Europe kills it's own, the US goes abroad to kill other people. I don't know which one is more civilized.

You realize all this backup technology will be obsolote the instant we invent time travel, don't you?

Sex with a sleeping person is very possible. If you can't imagine how, you're not imaginative enough. Or creepy enough, I guess. Some people are heavy sleepers. Other gets very drunk. Etc, etc.

The debate about rape and abuse here has focused more and more on whether you actually say yes to sex, not so much if you say no. It makes sense in many ways. It's not always possible to say no. Maybe you're too afraid to say no, or maybe you're sleeping and can't say no.

As for what Assange did, I'll leave that to the court to decide.

By your conspiratory logic, if you're Liu Xiaobo and want to get away with rape, it's pretty easy. Just blame it all on the Chinese government afterwards.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but why would men be limited this way? It would seem that it would rathe rbe two women who would limited to only daughters, because they only have X chromosomes. Men have both X and Y chromosomes. Can't they be combined as both XY and XX?

“Rational arguments don’t usually work on religious people. Otherwise there would be no religious people.”

Gregory House, M.D.

That wasn't the issue here. Assange isn't accused of not being able to stop en orgasm, but to stop having sex before that.

I am a man and I find it quite offensive that you think I lose all control as soon as a woman touches my dick.

It's a bad excuse for bad behavior. But then it's typical of misogynists to make vague references to biology as support for their negative attitudes towards women.

Yes, there seems to be a blog post about revenge from one of the women. Suspicious at most, but it still proves absolutely nothing.

That men are unable to stop having sex once they've started is the lamest excuse I've heard in a long time. You're just making excuses for men who don't care about consent. The misogyny continues.

You don't know that. It's all conspiracy theory-grade guessing, made to fit your own preconceived notions. If it isn't the feminist conspiracy, it's the american conspiracy, or maybe both. Until we get to hear both sides directly, noone but Assange and the women know.

Also, there are reports that when Assange had sex with the women and they asked him to stop, he didn't. That makes it non-consecual sex and a crime. No violence needed.

But thank you for revlealing yourself to be a total misogynist. Now we now.

I can't imagine a well-recieved Facebook update by now. Everything about Facebook seems to be bad, but at the same time every attempt to change it also seems to be bad. I wonder how much this is due to actual problems with Facebook, and how much it is due to people making themsleves impossible to please.

With people's limited attention span and focus, parceling everything out is a good thing. Otherwise you'd have important stories drowning each other. If the press makes money doing good work, I'm all for it.

You're changing brains all the time.

Your current brain isn't the one you were born with. On a cellular level, there are processes that continously rebuild your brain. The only thing that stays somewhat constant is the pattern of information and processing.

The only rational conclusion I see is that anything that has your brain pattern will be you, for all intents and purposes. There's no unique process that has to be present to make you you.

The convicted man in this case just pointed out your door is unlocked to everyone. It doesn't seem like a crime.

And an isolationist/nationalist will have to buy the rope to hang himself from the Chinese, due to the death of the domestic rope industry?