My son is 13 years old and has been training to be a pilot since he was 11. He has taken off and landed a small airplane (with the PIC in the airplane with him, of course) quite a few times. It just goes to show that landing an airplane isn't as difficult as some people think it is... it just requires focus and passion. Both of which my son has in spades when he's flying an airplane.
This news story struck me as wonderful news. My son has wanted to be a pilot since he was three years old. If you are one of the lucky few (I am not) who knew what he wanted to be for his whole life, then I envy you as much as I envy my son for having a singular great dream. The notion of drones and computerized pilots scares me because it threatens that dream. Stories in which autopilots and drones are slandered make me happy.
Especially if your children are at the age where they instinctively put things in their mouths, you need to watch them at all times.
Spoken like a true non-parent.
There are NO parents who watch their children "at all times". How long does it take for a child to pick something up, put it in their mouth, and swallow it? About a second, perhaps. If you really "need" to watch a toddler "at all times", think about all the things that are difficult to do because you have to be hawk-like hovering over the child like a neurotic poltergeist without even one second of inattentiveness. Things like: cooking, watching the road (instead of the child) while driving, sex, and probably most importantly, watching your other children.
I jailbreak my IOS device for one very important reason:/etc/hosts. This is VERY important to me. If I access an internet resource, there's nothing stopping it from telling my device, "Hey, also get this other resource without asking the user for permission!" In other words, it speaks on my behalf. My right to free speech also means freedom from compulsory speech./etc/hosts means that I can control which resources are accessed on my behalf.
Apple (and all other money-making enterprises) hate this notion because it interferes with their potential profit. This is why we have to rely on jailbreaking to restore these free speech rights. My IOS5 device is jailbroken, but I cannot get an untethered jailbreak for IOS6.
IANAL. Doesn't matter. This is a philosophical issue.
What a tragedy. Ubuntu's focus on ease of use was such a great leap forward for Linux usability. Now they've lost the plot and forgot about their constituency, instead trying to drive more and more revenue with things the user's don't actually want.
Does anyone want Facebook? How is it that Facebook is free?
When users want "privacy", they want to make sure that their location isn't tracked... until they want to be able to share that with their friends and know where there is an available parking space. To say that by sacrificing our privacy we will have a much richer lifestyle is a tautology by this point. For example, it's happened more than once that I found someone on the Internet using a service that they didn't expressly consent to, and they were delighted that I found them because they had been looking for me and were unable to find me. What was more important -- that I respected their privacy, or that we have a newly-kindled friendship?
Leaving his passport and money in an unsecured location was a stupid and idiotic move on *his* part (although I bet that that is probably somewhat offset by him being distracted for a moment). And yes I know that this sounds like blaming the victim, but there is a point where you have to take responsibility for your own actions.
If you just change a few specifics, but not the tenor, in your argument, you'll get a drastically different result. To wit:
"Leaving her hotel room dressed like such a slut was a stupid and idiotic move on *her* part. And yes, I know that this sounds like blaming the victim, but there is a point where you have to take responsibility for your own actions."
If you've got some magic fix for it, then let's hear it. If not then quit with the "America should be able to fix it!"
You can't fix stupid. So they will fail in every attempt to "solve homelessness". But OP wasn't talking about homelessness. Bitsy Boffin was talking about America and how much he hates it. The homelessness tack is incidental.
Indeed! "What about the chiiiiiiiiildren?" It works for both conservatives and liberals.
There are millions of stories of stupid, lazy people doing stupid, lazy things that screw up their own lives and the lives of their victims. And then, once in a blue moon, one of these losers spawns a genius. It is the proverbial pearl in a mountain of shit. But if you stare deeply into that pearl, allowing it to fill your vision entirely, then you can feel inspired enough to write a heartwarming human interest story. Maybe that story will be so powerful that you will inspire people to say, "But what about the chiiiiiiiildren?" and ignore the masses of stupid, lazy people out there making life worse for everyone.
I might add especially the 1%ers who inherited their wealth.
If everybody started from a level playing field the wealth disparity would be much easier to tolerate.
The way it is, the US turns into a neo-feudal society.
Yes, it sucks that other kids had a trust fund and we didn't. (Likewise, it also sucks that we were born in the US as opposed to, say, North Korea or Uganda, but let's stay focused on our first-world problems.)
How would you imagine "fixing" this problem? Ignore for the time being that you can no longer bequeath your wealth to your children, or to anyone else that you like, for that matter. When someone dies, all of their wealth is sized by the government to be "spread equally" among... who exactly? Everyone? How do you imagine that working out in practice? Well, since we will elect angels, not fallible humans, to government positions, then they will be perfect and show absolutely no favoritism or individual biases about what is most worthy of "investment", right? Of course not, because angels don't exist, power corrupts, and we're talking about pigs who now have a individual's wealth to divvy up as best as they see fit. This is actually a much faster method of turning the US into a neo-feudal society, with all wealth from someone seized when someone dies (accidentally?) and spread out as best as our rulers see fit (Now! With GULAG!).
Maybe you should re-read the book _Animal Farm_ knowing that it was written by a socialist. Notice how I used the word "pigs" to describe our rulers? It wasn't a throwaway insult. It's a reference to that book.
"...should be required reading"? Check. Freshly-graduated from college? Check. What's good for me is good for everybody? Check. What I don't prefer is excrement? Check. Dismissive and angry in general? Check.
Yes, I bash (the shell, not the petulant behavior). Yes, I know regexes. Yes, I used E16. Yes, I was a zealot of class-A caliber. I see me in you. An angry, condescending, spiteful me. Slashdot is a back-slapping, high-fiving cesspool of that kind of me. It's why your very hackneyed post was modded up as "insightful": it validates very common anti-social, us-versus-them attitude that permeates this place. It's why my own post will be modded down as "flamebait", because I am refusing to validate this very same spiteful, self-satisfied group of people, as hungry for validation as I used to be. Am I better than that now? Somehow superior? No. Just less angry. More accepting of myself and different preferences in others. Less needy of punishing and feeling self-satisfied for having done so. More aware that happiness it the birthright and responsibility of every individual, and that computer UIs are a preference which exist solely to serve humanity's needs, and only after that are a technical (not moral) issue. Maybe when you see your two year-old child working an iPad you'll feel a little bit more merciful, but something tells me that parenthood is light-years away from your radar.
These kinds of stories sicken me. "No link". "No correlation". So what if there was? Correlation does not imply causation.
Yet "linked" and "correlated" appear everywhere in medicine. Why is our culture like this? I think it must be a kind of secular religion -- kind of like the faith we have in peer review.
Indeed. Quite opposed to corporations, trade unions, churches, scientists, public interest groups, police departments, community organizers, universities, charities, and individuals, all of which advance and defend their interests with 100% honesty and lamb-like innocence.
I was still in college and my becoming of a full-blown Linux nerd was a function of my seething hatred for Microsoft. Back then, "News for nerds, stuff that matters" was an anthem for my people. The nerdy ones. I wanted to be esoteric, abstract, intelligent, and I wanted respect for all the things that I liked that had been so commonly mocked and derided during high school. Slashdot filled that void in a very special way: it was new, it was on the web, it was underground, it was filled with people like me: young, male, nerdy. Who was I to know that "Lord of the Rings" would one day win best picture? Back then, "Revenge of the Nerds" was a movie I remember in the theater.
Watching Slashdot grow up wasn't as interesting as watching myself grow up. I became a parent. I learned how to cook. I stopped hating Microsoft so much (I remember feeling ever so slightly conflicted about buying an Xbox). I even returned to my "Apple roots" when I forsook my aging, whirring linux box for an iMac a few years ago. "It's UNIX", I told myself. Funny how priorities change. My coworker, who is in his mid-20s, calls me "old". I call him "post-Jedi", referring to the movie after which he was born. I saw Star Wars in the theater, but I was too young to remember it.
Slashdot is special and will always be. Thank you, Rob, for being there for all of us. And Emacs still sucks.
When I want to feel nostalgic, I look at the BillG as borg logo, and remember when I truly did hate Microsoft and think they were such a terrible threat. I like to think about the Halloween documents and how exciting and subversive all that was.
I can't get upset about this. I feel it is bad enough that Americans with Cuban heritage have the right to visit Cuba while my government says that I am forbidden to do so. But this guy isn't Cuban (he's Jewish), yet somehow he get to go to Cuba on a tourist visa. He broke their laws (which really suck but he clearly knew their laws).
I can't get upset that I don't have the right to financially support a Communist island quasi-gulag, but I can understand why that pisses off "progressives" (those scare quotes are EARNED), so I empathize with you... just a smidge. At the same time, so what if he "knew their laws"? No one should be punished for an unjust law. I'm sure the people in Cuba's prisons who are there for the horrible crime of criticizing the government would agree with that.
I'm sorry, what was I engaging my brain again? I just need to repeat, "They have Universal Health Care in Cuba!" over and over. War is Peace, Love is Hate. A=!A.
Not sure we've ever gotten actual news from the media outlets. By 'actual news' I am referring to the unbiased and accurate reporting of an event.
But who chooses which events will be reported? Events are happening all the time, all over the place. Remember that earthquake in Haiti? Things down there haven't gotten any better, but now no one cares nearly as much. Simply choosing what to report, and then doing it unbiased and accurately, is, in and of itself, biased. A reporter wants that people know some information. Wants for what? "Because it's newsworthy" assumes the point in dispute and is journo-bullshit.
That is not true. Automobile companies made money using the roads that existed before the automobile was first introduced. While government subsidies may make automobile manufacturing more profitable, automobile manufacturers were making a profit before the government started doling out any subsidies.
I am not conceding that there really are that much in the way of government subsidies for automobiles, but even if there is, the government subsidies occurred after the economic success of the automobile. They did not create the economic success of the automobile.
I couldn't agree with you more. I find it hilarious that eco-zealots pretend that the automobile would die if not for some kind of government subsidy. Isn't that called "projection"? The killer app of the automobile is that I can get in my car and drive to work, or Disneyland, or anywhere in between, whenever I want, on a whim. If your favorite government-subsidized project can't compete with that, then you have to fall back on religion to make up the difference.
The last Dutch government fell over supporting the Afghanistan mission for even x more years. Because the Dutch and many others don't believe in forcing peace in such a way. The Russions tried it for years and warned us all at forehand.
Plenty of people could correctly guess if you are gay. If we haven't said anything, it is probably because we don't care.
Plenty of people do NOT correctly guess that I am gay. I'm a software developer. I wear a wedding band. I like football (NOT soccer). When I open of mouth to speak, rainbow glitter doesn't spray out.
Person:(sees my wedding band) So, what's your wife's name?
Me: We're not married.
Person:(confused) Why not?
Me: Because the state will not allow us to marry.
Person:(ultra confused and not getting it) Why would they not allow you to marry?
I've had that conversation multiple times. I hate coming out to people. I would much rather someone else tell them when I'm not anywhere nearby. Coming out to a straight person is just saying this to someone's face: "Hi, I'm gay, which means I probably do all sorts of sexual things that you find incredibly disgusting. Now, judge me positively. I'm waiting."
Keen in mind that some gay guys could dress up as the ugliest, most offensive drag queen, and there would still be some straight people who STILL could not correctly guess. There's a whole spectrum of being clued-in.
I appreciate that you don't care. Honestly, I do. It makes life easier for gay people who live in a world where there's a great many people who DO care and are willing to do something about that problem.
My biggest worry (but it wasn't that big of a worry) about facebook when I signed up was the fact that I state myself "in a relationship" with another man. I like facebook for giving one thing: details about the goings on in the lives of people I care about that I wouldn't have known otherwise. And that is very powerful and very significant. That aside, I've been friended by old acquaintances pre-coming out and surprise!
Then again, maybe it wasn't that much of a surprise to those people. People do talk outside of facebook. But there's no question about it now -- no pretending with a lot of people who might have had only suspicions before. The ads that might be shown to me concern me the least. Then I think about whom the study may intend to protect.
Note to gay teenagers: It gets better. Hang in there!
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My son is 13 years old and has been training to be a pilot since he was 11. He has taken off and landed a small airplane (with the PIC in the airplane with him, of course) quite a few times. It just goes to show that landing an airplane isn't as difficult as some people think it is ... it just requires focus and passion. Both of which my son has in spades when he's flying an airplane.
This news story struck me as wonderful news. My son has wanted to be a pilot since he was three years old. If you are one of the lucky few (I am not) who knew what he wanted to be for his whole life, then I envy you as much as I envy my son for having a singular great dream. The notion of drones and computerized pilots scares me because it threatens that dream. Stories in which autopilots and drones are slandered make me happy.
Especially if your children are at the age where they instinctively put things in their mouths, you need to watch them at all times.
Spoken like a true non-parent.
There are NO parents who watch their children "at all times". How long does it take for a child to pick something up, put it in their mouth, and swallow it? About a second, perhaps. If you really "need" to watch a toddler "at all times", think about all the things that are difficult to do because you have to be hawk-like hovering over the child like a neurotic poltergeist without even one second of inattentiveness. Things like: cooking, watching the road (instead of the child) while driving, sex, and probably most importantly, watching your other children.
I jailbreak my IOS device for one very important reason: /etc/hosts. This is VERY important to me. If I access an internet resource, there's nothing stopping it from telling my device, "Hey, also get this other resource without asking the user for permission!" In other words, it speaks on my behalf. My right to free speech also means freedom from compulsory speech. /etc/hosts means that I can control which resources are accessed on my behalf.
Apple (and all other money-making enterprises) hate this notion because it interferes with their potential profit. This is why we have to rely on jailbreaking to restore these free speech rights. My IOS5 device is jailbroken, but I cannot get an untethered jailbreak for IOS6.
IANAL. Doesn't matter. This is a philosophical issue.
What a tragedy. Ubuntu's focus on ease of use was such a great leap forward for Linux usability. Now they've lost the plot and forgot about their constituency, instead trying to drive more and more revenue with things the user's don't actually want.
Does anyone want Facebook? How is it that Facebook is free?
When users want "privacy", they want to make sure that their location isn't tracked ... until they want to be able to share that with their friends and know where there is an available parking space. To say that by sacrificing our privacy we will have a much richer lifestyle is a tautology by this point. For example, it's happened more than once that I found someone on the Internet using a service that they didn't expressly consent to, and they were delighted that I found them because they had been looking for me and were unable to find me. What was more important -- that I respected their privacy, or that we have a newly-kindled friendship?
When RMS talks about "privacy", keep in mind the monk-like lifestyle he leads. http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
I'd be willing to accept an "apples and oranges" rejoinder.
If I do something stupid, even my best friends will call me out on it.
That's WHY they are my best friends.
If you do something stupid, such as leave your laptop in an unsecured location, then will your best friends steal it?
Leaving his passport and money in an unsecured location was a stupid and idiotic move on *his* part (although I bet that that is probably somewhat offset by him being distracted for a moment). And yes I know that this sounds like blaming the victim, but there is a point where you have to take responsibility for your own actions.
If you just change a few specifics, but not the tenor, in your argument, you'll get a drastically different result. To wit:
"Leaving her hotel room dressed like such a slut was a stupid and idiotic move on *her* part. And yes, I know that this sounds like blaming the victim, but there is a point where you have to take responsibility for your own actions."
The fix is socialism...
Meanwhile, in Greece...
If you've got some magic fix for it, then let's hear it. If not then quit with the "America should be able to fix it!"
You can't fix stupid. So they will fail in every attempt to "solve homelessness". But OP wasn't talking about homelessness. Bitsy Boffin was talking about America and how much he hates it. The homelessness tack is incidental.
Indeed! "What about the chiiiiiiiiildren?" It works for both conservatives and liberals.
There are millions of stories of stupid, lazy people doing stupid, lazy things that screw up their own lives and the lives of their victims. And then, once in a blue moon, one of these losers spawns a genius. It is the proverbial pearl in a mountain of shit. But if you stare deeply into that pearl, allowing it to fill your vision entirely, then you can feel inspired enough to write a heartwarming human interest story. Maybe that story will be so powerful that you will inspire people to say, "But what about the chiiiiiiiildren?" and ignore the masses of stupid, lazy people out there making life worse for everyone.
I might add especially the 1%ers who inherited their wealth.
If everybody started from a level playing field the wealth disparity would be much easier to tolerate.
The way it is, the US turns into a neo-feudal society.
Yes, it sucks that other kids had a trust fund and we didn't. (Likewise, it also sucks that we were born in the US as opposed to, say, North Korea or Uganda, but let's stay focused on our first-world problems.)
How would you imagine "fixing" this problem? Ignore for the time being that you can no longer bequeath your wealth to your children, or to anyone else that you like, for that matter. When someone dies, all of their wealth is sized by the government to be "spread equally" among ... who exactly? Everyone? How do you imagine that working out in practice? Well, since we will elect angels, not fallible humans, to government positions, then they will be perfect and show absolutely no favoritism or individual biases about what is most worthy of "investment", right? Of course not, because angels don't exist, power corrupts, and we're talking about pigs who now have a individual's wealth to divvy up as best as they see fit. This is actually a much faster method of turning the US into a neo-feudal society, with all wealth from someone seized when someone dies (accidentally?) and spread out as best as our rulers see fit (Now! With GULAG!).
Maybe you should re-read the book _Animal Farm_ knowing that it was written by a socialist. Notice how I used the word "pigs" to describe our rulers? It wasn't a throwaway insult. It's a reference to that book.
Just don't call it "class warfare"!
"...should be required reading"? Check.
Freshly-graduated from college? Check.
What's good for me is good for everybody? Check.
What I don't prefer is excrement? Check.
Dismissive and angry in general? Check.
Yes, I bash (the shell, not the petulant behavior). Yes, I know regexes. Yes, I used E16. Yes, I was a zealot of class-A caliber. I see me in you. An angry, condescending, spiteful me. Slashdot is a back-slapping, high-fiving cesspool of that kind of me. It's why your very hackneyed post was modded up as "insightful": it validates very common anti-social, us-versus-them attitude that permeates this place. It's why my own post will be modded down as "flamebait", because I am refusing to validate this very same spiteful, self-satisfied group of people, as hungry for validation as I used to be. Am I better than that now? Somehow superior? No. Just less angry. More accepting of myself and different preferences in others. Less needy of punishing and feeling self-satisfied for having done so. More aware that happiness it the birthright and responsibility of every individual, and that computer UIs are a preference which exist solely to serve humanity's needs, and only after that are a technical (not moral) issue. Maybe when you see your two year-old child working an iPad you'll feel a little bit more merciful, but something tells me that parenthood is light-years away from your radar.
These kinds of stories sicken me. "No link". "No correlation". So what if there was? Correlation does not imply causation.
Yet "linked" and "correlated" appear everywhere in medicine. Why is our culture like this? I think it must be a kind of secular religion -- kind of like the faith we have in peer review.
Bald-faced lies, the lingua franca of government.
Indeed. Quite opposed to corporations, trade unions, churches, scientists, public interest groups, police departments, community organizers, universities, charities, and individuals, all of which advance and defend their interests with 100% honesty and lamb-like innocence.
I was still in college and my becoming of a full-blown Linux nerd was a function of my seething hatred for Microsoft. Back then, "News for nerds, stuff that matters" was an anthem for my people. The nerdy ones. I wanted to be esoteric, abstract, intelligent, and I wanted respect for all the things that I liked that had been so commonly mocked and derided during high school. Slashdot filled that void in a very special way: it was new, it was on the web, it was underground, it was filled with people like me: young, male, nerdy. Who was I to know that "Lord of the Rings" would one day win best picture? Back then, "Revenge of the Nerds" was a movie I remember in the theater.
Watching Slashdot grow up wasn't as interesting as watching myself grow up. I became a parent. I learned how to cook. I stopped hating Microsoft so much (I remember feeling ever so slightly conflicted about buying an Xbox). I even returned to my "Apple roots" when I forsook my aging, whirring linux box for an iMac a few years ago. "It's UNIX", I told myself. Funny how priorities change. My coworker, who is in his mid-20s, calls me "old". I call him "post-Jedi", referring to the movie after which he was born. I saw Star Wars in the theater, but I was too young to remember it.
Slashdot is special and will always be. Thank you, Rob, for being there for all of us. And Emacs still sucks.
In 1998, I think.
When I want to feel nostalgic, I look at the BillG as borg logo, and remember when I truly did hate Microsoft and think they were such a terrible threat. I like to think about the Halloween documents and how exciting and subversive all that was.
But when the service is done, feel free to express your opinions and views..
My rapist said the same thing to me.
I can't get upset about this. I feel it is bad enough that Americans with Cuban heritage have the right to visit Cuba while my government says that I am forbidden to do so. But this guy isn't Cuban (he's Jewish), yet somehow he get to go to Cuba on a tourist visa. He broke their laws (which really suck but he clearly knew their laws).
I can't get upset that I don't have the right to financially support a Communist island quasi-gulag, but I can understand why that pisses off "progressives" (those scare quotes are EARNED), so I empathize with you ... just a smidge. At the same time, so what if he "knew their laws"? No one should be punished for an unjust law. I'm sure the people in Cuba's prisons who are there for the horrible crime of criticizing the government would agree with that.
I'm sorry, what was I engaging my brain again? I just need to repeat, "They have Universal Health Care in Cuba!" over and over. War is Peace, Love is Hate. A=!A.
Not sure we've ever gotten actual news from the media outlets. By 'actual news' I am referring to the unbiased and accurate reporting of an event.
But who chooses which events will be reported? Events are happening all the time, all over the place. Remember that earthquake in Haiti? Things down there haven't gotten any better, but now no one cares nearly as much. Simply choosing what to report, and then doing it unbiased and accurately, is, in and of itself, biased. A reporter wants that people know some information. Wants for what? "Because it's newsworthy" assumes the point in dispute and is journo-bullshit.
That is not true. Automobile companies made money using the roads that existed before the automobile was first introduced. While government subsidies may make automobile manufacturing more profitable, automobile manufacturers were making a profit before the government started doling out any subsidies.
I am not conceding that there really are that much in the way of government subsidies for automobiles, but even if there is, the government subsidies occurred after the economic success of the automobile. They did not create the economic success of the automobile.
I couldn't agree with you more. I find it hilarious that eco-zealots pretend that the automobile would die if not for some kind of government subsidy. Isn't that called "projection"? The killer app of the automobile is that I can get in my car and drive to work, or Disneyland, or anywhere in between, whenever I want, on a whim. If your favorite government-subsidized project can't compete with that, then you have to fall back on religion to make up the difference.
Excessive sugar is bad for you. Period.
It doesn't matter what form it takes.
The problem with sugar added to industrial foods is the fact that it is usually there to mask crap quality.
Most foods that have added HFCS don't need it and are really better off without it.
"Let them eat cake." 21st-century edition. ("cake" implies: local, organic)
The last Dutch government fell over supporting the Afghanistan mission for even x more years. Because the Dutch and many others don't believe in forcing peace in such a way. The Russions tried it for years and warned us all at forehand.
What the Soviets did in Afghanistan registers as "forcing peace" to you? I'm guessing that the violent suppression of the anti-communist uprising in Hungary in 1956 also registers as a "peace mission" to you. Likewise, perhaps those millions of starved Ukrainians is merely an exaggeration or malignant propaganda to you.
Oh, and Cuba has free, awesome health care for all.
India is a democracy
"Democracy" is probably one of the most abused words in political discourse. What does it mean to you? What does it imply?
"Eternal, unflinchingly rigid caste system", perhaps?
Plenty of people could correctly guess if you are gay. If we haven't said anything, it is probably because we don't care.
Plenty of people do NOT correctly guess that I am gay. I'm a software developer. I wear a wedding band. I like football (NOT soccer). When I open of mouth to speak, rainbow glitter doesn't spray out.
Person: (sees my wedding band) So, what's your wife's name?
Me: We're not married.
Person: (confused) Why not?
Me: Because the state will not allow us to marry.
Person: (ultra confused and not getting it) Why would they not allow you to marry?
I've had that conversation multiple times. I hate coming out to people. I would much rather someone else tell them when I'm not anywhere nearby. Coming out to a straight person is just saying this to someone's face: "Hi, I'm gay, which means I probably do all sorts of sexual things that you find incredibly disgusting. Now, judge me positively. I'm waiting."
Keen in mind that some gay guys could dress up as the ugliest, most offensive drag queen, and there would still be some straight people who STILL could not correctly guess. There's a whole spectrum of being clued-in.
I appreciate that you don't care. Honestly, I do. It makes life easier for gay people who live in a world where there's a great many people who DO care and are willing to do something about that problem.
My biggest worry (but it wasn't that big of a worry) about facebook when I signed up was the fact that I state myself "in a relationship" with another man. I like facebook for giving one thing: details about the goings on in the lives of people I care about that I wouldn't have known otherwise. And that is very powerful and very significant. That aside, I've been friended by old acquaintances pre-coming out and surprise!
Then again, maybe it wasn't that much of a surprise to those people. People do talk outside of facebook. But there's no question about it now -- no pretending with a lot of people who might have had only suspicions before. The ads that might be shown to me concern me the least. Then I think about whom the study may intend to protect.
Note to gay teenagers: It gets better. Hang in there!