shut up.
this thread is old and dead.

the difference between a plan and a goal is precisely nil.

i know that i'm down-modded as a troll most of the time because i like to make fun of nonsense comments such as yours, but perhaps i should be up-modded when comments such as yours make it too easy.

The person borrowing $BIGNUM isn't doing so by virtue of their own inventiveness.
They are convinced that doing so is necessary by people they're expected to trust.
That they do not have a plan to pay it back is a shared burden... That of the student, and that of a system which misleads and misinforms them.
I'm only responding to the notion that a student has, somehow, done something wrong by participating in a system which fails to make it perfectly clear that their decision to borrow is more gamble than guarantee. =)

"Maybe Little Johnny shouldn't borrow $100,000 if he doesn't have a reasonable plan for a career after graduation."

If you pretend to have had plans for your career after graduation before beginning college studies, you are a lying cb.
Step off the high horse and check for some perspective.

Who doesn't like treats?

"Speaking as a Trekkie with a few hundred Star Trek books and who considered the characters from the original series to be personal role models"

I got about this far. Shhh.

UNIX was free due to AT&T's monopoly status. Nothing came close to killing UNIX, et al.
If you are referring to System V, however, you are close to correct.

well done haiku!

It really depends on whether or not that millimeter is in starvation mode. From what I'm reading, it could be as large as six months... no matter what you do!!!

It's going to last for at least 6 months... no matter what you do!!!

"So this one Nurse at work, asks me every time I see her now how much I have lost. Then precedes to tell me my body is in starvation mode and will hold onto all the fat it can. So I asked her, how long would the body stay in starvation mode and not release the fat. She says 6 months no matter what I do!!!"

Totally random, specifically to enrage astronophiles!

"I can understand, and support, the very same throttling at the ISP level"

Really? ISP throttling bandwidth? You can understand that? And support it?
That's retarded.

"Yeah, we owe the corporations a profit..."

You don't owe any corporation a god damned thing.

That is all.

Oh, I beg to differ. That you could take a word I've said seriously sort of points you in the direction of being dysfunctionally uptight.

Or, a bit dumb, but; That doesn't really appear to be the case.