Yes it is a specific context, ever context is specific. This woman is trying to educate hacker culture about sex and make it a more informed inclusive culture. She was completely willing to hold this as a after party, side event where you can go see it if you want to (similar, but more extreme, to kids opting out of sex-ed in highschool).
I would argue that there is a huge wealth of evidence that informing people about sexual issues is preferable to not.
What the Ada initiative is arguing for is the abolishment of sex-ed, something that does actual damage in either high school or any culture that struggles with its sexuality.
They are also arguing for survivors of rape never hearing the terms sex, rape, or and related terms or content ever again. They are arguing for repression, when we know that in many cases these people need to talk about these issues and hear them discussed. Yes, it is important to be tactful and knowledgeable about how to go about talking about these subjects, even just for normal well adjusted people with no traumatic issues in their past. But an absolute repression of all content is 100 times worst for these victims than anything even the most callous person might say in front of them.
So basically the presenter said she would hold the talk in a separate room in the after party, so that only the people who knew what the content would be and consented to see it would see it.
This was the response: “No, they’re here and they’re not leaving. They told me they’ll make it into a bigger problem if you do your talk.”
But they should NOT. That is ridiculous. If someone is so emotionally scared than a person of the gender that raped them, bumping into them in the conference is probably just as likely if not more likely to make them uncomfortable.
If you are a psychological wreck and need others to work around your weaknesses then go live in a padded white room in an asylum.
Well with initiatives like "No child Left behind", where you really have to work at failing for the school system to let you, a college diploma is the only standardised ubiquitous way that a HR person can tell if someone is likely not a complete waste of space.
So even if you knowingly are helping a foreign country plan an invasion of your country, if your county has not defined them as an official enemy you have not committed treason?
And that definition clearly uses the completely ambiguous work "enemies", meaning that anyone could be considered treasonous, if you believe they are an enemy of the state.
Most money has traces of drugs on it. If someone has a big stack of bills, and they are a not freshly printed a dog is basically guaranteed to find some trace of drugs.
Except that it does not actually prevent contamination. You still have cross pollination, cross pollination which no one can predict what it will produce.
Yes, the exact species that they plant will not be released into the wild as it dies out in one generation (in theory at least, but then you are talking about billions of billions of lifeforms many with errors in there genetics). But what will the pollen from a terminator variety do to a neighbors field or the other plants in the area?
Is it conceivable that it will create seeds that will not grow? Or 10000 times worse, is it possibly it will create seeds in other species that will grow into plants and sprout seeds and pollen but these second generation seeds are sterile? Creating a spreadable effect that could spread like a virus anywhere and everywhere?
It does sound pretty similar to all the models I have heard of. 1) collapse in on it self. 2) keeping moving apart faster and faster until the universe is just one 0 energy, minimal density nothing. 3) keep moving apart faster and faster until you hit the speed of light, and than the fabric of space-time rips itself apart as dark energy pushes past boundaries that cannot be breached.
The only really interesting one with much hope is the Big Crunch (#1) as it could possibly lead into another big bang. And explosions are always interesting.
The article is about making people unable to consume alcohol, permanently. It is not about restricting the sale of alcohol. After you are biologically incapable of drinking, how would a change of venue help?
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That is very much what here talk was about, but specifically for the hacker culture, of course.
Yes it is a specific context, ever context is specific. This woman is trying to educate hacker culture about sex and make it a more informed inclusive culture. She was completely willing to hold this as a after party, side event where you can go see it if you want to (similar, but more extreme, to kids opting out of sex-ed in highschool).
I would argue that there is a huge wealth of evidence that informing people about sexual issues is preferable to not.
What the Ada initiative is arguing for is the abolishment of sex-ed, something that does actual damage in either high school or any culture that struggles with its sexuality.
They are also arguing for survivors of rape never hearing the terms sex, rape, or and related terms or content ever again. They are arguing for repression, when we know that in many cases these people need to talk about these issues and hear them discussed. Yes, it is important to be tactful and knowledgeable about how to go about talking about these subjects, even just for normal well adjusted people with no traumatic issues in their past. But an absolute repression of all content is 100 times worst for these victims than anything even the most callous person might say in front of them.
So basically the presenter said she would hold the talk in a separate room in the after party, so that only the people who knew what the content would be and consented to see it would see it.
This was the response: “No, they’re here and they’re not leaving. They told me they’ll make it into a bigger problem if you do your talk.”
But they should NOT. That is ridiculous. If someone is so emotionally scared than a person of the gender that raped them, bumping into them in the conference is probably just as likely if not more likely to make them uncomfortable.
If you are a psychological wreck and need others to work around your weaknesses then go live in a padded white room in an asylum.
This is totally not off topic, Obama's Nobel metal for not being Bush degraded the reputation of all Nobel prices.
Here is a link to the item, it is being auctioned off by Heritage Auctions: http://historical.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleNo=6093&lotIdNo=50001
Are they restricting the bids to museums?
I see no where that private individual cannot buy this to add to their personal collection.
Or you know, just blocks the signal to the remote operator or takes out a critical GPS satellite.
I think Google prefers its employees to have more self esteem and common sense then you would find from anyone working for Yahoo.
Well with initiatives like "No child Left behind", where you really have to work at failing for the school system to let you, a college diploma is the only standardised ubiquitous way that a HR person can tell if someone is likely not a complete waste of space.
Non-college graduate here.
I am truly "shock[ed]", no one could of ever predicted this completely unique adaptation.
So even if you knowingly are helping a foreign country plan an invasion of your country, if your county has not defined them as an official enemy you have not committed treason?
And that definition clearly uses the completely ambiguous work "enemies", meaning that anyone could be considered treasonous, if you believe they are an enemy of the state.
Most money has traces of drugs on it. If someone has a big stack of bills, and they are a not freshly printed a dog is basically guaranteed to find some trace of drugs.
Because no one has ever created a website with no external links.
Slashdot seems to be broken, I got like 20 email notifications for this post.
What are you talking about. Those farmers obviously stole Monsanto's patented terminator genetics and will be sued by Monsanto.
Except that it does not actually prevent contamination. You still have cross pollination, cross pollination which no one can predict what it will produce.
Yes, the exact species that they plant will not be released into the wild as it dies out in one generation (in theory at least, but then you are talking about billions of billions of lifeforms many with errors in there genetics). But what will the pollen from a terminator variety do to a neighbors field or the other plants in the area?
Is it conceivable that it will create seeds that will not grow? Or 10000 times worse, is it possibly it will create seeds in other species that will grow into plants and sprout seeds and pollen but these second generation seeds are sterile? Creating a spreadable effect that could spread like a virus anywhere and everywhere?
It does sound pretty similar to all the models I have heard of.
1) collapse in on it self.
2) keeping moving apart faster and faster until the universe is just one 0 energy, minimal density nothing.
3) keep moving apart faster and faster until you hit the speed of light, and than the fabric of space-time rips itself apart as dark energy pushes past boundaries that cannot be breached.
The only really interesting one with much hope is the Big Crunch (#1) as it could possibly lead into another big bang. And explosions are always interesting.
I think it means that you really have no opinions of your own and just follow the crowd blindly.
Except it does not contain child porn, so it is very different in practice.
"fraudulent parody site" -> sounds like fair use to me.
The article is about making people unable to consume alcohol, permanently. It is not about restricting the sale of alcohol. After you are biologically incapable of drinking, how would a change of venue help?
Did you even read the original article, or even the title?