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A number of nuclear reactor safety system lessons emerged from the incident. The most obvious was that in tsunami-prone areas, a power station's sea wall must be adequately tall and robust.[6] At the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, closer to the epicenter of 11 March earthquake and tsunami,[289] the sea wall was 14 meters tall and successfully withstood the tsunami, preventing serious damage and radioactivity releases.

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The report noted that Tepco had not made any safety improvements to the Fukushima Daiichi plant since 2002, and had dismissed the possibility of it being hit by a massive tsunami, even though it could not produce supporting data.

It had, for example, insisted that Fukushima Daiichi's 5.7m seawall was high enough to withstand a tsunami generated by a large quake in the area, despite a warning in 2008 by its own engineers that much bigger waves were possible.

Where the hell did I ever advocate for eugenics (even for you, because it's not necessary: you're never going to breed anyway)? Pointing out a problem situation isn't advocating in favour of it.

That's a line of BS, and you know it. You've for a very long time been talking down to people who you refer to as nerds simply because they don't agree with you, and you've mentioned with your own satisfaction that they'll be eliminated from the gene pool. By the way, my "nerdiness" has landed me another girlfriend; so much for your stupid theory. And quit fucking pretending that you speak for women -- you're not a woman, and you don't speak for them. They can speak for themselves quite well without your help.

I will, however, cop to favouring some forms of censorship. We have laws here against hate speech, and I think that's a good thing. And in case you haven't noticed, both Facebook and Google now censor certain types of posts (Facebook) and videos (youtube).

They only do it because it gets them advertising dollars, because advertisers don't like getting associated with anything controversial. Google did basically nothing about it until the wall street journal (right leaning, by the way) wrote an article about it, and the advertisers subsequently started pulling their ads; something they wouldn't have done if nobody had said anything.

The wall street journal likely did this because they they've been watching their own revenues drop with the rise of social media, basically as if to say that only media-industry published content is safe.

Furthermore, I'm not going to make my life's decisions on whatever facebook and google decide. If I did, then they would already have a complete dossier on everything there is to know about me, which they don't because I don't participate.

And as for militancy, I have engaged in both peaceful protest and legal action - for what I believe in. That's both my right and my responsibility in a democracy. As for "being militant" against you, I'm just giving you back some of what you've served me.

Nope, you specifically said, and I quote "I'll have the cops on your ass in minutes" (something that wouldn't happen, by the way, yet another one of your fucked up lies about Canadian law.) Furthermore, I have in no way been militant against you: I've never made any kind of threat against you, I've never suggested that you be arrested, and I've never suggested that there should be any government action against you. All of these would be militant behavior, and you've done all three to me.

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Why? Because you have a problem with transsexuals. You don't believe that we can possibly be happier as women than we were as men, probably because you believe that men are innately superior to women.

No, I didn't say that it wasn't possible, I'm sure in a few rare cases it is, as I've mentioned before. However, as I've stated, I think the medical community is making a very grave a mistake by advocating this, and I strongly believe that this will (unfortunately) end up being another black eye on psychiatry, of which they already have too many, which is sad because it only sows distrust against the psychiatry field, which has done a lot of good for a lot of people.

The suicide rate among transexuals before, during, and after transition is 41%, even if they have nothing but full support from their friends and family and are happily employed. And in fact, University of Birmingham's ARIF, which is a very well respected group in the scientific community, has plainly stated that there's no robust scientific evidence that sex change therapy is clinically effective.

https://www.theguardian.com/so...

Speak of which, (something tangentially related) as for

You seem to think that it's impossible for people from a rich nation to be victims. This isn't the case.
49 people dead at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2017, shot for being in a gay club.
22 trangender people dead in 2016 due to fatal violence.
Black men are NINE TIMES more likely than other ethnicities to be murdered by police.
And the list goes on and on. So when someone rants about how social justice is evil, I say no; hate is evil, and oppression is evil. Equity means you'll need to accept people who are different than you. Part of improving equity means accepting that social justice interventions are imperfect now, and there's no easy answer. But if you argue that equity is not needed, it's you who will be judged by historians as the oppressor.

In this case, the market really will provide. It has provided chap-hop.

"Programming talent comes from intelligence...." So you're not a programmer then? Or just an untalented one? Women are systematically driven out of IT jobs. I have borne witness to this over the thirty years that I have been in IT. But rather than relate anecdotes, I direct you to your favorite Internet search engine. Even a casual search will return a multitude of results that show it is a widespread phenomenon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/c...
https://www.theguardian.com/c...
https://www.theguardian.com/c...
https://www.nytimes.com/c...
http://www.latimes.com/c...
And so on.
This is not the case in other high tech fields. I have a cousin that has bben a mathematician for ATT for many years. She has daughter that has been an acoustical engineer for the US Navy for more than ten years. My granddaughter just got her PhD in aeronautical engineering and is working for United Launch Alliance.
And so on.

"Programming talent comes from intelligence...." So you're not a programmer then? Or just an untalented one? Women are systematically driven out of IT jobs. I have borne witness to this over the thirty years that I have been in IT. But rather than relate anecdotes, I direct you to your favorite Internet search engine. Even a casual search will return a multitude of results that show it is a widespread phenomenon:

https://www.theatlantic.com/c...
https://www.theguardian.com/c...
https://www.theguardian.com/c...
https://www.nytimes.com/c...
http://www.latimes.com/c...
And so on.
This is not the case in other high tech fields. I have a cousin that has bben a mathematician for ATT for many years. She has daughter that has been an acoustical engineer for the US Navy for more than ten years. My granddaughter just got her PhD in aeronautical engineering and is working for United Launch Alliance.
And so on.

Using common technology from 13,000 years ago? Not so much across, as around- the current would take you North to Japan, then east across the Bering Sea, then down the coast of North America to get you to Mexico.

In other words, the current is flowing very much the wrong way for the journey you describe.

The OPPOSITE journey, from Mexico to Indonesia, however, is quite short indeed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/04/castaway-story-backing-from-mexican/

Link:

When the cars were operating under controlled laboratory conditions - which typically involve putting them on a stationary test rig - the device appears to have put the vehicle into a sort of safety mode in which the engine ran below normal power and performance. Once on the road, the engines switched out of this test mode.

Once manufacturers deployed their "fixes" to current vehicles on the road, the result was a significant loss of power and worse fuel consumption.

As for their ad campaign, I'm surprised you never saw it. The even hired the Mythbusters crew at one point to plug it.

In 1942, Alan Turning was essentially forced to go to the US to by a cryptography liaison with the explicit instructions from MI6 to not tell Americans anything because they couldn't be trusted. Here are some other comments that were made by him around that time...

Turing’s own reports from Washington are filled with disdain for what he saw as America’s overreliance on technology rather than thought. “I am persuaded that one cannot very well trust these people where a matter of judgment in cryptography is concerned,” he wrote. “It astonished me to find that they make these elaborate calculations before they had really grasped the main principles. [But] I think we can make quite a lot of use of their machinery.”

American culture was alien to Turing, who was irritated by what he saw as their incessant need for irrelevant small talk. “In one of his letters home, he’s complaining about their speech and the fact they kept saying ‘ummm’, ‘errrr’, ‘but’ and all these little stutters which got on his nerves,” Moore says. “He writes ‘Just say the sentence and then stop!’”

I'm no psychiatrist, but I suspect that an experience of being forced to play an adversarial role like that could poison the well a bit (anytime, it's them against us, there's a tendency to dehumanize your counterpart).

How do YOU think a police officer should deal with a non-compliant criminal?

How about being much less violent? To put things in perspective, the police in the USA is orders of magnitude more likely to kill by any comparison to similar countries. For instance

• England & Wales - population 56.9 million - 55 fatal police shootings over 24 years
• USA - population 316.1 million - 59 fatal police shootings in the first 24 days of 2015

• Australia - population 23.1 million - 54 fatal police shootings between 1992 and 2011
• USA - population 316.1 million - 59 fatal police shootings in March 2015

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The police in the USA does not need yet another weapon to perform their work. They need to learn to be less violent.
(I am not saying that violence is never needed, but today's level is overly excessive).

Well, who is this Alex Hamilton, anyway, with most of a famous name?

Alex Hamilton obituary — November 2016

Above all, Alex conducted scores of interviews with important literary figures. In fact, he probably met more famous authors than anyone else on earth. Among them were Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, Gunter Grass, Chinua Achebe and Jorge Luis Borges, who delighted Alex by saying that when he himself wrote horror stories, he shed tears, "tears of laughter". A selection of these conversations was issued in 2012 under the title Writing Talk.

Weirdly, this is exactly the kind of book I tend to seek out, so I'm surprised he was not on my radar already. Weirdly (again), Borges shows up in this connection surprisingly often.

As far as I'm concerned, if Alex wrote "Super-Toys" then "Super-Toys" it is, then. Case closed. Recount denied.

AC said: "Bullshit, they have never required a mobile number."

uh... sure you don't want to read the examples going back as far as 2010 and retract that statement?
Facebook has required mobile numbers many times. Not of all users.

But facebook has experimented on subsets of it's users without their consent regularly. It's a skeevy, scummy company whose founder has openly mocked people who trusted him.

2014
https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Facebook says the huge psychological experiment it secretly conducted on its users should have been âoedone differentlyâ and announced a new set of guidelines for how it will approach future research studies.

In a blogpost on Thursday, Mike Schroepfer, chief technology officer, said the company had been âoeunpreparedâ for the negative reactions it received when it published the results of an experiment in June.

Facebook published the results of a 2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Unbeknown to users, Facebook had tampered with the news feeds of nearly 700,000 people, showing them an abnormally low number of either positive or negative posts. The experiment aimed to determine whether the company could alter the emotional state of its users.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/th...

" Facebook now requires your mobile phone number

I just went to Agar.io to pass some time and just as I tried to log in via my Facebook account I was told I wasn't allowed to log in until I fixed some things on Facebook. So off I went to Facebook and I'm told they want my mobile phone number in order to continue using my account!!

So I click the question "Why do I need to verify my identity by providing my phone number?" and it says this:

We want to make sure that this is really you and that youâ(TM)re connecting to Facebook with just one account.

To verify your identity, you'll need to log into Facebook and follow the on-site instructions to add your mobile number. Your phone number will be added to your profile, but you can choose who can see it there.

Note: Maintaining more than one account is a violation of the Facebook Terms.
"

https://www.facebook.com/help/...

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Tearing down statues is the start of the process. You think it'll stop there?

It's a big leap to go from what sorts of monuments are suitable for prominent display on public land to removing facts from textbooks (which has already been happening, but from the other side). But whatever, you clearly seem to be obsessed with these parties that are all so nuts that most of us want nothing to do with them. The whole "us vs. them" thing is just a smokescreen to keep you from seeing that it's all a scam. Keep tilting at those windmills...

He wasn't a Nazi and his freedom of speech was not curtailed and he was not prosecuted. Merkel said the prosecution could move forward, but it never did.

Yeah, if I saw someone escape prosecution by the skin of his teeth I am sure going to be encouraged to speak up like him. Chilling effects dude, they happen.

Go back and read the article more carefully.

I could but I have taken notice of what happened already. Germany has a lese-majeste law on the books. This guy (rightly or wrongly) criticized Recepe Erdrogen and his stalking of hobbits up Mt. Doom personal characteristics,and he tried to use that law to silence a critic. And Merkel was ok with that. Do you think that encouraged "loud political discourse"?

You can still be dragged into court for libel or slander.

the U.S. has a much stricter definition of libel and slander than European countries, so much so that we passed the SPEECH act. Germany on the other hand moved to prosecute a comedian for criticizing Erdrogen, who recently wanted to make the teaching of evolution illegal.

You think flying a Nazi flag or telling people that you're going to put them in ovens or promoting the Klan in a majority black community might fit that definition? Of course it does. Free speech does not give you the right to say whatever kind of shit you want without consequences. It didn't in 1789 and it doesn't now.

Quit trying to drag neo-nazis into this shit. You asserted that " if you go to Germany right now, you will hear much greater diversity in political speech and ideology than you will in the US.". And I have already shown that is not the case. I, here in the US, can criticize any leader i want and not fear prosecution. Trump is a narcissist, Edrogan needs to lay off them hobbits, Merkel is a coward and Theresa May is a way worse leader than Lord Buckethead. Can anyone in Germany say the same?

Nope, Far East Asia countries will still have their insatiable demand of Shark Fin Soup. It is pretty bad what is happening. Equivalent to what the US did to the Bison in the 1800's.

The ship is considered a war grave and protected by various country-specific laws. Unfortunately, "scavengers ain't got no respect."

Um, cars with real-world 300 mile ranges are on sale now.

Um who's selling this vaporware? It's not Tesla is it?

P85 gets all of 120 miles range!!!

Tesla Roadster 53kWh only got 55 miles!!!

Looks like a quantum leap for hyundai 300 miles.

Well a video game, I'd sell them virtual Nestle bars and not give Nestle any of the money. But that's fair right, because Nestle isn't interested in copyright or trademarks.

They did tried to trademark but lost the case...

The west also has a bad habit of killing-off people it doesn't like:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/aug/25/british-spy-mi6-gareth-williams

Here's what happens when you post on Facebook (for God's sake!) https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

How much longer before companies like Facebook and Twitter decide an election?

Somewhere between -1 and -9 years. I'm sure they've been deliberately influencing them for much longer. They both have programs that assist politicians in targeting ads and news to voters. Quick searches turn up open use of Facebook helping politicians. Google will help deliver their message too.

How much longer before companies like Facebook and Twitter decide an election?

Somewhere between -1 and -9 years. I'm sure they've been deliberately influencing them for much longer. They both have programs that assist politicians in targeting ads and news to voters. Quick searches turn up open use of Facebook helping politicians. Google will help deliver their message too.

Plus, these is that psylocybin is considered to be among the safest recreational drugs.

https://www.theguardian.com/so...
https://www.globaldrugsurvey.c...
Disclaimer: I'm aware that the globaldrugsurvey's methodology and conclusions has major, almost stupid problems, but their raw data does suggest that that the mushrooms are fairly safe.

What you've said is that if a more qualified woman or black person applies for the job, an employer is in no way obligated to accept a while, male candidate.

No, that's not what I said. Oh, and here's a reference for hiring women purely on the grounds of their gender:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...

Here's one where the BBC are defending and claiming legality for offering paid work to people that must be non-white:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ente...

OTOH, there is no law stating a less qualified candidate who is not white or male must be accepted. You're pretty much trying to do what Damore did in his memo, insinuate a conclusion and lie by omission.

No, I'm just better informed than you and able to back up my statements with references. You merely throw around insults.

White males are not discriminated against in any way

Except the ways I mentioned in my original post, none of which you've been able to disprove.

Not even the Guardian tries to say that white men are evil, that shit is entirely the DM's area.

No one is attacking you for being white or male

Well, since you mentioned the Guardian, even they acknowledge that "In America, as in Europe, older, white men are the only group that liberals can abuse and exclude with impunity."
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

you're being attacked because you spout a lot of bullshit and the rest of us are sick of it

When even the fucking Guardian acknowledges the issue I think it shows that you're either ignorant, in denial or maliciously trying to prevent conversation.

So call bollocks on whatever the fuck you like, but do try and provide some fucking evidence next time.

What's on its way out is getting meat by having animals grow it on their bodies, killing and butchering them and then trying to find things to do with the parts people don't want to eat.

What? Even vegans participate in this activity, they just think they don't. When growing just about any kind of crop, you invariably have to kill many pests, among them being wild boars, deer, raccoons, rats, mice, possums, insects by the millions, and many more. All are sentient by the way, including plants.

Besides, there's also practically no such thing as food that doesn't use some kind of animal byproduct, especially if you eat organic food where there aren't any practical alternatives. Whether its use cow poo, worm poo, guano, bone meal, blood meal, or any number of other animal products used in agriculture, an animal is involved somewhere.

Animal husbandry doesn't need to be either cruel or bad for the environment though. For the most part, it's just cows that are environmentally unsound, but even then, this can partially be avoided by having them graze for food instead of being given animal feed. This guy goes into great detail:

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

If vegans had enough creatine in their diet, maybe they would be smart enough to realize all of this, but alas, they're in a vicious cycle. (Yes, creatine does make you smarter and improve your memory, in addition to the already well known benefit of allowing you to gain lean (healthy) body mass.)

As for me personally, hunting and fishing are very fun things to do. I really doubt you'd be able to convince me and everybody who participates in these things that they need to stop just to satisfy some moral code that amounts to a religion that they do not and will not ever believe in (I certainly don't.)

I think that counter protests to things like this are good. You could make just as much argument that if no one shows up that these's idiots will feel emboldened or as though the whole country agrees with them but are just too scared to come out and join them. To some degree no matter what you do, people in groups like that are going to look to rationalize any action at all to feed the internal narrative they've constructed.

However, I think counter protests should be a lot more clever. You can't really fight groups like this using a fire with fire type of approach. Instead you need to do something that mocks them while making them feel their demonstration is counter-productive. Here's a news article about how one German town handled a similar march/demonstration a few years back. Just watch the video included in the article and see how deflated a lot of those people look.

I'm not confusing them, but I think you are! I'm talking specifically about the copyright in a sound recording as defined in the UK:

https://www.gov.uk/government/...

The copyright length of the recording in the UK is now 70 years after release. However, a 50 year limit still applies to recordings that have never been officially released. This sometimes forces record companies to put things out just to extend the copyright for another 20 years:

https://www.theguardian.com/mu...

Yes, men and women are different (fact)... but, women are not inferior to men purely because their women (that IS the conclusion that was written about, which even the authors of the studies he cited called his conclusions wrong). I do realize that it is the conservative mantra though; however, it simply ain't so.

Now, if you want to compare the rampant misogyny in the conservative mindset to trust in science (two radically different things).... https://www.theguardian.com/en...

Now, if you change that start from "Using the scientific fact..." to "Abusing the scientific fact...." you'd have hit the nail on the head.

Coding, however, is a meritocracy. It has quantified metrics and performance tracking by definition.

Except when it isn't? Code by women is 'rated' lower when their name is attached.

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Cubans did

Citation needed. The apparent attack happened in Cuba, it does not follow that it was perpetrated by the Cuban authorities, any more then an attack on a diplomat on US soil is assumed to be caused by the CIA. It might be, but at this point it appears to be he-said, she-said.

Min

Well, tell that to the Canadian diplomats that had the same thing happen to them while they were in Cuba.

Notice it's from that execrable source of right-wing propaganda - the Guardian.

Oooops. So much for the Cuban apologists...

So is the:

Water torture
The bamboo under the fingernails
Long monotonous speeches
The forced donation of organs
Hostile working environments
The killing of political undesirables
Repression of Democracy
Supporting the Great Firewall Am I talking about Googal in China, or Googal in the US, with their own Workfarce?

You decide

Save lives, kill privacy

Exactly. Apple is consistent in preferring privacy — to a fault, such as when it chose the privacy of a dead terrorist over the potential for saving lives.

But the masses' reaction to that depends on the spin, and it is amusing to watch the crowd — even the /. crowd — flip-flop at the hands of the opinion-manipulators...

If only Apple were as heroic in other countries...

Clearly you missed the memo : Air conditioning is sexist.
https://www.theguardian.com/mo...

Yes, making men wear a suit and tie then lowering the temperature to stop them permanently sweating is sexist against women that want bare shoulders and refuse to put on a fucking cardigan.

While you make a very good point I thought the article was actually about how the 'next billion' would input their wishes to computers, not how computers would be delivering the information.

So, reverse the situation, as you describe it ... and you end up with something like this

Yes, voice recognition is getting better, just ask Siri, Google, or Alexa, but I'd still call it a recipe for frustration in anything but the simplest and most ideal situation.

No one is making a criminal accusation

Wrong. It is exactly that — a criminal accusation. People driving SUVs or eating beef are evil, because they are killing the planet . So, yeah, vast well-funded forces are making criminal accusations with punishment ranging from mandatory education for the ignorant to prison time for the worst offenders, who are committing the crimes against humanity.

rhetorical turd you have dropped has an intimidating perfection because people would rather step around it than sweep it up.

Ah, a fecal metaphor, nice. Too bad, it does not help your argument in the slightest. For all the SAT-words in your vocabulary, you are still wrong — the Western world really is on trial, a criminal one, the fact you attempted to deny. Remember to logout.

No one is making a criminal accusation

Wrong. It is exactly that — a criminal accusation. People driving SUVs or eating beef are evil, because they are killing the planet . So, yeah, vast well-funded forces are making criminal accusations with punishment ranging from mandatory education for the ignorant to prison time for the worst offenders, who are committing the crimes against humanity.

rhetorical turd you have dropped has an intimidating perfection because people would rather step around it than sweep it up.

Ah, a fecal metaphor, nice. Too bad, it does not help your argument in the slightest. For all the SAT-words in your vocabulary, you are still wrong — the Western world really is on trial, a criminal one, the fact you attempted to deny. Remember to logout.

Do they not train the machine learning algorithms with color images?

Color is extremely subjective. Remember the dress color photo that went viral? Your brain basically takes an average of all the colors it sees, guesses what the color of the light is, and does an automatic white balance. It's really good at this, so a stop sign appears consistently red to the eye.*

Totally different for a machine. The auto white balance in cameras has gotten good, but it's still easy to fool in extreme lighting conditions. Especially if there are multiple color light sources, some pointed at the camera, some away. I carry a grey card so I can prop it up near the subject location and snap a picture. That way I have a calibrated color reference for subsequent photos I can use for a manual white balance. Unfortunately, an automatic car traversing an area for the first (and only) time doesn't have that luxury.

* (There's actually an experiment which demonstrates your brain's auto white balance. You take a patchwork quilt with a bunch of different color patches. Then in a darkened room, you take a black cloth with a hole cut in it and cover all but one color patch. Say it's a green patch. You then shine a light on it, but put color filters in front of the light until the light reflecting off the patch is objectively red (predominantly 650-700 nm). When you look at the one patch, it will appear red. But if you remove the black cloth and reveal all the other colored patches under the same filtered light, your brain now has enough information to do a white balance and suddenly the patch which looked red just a moment ago will look green. Because it is green relative to all the other colors.)

What idiots labeled this crap as interesting? There are lots of people stopping women from coding. I suspect that most of the reasons women are unrepresented in the coding world are because women don't want to deal with fools like you.

Why Venture Capitalists Don’t Fund Women-Led Startups

Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender

and that Google employees who discriminate against members of protected classes will be terminated.

So firing that guy may or may not have gone overboard a bit. But what do you expect? After all, they just got under fire for not protecting protected classes from discrimination.

Are they supposed to create a work environment more friendly to women or not?

Come on mate, are you really going to bring this dead horse up again?

Spot the person who's never heard of pair programming. Or who believes, due to his own inability to work with others, is the wrong way to go.

Why isn't pair programming the one and only way to do things then? Could it be because he's right? I think so.

But hey, what is programming at all but communication. Communication with the computer. Maybe women are fundamentally better at it. On average.

Wow, quite the assertion. Unfortunately it's completely contrary to reality. But hey, you get SJW virtue points for the signalling. Well done.

Ah, yes, I remember that being a concern once upon a time. However, it's no longer true. There are more girl gamers than boy gamers now.

https://www.theguardian.com/co... [theguardian.com]

Seriously, you think Candy Crush on the smartphone is 'playing games'? It's cute that SJWs try to justify enforcing the "diversity" stupidity in gaming by trotting out these numbers again and again, but when we look at real games that require even the smallest level of investment (PC/consoles) we find that the audiences are largely male. But hey, you are absolutely correct as long as you constrain your propaganda calls to The Sims. But I guess you don't need to as that game, which correctly identified its audience as mostly female years ago, already is catering to that audience. Just like all other games would *if their audiences were actually female to any relevant proportion*.

Your ideology is not supported by the facts.

As far as programming goes, men tend to prefer that type of solo work

Spot the person who's never heard of pair programming. Or who believes, due to his own inability to work with others, is the wrong way to go.

But hell it doesn't need to be pair programming. Women's greater average ability in the communication stakes means that their code is probably better documented, right? And the SCM commits better written up. And their release notes better.

But hey, what is programming at all but communication. Communication with the computer. Maybe women are fundamentally better at it. On average.

try to figure out why boys play video games significantly more than girls.

Ah, yes, I remember that being a concern once upon a time. However, it's no longer true. There are more girl gamers than boy gamers now.

https://www.theguardian.com/co...

Turns out it was simply that because development was full of males, they weren't producing games that appealed to women. Once that problem was sorted, women started playing games. Another reason why it's beneficial to have women in development.

Your bigotry is not born out by the facts.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2012/feb/21/us-more-men-raped-than-women

Duh! Not used on every floor:
"Grenfell Tower: fire-proof cladding specified by architects used only on ground floor"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk...

USA backed Syrian rebel forces, until Trump switched to backing Assad due to his Russian links.

I sure hope the U.S. does not "back" me anytime soon given what they did to Assad under Trump.

Trump doesn't have a policy on Syria, he has a series of reactions that change with the news cycle.

If you want to see someone who truly supported Russia, look no further than Obama (who ignored them shooting down a commercial passenger jet)

And exactly what reaction was Obama supposed to have? The biggest question during the invasion of Ukraine was how to get Putin to stop with just Eastern Ukraine.

- or Hillary (who sold them oodles of uranium's secretary of state).

we'll get right on that after we've fought off the invasion from the lizard people.

USA backed Syrian rebel forces, until Trump switched to backing Assad due to his Russian links.

I sure hope the U.S. does not "back" me anytime soon given what they did to Assad under Trump.

If you want to see someone who truly supported Russia, look no further than Obama (who ignored them shooting down a commercial passenger jet) - or Hillary (who sold them oodles of uranium's secretary of state).

If the CIA is really meddling in the affairs of as many countries as you lot seem to think, where are the success stories then?

Well, you usually don't hear about them until many decades later of course. But, in fairness, the CIA has been pretty successful at defending the value of the Dollar and representing U.S. business interests (including defending the Dollar against anyone stupid enough to challenge it). But their attempts at regime change have been a series of disasters with often horrific unintended consequences. Here, read all about it.

But here's is a question for you. What do you think the CIA does all day? You don't seem to think they ever have a hand in anything, so what exactly do you think they *do* with their $15 billion every year? Do you think it costs $15 billion to produce a world factbook each year? Do they just hire a shit-ton of people to sit around their offices to stare at the walls all day? Are they using it to buy blackjack and hookers for the world's largest office party?

ackshually

you will find sjws are against these kind of things
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

The P85D, from empty, can put on 212 miles range in half an hour from a supercharger

Edmunds
Edmunds bought a 2013 Tesla S 85kWh, and only got 120 miles range.

Top Gear
Jeremy Clarkson got only 55 mile range with a Tesla Roadster (53 kWh battery).

The only way a P85D is going to go 212 miles is if you stop blowing Elon Musk's tiny penis and start blowing for propulsion.

Fix this issue and your problem will be solved.

Well, no. First of all, fixing access does not mean fixing affordability. You can build power stations and power lines all you want to get those people access, but that doesn't mean those people can suddenly afford the price of an AC unit and the cost to run it.

According to United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) programme 270 millions or 21.9% people out of 1.2 billion of Indians lived below poverty line of $1.25 in 2011-2012.

(wiki)

A quick google search for 'air conditioning price in India' tells me that the low end AC units sold start at around 19 500 rupiees, which at today's exchange rate is just slightly above 300 dollars.. So that's almost a year's salary for most of the poorest 200-300 million Indians to just afford the machine. And that's just the acquisition cost. The cheaper ones are usually ones with higher power consumption (this one which I used as an example for the price has a 3 star rating), but we shouldn't be too far off even with a 3 star rating for a 1 ton machine if we assume a power consumption of about 1 kWh.

The one good thing is that increasing warming makes solar cheaper and cheaper. According to this story from last year the prices have at times shrunk to 2.62 rupiees per kWh, roughly 4 US cents.So if you run the machine for the hottest part of the day, say from 10 to 17, that's 28 cents a day.

So for those living in poverty they need to spend about 1/5th of their income just to be able to operate the machine if they somehow managed to save enough money to actually buy one in the first place. Given that people with children especially tend to have other notable expenses, it's unlikely that many at those income levels will even be able to acquire such a machine. Granted, increasing supply will further bring prices down so this estimate is not fully reflective of the future, but I'm using these figures to highlight that 'fixing this issue' is just ever so slightly more complicated than just building a few solar plants and some power lines.

time to unlike healthcare from jobs like the rest of the world

I think you meant "unlink". It could happen, now that the government was unable to change anything so far. People want certainty. Especially with health care. The majority do NOT trust the government any more with respect to health care - which is why this has a chance to catch on finally

Bernie Sanders pushes universal health plan in wake of Republican repeal failure

Bernie Sanders has spent the first months of the new Congress defending Barack Obama’s health reforms as Republicans vowed to repeal them. But after the GOP’s seven-year drive to eliminate the Affordable Care Act collapsed on the Senate floor last week, Sanders is ready to introduce his own solution - government-run universal healthcare for all Americans.

The Vermont senator will spend the next several weeks leading a campaign to build support for his plan before unveiling the bill next month. On Wednesday, he launched a six-figure digital advertising campaign on Facebook and Google that encourages supporters to become "citizen co-sponsors" of his plan, which he calls "Medicare for All", according to Sanders spokesman Josh Miller-Lewis, a reference to the public healthcare program for older Americans.

"Bottom line is: if other countries around the world are providing quality care to all their people, we can do the same," Sanders told NPR in an interview on Tuesday.

Surveys show people want this. And with the total failure of the current regime to get anything done, it will be a delicious irony if Trump's stupidity ultimately results in the US bringing health care supply into the second half of the 20th century.