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  1. Re:My neice on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 0
    "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

    Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato

  2. Re:My neice on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 2

    Whatever. Younger adult's financial independence keeps getting pushed back later and later in life. Thats the fault of the old folks. I wish I could go get a good paying job, pay my taxes, have a couple kids with my wife, but guess what? I can't because old fogey's in positions of power think they deserve more pay than they actually do and think that us young folks deserve less pay than we do. Since the baby boomers are the old folks these days, there's a majority population to try to combat for positions of power and to combat with our votes.

  3. Re:My neice on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."

    ATTRIBUTION: Attributed to SOCRATES by Plato

  4. Re:My neice on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 1

    The temper tantrum is called spoiled, its not addiction. Shes not addicted to the internet, she just is "addicted" if you will to social interaction. Many teen girls are. Also, many teens are not interested in their families at that time because they are preoccupied with developing socially. She probably would have the same problem on the school playground or during class by passing notes around.

  5. Re:Sounds like liberal arts grad students on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Said like a person that does not understand science. Spend some time actually understanding it, read some cutting edge scientific articles, and prepare to have your mind blown. Its amazing what people propose to solve problems. Just the depths of math that exist are completely outside the box, completely abstract, and beyond the realm of most human being's understanding. If I want to have some leisure time, I read literature. There's nothing wrong with even majoring in it, but any time you focus on metaphysical or philosophical things and forget about reality and logic you begin to form your own box. Thinking inside the box is just as easy if not easier for art majors that think "art is life".

  6. Re:Really?!?! on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    I don't know. Ron Jeremy has said it typically is about 500-800 for more professional male porn stars, maybe 300 for newbies. Women can get up to 2000 and even more if they are willing to do nasty stuff like butt plugs, anal, fisting, etc. The nastier (and probably more painful) it is the more they make. BTW (assuming you are male) have you ever tried to masturbate for over an hour holding back if you get close? It increased the size of your emission by about 2-3 X and also makes it spray quite a bit farther, sometimes up to 4 feet. I wont share with you my story about how I know this.

  7. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    Ok. Either way, my point still stands. Whoever hires someone or whoever advises on who to hire will be partial to pretty faces regardless of their sex.

  8. Re:How about learning some statistics? on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    Engineers seem to fit most of that, i.e. chemistry I and II, physics I - III , plus advanced mathematics (differential equations, linear algebra and many times an elective or two like partial differential equations) in 4 years. Actually, many end up having to take 5 because you have 17 credit semesters. Biology majors could fit it in if they wanted to. Were talking maybe 9 credits extra of math and 6-9 of computer science. Even an intro to CS and a scientific software class and then linear algebra, mathematical modeling, and a combined statistics/probability course would be better than nothing. Watering down science degrees is not a good thing to do, its supposed to be hard.

  9. Re:Sounds like liberal arts grad students on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I totally disagree. If we are talking about liberal studies, its the biggest joke degree on the planet. Thinking outside the box requires you actually bothered to take science and math courses along with your art and others. Scientific research is where the majority of outside-the-box thinking is even occurring right now.

  10. Re:Sounds like liberal arts grad students on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    Well, you could probably be a German translator if you could read German books.

  11. Re:How about learning some statistics? on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    When your doctor tells you they "will pray for you" rather than offer treatments you kind of wish they would have taken more science and math in college.

  12. Re:How about learning some statistics? on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    Then your department is a good department. Many out there are not. Just recently my university created a Biomathematics and Biostatistics program that is sponsored by both the mathematics department and biology department to fill in gaps in the biology departments course offerings.

  13. Re:How about learning some statistics? on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    Or... just take the math courses as an undergraduate. Its much more beneficial to you then since it will look good if you give your transcript to potential graduate departments and it you can also get it satisfy electives in your discipline usually by talking to your advisor. I started out as a computer engineering major, and people told me that it would be a good idea to take higher math as electives. I ended up switching to math in the end but my point is that I had math courses satisfying computer engineering electives.

  14. Re:How about learning some statistics? on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    I don't think it has anything to do with women. However, I do think that biology majors need to have at least two full years of statistics and math education above trigonometry to even be allowed to get a bachelor of science degree. Linear algebra, probability, statistics and regressions come into mind as useful topics. They also should be forced to take at least a three course sequence in programming topics, such as one course of matlab/R and two courses in CS like Intro to CS and Data Structures. Nowadays you get mathematicians and statisticians getting into mathematical or statistical biology because biology majors are so ill prepared for the math they need to do their research.

  15. Re:So say the biologists on Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? · · Score: 1

    They should only be cut-throat within reason. Come on, just because someone doesn't walk all over someone else or schmooze for funding doesn't mean they don't have valuable contributions to make to science. Its sort of like high school or the finance industry, the most socially adept and willing to stab people in the back get the most favorable treatment. Frankly, its kind of BS but such is human nature.

  16. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    Wait? Trying different flavors? So like a polyamorous nudist colony? That would rule. Frankly, I want to crave it at least daily. I realize nudity != sex but de-sexualization of human beings is not something I am into. Sex is like a superb release of tension and a great way to relax and be intimate with someone.

  17. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 2

    I see sexy women in clothing all the time that aren't dancing. Jeans accentuate it, thongs accentuate it, shoes accentuate it, tank tops accentuate it etc.

  18. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    It goes both ways. If a sufficiently unprofessional HR lady thinks some guy is cute she will hire him over some fat person. Physical attractiveness will always be a way people judge eachother unless they teach themselves not to. Since most hirings are done clothed, I don't see how nudism helps this anyway. We see peoples faces all the time. This doesn't have to mean we need nudists walking around everywhere spoiling sexuality.

  19. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    The difference is that I only watch porn every once and awhile and usually the nudity involves sex, not just nude wandering people. Also, if I were to get raging boners in nudist colonies people would not be cool with me rubbing one out on the sidewalk.

  20. Re:Really?!?! on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 1

    Haha good point. Damnit.

  21. Re:Really?!?! on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 2

    Maybe if you're a male porn star.

    Correction, maybe if you are a STRAIGHT male porn star. Gay ones make quite a bit. This is not from experience mind you, but a quick google does tell.

  22. Re:Eww on Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am firmly against the naturist de-sexualization. Many women are too hot for this to be allowed. It would be like making your favorite ice cream taste like dog shit just because you think its wrong to like good ice cream. Im for the sexualization of the human body, and the removal of idiotic moral hang ups about it.

  23. Re:No on Ask Slashdot: Would You Take a Pay Cut To Telecommute? · · Score: 1

    Spank her.

  24. Re:This will likely be unpopular... on Key Music Industry Lawyer Named EU Copyright Chief · · Score: 1

    See : Conflict of Interest.

  25. Re:you do need a certain level of expertise on Key Music Industry Lawyer Named EU Copyright Chief · · Score: 1

    See : conflict of interest.