Texan here... my wife and I pull in (varies year-to-year) about $240k/year (which may increase, upon passing the Patent Bar... God Willing), which is more than either of our parents ever came close to during our respective upbringings. Growing up as the eldest of five other siblings and having the pleasure of not one,…

I wish this was possible for me, but with a 10-month old baby girl, a full-time career, and my last year law school, I'm lucky to get 3-5 hours of sleep during the weekdays. In fact, I regularly pull "all-nighters" throughout the semester, where I've been known to go upwards of 48 hours without sleep, just to meet all…

I admit it... this is EXACTLY what I did last night by accident. Thanks for posting this helpful article today!

Great article! I've found that if you're working in a "pay-to-play" industry — information assurance/security is definitely one — then keeping your certifications current is just one of many requirements for keeping your job.

Yikes!

Uh... well, since this would fall under Administrative Law (the "headless fourth branch" of our government), the threat of voting out members of Congress is non-existent. That is, because the FCC is an administrative agency with quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers — delegated to them from Congress under the…

With a combination of ADD and generalized anxiety, I find that the only thing I can do to learn while exercising on my treadmill is to listen to the audio recordings I take of my law classes. Anything more active than this would likely distract (and possibly raise my anxiety levels) more than anything.

Beautiful...

I'm envious of this kind of skill — something I wish I had the time to develop on my own.

You know, there's just something... charming about this franchise's aesthetic. It's hard to believe that it's been 17 years — a fact that serves as a reminder that I am, in fact, getting older!

I'd take this guy's weight-to-strength ratio ANY day over the useless bulk that comes with your standard weight lifting. When I was younger, I managed to pretty bulky for my height, but once I lost the time to spend in the gym, what was once muscle mass quickly turned into the combination of flab/fat that I am today :P

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That's a waste of my money and time. I think I'll do what I did with this gen — get my consoles upfront and wait it out for a few years to upgrade/build a "gaming" PC.

Ah, EXACTLY why I've been telling friends and family that the next year or so is a horrible time to build a gaming PC. With these games being developed with the next-gen consoles in mind — not to mention the traditionally poor utilization/optimization of high-end PC gameware — I'm guessing we'll have to wait a while…

It's not flam bait — it's an unpopular, yet inevitable, concept that stems from a shockingly high number of economic/law-illiterates. On the one hand, we know theft when we see it — or at least that's what I thought — but on the other, there seems to be a generation of people out there that simply don't equate piracy…

LOL, this is AWESOME :P

No problem — glad you could contribute something significant to the discussion! :-P

Why are you so angry?

Dude, what are you talking about? These prices are set by the CONSUMER — yeah, that's right! As for shaming the government for not adding even more regulations (see Anti-Trust and Economics for more info), I have to inform you that, once again, there are ALREADY laws that assure against deceptive/unethical business…

Lord.Blade — with both the state and federal government's ever-increasing ability to peer into your digital consumption habits, what makes you think that their ability to detect and fine offenders of IP piracy laws won't get better as well? Again, among other goals, laws aspire to discourage wrongful actions (theft…

Jevans — no offense, but would that be your argument in court? Challenging the validity of a federal law — as a defense to a federal crime — is likely to lead you nowhere. Believe it or not, piracy (theft) of intellectual property is NOT a novel concept, which makes it highly unlikely that the Court would change the…

It's simple — if you use your argument in court, you're going to be found guilty of theft :-)