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  1. I am a PhD.

    You are a PhD?

    I have no assistants because the university won’t pay for that. I have three hundred students this semester, and I have to grade all their work myself.

    Yeah. I'm betting that the scantron machine does most of the hard work for you - paper jams do suck though.

    I also do all my own research because there are no co-authored papers in my field.... The coeds are not worth the effort of leering. I get paid $40K/year.

    Assuming you aren't full of shit... If you are in it for the money, get another job that pays better. Where I live, first grade public school teachers make more than that.

  2. Re:Gotta love the USA on Verizon Wants To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    "Affordable Care Act", "Patritic Act", "Dreamers Act"

    It's all just trips that people fall for because they assume the title is written by honest people.

  3. Re:Trumpism on Verizon Wants To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I write this: Your statement is half true. Except for Regarding Insurance. They now can pass "garbage" insurance from one State to another. To top that, they don't have to follow any rules that meet any requirements or regulations your State has put in place.. Don't the monsters at the White House pass nice laws?

    People would not need to buy "garbage" insurance policies if the government hadn't mandated they everyone is required to purchase insurance simply because they are living. And honestly, most people do not need an insurance plan that covers everything under the sun.

  4. Re:Kodi solves a problem on How Kodi Took Over Piracy (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Most people I know think as long as it's stream, it's perfectly legitimate.

  5. What would you use? Seems like name and DOB isn't that great, either.

  6. Re:NIH syndrome on Firefox To Get a Better Password Manager (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Like adding pocket instead of just making their own version? I think they probably learned their lesson on that.

  7. Use your slide ruler

  8. Re: Cheapest platform for Android development... on Everything New In the Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They are at android 7.0 as of October per the Wikipedia

  9. Re:A lost opportunity on EA Shuts Down Fan-Run Servers For Older Battlefield Games (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I still play Enemy Territory: Wolfenstein and but new games

  10. Re: What about Gay AND Jewish? on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I think just saying "people against gay marriage" or "people only for traditional marriage" is better as most of these people are not trying to do anything violent or not trying to lock up people for orientation. Save the label homophobia label for those that actually fear gays or actually what to lock them up / murder them, etc. Blanket usage of the word for anyone not 100% pro the entire gay agenda/life style/rights (whatever word or idea you want to reflect) really takes the punch out of the word homophobia.

  11. Re:Key word here is "pledged" on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Your reading comprehension seems to be below the junior high school level.

    That's a cute comment. You almost made it through the whole post. without going there. I am really proud of you.

  12. Re: Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Believing there is no moral absolute is in believing in a moral absolute. The statement itself is an absolute.

  13. Re:Key word here is "pledged" on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    That was his second option. You missed half his post

  14. Re:Key word here is "pledged" on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm guessing you mean US city?

    Based on the thread context and the article everyone is responding to, of course they mean "US city." Why would you even need to ask that?

    I guess at least you didn't write USian city...

  15. Re: What about Gay AND Jewish? on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    they are homophobic just like Christian and Muslim friends.

    Do you honestly think they are afraid of homosexuals (homophobic) or that they think that homosexual activities are sinful?

    Speaking as a Catholic Christian, I think the activity is sinful but I am definitely not afraid of my gay friends. Some things I do, they find sinful as well. Judging actions is not the same as being afraid of people.

  16. Re:Google's AI is smarter than most on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Gay is neither good or bad.

    "Gay" — as the opposite of "sad" — is good.

    "Homosexual" is bad. No doubt about it. For all the denials and "pride" parades, it is not a good thing to be. Something to cope with, to learn to accept, to enjoy life despite of.

    Well said

  17. Re:As a Linux Mint KDE user on Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Very cool!

  18. Re: Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I read the statement as a whole not just the word non binary.

    Good and evil are binary categories for the uneducated--it's really all relative to an individual perspective and it's never binary

    It's basically a rehash of the "There are no moral absolutes" logic fallacy.

  19. Re: Comments on Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Good and evil are binary categories for the uneducated--it's really all relative to an individual perspective and it's never binary

    It's this kind of thinking that has allowed a generation or two of self important assholes who think that whatever they do is right as long as they can justify their actions to themselves. (Casting couch and degrading woman is ok because Wiesntein is making movies that uplift woman - so for 1 person hurt, millions helped.) This idea is destroying our society's honor and soul.

    Once you find good and evil always relative, anything is acceptable.

  20. Re:Safety measures on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    From their site

    What if I have a home security system?
    Amazon Key is not integrated with home security systems. On the day of delivery, you will need to disarm your home security alarm.

    and it looks like you have to pay to store the videos from the camera if you want more than 24 hours.

  21. Re:Safety measures on Amazon Key Puts Deliveries -- And Delivery People -- In Your Home (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    And you only have to pay Amazon 250 dollars to give them the means to access live video of inside and outside your house and access to your door's lock.

    Oh yeah - and if you have a home delivery scheduled that day, they recommend you leave your home alarm unarmed.

    Large privacy concerns aside, this looks cool... especially if the videos don't count against your amazon drive storage. I already have this stuff set up at my house (moving to home assistant and pulling my smart home away from the cloud), but if I didn't, I could see the appeal.

  22. Re:Private property rights. on Why We Must Fight For the Right To Repair Our Electronics (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Come on... It is hard to take seriously a post using unicode on a English site that has never supported it. The poster is either more interested in proving that slashdot doesn't support unicode or is not using the preview function when posting. So either the poster is more concerned with calling out the lack of unicode support or doesn't feel what they wrote is important enough to proofread.

    https://slashdot.org/story/01/...

  23. So outlaw cleaning agents as well?

  24. Do you walk around all day thinking of things that should be banned? I mean, really, that should not even be a default, standard thought for people.

  25. There probably are few to no issues from second hand vape.

    I'm glad you see it that way.

    The problem is likely those folks who like to tinker with their vape pens to create monstrous clouds of vapor. They're every where and it's incredibly rude and annoying.

    Are we really outlawing rudeness now?