It was sarcasm at what is "*REALLY* American". American labour laws are like medieval serfdom compared to Europe's.

How is this in anyway relevant to whether it is a planet or not?

You're "compensated" by keeping your sorry ass in a job.

See me in my office first thing tomorrow, Freeze. Security are boxing up your belongings and will escort you from the building. This is the last time you ignore my 1 a.m. emails.

You appear confused. A few points that may help you.

No one is offering excuses for anything.

The ones who might suffer here are high school boys. Not "menz" and not CS graduates. So your scorn is addressing an irrelevant target.

Google, the ones offering this discriminatory money, are very much part of the nasty, unpleasant industry you speak of.

The key difference is between between separate treatment and unequal treatment.

I think it is unreasonable for anyone to expect an actor to fully research all the meaning/implication/history/research/studies of everything they are paid to say. Particularly when, like Star Trek, the factual content is heavily scrambled in amongst the most nonsensical technobabble fiction.

Why should Mulgrew want to spend her time sorting out the nonsense from the fact? She's not a scientist. She's not even a writer. She's an actress. She says what she's told, how she's told.

However, you do wonder just how much attention she paid to what she was saying in this film. Was it all just words to her?

So does this now mean that Voyager 1 has, or hasn't, left the solar system?

Cos that's how I usually gauge astronomical retractions.

This is very true for just about everything. People like to believe that things that cost more are intrinsically better than cheaper alternatives. Even if all the evidence indicates no difference, or even that they are worse.

Otherwise you'd feel like you were a sucker that had been ripped off in paying more for no good reason. And no-one likes to think they're a sucker.

And if Windows XP is running my kidney dialysis, or controlling my nuclear power station?

Inventing something that might set me up for life, never need to do anything ever again? Sounds like a good spur for innovation to me.

You want some of that? Then invent something that's more "gold" than mine. Another spur.

If I don't want you making my "gold" obsolete, robbing me of my easy profits/retirement? Then maybe I better keep innovating myself. Yet another spur.

Not saying its perfect, but it works.

In all seriousness, this isn't a personal hygene snark, I don't see how 8 minutes showering a week could be considered such a massive hardship.

Say you shower every second day, you're not going to be the freshest thing on Mars, but you'll not stink that bad. So that gives you a little over two and a quarter minutes to get a wash. No time to luxuriate. But plenty time to get clean if you get on with it.

Yup. That's the ultimate disapproval of homeopathy. At the levels of dilution involved, every single drop of water on the planet is likely to have "inherited" the magical healing of every possible substance on the planet that has ever gotten wet. So every random sample of water cures everything.

And that's before you even consider the goofy logic that determines which original substance cures which disease.

The only way homeopathy can counter this is to suggest that its the special way that the water is shaken between dilutions that makes all the difference. Because practitioners of homeopathy are skilled in shaking bottles of water in a way that makes a difference at molecular level.

You are absolutely correct, but for the wrong reasons. You have the chain of required events backwards.

It is no-one's responsibility to prove that alternative medicine does not work. It is alternative's medicine's responsibility to prove that is does work.

Why, you almost make it seem reasonable. What right thinking person could have any problem with this troll taking a few pennies of you for doing absolutely nothing? Its not so much to ask for, is it?

Certainly not worth getting slapped with court action simply because you have "principles". Just pay little money and nothing bad will happen to your nice little podcast. It would be a shame if you had to stop. Think of it just like extortion... , I mean, a tax. There, not so bad, was it?

During any price negotiations, the company wants to best maximise their profit. Any inside info they have on you will be used to their benefit, not yours. It skews negotiations in their favor, because you don't have the same inside knowledge on them.

All from just looking at your face before you even open your mouth.