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Three of the online computer science courses I wanted to take this semester I cannot get into because they are full. There are so many illegals flooding into this area and they are also now allowed to pay the lower in-state-tuition rates. There is a huge rush of them at community colleges especially for computer…

The death of Earth overrides everything else. I was just thinking about this reality today. I am a person who like many people has enjoyed photography. I like aesthetically stimulating scenes of different kinds and photographing them. Some of the things that are often appealing or stimulating are human made. For example today I saw…

I am trying to learn to play keyboard. I took a class a while back and since then have been practicing and learning on my own. But I am very pissed off. This is classical music. It was written 300 years ago. It is a contribution to the human legacy. This music is one of…

The city I live in has become such a grubby, disgusting place. How did a place that was supposed to be beautiful transform into such a rotten pit? And as this place is destroyed, I fear that the entire country is being destroyed. It has to have taken a long time for it to get…

The past couple days I’ve been looking at online courses in Information Technology and Computer Science at community colleges in my area. One surprising thing I am noticing is that there are a lot of female faculty. Also, in one class I have registered for I looked at the class roster and there are a…

I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book. – Ted Cruz’s former college roommate speaking about the presidential contender source But this makes me think: This could be a process for selecting the next president of the United States! Pick…

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There is a thread on slashdot.org (NASA Safety Panel Finds Concerns With the Journey To Mars) today about a NASA panel’s considerations of a manned [what better word is there for this? humanned?] mission to Mars. Then there is a lot of discussion the the threads about this. One person raised a good point by…

Yesterday I needed to make a couple tech support calls. Over the past year or so I’ve been amazed at how excellent in general the level of support has been when conducting customer service/tech support calls and chat sessions. I am guessing that we are right now in the golden age of call/chat center tech…

There was a thread related to this on slashdot.org yesterday (Should the US Change Metal Coins?) It should not get to this point. This point where the value of low-denomination currency is so ridiculously small such that the cost of manufacturing it is higher than its value. But this not the only problem. The problem…