I think that he has the assumption that folks will put down the book and not buy it based on the gender of the author. I doubt that that is true except for a very small percentage of possible customers. It is not a failure of the buying public; it's a failure of this publisher and his projecting his unease into a…

I, for one, welcome our new unmanned combat air system overlords.

1.) Established TOS canon has the Enterprise flying in the air.

This is how I feel about SyFy:

Once they get realistic VR the porn industry will drive it just like so much other consumer tech.

I think, and I truly believe this, that one of the best things they could do with Ubuntu is to change it's name to something more catchy than Ubuntu.

I write software for a living. The idea of this stuff terrifies me. I've seen stupid bugs in action.

My wife is half-white/half-black (I'm a white guy). She was small, the youngest of eight kids, and also teased in the same way that you describe. This has given her a huge Napoleon complex. I've seen her face down so many people. It is completely against her psyche to ever back down from a threat, ever. I admire…

Agreed on most points, but I did fondly remember standing up to a bully in high school.

Who needs all that money when major spine repair can be done by a jail cell, chains and willpower?

One thing I can say: Tom Cruise is a little odd in his real life but he almost always brings his A-game to work when he makes a movie. They are usually very good, and he is usually very good in them. Will see just based on that, and the visual effects alone. Even if the rest of the movie is bad it's still worth…

Here is a Wikipedia link to a list of successful female pirates from real historical data : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_piracy

*grin* As I've replied to a lot of folks who did not like my post: I read a very biased article and this made me automatically skeptical. It is a good thing to be skeptical and not take things at face value.

Predictive models rarely take into account that people change things. If this guy analyzed tree cutting trends 200 years ago he'd have said there would be no trees by 2012. But we changed, adapted. We have not done this yet on some of the trends he is talking about because we have not yet been forced to.

I read a very biased article and this made me automatically skeptical. It is a good thing to be skeptical and not take things at face value. Bias can work in both direction; I think he has a clear bias in one of them.

I read a very biased article and this made me automatically skeptical. It is a good thing to be skeptical and not take things at face value.

I read a very biased article and this made me automatically skeptical. It is a good thing to be skeptical and not take things at face value. What does this say about me? That I am wise enough to not just believe what is told to me and to question it. Note that I said his opinion was biased —but I did not say it…

Of the 20 some odd replies I got on my post yours is the first that actually has a valid point in it. I assumed he was a professor. My bad.

Unless you remove them and gum on 'em!

I read a very biased article and this made me automatically skeptical. It is a good thing to be skeptical and not take things at face value.