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    Goto law school, get 6 figures of debt and no job after 2 years

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125554704 NPR Correspondent Yuki Noguchi talked with Matt Jones, a 2008 graduate of Michigan State law school. He has 6-figures of student loan debt. This debt can never be discharged, even in bankruptcy. Since graduating, Mr. Jones...
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    Rage & hate in this forum

    Reading a thread on Howard Zinn, I am getting more and more disturbed about the rage and hate expressed in this forum. Are people legitimately thinking about the issues, or are the AnandTech forums more of a punching bag for people to work out their personal issues? On the flip side, maybe it...
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    "A Law School Carol" movie posted to YouTube has dean of my law school on defensive!

    Last month, a spoof of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol made its way to YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-_wDwmOQ1U The short animated series details the danger of law school and the heavy debt burden on its graduates. Law.com picked up on the film and wrote an article, and put two...
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    2010 Hyundai Tucson: Begining of the downfall of GM and the Japanese?

    http://www.insideline.com/hyundai/tucson/2010/2010-hyundai-tucson-first-drive.html Edmunds' was impressed with the chassis, engine, and interior, among other things. They noted in the photographs that the interior controls have the practicality of a Honda (or at least the CR-V), and also...
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    Prof. Schlunk: Law School Is a Bad Investment (need accountants to explain)

    TaxProf Blog recently posted about an article written by Professor Herwig Schlunk of Vanderbilt University Law School. Prof. Schlunk looks at whether law school is a good or bad investment: http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/11/schlunk-law-school-is-a-bad-investment.html I am...
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    Equinox fails to achieve EPA ratings @ Edmunds

    I was going to continue my other thread, but some of you clowns got it locked. Here's another review: 2010 Chevrolet Equinox LT2 Full Test and Video The reviewers were impressed with the interior quality: BUT... The transmission tuning is garbage: Edmunds, like C&D, was...
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    Don't go to law school: business model of U.S. legal education failing

    My disdain for the U.S. legal education system is well known here, and more and more people are speaking out about the unsustainable scam that is law school: K&L Gates is one of the largest law firms in the United States, and I think it is safe to say that it is part of the establishment of...
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    Teabaggers/Joe Wilson/Town Halls - it IS about race

    On one side, there are people like Jimmy Carter who think the outrage sparked by the health care debate is in large part because Obama is an African American. On the other side, there are conservative commentators like David Brooks who think that the anger is largely due to the government's...
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    Registered EZ Pass today, paid starting balance, but website shows $0 balance

    I got an EZ Pass, used CC to pay initial fees and $35 starting balance. Have auto-replenishment set up with same CC. But the EZ Pass website says I have 0 balance even though I paid $38 ($3 registration fee + $35 initial balance) :confused: Can I still go through the toll plaza EZ Pass lanes?
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    Johan de Nysschen: Chevy Volt Is a "Car for Idiots"

    Edmunds' link ROFL! :D He is absolutely right. If I can afford to blow 40G on a car, I'm going to buy a nice, powerful luxury vehicle, not a glorified econobox. If I felt the need to spend a lot of money on something efficient, the Ford Fusion Hybrid is overall a much much better choice.
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    Attorney jobs increasingly outsourced to India

    I saw this posted on a legal blog last week: MSNBC report Most law schools were a scam 5 years ago, and they are even more of scam today. New law graduates entering the work force are now competing for entry-level work with Indians who will do the same job at a fraction of the cost. A...
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    A serious look at Health Care in other countries

    NPR - T.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For 'Healing Of America' I don't think Americans really understand how health care works in other countries. A common thing I hear from people who are not really tuned in to the current debate is "I don't want us to be socialist like France", which is...
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    wtf? C&D tests 2010 Chevy Equinox at 18 MPG

    C&D Link 18 MPG??? This car is advertised at 22/32. :confused: The testers said they had to floor the car to actually get it to go. All the power and torque is in the high end of the RPM range: And like recent offerings from other manufacturers, this car is badly overweight...
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    Princeton neuroscientist: memory quirks allow us to believe false statements

    I came across a radio segment on NPR that I think basically makes arguments on P&N moot. No amount of postings or propaganda from the Left or the Right is likely to change anyone's mind on the issues. NPR Talk of the Nation link Interview from last month with Princeton neuroscientist Sam...
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    Student Loans are Wage Slavery

    It's August, and many students will be heading off to college very soon. If you or your child is taking out Federally backed loans (Stafford, PLUS, Perkins), or private loans, please watch this documentary: NOW on PBS - Student Loan Sinkhole And read some of these stories...
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    I challenge the assumption that people buy a Prius to show off treehuggery

    Disclaimer: I do not own a Prius, and I would never buy a Toyota, as I think they drive like crap, even if they are reliable. I always read comments here and on other message boards about people buying a Prius only because they want to show off their smug green credentials. This "showing...
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    Black Thursday strikes law firms

    LA Times: Black Thursday For years, the large law firms have been bilking, I mean billing, their corporate clients $800-$1000/hr for a partner's advice, and $400/hr for associates who know nothing to review documents. Now with the economy going down the drain, the big firms are faltering...
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    PSA: Most Law Schools a path to debt-ridden poverty

    Law is great, right? The reality is very unforgiving. AP Report Also on the NY Times The media and public seem to think that lawyers make a ton of money right out of school. Its not true. A select few from top universities or at the top of their class will get a six figure job. The...
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    Whine from WD hard drive giving me headache. Recs for new drive?

    Have a box with a Western Digital 400JB (7200RPM, 8MB cache). Performance is good, but the motor has developed an awful whine after a year and it's driving me nuts. I know at least one other person who has had the same problem with the same type of drive :( So I'm looking at the Seagate...
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    C5 Galaxy Crash!

    http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/03/c5.crash/index.html :Q At least there were no fatalities among the 17 crew. It's kinda sad to see the C5 smashed on the ground though, with all its guts and cargo spilled all over :(
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    "Looking at President Bush, Seeing an 'Impostor'"

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5227215 Bruce Bartlett has it right. It's what I've said all along! Bush Republicans slash taxes while spending more money, increase the power of the Federal government with impunity, and have dragged the US into a ridiculous war with no...
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    Do you look like your avatar?

    In real life I do look sort of like my Avatar. I have a strange, google eyed look and a perpetually ill complexion :(
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    Gartner Analysts - Ignore Vista until 2008

    http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-5947521.html 2008? Ouch. That's a 12-18 months after Vista is released. How is this going to affect Microsoft's bottom line if companies adopt Vista as slowly (or more slowly than XP)? I'm not knowledgeable about the price differential between a 2k and...
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    Arg!!! iTunes keeps asking me to re-authorize an authorized system

    I haven't made any hardware changes to my computer in over a year! Yet every time I reboot my system, iTunes seems to want me to reauthorize. It's not a huge deal since I just have to enter my account password, but it is still a PITA. Any solution? I'm using the latest iTunes 6, but this has...
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    Chavez to Venezuelans: don't celebate Halloween

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4391166.stm What the hell is this guy's problem? Just goes to show that people all around the world put idiots into office :|
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    Inconsiderate iPod user

    So I'm reading in the library, and this girl waltzes into the area with her iPod shuffle, and BLASTING the damn thing so loud that people can hear the music even though it's playing through headphones. Maybe this stupid girl has gone deaf from listening to that shuffle at full volume...
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    Passing the Bar Exam (PA July 2005 stats out today)

    The Pennsylvania July 2005 results came out today. As I am in my third year of school, I have been thinking extensively about the July 2006 exam. I will take the BarBri and PMBR courses, any other advice? As long as I study well, I think the odds are in my favor. As usual, only Penn managed...
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    Best clear/hard case for 4G iPod?

    Right now I have an iSkin eVo2 that keeps the iPod (20GB, 4G) safe from minor knocks and bumps, but I'm looking for something that actually allows most of the iPod to be seen. I've seen the Contour iSee 20. I was wondering if you guys had any that you really liked. Looking for something that...
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    question about back to the future: part II

    Doc Brown takes Marty and Jennifer from 1985 to 2015, ostensibly to fix their children's futures. If Marty and Jennifer were removed from the plane of time at 1985, how is it that when they arrived in 2015, their 2015 selves existed? Shouldn't they have arrived in 2015, only to learn that...
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    I need new socks

    I need new socks for the following kinds of shoes (1) business dress shoes (2) oxfords I can't remember the last time I bought socks, but I'd like to know your opinions on what brand and what kind of socks would go best with each type of shoe. Thanks in advance :)
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    Japan and Korea get Sonoma notebooks tommorow (Jan 5)

    http://english.chosun.com/w21d...0501/200501040022.html and
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    Is it possible to print directly from a PocketPC to a USB printer?

    Was downloading some printer drivers and noticed that there weren't any for PocketPC. I've never owned a handheld, but does this mean that it's difficult to print directly from a PDA to a printer?
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    Who's next in line to be taken over in the PC business?

    Lenovo bought out IBM's PC division in 2004 (although the deal won't be finalized until Q2 '05 at earliest). Who's next? I'm betting that someone has their sights on Gateway. :D
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    Stupid i/o plate

    Got a generic case here that I'm fitting an ATX boart into. The i/o plate has the matching ports, but there are metal tabs covering those ports. They won't easily break off but I can bend them up to open the port for the board's ports to fit through. I was going to do this but I'm not sure...
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    Getting 440BX/P3 system to work with old 4GB HDD

    I have an old Pentium III system that I'm trying to refurbish for some relatives. It's got a generic 440BX motherboard, DVD drive, CDRW drive, 3COM LAN, and 3COM modem. There's no HDD and no video card. I dug up an old Western Digital Caviar 34300 drive (4.3 GB Capacity) and an 8MB ATI Rage...
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    Do you look like your user icon?

    Well, my face isn't green but I have those wierd eyes and messed up hair.
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    Are you suspicious when people are *too* nice to you?

    I find myself suspicious of people who seem to be "friends" with everyone. They have something nice to say about everyone, but somehow don't seem all that sincere when they say such things. Such persons tend to be the types who run obsessively for student government positions, and are always...
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    T40 owners - LCD takes time to warm up?

    i got a 2373-19U T40, and it works great. i notice though that the screen is kinda dim in the bottom corners when I turn it on, but that it seems to "warm up" after a bit. Is this normal? T40 owners help me out here :)
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    Monitor is toast, recommend me a new one

    My 17" CRT is blown. After seeing LCDs at school I might want one since they are much easier on the eyes. Should I get a 15" or 17" LCD? What kind would you recommend? I can spend no more than $500 or so.
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    The "I got back to school and..." thread

    Everything in the law library was torn up and replaced. The ceilings, the lights, the tables, everything. New furnature, carpets, and lights are always good - a lot more people are using the library now :)