Folks like Sarkeesian have been publishing feminist critique of pop culture for years, in their little bubble of academia. She's mostly being punished because nobody outside of the bubble ever knew that PCA is a thing, and she was the first visible target.

Kiddie phone from Verizon. He is clinging to his 2004 state of the art clamshell phone that is at best a feature phone with no features actually supported any more besides phone calls, calendar, and text messages. In the meantime, I have not one but two Samsung galaxies.

On the one hand, even if I wanted to spy on him, I couldn't. On the other hand, his texts cost him 10 cents each on a grandfathered pre-paid plan, and he certainly can't install or run any kind of app on it. So the few texts he make can be counted in dimes (and he gets grouchy when someone texts him too much as a result) and there's no way to hide them or delete them. I'm not terribly worried either way.

We already have a lot of people terrified of nuclear reactors. Finding a site that will accept a new type of reactor will take a lot of time. Plus, creating a permit process for this... lots of red tape.

Thanks for that link. It is a bit better for sure.

My wedding cost about $400. $60 of that was the dress I got off the clearance rack. We did JOP and had only family for the ceremony, and followed up with a reception at a favorite Italian that my father in law paid for. (My parents didn't live to see me get married... curse of the youngest child.)

Two of my older sisters had their fairy tail weddings with expensive dresses, catered receptions, and many more guests. Both of them ended in divorce two years later. Husband and I just hit year five.... I think we're the winners here.

I think it's the difference between a $20,000 wedding and a $200,0000 celebrity wedding. You can have 200 people for that 20K price if you are frugal. Whereas if you're blowing $200K on a wedding, there is no frugality involved, regardless of the number of people.

In another report I read on this topic, the lead research said he wanted opaque pills but they needed something that could survive the stomach and make it to the long intestines. Those thicker capsules only came in clear. The freezing process lightens the contents and also puts some frost on the outside to make it less obvious...

TFA says healthy volunteers. The big improvement of this method is that they can "donate" just once, have their donation frozen, and then have it .... used over the course of a few months. The previous method required a healthy donor the day of the transplant, usually a relative of the recipient.

I'd say yes - yes it would. Fire insurance would cover it anyway.

As someone pointed out a couple weeks ago in a Win8 thread, today's PCs are now so powerful that even Windows can't slow them down. Now that's impressive!

Well, it was written at a time when the only organizations big enough to terrorize individuals were the governments. Big corporations are a relatively new bully - at the time the only ones that existed were the big trading companies, and 95% of the landowners who wrote the Constitution never had any dealings with them.

Nope, stayed well away from that. But I've done tech support for hospitals. The doctors were brilliant people who couldn't figure out how to send an email. But they had great bedside manner!

Yeah, med school is one of those places where they WILL reject you for being too much of a smarty pants. They accept based on attitude. They want someone who will have a good patient relationship and not come across as aloof and superior. They want someone who is NOT completely sure of themselves... who will harbor doubts and triple check everything as a result.

That's when you go and scored 1400+ on the SAT just to prove that a few Cs aren't your total sum worth as a student.

The string of successful Internet apps started by college dropouts says otherwise.