From your link: "Several exceptions to the doctrine exist, especially if unlawful discrimination is involved regarding the termination of an employee." Political discrimination is pretty much always unlawful. Discrimination based on sexual orientation is unlawful in many states.

Even MIT has stopped teaching functional programing in most of their CS courses. They switched to a combination of Python and Java.

The US series are cheap because they have a large domestic audience. The US series are shown in other countries because they are cheap, and this makes them even cheaper. Nowhere in this chain of events is force being applied by anyone to anyone. Whether or not they are good is both subjective and irrelevant. As far as I'm concerned, all television is terrible and I don't watch it. (This is, of course, the cheapest option. But I don't feel like I'm being forced to make it.)

Really? The US is forcing you to watch its television programs and movies...by providing them at a cheap price? Well, there are Americans who believe similar things about China, so I guess idiots abound in every country.

Over and underrated mods don't get metamodded, so they're a safe way to be an asshole.

Energy enters neurons almost exclusively as sugars. In the rare situations when adequate carbohydrates are unavailable, neurons can survive off of ketone bodies from fats elsewhere in the body, but this is a last resort and ketone bodies have poisonous byproducts. In this context, saying "the brain is fueled by carbohydrates" is true and meaningful, saying it runs on fat is mostly false, and saying it runs on ATP is not meaningful and sort of dickish.

Because contrary to popular opinion, China is not an insect colony with a hive mind. It is our obligation to protect the freedom of individuals wherever they happen to be located.

I can tell you what that paragraph is missing. The Chinese were soundly defeated by the western countries, and forced to sign a very unfavorable treaty. Huge indemnities were paid to the 8 nations, many boxers and government officials who joined them were executed, and more territorial concessions were made. That is, more of China was colonized. The Qing dynasty became more unpopular for signing the treaty, and the refusal of Yuan Shikai to fight the 8 nations made it clear they were losing control. The people began to consider them foreigners and they barely managed to last a decade after signing. The 8 nations had not been trying to restore the Guangxu Emperor and I'm do not think the information about him is relevant. He'd been under house arrest since before the war. Anyway, the 8 nations did not need the Qing, as shown by their support for the RoC's formation.

The Boxer rebellion is not a particularly effective example of resistance to foreign control...unless the foreigners you're talking about are the Qing. Really, China got its independence because the Japanese took it over before being destroyed by a greater power, not because the Chinese fought off foreign control.

There are many small, unglamorous problems in science whose solutions are nonetheless important.

Your 1080p h264 files are probably just shitty upscales of low quality divx files some weeaboo downloaded off of Share.

Einstein's belief in God is what lead him to make his stupid "God doesn't play dice" comment. If one of the greatest scientific minds ever to exist can be crippled by religion, then I have good evidence science and religion are incompatible.

Normal cells do not reproduce indefinitely not because their DNA is breaking down, but because of checkpoints in the cell cycle. In cancerous cells, these checkpoints fail because of problems such as the overexpression of oncogenes or the underexpression of tumor suppressors.

The advantage of published books is that someone has already screened most of the crap and I don't have to see it. Except when someone drops the ball and lets something like Wide Sargasso Sea through. Anyway, I'm going to happily maintain my standards. You can recognize goatse.cx as art if you want to keep up your trendy relativism.

It is a sad day when bad fanfiction and AMVs are considered "art and culture."