When you're sitting on as many millions as he is (come on man, Reading Rainbow made him rich! =p ), you don't NEED to work ever again - so who cares if you piss off a former employer?
Due to their absurdly inflated costs, I don't think I'll ever buy my FIRST copy. Sorry, but I refuse to pay $100+ per season for a damn tv show. If they were reasonable and charged the same prices as other tv shows (say $45 for DVD and $55-ish for Blu-ray), then I'd have no problem buying every single season. But when I go into the store and see TOS for around $120 per season, I'm NOT spending $360 on a slightly above average tv show from 50 years ago.
Aww, someone's butthurt because they don't know the difference between a common usage of a word on a forum and actually writing a paper for a class. Let me guess, now you're going to cry and throw things because "butthurt" isn't in the dictionary, right? Grow the fuck up and try disputing the actual POINT of the comment instead of crying because someone uses common "slag" (for lack of a better term) in a freaking internet forum.
This. I'm in graduate school now (so there are a lot more foreign students) and their appalling English skills just astounds me. If you know that you're going to be in a program where the lectures, textbooks, and homework are all going to be in English, how do you not spend every minute you can on improving your English skills before you go to school in the US? If I were to study abroad in Germany I'd definitely spend every spare minute improving my German.
I think the better question is, if this was a group project why did your partner write all of the paper? Sounds like both of you were trying to freeload off someone else's work.
Yes, but sites like turnitin want to collect every paper by essentially every student each year and store decades worth of these. Do you really mean to tell me that when hundreds of English teachers each year assign a paper on The Scarlet Letter that more than one student each year is going to have similar ideas? Now complie that upon decades and you'll see how poorly thought out this system is
Exactly. How many hundreds of thousands (or millions) of students each year have to write a paper on Pearl Harbor or Romeo and Juliet? You're obviously going to get two people who haven't cheated or read each others papers coming up with essentially the same paper every now and then - and the more time goes by and the more they add to their database, the more likely of getting a false positive.
Yes, and the fact that the US has the worth diet for the typical person and the highest obesity rates has NOTHING to do with a lower life expectancy *rolls eyes*. Give it up man, you have no ground to stand on. Normal people (yes, even those making less than $30,000 a year) get high quality medical care in the US all the time without going bankrupt. Just because some people have shit luck and get something insanely expensive to treat or are too stupid to get insurance (and considering that even McDonald's provides insurance AND that you can buy insurance on your own directly from companies - which I've done before when working a job that didn't provide insurance, so it IS a choice to not have insurance) doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the system.
Just because you're butthurt that in the US you're (not quite as much anymore thanks to our increasingly socialist government) expected to pay your own bills instead of leeching off someone else and forcing them to pay your bills for you doesn't show a problem with the US - it shows a problem with your laziness and greed.
If by "crappier results" you mean "the most advanced medicines and treatments" and "thousands of people fly to the US for surgeries that they can't get in their 'superior' country with government run health care", then sure - you're right.
Not only are those other countries medical systems going broke (the US is not, medicaid and medicare are due to promising people the world and realizing that they can't jack taxes enough to cover it) because they don't pay the full bill and just tack it on to the national debt - but they freeload by using medicines and techniques discovered by US companies, with several of those countries ignoring patent laws and flat out stealing the formulas for those medicines.
But go ahead - fuck doctors and the people researching ways to treat cancer and other diseases in the ass and see how fast they say "Fuck you asshole, you can go die - we quit". Just because you're a greedy little shit who thinks that someone who spent a decade of their life becoming an expert should provide you with everything you want for little to no cost doesn't make them "bad" - it just makes you an ass who, if it wasn't for the Hippocratic oath they take, they'd toss out on your ass to die a painful death.
Jesus christ, take some damn responsibility for yourself and realize that the world doesn't exist to serve your whims. If you want to live in a collapsing society where you don't have to be responsible for yourself, there's plenty of countries in Europe you could move to (well, except you can't because while they yell that the US should welcome illegals with open arms, they heavily restrict immigration to the EU).
Wrong. An education in medicine costs a lot because there are very few people in the country with the necessary skills to teach medicine. Doctors only comprise about 0.3% of the US population, and even if every one of them taught, there would still be a scarcity of resources.
But I'd guess you'd rather go with the USSR model and have unqualified people teaching others to be unqualified doctors who'll then cause large amounts of damage due to their incompetence just to get a "cheap" doctor.
Remind me, which countries are scared shitless about current shortages of trained doctors and nurses? It's sure not the US. Why? Because in the US we're willing to pay them for their decade of intense studying and their specialized skill set, where other countries think that they should spend a decade of their life killing themselves in school for the same pay as the guy who went to a two year vocational school and spent half his time drunk with friends.
If by "greatest growth", you mean "extended the Depression by approximately 7 years due to incompetent policies", then sure. The funny thing is that due to global circumstances (such as the US being pretty much the only developed country not devastated by WWII, thus being the main source of goods to the countries that were rebuilding) we grew that much despite incompetent politicians - imagine how much we'd have grown if we hadn't had FDR (aka the worst president in history) fucking things up? Not to mention that without FDR's policies, we wouldn't have the welfare state institutions that caused out nation to go bankrupt as well as the fact that we'd have more rights due to less federal government power.
You've clearly never read any of Krugman's god-awful articles. He's always going on about how anyone who's successful needs to be (metaphorically) brutally raped with obscenely high taxes to provide luxuries to those who do nothing to earn it.
Except those "people" (I use the term loosely, only utter scum would want to work in the sexual assault industry) are the ones choosing to take a job where they get to violate people's Constitutional rights as well as fondle people / see then naked against their will.
This. I refuse to fly while this shit exists. If everyone had the two brain cells necessary to realize that not flying causes you to avoid being sexually assaulted, then the financially losses to the aviation industry would be so massive that the TSA would vanish quite quickly.
Have you driven in the US? Culturally, the "speed limit" is considered the MINIMUM speed. It's very rarely speed that's the problem, it's stupidity like swerving in and out of lanes, tailgating, not signalling when turning / changing lanes, etc that are hazardous. If speed alone was the issue, then using that logic almost everyone who's driven in Germany should be dead.
I don't think you realize how the public school train-wreck works in the US. People sending their kids to private schools still have to pay taxes to run public schools. Thus, for every student that goes to a private school, the school has one less person to spread the same amount of income around to, meaning that spending per student goes up. Therefore, the poor benefit by the "evil rich" sending their kids to private schools.
Yup - that's the shift I currently work (though doing grad school on top of that makes things rough). Regardless of the hours involved, I'd rather work 10 hours instead of 8 - not only do I get more free time on the weekends, but I save money on gas / wear and tear on my car.
Exactly. One studied showed that the public school system in the US has TEN TIMES as many administrators per 1,000 students as private schools. Granted, due to having more problem kids I can see having more administrators in public schools, but ten times is just obscenely excessive and screwing taxpayers while providing a lower quality education.
Except that you forget the differing work ethics from different cultures. Workers in the US are far more likely than most Europeans to sit back and do nothing if they can get away with it - and THAT is where the problem with the teachers unions in the US comes from. Teachers are not required to put out any effort or do anything at all, yet not only do they keep their jobs, they get raises too.
The only calls for pay cuts are for the crap teachers who shouldn't have a job or the ones who've exploited the union wages to earn over $100,000 a year (it's rare, but it does happen), which is a pretty high burden to put on tax payers considering that said teacher is no more productive than they would have been earning $70,000 a year (still almost double the mean and median pay in the US). Also, I've yet to see any plan saying that test scores would be the only thing used to determine who is a "good" or "bad" teacher.
Try actually spending time around teachers in the US - you'll see that the good ones ARE respected and thought highly of. The problem is that the majority of the teachers in the US aren't good, because they have no incentive to be. Hell, just take a look at what a joke it is to be an Education major in college - even the people majoring in it often mock how absurdly easy it is.
Bullshit. Even if parts or your story are true, there's SOMETHING you're leaving out - otherwise you'd have simply sued the school and won. You yourself said it was clearly in violation of laws regarding disabled students.
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When you're sitting on as many millions as he is (come on man, Reading Rainbow made him rich! =p ), you don't NEED to work ever again - so who cares if you piss off a former employer?
Due to their absurdly inflated costs, I don't think I'll ever buy my FIRST copy. Sorry, but I refuse to pay $100+ per season for a damn tv show. If they were reasonable and charged the same prices as other tv shows (say $45 for DVD and $55-ish for Blu-ray), then I'd have no problem buying every single season. But when I go into the store and see TOS for around $120 per season, I'm NOT spending $360 on a slightly above average tv show from 50 years ago.
Aww, someone's butthurt because they don't know the difference between a common usage of a word on a forum and actually writing a paper for a class. Let me guess, now you're going to cry and throw things because "butthurt" isn't in the dictionary, right? Grow the fuck up and try disputing the actual POINT of the comment instead of crying because someone uses common "slag" (for lack of a better term) in a freaking internet forum.
This. I'm in graduate school now (so there are a lot more foreign students) and their appalling English skills just astounds me. If you know that you're going to be in a program where the lectures, textbooks, and homework are all going to be in English, how do you not spend every minute you can on improving your English skills before you go to school in the US? If I were to study abroad in Germany I'd definitely spend every spare minute improving my German.
I think the better question is, if this was a group project why did your partner write all of the paper? Sounds like both of you were trying to freeload off someone else's work.
Yes, but sites like turnitin want to collect every paper by essentially every student each year and store decades worth of these. Do you really mean to tell me that when hundreds of English teachers each year assign a paper on The Scarlet Letter that more than one student each year is going to have similar ideas? Now complie that upon decades and you'll see how poorly thought out this system is
Exactly. How many hundreds of thousands (or millions) of students each year have to write a paper on Pearl Harbor or Romeo and Juliet? You're obviously going to get two people who haven't cheated or read each others papers coming up with essentially the same paper every now and then - and the more time goes by and the more they add to their database, the more likely of getting a false positive.
Yes, and the fact that the US has the worth diet for the typical person and the highest obesity rates has NOTHING to do with a lower life expectancy *rolls eyes*. Give it up man, you have no ground to stand on. Normal people (yes, even those making less than $30,000 a year) get high quality medical care in the US all the time without going bankrupt. Just because some people have shit luck and get something insanely expensive to treat or are too stupid to get insurance (and considering that even McDonald's provides insurance AND that you can buy insurance on your own directly from companies - which I've done before when working a job that didn't provide insurance, so it IS a choice to not have insurance) doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the system.
Just because you're butthurt that in the US you're (not quite as much anymore thanks to our increasingly socialist government) expected to pay your own bills instead of leeching off someone else and forcing them to pay your bills for you doesn't show a problem with the US - it shows a problem with your laziness and greed.
If by "crappier results" you mean "the most advanced medicines and treatments" and "thousands of people fly to the US for surgeries that they can't get in their 'superior' country with government run health care", then sure - you're right.
Not only are those other countries medical systems going broke (the US is not, medicaid and medicare are due to promising people the world and realizing that they can't jack taxes enough to cover it) because they don't pay the full bill and just tack it on to the national debt - but they freeload by using medicines and techniques discovered by US companies, with several of those countries ignoring patent laws and flat out stealing the formulas for those medicines.
But go ahead - fuck doctors and the people researching ways to treat cancer and other diseases in the ass and see how fast they say "Fuck you asshole, you can go die - we quit". Just because you're a greedy little shit who thinks that someone who spent a decade of their life becoming an expert should provide you with everything you want for little to no cost doesn't make them "bad" - it just makes you an ass who, if it wasn't for the Hippocratic oath they take, they'd toss out on your ass to die a painful death.
Jesus christ, take some damn responsibility for yourself and realize that the world doesn't exist to serve your whims. If you want to live in a collapsing society where you don't have to be responsible for yourself, there's plenty of countries in Europe you could move to (well, except you can't because while they yell that the US should welcome illegals with open arms, they heavily restrict immigration to the EU).
Wrong. An education in medicine costs a lot because there are very few people in the country with the necessary skills to teach medicine. Doctors only comprise about 0.3% of the US population, and even if every one of them taught, there would still be a scarcity of resources.
But I'd guess you'd rather go with the USSR model and have unqualified people teaching others to be unqualified doctors who'll then cause large amounts of damage due to their incompetence just to get a "cheap" doctor.
Remind me, which countries are scared shitless about current shortages of trained doctors and nurses? It's sure not the US. Why? Because in the US we're willing to pay them for their decade of intense studying and their specialized skill set, where other countries think that they should spend a decade of their life killing themselves in school for the same pay as the guy who went to a two year vocational school and spent half his time drunk with friends.
You do understand that on the planet Earth, if you actually do this, you will indeed come out from the hole by continually digging?
No, no you will not. What will happen is that eventually you will dig deep enough to reach molten rock and you will die from the heat.
If by "greatest growth", you mean "extended the Depression by approximately 7 years due to incompetent policies", then sure. The funny thing is that due to global circumstances (such as the US being pretty much the only developed country not devastated by WWII, thus being the main source of goods to the countries that were rebuilding) we grew that much despite incompetent politicians - imagine how much we'd have grown if we hadn't had FDR (aka the worst president in history) fucking things up? Not to mention that without FDR's policies, we wouldn't have the welfare state institutions that caused out nation to go bankrupt as well as the fact that we'd have more rights due to less federal government power.
You've clearly never read any of Krugman's god-awful articles. He's always going on about how anyone who's successful needs to be (metaphorically) brutally raped with obscenely high taxes to provide luxuries to those who do nothing to earn it.
Except those "people" (I use the term loosely, only utter scum would want to work in the sexual assault industry) are the ones choosing to take a job where they get to violate people's Constitutional rights as well as fondle people / see then naked against their will.
This. I refuse to fly while this shit exists. If everyone had the two brain cells necessary to realize that not flying causes you to avoid being sexually assaulted, then the financially losses to the aviation industry would be so massive that the TSA would vanish quite quickly.
I just assumed this office was in charge of ways to further fuck up future releases of the original trilogy.
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Have you driven in the US? Culturally, the "speed limit" is considered the MINIMUM speed. It's very rarely speed that's the problem, it's stupidity like swerving in and out of lanes, tailgating, not signalling when turning / changing lanes, etc that are hazardous. If speed alone was the issue, then using that logic almost everyone who's driven in Germany should be dead.
I don't think you realize how the public school train-wreck works in the US. People sending their kids to private schools still have to pay taxes to run public schools. Thus, for every student that goes to a private school, the school has one less person to spread the same amount of income around to, meaning that spending per student goes up. Therefore, the poor benefit by the "evil rich" sending their kids to private schools.
Yup - that's the shift I currently work (though doing grad school on top of that makes things rough). Regardless of the hours involved, I'd rather work 10 hours instead of 8 - not only do I get more free time on the weekends, but I save money on gas / wear and tear on my car.
But more money for better teachers doesn't work unless you can also fire the crappy teachers....
Exactly. One studied showed that the public school system in the US has TEN TIMES as many administrators per 1,000 students as private schools. Granted, due to having more problem kids I can see having more administrators in public schools, but ten times is just obscenely excessive and screwing taxpayers while providing a lower quality education.
Except that you forget the differing work ethics from different cultures. Workers in the US are far more likely than most Europeans to sit back and do nothing if they can get away with it - and THAT is where the problem with the teachers unions in the US comes from. Teachers are not required to put out any effort or do anything at all, yet not only do they keep their jobs, they get raises too.
The only calls for pay cuts are for the crap teachers who shouldn't have a job or the ones who've exploited the union wages to earn over $100,000 a year (it's rare, but it does happen), which is a pretty high burden to put on tax payers considering that said teacher is no more productive than they would have been earning $70,000 a year (still almost double the mean and median pay in the US). Also, I've yet to see any plan saying that test scores would be the only thing used to determine who is a "good" or "bad" teacher.
Try actually spending time around teachers in the US - you'll see that the good ones ARE respected and thought highly of. The problem is that the majority of the teachers in the US aren't good, because they have no incentive to be. Hell, just take a look at what a joke it is to be an Education major in college - even the people majoring in it often mock how absurdly easy it is.
Bullshit. Even if parts or your story are true, there's SOMETHING you're leaving out - otherwise you'd have simply sued the school and won. You yourself said it was clearly in violation of laws regarding disabled students.