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Google To Add Pay To Cover a Tax For Gays
GrApHiX42 writes "Starting on Thursday, Google is going to increase the salaries of gay and lesbian employees whose partners receive domestic partner health benefits, largely to compensate them for an extra tax they must pay that heterosexual married couples do not. Google is not the first company to make up for the extra tax. At least a few large employers already do. But benefits experts say Google's move could inspire its Silicon Valley competitors to follow suit, because they compete for the same talent."
Next, it is not natural for a woman to have a monthly period. That's a side effect of birth control. Go all natural, and you probably get a couple periods every couple years.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that this lack of basic knowledge of the human female reproductive system is strongly correlated with the fact that you have a 5-digit user ID.
Unless you think the vast majority of women on the planet are being surreptitiously fed contraceptive pills by some clandestine government agency, the statistics point to an average 1-month menstrual cycle. Bear in mind that records began before we knew about such things as the corpus luteum, oocytes, and probably back when we all blamed Eve for original sin and the bleeding from her hoo-hoo was the punishment.
Abnormal levels of oestrogen is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, though.
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Next, it is not natural for a woman to have a monthly period. That's a side effect of birth control. Go all natural, and you probably get a couple periods every couple years.
I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that this lack of basic knowledge of the human female reproductive system is strongly correlated with the fact that you have a 5-digit user ID.
Hello? Slashdot? There are loud whooshing noises in my thread.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
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Actually, and I hate to say this, he is right. He just seriously lacks in communication skills, even given slashdot's very low standards.
This was actually a story on /. a year or two back.
What he MEANT to say is that prior to the modern industrial world and prior to family planning (not just birth control pills, but all forms of family planning) women spent the majority of their reproductive years either pregnant or nursing, which suppressed the menstrual cycle.
When someone in acadamia had an "ah hah! No shit sherlock" moment awhile back, he (and I am guessing it was a he, only a guy could be that stupid...) crunched the numbers and realized that all this talk about women "abusing" birth control pills to suppress their menstral cycle being potentially "dangerous" was actually bullshit, since such behavior more closely approximated what had been "natural" for thousands of years.
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If you're really clever you can play the minorities off against each other - even if they theoretically add up to a majority.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
A woman gets one or two periods, and then she's pregnant.
Depending if she is having sex or not.
Breastfeeding suppresses the menstrual cycle. The woman can almost certainly go 3 months without a period, and stands a decent chance of going 18 months or more.
Fixed that for you. Found a site here: http://www.babycentre.co.uk/baby/youafterthebirth/startingperiodsq/. My wife had here period after less then two months after giving birth
Disclaimer: This opinion was created without the use of any facts
The bible isn't the only textual work that people will bend to their own use.
See also copyright and patent law.
Just answer the door naked.
My roommate (male) answered the door for some Mormons once. Of course it was two hot girls so he let them tell him whatever they wanted, took their literature and pretended to be VERY interested.
Naturally they sent someone else around to follow up. Except the followup as a couple of skinny guys. My other roommate (female) answered. Her sister had just converted to Mormonism because she was marrying a Mormon and my roommate was very unimpressed with various aspects of Mormonism, including baptizing family members in absentia against their wishes, not allowing non-Mormon family members into the temple to see the wedding, etc. I think those two guys got an earful.