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Submission + - A Political Party for the Grown-Up Geek?

Submitted by lythander
lythander writes: A quandary for the modern geek: which political party to affiliate with, or none at all? I live in a very blue state, and am registered blue on the theory that since mostly blues will be sent to office, voting in the (closed — i.e. blue-only) primaries matters most. I sit firmly in the middle and/or outer edges of politics depending on the topic. I view people who are strongly blue or red as decidedly foolish and/or narrow-minded, and feel they should think for themselves. I have considered libertariansism, independence, green, and not-affiliated, which seems to only serve to remove me from a large chunk of the political process. Ans of course, there is no registered American pirate party (yet!) I do vote, and feel that the only way to work for change is to work within the system (I am no Matthew Sobol,)but from which direction? I'm not a politician, just a geek with a wife, kids, and a typical sub-urban life. Oh, and chickens. Does that matter?
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Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity 773

Posted by kdawson from the lower-your-voice-and-say-that dept.
myrdos2 writes "A host of common chemicals is feminizing males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. Many have been identified as 'endocrine disruptors' or gender-benders because they interfere with hormones. Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys, which may offer a clue to the mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys. It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone. And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per milliliter of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years."
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Submission + - So how can filtering be done?

Submitted by lythander
lythander writes: Companies and parents try to do it here in the US, China does it (hamhandedly), Australia is about to trial it (and will go down in flames). From years of being against it for all the right reasons, I understand that kids shouldn't see porn, and some things are just abhorrent and should be removed (insert inflamatory child exploitation reference here). How can it be done without trampling civil liberties, without imposing one country's laws on another, etc.? This is a question for the times, where people who understand civil liberty, human rights, law enforcement on an international scale and technology must come together to seriously discuss and solve this issue before the demogogues who would use the cry, "Think of the children!" to impose their puritan views on the Net can. I was looking for serious discussion, but I came to Slashdot instead.
Enlightenment

Submission + - Survey Says: Videogames Don't Cause Violence

Submitted by beef623
beef623 writes: A recent survey conducted in England indicates that video games don't lead to violence after all.

The Board, which classifies up to 300 games a year, concluded that for gamers "The violence helps make the play exhilaratingly out of reach of ordinary life."

But it added "Gamers seem not to lose awareness that they are playing a game and do not mistake the game for real life."


Not surprisingly though, 2 out of the 3 story highlights CNN lists twist the context of the story to try to say otherwise.

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