Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.palinacquisition!news.posted.palinacquisition.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:51:19 -0600 Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 07:51:18 -0800 From: Peter Duniho User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: mod calculation References: <72e972d6-cb28-4e1c-93fb-cc58ee56673e@p7g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <3b9ac79rkqgf56o6reofh3k87tmqrqklqf@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <3b9ac79rkqgf56o6reofh3k87tmqrqklqf@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 28 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.46.118.188 X-Trace: sv3-KWxcK2N0H62MPMqetrdGs/ofMYUwQztrv86qc6TzZ9vhDaNitPKdWpZevTCA162FWZ2PZIkWTo1Qlpo!30eWWnWyzLTJ2/knOl3YqSribRd29CSQcCNhj4JpWU9QXwDUhwylQlWvD2JS1Ropb5bxr1ljFork!xsxhyjPyaOmSNZWJRAJzrA6uADrnhbqGdiGPtbZDKbc= X-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@iinet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2698 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10004 On 11/17/11 7:23 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:17:17 -0800, Gene Wirchenko > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> Why? Often, the fellow student does not know either. > > True, but if he has a mental block against visiting a TA as I did, > what else can he do? He can get over it. Or forget about studying at a university. > [...] > Children who have been abused, as I was, will take extreme measures to > avoid asking permission or approaching authority figures, even when > they know that logically the odds of something horrible happening as a > result are low. > > Both those activities are dangerous for the child, and the child > hardwires in avoidance. And as an adult, has the option of seeking treatment. I have no idea why you would immediately jump to the conclusion that this particular person is an emotionally damaged child abuse victim, but the fact is that even in that extreme example, no one here would be doing them any favors by enabling their counter-productive behavior. Pete