We already have that, it's called Arizona.

Source: Just moved here :(

That's how my wife had to do it. This was for a radiological technologist degree (x-ray). Had to pay for the program / units / books and work a 40 hour internship for a year unpaid. Luckily for us they just stopped paying students a stipend so completely unpaid yay! This was after an unpaid externship which was about 6 months (2 or 3 days a week full shifts). Total program length was about 2 years where her ability to make an income was close to impossible.

The shitty part was - at the hospital she worked at the volunteers which came in once in awhile were given free lunches and other benefits whereas she worked 40 hours a week and didn't get jack - wait I take that back. I think she got 10 - 20% off in the cafeteria. Yes, she was learning valuable skills and getting signed off on requirements for her certification but still - she did the work of any paid employee making high 20's / low 30's per hour. What's a couple bucks for gas money for that kind of value?

I know exactly where to begin: Wrong, parent was correct except I think it was higher encryptions like 512.

Wrong again, take for instance a dog. 7 dog years = 1 human year. How many years would it be for a digital dog @ 4.4GHZ? Exactly. Your billions of years suddenly turned into seconds with digital dog decryptographic technique. Don't even get me started on applying quantumn mechanics to this because it would blow your mind. Is there a car, is there a key? Is it locked or unlocked?!

That's too big to be.. no wait that's actually a good size.

Which stats were those again? Did they poll everybody's Grandma? I'm not even sure my Grandma knows how to turn her computer on.

As a consumer I expect to pay less for digital media as opposed to physical media. I understand the cost of distributing physical media is much higher and involves several more processes in that distribution chain. Pricing should reflect that.

I see pricing digital and physical media close together as an artificial construct put in place to take advantage of new processes that reduce overhead. If you made X% on the physical book previously then yes you should make a similar percentage on the digital book.

I remember when I used to buy books in a store and they weren't $9 - $10 for a paperback. They were maybe $4-$5. I understand that costs have gone up since I was a teenager but a gallon of water doesn't cost $2. It's gone up maybe 15 - 20 cents. A bean burrito costs maybe 20 cents more. If consumed goods have gone up 20% then why has media gone up 200% when it costs even less to distribute them digitally? Bring the cost down and sales will increase.

When allofmp3.com was around I spent quite a bit there as I thought I was getting my money's worth. I refused to pay a couple bucks for one song that I only listen to a couple times. I've since bought some music after that disappeared but surely not as much as I did previously in the same span of time. I don't go out and buy movies on dvd but I will pay for Netflix and have been paying for it for years as I feel it's good price for consuming media. They're making money and the people that made the movie are making money - so why can't the same work for books?

I might not be the norm when it comes to consumers and what they're willing to pay but I assure you there are others like me (cheap bastards). Look at humble bundle and the like where the minimum is $1 but there are plenty who paid more and they sold thousands and thousands of bundles with games you'll probably never play but it was so cheap people ehhh why not it's only a dollar. I think $4- $5 is a good price point for a book and that's what I'm willing to pay. Can we cut out the publisher though? Hard to say - some books wouldn't be as popular as they are now without somebody pushing them in your face and most authors can't do that without a publisher.

Steam and Netflix need to have a baby and it needs to sell books.

Wrong, they're called anchor stores because they are shaped like anchors.

*they're

-A.S.S.H.A.T.S. SPELLING & GRAMMAR DIVISION

Please mod parent down and parent's parents should be modded down too for allowing this to happen.

..read the story or most of the posts on here but here's the privacy policy (important parts):

1. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SKYPE COLLECT AND USE?
(n) Content of instant messaging communications, voicemails, and video messages (please see section 12);

12. HOW LONG IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA KEPT BY SKYPE?

Skype will retain your information for as long as is necessary to: (1) fulfill any of the Purposes (as defined in article 2 of this Privacy Policy) or (2) comply with applicable legislation, regulatory requests and relevant orders from competent courts.

Retention of Instant Messages, Voicemail Messages, and Video Messages (Skype internet communications software application only)

Your instant messaging (IM), voicemail, and video message content (collectively “messages”) may be stored by Skype (a) to convey and synchronize your messages and (b) to enable you to retrieve the messages and history where possible. Depending on the message type, messages are generally stored by Skype for a maximum of between 30 and 90 days unless otherwise permitted or required by law. This storage facilitates delivery of messages when a user is offline and to help sync messages between user devices. For IM, if you have linked your Skype and Microsoft accounts, you may have the option to choose to store your full IM history for a longer period. In that case, your IMs may be stored in your Outlook.com Messaging folder until you manually delete them. For Video messages, you may also choose to store messages for an extended period if the sender is a Premium Member.

Skype will take appropriate technical and security measures to protect your information. By using this product, you consent to the storage of your IM, voicemail, and video message communications as described above.

There's a couple other spots in the privacy policy that touch on this but this is the gist.

You can also buy a caddy that fits in the optical bay if it takes a standard sata optical drive. My laptop was a barebones that I bought around 2008/2009 and moved components to. I dropped it too many times and killed the optical drive and never replaced it.. thinking of adding a second drive. Newegg sells the caddy/adapter for $20.

Might not be the best solution but you can have a 1TB mechanical drive and a smaller SSD to speed things up.

Speaking of which.. if anybody is interested I can sell my next bowel movement that I'm currently in the process of making while I read the post about this auction for Neil Armstrong's EKG.

I won't even auction it. I'll give you a buy it now price of $10. What a steal! Hurry now, supplies are limited!

This had me rollin

I started using Chrome as my main browser a while back and recently switched back to Firefox due to some odd behavior with ad blockers. Browsing would quickly slow down to a crawl until I disabled the ad blocking extension I was using. It didn't matter which ad block extension it was - it had to be disabled for browsing to even work. Perhaps it's just coincidence but I sure as hell won't browse without an ad block extension anymore and since I couldn't find any solutions to this problem (tried several) - goodbye Chrome.

I agree, they also need to take into consideration how much extra carbon is produced to support somebody completely out of shape - hospital equipment, extra care, production of medicine, surgeries. If somebody is riding a bike then one would presume they're probably in better shape than someone who only rides the bus and gets less exercise.