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... which I mentioned, yes.

@RK: ... that last one wouldn't make the whole thing worth it, but it would be a disturbingly close facsimile thereof. An ironybomb that concentrated isn't worth lives, but... it's close to it.

C'mon folks, PoH's clearly stated the only things taken were spare change, the former positioning of the cupholders, and the structural integrity of a window. Everything else is still there, presumably.

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Sounds pretty terrible.

Hahaha, I spent a college semester tutoring people (on behalf of the campus) struggling with that goddamn website/program, along with like, taking three or so classes that was used in. Mostly in accounting.

It's kinda' fun. It'll fail people for screwing up capitalization or order on exercises where capitalization and order don't actually matter in practice, and that's just the start of its many and varied failings. Half the time tutoring consisted of helping people figure out how the hell wiley wanted them to format stuff instead of anything related to the actual course material. There was much guessing involved, because the piece of shit wasn't frakking consistent.

And that's just failings as a teaching tool -- it's technical failings as a website are an entirely different set of "fuck you". Occasionally screwing up, disconnecting the student, and wiping clean what could have been an hour or better worth of work (sometimes when they try to save the bloody thing?)? Oh yes.

Suffice it to say, it's on the list of bits of software that have creators that need to be dragged out into the street and shot. I saw actual tears because of that freaking thing.

All that said, if you could actually get through all the wiley assignments, anything else the classes in question could throw at you was pretty much cake. Its assignments were (needlessly) longer, more pedantic, more difficult (and not the good sort difficult, mind), and less clearly defined, than anything else you'd do in class.

Haha, but seriously, I speak in concordance with anyone and everyone that's actually been exposed to wiley when I say: Fuck wiley.

Who, exactly, loses here?

People who need to know that other people fail in order to feel validated in their accomplishments, I guess. S'kinda' the vibe I get when I hear some folks (not here, mind -- in real life) expressing their opinions regarding the "leeches". That people who have lives so miserable that a basic living wage would be a substantial improvement need to exist, so that one's own achievements are highlighted in comparison.

I can sort of see it, even. There's those that don't have the capacity or interest in doing 1 or 2 from your three options, Baug, but are prevented from sinking into 3 solely by the threat of starvation. If that threat is removed, their own acts would lose the value they ascribe to them, from their point of view.

Mind you, it should be somewhat obvious in the saying that I think those folks are kinda' terrible human beings, but it seems to be a thing, at least implicitly.

... so, for those of you that have translation preferences, what's your heuristic? How are you choosing one over the other?

And some of the fanfiction. SEED fanfiction has produced a good handful of works that are notably better than the two series in question (not that that's the most difficult task in the world)... and actually pretty decent, too.

That said, you don't have to watch the SEED stuff to get into the fiction. Might not even want to, honestly.

... the incredibly vast majority are already completely dependent on the mercy of the ones who give the money. Actually guaranteeing something livable would be a helluva' improvement.

And @nen, that last bit was definitely good for a chuckle. It's neat to see Palin thinks straight shooting involves drunken brawls.