StrangeSox

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ May 26, 2016 -> 04:40 PM) Alpha - cost of education is significantly higher now than it was even a decade ago. When I was in law school (and tuition was a lot less than it is now), I worked at law firms in Champaign during the school year (and in the summer), had a scholarship that covered half my tuition, lived in crappy houses with a bunch of other dudes paying minimal rent, and still exited school with an amount of debt that I will call a "crapload." I was fortunate enough to not have any undergrad debt, but my law school debt is basically a second mortgage, and it's a second mortgage because of the astronomic cost of education - an issue that my parent's generation didn't have to deal with... Compared to when I went to U of I (03-07), tuition is already more than double, fees are more than double, room and board is up almost double, books are almost double. https://publicaffairs.illinois.edu/surveys/...ee_tracking.xls

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2016 -> 04:23 PM) Am I the only one who remembers working and going to school with a lot of lazy teenagers and 20somethings when I was growing up? GenXers had the same s*** said about them as Xers are now saying about Millenials. I know the WWII generation said the same thing about the Boomers to. It is tradition for people to think that somehow this generation is going to be the one that screws up the world, though the funny part is that the same people b****ing about how bad a current generation is are the ones who raised that damned generation in the first place! If they really are that bad, who made them that way? "kids these days!!!"-every generation in the history of man

Sure, college football is a multi-billion dollar business.

QUOTE (Tex @ May 26, 2016 -> 02:35 PM) $18,800 in 1981. Entry level purchasing / product manager position. which is just shy of $50k equivalent today. The last few posts are unintentional versions of this: QUOTE (Ezio Auditore @ May 26, 2016 -> 09:11 AM) There was a meme for this a couple years ago. http://www.quickmeme.com/Old-Economy-Steven/

I don't think there was a separate thread for it, but a few months ago, Gawker lost a huge case against Hulk Hogan and was ordered to pay him $150M in damages for releasing a sex tape without his authorization. The New York Times had a story yesterday revealing that this case was the culmination of an almost decade-long war against Gawker by tech billionaire Peter Theil. Theil threatened to 'destroy' Gawker in 2006 if they revealed that he was gay; they did so in 2007. Since then, Thiel has spent millions of dollars scouring the country to find and fund lawsuits against Gawker with the sole intention of destroying them. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/business...p-news&_r=0 Merits of Gawker and that specific case and award aside, it's pretty troubling if we can have billionaires use the court system to wage personal wars to shut down media companies.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 26, 2016 -> 02:11 PM) I moved out at 19. I'm kinda tired of hearing about the crippling debt of college. The big issue here is that all these kids are staying past 4 years. All four of my cousins are in their 5th to 7th year of college, and they aren't becoming f***ing doctors or lawyers. Two of them are doing political science and the other psychology. The student loans are paid off rather easily by making the minimum payment - I paid mine off last year. The rates are low. These same idiots complaining about their student loans are the ones who just had to get a shiny new car, too, and then they struggle. Shocker. Also, I don't think finding a job today is any easier or harder than it was in 2006 when I went out after it. This isn't 2009 and 2010. I worked an unpaid internship (with the Blackhawks) that opened doors to get interviews, in my eyes. Then I applied for like 200 suburban entry level marketing jobs and studied my ass off and prepared like no other for said interviews so I could get a job. I took the time to know about the company, what they wanted, prepare custom presentations given on a laptop, just to blow them away. And I still got rejected for a bunch because it WAS F*CKING COMPETITIVE THEN, TOO. I wound up taking an entry level job as a marketing coordinator at a f***ing stenography company. Your first job out of college is never going to be your dream job. These kids these days (and trust me, I interview plenty of them) show up for interviews and have no idea what the hell they're even doing there. It's a sense of entitlement that f***s them, and those clowns don't deserve the jobs they're going after. Then they complain about not being able to get a job, live with their parents forever, age themselves out of the jobs they should have gotten years ago, and then cry that Bernie Sanders isn't going to be president. Lazy little b****es. All of them. I have 6 millennials working in my department from tons interviewed. These were the few that actually did what I did and prepared, and they got the jobs. (you're a millennial )

My younger brother lives at home and has a decent job. So do a couple of guys at my work, as did my college roommate who graduated with a masters in engineering and a well-paying job. That would have been my plan too if I didn't move into my now-wife's condo.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 26, 2016 -> 09:33 AM) Yeah, I know it was 2009, but I couldn't find the one about Greece that I recently read. They have a term of derision they call adults there that won't move out, but it is also in the article that i can't find. Greece is still doing pretty terribly economically, youth unemployment is over 30% there.

Having people over to our house on Sunday, flying out to Cali for work on Monday

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 26, 2016 -> 08:58 AM) You don't think teaching timeliness of work is important at that age? It's an interesting conflict and I know my wife's talked about it. How much of schooling is about teaching behaviors versus teaching the material? A "absolutely no late work" or "heavily penalized late work" policy will discourage a student from finishing work they're late on--they might learn a lesson about doing it on time (or maybe they won't!), but they won't learn the course material. And of course that now ties back into many teachers' evaluations being based on testing and student growth, stuff that just measures how much material they're learning and not timeliness, classroom behavior, etc.

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ May 26, 2016 -> 09:01 AM) It's worse in Europe right now. Greece is pathetic. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/de...rental-home-ons IIRC it's more of a cultural norm in a lot of European countries for adult children to live at home until they're ready to marry and move out. That article is from 2009, fwiw.

QUOTE (chw42 @ May 26, 2016 -> 02:28 AM) Ozzie didn't get fired because of what he said. He got fired because of what he did. Which is underachieve in 2011 and walk out on the club before the season was even over. He probably did get fired in Miami at least in part due to his comments on Castro, though.

Fire everyone, bring in the best people, win the world series. Bing, bing, bong. So simple!

I'm not sure why trump has decided to attack gov Martinez of new Mexico, she's the head of the Republican governors association

Good, Democrats should attack anyone that wants to destroy our social welfare programs against the will of a vast majority of Americans.

sigh

Not everyone had such a rosy view of Reagan and his right-wing conservatism.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 25, 2016 -> 08:28 AM) Thats a good way to start. The benefit of those electric smokers is that you can make sure you dont oversmoke your meat (underrated issue) and it holds the temp electronically so you dont have to keep checking it. There are also bluetooth probes that can alert you when its done. Magic. I've got this dual-zone wireless thermometer. I'm not sure what the range is on the bluetooth version they also make, but with this one I can carry the wireless receiver around in my pocket and it'll alert me if the smoker temp goes out of range and when the meat is 10 degrees away from being done. I was using it on Sunday and it was working fine 100+ feet away. On that note, DON'T TRUST THE GRILL/SMOKER BUILT-IN THERMOMETER! Even if you're buying a top-of-the-line weber grill for $2000, that thermometer isn't going to be accurate enough for long, low cooks.

If you've got a gas grill already and want to give smoking a try without investing in a whole separate appliance, you can easily set up 2-zone heating and use your grill as a smoker.

Can't help with what to look for in an electric smoker (I just have a free crappy brinkman cabinet one), but I can recommend www.amazingribs.com for all sorts of great recipes, techniques, tips, and "meat science" information. Smoked some pork shoulder last weekend, and even though I had to fight to keep the temperature within range the whole day, it turned out delicious.

QUOTE (greg775 @ May 24, 2016 -> 03:18 PM) I like Bernie the best of these 3. I was lamenting no young candidate to choose from and lead America. It is disgraceful those are our three choices. It's why America is not great anymore. Our political system is garbage. It's corrupt on all levels, state and national and we're about to elect one of the biggest scam artists of all. I want youth. We get three octos. Hillary will be 77 when she's in her final year. Meanwhile a 50 year old can't get a job in the real world cause he's making too much jack and companies are saving every penny to give their CEO. Weird world. Obama was pretty young and you seem to think he's been terrible so

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ May 24, 2016 -> 03:28 PM) Now we're talking. that bum only plays every fifth day, he needs to be closing games if he really wants to earn his salary!

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ May 24, 2016 -> 02:23 PM) I don't follow. If you have their credit card, you can exchange your points to use on other carriers, e.g. one of my coworkers used his SW points to fly his family to Italy last year (we fly SW a lot at my work). I don't have the credit card, so if I want to use my points, I can only use them on SW.

The only downside with Southwest is that if you don't have their credit card, your flight options are more limited if you want to use your points for international travel. They've started doing the Caribbean and some Central American places, but it'd be nice to be able to use my points to go to Europe or something.