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The outside edge is smooth. Still on top here.

... only if you 'ave a fairly different definition of smooth than I do, ha. It looks like a curve I'd draw.

Here's a much nicer view, though. I have the sneaking suspicion some or all of that beach isn't entirely natural >_>

B-but how could sedimentation processes alone be so precise? Recheckmate.

The Arabat Spit is 112 km long,[2] and from 270 m to 8 km wide;[3][4][5] its surface area is 395 km2 and thus the average width is 3.5 km.

Emphasis mine. Precise, it is not. Your move

... well, if you two had read the article Vec linked, it's because the current implementation makes a disproportionate amount of women, y'know, disoriented and nauseous, often to the point of inducing vomiting.

Yay reading comprehension I was talking about definitions. If the definition of 'sexist' is 'anything that disadvantages women', then menstruation is sexist. That's why it's a stupid definition.

... yeah, if that's the definition you got out of what I was writing, I apparently critically fumbled a writing check. Which, sure. Last few days have been a bit rough.

Because that's not it. Try, "Any action* -- intentionally done or otherwise -- that leads to disproportionately favoring one gender without sufficient reason to do so." Which still wouldn't exactly be ideal or entirely accurate, but it's closer**. Something like "We're too lazy to make sure our research base represents both genders to a fair degree" (assuming the article was accurate in regards to the studies done, which may or may not be an accurate assumption.) wouldn't be sufficient reason

*Read: Something done by humans. No, autonomous biological functions don't count.
**And I've got enough of a headache "closer" is all I'm willing to do at the moment

Nnnoo... I'd actually call that fairly dead on label, if her studies were identifying the actual issue. If the tech's gender biased, it's gender biased. Even (especially, to a certain degree) if not intentionally so, or due to limitations in current technology. Now there's just further study, further technology refinement, and the fixing.

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... y'know, I've never actually read that. And won't. And haven't seen more than a few passages. But it would fit right in, wouldn't it?

... don't normally wander into LA, but... I guess Opera users should represent, or somethin'. So 'sup. Can't say much about plug-ins* or features** -- I don't really use any of the ones mentioned, but it's the best browser I've personally used for dealing with oodles of tabs, and tends to run just fine with a buncha' junk open. Providing you're careful about, say, leaving a dozen flash-riddled pages twigging out in the background, anyway -- disabling plug-ins or javascript is roughly two button presses away, though, and can be done on the fly very easily.

It's got bells and whistles I'm fairly sure I disable or don't use, and I usually end up changing some hotkeys and whatnot around after updating, but I've been fairly content with it whereas the big three of FF, IE, and Chrome all annoy me in one way or another. Anyway, Opera user, fairly content with it, but not a very hard user in terms of customizing junk and whatnot. I'd say give it a try at some point, if only to see the neat ctrl+tab menu whatsit, or the surprisingly nice mouse gestures.

*I do know there is plug-in functionality and whatnot, I just don't know how robust or developed the selection is.
** Compared to other stuff. It's got one feature I haven't seen elsewhere that's basically the entire reason I use it besides it not freaking out over have a couple hundred tabs open. Which is basically a pop-up list of all open tabs you can click amongst and scroll around in and whatnot.

Def go for the paras. Team needs more peench.