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Comment Finland (Score 5, Interesting) 1359

Finland has the best privacy laws in the world, and Finns enjoy a lot of rights, such as "right to roam". Finland also had women's suffrage in 1906, much earlier than most countries. Finland is also a highly technological nation, which since you post on slashdot, is probably a plus. Most of the people there will speak english to some degree, which should make communicating a little easier.

Finland, however has disadvantages such as, a very difficult native language, immigrating will be tougher than other nations, cold weather, and possible invasion from Russia. If you like Finland, but can't handle the language, you could try a different Scandinavian country, as they all share the same basic values.

You should find this link helpful, it has an immigration section. http://www.finlandforum.org/index.php

Comment Question for college network admins (Score 1) 699

My university has a ban on using wireless routers in dorms. What are some plausible reasons for doing that? They already require anyone who wants internet access to run antivirus and the Bradford Persistent Agent. This might also be true for intranet access. The university provides wireless in some areas, but not in any dorms.

Comment Re:No (Score 3, Insightful) 1142

Why is this modded insightful? The government should have the right to terminate any company for what their CEO says. That is a terrible idea. Not only is it a bad idea in principle, as it would surely be abused, it also would harm a lot of innocent people like employees and stockholders. There's no way, even by your standard of morality that every person who worked for Microsoft, or owned stock are immoral.

Comment Furman University (Score 1) 163

I attend a school that does a few unethical things, not all of them directly related to rankings. For starters they claim to only have only professors with Ph.D's, yet my CS professor only had a Masters. They also reported that only 2% of students transfer out of Furman. While that is technically true, they failed to mention that their trimester system makes transferring very difficult. After attending, and talking to many people, it seems that at least 25% would have transferred if had been easier to.

The other gripe I have is that they tell everyone "2 years of GERs to figure out what you want to do, then major in anything you want". That is unfortunately a straight up lie. I talked to a music professor and he said that to be a music major a person would have had to declare freshman year, and would have had to play since late middleschool. He said it would be completely impossible for any sophmore to get a music degree. Also, other majors like CS, and Chemistry are either very linear, or only offer a few courses each term, so it takes at least 3 years to complete the major.

Censorship

Submission + - Judge shields Craigslist from prosecution in SC (cnn.com) 1

viyh writes: "A South Carolina judge has ordered the state attorney general's office to stop pursuing criminal charges against Craigslist.com while a lawsuit related to prostitution ads on the popular classifieds site makes its way through the courts."
Biotech

Submission + - Students, The Other Unprotected Lab Animals 1

theodp writes: "Slate reports on the horrible — and preventable — death of a young UCLA biochemist in a t-butyl lithium incident, which lead a Chemical Health and Safety columnist to the disheartening conclusion that most academic laboratories are unsafe venues for work or study. It's estimated that accidents and injuries occur hundreds of times more frequently in academic labs than in industrial ones. Why? For one thing, Slate says, occupational safety and health laws that protect workers in hazardous jobs apply only to employees, not to undergrads, grad students, or research fellows who receive stipends from outside funders."

Comment LSD therapy (Score 4, Interesting) 811

This will be controversial but hear me through. Assuming he doesn't have any medical conditions that make it dangerous for him to take LSD, get him some. The basic idea behind this is the psychedilic helps him hit rock bottom, so he wants to change his life. It worked pretty well for treating alcoholism before LSD was banned.

Handbook for the Therapeutic Use of LSD-25

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