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Depends on your monitor, of course, but a whole (recent) generation of "LCD gaming screens" only showed 6 bits of color depth:

http://compreviews.about.com/o...

Also, even when you show people the bottom 2 bits, they usually don't perceive them:

http://rahuldotgarg.appspot.co...

The problem with your hypothesis is that the opposite happened.

This is an extraordinary claim! I worked with many women at that time t and your claim that I am making a hypothesis really needs backing up. Or are you making claims against my veracity?

I'm talking about women in the 1970's who were not encouraged in any way shape or form. That is not a hypothesis. The ladies were completely the equal of any man, and no one was going to stand in their way. Dongle jokes? They'd get the joke and laugh at it.

, Let me tell you of a story that would apparently have today's young lady jump off a bridge after having her self-esteem destroyed, her passion to pursue a career snuffed out by any negativity.

Timeline, late 1970s. Our lab had a couple parties every year, funded by the proceeds from the employees benevolence. One was a Steak picnic for the men, and the other, a Christmas party for the women.

One of the young women professors wanted to go to the Steak party. This caused a bit of a stir, with the lines drawn of younger folks thinking it was just fine, and the older guys thinking it was sacrilege. My father in law - whjo also worked there - in a fit of stupidity, decided to teach her a lesson in why she shouldn't go to these things that should be for just men, and in a poker game, ended up making a huge asshole of himself with swearing and farting, and hurling abuse at her. She decided she was going to weather it, and by the time the game was finished, there were very few left on his side. The mold was broken, there were no more "men only" picnics paid for by the benevolence association. She was a hero to everyone but the diminishing olde guard.

It's an anecdote, but might just show a better approach than weakness. In a world where guys can get fired for dongle jokes, because it isn't cool, there might be a lesson in going toe to toe with your enemy and beating them with finesse.

There is an entire spectrum of people out there. We have to choose who we listen to.

I choose to listen to these ladies: http://womenshistory.about.com...

You might rather listen to Chanty Binx?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Really, you can do as you like, but in the matter of women in science, I'll listen to women in science rather than people who preach the doctrine that women are too weak to withstand any negative comment. disagreement or situation.

I choose not to give the outliers veracity. My hypothesis, such as there is one, is that women are not weak

and that a woman will go into a career that interests her, because that is what she is interested in, and if someone, male or female has a passion for something, that is what they will pursue. Passion doesn't listen to naysayers.

For the cost of one shuttle launch you could more than pay for SpaceX's entire development program so far. For two launches you could pay for their development so far plus the extra they'll need to finish the Dragon capsule and "man-rate" the system, and still have some money left over for a couple of launches (each of which can carry as many crew as the shuttle.)

(I'm taking the cost of a shuttle launch as about $1.5B. Lower values can be argued for, adjust the above as needed for your preferred cost.)

For a few more shuttle launches and a several year wait, Blue Origins would likely be able to field a man-rated rocket, if you want multiple space taxi companies to chose from. ULA could do it too, but that would probably cost you ten shuttle launches.

The shuttle was hideously expensive and needed to go.

... the problem being, there's things like overriding the veto.

and you seem to believe that they won't just let it burn.

because, people hate congress. but they don't hate their congressman.

http://uspolitics.about.com/od...

all you gotta do, is make enough people believe it's the other guy's fault.

Having a currency with deflation has never been really tested.

"Japan's economy was caught in a deflationary spiral for the past 20 years. It started in 1989, when the Bank of Japan raised interest rates causing the asset bubble in housing to burst. During that decade, the economy grew less than 2% per year as businesses cut back on debt, spending and lost productivity with excess workers (Japan's culture discourages employee layoffs). The Japanese people are also savers, and when they saw the signs of recession, they stopped spending and put away funds for bad times."

"Massive deflation helped turn a recession into The Great Depression. As unemployment rose, demand for goods and services fell. Prices dropped 10% a year. As prices fell, companies went out of business. More people became unemployed. When the dust settled, world trade essentially collapsed. The amount of goods and services traded fell 25%, but thanks to lower prices the value of this trade was down 65% (as measured in dollars)."

"As prices fall, people put off purchases, hoping they can get a better deal later. This puts pressure on manufacturers to constantly lower prices. Constant cost-cutting means lower wages and less investment spending."
http://useconomy.about.com/od/...

A deflationary spiral is a vicious circle where decreases in price lead to lower production, which in turn leads to lower wages and demand, which leads to further decreases in price. The problem exacerbates its own cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's quite a little rant you put together, but it doesn't change the facts.

Fitness standards in both the US Marines (not to mention the US Army and other services) are "gender normed" rather than the same. Example:
Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test Points - Male
Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test Points - Female

Judging women on the mens scale will cause their scores to plummet.

Despite your attempt to misquote me and distort the meaning of what I wrote, the fact remains that the female office you so approve of wrote this:

But there came a point when I could not persuade my body to perform. It wasn’t a matter of will but of pure physical strength. My mind wanted more, but my muscles quivered in failure after multiple attempts. I began to shiver as I got cold. I was told I could not continue

PURE PHYSICAL STRENGTH.

Current and Past SOCOM Commanders Split on Women in Combat

The current SOCOM commander is limited in what he can say as a serving officer. The former commander is not so constrained and seems to have some insights that you lack. Do you plan to write him and insult his penis too?

You should probably read this paper:
New British Ministry of Defence Review Paper Shreds Case for Women in Ground Close Combat

Special ops forces fear standards will be lowered for women

Men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental standards to join their ranks, and fear the requirements will be lowered to integrate them into the elite units, polling shows.

The surveys, reported by The Associated Press, found widespread concerns in special ops that Pentagon leaders would "capitulate to political pressure, allowing erosion of training standards."

Some women already in the elite forces expressed similar worries, the AP said.

Frankly I'm amused at the silly insults you hurl at me, and find your attempts to denigrate me both pathetic and ineffective. You know nothing about me other than I have a view different than yours, one that is shared by no small number of warriors and people who have looked these matters on a serious basis. For all you know I could have been callsign leader in a Fireforce, or a member of C Squadron, a Seabee, a USAFSOC PJ, a Legionnaire with 2e REP, an FBI HRT sniper, an armored cavalry troop commander in 3rd ACR, or simply someone that bothers to be informed. Whatever I've done in life you'll probably never know what it was since I value my privacy more than I value the approval of Internet "tough guys."

For all your claims as to having "made the grade," or "made the cut," all of which are both vague and unsubstantiated, I don't see you bringing much to this discussion beyond what we could get from a communist dog catcher in some university district in Melbourne. Perhaps you actually were the chief supply clerk, underwear exchange, 1 Commando, or maybe something more interesting. All you seem to be today is just another internet "tough guy" twisting words and hurling abuse to try to compensate for a bad argument derived from strong political beliefs of dubious merit.

Pro tip: "Stand in the door!" does not mean you should queue at a building exit to wait for quitting time and the race to the parking lot.

That's quite a little rant you put together, but it doesn't change the facts.

Fitness standards in both the US Marines (not to mention the US Army and other services) are "gender normed" rather than the same. Example:
Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test Points - Male
Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test Points - Female

Judging women on the mens scale will cause their scores to plummet.

Despite your attempt to misquote me and distort the meaning of what I wrote, the fact remains that the female office you so approve of wrote this:

But there came a point when I could not persuade my body to perform. It wasn’t a matter of will but of pure physical strength. My mind wanted more, but my muscles quivered in failure after multiple attempts. I began to shiver as I got cold. I was told I could not continue

PURE PHYSICAL STRENGTH.

Current and Past SOCOM Commanders Split on Women in Combat

The current SOCOM commander is limited in what he can say as a serving officer. The former commander is not so constrained and seems to have some insights that you lack. Do you plan to write him and insult his penis too?

You should probably read this paper:
New British Ministry of Defence Review Paper Shreds Case for Women in Ground Close Combat

Special ops forces fear standards will be lowered for women

Men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental standards to join their ranks, and fear the requirements will be lowered to integrate them into the elite units, polling shows.

The surveys, reported by The Associated Press, found widespread concerns in special ops that Pentagon leaders would "capitulate to political pressure, allowing erosion of training standards."

Some women already in the elite forces expressed similar worries, the AP said.

Frankly I'm amused at the silly insults you hurl at me, and find your attempts to denigrate me both pathetic and ineffective. You know nothing about me other than I have a view different than yours, one that is shared by no small number of warriors and people who have looked these matters on a serious basis. For all you know I could have been callsign leader in a Fireforce, or a member of C Squadron, a Seabee, a USAFSOC PJ, a Legionnaire with 2e REP, an FBI HRT sniper, an armored cavalry troop commander in 3rd ACR, or simply someone that bothers to be informed. Whatever I've done in life you'll probably never know what it was since I value my privacy more than I value the approval of Internet "tough guys."

For all your claims as to having "made the grade," or "made the cut," all of which are both vague and unsubstantiated, I don't see you bringing much to this discussion beyond what we could get from a communist dog catcher in some university district in Melbourne. Perhaps you actually were the chief supply clerk, underwear exchange, 1 Commando, or maybe something more interesting. All you seem to be today is just another internet "tough guy" twisting words and hurling abuse to try to compensate for a bad argument derived from strong political beliefs of dubious merit.

Pro tip: "Stand in the door!" does not mean you should queue at a building exit to wait for quitting time and the race to the parking lot.

By international treaty, embassies are "sovereign territory", but consulates are not.

Are you sure about that?

http://diplomacy.state.gov/dis...

As far as I read that, a consulate is just a smaller version of an Embassy. I have never visited a US consulate, but I have been to a US embassy, and the security was pretty insane. Embassies are in the capital, consulates are in regional capitals.

http://geography.about.com/od/...

A consulate is just a smaller version of an embassy and is run by a person with the title consul. The embassy is only located in the capital city and is where the ambassador is in charge. Seeing how Chris Stevens was the ambassador to Libya, what was he doing in the consulate and not the embassy?

Also, from the wikipedia entry on the attack:

Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent Scott Strickland secured Ambassador Stevens and Sean Smith, an information management officer, in the main building's safe haven.[79][81] Other agents retrieved their M4 carbines and tactical gear from another building. They tried to return to the main building but encountered armed attackers and retreated.[79]

What were they doing with M4 carbines if it is illegal to send US military there without permission!

It's called the "Privileges and Immunities Clause". All citizens have the RIGHT to travel in and through all of the US states, the District, territories and possessions. If you are a citizen of the United States, no one has the authority to bar you from entry into any one of the United States, etc.

It's just wikipedia - but any intelligent person can read the content, then search out arguments, both pro and con.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Gubbermint says the same thing on this page: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/...

"Citizens are also allowed to re-enter the U.S. repeatedly without being required to re-establish proof of admissibility."

If a US citizen IS denied entry into the United States, he has this to fall back on:
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/us...

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or
        intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth,
        Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any
        right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of
        the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;
        or
            If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the
        premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free
        exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured -
            They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
        ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in
        violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an
        attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit
        aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined
        under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life,
        or both, or may be sentenced to death.

Long story short, the gubbermint recognizes that fucking with a citizens rights is serious business, potentially punishable by death.

I know it's cool to hate on things you don't understand yet, but Gluten (or more likely a sub-component of it) is a real problem for some of us.

Yes, this is the response I always get. I don't hate anyone. I'm 100 percent certain you don't believe me.

I can pose a question. Do you think it helps people who are seriously allergic to gluten when bottled water manufacturers put notices on their water that it contains no gluten:

http://claraglutenfreewater.co...

Some celiac sufferer's responses to gluten free water.

http://www.celiac.com/gluten-f...

Particularly as selective and genetically modified plant breeding has increased the average Gluten content of wheat by 40 times or more. Far above what anyone was exposed to 30 or 40 years ago.

SIde note: vegans for years have eaten pure gluten as a meat substitute. Seitan, they call it

http://vegetarian.about.com/od...

It's pretty much 100 percent gluten. And different ypes of flour have different amounts of gluten in them. This is pretty much where I address your increased amoount of gluten statement.

http://www.nyx.net/~dgreenw/wh...

Specifically speaking Cake flour is 7-9 percent gluten. Pastry is 9-10 percent Gluten Bread flour is 12-15 percent, "High gluten" flour is 14 percent. The essential gluten that is added to flours like rye in breadmaking is 45 percent gluten. No one eats that essential gluten except vegans making seitan - you couldn't make bread with that if you tried - it is almost all protein, not starch.

The amounts of gluten are critical to the purpose of the bread. If you raise or lower them, the wheat flour doesn't function correctly.

So your 40 times number is a little suspect.

You grandfather's wheat was not the same as today's wheat.

Even if so, the flour/gluten ratio's have not changes for the intended purpose. You're not going to make good cakes with High Gluten flour, and cake flour to make regular bread isn't going to be very good either. If modern day flower contains 40 times more gluten, they will have to take most of it out to get it to act correctly.

I am Gluten sensitive at least, and possibly allergic. I eat so little of it now that allergy tests are useless, but if I eat more than a trace amount I have measurable digestive and mental difficulties lasting roughly 12 hours from ingestion.

Before removing wheat from my diet, I would regularly run to the bathroom 5-8 times a day to painfully squeeze out liquidy, gooey mucas instead of anything even remotely solid.

That really sucks. Sounds like what happened to me when I went vegetarian for a while. Took several months to get back to normal after figuring out I was not meant to be vegan.

So be glad that you're not Gluten-sensitive, or at least not noticeably so, and stop hating on what is most certainly not a fad.

I am fortunate, yet I can tell you I've been told to go die in a fire by people, from gluten freeers, and anti-vaxxers saying that my calling GF diets or avoiding vaccines is a fad. Time to revisit that hate thing and who's handing it out.

This is simply science and public awareness catching up to the consequences of plant breeding decisions made years ago for the sake of higher and higher yields, without considering the nutritional quality of the grains that would be harvested.

Oh - you simply must show me the links to the documnets that prove that science has reached a consensus to all you speak about.

Here's some stuff you might want to watch and read.

China holds 8% of US debt. 8% is not "a lot" which if they want back, they will have to wait for it to mature just like everybody else.

Hell, if things get bad enough over there, the US wont actually have an entity to pay that 8% back to and will just keep it.

What Iceland has to do with the reality of the situation being China having a stock market bubble and some US bonds on hand beyond transparent FUD, nobody knows.

" I went to get educated."

So, then you failed.

"Went to get an education" "Went for an education" "Went to be educated".

Pick one.

"Get" is a verb. "Educated" is also verb. Proper simple sentence structure is Subject-Verb-Object , not Subject-Verb-Verb

So you are essentially saying you "went to get gotten", which you evidently were.

Pedantic, I know, but anyone throwing around smack about how smart they are should know better.

Educated is also an adjective, as in "an educated person". "I became [adjective]" is a valid sentence with valid structure and "get" in the sense of the GP is a colloqial form of "become". You can "get taller", "get fatter", "get healtier". And, as I have just shown, even pedants can "get educated".

Just look at the second example here.

" I went to get educated."

So, then you failed.

"Went to get an education"
"Went for an education"
"Went to be educated".

Pick one.

"Get" is a verb. "Educated" is also verb. Proper simple sentence structure is Subject-Verb-Object , not Subject-Verb-Verb

So you are essentially saying you "went to get gotten", which you evidently were.

Pedantic, I know, but anyone throwing around smack about how smart they are should know better.

There are even articles written about this pointing out that, regardless of what stuff you want to quote without reading, that the definition of moon is not formalized, and has been applied to stuff orbiting things other than planets quite a lot. It isn't affected by the redefinition of a planet at all.

"can't even compete in their niche without goverment subsidies" - then you must be PISSED about the government bailing out established auto companies.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/...

I'm from Detroit and work in the auto industry, so I'll state my conflict of interest first. You might be mad about the auto bailouts, but you need to understand that the bank crisis created the auto crisis. The auto makers need lots of credit, and when that dried up, it was hard for all of us in the auto industry (not just the big three). We've built our society around easy credit for better or worse. So, I think it's more than a little unfair to act like the auto companies were up shit's creek purely because of bad business decisions. They based their cash flow around easy credit, and when that dried up for a while, it was a big deal. Think of the kind of cash burn a 200,000+ person company has. Sure, the automakers could have been healthier, but the auto crisis wasn't 100% their fault either.

Toyota and Honda didn't have any problems during that crisis, and they (Toyota) even have mandatory 2 hours unpaid overtime each day (you're paid 6 hours) in case something like this happens so they can scale everything back.

They also don't make dumbass cars that look ugly and break after 175k miles

"can't even compete in their niche without goverment subsidies" - then you must be PISSED about the government bailing out established auto companies.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/...

I'm from Detroit and work in the auto industry, so I'll state my conflict of interest first. You might be mad about the auto bailouts, but you need to understand that the bank crisis created the auto crisis. The auto makers need lots of credit, and when that dried up, it was hard for all of us in the auto industry (not just the big three). We've built our society around easy credit for better or worse. So, I think it's more than a little unfair to act like the auto companies were up shit's creek purely because of bad business decisions. They based their cash flow around easy credit, and when that dried up for a while, it was a big deal. Think of the kind of cash burn a 200,000+ person company has. Sure, the automakers could have been healthier, but the auto crisis wasn't 100% their fault either.

"Mass market appeal" - he's already achieved that with the Model S. It may be too expensive for most but they sure as hell want it. And he's gotten lots of competitors talking smack about making a "Tesla-killer" which is something I've never heard them say about the Volt or the Leaf.

"can't even compete in their niche without goverment subsidies" - then you must be PISSED about the government bailing out established auto companies.

http://useconomy.about.com/od/...

"Limited-Time-Only!" Discounts are not an "All-American" practice -- they are a practice of global fucking civilization, you idiot.

Invented in the USA, perfected in the USA. Before you make a statement, do you even think to check whether or not it's true?

http://couponing.about.com/od/...

. So they sell them at a loss (or just break even) for a few weeks, get people hooked on them so you're never at a bbq without one, and THEN they yell out "Time to pay the piper, faggots!"

It's Friday, and that means they're fumigating 8chan. That's why they come here.

There are plenty of majority places in the Caribbean, Africa and the Americas in which the crime rate is low and normal.

Hmm, are you sure about that? Murder rates for the Caribbean:

U.S. Virgin Islands: 39 murders per 100,000
St. Kitts and Nevis: 38 per 100,000
Guatemala: 38 per 100,000
Colombia: 37 per 100,000
Belize: 30.8 per 100,000
Trinidad and Tobago: 35 per 100,000
Bahamas: 27.4 per 100,000
Puerto Rico (a Commonwealth of the United States): 26 per 100,000
Mexico: 24 per 100,000
Dominican Republic: 25 per 100,000
St. Lucia: 25 per 100,000
St. Vincent and The Grenadines: 22 per 100,000
Panama: 22 per 100,000
Dominica: 22 per 100,000

That's compared to about 4.7 per 100k in the US, which is considered high for the developed world.

I didn't bother checking African crime rates because I'm pretty confident you're wrong there.

By "majority places" were you referring to really small places like individual neighborhoods or something?

So all they did was take a bunch of relatively clean cars off the road, but left the dirty ones.

I strongly disagree. Look at a summary of the stats to see that the most-traded vehicles were light trucks. We're talking about a bunch of sloppy old pickup trucks with little or no emissions controls, usually literally nothing but one O2 sensor, an EGR, a PCV, and a catalyst. But modern light trucks have the same kinds of emissions controls as cars, even though the standards aren't as strict, so they do have much lower emissions.

And don't forget these. Another $1000 to charity :) $3000 to go.

The city will be 100% electric and the transportation will look more or less like it does on earth, although the production systems required (for metallurgy and stuff) might be different and undesignable off-site.

Then add capitalism and see how fast the city goes to hell :) The guy selling the oxygen will probably the only one left. Him and his dynasty, which will work pretty much like communism (they're all family) except for when somebody steps out of line and they get to sleep with the Martians - so yeah, still like communism.

http://weirdandamazingtravel.a...

now stop yer whining

You later get divorced, presently childless. She decides to try again and the implantation is successful. Can she come back for child support?

Yes, she can and she will. At least, you produced the sperm while still her husband and would-be father of her children.

If a sperm-donor can be hit for child-support, you would have not a chance. And not just in Kansas, Illinois too only makes exceptions for sperm donated "through medical channels involving a doctor".

It may work the other way too — a donor may get parental rights after an artificial insemination.

Presumably, with the rights comes a child support obligation as well — the two better be inseparable.

Lithium processing is envirinmentally damaging? You are obviously anothet fucking right winger without any science knowledge. processsing is cheap and clean.

There are two major reasons why people incorrectly think aspartame causes cancer:

1. In 1975 a bad study was released saying aspartame caused brain and other cancers. This study became “legend”, and is what everyone thinks about aspartame, but it is not true. There is even an article on Wikipedia specifically about this controversy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy
2. In 1998, a hoax was released saying aspartame caused all sorts of serious diseases, and people believed it: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blasp.htm. It’s also on snopes http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

Due to the 1975 study, studies were launched and FDA officials describing aspartame as "one of the most thoroughly tested and studied food additives the agency has ever approved" and its safety as "clear cut" (http://web.archive.org/web/20071214170430/www.fda.gov/fdac/features/1999/699_sugar.html)

1. The European Food Safety Authority concluded in its 2013 re-evaluation that aspartame and its breakdown products are safe for human consumption at current levels of exposure (http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/3496.htm)
2. As do other independent studies (http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10408440701516184)
3. The national cancer institute has cleared aspartame as having no links to cancer (http://web.archive.org/web/20090212130028/http://cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/AspartameQandA)

There are many more scientific studies on it by national governments showing it’s safe as well:

• UK https://www.food.gov.uk/science/additives/aspartame/
• Canada http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/securit/addit/sweeten-edulcor/aspartame-eng.php
• Australia / New Zealand http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/consumer/additives/aspartame/pages/default.aspx

What if...

Instead of a stupid troll you were actually interested in the answers. Interested enough to either take some classes on the subject, or expend some effort educating yourself.

We live in an age where the vast majority of the world's information is available for little to no cost or effort, yet you actively choose to remain ignorant.

Step 1: Understand what science is. http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/whatisscience_01
Step 2: Take a class or look it up. http://space.about.com/cs/astronomy101/a/astro101a.htm
Step 3: Keep digging

How can you have 1.5 children per household?

2 children in one household and 1 in another. Even so, I wonder how it felt for photographer Kevin Michael Connolly or acrobat Jennifer Bricker or Jeanie Tomaini or plenty of others to grow up as the .5 child.

Read this article.

http://ipod.about.com/od/gloss...

Very far from unbiased writing. Anyone that was not living in an Apple bubble during that time period could write a totally different story.

I was buying tracks from the major record labels for 0.99 and some for 0.79 before iTunes was open for business. Getting them to my MP3 player was not a magic process that required a breakout box and a clean room like others claim it was, it was drag and drop to the device. Electronic companies had already broke through the barriers with the record labels. The foot print and business model was out there and gaining steam. Apple made a product that many people liked and the concept continued to gain ground at a furious pace for Apple/iTMS users and it was equally robust for people that did not use the iTunes/ipod model.

First of all, it needs an iPhone. Don't have one, don't want one.

So you don't have what it requires so you don't want one. Thanks for that. Guess you don't want a furnace because you live in Hawaii so therefore no one else on earth needs a furnace. Apple has sold over 700 million iPhones as of March 2015, even if only 5% buy an Apple Watch it will be a huge success.

Everyone cried that the iPad was ridiculous, it was just a large iPod Touch that cost triple the price. It sold like crazy. The Apple Watch will sell like hotcakes. Apple Watch will sell more in 1 day than all the Android Watches ever sold. Then Samsung will make an exact copy of the Apple Watch, add a SD card and removable battery, and the samsung fanbois will make fun of Apple for not having a micro SD card slot and a removable battery.

Is he a traitor, or was his whistle blowing justified?

The real problem is that he could be both at the same time.

Same as in the military, if you disobey a direct order and that disobedience ends up saving lives, you can still be charged with disobeying a direct order.

I doubt the modeling took into account that here in the South we defend our homes via the second ammendment against foreign invaders, tyrannical government AND zombies!

... which is nice except for the fact that Montana has a higher rate of gun ownership than any state in the old confederacy, and the third-highest overall (after Wyoming and Alaska). http://usliberals.about.com/od...

I have a paid pandora account. After about a month of liking and disliking stuff, the "station" became very good -- now, a year after starting it, I hear a song I don't like maybe once in two hours.

With radio, going off my recollection from the bad old days, I mostly heard ads and music I didn't like and maybe a song or two I wanted to listen to once per hour.

As for the price Pandora is paying, is anyone asking whether Spotify is paying too much? Anyone with a song Pandora is playing has something like 100 years or whatever ridiculous term copyrights last, to milk it. If it gto a million plays per year, that's $100k for one song. $1M for ten songs. A high school graduate can expect to make $1.2M in an entire lifetime: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/...

And if we're going to be pedantic, smoking wont give you crabs or the clap either. It's still a bad comparison for plenty of other reasons.

None of the reasons important enough for you to list I see. And no, no one was being pedantic, facts are simply facts which when ignored makes what was said look fictitious at best and outright purposely misleading at worst.

There's a vaccine for HPV. There isn't one for lung cancer.

Sure, and it's a recent creation which no long term studies have been made because it's approval for use in humans has not yet met the time span of one generation or the time span thought to be associated between HPV and Cervical Cancer. And until those facts are in and understood, making claims that you cannot get cancer from the Human Papillomavirus Virus is about as accurate as a witch doctor declaring that you specifically will not get cancer from smoking. The data simply isn't in and unless someone knows something will cut your life short, the claims simply cannot be made.

The only way to get HPV or AIDS via sex is to....have sex with someone that already has HPV or AIDS. Cigarettes will give you cancer all by themselves.

Well, no. You can get both outside of having sex or even sexual relationships with anyone. They are most commonly transmitted during sex though.

You can have unprotected sex without fear of infection if you and your partner get tested for STD's. There is no "test" that will let you smoke without risking cancer.

You can jump out of an airplane without fear if you wear a parachute too. It doesn't mean that people who do so are not seriously injured or killed in doing so. And some tests for STDs, Here is some reading for you on this.

http://std.about.com/od/gettin...

http://www.healthline.com/heal...

It seems the knowledge you have about this is as accurate as the phone number for a good time on the bathroom wall.

Humans have an inborn desire to fuck. They don't have an inborn desire to smoke cigarettes.

That is until they get addicted. And yes, inborn is a proper term for the addiction because the chemical actors interfere with chemistry in the brain making smoking and pretty much other addictions necessary to return to the proper balance they naturally want to reach. That is why quitting is so difficult for some people.

Sex isn't a product (unless you buy one of those Japanese robots, but robots wont give you AIDS) and can't be taxed, as it's something you could go out and start doing with your neighbor 30 seconds after reading this. Cigarettes are a product that are purchased in stores, and that makes them taxable.

Actually, sex most certainly can be taxed. It's just a matter of what levels of intrusion you are willing to allow the government to have. Certain types of sex were even outlawed and people were sent to jail for it in the past.

So, yeah: false equivalence.

Only if you are ignorant and want to remain that way.

Why don't you try educating yourself instead of sticking shit in your body. Opium was banned around the world because of the devastating effects addiction was having on the various populations. It was also an issue in the US, but less so as it had a lot of stigma attached to it and was consumed under other names like laudanum.

http://www.historywiz.com/down...
http://asianhistory.about.com/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBch...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...

Ok, aspirin is a well known example of this.... aside from that, [citation needed]

Seriously?

here's a few
http://chemistry.about.com/lib...

A whole paper on the topic
http://www.uesc.br/cursos/pos_...

Or how about an entire textbook
http://www.amazon.com/Medicina...

Aspirin is an interesting example. Some other plant-derived drugs that immediately come to mind are heroin, codeine, morphine, cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, and several cannabinoids. Does anyone think those are not powerful drugs? Here's a whole bunch more (not complete). There are tens of thousands of plants used medicinally around the world, most unstudied by western medicine.

Pharmaceutical companies hate herbal medicine because plants can't be patented. They've spent a fortune discrediting and sidelining herbal medicine, even though about 40 percent of our prescription medicines come from plant extracts or synthesized plant compounds (and many more were inspired by compounds discovered in plants). This thread is proof their efforts are paying off.

Having had a long interest in pottery, I've looked at some of the history of pottery in Japan. Interestingly, in the late 1500s, Japan invaded Korea and while they didn't get much territory-wise, they rounded up a lot of potters and forced them give up their knowledge in Japan. Pottery was high technology in those days. Anyway, kidnapping knowledgable workers is a time honored tradition.

The example I reference is usually called the Pottery Wars, rather than "Ceramic Wars" but there's a short synopsis here: The Ceramic Wars: Hideyoshi's Japan Kidnaps Korean Artisans

Tactile learning helps, I try whenever i get stuck - http://homeworktips.about.com/...

My source states that a checkerboard has 64 squares, like a chessboard.

No, the main reason European countries have better Internet access is due to their small size and layout. Sweden is roughly the size of California. If the US was a country that small, it would be easy to get fiber to everywhere. First speed test result I found averaged just over the state puts California at 39MB/s down and 9MB/s up. And that's without nearly as much taxation to support the whole thing as EU countries too.

But the FCC has to set policies that cover the middle of nowhere USA as well. Why do you think Verizon already gave up on laying more FIOS fiber? Because they already got all the interesting urban areas. No one can cost justify fiber to the middle of the US. You could lose all of the continental Europe in that wasteland and not even notice it.

Is this applicable to other drugs as well?

Well, there's Naltrexone, which prevents you from getting 'high' from alcohol or opioids. But you have to go in for a monthly shot for that.

And yet lots of people consume lots of more calories than they spend in a day. Which adds up to very unhealthy amounts of fat over time in their bodies. Which they could have prevented/reduced - in this regard the calorie burn is equivalent to a 1.5-2.5 hour workout.

But you claim erroneously that there is no benefit of spending this extra 320 kilocalories, equivalent to 5 such cheese slices per day.

Which also doesn't prevent them from performing other forms of exercise - as I keep reminding you falling on deaf ears.

If anyone's a beginner it's you. The usage of the tenses doesn't map as simply as that, but given that it's auxiliary plus past participle it's the perfect tense. The construction is identical, so "I have understood" is at least the more literal answer.

http://french.about.com/od/gra...

The census bureau reports that:

over an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $1.2 million; those with a bachelor's degree, $2.1 million; and people with a master's degree, $2.5 million
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/...

And that includes people who got degrees in African-American Art History! People who chose degrees with a thought toward doing productive work earn even more.

If you apply the SAME type of thinking to choosing which company to work for, choosing the job with the best prospects for advancement rather than the best starting salary, you do even better.

The census bureau reports that:

over an adult's working life, high school graduates can expect, on average, to earn $1.2 million; those with a bachelor's degree, $2.1 million; and people with a master's degree, $2.5 million
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/...

And that includes people who got degrees in African-American Art History! People who chose degrees with a thought toward doing productive work earn even more.

Actually, that is not Islam. Sunni Islam allows no "Idols". Shiite Islam happily allows pictures of M. and Allah, and whoever they please.

The problem goes back to the very roots of Islam. When M. died, the Shiites followed his son-in-law (who M. had designated as his replacement) , the Sunnis follow a leader elected by the followers of M.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
http://islam.about.com/cs/divi...

BTW, I use M. because there are numerous spellings of his name, and I wouldn't want to put the wrong one and offend anyone.

The original Walkman cost $150 in 1979. Toss that into a handy inflation calculator and you get $487.92 in 2014 dollars. So this high-end audiophile device is priced about 2.5x what the first mass-market portable music player. Not really outlandish if you think of it that way. Even less so if you factor in that it has 128GB of built-in storage - other companies charge $300 for that much flash alone.

I was referring to the "four tones" of mandarin.

http://mandarin.about.com/od/p...

"When learning new vocabulary you must practice both the pronunciation of the word and its tone. The wrong tones can change the meaning of your sentences."

They discuss the issue using the classic "ma" example as well.

How much greenhouse gas would be emitted if everybody drove their car, or took a boat vs. flying? Me thinks much more.

That may be what you thinks, but have you checked?

http://environment.about.com/o...

That says no, cars would be worse. I'd expect boats would be too, if everyone took their own.

While admittedly the GP's grammar was lacking in clarity, I believe he was claiming that driving cars and taking boats would emit much more greenhouse gases than air travel, making air travel more environmentally friendly, so you're only proving his point.

How much greenhouse gas would be emitted if everybody drove their car, or took a boat vs. flying? Me thinks much more.

That may be what you thinks, but have you checked?

http://environment.about.com/o...

That says no, cars would be worse. I'd expect boats would be too, if everyone took their own.