That is true. I said nothing contrary to that :) weak dollars are actually good in a lot of ways, and but they don't inspire confidence in other countries to keep them.

Inflation causes tax windfalls. One of the first things covered in macro econ.

However high gas prices are more a result of a weak dollar than any other reason including the war on fossil fuels. Also see the cost of bacon, gold, copper, etc. Even if demand falls if the oilfield production costs go up and the dollar falls in value on a globally traded commodity it really isn't rocket science.

I went to a local 2 year community college for two years then AIU for the last two. AIU I would probably classify as scummy, however the nearby 4 year university was going to force me to go there 3 years to finish up my degree. I had just finished an associates degree in two summers and two semesters, so I really didn't want to be forced to attend college for 3 full years just to make the school more money. I was working nights at the time, and it was killing my health. Back then the choices were pretty limited but today I think there are legitimate colleges you can attend fully online.

There is also value in a single driven focus is there not? I mean, Einstein wasn't known as a rounded scholar. Most of the most brilliant people in their fields pretty much just got past the other worthless classes on their path to greatness.

People who constantly defend college are just as bad as those who constantly attack it. Some people seem to think that college is the only path to greatness, of course that's probably because it's the path >they chose. I personally went to college, graduated at the top of my class, and it has been slightly useful in my life to get interviews more than anything else because I can fill that line in on the application. My father never went to college, makes three times as much as I do, and probably ever will, and is one of the smartest people I know.

Just because a path is right for you, doesn't mean it's right for everyone, or it is best for everyone.

Yea, we should definitely take that money away from people who want to build spaceships and further the entire human existence, and give it to small business owners selling beanie babies on eBay, new fad get skinny quick schemes, and plastic disposable toys retailers. /me slaps you with a fish

I just gave my mac book pro the same my wife. I had purchased it to learn macos, and have a nice snappy laptop instead of my d620. I what I learned in a month now that I macos developers are childish to the point of hobbling their products. Take connecting to a SMB share. I was connecting to a samba share, and but was still treated to a picture of an 80's era IBM clone with a blue screen. I wish when my mac book locked up with some remote desktop sessions and a lot of firefox tabs open that I could have gotten a cryptic blue screen error code to figure out what caused the ktrap. Sure maybe I could have figured out where the log files are and hoped for a dump, but an error code that could be google is much easier.

Overall I found my Linux and win systems to be more stable. Mac seems to expect everyone to stay on the apple plantation, and and if they do so it works well.

I think it will last. Binsearch doesn't categorize on pirated goods. It just provides a string search function. I never subscribed to nzbmatrix but I think they provided graphics to show what movies people were getting, and stuff like that, and categorized based upon pirate goods. Binsearch does no categorization that I know of.

Actually I wouldn't be against that, or Switzerland. Of course giving it to those pasty white countries is racism you know ;).

This comment is factually correct, although it's modded down because it is contrary to someones worldview, that's often the case with Slashdot negative moderation. I used to run a NNTP server for a small ISP in 1994. I just filtered out the worst offending binary groups when the cost became prohibitive. I ran an NNTP server on a 486 with a couple scsi drives just fine with just the text groups. I can't imagine it being a "huge cost" to any ISP without the binaries.

Binsearch.info is coming back with relevant results still, that's what I've always used, and it does an acceptable job.

Now is their chanc to experience the awesomeness ofRussian and Chinese control.

But is that because people with degrees are more inclined to look for work, or because they are more likely to be hired? I mean lets be honest, motivated people not interested in college who are willing to put in the effort in real world learning are clumped into lazy government leeches that live off scamming social programs and charities for their lively hood in those "demographics".

Some of that may be because of the degree, but it is likely more because people who have degrees are more ambitious by nature. That's why they went to college!

I do know ambitious people who didn't go to college who have never had a hard time getting a job. Mainly because they work, and they look for a job relentlessly when they lose the last one.

You sound like the kind of person I would love to hire :D