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It's an entirely valid point, DH and a fine idea, but I just don't want to let my mouth run away at the moment. Maybe a day's cooling off will prevent that. At the moment, I'm sure people are a tad sick of me anyway. And the fact that my first impulse when you labeled my behavior imature was to lash...

I'm going to go off somewhere and hide for a while. Clearly I let my contrarian side get the better of me. If that seems like trolling, I'm sorry, it wasn't meant as such. It was not my intention to raise hackles just to raise hackles. I should have conceded about two pages ago and reframed my posit...

"No" is the safe word. Unfortunately, there are many people who think it isn't. Well no, because a safe word lacks any ambiguity. No, as you pointed out, can sometimes mean something else or at least be thought to mean something else to some people. We wouldn’t need a “No Means No” campai...

Yet another perfect example for Rape Culture: Because actually, what you describe here happens very very rarely - rape is falsely reported less often than most other crimes. I've seen reasonable statistics anywhere from 1.5% to 8% (The FBI's rather consistent number over the years) of reported rape...

Okay, I feel we're mixing our arguments here. Let me see if I can clear myself up here and make myself look less like the rape enabler you all seem to think I am. One, I am not talking about a situation in which a victim consents to sex under duress to prevent violence. That is an astoundingly clear...

Ando's point was about possessing a perspective where you are constantly objectified and sexualized and in a situation where you are in fact pretty likely to be sexually assaulted, for your entire life. You're male, so your perspective is skewed. Do we really want to start a game of "Oppressio...

Are you aware that a physical threat can be implied by such things as standing between the victim and the doorway or putting your arm around the victim? As you said, they don't have telepathy. They don't know your intentions or what you might do if they try to leave or reject you more forcefully. I...

IF you give consent to an action , either through initiation or a failure to prevent or otherwise express your desire not to proceed You are precisely the audience who needs to be lectured on how not to rape, apparently. If you think it's valid consent if the other person isn't saying no hard enoug...

Pressuring someone until they give in and have sex with you when they don't want to is a form of rape, yes. Convincing someone such that they now do want to have sex (and not because they feel something bad might happen if they refuse) is certainly not, but these are two different things entirely. ...

I'd lump that in with abuse of authority. If the boss is the one asking for sex from the employee in exchange for favor, then it's a direct abuse of that athority. If it's another employee asking for sex in exchange for favor, and the boss looks the other way or encourages the enviroment in which th...

If I convinced you to have sex, without any illegal or immoral means (drugs, threats or violence, using my position of authroity, etc.) then that's not called rape. That's called being good at convincing people. If someone can be just talked into sex then they obviously want to have sex. Oh the horr...

anyone downloaded it? Going by the source link, it isn't a 1:1 map. It's 1 block = 1 sq nautical mile. Quite a compression.

Here are some screenshots, btw. Looks pretty awesome.

They would likely contend that the meeting was a product of their living in campus housing, not them being students of the university.

Still idiotic, but within their pervue as landlords and potential guardians ad litem for any minor freshmen.

Stark is quite right in that directing your attention at either the bully or the victim does very little, nor does a victim standing up to a bully and smacking them upside the head do much, besides providing the victim with imense personal satisfaction for a time. The proper targets are the bystande...

Yes, because its not like most bullying occurs in mandatory attendances environments, e.g. School.

So basically you just want kids to drop out of school to avoid their bullies?

Not that I'm defending the idiocy of youth, but a mandatory meeting for male students only? Had I been in attendance I would have spoken up somewhat to the effect of, "this surely cannot apply to me, for I do not want even consensual sex with a woman." there's also the assumption that a ma...

EDIT: As for build quality, I've never seen an iPhone that didn't have scratches or cracks all over the glass back, and Windows phones don't have to be held in an awkward fashion to make calls. Apple products tend to focus more on form and less on function. Too much focus on clean lines rather than...

I've had a Windows Phone since launch. My biggest issue is still the maturity of the app marketplace, but it is improving every day, and if I really want an iOS app I have my iPad. I adore the Metro design aesthetic. So much cleaner and more pleasurable to navigate than iOS or iOStoo , I mean Androi...

Nokia Lumia 920

Apollo was designed to radiate heat very efficiently because is it always easier to make something warmer than making something colder. They used heaters normally to keep the craft at a comfortable temperature, but under the power restricted conditions of Apollo 13 the heaters were turned off, hence...

The first thing you are talking about is a mistake, but gaffe has a very specific definition. The words originator, journalist Michael Kinsley, says a gaffe is "when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say." It isn't just a politician spewing hateful rhet...

20 days on the surface? Not even worth the trip.

Man, I just realized I have never, to this date, landed on the Mun. So far I only did orbital missions, the result of one is a Kerbal pilot stuck in high orbit. The attempts to rescue him have so far cost the lives of 15 Kerbals who attempted to fly the rescue ship. Thank god the Kerbals developed ...

they really need to torrent these updates. takes me weeks to actually get the update.

Get back to me when we've developed a way to manufacture and store for long periods one gram of "exotic" matter.

Wasn't there also an issue with the exterior of the bubble being so hot it would rip apart protons?