Remove 'and not a hobo by choice,' and the last sentence becomes more true. Why exclude a group of completely daft people?

Have you ever lived/worked near a rail yard? 'Hobos' are violent criminal scumbags. The only thing good about them is what they do to college hipsters who red 'on the road' one time too many.

Much more cost effective ways to give someone cancer. CIA would do it the old fashioned way.

I was willing to accept your assertion that it's good now. But 'it's been good for ten years'. Bullshit on you!

How long does it take to 'forgive' a company that distributes almost ransomeware software that requires an OS pave-over to get rid of? Impossible to set in years. 100% management turnover is a prerequisite. Vendors can ether be trusted or they can't, those can't.

Remember the dual with the third party uninstallers? Norton and McAfee both kept finding new places to hide, kind of like a virus.

Especially when there are better free alternatives that have a decades long record of trustworthiness. No benchmark will make up the 'track record of trust' difference.

Face facts, (Norton/Whatever they renamed McAfee to) make their money from people too stupid to remove the crapware that comes preinstalled on their discount PC. When software companies have to pay vendors to put their crap on new PCs, that's a sure mark of quality.

Not trusting and paying known bastards is rational. Not going to put any Sony factory made disks into any PC anytime soon. Even with the best antivirus and autorun disabled. Once someone is known to 'go there' you can never trust them again. A tiger cannot change it's stripes. Never give scorpions rides.

Do you work for them?

I think the facial might hurt her carrier more then the tits do. Then again, it might be mayo.

Why would it be 'rational' to go back to a company that has already demonstrated complete disregard for the user? Especially when there are superior free alternatives that have been good and trustworthy for decades? Their business model remains; include their crap on new machines, get suckers to pay for it. If it's slightly less crappy, who cares?

Seriously. Do you work for them? I can think of no other reason for your position.

A Flerzy is when you pick a nerd up by his feet, put his head in the toilet and flush.

It's the only reason I kind of wish there were emos when I was in middle school. That hair is asking to be flerzied.

You need powdered black rhino horn for that!

The hysterical left has latched onto pseudo estrogens from plastics as the new boogie man.

Which is sort of cool. Because it funds research into the damage of birth control pill runoff. Research that would surly be verboten without distractions.

TangoMargarine never learned what a 'flerzy' was in middle school! It's a hair do, and a process and on point to your comment.

The 'pill' might go away. Patches are more efficient ways of delivering chemicals to the blood and result in much lower quantities in the sewage system.

I will never know. Some stink just won't wash out.

There is no parallel universe where I am currently doing Jessica Alba and Natalie Portman (at the same time). :-(

Colleges care about AP tests. As you say: employers don't. Passed AP tests are 'equivalent' to non-remedial college freshman coursework. I've never been asked what grade I got in calc I (5 on the AP test). I was asked about Senior projects and summer work etc decades ago.

That said, there are clearly courses which teach new fundamental approaches. There is a gap between those who did the classical physics/calculus course work and those who haven't. That gap is mostly invisible from the 'don't get it' side. Of course 'they'* think the same of us, we just don't realize that science is socially constructed. The difference is, they are wrong. (ref Alan Sokal).

* the *studies types.

It's not too late until it makes the jump to central/south American as well as Asian shitholes. Than things get real ugly, real fast. Imaging Ebola infected Brazilian crackheads who are convinced the hospitals are holding out a cure.