Haha, fair enough, I was just trying to be informative about a misunderstanding that was propagating in several comments on this story while also giving some info on exercise. Better education ftw, more proper rather than colloquial use of words would be nice x.x

Check out the wiki on muscle tone, which is more in line with what you're talking about but not what people generally talk about when they say "toning". Colloquially it is generally used to indicate exercise that improves the appearance of your muscle, which is what I was referring to.

What I have always seen it boil down to is the fact that he lies. Not all the time, maybe not even most of the time. But on numerous occasions, he has outright lied or deliberately misconstrued the facts in a malicious fashion. I view this as problematic because there are viewers of his show who take everything he says to be true, and base some of their opinions on outright lies.

There is no such thing as "toning"; looking toned is simply displaying the muscle you have at a given fat level. It is harder for females to gain muscle mass for the reasons that you stated(i.e hormonal), but it doesn't change the fact that the same methods are followed, and the rate of strength adaptation follows a similar curve.

Most people, even the slim looking cardio "gym rat " females, could benefit from gaining some extra muscle mass. At the very least progression through novice levels of strength adaptation (which results in a corresponding gain in mass) is something everyone should strive to achieve. You look better, you're stronger, you feel better and you're healthier. Perhaps more relevant to this story, having more lean body mass means that your basal metabolic rate is higher and you burn more calories just by carrying the muscle than you would without.

Mark Rippetoe and Lon Kilgore have written extensively on this subject, and reading anything by them is extremely valuable in understanding strength training and it's benefits. I highly recommend Starting Strength (author's website here though some preliminary information sans physiological elaborations can be found on a user made wiki here) for everyone to read. It covers the physiological basis of strength training and a very straightforward way to approach it.

The U.S isn't a sentient entity. It is a country made up of various individuals, and as has been evidenced throughout time and in the current day there are those who would abuse power, abolish rights and oppress others. We are constantly in a struggle to uphold core ideals and preserve the human rights of those both within and without our borders; the latter however should be a shared responsibility, and we have gotten into trouble in the past when we haven't treated it as such. The U.S may have faultered but it doesn't change the fact that there are still people here trying to do the right thing.

There was outrage over the treatment of extraterrestrials in the movie. There was a scene showing protests over how the prawns were treated, it just wasn't the focus of the movie.

That is the nature of research with animals. There is regulation (here in the U.S) that attempts to minimize pain when possible and guidelines that must be followed to acquire animals for research, but there has been substantial progress made through animal research. If you've got a viable alternative I'm sure it would be considered. Take a look at the wiki page for more info.

Not to sound ignorant, as I know my community is not the norm, but is this true? I grew up on Long Island and have never seen such a school. I know there are such measures in some city schools, but is it really "typical" of public schools in the U.S to have barbed wire and metal detectors?

"Normal" here clearly depends on what sort of browsing you are doing. I use chrome exclusively now, but when I used Ffox there was absolutely no question that watching some [flash] videos meant I would have to restart the browser eventually.

Chrome would probably be a better choice for you, then, because you wouldn't be leaking memory all over the place and individual tabs exploding wouldn't affect others.