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That looks like a removable front panel, why not just get front panel express to make you one?

I haven't. Amazon link pls? or mail me the book

I all but abandonned fantasy (with the exception of harry potter, which has more to do with my having kids than actually enjoying the writing) about 10 years ago. I still read some SF and horror, tho not much hard sf. Tim Powers, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, John Shirley, etc.

I disagree wrt Piers or Pern. Bad, but not in the same universe of bad.

balanced wheatfield?

Jordan went WAY downhill with book 7. So if you stopped at 4, you might not realize just how amazingly bad it got.

That captain america suit looks cute on you in that picture, jacob

I like Romney's quote about your brother: "Who?"

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You don't wanna work for the weather service. You want to work for the post office

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More power to them. I only care about the people I'm trying to hire

I do have a solution. I consider a college degree irrelevant, and don't consider it at all in hiring. And I lament pubically the state of the american university system, and suggest people spend the time they owuld have spent in college in the army or working to learn a trade. Unless they don't need to earn a living later in life, then I suggest they study whatever the hell they want, and milk it as long as they can.

I'll vote for Ron Paul in the primary, and whoever wins for the republicans for president.

I quit reading 1/3 of the way through book 7. I've never quit a series like that before, but damn, that 7th book was complete crap. 800 pages of braid tugging.

My point is teachers jobs are to teach the material, and grade on their ability to do it. If a student can do 200% of what's required, that doesn't mean they get a 100. If they can do the material without flaw, that's 100%. Above that, give extra credit or not, I don't give a shit. If you need a curve to judge, instead of just basing it on measurable criteria, and you're not talking about liberal arts courses, you're doing something wrong. And you're gonna turn out a bunch of overrated morons. And should get fired.

Tommy Thompson...whatever

He could assign points to the problems such that the 50 was 100.

Now that we know hiro is a space alien brought down by his dad to fight gamura, things have really gotten interesting. He gained the ability to turn into an 80 ft tall lizard, in addition to his other talents. So yah, great start to the new season.

Bah, I'm not even the manager for the person being hired I'm just doing some of the interviewing.

The problem, as I see it, all comes down to tenure They can't fire the asshole teachers, so they just inflate their classes' grades

We differ as to whether the school is doing a favor to anyone by doing that. If they like to fuck with students by giving hard exams, that doesn't mean the grading can't reflect that. Bell curves, however, cause people who don't understand the material to get rewarded, and are evil.

Then it's irrelevant how they did on other tests As long as the test out test isn't graded on a curve. I tested out of half of the coursework for computer science in college...it's a shame that's such an irrelevant degree

System administration is never taught in school But anyway, the job isn't a typical admin job, and if you have any interest in supercomputing, or massively parallel computational science, the job has LOTS of interesting directions it could go.

Send me a resume