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Never underestimate a bunch of fanatics. And even the *threat* of them having nukes could easily be enough to start WWIII.

The "fanatics" in this case being in Moscow, which as repeatedly threatened its neighbors with attack, including Ukraine. And now it is back to seizing territory as has previously occurred to many of the neighbors of Russia (nee Soviet Union) in the last century: Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania. Now they try again with Ukraine.

Russia threatens nuclear attack on Ukraine - 12 Feb 2008
Russia threatens to aim missiles at Czech Republic, Poland if US installs defence shield - 20-02-2007

We already have bad experience with child protection buttons, and I seriously doubt that this one will do more good than harm. What's happened to good old parenting?

Just add it to the menu at this place Beer Spa HomePage. Make sure to get your wife a gift certificate too!

"He says his work has implications for the way drugs are marketed. People often think generic medicine is inferior. But gussy it up a bit, change the name, make it appear more expensive, and maybe it will work better, he said."

Well I'd rather be convinced that cheaper medicine is better or the same as expensive medicine :).

"In the 18 subjects Miller studied, average earnings were $250 for a five-hour shift. That jumped to $350 to $400 per five-hour shift when the women were their most fertile, he said."

There's research that shows that women tend to actually appear more attractive during their most fertile days (and probably might behave in a more attractive manner too ).

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/52484

BTW there's also:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080226/full/news.2008.625.html
http://www.newlifeafterdivorce.com/Relationships/Married-fertile-women-prefer-single-men.html

which will be (hopefully) built in Prague
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/88974
and some more pictures: http://aktualne.centrum.cz/kultura/umeni/foto.phtml?gid=2175&cid=369145
I definitely find it very refreshing :)

What I know is that they devote a substantial amount to health and education (health standards are comparable to those of rich, developped countries, embargo and all)

How do you know this? Where are you getting your information? Since the Cuban government doesn't allow any foreigners to collect health statistics, and there isn't any sort of multi-party democracy where government statistics would be under scrutiny by opposing political parties, you have to accept that they spend a substantial amount on health and education purely on faith. Those with a soft spot in their heart for Communist dictatorship usually take the Cuban government's word on the issue, while others tend to be skeptical.

Much like that supermodel Helena Houdova who was arrested for taking pictures of homeless kids in Cuba, which is considered counter-revolutionary terrorism because "Cuba doesn't have homeless children", there is a certain suspention of disbelief that socialists are willing to have when it comes to the desperate poverty in Cuba. ( http://www.radio.cz/en/article/75411 )

Although, given that Cuba openly admits to flying in top doctors and high tech equipment to treat Castro, I don't dispute that the Cuban upper-class have access to advanced western-style medical treatment... but I don't think they are flying in top surgeons from Spain and Swizterland to treat the average guy on the street.

But I am getting off topic: If you greatly help a repressive regime, for no profit, that is good? But make a profit and that same act is suddently, magicly transformed into an evil act? Even when it helps the repressive regime LESS than the no-profit act? Geez, no wonder socialism is such a messed up ideology! You evaluate the morality of acts based on their motive, as opposed to the outcome.

And all that aside, I think that the U.S. should drop the embargo on Cuba. The U.S. has been Castro's greatest ally (even more so now than when Castro was being funded by the CIA before he switched sides to the Soviets)... Castro can blame all the poverty caused by incompetent mismanagement and flawed central planning, and blame it on the "evil capitalists". It gives the Cuban government a perfect scapegoat. It also gets Cubans to rally around Castro (as the people of any soveriegn nation resent interference by foriegn governments)... Had the U.S. ended the embargo 30 years ago, Castro would have probably gone the way of Pol Pot, or Nicolae Ceausescu. Castro, from his beginings as an apolitical revolutionary for hire, to nowadays being idolized by reactionaries as a sort of proxy act of token anti-Americanism, is 100% the creation of idiotic American foreign policy.

Sounds like a repeat of this study from 2004.

Also similar to Karl Grammer's 1996 study, The human mating game: the battle of the sexes and the war of signals, in which he found that women in prison often wore skimpier clothing during ovulation.

Of course, the obvious counterpoint is that many women don't feel too great during menstruation and personal care tends to suffer when people aren't feeling well.

You don't see a WWII "extermination camp simulator" do you?

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/82899

almost the same thing

.. 2004

That 2nd one's easy - http://archiv.radio.cz/nato/fotogalerie1/bush.jpg

Here is one counterexample

Also see the Poland, East Germany, the Soviet Union

To prevent flooding rivers from killing people, is our only recourse to "kill" the river? Couldn't we build flood-proof housing?

What? Like this?