
RochesterRob
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I attended Cornell many many years ago. Your citation of graduation percentages lacks context. I know having gone through the admissions process Cornell analyzes your abilities extensively. Cornell graduates an extremely high percentage because nothing is left to chance. Odds are your potential curriculum advisor and dept instructors look over your application and essay for admission. They will give admissions feedback as to whether you are worth a seat as my advisor put it. Contrast this with when I attended a junior college. When I applied to SUNY I met my advisor for ten minutes and took a self tour for half a day. The admission to SUNY mostly hinged on my high school transcript. Probably Rutgers and Ohio State of which I applied to only looked at grades and achievements. I never wrote an essay or interviewed with admissions twice unlike Cornell to get accepted at Ohio State. As to being worth going to an Ivy I would say it is definitely worth it. Not only for the connections which really did not do much for me personally for the decades afterward. My instructors were well placed in the government and industry before they joined the academic world. The information free flow is just something you are not going to get elsewhere. One marketing professor was able to pass on useful anecdotes about his time in the Kennedy Administration and how the CIA could impact trade in certain parts of the world.
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Unless you go through an intersection not realizing your light was red and somebody T-bones you.
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Already a rise in pot related traffic mishaps in states such as Colorado. Probably early yet to know how DUI pot driving impacts serious injuries long term. A problem is pot on average is far more potent than it was a generation ago. A person today probably is much more buzzed versus 40 years ago due to supply.
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Long term? None. It will be a commodity just like corn or wheat. It will be over produced to the point of being near worthless just like corn and wheat have been for most of the last 100 plus years in the US. All the regulations and licensing will not prevent overproduction. I listened to a news report yesterday that said that the black market is adapting well in states where it is legal. If I were a financial advisor IF you wanted in as an investor my advice would be to get back out within a year or two years at the latest before the suckers figure out pot is not a magical profit industry. Now to build my time machine to go back to 1986 to tell myself to buy 100 shares of Microsoft (of which I had the money then to do so) at the IPO. Or better yet tell myself that the years 1983-1986 should all be about earning money to put into Microsoft.
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Occasi-Cortez Channeling the Rent's too damn high guy
RochesterRob replied to bdutton's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
I have a feeling if she loses out in NYC the leftists move her to SF or Seattle so in a few years she can resurface. -
TV Shows That Stayed On Too Long
RochesterRob replied to The Real Buffalo Joe's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Two Broke Girls would have been off the air after two episodes if guys were not obsessed with the dark haired girl's bosoms. -
TV anchor commits suicide after corrective eye surgery
RochesterRob replied to SDS's topic in Off the Wall Archives
I've worn glasses for decades and will continue to do so. I've never had a woman reject me over wearing glasses. Anybody else I could not care less about. -
TV Shows That Stayed On Too Long
RochesterRob replied to The Real Buffalo Joe's topic in Off the Wall Archives
SOA devolved into The A Team but without any of the qualities that made that show entertaining. I would get down on SNL but I understand its true purpose has been to be a soap box for the left for the last 25 years. That 70's Show should have ended after its third season. I did not like it after Red lost his edge. They should have had Hyde do a story arc where he was in the county lock up for 60 or 90 days on some low level offense. -
TV Shows That Stayed On Too Long
RochesterRob replied to The Real Buffalo Joe's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Yeah, about the time Knotts left but for different reasons. The show always did best with a strong second tier character such as Floyd, Gomer Pyle, or Briscoe Darling. That ended in 1965 with Denver Pyle (Darling) gone and Goober a pale imitation of his cousin Gomer. To my knowledge there was no salary dispute. Knotts decided he could make it big in movies so that was the direction he went. I don't know that was the best choice but by 1966 The Andy Griffith Show was in deep decline so it would have not been a long term solution for Knotts. All in the Family should have ended a year after Meathead moved out. MASH is the classic example to me for a show that way over stayed its welcome. War is bad? Gee, I guess we had to be told that for 11 years as Alan Alda thought his audience to be a bunch of primitive simpletons. Would agree on the Simpsons but it seems to find its legs after a 3 year stretch of being very stale. I guess for a thread about poor episodes versus overall production that The Simpsons would rate as mediocre in terms of quality. Even Star Trek TOS suffers here as out of 79 episodes easily half were very mediocre if not bad. -
It's a PR nightmare for the NFL if underage girls were in the same building never mind the same room. People here seem to think that pleading ignorance will make all of Kraft's NFL problems go away and I doubt that very much. First things first with Kraft going to court if the charges are not dropped with barely a slap on the wrist. The public will never be convinced that a man capable of making several billion dollars over his lifetime had no idea of what he was doing
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Unless there is a startling revelation yet to be made the court action will be of minimal impact to Kraft. The much larger issue is the PR damage that is created by having the Kraft name associated with the NFL. The NFL is already at a point where it does not want the Kraft name to come up during a Pats broadcast. For CBS it will be like having to amputate an arm but necessary when you think about the camera panning to Kraft's suite after a Pats TD or Nance talking about the intimate conversation he had prior to the game with Kraft.
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I get what you are saying but the Jupiter authorities have already stated that Kraft will be charged on Monday. Podunk law enforcement agencies don't pursue hit or miss cases involving a billionaire. The DA and probably those above the DA did their homework to levy whatever charges they have planned.
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Occasi-Cortez Channeling the Rent's too damn high guy
RochesterRob replied to bdutton's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
It will be sooner than that. Congress members only get 2 year terms.