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You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School
theodp writes "Over at TechCrunch, Vivek Wadhwa offers some don't-be-a-fool-stay-in-school advice to students that sounds a bit like an old-school Mr. T PSA. TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington's questioning of whether students need to get any degree or go to college at all may sound appealing — dropouts Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates did do alright for themselves — but Wadhwa gives some good reasons why you should probably take the school-is-for-chumps argument with a grain of salt. 'The harsh reality,' warns Wadhwa, is that for every Zuckerberg, there are a thousand who drop out of college and fail,' and many big companies won't even consider hiring you for that fallback job without a degree. And, believe it or not, you can still become a tech billionaire later in life even if you're cursed with a PhD." Tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson approaches this question slightly differently; here's an analysis he made a few years ago, with the conclusion that the college investment pays off only about half the time.
You learn most of the useful stuff in the first year or 2 of any CS degree anyway.
Wow, this is what gets modded insightful these days?
Palm trees and 8
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXBn5koFbY
http://www.alternativeratreatments.com/eat-to-live.html
http://www.drfuhrman.com/
http://www.diseaseproof.com/
Check your vitamin D levels too:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/treatment.shtml
What you describe sound like a very respectable life. :-) Still, no one (including me) can live in this world and not get involved in some bad aspects of it (like, in the case of helping broadcasting stations, the mainstream media was often not doing its job of investigative journalism). Related:
"What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream"
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm
Anyway, I hope those first links might help with reversing Type-II diabetes.
BTW, two other boxes of democracy are moving box (to somewhere with better laws) and mail box (writing representatives). :-) So, there are at least six. :-)
Why the ammo box is problematical:
"Social Movements and Strategic Nonviolence"
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/change/science_nonviolence.html
Anyway, the things they don't teach in school...
"Educating for a Peaceful World"
http://www.forums.alliance21.org/d_read/pax/articles/Deutsch.htm
Maybe you were better off to get out sooner?
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.