Appearance has been a campaign issue since the founding of our country, just take a moment and look at some of the political cartoons and editorials of the era but now it's sexist because people comment on a woman's appearance that is running for president? Hell over the last 20 years the appearance and the ongoing commentary of Dukakis with the helmet is still one of the two biggest talking points of the 88 election. Al Gore was insulted by the editorialist for his honey melon blue ties, Kerry for looking french and windsurfing, Bush for his dress up as a solider and cowboy.

So the school has known since the fall that these girls might commit fraud to young men and did nothing to warn them? The only thing I would like to know is if these girls defrauded these young men to get knocked up? I know it does not really matter because even if these girls defrauded these boys of there sperm these boys will still have to pay for the result of being a victim.

Why do you use the term size acceptance when if the writing on BS is any induction it is only those that are overweight and obese that are accepted for there size while those that are underweight are treated as if they are less than a person, derided for any success that happens to them, and this site has made it clear that those underweight should not even be allowed to have certain jobs?

What is the big news about a developer making a game for the Nintendo DS system? Go to any Gamestop, Walmart or target and look at the games available for the system and about a third of them will be games directly aimed at younger girls with about another third that are gender neutral games like Brain Age and the Dog games.

Can some of you be more over the top in comparing Gates to the robber barons? Lets see one made a product that for the most part is used in climate controlled offices and where his workers had access to health care, stock options that made hundreds into millionaires and very few if any person died directly from the making of the product. The other group important labor from uneducated areas of eastern Europe and Ireland had them work in the harshest conditions that humans have faced outside of slavery in probably the history of our species. Death was happened daily if not hourly in most of the industries of the robber barrons. The Robber barrons used both private and public police forces to stomp out unions including death. Can't say that I remember Microsoft calling in the Washington national guard to end a strike of the Word team. Or the powerpoint union head being shot.

I also don't get how a fan of the Apple company could complain about the business practices of Microsoft. Microsoft helped keep Apple afloat in the 90's when the company was on the brink of bankruptcy with cash infusions let alone developing more software for the apple than pretty much anyone else during that time. There is of course the issue with the back dating of stocks with Jobs. Apples bulling tactics with its media partners such as NBC/Universal and the different record labels. Apples relationship with developers to see just a recent example look at the Iphone SDK that has blocked tom tom from making a product for the iphone that they where looking forward to making or the huge cut that apple makes from other peoples software from the sdk.

And finally to all the monopoly crap. How did this monopoly hurt the consumer? Microsoft gave me more value added programs and functionality and did not exactly starve the competition as I am using Firefox to view this page right now. The cost of windows has actually gone down since the windows 95 when you consider both the value added programs and the price for the mainstream version did not rise until Vista despite inflation. I would argue that the monopoly was the best thing for the consumer. Because of the wide licensing reach of Windows it allowed dozens of manufactures to streamline software support and concentrate in lower the cost of hardware. It allowed hardware component designers to know what OS they would need to support to concentrate on 1 or 2 drivers instead of needing to write drivers for dozens of platforms allowing more money to be spent on speed and efficiencies. It increased the productivity of users that only had to learn one OS for most of their needs instead of learning OS A for school while needing to know OS Q for there first job out of school and OS K for there next job.

I know you are all creative and stuff but the spreadsheet is much more important than any photo or video editing software. Also, I wonder does Gates get credit for inventing the browser since the browser first appeared on microsoft OS's wide scale much like you give Jobs credit for Avid being secondish on market using a highly modified mac platform for nonlinear editing.

Obviously you have no clue. Amazon should now immediately send all of its employees to a sensitivity class that way a women studios major can have a job outside of starbucks/boarders/Barnes and nobles.