No, the fetus mostly makes its own. Y chromosome => testicles => testosterone => boy. No testosterone => girl. Fluctuating testosterone levels => interesting results. Like a brain that doesn't match the rest of the body.
Not all of SoCal is LA. There are quieter places with less pollution and a normal pace of life. Actually I think most of SoCal outside LA is quite normal, OC and San Diego for example.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be repealed. Of course it should. But as long as old folks with preconceived notions sit in the various congresses and senates it's not going to happen. Yes you can write your congresscritter, but as long as public perception on an issue hasn't changed you won't get a majority.
Who the fuck cares? This is one of those laws like "Thou shalt not smoke pot" or "Thou shalt not have sex before 18" (at least around here.) No victim. No harm. Not enforceable.
Amen. I keep thinking the whole child porn problem gets diluted very much by throwing pictures of naked teens (tha might not even be very sexual) into the same bin. Same thing with statutory rape and 17 year olds having sex they're not supposed to.
At least the children of the military-industrial complex managers who have to find new markets now that the administration doesn't want to fund Star Wars any more. The children in poor tropical countries? Now that would be a totally different subject. They would need cheap mass market solutions but where's the money in that?
It's been shown that languages are learned in a different way early in life than later. Native speakers use more and different brain systems to analyze language so they are more "fuzzy" in their understanding. They don't notice, ignore or gloss over minor mistakes that make non-native speakers/readers cringe. No surprise - after all they started learning the language(s) in the womb. English is my 3rd language and I could go crazy about the sloppy language by native English speakers here. That's the higher, more analytic/rational/objective brain functions speaking, as opposed to the more automatic/instinctive use of language.
Slashdot Mirror
I just love that name for a defense contractor. Would fit right in the Fallout universe.
It's actually very appropriate since they were behind the Orion project. They've been around for a while, since back when "atomic" was cool.
The "green gap" is just about to go away: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=dawn-of-miniature-green-lasers
No, the fetus mostly makes its own. Y chromosome => testicles => testosterone => boy. No testosterone => girl. Fluctuating testosterone levels => interesting results. Like a brain that doesn't match the rest of the body.
Not all of SoCal is LA. There are quieter places with less pollution and a normal pace of life. Actually I think most of SoCal outside LA is quite normal, OC and San Diego for example.
being gay isn't a personal preference, it's genetic.
Research indicates it more likely to be hormonal.
And the hormone levels in a fetus are determined how?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/in-protest-at-amazons-new-adult-policy
That one shouldn't be +5 Funny but +5 Insightful.
Amazon is censoring sex, the fucking pansies, while considering hate-speech OK for the wider audience.
That seems totally appropriate for the US of A.
Genius! That's the solution. MS should port Wine to Vista/Windows 7.
All it needs is some "anonymizing" P2P network to appear and it will go all the way back down the big snake to square 1.
I2P with I2PSnark (built in.) Fully anonymous, encrypted Bittorrent with acceptable performance.
I'm not saying it shouldn't be repealed. Of course it should. But as long as old folks with preconceived notions sit in the various congresses and senates it's not going to happen. Yes you can write your congresscritter, but as long as public perception on an issue hasn't changed you won't get a majority.
Who the fuck cares?
This is one of those laws like "Thou shalt not smoke pot" or "Thou shalt not have sex before 18" (at least around here.) No victim. No harm. Not enforceable.
Did they make a better desktop icon yet?
Why? The orange cone icon on the task bar clearly says "Caution: Porn playing!"
mplayerc was the best player even though it hasn't been maintained for over two years. Now development started again.
If you have a decent HVDC network the short term variability evens out. A new HVDC grid is a requirement for all new energy schemes.
No.
A decent weather system churns terawatts around.
We'll only tap surface winds and they're a very small fraction of total wind energy.
Amen. I keep thinking the whole child porn problem gets diluted very much by throwing pictures of naked teens (tha might not even be very sexual) into the same bin.
Same thing with statutory rape and 17 year olds having sex they're not supposed to.
Just aim the quark-gluon plasma at the sun once the LHC runs with lead atoms.
I wonder how many windows that broke.
No joke. Where I work we had a big UPS with diesels for the data center outside on a trailer because the building didn't have enough space.
It disappeared one weekend.
A Clusterfuck?
And acronym is an Americanism for abbreviation :)
In most other languages, acronym is only used for initialisms that are pronounced as a word like laser or radar.
At least the children of the military-industrial complex managers who have to find new markets now that the administration doesn't want to fund Star Wars any more.
The children in poor tropical countries? Now that would be a totally different subject. They would need cheap mass market solutions but where's the money in that?
Now I can't get an image of Tina Fey wielding lasers out of my head.
Thank you very much.
It's been shown that languages are learned in a different way early in life than later. Native speakers use more and different brain systems to analyze language so they are more "fuzzy" in their understanding. They don't notice, ignore or gloss over minor mistakes that make non-native speakers/readers cringe. No surprise - after all they started learning the language(s) in the womb.
English is my 3rd language and I could go crazy about the sloppy language by native English speakers here. That's the higher, more analytic/rational/objective brain functions speaking, as opposed to the more automatic/instinctive use of language.