Nerds are a hard to define group of persons. Depending on the kind of group of people, nerds have different properties. In some context it is used as a term of honor, while other use the term to decry someone. In the article I assume to a different definition of nerd is referred to. A nerd is there a person with low self-esteem. Someone who thinks suppressed, mobbed or ignored by others. They are a little closer to the autistic side and they feel uncomfortable around other people. Even more when those people are not nerds too.

The male version of such nerds tend to have had not much experience with women and might not know how to act proper around them. They might be even aware of this fact. They might even understand the psychology of mating rituals, but as they lack the intuition (which comes from practice and success) they have an unsatisfied need in that context.

A mental solution to fix this from a personal point of view is to imitate successful role models. These figures can come from the real world or from TV, books, videos and even games. However, these role models are mostly incompatible with the present and often not compatible with any culture on earth to any given time. Nevertheless, they often carry an image of women as "bitches" or "slaves", which can result in a male behavior which is highly inappropriate.

Another solution from a personal view is projection of self-hate onto others. Example: From "I hate me for not having sex with women" the nerd makes the switch to "I hate women for rejecting me". This even works when he was not actively rejected but ignored.

Both strategies can even used together for a maximum of awkwardness and hate.

Please do not misinterpret this as "He hates nerds". I don't. I am one myself. Even though I chose a third solution and after decades I tried a fourth that worked and now I am a normal person ;-)

The third solution is suggesting to yourself that you are not interested in women beside being a friend. I tried that from 20 to 35, which worked perfectly in the beginning because I had my first girlfriend shortly after I switched to that scheme. However, that relationship only worked for some month and was totally unsatisfactorily for the next 15 years. Then I decided that a new scheme might work even better. I could try to be polite and ask women out, but first I should not look like an unwashed yeti from under the bridge. And that really worked. It would also work with people who have chosen method one or two. However, they need first to accept who they are and then accept that women are humans and equals. And acceptance is not achieved by saying it but by meaning it. If you have any trouble with that: See a shrink. I did (somehow). It worked.

Your assumptions would be true if melting ice would be the only effect on the sea water level and the melting itself would be a linear process. However, there are other effects.

a) Due to a rising global temperature the ocean temperature is also rising in the upper water layers. These masses do also expand.
b) When the glacier speed in Antarctica is picking up more speed, as it is right now, the melting will increase and also will the rise in sea level.
c) The greater introduction of sweet water in Antarctica will effect the overall global water stream system. This system causes certain dents and bumps in the ocean surface. Changes to the system will cause changes to these dents and bumps and therefore sea level changes could be higher at some shore lines. Furthermore, this will cause a lot of local climate change.

Easy. First, the UK gets a lot from the EU in term of market access. Most of UKs financial industry would not work that well without the continent. Second, the UK is attractive to foreign (non-EU-companies) to place their European HQ in the UK. If the UK would not be part of the EU. This attractiveness would be diminished. Ireland would most likely profit from that move. Third, UK subsidies go into many areas. For example, food production. And the UK profits from those lower food prices. Fourth, 14 EUR per year is not that much. Actually, we could even print it. Mario Dragi could buy all those state obligations.

Beside that: We work together in the EU not only to boost economy. The goal is provide a common body for a free (as in human rights) Europe. This can only be realized by supporting the weaker states and regions in the EU. What you gain from that is peace and cultural exchange.

Democracy works in big states. For example India or the US of A. Yes we have to make it more democratic. But honestly. The one country preventing steps in that direction is the UK.

And finally, you postulate that it is unfair how many votes an MEP from Malta or Luxembourg represents. It is true. However, this imbalance is there to protect minorities. Malta has only 5 seats, and Luxembourg 6. While the UK has 72. We could have fixed that with the Lisbon-Treaty, but the UK was not very interested in a real and complete democratic parliament with legislative power.

Since the UK joined the EU, they saw the EU merely as a trade union. The continental states, like France or Germany, had always the goal to have also a political integration. Therefore, it would be completely logical for the UK to leave.

BTW: Maybe the Scottish will join the EU. We will see.

The British government does not want anything which has to do with the EU, especially when it comes to human rights. Lately, they opposed the European human rights declaration. Now that! They do not want to tax their financial sector, so they can pay back all the money the states had to spend to stabilize the economy. If they really do not want to be in the EU. Then fuck off and leave. If the only interest is a trade union. We can negotiate one. But please do not hold back the other nations. Thanks.

My wallet is mobile and it works even days without recharging. Also most payment systems do not work that well at the local market or flee market. It is not free of charge. It is also unable to work between normal people everywhere. The latter could be fixed with a standard which works with different payment systems. The free of charge thing is most likely not fixable if the whole thing is not state or central bank driven. The biggest problem is, however, the limited battery power. With no electricity the thing is worthless. If it is used for train/plane tickets, no electricity means no ticket. For payment apps, it means no money.

In addition, present solution work good enough and the benefit of app based payment is not that big.

Many people confuse the form of a state and its economic system with the governing method. For starters: A state could be a republic or a monarchy, where in a republic the leader position is not transferred to a child (or another person in the family hierarchy/dynasty) of the present leader. A monarchy is quite the opposite. The economic dimension is nowadays defined by either total all is owned by specific persons vs. all is owned by everyone. This not necessarily means that the state owns everything, but that is an option. The third dimension is the way how the governing happens. That could be democratic in various flavors from direct democracy over parliament democracy or elected presidents to dictatorships.

China, for instance, is a republic with a more or less capitalistic economic system and a dictator which is presently Mr. Xi. North Korea mostly looks like a monarchy, dictatorship with a state controlled economy.

The US is a republic and it has a capitalistic economy. Its government is democratic by constitution, however, due to reciprocal effects the democratic selection process is broken. This is a problem in most western democracies at the moment. And we MUST fix it.

Your claim is stupid, because it would require to re-test everything during your stay at university. In reality you learn many of the laws of your field derived from applications of the scientific method. You learn about Newton's law and do not need to reproduce it, as it has already be tested and it is a good model for certain contexts. In CS you learn about Gödel's incompleteness theorems you do not need to come up with the proof yourself you just learn it. And you learn about the consequences of it. And this is not indoctrination, it is learning.

In my disc world the sun rises and sets following a path defined by god. All the bad weather are preludes of Armageddon. All the sinners will die!!!!! /sarkasm

The real problem is that Putin wants an Eurasian union as a way to re-establish the Russian empire and the EU and even more the USA think in terms of Samuel P. Huntington's "Clash of Civilization" which will become a self fulfilling prophecy (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...).

Shit happens to the best programmers. The only thing to prevent such things is to check the code. Therefore, you need another person trying to test the code and you need a specification for the code so you can really check the code against another artifact. But obviously nobody bothered. That's why in housing the architect plans the building and at least two structural designer check the design (at least in Germany that is).

There is no such thing as race in conjunction with humans, as this would imply selective breeding. The equality of people do not mean that we are all equal in genes. That would be quite confusing, if everybody would look the same. We are all different and equal in rights.

No it is not. Read the fine (nature) article. Furthermore, there are no human races. Race implies human-driven selective breeding.

BTW: A racist implies that there are certain groups of humans which are better (on an absolute scale) than other and that they are therefore superior and should rule over the other or even exterminate (greeting from the daleks) those other humans. In reality we are all different and in that property we are all equal, especially in rights. At least in theory that is. In Reality we are only worth our stock of gold pressed latinum.

Yes, the original is much better and does not try to promise the same dip shit as /. article. Who would have guessed ;-)

Option 8 is not a real one. They cannot shot anyone beside China, South Korea and most likely themselves. And option two is called Russia these days.

They show that the stuff you bought have, for example, a high salt concentration. Naturally, you would not eat so much of the stuff that it would be harmful. However, this might not be so clear for other product or for other people. Anyway, the label alerts you to the fact that this food has a high salt concentration.

BTW: Many people have a distorted relationship to food. They eat two bags of potato chips together with 2 liter of coke during a TV session. The idea is to inform them more drastically that the stuff they eat has high concentration of salt, fat etc.