Not only is Amazon Prime a no-brainer, but they also have used items too. That's great for buying older stuff, when a little wear-and-tear isn't so important.
On some things, you'd be fucking insane to go anywhere else. When I pass kids going into the bookstore at my university I almost want to slap their dumb asses sometimes. They pay 2-3 times what Amazon charges for books, and then bitch and moan about some $25 lab fee.
Did NASA bitch and whine about your trip on your ISS too, the way they did Dennis Tito (for daring to be a space tourist on a Russian rocket instead of a proper American-Non-Commie-John-Wayne one)?
They sell you their prestige, their accreditation, their confirmation that you at least showed up to class for four years and jumped through the basic hoops.
These online schools will give you knowledge. But it's always been possible to get that outside of the traditional classroom anyway. There are plenty of self-taught programmers out there (and in plenty of other fields to).
But the thing they're lacking right now is the ability to give you a piece of paper that will get you past HR to a job interview.
I once asked a Japanese friend "What's with the obsession with robots?" He said it actually went back hundreds of years to the national art form of Karakuri ningy. So I guess it's not such a recent thing, after all.
Why not skip school and have a friend carry her ID around
That would be great as far as the school's concerned. They get to mark her present and get their federal funding for her, without having to actually deal with her. They would probably be just fine with a half empty school, as long as they could claim 100% attendance.
Your elitist posturing does not place you above the conflict.
Yeah, in this case it does, because I couldn't give a shit less who gets that annoying piece of desert. If it were up to me, I would bulldoze the whole goddamned country and declare it a demilitarized zone, starting with Jerusalem. The Romans were right to burn that shithole city to the ground.
Driving erratically is going to be a HELLUVA lot harder to prove than DUI, it will be easier to defend against, and the penalties will no doubt be lessened. You're essentially advocating reversing decades of progress in fighting drunk driving--just so a bunch of stoners can hit the road with impunity.
When I was a kid, drunk driving was common--in large part because the enforcement and penalties were a joke. A *lot* of people died as a result. I knew several people personally who were either killed themselves or had family members killed by drunk drivers or while driving drunk themselves. No way do I want to go back to that. I'm pretty sure Harold and Kumar can handle waiting ten hours between toking and driving.
marijuana use in the absence of other substances impairs driving very little
Yeah, my stoner roommate used to say shit like that too. Of course, he also claimed it helped him study, but unless one considers watching the Cartoon Network all day "studying" then I never saw any evidence of it. And, while I never was a full-time stoner myself, I did smoke enough to know that I sure as shit wouldn't have felt comfortable driving on it (or doing anything else that required concentration).
Of course, I'm sure the stoner brigade can produce a plethora of studies claiming that weed is a fucking miracle cure-all with no downsides whatsoever, written by the same kind of biased researchers that produce studies showing that burning shit-tons of coal is great for the environment.
They have the choice forced on them. Usually because they're not worth keeping, or because the family has been paid for the glory of allah, or because they're so blindly indoctrinated that they wish to kill jews. That's the reality of it there. It doesn't help when the education system itself(paid and funded by the UN and inturn by taxpayers world wide), teaches the same thing. Or that kids get a daily dose of it too on their state run TV. And never forget that it's multigenerational.
Nothing you just said couldn't also be said about Israel and Zionism. Crazy is crazy. And you religious zealots who think some Sky Daddy is calling you out for a special mission are ALL FUCKING CRAZY. Crazy and dangerous.
And they are, of course, policing that carefully, right? I mean, most universities wouldn't just let any yahoo walk in off the street and have full access to their biolabs. So naturally, these guys aren't either, right? They wouldn't do that smack in the middle of one of the most densely populated cities on the planet--I mean that goes without saying. Of course, they've allotted money and personnel for security, checking for credentials, etc. (it's probably foolish of me to even ask, OF COURSE they have). I'm sure they don't just let anyone walk in off the street with a petri dish and start using equipment. That would be fucking crazy.
AC/DC was never meant to be thoughtful metal. They were a fun hard rock band, and that's all they ever aimed for (and they were great at it). It's not like they were writing songs about politics or social issues. Megadeth those boys weren't, but they weren't trying to be either.
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Not only is Amazon Prime a no-brainer, but they also have used items too. That's great for buying older stuff, when a little wear-and-tear isn't so important.
On some things, you'd be fucking insane to go anywhere else. When I pass kids going into the bookstore at my university I almost want to slap their dumb asses sometimes. They pay 2-3 times what Amazon charges for books, and then bitch and moan about some $25 lab fee.
Online generation my ass.
Did NASA bitch and whine about your trip on your ISS too, the way they did Dennis Tito (for daring to be a space tourist on a Russian rocket instead of a proper American-Non-Commie-John-Wayne one)?
They sell you their prestige, their accreditation, their confirmation that you at least showed up to class for four years and jumped through the basic hoops.
These online schools will give you knowledge. But it's always been possible to get that outside of the traditional classroom anyway. There are plenty of self-taught programmers out there (and in plenty of other fields to).
But the thing they're lacking right now is the ability to give you a piece of paper that will get you past HR to a job interview.
Yes.
That is correct.
It does not exist.
I once asked a Japanese friend "What's with the obsession with robots?" He said it actually went back hundreds of years to the national art form of Karakuri ningy. So I guess it's not such a recent thing, after all.
Why not skip school and have a friend carry her ID around
That would be great as far as the school's concerned. They get to mark her present and get their federal funding for her, without having to actually deal with her. They would probably be just fine with a half empty school, as long as they could claim 100% attendance.
Hey, we're giving our OS away for free, no license or hack needed!
Anyone?
Hello?
Your elitist posturing does not place you above the conflict.
Yeah, in this case it does, because I couldn't give a shit less who gets that annoying piece of desert. If it were up to me, I would bulldoze the whole goddamned country and declare it a demilitarized zone, starting with Jerusalem. The Romans were right to burn that shithole city to the ground.
Driving erratically is going to be a HELLUVA lot harder to prove than DUI, it will be easier to defend against, and the penalties will no doubt be lessened. You're essentially advocating reversing decades of progress in fighting drunk driving--just so a bunch of stoners can hit the road with impunity.
When I was a kid, drunk driving was common--in large part because the enforcement and penalties were a joke. A *lot* of people died as a result. I knew several people personally who were either killed themselves or had family members killed by drunk drivers or while driving drunk themselves. No way do I want to go back to that. I'm pretty sure Harold and Kumar can handle waiting ten hours between toking and driving.
In most of the U.S., you can pretty much fire someone for just about anything (short of gender, race, or religion).
marijuana use in the absence of other substances impairs driving very little
Yeah, my stoner roommate used to say shit like that too. Of course, he also claimed it helped him study, but unless one considers watching the Cartoon Network all day "studying" then I never saw any evidence of it. And, while I never was a full-time stoner myself, I did smoke enough to know that I sure as shit wouldn't have felt comfortable driving on it (or doing anything else that required concentration).
Of course, I'm sure the stoner brigade can produce a plethora of studies claiming that weed is a fucking miracle cure-all with no downsides whatsoever, written by the same kind of biased researchers that produce studies showing that burning shit-tons of coal is great for the environment.
You got Cheetos all over your breath, son. You been smoking weed tonight?
They do spend plenty of time and energy (and money) creating better products, as they did to create their existing products.
If their products are so much better, why are they so afraid of a little competition?
They have the choice forced on them. Usually because they're not worth keeping, or because the family has been paid for the glory of allah, or because they're so blindly indoctrinated that they wish to kill jews. That's the reality of it there. It doesn't help when the education system itself(paid and funded by the UN and inturn by taxpayers world wide), teaches the same thing. Or that kids get a daily dose of it too on their state run TV. And never forget that it's multigenerational.
Nothing you just said couldn't also be said about Israel and Zionism. Crazy is crazy. And you religious zealots who think some Sky Daddy is calling you out for a special mission are ALL FUCKING CRAZY. Crazy and dangerous.
It is confined to non-hazardous experiments
And they are, of course, policing that carefully, right? I mean, most universities wouldn't just let any yahoo walk in off the street and have full access to their biolabs. So naturally, these guys aren't either, right? They wouldn't do that smack in the middle of one of the most densely populated cities on the planet--I mean that goes without saying. Of course, they've allotted money and personnel for security, checking for credentials, etc. (it's probably foolish of me to even ask, OF COURSE they have). I'm sure they don't just let anyone walk in off the street with a petri dish and start using equipment. That would be fucking crazy.
They don't make Powerbooks anymore. We'd have to use Macbooks.
AC/DC was never meant to be thoughtful metal. They were a fun hard rock band, and that's all they ever aimed for (and they were great at it). It's not like they were writing songs about politics or social issues. Megadeth those boys weren't, but they weren't trying to be either.
Fuck, those guys ROCK in concert, though.
You would also think they wouldn't have done a soundtrack album, much less one for a shitty b-rated Stephen King movie.
all AC/DC songs sound exactly the same
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
making it working again is a real waste of resources!
Do you realize how many programmers spend every day designing games for Facebook, new fart apps for iOS, and expansions for WoW?
Don't worry, we can always defeat them with our Macbook viruses.
"Life on Mars" would be huge.
"Possible evidence of there maybe once being life of Mars, or not" would be who-gives-a-fuck.
If they're so smart, they would have been able to finally find out how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a Tootsie Pop.