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We're now entering the post-entitlement generation, it's almost like a regression of intelligence in our species, these kids are incapable of making any type of meaningful decisions much less doing anything productive with themselves. My wife's youngest will point out stories like yours and make broad claims that at least with his profound laziness and lack of any drive for life, that he could have turned out much worse than being in his 20s and wanting to sleep all day and play video games all night and still expects mom to wash his clothes and buy him groceries(thank god he's not living here

She also ripped his man-sack half off, which was how he was easily caught. But the take away is, those intent on doing others harm will tend to do so, no matter what. My advice is to arm yourself with the means and knowledge to not feel unsafe so you can enjoy life.

Off the top of my head, archival medium from best to worst is: Magnetic Tape Drives: Price is prohibitive for personal use, longevity with proper storage is in the 50+ year range. Handling durability is fair. Hard disk Drives: Price is cheapest from a $ to MB comparison. Longevity is around 10-20 years. Handling durability is great. Optical Media (DVD/CD): Price is cheap in bulk. Longevity is in the 10+ year range. Handling durability is poor. Flash Media (USB, SD-Cards): Price is cheap and getting cheaper. Longevity is unknown. Handling durability is great. Online Stor

It seems that all TV based subscription services are seeing a huge drop over the past year, more and more folks are just not watching television like they did in the past. OTOH, broadband ONLY subs are going through the roof, nearly every company is reporting an increase in internet subs over the past year, some to the tune of 30-40k subscribers. This is from how the industry handles their subs. When you drop TV type stuff from a package you're pretty much canceling your "service" and will appear as a "new" internet subscriber when you keep those packages. BTW, more and more evi

I'll agree with Nitro on this one. Fairly common to have a car "totaled" out by the insurance based on "their" prices to fix it, yet they'll turn around and sell it back to the owner for a discounted price. If the car was closer it wouldn't be much of a problem to have a private mechanic of your choosing check it out and tell you if it's worth getting. IMO I'd stay away because of the distances involved. And yes, unfortunately, when buying/selling privately it can be a crap shoot since all sales are considered AS IS, and it's up to the buyer to exercise due diligence in those s

I know in the past few years Wal-Mart on Dallas Hwy was open on T-Day, but only up until a certain time, and open back up later in the evening. This year.. unsure.

I just follow the directions on the back of the box.

Anyone who compares retail business to a for profit entity that stands between weather folks can receive care or live miserable lives really doesn't have a lick of sense in their damn heads. It's not about hating capitalism, it's about hating companies who have shoe-horned their profit making in between patients and doctors and who have taken all the decision making out of the doctors hands in regards to administering treatment. Then again I'd expect no less from someone who sells t-shirts made by the nimble fingers of children who live in a 3rd world country.

After attempting to read that I need an Excedrin.

I'm in awe of the super dredges that operated around the turn of the 20th century. These beasts would start in a waterway and work their way inland along surface gold deposits, oft times in places where there wasn't more than just a creek bed by making their own "river" as they went along. These beasts were giant gold extraction factories and could process a few hundred tons of ore a day. They operated all over the Pacific NorthWest and into Alaska and Canada.

An Oregon highway engineer who blew up a dead beached whale with a half-ton of dynamite in 1970 has died at the age of 84. George Thomas Thornton gained national attention over the exploding whale, and the act endured for decades thanks to a video that shows giant pieces of whale carcass splattering across the beach and spectators. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6lTSxJvR4w

I did enjoy by getting married to a beautiful lady.

I've seen this happen many times online around the Holidays, Best Buy has done this, Amazon.com has done this, everyone gets upset because they won't honor their $3000 order for $300. Just another case of nothing to see here, move along.

Has there ever been a topic on this board where you don't come across as completely hostile? Have you ever considered trying to restrain yourself from belittling those you reply to? If someone doesn't agree or tries to debate you just go straight for the jugular and announce them stupid. Frankly the signal of your posts gets lost in the noise of your negative drivel.

How to say this.. The state has been cracking down on the Universities to cut-back where they can since the University system in GA has been losing money overall. We, as taxpayers, support the Universities but in the fashion that they cannot be money losing institutions, they are under obligation to profit for their efforts, and part of that is with growth and improvement in these cases, but it mainly means they can't run in the red year to year, while improving. The schools that have cut back and expanded at the same time, while turning a profit are seen as accomplishing the states goals pro

I need to be real careful how I put this. You know how when a light goes on and the roaches scurry to hide, in the case of SPSU the roaches at the top started scurrying awhile back because they already knew when the light was going to come on regardless of statements to the contrary, even though they were in a place where they could have prevented the light from coming on in the first place. During the past year there has been a lot of "throwing under the bus" going on. And the ones being thrown under the bus are those who made a lifelong career out of building up the pedigree

Yes SPSU offers highly applicable workplace technical degrees. Meaning that SPSU graduates are ready to work upon graduation in high paying fields.

Correct, the plan is that SPSU will stay as it is with the same set of classes, the management thereof will move to the Kennesaw State folks. Once the merger is complete the "new" University in Cobb, announced to retain the KSU name, will most likely be the 3rd largest in the state behind UGA and Tech. Cannot agree with that assessment, any time there is a merger redundant staff and positions that overlap will be let go. That includes things like Clerical, Support services, Accounting and Finance, Campus IT, Campus Security etc.. positions will all be examined and where there is co

I didn't see another topic on this, sorry. And yes it is big news, can't go into details, but much of what has been going on the past few months there is now making so much sense. Can understand how he feels, a lot of folks there are feeling the same.

Emails showed up a few hours ago announcing this news to all employees of SPSU. AJC picked it up and put the story out. http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local-education/kennesaw-state-southern-poly-to-merge/nbfMT/ better story from MDJ: http://mdjonline.com/bookmark/23964073-Kennesaw-State-University-and-SPSU-to-merge-in-2015

I worked retail in my past, and came to realize while you can get all sorts (of customers), it's really the management at whatever place you're working that can ruin the experience of working there, and the customers can be the best part, not all the time but most of it anyways. So for me in that role it was give and take, and that's why I do my best not to antagonize anyone working those jobs. And the apathy at some retail places, I can fully understand, it doesn't bother me one bit. But it's the out-right hostility I've encountered at a few places this week when I go to spend my mo

I could go on some specific rants about what I've encountered this week alone. But here lately I've become to wonder if I'm expecting too much when I do business with a brick and mortar store. Not that I really have high expectations, it's just that hoping to walk into a place of business, expecting to do business without it coming down to have to make them just do their jobs seems to be too high of a desire as a customer these days. One in particular is these national auto parts stores, is it too much to ask to buy something, only to open it up and not find that it's already been bough

I'm just glad that Thanksgiving falls on a Friday this year.

Mine says Colorado, which sounds about right for me at this stage in my life. Unfortunately that would mean leaving my parents here by themselves and haven't been able to bring myself to do that. Mom is now pretty much bedridden with her health issues and I go by there several times a week to do shopping and etc.. for her as well as doing some much needed maintenance on her house. Dad is still working at the moment hoping to help bring his retirement pension up a bracket and hasn't the energy nor time to tackle anything.

Yup was going to say I've been "both ways" on it.. heh.. If you don't mind the long ride then going from Dallas to Alpharetta sure beats having to work your way through Roswell or, even worse, 285 to 400 during commute hours. And 92 was supposed to be widened in Paulding in the mid 1990's but the high emission issues with Metro Atlanta completely cut out that federal funding back then. Which I still don't get, instead of freeing up traffic by doing road projects, they left them alone which just exacerbates emission issues when everyone is sitting still on the roads longer. Also, Hw