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I see a lot of posts here simply making excuses for the teacher, proclaiming why it wasn't really his fault or responsibility. So what? The situation presented is unacceptable, and we're kidding ourselves if we think that whether the details of this particular instance are sufficiently condemning or not makes a difference as to the fact this this kind of thing goes on all the time in our high schools. It's not okay. This woman at least made an effort to do something about it.

How [Men's] Clothes Should Fit.

The whole reason we even know about all this is because someone did have that courage.

You never know -- she might end up being into both, like me.

I've become rabidly anti-Java. My friend installed Java on my computer as part of the process of rooting my HP touchpad to install android, and within days my antivirus had detected multiple java-based attacks on my system. These were literally the first attacks since I'd wiped my HD after a previous Java related attack. I uninstalled Java immediately, and hope that I never have to install it again.

Unless it's illegal for you to marry the person you want to marry, in which case you don't have a choice. Hence this campaign.

You can get really cheap refill cartridges on Amazon. I paid maybe 8 bucks for C Y M and x3 B. They're not 'official' but they work just fine, in my case better even than the normal ones.

It's so much easier for people just to delete the books off of your device without your permission than to send people to your house to burn them.

Only because the government allows it.

Why do we need to consume Vitamin C to avoid scruvy? Evolution abandons what is no longer necessary.

I like the grid layout, maybe additional places could be saved by having 'pages' of locations?

It's compensative sexism.

It's not impossible to be happy despite confronting and accepting the ugly reality of everyday life at the same time.

The better solution is to use an open door design (often found in airports) and have hand dryers rather than paper towels. Less waste and associated mess, no garbage to change, no doorknobs to not touch.

That line is in response to the question, 'Is Pinterest fundamentally feminine in some way?' The answer of no in that context is that Pinterest is a derivative behavior associated with 'women's magazines' which is also not fundamentally feminine.

The full voiceover (including player lines) was one of the big things that really sold it for me -- it's really hard to go back to other RPGs and play a silent nobody after playing mass effect (which was one of the reasons I never go into Dragon Age (aside from it being bad)).

My impression is that being a scientist involves a whole lot of fighting over paperwork instead of solving problems (at least in America, when it's time to apply for grants!).

I went to check the #discover tab on a lark. Absolutely nothing interested me. I have 4700+ tweets to my username, you'd think that would be enough info to show me one story about gaming perhaps (considering 99% of my tweets are about gaming).

This is basically Search for telling your computer what to do. People currently do this all day long at google.com.

Anyone with a smartphone can have Pandora in their car, I sure do.

#2 is what Pandora does. Pandora knows what music I like and will like better than I ever could.

3.5+

Semi tangentially, the 'backspace = go back' shortcut has accidentally deleted countless posts and emails of mine (and I'm sure many other people's). I really think that shortcut needs to go away.

That "powerful radar antenna in Alaska" is the infamous H.A.A.R.P.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haarp

...some say.

Title fix?

I'm not really a fan of the whole 'no children' idea, but the point about thinking less is absolutely true. When it comes to coding there is a bit of a distinction that is easy to trip over: the difference between thinking and processing. If you've watched Notch code you can probably see this at work - people often remark about how he's continuously writing code rather than sitting there thinking. But it's also obvious that he's not just blindly typing code -- he's processing the code while he's typing.

But for life in general, thinking is a trap. Your brain has already done all the important processing for you, because that's what it does. Do what your gut tells you, but pay attention to what happens because that's the only way your brain can improve it's process.

Babylon 5 did this a lot as well.

I'm getting certificate errors -- is this part of the point or something else?

I don't use it, although I have an account to appease my other friends' need to 'friend' me. How silly is that sentence?