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Originally posted by old_gregg View Postnorm had all his lectures on cd when i took his class.
Sent from my SM-G930V using Tapatalk"I think it was King Benjamin who said 'you sorry ass shitbags who have no skills that the market values also have an obligation to have the attitude that if one day you do in fact win the PowerBall Lottery that you will then impart of your substance to those without.'"
- Goatnapper'96
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Originally posted by Moliere View PostYes, Norm Nemrow is one of the best profs ever!!!"There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View PostShameless.
The best profs write online texts that are available to everyone for free.
So, yes, the cost is shameless, but there are reasons for why it was chosen."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by falafel View PostPing Pong playing robot at CES. I doubt it could handle my smash, but pretty cool.
ROBOT HELL
CES Was Full of Useless Robots and Machines That Don’t Work
This year’s electronics expo promised a ‘better life’ and ‘better world.’ It instead offered a folding machine that can’t fold sweatshirts.
There’s a woman in Sweden named Simone Giertz who makes a living building shitty robots. Her well-intentioned creations fail comically at waking her up, brushing her teeth, washing her hair, applying lipstick, and making her breakfast.
At CES in 2018, any number of these robots would have been right at home.
CES is a massive annual trade show in Las Vegas where hundreds of thousands of people gather to see the latest and greatest new products in consumer tech. In recent years, the show has transformed into a sprawling behemoth that dominates the entire city for a week.
The event is meant to deliver a vision of the future. The technology on display is supposed to show you what the next generation of cars, TVs, computers, cameras, etc. will look like. At best, the products deliver a rough sketch.
Take the FoldiMate, a giant robotic machine that costs $850 that can supposedly fold your clothes. The machine, which took up more space than a washing machine, might be worth it if you could dump a huge pile of laundry inside some chamber and have your garments returned to you in neatly folded stacks. But that type of machine has yet to be built.
In order for the FoldiMate to work, you must individually button up each shirt then manually clip it onto the machine, which could be more time consuming than just folding everything yourself.
[...]"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View PostAin't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View PostAgreed that textbooks cost too much, but a language class is a skills class, not a content class. That book comes with an online platform that includes 100's of hours of video content, live chat with native speakers, and other resources that contribute more to the cost than the book itself. The online platform also allows for instantaneous feedback of one's work, so if you're working on a grammar point and you get something wrong, it will tell you. When I started, 18 years ago, you bought a $25 workbook that you had to tear out and hand in and that took me hours and hours to grade x 4 classes. You wouldn't get timely feedback; it would only happen after the test on that material. The online platform is much more conducive to a skills class learning environment. However, that same book used to be $175 like 5 years ago. They up the price every year without changing anything, or just changing the colors and upping the price. Furthermore, the student is complaining about it being two semesters, but that is a four semester book, they just aren't continuing on past the required number of credits.
So, yes, the cost is shameless, but there are reasons for why it was chosen."If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by Uncle Ted View Post
It sucks at teaching grammar, but it's good for vocab. I'll give it that."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Bill Maher mentioned this statue at an Australian Catholic school honoring a priest who shared bread with starving children. Only after it was, uh, erected, did anyone eventually realize some people (those with their minds in the gutter) might interpret it differently so it's been covered up pending a few cosmetic changes that will be forthcoming.
Spoiler for Covered up in the interest of good taste, and I apologize in advance.:
Critics have observed that if that's bread it must have been sponsored by Subway and should be named Father Footlong.
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That's pretty funny.
I'd like to see your search history for the hour before you found that gem...Last edited by clackamascoug; 01-21-2018, 10:20 PM.
When poet puts pen to paper imagination breathes life, finding hearth and home.
-Mid Summer's Night Dream
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Originally posted by clackamascoug View PostThat's pretty funny.
I'd like to see your search history for the hour before you found that gem...
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"If there is one thing I am, it's always right." -Ted Nugent.
"I honestly believe saying someone is a smart lawyer is damning with faint praise. The smartest people become engineers and scientists." -SU.
"Yet I still see wisdom in that which Uncle Ted posts." -creek.
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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