.
The academic world doesn't get the credit it deserves.
All my personal experience with academia says the opposite. The only thing they do is chase grants, but they are awful at collaboration and people management. The whole thing only works because they get nearly free labor from grad students and post docs.
Unbiased? No more or less than anyone who quits their job to take a government job. People try to claim there is a conflict of interest in this case because Lee used to work in industry. Well, colleges are a huge user of the USPTO. In fact many schools patent troll nowadays.
In practice? No so much. One could write volumes about how the wheels quickly come off the wagon in each area you listed, since they all happen inside of very specific, narrow, and rigid constructs, ones that seldom translate well.
The analogy that comes to mind would be claiming that having experience leading a team of first-year resident physicians prepares one to be good at motivating people from a broad variety of backgrounds to work hard and long hours.
Which isn't to say that all academics can't excel outside that environment, of course. Talented, gifted academics who would excel at almost anything in which they're engaged will also succeed outside of academia.
Isn't this more like "professors _can have_ tons of leadership experience"? Just because someone is "managing" or a "manager" doesn't mean they do a good job at it or know what they're doing.
I was excited to hear someone's Guile Scheme answere to Sinatra, Artanis (yes, I know, cute), led me to the Summer of Lisp winner list, including this of course and the Learn You a Datalog guy. Naturally, that led me to EDN.
It's worth noting that the music that was deleted was "protected" by a reverse-engineered version of Apple's DRM, and the "deletion" was Apple dropping support for old, broken versions of FairPlay. iPods always played everyone's DRM free music and never tried not to, as far as I know.
