Same here, though I strongly suspect it was before you graduated - the first HP scientific calculator came out in my senior year, and nearly caused a riot in one of my classes because one of the students bought one and it was a LOT faster than the slide rules everyone else was using.

Anyway, I recall a few open-book exams, but mostly you were on your own. My physics 101 prof was pissed off at the class because hardly anyone was doing the homework, so he announced that everyone's final grade would be based entirely on their final exam results. I stayed up all night, doing all the odd-numbered problems at the end of every chapter in the textbook while I was waiting in vain for the Apollo 12 video camera to start working again (Astronaut Alan Bean accidentally pointed it directly at the sun while mounting it on a tripod and burned out the vidicon pickup tube sensor). It paid off - that was the one and only quarter I scored a 4.0.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, it appears to have been exhausting people like you for quite a long time.

Except a blockade is actually an act of war. Thus, hostilities have not ended, notwithstanding any "War Powers letter" and the President's claim to the contrary.

Why does that have such a familiar, current event-ish ring to it? Oh, yeah....

That would be fine if ALL the gains from "how well the whole capitalism thing is working out for them" were taxed as ordinary income. "How well the whole capitalism thing is working out for them" frequently goes like this: instead of selling a bunch of the stock you own to raise money, use it as collateral to get a low-interest loan. Congratulations - you've avoided capital gains tax on selling the stock, the loan proceeds are non-taxable, and your stock stays in the market where it can appreciate in value. Bonus: if you use the loan proceeds to buy more stock (there are restrictions on this), interest payments on the loan may be tax-deductible.

I guess it's time to brush up on the golden rule: he with the gold, makes the rules.

No problem. Just pump up the volume.

That's caused by some of tiny threads that attach your retina to the back of your eyeball being torn loose. Then they become "floaters", providing a permanent reminder of the experience.

My wife had so many floaters in both eyes, her retina specialist at UCLA's Stein Eye Center performed a procedure that purged her vitreous fluid and replaced it with saline.

Perhaps you should consider being a bit more selective about the films you choose to see? When my wife and I go to the cinema, the ratio of previews is about 10:1, films I wouldn't want to see vs films that look interesting. Not at all interested in the latest Marvel/DC/comic book retread, which by itself eliminates a lot of unwatchable trash. That means we don't go often, but than in itself makes it more of a treat.

One of these is not like the others. I mean, not REALLY like them. That is, not EXACTLY like them. Well... oh, never mind.

What this really means is that the Venn diagram of glassholes and apple fanbois will approximate a perfect circle.

Are you saying that Miss Rhode Island got it wrong? Blasphemy!!

Do you have a suggestion for a solution? Maybe going back to hand-written notes placed in a manila folder? That way, only everyone that walks into a doctor's office every day would have access.

Nothing engenders a feeling of connecting with another human quite like knowing there's a significant probability that you're really interacting with a bot.

Yes, and that's what they said. From TFS: There is no single, standard definition of middle class, or upper middle class, and what counts as a hefty income in one city can feel paltry in another.

For the comprehension impaired, that's why stated range of $133,000 to $400,000 is so wide. In one city, $133,000/year would be "upper middle class", while in another, $400,000 would be the threshold.

Seriously. "Set sail" is a metaphor for beginning a long journey. Only an obsessive moron would decide that's the important thing to exclaim about in an article about the first manned spaceflight to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

On the other hand, if you're a fundamentalist Christian, you might consider naval terminology apt for a mission that somehow pierces the "firmament" and travels through the "waters above". Obviously the hand of God is at work here. /s

(I'm actually a little saddened that I felt the need to explicitly indicate that the Biblical reference was sarcasm.)