You don't give a timeframe for your 'Most Expensive Uni in the US' so I am going to assume you went to Bennington College which was at some point back in the 1980's was the most expensive University in the US. Don't be fooled by the College in Bennington College, they do have graduate programs...
(My school, the 2nd oldest in the US, is a University even though it's called The College of William and Mary.)
As for the school gym in college...
We paid for it as a separate (mandatory, of course) fee of like $250/year. This was back in the early 90's.
I've been waiting for the T3 to drop in price to something my better half won't cringe at. That $700 price point was murder. Also, I am so freakin sick of the cruddy Motorola DVR that Verizon rents me that I am just peeing my pants with this pseudo press release. It will actually cost less for me to have a Tivo than that crappy DVR. (not factoring in purchase price, of course, so it will cost more, i just won't let myself believe it)
The RIAA is so stupid, they'd subpoena whitehouse.com.
W&M is my alma mater and it kind of gave me a nice fuzzy feeling to see it metioned on Slashdot in an article. Not that the College did a whole lot except get named in a rejected ex parte motion...at least it's better press than it's getting with the whole cross in the chapel debacle.
The phone still works in a power outage is not as important as it used to be*. A lot of people with POTS are still up a creek because they have cordless phones which don't all work so well when the AC is gone. Also, with the advent of Cell Phones, people don't really need the copper to still work when there's a blackout.
--Mike
* I will agree with the parent that it was, at some time, REALLY REALLY REALLY important that the phone still worked during periods of blackout.
Great post, thank you. In today's Wall Street Journal (June 28th, 2007) there's an article on the Op-Eds that parallels your post. The money quote was, "In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years." One of my former co-workers, a Canadian, was fond of pointing out that, "Canada has the best healthcare system in the world as long as you only have a common cold." It wasn't his line, but he repeated it often.
NOLA? Isn't that Emmeril Lagasse's restaurant? You must have a lot of money if your hanging out there all the time? You wouldn't happen to own a sugar beet plantation?
...and wouldn't be very happy if cheap sugar was imported from Cuba to compete with their HFCS. Once the tarriffs on that sugar are imposed that sugar becomes expensive sugar that costs the same as the stuff produced in the US.
I knew a guy who was a dual US/Italian Citizen and he played for the Italian National Baseball Team (not a powerhouse). Anyway, back in 1987 or 1988 he travelled with the Italian team to Cuba to play in a tourney (they got crushed). One night one of the Cuban stars invited a bunch of the players from the other teams over to his beautiful mansion in Cuba that the state allowed him to live in. My buddy said it was amazing if you could overlook the fact the the whole place was furnished with Aluminum and Vinyl-webbed lawn furniture.
He said it didn't really matter after all of the rum and cigars that were consumed...
Domestic sugar production in the US comes mostly from sugar beets, not sugar cane -- mostly due to climate. The Carribean is much better suited to grow sugar cane than Lousiana and Florida. Sugar beets thrive in LA and FL so you get a better yield per acre of sugar.
Sounds like the "Bush Tax Cuts" to me. Lower taxes on certain events (long-term capital gains and dividends) and raise revenues by creating a system where there are more taxable events. Sounds good to me! According to a number of sources (Wall Street Journal had a nice write-up a while ago) tax receipts AFTER the Bush Tax Cuts went in were up -- significantly. Once these expire and the tax rates go back up, there will be fewer taxable events and revenues will either stay flat or drop.
Richard Pryor white man? I must be dense, I don't understand your analogy. I alway understood cracker to refer to southern whites -- whip carrying slave driver types who would 'crack' the whip.
Hear! Hear! Thank you for your insightful comment. If I had any mod points I give them to you because you worked for them.
The reason the Democrats have such a hold on the poor and downtrodden in the US is that they offer them money -- enough so they can sort of live and stay poor while at the same time cast the Republicans as the evil group that wants to take away the little money they get from the Government.
I am the youngest of three boys. Eldest went to Williams College, middle went to Cornell University, and I went to the lowly public College of William and Mary. Damn I feel dumb.
Stop right now. You are coming close to exposing the European Double Standard. Besides, the Europeans need the US to beat-up on so their own people don't realize how economically incompetent their own leaders are. Let the US be the great satan -- we've been it for so long it's kind of fun. The Euros will be begging for our assistance once they are part of the great caliphate.
People can get a new SSN. People really can't change their fingerprints.
Example:
John Smith commits aggrevated assault with a deadly weapon (a rabid badger in this case) and leaves a whole mess of fingerprints behind and does time. They are now "in the system" and associated with him and his SSN. He now has a new alias "Jim Jones" and he applies for a job at a local financial services company with a new SSN. How is the SSN search going to find him to be a convicted felon?
I work for a large financial services firm and I was finger printed as part of the background check. My prints were sent off to the FBI where they were run against their DB. I didn't have to worry about them keeping them as they are already in the FBI DB for stupid shit I did when I was younger. This was for a desktop support job...
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Which weapon? I was sabre (lefty) back in high-school and college. Haven't fenced a lick since the MACFA tourney in 1994. I miss it.
--Mike
You don't give a timeframe for your 'Most Expensive Uni in the US' so I am going to assume you went to Bennington College which was at some point back in the 1980's was the most expensive University in the US. Don't be fooled by the College in Bennington College, they do have graduate programs...
(My school, the 2nd oldest in the US, is a University even though it's called The College of William and Mary.)
As for the school gym in college...
We paid for it as a separate (mandatory, of course) fee of like $250/year. This was back in the early 90's.
Honestly, if you have a degree in Physics and can't find a job, I'm not sure I want you in front of students as you must be a horribly weird person.
You ever thought that the job the Physics PhD wants is a teaching job?
--Mike
I've been waiting for the T3 to drop in price to something my better half won't cringe at. That $700 price point was murder. Also, I am so freakin sick of the cruddy Motorola DVR that Verizon rents me that I am just peeing my pants with this pseudo press release. It will actually cost less for me to have a Tivo than that crappy DVR. (not factoring in purchase price, of course, so it will cost more, i just won't let myself believe it)
--mike
The RIAA is so stupid, they'd subpoena whitehouse.com.
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W&M is my alma mater and it kind of gave me a nice fuzzy feeling to see it metioned on Slashdot in an article. Not that the College did a whole lot except get named in a rejected ex parte motion...at least it's better press than it's getting with the whole cross in the chapel debacle.
(http://www.savethewrencross.org/blog/index.php?c
Wasn't 'Disinfectant' the first real anti-virus program for the Mac? It was written by a prof at Northwestern, I think.
The phone still works in a power outage is not as important as it used to be*. A lot of people with POTS are still up a creek because they have cordless phones which don't all work so well when the AC is gone. Also, with the advent of Cell Phones, people don't really need the copper to still work when there's a blackout.
--Mike
* I will agree with the parent that it was, at some time, REALLY REALLY REALLY important that the phone still worked during periods of blackout.
Great post, thank you. In today's Wall Street Journal (June 28th, 2007) there's an article on the Op-Eds that parallels your post. The money quote was, "In Canada, dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week. Humans can wait two to three years." One of my former co-workers, a Canadian, was fond of pointing out that, "Canada has the best healthcare system in the world as long as you only have a common cold." It wasn't his line, but he repeated it often.
NOLA? Isn't that Emmeril Lagasse's restaurant? You must have a lot of money if your hanging out there all the time? You wouldn't happen to own a sugar beet plantation?
...and wouldn't be very happy if cheap sugar was imported from Cuba to compete with their HFCS. Once the tarriffs on that sugar are imposed that sugar becomes expensive sugar that costs the same as the stuff produced in the US.--Mike
Anecdote:
I knew a guy who was a dual US/Italian Citizen and he played for the Italian National Baseball Team (not a powerhouse). Anyway, back in 1987 or 1988 he travelled with the Italian team to Cuba to play in a tourney (they got crushed). One night one of the Cuban stars invited a bunch of the players from the other teams over to his beautiful mansion in Cuba that the state allowed him to live in. My buddy said it was amazing if you could overlook the fact the the whole place was furnished with Aluminum and Vinyl-webbed lawn furniture.
He said it didn't really matter after all of the rum and cigars that were consumed...
Domestic sugar production in the US comes mostly from sugar beets, not sugar cane -- mostly due to climate. The Carribean is much better suited to grow sugar cane than Lousiana and Florida. Sugar beets thrive in LA and FL so you get a better yield per acre of sugar.
(Informational post, only)
Sounds like the "Bush Tax Cuts" to me. Lower taxes on certain events (long-term capital gains and dividends) and raise revenues by creating a system where there are more taxable events. Sounds good to me! According to a number of sources (Wall Street Journal had a nice write-up a while ago) tax receipts AFTER the Bush Tax Cuts went in were up -- significantly. Once these expire and the tax rates go back up, there will be fewer taxable events and revenues will either stay flat or drop.
--Mike
Richard Pryor white man? I must be dense, I don't understand your analogy. I alway understood cracker to refer to southern whites -- whip carrying slave driver types who would 'crack' the whip.
--Mike
OK.
Out on a limb here...contact the Smithsonian? How much of this film did you buy and how much space does it take up? I am curious.
There are people out there who store this type of stuff routinely just in case it's needed by some process/function/etc.
Hear! Hear! Thank you for your insightful comment. If I had any mod points I give them to you because you worked for them.
The reason the Democrats have such a hold on the poor and downtrodden in the US is that they offer them money -- enough so they can sort of live and stay poor while at the same time cast the Republicans as the evil group that wants to take away the little money they get from the Government.
I am the youngest of three boys. Eldest went to Williams College, middle went to Cornell University, and I went to the lowly public College of William and Mary. Damn I feel dumb.
Were any of the film experts from FujiFilm? They may have some guidance for you. As them how they store film stocks.
--Mike
Hey, I just want "Diablo 3:The Game" -- I'm really jonesin' for it...
Thank you.
Mr Game Ender:
Stop right now. You are coming close to exposing the European Double Standard. Besides, the Europeans need the US to beat-up on so their own people don't realize how economically incompetent their own leaders are. Let the US be the great satan -- we've been it for so long it's kind of fun. The Euros will be begging for our assistance once they are part of the great caliphate.
--Mike
People can get a new SSN. People really can't change their fingerprints.
Example:
John Smith commits aggrevated assault with a deadly weapon (a rabid badger in this case) and leaves a whole mess of fingerprints behind and does time. They are now "in the system" and associated with him and his SSN. He now has a new alias "Jim Jones" and he applies for a job at a local financial services company with a new SSN. How is the SSN search going to find him to be a convicted felon?
--Mike
I work for a large financial services firm and I was finger printed as part of the background check. My prints were sent off to the FBI where they were run against their DB. I didn't have to worry about them keeping them as they are already in the FBI DB for stupid shit I did when I was younger. This was for a desktop support job...
That's kind of what happened to "Space: Above and Beyond" -- they killed everyone in the finale. It was freakin' awesome!
George Ou? He couldn't save himself out of a paper bag. (Whatever that means)