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Comment Re:Females wants alpha males (Score 1) 173

Whoa whoa, read carefully before shooting out in all directions. I made it clear that it is usually an imposition of the female relatives, and considering you did not catch the the rest then I must complement that society also tends to do so. However, having said that it is also true that many women want a position of power through marriage to a man of power, and not necessarily to have children I must say, but to have power. And they will hardly find it on a course of CS, so ... Just join the dots.

Comment Females wants alpha males (Score 3, Insightful) 173

What females wants is alpha males, both they and their parents are trained for this. Parents early insist they seek careers where they can find men with more power (political, law), and by repeat the females end up believing it too. And it's pretty hard to find alpha males in computer science courses (we care about more important things than animal instincts of domination and territory), so consequently you will see fewer females in such courses.

Comment Will be the end of my country (Score 1) 339

Here lying is as natural as breathing. It is extremely rare to find someone who speaks a truth the first time you ask something to him, here they lie even when it makes no sense to lie. A technology that could detect with 99% certainty when someone is lying would make the brains of people here to collapse, because they would not be able to withstand the urge to lie and having to tell the truth to avoid being caught by the machine.
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Pluto Probe Back To Normal, Cause of Snafu Found 80

Tablizer writes: NASA has provided an update to the problem with the New Horizons probe that will fly by Pluto next week. "The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter "safe mode" on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter.

Comment Re:Brazilian evangelicals are for cows. (Score 2) 293

For (useless or funny, your decide) information, never trust the google translator for grammar and spelling. where it says "vocês todos são vacas. vacas dizer mú", the correct form is "Todos vocês são vacas. Vacas dizem mú". The english->portuguese translation from Google is shit.

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