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EchoRomeoCharlie

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  1. In the real world, from what I've found, the title on your degree means absolutely dick. Your experience, knowledge, and work ethic trump all. At least it is at any company I would want to work for. If they hire only based on where you got your degree from, or what's wrote on that piece of paper, beware. Take either it won't matter for the most part. Make sure you know your shit and work hard. Take every opportunity to learn something new that presents itself.
  2. Actually, crumple zones increase the time over which the deceleration happens reducing g-force on the occupants body. So yes, they do work, accelerometers don't lie. Yes they cause the vehicle to be totalled easier, that's the point, the car is supposed to absorb the energy of the impact, not the occupants. Think of it this way, would you rather run as fast as you can into a brick wall or a wall of foam? Yeah, the brick wall is stronger and can withstand impact better than the padded wall without being damaged. So why don't you choose the brick wall?
  3. Remember guys, even at 60 mph, we're traveling 88 feet per second. That's approximately 4 car lengths per second. It takes approximately a quarter second just to get your foot from the gas to the brake, plus reaction time to realize that you need to take that action. So yeah...1 car length per 10 mph is probably a better rule of thumb.
  4. Learn from your mistake. If you are close enough that the car in front of you taking evasive maneuvers(including maximum braking) causes you to hit them, you are entirely too close in the first place. 16 is not too young to drive. I was racing cars and motorcycles earlier than that. The training for drivers in the US is abysmal. It's basically, here's the gas, there's the brake, turn this thing to steer.....ok you're good to go.
  5. Working 80 hours a week hardly means you're working hard. Also, working hard doesn't necessarily mean physical labor. I'm saying that in America, if you want to get an education and better yourself, you can. There's nothing stopping you and TONS of services, charities, and government programs to help you. All one has to do is go out and put their mind to it. If all one wants to do is flip burgers the rest of their life, then they can work for what they're worth. They're not worth $15/hour because there are thousands upon thousands of others qualified to do that same job that will do it for minimum wage. Supply and demand. There's only so many fast food jobs, and billions of people qualified to do that job. Want better pay? Get qualified to do a job that not many people can do. That doesn't take money or a degree. That takes drive and a want to be worth more, handing someone money won't help them get ahead in life.
  6. Got any data to back up your claims? Don't require it unless you provide it.
  7. Oh brother.....I'll just leave you to your ignorance. You're taking a very VERY narrow view at the market and how it works.
  8. What NEEDS to stop is artificial pull on the free market. Stop making companies pay more than people are worth, stop fixing prices, stop adding taxes to certain things and supplementing others, stop giving bail outs, stop all government involvement in the free market. That will help immensely.
  9. Obviously you didn't learn much. Your first post says 'everyone should get paid more'. Yet...obviously, that will increase the price of everything....sooooo.....where do you think that will get us? It's a 0 gain.
  10. The distribution of wealth in this country is directly related to the distribution of work ethic and drive to produce. Those who want to make it, do. Those who want to do nothing, do. The difference is, the ones that do nothing are jealous of those that make money and feel like they should be handed money for doing nothing. Sorry. Not the way it works.
  11. lmfao....some(most) of you need an economics class bad......REALLY BAD.
  12. These two statements are completely contradictory.
  13. It took 6 years to get as comfortable as you are with your PS3. What makes you think it will take less time to get that comfortable with another setup? It will probably take more time as you have to re-learn your moves especially with FPS and quick reaction times.
  14. If you're serious, get a Mechanical, swap the keys to Dvorak, switch the OS to Dvorak and when you want to play games, just swap the OS back to QWERTY...I'm sure you know where the WASD keys are without looking if you have played even a small amount of PC games. QWERTY is a leftover from the typewriter days...it was designed to prevent jamming of the typewriter not for efficient typing.
  15. Yes, I'm talking factory refurb only. It doesn't sound like any current tablet is going to work for you. Your price and form factor requirements put you out of range of pretty much anything on the market. You'll just have to wait.
  16. Don't bother with 120mm AIO coolers. Decent air coolers will cost less and provide the same or better cooling. If you're going to go with an AIO get a 240mm at least. Look at noctua for good air coolers.
  17. People that don't buy units that are factory refurbished because they 'might break' are funny. They are factory refurbished. By the same factory that's building the new ones. So how do you buy new ones? They could just as easily break 6 months down the line. I've started buying almost all consumer electronics refurbed. So far I've had far more new objects break prematurely than refurbs. I've used most of the nexus devices, a couple samsung tablets, the iPAD air, and a couple Microsoft Surface tablets. Nexus is by far the best IMO for overall usability and cost effectiveness. If you ever want to 'write a paper' on this device, I would go with the Surface with keyboard. There is no way, without an extra bluetooth keyboard, you're going to want to write more than a few sentences on any tablet without one.
  18. Andriod. Nexus 10. You can get them refurbished from Wal-Mart for pretty cheap. Had mine for over almost 2 years now, no issues.
  19. Where there's big money to be had, there's conflict. There's absolutely no way around it. They can campaign all they want. The only thing that's doing is making people like you feel better about yourself.
  20. Maybe show the whole computer at least once? Waited the entire vid and got nothing but panning close ups....
  21. I do agree with this. However, manufacturers are going to push their higher end stuff...which means they're going to send guys like Linus their higher end stuff. Which means he's going to do reviews on the stuff he's given. There are budget builds on YouTube. Not as many since 1. They don't get as many views. 2. They don't get as many likes. 3. Manufacturers don't send out their budget stuff for free...which by default means there will be less builds with this equipment.
  22. Having shallow pockets makes it impossible to glean the information you need about H boards off the Z board video's? Like I said...they're pretty much the same short of the OC features.....so again I ask you, why? He will essentially be repeating himself in the H board video's. I'm sure Linus has enough to do without doubling his workload to repeat himself.
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