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  1. Article: 6962 of comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
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  4. From: syndesis@beta.inc.net (John Foust)
  5. Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave,comp.graphics.apps.lightwave
  6. Subject: Re: LW student pricing?
  7. Date: 7 Jun 1995 14:46:33 GMT
  8. Organization: Syndesis Corporation
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  10. Message-ID: <3r4e49$m4n@carrera.inc.net>
  11. References: <dkennett.801933677@sfu.ca> <3qmq4h$fo3@news.globalone.net> <jgrossD9K850.M5o@netcom.com> <3qvp7m$eh2@darwin.nbnet.nb.ca> <3r1mob$p99@carrera. <Pine.SUN.3.91.950607044413.10957B-100000@access4.digex.net>
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  15. In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950607044413.10957B-100000@access4.digex.net>, Ernie Wright <erniew@access4.digex.net> says:
  16. >
  17. >What he's really thinking is, what can I say that
  18. >might persuade them to lower the cost for ME?
  19.  
  20. Of course that's the real answer.  Educational pricing encourages
  21. a kind of intellectual and professional whoring, where they'll
  22. simply donate themselves to the lowest bidder.
  23.  
  24. Actually, I don't think most college kids can afford a computer.
  25. Even if they can, it's probably not a wise investment.
  26.  
  27. When I was in college, I spent too much money on a C-64 system.
  28. A waste of $1,500 1983 dollars.  I used it to type a few term
  29. papers, dink around programming, play a few games.  Meanwhile,
  30. I could've accomplished much greater intellectual goals by using
  31. the extensive computers owned by the university.  Of course, I
  32. did spend a lot of time with them, too, but I blew a semester's
  33. cash on a toy computer, at the same time I had student loans.
  34.  
  35. >Why does this require a response?
  36.  
  37. Because we can all do our part to help educate the world's youth. :-)
  38.  
  39. It takes an entire electronic village to smack those whiney college
  40. kids up-side the head...  what, you think it's humane to let them
  41. enter the real world without any idea of the way things work?  :-)
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