crabapple

why are you telling me this? just drop the fuck out now and save the money you are pissing away on tuition if you are convinced its all just a waste of time

but get used to being self-employed, because without that degree you won't even get through filter0 for any recruiter or hiring dept. hard to tell a cto how smart you are when the HR staffer shreds your resume because your last education is high school

good god please bury this term, the yc fanboys have turned the "startup" lexicon into such a shallow cliche that its almost at the point of parody. you don't have a "cofounder", what you have is a guy down the hall in your dorm

I can't think of anything else I'd want to spend my freshman year on.

try your homework, it'll pay dividends unlike yet-another pointless website

stop wasting the precious hours of your life

you use a whois proxying service to block your ID. and when company C tries to strongarm the ISP over which they have no jurisdiction, they get told to bugger off.

christ folks, if you just want to whitelist all your contacts, go to fastmail.fm and edit a sieve script

fuck you douche, i neither want or need your money

who will want money from you is the dipshits who threw a substantial amount of cash into your sorry funds in the first place...right now they are probably wondering if your zero-return, high-risk investment vehicle is worth the paperwork. something tells me you will be returning their calls

i also commend them for shutting it off when the experiment has failed

if you want to grow new products, you have to engage this process

yes, i think that is understood. they're going to live in the real world one way or another

get them out of the big 3 and they can find work that the economy values. will they find it soon? no, but then again maybe trying to compete in the global economy with a high school education wasn't such a bright idea after all

this is just about a huge chunk of our economy that has been living in the 70s finally forced to join the rest of us

and they will also paid in taxes if bailed. so GM is going to become a giant money laundering operation for the IRS?

cut out the middleman and put them on unemployment...then they can actually find PRODUCTIVE work

brand matters. in a test i recall, they took yahoo results and google results and swapped the company banners. people liked the results that had the google logo on them. google has the brand in search, its probably impossible to unseat them unless they do something drastically stupid

this is exactly why ch.11 exists - to allow freedom to restructure

are you trying to tell me that gm is simply a victim of the credit crisis???

why would a bank loan them money now?? aren't we all about responsible lending now?? lending money to gm is the corporate equivalent of a subprime loan. we don't want banks making subprime loans anymore.

or why should a succesful worker at honda in ohio subsidize not only a failed competitor, but in essence have his own taxation used to undermine his own hard work?

as for saving jobs and investment...most of the suppliers are already on death's door if they only rely on orders from detroit. investors have already lost 95% of their money on avg...nothing can reverse these losses

in the end the govt cannot give the big three their reputations back. lost reputation is why people do not choose these cars even though they are now comparable in quality. barak obama cannot force me to buy a buick

no doubt some reversion to the mean is beneficial...but a healthy economy shows some nonzero manageable inflation level...like around 2-3%. a deflating economy is deadly in the longer run, because demand goes away and so does employment.