Loonies? Those are Canadian. Of course you don't have a problem with US pennies.
About 4% of the pennies I receive in change in Canada are American pennies. The proportion for higher denominations is much less since people probably consider them to be worth separating out.
Given that the human race will hopefully live in these conditions for a long time to come, having our gene pool strengthening the instinct to have children may be no bad thing, even if other desirable trits decline.
Eventually, our descendants will become too stupid to operate the technology which sustains them. Then, a fuse will blow somewhere...
Only first-world democracies can be trusted with such dangerous weapons. Tinpot dictatorships, not so much. It's amazing how many people make your statement without considering this.
Exit polls are excellent if you want to gauge the young-pretty-girl vote. You may even get a few fatties, too, if the pollsters can't find any young pretty girls to talk to.
I assure you that, despite being the same species, men and women have physiological differences. A very significant one in terms of behaviour, interests, and aptitudes is the different balance of sex hormones.
there is no obvious biological reason male and female brains should be that different, intellectually.
We're not talking about raw intellectual horse power here; we're talking about interests and aptitudes influencing people's career choices. And I tend to think that millions of years of evolution as hunter-gatherers might tend to specialize the interests and aptitudes of males and females differently, rooted on the fact that the females have the babies and the boobies. During those eras, females would spend most of their adult lives pregnant and nursing. The men were hunting, heavy-lifting, and warring. Each gender would specialize at these roles for the survival of the species.
I find it a little baffling how supposedly intelligent people can just dismiss m/billions of years of evolution and say that gender differences are socially imposed. I am a male with a fascination with female breasts and I am well aware that this fascination is not socially imposed—it is hard-wired into my brain. In fact, I would like to have a little more control over my hard-wired instincts. Additionally, I tend not to respond well to socially-imposed norms.
The problem is that gender is socially determined, and not an individually determined predisposition.
This statement is utterly false. Men and women are genetically predisposed to having different interests and aptitudes by billions of years of evolution and specialization.
Millions of years of evolution have differentiated the sexes of our species and predecessor species to maximize our survival. Logically, one could view having two different sexes as an inefficiency since only half of the population can gestate embryos, but the genetic diversity is crucial to the health of the population, and this is why so many species reproduce sexually.
However, given two sexes to begin with, an open evolutionary path for optimization is specialization. A couple made of people with mutually complementary specialized skill sets had a better chance of survival in our evolutionary history than two individuals with exactly the same skill sets. This explains the differing interests and aptitudes of males and females.
So who are these people who think that this situation is pathological and that they can undo millions of years of evolution with their good intentions? Any ultra-progressive parent who would force their daughter to play with legos instead of the dolls she wants to should look up the definition of the word "oppression".
but this definitely does NOT mean that everything is peaching keen in the treatment of sex by the workplace.
Actually, it does. You are both following the careers that you chose. This is also the effect that we observe in the larger scale. "Female librarians earn less than garbagemen, not because of discrimination, but because so many applicants compete for the safe, clean, comfortable, convenient, fulfilling jobs women prefer." Why do people think that there is something wrong with this? I wouldn't want to be a garbage man either.
Men and woman are paid the same. You should read a thorough study of the issue. Basically, men and women in the same career with the same qualifications and experience are generally paid the same. However, women tend to value family and pleasant working conditions and hours over raw earning power, so they tend to bring home less bacon, in absolute terms, around 75 cents on the dollar. Many people see this as some sort of a problem, but the only way to change it is to change women's fundamental priorities. I'm not convinced that any brain-washing program will ever accomplish this.
In short, the answer to the question "Why do men earn more?" is "because they deserve to".
No matter how different they might be, you MUST treat them as equal... using that preconceived difference to change how you treat any individual absolutely is... Going out of your way to promote workplace diversity isn't bad either... does it hurt to give a little plus to someone who's nationality, race or gender is underrepresented in your group?
Is anyone else getting a cognitive-dissonance headache?
I am sorry to inform you that there is no such thing as reverse discrimination. There is only forward discrimination—favoring one group of people over another based on the verboten grounds. And discrimination happens to be illegal.
IF Novell gets to foreclose on SCO for none payment and gets back all the rights for Unix they could turn the Unix code base over too the FOSS community.
Microsoft purchased Novell's soul to prevent this from happening.
If it comes with a 3d scanner, kiss Barbie Good-Bye. Mattel becomes the next Sony.
They'll need to incorporate a means to paint the outside of the action figure into the printer. On the plus side, you can make Barbie as anatomically correct or exaggerated as you wish.
I hereby announce I will take on the project of solving world hunger. Please give me a giant no-strings-attached donation as a "thank you" for my initiative. I will then make very little progress toward my goal before finally abandoning it as too difficult.
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I'm not so sure about this. Perhaps you mean that a proper patent is one made in an area where you have no expert knowledge.
About 4% of the pennies I receive in change in Canada are American pennies. The proportion for higher denominations is much less since people probably consider them to be worth separating out.
To me, the greenback looks like it came straight out of a 1800's Monopoly game.
Eventually, our descendants will become too stupid to operate the technology which sustains them. Then, a fuse will blow somewhere...
"Is there a lawyer in the house? -=}BLAM{=- Any more?"
Well, you need to be over 53 years old to rent ultraporn.
Only first-world democracies can be trusted with such dangerous weapons. Tinpot dictatorships, not so much. It's amazing how many people make your statement without considering this.
Indeed, a much larger part of a broadcast meteorologist's "product" is how pretty they are.
It does if you are equally as savage as they are and you have enormously more resources than they do.
Exit polls are excellent if you want to gauge the young-pretty-girl vote. You may even get a few fatties, too, if the pollsters can't find any young pretty girls to talk to.
I assure you that, despite being the same species, men and women have physiological differences. A very significant one in terms of behaviour, interests, and aptitudes is the different balance of sex hormones.
We're not talking about raw intellectual horse power here; we're talking about interests and aptitudes influencing people's career choices. And I tend to think that millions of years of evolution as hunter-gatherers might tend to specialize the interests and aptitudes of males and females differently, rooted on the fact that the females have the babies and the boobies. During those eras, females would spend most of their adult lives pregnant and nursing. The men were hunting, heavy-lifting, and warring. Each gender would specialize at these roles for the survival of the species.
I find it a little baffling how supposedly intelligent people can just dismiss m/billions of years of evolution and say that gender differences are socially imposed. I am a male with a fascination with female breasts and I am well aware that this fascination is not socially imposed—it is hard-wired into my brain. In fact, I would like to have a little more control over my hard-wired instincts. Additionally, I tend not to respond well to socially-imposed norms.
Millions of years of evolution have differentiated the sexes of our species and predecessor species to maximize our survival. Logically, one could view having two different sexes as an inefficiency since only half of the population can gestate embryos, but the genetic diversity is crucial to the health of the population, and this is why so many species reproduce sexually.
However, given two sexes to begin with, an open evolutionary path for optimization is specialization. A couple made of people with mutually complementary specialized skill sets had a better chance of survival in our evolutionary history than two individuals with exactly the same skill sets. This explains the differing interests and aptitudes of males and females.
So who are these people who think that this situation is pathological and that they can undo millions of years of evolution with their good intentions? Any ultra-progressive parent who would force their daughter to play with legos instead of the dolls she wants to should look up the definition of the word "oppression".
Actually, it does. You are both following the careers that you chose. This is also the effect that we observe in the larger scale. "Female librarians earn less than garbagemen, not because of discrimination, but because so many applicants compete for the safe, clean, comfortable, convenient, fulfilling jobs women prefer." Why do people think that there is something wrong with this? I wouldn't want to be a garbage man either.
Men and woman are paid the same. You should read a thorough study of the issue. Basically, men and women in the same career with the same qualifications and experience are generally paid the same. However, women tend to value family and pleasant working conditions and hours over raw earning power, so they tend to bring home less bacon, in absolute terms, around 75 cents on the dollar. Many people see this as some sort of a problem, but the only way to change it is to change women's fundamental priorities. I'm not convinced that any brain-washing program will ever accomplish this.
In short, the answer to the question "Why do men earn more?" is "because they deserve to".
Is anyone else getting a cognitive-dissonance headache?
I am sorry to inform you that there is no such thing as reverse discrimination. There is only forward discrimination—favoring one group of people over another based on the verboten grounds. And discrimination happens to be illegal.
Looks like there is a chink in his armour—one of his recent comments only got a 4 Interesting. Someone had better fix this quickly!
Microsoft purchased Novell's soul to prevent this from happening.
It's time for SCO's lawyers to start facing some contempt-of-court charges for their shenanigans.
It's a good thing they're going to increase the speed of light in 2208.
At infinity:1 it's sensible to bet a buck that horse might spontaneously come back to life and win the race.
They'll need to incorporate a means to paint the outside of the action figure into the printer. On the plus side, you can make Barbie as anatomically correct or exaggerated as you wish.
The U.N. could take a lesson from your honesty.
I would expect to see Microsoft funneling more money to Novell and Novell launching lawsuits against Linux.