You had a 2.7 GPA, with a "bachelor of business administration degree in information technology", and a "solid attendance record".

Okay, Trina, you've probably never heard this before, but I'll be frank. Those people with 4.0 GPAs are all probably much smarter than you are. If you had, say, a 3.5 GPA (and perhaps a more serious degree), that might not be the case. It makes sense for people to give them preferential treatment when it comes to employment in jobs that require intelligence and skills specific to their fields.

Considering that you're so lacking in integrity and responsibility that you decided to sue the school because you couldn't find an employer, I'll go out on a limb and say that those people are --in all honesty-- better than you. Had you not responded with such a childish action, I might hesitate to say that. Alas, that is not the case.

If you're unhappy with this, too bad. You can try harder, but now that you've made an ass out of yourself on national news, I don't think you'll convince anyone otherwise.

Now, try not to go get pregnant a dozen times.

I don't see how the number of deliberate suicides via firearms "counters" the use of them for self-defense. In fact, I don't see what relevance it has at all, except to "emotionalize" the debate while making no point at all.

It's quick, it minimalizes the risk to others, there's a low rate of failure, no one has to go looking for the body, and the whole thing is in the hands of the person who wants to do it (ie, some subway or semi driver isn't being used as the tool). If someone's going to kill himself, I'd rather he use a gun than throw himself off a building or in front of a train.

You (and the authors of half the comments I've read so far...) must not have read the article. They went beyond attacking or taunting him in the game. Trying to expose someone's identity and falsely accusing them of being a sex offender is WAY outside the rules.

Also, "being irritating" in this case involved playing the game the way it was meant to be played. He wasn't doing things that were merely "technically" allowed. He wanted to roleplay as a hero, so he attacked villains.

The summary headline is inaccurate and inflammatory; its author needs to go back to Fark.

1. Learn to use the site finder, and look for "magma pipe". If it isn't visible from the surface, go down a few Z-levels from the surface, and begin exploratory mining.

2. Build magma smelters, furnaces, and forges so you don't need to make charcoal/coke any more.

Also, you can use it to make obsidian.

Trying to use magma directly for fortress defense can be dangerous, for rather obvious reasons. I generally just use a good moat/ditch and wall, and lots of marksdwarves.

I know you're joking, but the Ray's Mathematics books were actually pretty good. You may end up learning some antiquated systems of measurement, but that won't hurt anyone.

There are plenty of sites and free books online that will get you through calculus. For (elementary, not linear or abstract) algebra, a Google search should net you hundreds of sites. For higher subjects, http://www.theassayer.org/ should get you started.

As Hatta suggested, used bookstores and thrift stores are good for cheap high school-level textbooks. Don't count on finding anything higher than calculus texts, though. If you're looking for texts to study abstract algebra, set theory, game theory, et cetera, you may have to visit a university library to find physical books.

Can't you just play Half Life 2?

You think that medical doctors should be obligated to perform them...? I think most doctors would refuse, even if you were able to get your view written into law.

The Supreme Court's job isn't to make decisions about what's right and what's wrong. This is also irrelevant, as the poster that you're replying to didn't take a job that involved making weapons and then refuse to do it. He avoided that job in the first place.

I don't share his views (making weapons sounds like a great job to me), but your ranting doesn't make much sense.

Well, Turner is comparing Vista to "open source", which isn't even an operating system. If we decide to be kind and limit the statement to "all open source OSes", he has still opened up quite a can of worms. In either case, that statement isn't limited to "production desktop OSes" (and we aren't talking about technicalities here). I will be very surprised if Vista SP2 stacks up against OpenBSD and hardened Linux.

That statement is very far-reaching, and Turner seems pretty confident about that. I'd say OpenVMS is a valid comparison, though a "tamer" one such as OpenBSD would be better. ;)

Of course, Turner is a businessman speaking to other businessmen, not a professor talking to other professors. I'm amused by the bragging, not angered at the inaccuracy.

What you finish the article knowing is one side's story, which is fine as long as you keep in mind that it's only one side's story. If it interests you, keep up with the story and keep investigating it.

While it is very well-written (which makes me inclined to believe him), Engle's post doesn't offer any evidence. It's a cry to rally defenders and donations, and that would make sense for him to do in either case. That's what the grandparent post was pointing out. From a look at the comments, scores of Diggers have already made up their minds and are charging off on their steeds as we speak.

...And that's another small sample, somewhat more extreme and less grounded in reality.

The GP said that it was very difficult for people over 30 to change. I think you overreacted more than a little.

Most of them don't care, as long as you leave them and the places where they live alone.

Do you hate them?

"Everyone can make it" doesn't mean that everyone can make it at the same time. It means that everyone can potentially make it (don't worry, the statement is still incorrect, though it was never meant to be taken literally).

Now, while your counterexample and reasoning are invalid, the statement you were trying to disprove is still incorrect. Many people could become the president, but not everyone, because some people lack (1) the ability, (2) the ability to fake having the ability, and (3) the ability to learn either the ability or the ability to fake having the ability. For these people, it is indeed impossible.

Calling it the lie of capitalism doesn't make any more sense than calling it the lie of socialism, or alcoholism.

Amusingly, they spelled out FOIA, which I bet almost every Slashdotter knows.

So, they actually used the full name for a common acronym, but not for the obscure ones.

For what it's worth, I knew USTR (I guess it isn't that obscure, but it's hardly common), but KEI had me stumped.