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Comment Re:8% (Score 1) 1032

This is a problem that plagues all debt for the most part. If you run into trouble, instead of working with you, the debt holder hammers you, putting you even further into debt. Make a payment a day late? Blam! $30 fee and your rate and payment amount jumps.

It reminds me of the Slave Owners beating the slaves even harder when they are exhausted.

Comment Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way (Score 1) 1032

I don't think it makes sense for holding universities accountable for the major that people choose. All you need to hear is "You can't major in that" and people will lose their shit and it makes the 6 O'clock news.

What you CAN hold them accountable for is the outrageous cost increases that far exceed inflation and infrastructure growth.

Comment Re:What is wrong with "terrorist sympathies"? (Score 1) 308

Electing a representative government and declaring independence, then conducting regular warfare is b>not the same thing as going around and cutting off people's heads, kidnapping and selling women and children as sex toys, blowing up innocent civilians to make some point, etc.

Comment We can't have this! (Score 4, Funny) 830

I'll resist this with every ounce of my being.
I'll resist this with every gram of my being.

I won't give an inch on this issue.
I won't give 5 centimeters on this issue.

They came at us with a shit ton of rockets and mortars!
They came at us with a shit kilogram of rockets and mortars!

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
An gram of prevention is worth a kilo of cure.

Submission + - Fracking Safe, Says EPA

sycodon writes: A long-awaited EPA report on hydraulic fracturing concludes that the extraction process has “not led to widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources.”

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