As a socialist-leaning liberal (as in policies, not that I want to emmulate the communists), I am confused how you can describe a police state (aka totalitarian or fascist state) as being a "socialist heaven"... I think it's a good idea for the community to control certain things (health care, social safety nets like unemployment), but I am absolutely uninterested in controlling everyone's behavior. These things do not have to run in parallel. One can be a socialist and an anti-fascist.

Hmm. I usually come down on the side of "Goverments, or at least ours, are SLIGHTLY less awful/evil/corrupt that many of the worst corporations (having in mind Monsanto, etc), but I like your argument here.

I'm also dumping Ubuntu after dealing with the horrible horrible Unity/Gnome3 experience. I'll go use Scientific Linux or something where they don't needlessly change the desktop environment to something shitty just because they think it looks cool.

As a librarian though, he's probably at least mildy to the left politically. Ever contributed to the ACLU? Attended any Iraq war protests? I'm not kidding. Happened to my boyfriend too, after attending one anti-war protest. The penalty for being brownish, I guess.

Troll much? You can always tell a made-up complaint because it describes a situation nothing like reality, and has a tone of venomous contempt that is excessive given the situation. People with no money to buy the item? Ok, maybe some people low-ball you but I have found that is easily curtailed by stating. "SERIOUSLY NO LOW-BALL OFFERS PRICE FIRM" on the ad. As for scams I get about 5% spam response rate on most things. They are super-obvious. Guess what. I click delete. I also get several offer emails usually and can only sell to one person! OMG, the horrors of selling something for free.

I signed, but I'm a few months from graduating and I'm not worried AT ALL that my advisor will care. It helps that in my field the major journals are published by universities, and not Elsevier (who, needless to say, are a bunch of jerks). Personally, I think people take the "ooh, be careful with that possibly-unpopular opinion you might have, someone might tell your future tenure committee!" way too far.

An Associate Professor IS tenured. It's what your title is just after getting tenure. How they keep you on the hook "being a good boy/girl" is to dangle full professorship in front of you (it comes with more money, not just a nice title). In most cases, if you don't make full professor a few years after associate, you don't ever get it. BTW, ''Assistant Professor' is what you are called pre-tenure.

Look you seem like a nice person but what I'm trying to say is that outside of very very draconian laws (and they would have to be worse than PIPA to actually "stop" the problem), you will ALWAYS have piracy. It's like having a business model that depends on sunshine and being really angry about it raining. There's nothing much to be done about it. Even if you break the internet, people can share on thumb drives! There will always be this drag on the system. I'm NOT pro-piracy, but I am pro-being-realistic. Go spend your time innovating and giving people a reason to buy.

I highly doubt that 50,000 people would have even heard of your game, much less downloaded it if it weren't available for free. In fact, some people may have wandered over and paid for a "real" version after trying it, assuming they liked it. I could just as easily assert that piracy HELPED you as not; you have no way of knowing, and breaking the internet is overkill for the problem. And you answered your own problem. Instead of reporting links, why don't you work on a new game? It's a much better ROI than hoping you somehow force people to buy your game by reporting links... I'm guessing that has gotten you very little gains.

I'm also the carrier of two X chromosomes, and no, I'm not ugly. We do exist, but since it would be asinine to point out what gender you are in every post, this silly idea that there are no women on /. continues.

Anyway, I wear light makeup most days I go to work because it simply looks more professional to do so. I mean some powder and mascara and lip gloss, not really heavy makeup. I'd love to go without but until that becomes the norm I'll probably continue to conform to what is the minimum standard on this one, at least at work.

I will add that I was slathering on makeup as a teenager (I mean at 14!! jeez) because it's what my peers/mother encouraged me to do and it was TOTALLY not necessary, I was actually quite lucky and had perfect skin. It's weird how what becomes "normal" can so easily override logic in these cases.

Finally, I agree that you can more or less do the following and your skin will thank you for it (man or woman):

Avoid excessive alcohol and caffeine

SUNSCREEN/Avoid sun

drink lots of water

eat well

Don't smoke

Well "we" didn't allow it, the assholes on the supreme court did. Unfortunate, to say the least.

Given the billion-year timescales to evolution, I'd say the likelihood of such synchronicity is exceedingly small. Unless they've known about our planet for millions of years and have come to the conclusion that no possibility exists for technology allowing a visit.

Thank you for so honestly and succinctly admitting that you are an anti-social dick who doesn't care about anyone else. We know the world is fully of types like you, but they aren't usually so honest. Kudos, and I honestly hope your attitude pays back tenfold upon you in your own lifetime.

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I'm unaware of this "attitude problem" that is apparently keeping you from supporting OWS. I see a lot of (civil) disagreements at the protests, and surprising amounts of consensus among people from different backgrounds. Most people are there representing THEIR OWN OPINIONS on what is wrong, and there is very little active discouragement of different opinions. Also, calling yourself a member of the "Adult World" is pretty damned childish. Who talks like that? We're trying to steer the national conversation in this country towards VERY adult topics, but find ourselves fighting against outright lies on the one hand (false attacks on the protesters) and the usual bread and circuses on the other (reality TV, celebrity news, FUD about foreign threats, anything that comes out of Herman Cain's mouth, etc). So you disagree about the camps. Fine. I suppose you would have told Rosa Parks that she was being an arrogant **tch who ought to just sit in the back too, right? You do understand what civil disobedience is?