I signed, but I'm a few months from graduating and I'm not worried AT ALL that my advisor will care. It helps that in my field the major journals are published by universities, and not Elsevier (who, needless to say, are a bunch of jerks). Personally, I think people take the "ooh, be careful with that possibly-unpopular opinion you might have, someone might tell your future tenure committee!" way too far.

An Associate Professor IS tenured. It's what your title is just after getting tenure. How they keep you on the hook "being a good boy/girl" is to dangle full professorship in front of you (it comes with more money, not just a nice title). In most cases, if you don't make full professor a few years after associate, you don't ever get it. BTW, ''Assistant Professor' is what you are called pre-tenure.

Look you seem like a nice person but what I'm trying to say is that outside of very very draconian laws (and they would have to be worse than PIPA to actually "stop" the problem), you will ALWAYS have piracy. It's like having a business model that depends on sunshine and being really angry about it raining. There's nothing much to be done about it. Even if you break the internet, people can share on thumb drives! There will always be this drag on the system. I'm NOT pro-piracy, but I am pro-being-realistic. Go spend your time innovating and giving people a reason to buy.

I highly doubt that 50,000 people would have even heard of your game, much less downloaded it if it weren't available for free. In fact, some people may have wandered over and paid for a "real" version after trying it, assuming they liked it. I could just as easily assert that piracy HELPED you as not; you have no way of knowing, and breaking the internet is overkill for the problem. And you answered your own problem. Instead of reporting links, why don't you work on a new game? It's a much better ROI than hoping you somehow force people to buy your game by reporting links... I'm guessing that has gotten you very little gains.

I'm also the carrier of two X chromosomes, and no, I'm not ugly. We do exist, but since it would be asinine to point out what gender you are in every post, this silly idea that there are no women on /. continues.

Anyway, I wear light makeup most days I go to work because it simply looks more professional to do so. I mean some powder and mascara and lip gloss, not really heavy makeup. I'd love to go without but until that becomes the norm I'll probably continue to conform to what is the minimum standard on this one, at least at work.

I will add that I was slathering on makeup as a teenager (I mean at 14!! jeez) because it's what my peers/mother encouraged me to do and it was TOTALLY not necessary, I was actually quite lucky and had perfect skin. It's weird how what becomes "normal" can so easily override logic in these cases.

Finally, I agree that you can more or less do the following and your skin will thank you for it (man or woman):

Avoid excessive alcohol and caffeine

SUNSCREEN/Avoid sun

drink lots of water

eat well

Don't smoke

Well "we" didn't allow it, the assholes on the supreme court did. Unfortunate, to say the least.

Given the billion-year timescales to evolution, I'd say the likelihood of such synchronicity is exceedingly small. Unless they've known about our planet for millions of years and have come to the conclusion that no possibility exists for technology allowing a visit.

Thank you for so honestly and succinctly admitting that you are an anti-social dick who doesn't care about anyone else. We know the world is fully of types like you, but they aren't usually so honest. Kudos, and I honestly hope your attitude pays back tenfold upon you in your own lifetime.

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I'm unaware of this "attitude problem" that is apparently keeping you from supporting OWS. I see a lot of (civil) disagreements at the protests, and surprising amounts of consensus among people from different backgrounds. Most people are there representing THEIR OWN OPINIONS on what is wrong, and there is very little active discouragement of different opinions. Also, calling yourself a member of the "Adult World" is pretty damned childish. Who talks like that? We're trying to steer the national conversation in this country towards VERY adult topics, but find ourselves fighting against outright lies on the one hand (false attacks on the protesters) and the usual bread and circuses on the other (reality TV, celebrity news, FUD about foreign threats, anything that comes out of Herman Cain's mouth, etc). So you disagree about the camps. Fine. I suppose you would have told Rosa Parks that she was being an arrogant **tch who ought to just sit in the back too, right? You do understand what civil disobedience is?

Why do you have to paint the OWS as a monolithic entitity? I am a protester, a peaceful one, and I certainly was not advocating violence just as 99.9% of the protesters were not. Why can you not get it through your thick skulls that a very tiny minority of troublemakers (some anarchists, some planted sabateurs) do NOT REPRESENT the rest of the group? The cause is a legitimate one, and you are using very stupid reasons to turn your brain off to what the movement is about. Your loss, as I don't see anyone else fighting for what is right in this country.

We all know Oklahoma is a hotbed of wild-eyed liberalism, too.

LOL!!!! Once upon a time, people paid up front. You know, savings. Wait, were you being sarcastic?

I love people like you trashing credit unions when you clearly have done no research. I switch from Bank of America (goodbye, losers) to Alliant Credit union recently. Here's a summary of what I now enjoy:

- nationwide ATM networks. Basically there's one a mile from you anywhere you are

- no ridiculous fees, or re-ordering your mortgage payment to somehow find a way to overdraw the account

- I actually get a return on my checking account! Ok it's 2%, but still pretty nice

- I actually can write checks (I don't bother, I just send them from the bank online, it saves postage)

- VISA debit card

- most awesome: I scan checks and deposit them at HOME. I can also go to any networked credit union and use their ATM to do this. AWESOME.

I ALSO HATE the sound of pouring liquids! Yay, there are two of us! (And, it is really weird, an no I have no idea why I hate it)