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Comment: Re:Oh? (Score 1) 4

by Some Woman on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @10:32AM (#47415161) Attached to: I must offer cryptic laughter

Ah, thanks.

Comment: Oh? (Score 1) 4

by Some Woman on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @07:41AM (#47413987) Attached to: I must offer cryptic laughter

[cryptic response]

Comment: I wish there were more stories like this (Score 4, Insightful) 85

by damn_registrars on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @07:26AM (#47413941) Attached to: The Billionaire Mathematician

Unfortunately, very few people who complete a PhD in this country go on to acheive much financially. Even as the chair of a math department his salary was dwarfed by that paid to the football coach of the same university. It is sad that research pays so poorly in this country in spite of its great benefits.

Comment: Re:Wow (Score 1) 4

by Some Woman on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @07:17AM (#47413909) Attached to: Circular Refuge on reddit

Hooray! Congrats!

Comment: Re:Wow (Score 0) 4

by smitty_one_each on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @11:07PM (#47412445) Attached to: Circular Refuge on reddit

Just had boy #2 a month ago. Life is good.

Comment: This should surprise nobody (Score 1) 341

by damn_registrars on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @11:04PM (#47412433) Attached to: Here Comes the Panopticon: Insurance Companies

The insurance industry has owned Washington for some time now. Naturally they would be able to get away with this kind of invasion of privacy with zero backlash. In 2010 the insurance industry started cashing in on their investment by pushing through the ACA bill, but that is only the start of it.

Comment: Never had one burn out (Score 1) 119

by Some Woman on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @09:49PM (#47412101) Attached to: My most recent energy-saving bulbs last ...

I've never had a CFL fail. I've been replacing incandescents with CFLs whenever a bulb burns out. My oldest CFL is 7 years old and my newest is a little under 1 year old.

Comment: Re:Wow (Score 1) 4

by Some Woman on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @09:11PM (#47411895) Attached to: Circular Refuge on reddit

Many of us are still living! Just a bit dispersed here and there.

Journal: Circular Refuge on reddit 4

Journal by Some Woman on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @07:59PM

It's a happening place. There are upwards of 3, maybe 4 posts a day!
You should join us, if you like.

http://www.reddit.com/r/CircularRefuge
(message mods to join; can't let the riffraff on reddit in! Just our very own special riffraff.)

Comment: "Thank God!" (Score 0) 24

by smitty_one_each on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @07:29PM (#47411285) Attached to: Another Dementia Test Oversold

Said Thad Cochran.

Comment: What happened to Scheme? (Score 3, Interesting) 388

by damn_registrars on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @05:15PM (#47410417) Attached to: Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language

The overwhelming majority of CSci graduates that I have known started undergrad by learning Scheme. IIRC that language was actually built for the purpose of teaching the fundamentals of programming. Why was it replaced (beyond the fact that hardly anyone in the real world uses it)?

Comment: Re:Chattel slavery is so passé (Score 0) 20

by smitty_one_each on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @05:08PM (#47410361) Attached to: The Counter-Revolution of 1776

slaves are made with "right to work" laws and strict limits on the extent of the safety net.

So, if we all just go on strike at the same time, will that be Occupy Liberty?

Comment: Jerk (Score 2, Funny) 5

by smitty_one_each on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @05:03PM (#47410319) Attached to: F. Gimp

I totally expected an article about the GNU Image Manipulation Program, not this Hanksy panksy.

Journal: Acheivement unlocked: the moderation trifecta! 0

Journal by damn_registrars on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @01:14PM

To the best of my knowledge this is the first time I've pulled this off - up moderations of insightful, informative, and interesting all on the same comment.

Comment: Governor Rick Perry PTL Revisionist Science (Score 1) 2

by OldHawk777 on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @12:18PM (#47407921) Attached to: President of UT Austin declines chancellor's request to resign

Maybe Ricky and GOP-TP clergy would like some school prayers before meals and classes. Can we get an AMEN for Texas and US. Education with dogma and mythology is all any Texan needs to learn. Why not just cut Texas tax-dollars from the education budget until Texas-clergy and Lord Ricky gets some religious respect and compliance.

Clergy biased government, courts, plutocrats ... rule US all.