I take umbrage with your use of "emotional women" as though it is a slur. We're adults, here, and I'd like to believe we are above such sexist outbursts.

One can also choose a distro to trust and not install software that falls outside of their core repositories without running it past that friend of yours who can read code.

Sexist jokes, even well intended, are a large part of the reason we don't see more women in technology. I respectfully ask you to stop.

With larger birds such as African Grey's, there is a really high risk of injury to the bird if they are allowed to grow up flying inside a house. Young birds do not understand glass for instance, and will attempt to fly into it, ultimately doing harm to themselves. To offset this, the non-permanent wing clipping is employed to prevent them from taking flight. This doesn't prevent gliding, however, so they can still leap safely off ledges to the floor to get around. Once they're older, you have to take into account that the nearly or fully grown bird has never flown, so you keep clipping the wings as they don't know how to use them.

I've never owned a Parrot but I grew up with one and my parents opted to not clip his wings. The net result was a lot of snapped feathers and a bird with neurological damage from running into things full tilt. Not pretty.

In addition to, many service level jobs require you to find your own replacement if you're going to call in sick. As any wait staff or bartender what happens when they're ill.

From TFA:

I'd also like to point out that schools that really need to have truancy addressed are the poor, inner city schools that can't afford a technological solution to their socioeconomic problems.

I for one ride a 1/100 ton vehicle that gets infinite miles/gallon and do so in all types of traffic. It can even carry cargo -- it's record towing is 3/4 of a ton (about 1500 lbs) The trick is to be well lit and predictable. Above all else, PREDICTABLE. A little planning concerning lane positioning, when I'm going to turn and actually using my signals (hands) makes riding in traffic around vehicles that can turn me into a grease stain safe.

Driving one of these little smart cars? Hell, as long as they maintain power and others can see me, I'm OK with that.

Don't forget to cover:
7) Method described in (1), on the internet.
8) Method described in (1), with rounded corners.

Man. I wish I still had Mod points and that you weren't an AC. This is a very nice, concise description and I find it a pleasure to read.

That's not actually true. The last time I checked into this, it was that they trained the dogs to associate the smell of various chemicals with play, so when they smell pot, they want to jump and bite and overall expect you to have toys on you.

Something important to note about many corporations is how difficult it is to know how far their reach extends and stay clear of it. This makes it difficult to not become one of their customers in some sense. I'd love to avoid Phillip Morris and not give them custom but it's not obvious that in order to do that I also have to avoid Kraft and other things related to it.

I believe the increase is due to preventing TCP from self-throttling which it will do when it detects lost packets. Since fewer packets are lost, TCP doesn't need to throttle and you not only regain the packets that may have been dropped, but you also eliminate some of the need for retransmission, holding up a transaction while the missing packets are retransmitted as well as the slowdown that occurs when TCP detects a congested network.

This is a gross simplification, but hopefully it describes the situation.

Or if you've "signed" social agreements not to bring harm to people who care about you then it's unethical because your actions could cause harship to those people. Think children, spouses, friends, family -- folks who are going to have to pick things up if/when you lose control of whatever it is that you're doing to and with your self.

There's a lot showing that epigenetics carry your poor life choices on to your children. So, though the DNA itself may not be changed, there very well may be an inheritable genetic result of drug use.

There are foolish places in the world that have water piped into the desert. See Las Vegas, for instance. I'd much rather see Vegas producing cheap, renewable gasoline with that water that used to be known as the Colorado River.