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.