There's a gap of $3409 between the male's suggestions for pay and a $4333 gap between the female's suggestions for pay. That's curious. I can understand that women might offer a lower wage across sexes based on being paid a lower starting wage, but I don't understand why there would be a bigger gender difference.

I've seen Republicant before, but never Demonrat. Nice.

There are some simple, uncontroversial metrics out there: logical consistency and consistency with real world data.

Ethical beliefs are based on reasons and facts. Ones that do not are baseless, and not worth believing. The remaining ones can be judged based on our two metrics. Is the logic consistent? If no, then the belief is false. Are the facts they claim consistent with reality? If no, then the belief is false.

For example, a member of Al-Quaeda might say that women should not be educated because they are all too stupid to learn anything. This is demonstrably false, since we have successfully taught very many women in the West. Accordingly, their belief - at least on this basis - is false.

These metrics are universal, despite not knowing the answer to life, the universe, and everything, and do successfully distinguish between some true and false ethical systems. That doesn't mean finding the one, true moral system is easy, but it DOES mean that not everything is relative.

Sounds like a good investment.

Regarding #3, there may be a problem with getting the necessary expertise: if you've not worked with any involved company, you'd be less likely to have the the technical knowledge to understand the standards being discussed. Clearly though, belonging to both the standards committee and a company would be a tremendous conflict of interest. Probably better would be to allow one to transition from company to standards committee or vice versa after a period of three years.

Except there's 1.3 million people here in Hawaii now... A few more than there were before Captain Cook. I hear we have enough food for about a week, then we're done.

"Rest mass" is the mass that a particle has when it is not moving. That is, it's the mass you would measure from an inertial reference frame moving at the same speed as the particle. The idea comes from Einstein's relativity: things appear to have greater masses when moving faster.

I've been using Xmonad for two years now. After you get a hold of the shortcuts, it pretty much stays out of your way. There's no menu bars or start menus or anything stealing screen space, which I really appreciate.

I used to feel the same way, but more recently I've been discovering just how powerful visualization is. It's another tool to throw in your arsenal, and it makes math much more intuitive and much less computational.

I understand her pain. I would routinely have nothing to do for the last 30 - 45 min (that's 1/3 to 1/2 of class) of my college-prep physics class in 12th grade. I routinely finished math tests 30-50 minutes early in my pre-calc class too. Just about everyone else took the entire class to finish... I still don't get why. At least they allowed me to read. My recourse was to educate myself: trig, calculus, vectors, programming, and a good deal of Spanish...