So, I looked up the author of this particular book, and it appears she lives in San Francisco, and used to work for Microsoft doing exactly the type of work (software product design) that Barbie was doing in the book. I suspect the author wrote a book called "Barbie: I can be a Software Designer" but that the editor, being clueless about job titles in the software industry, decided to change the name to something more marketable. After all, authors aren't the ones who name their books, the marketing team/editors do.

Coming out is actually one of the strategies gays and lesbians have used to achieve legal equality, and social acceptance.

It is "proud" as in the opposite of "ashamed.

The Stonewall riots in NYC is often marked as the beginning of the gay civil rights movement It took place in 1969, a mere 7 years after this documentary film titled "Boys Beware" about the dangers of homosexuals lurking in your midst.

That film contains the line: "What Jimmy didn't know was that Ralph was sick, a sickness that was not visible like small pox, but no less dangerous and contagious, a sickness of the mind, you see, Ralph was a homosexual."

You could tell lies like that in 1961 because people who were gay didn't come out, nobody thought they knew any gay people, today though it is unlikely that you could make that claim, especially if you live in a city. Gays are everywhere, and it is that visibility that has made it impossible for the right to continue falsely claiming that gays are mentally ill child rapists.

Things have changed a lot, and "proud" may eventually go into the dustbin as more and more people feel they have achieved equality.

I feel like Nintendo and Apple would make a really great team with similar attention to detail and customer experience.

In the case of all these other OS's though the cost of upgrading is trivial. Even Mac OSX only costs $20-40 vs. Microsott's $100+ pricetag

Sorry that you don't understand how science works. If your brain is capable of it, you should examine how that lack of understanding of how science works has allowed you to believe in magical beings.

I suspect part of the reason why women, Latino-Americans and African-Americans aren't well represented in the science classrooms is because of an over subscription by women, Latino-Americans, and African-Americans to sociology majors like women's studies, Chicano/Latin-American Studies and African-American studies. While these are completely legitimate courses of study, I suspect they are leading women, Latino-Americans and Afirican-Americans away from the more employment friendly science majors.

You'd think they'd actually save money if they just hard wired the LED into the camera's power source. If the camera has power, the LED is on. I'm sure that would cost them less, not more.

Might I recommend the book "Stasiland" about the East German secret police, spying on it's own citizens, which due to their spying were able to prevent any politician from countering them because of the black mail material they had on every person (including the politicians and their families.)

BTW, if you get a chance, the opinion and the dissenting opinion are worth reading. It is amazing how incompetent our Supreme Court is in interpreting something as basic and straight forward as the 4th and 5th Amendments.

[IANAL:] Unfortunately you're wrong about this. In Caballes v. Illinois the Supreme Court found that a dog can be run around any vehicle during a traffic stop. If the dog signals, the officer then has probably cause to search a vehicle. The only limitation on this is that if the dog is not on the scene at the time of the stop, that the stop cannot be prolonged to wait for the dog to arrive. They can only hold you for as long as it would reasonably take to conduct the business of a traffic stop.

"NSA decides it doesn't care what the constitution says and keeps on doing what it wants."

Yes, it would.