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It's well documented women and men have different innate drives. The more free a society becomes, the more we can indulge our natural predispositions. That was the general consensus of this documentary that delved into the "gender equality paradox":

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRe...

"The Nordic Council of Ministers (a regional inter-governmental co-operation consisting of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) has decided to close down the NIKK Nordic Gender Institute. The NIKK had been the flagship of “Gender Theory”, providing the “scientific” basis for social and educational policies that, from the 1970s onward, had transformed the Nordic countries to become the most “gender sensitive” societies in the world.

The decision was made after the Norwegian State Television had broadcasted a television documentary called “Hjernevask” (the Norwegian word for “brainwash”) in which comedian Harald Eia exposed the hopelessly unscientific character of the NIKK."

At least one condom submitted by the lady as the one used by assange appears to have been new and not actually used.

Full text on it here, but it looks she gave them a ripped condom which she said she had kept from the incident and there was no DNA on it. The only way that could happen would be if a new condom was opened and ripped.
http://rixstep.com/2/20110619,...

I have no love lost for Assange. And I'm very against rape. But this is a very unclear situation where one of the lady's in question has suspicious ties to the U.S. government. Sex by surprise isn't rape.

http://www.rawstory.com/2010/1...

And the swedish government acted in an unusual fashion because it was Assange. (the ladies were advised to drop the matter until it was known that they were complaining about Assange.)

The only way I could see convicting as a jury would be to strongly believe the females over the male as all the activity took place in private and was indistinguishable from consensual sex (which also took place).

It's as if the scientists were correct: women are predisposed to jobs with higher social quotients.

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

"There is far too much speculation and not enough actual research in this area."

That's not true. There's a good amount of research on the topic, it's just you'll never hear about it since the mainstream media largely leans to the left. Christina Hoff Sommers cited two studies in a recent Factual Feminist video that more or less confirmed the final premise of this documentary, which is chock full of research relating to this subject:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

The idea is that the more free and safe a society becomes, the more likely men and women are pursue their biological predispositions. This manifests as men having careers in hands-on jobs & STEM fields and women in jobs with high social quotients.

In all seriousness this is a very valid point. Women and girls just aren't interested in STEM. And research now shows it's less to do with nurture than previously thought. Christina Hoff Sommers cited two studies in a recent video that more or less confirmed the final premise of this documentary:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

The idea is that the more free and safe a society becomes, the more likely men and women are pursue their biological predispositions. This manifests as men having careers in hands-on jobs & STEM fields and women in jobs with high social quotients.

"The feminist argument is that this skew in gender balance is the result of prior socialization. But this claim of nurture over nature is not only unproven, it is utterly untestable."

Sorta. What research has been done on the subject actually shows there is a heavy biological component involved.

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

tl;dw - the more free and stable a society becomes, the more likely people are to follow their biological predispositions. This manifests as men gravitating to STEM and women to soft sciences and jobs with a high social component.

Stow that ideology before you hurt yourself.

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

I wish this was the #1 comment. Everyone wondering about how this came to be needs to watch this:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

> Or should they STFU and accept the fact that males and females tend to like different things, and short of forcing students into majors they don't like, you're never gonna get perfect diversity?

That's question is at the very heart of this documentary:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

tl;dw - men and women are predisposed to gravitate towards different kinds of work.

Good point. It could entirely be explained by women's propensity to disengage from a career for a variety of reasons unrelated to what the article holds. For example, a lack of socializing, which women naturally gravitate towards as was discovered in this documentary:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

This documentary did a great job looking into what drives our choice of careers and found women are just not that interested in STEM jobs, generally speaking.

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

tl;dw - The more free and open a society becomes, the more likely people are to follow their predispositions. For women that means comfortable jobs with lots of socializing opportunities. For men that was more hands-on type of work relating to personal interests.

Nope.

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

This documentary did a great job looking into what drives our choice of careers and found women are just not that interested in STEM jobs, generally speaking.

tl;dw - The more free and open a society becomes, the more likely people are to follow their predispositions. For women that means comfortable jobs with lots of socializing opportunities. For men that was more hands-on type of work relating to personal interests.

Efforts to get women into STEM is largely a waste of money. It's not discrimination keeping women out, it's their own drives leading them elsewhere:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...

Relevant:

http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,00.shtml

tl;dw - the more free a society, the more people can follow their predispositions. That often translates to men doing more manual and technical work, and women gravitating to nurturing types of jobs and/or those with a strong social interaction element.

From the testimony of Sofia Wilén:

They had foreplay for hours. They slept. They woke and had sex. They slept. They woke and had sex. They slept. They woke and had sex. They slept. They woke and had breakfast, then they had sex. They slept. Assange woke her by penetrating her without a condom, which she said she didn’t want. They spoke. She let him continue. They spoke some more.

"Raaaaaaaaaape."

Look at all the police outside the embassy.

If you think that the international community is standing behind these women trying to obtain justice for them, you are insane. Those women are being used, and so are you.

They cannot legally question him on foreign soil.

What section of Swedish law prohibits this?

But most of all, Swedish law and customs say that it has to be done a certain way, and again, Sweden doesn't treat fame differently. Just like everybody else who is a person of interest in a criminal case, he has to come to Sweden for questioning.

So you are asserting that no one has ever been questioned by Swedish authorities in foreign embassies?

Did you really expect the Swedish parliament and king to change the law for Julian Assange?

Again, where in Swedish law is this actually prohibited? Oh wait, It's NOT.

Olof Johnson decided to write to Fredrik Berg in Marianne Ny's office and ask what statute made the trip to London illegal. Olof received a reply inside half an hour.

From: Berg Fredrik
Date: 28 July 2012 16:21
To: Ivan Johnson
Subject: Illegal to question Assange in the UK

Hej Ivan,

The headline 'Illegal to question Assange in the UK' was set by SvD. That is not a quote of mine. On the other hand, the prosecution authority earlier stated that the process must be carried out the formal way in accordance with the EAW once one has been submitted, at which point questioning on English (or Ecuadorean) soil is not applicable.

Best regards,
Fredrik Berg
Information Clerk
Prosecutor's Office

Berg claimed he himself did not set the headline for the article and had in fact not said it was 'illegal' to question Assange in London, only that it was not 'aktuellt', translated above as 'applicable'....
Yet in Berg's reply to Olof Johnson, the meaning is more on the order of 'on the table', 'planned', 'being discussed'. What Berg's telling Olof is that they're not considering traveling to London - a far cry from the claims of Ny and Bildt that it's actually illegal. What Berg is also doing is being as evasive as possible - the word has so many disparate meanings, so when you don't want to actually explain something to someone, 'aktuellt' is your friend.

Challenge accepted.

Here's Ardin's thesis, titled "The Cuban Multi-Party System: Is The Democratic alternative really democratic and an alternative after the Castro regime?" The word rape does not appear in it.

Oh, really, it's time to look at *everything a person has ever written on the internet*, really? Like you've never written anything that others could use to discredit you online, ever? Really? First off, the "seven steps to revenge" 1) was a repost, 2) begins with, basically, "don't", and is 3) in general about how, if you do, how to cause an ex boyfriend's new girlfriend to break up with him.

Secondly, if you want to take the "anything you've ever written", let's see what Assange thinks about women.

I was exactly what she secretly longed for; a man willing to openly disagree with her father. All along she had needed a man to devote herself to. All along she had failed to find a man worthy of being called a man, failed to find a man who would not bow to gods, so she had chosen a god unworthy of being called a god, but who would not bow to a man.

Wow, really Julian? You're a freaking God to women? And do we even need to get into his dating profile, Mr. I AM DANGER, ACHTUNG?

See how this "dig up anything a person has ever written" game works?

Wow, what the frick is up with your "one bullet point on a website" link? It's not a reference to anything - nothing is backed up in any way, shape or form - but man, what a stalker site that is.

You need to work on your reading comprehension on the Mundo article you linked. It says she worked as the head of the Swedish group connected to the party, a party based on peaceful civil disobedience. "Somehow" funding it? It says right there - she funded it "minimally" with the magazine Consenso. Nowhere does it say she was deported. That's only said in the counterpunch article, which the article you linked to describes as riddled with errors. And furthermore, in what f-ed up world does supporting democracy in Cuba mean "CIA agent"? I mean, for crying out loud!

The interrogation does not at all say what you nor the person who posted it claim it says. The part about Wilen hearing the news reads as follows:

Sofia and I were notified during the interrogation that Julian Assange had been arrested in absentia. Sofia had difficulty concentrating after that news, whereby I made the judgement it was best to terminate the interrogation. But Sofia had time anyway to explain that Assange was angry with her. I didn't have time to get any further details about why he was angry with her or how this manifested itself. And we didn't have time to get into what else happened afterwards. The interrogation was neither read back to Sofia nor reviewed for approval by her but Sofia was told she had the opportunity to do this later.

Amazing how "difficulty concentrating" and concerned that "Assange was angry with her" transforms into "horrified" that they brought charges. I also noted (to put it another way, it made me sick to read) how the person who posted the article tried to spin the following passage as "consent":

They fell asleep and she woke by feeling him penetrate her. She immediately asked 'are you wearing anything' and he answered 'you'. She told him 'you better not have HIV' and he replied 'of course not'. She felt it was too late. He was already inside her and she let him continue. She couldn't be bothered telling him again. She'd been nagging about condoms all night lo

Where's the "No Sources Except Tin Foil Hat Blogs" moderation? Are we so happy to accept this unsubstantiated claim just because it meshes with our prejudices?

Well now, unfortunately, Ardin and Wilen have have managed to purge the web of all but the most ridiculous information relating to them, so efficiently that most fortune-500 companies can't afford such effective PR. Impressive.

For example, the fact that Anna Ardin wrote her Master's thesis on the use of rape as a weapon - Google that. You'll get tons of hits containing it in the cached summary, and yet, every single one of them seems to go to an unrelated (or redacted) page. You can, however, still find copies of her curiously-no-longer-existant blog where she detailed her "seven steps to revenge".

Or the fact that Ardin's cousin served as deputy head of ops in Afghanistan. Again, cached summaries, but no content actually says that (interestingly, two years ago you could find this information everywhere; today, I can barely find reference to it except one bullet point on a website I wouldn't tend to trust as a source, except insofar that it agrees with a reality that has somehow otherwise vanished).

Or the fact that Ardin spent several years working as an anti-Castro organizer in Cuba, somehow "personally" funding the movement until Cuba deported her - Which I can only find in Spanish (guess her PR whitewashing friends don't speak Spanish) and the occasional snippets here and there.

Or the fact that it horrified Sofia Wilen to learn that the police (and not just any police; not the local police; but rather, a detective Ardin knew personally from an entirely different jurisdiction) had charged Assange with rape, when she (apparently something of a germophobe) only wanted to compel him to get an STD test.


Yep. Completely unsubstantiated - If you require a link from CNN. If you actually dig a bit, a much darker picture appears than that of two girls falling victim to a serial acquaintance-rapist.

Considering the news from just the last week:

• WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head, U.N. says
• Wall Street Journal: Why Does Jeanne Whalen Have a Hardon for Julian Assange?
• The Guardian Leaks unredacted unpublished US diplomatic cables
• Former Wikileaks Spokesman Destroyed Documents
• New Your Times: The Nixonian henchmen of today:

I am not surprised at all that powerful organizations continue to attack them, cheered on by the usual propaganda fan club.

There's plenty of information available in English. Rixstep is good:

http://rixstep.com/1/20110624,00.shtml

Oh, and he sabotaged their computer systems before he left, got his passwords revoked, and obtained the data by physically going to the data center and blagging his way inside because he didn't actually have access to it any other way.

Much to learn: http://rixstep.com/1/20110624,00.shtml Although I don't expect any information to get in the way of your spins.

See http://rixstep.com/1/20110814,00.shtml and the other pages listed in the "see also" section.

A much fairer assessment. You missed the part where the new person politically appointed walks in a demands network information with no credentials.

http://ca.tech.yahoo.com/news/infoworld/article/453

"Sources have stated that not only was Childs the only admin, he was always on call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. As the only admin with the knowledge and access to the FiberWAN, he had no help. During the past few years, the DTIS staff has been significantly reduced due to budget cuts, keeping the city dependent on a sole admin for its core network."

"The confrontation that started the standoff

On Friday, June 20, there was an altercation between Childs and Jeana Pieralde, the new DTIS security manager at the 1 Market Street datacenter in San Francisco. Until her promotion, she had been a city network engineer who worked with Childs. The city's court filings claimed that Childs harassed Pieralde, confronted her, and took photos of her with his cell phone. Fearing for her safety, Pieralde retreated to a room in the building, locked herself in, and called the DTIS CIO for help. The DTIS CIO then called Childs and the two had words. Childs subsequently left the premises. Why was Childs so upset? According to the city, no one had told him or others that Pieralde was auditing his network, and he perceived it as a threat or intrusion.

Childs disputed this interpretation of events, claiming in court documents that Pieralde was conducting clandestine searches of DTIS employee workspaces and had removed a hard drive from an office when he confronted her. He also denied taking photos of Pieralde.

What occurred over the next two weeks remains a mystery, but at some point, DTIS officials demanded that Childs relinquish the usernames and passwords used to access the FiberWAN network devices, and Childs refused to do so. He was suspended for insubordination on July 9."

----

Clearly he was no longer employed with the city. Clearly he had no obligation to the city in any form. Clearly nothing he did was illegal. Clearly the city is the one that scapegoated a citizen. Clearly! Any audit of the city's security and management procedures was at the very least, negligent.

Childs could be the biggest ass in the world and he still was not the one that did not follow procedures.

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---- http://rixstep.com/1/20100428,01.shtml

Paul Venezia reports on a leak to Slashdot from one of the jurors.

'This case should have never come to be. Management in the city's IT organisation was terrible. There were no adopted security policies or procedures in place. This was a situation that management allowed to develop until it came to this unfortunate point. They did everything wrong that they possibly could have to create this situation.'

Venezia picks up the ball.

'Shouldn't the letter of the law be applied to other 'denial of service' problems caused by the city while they pursued this case? In particular, the person or persons who released hundreds passwords in public court filings in 2008 be tried for causing a denial of service for the city's widespread VPN services? After all, once the story broke that a large list of usernames and passwords had been released to the public, the city had to take down its VPN services for days while they reset every password and communicated those changes to the users. And the kicker is that the VPN password debacle had immediate and widespread negative effects on the users and clearly caused a service outage, while Childs' actions did not effect users in any way.'

The difference of course is that Childs wasn't 'connected', wasn't political, and Robinson, at the head of the notorious city IT organisation described by a juror as 'terrible', was.

'If the letter of the law is what convicted Terry Childs, then the law is simply wrong', concl

justf*ckinggoogleit

but sure: http://rixstep.com/1/20101001,01.shtml

Paypal does not have the right to choose to do business with whomever they want. For example they cannot choose to exclude black people from using their services simply because they're black. They could choose not to do business with WikiLeaks if they had been say, found guilty of certain crimes, or if they were violating the ToS of paypal. As far as I can tell they haven't been found guilty in anything other than the court of public opinion, which holds no legal weight. If they are violating the ToS of paypal, then paypal is being quite hypocritical as WikiLeaks hasn't changed their mode of operation since the leak of the Iraq war documents.

As to the Assange rape case, that was a total fabrication trumped up by the two girls involved and then pursued by the Swedish Prosecutor:
Evidence Destroyed
Summary of events to date

In a later post you write that "most Americans don't appreciate what Wikileaks did". It's a bit presumptuous of you to speak for most Americans, don't you think?

Paypal does not have the right to choose to do business with whomever they want. For example they cannot choose to exclude black people from using their services simply because they're black. They could choose not to do business with WikiLeaks if they had been say, found guilty of certain crimes, or if they were violating the ToS of paypal. As far as I can tell they haven't been found guilty in anything other than the court of public opinion, which holds no legal weight. If they are violating the ToS of paypal, then paypal is being quite hypocritical as WikiLeaks hasn't changed their mode of operation since the leak of the Iraq war documents.

As to the Assange rape case, that was a total fabrication trumped up by the two girls involved and then pursued by the Swedish Prosecutor:
Evidence Destroyed
Summary of events to date

In a later post you write that "most Americans don't appreciate what Wikileaks did". It's a bit presumptuous of you to speak for most Americans, don't you think?

Here's what Loki has been up to, in the guise of women and Swedish prosecutors: http://www.abacus-news.co.uk/news/10/wikileaksconspiracy7.php http://rixstep.com/1/20100914,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/2/1/20101018,00.shtml http://radsoft.net/rants/20100905,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/1/20100917,00.shtml http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/ http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29320

Here's what Loki has been up to, in the guise of women and Swedish prosecutors: http://www.abacus-news.co.uk/news/10/wikileaksconspiracy7.php http://rixstep.com/1/20100914,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/2/1/20101018,00.shtml http://radsoft.net/rants/20100905,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/1/20100917,00.shtml http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/ http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29320

Here's what Loki has been up to, in the guise of women and Swedish prosecutors: http://www.abacus-news.co.uk/news/10/wikileaksconspiracy7.php http://rixstep.com/1/20100914,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/2/1/20101018,00.shtml http://radsoft.net/rants/20100905,00.shtml http://rixstep.com/1/20100917,00.shtml http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/army_wikileaks/ http://rigorousintuition.ca/board2/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29320

WikiLeaks does not speak about upcoming releases dates, indeed, with very rare exceptions we do not communicate any specific information about upcoming releases

Julian Assange
Editor-in-chief

http://rixstep.com/1/1/20101018,00.shtml

Does TPB make millions from advertising? Is there any point advertising to pirates?

http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9814504-7.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/31/the-pirate-bay-makes-4-million-a-year-on-illegal-p2p-file-sharing-says-prosecutor/

Yes, they do, and yes, there is. Apparently.

Jerry Lee Cooper is the original source of the text. His website used to be here only weeks ago.
This seems to be a mirror of some of the content on the original site.
I was on 4chan the day they found him. It's exploded across the internet since then.

"You realize the irony of this statement, right? Taken out if its anti-TPB rant, it quite easily applies to the Recording industry distributors. In fact, it almost better applies to them because TPB's so-called profits and effect on music sales are pretty questionable. Whereas the coercive and immoral contracts of the music distributors are widely accepted facts. "

so-called profits?

This article says otherwise:

http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml

If you google it, the guys that run TPB have stated that they have made similar amounts over the years. However, I'm not sure how much bandwidth costs.

It's also an accepted fact that before you sign a contract, you need to read the fine-print.

"Intellectual Property" laws have become tools of oppression and exploitation. It should not be surprising that people are resisting them, even if such resistance has ulterior self-serving motive."

I know, because you are sooooooooooo oppressed when you can't download half-life for free or the latest metallica album.

When there is a good reason to violate copyright law besides a thinly veiled argument for getting free shit...people might actually start to listen. Otherwise it will only mean more DRM like protection schemes.

The link is poorly placed and points out Apple's claims, and not the vulnerability which is very old and very well known.

Here is a recent but overcomplicated "how to" for abusing the built-in feature that allows you to Get Root on 10.5.4

With apologies to Yogi, are we reaching a point where no one will buy an Apple because everyone's buying Apple?

If that's all there is - maybe.

http://rixstep.com/2/1/20071006,00.shtml

'But look at that picture and try to picture yourself sitting there with the rest of them. Do you see anything wrong with that picture? Think different isn't different anymore - it's same. Everybody's got one. And so it isn't cool anymore.'

Tinkertool? Try Rixstep's Clix instead and learn how *nix works.

Obviously they earn a lot of money from displaying ads on tpb.com

See also: http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml

They don't care about anything but making money (9 million a year) ->
http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml
TPB is just a large on-line business run by full-time crooks. don't kid yourselves any of them give a flying fuck about copyright, or the rights of the consumer. they enable people to steal take everyone else's hard work for free, whilst becoming millionaires from advertising revenue at the same time. Don't ever mistake what they do as caring about anyone but themselves.
If you want to promtoe copyright reform, you need the EFF and sites like it, not a warez index like TPB.

It's sad to see so many of the slashdot and digg crowd taken in by the thin veneer of grass roots credibility these people smear themselves with.

This crap should be illegal.

In my country, Denmark, it is indeed illegal. From what I understand, I am glad it is so.

Did I mention that we have never had your problem with telemarketing either? Or that email and SMS spam is strictly illegal and swiftly and harshly prosecuted?

Or that we actually have an efficient and respected state department which looks after consumer rights in cases like deceptive marketing and defective products? For example they recently went after Apple when Apple refused to repair faulty macBooks.

Sometimes, more and more frequently lately, I am glad I don't live in the US.

The money is channeled through a company in Switzerland sharing an address with another company specialising in tax planning [...] He [Daniel Oded] refused to reveal where the ad revenues for The Pirate Bay disappear to.

the pirate bay do it to make money:
http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml
20,000 Euros a day, also estimated at 9 million dollars a year, in advertising.

your friends band may lose out, but a bunch of swedes who take his work and give it away for free are doing just fine. Nice people huh?

what TPB do is generate money for themselves through ads :
http://rixstep.com/1/20060708,00.shtml
20,000 Euros a DAY through advertising. earning them 9 million dollars a year by giving away other peoples hard work for free.
what charming people. I hope they end up in a cell.

Pointless.

KDE can do that, but it's pointless.

The point of OS X's menuing is **not** that it in any particular location, but that it is **per application** not per **Window**. The menus could just as well be detached - as they were on NeXT - and that would probably be a better way of doing it on OS X with the size of some screens today (anything up to 30in).

This gives some insight into why you would want menuing to be per application - and why that can't be done if your architecture doesn't permit it.

The Target-Action Paradigm:

http://rixstep.com/2/20050529,03.shtml

It is estimated that the human eye can perceive about 10 million different colors, not only some 16'000, but this has not yet been definitively resolved. ;)

Concerning the lawsuit - seems that the suers failed to notice that the same displays (TN-Film 6-bit) were already present in iBooks and PowerBooks, and they are present in Acer Aspires, Acer TravelMates, Dell Inspirons, HP Omnibooks, HP Pavilions, Fujitsu-Siemens LifeBooks, IBM Thinkpads, Compaq Presarios, Sony VAIOs, Toshiba Satellites and so on... (List courtesy of Rixstep).

One link: http://rixstep.com/4/0/xfile/why.shtml

Check this out.

http://rixstep.com/1/1/20070225,00.shtml

The guy's totally psycho.

Even more interesting LMH ran a canary trap and caught Jason Harris of Unsanity in it.

The canary trap the leak and the mole:

http://applefun.blogspot.com/2007/01/canary-trap-l eak-and-mole.html

This is also enlightening reading:

http://rixstep.com/1/1/20070109,02.shtml

I wouldn't have used APE before, but you'd have to be out of your tree to use it after this idiocy and shenanigans.

I found your original post to be ambiguous and I agree with jpellino that you seem to be blaming Apple users for Apple's security problems.

Right. Again, what did I say that blames Apple?

Stating that a problem exists is not the same thing as placing blame. If I was interested in placing blame, I'd point out a certain 3rd party blogger who created enough rage among security researchers that they named a wireless exploit after him. I think it's fair to say that he's one of the reasons the Month of Apple Bugs even exists.