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Comment Re:*sigh* (Score 1) 228

Your explanation makes less sense to me than the question.

Heterosexual male here. I prefer stories where the femaile characters are strong and independent. I dislike stories (and real life) that makes assumptions about peoples capabilities which are based on stereotypes.

Just maybe, this is a result of changing cultural norms rather than catering to a female audience. Don't be fooled by how loud the knuckle dragging frat boy voice is on Slashdot.

Comment Re:Rice cookers (Score 1) 270

Why is your rice cooker the only one on the planet that takes longer to cook rice than the standard method? Most are the same or slightly faster, and unlike the stovetop, impossible to set the heat too high or too low, so the end result is generally more consistent.

Rice cookers are also brilliant at making slow cooked oatmeal (rolled or steel cut), which is the only kind worth eating.

Comment Re:The trick... (Score 1) 246

I don't think your reasoning is very sound. Isn't it possible to be a great scientist, judge, journalist, or lawyer, and also be a bad person? Or, more specific to this argument, isn't it possible for a trait which makes you a great scientist to also make you a bad person? More importantly, is it possible to lack that trait, or to be a good person, and still be a great scientist, judge, journalist, or lawyer?

I believe the answer to each of these questions is yes.

Comment Re:nonsense (Score 1) 532

Um, that's not even accurate. Our medical care is second to none in quality and capability.

By what measure? We probably rank first in cost per patient and expensive testing machines per patient. But I don't know of any measure of outcomes where the US ranks first (for most procedures, not even in the top 10-20).

Comment Re:Correction (Score 3, Insightful) 71

Perhaps a lawyer needs to boldly go and inform this court that they now need to waste taxpayer money translating the sci-fi bullshit presented as a legal argument. You know, for the rest of the planet that doesn't know what a Tribble is.

To an average English speaker who has never heard of Star Trek, the text quoted is far more understandable than the average legal document. Who should pay for the usually required translation from legalese?

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