I would care more if slashdot let us edit our posts.

All this hassle over beta and we can't even edit our posts for short period after posting them to fix them.

I'm thinking small men who are disproportionally strong.

Continuing the line of reasoning...

Send only people with low metabolisms.

Send only people with dwarfism. (I think the actor who portrays Tyrian in game of thrones is smart enough to be a mission specialist if not a full out astronaut). They can be very strong.

Perhaps 4'6" males have lower metabolisms than 5'6" females and might still be stronger.

Sadly, yes.

Because if it hadn't been there, sure as shit, someone would have bitched about a statement like that being missing.

People nitpick the submissions and never complement the good ones.

I have HBO because it's cheaper to have it with the comcast bundle than to not have it for the next 18 months. I would never ever pay for it.

I have Netflix because it used to seriously rock and it still rocks.

But all the companies are slicing and dicing the pool of shows and movies smaller and smaller and still want $10 to $15 each.

A huge unlimited pool of movies at $12 was great.

17 limited pools of movies and shows at $12 each is going to suck and not be worth it.

Not really. This is more like the mom is a citizen of a country that only taxes here 3% on income while she lives in the U.S. and she charges the husband's small business $120,000 a year for "housekeeping and babysitting services".

As a result, the husband has no net income and pays no taxes. It is set up with here as a foreign national, legally hired in the foreign country but only working on site temporarily so she pays no taxes here. Net result- a total of 3% taxes paid elsewhere while she lives and performs services here for a u.s. citizen, uses the roads, etc.

Probably time to go to a VAT tax and have the same legal setup as other countries.
But no one wants to give up their loopholes or rewrite the IRS computer software.

that is supposed to say, "it won't help".

And if girls don't naturally love programming, i won't help.

Here's my experience with minecraft.

Millions of sales.

Go to the redstone servers or the PVP servers or the Youtube videos about gameplay and redstone programming....

And it's a bunch of 9!!! year old boys to middleaged guys.

Seriously... some 9 year old boy making you tube videos of his redstone creations-- and I learned something from his video. I can't even make a youtube video yet.

Girls play minecraft but they are under represented and tend to focus on the creative side of the game (and are underrepresented there as well). I was introduced to minecraft by a young lady in my dnd game.

After two years of building redstone creations out of comparators, repeaters, and gates, not gates, or gates, nor gates and visually seeing the concept of signal strength, leading edges, and timing... these kids are going to be ready for that part of CS (it was two courses and two labs of my CS course).

And they enjoy it. Heck- I enjoy it. I stayed up overnight working on a redstone program that implemented a weekly/monthly calendar and a god that took donations and gave benefits that lasted until the end of the month. For fun. Not for money.

Most of the women I've knew in C.S. put in their 8 to 12 hours and went home. One female would go home and stay up til 2am "playing" with computers. She was actively courted by google. Decided not to take the job because she wanted to spend more time with her autistic son than a google job would allow.

About a third of the guys put in their 8 to 12 hours and then went home and continued to "play" with computers.

I don't know how to get little girls to love computers. You might get them to choose it as a job if it had good prospects. But when one person puts in 80 hours a week on computers and another person puts in32 hours a week, the difference shows up quickly.

Plus, once in the field-- females have easier promotion to management and a preference for management over programming. 70% of our managers and team leads were female at my last job.

It's based on a lie detector test. If they sincerely believe they did nothing wrong, there will be no stress for the lie detectors to pick up.

And likewise, some people who feel really guilty about the issue may show stress.

There will probably be some false positives too.

So the FBI will end up hiring people who don't feel downloading is illegal and those who don't feel stress when lying.

I agree with you that the U.S. handles birth control education and birth control availability badly compared to all other developed nations.

I stumbled on the fact that Britain had a similarly bad rate back in 2004 (about 40% unplanned) so they are doing something right.

But then I stumbled on more indicating that unplanned births are aborted at a high rate in Britain these days- so they may still be getting pregnant at a higher rate- and just aborting a lot more.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news...

Still, even with only 16%, it's about 140,000 unplanned pregnancies that were born.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-2...

Recreational sex results in about 1/3 of the net population growth of ~400,000 for the country making it "one of the fastest growing populations in the EU."

(for all this I'm ignoring the cases where people are planning on having a baby and have recreational sex...)

It surprised me how intensely people want to believe that birth control is totally reliable.

If someone is bit torrenting and someone is watching netflix or youtube HD, what's the difference?

The rich moving to other countries is a temporary problem created by the fact that we have peace enforced by the military budgets of the nations they leave.

It is absolutely insane for 500,000 rich people to move into a country like monaco with no native military in the long term. The next time civil order breaks down, they'll probably die in large numbers and lose a lot of their wealth.

They are like a ripe plum waiting to be picked. It may be 20 years.. it might be 40 years.

Switzerland isn't really safe any more either. The natural land barriers won't protect it like they did in the past.

I haven't personally had a vasectomy so the double test was news to me! Good to know. I had my daughter (unplanned btw from recreational sex while the wife was on birth control pills) and then got cancer and became infertile.

It sounds like we are in agreement on the fertile couple plus birth control to have recreational intercourse style sex produces babies so that would have a high carbon cost.

I think they think- but people weight facts according to their emotional needs. People who want to have sex while fertile rate the risk of babies as low.

Actually it is hard. When used properly almost all forms of birth control still have a failure rate over 1%. There were 3.3 million unplanned births last year from "recreational" sex. That's after the abortions.

Unless you've had a vasectomy and been tested to confirm your count is down to 0 or one of you is 100% definitely sterile (not just using birth control) or you are the same sex, you can make a baby every time you have sex. People do... a lot.

What's so hard for people to understand? Despite abundant evidence of plentiful births from recreational sex and failure of birth control, people seem to really, really want to believe otherwise.

In the long term, it's better. The sooner we equalize cost structures between the two countries, the quicker that it no longer makes financial sense to hire overseas.

For china, that will essentially happen by 2030 and there will be diminishing returns as early as 2020..

For india, that will essentially happen by 2065 (sheesh!) with diminishing returns as early as 2055. That's going to be ugly for two more generations. Essentially looking at Japan 1946 to 1986 but the focus will be on educated jobs.

Meanwhile robots and automation destroy the low end jobs.