And suddenly I'm accusing you of being in favor of harassment?
You indeed wrote that I was a part of the problem did you not?
You talked about delays in reporting it, but requiring a chaperone isn't about old cases of harassment. It's about a woman reporting it (correctly or maliciously) pretty much immediately. I'm also glad that your wife complained about harassment and got results, but it's rather beside the point.
Sorry David, it is exactly 100 percent the point
It simply does not fit in with your narrative.
Immediate reportage lends veracity to the accusation. It is very easy to see how upset a victim is or isn't, and the accused is often shocked to find out they have been nabbed. In my wife's case, it happened while being alone, but there wasn't one question as to whether she was telling the truth or not. That does not fit in with your narrative either.
I believe that we have pretty much reached the end of any useful discourse, Even with offering insights based on having a spouse that is a survivor of some rather extreme sexual harassment, you simply reject my stance. To the point where you feel that calling me a part of the problem is somehow justifiable. You are perhaps not as wonderful a person as you think you are. Any I use the words perhaps because I prefer to be civilized.
Good for you. Your faith has withstood an experience based opinion that does not fit with your narrative.
Let me close with this though. Shame on you. Peace out.
And you think that would mean that it looks any different than the Middle East does today? You have the same shit going on there, one group claiming to have the moral higher ground so they can suppress the rest, and the rest fighting back. Why does anyone think this would be different in any way if we tried the same shit here?
Because their god is the right god. And it would be the same outcome. As a society based on one religion gained power, eventually there would be religion based warfare right here. Ideology and religion does not stay still. It's either waxing or waning. As it waxes, there is a demand to become more pure, to become less and less tolerant of other religions. And there you have it - an American version of the middle east, with agry gods who demand blood and death.
I've actually never had that happen to me. They give me strange looks, certainly, but no stranger than my neighbour who occasionally sends me videos of this or that person "proving" intelligent design because he thinks that being an atheist is an irrational decision.
To be honest, I'm not sure how to respond to someone who goes ballistic for *any* greeting. Raised eyebrows? I can handle that. Religious propaganda/literature? Sure, I'll just throw it away anyway. Proselytizing? I'm not gonna argue, just get away if I can.
But anger? What the hell do you do there? Get angry back? That doesn't help - now there's *two* angry people.
I've had a few get pissed. My reaction is laughing at them. I suspect someone may take a second amendment solution on me some day.
Then Someone could truly say "He literally died laughing"
IIRC it was the Bosporus that budged, not Gibraltar, but the effect certainly would have been the same for anyone living there. The general area between Sinai and Babylon is filled with stories about devastating floods, the Gilgamesh epos for example (which is not only older than any biblical report about a flood but its parts about the flood are also most likely already a copy of an older Babylonian flood and creation myth) and a few Akkadian texts that tell pretty much the same story... most of them sane enough, though, to talk about a great flood that sure was devastating and killed "the people" but not a world wide event.
I've always suspected that the Desert God's versio of the flooding was largely based on the oral traditions, and how good storytellers can amp up a story and create great entertainment. The Desert God's flood is an awesome story from the point of people who don't have knowledge of a world larger than what they see, but simple back of the envelope calculations show the amount of water needed to fully cover the entire globe is simply mind boggling and needed to come from somewher and go somewhere and itwould have killed everything in the oceans, first as salt water mixed with fresh, killing the fressh water species, then as the water became increasingly fresh, killed the salt water species. So a story that was mostly accepted as allegory until the early 20th century, became a fundamentalist demand for literal accuracy.
By "extraterrestrial watchers" they mean crack-pots right?
People are capable of some pretty impressive belief's and disbelief's. I know one guy who denies that humans ever reached the moon at the same time insists that this rock is a spaceship filled with aliens. We somehow cannot get 250 K miles away with proven technology, but aliens scoot around in goo covered rocks. Sounds legit.
You know, the whole flood story would gain a lot of credibility if they claimed it was a local event and that god simply created everything else later. I mean, think about it, the whole book takes place in that rather small area between Egypt and Babylon, no mention of any part of Europe or even the Americas... One could get the impression, whoever wrote it never went past Egypt and Babylon...
There is some evidence that there was a cataclysmic breach in the strait of Gibraltar that allowed the Atlantic ocean to rather rapidly fill the Mediterranean, sea area. Some settlements have been found that are now under water. A theory called the Zanclean Fllood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... proposes a rather quick re-filling of the sea, perhaps in as short a time as a few months. This happened, the only controversy is the length of time it took to refill the sea. must admit that a few months would have been about as scary an event as they get.
And doesn't "Parting the Red Sea" sound like what happens during a tsunami? Stories get re-told a few thousand times, and there ya go.
As an atheist, I love Christmas. Vacation, food, drinking and presents. I'm suspicious of people who don't like Christmas. Fuck those people, they're defective.
Booyeah! Visiting with family and friends, and a lot of my relatives are winemakers. Some really old traditions, like drinking shots of Kümmel, and my Aunt's kickass beef stuffing, And now that I'm retired I can eat poppyseed rolls again.
And "What happened next" did not stun electricity industry insiders. It was engineered to do the very thing it did.
But we're talking coal man, the energy of the future! If those old fashioned batteries have to kick in to replace coal's failings, how is coal ever going to show it's superiority?
I'll just show myself out now.
It looks like the alternative, for women, is to be sexually harassed or to be semi-ostracized, the way you put it.
No, it is not, and you are possibly reading into what I say from the persepctive of your own narrative. Upon the first occasion of harassment, the woman needs to report it immediately first to HR, with a tacit understanding that law enforcement is next. My wife was the victim of some pretty egregious harassment, and rather than wait 20 years, she told me about it, and reported it to the owner the next morning. Reaction was swift, merciless, and very effective. She was never disbelieved, there was none of the meme of "Well, what were you wearing?" or "were you flirting with him?"
If your house was broken into and robbed, would you wait years to report it?
If someone stole your identity online would you allow it to go on for 25 years?
If someone rear-ended your car, would you wait to report it to your insurance company until decades later?
I don't for a second believe that women should accept sexual harassment at work, and would prefer you not accuse me of it. Avoid that, and I will avoid calling you a person who believes that innocent men who are destroyed is an acceptable situation because all men deserve being punished as a group. Let's be intellectually honest, David.
The problem is real, and you remain a part of it.
Actually, if you support waiting until the statute of limitations expires to report sexual harassment, you are a metric shiiutload more a part of the problem than I ever could be. Not that I go around cavilierly throwing around insults like what appears to fit your narrative.
So anyhow, please tell me how my stand of immediate reportage and immediate justice is being a part oif the problem? Ever have a loved one be severely sexually harassed?
You are operating from a digital narrative where you either are a sexual harasser and support monsters like Trump and Moore, or you support every and all accuasations and suppoprt an end to the rule of law, because people like Ol Olsoc do not agree with your narrative.
For what I personally believe? I believe Moore is a pedophile and likes underage women who are past puberty but not yet able to give consent. I believe that Weinstien is a creepy pig who any normal woman would never consent to having sex with. I believe that the present occupant has a nasty issue as well, and the legal settlements would indicate that is true. But here's the rub, at least one of the women who accused Moore of getting her pregnant was making a false accusation. She was a political plant from Project Veritas, Run by conservative activist James O'Keefe. https://www.politico.com/story... The aim was to discredit the Washington Post by a false plant in order to discredit all of their Roy Moore reporting. That is the weaponized version of #metoo.
Ever spend time with Judges? They can tell you that people lie all the time, and the person's gender does not make that more or less likely. Men can lie, and women can lie. And that's why we have courts and judges. Because usually someone is lying. Maybe it's the man, maybe its the woman. Maybe some people care, maybe some don't care. Which are you?
Rather than be a part of the problem as you suggest, I am part of wanting truth to prevail. Judging from your wanting to paint me with a brush dipped in the paint of your narrative, it appears that you are not concerned with the truth at all. But there is a great way to ascertain truth, or at least get as close to it as can reasonably be hoped. The courts.
In these cases, a quick accusation has a lot more veracity than a 20 year wait. In my wife's case, the approach was simple. a little over 12 hours went by - Next morning... "This happened, and do we want to take care of it here and now, or do you want to contact your l
Actually, it did a lot. Survived the late heavy bombardment, developed a few ways to synthesize ATP, invented the nucleus which led to the development of eukaryotes, they developed flagella and carnivore behaviour, viruses came into existence, and my personal favorite, they came up with sexual reproduction.
And you now waste all that with a flick of your hand...
It s quite possible that life originated here on earth more than once, and of course there is the possibility that it came form Mars. Regardless, the study of life on earth is incredibly fascinating. So much simply fits together with the physics. Although I'm not an expert, I've done a lot of personal research, and the pieces are fitting pretty nicely.
Sure beats the concept of Kangaroos swimming from Australia to the middle east so they wouldn't drown in a flood.
What bothers me is the asshats that get ballistic if you wish them "Happy Holidays". Who then berate you for wishing them well that "this is a christian nation"..
Will you join us in the Ban Bing Crosby movement?
He's the bastard that started the heresy with that damn Happy Holiday song.
And he sung Little Drummer Boy with that creepy hippie David Bowie. Jesus has been waterboarding Crosby ever since that evil dude died.
In the meantime, Thanksgiving, Saint Nicholas Day, Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Christmas Day, Three Kings Day/Epiphany, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, Omisoka, Yule, Saturnalia, Veteran's day, New Years day, Thanksgiving
And Festivus for the restofus!
There are a lot of holidays, and some that aren't Christmas are celebrated by a lot of people. Many that aren't Christmas are Christian Holidays that these right thinking people have chosen to ignore. November, December, and New Years are considered the Holiday season because there is a traffic jam of them right now.
So - Happy Holidays folks,may you enjoy good health and happiness. May the new year bring you success. If that insults you or you don't like that, Go Fuck Yourselves.
If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
Even if the Senate Dems were to vote in lockstep, which is less than clear, this would have to pass in the House as well, then survive a presidential veto. That's not going to happen, and TFA says as much. This is nothing but political posturing on Schumer's part.
Besides, the Trump landslide where he got more votes than any other candidate ever, and the Republican majority in both the house and senate and the majority of Republican governors indicates that American citizens by thre undenialble force of their voting patterns do not want net neutrality at all, they are in lockstep with Pai and our Republican leadership. Y'all voted this in folks, you gotta accept it.
No I am not. I am proposing to isolate men from women. There is a big difference.
OK, I'm curious. What's the difference between isolating women from men and men from women? In either case, we're talking very restricted contact between men and women.
A woman can do as she pleases. A male without a chaperone is not allowed around her. No allowing a man and woman to be alone in a rom as company policy. Either a chaperone, or the man must leave, or be in violation of company policy (or the law). The woman by default is considered the victim. Tne man is by default the transgressor.
If you haven't figured out yet, I agree that the contact would be very restricted. That would be sad. My point, seemingly lost in this back and forth, is that men by and large, make risk/reward analysis decisions on almost every thing they do. I do it every day. I play hockey, which is fraught with risk, but breings me great rewards.
Female staffers and lobbyists who returned to the Capitol last week for pre-session meetings, discovered many male legislators will no longer meet with them privately. Accustomed to Tallahassee’s Southern culture, where men and women casually and routinely greet each other with hugs, legislators are doing an awkward dance to replace a hug with a handshake. And the fear of retaliation — against women who brought forward allegations or those who may in the future — is as raw as the fear that legislators’ political enemies could turn sexual harassment claims into new political weapons.
“I had a senator say, ‘I need my aide here in the room because I need a chaperone,’ ” said Jennifer Green, a veteran lobbyist, after meeting with a senator in his Capitol office to discuss a client’s issue. “I said, ‘Senator, why do you need a chaperone? I don’t feel uncomfortable around you, do you feel uncomfortable around me? ‘Well,’ he said, ‘anyone can say anything with the door shut.’ “
Is this wrong that he does this? Is this harming the woman in any way shape or form, excepting that she notes that he does not trust her? He will have a witness to the fact that he never harassed or abused the woman in any way. The woman will be safe from harassment. That has to be rather uncomfortable, no?
Trust is not something you can legislate. And there is no law that says that anyone in the workplace must be friendly towards anyone else.
Having lived through several years of this exact response to draconian sexual harassment rules ( the rule was anything a woman considered as sexual harassment was by definition, sexual harassment, and was a fireable offense. ) what is happening right now is exactly what happened then.
It is a result of unintended consequences. The concept was that men and women would carry on like great friends, no differences at all, if only just the men who were harassing the women would stop. That sounds good, but when faced with vague rules, like today's often decades old accusations with no proof needed, or my old experience of "Whatever she thinks is harassment is harassment", the target will almost certainly take defensive measures when a hug held a second too long is sexual assault. The answer is not time the hug, it is to not hug.
The sad part? All of the creeps will just continue being creeps. So its a double whammy for women. Decent men will protect themselves, and the jerks will just go on being jerks. It not only doesn't cure the problem, it makes things worse. A Pyrrhic victory at best.
Security and Convenience are diametrically opposite.
If you leave your home unlocked and ask the cable guy to just go in and "fix" it, you don't have to wait at home between 8 AM and 4PM. So would you?
Funny you mention it. We've often had contractors come in and the often work unattended. They are bonded, and we are repeat customers.
Everytime my banker calls me on phone to check a 10K wire transfer, I specifically thank him for security.
Yeah, and I have a setup where any time a charge over a certain amount is charged to my Credit card, it disables the account, and a human calls me to verify the purchase.It's quite cool But still.
If there is someone to blame, blame Microsoft was making convenience more important than security, and for fostering a climate where that decision was considered better.
You are arguing against yourself. Your credit card and bankers have come out with a way to work around security vulnerabilities. Using Microsoft's paradigm, instead of a call to verify or some other security action, they would disable credit cards altogether.
My point, which seemed to me to be obvious, is that you fix the security vulnerability, not kill the process.
DDE is Windows 3 tech that was deprecated when 32bit Windows came around (due to OLE/ActiveX). It was a *terrible* cross library/process communication mechanism, which no one has used in over two decades, except when left in for "Legacy compatibility". Outside of Office, the only other app that may be currently used that supports this archaic API is mIRC.
You are thinking specific, I'm talking about the generality of Microsoft disabling things that some users use. Apple does this too - I'm dealing with fallout of High Sierra turning thumbdrive encryption into a clusterfsck. When you have to keep finding new solutions to old challenges, it gets old real fast.
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And suddenly I'm accusing you of being in favor of harassment?
You indeed wrote that I was a part of the problem did you not?
You talked about delays in reporting it, but requiring a chaperone isn't about old cases of harassment. It's about a woman reporting it (correctly or maliciously) pretty much immediately. I'm also glad that your wife complained about harassment and got results, but it's rather beside the point.
Sorry David, it is exactly 100 percent the point
It simply does not fit in with your narrative. Immediate reportage lends veracity to the accusation. It is very easy to see how upset a victim is or isn't, and the accused is often shocked to find out they have been nabbed. In my wife's case, it happened while being alone, but there wasn't one question as to whether she was telling the truth or not. That does not fit in with your narrative either. I believe that we have pretty much reached the end of any useful discourse, Even with offering insights based on having a spouse that is a survivor of some rather extreme sexual harassment, you simply reject my stance. To the point where you feel that calling me a part of the problem is somehow justifiable. You are perhaps not as wonderful a person as you think you are. Any I use the words perhaps because I prefer to be civilized.
Good for you. Your faith has withstood an experience based opinion that does not fit with your narrative.
Let me close with this though. Shame on you. Peace out.
And you think that would mean that it looks any different than the Middle East does today? You have the same shit going on there, one group claiming to have the moral higher ground so they can suppress the rest, and the rest fighting back. Why does anyone think this would be different in any way if we tried the same shit here?
Because their god is the right god. And it would be the same outcome. As a society based on one religion gained power, eventually there would be religion based warfare right here. Ideology and religion does not stay still. It's either waxing or waning. As it waxes, there is a demand to become more pure, to become less and less tolerant of other religions. And there you have it - an American version of the middle east, with agry gods who demand blood and death.
I've actually never had that happen to me. They give me strange looks, certainly, but no stranger than my neighbour who occasionally sends me videos of this or that person "proving" intelligent design because he thinks that being an atheist is an irrational decision.
To be honest, I'm not sure how to respond to someone who goes ballistic for *any* greeting. Raised eyebrows? I can handle that. Religious propaganda/literature? Sure, I'll just throw it away anyway. Proselytizing? I'm not gonna argue, just get away if I can.
But anger? What the hell do you do there? Get angry back? That doesn't help - now there's *two* angry people.
I've had a few get pissed. My reaction is laughing at them. I suspect someone may take a second amendment solution on me some day.
Then Someone could truly say "He literally died laughing"
Most life on Earth isn't intelligent. Actually, most life doesn't even have nerve cells.
I fear that's my fault, having hogged up all of it. People are always telling me I have a lot of nerve.
IIRC it was the Bosporus that budged, not Gibraltar, but the effect certainly would have been the same for anyone living there. The general area between Sinai and Babylon is filled with stories about devastating floods, the Gilgamesh epos for example (which is not only older than any biblical report about a flood but its parts about the flood are also most likely already a copy of an older Babylonian flood and creation myth) and a few Akkadian texts that tell pretty much the same story... most of them sane enough, though, to talk about a great flood that sure was devastating and killed "the people" but not a world wide event.
I've always suspected that the Desert God's versio of the flooding was largely based on the oral traditions, and how good storytellers can amp up a story and create great entertainment. The Desert God's flood is an awesome story from the point of people who don't have knowledge of a world larger than what they see, but simple back of the envelope calculations show the amount of water needed to fully cover the entire globe is simply mind boggling and needed to come from somewher and go somewhere and itwould have killed everything in the oceans, first as salt water mixed with fresh, killing the fressh water species, then as the water became increasingly fresh, killed the salt water species. So a story that was mostly accepted as allegory until the early 20th century, became a fundamentalist demand for literal accuracy.
By "extraterrestrial watchers" they mean crack-pots right?
People are capable of some pretty impressive belief's and disbelief's. I know one guy who denies that humans ever reached the moon at the same time insists that this rock is a spaceship filled with aliens. We somehow cannot get 250 K miles away with proven technology, but aliens scoot around in goo covered rocks. Sounds legit.
You know, the whole flood story would gain a lot of credibility if they claimed it was a local event and that god simply created everything else later. I mean, think about it, the whole book takes place in that rather small area between Egypt and Babylon, no mention of any part of Europe or even the Americas... One could get the impression, whoever wrote it never went past Egypt and Babylon...
There is some evidence that there was a cataclysmic breach in the strait of Gibraltar that allowed the Atlantic ocean to rather rapidly fill the Mediterranean, sea area. Some settlements have been found that are now under water. A theory called the Zanclean Fllood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... proposes a rather quick re-filling of the sea, perhaps in as short a time as a few months. This happened, the only controversy is the length of time it took to refill the sea. must admit that a few months would have been about as scary an event as they get.
And doesn't "Parting the Red Sea" sound like what happens during a tsunami? Stories get re-told a few thousand times, and there ya go.
The I've been assured that the cloud is completely secure by many random people on Slashdot.
As an atheist, I love Christmas. Vacation, food, drinking and presents. I'm suspicious of people who don't like Christmas. Fuck those people, they're defective.
Booyeah! Visiting with family and friends, and a lot of my relatives are winemakers. Some really old traditions, like drinking shots of Kümmel, and my Aunt's kickass beef stuffing, And now that I'm retired I can eat poppyseed rolls again.
When is Musk going to stop making big promises and then following through?
He sure is a bad politician.
Oh for crying out loud...... oh wait, never mind.
And "What happened next" did not stun electricity industry insiders. It was engineered to do the very thing it did.
But we're talking coal man, the energy of the future! If those old fashioned batteries have to kick in to replace coal's failings, how is coal ever going to show it's superiority? I'll just show myself out now.
Your post makes me aware that it is starting to look a lot like Christmas.
I like Christmas. I wonder if fundamentalists get pissed off that a lot of athiests really love Christmas? It actually looks like spring here though.
It looks like the alternative, for women, is to be sexually harassed or to be semi-ostracized, the way you put it.
No, it is not, and you are possibly reading into what I say from the persepctive of your own narrative. Upon the first occasion of harassment, the woman needs to report it immediately first to HR, with a tacit understanding that law enforcement is next. My wife was the victim of some pretty egregious harassment, and rather than wait 20 years, she told me about it, and reported it to the owner the next morning. Reaction was swift, merciless, and very effective. She was never disbelieved, there was none of the meme of "Well, what were you wearing?" or "were you flirting with him?"
If your house was broken into and robbed, would you wait years to report it?
If someone stole your identity online would you allow it to go on for 25 years?
If someone rear-ended your car, would you wait to report it to your insurance company until decades later?
I don't for a second believe that women should accept sexual harassment at work, and would prefer you not accuse me of it. Avoid that, and I will avoid calling you a person who believes that innocent men who are destroyed is an acceptable situation because all men deserve being punished as a group. Let's be intellectually honest, David.
The problem is real, and you remain a part of it.
Actually, if you support waiting until the statute of limitations expires to report sexual harassment, you are a metric shiiutload more a part of the problem than I ever could be. Not that I go around cavilierly throwing around insults like what appears to fit your narrative. So anyhow, please tell me how my stand of immediate reportage and immediate justice is being a part oif the problem? Ever have a loved one be severely sexually harassed?
You are operating from a digital narrative where you either are a sexual harasser and support monsters like Trump and Moore, or you support every and all accuasations and suppoprt an end to the rule of law, because people like Ol Olsoc do not agree with your narrative.
For what I personally believe? I believe Moore is a pedophile and likes underage women who are past puberty but not yet able to give consent. I believe that Weinstien is a creepy pig who any normal woman would never consent to having sex with. I believe that the present occupant has a nasty issue as well, and the legal settlements would indicate that is true. But here's the rub, at least one of the women who accused Moore of getting her pregnant was making a false accusation. She was a political plant from Project Veritas, Run by conservative activist James O'Keefe. https://www.politico.com/story... The aim was to discredit the Washington Post by a false plant in order to discredit all of their Roy Moore reporting. That is the weaponized version of #metoo.
Ever spend time with Judges? They can tell you that people lie all the time, and the person's gender does not make that more or less likely. Men can lie, and women can lie. And that's why we have courts and judges. Because usually someone is lying. Maybe it's the man, maybe its the woman. Maybe some people care, maybe some don't care. Which are you?
Rather than be a part of the problem as you suggest, I am part of wanting truth to prevail. Judging from your wanting to paint me with a brush dipped in the paint of your narrative, it appears that you are not concerned with the truth at all. But there is a great way to ascertain truth, or at least get as close to it as can reasonably be hoped. The courts.
In these cases, a quick accusation has a lot more veracity than a 20 year wait. In my wife's case, the approach was simple. a little over 12 hours went by - Next morning... "This happened, and do we want to take care of it here and now, or do you want to contact your l
Actually, it did a lot. Survived the late heavy bombardment, developed a few ways to synthesize ATP, invented the nucleus which led to the development of eukaryotes, they developed flagella and carnivore behaviour, viruses came into existence, and my personal favorite, they came up with sexual reproduction.
And you now waste all that with a flick of your hand...
It s quite possible that life originated here on earth more than once, and of course there is the possibility that it came form Mars. Regardless, the study of life on earth is incredibly fascinating. So much simply fits together with the physics. Although I'm not an expert, I've done a lot of personal research, and the pieces are fitting pretty nicely.
Sure beats the concept of Kangaroos swimming from Australia to the middle east so they wouldn't drown in a flood.
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What bothers me is the asshats that get ballistic if you wish them "Happy Holidays". Who then berate you for wishing them well that "this is a christian nation"..
Will you join us in the Ban Bing Crosby movement?
He's the bastard that started the heresy with that damn Happy Holiday song.
And he sung Little Drummer Boy with that creepy hippie David Bowie. Jesus has been waterboarding Crosby ever since that evil dude died.
In the meantime, Thanksgiving, Saint Nicholas Day, Fiesta of Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Lucia Day, Hanukkah, Christmas Day, Three Kings Day/Epiphany, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, Omisoka, Yule, Saturnalia, Veteran's day, New Years day, Thanksgiving
And Festivus for the restofus!
There are a lot of holidays, and some that aren't Christmas are celebrated by a lot of people. Many that aren't Christmas are Christian Holidays that these right thinking people have chosen to ignore. November, December, and New Years are considered the Holiday season because there is a traffic jam of them right now.
So - Happy Holidays folks,may you enjoy good health and happiness. May the new year bring you success. If that insults you or you don't like that, Go Fuck Yourselves.
You do know that Trolls guard bridges..
And it appears that given the length of your reply, I'm a master, AC
U mad Bro?
The Trump landslide where he got more votes than any other candidate ever
I don't know how you do math, but Trump did not win by a land slide, not even close: http://www.politifact.com/trut...
I do my math with great sarcasm. Trump had less votes.
If it's a simple majority I think Ajit Pai is going to have his ass handed to him by Congress, and rightly so.
Even if the Senate Dems were to vote in lockstep, which is less than clear, this would have to pass in the House as well, then survive a presidential veto. That's not going to happen, and TFA says as much. This is nothing but political posturing on Schumer's part.
Besides, the Trump landslide where he got more votes than any other candidate ever, and the Republican majority in both the house and senate and the majority of Republican governors indicates that American citizens by thre undenialble force of their voting patterns do not want net neutrality at all, they are in lockstep with Pai and our Republican leadership. Y'all voted this in folks, you gotta accept it.
This is just inpreparation for the new slow and fast lanes of the Republican internet.
Sweet. Where do you work?
In the ninth level of hell.
OK, I'm curious. What's the difference between isolating women from men and men from women? In either case, we're talking very restricted contact between men and women.
A woman can do as she pleases. A male without a chaperone is not allowed around her. No allowing a man and woman to be alone in a rom as company policy. Either a chaperone, or the man must leave, or be in violation of company policy (or the law). The woman by default is considered the victim. Tne man is by default the transgressor.
If you haven't figured out yet, I agree that the contact would be very restricted. That would be sad. My point, seemingly lost in this back and forth, is that men by and large, make risk/reward analysis decisions on almost every thing they do. I do it every day. I play hockey, which is fraught with risk, but breings me great rewards.
https://vote.net/2017/12/12/wo... a part of interest in the article:
Female staffers and lobbyists who returned to the Capitol last week for pre-session meetings, discovered many male legislators will no longer meet with them privately. Accustomed to Tallahassee’s Southern culture, where men and women casually and routinely greet each other with hugs, legislators are doing an awkward dance to replace a hug with a handshake. And the fear of retaliation — against women who brought forward allegations or those who may in the future — is as raw as the fear that legislators’ political enemies could turn sexual harassment claims into new political weapons.
“I had a senator say, ‘I need my aide here in the room because I need a chaperone,’ ” said Jennifer Green, a veteran lobbyist, after meeting with a senator in his Capitol office to discuss a client’s issue. “I said, ‘Senator, why do you need a chaperone? I don’t feel uncomfortable around you, do you feel uncomfortable around me? ‘Well,’ he said, ‘anyone can say anything with the door shut.’ “
Is this wrong that he does this? Is this harming the woman in any way shape or form, excepting that she notes that he does not trust her? He will have a witness to the fact that he never harassed or abused the woman in any way. The woman will be safe from harassment. That has to be rather uncomfortable, no?
Trust is not something you can legislate. And there is no law that says that anyone in the workplace must be friendly towards anyone else.
Having lived through several years of this exact response to draconian sexual harassment rules ( the rule was anything a woman considered as sexual harassment was by definition, sexual harassment, and was a fireable offense. ) what is happening right now is exactly what happened then.
It is a result of unintended consequences. The concept was that men and women would carry on like great friends, no differences at all, if only just the men who were harassing the women would stop. That sounds good, but when faced with vague rules, like today's often decades old accusations with no proof needed, or my old experience of "Whatever she thinks is harassment is harassment", the target will almost certainly take defensive measures when a hug held a second too long is sexual assault. The answer is not time the hug, it is to not hug.
The sad part? All of the creeps will just continue being creeps. So its a double whammy for women. Decent men will protect themselves, and the jerks will just go on being jerks. It not only doesn't cure the problem, it makes things worse. A Pyrrhic victory at best.
If you are using something originally coded for Windows 2.0 and OS/2 it might be time to actually upgrade to something newer, like say this century?
Note I heve never used DDE. But I can assure people there are cost center IT departments that are not happy right now.
Security and Convenience are diametrically opposite.
If you leave your home unlocked and ask the cable guy to just go in and "fix" it, you don't have to wait at home between 8 AM and 4PM. So would you?
Funny you mention it. We've often had contractors come in and the often work unattended. They are bonded, and we are repeat customers.
Everytime my banker calls me on phone to check a 10K wire transfer, I specifically thank him for security.
Yeah, and I have a setup where any time a charge over a certain amount is charged to my Credit card, it disables the account, and a human calls me to verify the purchase.It's quite cool But still.
If there is someone to blame, blame Microsoft was making convenience more important than security, and for fostering a climate where that decision was considered better.
You are arguing against yourself. Your credit card and bankers have come out with a way to work around security vulnerabilities. Using Microsoft's paradigm, instead of a call to verify or some other security action, they would disable credit cards altogether.
My point, which seemed to me to be obvious, is that you fix the security vulnerability, not kill the process.
DDE is Windows 3 tech that was deprecated when 32bit Windows came around (due to OLE/ActiveX). It was a *terrible* cross library/process communication mechanism, which no one has used in over two decades, except when left in for "Legacy compatibility". Outside of Office, the only other app that may be currently used that supports this archaic API is mIRC.
You are thinking specific, I'm talking about the generality of Microsoft disabling things that some users use. Apple does this too - I'm dealing with fallout of High Sierra turning thumbdrive encryption into a clusterfsck. When you have to keep finding new solutions to old challenges, it gets old real fast.
Microsoft has superseded via the newer Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
By breaking backwards compatibility, everyone else has to have to pony up for a newer version of Word to view your documents.
Imagine that.
Microsoft Office is well known for being incompatible with itself.