This is what shits me about 'affirmative action'. Companies shouldn't have to be "serious about building a workplace that reflects a broad range of experience, thought, geography, age, background, gender, sexual orientation, language, culture and many other characteristics". They should be serious about building a workplace that reflects excellence in achieving the company's purpose. All of the things listed above are supposed to be irrelevant and most certainly shouldn't be used to screen applicants.

It's interesting that, as you say, no-one focuses on these minorities.

Wanna know why? It's because (in general) they have a culture of working fucking hard and achieving things. If you have that, you don't need 'affirmative action' or any other kind of hand-me-down or pick-me-up. You get there under your own goddamn steam.

I said Agents, Neo.

You need to separately classify people who dropped out in order to pursue more lucrative opportunities, and people who dropped out for other reasons.

Bill Gates didn't drop out of college to bum around and smoke weed, he did it because he and Paul Allen had just scored a supply contract for Altair BASIC.

You're going to spend your 20s doing something, the postgrad lifestyle isn't all that bad, neither's the workforce assuming you studied something that someone somewhere actually wants to pay you for.

Getting a PhD does pidgeon-hole you as a bit of an academic, though. It's not always necessarily an asset when applying for a job.

I'm happy to see a mention of Musgrave here. He was doing procedural landscapes and atmospheric effects back before "fractals" were well known as anything other than the Mandelbrot set or a Koch snowflake.

Well, to be fair, people who ride motorcycles are unarguably better.

OC Tattoos are gonna be awesome when they happen.

Same... when I first heard the term I thought it was similar in meaning to "Seagull manager", but for parents. It does make sense when you see parents hanging around like a news chopper over a house fire, though.

I'm pretty sure that there is enough of the drug already that is effective ducks.

Not precisely - although it's similar enough to look like a corollary.

I don't think that qualifies as "lost", either, only "deliberately erased."

From there, it's simple to see that either six months is as much as was legally required (in which case they followed the law) or it is not (in which case they broke the law).

When I first heard about "artificial pancreas" being tested it was exactly this; a device comprising pancreatic cells (not even necessarily biocompatible with the host) contained within some osmotic-type membrane which could pass chemicals through it but was impermeable to anything bigger (such as cells). I believe there may have been proof-of-concept type things constructed in a lab but haven't heard of anything futher.

"We have a name for alternative medicine that has been proven to work. We call it... medicine." - Tim Minchin

To be faire, there're a fayre few ways to spell faiyre.