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To: anachronist who wrote (52991)	2/7/2006 5:47:41 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 110194

You made the right choice given the incentives available to you. We are, on average, rational people making rational choices even if these choices do not they make sense for the society in which we live or they undermine our capacity for sustained well being in the long run. When we look back on this period I predict it will be summed up as follows: We had choices, we made bad ones. I am a big believer in education and a relatively conservative fiscal and monetary policy than inclines people to live within their means, pay their debts and respect their shared civic responsibilities, including having some concern for the environment -- the air we breath and the quality of life on this planet that our children and theirs will inherit. There is no reason in my view why we can't be leading the world towards something far better than the world we live in today. But we are not. We are floundering, and it is starting to cost us -- it looks like it will cost us dearly in the future when the extent of bad decisions comes home to roost.

To: anachronist who wrote (52991)	2/7/2006 5:49:29 PM
From: GST	Respond to of 110194

• Builders entice home buyers with free TVs • January was America's warmest on record Two headlines from Yahoo news say it all -- free TVs for the morons who will buy this house, against a backdrop of environmental degradation.

To: anachronist who wrote (52991)	2/7/2006 10:32:43 PM
From: shades	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I personally never pursued my Masters in CompSci because I could make more money going into management. HAHA - you too? How many of us are there? Spock is rolling in his grave. I got tricked by the big blue, and now am just too lazy to go back for all that formal education drama. I assume if I was starving to death and the only way out was to be some bitch boy to a college prof again I would certainly leap at the opportunity to climb out of my misery. Until princess is hungry and daddy and boyfriend dont give her cell phones and houses and credit cards for free - we got a long way to go before we start starving and get motivated again. My mcdonalds 1 dollar hamburger menu is going to have to go up to at least 10 bucks before I start getting alarmed. You know walmart has those 98cent banquet prepared meals. foodfacts.com Boy it tastes pretty good too! High in salt - but you know how it goes. I have a friend that went through the drama for his Phd in CS 2 times and spent 13 years at urbana illinois before he finally gave up and went to work in the real world - he lost a lot of money he could have made with just holding a BS. He was a highly idealogical and ethical individual and always chastized me for selling out the man when there were higher pursuits for our souls beyond money. Last year he wrote me telling me about his new radar jammer he built and installed on his ford taurus - said he couldn't afford all the speeding tickets he was getting - what a lawbreaker! So much for higher pursuits and ethics - hehe.