THANK YOU. Why should men require some sort of extra incentive to behave like decent human beings? The idea that it's the feminists who need to change their tactics to further please men is MORE white privilege. If anything people who want change need to be more forceful and less tolerant. They need to be willing to…

*case in point*

In other words, I should have put "be men" in quotes.

Digital clarity is not the end-all be-all of good music listening. Sometimes things sound better when they're muddier. Ask any LP owner. :)

Yeah but putting your hands up and sighing grandly about how it's never going to change is not much of a solution. People can be proactive. Have you ever called out a friend for being a sexist jerk? I have. It's not comfortable. You lose friends along the way. Good ones. That guy you've known since kindergarten who…

I was quoting what men say to women who are accused of being too sensitive. They are often told they need to toughen up, that it's important to be able to hang out like "one of the guys." Men who get defensive about these issues are almost never told they are being too sensitive and that THEY need to change. I…

I agree wholeheartedly with your argument, but I think you underwrote the article. I understand why you underwrote it, you didn't want a super crazy flame war on your hands, you wanted to hedge your argument a bit to get more people to accept it who otherwise would have flamed you.

And that last sentence you wrote just won the author's argument for him. Instead of actually critiquing the idea, you spout off something about how he's "just trying to pick up some gamer chick." The culture you live in that normalizes that response is EXACTLY what he's critiquing.

Man that movie is amazing. It's totally faithful to the equally excellent book, retains all of the wry humor and downright silliness of the early space program (combined with the absolute awesomeness), and Sam Shepard looms over the entire thing even though he's only really in the beginning and end. Ed Harris as John…

You are overthinking it. The only difference you need to worry about is whether you have a 5.1 situation or just stereo. RCA and 3.5 are both stereo formats, and qualitywise they are interchangeable. Optical I really only use for 5.1 stuff like movies. Sound qualitywise there are minute differences (due to the…

Not all science is about practical use. The knowledge alone is enough.

Belgium is awesome! And I'm not just saying that because I was born there.

If that's his argument, then it's a weak one. Streaming is only that way because of the bandwidth and compression issues. Eventually those issues will be resolved and we will have 4K streaming to the home. People said the same thing about digital photography and digital video back in the day when it was heavily…

Um, because Amazon won't sell itself to Google?

The one thing that has always helped me is similar to what the picture does. I always put a copy of my earlier draft on my nook and then rewrite it on my comp. Forcing myself to retype all that text does WONDERS for my willingness to try new things, to find better ways to say the same things, and to make my story…

Walter Sobchak is based on Conan's director John Milius.

In The Diamond Age Neal Stephenson envisaged nano-ads in your eyeballs. I imagine that could happen here.

That's not true. Some wines are best enjoyed as soon as you get them (most whites, lighter reds). In fact almost all wines are good to go once you buy them. The only ones worth aging are the ones that are very tannic and heavy, like great Bordeaux or great Cab Sauvignon. The aging rests the tannins and softens the…

It's not workforce, its infrastructure. To move from Guangdong you'd have to build all sorts of factories elsewhere, which is all sorts of costly.

Word. I don't have a problem with this at all. We've been underpaying for all sorts of goods and services on the backs of cheap Chinese labor for years.