Recent content by erythro

Let me break out my War and Peace Crime and Punishment. Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov, Dmitri Prokofich Razumikhin, Semën (don't laugh) Zakharovich Marmeladov, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigaylov Andrey Semenovich Lebezyatnikov, Kapernaumov, Zosimov, Alexander Grigoryevich Zametov, Nikodim...

Oooh, and also Propaganda from the Beyond Good & Evil soundtrack. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxKBCLPP20s There are quite a few gems from that sound track, actually.

I had to dig out my log-in information because I could not lurk past this topic without mentioning this baby, from the Derelict Reaper section of Mass Effect 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=yZJZKk6dj8k [http://youtube.com/watch?v=yZJZKk6dj8k] From two minutes in, it is genuinely the best...

Bridget Jones' Diary. Just you try. ^.^;;;

Primer. The mind boggles.

I'll take that as a complement ^.^;;.

Well, "proven"? "Empricial truths" rely on proof by induction: from the specific to the general. I have seen one hundred children die when injected with this formula, so I conclude all children will die when given this injection. That would be a generalisation - say the formula contains...

Well, no, some generalisations may be, others can be empirically or logically true. "No man can survive a temperature of 3 K for a week solid". "All triangles have three sides". "Every pharmaceutical company is conspiring against us", you know the sort of thing.

Well, we all know all generalisations are wrong, all the time. ;)

Most Klinefelter's sufferers are infertile, yes (although I don't know how they respond to fertility treatment), but I don't see why someone who is infertile is not allowed to love or find certain people attractive. You could define "a gay man" as being "a man who is attracted to other men"...

Hormone count is also affected by prenatal or antenatal physical trauma, disease (even after recovery), diet, and a host of other environmental conditions, it is not solely genetic. However, the genetic factor involved in hormone production is in part the reason I bring up aneuploidy -...

You'd have half of your genetic code in common, you moron. And the notion of a 'gay gene' is so far off the mark it's like bringing an actual bull to a darts game - you're fundamentally missing the point and the notion is pretty dangerous. There has been some suggestion of genetic...