I would have killed for an ebook option for my textbooks. I was really sick the last year I attended college. I used a cane, and could barely carry my backpack. A Kindle, or the like, with all my textbooks loaded on it would have made my life easier. Even now that I am healthy, I would rather have them all loaded on a ereader of some sort, than hauling the books to class.
Just last week, I had to order PT evals for two separate patients at the facility I nurse at. Both have Parkinsons, and are in the process of a steady decline with their ability to walk. One is getting her first walker, the other is going to get evaluated to see if there is any possible walker out there to keep him active.
Something like this looks promising in the extreme. It would help when they freeze up. I wonder if they could set it to help the patient control their gate, elongating steps, to avoid shuffling.
I appreciate that they kept profiles. I found them invaluable. Unfortunately, when I was told they were going away, my husband and I painstakingly moved his profile to a different account. Instead of a 3/3 = 6 account, we now have two 3 disk accounts. Damn for being so quick and efficient, I guess.
A lot of folks fled fark because of the crazy moderation disasters, shadowban's, and sometimes real consequences. I have talked to folks that have no idea why they were banned. They only found out after someone said their posts weren't showing. I have even talked to one individual that claims some of the moderators at fark have gone so far as to try and mark him as a pedophile stalker.
Since all these people are nice, well spoken, and seemingly intelligent, it's hard to ignore. More and more stories accumulate as the months go on.
I hear about it at bannination.com. It's community moderated, as to prevent issues of the past. The folks that make it work, and genuinely interested in everyone having fun, and you can have real discussions there.
The NSFW thing may be a joke, but it smacks of a trollish joke to cause more people to visit the site for ad revenue. I guess I would rather spend my time in a site that does not make trollish jokes, or where I can count on never being shadow banned for random reasons.
I'm a psych student. The whole escalation of force thing is hard to understand as a tactic, when it's well known in psychology that if a person is in a heightened state of arousal, it's hard for them to process simple commands.
It's always disturbed me to watch cops, when the police are escalating the level of force by yelling, and pulling weapons. Even an introductory cognitive psych class, or social psych class, will point out that people reliably have trouble when they are in a heightened state of arousal. (Like anxiety, fear, etc)
Just to be clear, I have dealt with violent, unreasonable people. I have worked as a nurse for the last ten years, before going back to school, and we don't get to escalate things. We don't get to fight back when a patient hits us. I have been hit, bitten, kicked, and even dragged into a bed and had two ribs dislocated. I have even had scalpels brandished at me. (Hoo boy! That was tough!) I have never once hurt, or escalated a situation with my patients. That would be illegal. Even with dementia, or schizophrenia, I am more often than not been able to diffuse the situation. Escalating the level of force used, will only reliably cause the patient to completely wig the hell out.
I guess, it's always shocking that what is taught in even the basics of nursing, and psychology, isn't being taught to the officers that need it most. Escalation is not really the best way to deal with folks in most situations.
I am not a big comic gal, but I used to read Xmen. I stopped when they split it into a handful of titles. I have a buddy that got fed up with reading Spiderman, for a similar reason. He needed multiple titles to see what was going on. It was a blatantly an effort to make those of us who were into it, buy more. It didn't work for us, we stopped collecting. I started reading indi artists.
I think the older comics, before they split up all over the place.
I am quite a bit older than most four year college students, but that's due to paying my own way, and stopping and starting related to money issues.
I remember being one of the first in my classes to have a laptop to take notes on. I simply type faster, without thinking about it, than I can write notes. At first, it was seen as an anomaly. Now, it's almost normal. In the last quarter I went to, a year ago, a good third of the folks I went in with had laptops. There is also internet access. The best classes integrated online content, like access to notes and material with the lecture. It is amazing to get a PDF, or.doc that you can modify with your own notes.
The worst had no online presence at all. I started with a computer science degree, and took the online presence for granted. Since I switched down to my "do you want fries with that" psych degree it's very hit and miss. I remember being in a 200 level psych class where the prof had no online presence, and stated he did not use email. A collective groan went up from the 200+ students.
My husband, graduating this quarter with an accounting degree, and ready to take his CPA testing, actually had a professor last quarter outlaw laptops in the classroom. There was a quarter long argument between most of the class and the prof about it. The younger, normal aged, students were most frustrated with that. My husband, being an old fart, just switched over to paper notes, but said he really missed his laptop, and had forgotten how tedious paper could be.
It is a testimony to my laptop use, in school, that my penmanship is not doctor grade illegible.
I was really big into video games from the old Atari onwards. I found, later on, that the games stopped being fun for me. I am not the core demographic that these games are written for, and I understand that. I am old, female, and not exactly the first person shooter type. Nor, am I the sims kind of play house person.
I found several titles on each system that were weird cheap offshoot games, that I liked. I am not, and have never been interested in how hard a game was. I want fun games.
I got the Wii, with some trepidation, as I was beginning to think buying game consoles would just net me another system with a couple dozen unfinished games on it.
Six weeks ago, I got the Wii, with Raymans Rabbid Rabbits, Zelda, and just recently got Resident evil 4. My husband is a more hardcore gamer type, and loves RE4. I have nearly finished RRRs, and just started Zelda. It's been a long time since I put in 13 hours on a game with no stops.
I plan to get Brain Age, and the workout one. I already have Metroid on pre-purchase.
I feel like the 360 (not going to even talk about PS3) is geared towards harder games for the sake of being hard. Plus the games come in the same genres. FPS, RPG, race or sports. I have played those over and over in every incarnation. I am big on RPGs, and have played those since the Atari Adventure. I want something different. The Wii has those original styles of games for me, and all sorts of quirky new stuff.
I just don't have time in my life for the same stuff, made harder by pixel hunts and artificial toughness levels, to be the same crap. At least now, with games like Raymans Rabbid Rabbits, I can laugh hysterically with my friends while we hunt rabbits with plungers. (Tip: Punch your friend in the arm, and you get to shoot more rabbits than them!)
In addition to reporting any misbehavior by the police, I hope that the ACLU has enough integrity to also publicly commend any officer that is recorded acting responsibility in a difficult situation. A little positive reinforcement can go a long ways.
I don't agree. I am a nurse. I have seen other nurses out there that steal narcotics, make dangerous medical decisions, etc. Those nurses suck, and make the rest of us look bad. I don't think I should be commended for doing my job right just because there are those out there that do it badly. I am not a cop, and couldn't speak for them, but if someone tried to commend me for doing the right thing, I would be a bit disgusted. That's like saying, "Thanks for giving your patients those pain meds, instead of stealing them." or the cop equivalent, "Thanks for making that arrest without beating that guy to death." People should not be commended for doing what they are required to do by the job, and what should be a socially accepted standard of moral ethics.
You are my hero. This is what my husband and I aspire to. We already do that. At this stage in our lives we could own a huge McMansion, and a couple new cars, but instead we chose a mobile home that is paid for and allows us to live well within our means. Life is sooo much easier when you can take a day off work without worrying about paying for all those unnecessary keeping-up-with-the-neighbors toys.
I am a nurse, and one of the patients I took care of was paralized from the chest down. He had only partial control of his arms, and could not manage the fine dexterity needed for a game pad. This was around the year 2000, and his folks found him an adaptive controller for the games. That way he could still play with his friends.
I would recommend calling your local hospitals occupational or physical therapy departments, and just asking. I wish I paid more attention to what they managed to come up with, but at least there is hope that it exists. You can't be the only one worried about losing the manual dexterity needed to play, and there has got to be someone that can rig up an adaptive controller.
Do I have to delete the new version? All I wanted to do was make a giant inflatable cthulhu, and the instructions on the giant inflatable bear were close.
I live right by the Canadian border. I don't cross up to Canada anymore because coming home is so much of a hassle. It's never the Canadian customs agents that want to rip out my seats, and detain me. It's always fellow Americans.
The husband and I are already planning on going, and have narrowed it down to either Australia or Canada. We live quite close to BC, and love it, but have friends down under that really want us to go there. We are waiting for another year, as the husband is still attending college, and will be eligible to take his CPA exams upon graduation. If we go to Canada, which is more likely, it will take two years, that you must live outside the country, to complete the process. We both like larger cities, and are leaning towards Vancouver BC, as it's still close enough to his family in Washington state to get to in an emergency.
For us, it's just a countdown of time. After nursing in the US for years, it is obvious that time is running out for my husband and I to get health care coverage that is functional to us. That was part of my decision on the countries that we looked into. There are other countries that do offer socialized healthcare, but are not as easy for us to get to.
The things that influenced out decisions? Health care options, views on same sex couples (although a het couple, it's a good yardstick on the subject of tolerance and diversity.) and the view on poverty and drug use. We are also non drug users, but the 'War on Drugs' hasn't worked out to well here, and I don't want to go to a place where they are using public funds for the same behavior. I also don't like the idea of abandoning those that are unfortunate enough to find themselves in poverty, as we are all just one series of events from the same fate. As a nurse I have seen it.
So, we are going, as soon as the husband is out of school, and we get through the paperwork. We could go now, but with him in school, we can't afford the fees to start the process.
I will confirm that of the multitude of times I cross the border to Canada and back, it's always the US customs that wants to rip the seats out of my car, and detain me for ages at a shot. I don't go up there anymore, even though it's so close because of it.
I am one of those good students. The last two quarters I got on the dean's list. I am also 34 years old. I prefer full access to all notes, podcasts, etc as early as possible, so I can choose to go to class or not. I pay in full for all my classes, and feel that I should be the final arbitor of whether I get anything out of actually being there.
This whole 'keep the bad students from skipping' is a ridiculous stance in the first place. There is an obvious correlation between class attendance and overall grades in most cases. It is irritating as all get out when I get into a class where a TA or professor decides to play nanny, and take attendance, or restrict access to class material because 'students will skip'. All you're doing by restricting access is making students like me, who do go to class and do get excellent grades, jump through a massive number of irritating hoops.
It's college, not a babysitting program. Whatever happened to personal responsibility of the student to get to class? We're all adults there.
Seeing my hometown pop up on the front page of Slashdot was more than my just waking self was prepared for. Bellingham is a small town, and I can't help but wonder if I know the guy.
I think you are right, for the most part. There were some outright sexist guys, but you see those a mile off. I can understand the shy issue, but it doesn't make it any easier for women to get into the field if they become invisible.
I have had that experience back in the day when I started gaming. In small groups it's pretty easy to get past. Larger groups, like the classrooms I was in from 50-250 students, often don't allow the kind of contact to let that effect wear off.
Your post combined two magic words, "nurse" and "computers". I am a nurse, and I went back to college to get a computer science degree. I dropped the computer science at the halfway mark, and switched to something else.
Your assessment of the nursing field is correct in my experience. Of course, this is only anectodal, but all my male fellow students are well into management by now, and I notice that male nurses with half the experience of the females get management offers a lot more often despite their being a minority in the field.
I love computers. I built my own, learned everything with help files, and the occasional friend. I loved my computer science classes. I do have to say, that there was definitely a social issue about attending. The first quarter in the main series for basic programming, I was a non entity. Groups of guys would gather together, and work in groups. I ended up working with other gals, or by myself.
I have to say I am not a shrinking violet, either. I am a gamer, and am used to being in a gender minority. I also do things like work on my diesel project car, rebuild things around the house, and am a total video game addict. I have a lot in common with the average computer science demographic. (Next project? Robots!)
With that said, I felt really uncomfortable in the computer science degree. I managed to make contact with my fellow students by the third class, when they all knew each other and worked together in the first. I aced all my classes, and am not that socially defective to my knowledge, but sometimes it felt that the only one who saw me was the instructor. I didn't get any outright bias, but several of my classmates seemed shocked that I got A's for grades.
I think it's specific to the computer science culture, honestly. I am going into a welding degree now, and actually feel more comfortable there despite my still being a gender minority. I couldn't tell you the combination of why, but I know by the time I dropped the major, all the other female students in my group did too, with similar complaints. We used to joke about being invisible all the time. Perhaps some variation on this is why women don't tend to get into the CS degrees as much.
I am confused why anyone cares about online gambling as long as everyone is of adult age, and is consenting? Perhaps someone else can explain why it's bad enough to warrent a criminal charge, let alone a felony? Is there some sort of child sacrifice, or puppy killing that goes on with online gambling that I missed?
I have worked as a nurse the last 8 years. It is insanely difficult not to work overtime even if your ideal is only 32 hours a week. I often look wistfully to the European work ethic where you are not called a slacker for only wanting 32 or so hours a week. Asking for a week off of your already earned vacation time is not like asking for someone else's left arm, etc.
I am currently looking for a job, and trying to find a less than full time position. It's probably not going to happen, or they will tell me it's part time and up my hours. It's happened before with constant calls to come to work on my days off.
I know other professions aren't as bad, but my husband is going to get his CPA soon, and has been told his dreams of working less than 40 hours a week were impossible. This remains to be seen, and we are still hoping.
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I would have killed for an ebook option for my textbooks. I was really sick the last year I attended college. I used a cane, and could barely carry my backpack. A Kindle, or the like, with all my textbooks loaded on it would have made my life easier. Even now that I am healthy, I would rather have them all loaded on a ereader of some sort, than hauling the books to class.
I just don't like carrying books around, though.
Just last week, I had to order PT evals for two separate patients at the facility I nurse at. Both have Parkinsons, and are in the process of a steady decline with their ability to walk. One is getting her first walker, the other is going to get evaluated to see if there is any possible walker out there to keep him active. Something like this looks promising in the extreme. It would help when they freeze up. I wonder if they could set it to help the patient control their gate, elongating steps, to avoid shuffling.
I appreciate that they kept profiles. I found them invaluable. Unfortunately, when I was told they were going away, my husband and I painstakingly moved his profile to a different account. Instead of a 3/3 = 6 account, we now have two 3 disk accounts. Damn for being so quick and efficient, I guess.
Some of us don't have the luxury of being healthy enough to consider 5lbs light at all times.
A lot of folks fled fark because of the crazy moderation disasters, shadowban's, and sometimes real consequences. I have talked to folks that have no idea why they were banned. They only found out after someone said their posts weren't showing. I have even talked to one individual that claims some of the moderators at fark have gone so far as to try and mark him as a pedophile stalker.
Since all these people are nice, well spoken, and seemingly intelligent, it's hard to ignore. More and more stories accumulate as the months go on.
I hear about it at bannination.com. It's community moderated, as to prevent issues of the past. The folks that make it work, and genuinely interested in everyone having fun, and you can have real discussions there.
The NSFW thing may be a joke, but it smacks of a trollish joke to cause more people to visit the site for ad revenue. I guess I would rather spend my time in a site that does not make trollish jokes, or where I can count on never being shadow banned for random reasons.
I'm a psych student. The whole escalation of force thing is hard to understand as a tactic, when it's well known in psychology that if a person is in a heightened state of arousal, it's hard for them to process simple commands.
It's always disturbed me to watch cops, when the police are escalating the level of force by yelling, and pulling weapons. Even an introductory cognitive psych class, or social psych class, will point out that people reliably have trouble when they are in a heightened state of arousal. (Like anxiety, fear, etc)
Just to be clear, I have dealt with violent, unreasonable people. I have worked as a nurse for the last ten years, before going back to school, and we don't get to escalate things. We don't get to fight back when a patient hits us. I have been hit, bitten, kicked, and even dragged into a bed and had two ribs dislocated. I have even had scalpels brandished at me. (Hoo boy! That was tough!) I have never once hurt, or escalated a situation with my patients. That would be illegal. Even with dementia, or schizophrenia, I am more often than not been able to diffuse the situation. Escalating the level of force used, will only reliably cause the patient to completely wig the hell out.
I guess, it's always shocking that what is taught in even the basics of nursing, and psychology, isn't being taught to the officers that need it most. Escalation is not really the best way to deal with folks in most situations.
I am not a big comic gal, but I used to read Xmen. I stopped when they split it into a handful of titles. I have a buddy that got fed up with reading Spiderman, for a similar reason. He needed multiple titles to see what was going on. It was a blatantly an effort to make those of us who were into it, buy more. It didn't work for us, we stopped collecting. I started reading indi artists.
I think the older comics, before they split up all over the place.
Is there anything that company can't do? I associate that name with all things that make me nervous or irritated by this point in my life.
I am quite a bit older than most four year college students, but that's due to paying my own way, and stopping and starting related to money issues.
.doc that you can modify with your own notes.
I remember being one of the first in my classes to have a laptop to take notes on. I simply type faster, without thinking about it, than I can write notes. At first, it was seen as an anomaly. Now, it's almost normal. In the last quarter I went to, a year ago, a good third of the folks I went in with had laptops. There is also internet access. The best classes integrated online content, like access to notes and material with the lecture. It is amazing to get a PDF, or
The worst had no online presence at all. I started with a computer science degree, and took the online presence for granted. Since I switched down to my "do you want fries with that" psych degree it's very hit and miss. I remember being in a 200 level psych class where the prof had no online presence, and stated he did not use email. A collective groan went up from the 200+ students.
My husband, graduating this quarter with an accounting degree, and ready to take his CPA testing, actually had a professor last quarter outlaw laptops in the classroom. There was a quarter long argument between most of the class and the prof about it. The younger, normal aged, students were most frustrated with that. My husband, being an old fart, just switched over to paper notes, but said he really missed his laptop, and had forgotten how tedious paper could be.
It is a testimony to my laptop use, in school, that my penmanship is not doctor grade illegible.
That's because McDonalds employs more folks to ask, "Do you want fries with that," than farms that raise the cows and potatoes.
I was really big into video games from the old Atari onwards. I found, later on, that the games stopped being fun for me. I am not the core demographic that these games are written for, and I understand that. I am old, female, and not exactly the first person shooter type. Nor, am I the sims kind of play house person.
I found several titles on each system that were weird cheap offshoot games, that I liked. I am not, and have never been interested in how hard a game was. I want fun games.
I got the Wii, with some trepidation, as I was beginning to think buying game consoles would just net me another system with a couple dozen unfinished games on it.
Six weeks ago, I got the Wii, with Raymans Rabbid Rabbits, Zelda, and just recently got Resident evil 4. My husband is a more hardcore gamer type, and loves RE4. I have nearly finished RRRs, and just started Zelda. It's been a long time since I put in 13 hours on a game with no stops.
I plan to get Brain Age, and the workout one. I already have Metroid on pre-purchase.
I feel like the 360 (not going to even talk about PS3) is geared towards harder games for the sake of being hard. Plus the games come in the same genres. FPS, RPG, race or sports. I have played those over and over in every incarnation. I am big on RPGs, and have played those since the Atari Adventure. I want something different. The Wii has those original styles of games for me, and all sorts of quirky new stuff.
I just don't have time in my life for the same stuff, made harder by pixel hunts and artificial toughness levels, to be the same crap. At least now, with games like Raymans Rabbid Rabbits, I can laugh hysterically with my friends while we hunt rabbits with plungers. (Tip: Punch your friend in the arm, and you get to shoot more rabbits than them!)
In addition to reporting any misbehavior by the police, I hope that the ACLU has enough integrity to also publicly commend any officer that is recorded acting responsibility in a difficult situation. A little positive reinforcement can go a long ways.
I don't agree. I am a nurse. I have seen other nurses out there that steal narcotics, make dangerous medical decisions, etc. Those nurses suck, and make the rest of us look bad. I don't think I should be commended for doing my job right just because there are those out there that do it badly. I am not a cop, and couldn't speak for them, but if someone tried to commend me for doing the right thing, I would be a bit disgusted. That's like saying, "Thanks for giving your patients those pain meds, instead of stealing them." or the cop equivalent, "Thanks for making that arrest without beating that guy to death." People should not be commended for doing what they are required to do by the job, and what should be a socially accepted standard of moral ethics.
You are my hero. This is what my husband and I aspire to. We already do that. At this stage in our lives we could own a huge McMansion, and a couple new cars, but instead we chose a mobile home that is paid for and allows us to live well within our means. Life is sooo much easier when you can take a day off work without worrying about paying for all those unnecessary keeping-up-with-the-neighbors toys.
I am a nurse, and one of the patients I took care of was paralized from the chest down. He had only partial control of his arms, and could not manage the fine dexterity needed for a game pad. This was around the year 2000, and his folks found him an adaptive controller for the games. That way he could still play with his friends.
I would recommend calling your local hospitals occupational or physical therapy departments, and just asking. I wish I paid more attention to what they managed to come up with, but at least there is hope that it exists. You can't be the only one worried about losing the manual dexterity needed to play, and there has got to be someone that can rig up an adaptive controller.
Do I have to delete the new version? All I wanted to do was make a giant inflatable cthulhu, and the instructions on the giant inflatable bear were close.
I live right by the Canadian border. I don't cross up to Canada anymore because coming home is so much of a hassle. It's never the Canadian customs agents that want to rip out my seats, and detain me. It's always fellow Americans.
The husband and I are already planning on going, and have narrowed it down to either Australia or Canada. We live quite close to BC, and love it, but have friends down under that really want us to go there. We are waiting for another year, as the husband is still attending college, and will be eligible to take his CPA exams upon graduation. If we go to Canada, which is more likely, it will take two years, that you must live outside the country, to complete the process. We both like larger cities, and are leaning towards Vancouver BC, as it's still close enough to his family in Washington state to get to in an emergency.
For us, it's just a countdown of time. After nursing in the US for years, it is obvious that time is running out for my husband and I to get health care coverage that is functional to us. That was part of my decision on the countries that we looked into. There are other countries that do offer socialized healthcare, but are not as easy for us to get to.
The things that influenced out decisions? Health care options, views on same sex couples (although a het couple, it's a good yardstick on the subject of tolerance and diversity.) and the view on poverty and drug use. We are also non drug users, but the 'War on Drugs' hasn't worked out to well here, and I don't want to go to a place where they are using public funds for the same behavior. I also don't like the idea of abandoning those that are unfortunate enough to find themselves in poverty, as we are all just one series of events from the same fate. As a nurse I have seen it.
So, we are going, as soon as the husband is out of school, and we get through the paperwork. We could go now, but with him in school, we can't afford the fees to start the process.
I will confirm that of the multitude of times I cross the border to Canada and back, it's always the US customs that wants to rip the seats out of my car, and detain me for ages at a shot. I don't go up there anymore, even though it's so close because of it.
I am one of those good students. The last two quarters I got on the dean's list. I am also 34 years old. I prefer full access to all notes, podcasts, etc as early as possible, so I can choose to go to class or not. I pay in full for all my classes, and feel that I should be the final arbitor of whether I get anything out of actually being there.
This whole 'keep the bad students from skipping' is a ridiculous stance in the first place. There is an obvious correlation between class attendance and overall grades in most cases. It is irritating as all get out when I get into a class where a TA or professor decides to play nanny, and take attendance, or restrict access to class material because 'students will skip'. All you're doing by restricting access is making students like me, who do go to class and do get excellent grades, jump through a massive number of irritating hoops.
It's college, not a babysitting program. Whatever happened to personal responsibility of the student to get to class? We're all adults there.
Well, yeah! Who wouldn't?!
Seeing my hometown pop up on the front page of Slashdot was more than my just waking self was prepared for. Bellingham is a small town, and I can't help but wonder if I know the guy.
I think you are right, for the most part. There were some outright sexist guys, but you see those a mile off. I can understand the shy issue, but it doesn't make it any easier for women to get into the field if they become invisible.
I have had that experience back in the day when I started gaming. In small groups it's pretty easy to get past. Larger groups, like the classrooms I was in from 50-250 students, often don't allow the kind of contact to let that effect wear off.
Your post combined two magic words, "nurse" and "computers". I am a nurse, and I went back to college to get a computer science degree. I dropped the computer science at the halfway mark, and switched to something else.
Your assessment of the nursing field is correct in my experience. Of course, this is only anectodal, but all my male fellow students are well into management by now, and I notice that male nurses with half the experience of the females get management offers a lot more often despite their being a minority in the field.
I love computers. I built my own, learned everything with help files, and the occasional friend. I loved my computer science classes. I do have to say, that there was definitely a social issue about attending. The first quarter in the main series for basic programming, I was a non entity. Groups of guys would gather together, and work in groups. I ended up working with other gals, or by myself.
I have to say I am not a shrinking violet, either. I am a gamer, and am used to being in a gender minority. I also do things like work on my diesel project car, rebuild things around the house, and am a total video game addict. I have a lot in common with the average computer science demographic. (Next project? Robots!)
With that said, I felt really uncomfortable in the computer science degree. I managed to make contact with my fellow students by the third class, when they all knew each other and worked together in the first. I aced all my classes, and am not that socially defective to my knowledge, but sometimes it felt that the only one who saw me was the instructor. I didn't get any outright bias, but several of my classmates seemed shocked that I got A's for grades.
I think it's specific to the computer science culture, honestly. I am going into a welding degree now, and actually feel more comfortable there despite my still being a gender minority. I couldn't tell you the combination of why, but I know by the time I dropped the major, all the other female students in my group did too, with similar complaints. We used to joke about being invisible all the time. Perhaps some variation on this is why women don't tend to get into the CS degrees as much.
I am confused why anyone cares about online gambling as long as everyone is of adult age, and is consenting? Perhaps someone else can explain why it's bad enough to warrent a criminal charge, let alone a felony? Is there some sort of child sacrifice, or puppy killing that goes on with online gambling that I missed?
I have worked as a nurse the last 8 years. It is insanely difficult not to work overtime even if your ideal is only 32 hours a week. I often look wistfully to the European work ethic where you are not called a slacker for only wanting 32 or so hours a week. Asking for a week off of your already earned vacation time is not like asking for someone else's left arm, etc.
I am currently looking for a job, and trying to find a less than full time position. It's probably not going to happen, or they will tell me it's part time and up my hours. It's happened before with constant calls to come to work on my days off.
I know other professions aren't as bad, but my husband is going to get his CPA soon, and has been told his dreams of working less than 40 hours a week were impossible. This remains to be seen, and we are still hoping.