The rallying cry of every egotistical manchild with an overly inflated sense of self worth.

Well, it's a good thing that we have dudebros like you around to tell us what women are thankful for.

There's the rub. You shouldn't have to hope that your actions in the workplace(or in public more generally) aren't misconstrued and that, if they are, your coworker feels comfortable enough to ask you to stop.

And you think that ass slapping and chest bumps are going to accomplish this?

I would much prefer a work environment where people didn't feel the need to engage in locker room play, regardless of gender.

Well, one of those things is not like the others. But, ignoring that, why? Why do you think that that adds rarity and value? Is that not an implicit admission that you think that there is a general mutual exclusion between engineering accomplishments and being a cute female, and that the confluence of the two is a rare event?

It has nothing to do with puritanism. If you want more women to engage in engineering, per your initial question, one thing that you need to do is to attack sexism, even latent sexism. Comments like "pseudo-feminist crap" in response to a mild criticism seem a bit defensive to me. You can engage in chest thumping on /. or you could engage in some introspection.

So, your argument is that since you and your buddy are assholes who are prone to throwing around homophobic sexual smears in private, women should be thankful that you aren't also misogynistic pigs in public as well?

If you are so sensitive that you think that girlintraining's post was an "excoriation," then I would suggest that you are the one with the problem.

Sure. You have a ton of Arduino stuff already set up, and this is a new addition to the number of interesting projects you can play with. In my case, the original Gameduino was fun to mess around with as a learning tool, both for myself and my kids. In addition, I plan to use it as a general purpose display for other 8 bit projects. This version just gives us more to play with.

Um, no.
First, there is no such thing as "devolution."
Secondly, it doesn't fit the evidence in the least. Show me evidence of multicellular life preceding the development of unicellular life, and we'll talk.
Third, horizontal gene transfer is more common than you seem to think.

Then consider it. The most common form of reproduction in the world is asexual. Hermaphroditism is also quite common. It is also not uncommon for species to flip sexes depending on environmental queues, even in multicellular species as complex as fish and amphibians. Hell, there are species of fish in which the male is absorbed into the female and becomes a new set of gonads for her! Even the more familiar male/female dynamics are not clearcut. Many species have neuters. Others have evolved complex behavioral patterns which create de facto sexes.

Your bible talks about two sexes because humans generally have two sexes(and this is not even universal). It's an attempt to explain sexual dimorphism with no knowledge of genetics or evolution. In short, your bible IS an observation, not a second source of information useful for corroboration. It is just a non sequitur to assert otherwise.

Definitely. I find that a lot of boaters I interact with simply don't appreciate the art and science behind a good sailboat and the sport of sailing itself. I find sailing(and sailboat building) to be interesting from the spectrum of people you meet. There are people sailing on every budget, and with all sorts of goals. This means that there is no "best sailboat." Going gunkholing down the delta puts a completely different set of demands on a boat than bluewater cruising or lake racing, for example. It's a pity that, judging from the comments on this story, a lot of people think that sailing, and even yachting in general, are just a rich person's sport.

Heh, substitute the wax with some West Systems epoxy, and it sounds like a plan! Some of the best sailing memories I have are building and sailing plywood and 2x4 boats with my kids.
I've seen a lot of small boats with junk rigs. I've never used one myself, as I generally stick with a lateen or bermuda rig for my personal boats. My dad seems fascinated by them, though, so I imagine I'll end up building one at some point.

There are even racing boats designed to be built for little money, yet still offering rules for competition. My personal favorite is the Puddle Duck Racer.

Well, it may be far more technical than most people get, but I wouldn't say that it's "totally foreign." I also sail Sunfish, I'm not a racer myself, but I'm familiar with the lengths some of the catamaran sailors around here go to wring the most competitive advantage from their boats. These guys just spend WAY more time and money on it than a regular sailor could ever dream of.
Dammit, now I'll never get any work done today. I'll be thinking about sailing all afternoon.

You suppose wrongly. What does the mockery of religion have to do with the recognition of beauty? I spend as much time as I can in and on the oceans, and I've never once watched a soft coral sway in the current or listened to the snap of the rigging as I swing into a new tack and thought to myself, "Well, since there is no god, this is all just rubbish." I wouldn't sully the experience with a meaningless and befouled label like "sacred," but that has no bearing on the matter.
You can engage in transcendental naval gazing all you like. Just don't ask the government to grant you a special dispensation on that basis. It is really is that simple.

Christian Gnosticism and Mormonism spring to mind immediately. I'm sure there are more examples. Of course, the "True Christians" mostly exterminated the former and claim the latter aren't Christian as long as there isn't a federal election going on. The differences seemed to evaporate pretty quickly when political expediency entered into the picture.

Hanover Fist lives!