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Engineers Have More Sons, Nurses More Daughters
Bifurcati writes "While it might be irrelevant for many /.ers, a recent study has shown that people in stereotypically male professions (engineering, IT, mathematics, etc) are more likely to have sons than daughters, while nurses, therapists and teachers tend to produce more girls. Based on independent survey data, engineering types produce 140 boys to every 100 girls, while nurses and the like produce 135 girls to 100 boys. The explanation is unclear, but it might have interesting long-term social implications. A more detailed summary of the journal article is available on Illuminating Science."
Why I'm amazed.
"While it might be irrelevant for many /.ers"
should have stopped there, /.ers dont know what sex is let alone girls. lets think about these storys before they are posted. now we will all wonder what a "girl" is
What does this have to do with which sperm gets into the egg?
Nurses know how to choose a specific microscopic sperm by contracting their uterine muscles. They do this so that we can have more movies Naughty Nurses series!
Engineers know how to construct nets to catch all the sperm that make baby girls so that they can pass on their geekiness to another male generation!
Further note: misuse of apostrophes can present the image of stupidity.
Dude ..forget it. You are not going to mate with anyone, if you are an engineer.
... is about right. What is /. coming to, anyway?!
I don't want to read
To answer your question,
Yes.
Seeing as how you are 16 and your nurse wife is really your neighbor who you suck off and make sweet butt love to, I kind of doubt you claims.
Nurses also tend to be very sweet girls(speaking from a guy point of view). I think the sweet, caring, nurturing type of girls are naturally attracted to a nursing career. I've dated two nurses. One was a LPN and the other was a RN. I'm single, so I don't have to turn in my geek card. However, if I ever luck up and date another nurse, I will latch on. I recommend you do the same :)
This came out during a trial where MS appeared to partner with a software company on smartphones, and then terminated the agreement after seeing the technology. Shortly afterwards they announced their own product that had suspiciously similar features to the technology of the cut-out company./p
Almost certainly it was a corporate policy. My own company has had the lawyers pushing for a couple years no to have mandatory email deletion after only a few weeks, and the previous company did the same. Literally, no exceptions, they were going to force IT to auto-delete anything based on age, and the policy was going to be that if people needed to keep an email they should print it out and file it.
That pressure from the lawyers stopped not too long ago. I guess we have SOX to thank for that.
...those who can't count in binary , and those who can't count at all.
I've been to Cuba, and I loved going to Cuba. The people were wonderful - friendly, charming, and Cuban women surely give interested tourists the best welcome one would ever want :-).
But all I heard from citizens was gripes about the government. The "free" healthcare is worth about as much as you'd expect a dictator's promises to be worth. The capitalist things, like the taxi system, work gloriously. The hotels, being right under the government's thumb, are a model for poor service and bizarre rules. For instance, you can't take your Cuban girlfriend up to your hotel room without paying a bribe.
I read a lot of books on Cuba before I went, and it seems like people who go to Cuba with an ideological agenda are shuttled carefully to the right places, where things look shiny and new. This is a potemkin village that impresses the heck out of people who want to be impressed.
But if you go a few blocks away, you see scenes like I did. All these pictures were taken on what would be prime real estate in any other country, a block or less from the Malecon, the giant seawall that faces the ocean and is a major gathering spot for Cubans.
Cubans live in their decrepit and dangerous housing until it collapses, because if they maintained it the government would take it over and give it to someone else. No joke, sadly.
To put this slightly on topic, Cubans are generally not allowed to use the Internet, at least not at prices Cubans can afford. The Internet connections in the tourist hotels are closed to Cubans; only non-Cubans can use them. This is part of an effort to keep tourists on the busses and away from contact with the Cuban people.
The Cuban computers I saw were woefully out of date, with truly ancient versions of Windows on display. If my memory serves it was mainly Windows98, and I went in December 2002. So I doubt that this mandate from Castro will have that much effect. It's probably a propaganda effort to make Slashdotters look at his rule more favourably.
Even open source tyranny is still tyranny.
Alas.
D
Summary: you can be arrested and detained for up to four years because the police think you appear dangerous and might commit a crime. Police are using this power to imprison people who are not criminals by any stretch of the imagination - it's a purely repressive tactic, used to intimidate and control.
If anything, the American media is too soft on Cuba, often forgetting (as apparently you have) that it is one of the last holdouts of an unacceptably repressive style of government that much of the 20th century was spent abolishing. Unless you actually live there, you do the Cuban people a disservice by trying to diminish the seriousness of these problems.