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Cities, man. Cities. Grandparents bought a house (3 bedroom/1 bath, back yard, living room, kitchen, back porch, slightly-too-small carport type dealio. Forget the ft², but it's a, y'know, house.) for around 30k USD a year or two ago. Actually in one of the more urban areas in north florida, t'boot, and pretty well situated in regards to location. Know the appeal of a proper city, but still. Helluva' price tag.

... all I can say is that if you had dumped hours worth of homework on me... hell, before somewhere late in middle school, things probably would have been set on fire. Likely the homework, and possibly the textbooks. Maybe something more weighty if it kept up long enough. I definitely would have failed many, many classes. Was in the upper ranks, so to speak, of grades course wise, and have been consistently annihilating most tests since basically ever, but there is zero way my grades wouldn't have crashed and burned with that sort of work load. Hell, even with (much) less than that, homework in general has consistently been the biggest hit to my GPA.

Biggest problem with homework was that, well... most of it was busy work. Repetition has its place, but for most courses I didn't need much and motivating myself to do excess was pretty much impossible. It's just... well. It's pretty much the biggest problem with the public school system in the states, as is. People learn differently, and the system in place is pretty damn hostile to that. Woe fucking betide the poor bastard that isn't able to muddle through what's been cookie-cut this year

I am so glad that I live in a place which has actually heard of the phrase "labour laws".

Don't be silly, of course we've heard of labor laws. They're kinda' like quiche, right? Just with little strawberries on top. Some kind of fancy desert you eat in high class restaurants.

Dominions very definitely has DRM. Wrong CD-Key, game borks.

Can mandatory overtime even be a thing? It seems to miss the point a little bit. You know, the fact that they employed you with a contract to work a certain number of hours, and they can't force you to do more than that so they offer incentives to do so instead.

Suuuuuure they can. It's called "work four hours more or get out". Or never get promoted, get schedule buggered for the rest of ever, etc., so forth, so on. You (maybe) get paid more for that mandatory overtime, but it's, well. Not a choice. Despite whatever your contract may say (and it probably has a section on mandatory overtime, so any attempts to find succor there can get bent).

Protip: Learn where your college keeps paper. Raid. I have a lifetime supply from the last day at college alone.

Not quite the same thing, but that does remind me of the time I sorta' killed the printer at the uni I was going to. Couldn't transfer free pages (everyone got a certain amount they could print off before being charged for it, and it rolled over between semesters, sooo...) to other students, so I ended up printing off a few hundred pages worth of (4 pages per page) Gutenberg material. Don't quite remember everything I got (is in the other room, but lazy), but it was some nice stuff. One of the library's printer kinda' died 2/3rds of the way through, though >_>

Conversation I had with the librarian before kicking it off was kinda' amusing, too. S'like... sure I can't just give this stuff to someone? No? And you sure this is okay? Yes? Well... alright, then. *starts printing* Then some time later the "Heeey, I think your printer just died a little" conversation.

@Akura, I'd assume you have a legal right to, but you may not depending on the organization. S'one of those things you'd probably have to consult a lawyer on, unfortunately, if the organization's bylaws or whatev' doesn't have a clear statement on the subject. And yeah, as nenjin notes, they could be able to just say bugger off *shrugs*

Dat spoiler, MSH. Dat spoiler.