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[Lister]

...get back from Vegas only $5 lighter (from gambling).  When did they start charging $3 for a soda and $16 for giraffe & chips?

[Arachno-capitalist]

CFA. Hundreds of hours of study and then a grueling 6 hour exam

Well I did a quick UPS check up on the required reading material they sent me for the exam...

Tracking Detail

Tracking Number:    XXXXX
Type:    Package    
Status:    In Transit - On Time    
Scheduled Delivery:    07/01/2009    
Shipped To:    XXXX, NJ, US    
Shipped/Billed On:    06/29/2009    
Service:    GROUND    
Weight:    27.50 Lbs

Wait, what? I feel sort of like the weatherman is saying 'Category 5 Hurricane' and the 2 day part of the projected path is right over my house.

[jaydub]

From the wiki article, "there is no overall score for the test, only a Pass/Fail result. However, candidates that fail are informed of how well they did compared to other candidates that failed, e.g. top 10% of candidates that failed."

That sort of flips the whole "Class Standing" rank on its head, doesn't it?  They give you a rank of how badly you suck.  It reminds me a bit of an English professor at my Alma Mater (that I happily didn't have to take - not being an English major) whose grading scale didn't stop at F. 

Note: edited for grammar. (who's/whose) Can't decide if that's ironic.

[wombat]

It reminds me a bit of an English professor at my Alma Mater (that I happily didn't have to take - not being an English major) whose grading scale didn't stop at F. 

Ooo, what was below an F? I wish I'd thought of that.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I'm not sure, but I think the way its graded is such that you can ace some sections and fail others and still pass the exam as a whole. Which kind of makes me wonder if some CFAs are out there who just totally bombed "Ethical and Professional Standards" or "Portfolio Risk Management" and all he and his employer know is that he "passed" the test. Scary.

[jaydub]

Ooo, what was below an F? I wish I'd thought of that.

G..H..I..J..K...

Or did you forget your /sarc tag?

[Lister]

Tomorrow morning I get the keys to a house, which will be mine.

[lprkn]

Hooray! Congratulations!

[wombat]

G..H..I..J..K...

Or did you forget your /sarc tag?

Surely there has to be more to it than that.  At least he must have explained how to interpret the additional grades.

Hmm, on the other hand, that would make it even more evil not to explain them, wouildn't it.

Lister: Here's what Onstad said on Facebook, he just bought a house too. You might find it inspiring.

I can go over there and push on it until it falls down. I can draw a dog on the inside OR outside. I can put my ##### in the middle of the empty living room floor and stand back and consider them.

[AugustWest]

Why would he want to stand back and consider Vlad, Andy and Liebot?

[Doc]

You want to keep those guys where you can see them, dig?

[wombat]

Has the word for 'trousers' always been replaced by SIX asterisks?

[theinevitable]

...find out I'm on the TSA watchlist.

Also, head to Berkeley. Now I just have to decide whether to spend the 4th with adorable baby/toddler cousins, or settling in and meeting berkeley people.
Probably gonna do the first one, let's be honest. Adorable cousins? "Fuggedaboutit"

[littlefallsmets]

Your ability to talk yourself out of getting laid is a potential National Security Risk, 'nev.

If The Terrorists could get ahold of you and reverse-engineer it into something airborne, could you imagine the power they'd wield?

They wouldn't HAVE to attack us with bombs. Just wait thirty years and wait for our civilization to fall without any new children.

Full-on "Children of Men" scenario. TSA knows what they're doing.

[Arachno-capitalist]

LFM is right, your superpower of not getting laid is a danger to us all if it ever got contagious. Think of the children, Dan.