You know, when I bought groceries the other day, I went back to the store to tell the store manager that it wasn't a cash transaction that had occured at all, but in fact I had actually entered into a contract with him. He had implicitly agreed to this contract by allowing his cashier to take my money.
He was pretty steamed about it all, but I just had my attack lawyers rope him up while I appropriated his car, home, and wife, as the terms of our implicit contract unambigously state are now mine.
Like Thunderbird, Sunbird is hampered by the fact that it will not minimize to the system tray in Windows XP. I don't want to leave it on all the time because it takes up a lot of space on the task bar. And what use is a calendar program that isn't on all the time?
There are third party fixes to this, and for all I know extensions that do the same thing, but it would be really nice to have system tray minimization as default behavior.
...innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
True.
Summers...also questioned how great a role discrimination plays in keeping female scientists and engineers from advancing at elite universities.
He is correctly skeptical.
He also said more research needs to be done on the issues.
Correct. Except that when ignoramuses, like Bible Belt Baptists on Darwin, attack anyone explaining the science of gender differences, it makes scientists decide to avoid the field. The current highest rated comment on Slashdot says that Summers is correct but should never talk about such things because it's wrong.
He also cited as an example one of his daughters, who as a child was given two trucks in an effort at gender-neutral upbringing. Yet he said she named them "daddy truck" and "baby truck," as if they were dolls.
Well, yeah. A quick antidote to anyone who believes that gender differences are mostly social can be found in the studies of XY males whose genders were surgically reassigned at birth during the 1970s. This was an accepted treatment for a certain uncorrectable genital deformation. (A study of transsexualism, The Man Who Would be Queen, available online, has a good discussion of it.)
Thanks for telling the truth, Summers.
Summers already faced criticism because the number of senior job offers to women has dropped each year of his three-year presidency.
Rewrite: "Summers has faced criticism because fewer underqualified women are being highered to positions over more qualified males." Gotta have that affirmative action.
Heh, one of the hair-splitting types? Add "short of a government ban" to the end of my sentence. But you do have a (minor) point. What a government ban is really good for is stopping the game from being produced in the first place.
Your argument in the last paragraph is one against laws in general. It is directly equivalent to 'since no law works perfectly, we might as well have no laws at all.' Why don't you start your own country, give it a try, and let the rest of us know how well it works.
So if they took you out and shot you for defending my right to say that the people who defend free speech should be taken out and shot, have you won or lost?
Is it just me, or will 12-year-olds inevitably get a hold of the world's most popular video game?
Yeah, I'd love to live in a world where parents were responsible. I don't. So let's talk about real solutions. If games like GTA are causing real problems (not proven, as far as I know, I'm just postulating here), then the only real solution is a government ban.
I wonder what effect this has had on insolation from the sun? Given that a lot of people use past insolation as an explanation for ice ages and such, I wonder if larger events than this have had effects in the past.
Actually, I don't think that the director injected enough of his own ideas. He should have strayed farther from the books. And it would have been nice to see a director with more talent than money instead of vice-versa.
Once you control for IQ (in this context it means race, of course)you find that the school systems of most developed countries are just about the same.
If we complained about every crap show on television perhaps we could get the whole lot switched off?
Sounds good to me. To all the people complaining about "censorship": it's television for God's sake. Censorship of television is about a zero on the list of my priorities. Non-political censorship of anything only rates as annoying.
They need to legalize pot and outlaw television.
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I've never thought of it that way, but I think you might be on to something.
Still, there seems to be some evidence that vaginal intercourse with an HIV+ partner is far safer than anal intercourse with the same. There are more anatomical safeguards, evidently.
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The fastest growing segment of new HIV patients is straight young Women...who happen to be mainly IV drug users. Another problem with interpreting the figures correctly is that AIDS among the high risk populations have reached saturation levels in European nations.
What you are repeating is something called a "scare statistic." If you're interested in how our media handles statistics like this, I'd suggest that you investigate the "Summer of the Shark" debacle that played out in 2001.
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If you did know the stats, you could have avoided the ignorance posted above. If homosexual, you are orders of magnitude more likely to get AIDS at the same level of promiscuity as a heterosexual. If heterosexual, it's the figure is so small that it's nearly zero at whatever level of promisucity you can manage. There are plenty of STDs that heterosexuals should worry about. AIDS isn't one of them (outside Africa).
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Hell, it's hard not be an IV drug user if you come from the that sort of community (or maybe have the wrong set of genetic triggers?). Hence the dark humor. Almost made me laugh my stitches out. Literally.
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In Africa AIDS is epidemic in the heterosexual population. It is like this no where else in the world. A possible cause is African sexual practices which include more partners in general (I consider this theory to be unlikely), and another cause is less sanitary conditions and more disease (open sores and such) which make sexually contracted AIDS far more likely. It could also be genetic suceptibility or even different AIDS varients in Africa, but there seems to be no evidence for this.
Nowhere else in the world except Africa do you have a significant chance of contracting AIDS through heterosexual sex. Figure out why this is, and you'll win a Nobel.
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The blood supply is much safer than it used to be. Health care professionals get varients of Hep all the time, but AIDS only in the rarest circumstances (only a few documented in the medical literature). Can't say much about contact sports, but in professional sports, where the numbers are easy to come by, it seems to be impossible to find a single instance of someone giving AIDS to a teammate (on the court anyway).
Yeah, you can get AIDS in all the ways you mentioned, but as a statistical matter, be more worried about the random lightning strikes.
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You know, when I bought groceries the other day, I went back to the store to tell the store manager that it wasn't a cash transaction that had occured at all, but in fact I had actually entered into a contract with him. He had implicitly agreed to this contract by allowing his cashier to take my money. He was pretty steamed about it all, but I just had my attack lawyers rope him up while I appropriated his car, home, and wife, as the terms of our implicit contract unambigously state are now mine.
Like Thunderbird, Sunbird is hampered by the fact that it will not minimize to the system tray in Windows XP. I don't want to leave it on all the time because it takes up a lot of space on the task bar. And what use is a calendar program that isn't on all the time?
There are third party fixes to this, and for all I know extensions that do the same thing, but it would be really nice to have system tray minimization as default behavior.
...innate differences between the sexes could help explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers.
True.
Summers...also questioned how great a role discrimination plays in keeping female scientists and engineers from advancing at elite universities.
He is correctly skeptical.
He also said more research needs to be done on the issues.
Correct. Except that when ignoramuses, like Bible Belt Baptists on Darwin, attack anyone explaining the science of gender differences, it makes scientists decide to avoid the field. The current highest rated comment on Slashdot says that Summers is correct but should never talk about such things because it's wrong.
He also cited as an example one of his daughters, who as a child was given two trucks in an effort at gender-neutral upbringing. Yet he said she named them "daddy truck" and "baby truck," as if they were dolls.
Well, yeah. A quick antidote to anyone who believes that gender differences are mostly social can be found in the studies of XY males whose genders were surgically reassigned at birth during the 1970s. This was an accepted treatment for a certain uncorrectable genital deformation. (A study of transsexualism, The Man Who Would be Queen, available online, has a good discussion of it.)
Thanks for telling the truth, Summers.
Summers already faced criticism because the number of senior job offers to women has dropped each year of his three-year presidency.
Rewrite: "Summers has faced criticism because fewer underqualified women are being highered to positions over more qualified males." Gotta have that affirmative action.
We have incontrovertible proof...
Raise your hand if you've heard that one before.
The problem with this approach is dealing with untrustworthy peer. Without substantial protections, one peer can ruin everybody's downloads.
Heh, one of the hair-splitting types? Add "short of a government ban" to the end of my sentence. But you do have a (minor) point. What a government ban is really good for is stopping the game from being produced in the first place.
Your argument in the last paragraph is one against laws in general. It is directly equivalent to 'since no law works perfectly, we might as well have no laws at all.' Why don't you start your own country, give it a try, and let the rest of us know how well it works.
So if they took you out and shot you for defending my right to say that the people who defend free speech should be taken out and shot, have you won or lost?
We can't replicate the volcano, but we don't want to. We just want to move some earth. And not all at once.
No they couldn't. Even the biggest hydrogen bombs wouldn't be enough. Even if they were, you could just use low-yield nukes.
Right now they don't. But the US Supreme Court is a weather vane. Who knows what they'll say the Constitution says 50 years from now.
The arugment is made about adult movies, and they are banned in a lot of places. It isn't equivalent to a police state.
Is it just me, or will 12-year-olds inevitably get a hold of the world's most popular video game?
Yeah, I'd love to live in a world where parents were responsible. I don't. So let's talk about real solutions. If games like GTA are causing real problems (not proven, as far as I know, I'm just postulating here), then the only real solution is a government ban.
I wonder what effect this has had on insolation from the sun? Given that a lot of people use past insolation as an explanation for ice ages and such, I wonder if larger events than this have had effects in the past.
I didn't enjoy the films. So can I nitpick?
Actually, I don't think that the director injected enough of his own ideas. He should have strayed farther from the books. And it would have been nice to see a director with more talent than money instead of vice-versa.
Creatine has been shown to improve IQ test scores...in vegetarians. Don't know the effects in us meat eaters. But it may not be too shabby.
Doing the exact opposite would be sane. This isn't.
Scroll down to the chart at the bottom.
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http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/PISA2003Highlight
Now, I'd like an apology.
Once you control for IQ (in this context it means race, of course)you find that the school systems of most developed countries are just about the same.
If we complained about every crap show on television perhaps we could get the whole lot switched off?
Sounds good to me. To all the people complaining about "censorship": it's television for God's sake. Censorship of television is about a zero on the list of my priorities. Non-political censorship of anything only rates as annoying.
They need to legalize pot and outlaw television.
I've never thought of it that way, but I think you might be on to something.
Still, there seems to be some evidence that vaginal intercourse with an HIV+ partner is far safer than anal intercourse with the same. There are more anatomical safeguards, evidently.
The fastest growing segment of new HIV patients is straight young Women...who happen to be mainly IV drug users. Another problem with interpreting the figures correctly is that AIDS among the high risk populations have reached saturation levels in European nations.
What you are repeating is something called a "scare statistic." If you're interested in how our media handles statistics like this, I'd suggest that you investigate the "Summer of the Shark" debacle that played out in 2001.
If you did know the stats, you could have avoided the ignorance posted above. If homosexual, you are orders of magnitude more likely to get AIDS at the same level of promiscuity as a heterosexual. If heterosexual, it's the figure is so small that it's nearly zero at whatever level of promisucity you can manage. There are plenty of STDs that heterosexuals should worry about. AIDS isn't one of them (outside Africa).
Hell, it's hard not be an IV drug user if you come from the that sort of community (or maybe have the wrong set of genetic triggers?). Hence the dark humor. Almost made me laugh my stitches out. Literally.
In Africa AIDS is epidemic in the heterosexual population. It is like this no where else in the world. A possible cause is African sexual practices which include more partners in general (I consider this theory to be unlikely), and another cause is less sanitary conditions and more disease (open sores and such) which make sexually contracted AIDS far more likely. It could also be genetic suceptibility or even different AIDS varients in Africa, but there seems to be no evidence for this.
Nowhere else in the world except Africa do you have a significant chance of contracting AIDS through heterosexual sex. Figure out why this is, and you'll win a Nobel.
The blood supply is much safer than it used to be. Health care professionals get varients of Hep all the time, but AIDS only in the rarest circumstances (only a few documented in the medical literature). Can't say much about contact sports, but in professional sports, where the numbers are easy to come by, it seems to be impossible to find a single instance of someone giving AIDS to a teammate (on the court anyway). Yeah, you can get AIDS in all the ways you mentioned, but as a statistical matter, be more worried about the random lightning strikes.