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AP scores

Been a while since I took AP exams (13 years to be exact), but mine are easy to remember because I got straight 5's (I was a big loser/dork in high school.... Ok, might still be now, but hey). 5's in Junior Year: Chemistry physics B English English Literature Calculus AB Senior...
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- Post #24
- Jul 10, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Waving your rights to sue,

<----------- soon to be lawyer arbitration agreements are generally ok that said, contracts for waiver of liability can be unenforceable as unconscionable
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- Post #20
- Jul 10, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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My plans to avoid serving as a juror just took a turn :P

Dude, wish I could switch with you. I love jury duty. I've been a juror 3 times in the last 10 years. Great fun when you are a law student, especially if you get an interesting case.
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- Post #28
- Jul 10, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Job recommendations

Hey all, from my prior posts some of you may already know that I am a bit disenchanted with my job as a patent professional. Sure it pays the bills better then just about any job out there, but the hours suck and I feel like I am not doing anything that matters with my life. I would gladly...
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- Thread
- Jul 9, 2007
- Replies: 1
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Rainbow Six Vegas

Odd, I run it at 1680x1050 with 4xAA and 8x AF and it is fine in single player. Granted, I have 4gb of ram, a highly overclocked 6600 and a 8800gtx
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- Post #28
- Jul 9, 2007
- Forum: PC Games
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Which game would be better for my system? What good games are out?

Resident Evil 4 came out recently for PC. I hadn't played it before and it was great. Need a gamepad though.
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- Post #4
- Jul 9, 2007
- Forum: PC Games
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I think I was just exposed to mercury

Dude, back in the day Dentists used to roll mercury around in their hands when making the gold/mercury amalgam used in dental fillings. Sure, some of it gets absorbed through the skin, but not much. Example, when I was in college I worked for an environmental chemistry professor doing...
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- Post #51
- Jul 9, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Looking to get toned

Workout using moderate to light weight and high reps, do cardio (30-40 minutes of a high intensity) at least every other day and eat correctly. If you are 6' and 175lbs, you are probably pretty thin IMO. I'm 6' 2' and 220 (a little chubby, but not huge) now. When I played college baseball I...
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- Post #9
- Jul 9, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Anyone else disappointed with the invisible Shield?

Hmm, it works very well on my ipod video, as it has stood up to just about everything for the past two years without a scratch. All in all I am very happy. As for fingerprints, sure they show up, but they will show up on anything. Better to have the protective film then nothing IMO.
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- Post #10
- Jul 9, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Which Garmin GPS?

I just picked up the 660 and it is great. The only two things the 680 has that the 660 doesn't is MSN connect (to me, a useless feature) and a $400+ price premium. Essential features for me were (660 has them all): text to speech (i.e., the unit can read street names) automatic...
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- Post #8
- Jul 8, 2007
- Forum: Mobile Devices
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Ever realized how much debt you are in?

I disagree. I find it tremendously satisfying to save and invest. And if all is going well with my investments, it is downright fun, especially now that I have enough invested so that I make a couple hundred bucks (ok, on paper) every time one of my mutual funds goes up by a quarter. Best...
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- Post #135
- Jul 7, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ever realized how much debt you are in?

Just FYI, you should be careful who you say that stuff to. My wife works as a Criminal Investigator for the Dept of Education's Office of Inspector General. She routinely investigates and prosecute people who misuse educational loan funds, e.g., by spending the funds on non-education relatd...
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- Post #134
- Jul 7, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ever realized how much debt you are in?

It is a liability that must be paid off, which is the very definition of "debt." The fact that the value of the asset exceeds the amount remaining to be paid on it is irrelevant until the home is sold.
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- Post #133
- Jul 7, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Ever realized how much debt you are in?

HAH! 7k in debt is nothing when you think about it. Wait until you buy a house. I literally just did my budget and if you include my house, I am $499,000 in debt. Now, if you take my house away (hey the house is brand new, so go easy), I am "only" $29,000 in debt, with most of that being...
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- Post #132
- Jul 7, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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What should I invest in?

I subscribe to the efficient market hypothesis, which means that at any given moment, the best indicator of the value of a stock is its current price. That is, the market is efficient at collecting and responding to positive and negative information, so much so that it is fairly difficult to...
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- Post #31
- Jul 6, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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