That's an idiotic statement. You are required to use professional resources and citations when writing papers in any reputable college; using an editor to make suggestions on how the paper can be improved (or running it through some of the automated grammar/plagiarism systems that some universities are providing) is no more "cheating" than using a spell checker in your word processor -- or for that matter, using a computer word processor to format your work as the computer is "doing it for you" and you aren't aligning your text with the margins manually.

Now, if her suggestions came in the form of "here's a new paragraph to replace yours", that's a different story -- but that's not what the GP indicated. I myself kept getting the same sort of treatment in college because of similar situations: my spelling was too good, or my grammar was too "proper" to be written by my own hand. I blame it on the fact that my "peers" were too highly concentrated with the "texting generation".

I have a feeling you'd be disappointed. Have you ever seen groups of women, focused on academia, who aren't competing over men?

It's somewhat like the nude beach dream... once you've been to one, you really never want to go back. The ratio of attractiveness to people who should never be seen in public without a full coat is far too low.

Perhaps it's because peer review would reveal "statistical anomalies" in their algorithms... :)

Wow, you have a naked blacklight sitting at eye level? Crazy... hope you don't run that thing often while gaming.

So according to the fundamentalists, when we observe something that doesn't conform to what we expected to see, or we have to rewrite a substantial section of our understanding of physics, that's just God, retconning his pre-observed backhistory!

We need a better red-shirt guy at Astrophysicscon.

Well, the virus has to be in the person's system in some form for it to be spread from one person to another, though... so it doesn't go completely dormant, does it?

I was thinking this was more along the lines of a permanent medication/supplement that the person takes daily (hourly) to kill any free-floating (non-encoded, pre-payload delivery through the cell membrane) virus in the system so it can no longer be spread and the infection wouldn't get worse (eventually be killed off as cells are activated and destroyed), and the possibility for a person who is engaging in risky practices or exposed to a population that is a risk factor to take it pre-emptively. I guess the question is, "What does one consider a 'cure'". At the very least, it seems it may be developed into a method to stop the spread of infection.

Yes, but doesn't that mean that the virus won't infect any more cells, as any cells that begin replicating the virus would only produce more virus that would then be killed in the host system on release?

Essentially, cells infected are "lost" or considered lost, but the original production of uninfected white blood cells continues? Or does the HIV virus infect the originating factories?

I admit, my knowledge of biology is rather armchair-level.

I'm not a biologist, but in my health class studies I seem to remember that the virus' RNA encoded into the genome of the cell turns the cell into a factory to replicate more virus once it is infected. Eventually, the virus production overwhelms the cell, which bursts, and the virus is released into the greater system to infect more cells. The problem with HIV is it does thise to the white blood cells themselves, which keep them from generating a proper immune response to other diseases (and the HIV virus), which usually are what kill the host. Destroying the virus won't save the cells already infected, but it will keep the virus from infecting more cells by destroying the virus released before it can infect new cells. Not all cells are infected simultaneously, or HIV would be an instantly fatal disease (which it isn't) and suppressive drugs would have no effectiveness (which they generally do, for a time).

I really don't want to know what he was flaunting while on a lamb... and I certainly don't want to see pictures.

Indeed... once you pop one of the corners out with a flathead screwdriver, the rest come out pretty easily. The bad part is that after a few times doing this, the plastic becomes a bit worn and the edges won't hold the cubes in as well. It becomes patently obvious that the cube has been disassembled; a few more times and the cube starts to fall apart when turned and twisted normally. Or maybe I just got cheap models as a kid.

Of course, it could also be that he was so ahead of his time he referred to himself as "The Church, yo".

Further back even... while they were "loans", it was still interfering with "private enterprise" to pass the Rural Electrification Act in 1936. I imagine that electrical power would still be in much the same state that broadband to rural communities is today without it.

Obviously, it's a server that's installed in a hairpiece.

Yeah, but that's called "voiding their bladder" or the even more unpleasant related process.