Hahahaha! You've never worked in the non-profit world, huh? I certainly paid income tax, social security, etc. when working in the non-profit world.

Just like if one's personal faith entails, say, pacifism (of the no support for institutional violence variety), that does not mean that one gets to opt out of, say, taxes that support the military, the police, or the prison system. Not sure how mandating that birth control is part of a federally stipulated health care package and religious (yet Sisyphean) objections to heterosexual sex are going to change that reality.

...and http://public.resource.org./

There must also be 'illegitimate rape,' right? Send that clown packing back to the anti-woman nut house he escaped from.

Is building up viably secure automotive computing platforms part of a push toward a fleet of automated teamsters?

The Kyoto Protocol's emissions targets were woefully inadequate to avert the worst of greenhouse gas (GHG) related climate change. However, the Kyoto Protocol was the ONLY international framework for negotiating multilaterally on curbing emissions of greenhouse gasses. The Bush/Obama administration in the US and China sure did a good job destroying that framework putting multilateral efforts to ameliorate climate change on an even more glacially slow path. To quote Stephen Colbert "Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is."

as "c h a s i n g - p e r p s".

The strategies of recruiting out-of-state and foreign students reflects decades of disinvestment in public education by the state government. Where I teach the state legislature retains 100% of the control over our budget despite contributing only 1/8th of that same budget. This pattern exists in state throughout the U.S.. If you want a quality public university system get on the phone, write letters and organize to pressure your state government to fund it.

http://zotero.org/

terrorists could use that model to plan attacks!

Regenerative breaking for people!

the thing about pictures and video is that (a) they aren't memories, they're recordings, and (b) their production seriously colors the kinds of actual memories you are forming of your wife's last moments (e.g. 'ah yes, i fondly remember looking for battery charger and inserting new sd cards whilst my beloved was passing away.')

Please. Boys nowadays already are femalized way too much.

according to you? ok, according to me, boys are not "femalized" enough. why should i take your word over my own?

i stand corrected on your reading, but huh. i see left hand of darkness as pure sci-fi in that it examines the social consequences of different ways of structuring society. specifically it raises questions about the ways we construct gender and the power relations embedded in gender, by posing a fictional set of biological constraints different than our own. to me the story raises questions, not sure what was preachy in it.

the lathe of heaven i would place in a genre of sci-fi related to fundamental challenges to individual epistemology along with works by p. k. dick, and o. butler.

In other words, the criticism does not appear to be that the movie is addressed to the interests of teenage girls specifically, but that in order to address those interests and broaden the audience this "sci-fi" movie has become "too fantasy."

again raising the question: why the double standard? how many hollywood sci-fi movies have ignored "hard sci-fi" in order to appeal to sterotypical teenage boy fantasies? (unrealistic explosions, blasting and transit sounds in space vacuum, gratuitous and unlikely representations of violence, kirk dangling off the edge of yet another cliff...) yet these stylistic inclusions do not merit the same cries of alarm, that the stereotyped fantasies of teenage girls do.

the atomic radius of silicon is about 110pm, or about 0.11nm, or a little less than 1/36th of 4nm.