Mine isn't 15 yet. Most kids around that age that I do know have *tried* alcohol, but aren't heavy into it. Sex was less common until around 17+. Around that age they get their full driving license and they tend to be a bit more "free".

Yeah, in this case all the guys in the white plastic uniforms will die instead as the reactor core blows due to a direct hit on the one small weakness in the design...

Ditto much of BC, Canada. Our power company is actually called "BC Hydro" ...

If your 15-yr-old is drinking and having sex then perhaps you've got some other problems...

I've seen a few articles linking this to "gluten intolerance", and to be honest I wouldn't be surprised in the least. The increase in celiac-type or gut conditions seems to trend nicely with the increased use of these pesticides, especially when you consider that it's not so prevalent in places where they're not used.

The Europeans still like their bread and pasta etc, and yet this is much less of a problem in Europe. Moreover, people who have issues with such foods in N America often report being able to eat them in Europe without getting sick. The difference: many of the chemicals used in North America are prohibited in Europe.

Terrorists would probably just end up sending a decoy to check it out first...

I'm just the pizza guy! I'm just the pizza guy! That's a large pepperoni for 123 - 5th St I've got in the box, honestly. For the love of god please don't shoot me [wets pants]

What I don't understand is this:

Apparently they have all this fancy surveillance, etc, yet they still can't identify swatters who endanger people's lives, or the tele-fraudsters (you have won one million airmiles) that make a million calls (seriously, my co-workers, buddies and I get these once a week, so the national average much be huge). This shouldn't be that hard to do with a warrant. Hell, I'd give permission to trace all calls against my phone for a month if it meant the "free vacation" robocall assholes got caught and prosecuted.

It really is an interesting setup, especially in the U.S. where personal gun ownership is common. From a homeowner perspective, the commotion etc may lead one to believe that a robbery or home invasion is taking place (in which case, they're going to grab a gun). Meanwhile, the cops are coming in expecting an armed suspect, and now they've run into a guy with a gun. Bad situation on both sides.

And often enough the swatter *knows* that the victim has guns, which for them is just an increased opportunity to see some bad shit happen and fulfill their sick little desires.

And some places might. It still closes a lot of doors, because the broadcasted "I don't give a f*** what you think" or "look at me" attitude that certain types of body-modifications portray isn't exactly conducive to being a manageable employee/co-worker.

The tattoo thing is interesting. There are actually a *lot* of tasteful tattoos out there, and I've seen them on everyone from McD's workers to upper-managers. In most cases, they're not in a "look at me" location but rather somewhere that isn't overtly visible when wearing normal clothing.

Then there are the people who are trying to be "unique", which often translates to "look at me." Those same people bitch about being "discriminated against" when they don't get the job etc that they want, somehow thinking that tattoos put on in a protected class for discriminations like race or sexual orientation, etc. Except, guess what, you don't get to choose whether you're gay, or black, you *DO* get to choose whether put prison tats on your face using printer ink. That's pretty much a public badge of stupidity right there, especially when your "art" is a style commonly used by prison inmates.

A have a buddy with a facial tattoo. He's had it a long time now. It's actually pretty cool looking, but it's an obvious impediment to certain types of employment (a more recent one being a senior's home). He recognises such as says "yeah they wouldn't hire me there because it would scare the sh** out of some of the little old ladies. It sucks but it was my choice to get the ink". It's a pretty refreshing viewpoint IMHO, because it seems to be getting increasingly rare for people to accept the consequences of their actions.

Such people are often enabled by parents in this article. I'm sure there were plenty of warning signs that he son is a prick and probably a bit of a nutbar, but she's shrugged it off with "at least he isn't getting drunk and tattooed" (a.k.a at least it's not visible).

'Yeah, he was a dangerous nut job that should have been locked up years ago. "

Not necessarily those words, but I have seen plenty of cases where the neighbour said
    "yeah he was a weird guy. He never visited his neighbours and did [suspicious thing x] and [suspicious thing y], but we just thought he was an odd duck. We never realized he had a bunch of people tied up in his basement!"

THIS

So, breast jokes are hostile to women. Vagina jokes are hostile to women (EXCEPT at the monologues, apparently). Dick jokes... well, apparently also hostile to women.

How about we just declare that anything intended to be funny that wasn't first scrubbed down with bleach-grade PR antiseptic is going to be offensive to (some) women. Except it's not offensive to them because they're women, it's offensive because they're FUCKING PRUDES.

(and not, this doesn't justify girly posters, personal comments, or sexual harassment in the workplace, but some people need to know the fucking difference).

Capitalization wasn't the issue though, it was phrases like
    where it used it is to keep cities not too population
    westerners keep to spread the lies to damage china reputation and image
    Foreign don't understand the chinese culture

There are also lots of missing pronouns etc, which is common for Chinese ESL speakers who don't really use English in real life (except to make stupid posts on /.)

OK, so the students somehow got the exam answers. The University actually caught it because SOMEBODY WAS DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB, and reporting it. It went up the chain, and the students got dealt with. It's embarrassing, but it doesn't appear that the university condoned the cheating in any way. I'm sure some people do cheat, and manage not to get caught, but at least they system is set up so that they have to be lucky/sneaky to do so.

Now compare to this situation. People are climbing the walls. It's BLATANTLY FUCKING OBVIOUS that it was happening, so why didn't the institution deal with it before it became a viral web sensation?

I'm sorry, but when parents in Harvard, Oxford, or even NoName U are scaling walls and passing notes to the kids in plain view... then you can make a comparison against the host countries. The "well, other people do it too" explanation has got to be one of the worst type of enablers for sort of behavior, and even so there's simply no comparison.

And that's a big part of it, because - apparently - until this because a big, embarrassing news story, they likely were getting away with it. Either due to bribes or just a generally broken system. Yes, cheating happens in "western" countries too, but it's certainly not this blatant, and there's an expectation of certain consequences if one is caught.