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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14440335 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68760 on: February 02, 2015, 07:29:45 am »

[urlhttp://m.ign.com/articles/2015/02/02/power-rangers-actor-arrested-after-allegedly-killing-roommate-with-sword]Go go power rangers...[/url]
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68762 on: February 02, 2015, 08:16:32 am »

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I can't believe that's real... I just can't... But it's ' 'Murica! ' so I just don't know...
That's...

Kind of disgusting.
AFAIK colleges make money off of football, so having a good coach pays off even if you have to pay him a large salary. It's not so much disgusting as rather standard business practice.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68763 on: February 02, 2015, 08:42:45 am »

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I can't believe that's real... I just can't... But it's ' 'Murica! ' so I just don't know...
That's...

Kind of disgusting.
AFAIK colleges make money off of football, so having a good coach pays off even if you have to pay him a large salary. It's not so much disgusting as rather standard business practice.

Its a sad state of affairs when sports is more profitable to an educational institution than education.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68764 on: February 02, 2015, 08:52:00 am »

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I can't believe that's real... I just can't... But it's ' 'Murica! ' so I just don't know...
That's...

Kind of disgusting.
AFAIK colleges make money off of football, so having a good coach pays off even if you have to pay him a large salary. It's not so much disgusting as rather standard business practice.

Its a sad state of affairs when sports is more profitable to an educational institution than education.

TBH it makes sense because I don't want to get drunk and pay to watch some undergrad student struggle through his philosophy 101 class or something along those lines

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68765 on: February 02, 2015, 09:37:49 am »

Go go power rangers...
Meh, that's a blerb in length.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68766 on: February 02, 2015, 10:12:43 am »

I just read through Tawaorchir's sigtext.
Wait. People read sigtext?  :P
Every once in a year or so, yeah.
I actually read the more often than that, thanks very much.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68767 on: February 02, 2015, 10:27:14 am »

Go go power rangers...
Meh, that's a blerb in length.
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TBH I think it's proportionate retribution. What if he had decided to summon the megazord as self-defense?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68768 on: February 02, 2015, 11:53:41 am »

Spoiler: fuck you, publishers (click to show/hide)
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68769 on: February 02, 2015, 11:57:26 am »

*Snirk* Enjoying that healthy Euro, then?
  Get one of us to buy it and ship it.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68770 on: February 02, 2015, 11:59:31 am »

Euro, really?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68771 on: February 02, 2015, 12:04:07 pm »

*Snirk* Enjoying that healthy Euro, then?
  Get one of us to buy it and ship it.

It's not the price difference between the Euro and the Dollar on display there. International editions of textbooks (technically illegal to sell outside of India or South Africa or whatever their intended country is due to copyright) cost a tiny fraction of what the regular edition does.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68772 on: February 02, 2015, 12:06:38 pm »

*Snirk* Enjoying that healthy Euro, then?
  Get one of us to buy it and ship it.
I get that you have some beef with the Euro, but that's not it. I can order whichever I want from where I live.
It's two editions of the same book by the same publisher, one for the Western market, one an 'International edition' for what essentially amounts to India and neighbours.
In other words, you're paying five times as much for the same book printed on a somewhat higher quality paper when you buy it through regular channels.

(technically illegal to sell outside of India or South Africa or whatever their intended country is due to copyright)
The thing is, they're not:
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-03-19/a-high-court-gray-market-win-for-costco-ebay
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68773 on: February 02, 2015, 12:11:28 pm »

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I can't believe that's real... I just can't... But it's ' 'Murica! ' so I just don't know...
Jim Harbaugh was just hired by Michigan to coach their football team. He has a 7 year contract for $5M/Year, and got a $2M signing bonus. The U of M football program brings in about $90M/year in profit.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #68774 on: February 02, 2015, 12:15:47 pm »

(technically illegal to sell outside of India or South Africa or whatever their intended country is due to copyright)
The thing is, they're not:
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-03-19/a-high-court-gray-market-win-for-costco-ebay
My previous employer was threatened with legal action on at least three separate occasions for mistakenly selling international editions, although this was before 2013.
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