Nobody gives a fuck? Every time there is any story about women in science the MRAs start complaining that nursing and teaching are female dominated and why is no one doing anything about that?! Then I point out that actually there are programmes trying to get more men into those professions, but they still make the same argument next time.

It's actually a huge issue in both professions. Children in particular need male role models at an early age in school.

No sane tax system would consume all additional profit. In fact if Amazon's profits went up by 10% they would pay about 2% more tax, if that.

You know in sports when someone finds some way to gain an advantage that is technically within the rules but clearly against the spirit of the game? People get annoyed because they expect fair play.

What Amazon and many others are doing is legal, but clearly subverts the intention of the law. We need to run tax more like a D&D session, where any rule lawyering can simply be overruled by the DM and if you piss them off too much a dragon steps on you.

The second referendum in Ireland was a triumph of democracy. The people rejected the first offering, so the politicians listened to their concerns and improved it. The second version was much more to their liking.

No one forced the Irish to vote yes the second time, did they? What's wrong with listening to the population? If something is rejected the first time is it forever trained and impossible to fix?

Free movement works well enough in the states. The difference between some states is not far off the differences in the EU. It just needs to be worked out, not abandoned.

All those people who retired to British ghettos in the south of Spain won't be able to stay. Their pensions were frozen when they left the UK, and they would suddenly need to pay for medical care. That is assuming they can get a visa. Spain doesn't just let anyone in, especially if they have no intention of working and are likely to need expensive support services. It's not like they contribute much tax.

It's worse than that; this is something that has been done again and again by researchers of various sorts. google with terms like "robot toy emotion study" and you'll get more variety along those lines than you can read through before you get bored.

And that's why we can't have nice things: because that's the best you can do when you see someone in need.

If you can carry a DNR in your pocket and it's considered practicable, then you can carry a list of persons permitted to contact you in a medical emergency on the same basis.

Even if homosexuality were a disease, I still wouldn't trust the CDC to tell me what percentage of the population had it. And it isn't one.

The majority of them do, yes. That's fine for them to do. Some of them don't. It's not fine for the majority to force them to do so. It's not fine for the parents to force them to do so. They may be ignorant and out of control tiny little humans, but many adult humans are also ignorant and out of control and we still let them dress how they want and in most states and countries, even fuck who they want given consensuality.

OK nutter, but reduce the argument to a reasonable one — you should be able to designate someone to come see you in the hospital whether you're married or related or not — and we return to there being absolutely no valid reason to not permit you to define the small pool of people who are permitted to see you if you are in the hospital. Speaking for myself, I vehemently do not want my mother permitted into my hospital room for any reason.

Not only various other variations of this (my first PC in particular only had 448kB of RAM, and only 64kB of that was on the mainboard) but my first computer that ran Linux was a 386DX25 with 8MB of RAM and a 120MB disk. And while I threw it away recently, I used to have an iOpener with some kind of rinkydink Linux with an ancient browser on it in just 32MB of disk. ISTR it having 16MB RAM. If anyone would like the wizztronics adapter, I have one here along with a low-profile cooler that fits inside the iOpener's case and is probably worth more than either the machine or the adapter board.