Sure its derogatory. Much the same as New Yorker or Scotsman. WTF?

If they do this right it could be an awesome movie, but I'm afraid they will do all the stupid things Hollywood always does when they "adapt" a book for a movie. Like dumb it down, oversimplify the plot and leave out key plot elements, throw in lots of action scenes that weren't originally in the story and then tack on a fake happy ending for Mike,

Inconceivable!

Well, at least it ruled for a while. My kids aren't home much, (went to Uni) I couldn't even give the peripherals away last year.
 
But, it got me to actually start learning to play a real guitar. What Rock band gave you, at times, was the feeling of "Rocking Out". The feeling of somehow being in the music, connected to it somehow, and that is all kinds of awesome.

I was visiting the USA (California is nice this time of year) last week and I had to sign little pieces of paper with my name to buy things with my credit card. Apparently none of the stores and restaurants have chip and pin terminals. You can't prevent even the most basic fraud if any guy with a card reader can make a copy of your magstripe and clone your card. What's worse, in the restaurant they actually walked off with my card, instead of bringing a wireless terminal to my table for me to enter my PIN. You good people are about 5 years behind the times. WTF happened?

Used to drive an old 67 Mustang. Pretty car but a piece of early 60s crap mechanically. The rear drum brakes had grooves worn in the backing plates over the years such that a sudden sharp application of the brakes would cause them to lock up hard.
 
  It was very useful for distracted pedestrians; you would slow down gradually, and if they still didn't notice hey were wandering out in front of a car, I would twitch the steering wheel left, whap the brake pedal hard, the back wheels would lock up, and the car would do a screeching starsky and hutch fishtail stop. Nothing scares the crap out of a pedestrian like a car skidding sideways to a stop 3 feet from them. (Before anyone freaks out, I could do this at about 10 mph, so mr. pedestrian was never in any danger).

My two daughters both had their own computers by the time they were about 10 or 12. They had them in their bedrooms. Other parents we talked to were completely freaked out. "Oh my God, we would never let Tiffany have a computer in her bedroom." Does Tiffany have a smartphone? Well of course. Where does she keep it? In her bedroom. WTF?? It just didn't occur to them that all the reasons they had for not letting their kids have a computer in their bedrooms were equally applicable to smartphones.

"Aging person has lots of medications but frequently forgets to take them or can't remember if they did"
 
My neighbor the pharmacist does a brisk trade in custom blister packs for seniors. They get all their meds for a week on a big card, in a grid, Monday to Sunday, Morning, Noon, Dinner, Bedtime. They can see what to to take, when to take it, and see if they forgot to take any. My little imagination is having trouble figuring out a home automation solution to this problem that would be better than the blister pack.

"La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain."

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
 
Anatole France, 1894

The cognitive dissonance in the posts today is amazing. (A lot of plain old stupid too).
 
There are cameras in every bar and restaurant filming you all the time. But nobody will acknowledge this fact. If they did, they would have to a) accept that they are ok with being filmed and that they are being total hypocrites about google glass, b) decide that it is not ok and not go to bars and restaurants any more.
 
The guy with the Google glass may or may not be filmiing you. The restaurant certainly is, and every person in the the place has a smart phone with a camera. If I hold my phone up at face height am I taking a selfie or filming you?
 
But we all hate to accept uncomfortable truths about ourselves, so we will deflect our mental stress on someone else. Lets de-humanize them first. They are not a person with smart glasses, they are a "Glasshole", and therefore we can punch them. You guys make me sick sometimes.

Muscle doesn't turn to fat. Also, since you are trotting out myths from 30 years ago, sit-ups wont get rid of your gut, and there is no such thing as "toning".

This was 20 years ago. Maybe the stereotypes have changed some. I know another male nurse, who is gay, who said he got hit on all the time by the women nurses. Anecdotes...

I spent a bit of time in hospitals when I was younger. The best (subjectively) nurse I had was a male. He made a miserable experience slightly better. He told me he got some hassles from his (mostly female) professors but none at all from fellow students. His biggest dilemma with his fellow female classmates was they all automatically assumed he was gay (he wasn't) and never took him seriously when he asked them out.

"how little we pay our teachers" - Why would you pay teachers 1 cent more if you can hire enough teachers at the current offered salary. Nobody ever goes into a grocery store, says to himself "Milk is really important, and undervalued" and offers to pay a dollar more than the sticker price.
 
  Right now we have declining enrollment in most of our local schools, older teachers staying on longer because their 401k got hammered in 2008 and new teachers are waiting years just to get on an on call list for substitute teachers. They will be many more years away from a full time job. At the same time our universities are cranking out about 30% more new teachers per year than are retiring or leaving teaching.

Yes! You nailed it.
 
I have made this same comment a few times, and have never seen an answer that made sense to me. Fifty or sixty years ago women were excluded from most professions such as law, medicine, engineering. Today medicine and law are close to 50% women, but engineering is maybe 10% or less. What sorts of barriers keep women out of engineering that don't also exist in law or medicine.