Terms are poorly defined because a lot of issues are still being worked out. Language tends to lag. People work things out for themselves privately. But when they want to discuss things, they need labels. Originally, all the labels were ugly medical sounding terms (or worse) that imply they are sick or immoral, in need of a cure, not just different. Words with healthy connotations did not exist. So when they go public, they must invent words. People don't all invent the same words even for the same situation and not everyone in the sexual configuration discussion has the same situation. The "normals" frequently aren't aware of the issues at all until they encounter the words, then society at large works on these issues, and eventually the terminology stabilizes. It takes awhile.

Unreasonable people expect everyone else to do and think exactly like themselves, and consider anyone who does and thinks rationally, but differently, to be unreasonable and irrational. Reasonable people know that in real life, there is usually more than one correct answer.

Here's an interesting chart and even some drawings:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

The bottom line is there are two sexual extremes, male and female. People tend to concentrate on the differences and language reflects that, but in reality, men and women are more alike then different. Hormones have a lot more to do with development than genetics. Some people don't naturally produce enough to be unambiguous.. But, we have more or less the same organs. In guys they drop and either grow larger or atrophy. I don't know if anything atrophies in women, they just move and develop differently. When women get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal. When men get hernias, internal organs want to come out the birth canal except in guys, it's called something else.

This chart shows scientific names, but if you take anything away from this, pay attention to the Skene's glands, which is usually called the G-spot. Unlike the prostate, it can be pressured from either side.

Cloud is uploaded personalities orbiting in space, reference Rapture of the Nerds

A lot of decades old computers and software were completely replaced just prior to Y2K. Plenty of Cobol programmers were writing patches, but I think plenty of companies realized that this was finally time to go new. Not enough cobol programmers to go around and besides it made for a good sales pitch. No way to know for sure whether it was necessary, but I do think there was a lot of truth in there. But, it's hard to analyze a problem that was anticipated and dealt with.

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That's funny, but so true. You get the idea that it's the lawyers who design the toys and the packaging now a days. If your child wants to be a toy maker, you need to impress upon him early on that lawyers can be creative, too. I didn't realize that until I was a grown up engineer facing all kinds of constraints that were not physical or financial in nature as I was taught in school, but had to do with "compliance" and "legal".

Legos have been around a lot longer than you. And they had kits years before they had movie tie ins. It's been an evolving product. The only thing that's stayed the same is the fact that the basic brick is colorful and connects to other parts using a consistent system that hasn't changed over the years. A block built in the 60's will work just fine with one built last week. But, the availability of special parts and the artwork on the box and in the instruction sheet, that has varied over time.

My kids played with Lego when they were in single digits. A kid that young is more creative when they don't have to think about tolerances. Not all kids are interested in engineering, but if allowed to be creative in simple ways, maybe they will grow up to find the "hard stuff" worth doing. It's simply a matter of allowing the child to see the path from the toy version to the adult version and traverse if interested. Tolerances aren't exactly hard, but they aren't interesting either if all you want if a replica space ship. Let the toy maker deal with tolerance and kids deal with the part they are interested in.

You mean we have a whole generation of kids who have no problem with RTFM?

Or maybe, LEGO used to be like a lot of other creative companies, they created stuff that the guys in R & D enjoyed rather than what real kids enjoyed. Then marketing showed up and convinced management that real kids weren't like the toy designers.

You see the same thing with computers, the creatives have a hard time understanding why regular people are perfectly happy with whatever Microsoft and Fry's are pushing, Until marketing go involved, only geeks played with technology.

I have no complaint with Lego. My only complain would be with people who think there is only one correct way to assemble a kit.

That's a great point. Sometimes they aren't ready for adult tools or need some guidance that parents aren't able to provide. I remember how when I had to work on the week ends, I'd take them to the office and set them up with a CAD program. They never designed anything worthwhile on their own, and I couldn't get my own work done if I helped them.

Once it is assembled just the way you like it, just pop it in the oven for a minute or two. It's plastic, it melts together. When I was a girl, I was allowed to play in the kitchen. No easy bake for me, my parents thought light bulb cooking was stupid, so I learned to do things the right way with grown up tools. Too dangerous for modern boys and girls. When I wanted a toy lathe like my friend had, my dad laughed and then decides he'd rather teach me how to use his tools.

Don't they have some sort of Lego CAD where you can design something and then order exactly the right parts? If not, they should. That would encourage people to buy the genuine article.

I usually bought TYCO. It was good enough for daily play. If they wanted something special that they would never take apart, then Lego or maybe TYCO with glue. If it had to have the special wheels, then Lego, but only if they contributed some of their hard earned allowance money. It's amazing how requiring a kid to pay even 10% of the cost makes them think twice.