Same here. As a millennial, I've been back to school a couple of times as the economy shifted under me (or because I was dumb and did a fine arts undergrad). Across all of my experiences (fine arts, aircraft maintenance, technical writing), I never saw my fellow classmates—who were drawn from the broad backgrounds the above-named subjects imply—do that sort of thing, but I did see it multiple times from the business school students.

I did my undergrad at a state school rather than Stanford, so there weren't leather-backed chairs, but the business dorms were new and air conditioned, while the rest of us lived in the usual cinderblock steam-heated structures that smelled like mildew and BO dating back to the Eisenhower administration. My roommate from my freshman year came back in the fall of sophomore having gotten into the business school, and I went to visit him a couple times in his new dorm. I saw the same thing described above: people who'd been convinced (or had always believed) that having ethical or personal moral guidelines was loser shit actually, and one should always be on the hunt for ways to rugpull suckers who believed in a society. Over the course of the next year, I saw that roommate slowly drift into that amoral sphere as well, and we just sorta stopped hanging out. It was weird and deeply disheartening.

You can't chip off pieces of the social contract to pawn for quick cash forever without the whole thing falling over, and the edifice is leaning, brother.

Time to give Lowtax his :tenbux: again.

Or AM, perhaps. http://villains.wikia.com/wiki...

If the designers have seized power, it sure as hell doesn't show in those logos.

In three days, on Ticketmaster.

It's also thousands (or tens of thousands) of tons, bafflingly complex at times to operate correctly (for instance, properly managing the slack between cars along a mile-long train during acceleration/deceleration/ascent/descent is a true art form) and subject to a much harsher regulatory environment. The stakes are higher, so it only makes sense that cars would come first.

Given the choice to display either out-of-date information (potentially causing liability or other miscommunication) or simply putting up a catch-all branded error page with a link back to the site's home, I'm not sure what sort of organization would choose the former.

I was under the impression that nothing happened because they poured a lot of money into fixing old systems for 4-digit years before they screwed up, not that nothing would have happened if they'd let it be.

Not the average use, no, but it does raise a whole lot of accessibility issues for those who have physical issues that prevent their using mice. Both Apple and Microsoft publish a set of user interface guidelines that say the following: Excerpted from Microsoft UX Guidelines ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511258.aspx ):

That's because a great country is what you make of it.

You want your freedoms? You can pay for them in the sweat of your brow or the passion in your heart or the cash in your pocket like your ancestors did or you can settle for what you've got.

Now, I'm not saying this in a 'USA love it leave it' sense - Some countries are more ripe for the fostering of democratic progress than others - but moving to a place and looking to live off the benefits of its preÃstablished press and lifestyle freedoms is closing off a lot of your options right off the bat.

I suspect they've just realized that individually lobbying every single state, one by one, as they start running low on money and turn their greedy eyes to The Internets for income, is counterproductive. They're trying to head it off and approach the problem from the federal level, where they can toss out their bribes all at once, get a federal tax rate that's less harmful to their business than the weird-ass stuff the states keep proposing.

Well, calling them shitheads is an awesome way to motivate them, isn't it?

Once again the Asshole OS Advocate rears his head. Sure, your OS of choice may be superior, but calling names and implying that they're so stupid they should be terminated shows simple disrespect for the user's time and expertise.

These people aren't stupid, they just have other things to do. Things like the jobs they were hired to perform, at which they are generally very good. Every hour of training time, every call to tech support over something that doesn't run exactly as it should straight out of the gate, every time the foreign office's entire agenda has to be put on hold for a week because there's no good driver for the passport press is lost productivity and an increasing backlog that can even bog down the rest of the government.

It may take them an hour to learn web browsing, document writing and emailing, but that's because these are instances where an inspired team helped Linux to rise to the occasion and meet the user halfway. Without teams willing to step off of their pedestal like that for the purpose of getting things done, you'd still have Linux advocates using PINE and moaning about how the user just has to be educated on proper CLI mail programs.

These opportunities don't come along very often, and this one seems to have been blown pretty badly. Whose fault is it? It's ours. Every UI that doesn't pick up and scurry to fulfill the user's needs. Every missing driver for an obscure printer that halts a workflow vital to the national interest. Every time some nerd on the internet sneers at the people who had the audacity to give his product a try.

It's our fault, because taking responsibility for the fun parts of changing the world also means taking responsibility for the failures.

The historical irony of this statement is not lost on me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerbook_Duo

I'm not sure this "liberal arts" means what you think it means. It's an older term, referring not to a political liberalism, but to the education of the 'free', or noble man.

Supreme Commander 1 & 2. http://www.supremecommander2.com/