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It's more of, if people find you attractive with a fun personality, it doesn't matter what you studied in college; you'll still be invited to parties and have sex when you want / need to. I ate mostly healthy through school (minus long stretches in the library with no time for the gym), and still brought cute single guys / girls to parties with me. I also make an excellent wingman.

I have a higher starting salary than any of my friends that I graduated with, and the friends that graduated a year before I did. I'm not into girls, but dated several hot guys when in college, and rolled around the hay with many, many more hot guys during college. I also didn't bring beer for others at a party; I brought alcohol for myself. Generally it was some sort of hard liquor in a canteen / nalgene. If the party was at my / my roommates' place, we mostly did shots and drank liquor or wine. There were several times that I spent multiple days at the library, sleeping in the hole-in-the-wall I preferred to study in, but that was only when big projects were coming up. There are only 2 times I can recall it really being a problem, and one was building an operating system. When the project was finished, it was worth it to me. Luckily, I had a few friends that would snap me out of it if I were at a party and suddenly have to leave because I thought of an algorithm that would solve a problem i'd been working on for a week. Admittedly, I sometimes kept pen and paper handy in case I had to write it down before I sobered up and forgot it though...

Nah, you'd have to have drugs on you to get in trouble. I've flown a LOT for travel, and have been to an airport sober once. That was enough for me to not want to do it again. They're so boring. Besides, it's not like you have to drive anywhere. EDIT: I should add that I agree; nobody should be surprised by drugs or alcohol they didn't intentionally ingest. I've been "surprised" before, and it is not okay, ever.

We're still treated like we're human; just humans with minds that need to be more capable than average. If people cannot handle the workload, why not stretch it out over 6 years instead of 4 or 5? I started having trouble with my math courses in my 4th year. I realized that I was reaching the full capacity of math that I could understand. Should higher levels of engineering courses, say, rocket science, make the courses easier so that people like me can understand it? Hell no. If people can't hack the classes, they shouldn't be in the field.

Did she also smoke some marijuana that was laced with PCP? And maybe she had a friend who took so much LSD he thought he was a glass of orange juice. I hope he doesn't tip over; he might spill!! I brought some cookies to the dropzone, and after explaining what all was in the cookies, I was asked specifically if there was pot in them. I made sure to label my batches very well, and didn't bring the "laced" cookies to the DZ with me until after last load. Mmm, double-stuf oreos baked into chocolate chip cookie dough with a marshmellow baked into the top... with weed... MMMmmm.

Not sure if it works, but from viewing the source of the page, and looking at the code in the .js file they're including at the top, it is definitely a site that is generating ad revenue from everyone visiting. And it's a pretty good idea to spam their own site by telling people they are going to help "kill spam." The strategy is basically what you said; the moral equivalent of using postage paid to mail a brick back to the sender, only less effective. If you have had success in sending bulk items back to companies that send you junk mail (meaning, they stopped sending it to you), then I would urge you to follow this strategy. Other than that, they have found a clever way to get their site to the top of search engines to grab a bit of ad revenue by getting links from other sites. On another note, you could fight spam bots in a more effective way by altering your .htaccess file to check for user agents and IP addresses of known bots, and bots you see crawling your site. I tend to also encrypt email addresses by displaying them through javascript using obfuscation. For example, rather than putting a link to "mailto:[email protected]", set it up in a script: var a = 'ema'; var b = 'il@ad'; var c = 'dress'; var d = 'com'; var addy = a + b + c + '.' + d; document.write("

When I want something in my cornhole, I go to Woody's.

I had a customer tell me it was such a nice day that he was leaving work early to go fly his de Havilland plane. I asked him what model and he said “I don’t know but it sounds like you know more about it than I do”. I let it go. These retards are everywhere and i would never let it fly. They need to be put in their place and realize what they are doing is so fucked up. What if he really just didn't know about that plane? I'm sure it's very different, but I used to ride a motorcycle for a couple of years. I don't know anything about motorcycles except how to ride one, and really only knew the make / model / engine size of my own, and tell people similar things when they start asking me about bikes if they see a pic of my old one. Could it be possible that he's new to flying and doesn't know much yet?

I think this also requires stating a difference between wearing a "usmc" t-shirt and wearing full dress uniforms with insignia, tauting stories to try and get benefits that were not earned by serving. I also don't consider telling stories to get attention / beer, or holding a sign that says "homeless veteran" to be benefits earned by serving. I mean more along the lines of getting VA benefits, or any real form of fraud. I would hope a court system would not make someone serve time (and waste tax dollars) because some kid tries to get a $4 beer by saying he was in the military and some self-entitled marine gets butt-hurt over it. A fine or community service could be in order, but let's save jail for criminals. EDIT: Looks like Nataly beat me to the punch! lol

Yeah, you were a dick. He can wear whatever T-shirt he wants. Agreed, 100%. It sucks when people get a false sense of entitlement because they chose a certain career field. If 'imitation is the best form of flattery,' some of these pricks can't take a complement. I wonder if they also get butt-hurt over someone wearing BDU's on halloween? I had someone bitch at me for having a high-and-tight along with my facial piercings and tattoos. I'm obviously not in the military anymore, so apparently I wasn't supposed to have that style of haircut. Sure, it's not a haircut unique to the military by a long stretch, but the dumbass felt entitled to it. But eh, that's just some military folk. The same ones that were the bottom 5% of their graduating high school class that wouldn't be able to hack it in college if they cheated.

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When I drink GoFast, sometimes my piss has a light green tint to it. Beat that!

I was hoping to get my A license as quickly as possible by cramming in as many jumps in over a weekend as I could get, being as the DZ is about a 3.5-hour drive away. Once I got to the DZ and started hanging out with the people there, I realized how much I like hanging out with them, and have slowed down on my progression. I realized I'm going to keep going back there again and again, year after year anyway, so no need to rush things. I make about 3 or 4 jumps on a weekend if I can afford it, and if the weather is good. I still want to get my license by the end of the summer, but just going and hanging out with the group that hangs there is about as much fun as jumping. The advice I get is always great, and watching friends jump / land is a great time. Taking your time and stretching it out definitely isn't the only way to go, and I'm not trying to say that one would be preferable over the other. I'm only stating that I'm having an outstanding time stretching the progression out over a couple of months, and am developing great bonds with fun mentors.

I break into churches with hook knives also.

Favorite card games are Asshole and King's Cup. Screw Your Neighbor is also fun. Beer pong / beirut is fun if you have a group of 4 or more. Flip Cup is fun for 3 or more. My friends and I used to do a "power hour" when we were watching a movie we'd already seen a lot or something. Just drink 1oz of beer every minute for an hour.

Mountain biking in Moab, FTW!

What do you get when you cut a baby with a straight razor? ... An erection.

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I'm still really new to this sport, and was really confused as to what happened here. To me, it looks like: The reserve deployed while the person still in the aircraft was trying to get the jumper's attention. Apparently the person in the aircraft knew something was awry. The reserve then caught air and pulled the jumper off of the wing. The jumper then tried to untwist the reserve, but wasn't able to. The jumper pulled main, and was able to pull in reserve canopy. What was the person in the aircraft holding? At first I thought it was the shoulder strap on the jumper's harness. It looks like whatever it was is frayed.

Do you find that a lot of people you work with have difficulty speaking English as well? In the tech field (which I believe you said you are well-versed in), I run into this a lot. The people I work with now are all USA-based, but many jobs in the past have had places in Mumbai, Russia, Amsterdam, etc. Sometimes the accents are difficult to understand, and sometimes it comes down to choice of vocabulary. I had considered my experiences with professors that didn't speak English as a fluent language to be an "alternative education" in learning how to ask them to reword their sentences or get used to different pronunciations of words. I was one of the few in my courses that was eventually able to understand my professors well, but I was also one of the only ones that saw it this way. There were many times I'd have to tell the class what the professor meant in a different way, but I had experience working with tech support from different places in India before starting college. I would still like to learn Hindi as I think it would help future endeavors in the tech field, if only to really learn the accent. And again, I agree with you; the chosen "universal" language for the tech field is English. If someone is going to be in this field, they have to learn it. And if you've been working in the field for 9 years and are as qualified as you are, then it's true; you've more than likely reached your income cap. I know a lot of people move into project management and all, which will slightly increase a salary, but you'd still have to put up with engineers (and hell, we're a pedantic bunch; I wouldn't want to put up with us as a manager). What would you like to be doing instead?

I had a few teachers that could 'mostly' speak English, but it was very difficult to understand them. After a couple of weeks, we got used to their accents, got over it, and realized we had a lot to learn from them. Sometimes the communication barrier was too much, so we had to ask them to explain it in a different way. The professors never minded doing so. I think Shah's difficulty came from him not really wanting to be an engineer in the first place. There were a few times during my studies that I had to really ask myself if this is what I really wanted to do. I knew I wasn't going to get rich doing it, and the coursework was pretty difficult (I'd never had problems with difficult courses before), while leaving the program and getting into an easier major was always available. My saving grace was that I wanted to build computer systems and software to run them, because it's what really interested me. If I were only doing it because I wanted money, or because I felt I really had to, it would have sucked ass and dragged teeth.

Space-gazing is commonly done while code is compiling. Or while there are hotties in the hot tub.

Well, actually... http://i.imgur.com/xQXbC.jpg http://i.imgur.com/CgKx7.jpg Nobody is in the hot tub, but it's sorta hard enough to see the river from the pic, so chances are it'd be difficult to see the hot tub from my phone's camera also.

Hey now, that's crazy talk... I only signed up for the paycheck and the desk; nobody said ANYTHING about doing work...