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Comment Re:More of same on the way (Score 1) 226

"Christian feminism"? Do you actually know anything about feminism? A Christian brand certainly exists, but the majority of modern feminist thought emphasizes individual freedom, a position that is rather at odds with the traditional formulations of Abrahamic belief systems. Obviously, you'll find liberal Christians who subscribe to third-wave feminism, and you'll find a bastardized feminism among some more conservative Christians (generally designed to give some basis to Christian sex-negativity, a function that is in opposition to modern sex-positive feminism); however, true third-wave feminism and conservative Christianity don't have a lot in common.

Comment Re:No Don't Ruin This, I Need This! (Score 1) 175

Right, this is what I mean. There's a distinct difference between someone who is being masking their interest in a flirtatious way (something that both men and women do) and someone who is resisting your advances, at least at the point where physical behaviour becomes an issue. I'm sure that it can, in some cases, be difficult to tell the difference between refusal and flirtation in the early stages of a romantic interaction -- from across the bar or whatever -- but once you actually get to physical contact, it should be clear.

Comment Re:No Don't Ruin This, I Need This! (Score 1) 175

"No" means "no", you dope. There's a difference between being coy -- a very strict and limited set of behaviours, which are flagrantly obvious as such -- and resisting somebody's advances. Are you unable to grasp this? If you actually have to force someone to have sex with you, you're raping them. If they actually wanted this to occur, the intention would be unmistakably clear.
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Submission + - Who Is Downloading the Torrented Facebook Files? (gizmodo.com)

eldavojohn writes: Aside from the obvious answer of everyone on Slashdot, Gizmodo's got an interesting scoop on a list of IPs acquired from Peer Block revealing who is downloading the Facebook user data torrented this week. Apple, Church of Scientology, Disney, Intel, IBM and several major government contractors just to name a few. The article notes that this doesn't mean it's sanctioned by these companies or even known to be happening but the IP addresses of requests coming to one of the users' machines match to lists of IP blocks for each company.
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Submission + - New Mars Rover Rolls for the First Time (nasa.gov)

wooferhound writes: "Like proud parents savoring their babys very first steps, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time.
Engineers and technicians wore bunny suits while guiding Curiosity through its first steps, or more precisely, its first roll on the clean room floor. The rover moved forward and backward about 1 meter (3.3 feet).
Mars Science Laboratory (aka Curiosity) is scheduled to launch in fall 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012. Curiosity is the largest rover ever sent to Mars. It will carry 10 instruments that will help search an intriguing region of the Red Planet for two things:
      1. Environments where life might have existed
      2. The capacity of those environments to preserve evidence of past life

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1026"

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Scientists Create Equation For a Perfect Handshake 144

Hugh Pickens writes "Discover Magazine reports that despite the average person shaking hands nearly 15,000 times in a lifetime, one in five (19 per cent) admit they hate the act of the handshake and are unsure how to do it properly, regularly making a handshake faux pas such as having sweaty palms, squeezing too hard or holding on too long while over half the population (56 per cent) say they have been on the receiving end of an unpleasant handshake experience in the past month alone. But help is at hand as scientists have developed a mathematical equation for the perfect handshake taking into account the twelve primary measures needed to convey respect and trust to the recipient. The research was performed at the behest of Chevrolet as part of a handshake training guide for its staff and is meant to offer peace of mind and reassurance to its customers. A full guide to the perfect handshake is available on Flickr."

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