The only thing i hate worse than taking off those stickers is leaving them on.

My in-laws' just leave them on and it drives me nuts. I'm also the kind of guy who pretty much refuses to wear shirts and jackets with prominent logos. I'm sure you can see how mild anti-corporate sentiments plus a tendency towards some mild OCD-esque behaviors might come to a head on that point.

No. We're not talking about genetic drives. The desires to join a community, attract a mate and produce offspring are not driving people away from science. They are completely compatible with a career in science. The fact that you don't seem to recognize that is just indicative of your own problematic attitude.

It's the cultural pressures which elevate those things to paramount importance such that people spend all their time pursuing them instead of other things. People (not just women) are not interested in science because our culture does not value it. How many of the last decade's Nobel Prize winners can you name from memory? How many cast members from Jersey Shore can you name memory? (Cue pedantic twit who has never heard of Jersey Shore in 3...2...)

Blah blah blah...kids these days rant...blah blah blah...get off my lawn!

There's still a lot of cultural pressure telling women (everyone really) that the important things in life are popularity, beauty, love, and child-rearing.

It's kind of a wonder that anyone at all goes into science these days. Maybe they should make a "Real Physicists of MIT" show.

With Democrats like these, who needs Republicans?

Big business owns them all - the only difference is the stuff that makes them feign outrage.

Perhaps, or perhaps not.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. Though in this case, i would substitute "conspiracy" for "malice," because malice does appear to be all over all over this, petty and impotent though it may be.

It's more likely that this is just some ambitious idiot in the FBI who thought Wikipedia and Wikimedia were related to Wikileaks and decided to take a shot at them. He/she probably knows that they brought down Al Capone on tax evasion and thought this might be a chance to do something similar.

Yeah...i don't think the British Broadcasting Corporation is too afraid that the United States' federal law enforcement arm is going to come after them.

I think i do see the reason - excess ego.

It must be a miserable life you live, devoid of the ability to recognize exaggeration with humorous intent. Or you actually just enjoy acting superior to others because it's easy to do and makes you feel better about yourself.

If i hear them describe their tech as "magical" one more time i think i'm gonna blow a gasket. It may be sleek and cool, but it is not sufficiently advanced to be considered magical.

Fuck you, Apple, you condescending wankers.

This is why you got modded troll in the first place. They could tell that this was where you were going with it, Mr Anonymous Tough Guy on the Internet.

Although i personally would have gone with redundant or off-topic since these same sentiments can be found in about 20 other posts in this thread, expressed better and alongside some discussion of the actual relevant issue - wiretapping laws being used inappropriately.

I don't know where you live, but around here, taxes are synonymous with communism and they reflexively vote against them.

Our public schools are ranked as some of the worst in the state and our state is ranked as one of the worst in the nation. Our teachers' pay barely puts them over the poverty line. Our roads are only getting desperately needed repairs because of federal stimulus money.

And still, every time a 0.01% tax increase comes up on a ballot they act like you're taking food right off their table.

Two of macho men's favorite pastimes rolled into one. Getting hammered and making out with small woodland creatures. Hawt.

Ah yes, i believe Malcolm X put it best when he said, "It's either a ballot or a raygun."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric