Excellent! You have just written my resume for me!

GPA does definitely matter, especially for continuing one's education. A very close friend of mine desires more than anything to become a practicing physical therapist. Unfortunately, her undergrad grades are quite poor. During her undergraduate work, she thought (like you espouse) that GPA was not important. Her GREs are middling, and due to her GPA, no medical school is giving her a chance. It is rejection letter after rejection letter. I actually admire her tenacity. Its been more than two years and she is still applying and searching for a way to achieve her goal.

This is a bit of performance art and comedy using the internet and its social networking capabilities. Since it demonstrates a novel use of the internet, this type of thing would have been relevant content in the earlier days of slashdot. Now, however, it is just another type of bog standard performance art and probably doesn't belong here.

I suspect that this event will lead to legislation to increase surveillance powers for the intelligence gathering agencies. Any red tape that still exists which allows agencies to tap communications of suspects will be removed. Whether this event was perpetrated by foreigners or americans is irrelevant. For example, if it is a homegrown attack by some disturbed person, then the agencies will claim it could have been prevented if they were allowed to eavesdrop on all communication of former mental patients, and felons without warrant. Then we've got a law that states ISPs and telcos have to allow access to any agent who can show that the account holder is a former felon - which will end up meaning that anyone with the same name as a former felon is fair game for eavesdropping. If the attack was done by foreign elements, then we'll see calls for warrantless eavesdropping for anyone who has recently entered the country, or recently convicted felons (since nobody ever stands up for felons). Either way, we're all boned.

It finally happened, add-in graphics cards are bigger than the rest of the computer.

That's kind of like the gas company charging me for a leak in their pipe from the street to my hookup.

Easy, we just use two polarizing filters offset by an angle of 90 degrees from each other!

I believe the fine imposed by the government for not having private insurance coverage is what the justices are referring to as the tax. Think of it this way: Everyone is required to pay this new healthcare tax; but, if you have a private health care plan, you get an exemption for that tax.

But in this hypothetical unregulated free market, the company doesn't have to prove those compounds are safe. When you're the only company offering the life-saving treatment, you can do what you want. "You want our drug? You take our untested obfuscation poisons with it or you die!"

The reason is that Diebold was responsible for the count.

Most raytraced images are 100% in focus, which is very different from what we expect from a traditional image. So it appears that the image is fake. It is the same effect that a lot of people have upon seeing high definition movies on a good TV. The enhanced framerate and better contrast displays make the image different from what was expected, so the viewer ends up with a negative reaction to what are meant to be positive enhancements.

Sqrt(-1) is not irrational. Its not even real. :(

But the return trip to drop him back off certainly wasn't an emergency..

It had a high initial equipment investment, was slow (painfully slow), didn't look all that good compared to actual TV, had hourly charges, and very limited content. Users couldn't make their own content. The service was only for consumption. By the time the internet really took off, in the mid 90's, speeds were faster, the images were good, and there was a lot more content to peruse. What really let the internet take off was the fact that people could easily create their own content.