Well, I don't think circumcision in developed countries is such a big deal. I mean, I'm opposed to it as a matter of principle, because it's an unnecessary and irreversible intervention in a person who doesn't get a say about it. Still, I think we can agree that having ten fingers, two ears and a foreskin is "normal"…

Don't know about mensa, but you can add any academical title to that. I still manage to be surprised at the nonsense that can come out of the mouth of people who hold a PhD. That's when talking about the subject they hold the PhD on, I lost the ability to be surprised about political/social views long ago.

They should show this to teenagers before they went out, then give them a box of condoms.

Agreed, I don't know what has he done for anybody to expect anything of him other than being ripped

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yeah, a job in which if you want to break up with your spouse, you're out of a job, a career, and money to move out. If your spouse wants, they can just kick you out, and wait for the judge to tell them how much alimony they owe you. That's pretty equal

You could still have called her to set it up as a personal favor.

When I was about 13, terrorists blew a car bomb in my neighborhood, they destroyed the walls in the building next to my school, you could go in the street and see all the rooms from there. I didn't even wake up. True story.

"this is a cable show and has Spielberg attached to it"

Hehehehe, that was my last summer, but it was way more than two weeks: about 7 seasons of SG-1 and all of Atlantis. Not sure they were that great, but at least you could always be sure there were more episodes left for a long time. Maybe I wasn't in my right mind, but I loved the last seasons, which everyone seems to…

That's alternate reality #435345234 where Battlestar Galactica was cancelled after two seasons

So, as I said, lazy design. Most devices shouldn't suck more than a few mW in standby. OK, maybe they'd need something more, like a battery to keep this active, and stuff to recharge it, otherwise they'd need some more circuitry to keep it fed, but still, we're talking less than 5$ in a 100$+ equipment. Even the…

Of course, I do that too, I mean I wouldn't delete my account on kongregate, driverguide or [bunch of other sites where the only consequence of someone getting my password would having to create a new account] because they sent me my password in plain text. I totally would if I had any valuable info there (or somebody…

I wonder why standby consumes so much power, it shouldn't consume more than a watch

The problem here is not that consumers aren't rational, it's that consumers don't buy their boxes, their provider do, and their provider doesn't give a shit how much power clients spend because he doesn't pay it. They do care about buying the cheapest box that does the job, though.

Is there some reason for doing it this way?

not for you, but for the manufacturers to maybe spend a bit more on storing the last state in something fast and access it on startup instead of whatever they're doing? I mean, my laptop could do that ten years ago with a lot more information

When you program your DVR, a chip that costs less than 1$ could be programmed to wake up the DVR 5 minutes earlier. This would cost pretty much nothing and would consume pretty much no energy.

"the point of a DVR is to stay on while you're not home so it can record your shows for you—but if you're not planning on recording anything while you're sleeping, you could end up saving a decent amount over the span of a month by shutting it off at night"

The problem with that is you have to be completely sure they're not compromised, or you'd be screwed. I think a LastPass kind of site is a very good idea, as long as they don't keep anything unencrypted, they only get a hashed version of your password and use some heavy encryption for your database (one that you…