Planned parenthood says it costs about 15-50, which is pretty reasonable. There are lots of free/poor clinics and all sorts of subsides. Free condoms are just about everywhere though, so it's not totally insane to give up paying for the pill if you're responsible.

When I see a paper that has a really high jargon to English ratio, it often seems to be cause the author is trying to hide his inability to understand what he did. I see it all the time in undergrad technical reports and the like and recently in a journal submission. Other people in academia generally seem to share my opinion.

I'm pretty sure the guy at border control who looks at the form is gonna question that part of the form being left blank. If you're lucky/look sufficiently innocent, it'll probably just be him questioning and not the security guys/homeland security agents/other people with the power to arrest you/torture you/etc.

It's aimed at someone who's familiar enough with programming to be doing web dev and serious enough about writing good code to bother using this app. Those people will have no trouble with python, which really isn't all that hard, especially since the apps source is basically self commenting and really clean. I know almost nothing about web dev, but don't have much trouble following the code (granted, I code in python).

Seriously, this could totally be a cool project/write up for a month or two. Work on breaking the google app, then write your own and let your classmates break it/hack it. Points for breaking classmates projects and fixing your own.

See, you need to con your school into taking the approach my school has: they have to give you the only sections of required courses. We've got a few situations like this, but there's one truly god awful tenured professor who brings in too much funding for them to shelve, so he's usually the only option for a course required for multiple majors. He's done stuff that's borderline illegal (discrimination stuff), but nobody lodges formal complaints (lots of people have complained informally) 'cause the dept. is so bad at responding to complaints that it's not seen as worth it. I also have major issues with his teaching style (memorization over learning), but I acknowledge that's just subjective.

I learned about this at a remote resort in Mexico and was bouncing up and down 'cause the other option was using their on site internet room which charged something like $10 per 30 min.

Visalab is sending along 2 backup cars, 4 maintenance trucks, and 2 media vans with the two auto-vehicles, so they could probably just have someone get out and drive the cars (or just sit at the wheel) in the parts where they'll get in legal trouble for having the cars be autonomous. There are also long stretches (like Russia), where the cars will be the only thing on the road.

She's not my student (I'm undergrad myself). I don't think she wants to learn a new software package, but I'll send her a link to Nvivo (it looks good). For her thesis she needs categorical data, but this might be a good place to start in terms of her thinking about how she wants to sift through the data.

They're trying to figure out if you're lying, trying to make yourself look good, trying to make yourself look bad, or otherwise screwing with the survey answers. They actually need to be about 10 pages for reliability purposes and the like. The field is called psychometrics, and I've gotta agree with the OP on his rant. I just looked at the data someone collected for her masters thesis, and it's all open ended survey stuff, so she's crying at the thought of getting it into a usable form in SPSS and a good chunk of the data will either have to chucked or reworked to get anything useful out of it.

True, but the wives are also bringing in supplemental income, at least in all the families I know of overseas where the husband is learning.

I actually agree with you and the article and everything else. I'm not a fan of the kollel system by any stretch of the imagination, I think it's wreaked all sorts of havoc on orthodox Jewish culture (mostly by brainwashing a few generations into believing this is the best path for everyone and anyone), I've got quite a few friends who've been burned or burned out by it, and I currently am very averse to marrying into it. (I'm an orthodox female.)

But I don't want to carry 'em out and quite happy that I don't have too. For the record, I'm an orthodox female and I seriously don't feel oppressed, nor do many of the girls I know.

Depends on the circle. Quite a few of my friends/cohorts are supporting their husbands 'cause they're in that religious community; the more modern orthodox crowd tends to not do out and most of the more orthodox circles set limits on how long a husband can be learning so that couples can eventually get off welfare.

So lots of my friends are kollel wives and still more want to be, so I have a pretty good idea of how the culture wants. I'm the odd girl out for not wanting it. Almost all of them have masters degrees (linguistics, special ed, speech therapy, etc.) and even the ones that teach at a yeshiva have real college degrees. At least in New York, even the ultra-orthodox girls take some form of post-secondary education.

Um, not quite. Far as I've been told, the whole tattoo thing is some weird form of urban myth Jewish moms tell their kids so that they won't run out to get one. hillel article on it. There's also a secondary reason why people are allowed burial if they've got tattoos; if they do teshuvah (apologize to God/redeem themselves) for the act of getting the tattoo, it's all basically sorted out.

Prohibiting organ donations has as much to do with the belief in the messiah and the eventual resurrection of the dead, which works out better if everyone is intact, as with desecration of the dead. Because the messianic stuff is usually the reason for the most radical stances, most mainstream Orthodox Rabbis often don't have any problem with organ donation so long as it's going to save a life. A secondary reason for allowing donation but not advocating signing the card is because of a fear that death may be hastened if a person seems to be in a vegetable state and has an organ for harvesting. Hastening death is a big bad sin, 'cause God is the one in ultimate control of when time ends.

Just about every modern orthodox Jewish law traces back to the Shulchan Aruch