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Since women will always want to have babies AND careers, what needs to change is the job environment stereotypes that perpetuate the lack-of-productivity myth. Strides are being made to show that workers can be just as productive overall from a home office environment. Not all careers facillitate this option but most can be adapted to fit.

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I think you meant to post that in the Annoying Myths thread.

Oooh, don't get me started. I saw a special on a woman who lost a couple hundred pounds after having her stomach "pouched" (most of it cut away, not stapled, creating a small pouch). She was so tickled that a small order of McDonald's fries were all it took to make her feel full.

I had that dream too! Was the sweatshirt blue and said, "Just Me and You"? I was watching you dance and then took a chance The rain made the shirt damp you kept doing the rain vamp You continued to groove it I tried to help remove it As you kicked me I was dreaming and then I woke up screaming, "Don't hurt me no more!"

If you extended/braced the front of the trap (in the direction of the throw) would the energy saved (which might have made it flip) be transferred into a more forceful throw or would it be transferred into the brace? Either way it's a good idea.

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Practical reasons. The junior and senior high school classrooms are used by multiple teachers and are not as secure as your office. Would you want your diplomas hanging in a room where a thousand people have access every day without you being there? I agree with you in principal, though. Teachers are professionals too.

So the myth is not a myth? Veins are bluish because the blood in them is more blue than red? I'd heard this when I was young and then heard it debunked when I was older. What's the final verdict, Doc?

Really good thinking! Probably save some fingers too, especially if he takes Ecoli up on the rat trap idea. Do you recommend leaving the trap bar "as is" so you can use the trigger mechanism? With a big rat trap you don't have to worry so much about trimming weight.

After reading what's been written, I feel the need to clarify my position. While I personally have gotten over my obsession with sports, I don't feel everyone else should as well. I objected to the way many sports figures conducted their professional (and due to the celebrity they enjoy, their personal) lives because I felt it shows a bad example to those who idolize them and their lifestyles. I also felt that when sports starts to cost tax dollars to those who don't support them it's gotten out of hand. But I dealt with it by simply walking away from it, and I don't think sports should be abolished or imposed upon. It's a business and if you don't agree with a business you simply don't support it. You protest when tax dollars are used instead of bond funds. If enough people feel the same way the market and the political system will take care of it. I take special pains to point out to my daughter that celebrity millionaires are vastly outnumbered by hard-working people who become millionaires so they never have to worry about money, not to buy a room full of shoes or cars that cost more than our house. I feel it's important for her to see that becoming a star is not a golden path to the easy life and that having money is not the end of all troubles. The second focus of this thread is really a different issue, that of education spending. My state is ranked 49th out of 50 in spending for education but the slack is picked up by the parents. I hate that my child has to be involved in fundraising efforts that often make the fundraising company more money than the schools. It saddens me that more people vote to keep their taxes low than to fund educational needs. I can't help but feel it's the ones without school age kids who vote the funding down and then complain about how many juvenile delinquents there are running around.

A dung-eater like the Egyptian vulture and a bottom-feeder like the catfish, to make an animal so vile no other animal wants to be associated with it. I would call it Kenneth Lay.

Longer arm = better trajectory, to a point. Weight will be a factor. I suggest you cut the U part of the trap at one end (leaving the upright that's attached to the spring), straighten it and then solder or braze a small wire hoop to hold your acorn. Play with the hoop design for best release. Releasing too soon will get you height but not necessarily distance. Releasing too late will just roll it along the floor. I can't think of any way to improve it with rubber bands. Try lengthening that throwing arm for different results. There will have to be a point where the arm is too long and heavy to throw it farther. Google the word "atlatl" and see if that gives you any ideas.

Blood gets its color from red blood cells and is always red. It appears blue in the veins because you're seeing it through veins and skin tissue which diffuse the light. Blood in the veins is a bit darker red than arterial blood which is brighter due to more oxygen. Most cuts drip darker venous blood. If you nick an artery it will spurt bright red in time with your heartbeat. Get help quick.

A beautiful home should be all about how many cars can fit in the garage.

... without getting slapped or losing any fingers.

There will be no Best Waffle category. Seriously, avatars are many things to many people, but they should have meaning for their user and nobody else. If others pick your avatar it's not an avatar.

Staff so far thinks it's great, probably need to be several (not a whole lot) categories. Probably start some nomination threads in GD and then whittle the nominations down so we can post a voting poll later. Should we do this now or wait for summer (end of the school year, end of our year?)? This may help: Look at AzurePhoenix. See the intense yet revealing expression she has, hiding enigmatic thoughts? Now imagine that Azure is looking at the Mona Lisa, trying to match her, enigma for enigma. Now imagine the Mona Lisa's smile falters, just a bit. Her eyes dart to the side, looking for the nearest exit. You know, just in case. You get the picture....

AA.

I'm doing my part. I stopped watching baseball when the players called a strike that cancelled the World Series in 1994. I stopped watching basketball when Charles Barkley announced that he was not a role model for kids and several fellow NBA millionaires agreed with him. And the final straw, the one I thought would crush me, was when the owner of the Denver Broncos announced that after all the years fans showed up (even when the team was crappy) he was going to move the team elsewhere unless we built him a new stadium with tax dollars (even though our baseball team had done the same thing with a bond and even paid it off early). I stopped watching football the same day he made that announcement. I wasn't crushed after all. I found something to fill the gap sports left behind. I rekindled my interest in science. Movie stars and pop stars don't affect my taxes and I can control what my kids see of them. They are also ACTING. Many sports stars behave like jerks, cheat and beat their wives, are fiscal nightmares and still get idolized. They also perpetuate the myth that you can play games, do anything you feel like, act anyway you want and live the high life.

Make sure you keep your wrists and hands away from the touchpad. I think when you activate your mouse you deactivate your keyboard temporarily. You may be brushing it when you use the G, H and backspace keys. Probably not the fix but it would be nice if it were something simple and cheap, no?

Why would you want to horizontally rotate a TV? For people who lean? There are more versatile wall/ceiling mounted designs that have the added benefit of already being on the market and relatively cheap (US$40-75). I can't figure out why the floor stands for plasma TVs are US$700+. It seems astronomically high. Bendy technology and TVs just aren't meant to mix, I'm afraid. Better to have some kind of ball joint on a mounting arm that is very rigid but will move reluctantly under the weight of a 10kg TV. I still think it's such a specialty market there wouldn't be much demand for it.

Mylar is a balloon material. It could be done in mylar with some inner structuring involved. In latex, as swansont mentioned, you'd need differing thicknesses to keep it from... ballooning out in a sphere. If your latex cube had thin edges and thick sides (thickening even more as they get to the center of the side) it might work. Alternatively, you could blow a normal balloon up inside a wooden box, then freeze it with liquid nitrogen and remove the box. Pretty short-lived though, and it violates your "using only balloon material" caveat.

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I've used an ARIN whois search on some of the jerks we occasionally get here, but I already know their IP.