I noticed my performance in reflex-oriented things declining in my late 30's. An earlier postet mentioned catching flies. I could do that when I was a teenager. These days I can only catch the slow, almost dead ones.

In high school my visual reflexes were untestable. I remember the person that performed the tests just assumed that I was cheating. She didn't say how I was supposed to be doing that. ESP perhaps? She'd gotten to the point where everybody else had just given up and was advancing the machine as fast as it could go and I was saying "Hey wait I can't write that fast". She said "There's no way you can be seeing that." so I told her the last four symbols and she just shut the machine off.

Apparently I'm a mutant. :-/

TB was not exposed to modern drugs until humans started using them. That is it never had an evolutionary reason to work out a solution so it didn't waste the energy needed to do that. It is exposed to UV though. Even the low amount at sea level kills it. Odds are, if it could develop a resistance to UV it probably would have by now.

Mine certainly didn't. If anything it only reinforced the idea that If I ever did have kids again It would be with someone who had more patience with them than I did.

So, in one sentence they've managed to insult teenagers, geeks, science-fiction fans, and women. Nice. Throw in a crack about sports and they'll really get those tongues wagging. Just goes to show that in advertising it often doesn't matter what they're saying about you as long as they're talking about you.

Is there actually anything besides BSG and Stargate on Sci-Fi or Syfy or whatever they're calling themselves this year? Other than reruns that is. Admittedly, I've not watched much TV recently but I mostly recall them for those talking with dead people con jobs.

Ok, I've just looked at there lineup for March 16 and it looks like they'll have to ditch all but ~3 hours of their programming if they are serious about this.

This is very likely. For every genius there are dozens of two-bit con men.

Agreed. This is damaging to the society they have to live in and to them as well in the long run. Its okay to be quirky, it can even be a good thing sometimes, but it doesn't grant a get out of social responsibilities free card.

I was referring to the fact that its so one-sided. If a woman quits or takes a leave of absence to care for her children she's a good mother. If a man does it he's a 'couch slug'. Yes that's sexist but it does reflect the mainstream opinion more closely in my experience

Most feminists that I know do not differ in this preconception. That is, they're about as rigid and resistant to change as the conservatives are in this matter.

This is rigorous analysis!?

So in other words they want schmoozers and suits, not people who are busy.. working?

Great. So just stand on the throttle until you hit something. Because that worked so well for the economy.

Ah. Yes this would be the 'Brazil' solution.

"I'm sorry Mr Jones, our database says that you are a statistical outlier and that you should be dead by now."

*pulls out gun*

"You must become compliant."

Hm, yes I'd have to agree. I'm always getting that 'You're obsessed.' bit. I plan things out. I organize and focus on one task for a while then I move to another task. I've always seen this as multi-tasking but apparently real multi-tasking means doing a half-dozen things at once and none of them particularly well.

From google: Founded in 1971, LU is an independent, fundamentalist Baptist university located in Lynchburg, Virginia.

It's a fundamentalist sandbox.

Feminism isn't being hypocritical here so much as its being incompetent. Not that that makes a big difference in the results. The solution, at least from a feminist perspective, would be to get equality in gender roles instead of trying to monopolize the nurturing role as well as expand into the provider role.

That is, if feminism is serious about this it needs to accept that it's a good thing for a man to provide the primary child care, get child support, etc. This isn't very popular among feminists let alone the mainstream.

Something has to give but most women that I know won't budge on this issue. At this point I'd say resistance to change comes more from women than men even with all the Mr. Mom jokes

Seconded. I was there and NOW always supported the ERA. It was mostly the action of southern and midwestern fundamentalists that killed it.

Seconded. Past a certain point it just becomes paperwork and bureaucracy.

It's not so much that as the fact that the Air Force is still, to some extent, the force that uses an 'Ivory Tower' approach to things. That is they are somewhat distanced from reality relative to the other forces.

There's been a saying in the military for decades. "The Navy starts the war and the Marines finish it." It's the same thing with the Air Force and the Army.

That's probably why the Air Force attracts so many future politician/social hacker types like the Evangelicals.