A cynic might observe that anti-abortionists are more than a little over-represented at the shallow end of the earning curve, and therefore less likely to be able to afford Apple's wares.;-)
I have to agree with you on that, my friend. And there's something to be said for the productivity of people who don't have to work in an environment that reminds you of the inside of a dumpster.
I was around at the dawn of desktop computing. I learned our office had an Apple 2E. It had sat on a shelf for a year before I got there (first job), because nobody wanted to bother with it. I figured out one of the two disks it needed to load was damaged. I got another one. I figured out how to run Appleworks, integrated word processor, spreadsheet and data base programs. On my lunch hour, I went to bulletin boards to learn how we could take advantage of all that bookkeeping, mailout, and information tracking power.
For my trouble, I was condescended to and ridiculed by the female office staff as a silly little boy playing with his silly little toy. Then our little non-profit organization started to punch 'way over its weight. Guess why.
Somewhere along the way, I noticed that virtually all the helpful responses I got on the bulletin boards came from guys. So I wondered whether this was universal. At that time, it was no big deal to get the membership of a BB. So I did...for 15 local ones. And I assigned all the names that were obviously male to one column, all that were female to another the results were so utterly one-sided I compensated. Who knows...maybe some women were afraid to identify themselves, though at the time there was no compelling reason not to. So I assigned all names like "Kim" and a lot of "foreign" names (where I couldn't be sure what sex the person was), to the female side.
I came out with more than 90% male bulletin board membership. So just about everybody trying to figure out how to use this new office tool effectively was male, at least in the Toronto area.
There was no coercion, sexism or even fooling around. Back then, communication via BB was just too slow and disjointed to bother with that kind of thing. People needed advice, and those who could give it were quite generous.
So now it's a new world, and women are complaining that people about my age, who have made their way up the corporate ladder in computing, are mostly male. If my experience is anything to go by, the reason has a lot less to do with sexism than with the fact that quite a lot of us back then were "silly little boys playing with our silly little toys". Now those toys are running the world, and the girls who couldn't be bothered to give up lunch in order to figure them out aren't well represented at the top.
I'm aware that my evidence is anecdotal, but my numbers with respect to those dawn-of-time bulletin boards is 100% accurate.
Part of CBC's mandate is to promote Canadian culture. This is a necessity in the face of the unstoppable flood of US culture inundating the country from the South.
This isn't a "mental image"; it's a responsibility baked into CBC's raison d'etre.
Your "sneaking suspicion" is irrelevant...probably wrong, too. One of the highest-rated shows on CBC Radio, year after year, is "Canada Reads", a contest between five novels for which would be the best for a Canadian to spend a few hours with.
Please save your strawman argument for somebody who won't blow it out of the water in three seconds flat. Produce evidence that "people like me" disavow Truman, or go fuck yourself. The fact is, you can't, because most Americans backed dropping the nuke.
The rest of your comment is the kind of lying drek I'd expect from a bottom-feeding shitsucker like you. Go get shot by a toddler or something, and improve the gene pool.
Apparently, in spite of FBI denials, New York police have dozens of similar requests waiting for this one to set the precedent they're waiting for. Would one of those be a battle more to your taste?
Maybe you'd prefer that we all just roll over and let the warm, fuzzy people from the letter agencies scratch our tummies. Because let's face it, if you can't trust the people brought to you by J. Edgar Hoover, who can you trust?
"Funny how you never protested when the off-topic, non-tech stories agreed with your point of view".
I have. Less often, because it's well-covered by many others here.
As a conservative you have failed to notice that in the past couple of decades, the Fox News approach (a conservative lie is just as good as the truth...they've been caught so many times I've lost track) passes as "fair debate".
What you're seeing here is an invasion by the right wing echo chamber. Debunked lies cycle through over and over again, no matter how often they're refuted, and every objective fact has its carefully-crafted, time-wasting conservative cut-and-past boilerplate response.
If you want more of that kind of drek, go to Fox News. Please quit polluting decent websites and wasting the time of intelligent people with your paranoid, agenda-driven bullshit.
Does anybody else notice an increase in right wing FUD in the stories covered here...stories like this one, that barely qualify as tech-related, if they do at all?
I'm learning to think it's not a real week at Slashdot unless we see at least a couple of "Obama sucks because" stories, three or four "Windows 10 only phones home a hundred times a second because if loves you" stories, and a few like this one, where the "authorities" we're supposed to dislike and mistrust say they don't think North Korea can get a nuke-carrying missile as far as the US.
Can we get back to the Slashdot that used to keep this crap somewhat isolated and filterable, please?
Cry me a river. The bottom line is a couple of yahoos went out looking for somebody to lay a beating on, and it backfired badly. Even so, the only death was on the side of victims who had the nerve to fight back.
When Israel gets out of the Occupied Territories, we can talk. Until then, they're an occupying force, and they deserve whatever they get from people trying to get the boot of an invader off their neck.
Nothing wrong with getting drunk and laid, my friend. Getting drunk and going on a hunt for people to beat up (which is what this sounds like when the bullshit is stripped away)...that's something different.
I originally read down a way and didn't see anything else expressing this view. Then, having posted it, I went down quite a bit further and realized I wasn't even close to the first person to actually read the article and became more than mildly suspicious about the Israeli version of events, which always seems to be accepted without question by the mainstream media.
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A cynic might observe that anti-abortionists are more than a little over-represented at the shallow end of the earning curve, and therefore less likely to be able to afford Apple's wares. ;-)
100% agreed.
I have to agree with you on that, my friend. And there's something to be said for the productivity of people who don't have to work in an environment that reminds you of the inside of a dumpster.
I was around at the dawn of desktop computing. I learned our office had an Apple 2E. It had sat on a shelf for a year before I got there (first job), because nobody wanted to bother with it. I figured out one of the two disks it needed to load was damaged. I got another one. I figured out how to run Appleworks, integrated word processor, spreadsheet and data base programs. On my lunch hour, I went to bulletin boards to learn how we could take advantage of all that bookkeeping, mailout, and information tracking power.
For my trouble, I was condescended to and ridiculed by the female office staff as a silly little boy playing with his silly little toy. Then our little non-profit organization started to punch 'way over its weight. Guess why.
Somewhere along the way, I noticed that virtually all the helpful responses I got on the bulletin boards came from guys. So I wondered whether this was universal. At that time, it was no big deal to get the membership of a BB. So I did...for 15 local ones. And I assigned all the names that were obviously male to one column, all that were female to another the results were so utterly one-sided I compensated. Who knows...maybe some women were afraid to identify themselves, though at the time there was no compelling reason not to. So I assigned all names like "Kim" and a lot of "foreign" names (where I couldn't be sure what sex the person was), to the female side.
I came out with more than 90% male bulletin board membership. So just about everybody trying to figure out how to use this new office tool effectively was male, at least in the Toronto area.
There was no coercion, sexism or even fooling around. Back then, communication via BB was just too slow and disjointed to bother with that kind of thing. People needed advice, and those who could give it were quite generous.
So now it's a new world, and women are complaining that people about my age, who have made their way up the corporate ladder in computing, are mostly male. If my experience is anything to go by, the reason has a lot less to do with sexism than with the fact that quite a lot of us back then were "silly little boys playing with our silly little toys". Now those toys are running the world, and the girls who couldn't be bothered to give up lunch in order to figure them out aren't well represented at the top.
I'm aware that my evidence is anecdotal, but my numbers with respect to those dawn-of-time bulletin boards is 100% accurate.
I'm an atheist. Referring to hell like that is colloquial.
Do you also spend time telling people that sharks don't really have lasers on their heads?
Brilliant! Thanks for that. :-)
...Osama is laughing his ass off.
I wonder what they'd make of those pictures of George Bush Junior holding hands with that Saudi prince...and even kissing him.
...I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest.
Part of CBC's mandate is to promote Canadian culture. This is a necessity in the face of the unstoppable flood of US culture inundating the country from the South.
This isn't a "mental image"; it's a responsibility baked into CBC's raison d'etre.
Your "sneaking suspicion" is irrelevant...probably wrong, too. One of the highest-rated shows on CBC Radio, year after year, is "Canada Reads", a contest between five novels for which would be the best for a Canadian to spend a few hours with.
Seriously? You don't understand that four times more isn't the same as one tenth more?
Give me a break.
The murder rate in the UK is a quarter of yours. But the impression you try to give is that they aren't far apart. I'm calling bullshit on you.
Try honesty. You might like it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Suckas...
Please save your strawman argument for somebody who won't blow it out of the water in three seconds flat. Produce evidence that "people like me" disavow Truman, or go fuck yourself. The fact is, you can't, because most Americans backed dropping the nuke.
The rest of your comment is the kind of lying drek I'd expect from a bottom-feeding shitsucker like you. Go get shot by a toddler or something, and improve the gene pool.
...why in the name of all that is fucking Tech is this fucking stupid, fucking available-everywhere fucking drek even fucking here???
If I fucking want Puffington Fucking Post or fucking Faux Fucking News I'll fucking go there.
Fucking got it, you fuck-witted dildos?
Thank you for your attention.
Yeah...OK. So when Bush, Cheney, Blair and the rest of that foul crew own up and get held accountable, give me a call.
In legal terms, this is known as the "Money Talks, Bullshit Walks Defense". ;-)
How do you like your Patriot Act now bitches!
Yeah, there's risks. Life is about risks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFYs3gfgis
Apparently, in spite of FBI denials, New York police have dozens of similar requests waiting for this one to set the precedent they're waiting for. Would one of those be a battle more to your taste?
Maybe you'd prefer that we all just roll over and let the warm, fuzzy people from the letter agencies scratch our tummies. Because let's face it, if you can't trust the people brought to you by J. Edgar Hoover, who can you trust?
"Funny how you never protested when the off-topic, non-tech stories agreed with your point of view".
I have. Less often, because it's well-covered by many others here.
As a conservative you have failed to notice that in the past couple of decades, the Fox News approach (a conservative lie is just as good as the truth...they've been caught so many times I've lost track) passes as "fair debate".
What you're seeing here is an invasion by the right wing echo chamber. Debunked lies cycle through over and over again, no matter how often they're refuted, and every objective fact has its carefully-crafted, time-wasting conservative cut-and-past boilerplate response.
If you want more of that kind of drek, go to Fox News. Please quit polluting decent websites and wasting the time of intelligent people with your paranoid, agenda-driven bullshit.
Does anybody else notice an increase in right wing FUD in the stories covered here...stories like this one, that barely qualify as tech-related, if they do at all?
I'm learning to think it's not a real week at Slashdot unless we see at least a couple of "Obama sucks because" stories, three or four "Windows 10 only phones home a hundred times a second because if loves you" stories, and a few like this one, where the "authorities" we're supposed to dislike and mistrust say they don't think North Korea can get a nuke-carrying missile as far as the US.
Can we get back to the Slashdot that used to keep this crap somewhat isolated and filterable, please?
Cry me a river. The bottom line is a couple of yahoos went out looking for somebody to lay a beating on, and it backfired badly. Even so, the only death was on the side of victims who had the nerve to fight back.
When Israel gets out of the Occupied Territories, we can talk. Until then, they're an occupying force, and they deserve whatever they get from people trying to get the boot of an invader off their neck.
Nothing wrong with getting drunk and laid, my friend. Getting drunk and going on a hunt for people to beat up (which is what this sounds like when the bullshit is stripped away)...that's something different.
I originally read down a way and didn't see anything else expressing this view. Then, having posted it, I went down quite a bit further and realized I wasn't even close to the first person to actually read the article and became more than mildly suspicious about the Israeli version of events, which always seems to be accepted without question by the mainstream media.