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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2014-10-04 11:51:12
How to be successful on Youtube be a woman with big boobs. Your results may vary.
Step one: Tease but never show. Make vague references to sex, genitalia and breasts and pan the camera so it looks right into those moneymakers as you talk about tax laws. Arch your voice up so you sound like a pornstar but vehemently deny wanting to be involved with those camera ***.
Oh and don't forget to beg for money and kiss into the camera before the video ends. What are you, communist? xoxoxoxo pls donate.
P.S - Reveal you have a BF (bonus points if you have a GF) many videos in after you've collected 'dat USD then claim spammers are shutting you down. Laugh your way to the bank, you've defeated the patriarchy and probably given a few MRAs a debilitating stroke. It's ok, men are expendable pawns anyway.
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By Nazrious 2014-10-04 12:07:04
Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »How to be successful on Youtube be a woman with big boobs. Your results may vary.
Step one: Tease but never show. Make vague references to sex, genitalia and breasts and pan the camera so it looks right into those moneymakers as you talk about tax laws. Arch your voice up so you sound like a pornstar but vehemently deny wanting to be involved with those camera ***.
Oh and don't forget to beg for money and kiss into the camera before the video ends. What are you, communist? xoxoxoxo pls donate.
P.S - Reveal you have a BF (bonus points if you have a GF) many videos in after you've collected 'dat USD then claim spammers are shutting you down. Laugh your way to the bank, you've defeated the patriarchy and probably given a few MRAs a debilitating stroke. It's ok, men are expendable pawns anyway.
Hey I think the feminist is getting it.
Also women wear the exo suits cus, men are not bendy enough to tuck into a tiny ball. Also lacking wombs we can't tuck away all the round grenades Samus be popping out... I would make a rectal joke but it would be offensive to the LBG community.
On a further note Men are super expendable, so much so that all the real men can go out and die in war and our race still manages to creep along with all the feminized men. Ahh how great these role models are for our future fighting forces. Heck I think our average woman is more manly than our average man in today's world.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2014-10-04 12:27:15
God, help me! Why can't I tear myself away from this?
You're using biology selectively. Yes, there are differences, but don't ever fool yourselves into thinking that there isn't a symbiosis and outliers that change both males and females biologically with certain thresholds crossed in life.
Really interesting article about DNA analysis that has advanced our understanding of the human body and created more questions.
DNA double take
Whole article spoiled because the NYTimes has an inconsistent paywall. The linked article cites multiple sources if you are interested in reading more about each story presented. From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our identity. Read the sequences in the chromosomes of a single cell, and learn everything about a person’s genetic information — or, as 23andme, a prominent genetic testing company, says on its Web site, “The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself.”
But scientists are discovering that — to a surprising degree — we contain genetic multitudes. Not long ago, researchers had thought it was rare for the cells in a single healthy person to differ genetically in a significant way. But scientists are finding that it’s quite common for an individual to have multiple genomes. Some people, for example, have groups of cells with mutations that are not found in the rest of the body. Some have genomes that came from other people.
“There have been whispers in the matrix about this for years, even decades, but only in a very hypothetical sense,” said Alexander Urban, a geneticist at Stanford University. Even three years ago, suggesting that there was widespread genetic variation in a single body would have been met with skepticism, he said. “You would have just run against the wall.”
But a series of recent papers by Dr. Urban and others has demonstrated that those whispers were not just hypothetical. The variation in the genomes found in a single person is too large to be ignored. “We now know it’s there,” Dr. Urban said. “Now we’re mapping this new continent.”
Dr. James R. Lupski, a leading expert on the human genome at Baylor College of Medicine, wrote in a recent review in the journal Science that the existence of multiple genomes in an individual could have a tremendous impact on the practice of medicine. “It’s changed the way I think,” he said in an interview.
Scientists are finding links from multiple genomes to certain rare diseases, and now they’re beginning to investigate genetic variations to shed light on more common disorders.
Science’s changing view is also raising questions about how forensic scientists should use DNA evidence to identify people. It’s also posing challenges for genetic counselors, who can’t assume that the genetic information from one cell can tell them about the DNA throughout a person’s body.
Human Blueprint
When an egg and sperm combine their DNA, the genome they produce contains all the necessary information for building a new human. As the egg divides to form an embryo, it produces new copies of that original genome.
For decades, geneticists have explored how an embryo can use the instructions in a single genome to develop muscles, nerves and the many other parts of the human body. They also use sequencing to understand genetic variations that can raise the risk of certain diseases. Genetic counselors can look at the results of genetic screenings to help patients and their families cope with these diseases — altering their diet, for example, if they lack a gene for a crucial enzyme.
The cost of sequencing an entire genome has fallen so drastically in the past 20 years — now a few thousand dollars, down from an estimated $3 billion for the public-private partnership that sequenced the first human genome — that doctors are beginning to sequence the entire genomes of some patients. (Sequencing can be done in as little as 50 hours.) And they’re identifying links between mutations and diseases that have never been seen before.
Yet all these powerful tests are based on the assumption that, inside our body, a genome is a genome is a genome. Scientists believed that they could look at the genome from cells taken in a cheek swab and be able to learn about the genomes of cells in the brain or the liver or anywhere else in the body.
In the mid-1900s, scientists began to get clues that this was not always true. In 1953, for example, a British woman donated a pint of blood. It turned out that some of her blood was Type O and some was Type A. The scientists who studied her concluded that she had acquired some of her blood from her twin brother in the womb, including his genomes in his blood cells.
Chimerism, as such conditions came to be known, seemed for many years to be a rarity. But “it can be commoner than we realized,” said Dr. Linda Randolph, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles who is an author of a review of chimerism published in The American Journal of Medical Genetics in July.
Twins can end up with a mixed supply of blood when they get nutrients in the womb through the same set of blood vessels. In other cases, two fertilized eggs may fuse together. These so-called embryonic chimeras may go through life blissfully unaware of their origins.
One woman discovered she was a chimera as late as age 52. In need of a kidney transplant, she was tested so that she might find a match. The results indicated that she was not the mother of two of her three biological children. It turned out that she had originated from two genomes. One genome gave rise to her blood and some of her eggs; other eggs carried a separate genome.
Women can also gain genomes from their children. After a baby is born, it may leave some fetal cells behind in its mother’s body, where they can travel to different organs and be absorbed into those tissues. “It’s pretty likely that any woman who has been pregnant is a chimera,” Dr. Randolph said.
Everywhere You Look
As scientists begin to search for chimeras systematically — rather than waiting for them to turn up in puzzling medical tests — they’re finding them in a remarkably high fraction of people. In 2012, Canadian scientists performed autopsies on the brains of 59 women. They found neurons with Y chromosomes in 63 percent of them. The neurons likely developed from cells originating in their sons.
In The International Journal of Cancer in August, Eugen Dhimolea of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and colleagues reported that male cells can also infiltrate breast tissue. When they looked for Y chromosomes in samples of breast tissue, they found it in 56 percent of the women they investigated.
A century ago, geneticists discovered one way in which people might acquire new genomes. They were studying “mosaic animals,” rare creatures with oddly-colored patches of fur. The animals didn’t inherit the genes for these patches from their parents. Instead, while embryos, they acquired a mutation in a skin cell that divided to produce a colored patch.
Mosaicism, as this condition came to be known, was difficult to study in humans before the age of DNA sequencing. Scientists could only discover instances in which the mutations and the effects were big.
In 1960, researchers found that a form of leukemia is a result of mosaicism. A blood cell spontaneously mutates as it divides, moving a big chunk of one chromosome to another.
Later studies added support to the idea that cancer is a result of mutations in specific cells. But scientists had little idea of how common cases of mosaicism were beyond cancer.
“We didn’t have the technology to systematically think about them,” said Dr. Christopher Walsh, a geneticist at Children’s Hospital in Boston who recently published a review on mosaicism and disease in Science. “Now we’re in the midst of a revolution.”
Benign Differences
The latest findings make it clear that mosaicism is quite common — even in healthy cells.
Dr. Urban and his colleagues, for example, investigated mutations in cells called fibroblasts, which are found in connective tissue. They searched in particular for cases in which a segment of DNA was accidentally duplicated or deleted. As they reported last year, 30 percent of the fibroblasts carried at least one such mutation.
Michael Snyder of Stanford University and his colleagues searched for mosaicism by performing autopsies on six people who had died of causes other than cancer. In five of the six people they autopsied, the scientists reported last October, they found cells in different organs with stretches of DNA that had accidentally been duplicated or deleted.
Now that scientists are beginning to appreciate how common chimerism and mosaicism are, they’re investigating the effects of these conditions on our health. “That’s still open really, because these are still early days,” Dr. Urban said.
Nevertheless, said Dr. Walsh, “it’s safe to say that a large proportion of those mutations will be benign.” Recent studies on chimeras suggest that these extra genomes can even be beneficial. Chimeric cells from fetuses appear to seek out damaged tissue and help heal it, for example.
But scientists are also starting to find cases in which mutations in specific cells help give rise to diseases other than cancer. Dr. Walsh, for example, studies a childhood disorder of the brain called hemimegalencephaly, in which one side of the brain grows larger than the other, leading to devastating seizures.
“The kids have no chance for a normal life without desperate surgery to take out half of their brain,” he said.
Dr. Walsh has studied the genomes of neurons removed during those surgeries. He and his colleagues discovered that some neurons in the overgrown hemisphere have mutations to one gene. Two other teams of scientists have identified mutations on other genes, all of which help to control the growth of neurons. “We can get our hands on the mechanism of the disease,” said Dr. Walsh.
Other researchers are now investigating whether mosaicism is a factor in more common diseases, like schizophrenia. “This will play itself out over the next 5 or 10 years,” said Dr. Urban, who with his colleagues is studying it.
Moving Cautiously
Medical researchers aren’t the only scientists interested in our multitudes of personal genomes. So are forensic scientists. When they attempt to identify criminals or murder victims by matching DNA, they want to avoid being misled by the variety of genomes inside a single person.
Last year, for example, forensic scientists at the Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory Division described how a saliva sample and a sperm sample from the same suspect in a sexual assault case didn’t match.
Bone marrow transplants can also confound forensic scientists. Researchers at Innsbruck Medical University in Austria took cheek swabs from 77 people who had received transplants up to nine years earlier. In 74 percent of the samples, they found a mix of genomes — both their own and those from the marrow donors, the scientists reported this year. The transplanted stem cells hadn’t just replaced blood cells, but had also become cells lining the cheek.
While the risk of confusion is real, it is manageable, experts said. “This should not be much of a concern for forensics,” said Manfred Kayser, a professor of Forensic Molecular Biology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. In the cases where mosaicism or chimerism causes confusion, forensic scientists can clear it up by other means. In the Austrian study, for example, the scientists found no marrow donor genomes in the hair of the recipients.
For genetic counselors helping clients make sense of DNA tests, our many genomes pose more serious challenges. A DNA test that uses blood cells may miss disease-causing mutations in the cells of other organs. “We can’t tell you what else is going on,” said Nancy B. Spinner, a geneticist at the University of Pennsylvania, who published a review about the implications of mosaicism for genetic counseling in the May issue of Nature Reviews Genetics.
That may change as scientists develop more powerful ways to investigate our different genomes and learn more about their links to diseases. “It’s not tomorrow that you’re going to walk into your doctor’s office and they’re going to think this way,” said Dr. Lupski. “It’s going to take time.”
Edit:
the act of having a child is not a one-way transmission of genetic material
There is an exchange of DNA that passes into the mother
Previous thread.
Shuck your notions of continuing your lives with testosterone laden bravado, because you change with us. You hormonally become more "nurturing" also. (Hey! You may even get a "sympathy baby" also!)
As for tears mentioned earlier in the thread, guess what? You are biologically conditioned to react. The spirit is strong, but the hormones are weak.
So, for all of those who enjoy the biological compare and contrast to placate your notions of biological superiority, we're all pretty much walking hand-in-hand. I'm sorry you haven't found/might never find your hand to hold for the duration of your time on this planet. Translation: Blah, Blah, I had a baby, blah, blah...
By fonewear 2014-10-04 12:28:23
I'm biologically conditioned to not care !
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By Quetzalcoatl.Maldini 2014-10-04 12:36:31
Feminist coding and programming - wtf is next?
These chicks really seem to have a chip on their shoulder.
In the words of many great men before me "never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days a month and doesn't die"!
Have fun with that one XD
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2014-10-04 12:42:55
Hey I think the feminist is getting it.
Also women wear the exo suits cus, men are not bendy enough to tuck into a tiny ball. Also lacking wombs we can't tuck away all the round grenades Samus be popping out... I would make a rectal joke but it would be offensive to the LBG community.
On a further note Men are super expendable, so much so that all the real men can go out and die in war and our race still manages to creep along with all the feminized men. Ahh how great these role models are for our future fighting forces. Heck I think our average woman is more manly than our average man in today's world.
Your words are as empty as your soul! Mankind ill needs a savior such as you!
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk… Have at you!
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By Blazed1979 2014-10-04 12:48:53
Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »Hey I think the feminist is getting it.
Also women wear the exo suits cus, men are not bendy enough to tuck into a tiny ball. Also lacking wombs we can't tuck away all the round grenades Samus be popping out... I would make a rectal joke but it would be offensive to the LBG community.
On a further note Men are super expendable, so much so that all the real men can go out and die in war and our race still manages to creep along with all the feminized men. Ahh how great these role models are for our future fighting forces. Heck I think our average woman is more manly than our average man in today's world.
Your words are as empty as your soul! Mankind ill needs a savior such as you!
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk… Have at you! Emotions...
Feminists: Y Chromosome envy.
Quetzalcoatl.Maldini said: »Feminist coding and programming - wtf is next?
These chicks really seem to have a chip on their shoulder.
In the words of many great men before me "never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days a month and doesn't die"!
Have fun with that one XD Its a good thing your wife doesn't read these forums rofl!!
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By Quetzalcoatl.Maldini 2014-10-04 12:52:54
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2014-10-04 12:53:47
Real men would forsake women forever, they are but the fount of all things evil in this world. I mean everything was chill here in paradise until Eve tempted Adam with an apple for no other reason than her wanting to be a ***.
So be a bro, bang only bros.
Adam was a cool guy so he accepted Eves vile gift then God was all like YA DUN GOOFED and kicked them out of their rent free pad. The universes first thanks Obama and step-father being a jackass all at once.
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By Caitsith.Zahrah 2014-10-04 12:58:37
Translation: Blah, Blah, I had a baby, blah, blah...
Translation: Blah-Blee-Bah-Dee-Blah...I can't process duality or harmony...Blee-Blee-Blah.
Funny that something positive, like Kara's thread, didn't make it past page one, but this ***is still rockin'. Keep on keepin' on, "brothers"!
We're crying buckets of blood for you, because this ***is more infectious than Ebola! :D
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By Quetzalcoatl.Maldini 2014-10-04 12:59:31
Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »Real men would forsake women forever, they are but the fount of all things evil in this world. I mean everything was chill here in paradise until Eve tempted Adam with an apple for no other reason than her wanting to be a ***.
So be a bro, bang only bros.
Adam was a cool guy so he accepted Eves vile gift then God was all like YA DUN GOOFED and kicked them out of their rent free pad. The universes first thanks Obama and step-father being a jackass all at once. calm down femy. I was just having a laugh, no need to get all biblical and shiyatz on me!
You know why women suck at sports?
There's no grass pitch between the bedroom and kitchen. hurhur
As an airplane is about to crash, a female passenger jumps up frantically and announces, "If I'm going to die, I want to die feeling like a woman." She removes all her clothing and asks, "Is there someone on this plane who is man enough to make me feel like a woman?" A man stands up, removes his shirt and says, "Here, iron this!".
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2014-10-04 13:07:10
Translation: Blah, Blah, I had a baby, blah, blah...
Translation: Blah-Blee-Bah-Dee-Blah...I can't process duality or harmony...Blee-Blee-Blah.
Funny that something positive, like Kara's thread, didn't make it past page one, but this ***is still rockin'. Keep on keepin' on, "brothers"!
We're crying buckets of blood for you, because this ***is more infectious than Ebola! :D You two should get a room already.
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By Lakshmi.Sparthosx 2014-10-04 13:14:21
Quetzalcoatl.Maldini said: »calm down femy.
The power of Christ...ina compels me.
By Nazrious 2014-10-04 13:16:44
Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »Hey I think the feminist is getting it.
Also women wear the exo suits cus, men are not bendy enough to tuck into a tiny ball. Also lacking wombs we can't tuck away all the round grenades Samus be popping out... I would make a rectal joke but it would be offensive to the LBG community.
On a further note Men are super expendable, so much so that all the real men can go out and die in war and our race still manages to creep along with all the feminized men. Ahh how great these role models are for our future fighting forces. Heck I think our average woman is more manly than our average man in today's world.
Your words are as empty as your soul! Mankind ill needs a savior such as you!
What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets. But enough talk… Have at you!
Take that, and THAT, AND THAT!
Are we jousting or fencing? Have at you (thee)?
I'm a Gentleman I do not get physical with women in that manner, are u a woman or FeMan?
Either way, I love women and any person I have met who would bother to call themselves "Feminists" are normally very angry and really hate men & any women not like themselves.
By Blazed1979 2014-10-04 13:23:28
If women were superior then why did we get ***?
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By Bahamut.Milamber 2014-10-04 13:47:20
Yeah, this thread?
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By Lakshmi.Saevel 2014-10-04 14:10:32
Missed this part.
That's just insanity. I would love to see any type of real programming that can actually run on that nonsense. Oh wait that's right you still have to convert into machine code which relies solely on logic. So good luck with that. Unless they come up with a feminist model of electricity that can function properly in practice.
The whole C+= was 4chan trolling the feminist idiots who, with supreme ignorance, stated that programming was basically "the patriarchy" because it worked on rational concepts and required programmers to learn structured logic. Feminists, in true feminist fashion, stated that "somebody" should make a "feminist orientated programming language", with no actual attempt to do it themselves. It was hilarious the amount of entitlement present, they honestly expected the world to stop and do something just cause they said it should be done.
Anyhow it's really funny seeing the progressives trying to rationally work around biology. Sexual dimorphism exists in every other species in the animal kingdom in one form or another, it's how evolution functions. But somehow it doesn't apply to humans, you know cause someone somewhere thought that would be unfair and might hurt a women's feelings. It's ludicrous that there are people who honestly believe feelings trump reality, like nature gives a f*ck what some entitled first world brat thinks.
By Blazed1979 2014-10-04 15:33:07
Missed this part.
That's just insanity. I would love to see any type of real programming that can actually run on that nonsense. Oh wait that's right you still have to convert into machine code which relies solely on logic. So good luck with that. Unless they come up with a feminist model of electricity that can function properly in practice.
The whole C+= was 4chan trolling the feminist idiots who, with supreme ignorance, stated that programming was basically "the patriarchy" because it worked on rational concepts and required programmers to learn structured logic. Feminists, in true feminist fashion, stated that "somebody" should make a "feminist orientated programming language", with no actual attempt to do it themselves. It was hilarious the amount of entitlement present, they honestly expected the world to stop and do something just cause they said it should be done.
Anyhow it's really funny seeing the progressives trying to rationally work around biology. Sexual dimorphism exists in every other species in the animal kingdom in one form or another, it's how evolution functions. But somehow it doesn't apply to humans, you know cause someone somewhere thought that would be unfair and might hurt a women's feelings. It's ludicrous that there are people who honestly believe feelings trump reality, like nature gives a f*ck what some entitled first world brat thinks. But but but ... /emotions
I'm only a troll when it comes to feminism.
By Nazrious 2014-10-04 22:18:31
Missed this part.
That's just insanity. I would love to see any type of real programming that can actually run on that nonsense. Oh wait that's right you still have to convert into machine code which relies solely on logic. So good luck with that. Unless they come up with a feminist model of electricity that can function properly in practice.
The whole C+= was 4chan trolling the feminist idiots who, with supreme ignorance, stated that programming was basically "the patriarchy" because it worked on rational concepts and required programmers to learn structured logic. Feminists, in true feminist fashion, stated that "somebody" should make a "feminist orientated programming language", with no actual attempt to do it themselves. It was hilarious the amount of entitlement present, they honestly expected the world to stop and do something just cause they said it should be done.
Anyhow it's really funny seeing the progressives trying to rationally work around biology. Sexual dimorphism exists in every other species in the animal kingdom in one form or another, it's how evolution functions. But somehow it doesn't apply to humans, you know cause someone somewhere thought that would be unfair and might hurt a women's feelings. It's ludicrous that there are people who honestly believe feelings trump reality, like nature gives a f*ck what some entitled first world brat thinks. But but but ... /emotions
Women are trolls when it comes to feminism.
fixed that for u buddy.
By Jetackuu 2014-10-05 00:25:03
Lakshmi.Sparthosx said: »I'd like to know how nature selected for men to be superior electrical engineers, IT managers, system admins or CEOs.
Last place I worked the directors were evenly split (1 man, 1 woman), the apps side had 2 middle managers that were men, and the hardware side had both women middle. (there wasn't really a lower manager, sometimes team leads but meh).
It's hard to split up the admins as all the apps people technically administered their own apps and were responsible for stuff like user permissions, server updates, etc (well they were being trained to, as there was a merger, and that was the new standard), but the old "desktop admin" was a woman and quite frankly she shouldn't have been let near computers, she was a secretary that somehow got the role she got (I think she was munching the right rug) as just some of the stuff she said made no freaking sense, I really enjoyed when she wasn't there and I had to have one of the other 2 people who could fiddle with SCCM do something for me, as it was much faster, and in one try (most of the time) instead of 2-3 tries...
on another note, I miss Charlie, that ex-navy *** was damn good at what he did. But yes the fields are rather dominated by men, historically and even the desktop support staff was 6 guys and 1 woman, the help desk was 4 women to 1 guy though (it grew a lot bigger than that when it merged, and I don't know those numbers).
It's sad though, as I was a temp and I learned more about a lot of their systems than the FTE's did in a short time, they kept coming to me/calling me to solve stuff, and yes it kept inflating my ego, but I was damn good at what I did, and took on a bunch of tasks, some of which I probably had no business doing.
edit: electrical engineers: yeah everyone I've met is always a dude, I've seen a small handful of women take the classes, but usually it was a damn sausage fest, I'm glad I'll be taking the rest of mine online.
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By Bahamut.Kara 2014-10-05 03:01:16
Left side brain rational thinking combined with higher risk taking. Not that it matters as you won't do any of your own research. This is a myth.
Left Brain vs. Right: It's a Myth, Research Finds
Quote: There is a misconception that everything to do with being analytical is confined to one side of the brain, and everything to do with being creative is confined to the opposite side, Anderson said. In fact, it is the connections among all brain regions that enable humans to engage in both creativity and analytical thinking.
"It is not the case that the left hemisphere is associated with logic or reasoning more than the right," Anderson told LiveScience. "Also, creativity is no more processed in the right hemisphere than the left."
The myth of people being either "left-brained" or "right-brained" might have arisen from the Nobel Prize-winning research of Roger Sperry, which was done in the 1960s. Sperry studied patients with epilepsy, who were treated with a surgical procedure that cut the brain along a structure called the corpus callosum. Because the corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres of the brain, the left and right sides of these patients' brains could no longer communicate.
Sperry and other researchers, through a series of clever studies, determined which parts, or sides, of the brain were involved in language, math, drawing and other functions in these patients. But then popular-level psychology enthusiasts ran with this idea, creating the notion that personalities and other human attributes are determined by having one side of the brain dominate the other.
The neuroscience community never bought into this notion, Anderson said, and now we have evidence from more than 1,000 brain scans showing absolutely no signs of left or right dominance.
Full Study
An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Quote: Lateralized brain regions subserve functions such as language and visuospatial processing. It has been conjectured that individuals may be left-brain dominant or right-brain dominant based on personality and cognitive style, but neuroimaging data has not provided clear evidence whether such phenotypic differences in the strength of left-dominant or right-dominant networks exist. We evaluated whether strongly lateralized connections covaried within the same individuals. Data were analyzed from publicly available resting state scans for 1011 individuals between the ages of 7 and 29. For each subject, functional lateralization was measured for each pair of 7266 regions covering the gray matter at 5-mm resolution as a difference in correlation before and after inverting images across the midsagittal plane. The difference in gray matter density between homotopic coordinates was used as a regressor to reduce the effect of structural asymmetries on functional lateralization. Nine left- and 11 right-lateralized hubs were identified as peaks in the degree map from the graph of significantly lateralized connections. The left-lateralized hubs included regions from the default mode network (medial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, and temporoparietal junction) and language regions (e.g., Broca Area and Wernicke Area), whereas the right-lateralized hubs included regions from the attention control network (e.g., lateral intraparietal sulcus, anterior insula, area MT, and frontal eye fields). Left- and right-lateralized hubs formed two separable networks of mutually lateralized regions. Connections involving only left- or only right-lateralized hubs showed positive correlation across subjects, but only for connections sharing a node. Lateralization of brain connections appears to be a local rather than global property of brain networks, and our data are not consistent with a whole-brain phenotype of greater “left-brained” or greater “right-brained” network strength across individuals. Small increases in lateralization with age were seen, but no differences in gender were observed.
FYI, employers do NOT want engineers to be risk takers rather than risk adverse when working. To state otherwise clearly indicates you have absolutely no understanding of what engineers are in charge of and responsible for.
By Nazrious 2014-10-05 13:17:19
Year 2064:
One astronaut is telling another astronaut about having to sleep with 2 senators to make sure they Got on this lunar mission. The other astronaut says "Yeah I hear you man, Women are pigs."
Point? Imbalance of any kind will lead to inequality. Black, white, man, woman. When one class of people is in Power they will exert that power over others unfairly.
Men and Women are different biologically, but we are not talking Fly compared to horse, essentially men are testosterone filled women, slightly more dynamic that that but to be simple. Thus the human condition, basically the lot of us are ***, will lead to like results.
Where the danger lies is that while men know inequality is unfair, Neo Feminists see any inequality suffered by men to be OK. The reasoning behind this is often, Women are and have been shafted for thousands of years so men deserve what ever they get.
It is this thinking that keeps men from being open to change, among other things, also life is unfair so whining about it falls on deaf ears for the most part.
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By Cerberus.Tikal 2014-10-05 13:23:14
Sexual dimorphism exists in every other species in the animal kingdom in one form or another, it's how evolution functions. It's what excelled in an environment that became pervasive. Evolution doesn't curtail itself toward sexual dimorphism.
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By Cerberus.Anjisnu 2014-10-05 14:07:24
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape
By maldini 2014-10-05 14:30:38
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape Did you know that 2,000,000 German women were raped during the fall of Berlin?
The majority of which had trains of 10-20 soldiers at a time.
Man is ugly...
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By Cerberus.Anjisnu 2014-10-05 14:56:32
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape Did you know that 2,000,000 German women were raped during the fall of Berlin?
The majority of which had trains of 10-20 soldiers at a time.
Man is ugly... so out of that you want a rape joke or a train joke ?
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By Nazrious 2014-10-05 15:13:07
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape
Well just an example of how the feminatria will turn everything into an opportunity to spout their agenda. Also they were kinda proven silly on their support of the law simply because on its face it seemed pro-feminism.
But hey lets give this a shot.
Blah blah blah cali law lol, rape doesnt only relate to Feminism blah blah blah.
Lets wait for some pro Samus is a women warrior statements now.
By maldini 2014-10-05 20:10:41
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape Did you know that 2,000,000 German women were raped during the fall of Berlin?
The majority of which had trains of 10-20 soldiers at a time.
Man is ugly... so out of that you want a rape joke or a train joke ? None - I haven't cried in years. I cried watching that documentary about the Red army's treatment of the Germans. Worst part is, all this didn't come out until 2002-2005 periodically.
Now I'm watching the part about the allied forces death camps.. 65,000 german prisoners of wars, stripped of prisoner of wars status and switched to disarmed militants. Allowed Churchil and Roosevelt to starve soldiers, women, citizens and children...
WW2 is even uglier than they taught us.. with all these declassified documents coming out.
a total of 1,000,000 germans were killed in a very cruel way by the US. But its all out now. YouTube Video Placeholder
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By Ragnarok.Zeig 2014-10-05 21:55:21
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape Did you know that 2,000,000 German women were raped during the fall of Berlin?
The majority of which had trains of 10-20 soldiers at a time.
Man is ugly... so out of that you want a rape joke or a train joke ? None - I haven't cried in years. I cried watching that documentary about the Red army's treatment of the Germans. Worst part is, all this didn't come out until 2002-2005 periodically.
Now I'm watching the part about the allied forces death camps.. 65,000 german prisoners of wars, stripped of prisoner of wars status and switched to disarmed militants. Allowed Churchil and Roosevelt to starve soldiers, women, citizens and children...
WW2 is even uglier than they taught us.. with all these declassified documents coming out.
a total of 1,000,000 germans were killed in a very cruel way by the US. But its all out now. YouTube Video Placeholder Man is ugly..war is ugly..not surprised by whatever "declassified docs" that surface 50 years after a war detailing man's cruelty and apathy towards his "enemies".
This is what happens when you don't follow a moral code for war.
By Blazed1979 2014-10-06 06:16:44
Man i miss when this thread used to be about rape Did you know that 2,000,000 German women were raped during the fall of Berlin?
The majority of which had trains of 10-20 soldiers at a time.
Man is ugly... so out of that you want a rape joke or a train joke ? None - I haven't cried in years. I cried watching that documentary about the Red army's treatment of the Germans. Worst part is, all this didn't come out until 2002-2005 periodically.
Now I'm watching the part about the allied forces death camps.. 65,000 german prisoners of wars, stripped of prisoner of wars status and switched to disarmed militants. Allowed Churchil and Roosevelt to starve soldiers, women, citizens and children...
WW2 is even uglier than they taught us.. with all these declassified documents coming out.
a total of 1,000,000 germans were killed in a very cruel way by the US. But its all out now. YouTube Video Placeholder Man is ugly..war is ugly..not surprised by whatever "declassified docs" that surface 50 years after a war detailing man's cruelty and apathy towards his "enemies".
This is what happens when you don't follow a moral code for war.
Yeah but when you see Eisenhower's (he was a general, not president) letter saying that anyone who takes the german prisoners (majority of which were not even soldiers) any food, they will be put to death. Or Stalin's letter telling the generals to "rape them all and have a wonderful time". Those are quotes.. no paraphrased.. the letters say that..
Its not a matter of troops being so war hardened (no pun intended) that they can't control their urges alone. Its a matter of it being sanctioned and encouraged by the higher ups. That's the worst part. I always thought war crimes happened due to lack of discipline and the bloodshed bringing out the worst in men. But it appears to be a policy the top command deploy against their enemies.
Its *** disgusting.
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Quote: SAN DIEGO (AP) — College students have heard a similar refrain for years in campaigns to stop sexual assault: No means no.
Now, as universities around the country that are facing pressure over the handling of rape allegations adopt policies to define consensual sex, California is poised to take it a step further. Lawmakers are considering what would be the first-in-the-nation measure requiring all colleges that receive public funds to set a standard for when "yes means yes."
Defining consensual sex is a growing trend by universities in an effort to do more to protect victims. From the University of California system to Yale, schools have been adopting standards to distinguish when consent was given for a sexual activity and when it was not.
Legislation passed by California's state Senate in May and coming before the Assembly this month would require all schools that receive public funds for student financial assistance to set a so-called "affirmative consent standard" that could be used in investigating and adjudicating sexual assault allegations. That would be defined as "an affirmative, unambiguous and conscious decision" by each party to engage in sexual activity.
Silence or lack of resistance does not constitute consent. The legislation says it's also not consent if the person is drunk, drugged, unconscious or asleep.
Lawmakers say consent can be nonverbal, and universities with similar policies have outlined examples as maybe a nod of the head or moving in closer to the person.
Several state legislatures, including Maryland, Texas and Connecticut, introduced bills in the past year to push colleges to do more after a White House task force reported that 1 in 5 female college students is a victim of sexual assault. The U.S. Education Department also took the unprecedented step of releasing the names of schools facing federal investigation for the way they handle sexual abuse allegations.
But no state legislation has gone as far as California's bill in requiring a consent standard.
Critics say the state is overstepping its bounds. The Los Angeles Times in an editorial after the bill passed the state Senate 27-4 wrote that it raises questions as to whether it is "reasonable" or "enforceable." The legislation is based on the White House task force's recommendations.
"It seems extremely difficult and extraordinarily intrusive to micromanage sex so closely as to tell young people what steps they must take in the privacy of their own dorm rooms," the newspaper said.
Some fear navigating the murky waters of consent spells trouble for universities.
"Frequently these cases involve two individuals, both of whom maybe were under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and it can be very tricky to ascertain whether consent was obtained," said Ada Meloy, general counsel of the American Council on Education, which represents college presidents.
She said schools need to guarantee a safe environment for students, while law enforcement is best suited for handling more serious sexual assault cases.
John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University's Law School professor, believes having university disciplinary panels interpret vague cues and body language will open the door for more lawsuits.
The legal definition of rape in most states means the perpetrator used force or the threat of force against the victim, but the California legislation could set the stage in which both parties could accuse each other of sexual assault, he said.
"This bill would very, very radically change the definition of rape," he said.
University of California at Berkeley student Meghan Warner, 20, said that's a good thing. She said she was sexually assaulted during her freshman year by two men at a fraternity but didn't report it because she believed "that unless it was a stranger at night with a weapon who attacked you when you were walking home, that it wasn't rape. It's just a crappy thing that happened." She now runs campus workshops to teach students what constitutes consent.
"Most students don't know what consent is," she said. "I've asked at the workshops how many people think if a girl is blacked out drunk that it's OK to have sex with her. The amount of people who raised their hands was just startling."
Defining consent may be easy to do on paper, said Laura Nguyen, a 21-year-old San Diego State University senior, but "we're talking about college students out at night and the reality is there's not just 'yes' or 'no.' There is a lot of in between. I really think it depends on the situation."
The legislation initially stated that "if there is confusion as to whether a person has consented or continues to consent to sexual activity, it is essential that the participants stop the activity until the confusion can be clearly resolved."
After some interpreted that as asking people to stop after each kiss to get a verbal agreement before going to the next level, the bill was amended to say consent must be "ongoing" and "can be revoked at any time."
"California needs to provide our students with education, resources, consistent policies and justice so that the system is not stacked against survivors," state Sen. Kevin de Leon, a Los Angeles Democrat, said in promoting the bill.
Supporters say investigators would have to determine whether consent had been given by both parties instead of focusing on whether the complainant resisted or said no.
Denice Labertew of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault said the bill fosters a cultural change: "There's a lot of criticism around affirmative consent because it requires us to change the way we normally think about this."
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