@Supercrap wins.

(I wonder if folks would have detected the fraud earlier, if she were less attractive...

I mean, an Internet tracking system that would distinguish Farm* from Facebook in general? Sure, it could be done, but does anyone do that?

While I wanted to snark at the tiredness of laughing at the poor, the Wal-marted, the style-blind...

I was amazed at the moon-walking skill he displayed. I watched it 3 times, just to see if it was gimmicked in some way, and that person is just great at moonwalking.

Big Bird said he was a California Condor, if I recall correctly. (Doesn't make sense, given the yellow.)

But he also said he was a lark (on Hollywood Squares.)

Now, what species is his friend, Snuffalufagus?

Ok, @Splint:
I'll bet darker eyes, darker hair are correlated with track sprint success, and their lighter counterparts are corellated with swimming pool success.

I'm certain that the smaller ratio of pinkie toe to big toe favors track sprints, and the overall length of foot favors swimmers.

Correlation is only important in that it gives us a potential causality to investigate.

Personally, I'm skeptical that this one will pan out. I think distribution of muscle density, ratio of quick twitch to slow-twitch, and foot/hand size (and digit ratios) will be a lot more fruitful correlations to explore.

(Note: I'm more of a two-bit engineer or businessman than a pseudoscientist. What happened, anyway? Did the Ghostbusters get rid of your friend?)

Oh, I miss C&H.
I'm sad that someone "doesn't get it" to the extent where they think this will have the same appeal as Garfield minus Garfield.

One of them is existentialist humor.
The other is "removing the essence".

Wouldn't it be more straightforward to say "has a female protagonist"?

That would be an even simpler test about whether it's about women, than if there was significant female dialogue...

Have they never read a Michael Crichton novel? (Nature will find a way, and man's arrogance will lead him to believe he can control nature, only to find he can't...)

ditto Medlir and James.
Hate the song.
Formerly LOVED Simpsons. (This was *OK* TV, on a show that used to be fantastic.)

Talented and funny.

Made my morning.

Where I went to undergrad, students complained that we *didn't* have the same grade distribution or average as other schools, and that it made for unfair comparisons in the marketplace. (At the time, we had the highest ingress SAT scores in the nation, I believe, and the highest % of graduates who went on to earn PhD's. And yet it was said that the average GPA was 3.0)

There were rumors of a "normalization function" among graduate schools (medical school, in particular was mentioned), and it was said that the multiplier/primary coefficient for our school was the highest among all. I had no way of verifying that, and, frankly, I doubted there was one shared among med schools. But I do remember some disturbing job interviews...one who actually said to me "gee, you've got a 3.5. But I've got another applicant with a 3.6, from (tier 4 state school), so my comparison's actually pretty easy, and I'm not sure I even need to interview you.

It's a vicious, socially induced cycle, this grade inflation, as evidenced by both my apocryphal story, and my personal anecdote.

1) @Rampatmonkey got it right in the very first comment.

2) At Berkeley (someone commented on it, above), the cap is in place due to alumni contributions, which are tied to continued athletic achievement. By that, I mean the protests were about academically-focused admissions at the expense of the football team. (So, it doesn't target Asians, but it does limit how many students are admitted purely on the basis of their academics.)

3) I'm a Western European mutt. My wife's Filipino. My son often asks "am I Asian? Pacific Islander? White?" Now, at least, I know that he should put "white" on any college apps...

I always assumed that money *can* buy you pleasure. And some subset of the population can be made happy by pleasure.

But if that ain't him, and he recognizes it, and wants to be a swell fellow, then good for him!

Interesting...I was under the impression that people who are victims of psychological depression are almost invariably above average intelligence.

Is this a processor speed vs. processor power thing, again?

While everything the court said was right, I don't think I want courts making these decisions (about what's severe).

In the US, typical employee codes of conduct state the rules, as well as the consequences for breaking them. (Usually, those consequences are "disciplinary action, up to and including firing."

And, frankly, the employee broke the rule, and should not have been fired, IMO. But the company had every right to fire the employee, and the court shouldn't force them not to.

I don't like the "reason for some evolutionary development" phrasing, even though I know what you mean.

There's the mutation---which has no *reason*, but which is the development in an individual or select set. and they were not developed *for a purpose*.

And then there's the selection---those mutants with superior traits for their circumstances survive and propagate that trait to their descendants.

So, gills weren't developed for ion exchange. Gills were *kept* in fish, because they facilitated ion exchange.

And suddenly, I'm even more impressed by Cristophe. He managed to be funny *and* avoid being a sycophant.