Recent content by OwnTheRide

Jesus, are you kidding me? Half of us would be hung within a year. Don't you know how this would play out? Step 1: make gun crime a capital offense Step 2: expand the definition of gun crime

Might be some progress coming on this front. In the name of racial equality, though. NY proposal to ban police from making traffic stops for minor violations

Yup, I worked near-full time during school and well over full-time (2 jobs) in the summers. But, I needed to use the money to live - I moved out when I was 16, so there was no financial support of any kind coming from the family.

IMO, unless you're in a field that requires it, one should never pay for a graduate degree. The reality is that they just aren't necessary. A degree (which he'll already have) gets your foot in the door for employment, and he'll learn way more from actually doing the job than he will in grad...

In many industries, it's quite common for the employer to pay for some/all of the costs of a (field-related) graduate degree. Given your son's degree choices, I'm guessing that will hold true for him as well. IMO, when he graduates, he should look for a job in his field that will cover the costs...

Yeah, late 90s. I didn't pay them off early, but there were many different loans with varying terms and they weren't eligible for consolidation, so most of them were paid off in the first 3-5 years. I might have underestimated the interest I paid, but I don't think it really changes anything.

I'll try to tabulate the cost, but the tl;dr is that yes, I came out way ahead. All numbers are rounded estimates, of course. $30,000 - debt I was left with after college $5,000 - interest paid on that debt $5,000 - money paid out of pocket during school (books, etc) $15,000 - opportunity cost...

Highly disagree with the notion that college degrees are a waste, but there are plenty of people who waste their time in college, and/or choose degrees with very limited employment potential. A STEM degree will give a person a big leg up. While I will agree that a person who knows what they are...

I was too young to remember this story, but my grandfather told it to me many times. My grandfather took me out ice fishing one day. We weren't having any luck, but the guy fishing just a little ways down from us seemed to be pulling fish left and right. So I walked over and dropped my line...

My FIL told my wife that she doesn't need to worry about retirement, she'll be inheriting a tidy sum from him. I told her what you're saying here... never count on anyone else's money for anything. I told him that his plan was silly, that he should buy a Corvette and a boat and find other ways...

I think anything and everything will be used against you in court. "He used hollow points to cause more damage" vs "he used FMJ rounds, this shows that he had no regard for the lives of people behind his target." It's a crappy example, but you get the idea. Here, let me try again: "He used...

I think that most sentences tend to be too heavy-handed. We hand out years like they're candy. 1 year for keying a car seems excessive, for example - that's 1.5% of someone's entire life. I think they'd learn the same lesson from 1 month. That said, it would certainly serve as a good deterrent...

JD is an incredible politician. They would be foolish to not run him.

Politically, it always seems like "things are worse now than ever." With this in mind, I once took some time to read up on the US political climate over its entire history. What I found is that things "back then" were not really any more or less divided than they are now. In fact, the issues...

I just don't think you guys get it. We don't get to determine the value of classified info. If it's classified, it's classified. Period. And this information most certainly was. I have seen white images full of static that were classified. Nothing to be discerned from the images, they were...