So long as the laws are specifically unequal (for example it is illegal for a man to lean over a woman in California, but not vice-versa. I've been hit with boobs against my will as a result of these policies! Good thing I'm not a little bitch) you will continue to hear scare stories.

Some women want special treatment because they're women and some women don't want special treatment positive or negative and unfortunately the goals of these two camps collide and there seems to be no rational way to serve them both equally at once.

Given the mythical situation where all else is equal, shoehorning some diversity into the workplace is good for people, because it helps them to realize that we're more the same than we are different, which is good for everyone in a country which hopes to be a melting pot.

Well if you are, then I'm right there with you. Hell, I remember seeing the guy with what looked like a homemade PID controller for his cheap smokers on that BBQ "reality" show, winning competitions and so on against people with stupendously expensive equipment and thinking "I've seen code for that." Indeed, I've been thinking harder about doing some PID projects since they're so simple (once someone else has done the hard parts.)

Congratulations, you have posted a typically self-contradictory comment and people have decided to comment on it as if it were serious. You win teh trollprize. That or you're really really dumb, but I doubt that's the case in this comment.

I agree with you about the acting (in the first TWO seasons it was often unbearable) and some of the dialogue (although some of it was fairly brilliant — these are great people doing great things, not your neighbor the plumber, they're going to be speaking fairly differently) I don't agree with you about the digital effects. It's easy to be jaded today about how "bad" they look because the average video game has better graphics, but if you compare the effects of Trek shows of the day, the effects are clearly in the same ballpark, and if they could have afforded to render them out nicer then many of them would actually have looked better.

I know some women who act more like we expect men to act than like women, who aren't even lesbians. So frankly, I think you just don't know very many people, or perhaps interesting people simply avoid interacting with you.

Do you attain shaman status afterwards?

Brother, shamans try to attain PopeRatzo status.

So, just to be clear, there's a puzzle which has to be solved to move on to the next level, where you attain employment?

Congratulations, you have just presented an example of gamification as a counter-example.

Why did this person get labeled troll? I'm personally for nuclear power (although i think we should at the very least be reprocessing and looking at Thorium reactors) and i found the article he linked to quite interesting. One could argue if those figures are correct that Japan doesn't have time to waste when it comes to cleaning up the mess and I would argue with Japan sitting next to the ring of fire if they build any new reactors they should be smaller and easier to shut down and get out of there in case of catastrophic earthquakes, maybe something along the lines of the small pebble reactor designs.

But no matter which side you are on in the nuclear debate, and I'm of the mind there is simply no truly viable alternative with our ever growing power needs, the article he linked to is an interesting take on the probability of another major earthquake and what the damage will be if it happens. Its a good read and certainly not worthy of a troll label IMHO.

It doesn't make any sense to believe that there will be less publishers because e-publishing lowers the bar to entry. Therefore, there will be more publishers, even if sales are lower, as more and more small players attempt to inhabit niches.

I'm a lot more worried about an engineered flu virus that flips these bits and makes you die early and inflamed. Guess now we know what Captain Trips will be made from.