They don't even have wifi on all of their trains yet. They need to do that before they worry about how good it is.

That sounds like an excellent way to get assassinated.

Infinitely better than the regular type.

...tells me that it is massively unlikely this was intellectual curiosity. Some kid thought it would be funny to make a huge bang at a place where huge bangs are known to cause massive administrative overreaction.

When I first read this, I thought it was horrible. One of the articles linked in the story here called it a botched experiment. What kind of loony racist throws the book so hard at a kid who messed up a project? Then I went looking for the "experiment" and learned there was pretty much definitely nothing botched about this. Youtube is full of works bombs, which is apparently what these are called. A popular chemistry blog I stumbled into explains these are actually illegal to make. And I really don't see what else you could do with these components.

Now, this kid certainly doesn't deserve to be tried as an adult for multiple felonies just because they made a total dipshit choice that hurt nobody. But what's going on here is just usual-business prosecutorial excess, not racism. Ruining dumb high school kids' lives is practically what these fuckers live for lately, regardless of skin tone.

So you can tell a judge you "locked the door" when businesses that can damn well afford it decide to steal your $10,000 business application that you've decided needs to be that expensive due to a very small market.

Whether there's actually a good reason to charge that price is arguable, but if you do, you'd better "secure" it.

The fact that you consider holding somebody back a grade because they did not show sufficient competency to pass a punishment shows me that you understand as much about education as our most respected and best paid experts in the field do.

That is to say, absolutely none.

...Bitcoin is an MMO?

...I have to admit that was a pretty sick burn.

I just went into my roommate's room and double fistpounded because of this.

That only accounts for people with degrees who can actually get a job. This is currently very far from a sure thing. Do you not read the news?

I don't really have a problem with this. Everyone knows that a car, even considering that they quickly depreciate, is much more valuable to the average person than most college degrees.

I defy you to prove me wrong. :|

Considering that the guy you're replying to is named "theshowmecanuck," I imagine he was satirizing the tendency of the US to dictate a great deal of Canadian policy, and to regard everything south of its borders as Mordor.

I honestly expected them to get somebody from Rome named Peter on purpose. The cardinals really don't get marketing.

Shut up, you ridiculous luddite.

You'd think God would at least know better than to rely on cloud services. I bet he didn't even read the EULA.