The University of Pittsburgh is on the Public Ivy "runner's up list." Seeing that and knowing 50+ people who attended Pitt as undergrads, I take the notion of "Public Ivy" with a grain of salt. Pitt U. is far below even mid tier-private schools.

It's not "good enough" when college students can't understand their instructors. It's a serious problem and a slap in the face to students. It's bad enough when the student is an adult and paying for instruction. At least college students can (ostensibly) stand up for themselves and demand better. Allowing small children to be subjected to teachers they can't understand is a travesty. The public school teachers of this country seem to think that the education system exists primarily to provide them with jobs. The fact that maybe some kids will learn...or not...is a complete afterthought. Reason #1006 why this country is doomed.

BTW, way to play the race bias card. I'd love to see YOUR KID stuck with teachers he can't understand. I wonder if you'd still think it is all about race then.

Not if you can walk to your local library and access 500,000 books for free.

Linking to the Heritage Foundation for an article on the plight of the poor is like linking to the Westboro Baptist Church Home Page for an article on LGBT rights.

Because corporations rule the world and they don't a fuck about anything other than the next few quarters' profits.

The phrase "genetically modified" means genetically engineered. No one uses the term to mean selective breeding.

Plenty of companies offer 2 hour a day jobs. It's just that they happen to think that they are 8 hour a day jobs. One of my friends worked at a senior position at a major bank in NYC. The place was filled with clueless people and inexperienced H1B's. In contrast, he's a top guy who knows his shit. He was easily able to crank through everything the bank expected from him and more in 2 hours per day.

Seems like you're the guy who needs to stop acting like a 3 year old. This is the third "OMG which router to buy?" question in the last ~6 months. It is getting old. Take these questions to smallnetbuilder.com or hardforum where they belong.

A quick google will show that Time Capsules are notorious for dieing just after the warranty period is up.

$250k is still rich, even today. A person with that yearly income is one of the richest people on the planet, and one of the richest people to ever live on planet Earth. The fact that people making that amount do not recognize and appreciate exactly how fucking lucky they are makes me sick. "It doesn't go as far as it used to." Seriously? $250k and you are not happy with what you have? You need it to "go further?" I imagine these same people, if they made $1mil a year, would be complaining that they couldn't afford the stuff that the $50mil a year guys can afford. What a bunch of bastards.

BTW, this rant was not directed at the parent poster.

The only wealth creators in any economic system are the workers. The guys who own everything are not creating wealth. They gather all of the wealth created by their slaves/workers and pretend it's theirs.

It's not so much a war...more like a massacre.

Don't go around admitting that you fell for that line of bullshit unless you're still in junior high.

Companies charge as much for their product as consumers will pay. That's basic economics. When a company is already charging the absolute maximum that it's customers will pay, money to pay for additional tax increases must come out of their profit on the item.

If the company added the additional tax cost (C) to the cost of the item (X) then the item would cost X + C. When X is already the maximum that customers will pay, X+C is over that maximum. Customers will not buy the product. This doesn't apply for things that customers must purchase like food and shelter but it can move their preferences between products that satisfy those basic needs.

From a purely common sense viewpoint, if corporations (aka the rich / the Republicans) didn't pay taxes but only passed them on to consumers then why would the rich guys be so opposed to tax hikes? What the fuck would they care? They would happily say a-ok and pass that shit onto the middle and lower classes.

Netflix / Qwikster meet the shark. You've just jumped it.

I would sooner burn X dollars a month than fund Apple's shitty business practices. Same goes for Sony.