Well, point it at the sky and let it fly. /that's so obscured, there should be clouds around it

I find that using MyWOT coupled with Chrome keeps me from stuff like this. Both of those reporting tools are crowd-sourced and goes back to the old word-of-mouth method of advertising. Otherwise, you just stick with the places you know.

Lighten up, Francis.

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Actually, it's not so nonsense. It's just stated inaccurately.

Dr. Keown at the Pamplin School of Business at Virginia Tech has been using his own book for years and years. If you are in the finance program at VT, you are going to take his class. Capacity for the two courses he is teaching this year equal to about 1100 students. He integrates an online passcode for the homework end of things and generally updates his book about every other year. The book costs the student $149 (no tax on textbook sales in Virginia). The book and the passcode are required and unlike other passcodes that can often be purchased separately, this one is only distributed with a new book. Now for the big bombshell that will certainly make everyone cream their pants: he also has been on the Board of Directors for the college bookstore (which, for full disclosure, is owned by itself and not by the University [cf: "axillary enterprise"]) for at least the last 8-10 years. That's only one example at one school; I'm sure there's others. He's not getting kickbacks, but he damn sure is getting royalties to the tune of close to 2000 students a year.

Just to throw this out there: the average retail markup on textbooks at the college level is 22% for new books and closer to 35% for used. Those of you who think the book you sold for $2 ends back up on the shelf for $80 are not really clear on the process: you're getting $2 because it's not being bought by the bookstore but rather a national used book dealer, and that's what the demand is worth. Sometimes that $2 does end up back on the retailer's shelf, but only because professors are really crappy about when they submit adoptions to the bookstore: if they wait too long, then the bookstore has to buy from the national dealer instead of buying directly from the student. Generally speaking, if the demand is there and the supply is not, the bookstore would always rather pay the student than the national dealer because if nothing else it breaks the ill will cycle. Now, those school-logo'd tee-shirts... that's where the real money is in college retail sales. That stuff commands a 55% and more margin. Then again, if you think that's outrageous then you don't know retail clothing practices well at all.

What a bunch of dumbasse's.

Because they don't agree with you. You must be new here...

Uhm, only four industrial permits are being given at the moment. Industrial implies that they'll be huge operations. Small farmers will still keep doing what they are doing and doing it inside or outside whatever legal boundaries they currently exist. If you want to argue about how little farmers fail in the face of industrialized farms, I'd like to invite you to some coffee tastings. Coffee cultivation proves that farms that produce 2000 lbs a crop can compete (and make a way better product with much greater demand and thus claim higher prices) than farms that produce 2000 tons a crop.

Yeah, because they just hand that prescription out to anyone who complains about migraines, back pain, or the inability to sleep. Wait no: it's just Tourette's & depression people that get the prescription, and usually then only after everything else has failed.

Yeah, but the Declaration says we have the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." I know the DoI isn't law of the land, but it is certainly the spirit of the law of the land... a mission statement of sorts, if you like.

I have the Onion on my RSS feed, and sometimes their posts my jaw drop open and I have to rub my eyes, only to realize my feed has pwnd me yet again.

Try playing The Getaway. Learn how to navigate London without a map! Whee!

Second where the two photographers screwed up is they never had written permission to photograph/videotape the facility.

Welcome to the thread where everybody else seems to understand that since they were doing it for academic reasons, they didn't need written permission per Miami-Dade County Laws. They only needed written permission if they were doing it for commercial reasons.

Incidentally, the same statue that affords students the right to photograph and film freely allows journalists to do the same (except in cases of re-enactment). That is why the journalists are up in arm.

Geez, I know it's /. but you could have at least pretended to have read the article and watched the video before posting.

Good luck fighting the mod wars. I gave up years ago.

Yeah about that... Actually it's completely what's advertised, and what's more it isn't even in any fine print: it's in the FAQ: ...customers' accounts must exceed a certain percentage of their upstream or downstream (both currently set at 70%) bandwidth for longer than a certain period of time, currently set at fifteen minutes.

Emphasis mine.

Apparently, it's "Sweden: Hell and Heaven." My bad. And, here is the footage. Very SFW except for a single second of some boobs at the very end of the clip.