More breaking news: such criticisms of Judaism are an excellent *definition* of antisemitism.

Then again, I should expect nothing else from a person whose handle is also the name of an hate group.

'Irrational dogma...' 'absolute bulllshit...' 'nothing but evil.'

How does the post above get modded as anything other than antisemitic flamebait?

Isn't this how we wound up w/'All your base are belong to us?'

Sounds good to me. Now, where did I leave that cell phone...

As I tell my wife virtually every day, never ascribe to anything else that which can be ascribed to human stupidity.

It does seem as if the melting of Antarctic ice is what revealed the long-lost plane. Global warming, anyone?

I always wanted to work in a deli, just so a woman would come in and ask me to give her some tongue. Then I could tell her, "sorry, I don't get off until 5:00!" Then she'd tell me "I don't get off at all, that's why I'm looking to buy some tongue!"

Thank you very much; I'm here all week. Try the veal.

I'm a huge fan of HSR, and would love to see it debut in the US (by international standards, Acela is strictly mid-speed). But a few things need to be noted:

1) You refer to our current rail network is 'aging.' That's putting it mildly. I read once that, the only reason that Amtrak can run Acela on the northeast corridor (NEC) is that the Pennsylvania Railroad did a major system upgrade... in the 1930s. On one hand, that tells you what a good job the PRR did; it's not for nothing that they were referred to as 'the World's Standard Railroad.' On the other hand, it also illustrates how aged- not aging, but already aged- our rail network is.

2) Even at the height of the US rail industry, passengers were always a loss-leader for freight. I was told by an old railman that the PRR actually hired people to burn down passenger stations so that the railroad could justify ending passenger service on that line. The only reason that major railroads carried passengers was that the Federal Railroad Administration required them to, as part of their license to carry freight (the real money maker).

In short, if true HSR's ever going to make an appearance in the US, it will likely be in the context of passenger trains running on upgraded freight lines. Now, if we upgrade the freight lines, that can have a huge impact on the US. Rail moves freight much faster, and at a far lower cost, than moving it via truck, and, right now, there are far too many choke points on the US rail network. Upgrade the rail network to handle more freight more efficiently, and you may just get HSR for passengers as a side benefit.

It always strikes me that, just as the SAT is primarily a good test of how well you will take the SAT, the IQ test is primarily a test of how well you do on the IQ test. In other words, don't read too much into it.

I always disliked the idea of what I term 'Big I' Intelligence; the notion that a single measurement can capture an individual's total mental capacity. I'm much more fond of Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences). To broadly summarize, the idea is that a person may be better in one thing than another; a genius in math, for instance, but mediocre at writing. Or a physical genius- Michael Jordan, for instance- but not terribly good at science. And so forth.

To apply it to TFA, the average woman's particular set of intelligences are likely to be different from those of the average man. This is not meant as an insult, and there are surely exceptions (my Aunt Sharon is as brilliant a science + math teacher as I've ever known). As a society, we tend to place more value on those intelligences which tend to be more sterotypically male, while de-emphasizing those which are sterotypically female.

As usual, YMMVW.

My official title is IT Support. After I accepted the job, I promptly took one card, added 'and Time Lord' to it, and stuck it on my door. If people choose to call me their IT Time Lord, I won't complain. Most important, though, is that they continue to call me employed. As long as they call me that, I'll accept Software Simian, Tech Turtle, Computer Crank, or any other term you choose.

As I watched the Google Chrome OS rollout, it occurred to me that, when it comes down to it, Chrome isn't so much a full OS as it is a program loader, a la DOS. As the presenter explained, most of what an OS does Chrome *won't* do- no scheduler, no other apps, barely a file system, etc. What it will do is load a Web browser, and then get out of the way. That strikes me as rather similar to the experience I had back in the day using SLIPNot to simulate a graphical browser over a SLIP connection.

This isn't a criticism; far from it. It may just be that precisely what netbooks need is a program loader to start a Web browser + then get out of the way, rather than a full-fledged OS to tax their limited- by design- resources.

Now, if I could just find a way to load SLIPNot on my Eee...

I, for one, welcome our cybernetic feline overlords.

I use Crunchbang (aka #!) on my Eee, both for its performance + for its name being a perfect description of my, shall we say, checkered relationship w/technology.

Agreed, that is a pity. I bought a refurbed Eee 900 a few months back specifically b/c of its being a linux box. Now, I get the pure geek fun of being able to test various distros via ISOs + UNetBootIn, w/no licensing issues whatsoever.

I am curious, though, to see how much Asus embraces Google Chrome OS; it seems as if they may do so enthusiastically. Chrome OS, if it's all it's cut out to be, would be perfect for an Eee, making it effectively into a mobile thin client. Don't forget that Chrome OS is basically linux w/a Google clown suit.