Slate investigates the phenomenon: "You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now a half-a-billion-dollar-a-year industry, with surrogacy services offered in 350 clinics across the country since it was legalized in 2002. ..."
Sometimes it's good to get away from the electronics for a while. I think that I need to spend some time doing just that this weekend. It's been a long week.
It's the female judge whose actions the "feminist" in question was responding to that gives me hope, as opposed to the "feminist" who leaves me quite cynical. Hmn... a Slate and an anti-Slate article in the same post.
Higher-efficiency devices might increase power consumption rather than reduce it. The article doesn't mention it but the effect in question is known as Jevon's Paradox.
Seems that one can now "call phones in the US and Canada for free" from Google Voice Chat. Time to ditch my Skype subscription? Elsewhere I've heard free in 2010, unknown cost beyond. One cool thing about Skype is that when I'm offline it'll forward calls to my cell for "free" (it's included in my unlimited north american calling plan)
Numbers 1 and 2 are the primary ones that I'm focused on these days. That said, as the poster's commentary notes, good, modern books may be difficult to find. I'm also glad to hear an English professor say "write with the ear, not the eye." I'm not a big fan of the supposed rules of grammar.
As the article notes, in these cases they state withheld or distorted evidence in a number of cases, three of which have already led to executions. You can find links to similar corruption scandals in other states linked to from another article discussing this case from North Carolina. It's kinda like security theatre at the airport, except I'd guess that judicial theatre might be a bit more deadly.
It's always good to get a dose of the Onion every now and then. That said, the article is surprisingly close to reality in terms of how feminist attitudes towards issues like pornography have shifted over the years.
My research involves clouds in multiple ways, but it's definitely an area that's also surrounded with a lot of hype. It's always necessary to try to separate the two.
