"We've got what it takes to take what you've got."

It is used so that the federal and state governments can keep playing 'hide the real tax rate' between the two of them.

I don't know about the EU and UK, but in the USA, the market for HD Radio has been crippled by IP and licensing issues. The hardware is (or could be) cheap. Particularly if China gets into the manufacturing business.

Maybe. But you need social skills to not make the 'average' people think you are shitting on them. There are a lot of not outstandingly brilliant but hardworking and productive people that you will meet. And you will be better off working with them, even if that means keeping a lid on your genius, than trying to convince them that you possess it (even if you do).

The stupid are fun to watch.

I recall an article a few years back about one of those Amazonian tribes that wanted nothing to do with western civilization. There was a photo of a couple of tribesmen wearing New York Knicks tee shirts and a few Tupperware containers visible near the cooking fire.

That would be Boeing's role (as the general contractor). Boeing is really good about managing things that they understand, like building airplanes. Because there's usually some geezer on the payroll that remembers how they did things 'back in the old days'. But not so good at doing the one-off type projects. They basically broker services and talent between the various subcontractors that actually know how to do the work.

Thousands of meth addicts will disagree.

Self-esteem is a part of social/emotional development. You can't think well of others (and stop undermining them) until you think well of yourself.

Here's some: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/ev...

Although the null result tends to dominate in studies of academic preformance (no preference for single-sex or coeducational settings), single sex does show advantages in the accumulated studies in the social/emotional areas.

But that's out of 171 who took it. So 41%. Not great, but then considering that these are people who are thinking about a career where they are likely going to be replaced by cheap offshore labor, they probably aren't the brightest bulbs in the marquee anyway.

As opposed to something they have the aptitude for?

Perhaps the point is that if we can eliminate the societally imposed gender biases, more women who have the skills will excel in STEM fields. While all the boys who have delusions of being great coders will just have to live with a career paving parking lots.

Maybe. Some educators believe that women only groups are not nearly as destructively competitive as when the opposite sex is present. Anecdotally, I know some women who have been raised to compete for a goal rather than against each other in sports or academics. They tend to do much better in their careers than the average female. The question is: Can this behavior be taught (perhaps at an early age) or are these few outliers genetic anomalies?

Maybe. But this doesn't explain the difference in STEM hiring. Only the numbers of each gender that excel in their fields. There are plenty of male morons in CS, engineering and science. And we (hiring organizations) seem not to filter them out effectively. So why should the population of women in these fields depend on how many make it to the upper tail of the bell curve when we hire men who are on the back side of the hump?

Not so much of a problem. Religious organization proselytizes on behalf of a candidate and sudenly contributions to them become non tax deductible. Same rules for secular political campaign fundraising. And along with this comes some intrusive auditing to determine which funds are being spent for what. I'm really OK with this. The ability to look inside a church and find out where the funds go is far more valuable thn keeping them out of politics. Which they get into anyway with no supervision.