Since you're doing this for the money, and hitting the "glass ceiling", honing your business skills will give you the best chance of moving into a position where you can make significantly more money. You say that you want to go into project management, and having business skills in achieving the trifecta of a successful project (scope, schedule, and budget) will go far. Since you've spent a significant part of your career in deep technical fields, it will also give you a different perspective on what your employer thinks is important. It will also give you a hand-up on your peer competition, because being able to tell when the tech folks are bullshitting the "suits" is extremely valuable.

Must be some new science. My recollection of thermo (a couple decades ago, to be sure) was pretty clear on non-relativistic energy change. Enthalpy decreases, entropy increases, but mass stays constant.

It's obviously all those nukular reactors turning mass into energy. The only responsible action would be to go to a mass-neutral system like fossil fuels for energy.

Not one of the sources you posted in way backs up the bullshit that you're spouting. It was well known that Iraq had radioactive materials, including enriched uranium. That materiel is now presumably secured. There is no evidence that foot soldiers found and released radioactive materials, or that Iraqis (who are not a stupid or uneducated people) dumped out drums of yellowcake and used them to store food. Stop believing everything you hear at the EarthFirst! meetings and start to think for yourself.

Anybody want a peanut?

Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_book It's been around for 100 years.

Who said anything about 'turning off' scripts? I want to be able to whitelist sites I trust and reject all other scripts from being run. Since many legit sites use scripts, people have to leave script-execution enabled all the time in IE.

As long as you want to disable it GLOBALLY, them yeah that's great. Even IE can do that. But that makes many legitimate and useful sites useless. I don't want to have globally enable and disable scripts every time. With NoScript I can 'whitelist' specific sites or just temporarily allow scripts for a single page if I want.

So women who have their ovaries removed become men? Or what about women born without reproductive organs? Are they not women anymore?

So if I chop your nuts off, you become a woman? Do you forget a lifetime of experiences being male? Do you have to change the little 'M' on your driver's license to an 'F'?

This is an abuse of science when we have clear and documented cases where your definitions are inadequate, yet you continue to insist they are correct. Your definition, your model, is in error. Scientifically speaking -- science takes all available evidence into consideration, not just the parts you agree with.

Again, your definition is in error: A hermaphrodite is an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs. Nowhere in that definition is "Ova" or "sperm" included -- it is possible to have both male and female reproductive organs and have either, both, or neither, of those conditions met. Neuter is a an adjective that refers to either a lack of gender (a social construct, not physical), or the lack of reproductive organs.

The very definition of gender is cultural, subjective, and very much not scientific. You're attempting to use science to advance your own religious or personal beliefs about how the world "should be", not how it is. Science is about how things ARE not how they SHOULD be. The moment you start saying "should", you've left the realm of science.

Indeed, some more organized and large countries (China being the most effective current example) have programs to try to find people with particular genetic variants to recruit into sports. Want to dope people with testosterone but it's illegal? Find someone with abnormally high levels of testosterone naturally! Thinking of competing in a sport where HGH would help? Find a guy who naturally produces really high levels. Etc.

I guess I don't find that process that interesting. Is there really anything better or more fair about a guy who produces abnormally high levels of HGH, vs. someone else injecting HGH? Why is one more interesting to watch than the other? It seems the only possible answer is attaching some sort of mysticism to the fact that one was "natural".

You might have missed the portion about the in-game "PLEX" asset they created in order to fill the demand for RMT. The idea is that if you want to purchase ISK, you need to broker it through EVE. Basically you can sell off your own subscribed months to another player for market value of in-game money. People that want to trade real money for in-game money can do so by subscribing to more months than they normally would. They benefit by knowing they will not get scammed, or get a virus. Further, people that would like to play, but can't completely afford it, can subsidize they're playing time by doing boring background tasks such as low-sec mining. What this does is transfers the profits RMTers were making to the developers. By creating a legitimate exchange, brokered by them, they kept any potential profits from RMT tied up in subscriptions, rather than having it spent on mountain dew and cheetos. I don't think they'll lose a dime from this.

My concern about using Grandcentral for business (or any other real-person contact, for that matter) is that it really doesn't protect my privacy. The way I see it working is:

1) I give out my Grandcentral number to someone.
2) They call me. I don't pick up, and they leave a message.
3) I call them back on my cell or home phone, they pick up and comment about the caller ID not being what I gave them.
4) They record my cell number, and use it from then on to contact me, thus negating the whole point of Grandcentral.

Is there a way to overcome this?

Hummingbird rocks, in my experience. It involves a fundamental shift in the way people create and access documents, since it doesn't work with network shares. It also means that you have to enter the meta-data associated with the files every time. However, it does have very strong permissions, access controls, and versioning support, and would likely solve your problem, since you can prevent those who don't need access to a document or project from access, or even viewing that the document exists. On the down side, it's fairly expensive. (In our organization, implementation was at least 5-figures, and probably 6) and it requires a lot of support and baby-sitting (1/2 to 1 FTE, with an organization of about 500).

I'm on the same list as this guy. He is basically a whining, privileged douche, just like all commercial pilots. He is not on the "no-fly" list (otherwise he would not be allowed to fly, period.) The list that he is on is the "Watch" list, which means that he has a name that is the same or similar to someone the government is interested in. What this means is that he has to verify his ID before he gets a boarding pass and pass security. It means that he has to stand in line with the rest of us plebes, rather than walking to front of the line because he's a pilot and therefore exempt from all the hassles that us citizens have to endure. This guy is whining about being treated like everyone else, and having to arrive 15 minutes earlier and show his ID. His job is not on the line, that's just a claim he's making to sue the government.