Lurker > Atralis

If the baby has been born, certainly.

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Atralis posted...

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

Lol what

Why would he spend 4 years at a university when you get a bachelors with 120 credits

Depending on the major you can indeed be throttled in terms of the courses that you can take. I went for a BSCS at CU Boulder after spending about a year and a half knocking out almost all of my math and science courses at community college.

Then I hit the wall of prereqs. I had to take intro before I took Data Structures. I had to take Data Structures before almost everything else. Computer Systems before operating systems. Then once things finally broadened out and I could choose from lots of different CS courses to take I felt like I really was over stretched to take too many of these extremely rigorous courses at once. Then of course the year long senior capstone.

Maybe this is just STEM or maybe just certain STEM programs but I felt it was damn near impossible to speed through the program even with most of my Math and Science knocked out beforehand.

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Atralis posted...

The easiest way mathmatically to raise your GPA would be to raise some C's to A's assuming you are capable of getting A's in these courses.

So new courses are pointless basically?

They are pointless if your sole objective is to boost your GPA in the shortest time possible.

Think about it like this

Semester 1.

Course A : C
Course B: C
Cumulative GPA : 2

Semester 2 a:
Course C: A
Course D: A
Cumulative GPA : 3

Semester 2 b:
Course A : A
Course B: A
Cumulative GPA: 4

The reason that people don't repeat every course they get a C or B is more about the fact that they want to move towards a degree in 4 to 5 years rather than in 8 years and once you actually get into college the basic fact is that C's get degrees.

I'm not going to chastise you for burning away years in community college but you have to realize that you are talking about spending a year retaking courses to get into a lower tier university and then spending four years there to get your degree and based on your credit numbers I'm going to assume your already spent about 4 years or more in community college.

The easiest way mathmatically to raise your GPA would be to raise some C's to A's assuming you are capable of getting A's in these courses.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-line-between-big-tech-and-defense-work/
Microsoft and Amazon as an example.

Is it just that Microsoft and Amazon don't paint themselves as being crusaders for some internationalist cause? US companies doing work for the US government isn't at all out of the ordinary. MIT and other big US research universities were practically built on it.

With a bullet.

As a young lad I learned the white man invented most things that aren't peanut butter. As a man I learned the white man invented peanut butter as well.

JimmyReimjob posted...

Lol what system and why do you care so passionately and hatefully about people whose circumstances you're completely ignorant of?

I know white trash including family in the deep, dirty, south that collect disability for nothing. I am a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq that doesn't collect a single $ for disability. Not even for any of the invisible things I possible could collect disability for if I just reached out my hand and said "I'll trade you my self respect for a lifetime pension". If I don't judge then who will?

How is it that we are in an age of peace compared to every other before it and an age of easy living in terms of physical labor compared to every before it yet we have more, not less, people discovering that they are "disabled" and a rapidly increasing % of those disabilities are invisible. Not "my legs are gone" but "i have vague back pain from my life of not doing anything". Not "I took a bullet to the had" but "I feel sad sometimes". Not "I'm paralyzed from my back being broken falling off a horse" but "I'm fat from growing up as a fat kid and becoming a very very fat adult".

People need to harden up.

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FairyLeviathan posted...

How the fuck do you get killed by weenie dogs

She was probably disabled. Not "disabled" like most people collecting disability that could toss around weenie dogs like some kind of vengeful dog god (a regular person), but actually a disabled person that is actually disabled.

I collect disability, and i can maul small dogs............ oh i'm exempt nvm.

Why would you be exempt. What is your disability?

My point is that I honestly believe most people on disability in this country are shit bags. Most. Some, the truly disabled, actually deserve to be paid but from my experience most people I know on disability are abusing the system. We live in a world where lifestyles have gotten dramatically easier with automation yet more people than ever collect disability. Instead of collecting after working decades in hard labor they collect from their years of doing NOTHING for their invisible diseases that apparently didn't exist a generation or two ago but are now endemic to the population which obviously makes zero fucking sense based on everything we know about evolution and genetics.

JimmyReimjob posted...

Of course it won't happen. And that is the problem. Being of a sub normal intelligence level and owning a gun have become synonymous with true patriotism.

Would you be willing to be the guy that kicks down doors to get these guns is the question? To do these checks? You think that even holding a gun is stupid. Would you be willing to literally be one of the first guys to die in what would effectively be a civil war to make the world the way you think it should be?

Because that is what it would take. You know the polls I'm assuming. You are part of the absurdly small % of men of military age in the US that would currently support this policy of repealing the 2nd amendment. If you aren't willing to actually step into the line of fire what makes you think it could be done? Or are you hoping that at some point in the future robots could do the job?

This is part of my point. They have guns you don't. You are afraid of guns. They aren't.

Being self righteous doesn't win a gun fight.

JimmyReimjob posted...

Gun owners are the single greatest cause of these situations. In every situation, the perpetrator is either a gun owner themself or has got the gun from a gun owner.

Gun owners refuse to responsibly store their firearms because they are intrinsically irresponsible. They are the same considered, diplomatic type that thinks they are under threat or risk being under threat and the only way to reason with a threat is by shooting at it.

The 2nd amendment doesn't need to be repealed, the idiots that own guns need to be. There needs to be a full audit on AT LEAST ever legal firearm in the country, a surprise check up with the penalty for improper storage being a lifetime ownership ban and if anyone under 18 could gain access to the firearm, imprisonment.

Next step, making it illegal to sell a firearm to anyone with a criminal record, history of mental illness, or any other quality that would disqualify them as a psychotic asshole (like wearing a fucking MAGA hat and camo shorts).

Republicans should be afraid of having their guns taken away, because the youth of today is going to be in office before the cold touch of death has to rip the guns from their hands.

Big talk but would you be willing to be the guy making that "check" in parts of the country where the owner of the gun could literally MURDER you and then get found not guilty by a jury?

You think that wouldn't happen? Do you know US history?

FairyLeviathan posted...

How the fuck do you get killed by weenie dogs

She was probably disabled. Not "disabled" like most people collecting disability that could toss around weenie dogs like some kind of vengeful dog god (a regular person), but actually a disabled person that is actually disabled.

Set any timer you want for this account bet. 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 years.

Does anyone on this board actually see a time in the future before they are an old man where the 2nd amendment will be altered? 3/4 of the states? Really? Do you think you could get 1/4 of the states to agree to it at this point?

MrResetti posted...

They don't get repealed they get amended

How many times has an.... amendment been amended without being repealed. I'll give you as much time as you need.

Even if you want it to be repealed you are basically either stupid or a lunatic if you actually believe that it will happen in the next 20 years if you have ever spent an hour researching this topic in your life.

And you have no business talking about the topic in the first place if you haven't set aside a solid hour to do that kind of research at any point in your life.

If you told the military to do that they would shoot you. Are you the kind of person that joins the military? Not in a million years? Imagine who is the kind of person that joins not just the military but the infantry these days?

Not people like you. Not people that you've even met. The kind of people that will gun you down for even suggesting what you are talking about.

Dynasty Warriors Gundam never really felt like it should to me. In the absence of anything but Mechs there was no sense of scale and I felt like I was watching toys fighting eachother rather than a fight between massive mechs.

Darmik posted...

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darkjedilink posted...

Darmik posted...

darkjedilink posted...

I would still love to know how one geriatric man was able to get all of those firearms and all that ammo up to his room by himself past all those cameras, with literally nobody seeing a God-damned thing.

Suitcases

Some heavy fuckin' suitcases for a geriatric with health issues.

What are elevators, rolling suitcases, and luggage carts?

this same debate happened when the shooting first occurred. some people have apparently never stayed in a hotel before

People like that probably haven't.

I would actually like the guy to respond to this. Have you ever stayed in a hotel before? In your life? Have you ever stayed in a Casino or a large resort? Can you imagine a situation with tons of anonymous people constantly flowing around you or you are a sheltered scared little man that is like "how could you not notice a guy moving a suitcase in a Casino in vegas!?"

Why not fly to Vegas and stay in a casino there just to feel what its like? No seriously why not? Do you lack the $? Do you lack the courage? This is a question you could answer for yourself.

darkjedilink posted...

I would still love to know how one geriatric man was able to get all of those firearms and all that ammo up to his room by himself past all those cameras, with literally nobody seeing a God-damned thing.

In suitcases in a huge hotel with people constantly flowing in and out.

What about this don't you understand? Are you stupid?

foreveraIone posted...

Atralis posted...

Honestly if it were up to me we would just gather up the MS13 members from the prisons and communities around our country and round them up and tell them they are going to be deported and then impale them on stakes facing south all along the US border. Basically the same thing that Vlad did with the Turks. A forest of death all along the border.

I should never be president.

well at least you have self awareness.

your unhealthy fantasies of genocide scare me.

MS 13 members aren't born with those tats which means this most certainly wouldn't be genocide. I mean these guys basically tattoo "kill me" on their foreheads. Do you even doubt that if they became as big of a problem in the US as they are in El Salvador they would just be executed extralegally across the US? "Resisting arrest".

Honestly if it were up to me we would just gather up the MS13 members from the prisons and communities around our country and round them up and tell them they are going to be deported and then impale them on stakes facing south all along the US border with their corpses kind of hanging over the edge of the border on these long poles just so that we are keeping our word. Basically the same thing that Vlad did with the Turks. A forest of death all along the border.

I should never be president.

DarkTransient posted...

If your options are 3/5ths or nothing at all, what's the better option to pick?

Because that's pretty much what the case was under the climate at the time. Better to give them something than nothing at all - of course, with the stipulation that you then continue working to get them the full equal status to everyone else.

It was worse than nothing for the reasons that have been stated. How is this difficult to understand? Should slave owners basically get to say. "I own 100 slaves i should get 101 votes instead of just 1."

God people are stupid.

Wong from strange. Wong is wong.

Its weird to think that we all go all the way back at least in terms of the history of Earth. Our ancestors go back billions of years to the origin of life on this planet and even farther if you start thinking about stardust and all that junk.

As a resident of Colorado I thought this was something else....

TroutPaste posted...

Internet browser looks crisper, but games are funky

hmmm in both settings and a few games its locked on 1768x992 for resolution. i cant change it anymore

You have your resolution set incorrectly. The monitor you linked to is 1080p which would be 1920*1080. Make sure your resolution in Windows is set correctly. If you've got an Nvidia graphics card an "Ge Force Experience" open that up and look at the resolution there as well.

No that isn't ok.

Tell me I'm wrong here.

1. You are a whiny little bitch if you even care about things like this in a situation where parking isn't incredibly scarce.

2. In situations where parking IS incredibly scarce you take what spots you can get. If you park next to a large vehicle that takes up almost two spots or next to a guy parking near or across the line and it pushes you close to line on your passenger side does it give the right to the next guy that shows up to scratch your car just because? Rather than imagine that he parked that way on purpose imagine the situations that have caused you to basically have to park that way in the past.

Comfy_Pillow posted...

I receded at the temples a bit when i was 21. 27 now and not much has changed thankfully.

I shampoo less often and bought better conditioner and i think that helped a lot.

This is nonsense though isn't it? I mean you either go bald or your don't. Its genetic. Why worry about it?

31 and no. My family doesn't really have much of that though between my father, grandparents, cousins.

I joined the Army on my own after high school. If they called me back I would go without reservations.

I do a bit of lifting at the company gym at the end of work monday to friday (15-20 minutes).

A piece of advice that is valid regardless of what game you go into.... choose a high population server. On anything but a very high population server most MMORPGs are lifeless in the leveling areas because there are just not enough people spread across a very big world.

Went to college in Boulder.

Stop talking to your hand.

Goats posted...

Kajagogo posted...

Goats posted...

Isn't Hawaii currently getting eaten by a volcano?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/04/us/kilauea-volcano-hawaii-earthquakes/index.html

Hawaii has more than one island....did you know that?

No shit but there is mostly one island people refer to when talking about Hawaii.

Most of the people actually live on other islands, mainly Oahu (where Honolulu is). Only about 200,000 out of the 1.5 million live on the big island and it is indeed a big island. This volcanic activity is effective a small portion of the population on that island.

M_Live posted...

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M_Live posted...

Why the fuck should the government have the right to step in and say "actually, people should pay more money for rent?" Rent prices in NY are already ridiculous.

its changing rent from 50 to 150 dollars a month...

Where do people pay $50 a month for rent? And that doesn't change the whole "the government should not fucking touch people's rent" aspect. Fuck this guy tbqh.

The point you are missing is that the government is already touching their rent by paying more than 95% of it. If you go from having the government pay 95% of your rent to having them pay 85% of it they are touching it less not more.

The $50 figure is basically there just to try and get the people living on public assistance used to the concept of paying bills and I could imagine that with rising costs and wages it has become such a trivial amount that it no longer serves that purpose well.

foreveraIone posted...

UrCa1988 posted...

$1.3 billion worldwide gross, I'm sure they're crying into their piles of money that you don't like it.

black panther made that much.

I'm sure Disney/Marvel is weeping at the fact they have multiple movies raking in a billion + $ in a single year.

Compared to what? I'd agree most people are stupid is a good rule to follow when you are out in public but what are we comparing ourselves to here? I get saying that a certain school is below average but this feels like saying the average is below average which is silly.

hockeybub89 posted...

He doesn't want to die in a nursing home or as someone else's burden, which is what he would be doing in Austrslia. He is very old and of sound mind and just tired of life.

If he doesn't want to be a burden why not just blow his brains out with a shotgun? He obviously doesn't have some religious objection to that. Why does that require a trip around the world?

Why does this require a trip? Its not like "how to kill yourself" is a mystery that requires a pilgramage to discover the secret to.

I see it as black and blue and I can understand from a factual standpoint and I understand why people see white and gold. They are less evolved untermensch with eyes that can barely see color beyond the degree that a dog can see color. I feel like someone could major in the fact that a portion of the human population is inferior to the rest.

I could only really support the death penalty for rape in a case where someone is a serial rapist with many people from many walks of life stepping forward to condemn them.

I don't want to be that guy but habeus corpus. Present the body. There is no dead body to confirm that some heinous and murderous shit was done. A person can literally be accused of rape just as part of a he said she said situation. Think 'To Kill a Mockingbird' or any of the real life cases like it. Think the Salem Witch trials with a bunch of deluded people stepping forward saying "I was cursed by the devil and this witch called him" with obviously ZERO proof or merit.

Been moving towards my belly.

The beer belly is not a myth. I'm 6'1 and 1/3" and I've been hovering between 210 and 215 for two years now. Do I actually need to stop drinking 5 or 6 beers a night to lose weight? I feel like I have a jelly belly hanging beneath a more muscular frame where as before I started hitting the gym 5 nights a week I was slightly pudgy over my whole surface area.

Goku could literally blow up the planet accidentally by taking a shit after an especially spicy burrito.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science_and_environment

The planet Uranus has clouds made up of hydrogen sulphide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their unpleasant smell.

The possibility of this gas being present in the atmosphere of the seventh planet had long been debated, but has now been confirmed for the first time by observations at a telescope on Hawaii.

We always suspected but now we know.

invite me.

His secret to longevity is that he is fictional.