Maybe it's just me, but perhaps if doctors began acting professionally, there might be some kind of improvement.
Where I work, there's frequent interaction with doctors. I'm tired of watching my co-workers get torn new assholes by doctors every other day. It's gotten to the point where I'm not sure I can trust any doctor here in down anymore given the threats they've dished out. There was even a case where they flat-out violated HIPAA to get a co-worker fired.
There's a good lesson to learn from doctors. Don't talk to your doctor when contracts are up for negotiation or you'll get fired!
It's not right. It's simply not right to say that doctors are the problem, but we need medical professionals, not abusive prima donnas who lose their shit every five minutes. Why do mistakes happen? Because no one wants to get their head torn off and possibly fired for telling a doctor he's wrong.
At least there's a telephone wire between us and the doctors. What about the nurses who have to be hospitalized after being violently assaulted by doctors? Excuse me, but I think if I were to go crazy and start beating one of my co-workers, I'd be in jail. Apparently if you're a doctor, it's your right to free speech.
I'm not making any of this up, which is why I'm not posting as anonymous. Someone needs to say something. Thank you.
It's good to see I'm not the only person getting a little pissed off at the current trend of people to just use "it's too hard" and "it's too technical" as excuses.
Life is hard. People need to grow up and get with it or the United States is going to finish up sliding into a 2nd world baby-mama welfare state in the next few decades. I think where I live in Michigan, we already are a 2nd world baby-mama welfare state.
then maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Maybe it's time that we as a society look at enacting some barriers to being a voter again. No, I'm not seriously suggesting repealing the 19th Amendment (as I have in some other posts), but would it be too much to ask to maybe have a simple reading comprehension test or something? A simple mathematical test? Maybe a few story problems involving basic addition, subtraction, and percentages like "Suppose the budget for a small organization is $10,000. One proposal allocates 30% of the budget for marketing and $4,000 for staff compensation. How much of the budget would be left over for other expenses?"
Sure, the Jim Crow laws were a product of racism, and their implementation of the literacy requirement was racist itself. I say test everyone, regardless of whether they're already a registered voter. If you go to renew your license and you can't solve a simple story problem, your right to vote gets revoked until you retest and pass. (Here in Michigan at least when you renew your driver's license or change your address, your voter registration card also get renewed or updated automatically.) Everyone goes to school these days. It's mandatory. Is it too much to ask that people actually take something away from that investment to act as a full citizen?
I'm all for democracy. Power to the people. But there's that famous line "with great power comes great responsibility." People want more welfare benefits, more wars, and less taxation. Something needs to give and people who don't have the critical thinking skills to realize that really don't need to be at the polls.
Everyone goes to 5th grade, so everyone should be able to do the story problem above. If someone can't, they ought to have a friend who should be able to explain it to them. If they still can't, or if that story problem is asking too much, we've become a sad, sad nation indeed, and perhaps it's too late to turn the ship around before it strikes the iceberg of mass idiocy.
some sort of a story ID, because they want the comments to stay on the story as it's revised. Imagine a story on the World Trade Center attacks coming through 10+ times as more and more detail filters in
The solution to that is to also store revisions, e.g. revision_id 2, 3, and 6 belong to story_id 4.
What's disturbing is how women are treated like pieces of meat, drooled over, ridiculed, sexually harassed and frightened away from computer science IN THIS DAY AND AGE.
[Citation needed]
Sorry, I know it's a popular meme. I still haven't seen any evidence of it.
If anything women are smarter than men and realize that IT careers are shit and either get into science or management where there's actually some money.
Hyperbole much? How is this Logan's Run? My parents believe I'm possessed by a demon, so no help from them to get into college. I got used to waiting until they dropped off my FAFSA, so I'm currently saving up so I don't need massive loans and I'll probably be entering college when I'm 32 or 35 or so. Am I missing something?
Is getting reduced cost meals at some (otherwise) expensive restaurants downtown when one shows a student ID Logan's Run now? I must be missing something.
Abstinence is the best (well, most effective) preventative measure.
In theory, that is. In practice, it's the least effective. Maybe I'll track down the evidence to support my claim later today, but I've noticed the more religious a family is, the more likely all their daughters are going to be baby-mammas, which become drains on society (no, I'm not being misogynist because I can).
That being said, there was someone else here who said it best, but I don't remember off the top of my head. Basically, using abstinence to prevent pregnancy and STDs is like not driving a car to prevent car accidents. It's a great idea in theory, but good luck with that.
Of course, hell, I'm posting to Slashdot. Abstinence has worked for me my whole life.
I can appreciate the justification given for the experiment, but real working life doesn't run to that timetable, so unless there's a major shift in that respect, a lot of young adults are going to be in for a bit of a shock when they join the real world and seek employment.
I didn't have a job that started before 10 AM-11 AM until I was 22. Then that company went belly-up, and I didn't get another position that started before 3 PM until I was 26. When I was in college, there was only one class I needed to schedule before 10 AM.
The older I get the more I learn the real world is completely out of whack from what I was told to expect as a kid, and I'd appreciate it if those of you who live in your fantasy "real world" would just shove it. Thank you.
on iPhones or 32 inch monitors purchased with blood money.
Money's money. Let me know where to get in on that. All I do is cook meaningless data right now because our data-entry system is so riddled with bugs and agents don't care to report errors. Where do I apply to cook meaningful data? I'd sure like to be able to afford a car one of these days. Capitalism in action.
I don't have any mod points, someone give this post some credit. We Americans need to stop letting the loonies think they are on even footing with the rest of society. We're only doing ourselves a disservice. First we let the Scientologists think they are legits, then creationists, then the Tea Baggers, now Jedis? Ugh.
I have mod points, and I'm responding instead.
Tomorrow I'm going to be sitting in front of a large customer. They're going to be accusing me of all kinds of things I'm not even aware of. They'll probably ask that I be fired for attempting to extort money from them, instead of doing the reasonable thing and talking to accounting.
What will I do? I'll just apologize, because if I attempt to defend myself, the customer goes somewhere else. If the customer goes somewhere else and they can say I said something rude like "That's not my area of responsibility" or "It looks like one of the line workers didn't read the instructions you gave them at 11 PM on Friday; my program appears to be working fine," I can and will be fired.
This is how things work in the 21st century. You just apologize, because no one is going to take a rational explanation. You'd better get used to it.
HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. Vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease is tantamount to implying they will be having sex. Vaccinating very young girls, therefore, is absolutely abhorrent and -- to conservative Christians, in particular -- only underscores the moral depravity of modern society.
I wonder why this line of thinking doesn't come up when discussing ritual male genital mutilation?
Or never mind, males always have sex, all the time, even as toddlers, which is why they can't wait until the individual can at least dissent and say, "My body, my choice."
For those parents who trust their feelings more than reason, anti-vax groups are preying on their fears.
What's interesting is those same parents for some reason think ritual male genital mutilation (a completely unnecessary surgery) will vaccinate their son against AIDS despite studies that show men with genital mutilations can still get every STD in the book (even the study they point to that's supposed to show it's effective).
Agreed. Abolish marriage as a legal contract. Allow civil unions to define legal pairings, and let individual churches choose whether or not to recognize certain "marriages". Everybody wins......that is, everybody except those that want to force their hangups on everyone else. I say 'fuck 'em'
I think all these "alternate" sexuality types are shooting themselves in the foot when they go on these crusades in the vain of "our two-man family is just like that man-woman one next door!"... err.. except it isn't. No amount of wishful thinking can hide the fact that exclusively same-sex sexual interaction is simply a genetic deficiency doomed to reproductive failure, or in case of lesbians in the absence of technological insemination. Does this warrant persecution or social shunning? Hell no. But at the same time you cannot pretend that it is not likely to cause all sorts of strange reactions by the sex-controlling circuitry of the brains of those who have the "standard" wiring, ranging from discomfort to outright instinctive (genetically-dictated) hostility.
I rather like the Libertarian solution which was to just get the government out of the marriage business all together. Then I can marry a rock (as another commenter suggested) if I please.
The other thing is that for some reason it isn't selected against. I sure wish whatever went wrong that made me one of those "alternate" sexuality types hadn't happened!
You know what, though? All you folks with "mainstream" sexuality look weird to me! It's just there's 1 out of 10,000 of me and 9,999 of you. None of you seem to get that! YOU are the weird ones to ME! I put up with a whole world where I have to see all kinds of unnatural acts (like a man and woman holding hands), but somehow I manage to function.
See, I would propose that a woman who is infertile for whatever reason shouldn't be allowed to legally be a woman anymore. Her identification should be changed to be male, and if she wanted to be in a long-term relationship she should find a fertile woman regardless of what her instincts say about the issue. If I were really cruel, I'd suggest she be legally required to undergo testosterone HRT.
After all, using your definition, she can't have children, so marriage isn't for her.
But then there's only 1 of me and 9,999 of you.
(Disclaimer for the sarcasm-impaired and fun fact for the week: my idea above is completely ridiculous and forcing someone to undergo transgender HRT can result in them eating a cyanide-laced apple somewhat like Alan Turing because APPARENTLY gender and sexual orientation aren't the same thing.)
In real life, I barely care about you as human. I don't want you to tell me what you do, or who you do it with.
I sure hope I never hear about your wife or girlfriend. I don't want you to tell me what you do, or who you do it with.
I've been in a same-sex relationship before, and it's frustrating listening to everyone else talking about what they're doing with their girlfriend or boyfriend this weekend while my significant other was relegated to roommate or best friend.
Bull crap. They're struggling for nothing then.
Maybe I'm reading this thread wrong, but you don't seem to be aware of the legal import of being married. It's more than just having a big party with both families and getting you and your significant other's names published one day in the newspaper.
Oh screw it. I probably agree with you but just wanted to rant a bit. I read the word "gender" and figured it had to do with whether Microsoft was going to allow me to have an avatar congruent with my brain sex instead of forcing me to have an avatar congruent with my genital sex.
Not that I care anyway since I have no interest in purchasing a Live account, and I wouldn't buy a game that offered differently-gendered protagonists but would only let me select male ones because that's what some ignorant doctor said I was. (Yes, ignorant is the correct word and not necessarily an insult, although I would have preferred if they had done an MRI to see whether I was a boy or a girl and assigned me a more appropriate gender.)
Yes, I'm aware the guy was saying he was a lesbian. But why do you care? Why does anyone care? His being an asshole should just have been good enough rather than making up some excuse that "oh, he's not actually a lesbian." While I find myself identifying as a heterosexual woman for the most part lately, I have a transsexual friend who identifies as lesbian, and I have no reason to believe she does that just for some cheap sexual thrill.
Would you like it if you were forced to use an avatar that wasn't the right gender in a world where say 99% of other players had correctly gendered avatars? People make a lot of assumptions about you depending on whether you look like a boy or a girl, if you're not aware, and they get irritated with you if you don't conform to their expectations of how you're supposed to act (for some reason).
This whole thing is stupid. It's a freaking game. One of my friends plays girls in games because if he's going to stare at someone's ass for 80 hours he'd rather it be a nice ass.
Good thing you didn't throw your vote away by voting for a 3rd party that actually stands for smaller government and wins (local) elections already, like the Libertarian party.
I'm sure there's someone up there in the government going, "Gosh, look at how many people didn't vote. I feel bad about myself now. We'd better change how we're doing things."
Keep in mind that the Republicans started out as a 3rd party.
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Maybe it's just me, but perhaps if doctors began acting professionally, there might be some kind of improvement.
Where I work, there's frequent interaction with doctors. I'm tired of watching my co-workers get torn new assholes by doctors every other day. It's gotten to the point where I'm not sure I can trust any doctor here in down anymore given the threats they've dished out. There was even a case where they flat-out violated HIPAA to get a co-worker fired.
There's a good lesson to learn from doctors. Don't talk to your doctor when contracts are up for negotiation or you'll get fired!
It's not right. It's simply not right to say that doctors are the problem, but we need medical professionals, not abusive prima donnas who lose their shit every five minutes. Why do mistakes happen? Because no one wants to get their head torn off and possibly fired for telling a doctor he's wrong.
At least there's a telephone wire between us and the doctors. What about the nurses who have to be hospitalized after being violently assaulted by doctors? Excuse me, but I think if I were to go crazy and start beating one of my co-workers, I'd be in jail. Apparently if you're a doctor, it's your right to free speech.
I'm not making any of this up, which is why I'm not posting as anonymous. Someone needs to say something. Thank you.
It's good to see I'm not the only person getting a little pissed off at the current trend of people to just use "it's too hard" and "it's too technical" as excuses.
Life is hard. People need to grow up and get with it or the United States is going to finish up sliding into a 2nd world baby-mama welfare state in the next few decades. I think where I live in Michigan, we already are a 2nd world baby-mama welfare state.
then maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Maybe it's time that we as a society look at enacting some barriers to being a voter again. No, I'm not seriously suggesting repealing the 19th Amendment (as I have in some other posts), but would it be too much to ask to maybe have a simple reading comprehension test or something? A simple mathematical test? Maybe a few story problems involving basic addition, subtraction, and percentages like "Suppose the budget for a small organization is $10,000. One proposal allocates 30% of the budget for marketing and $4,000 for staff compensation. How much of the budget would be left over for other expenses?"
Sure, the Jim Crow laws were a product of racism, and their implementation of the literacy requirement was racist itself. I say test everyone, regardless of whether they're already a registered voter. If you go to renew your license and you can't solve a simple story problem, your right to vote gets revoked until you retest and pass. (Here in Michigan at least when you renew your driver's license or change your address, your voter registration card also get renewed or updated automatically.) Everyone goes to school these days. It's mandatory. Is it too much to ask that people actually take something away from that investment to act as a full citizen?
I'm all for democracy. Power to the people. But there's that famous line "with great power comes great responsibility." People want more welfare benefits, more wars, and less taxation. Something needs to give and people who don't have the critical thinking skills to realize that really don't need to be at the polls.
Everyone goes to 5th grade, so everyone should be able to do the story problem above. If someone can't, they ought to have a friend who should be able to explain it to them. If they still can't, or if that story problem is asking too much, we've become a sad, sad nation indeed, and perhaps it's too late to turn the ship around before it strikes the iceberg of mass idiocy.
some sort of a story ID, because they want the comments to stay on the story as it's revised. Imagine a story on the World Trade Center attacks coming through 10+ times as more and more detail filters in
The solution to that is to also store revisions, e.g. revision_id 2, 3, and 6 belong to story_id 4.
Repeal the 19th Amendment TODAY!
FTFY. Too bad I won't be able to moderate this thread now, but I don't see any other misogynist comments to mod up.
This incident is just an example of how women think and why women should not be able to vote.
lol
What's disturbing is how women are treated like pieces of meat, drooled over, ridiculed, sexually harassed and frightened away from computer science IN THIS DAY AND AGE.
[Citation needed]
Sorry, I know it's a popular meme. I still haven't seen any evidence of it.
If anything women are smarter than men and realize that IT careers are shit and either get into science or management where there's actually some money.
Hyperbole much? How is this Logan's Run? My parents believe I'm possessed by a demon, so no help from them to get into college. I got used to waiting until they dropped off my FAFSA, so I'm currently saving up so I don't need massive loans and I'll probably be entering college when I'm 32 or 35 or so. Am I missing something?
Is getting reduced cost meals at some (otherwise) expensive restaurants downtown when one shows a student ID Logan's Run now? I must be missing something.
a very gold scene in Doctor Who was much more vibrant and gold than on the Samsung model,
Don't tell me it was a classic bad wolf scenario?
do you want 100 gigs of tranny porn
As a tranny myself, all I have to say is, "Link plz."
Abstinence is the best (well, most effective) preventative measure.
In theory, that is. In practice, it's the least effective. Maybe I'll track down the evidence to support my claim later today, but I've noticed the more religious a family is, the more likely all their daughters are going to be baby-mammas, which become drains on society (no, I'm not being misogynist because I can).
That being said, there was someone else here who said it best, but I don't remember off the top of my head. Basically, using abstinence to prevent pregnancy and STDs is like not driving a car to prevent car accidents. It's a great idea in theory, but good luck with that.
Of course, hell, I'm posting to Slashdot. Abstinence has worked for me my whole life.
I can appreciate the justification given for the experiment, but real working life doesn't run to that timetable, so unless there's a major shift in that respect, a lot of young adults are going to be in for a bit of a shock when they join the real world and seek employment.
I didn't have a job that started before 10 AM-11 AM until I was 22. Then that company went belly-up, and I didn't get another position that started before 3 PM until I was 26. When I was in college, there was only one class I needed to schedule before 10 AM.
The older I get the more I learn the real world is completely out of whack from what I was told to expect as a kid, and I'd appreciate it if those of you who live in your fantasy "real world" would just shove it. Thank you.
But can the next shift show up, if the trains aren't running?
This is AMERICA. If they're too stupid to rely on public transportation, they deserve to be fired for not showing up!
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on iPhones or 32 inch monitors purchased with blood money.
Money's money. Let me know where to get in on that. All I do is cook meaningless data right now because our data-entry system is so riddled with bugs and agents don't care to report errors. Where do I apply to cook meaningful data? I'd sure like to be able to afford a car one of these days. Capitalism in action.
I wonder why they didn't study girls?
I don't have any mod points, someone give this post some credit. We Americans need to stop letting the loonies think they are on even footing with the rest of society. We're only doing ourselves a disservice. First we let the Scientologists think they are legits, then creationists, then the Tea Baggers, now Jedis? Ugh.
I have mod points, and I'm responding instead.
Tomorrow I'm going to be sitting in front of a large customer. They're going to be accusing me of all kinds of things I'm not even aware of. They'll probably ask that I be fired for attempting to extort money from them, instead of doing the reasonable thing and talking to accounting.
What will I do? I'll just apologize, because if I attempt to defend myself, the customer goes somewhere else. If the customer goes somewhere else and they can say I said something rude like "That's not my area of responsibility" or "It looks like one of the line workers didn't read the instructions you gave them at 11 PM on Friday; my program appears to be working fine," I can and will be fired.
This is how things work in the 21st century. You just apologize, because no one is going to take a rational explanation. You'd better get used to it.
If you ban all drug ads, then how do you educate the public that a particular syndrome is treatable?
Don't they tell these things to their doctor?
HPV is a sexually transmitted disease. Vaccinating girls against a sexually transmitted disease is tantamount to implying they will be having sex. Vaccinating very young girls, therefore, is absolutely abhorrent and -- to conservative Christians, in particular -- only underscores the moral depravity of modern society.
I wonder why this line of thinking doesn't come up when discussing ritual male genital mutilation? Or never mind, males always have sex, all the time, even as toddlers, which is why they can't wait until the individual can at least dissent and say, "My body, my choice."
For those parents who trust their feelings more than reason, anti-vax groups are preying on their fears.
What's interesting is those same parents for some reason think ritual male genital mutilation (a completely unnecessary surgery) will vaccinate their son against AIDS despite studies that show men with genital mutilations can still get every STD in the book (even the study they point to that's supposed to show it's effective).
It is not that I have 3 times more book than them. Juste that they almost have no science fiction but I have a lot of them.
That's too bad. My local library has quite a lot of science fiction and fantasy-type stuff, and they even started lending manga a few years back.
Agreed. Abolish marriage as a legal contract. Allow civil unions to define legal pairings, and let individual churches choose whether or not to recognize certain "marriages". Everybody wins... ...that is, everybody except those that want to force their hangups on everyone else. I say 'fuck 'em'
Mod parent up!
A few things...
I think all these "alternate" sexuality types are shooting themselves in the foot when they go on these crusades in the vain of "our two-man family is just like that man-woman one next door!" ... err .. except it isn't. No amount of wishful thinking can hide the fact that exclusively same-sex sexual interaction is simply a genetic deficiency doomed to reproductive failure, or in case of lesbians in the absence of technological insemination. Does this warrant persecution or social shunning? Hell no. But at the same time you cannot pretend that it is not likely to cause all sorts of strange reactions by the sex-controlling circuitry of the brains of those who have the "standard" wiring, ranging from discomfort to outright instinctive (genetically-dictated) hostility.
I rather like the Libertarian solution which was to just get the government out of the marriage business all together. Then I can marry a rock (as another commenter suggested) if I please.
The other thing is that for some reason it isn't selected against. I sure wish whatever went wrong that made me one of those "alternate" sexuality types hadn't happened!
You know what, though? All you folks with "mainstream" sexuality look weird to me! It's just there's 1 out of 10,000 of me and 9,999 of you. None of you seem to get that! YOU are the weird ones to ME! I put up with a whole world where I have to see all kinds of unnatural acts (like a man and woman holding hands), but somehow I manage to function.
See, I would propose that a woman who is infertile for whatever reason shouldn't be allowed to legally be a woman anymore. Her identification should be changed to be male, and if she wanted to be in a long-term relationship she should find a fertile woman regardless of what her instincts say about the issue. If I were really cruel, I'd suggest she be legally required to undergo testosterone HRT.
After all, using your definition, she can't have children, so marriage isn't for her.
But then there's only 1 of me and 9,999 of you.
(Disclaimer for the sarcasm-impaired and fun fact for the week: my idea above is completely ridiculous and forcing someone to undergo transgender HRT can result in them eating a cyanide-laced apple somewhat like Alan Turing because APPARENTLY gender and sexual orientation aren't the same thing.)
In real life, I barely care about you as human. I don't want you to tell me what you do, or who you do it with.
I sure hope I never hear about your wife or girlfriend. I don't want you to tell me what you do, or who you do it with.
I've been in a same-sex relationship before, and it's frustrating listening to everyone else talking about what they're doing with their girlfriend or boyfriend this weekend while my significant other was relegated to roommate or best friend.
Bull crap. They're struggling for nothing then.
Maybe I'm reading this thread wrong, but you don't seem to be aware of the legal import of being married. It's more than just having a big party with both families and getting you and your significant other's names published one day in the newspaper.
Oh screw it. I probably agree with you but just wanted to rant a bit. I read the word "gender" and figured it had to do with whether Microsoft was going to allow me to have an avatar congruent with my brain sex instead of forcing me to have an avatar congruent with my genital sex. Not that I care anyway since I have no interest in purchasing a Live account, and I wouldn't buy a game that offered differently-gendered protagonists but would only let me select male ones because that's what some ignorant doctor said I was. (Yes, ignorant is the correct word and not necessarily an insult, although I would have preferred if they had done an MRI to see whether I was a boy or a girl and assigned me a more appropriate gender.)
Yes, I'm aware the guy was saying he was a lesbian. But why do you care? Why does anyone care? His being an asshole should just have been good enough rather than making up some excuse that "oh, he's not actually a lesbian." While I find myself identifying as a heterosexual woman for the most part lately, I have a transsexual friend who identifies as lesbian, and I have no reason to believe she does that just for some cheap sexual thrill.
Would you like it if you were forced to use an avatar that wasn't the right gender in a world where say 99% of other players had correctly gendered avatars? People make a lot of assumptions about you depending on whether you look like a boy or a girl, if you're not aware, and they get irritated with you if you don't conform to their expectations of how you're supposed to act (for some reason).
This whole thing is stupid. It's a freaking game. One of my friends plays girls in games because if he's going to stare at someone's ass for 80 hours he'd rather it be a nice ass.
it opened their eyes to the potential to selling games to that other 50% of the population
Let's hope they don't lose the original 50% by leaving us hanging in Half-Life.
hell I didn't even vote
Good thing you didn't throw your vote away by voting for a 3rd party that actually stands for smaller government and wins (local) elections already, like the Libertarian party. I'm sure there's someone up there in the government going, "Gosh, look at how many people didn't vote. I feel bad about myself now. We'd better change how we're doing things."
Keep in mind that the Republicans started out as a 3rd party.
I would go one step farther and say that if the poster is not an idiot, then they have committed premeditated child abuse.
+1, Insightful. Oh crap, I've run out of mod points. That's odd, hasn't happened in months. Anyone else care to do the honors?