Yes, there are girl fans of Sci-Fi out there (I'm one of them). But the point remains that the fan base is still more skewed in favor of male preference. It has to do with the historically dominant male role in science and conflict situations as well as how boys and girls are inherently raised differently (I got to find out I was raised with a lot of "boy" traits recently that resulted from being first born. I was also brought up on Star Trek TOS).
Being female, when you hang out with "the guys" all your life, you don't really notice that a lot of other people notice you are female. I went to Baycon last year and attended a star wars panel. I made some comment about the ridiculous shot of Natalie Portman's heaving breasts and one of the (all male) panel members just asked if I would say "heaving breasts" again.. and there was much male cheering. It's things like that that will bring your focus back around.
I get flack a lot from some of my democratic friends for saying that I am in support of the NRA. They auto-assumed I was republican and pro-everyone having a gun.
The NRA is just as bad as any religious group. It stands for the most part for good things, but some in the group take it to extremes and some are zealots. Condeming them is like condeming all christians as descendants from Salem.
I am pro gun responsibility and don't see that coming from any group other than the NRA. I was *very* upset during a musical I attended where they had several guns pointed toward the audience. And I could plainly see that some of the safeties were off. That pissed me off.
I have the same problem. My domain (no, I don't own Juno) is listed in exactly two entries: google and arin.
I have gotten spam from random addresses (as I knew would eventually happen) so that I now bounce them. I could send them to dev\null but I want them to stop sending stuff in the first place.
Now what has pissed me off in the last week is that a spammer is forging an email address using my domain name. So I've started getting bounces from the recipients. I've never used that addrss for anything so it isn't someone that either scraped it or is retaliating for a spam report. I know IBM actually had a problem with a spammer sending out a forged address (I've got the connections to check and directly find the sender if they were internal).
My address listed as the owner of the domain also gets spam where I haven't used that email except to list as the registrant. But that still doesn't come close to the previous paragraph in pissing me off.
And ironically enough, there was an ad under the article for hosting domains and unlimited email addresses for 6.95 per month.
That's 36 addresses (since you get 2.25 for 9) per month and you're covered. I can just see the child labor now where the class of the student who turns in the script to execute above plot first wins a fabulous pizza party.
I'd rather have a holiday rather than be drunk as my Irish inheritance:) As it stands, we're both in work for the day and then stuck in class until 9. Damn those work continuing education courses!;)
That would have rocked! (I should have included elementary "equivalent". sorry. You'd think a girl who'd been dating a guy from Ireland for three years would have learned by now.)
We once had the govenor speak at a school I attended. I wonder now if the school got kick backs as it seemed to be a re-election speech as opposed to a "preparing young minds for the future" speech.
You mean you didn't watch those shows that were sponsored by the power and oil companies when you were in elementary school? There was a big advertisment at the beginning and end of each that mentioned the company and the "grant".
In fact, one of my teachers would ask us questions such as "What interest would company A have in sponsoring this program?"
There are diseases out there that become more severe the longer they are left untreated. Hyperthyroidism is one (where your thyroid puts out metabolism hormones despite the feedback system that is telling your system to stop). My doctor explained what it does to your metabolism to be like cruise control on a gas pedal that once it's turned on, it slowly increases the speed until you're at risk of heart attack due to your metabolism. It takes longer time and more drugs to bring it back down to normal levels the longer it is left untreated.
I used to be one of those people who would drink diet sodas in great amounts (I drink a lot. I drink at least 3 ltrs of fluids per day.. now imagine if 3/4 was diet soda). Then I started to get migraines which pretty much left me immobile while under the effects (I breathe: it hurts). Through trial and error, I realized I'd developed a sensitivity to aspartame and now can't even chew a stick of gum without getting a migraine.
It's always fun to find out what foods contain aspartame by whether I get a migraine after eating them.
Before, my dad would tell me about the holes in rat brains that were fed aspartame. I even read studies done by the University of Washington about spacial awareness before and after aspartame intake (which showed that rats could not find a platform and drowned in a water tank after injesting the aspartame). I figured that I was lucky in that I didn't have any symptoms...
I am aware of at least two other people who are aspartame sensitive (even more so than I am). It is doing things to people and there *were* very shady things going on to get it past the FDA.
Forget entering high school. You're focused enough right now that you can take on college and that choice is being given to you now. Yes, you'll miss out on meeting some really cool people, lots of hypocrits, and some life experiences, but you'll be accepted to medical school with the grades you'll earn now instead of the ones you earn with the distractions you pick up in HS. You'll have more flexibility to do what you want in the future.
Before age 3, I lived in a different house and my sister had not been born yet. I have clear memories of waking up with daylight shining through the window while parents were asleep, calling out to them, and then deciding they were asleep and to go back to sleep myself. I remember glueing my fingers together because none of my dolls had fingers. I remeber mom sitting me besider her as she played piano. And I can draw the rooms of the old house VERY specifically but for some reason, they end up mirror image often.
Did a much better job? I thought the acting was abismal in the second one.
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I disagree that both Beowulf and Chaucer are difficult to read in the original language (I devoured both). However, one of my languages learned was German which made some of it very clear. Other than that, why not imagine 1337 writing? Same type of translation in your head.
I don't know about you, but in all seriousness I'd rather risk the chance that someone sees some irrelvant data of mine than to see another plane crash into one of our skyscrapers.
Insert obligatory you don't deserve freedom quote.
Honestly, how many people on Slashdot really have something to hide? I know that its disconcerting to know that you may experience an invasion of privacy but most of us are too inconsequential for the government to bother with.
It is my freedom of privacy right. I can hide the fact that I have 28 spoons in the silverware drawer. If I don't want you to know that fact, that's your tough luck. And I certainly don't want my taxes spent on someone trying to find out how many spoons I have in my possession.
I'm sure adequate safeguards could be imposed to prevent most of these abuses.
Then you're not paying attention or at least not reading articles on slashdot. What safeguard is there from Fat Wallet from getting the supoena from Wallmart due to the DMCA? What safeguard is there for the librarians who are/have been coerced into giving up patron data and prohibited BY LAW from telling anyone they gave up the records?
They say, what with modern migration and transportation and all, that some day everybody will be a mix of various proportions of every ethnic group and racial type.
Most happas I've seen (and I'm one) have had the best of both worlds in looks. My sister and I didn't seem to get the best in health genes, however (she has arthritic psoriasis and I have hyperthyroidism bad enough to kill me any minute I don't take my meds).
The acting is worse. The actors look like they are standing around the set uncertain of how their characters should act. Name one thing that "Ron Glass" character has done- one thing! Nothing, absolutely nothing. Name one thing the wacky girl has done - one thing! Nothing - Name one thing the whore has done - etc. The characters do nothing, they are boring and not at all engaging,
One (very memorable) thing Kaylee's done (the female engineer): did it with the previous engineer by firefly's main engine. Gotta give a girl credit for picking her place and objects of turn on;).
One thing psychic girl's done: "corrected" the inconsistencies in the preacher's bible.
There are several things that each character has done. I'm not sure exactly how few episodes you watched to think otherwise. And exactly how many episodes have even been released? There's plenty of time for character development and I personally don't like everything packed into the first season while the rest contain the drivel of any other drama/relationship show.
There appear to be several naked stories on CNN: university porn videos, something about keeping your clothes on... I stopped reading CNN long ago because it annoyed me too much that a professional news website couldn't run themselves through a spell checker.
I take it you are referring to the Alaska Airlines frequent flier credit card. It isn't issued by the airline, its' issued by a bank - Bank of America to be specific.
Yes, I should have been more specific on that it is issued by B of A. However, I was able to get it through Alaska Airlines with no problem. Previous attempts at obtaining a credit card directly from B of A were rejected until using a secure line of credit (meaning they held on to $2k of my money for a $2k credit line).
To be fair that B of A sucks on both sides (I moved states and all of a sudden, they want fees or massive minimum deposits on my accounts... ridiculous), Alaska Airlines' version of B of A credit card rejected my SO because he's not a US citizen.
I don't have a house. Alaska was happy enough to give me a card with limit of $10K.
Why would one need that much? Well, I have $600 in credit card bills per month (and put the car insurance on it as wel). And then a plane ticket can cost around $1200 for an over-seas trip. That leaves little room if the limit was around $2000 which was some of my earlier cards.
Did I mention that Alaska gives me miles for my spending and that I have enough for a round trip to Europe after only a year and a half?:) And two first class upgrades.
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The only time you have multiple queens is when they are immature larval stages, the Princess kills off her compentition, finds herself a nice young hunk of a male, gets pregnant then flies off to start her own colony.
I'm guessing you haven't lived in California where they are all just one big huge colony. I had the garbage bin under my sink infested once. I counted around 5 queens. They *were* huge compared to the rest of the thousands of worker ants. Granted, they didn't move that much (compared to the workers). They will not attack each other if you shovel one colony onto another.
The reason last year was more of a once in a lifetime is because this year there's a full moon. Last year there was no moon and thus far better viewing conditions.
Was I the only person who thought that the scene with Malfoy in the Quidditch match was like the Death Star trench scene in Star Wars?
From the number of responses (and myself included), no, you weren't.:) Actually, during that scene, I was rather worried about the danger the film portrayed these kids to be in. It seemed much more threatening than in the book. I kept thinking, "One of these kids is going to get smacked hard by a beam or the bludger and that is not going to be played off lightly..."
The music also added to the Star Wars effect.
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Now, unless Gateway/Juno led the customer to believe that they would be making a local call, which I doubt to be the case -- then this is the customer's fault.
I had a problem with Juno when first moving to CA. I called the San Jose number off of their connection list. It turned out that the number was NOT really in San Jose and I was charged >$200 in long distance fees (CA has "areas" outside a 12 mile radius of your residence that they will toll you locally for).
After much arguing with Juno that it was their fault (bad numbers list which they were changing practically every two weeks), they sent me a check after I provided my phone bills and said they would pay it off this once. It just really pissed me off from the beginning that they were always changing their software and numbers and indeed caused the long distance charges and that from then on, I would have to look up any time Juno changed the number in a prefix check (which was not provided at the time by the local phone company either) to make sure I was not incurring toll charges. And since I had recently moved to CA from WA (where you will not be allowed to dial long distance or a number that will be charged without first dialing a 1) I had not been informed by anyone that you could make phone calls and be charged automatically becaues they were over 12 miles away from you.
Of course, there is some correlation with intelligence. But then we'd have to define what intelligence is (which is very much open to debate).
Actually, there is correlation between previous and future peformance on standardized tests. Many medical schools only grade their students via bubble test because there exists a correlation over the years between bubble test scores and national certification test scores (I've forgotten the exact name of the national test that every US medical student must take).
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Yes, there are girl fans of Sci-Fi out there (I'm one of them). But the point remains that the fan base is still more skewed in favor of male preference. It has to do with the historically dominant male role in science and conflict situations as well as how boys and girls are inherently raised differently (I got to find out I was raised with a lot of "boy" traits recently that resulted from being first born. I was also brought up on Star Trek TOS).
Being female, when you hang out with "the guys" all your life, you don't really notice that a lot of other people notice you are female. I went to Baycon last year and attended a star wars panel. I made some comment about the ridiculous shot of Natalie Portman's heaving breasts and one of the (all male) panel members just asked if I would say "heaving breasts" again.. and there was much male cheering. It's things like that that will bring your focus back around.
I get to go to Norwescon this weekend!!!
I get flack a lot from some of my democratic friends for saying that I am in support of the NRA. They auto-assumed I was republican and pro-everyone having a gun.
The NRA is just as bad as any religious group. It stands for the most part for good things, but some in the group take it to extremes and some are zealots. Condeming them is like condeming all christians as descendants from Salem.
I am pro gun responsibility and don't see that coming from any group other than the NRA. I was *very* upset during a musical I attended where they had several guns pointed toward the audience. And I could plainly see that some of the safeties were off. That pissed me off.
I have the same problem. My domain (no, I don't own Juno) is listed in exactly two entries: google and arin.
I have gotten spam from random addresses (as I knew would eventually happen) so that I now bounce them. I could send them to dev\null but I want them to stop sending stuff in the first place.
Now what has pissed me off in the last week is that a spammer is forging an email address using my domain name. So I've started getting bounces from the recipients. I've never used that addrss for anything so it isn't someone that either scraped it or is retaliating for a spam report. I know IBM actually had a problem with a spammer sending out a forged address (I've got the connections to check and directly find the sender if they were internal).
My address listed as the owner of the domain also gets spam where I haven't used that email except to list as the registrant. But that still doesn't come close to the previous paragraph in pissing me off.
And ironically enough, there was an ad under the article for hosting domains and unlimited email addresses for 6.95 per month.
That's 36 addresses (since you get 2.25 for 9) per month and you're covered. I can just see the child labor now where the class of the student who turns in the script to execute above plot first wins a fabulous pizza party.
I'd rather have a holiday rather than be drunk as my Irish inheritance :) As it stands, we're both in work for the day and then stuck in class until 9. Damn those work continuing education courses! ;)
That would have rocked! (I should have included elementary "equivalent". sorry. You'd think a girl who'd been dating a guy from Ireland for three years would have learned by now.)
We once had the govenor speak at a school I attended. I wonder now if the school got kick backs as it seemed to be a re-election speech as opposed to a "preparing young minds for the future" speech.
You mean you didn't watch those shows that were sponsored by the power and oil companies when you were in elementary school? There was a big advertisment at the beginning and end of each that mentioned the company and the "grant".
In fact, one of my teachers would ask us questions such as "What interest would company A have in sponsoring this program?"
There are diseases out there that become more severe the longer they are left untreated. Hyperthyroidism is one (where your thyroid puts out metabolism hormones despite the feedback system that is telling your system to stop). My doctor explained what it does to your metabolism to be like cruise control on a gas pedal that once it's turned on, it slowly increases the speed until you're at risk of heart attack due to your metabolism. It takes longer time and more drugs to bring it back down to normal levels the longer it is left untreated.
Malignant cancer is another.
I used to be one of those people who would drink diet sodas in great amounts (I drink a lot. I drink at least 3 ltrs of fluids per day.. now imagine if 3/4 was diet soda). Then I started to get migraines which pretty much left me immobile while under the effects (I breathe: it hurts). Through trial and error, I realized I'd developed a sensitivity to aspartame and now can't even chew a stick of gum without getting a migraine.
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It's always fun to find out what foods contain aspartame by whether I get a migraine after eating them
Before, my dad would tell me about the holes in rat brains that were fed aspartame. I even read studies done by the University of Washington about spacial awareness before and after aspartame intake (which showed that rats could not find a platform and drowned in a water tank after injesting the aspartame). I figured that I was lucky in that I didn't have any symptoms...
I am aware of at least two other people who are aspartame sensitive (even more so than I am). It is doing things to people and there *were* very shady things going on to get it past the FDA.
I would have said something along the same lines:
Forget entering high school. You're focused enough right now that you can take on college and that choice is being given to you now. Yes, you'll miss out on meeting some really cool people, lots of hypocrits, and some life experiences, but you'll be accepted to medical school with the grades you'll earn now instead of the ones you earn with the distractions you pick up in HS. You'll have more flexibility to do what you want in the future.
The continuation of this is "Cornbread are square. " :)
Before age 3, I lived in a different house and my sister had not been born yet. I have clear memories of waking up with daylight shining through the window while parents were asleep, calling out to them, and then deciding they were asleep and to go back to sleep myself. I remember glueing my fingers together because none of my dolls had fingers. I remeber mom sitting me besider her as she played piano. And I can draw the rooms of the old house VERY specifically but for some reason, they end up mirror image often.
Did a much better job? I thought the acting was abismal in the second one.
I disagree that both Beowulf and Chaucer are difficult to read in the original language (I devoured both). However, one of my languages learned was German which made some of it very clear. Other than that, why not imagine 1337 writing? Same type of translation in your head.
I don't know about you, but in all seriousness I'd rather risk the chance that someone sees some irrelvant data of mine than to see another plane crash into one of our skyscrapers.
Insert obligatory you don't deserve freedom quote.
Honestly, how many people on Slashdot really have something to hide? I know that its disconcerting to know that you may experience an invasion of privacy but most of us are too inconsequential for the government to bother with.
It is my freedom of privacy right. I can hide the fact that I have 28 spoons in the silverware drawer. If I don't want you to know that fact, that's your tough luck. And I certainly don't want my taxes spent on someone trying to find out how many spoons I have in my possession.
I'm sure adequate safeguards could be imposed to prevent most of these abuses.
Then you're not paying attention or at least not reading articles on slashdot. What safeguard is there from Fat Wallet from getting the supoena from Wallmart due to the DMCA? What safeguard is there for the librarians who are/have been coerced into giving up patron data and prohibited BY LAW from telling anyone they gave up the records?
They say, what with modern migration and transportation and all, that some day everybody will be a mix of various proportions of every ethnic group and racial type.
Most happas I've seen (and I'm one) have had the best of both worlds in looks. My sister and I didn't seem to get the best in health genes, however (she has arthritic psoriasis and I have hyperthyroidism bad enough to kill me any minute I don't take my meds).
The acting is worse. The actors look like they are standing around the set uncertain of how their characters should act. Name one thing that "Ron Glass" character has done- one thing! Nothing, absolutely nothing. Name one thing the wacky girl has done - one thing! Nothing - Name one thing the whore has done - etc. The characters do nothing, they are boring and not at all engaging,
;).
One (very memorable) thing Kaylee's done (the female engineer): did it with the previous engineer by firefly's main engine. Gotta give a girl credit for picking her place and objects of turn on
One thing psychic girl's done: "corrected" the inconsistencies in the preacher's bible.
There are several things that each character has done. I'm not sure exactly how few episodes you watched to think otherwise. And exactly how many episodes have even been released? There's plenty of time for character development and I personally don't like everything packed into the first season while the rest contain the drivel of any other drama/relationship show.
There appear to be several naked stories on CNN: university porn videos, something about keeping your clothes on... I stopped reading CNN long ago because it annoyed me too much that a professional news website couldn't run themselves through a spell checker.
I take it you are referring to the Alaska Airlines frequent flier credit card. It isn't issued by the airline, its' issued by a bank - Bank of America to be specific.
Yes, I should have been more specific on that it is issued by B of A. However, I was able to get it through Alaska Airlines with no problem. Previous attempts at obtaining a credit card directly from B of A were rejected until using a secure line of credit (meaning they held on to $2k of my money for a $2k credit line).
To be fair that B of A sucks on both sides (I moved states and all of a sudden, they want fees or massive minimum deposits on my accounts... ridiculous), Alaska Airlines' version of B of A credit card rejected my SO because he's not a US citizen.
I don't have a house. Alaska was happy enough to give me a card with limit of $10K.
:) And two first class upgrades.
Why would one need that much? Well, I have $600 in credit card bills per month (and put the car insurance on it as wel). And then a plane ticket can cost around $1200 for an over-seas trip. That leaves little room if the limit was around $2000 which was some of my earlier cards.
Did I mention that Alaska gives me miles for my spending and that I have enough for a round trip to Europe after only a year and a half?
The only time you have multiple queens is when they are immature larval stages, the Princess kills off her compentition, finds herself a nice young hunk of a male, gets pregnant then flies off to start her own colony.
I'm guessing you haven't lived in California where they are all just one big huge colony. I had the garbage bin under my sink infested once. I counted around 5 queens. They *were* huge compared to the rest of the thousands of worker ants. Granted, they didn't move that much (compared to the workers). They will not attack each other if you shovel one colony onto another.
The reason last year was more of a once in a lifetime is because this year there's a full moon. Last year there was no moon and thus far better viewing conditions.
Was I the only person who thought that the scene with Malfoy in the Quidditch match was like the Death Star trench scene in Star Wars?
:) Actually, during that scene, I was rather worried about the danger the film portrayed these kids to be in. It seemed much more threatening than in the book. I kept thinking, "One of these kids is going to get smacked hard by a beam or the bludger and that is not going to be played off lightly..."
From the number of responses (and myself included), no, you weren't.
The music also added to the Star Wars effect.
Now, unless Gateway/Juno led the customer to believe that they would be making a local call, which I doubt to be the case -- then this is the customer's fault.
I had a problem with Juno when first moving to CA. I called the San Jose number off of their connection list. It turned out that the number was NOT really in San Jose and I was charged >$200 in long distance fees (CA has "areas" outside a 12 mile radius of your residence that they will toll you locally for).
After much arguing with Juno that it was their fault (bad numbers list which they were changing practically every two weeks), they sent me a check after I provided my phone bills and said they would pay it off this once. It just really pissed me off from the beginning that they were always changing their software and numbers and indeed caused the long distance charges and that from then on, I would have to look up any time Juno changed the number in a prefix check (which was not provided at the time by the local phone company either) to make sure I was not incurring toll charges. And since I had recently moved to CA from WA (where you will not be allowed to dial long distance or a number that will be charged without first dialing a 1) I had not been informed by anyone that you could make phone calls and be charged automatically becaues they were over 12 miles away from you.
Of course, there is some correlation with intelligence. But then we'd have to define what intelligence is (which is very much open to debate).
Actually, there is correlation between previous and future peformance on standardized tests. Many medical schools only grade their students via bubble test because there exists a correlation over the years between bubble test scores and national certification test scores (I've forgotten the exact name of the national test that every US medical student must take).