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Comment Re:I'm on Exoexoearth, I guess. (Score 1) 67

Are you claiming those planets are actually orbiting the Sun?

If not then exoplanet is more specific than planet and certainly not wrong. Do you also complain when people say they have a pet dog, with something like "No, you have a pet mammal"? (cue the next guy calling you wrong and getting even less specific).

Comment Re:Do You Even Literate, Bro?! (Score 2) 376

So she has a history of sexual assault, yet her reaction to a pervy prof asking for nude photos was to send the photos rather than saying to herself "learning some physics is not worth this crap" and blocking him on facebook/email/whatever and sending the logs/etc to the university.

Yes he is the one abusing his position of authority. he is the one at fault (taking MIT's investigation of the matter at face value - I don't have the details they have after all). That doesn't mean she can't make some better decisions in the future.

If it was a prof at a university you were attending who you will bump into over and over again over the next few years and who is respected by the rest of the academic staff you deal with you have an actual dilemma since they can screw you over if you don't comply with their abuse. But in this case there's no loss in just bailing out - well other not getting to have a perv teach you physics which sounds like a plus really.

 

Comment Re:The only correct answers: (Score 1) 323

Obviously not.

You can't produce a signed contract saying that you are to murder Mary Jane in order to void laws against murdering Mary Jane.

You can't produce a contract saying you owe Bob $100,000 and hence those laws saying you have to pay a fine (and thus couldn't pay Bob) are void.

Comment Re:Yep it is a scam (Score 1) 667

Neither the Chicago Manual of Style nor the Associate Press Style Guide capitalize such pronouns, so thats hardly a universal convention.

People not following you personal conventions makes sentences not understandable, too? That's even worse.

I've added some errors above so I guess all hope is lost of any of that making sense anyway.

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