Folk wisdom wise, you're right. But in a broader sense, you can't really ignore social pressures. You can pretend to ignore them, but you're doing yourself a disservice if you think you're not affected by them.
Porn is a hot button topic with many people. You got one side that hates it for religious and reactionary reasons. You got another side that hates it for the objectification of the individuals involved, and how it reflects across the population. You'd hope that someone making hiring decisions would not take stances outside of the ethics of the industry and the norms of the organization, but I doubt that happens.
I just don't buy it, I don't see how it could be fun without the suspension of disbelief. The only way I could see it being fun is dreaming about winning big and fooling yourself into thinking it might happen. Dichotomy of the mind, part of you knows better and part of you wants to suspend disbelief. I can buy the social aspect of it though, no doubt. Congratulating winners can give you part of the rush they feel. Either way, I don't think its because gamblers are any stupider than I am. I just think it might be a common problem in our species.
I don't associate the gambling industry with organized crime, but I consider it predatory. Still, gotta legalize it or it'll just be run by criminals again.
But men don't really bother to take notice of these things. When we want to do something, we do it. We don't ask for social acceptance. We don't look to our peers and wonder what they'd think of us, whether it's cool or hip or not.
Yes, you do. Everyone does, years of psychological and sociological study show this. It is a prime reason why we're even able to form society. There are outliers of course, and people don't always follow groupthink. But you are seriously deluded if you think that you don't have a deep seated need for some type of social acceptance.
Let me clarify with what I think you're trying to say, excuse me if I take liberties. Pretty much, it isn't about the people or groups of people. Its about our moral obligation to fight sexism, as well as being in our economic interest.
India certainly has its own culture differences with regard to the tech field(caste being one). While F/OSS is global, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I know enough about India's culture, and its repercussions in relation to the tech field, to know I don't know enough to talk about it without talking out of my ass.
Speaking as a male nursing student, a good deal of that is due to the encouragement of a culture of acceptance, with posters recruiting nurses showing males and that sort of shit. Despite all that, its an uphill battle and I often do get shit on for my choice to pursue nursing.
True, but while I was around 10 I had a book revolving around the original Christmas episode and through reruns had experienced many of the original prime time episodes. The social themes in those were not hard to grasp.
I said in a previous post, its certainly possible that this is boiled down to the difference in outlook between men and women, but I really doubt it. It could however result from society at large. I wouldn't dismiss that women are less likely to take up work like hobbies because already they're forced to choose between "family and career."
Could be a variety of reasons, but I doubt its some inherent difference between men and women. Might have to do with society as a hole with women as anchors to the family and thus when they leave this role they're expected to get paid. Even still, some of the big name outliers made in response to the parents post show an attitude that may be shared by the whole. Its worth investigation if nothing else.
OSS projects are for coding, but they develop a strong group atmosphere. This atmosphere could be to blame and its worth it to stay vigilant of examples of it being so.
To quote from his original article "women's participation in FOSS development is over seventeen times lower than it is in proprietary software development." If that doesn't point to some systematic problem I don't know what does. The point of declaring the existence of the problem is to figure out where it lies. Could be nerds asking female devs out on dates all the time, could be harassment. Regardless, SOMETHING is preventing female devs from moving into the FOSS community. You might say its because the industry itself has an overinflated amount of female devs due to so called coddling. I doubt that, and suspect its due to group norms and institutional sexism.
Yes, women should be more like men who don't have to deal with sexism. Its their fault they have problems with the rejection that men never face. Why rail against the culture when its so much easier to blame the victims! Not only that, we should accuse women of being bitchy and unable to cope with the stresses men face. +5 Insightful!
I'm not saying that at all, I'm just saying there is a potential for anti-competitive practices. I'm not calling for preemptive government intervention to fight something so ethereal. I just think there is a conflict of interest between Valve's position as a digital distribution platform and Valve's position as a developer. What I'm saying is I'd like to hear more intelligent discussion about that and the ramifications of it. I'm undecided if its a good thing.
Its still pretty easy to see the conflict of interest between a game developer and a game publishing platform. I agree with the author of the article on that. If misused i an anti-competitive way, that conflict of interest could be quite bad. Two major FPS's being released at the same time, one of them is Valve's and the other one being denied hosting on steam? Or even at a lesser sense, the fact that Steam doesn't take a cut of the distribution of Valve's games, considering it all goes to the same company. Valve hasn't moved in any directions to indicate anti-competitiveness, but the potential for abuse is there.
Main argument is by forcing steam to come with valve software, valve leveraged something other competitors couldn't. I'm sure you agree with that concept, though I don't think its bad enough to call for antitrust.
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Folk wisdom wise, you're right. But in a broader sense, you can't really ignore social pressures. You can pretend to ignore them, but you're doing yourself a disservice if you think you're not affected by them.
Porn is a hot button topic with many people. You got one side that hates it for religious and reactionary reasons. You got another side that hates it for the objectification of the individuals involved, and how it reflects across the population. You'd hope that someone making hiring decisions would not take stances outside of the ethics of the industry and the norms of the organization, but I doubt that happens.
I just don't buy it, I don't see how it could be fun without the suspension of disbelief. The only way I could see it being fun is dreaming about winning big and fooling yourself into thinking it might happen. Dichotomy of the mind, part of you knows better and part of you wants to suspend disbelief. I can buy the social aspect of it though, no doubt. Congratulating winners can give you part of the rush they feel. Either way, I don't think its because gamblers are any stupider than I am. I just think it might be a common problem in our species.
Making choices based on your future career prospects is bad. Making choices based on magic is good! Great advice!
I don't associate the gambling industry with organized crime, but I consider it predatory. Still, gotta legalize it or it'll just be run by criminals again.
But men don't really bother to take notice of these things. When we want to do something, we do it. We don't ask for social acceptance. We don't look to our peers and wonder what they'd think of us, whether it's cool or hip or not.
Yes, you do. Everyone does, years of psychological and sociological study show this. It is a prime reason why we're even able to form society. There are outliers of course, and people don't always follow groupthink. But you are seriously deluded if you think that you don't have a deep seated need for some type of social acceptance.
Let me clarify with what I think you're trying to say, excuse me if I take liberties. Pretty much, it isn't about the people or groups of people. Its about our moral obligation to fight sexism, as well as being in our economic interest.
India certainly has its own culture differences with regard to the tech field(caste being one). While F/OSS is global, I'm sure I'm not alone in saying I know enough about India's culture, and its repercussions in relation to the tech field, to know I don't know enough to talk about it without talking out of my ass.
Speaking as a male nursing student, a good deal of that is due to the encouragement of a culture of acceptance, with posters recruiting nurses showing males and that sort of shit. Despite all that, its an uphill battle and I often do get shit on for my choice to pursue nursing.
True, but while I was around 10 I had a book revolving around the original Christmas episode and through reruns had experienced many of the original prime time episodes. The social themes in those were not hard to grasp.
I said in a previous post, its certainly possible that this is boiled down to the difference in outlook between men and women, but I really doubt it. It could however result from society at large. I wouldn't dismiss that women are less likely to take up work like hobbies because already they're forced to choose between "family and career."
Could be a variety of reasons, but I doubt its some inherent difference between men and women. Might have to do with society as a hole with women as anchors to the family and thus when they leave this role they're expected to get paid. Even still, some of the big name outliers made in response to the parents post show an attitude that may be shared by the whole. Its worth investigation if nothing else.
OSS projects are for coding, but they develop a strong group atmosphere. This atmosphere could be to blame and its worth it to stay vigilant of examples of it being so.
To quote from his original article "women's participation in FOSS development is over seventeen times lower than it is in proprietary software development." If that doesn't point to some systematic problem I don't know what does. The point of declaring the existence of the problem is to figure out where it lies. Could be nerds asking female devs out on dates all the time, could be harassment. Regardless, SOMETHING is preventing female devs from moving into the FOSS community. You might say its because the industry itself has an overinflated amount of female devs due to so called coddling. I doubt that, and suspect its due to group norms and institutional sexism.
Yes, women should be more like men who don't have to deal with sexism. Its their fault they have problems with the rejection that men never face. Why rail against the culture when its so much easier to blame the victims! Not only that, we should accuse women of being bitchy and unable to cope with the stresses men face. +5 Insightful!
Fuck, I feel sorry for your ignorance.
Simpsons social commentary is transparent when you're ten. The only cartoon that beats your head with it more is Southpark.
You using that euphemism for shit or corpses? Because if it's corpses sign me up.
Sounds like Americans taking the name of two continents for themselves, western Europeans are taking all of Europe for themselves.
I'm not saying that at all, I'm just saying there is a potential for anti-competitive practices. I'm not calling for preemptive government intervention to fight something so ethereal. I just think there is a conflict of interest between Valve's position as a digital distribution platform and Valve's position as a developer. What I'm saying is I'd like to hear more intelligent discussion about that and the ramifications of it. I'm undecided if its a good thing.
Sounds like they allow it then, good on Valve.
Its still pretty easy to see the conflict of interest between a game developer and a game publishing platform. I agree with the author of the article on that. If misused i an anti-competitive way, that conflict of interest could be quite bad. Two major FPS's being released at the same time, one of them is Valve's and the other one being denied hosting on steam? Or even at a lesser sense, the fact that Steam doesn't take a cut of the distribution of Valve's games, considering it all goes to the same company. Valve hasn't moved in any directions to indicate anti-competitiveness, but the potential for abuse is there.
I'm curious if steam's distribution agreement would even allow you to put it on other digital platforms for less.
Main argument is by forcing steam to come with valve software, valve leveraged something other competitors couldn't. I'm sure you agree with that concept, though I don't think its bad enough to call for antitrust.
You should be, considering you replied to such a troll seriously. That makes you much more annoying than the original troll.
If shit gets that bad, I hope you're investing in bacon and not gold.