THAT is your personal failing. My wife, who is a masters-degreed engineer will tell you that as well. If you're timid and can't drive a hard bargain in salary negotiations, then tough shit.
I was alluding to the fact that women in all fields, as a group, make 70% of what their male counterparts make. But of course I don't need to tell you that--you're such an expert on this stuff, after all.
And to all the professional women who take time off to have kids and expect to be able to leave early due to little Kristy's soccer game: do not bitch when I get promoted above you. I was on the job doing the deed while you were sucking in that maternity leave.
Wouldn't it be great if men were encouraged to spend equal time raising their children and given equal opportunities to do so? If only there were some kind of movement to promote that idea.
Most advertising portrays females as the wise and NECESSARY figureheads of families while men are bumbling with 0 (or equally idiotic) focus.
Yeah, let me tell you how great it is to be constantly reminded that my place is in the home. It makes me feel so SUPERIOR. It's a miracle that I can manage to hold down a software development job too, in which my undeniable superiority rakes in 70% as much as the man in the other cube. Thank God for that old school women's lib thing that is obviously no longer necessary.
St. John's Wort has been proven as effective at treating depression as Paxil.
Measurements of depression are based almost exclusively on self-reporting. A simple comparison between the "effectiveness" of St. John's Wort and Paxil--in which an "effect" is just a positive change in self-reported measures--can't account for a belief effect. It's not enough to do double-blind; you also have to find out whether each of the subjects thinks they've been given the substance you're testing, and include that data in your statistical analysis.
I'm not sure what that gender studies remark was all about, but Henninger may have more allies among gender studies scholars than he thinks. They are extremely skeptical of scientists because they often reinforce myths about gender with poor methodology and sloppy interpretations. There is, of course, a faction in gender studies that rejects reproductive biology as a basis for sex, which is just bizarre. But if Henninger is beginning to doubt the credibility of today's scientists based on a perception of bias, he's only reaching a conclusion that those "messy" gender studies scholars have already figured out.
(On an unrelated note, I would like to propose a corollary to Godwin's Law: as a discussion about science and politics grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Galileo and the Church approaches 1.)
I'd add that the concept of "compendium of all human knowledge" included a whole lot of stuff that can't be cited.
I would further add that it's impossible to even define the concept of "compendium of all human knowledge" without a theory of knowledge, an area that has been under continuous debate for several thousand years. Good luck getting Wikipedians to agree on that.
Like another poster said, this is not about percentages. Watch whenever an article comes up that has any connection, however tenuous, with a woman, and immediately there will be comments--modded all the way up!--about sex. And I'm sorry, but this article is not a troll. This is a serious issue that needs to be openly discussed. Calling this article a troll is absurd, and only proves that most of Slashdot doesn't give a shit about women or women's perspectives. (I'm aware that the writer is a man.) And to claim that Slashdot is neutral? Are you fucking kidding me? This place is thick with racism and sexism.
And no way do I read this place raw. But it doesn't seem to help.
This is an article about a person getting screwed over by unemployment, and you're evaluating her worthiness for a date? Can you turn that shit off for just a minute please? Because we're left with only one conclusion: that you evaluate all women this way, all the time, regardless of the context. Stop and think about how that makes women feel, and then maybe you'll understand why comments like this drive us away.
I have yet to see any woman, or man be treated differently in this industry
Of course you haven't seen it. That's the point. Just because you personally haven't seen it--or, probably more accurately, didn't notice it--doesn't mean it's not there. But you think that just because you haven't seen something, it doesn't exist. That's the problem.
It is quite amusing to read an entire page of comments by men who think that their gender doesn't limit their perspective on this issue. That demonstrates the very root of the problem: maleness is still the default, the essential; a woman's perspective is considered especially different from a man's but the reverse is never true. With very few exceptions, all of the comments on this article reveal an attitude that the male perspective is complete and true while the female perspective is a special subset.
Slashdot is one of the least female-friendly places on the Internet, so this conversation is basically hopeless no matter what. But let me share with you some anti-feminist clichés (courtesy of jezebel.com) so we can at least get them out of the way now.
Feminists can't take a joke. The problem is not that feminists can't take a joke. (We can.) The problem is that you can't take feminists seriously.
Some girls like [X], so it must be okay. Men often disagree on things. Women do too. One woman's disagreement does not invalidate the opinions of every other woman.
Criticizing misogyny is a waste of time. This might actually be true here.
Feminists have no lives. The implication here seems to be that feminists had to have suffered some great personal disappointment. Sorry, no; I just have to endure cat calls from sleazy strangers on my walk to work, get interrupted in meetings (and then get pigeonholed as a bitch for standing up for myself), and frequently have to put up with people who are blind to their own privilege. I really, really wish that my having a life would make this all stop.
This post will no doubt get modded down to -1 practically instantaneously. But I don't care, because this is my industry too, and until you all get it, I won't be silent.
All the news anyone could ever want is available for free on the internet. Just a Google search away.
And who do you suppose is writing that news? While I strongly believe that the newspaper industry is unsustainable in its present form, the news does not write itself. We will always need professional journalists, and there will always be a demand for local news. The newspaper industry as we know it may very well collapse. But in doing so, it will only be making room for a new generation of professional journalism that can exist within the boundaries of the world today. Think of it as the business equivalent of a forest fire.
They can ask and/or compel Twitter to reveal identifying information about the user, but serving this injunction is less of a hassle. FTA:
Mr Blaney turned to Twitter to serve the injunction rather than go through the potentially lengthy process of contacting Twitter headquarters in California and asking it to deal with the matter.
If the injunction is ignored, then they can take the time to get Twitter HQ involved.
It's undeniable that Twitter has its share of spam, friend-hoarders and narcissists, but don't let that fool you into thinking that there aren't also millions of people who are using it to connect with people who do genuinely care about what they have to say. I think that a great many people are, in fact, well aware that their lives are not of any real importance to the rest of the world as a whole. But their lives are important and eventful to their friends, and vice versa.
In some places (like my hometown) we're also allowed to turn left on red if both streets are one-way. It's especially handy in downtown areas where most of the streets are one-way.
The original (pre-Nazi) swastika is still used in Japan too. It's all over the maps there--it marks the location of temples.
Also, those of you who have character palettes on your computers, look up Unicode code points 534D and 5350. I wonder if those are blank on German computers.
The MH907 is only compatible with Sony Ericsson's own Fast Port-equipped phones -- Fast Port is SE's proprietary connector on the bottom of its phones.
They're suing for "unjust enrichment and intentional interference with contractual relationships and business expectancies." They're additionally suing DirectAd for breach of contract and fraud. They claim that malvertisements and trojans were uploaded to their ad servers, that "scareware" sites use Microsoft trademarks illegally, and that Microsoft has suffered increased costs and harm to its reputation. They also say that DirectAd falsely claimed to represent a travel agency (featured in one of their malvertisements) when they placed ads with Microsoft.
Yes, thank you for stating the obvious. That's what insurance premiums are for. Premiums go in, payments go out. I think everyone here understands that.
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THAT is your personal failing. My wife, who is a masters-degreed engineer will tell you that as well. If you're timid and can't drive a hard bargain in salary negotiations, then tough shit.
I was alluding to the fact that women in all fields, as a group, make 70% of what their male counterparts make. But of course I don't need to tell you that--you're such an expert on this stuff, after all.
And to all the professional women who take time off to have kids and expect to be able to leave early due to little Kristy's soccer game: do not bitch when I get promoted above you. I was on the job doing the deed while you were sucking in that maternity leave.
Wouldn't it be great if men were encouraged to spend equal time raising their children and given equal opportunities to do so? If only there were some kind of movement to promote that idea.
Most advertising portrays females as the wise and NECESSARY figureheads of families while men are bumbling with 0 (or equally idiotic) focus.
Yeah, let me tell you how great it is to be constantly reminded that my place is in the home. It makes me feel so SUPERIOR. It's a miracle that I can manage to hold down a software development job too, in which my undeniable superiority rakes in 70% as much as the man in the other cube. Thank God for that old school women's lib thing that is obviously no longer necessary.
Maybe the problem is in your presentation.
Meet Zed Shaw.
St. John's Wort has been proven as effective at treating depression as Paxil.
Measurements of depression are based almost exclusively on self-reporting. A simple comparison between the "effectiveness" of St. John's Wort and Paxil--in which an "effect" is just a positive change in self-reported measures--can't account for a belief effect. It's not enough to do double-blind; you also have to find out whether each of the subjects thinks they've been given the substance you're testing, and include that data in your statistical analysis.
I'm not sure what that gender studies remark was all about, but Henninger may have more allies among gender studies scholars than he thinks. They are extremely skeptical of scientists because they often reinforce myths about gender with poor methodology and sloppy interpretations. There is, of course, a faction in gender studies that rejects reproductive biology as a basis for sex, which is just bizarre. But if Henninger is beginning to doubt the credibility of today's scientists based on a perception of bias, he's only reaching a conclusion that those "messy" gender studies scholars have already figured out. (On an unrelated note, I would like to propose a corollary to Godwin's Law: as a discussion about science and politics grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Galileo and the Church approaches 1.)
I'd add that the concept of "compendium of all human knowledge" included a whole lot of stuff that can't be cited.
I would further add that it's impossible to even define the concept of "compendium of all human knowledge" without a theory of knowledge, an area that has been under continuous debate for several thousand years. Good luck getting Wikipedians to agree on that.
Like another poster said, this is not about percentages. Watch whenever an article comes up that has any connection, however tenuous, with a woman, and immediately there will be comments--modded all the way up!--about sex. And I'm sorry, but this article is not a troll. This is a serious issue that needs to be openly discussed. Calling this article a troll is absurd, and only proves that most of Slashdot doesn't give a shit about women or women's perspectives. (I'm aware that the writer is a man.) And to claim that Slashdot is neutral? Are you fucking kidding me? This place is thick with racism and sexism.
And no way do I read this place raw. But it doesn't seem to help.
Heck I'd probably date her.
This is an article about a person getting screwed over by unemployment, and you're evaluating her worthiness for a date? Can you turn that shit off for just a minute please? Because we're left with only one conclusion: that you evaluate all women this way, all the time, regardless of the context. Stop and think about how that makes women feel, and then maybe you'll understand why comments like this drive us away.
I have yet to see any woman, or man be treated differently in this industry
Of course you haven't seen it. That's the point. Just because you personally haven't seen it--or, probably more accurately, didn't notice it--doesn't mean it's not there. But you think that just because you haven't seen something, it doesn't exist. That's the problem.
Slashdot is one of the least female-friendly places on the Internet, so this conversation is basically hopeless no matter what. But let me share with you some anti-feminist clichés (courtesy of jezebel.com) so we can at least get them out of the way now.
This post will no doubt get modded down to -1 practically instantaneously. But I don't care, because this is my industry too, and until you all get it, I won't be silent.
Let me guess: Indiana.
All the news anyone could ever want is available for free on the internet. Just a Google search away.
And who do you suppose is writing that news? While I strongly believe that the newspaper industry is unsustainable in its present form, the news does not write itself. We will always need professional journalists, and there will always be a demand for local news. The newspaper industry as we know it may very well collapse. But in doing so, it will only be making room for a new generation of professional journalism that can exist within the boundaries of the world today. Think of it as the business equivalent of a forest fire.
They can ask and/or compel Twitter to reveal identifying information about the user, but serving this injunction is less of a hassle. FTA:
Mr Blaney turned to Twitter to serve the injunction rather than go through the potentially lengthy process of contacting Twitter headquarters in California and asking it to deal with the matter.
If the injunction is ignored, then they can take the time to get Twitter HQ involved.
It's undeniable that Twitter has its share of spam, friend-hoarders and narcissists, but don't let that fool you into thinking that there aren't also millions of people who are using it to connect with people who do genuinely care about what they have to say. I think that a great many people are, in fact, well aware that their lives are not of any real importance to the rest of the world as a whole. But their lives are important and eventful to their friends, and vice versa.
In some places (like my hometown) we're also allowed to turn left on red if both streets are one-way. It's especially handy in downtown areas where most of the streets are one-way.
Also, it looks gay.
:)
Well, they were going to add "Must not look gay" to the Request For Proposal, but their hands were tied by Don't Ask/Don't Tell.
By quashing political dissent, you are becoming like the Nazis.
Oh please. I'm all for free speech, but this is just absurd. Outlawing swastikas doesn't kill six million Jews.
Please don't use the word Nazi as a synonym for authoritarian. You do a disservice to the unbelievable number of people they killed.
The original (pre-Nazi) swastika is still used in Japan too. It's all over the maps there--it marks the location of temples.
Also, those of you who have character palettes on your computers, look up Unicode code points 534D and 5350. I wonder if those are blank on German computers.
The MH907 is only compatible with Sony Ericsson's own Fast Port-equipped phones -- Fast Port is SE's proprietary connector on the bottom of its phones.
Fail.
I don't think she's busty.
The real question, though, is why the fuck that matters.
They're suing for "unjust enrichment and intentional interference with contractual relationships and business expectancies." They're additionally suing DirectAd for breach of contract and fraud. They claim that malvertisements and trojans were uploaded to their ad servers, that "scareware" sites use Microsoft trademarks illegally, and that Microsoft has suffered increased costs and harm to its reputation. They also say that DirectAd falsely claimed to represent a travel agency (featured in one of their malvertisements) when they placed ads with Microsoft.
This is the best post in the entire discussion.
Yes, thank you for stating the obvious. That's what insurance premiums are for. Premiums go in, payments go out. I think everyone here understands that.
Poetry hero
"Haiku sense is tingling!"
"Uptight Man" swoops in
Hint. There are no haikus on this thread so far.
There are no plurals in Japanese either. Oh snap!
How's that working out?