I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing lost in one ear, spent eight years in Special Ed and got tired of being treated like a well prized idiot by the school system. Especially since I blew out the annual evaluation on the genius side of the scale, which my teachers always called a statistical fluke. My parents let me stay home during my high school years as I taught myself. I had a personal library of 800 books when I turned 18-years-old.
Not in grade school. Rode my bike all over the place in college. When I had a restaurant job and lived ten miles away, I road my bike 20 miles per day for three years. I still do cardio at the gym.
If I'm dropping $3,500 on a 16 week course, I don't want extra credit for improving their quality of the product I just laid out $$ for - but I'll take a $500 rebate my tuition!
When I went back to community college to learn computer programming, Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. I don't mind getting extra credit on a free education.;)
Students who try to cram in their learning in a short time, like to prepare for an exam, generally don't learn the material nearly as well.
That depends on the class. I had a biology class without a lab to meet the requirements but I wasn't interested in retaining that knowledge once I meant the requirement. I quite literally slept through that class since the content matter made me queasy. On the day before the exam, I read a 1,200-page biology text in 12 hours. I got a B for that course — and a hell of a headache after the final.
Yeah, I've been to my fair share of technical classes where the self practice projects were broken to the point where they couldn't be completed.
The CIS dean that taught most of the programming courses at my community college gave out extra credit for anyone who identified that the self practice assignment was broken, explained why the self practice assignment was broken, and then complete the self practice assignment with a fix in code. Most students didn't bother. Since my day job at that time was being a lead video game tester, I got the extra credit because I could identify, explain and fix the problem.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming, I took some online courses to fill out the requirements. Some instructors were very insistent on meeting virtually every week to go over assignments. Other instructors gave out the material and wished us good luck. My HTML class was the latter. Since I already knew HTML, I waited until the day of the final exam to complete all the assignments in six hours, upload them to the website, and then take the final exam. Like all my programming courses, I got an A.
The Republican Party need to fix their nomination process: "Senator, checked. Congressman, checked. Governor, checked. Reality TV Star..?! Oh, hell, why not? What's the worse thing to happen?"
Well that explains why you were unemployed for years around 2009.
I was unemployed for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy (2011). That has nothing to do with my lack of high school education, an A.A. degree in General Education (1994), and an A.S. degree in Computer Programming (2007). Plenty of educated people got laid off during the Great Recession. Unlike those with or without high school diplomas, I've bounced back to where I was financially ten years ago.
Oh that's funny you think the USPS will cut you a check when they lose an insured package?
When I had packages stolen from the post office, the shippers got reimbursed on the insurance. Except for one shipper who shipped a small item in first class mail to save on cost. The post office paid out $15 for an $85 item. That shipper stopped using first class mail no matter how small the item is.
Translation: Dow Jones matters to you not the majority of Americans.
Did you bother to read your own link: one in three have zero in retirement savings. Let's look at the infographic since your math skills are deficient.
One-third (1/3 or one in three) have zero retirement savings. Two-thirds (2/3 or two in three) have retirement savings that ranges from between $1 to $300K+. Translation: a majority of Americans have retirement savings and those retirement savings are likely invested in the stock market.
You're probably well educated in an in demand field.
When I was a 18-year-old construction worker, I bought 10 shares of General Dynamics for $200 ($20 per share) after reading an article in The Wall Street Journal in the early 1990's. Two years later I made $80 in dividends ($10 per quarter) and $600 in profits when I sold the stock at $800 ($80 per share). I used that money to go to community college and get an A.A. degree in General Education. (BTW, I never went to high school.) A decade later I would go back to community college to get an A.S. degree in computer programming with a 4.0 GPA on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. Today I'm a virtual ditch digger making $50K per year in Silicon Valley.
It's not surprising why you would be out of touch with reality.
Says the person who can't do fractions.
I am also well educated in an in demand field but I actually keep in touch with reality.
My late father who graduated from the sixth grade and joined the Army in the 1950's could do math better than you. He routinely ran circles around college educated architects when in found mistakes in the blueprints and often astonished them by pulling out the pencil to do the calculations to prove that a wall was out of spec by 1/8th of an inch. In construction, small errors often become expensive errors.
The Nintendo NES Classic has 30 games. According to Wikipedia, "There are a total of 713 known licensed game titles of which 679 were released in North America."
Won't help. I had the postal service "lose" a $50 package once. They won't deal with the recipient, they'll only talk with the sender. In my case they "delivered" it during a Hold Mail order and I never saw it. They didn't care. Apparently to get my money pack, the sender would have to file a police report!
When I had five packages ($200 in merchandise) stolen from the post office, two from inside and three from the post office box outside, I did the following:
Filed a lost package complaint with the post office, providing tracking numbers and printed copies of the tracking history.
Informed the shippers that packages were stolen and request replacement packages.
Filed a complaint to the U.S. Postal inspector with tracking numbers and printed copies of the tracking history. https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/
The shippers verified my stolen package compliant, filed for insurance reimbursement, and sent out replacement packages. The supervisor who blew me and a dozen customers off when we complained got fired. Exterior cameras were installed to monitor the post office boxes located outside. Package handling inside the post office is no longer anonymous as initials are required for putting a package on the shelf for pick up or in the post office box.
I've also had them "lose" multiple credit cards and various other smaller packages over the years. They don't care. They don't have to. They're government.
Most people find it easier to play the victim game and complain about the government rather than take responsibility and take action..
If the recession had really ended Trump would not have won.
Never mind the FBI reopening and closing the investigation into Hillary while sitting on evidence that the Trump campaign was in bed with the Russians just before the election.
Trump won because he was willing to call out everyone on bullshit [...]
The same Trump who struggles like a baby when people calls him on his own bullshit?
[...] including the absolute mountain of bullshit that is the claim the recession "ended" in 2009.
You mean the 96 million Americans who are out of work because they are too young or too old to work? I haven't seen any executive orders that repealed the child labor and retirement laws to put everyone back into the coal mines.
Said every government employee/contractor, ever. 99% are lying, mostly to themselves.
I used to believe that until I got my government IT job. Everyone is trying to do their damn best with few resources and almost no respect from the public. Your cynical attitude is why this country is a mess.
[...] being delivered recent college graduates (C students) or non-english speaking H1Bs.
The project I'm working on has contractors with 20+ years of IT experience. The few recent college graduates have master degrees and the few green cards from Europe speak multiple languages (including fluent English). This is the most experienced crew I ever worked with. The few people who think they could slack off on a government job got fired within two weeks of being hired.
I work for a gov't department that hired them [...] training them on our dime.
That's interesting. I'm a contractor in government IT. I get training all the time... security training... application training... dealing with Congress training. More training than I ever got at a Fortune 500 company.
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You could make your own, too, there are many other variants with parts you can 3d print.
That was my point. I'll add a making 3D printer to my to do list. Thanks!
Why? Are you a Mormon or something?
I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing lost in one ear, spent eight years in Special Ed and got tired of being treated like a well prized idiot by the school system. Especially since I blew out the annual evaluation on the genius side of the scale, which my teachers always called a statistical fluke. My parents let me stay home during my high school years as I taught myself. I had a personal library of 800 books when I turned 18-years-old.
And why he's a fat fuck
Because I was born big. No diet can fix bigness.
He never did any sport.
Not in grade school. Rode my bike all over the place in college. When I had a restaurant job and lived ten miles away, I road my bike 20 miles per day for three years. I still do cardio at the gym.
If I'm dropping $3,500 on a 16 week course, I don't want extra credit for improving their quality of the product I just laid out $$ for - but I'll take a $500 rebate my tuition!
When I went back to community college to learn computer programming, Uncle Sam picked up the tab with a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. I don't mind getting extra credit on a free education. ;)
Even the experts don't always practice safe computing when they're excited to get it on.
Students who try to cram in their learning in a short time, like to prepare for an exam, generally don't learn the material nearly as well.
That depends on the class. I had a biology class without a lab to meet the requirements but I wasn't interested in retaining that knowledge once I meant the requirement. I quite literally slept through that class since the content matter made me queasy. On the day before the exam, I read a 1,200-page biology text in 12 hours. I got a B for that course — and a hell of a headache after the final.
Yeah, I've been to my fair share of technical classes where the self practice projects were broken to the point where they couldn't be completed.
The CIS dean that taught most of the programming courses at my community college gave out extra credit for anyone who identified that the self practice assignment was broken, explained why the self practice assignment was broken, and then complete the self practice assignment with a fix in code. Most students didn't bother. Since my day job at that time was being a lead video game tester, I got the extra credit because I could identify, explain and fix the problem.
When I went back to school to learn computer programming, I took some online courses to fill out the requirements. Some instructors were very insistent on meeting virtually every week to go over assignments. Other instructors gave out the material and wished us good luck. My HTML class was the latter. Since I already knew HTML, I waited until the day of the final exam to complete all the assignments in six hours, upload them to the website, and then take the final exam. Like all my programming courses, I got an A.
Funny you should mention that. Must be a new thing in academia. No one at the Department of Education bothered to check the texts before tweeting.
http://www.newser.com/story/238241/education-dept-tweets-typo-apologizes-with-typo.html
The Republican Party need to fix their nomination process: "Senator, checked. Congressman, checked. Governor, checked. Reality TV Star..?! Oh, hell, why not? What's the worse thing to happen?"
Well that explains why you were unemployed for years around 2009.
I was unemployed for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy (2011). That has nothing to do with my lack of high school education, an A.A. degree in General Education (1994), and an A.S. degree in Computer Programming (2007). Plenty of educated people got laid off during the Great Recession. Unlike those with or without high school diplomas, I've bounced back to where I was financially ten years ago.
Maybe you should not have tried to go to college without first learning something in high school.
I never went to high school but went to college anyway. High school is overrated anyway.
It would be more educational to build your own than use something that looks like a cheap toy.
Oh that's funny you think the USPS will cut you a check when they lose an insured package?
When I had packages stolen from the post office, the shippers got reimbursed on the insurance. Except for one shipper who shipped a small item in first class mail to save on cost. The post office paid out $15 for an $85 item. That shipper stopped using first class mail no matter how small the item is.
Translation: Dow Jones matters to you not the majority of Americans.
Did you bother to read your own link: one in three have zero in retirement savings. Let's look at the infographic since your math skills are deficient.
http://cdn.gobankingrates.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/main_overall.jpg
One-third (1/3 or one in three) have zero retirement savings. Two-thirds (2/3 or two in three) have retirement savings that ranges from between $1 to $300K+. Translation: a majority of Americans have retirement savings and those retirement savings are likely invested in the stock market.
You're probably well educated in an in demand field.
When I was a 18-year-old construction worker, I bought 10 shares of General Dynamics for $200 ($20 per share) after reading an article in The Wall Street Journal in the early 1990's. Two years later I made $80 in dividends ($10 per quarter) and $600 in profits when I sold the stock at $800 ($80 per share). I used that money to go to community college and get an A.A. degree in General Education. (BTW, I never went to high school.) A decade later I would go back to community college to get an A.S. degree in computer programming with a 4.0 GPA on a $3,000 tax credit that George W. signed into law after 9/11. Today I'm a virtual ditch digger making $50K per year in Silicon Valley.
It's not surprising why you would be out of touch with reality.
Says the person who can't do fractions.
I am also well educated in an in demand field but I actually keep in touch with reality.
My late father who graduated from the sixth grade and joined the Army in the 1950's could do math better than you. He routinely ran circles around college educated architects when in found mistakes in the blueprints and often astonished them by pulling out the pencil to do the calculations to prove that a wall was out of spec by 1/8th of an inch. In construction, small errors often become expensive errors.
The Nintendo NES Classic has 30 games. According to Wikipedia, "There are a total of 713 known licensed game titles of which 679 were released in North America."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games
Won't help. I had the postal service "lose" a $50 package once. They won't deal with the recipient, they'll only talk with the sender. In my case they "delivered" it during a Hold Mail order and I never saw it. They didn't care. Apparently to get my money pack, the sender would have to file a police report!
When I had five packages ($200 in merchandise) stolen from the post office, two from inside and three from the post office box outside, I did the following:
https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/
The shippers verified my stolen package compliant, filed for insurance reimbursement, and sent out replacement packages. The supervisor who blew me and a dozen customers off when we complained got fired. Exterior cameras were installed to monitor the post office boxes located outside. Package handling inside the post office is no longer anonymous as initials are required for putting a package on the shelf for pick up or in the post office box.
I've also had them "lose" multiple credit cards and various other smaller packages over the years. They don't care. They don't have to. They're government.
Most people find it easier to play the victim game and complain about the government rather than take responsibility and take action..
They're too busy being the next PewDiePie.
It's funny you liberal simpletons have such a problem with Trump communicating with Russians [...]
I'm a moderate conservative. I don't support Trump.
[...] do you even understand how diplomacy is done?
Do you understand that it's illegal for private citizens to represent themselves as the U.S. government when talking to a foreign power?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act
If the recession had really ended Trump would not have won.
Never mind the FBI reopening and closing the investigation into Hillary while sitting on evidence that the Trump campaign was in bed with the Russians just before the election.
Trump won because he was willing to call out everyone on bullshit [...]
The same Trump who struggles like a baby when people calls him on his own bullshit?
[...] including the absolute mountain of bullshit that is the claim the recession "ended" in 2009.
You mean the 96 million Americans who are out of work because they are too young or too old to work? I haven't seen any executive orders that repealed the child labor and retirement laws to put everyone back into the coal mines.
Said every government employee/contractor, ever. 99% are lying, mostly to themselves.
I used to believe that until I got my government IT job. Everyone is trying to do their damn best with few resources and almost no respect from the public. Your cynical attitude is why this country is a mess.
[...] being delivered recent college graduates (C students) or non-english speaking H1Bs.
The project I'm working on has contractors with 20+ years of IT experience. The few recent college graduates have master degrees and the few green cards from Europe speak multiple languages (including fluent English). This is the most experienced crew I ever worked with. The few people who think they could slack off on a government job got fired within two weeks of being hired.
I work for a gov't department that hired them [...] training them on our dime.
That's interesting. I'm a contractor in government IT. I get training all the time... security training... application training... dealing with Congress training. More training than I ever got at a Fortune 500 company.
Wizard of Wor was one of my favorite arcade games back in the early 1980's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_of_Wor
Sounds like the White House these days.