Comment Re:I have it on my car (Score 2) 304
Comment Re: Money laundering (Score 1) 97
Comment Re:Money laundering (Score 1) 97
Amazon-published eBooks, on which Amazon takes a cut of 30%, are also a common money-laundering source. Amazon has no desire to stop these babble-filled books from being sold because they are personally making so much money off of aiding and abetting these criminals.
Here's one prolific author, for example:
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=d...
Comment In the words of Lucille Bluth (Score 1) 51
"I don't know what this is and I don't care to find out."
I don't know what LinkedIn Bro Poetry is, but I am 100% certain that nothing involving LinkedIn sums up 2017 unless that thing is "Microsoft's increasingly desperate attempts to make LinkedIn into some sort of social harbinger."
Comment Re:I feel better (Score 1) 477
I had one funny issue, Splenda was causing me problems. When I cut that out, it made a world of difference.
Can you expand on what your issue was with Splenda?
Comment Re:Normally... (Score 2) 228
Comment Re:Excellent idea, but... (Score 1) 128
My (in my opinion perfectly capable) wife wanted to take this course but decided against it after reading those prerequisites.
It will take more than just free online courses for academia to overcome its walled garden and truly be more accessible. Why is something given as a prerequisite that can just as easily be explained in a couple of minutes in the first lecture?
Comment Re:Fee is waived for certain cases. (Score 1) 562
Comment The Office (Score 1) 1200
Pam: "I’m failing my computer class."
Jim: “I thought you were good at Flash?”
Pam: “I was. But then they switched to Acrobat just as I was learning Quark. I hate computers.”
Scenes like the virus one in Independence Day are at least believable enough that my dad doesn't think twice about it. Even he knows that dialog from The Office was BS.
Comment UFOs explained (Score 1) 222
No shit it's orders for Russian troops. The mystery remains: what orders?
Comment Re:Interesting (Score 1) 449
"Mr. Gates said the nation owed quality health care to those in uniform, their families and veterans, but pointed out that members of the military health care system have not been charged increases in premiums for 15 years — even though the program’s annual cost has risen to $50 billion from $19 billion a decade ago.
'Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive,' Mr. Gates said."
He's suggesting changing the cost structure of it, not cutting what it covers. Given no premium increases in 15 years, I'd have to say that it's time to make some changes to it.
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Comment Article and summary are wrong (Score 2, Interesting) 268
Clicking on an email is not the same as responding to it. I've clicked on spam emails. I've never responded to one.
Comment Re:Pompous military time (Score 1) 383
Complaining about someones presentation of time when the thing that is in error is the value of the presentation is silly.
Not if you believe that the presentation contributed to the error, as I do. Everyone who knows who Colbert is knows that the show is on at 11:30PM. Using military time confused the issue and introduced an error.
Military time is a synonym for 24-hour clock notation. I call it military time because I only use it when dealing with the military. It may not be your preference, but calling it that is neither wrong nor silly.