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Comment on Ithaca in Recession: Shops closed at Ithaca Mall by Christian Dunn

Christian Dunn — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:32:35 +0000

The abandoned appearance of the Ithaca Mall was one of the first things I noticed about it as a freshman this year. I figured that it has seen better days. There’s quite a bit of vacant space in Collegetown too.

Comment on Ability, not gender, affects video game play by Aunt_Foxy

Aunt_Foxy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:10:34 +0000

I am a 24 year old girl who loves FPS games. I kick “***” at them too. Perhaps all the sexist and obviously blind people out there need to pay better attention. I run into tons of other female gamers when playing online. The amount of female gamers has sky rocketed in the last few years. I also noticed alot of these postings are about World of Warcraft and Sims…. “**** that ****,” other games are out there; the Socom series, Call of Duty, racing games, and many others. We play those too. The biggest issue is not genderization in games (female characters and such) but the lack of awareness that females and older gamers exsist, and in larger numbers than given credit for.

Comment on Ivy League Grammar by William and Mary Grad

William and Mary Grad — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:59:18 +0000

Let’s also point out that the sentence should not end in a preposition, so a more accurate sentence would be:

What the hell is this zombie **** about which everybody is talking?

Comment on Self Inflicted Injury by john

john — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:00 +0000

I am 62 years old and I cut stad myself in the stomach with a knife I keep in my pocket. I don’t know how I got started. Even though it hurts and I stab deep enough to bring blood, I cannot stop. I enjoy it. I want to do it over and over again. I am even planning how I will kill myself with a knife. Each time I stab myself, I cannot wait to do it again. I think I am working up the courage to stick the knife in my belly and keep pushing it in till I did. I am addicted to the cutting, the pain and the blood.

Comment on Anti-Muslim Posters at GWU cause Agony, not Satire by beth colby

beth colby — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:01:30 +0000

you should be ashamed of yourselves. i know that sounds stupid but its true. im not muslim or islamic. im an 18 year old american and even i know enough to say you all are ridiculous. you need to get your facts right before you can say this ****. you all are so ignorant. do you know anything about islam? did you know that most muslims are against terrorism? did you know that this poster depicts a fundamentalist, which only make up a very small percent of muslims? you cant just go around saying you hate muslims and islam on the basis of your stereotypical thoughts. you guys piss me off

Comment on Computer Science v.s. Information Science (IS Track) by RC

RC — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:27:40 +0000

Interesting post. I think it is beneficial for CS major to take some sociology/economic courses as electives just to become more well-rounded people. (For ANY major for that matter.) I have a MS CS/SE, and worked many years and realized that a bit of business/psych/social skills goes a long way in terms of moving up the corporate ladder. In my undergrad days, I also took CIS courses just to survey the computer field.
If I were to do it again, I wold not major in IS/CIS/MIS . Because it is impossible to hold my current job position if I did not take Analysis of Algorithms, Graph Theory, Computer Arch., etc. I am in the semiconductor industry and I have to use those theories everyday. On the other hand, I am rusty at web programming / database, etc, not because I majored in CS, it’s because that wasn’t the career path I took 8 years ago. But I’m sure I could have been good at it if I had headed down that path.
By the way, CS=NERD or not is all relative. You wouldn’t come to the same conclusion if you work with a lot of hardware engineers. SW people are the cool ones here.

Comment on Why Underage Drinking Is Bad by Richard Sanchez

Richard Sanchez — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:09:18 +0000

I think that people who are under the age of 21 and are drinking alcohol are extremely naive. underage drinking is bad and the sooner that teens/young adults realize this, the sooner that they will stop drinking. in reply to zack’s comment, I don’t think teens drink just to meet new people, that’s seriously rediculous if you believe that,teens drinks just for the sake of being drunk. they drink because they know everyone else is drinking and they don’t want to feel like the odd one out. A perfect example of this is if you look in the upper right hand you’ll see that Matthew pearlstone was not found drunk, but he was found dead. It’s sad that young people don’t take this issue seriously because it’s true, drinking alcohol can eventually kill you.

Comment on Self Inflicted Injury by Ken

Ken — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:56:28 +0000

Self harmers posting their problems is a classic sign of them trying to reach out for support, or comfort, or knowing someone out there recognises their pain and sympathises with them.

But I’m posting not to reach out for support. Though I do harm my left forarm with razors, this is not stemmed from a mental disorder. Instead I do this as a way to reduce emotional pain by transferring it into physical pain, which I can handle in a much tolerable fasion.
The reaction is automatic – just as a child will cry when their candy is stolen, or a dog bite when it is being kicked, I will claw at, or will cut if chance permits, my forarm to feel a rush of something else other than anger, grief or impatience.
Though in the short term a viable option as a instinctual reaction to emotional harrassment, the scars will stay by me for life…
But this is a guy’s point of view, who can handle physical pain better than emotional pain, and allow himself to channel emotional pain into physical by self injury.
It will be interesting to see the motives for female self injury.

Comment on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Dirty Secrets by zealot

zealot — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:04:26 +0000

His company seems cultish. I think it is all a sham.
I am going to disable my site. I think they use information to scam people. It is total ****. There have been many negative things resulting from this site. He had holocaust denial sites, that were allowed to post. So disgraceful.

Comment on No job? Sue your University! by Cornell's Most Infamous

Cornell's Most Infamous — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:57:07 +0000

By your argument, it’s unfair to discriminate against people who can’t make hamburgers at burger king when hiring. After all, aren’t they people who most need to learn how to make hamburgers?

Sorry to break your illusory egg, but businesses attempt to hire those best for the job opening. I would imagine that a college career center would use GPA as a leading indicator to justify where they devote their resources.