Great! So which court do you have jurisdiction over?

There simply are not enough women in the construction field either. Why aren't we looking to have parity in auto mechanics and plumbers too? I'm all for equal rights, but not to the point of putting on blinders.

I'm sure I'll be modded a troll for this. But men and women are different in general. Obviously there are exceptions. But women tend to be more empathetic than men.That's one reason they excel in nursing and teaching. They are also better multi-taskers. Again, there are of course exceptions. But this is why I think we are starting to see more women in CEO and management roles.

Part of it probably has to do with evolution. Traditional roles for men have been more single task focused. Successful men were good at hunting, building, etc. So those traits got passed down to their progeny. Successful mothers took care of damn near everything else. I have nothing but the utmost respect for "stay at home moms". Children are demanding as hell. They need damn near constant attention as they randomly do crazy shit, or need cleaned, fed, held, etc. When my wife is ill and I have to take care of things, I find it can get extremely stressful. I like to get a task done and move on to the next. But that's not how things work with kids. Successful mothers were able to do multiple things and drop what they are doing at a moments notice to take care of kids, or what ever else needed to be done. This too was passed down to their descendants.

But now after a couple million years of this paradigm how practical is it to think human nature can change in a couple of generations? It feels like political correctness to the point of insanity. But I'm very likely wrong and a couple of $100 gift cards will undo millions of years of evolution.

What's a "gift code"? Is that some new term for virus?

Unfortunately they neglected to update their medical records system to electronic, so we can't say for sure.

They probably were to the indigenous tribes.

Yes, but only as a subset of everything.

I have it on good word from The Umbrella Corporation... Ahem... Monsanto, that there is nothing to worry about. This bacteria could in no way affect their GMO products. Nor did they have any involvement in it's creation. The reports of carnivorous plants attacking independent farmers and their families are simply not true. Their fields and homes were torched, ahem, sterilized simply as a safety precaution.

It's a vogue term. Just like everything is in "the cloud" even when it's just remote on one system. Next month the plants will be taking selfies of themselves twerking.

I realize that I typo-ed this hell out of the subject line, It was supposed to be "What a difference a couple of years can make." But that was my entire point.

IBM: Graphene as it is won't replace silicon in CPUs

No kidding. Back in the 80's 4-5 of us would pick up compact cars and move them onto the sidewalk out of drunken stupidity.

One of my friends had an MG back then. A couple of people lifted the rear end off the ground right before he was getting ready to drive off. While they were all laughing, he put the car in reverse and stepped on the gas. While laughing himslef, he asked them how long they thought they could hold it.

obligatory XKCD

You'd have a point, but the top 20 highest grossing movies says otherwise. There are still movies that are not 2 hours of gun shots and explosions, but they rarely do well.

Hollywood has been reacting for years. Just look at a movie from 50 years ago compared to today. Lawrence of Arabia was considered the greatest action movie made. Today it would be a drama at best. Most movie goers want an hour and a half to two hours of explosions, choreographed kung-fu dance fights, and physics defying car/plane/spaceship chases. There's a reason Michael Bay movies do so well. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I enjoy the occasional explosion-fest too. Just look at the original Matrix movie. They spoon fed what the Matrix was to the audience, and there are still people today who don't know what it was supposed to be about.

As long as movie theaters are in business, yes. That's where they make their money after the studios get done shaking them down.

We can only hope.

Congratulations, you are starting to get the same type of mindset your grandparents have/had. Now get in front of a mirror and start working on your "get off my lawn" face. ;-)

US D690,300 S

1. The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described.

It's easier to see all of the images from this link: http://www.google.com/patents/...

They filed a patent for a rectangular tablet with rounded corners on Sept 14, 2012, and were granted a 14 year patent term on Sept. 24, 2013. But don't let reality get in the way of the Dunning–Kruger effect. That would be silly.