No one really knows how they'd handle such a situation until they are in it. Past thoughts and declarations might predispose an untrained person to a certain action, but when a harsh reality comes suddenly and unexpectedly it's all about instinct and fight or flight responses.
I've been enough dangerous situations to know that I'm neither a courageous man nor a coward, but simply a man. I saved a roofied woman from being raped by a group of strangers and have a heavily scared face to remind me of my moment of courage. On the other hand, I ran like hell when skinheads raided my friend's party with baseball bats and knives. I have the memory of standing over my friend's hospital bed as he was nursed back to health to remind me of my moment of cowardice.
The lady from the article is alive and was able to free herself from her attacker. That is what matters.
Weird, most of the posts I've read from GirlinTraining have been interesting and well received by slashdot. Enough so that I remember her/his name. I can't say the same for either of you. Maybe you should try to contribute to the discussion rather than throwing stones?
On that note, I'm conflicted about this generation of consoles. I skipped the last generation entirely and was hoping update my aging PS2, but I certainly won't abide an always on type requirement. That leaves Sony's offering, but with their history I can't trust that they change their policy in a year or two after they eat Microsoft's lunch.
What this means for me, and I'm sure quite a few other people, is that I'm going to delay purchasing any console until the water looks less muddied. Or not. I already have a perfectly capable PC. If the console manufacturers can't make their experience easier and more convenient than a PC in the livingroom, well, why even use a console?
I'm sorry, but I'm from the midwest and I can tell you that a lot of fucking people care about shit that is none of their business. The rednecks absolutely will attack you for being gay, transgendered, atheist, black, hispanic, hell even dressing like a goth or with too much care (metrosexual).
I'm working with a masters in a STEM field (Chemistry), and I make about 60% of the salary of the HR drone who happens to have a degree in History. The job market is so shitty for new grads in science that my company is starting chemists with undergraduate degrees at $13 an hour. This is not atypical for the industry, at least in my state. Trust me, I've been looking.
My friends that went into the trades already have houses and are making families. Those of us that went into science are living with roommates and scrounging by like we're 20 well into our 30's.
Don't get me wrong. There still are some good jobs out there. But similarly to what apparently (from my reading of slashdot) is going on in the software field, these positions require 15 years experience in a technique that is 12 years old.
That $13 an hour job I was talking about earlier? We received 63 resumes for the position. 63. The pay was listed. As was weekend work and mandatory overtime required.
Another interesting tidbit is that as health insurance continues to become a larger portion of the cost of the employee, the employers are experiencing a higher sunk cost per worker, shifting the sweet spot of overtime versus staffing up to higher OT values. My lab has cut two positions and moved to mandatory 45 hour base weeks, with mandatory additional overtime up to 55 hours.
The number of part time positions that are capped at 39 hours per week are also increasing.
Go into a trade. It isn't for dummies. Ignore your cultural bias.
I don't see how letting it go would be less good than addressing it. She was eaves dropping a conversation behind them that made a dongle and fork joke. It was a non-event.
The good news is that those engineering and chemistry students will get much better at writing as they do more of it. And they will do a ton of writing, revising, and reviewing others' writings as they progress to graduate school or the workforce.
I know that I am a little ashamed when I read over papers from my junior and senior years of undergrad.
I fully support your message. I live in Tucson, Az, and recently switched from Sprint to T-mobile.
I am much, much happier with T-mobile than I was with Sprint. The big motivator for me getting a smartphone was the ability to stream Pandora while jogging and biking, but with Sprint, even in wide open outdoors situations in the heart of Tucson, I rarely was able to stream at even the lowest quality settings. Tethering my desktop while inside the house was out of the question. Speedtest.net results typically were less than dialup speeds, and that's when it was working enough for speedtest to load.
My wife had the same phone and service and had the same issues. I spent many hours messing on the phone with Sprint, and really just got the run around. I sort of gave up messing with it until the contract ran it's course and then switched to T-Mobile. What really tweaked my ass was the $10/month*phone 4g tax, which is absolutely absent in Az. They had promised 4g as coming very soon when I started my contract in August of 2010, and it still wasn't implemented in August of 2012 when I canceled my service.
My bill per phone dropped from $87 a month to $60 a month, and I'm not on a contract. I'm running on 4g, and I'm running it everywhere I go, including the bunker that is the building I work in.
The best part is how friendly T-mobile has seemed to be to their customers. They support rooting, and because they use a sim card rather than the shit Sprint puts you through, activating phones is ridiculously easy in comparison. I bought a used Galaxy SII from Craigslist, rooted and put cyanogen on it, and didn't have any issues joining the network. It just worked.
Netflix had 29.4 million online streaming accounts as of September 2012, and with 720 hours in a month, 1E9 hours works out to each subscriber viewing an average 34 hours of online streaming per month. While possible, I think this statement should have led to some raised eyebrows.
My father served in Vietnam as a truck driver. The foliage on the sides of the roads were a main target for the agent orange deployments, and the truck drivers likely received a proportionally higher dose due to their continuing contact with the agent.
He major inflammation of the heart 6 months after returning from Vietnam, and a series of heart attacks from Ischemic heart disease over the next few decades. He had a multitude of other illnesses that are typically associated with exposure.
I was born with several birth defects. They are mostly manageable with medicine, but still, it sucked being 18 and having to take beta-blockers so my heart wouldn't tear itself to pieces.
My Father's illnesses are under presumed status, meaning that all he had to demonstrate in order to receive benefits was that he was in Vietnam during the time period agent orange was deployed, and that he had a disease recognized to be caused by exposure. This recognition did not happen until a few years ago. He had spent the last 15 years in near poverty as he could no longer work due to the advanced heart disease, which required a quadruple bipass.
The causality for my health issues is less defined, and I'm basically on my own for the treatment.
Growing up dealing with this, and watching my Dad fight PTS and his illnesses made me very suspicious of the government at a young age. Sadly, all that insight has seemed to gain me is a disgust for the blind and ignorant patriotism most people I meet seem to display.
Sure, that sounds good and all, but I don't think picking and choosing what you should take literally is an honest approach.
The realm of the unknown keeps shrinking, and as we learn more about the world we continue to discount more and more of the bible as merely stories used to convey a message.
His team replicated 53 studies? I haven't read through the details but I would imagine these were long term and difficult studies to complete. I smell BS.
His employees could very well be inept. This would explain why they were unable to replicate experiments. Science is hard.
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No true Scotsman.
No one really knows how they'd handle such a situation until they are in it. Past thoughts and declarations might predispose an untrained person to a certain action, but when a harsh reality comes suddenly and unexpectedly it's all about instinct and fight or flight responses.
I've been enough dangerous situations to know that I'm neither a courageous man nor a coward, but simply a man. I saved a roofied woman from being raped by a group of strangers and have a heavily scared face to remind me of my moment of courage. On the other hand, I ran like hell when skinheads raided my friend's party with baseball bats and knives. I have the memory of standing over my friend's hospital bed as he was nursed back to health to remind me of my moment of cowardice.
The lady from the article is alive and was able to free herself from her attacker. That is what matters.
Weird, most of the posts I've read from GirlinTraining have been interesting and well received by slashdot. Enough so that I remember her/his name. I can't say the same for either of you. Maybe you should try to contribute to the discussion rather than throwing stones?
On that note, I'm conflicted about this generation of consoles. I skipped the last generation entirely and was hoping update my aging PS2, but I certainly won't abide an always on type requirement. That leaves Sony's offering, but with their history I can't trust that they change their policy in a year or two after they eat Microsoft's lunch.
What this means for me, and I'm sure quite a few other people, is that I'm going to delay purchasing any console until the water looks less muddied. Or not. I already have a perfectly capable PC. If the console manufacturers can't make their experience easier and more convenient than a PC in the livingroom, well, why even use a console?
I'm sorry, but I'm from the midwest and I can tell you that a lot of fucking people care about shit that is none of their business. The rednecks absolutely will attack you for being gay, transgendered, atheist, black, hispanic, hell even dressing like a goth or with too much care (metrosexual).
Yeah, with a name like Zed it is real easy to remember and associate him with his very public meltdown a few years ago.
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/08/01/02/1811218/rails-bigwig-rails-on-rails-community
I get where you're coming from, but if you go far back enough on the timeline, we're all immigrants, including the 'Native' Americans.
I'm working with a masters in a STEM field (Chemistry), and I make about 60% of the salary of the HR drone who happens to have a degree in History. The job market is so shitty for new grads in science that my company is starting chemists with undergraduate degrees at $13 an hour. This is not atypical for the industry, at least in my state. Trust me, I've been looking.
My friends that went into the trades already have houses and are making families. Those of us that went into science are living with roommates and scrounging by like we're 20 well into our 30's.
Don't get me wrong. There still are some good jobs out there. But similarly to what apparently (from my reading of slashdot) is going on in the software field, these positions require 15 years experience in a technique that is 12 years old.
That $13 an hour job I was talking about earlier? We received 63 resumes for the position. 63. The pay was listed. As was weekend work and mandatory overtime required.
Another interesting tidbit is that as health insurance continues to become a larger portion of the cost of the employee, the employers are experiencing a higher sunk cost per worker, shifting the sweet spot of overtime versus staffing up to higher OT values. My lab has cut two positions and moved to mandatory 45 hour base weeks, with mandatory additional overtime up to 55 hours.
The number of part time positions that are capped at 39 hours per week are also increasing.
Go into a trade. It isn't for dummies. Ignore your cultural bias.
no one gives a shit
Some of us believe life is worth living even though we aren't trying to impress a sky-daddy.
No, but they guy they were putting the screws to was, and that's all they needed.
Ah, no, it reminded me of this poor soul
I don't see how letting it go would be less good than addressing it. She was eaves dropping a conversation behind them that made a dongle and fork joke. It was a non-event.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a dude with a belly full of micro sd cards?
The good news is that those engineering and chemistry students will get much better at writing as they do more of it. And they will do a ton of writing, revising, and reviewing others' writings as they progress to graduate school or the workforce.
I know that I am a little ashamed when I read over papers from my junior and senior years of undergrad.
Undoing my mod. Accidentally modded you up.
You missed the without-contract monthly 4G plans from t mobile. The rates are much more reasonable, but you have to pay a month at a time.
It's a Douche Woosh! Double score!
Sorry, that isn't math. That is number crunching. Anyone who completed a doctorate degree in a science field will be good at number crunching.
I fully support your message. I live in Tucson, Az, and recently switched from Sprint to T-mobile.
I am much, much happier with T-mobile than I was with Sprint. The big motivator for me getting a smartphone was the ability to stream Pandora while jogging and biking, but with Sprint, even in wide open outdoors situations in the heart of Tucson, I rarely was able to stream at even the lowest quality settings. Tethering my desktop while inside the house was out of the question. Speedtest.net results typically were less than dialup speeds, and that's when it was working enough for speedtest to load.
My wife had the same phone and service and had the same issues. I spent many hours messing on the phone with Sprint, and really just got the run around. I sort of gave up messing with it until the contract ran it's course and then switched to T-Mobile. What really tweaked my ass was the $10/month*phone 4g tax, which is absolutely absent in Az. They had promised 4g as coming very soon when I started my contract in August of 2010, and it still wasn't implemented in August of 2012 when I canceled my service.
My bill per phone dropped from $87 a month to $60 a month, and I'm not on a contract. I'm running on 4g, and I'm running it everywhere I go, including the bunker that is the building I work in.
The best part is how friendly T-mobile has seemed to be to their customers. They support rooting, and because they use a sim card rather than the shit Sprint puts you through, activating phones is ridiculously easy in comparison. I bought a used Galaxy SII from Craigslist, rooted and put cyanogen on it, and didn't have any issues joining the network. It just worked.
Netflix had 29.4 million online streaming accounts as of September 2012, and with 720 hours in a month, 1E9 hours works out to each subscriber viewing an average 34 hours of online streaming per month. While possible, I think this statement should have led to some raised eyebrows.
My father served in Vietnam as a truck driver. The foliage on the sides of the roads were a main target for the agent orange deployments, and the truck drivers likely received a proportionally higher dose due to their continuing contact with the agent.
He major inflammation of the heart 6 months after returning from Vietnam, and a series of heart attacks from Ischemic heart disease over the next few decades. He had a multitude of other illnesses that are typically associated with exposure.
I was born with several birth defects. They are mostly manageable with medicine, but still, it sucked being 18 and having to take beta-blockers so my heart wouldn't tear itself to pieces.
My Father's illnesses are under presumed status, meaning that all he had to demonstrate in order to receive benefits was that he was in Vietnam during the time period agent orange was deployed, and that he had a disease recognized to be caused by exposure. This recognition did not happen until a few years ago. He had spent the last 15 years in near poverty as he could no longer work due to the advanced heart disease, which required a quadruple bipass.
The causality for my health issues is less defined, and I'm basically on my own for the treatment.
Growing up dealing with this, and watching my Dad fight PTS and his illnesses made me very suspicious of the government at a young age. Sadly, all that insight has seemed to gain me is a disgust for the blind and ignorant patriotism most people I meet seem to display.
"Your ignorant" Lol.
Sure, that sounds good and all, but I don't think picking and choosing what you should take literally is an honest approach. The realm of the unknown keeps shrinking, and as we learn more about the world we continue to discount more and more of the bible as merely stories used to convey a message.
Er, I accidentally modded this down. Commenting to remove...
A few things here:
His team replicated 53 studies? I haven't read through the details but I would imagine these were long term and difficult studies to complete. I smell BS.
His employees could very well be inept. This would explain why they were unable to replicate experiments. Science is hard.