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05_never_again said:
The thing with the wokeness in the NBA isn't that I disagree with it (which I do) but how it is characterized. It is characterized as taking a stand, going out on a limb and saying something controversial, speaking truth to power, saying what's on your mind even though there might be negative consequences, etc., when it is nothing of the sort. Everything that LeBron, Kerr, Pop, etc. espouse is perfectly conventional, popular, mainstream thinking in NBA circles. Given Kerr's silence/refusal to comment on this China stuff, I wonder if he even truly believes the stuff he says about Trump and instead just does it to pander to his players.

In the NBA, if you want to say something controversial, a good place to start would be saying you support Trump or don't like the anthem kneeling.
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I have had a lot of respect for Adam Silver but how he has handled this situation has dropped him down a peg.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
That’s what I’m looking at - I’d say I’ve got about 30 credits built up already
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I am a semester away from my B.S. in analytical chemistry because of it. Calculus III and Physics II whooped my tail but it is worth it. Even if you only get your Associates, it is something!
 
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Wickman said:
I am a semester away from my B.S. in analytical chemistry because of it. Calculus III and Physics II whooped my tail but it is worth it. Even if you only get your Associates, it is something!
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Austin Peay offers a Public Management B.S. that I’m interested in. I was a Business Administration major out of high school but I’m going to avoid that because all the math skills in my brain left a long time ago lol
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Austin Peay offers a Public Management B.S. that I’m interested in. I was a Business Administration major out of high school but I’m going to avoid that because all the math skills in my brain left a long time ago lol
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Business math is just add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Yeah, I thought so too but apparently Calculus is required? Maybe I’ve got my major requirements confused.
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I had to take "Calculus for business" which was some really rudimentary calculus class that I hated, but it was just one class. Took it either my freshman or sophomore year.

I wouldn't think you'd have to take any of that crap in the business school, when you're actually taking classes in line with your major.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
Yeah, I thought so too but apparently Calculus is required? Maybe I’ve got my major requirements confused.
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I taught myself Calculus through YouTube. It is challenging but you can do it. You just have to find instructors that appeal to how you learn.
 
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05_never_again said:
I had to take "Calculus for business" which was some really rudimentary calculus class that I hated, but it was just one class. Took it either my freshman or sophomore year.

I wouldn't think you'd have to take any of that crap in the business school, when you're actually taking classes in line with your major.
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The longest semester of my life was taking business calculus. Hated it with a passion.
 
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GAVol said:
The longest semester of my life was taking business calculus. Hated it with a passion.
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I know they tried to make it more practical than a traditional calculus class (lots of regression analyses too, which isn't even calculus) but it was awful. And haven't ever needed to use a single bit of it.
 
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Kingston Vol said:
That’s what I’m looking at - I’d say I’ve got about 30 credits built up already
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Do it now. The longer you wait, the harder it is to pull off as life gets in the way. Luckily I've gotten away with it, but I kick myself to this day for not going to grad school.
 
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05_never_again said:
I know they tried to make it more practical than a traditional calculus class (lots of regression analyses too, which isn't even calculus) but it was awful. And haven't ever needed to use a single bit of it.
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I have a vicious blind spot for calculus. Literally spent everyday thinking I needed to walk out of the class straight to the administration building and switch majors.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Can somebody who follows this stuff tell me how it’s possible that JJ Peterson can’t get on the field? Thanks
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Saw this posted yesterday and it's exactly what I keep hearing....

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I have heard the coaches are stunned by his play so far. He is nowhere near the player he was in high school. He returned kickoffs in high school. Now he is fat, slow, and always hurt.
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zjcvols said:
I have had a lot of respect for Adam Silver but how he has handled this situation has dropped him down a peg.
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Silver's second statement gets it a little better now that the NBA remembers it has American fans too. Still craven, but probably about as far as he can go without getting fired himself.

The sad fact is that when it comes to the PRC, American businesses' first reaction is going to be to get it wrong. Upton Sinclair's dictum that it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on hot understanding it is 100 times more true when the man isn't even a man at all, but rather an artificial legal construct taxed with "maximizing shareholder value" over all else. Your average large American company has no problem putting 10,000 people out of work if it boosts their stock by $0.20 for a week, so of course most of them are willing to kiss the CCP's ass to maintain access to that huge Chinese market.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Can somebody who follows this stuff tell me how it’s possible that JJ Peterson can’t get on the field? Thanks
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Long story. Some strings had to be pulled academically last year to even get him enrolled. Supposedly JJ really wanted to go to Georgia but grades were a problem and they couldn't get him in there. Wasn't an early enrollee, so he missed spring ball then all of fall camp. Once he got enrolled (believe it was after the West Virginia game), he had put on a ton of weight and was out of shape. Supposedly has had a really hard time learning the defense and figuring out what he's supposed to do. In the open media portion of practices last year and I think even some this year, he isn't even practicing with the other LBs but is off to the side with assistant coaches working on individual drills. Has had a recurring shoulder problem (not sure how - he hardly ever plays and that's typically a contact injury) that has caused him to miss a bunch of practice. Overall, it seems to boil down to a question of whether or not he really wants to be here.
 
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