Comment Re:If Only the Article Addressed That ... (Score 1) 376
I can tell you're a big hit at parties.
(There's this thing called "compassion". You should give it a try sometime.)
I can tell you're a big hit at parties.
(There's this thing called "compassion". You should give it a try sometime.)
You're making it sound like he's some sort of psychopath or something.
We're talking about someone who's demonstrated repeated success in identifying and starting unsavoury online relationships with female students who have difficulties asserting themselves.
Whatever random noise you wish to employ as a label for that is fine by me.
It was not. Quoth TFA,
After talking to a psychiatrist in September 2014 about what she described as a “breakdown,” Harbi decided to collect evidence of Lewin’s behavior to take to MIT. Within five days of searching, Harbi said, she found 10 other women whom Lewin had befriended and contacted on Facebook with inappropriate, sometimes identical messages. Lewin then blocked her from seeing his Facebook friends, she said.
Generally speaking, Harbi said, the women live in countries where speaking out about sexual harassment is taboo -- countries “where the culture is that it is better to actually not speak at all, because you’ll be a disgrace to your family.” Lewin confessed his love for several of them, chat logs show, but often denied those feelings to women who asked about the others.
Just because she's creeped-out by it, doesn't necessarily mean it's inappropriate.
Of course it's completely inappropriate for her to be creeped out by it.
She was (IMO appropriately) creeped out because someone in whom she'd placed trust initiated private contact with her. As it later emerged, this someone has a history of preying on females whom he's apparently tagged as "vulnerable", just as he tried to take advantage of it in this case.
Maybe my problem with what you said is that we don't agree on definitions, so here's a couple of mine:
"Maybe you'd like to have dinner with me sometime?" from someone you don't want to hear that from. <-- Unwelcome advance.
"Would you send me nudies of yourself?" from someone who is working with you in a professional setting, is 3 or 4 decades your senior, AND contacts you outside of official channels just to ask you this question. <-- "Creepout" territory.
Just a quick note-- she wasn't a "college-aged girl"-- she was 32.
And this matters, because...?
She was a student [but]...
No, just No. "She was a student." End of story.
She wasn't raped. She was not raped
And no-one said that she was. She had her trust and confidence betrayed, which is what is at issue here. So who raised the strawman, again?
It's also very important to know whether the AC is female and single.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I prefer series that don't get chopped off cold just when things are starting to get interesting.
Gospel stories aren't a bad thing, but they're certainly not high literature.
Uh, what?
Great literature is nothing BUT morality plays in various guises.
Hm, when the DHL guy finally showed up yesterday, I invited him in for tea--in Swedish, even--but he declined.
UPS != USPS. UPS do have a Canadian presence.
Sounds like what I went through this week to get a package from DHL when my employer insisted on sending it to me at home rather than at the office. I guess they thought they were trying to be helpful... *sigh*
So there is this trend about wanting to run 'foreign' OSs on computers that come w/ one already.
"Trend"? I've been doing this for at least 10 years. And I know lots of folks who've been doing it for much longer.
I'm pretty sure that it isn't, since Stallman is said never to surf the Net directly, but only to read Web pages via email.
Except that we all know that Bill only reads Ars Technica.
Time to wake up, Rip--2005 was the year of the Linux Desktop.
I've been ten years without Windows and lovin' every minute of it, baby.
For God's sake, stop researching for a while and begin to think!
