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Because I just turned you in.

CBO is now a biased office. It would be immediately discredited. Duh.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ May 26, 2010 -> 01:15 AM) GOVERNMENT SAVES! Go live in China. At least you'd get FREE health care. :lolhitting :lolhitting :lolhitting

I can't wait until the government takes over kaps job.

on the island though?

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 24, 2010 -> 11:03 PM) Actually, what's more likely is they get press coverage for this deal, they get more applications because of it, they are therefore able to refuse admission to more applicants, and their admission standards look more stringent...to the filter that US News uses to rank colleges (which is a simple percentage of applicants admitted). "get better students"

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 24, 2010 -> 06:24 PM) I don't have a problem with the school giving out computing devices. I don't think the iPad is the best device, and it seems like it was done, at least partially, as a way to market towards potential students. "Hey, I get a cool iPad if I go to IIT!" SOooo, they might get better students and educate them better. WHat a stupid decision. Meanwhile, US NEws and World Report is counting how many flat screen tvs are at a college in order to rank them.

Apparently these kids did actually care, that's why the administration acted quickly to diffuse it. Only to get the uproar from a bunch of people saying" Whater you can't wear AMERICAN SHIRTS in AMERICA ANYMORE AHREOAUREALRF"

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 24, 2010 -> 05:32 PM) I believe is a an excellent check. I don't know constitutional law well enough, but as long as Congress has the ability to override each line veto individually, it should be OK by me. Sure, they have the ability...but realistically it would be the death of it.

I still don't believe it's constitutional and it should fail.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ May 24, 2010 -> 12:45 PM) 6 Seasons of TV were built on these questions, the amount of time spent on Walt and Aaron demands an answer, and instead the Writers chose to have ignore these questions in favor of a metaphysical ending that demands guesswork and conjecture for the plot that drove the show sinces its inception. it really wasn't built on those questions.

and those were all imperative to my understanding of the show.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 24, 2010 -> 12:12 AM) I'm pretty sure the ever increasing tuition that IIT students have to pay is responsible for some of those iPads, if not all of them. Old school people like my dad (who b****es about dinning hall food prices) would probably throw a hissy fit at something like this. And I sort of don't blame him. It'd be great if the iPad had a more convenient stylus input function. That way, it can be really useful to take notes on, something that I hate to do on pen and paper because I barely bother reading my notes afterwards. tuition is going to go up regardless. I'd like to know why my tuition went up 33% with little special perks for me. (j-school was privately funded)

I've read fiction books before in my life. Sometimes they create fictional settings. Many times, while explaining how those fictional settings are and their properties, they don't explain the origin of it from the very beginning. Why? Because it's boring and irrelevant. You know what was a boring episode? The origin of jacob and smokemonster. You know what would have been really boring? Sidetracking the last episode for a quick crash course about who created/discovered the island.

QUOTE (knightni @ May 23, 2010 -> 11:07 PM) The mid-90s sell-off following the Cup thrashing at the hands of Lemieux, Francis and Jagr killed my budding fandom. Wirtz and his clueless front office didn't help either. Trading or allowing free agency to Roenick, Belfour, Chelios, Suter, Sutter, Amonte, Carney, Krivokrasov, Smith, Murphy, Nicholls, Matteau, Weinrich, Ruutu, Poulin and other guys for crap just stomped my heart flat. That said, good luck to the new 'Hawks in the Finals. Yeah, it was bad. What made it worse was beside thrashing the on the field product they were pissing away their fan experience. They'd f*** with the peanut vendors, jack up prices when we sucked, f*** with parking. It was like they were actively trying to drive everyone away. And they succeeded with me. I only started following again after we drafted Kane. Good timing.

hahaha

STANLEY CUP FINALSSSSSS... I don't remember s*** from 92, I didn't get into it until 94, one of my fav teams everrrrrrr... but nonetheless... YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I love every player on this team now. Huet...meh.

In the coming weeks I'd check out Groupon chicago for some stuff to do, just make sure they are good for holidays. They've done a lot of the stuff you mentioned recently for 90% off and stuff. (k...also a heads up, they are starting to do mlb tickets, check out next week for some sox ones.)

Kap does this all the time, you can't criticize any fringe right group without kap jumping on the grenade for them and acting hurt. If someone started talking s*** on code pink or the firedoggers I don't think I would care.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 18, 2010 -> 11:35 PM) Why not a laptop or an actual e-reader instead? Seems more like a marketing thing to me. I was pretty pissed off at the response to this. yeah, it could just be a deal with apple, but schools do these deals ALL THE TIME with TONS of other products. However, for all the money the school takes from students to do minor aesthetic updates and to buy more flat screen tvs to up their US and World Report rankings, at least the school is spending the students money on a device that could actually enhance their learning experience, and in regards to ebooks, save them some money. I applaud them. I wish so much of my tuition wasn't used in a way tailored to artificially inflate our ranking instead of saving some of our departments that were producing great professors but completely underfunded and would leave.

Depends if you ask someone in the south that.

Got a call from my friend yesterday "Hey man, wanna go to this music festival in Tinley Park, it's $25" "Eh, I'm trying to save my money and they'll rape me with the cost of beer, what's playing" "Don't worry bout the ticket, It's gonna just be some live music, the sun, some folk stuff" "Alright" Mother f***er tricked me into going to Country Thunder. While there was an extraordinary # of good looking women dressed in daisy dukes and letting their boobs hang out (who also all raised their hands when asked if there were any believers in the audience) The dudes were all absolutely hideous. Quite a conundrum. Also, I was doing fairly well when the sun was out, and we had some alcohol and I could just relax, but when the sun went down and I was forced to listen to the final act exclusively, Montgomery Gentry. And I can say, I understand most every other music and why it can appeal to people even if I don't like it...except for country. I really have no f***ing clue the difference between each individual song, why everyone sings in the same voice, and how the f*** it can be enjoyable to just talk about honky tonking and your truck. It was f***ing painful. Especially losing a saturday night to that.

To note, this could be an incredible day if: Sox sweep Hawks sweep Lost sweeps the world with kindness.

See, I think you are joking. But how do American textbooks not already talk about Jefferson Davis and Lincoln? And I was a student in America, we don't cover Davis terribly negatively nor the south, there's a bunch of innuendo that it wasn't about slavery, which it was.

WHY DOES OBAMA HATE BP SO MUCH THEY ARE JUST TRYING TO MAKE MONEY BY DESTROYING THOUSANDS OF OTHER BUSINESSES AND POISONING OUR WATER WHY ARE THEY SO VICTIMIZED IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE WHYYYYYYYYY