For the purposes of avian depopulation, the dyson doesn't have blades. The air current pushed out by them generates a breeze through the hoop. I expect the efficiency of this is pretty poor, and that attempting the reverse wouldn't generate enough power to make it worthwhile.

I think the GP, while painting in a broad and cryptic strokes, is stating that Eva was chosen so as to overtly appeal to women, and not because they were interested in their actors accurately portraying the reaction to being in slavery. They want the public to think "Women won't be treated as objects in this movie (as happens in real world parallels) so come on down and enjoy the movie filled with strong willed women who don't need no man". Had they instead gone with an actual psychologist they probably would have ended up with a more realistic movie where the women would have been completely physically overwhelmed by the patriarchy and subjected to numerous atrocities (as in Somalia today) and would have had zero say in the plot of the movie. It would have ended up just another macho action movie that women everywhere would have been up in arms about.

Eva was not picked to give a realistic response to the situations the women in the movie find themselves in, instead she's there to ensure that women will find the movie enjoyable, which isn't a bad thing!

Expert? So she has some form of psychology degree?

What the GP was saying is that this person is not impartial, potentially has an agenda, and has pulling power that an actual psychologist probably wouldn't have. If instead DR Mann Von Mannerson had been consulted on the portrayal of sex slaves instead, what would the outcome have been? Given how we have actual and real accounts of what happens to women in this situation (It occurs in Somalia currently) why did they need the help of a feminist writer?

Dyson have a bladeless fan (http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/10/dyson-fan-pr-1.jpg). I've wondered why the reverse of this doesn't work for electricity generation.

I had already planned on getting a 970 or better early next year. So the timing couldn't be better. I expect that the 970 has the required HDMI port?

What about them garden lamps that are solar powered? They charge during the day and give off light at night.

The Queen, in a visit to Ireland a couple of years back did say "We feel there are some things we could have done differently (pause) or not at all"

That is probably as close to an apology as we are going to get.

America should really get their act together and try to patch things up with Cuba sooner rather than later. When a larger country pisses all over their small island neighbours for decades, the small guys have a habit of holding a grudge.

Disclaimer: I'm Irish.

Ah, so it's like Bistromatics?

Raveshark?

Except that the lead engineer on the planet's foremost exploration vessel of today (if one existed), probably would know how to use a slide rule and Morse code.

What is the expectation of privacy in a car on the freeway? How is using cameras any different to placing a person on the side of the freeway and stopping all cars on the HOV lane to confirm the correct number of people are there?

What about this?

http://www.bbc.com/news/health...

They say it was possible since the nick in the cord was clean (also not being 100% through helped I guess). I wonder if a severance of the spinal cord was done with surgical precision if the process here could be used.

An interesting thing that happens to be topical right now.

On one side you have people saying that we shouldn't require a referendum to allow equal rights to marry regardless of gender. On the other side you have the fact that you don't want a precedent set whereby they change the constitution without a referendum.

I'll be voting yes, but I (and so many others) with it weren't necessary. I suppose we wish it were never there in the first place. If the referendum fails, it will be deeply shaming for our nation as a whole.

For the most part we don't use their whole corpse as decoration, just their genitals.