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QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 02:01 PM) I bet $10 that was just a coincidence of some demented kid who happened to do it by an election sign. Yeah, Longfellow Park isn't exactly in the nicest neighborhood around here, either.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 14, 2012 -> 11:28 AM) California allows a non-JB backdoor, but they're one of the exceptions, not the norm. Jenks or others can comment more, but I think you have to have an ADA-accredited JD to sit in Illinois. I know this was a typo, but it's still funny. And California was the only state I was aware of that lets people without JD's sit for the bar; if there's any more than that, it can't be more than a few.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 06:26 PM) RIP, Mitch you brilliant bastard. That he was. It's really depressing to see some of his performances from 03-05, you could tell he was really going downhill.

Wasn't sure where else to put this: The Boy Scouts' Other Discriminatory Policy

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 06:52 PM) Did you find your place on craigslist or a different service/site? I'm only moving in with 1 other guy at the moment, which is too bad because there are some awesome 3/4 br places for cheap, but the 2 br market isn't as good from what I've seen (in terms of quality and price). There's lots of stuff around Loyola (which could be where Row is in Rogers Park, dunno) that doesn't feel too college-y. Lincoln Square area is nice too, laid back, right on the brown line and 8-10 min from 94.

Since there's now only less than 8 months until the Championship game, might as well have fun with some bracketology.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 13, 2012 -> 07:35 AM) Let me fix the bolded part for you. "I'm not saying you're stupid, I'm saying the things you say are stupid." Isn't this semantics? But that would mean smart people cannot say stupid things...which is definitely not true.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 07:30 PM) Bush. Wait, George W. Bush was Osama bin Laden? Holy s***. It's like that episode of Family Guy where they find out Michael Moore, Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh are all the same person.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 11:53 AM) England did hold out, but Hitler made a drastic mistake attacking USSR and splitting his army in a 2 front war. The combined effort of USSR/USA would have been very difficult for the Germans regardless, the war just likely would have taken longer on the European front or involved an atomic weapon. While that's the conventional wisdom, I'm not so sure Stalin wouldn't have broken the treaty anyway, and then Germany would still be in a 2-front war, but starting from a worse position in the East.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 07:34 PM) I'm 4 for 5 in my life in job interviews. Hoping to continue that trend tomorrow morning. Wish me luck! Make it 5/6!

QUOTE (zenryan @ Aug 12, 2012 -> 01:11 AM) apparently the argument started when his wife found a receipt for condoms in his car. Please tell me you're kidding.... Also, condoms should be like donuts. I hand you the money, you hand me the condoms. No need to bring ink and paper into this.

Congrats!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 01:24 PM) Emphasis mine via To be fair though, wouldn't pretty much any VP choice that was a congressman be similar? Since everything has shifted further right anyway.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 11:29 AM) Cutting spending needs to be an important part of Romney's platform. Sure the Dems can run ads of Romney pushing granny of a cliff in her wheelchair, but they will do that anyways. I really really want to see those ads. They'd be funny. I'm picturing Romney dressed up as Wily Coyote.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 11, 2012 -> 11:31 AM) It's not different if you take 12 credits one semester or 18 credits that semester, but when you accumulate more credits (aka your academic standing as a junior/senior) costs higher than as a freshman/sophomore. It's just hidden costs that most HS students won't see when applying and will be thinking they are paying much less than they will be. I'm still not exactly clear on this: If that's on TOP of normal yearly tuition increases, that's shady. If it's INSTEAD of normal yearly tuition increases, that's not shady, IMO.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 10:45 PM) It's the fact that they have tuition increases annually on top of increases for numbers of credits you have. Oh, it wasn't clear to me that # of credits increased tuition. I'm a fan of the "11/12-to-18 credits is the same tuition" model.

This is when I'm simultaneously sad/happy that I turned off avatars and sigs.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 09:06 PM) Rmoney is a p****. End of election. I get that all candidates have campaign managers, but you at least usually feel like the candidate is the one with the final say so and is ultimately in charge. With Romney, it just seems like he's along for the ride and does what he's told.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 09:37 PM) Okay, let's just say $25k/yr with room and board, which is just about the base rate for Illinois. Meanwhile, Michigan is $23 for their LOWER payments, anyone with over 54 credits gets to pay the nice price of $24.5k, AND that goes up EVERY year. Source My brother went to Umich, and it was advertised as $18k including room and board (back in 2008). Well, with AP credits he was actually paying the rate of a sophomore, and every year they went up about 10%. That right there is some shady s***. You may pay a bit more during the freshman year, but I would say overall Michigan was more expensive for my brother compared to myself at U of I (if looking at comparable years). Michigan is also the only school in the Big Ten (maybe Wisconsin too -- not sure on that one) with the reputation of having as high of tuition as Illinois. I also don't understand what's "shady" about tuition increases, unless you're referring to the size of the increase and not the fact the increase is there at all. It's normal to expect costs to go up, but yeah 10% is pretty steep. Though, something similar might have happened at Indiana the year after I left.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 08:11 PM) You need to re-read what he wrote. Even JUST room/board + tuition is still 22-27.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 03:43 PM) This is bulls***. The state owes the school hundreds of millions of dollars, the school needs some form of income. They also lock in your tuition, so they don't scam incoming students who think their tuition is going to be $18k/yr (with room and board) only to find they are paying $24k+ their senior year. 18k/yr? This year it's about 30k/yr.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 02:01 PM) Tuition rates have been climbing exponentially over the last 10+ years. UIUC is up 50% from when I left there in 2007. Just from what I've seen in general of flagship state schools, Illinois has absurdly high in-state tuition. My (relatively small) scholarship at Indiana made it the same price UIUC would have been.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 10:22 AM) Good read on how college debt is about to be a bigger problem: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/bernanke-jus...stability-issue This crap is just not sustainable. My generation and younger are putting themselves in so much debt with little hope of paying it off. My wife and I are at about $160k. I guess in 20 years it'll be nice to have that extra income to pay for a vacation home, or more likely to pay for a semester of my kids' college tuition. Yeah, it's disturbing. Even if I can find a decent paying job right out of law school, I'll probably have to live more thriftily than I do as a stereotypical poor law student. ... ... That post might have reeked of entitlement/whining.

QUOTE (SnB @ Aug 8, 2012 -> 07:58 AM) Facebook......eh, may have jumped the shark a bit. It still has its purpose, but it's mostly just annoying. Definitely how I'm feeling. I may deactivate the account soon.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 10, 2012 -> 10:04 AM) What age of kids are we talking about here? The key question, IMO.