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Comment Re:Sounds like another nerd "Hunger Games" to me (Score 1) 119

Okay, the kids won't be killed, but only those that jump through the hoops of the all powerful Google will be given the prizes. I thought the miracle of the Internet that everyone could enjoy the fun. But somehow GOOG is turning it into a brutal, knock-down, no-holds-barred competition.

You need to concern yourself with the "competitions" where everyone gets a trophy. Don't forget to bring the Orange slices. The little darlings need to hydrate, even though we try to keep themselves from getting too exertion.

Comment Re:And? (Score 5, Insightful) 295

That's not the point though.

You can't force people to do things. Women already want to be scientists.

And women already are scientists - and engineers. I've worked with a dozen or more - I wasn't keeping count though.

Perhaps they would be a good place to start when trying to get more women involved in STEM careers.

And that is the strangest thing, we don't seem to hear much about women who are already in STEM, only how men are keeping them out of STEM.

Want a role model for women in STEM? Ty Hedy Lamarr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Here is the co-inventor of spread spectrum radio and a few other things, extremely intelligent, and if it important to anyone, stunningly beautiful.

But there are obviously many more. Why don't we hear more about them?

STEM, especially for the Scientists and engineers is not a career for the easily dissuaded. You are studying while the MBA and liberal arts students are partying - that's not hype.

And to claim that some woman has been so negatively affected by a photo of a playboy model's face, or a sophmoric joke about a dongle that it causes rejection as a career is as sensible as saying looking at a Barbie doll caused a girl to become bulemic. A scientist would tell you that the eating problem already existed, and at worst, the Barbie Doll, was merely a fixation.

In the end, the women in STEM movement does women a terrible disservice, painting them as weak creatures, all too easily dissuaded from careers that they would otherwise excel in, just by sexual references or distractions.

Comment Re:This isn't a question (Score 1) 623

No, they're just making a non sequitur argument that expresses their distaste for gay sex.

And yet here is why I tend to suspect projection:

http://www.ranker.com/list/top...

I also had a few friends in high school who were pretty brutal to gay guys. Now? Both openly gay, and one is a transgender. You can call my experince anecdotal, but it's a smoke/fire situation as far as I'm concerned.

Comment Re:This isn't a question (Score 2) 623

i would simply argue that id rather see the government out of marriage completely. Why should 2 people get tax incentives simple because of "love"? How about we take the government out of all marriages as far as tax and property reasons are concerned so that single people have the same rights as those lucky enough to find love

Because of insurance for families, because of inheritance aspects, becvause of divorce, Next of kin, legal documents Lot's of legal reasons.

Comment Re:This isn't a question (Score 0) 623

Note that while some religions consider marriage a sacrament, there are very few that consider the religious ceremony legally binding in and of itself. .

And no doubt. I was excommunicated by the holy chuch of "Let's fuck Little Boys" because my fiance' wouldn't sign a freaking document declaring we would raise out children Catholic. (she was Lutheran)

Thank goodness I was forcibly excommunicated. To be voluntarily associated with that bunch of pedophiles wold be shameful to me.

Comment Re:This isn't a question (Score 2) 623

In the broadest scope I've never understood why there has to be laws concerning marriage. It's a private contract.

It is what undid the gayhate movement. Instead of using the ever dubious moral aspect, the fight was lost over the equal protections under the law aspect. For same sex couples to be denied the rights and obligations of heterosexuals in marriage was found to be unconstitutional.

And the seal was that marriage is quite codified in the legal system. As such it is a civil, not a religious matter. Churches perform weddings, they do not perform marriages. The marriage part of the wedding is not definable by religion, as that would mean that any marriage performed outside of a church would be considered invalid (as the catholic church does - without legal standing,

tl; dr version. Fundamentalist Christians did not invent marriage, so they cannot define it.

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