The very best Kindle gift for the non-tech is the one with the physical keypad that runs off included 3G so your mom or aunt who never have had a computer [much less a modem and wireless home setup] can have the 21st century without any tech knowledge at all and no monthly data plan needed.

For one thing, the concept of 'minorities' is 1900's thinking. In a global world, people of European descent are minorities and even in Europe and North America, non-Europeans are majority in many areas and will be the absolute majority in a generation. Correlation in this case is causation as the whole…

I also looked at win 8 versus 7 laptop and win 8 without a touchscreen is just annoying. Win 8 really is doing itself a disservive by coming out on non-touch devices at all. I bought a win 7 Acer netbook on sale for a great price instead of an ill suited win 8 version. Also, on Amazon, early reviews are people who get…

Eugenics was supported by many of the most prominent universities such as Princeton and Stanford. It began as a science based on evolutionary theory and appied genetics. Yes, Eugenics was very much a science with many scholorly papers to back it up. Global Warming is a real theory- it just has been wrong on all of its…

You can lie to yourself, but statistics are clear as to who the abortion movement aborts most- female babies worldwide and babies of color in Western countries. No matter how you want to spin it, those are the clear numbers. Relatively few abortions are done to 'save the mother' and vastly more are for convienence.…

I wish we could excuse the Eugenics proponents but the history of the movement is very clear. Major universities and senior professors atUSA West coast and Ivy league schools-especially Princeton started and led the movement and worldwide, goverments killed people and sterilized people for years before Hitler came…

Absolutely agree. Follow the money and be sceptical about movements that claim to have 'science' as the basis for social control. Right now we have the Warming movement that has morphed into the Climate change movement and claims very similar 'scientific concensus' to what Eugenics did in the 1920's [remember that the…

Eugenics transitioned into the Planned Parenthood organization and abortion movement after WW2. In many countries abortion or infanticide of unpopular races or genders is the norm today. The huge irony of the Democrats' bogus War on Women they used to get Obama elected is there is a real worldwide eugenic war on…

You must be in denial, because the whole story of bella and edward is also pure child porn. Remember, Edward is not actually 17- he is more like 117 and hangs out at a high school where he goes all child abusing /stalker on Bella- who is a teen-child when the story begins. So, having Bella's child be the childsex…

The rats would die off anyway once they stripped the island of food but the reality of environmental management is often harsh and ethically complex.

First- adults who borrow money to buy houses are not 'babies'. They are adults with 100% responsibility to pay back what they borrow. Many banks went out of business because of the bad debt. FDIC guarentees the depositors- not the bank owners. Make bad loans and the bank closes, all the jobs lost and no one in banking…

NO- they are rats. They urinate and deficate on everything, chew through almost anything not made of steel, carry disease, eat anything and anyone they can kill, and destroy eco-systems by reproducing at exponential rates. They are evolution's most successful mammal, not humans, and they destroy whatever they touch.…

No, banks have no interest in making junk loans. The govt forced them to make loans everyone knew would not be paid back. Even TV shows joked about people making $30,000 buying McMansions for $500,000 with no money down. We Americans knew what we were doing was not sustainable, but we like to scapegoat 'those evil…

Romney was absolutely not against those things.Conservatives are for individual responsibility and do not want government to tell them if they can have a large soda. As I see you are a Keynesian, there is a simple way to see who is right. If Europe flourishes , Keynesians are right. Plus, you seem to forget that the…

I'm slumming from io9. Therapy is tech.

Most everyone agrees with liking those things- including both parties. Too bad you don't look beyond to what you are really getting from Obama and how the economy and the nation will be in 10 years. Oh well, you will see in good time as the economy continues to plummet. Read European news and you see where your party…

One further issue is that an interpersonal-Transference based therapy should be resolved with the ending of the "love" transference by the patient and those feelings replaced by a balanced feeling of emotional understanding and control by the patient. The endpoint is mutual respect-but it should not be 'love' or…

The issue is called Transference and working through Transference is a valid way of doing therapy in an inter-personal dynamic. The patient comes to idealize the therapist and project feelings onto the therapist. Because there is an iron wall precluding any real world acting out across the therapist-patient boundary,…

No actual species were exterminated- just the individuals . There are hundreds of millions if not billions of cats, rats, sheep and hogs around the world. George just tends to be loose in his technical writing so you have to appreciate he doesn't actually mean what he writes in a very specific way.

While the article says 'poison', these type irradicants are actually blood coagulants that affect fairly specific mammals. The islands do not have indiginous land mammal predators so the coagulants are not likely to be eaten by other non-mammals. These type chemicals are developed with a characteristic of rapid…