Email is a regular fixture in business and the corporate world. I don't see that aspect changing a great deal (who would use their Facebook in a professional capacity?). After all, corporate sales are single-handedly keeping the PC industry, IE6, and Windows XP alive these days, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to…

Yeah. We tend to forget that actually being set up to TAKE credit cards isn't a cheap process. Those 'handling fees' that small businesses and such charge for handling CC transactions aren't just BS to gouge money from consumers. For major corps and businesses, of which the US and much of the 1st world is all but…

Well, a lot of whether that's going to happen is going to hinge on how well the first few seasons of TNG sell, because, obviously, if Paramount thinks there's no money in the it (say what you will about the price, they're obviously putting a lot of work and value into these sets), then they won't bother.

It is really sad how much people love to hate on things... so much misplaced rage and anger. I do think it does a disservice to simply dismiss it as misogyny, though. While, for obvious reasons, most of the anger you're going to see here is going to be woman related, this class of internet citizen tend to say a lot…

I imagine for the same reason male genitalia are usually only referred to as 'penis'. Occasionally, you see a reference to 'balls', but that's usually not in a sexual context (and no one wants to talk about them, anyway).

Well, if you're going to go there, at that time, there was also a constitutional provision stating that blacks only counted as 3/5 of a white person in regards to questions of population and such...

It's a good point, though I will say a large part of our broken medical care system is the extraordinary amount of effort and money we place on end-of-life care, which dwarfs anything we're talking about here. Also, that's not germane to this discussion, so I'll leave it at that.

I'm assuming by that question you mean things like breast reconstructive surgery post-mastectomy, which I have no problem with, seeing as it encourages women to go the much safer route of removing the potential for relapses and matastization instead of desperately clinging to their original tissue which stands a…

I can agree with that, though I do find it somewhat logically inconsistent that we're perfectly fine with covering fertility treatments, but not with birth control? There's definitely a philosophical disconnect there that needs to be remedied, one way or the other.

Well, I think IVF and all classes of fertility treatment go outside the umbrella of 'women's health'. This is a different animal from other things like abortions, vaccinations, exams, disease treatments, birth control/contraception, mammograms, etc. which DO fall under that umbrella. After all, all of the mentioned…

This sounds rather gauche on the face of it, but then I thought about it and realized that I may actually be more comfortable with the idea of a Kickstarter-like crowdsourcing site (as I don't think Kickstarter itself actually allows for this kind of thing) for elective surgeries like this. After all, would we really…

My issue isn't to say this study isn't valid, I'm sure the results are true, for as far as they go. My problem has less to do which this particular study then it does with the focus of overall research.

Therein lies the rub, and it's something to goes beyond gender disparities and highlights the unfavorable position of the employee in relation to the employer. By hiding the true nature or relation of your pay, you are operating blind, regardless of gender. You can't ask for a proper raise because you don't know…

It does seem that way, doesn't it?

Granted, several of the responses here are a bit reactionary given the somewhat confrontational nature of your initial post, but I do think it's a fair observation that you should do some self-examination as to the role finances play in your view of a relationship. Does you boyfriend EXPECT you to pay to take him…