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We Rent Movies, So Why Not Textbooks?
Hugh Pickens writes "Using Netflix as a business model, Osman Rashid and Aayush Phumbhra founded Chegg, shorthand for 'chicken and egg,' to gather books from sellers at the end of a semester and renting — or sometimes selling — them to other students at the start of a new one. Chegg began renting books in 2007, before it owned any, so when an order came in, its employees would surf the Web to find a cheap copy. They would buy the book using Rashid's American Express card and have it shipped to the student. Eventually, Chegg automated the system. 'People thought we were crazy,' Rashid said. Now, as Chegg prepares for its third academic year in the textbook rental business, the business is growing rapidly. Jim Safka, a former chief executive of Match.com and Ask.com who was recently recruited to run Chegg, said the company's revenue in 2008 was more than $10 million, and this year, Chegg surpassed that in January alone."
This is an interesting first post. I find it interesting because of my own personal experience on this planet. In my years here, I have seen this type of attitude among many people. Often it is the persons own inability to come to terms with their failure as a human being and lack of any real social skills, as well as their need to feel superior to others. It is their own narcissism and lack of others seeing them in this light that leads them to try to convince others that they have some special skill or ability greater than that of the people around them. When this fails they tend to digress into self-pity and finding ways to insult others because of their own short comings. I gather from your post that not only are you a complete failure in life, but you have no friends and have never even had a woman actually want to perform fellatio on you, much less actually do it. The sooner you accept your place in this world, you know, at the bottom of the chain, that would be below things like bacteria and dog shit. The sooner you will be able to grow as a person and create some friends and possibly even live among those of us who DO get to talk to girls and maybe even have sex. It is a really nice thing to have sex with women and I am sure if you can ever remove your head from your ass you would agree with me. Thanks for listening!
OR he's just a fourteen year old kid who thought this was funny.
I think dissecting his post like you did gave him about 3000% more attention than he actually deserved.
On the other hand, it was pretty funny and right out of left field ;).
Wow straight A's. Very impressive.
the body which regulates the profession you're looking to enter (which also legally controls the use of the title of your profession) requires successful completion of a degree in an "accredited institution of learning," where accredited means is on a list that they maintain.
If all schools on the accredited list have the same policy of requiring new textbooks whose only significant changes are the ordering of questions in the exercises, I'm smelling an opportunity for a class-action antitrust lawsuit.
Oh wait, you appear to be in Canada, and I'm not sure whether you have ambulance-chasing tradition that exists in the United States.
But you do post on Slashdot, right?
This is an interesting first post. I find it interesting because of my own personal experience on this planet. In my years here, I have seen this type of attitude among many people. Often it is the persons own inability to come to terms with their failure as a human being and lack of any real social skills, as well as their need to feel superior to others. It is their own narcissism and lack of others seeing them in this light that leads them to try to convince others that they have some special skill or ability greater than that of the people around them. When this fails they tend to digress into self-pity and finding ways to insult others because of their own short comings. I gather from your post that not only are you a complete failure in life, but you have no friends and have never even had a woman actually want to perform fellatio on you, much less actually do it. The sooner you accept your place in this world, you know, at the bottom of the chain, that would be below things like bacteria and dog shit. The sooner you will be able to grow as a person and create some friends and possibly even live among those of us who DO get to talk to girls and maybe even have sex. It is a really nice thing to have sex with women and I am sure if you can ever remove your head from your ass you would agree with me. Thanks for listening!
Way to blow things way out of proportion. The guy made a joke (and a funny one at that) and you ream him out for it. Maybe you should be a little less concerned about what other people write and take a look at your own. Take a break from the internet maybe. Preform fellatio on your husband,that he probably doesn't want seeing as your love is growing stale now that you spend all your time on slashdot over-scrutinizing everything. And yes, sex with women is satisfying, but you probably aren't interested in that.
Get straight As? Sounds like you're a High schooler with zero actual power or real life skills or experience, otherwise "I maintain a 4.0 GPA" would be the thing to say (do remember that if you plan on doing this troll again). Well, I've a decent job, an ok social life, plus contempt at silly creatures such as yourself who consider their childish accomplishments to actually mean anything instead of looking at them as only a good start. You're good at sports, and academics? Great, now figure how to apply them to real life. Also, getting laid? 50% of the population is female, as long as you're patient, somewhat social, and not outright disgusting, getting some is trivial.
Where did you get all that crap? I googled for it and couldn't find it.
My name is Dieth, I too hate everyone equally. I am unaware if everyone is as fat or as retarded as the parent poster who obviously spends all his day refreshing slashdot trying to get a first post, possibly while looking at stupid pictures on idle in another tab. I am very sure that 4chan out bads us in the this world, or possibly the script kiddos from IRC in the mid 90's. I can get pussy and have had ex's come crawling back for some cock. I wonder how insecure the parent poster is. I do not have a facebook and I jerk off to porn at pichunter. After taking our football teams captain down multiple times I was begged by our coach to be an interceptor for our team a request which I had to deny to pursue fencing sadly I was too much of a masochist for football to be appealing. I am currently versed in many forms of swordplay. I was asked to leave public school because I stood up in Honours math and screamed at idiots who didn't understand what we covered at the beginning of the week to get the fuck out and stop holding me back. After which I graduated a year and a half ahead of my peers with an average of 94% across all subjects, (English brought me down you can probably tell from this writing), my school did not use a "letter grade" system. Although I do not believe that any portion of my schooling is a true reflection of my abilities. I wonder if the parent poster is just a remembering his glory days in highschool when he was popular instead of the washed up slob he is now, who probably still lives in his parents basement, probably eternally watching some old 8mm footage of his winning touchdown for some school game that no one else but a handful of people in his city of residence can remember. Outside of school I repaired business networks, and peoples home computers making money hand over fist which allowed me to pay rent to my parents when times got rough for them. Repairing networks and enterprise middleware is now what I do. I moved out of my parents household when I was 18, about 9 years ago, because my sleep schedule, or lack of one, conflicted heavily with theirs. I did not know that jacking off to hentai was a sport if it actually is where do I sign up? I can last a LONG time and shoot heavy loads. (Not sure if either those would be used to judge in the competition it was purely imagination) Currently I live in Montreal, and can attest to the fact that every woman here is hotter than any girlfriend the parent poster has ever had, his all probably compare to Surrey girls who only come out for trash day. Some of you probably are fags, some of you are probably straight, whichever your sexual preference it is I don't mind, if you are a fag, please don't hit on me, I'm straight, and I have been known to deck guys who hit on me when I'm drunk. Please don't kill yourself, please assist me in further ridicule of the parent poster! Thanks for reading. (or listening if you are blind and using a text to speech reader, I find it very hard to listen to text without one).