When it comes to rape, confidential studies usually reveal the most disturbing information

Believe it or not, most people aren't comfortable talking bout rape and sexual harassment with authority figures. Neither A) talking about sex with an authority figure you hardly know in a society where that's the most private matter of all, nor B) talking about something that traumatized you at all (let alone talking with someone you hardly know about it), are easy matters. The combination of the two is far worse. And the fact that as a general rule nothing good will come of it, and to the contrary a lot of bad will come back to you if you speak up, is just even more encouragement to keep your mouth shut. As a consequence, most rapes remain personal affairs with no consequences to the perpetrator. Disturbingly common personal affairs.

No matter what CPU they had chosen, wouldn't they have had to migrate off it to x86 eventually? It's not like any of the alternatives like MIPS or Alpha have endured or kept up with Intel.

Maybe in hindsight they should have gone x86 off the bat but at the time RISC had a lot of hype and interest even from Microsoft.

Although a switch to MIPS instead of PowerPC might make one of my favorite alternative history stories, an Apple/SGI merger in the early 90s, more plausible as merging MacOS and IRIX would have been simpler.

Isn't there a kind of general problem in urban academic settings where you have senior, often male, academics surrounded by young students, some of whom are in a dependent client relationship with the senior academics. Senior academic uses authority, persuasion and more than a little red wine to bed the younger students?

Now let's all go out in the field and camp. Maybe overseas. In a remote location. Where you can't leave or even make a phone call. Limited privacy, communal living. Long nights with alcohol and/or drugs.

I kind of hate to use the phrases "going tribal" or "Lord of the Flies" but it's not hard to see how this situations can turn kind of ugly pretty quickly.

And it's not also hard to see how it's not just driven by the gross, predatory senior academic. You might add in the attractive but less talented student who uses her sexuality to compete, or the smarter but less attractive students with less social sophistication who gets in over her head.

I think its due to the nature of the voting system (winner take all, even if you don't poll a majority). But it also seems to be endemic to many democracies, they tend to gravitate to two party systems. The UK has Labor and the Conservatives, the Germans have Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.

But even in countries with larger third parties, they're seldom major parts of government. I think the current coalition government in the UK is one of the few times the Liberal Democrats have been in government. In Germany the FDP has mostly been a kingmaker rather than a majority party capable of forming its own government.

We just started using ranked choice voting for elections in Minneapolis, which in theory eliminates the "lost vote" problem by allowing you to make third parties your first choice but still vote "defensively" by making some other candidate a secondary choice.

So far it doesn't seem to have led to a lot of radical change in outcomes other than making the election results take a couple of extra days due to the calculations involved when there's a dozen candidates.

You don't know if it's true, but it sure seems that in spite of the weaknesses reviews really seem to be popular and they generally appear to be accurate based upon my experiences. Can you imagine Amazon without reviews?

My sense is that the true weakness with crowdsourced reviews isn't that they're too negative, but they skew mediocrity a little too positive.

...longer, better patents and copyrights, more EULAs.

This is really what we need, aspiring politicians appealing to plutocrats.

True, they could at least go with Thorunn or Thora, femine forms of the name Thor. Thor is a masculine name. Though I understand that they're trying to stress that she is the superhero now, not him.

Not a big fan of the new Thor costume. Too stereotypical female superhero "let's-remove-metal-from-all-sorts-of-critical-body-parts" "form-fitting steel boobs" style. You'd think if they're wanting to be progressive with the plot they'd be willing to face that old cliche. It doesn't mean you have to make them ugly or non-feminine, it just means that they're not dressed like they're going to some S&M hookup afterhours at Comic-Con. Wonder if they'll fall victim to this as well...

Maybe they could allow direct sales, but require that any company performing direct sales both have some minimum in-state physical presence for sales/service proportionate to the volume of cars they sell as well as allowing third party establishments to perform those tasks for them in some mutually agreed upon way?

This way, Tesla can sell cars direct but has to have some kind of bricks-and-mortar presence in states they sell them. They could all be owned by Tesla, but they wouldn't have to be if someone wanted to run the physical presence for them in the way Tesla wanted it done.

Since the existing car makers now sell a huge volume of cars in order to do direct sales they would have to duplicate the existing dealership network they have now, which would be hugely expensive. This would be the "save" for existing car dealers -- they wouldn't necessarily have to fear GM/Toyota/Ford suddenly selling direct because in order to do so, those makers would have to build out huge bricks-and-mortar presences. It would make so much more sense for the existing makers to stick with the existing dealerships.

I think that's generally good advice, but the thing that has always been a turnoff about skilled trades is that they seem to operate in a very hostile, class-centric mode, as if the labor relations equation remains stuck in some kind of black and white movie about striking workers from the 1930s.

Like most people who have done IT admin at bigger facilities during the 1990s and early 2000s as IT technology expanded, I worked a lot with electricians on data center build-outs, cabling, etc. I was always impressed with the guys I worked with -- they seemed real smart and they could do/fix about anything. But their work environment seemed kind of harsh compared to a typical IT work environment.

But I think if you were looking for a job that was nearly impossible to outsource, electrician would be pretty high on the list. A lot of stuff can only be done by licensed electricians legally and I don't see that changing for basic safety reasons and (kind of negatively) there's a gatekeeper effect that will keep it that way for the same reasons that doctors, lawyers and other types of professionals make it so only they can do certain tasks.

And I would bet with the growth in solar and the widespread adoption of electric cars over the next 50 years there will be an increasing in need for electrical work. The neighborhood grid will have to expand to accommodate a huge influx of cars trying to rapid-charge in dense areas and that's definitely the kind of high voltage work that an electrician will have to do.

The raw data shows the same warming trend. And the adjustments are there for a good reason - otherwise the deniers would be complaining even more about the heat island effect and siting / instrumentation problems than they even are today (oh, and to head people off, the warming trend gets even stronger when you outright remove the "bad", "artificially hot" meteorological stations the deniers complain about). And all of the adjustments are cross-checked by a variety of peer-reviewed verification methods. For example, the heat island effect on stations is (among other methods) cross-checked by comparing windy days with still days, as wind greatly reduces the heat island effect.

In short, to anyone who thinks they've got some killer reason why the adjustments are wrong, simply write a paper, go through peer-review like everyone else has to do, and viola, you're part of the actual scientific debate and I'll take you seriously. Until then...

Well, here it's gotten CLOUDY! Soon the earth is going to turn into a vapor-shrouded hellscape where nothing grows and humans are forced to scrounge around for food in a post-apocalyptic hellscape! ;)

Most of Microsoft's internals changes are good and can generally be seen as progress, and certainly an API usable across platforms makes sense.

The problem with Microsoft around these things is that they always feel the need to change the GUI to promote whatever nonsense bubbles to the top of marketing's mind.

With other Windows versions the GUI changes were mostly about glitz or copying MacOS but with Win8 the changes seemed to be trying to force an iPad paradigm down everyone's throats and it failed utterly.

I didn't even care about the electricity cost in some cases. I wanted more light from my in-built 1955 light fixtures without risking a fire, so I bought CFLs with 100 watt light output that only used 37w of power and put them in sockets only rated for 60w incandescents.

In some cases, like outdoor lights turned on a lot I did care about electricity and used CFLs there because they were cheaper.

... that takes the info from Hidden From Google and reinserts it back into your searches ;)

Will this influence the tax gimmick where the HQ is overseas so the profits don't have to have taxes paid on them?

Why is it the money can evade the government but the data can't?