Government managers care about accountability, you are right. They care about not being the one being held accountable, that is about it - from my experience.

They will approve anything, as long as they can point the finger at someone else when shit goes wrong.

If you selectively breed crops or animals for food - breeding to extend specific traits you find desirable, how is it not the same?

Granted, it takes longer to produce the outcome you want through breeding traditionally - but you still get the same outcome in the end.

Why is "natural" GMO acceptable and this not?

This is a good point, I'd mod you Insightful of I had mod points and you weren't AC :)

The fact of the matter is, most of us guys probably wouldn't put up with women except for three things: tits, pussies, and the fact that most of them can cook better than most of us :-) Smiley, but serious all the same.

On the other hand, most women probably wouldn't put up with guys except for dicks, and the fact that we can lift heavy stuff and unscrew really tight jar and bottle caps.

It's only our differing abilities and needs that enable us to tolerate one another enough to get married :-)

And I fully expect that once sex robots are perfected to the point that they've passed the uncanny valley (or maybe before, for some people), there will be a percentage of guys who will just buy a sex robot (or two or three) and flip the On switch when they want to get laid, then send the robot back to its storage location and get a good night's sleep.

A few women might buy them as well (after all, what guy could match the stamina of a sex bot), but I do expect it will be a mostly male thing.

I don't buy this.

There wasn't much in the way of computers when I was young (we had a dial-up system with a DECWriter II at my middle school, and I spent a lot of time on it once I got there. Before middle school and after (since my high school had no computers), I spent my time on fishing and cars, two things that few girls were interested in, then or now. I also read a lot, something girls do a lot, too, but it's a solitary activity, and my reading interests didn't align with girls (I was Lord of The Rings; they were ponies, Nancy Drew, etc.)

Despite having a mostly geek childhood and adolescence, I grew up, dated, had girlfriends, got married, had kids, all the usual things that most people do.

Video games? Was never heavily into them, but did play when I was single. Have a Wii now, but the kids use it more than I do. My wife uses it more than I do, too.

Porn? Not much time for that, either. I watch it now and then. Usually with my wife. The article acts like women don't watch porn, but I can assure you that many of them do.

In short, I think TFA is a load of crap.

I agree with you, but like one of your respondents said, even that doesn't always work. I know a dude who, in the opinion of both my wife and myself, is still basically a kid. Despite being generally responsible, having a decent job, being a home owner, having two normal kids, this he's still at the center of his universe, and awfully cocky about it, too.

How he became a home owner is telling. He and his wife recently made the decision to buy a house. Not long after the decision was made, out of the blue he hit her with "Let's buy one in this resort area that I go to really often (side note: usually without her or the kids) to do this sport that I'm really into. I'm sure my company will let me work remotely." Surprise.

He's the dominant one in their marriage, so she quit a good new job that she's been doing for a few months and at which she's already had a promotion, which of course was to the great surprise and disappointment of her employer. The kids were uprooted and moved to a new school in the middle of the school year. There's little to no tech work in this resort area, so it's going to make it hard for her to find a new job, compounded by the fact that she quit her old one after only about 6 months.

anything you google, type into bing, yahoo, are all captured somewhere. Seems that they are fighting a losing war of data leakage protection.

You could still buy vacuum tubes in the late 70's and early 80's.

'70s and '80s? You can still buy them today. There are even companies (mostly in Russia, other former Warsaw Pact countries, and China) that still make tubes, so you can get brand-new ones for your gear.

That's just the one company I've bought from in the past to fix my old radios; there are others as well that should turn up with a little bit of google-fu.

Since you mentioned the Model T there's one hill on a former highway near me where my grandmother had to put the thing in reverse and go up backwards (reverse on that gearbox is a lower ratio than first).

I'd heard that the reason you had to back Model Ts up steep hills was to keep the fuel tank above the carburetor. If you tried going uphill in the usual manner, the fuel tank would end up below the carburetor. Since the carburetor was gravity-fed (no fuel pump), the engine would conk out as soon as the fuel bowl ran dry.

But it seems to me that since he waited until after he was a billionaire to marry her, she can't claim that his fortune is a marital asset because he earned it before they tied the knot.

LK