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  1. No. _More_ stupid after a * studies degree.

    There is a cost to spending 4 years in an incorrect echo chamber. They internalize nonsense.

  2. You think 240 ponies isn't a weak V8? It's barely a decent turbo 4.

    The very worst thing about Ferrari? No aftermarket, because only fools tune on collectors items. What does a clutch for that 308 cost? More than I paid to build a good old American V8 to double its factory power.

    I've already got a car for 'looking at'. A 1960. I like to drive. Overpriced eurocars are, even under ideal conditions, A to A cars, same as my 1960. Because you just can't park them and not worry. Last time I left the '60 in the driveway, 4 people stopped, knocked and made offers. What worries me is the ones that just noted the address, intending to come back.

  3. USC is definitely a 'good school'. Like all good schools, it will have circle jerks of ideological morons in some departments. You know which ones, everybody does.

  4. Re: Teachable moment for fraudsters. on Actresses, Business Leaders, and Other Wealthy Parents Charged in Massive College Admissions Scandal (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Ventura?

    If he was ever an R, he was a Minnesota R, which is a D anywhere else.

  5. Re:Is JS becoming worse than Perl? on Node.js and JS Foundations Are Merging To Form OpenJS (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    A fuckwit can make a huge mess with any tool.

    Only fuckwits run Javascript on the server.

    Game over.

  6. You should get a six banger mustang. They make 'amazing engine noises'...With the stereo speakers, but you obviously don't care.

    I'll take the LAST RX-7 myself.

    Hell get a Leaf and change the noise to '2005 Ferrari F1'.

    308s are just awful. You think that's an 'Amazing engine noise'? It's a weak dinky little V8.

  7. Depends on the school and just how dumb the kid is.

    Paying the full price for tuition will get most, only moderately dumb rich kids, accepted to most 'elite' schools. Less than useful if they only flunk out, but many liberal arts programs are just four year parties. Almost everybody at Harvard/Yale/Sanford gets a 4.0, the story is 'they're all that smart'...Bullshit all day long. The ones that didn't (e.g. Bush, Gore) just completely 'phoned it in' and got 'gentlemen's Bs'.

  8. Italian and English trash is it's own punishment.

    Your supposed to laugh at the fools, knowing how badly they are getting reamed.

    Nothing more fun than outrunning someone in a car that cost less than your competitors last oil change. Rich fuckers generally can't drive. Ferraris especially are surprisingly SLOW.

  9. It's news when somebody does something about it.

    It won't be news when Andrew Lelling's career ends.

    He will be made an example of. 3, 2, 1...

  10. There are many sources for cheap glasses readily available. Do you expect them to be at the failing malls?

    The situation hasn't changed...Leftist routinely makeup 'market failures' to justify their world view. Look at all the 'no (perfect) free markets' idiocy derped about. Hint: Nobody but leftists are claiming they have to be 'perfect' to work, but they claim it a LOT.

  11. You haven't read any comments in this discussion, only posted?

    There are a half dozen links to sites taking that 'opportunity'. TFA's premise is pure bullshit.

  12. That's just him derping Marxist dogma. Dogmatic Marxists expect the market to fail when everything is a commodity, produced at a loss.

    Marx should have spent more time reading Smith, less time writing.

  13. You get what you pay for. The point is that if you go to Lencrafters and get robbed, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

    The entire premise is bullshit. The mall glasses stores are a monopoly, but malls are dying anyhow.

    You can get a pair of single focus glasses, with all the non designers do dads, for about $50.

  14. Re:7$ vs 300$ sunglasses on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Only buy polarized sunglasses, they cut glare much better. You can use the pair you are carrying to test the ones you are considering.

    Yes, some of the super cheap ones are labeled 'polarized' and aren't.

    If they spent the money on the polarized layer, they won't have cut the UV layer corner.

  15. Re:Why would they? on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For commodities.

    If you look, you can find no name glasses at commodite price.

  16. Re:Considering the fact that on How Badly Are We Being Ripped Off On Eyewear? Former Industry Execs Tell All (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    If you prescription changes every year or two, you are not a great candidate for LASIK.

    I got mine done about 20 years ago. Vision is still good enough to drive without glasses.

  17. Re:"Moonrush" is at least a decade away... on Has the Great 'Moonrush' Begun? (thespacereview.com) · · Score: 1

    About 3.4 km/sec is the engineering challenge. 2.4 moon's escape velocity 1 moon's orbital velocity. Don't need all of it, but not just a little 'mass driver' (9 iron).

  18. Re:Alibi proves her guilt. on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    FYI

    You'll need to root the phone. Google doesn't provide the tools to spoof the data (they collect).

    It has been done, at least as far as GPS data goes.

  19. Re: The summary is ridiculous and false-dichotomic on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Apostrophes and commas are interchangable!

  20. Re:Sue the fuck out of the school. on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Doesn't need to be. Anything a fucking federal judge doesn't like is retroactively illegal. Computer fraud and abuse act.

    Ipsofacto, shipsofacto.

  21. Re:Sue the fuck out of the school. on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The person that passed the bar exam for Ted Kennedy was disbarred (when he admitted it, the fool).

    Kennedy just sailed on.

  22. Re:Go apply for another school then on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What's surprising is there are still Canadians.

  23. Re:we need bankruptcy for student loans and then t on Tufts Expelled a Student For Grade Hacking. She Claims Innocence (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    They will also stop giving loans for worthless degrees, so double win.

  24. A woman goes to a new gynecologist for her yearly.

    When he sees her vagina, he's just shocked, despite having seen literally more than a hundred thousand vaginas over his career. Can't stop himself, he says: "God damn that's a huge hole, WTF have you been doing?'

    He then recovers his composure and spends the rest of the appointment apologizing.

    She's obviously disturbed, and self conscious about her vag. When she gets home she lays a mirror on the floor takes off her pants and stands over it, looking and wondering 'is it really that huge?'

    Just then her husband walks into the room, says 'What you doing?' She says 'Nothing' He says, 'Be careful you don't fall into that hole in the floor.'

  25. Up and down your arms, not across. Get the job done.