[geeks] I never thought

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Mon Feb 25 01:21:36 CST 2002


On February 25, Kris Kirby wrote:
> > I never thought I would sink this low, but due to the vileness of a professor,
> > I am renting software.  Ack.  I broke down and rented Minitab for windows for
> > doing minitab homework (sure, I could write software to do everything that I'm
> > forced to do in Minitab, but no, the man still insists it be done in minitab).
> 
> Excuse me? This doesn't seem right. He's compelling (forcing) you to pay
> for something? Isn't this against some rule somewhere?

  State governments get away with it all the time with compulsory car
insurance.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf



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