Indeed, I've found that interviews conducted by "HR professionals" are just a waste of time compared to those run by the manager or supervisor who has a position to fill in their department. This dawned on me halfway through an interview I had for an analyst position in which there were two interviewers, on from the…

As a Vancouver fan I'm thrilled that Chicago won, not just because I dislike the Bruins just a bit more, but because the Hawks play in a style that is actually good hockey and actually fun to watch. And it's not about skill guys vs grinders, since obviously Bickell and Bolland were both huge, but Chicago plays an…

Once again, my original intent was not about pretending to be in "some nebulous gender-free world" it was a simple statement that we all have a responsibility to help in stopping rape, but above all rapists shouldn't do it. You want to keep attacking me go ahead, but I'm done here.

You're reading into something that isn't there. I stand by my original comment that "most importantly every person has a personal responsibility to NOT FUCKING RAPE PEOPLE". There's no obfuscation, I'm not sure I can say it any more clearly than that.

Is it really? I was pretty much just going off of the term "personal responsibility", which lends itself to saying each person has a responsibility. And although most rapes are committed by men, rape culture is perpetuated by people of all genders. I mean, look at the bullying someone like Rehtaeh Parsons faced, her…

Good point, it's too bad ESPN's live game coverage doesn't spin off into more written coverage/highlights. I know there's a lot of material out there covering college fastpitch but it's all on blogs and forums, often specific to certain teams. I'll have to ask my sister if there's a single good resource for fastpitch…

I'm actually of the opinion that they did not go far enough on the gene patents case. While striking down Myriad's ability to patent genes like BRCA1, they found that cDNA was patentable. And while I can see some arguments to that position, the SCOTUS' reasoning seemed more like they didn't understand the science of…

Yep, the days when it was "Pixar makes great movies and Dreamworks makes movies with silly animal faces" have ended, and that's a good thing. Over the last few years there's been great animated films from multiple different studios, which can only be a positive for the industry as a whole. And to be honest, the streak…

It's been mentioned in other threads, but if you're a big baseball fan you should check out women's softball. ESPN does a pretty good job of covering college ball, and anyone who understands baseball should pick up on the nuances pretty quick (a lot more bunting, more dominant pitching, a smaller diamond making…

I enjoyed Haywire, but I'll admit some of the characterizations were a bit thin. I don't get the dislike of Carano's acting though, she was playing one of those tough stoic action tropes characters. It may not have been as engaging as Matt Damon-Bourne but I thought it was better than Jeremy Renner-Bourne.

Exactly. I'm all for considering obesity a disease, but not if it's being measured by BMI. We need to start using better metrics before we diagnose anyone with obesity.

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Actually I would say personal responsibility is exactly what we need to be talking about. Every parent has a personal responsibility to teach their kids rape is never OK. Every person at a party has a personal responsibility to not knowingly allow rapists to take advantage of others, and to step in and stop it instead…

I think you're right that it couldn't be Bruce Wayne. If Amell is being honest about how it's someone more famous than Green Arrow that leaves pretty much Dick Grayson, Jim Gordon, or Barbara Gordon and maybe few of Batman's A-list villains. Oh also Lois Lane perhaps?

Because people value fancy footwork and outside striking over a north-south power game. A goal is a goal, but little credit seems to be given to players who excel in the air.

I really hope this joke gets made on every article about casting characters until that ad is no longer on the front page.

Didn't Michael Bay already do this? And it was called The Island?

Well, I certainly didn't expect to be writing a second post on a wholly unrelated article defending Sucker Punch today, but here it goes anyways. Sucker Punch is a flawed movie in to main ways, one that speaks mostly to Snyder's failings and one that probably reflects more on mainstream critics and commentators.

Based on those standards I'd say there are plenty of people that meet the "minimum requirements", female or male. Presumably the pull-ups are the hardest, although it would be the swimming that would get me. My guess is that they wouldn't relax the minimum standards at all for women, they would simply not count it as…

I was just coming here to say this. Sucker Punch was a somewhat flawed movie, but most critics (including Dodai apparently) totally missed the point. The protagonists were intentionally shot in an over-the-top male-gazey way since the point Snyder (and his wife who co-produced it) was trying to make was how even women…