I'm not even sure how one would "break" the condom on purpose while its in use.
I do know that if (in a student bar) you fill a condom with a pint of beer, tie it off and lob it 20'+ through the air it won't break when it hits the floor. Until the third try. Thank god I wasn't wearing it at the time.
Depends. If you mean violent sexual assault then maybe. But sexual assault (rape) also includes non-violent means including "pressuring" someone into it, getting someone intoxicated etc. etc. Watch the behaviour of drunken horny women sometime... no different than men... the only difference is that the men run the risk of jail or, almost as bad, public accusation. Actually, I take it back - drunken horny women frequently behave worse than men in the same situation because for a man to turn them down is an assault on the very foundations of the reality the women have constructed, whereas men get used to that at a very early age and just learn not to let it bother us... or a few do let it bother them and end up lonely and alone because they drew the lottery ticket that said their role was to take all the risks and for whatever reason they couldn't do that.
I'm not sure where "here" is but in Canada and (I think) much of the US if a man and a women go to a bar and each get drunk and then go somewhere and have sex then he has sexually assaulted her - because she is considered unable to give consent if inebriated. It is all based on an idea that sex is something men do to women.
I used to gently decline the attentions of women who had had too much to drink and with their lowered inhibitions had become amourous. I did that because I thought it was the right thing to do. It was only years later that I realized that if I too had been too hammered to behave then I would have been opening myself up to charges of rape that would have been taken quite seriously. I also found very early on that saying "no" to a woman gets a reaction that is, almost always, every bit comparable to the one men have when a woman says no.
Shouldn't the penalty for a false accusation of rape be at least as harsh as the penalty for rape? And could we at last get to the point sometime in the 21st century where we publicly admit that women like sex just as much as men and should be just as responsible for their decisions as men?
Not to mention the GP's implicit assumption that his "personal life and wikileaks" actually don't have anything to do with each other - an assumption that is certainly not obviously true.
Although it used to be common it has been a long time since I've seen a *nix system that had serious problems with large directories. If it does become a problem it is easy to add another level to the directory tree, e.g. by year.
Why do you say that? Are you concerned with the amount of storage consumed by 1 file per message? Is it the search time to go through a large directory?
I thought Galaxy Quest was really funny and clever. I have never had any time for Tim Allen, but this film was a rare case of getting it right on so many levels.
Well the first part of your reply is rather obvious - I assumed most readers would understand that was all implied.
As for:
So, what are you doing in order to align THEIR insterests to YOURS? Are you throwing money at it or something?
Because surely you don't expect they will neglect THEIR INTERESTS in order to support YOUR INTERESTS just out of thin air, do you?
I have no idea what their interests are so I have no idea what I might do to align their interests with mine. I might guess that part of their interest is in seeing Ubuntu used and adopted. In which case I have helped by giving feedback from a user. People who understand marketing also know that for every person who bothers to complain about something there are many more who have the same complaint but are silent about it. So they might even speculate that many people have the same complaint I do.
And, while it is unfortunate that you seem so perturbed by my having a few negative comments to make there really is no need to SHOUT.
This is my gripe about Ubuntu and much open source or "free" software. Ok, first, yes, it's free, so I have no right to complain. Second here's my complaint: they keep putting in effort in places that really don't seem important while neglecting those that do matter. A possibly non-Ubuntu specific example from this month. I upgraded to 10.04 which brought in a newer Thunderbird. This Thunderbird places its user directory in a different directory than the version I was using then makes a symlink to there from the old location. Result Beagle no longer works on TBird mail. I *really* liked Beagle's mail treatment. So now I either have to learn how to remake Beagle (and learn to use Mono?) or remake TBird. Beagle is no longer supported and Tracker doesn't do what I want. So I'm in for some significant work either way just because somebody wanted to change the name of a directory.
And yes dual monitor support is a little screwy too... it's something I expect to "just work" in this day and age. And even ignoring the button placement the default theme just looks terrible with TBird (folders with new mail are de-emphasized???) and some other apps so I have to go looking through themes to find something I want... more work because someone screwed around with something that didn't need changing.
Most people have better things to do with their time than try to overcome the effects of tinkerers with too much time on their hands. I'm getting to the point of either finding another distribution to use or abandoning Linux altogether.
To be able to fix the atmospheric nitrogen it wouldn't necessarily have to be organic, or if organic not the plant life that the nitrogen was ultimately to be used for. It could, for example, be a bacterium engineered to absorb gaseous nitrogen and excrete a nitrogen compound. And if you are worried about being eaten it could be designed so as to find the human body uninhabitable.
"nitrogen 2.7%" [portion of the Martian atmosphere]... that seems like a lot of nitrogen if you could extract it from the atmosphere... I guess it depends on how much surface you intend to cover with plants. Even 1% of the surface would be a pretty big dome/colony so you could conceivably get more than enough nitrogen out of the planet's atmosphere.
"the rich-white-males feel discriminated against by reverse discrimination"
Actually so do the poor white males and the middle class white males. And as long as we are on the subject they are men not "males". And they feel discriminated against because they are.
But none of what you've said in any way makes my original comment incorrect. Nor does the response to my previous post.
It is a youth oriented culture. All other things being equal older people are discriminated against in favor of youth. In jobs, in social standing, etc. etc. Take a look at who are marketing targets in this society - the young and women and especially young women. Because they have the money to spend.
How many ads do you see targeting old men? Virtually none - because they are seen as irrelevant. The few ads aimed at seniors seem to be: incontinence (though women seem the target audience), mobility (scooters etc.) where again women seem to be the target audience and life insurance (you know, the ones where women are discussing how much better they feel once they have insured the old guy's life). So not much advertising to the elderly and what there is of it seems aimed toward women (that could simply be because men die soon after returning while after retirement women live as about twice as long as men).
In fact you don't even have to look further than/. where ageism is seen as perfectly reasonable by many and the old are denigrated fairly regularly.
Where have I been? Out in the world participating in it and watching what goes on. The article is correct - we live in a youth oriented culture and that's pretty obvious with a little bit of observation. Go to a retirement home and ask the elderly if they feel high status and valued by society... let us know what they say.
I just think the original source should be credited. I'm not really picking on you in particular - but there are lots of sigs on/. which are reworded versions of famous quotes, or sometimes just the original quote itself, and the original author is never credited nor is any hint given that the the idea expressed is anything but that of the poster. Let's give credit where credit is due.
Umm, I've never even heard of a woman filing molestation charges for just being "offended".
Yeah... in Canada they'd call that sexual harassment. Much better.
And I've had consensual sex (yeah, this is/. I know) "while mutual pissing drunk" countless times without ever beeing accused or even afraid of such accusations.
In lots of places including parts of the US and all of Canada that would be a sound base from which to launch a charge of sexual assault - but it has to be the woman who is the victim. And not afraid? Maybe you should be. Any of those women can come back 20 years later and claim she "just remembered it" and have charges laid against. And even if you aren't convicted in court you'll be convicted by the public, and maybe friends and family too - after all "why would she lie?"
I don't know if you are using SQL and "relational database" as equivalent... it seems that way. Anyhow a long time ago there were many different database solutions and most of them weren't relational databases. Then relational databases became popular and anything else almost seemed to disappear. I didn't really get this enormous shift because there are lots of domains where a relational database is not the natural representation of the information being modelled. But for most applications that most people are interested in relational databases work well and SQL represents the ideas behind relational databases quite well. So SQL is still here relatively unchanged decades later because nothing better has come along - apparently it fills its niche quite well - well enough that it hasn't been dislodged.
As for "neo Cobol" I think it was either Wirth or Dijkstra that said that typing speed was not the limiting factor in programming.
Absolutely true. I rewrote an application that had a 70 table database to use a simple tree structured representation - it ran two orders of magnitude faster and the code was easier to understand because the data representation conformed well to the actual problem domain. Relational databases are great but they aren't always the appropriate answer.
But as an aside I don't think hyperbole is the enemy of critical thinking - it is just a tool (perhaps weapon) the proper employment of which requires immensely more skill than most people possess.
"Living in a youth centered culture, they may appreciate a boost in self-esteem. That's why they prefer the negative stories about younger people
Ummm so the lower status people living in an ageist culture enjoy something negative about the higher status people? Wow who would ever have imagined? The sad thing is that someone was actually paid to "discover" this utterly obvious bit of human nature.
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I do know that if (in a student bar) you fill a condom with a pint of beer, tie it off and lob it 20'+ through the air it won't break when it hits the floor.
Until the third try. Thank god I wasn't wearing it at the time.
Depends. If you mean violent sexual assault then maybe. But sexual assault (rape) also includes non-violent means including "pressuring" someone into it, getting someone intoxicated etc. etc. Watch the behaviour of drunken horny women sometime... no different than men... the only difference is that the men run the risk of jail or, almost as bad, public accusation. Actually, I take it back - drunken horny women frequently behave worse than men in the same situation because for a man to turn them down is an assault on the very foundations of the reality the women have constructed, whereas men get used to that at a very early age and just learn not to let it bother us... or a few do let it bother them and end up lonely and alone because they drew the lottery ticket that said their role was to take all the risks and for whatever reason they couldn't do that.
I'm not sure where "here" is but in Canada and (I think) much of the US if a man and a women go to a bar and each get drunk and then go somewhere and have sex then he has sexually assaulted her - because she is considered unable to give consent if inebriated. It is all based on an idea that sex is something men do to women.
I used to gently decline the attentions of women who had had too much to drink and with their lowered inhibitions had become amourous. I did that because I thought it was the right thing to do. It was only years later that I realized that if I too had been too hammered to behave then I would have been opening myself up to charges of rape that would have been taken quite seriously. I also found very early on that saying "no" to a woman gets a reaction that is, almost always, every bit comparable to the one men have when a woman says no.
Shouldn't the penalty for a false accusation of rape be at least as harsh as the penalty for rape? And could we at last get to the point sometime in the 21st century where we publicly admit that women like sex just as much as men and should be just as responsible for their decisions as men?
Thank you for pointing out the obvious - it is a crying shame that so often it really does seem necessary for someone to do that.
Not to mention the GP's implicit assumption that his "personal life and wikileaks" actually don't have anything to do with each other - an assumption that is certainly not obviously true.
My wife had been considering an Archos - specifically this one: http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/archos-archos-5-32gb-internet-tablet-web-only-archos-5-32gb/10131425.aspx?path=a2920f14d4a7faabedef8bb3f4ee353ben02&lid=fp-10131425-archosarchos532gbinternettable-en what do you think sucks about Archos?
Although it used to be common it has been a long time since I've seen a *nix system that had serious problems with large directories. If it does become a problem it is easy to add another level to the directory tree, e.g. by year.
Why do you say that? Are you concerned with the amount of storage consumed by 1 file per message? Is it the search time to go through a large directory?
Not to mention a blond Sigourney Weaver!
Well the first part of your reply is rather obvious - I assumed most readers would understand that was all implied. As for:
I have no idea what their interests are so I have no idea what I might do to align their interests with mine. I might guess that part of their interest is in seeing Ubuntu used and adopted. In which case I have helped by giving feedback from a user. People who understand marketing also know that for every person who bothers to complain about something there are many more who have the same complaint but are silent about it. So they might even speculate that many people have the same complaint I do.
And, while it is unfortunate that you seem so perturbed by my having a few negative comments to make there really is no need to SHOUT.
This is my gripe about Ubuntu and much open source or "free" software. Ok, first, yes, it's free, so I have no right to complain. Second here's my complaint: they keep putting in effort in places that really don't seem important while neglecting those that do matter. A possibly non-Ubuntu specific example from this month. I upgraded to 10.04 which brought in a newer Thunderbird. This Thunderbird places its user directory in a different directory than the version I was using then makes a symlink to there from the old location. Result Beagle no longer works on TBird mail. I *really* liked Beagle's mail treatment. So now I either have to learn how to remake Beagle (and learn to use Mono?) or remake TBird. Beagle is no longer supported and Tracker doesn't do what I want. So I'm in for some significant work either way just because somebody wanted to change the name of a directory.
And yes dual monitor support is a little screwy too... it's something I expect to "just work" in this day and age. And even ignoring the button placement the default theme just looks terrible with TBird (folders with new mail are de-emphasized???) and some other apps so I have to go looking through themes to find something I want... more work because someone screwed around with something that didn't need changing.
Most people have better things to do with their time than try to overcome the effects of tinkerers with too much time on their hands. I'm getting to the point of either finding another distribution to use or abandoning Linux altogether.
If evolution is the problem then we're doomed no matter where we are.
To be able to fix the atmospheric nitrogen it wouldn't necessarily have to be organic, or if organic not the plant life that the nitrogen was ultimately to be used for. It could, for example, be a bacterium engineered to absorb gaseous nitrogen and excrete a nitrogen compound. And if you are worried about being eaten it could be designed so as to find the human body uninhabitable.
"nitrogen 2.7%" [portion of the Martian atmosphere] ... that seems like a lot of nitrogen if you could extract it from the atmosphere... I guess it depends on how much surface you intend to cover with plants. Even 1% of the surface would be a pretty big dome/colony so you could conceivably get more than enough nitrogen out of the planet's atmosphere.
"the rich-white-males feel discriminated against by reverse discrimination"
Actually so do the poor white males and the middle class white males. And as long as we are on the subject they are men not "males". And they feel discriminated against because they are.
But none of what you've said in any way makes my original comment incorrect. Nor does the response to my previous post.
It is a youth oriented culture. All other things being equal older people are discriminated against in favor of youth. In jobs, in social standing, etc. etc. Take a look at who are marketing targets in this society - the young and women and especially young women. Because they have the money to spend.
How many ads do you see targeting old men? Virtually none - because they are seen as irrelevant. The few ads aimed at seniors seem to be: incontinence (though women seem the target audience), mobility (scooters etc.) where again women seem to be the target audience and life insurance (you know, the ones where women are discussing how much better they feel once they have insured the old guy's life). So not much advertising to the elderly and what there is of it seems aimed toward women (that could simply be because men die soon after returning while after retirement women live as about twice as long as men).
In fact you don't even have to look further than /. where ageism is seen as perfectly reasonable by many and the old are denigrated fairly regularly.
Where have I been? Out in the world participating in it and watching what goes on. The article is correct - we live in a youth oriented culture and that's pretty obvious with a little bit of observation. Go to a retirement home and ask the elderly if they feel high status and valued by society... let us know what they say.
I just think the original source should be credited. I'm not really picking on you in particular - but there are lots of sigs on /. which are reworded versions of famous quotes, or sometimes just the original quote itself, and the original author is never credited nor is any hint given that the the idea expressed is anything but that of the poster. Let's give credit where credit is due.
Nope, trust me that wasn't going to work. It was much more natural to represent directly as a tree structure using XML.
Yeah... in Canada they'd call that sexual harassment. Much better.
In lots of places including parts of the US and all of Canada that would be a sound base from which to launch a charge of sexual assault - but it has to be the woman who is the victim. And not afraid? Maybe you should be. Any of those women can come back 20 years later and claim she "just remembered it" and have charges laid against. And even if you aren't convicted in court you'll be convicted by the public, and maybe friends and family too - after all "why would she lie?"
I don't know if you are using SQL and "relational database" as equivalent... it seems that way. Anyhow a long time ago there were many different database solutions and most of them weren't relational databases. Then relational databases became popular and anything else almost seemed to disappear. I didn't really get this enormous shift because there are lots of domains where a relational database is not the natural representation of the information being modelled. But for most applications that most people are interested in relational databases work well and SQL represents the ideas behind relational databases quite well. So SQL is still here relatively unchanged decades later because nothing better has come along - apparently it fills its niche quite well - well enough that it hasn't been dislodged.
As for "neo Cobol" I think it was either Wirth or Dijkstra that said that typing speed was not the limiting factor in programming.
Absolutely true. I rewrote an application that had a 70 table database to use a simple tree structured representation - it ran two orders of magnitude faster and the code was easier to understand because the data representation conformed well to the actual problem domain. Relational databases are great but they aren't always the appropriate answer.
But as an aside I don't think hyperbole is the enemy of critical thinking - it is just a tool (perhaps weapon) the proper employment of which requires immensely more skill than most people possess.
Isn't it "shameful pleasure"? I doubt the older folks were feeling ashamed ;)
Ummm so the lower status people living in an ageist culture enjoy something negative about the higher status people? Wow who would ever have imagined? The sad thing is that someone was actually paid to "discover" this utterly obvious bit of human nature.
You're kidding right? The US government is probably watching to see how it goes over because they have exactly the same plans.
Yeah but don't brag about it - it'll make the younger fellers jealous of your wisdom and experience.