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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
If it means killing college sports, I'll take the risk. God I hate our athlete worship. waste of goddamn money.
A: "You got into your first choice school! wow! That must have taken a lot of work"
B: "Oh yeah, loaded with extracurriculars, and straight As, plus working part time to save up for tuition"
C: "Oh hey I got in too, congrats!"
A:"What'd you do?"
C:"I can throw a ball pretty far"
edited 20th Nov '16 6:45:58 AM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"![]()
I don't know. Back to the topic of climate change though, now was the absolute worst time to put someone with Trump's attitude in the white house. We can only hope that, similar to how Ronald Reagan changed his mind about the prospect of nuclear war (allegedly after watching War Games), Trump will have a change of heart about climate change.
edited 20th Nov '16 6:49:57 AM by CaptainCapsase
Legally, the answer is simple enough: create two types of business license. One would be for education (required for colleges and universities), and the other would be for sports (required for earning money off of a sports franchise). Then make them mutually exclusive; you can't have both.
Socially, I don't know, but that's kind of outside the scope of this thread.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)you'd just see more shell companies. The only real option at this point is to let them destroy themselves, or nuke them from orbit and carefully crush the life out of any sports teams/companies/whatever that survive to make sure they don't take root again.
And probably tax the SHIT out of endorsement deals.
edited 20th Nov '16 7:17:11 AM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"... Honestly, it'd probably be a good idea to just flat our force every single college student that isn't disabled to take up some form of exercise for, oh, 4-5 hours a week. I'm basing this on my current social circle as a comp-sci student. But.. competitive sports while studying? That's nuts. Being a competitive athlete is a full time job. So is being a serious student. Being both at the same time is.. not really possible. If you have the surplus for it, you're not enrolled in challenging enough classes.
Sadly, the UK has not moved past it. Look at the Brexit vote.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.I'm quite a bit behind posting this because this thread moves fast and I need minor things like sleep.
Anyway, I wanted to address StephanReiken's and the threads discussion about the emails, starting roughly about here
. Bit of a dead horse, I know, but there's a point that wasn't brought up given Stephan's concern seemed to be about leaking national secrets: the reports that President-Elect Trump was speaking to world leaders on an unsecured line and had Ivanka sit in on a meeting with Japan's prime minister. If one or the other has been debunked since I heard of them, then nevermind the follow up.
If the worst Comey could say about Clinton's email server is it was "careless" then what would you call the above? An unsecured line plus Trump's tendency to shoot his mouth off could spell bad news.
Personally, my issue regarding the email server was more about transparency than national security because, to me, the biggest difference between Clinton and Trump is that Clinton would have been competent, and to me that's true even if she was guilty as sin of every charge of corruption levied against her.
If your concern is national security, then Trump's blasé attitude about it before even being sworn in has already eclipsed the worst Clinton has done.
edited 20th Nov '16 7:38:16 AM by sgamer82
Trump is a completely shameless snake oil salesman. All the news about his administration has indicated it will likely be one of the most corrupt governments imaginable, and yet someone wants to talk about Hillary's corruption, when at worst she's just a garden variety politician? Are you kidding me?
Like, I legitimately don't know how you can say that "we'd still have a country after 4 years" when Trump might be in the middle of turning the US into an illiberal democracy.
That would not have happened during a Hillary administration.
Not to mention the climate change denialism, the validation of bigots and hate groups everywhere, the complete lack of political experience, etc.
Do you have any idea what this all might mean for freedom of the press? For the civil rights of LGBT people, minorities, and women everywhere? For people reliant on the ACA?
By supporting Trump you are, at the least, implicitly leaving those people to rot. And for what? If you can't understand why people have a problem with that I don't know what else I can say.
You're literally talking about a man who's treating the process of selecting his appointments like a fucking reality TV show.
edited 20th Nov '16 8:02:01 AM by Draghinazzo
I'd argue the Brexit vote is the ultimate example of moving past it. The United Kingdom has an opportunity to remain relevant on the global stage via the EU and they chose no. The new populist-right is mostly isolationist, even despite some of Trump's more hawkish hires, his base has no desire for a ground war.
Edit: I was talking with a friend of mine who's pursuing a Political Science Ph D, and I remarked that the interesting thing about this "wave" compared to other international political waves is that this is a wave run by the 50+ crowd, which is cause for hope. This isn't the new Fascism because Fascists were a movement with a strong youth component, while the youth overwhelming reject Brexit and Trump, though the chattering classes rarely play up the fact that this is a generational war as much as any other divide.
edited 20th Nov '16 7:51:56 AM by Ogodei
I am living in one of the strongest Brexit areas (in fact, it's the strongest Brexit region of Wales). Little Empire may not get directly mentioned but it's exactly what people are thinking of when they speak of the UK finally 'regaining influence' in the world. They want the UK to be the dominant player in the world and they think they're reclaiming that position by Brexiting. It's not that they want to be isolated from the world; it's that they want to control it.
If anything, that's part of why these people could never reconcile with the EU. It felt like a kick in the teeth to a country that once sat on top of the world. They're trying to reclaim the bum print.
edited 20th Nov '16 8:02:45 AM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.One thing I would remind people over the Clinton emails is that many of the actions she took was based on advice she received from Colin Powell. Colin Powell himself was functioning in a similar way on the basis of how things had been done by his predecessors. It was considered a necessity for being able to function with the systems they had.
From what I've been able to find out, the US suffers the same problem the UK, and several other countries, have - government functions on antiquated equipment, even though much of the job has the potential to be very sensitive in a number of ways (market sensitive, security sensitive, diplomatically sensitive, you name it), and it is never a political priority to improve - indeed, political policies very often are diametrically opposed to the improvement of both IT systems and information handling procedures (the policies being to 'cute waste' and 'improve efficiency' which is precisely what leads to impossibly wasteful and inefficient systems and procedures in the first place).
From what I could find by researching the subject, Clinton was being made the scapegoat for a legacy issue that was based on successive short-sighted policy position by governments of any party (because of the way politics gets played). That's one of the reasons why the FBI would see nothing to prosecute - the issue is the system, not the individual.
I would expect Trump's government to be wrestling with the exact same problem for the exact same reason - and that's before we discuss the previous posts that correctly pointed out that Trump's own private business practices have a terrible IT security record, and his transition team behaviour has been even more unsecured that normal.
edited 20th Nov '16 8:08:15 AM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

The thing is that colleges in the U.S. are genuinely expensive, mainly because the demand for them being higher due to just being more people attending them (and not just U.S. residents, quite a few people come from overseas here for education), coupled with the costs of sports programs.
I've been noting in various threads that U.S. higher education is a economic bubble that is going to burst sooner or later; and Trump's plan would push it towards sooner.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)