Can I ask why you're happy that the school just "took action"? Not only was the team punished when most were innocent, none of the many other people at the party and singing the song were punished (or forced to take SARP classes) at all.

Its actually in the news right now, in fact. A group of men were accused of gang-raping a woman - in Virginia as well, no less! - and it turned out to be 100% bullshit unsubstantiated by a single fact. But don't let the actual fucking facts get in the way of you accusing all male athletes anywhere of being rapey.

Rapey athletes? Are you fucking serious? It isn't even in dispute that the huge majority of the athletes on the team weren't at the party, and it seems like many of those who were there had nothing to do with the song. Yet you call the team president and other athletes rapey?

Does the mercaptan remain detectable as an odor after the natural gas / propane are burned, assuming an incomplete burn that produces CO?

Dude - no one adds anything to carbon monoxide because no one delivers carbon monoxide. Gas companies add odors to propane and and natural gas so leaks can be more easily detected, but carbon monoxide isn't a gas product that might leak. It's a byproduct of burning gas. The only time you smell something containing…

Could be true, but carbon monoxide has no odor.

I think it was conventional surgery. The local hospital here doesn't have a robot, but my hospital (where I work) does... and the general conclusions from the surgeons who work with it is that it is a fun toy, but doesn't necessarily lead to better outcomes. I think research on surgical outcomes using the Da Vinci…

With my luck I'd get hit by a Lamborghini that turned out to be a rental, and the driver just gets out and runs away.

My mom had the same surgery, maybe on almost the same day. Took most of the week off from work this week to drive down and help her out, though she seems to be recovering well (the procedure took almost 7 hours!).

Unfortunate newsflash - she'll always have secret service protection, who will always want bullet proof permanently closed windows in whatever house she is living in.

Incidentally, there are combat arms roles that Israel has not opened to women. As progressive as they are, they still bar women from some jobs.

Somehow I'm not sure that maintaining a degree of skepticism is the equivalent of an immortal lifespan in perfect seclusion. I notice you elected not to comment on how you misrepresented your own words, a mildly ironic justification for my skepticism.

This particular thread was, if I'm not mistaken, prompted by someone saying the issue isn't just that she isn't fully Japanese, but that she doesn't even look "Asian." Which (a) she obviously does and (b) prompts us to ask that person what he thinks looking like an Asian means. If you look at that woman, she 100%…

Easy to distinguish (maybe), and yet all "Asian."

Yeah because evidently, plenty of people didn't quite get it. Some dumbass says "Mwah she doesn't look Asian" and GunFlame asks a question intending to prompt the dumbass to reconsider what it means to look Asian. Other idiots attach GunFlame for supposedly being politically correct, which makes no sense in this…

No, you clearly missed it - the point is that there is a multiplicity of "looks" for Asian people, whether Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Russian, islanders, etc. There is no one answer for what an Asian looks like, so saying someone doesn't represent Japan because she doesn't look Asian is stupid (especially when she…

Are you sure you understand what "Asian" means? Maybe you should ponder the conceptual difference between "white" and "Asian", where "white" refers to a fairly narrow ethnic range while "Asian" applies to a huge number of ethnicities from an entire continent? Since the day isn't long enough for me to waste a lot of…

Its not PC to point out that there are a lot of different ways people from the GIANT FUCKING CONTINENT of Asia can look like.

And in each an idiot like you, who misses the point completely but has no problem confidently and wrongly insulting others.

He didn't say everyone looks the same. I think the point is that its stupid to say there is an "Asian" look, since there are many many different ways Asian people can look. And what makes someone an Asian? Being born in Asia? Having a particular set or mixture of ancestors?