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Gallstones wrote:She's not that dark. I know Italian Americans who look a lot like her.

Especially in New Jersey.

I believe it's spray-on.

She looks computer-generated.

There are adapters for SD cards, but they're more likely to be found with small, slow systems such as the Arduino and Raspberry Pi, where they work great.

I know of several women who say that they would feel uncomfortable at atheist/skeptic events and would never good to one. The thing is that the people who make them feel uncomfortable are the Skepchicks. They don't want to be surrounded by stupid, officious women. Nor do they want to be surrounded b...

Depends on what you want to do. Most things aren't disk-intensive; they're memory- and computation-intensive. But I keep my machine on for months, and I still get a lot of speedup when necessary. It's too bad about your friend's experience, but I don't think it's due to the category of solid drives,...

Yeah. Or we are monkeys. Or apes. Or whatever. These are words, and categories don't work the way Descartes thought. Explaining things, though, isn't going to help. The anti-evolutionist stuff isn't rational in the first place, and it isn't really based on ignorance or confusion (though there is ple...

None of the above.

"God" as a concept is nowhere near coherent enough to address.

Religion is much more infectious. Ebola only has an R₀ between 1 and 2.

They are fan-fucking-tastic. Very fast, never break. I've had one for five years.

This kind of memory used to be unreliable, with a limited number of writes, but the modern devices are just fine.

So what's going on with this thing? Was there ever any resolution to this PZ/Shermer affair? AFAICT, Shermer's cranking up the lawsuit machinery. Or, he's made a simple statement of denial and then disengaged. Perpetual Zigzag must be shitting himself wondering which. :tea: Last I heard, the legal ...

tattuchu wrote:So what's going on with this thing? Was there ever any resolution to this PZ/Shermer affair?

AFAICT, Shermer's cranking up the lawsuit machinery.

Well, I'm all for feminism in terms of equal treatment of women. No argument here. But some of the complaints leveled on behalf of women as a group are made without regard for the fact that men also suffer the same difficulties, or equivalent difficulties. For example, we often hear about how women...

Definitely. At this point the word I've seen around the bend in a few more diverse feminist camps is Kyriarchy. It's a pretty broad term, though I do like it more due to that. Another thing I've read is that black feminists felt snubbed, being that feminism was dominated by middle-class white women...

Now we do have a body that can examine these claims and they are social science departments, they are not as good as the physical science departments but they can produce some good studies and if their papers are properly peered review by departments across the political spectrum should hopefully w...

I have seen pipes constructed from paperbacks and St. Elmo's Glue. I am pretty sure that any attempt at camouflage would be undermined by the appearance of sucking on a book, an uncommon practice in many circles.