Hey! Quit giving away my kids' secret science project on "the halflife of one-time-charged biological sources of radiation in the visible spectrum" ! He's going to beat that little brat Lewis this time....
He struggled to give a logical answer when I asked him how a device with no moving parts could wear out so quickly.
"Well, it wasnt easy, let me tell you! We had to work for a YEAR until we could tune the failure timing to remain just outside of the warran.... Umm.. I mean , yeah, that's kind of odd, isnt it?"
The big issue here is not "fun place vs stable place".
The big issue here is, "Coding, or Management". And at the Directorship level, no less.
That level of things is all about politics. Think REAL HARD about whether you want to make that change. Because if you jump, and DONT like it... you're badly screwed. Where would you transition to? Trying to get a new coding job, when your last job wasnt coding, is going to be difficult. Trying to get a new management job, when you failed at your last one, is going to be... impossible.
Maybe not so ashamed if it works the other way as well.
I have occasionally been offered surprisingly good deals by one site, when I stopped for a bit, and started pricing other sites... then came BACK to the first site. Wonder if that's driven by this stuff as well?
UNLIKE the f22- raptor, though, this is basically an "unmanned vehicle".
The title implies "jet aircraft" )ie: passenger vehicle) to most people, but in reality, this is not much more than "an oversized, air-launched missile".
Yeah, i transitioned to xfce, and used it for quite a while myself. But then it needed updating. And updating it is a pain....
So I migrated to just using fluxbox instead. - virtual desktops. - multi-monitor support - "launcher" in the form of holding down right-mouse-button on rootwin to start what I needed. WITHOUT having to drag my mouse way down to the bottom of my large monitor or anything - little clock in bottom corner
Everything I need right there. Everything else is pretty much just bloat for me.
Sez who? The dictionary sure doesnt.
It in fact declares gender == sex.
dictionary.com:
1 == grammatical
2. == "sex"
(#3 is a bit odd, I cant make a trivial summary, but it's not what you are claiming)
You can be biologically male (ie. have a penis, XY chromosones, etc) and be gendered female (ie. living your life as a woman).
You're using biased language, attempting to frame it as some kind of passive, "it just happens by itself" thing, using language such as "gendered".
More accurate statement might be
"You can be biologically male, but still try to pose as a member of the female gender".
To people without a political agenda, the word "gender" is simply a polite synonym for "sex(male or female)"
The fear is that the women's category of sports requiring strength would soon be dominated by men whose genitals did not develope properly in the womb.
Actually, the more prevelant and likely fear, is of the messed up guys who "self identify as female", and go have their genitals chopped off, and then go want to prove their worth against "other females". It's happened before. (eg: "Renee" richards) It should not be allowed to happen again.
It's unfair to REAL women.
(Note to the caped crusaders out there: if I "self-identify" as an oranutang, and sugically have a tail grafted onto my butt, that does not make me an oranutang. Similarly, if I "self-identify" as a girl, and go make those surgical pretenses... that does not make me a girl, either.)
Umm....pretty much all the tools come from china man
200 years ago, it was "all the X comes from Europe"
100 years ago, often it was "all the X comes from America"
now it's "all the X comes from China".
See the pattern?
More importantly, do you see what that implies about future power?
Better start teaching your kids Chinese.
They own the american goods market, AND they own the american government.
(When you control someone's debt, you can effectively control that person too, if desired)
it looks only at federal income taxes, ignoring every other tax, including other federal taxes like the payroll tax
'scuse me?
What exactly is this alleged "payroll tax", that is not "income tax" ? !!
The only way such a thing could be true in the literal sense, is if it were a tax on the person PAYING the payroll, rather than the person receiving it as their income.
if its on the person paying it, then your claims of "taking more from lower-income folks" is completely bogus.
At any rate, your claim about "50% pays zero taxes" is not even close to "total BS". It's merely taken out of context, where the context was fairly understood as "zero federal income tax".
Bizzare.. I guess only in california is verizon expanding fios.
I keep getting FiOS spam in my (US mail)box every month, seems like. And this is when I'm aready a customer:-}
I signed up within the last 12 months. Free installation, and around $75 a month for internet and landline phone.
Careful, your religion is showing.
(Note: being an Atheist, doesnt mean you dont have a religion. it just means your religion doesnt have a god as its center)
There is nothing "friendly" about brainwashing and indoctrinating your children into....
You probably dont have children, do you?
The primary purpose of parenting (as opposed to, say, an orphanage) is to "indoctrinate", or one might even say brainwash, your children with what you believe is proper behaviour. So the first part of your sentence is not much more than redundantly referring to parenting in general, albeit in an extremely Christianphobic manner.
Conversely, there is nothing intrinsically "unfriendly" about being non-Christian
In theory, this is true. However, in practice, the most loud, publicized, "non-Christian" media viewpoints, do tend to indeed be very anti-family and anti morals.
Family is, by common-sense, long-standing definition, the biological parents of children, staying together exclusively to raise, protect, and care for their children. In particular, the state of the parents is usually called "marriage".
Sadly, the primarily anti-christian media is attacking just about every point of that. eg:
"No need to be faithful.. adultery isnt just okay, its exciting and good!"
"No need to stay with your children... do whatever feels good to YOU! The children will be fine with whoever"
"Heck, since all of the above is okay, what do we need marriage for? Lets just pervert it, and redefine it to be all about lust.. oops, I mean 'love', instead of family"
In a related story, creativity and productivity at CERN goes down by 200%.
Seriously, though, it would seem like in theory, fun things such as the actual mass related stuff in Mass Effect (but not crazy stuff like biotics) may finally be on the horizon.
Care to give an example or two of factors in the IT workplace that "women don't like" (i.e. enough for significant numbers to avoid/abandon lucrative careers in what was once a very gender-balanced field), but are not themselves sexist?
First of all,I'd be interested in you showing numbers proving that it was EVER a "very gender-balanced field". I'm scheptical of that.
To answer your question, though: I dont think there are individiual, easy-to-point-out examples. I think it's more an issue of attitudes, and work styles.
Women are far more likely to choose the "I want to work with people" careers. They are more likely to want to socialize around certain types of things (See the other guys' post about his wife's complaints about her not liking her co-workers' social chices. Women are far more likely to just plain want to Talk More:)
In my workplace, our branch of the IT work, is very, very isolated. Almost zero face-to-face chatting during the day. All cube work, and mostly online, not phone. Perhaps IT has changed to be less phone/in-person support overall, and that may have affected gender ratios.
Most women are not interested in that kind of "work environment". But that doesn't make our area "female hostile"; it simply makes it "not something that most women are interested in", in the same way that watching over 20-30 kindergarteners is "not something that most men are interested in."
Nothing to see here, move along to the next liberal knee-jerk cause.
My wife's colleagues often want to go to strip clubs as part of their social gatherings, and they surely would be surprised to be told such attitude does not make the workplace women friendly.
You just put together, two things that do not belong together.
You said "social gatherings". not "work sponsored event".
This is not "workplace hostility", this is guys doing what guys want to do outside of work.
If those guys want to go to strip clubs as part of their "social group", they have every right to do so. Going to work with someone, does not give you the right to dictate what they do outside of work.
Nor does it allow you to force people to be "friendly". you are only entitled to "professional".
Certain people at my work, like to socialize around (particular type of group event). I dont like that kind of activity. I think it's gross. But do I get to tell them, "hey you dont get to go do that stuff because it makes me feel excluded" ?? NO.
(PS: I'm not making this up, there really is that sort of thing, but I'm censoring the type of event in case someone at my work reads this and feels offended by it)
In exactly the same way your wife has no right to dictate what her "colleagues" do to socialize. If that means that she feels less "socially connected" to them... well, sorry, but that's not the purpose of what a workplace is for.
This is kind of similar to what I was saying in my prior article, tweaked just slightly: There's a difference between "things women don't like or are interested in", and things that are workplace discriminatory.
If her co-workers were all members of a BSDM club, and she wasnt interested in joining them... or if they were bisexual, and enjoyed going to a mixed-gender lineup of strippers... would she have any right to complain? no.
Nor does she have any right to complain in the situation you described, if it is purely a "social gathering" outside of work.
Same thing applies to "going and pounding whiskys", or "going out to shooting ranges", etc, etc, etc.
"bad attitude" is a subjective, and almost meaningless term.
There's plenty of things that could fall under the female definition of "bad attitude", that are simply"things women dont like", but ARE NOT IN THEMSELVES SEXIST. It's simply that women dont like them.
For that sort of thing: yes, women who are interested in working there, DO just "need a thicker skin". It's not up to the employeer to make everything potpourri scented and color coordinated just to attract more women. If any feminazis are actually in favour of this idiocy, then consider what would be a fair counterpoint:
There is a "shortage" of men in Kindergarden through 2nd grade public schools. To address this, we must mandate more "male friendly" workplaces in elementary schools. We now require that the teachers' lounge supply free NFL coverage. Also, to address complaints by men of emotional assault, female employees are forbidden to ask male employees, "So, how does that make you FEEL?"
(satire off)
Any man who wishes to work in the elementary school system, needs to get over the fact that it is dominated by women at the moment, and make adjustments for THEM, rather than expect that the more than 75% majority female staff needs to cater to "male specific needs".
Same applies to women applying to male heavy careers. It's supposed to be about the JOB. Unless the men are specifically *rude* to them, they should get over themselves, or find a different career. The old "I want to work with people" work motivation, only is relevant for tier 1 helpdesk support, not for IT as an actual career. IT is primarily about the tech, not the people, and tech is gender-blind.
Which kinda defeats the purpose of having fans from all over the Internet, there's many many bands that won't come to my little corner of the world and you'd have to be a pretty big fan to travel very far just to go to a concert. And even then they still only get one ticket. And maybe that one weekend they are there it doesn't work because you got another important event. You can't live off just a handful of fanatic fans who'll go to any length to see you.
Good point.
You guys need to go the "webcomic" route. Do virtual concerts.
"Pay per view" as it were.
Those then become the equivalent of selling hard-copy versions of the comics.
You could have both "live" versions of this thing, but also fancyschmancy "music video" type stuff.
Oh, and sell DVDs, that are specially decorated and branded, of the videos.
Some people still like to "collect" stuff. hence all the biz that popular comic artists do, selling autographed books of the comics that people have already seen for free on the web.
and/or hook up with the "cafepress" type vendors, and sell merchandize through da net.
Lots of ok music out there from people who do just that, but there is a reason indie music hasn't completely toppled the industry...
Hint: it's the same reason indie movies haven't toppled Hollywood.
There is still something to be said for those who actually devote all their time, not just the weekend, to producing content.. and who can afford the cheaper than before but still expensive pro gear.
No, it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with MARKETING.
You need huge amounts of MARKETING, to make the movie get big box office. Possibly more amounts of money than the movie production costs. Probably more amounts of time for people getting on talk shows, etc, etc. than it took to shoot the movie.
Don't think things like that can happen? Look at Arizona, if you fall behind in your car payments it is a FELONY unless you BRING the car to them.
Aaaand.. why is that a terrible thing? That when people are in possession of something they no longer own, (when they were responsible for "picking it up" for themselves in the first place), they are expected to return it to the rightful owners?
Or similarly, that falling in "breech of contract" has consequences?
What you seem to be saying, basically, is,
"If you like stealing stuff, dont vote republican".
The implied inverse of that is, if you dont like people stealing stuff, vote Republican.
how they market speak that shared plan people are "allowed to pool" their network usage. Rather than the more accurate "forced to share usage". It puts people on family plans at the mercy of their teenage daughter. DOOOOOOoooommmmm.....
If so then the summary of "without crossing the intervening distance" is a lie.
The information was encoded and de-encoded for transit,but it still "travelled". No teleportation here, move along, move alone.
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Hey! Quit giving away my kids' secret science project on "the halflife of one-time-charged biological sources of radiation in the visible spectrum" !
He's going to beat that little brat Lewis this time....
He struggled to give a logical answer when I asked him how a device with no moving parts could wear out so quickly.
"Well, it wasnt easy, let me tell you! We had to work for a YEAR until we could tune the failure timing to remain just outside of the warran.... Umm.. I mean , yeah, that's kind of odd, isnt it?"
The big issue here is not "fun place vs stable place".
The big issue here is, "Coding, or Management".
And at the Directorship level, no less.
That level of things is all about politics. Think REAL HARD about whether you want to make that change. Because if you jump, and DONT like it... you're badly screwed. Where would you transition to?
Trying to get a new coding job, when your last job wasnt coding, is going to be difficult.
Trying to get a new management job, when you failed at your last one, is going to be... impossible.
Maybe not so ashamed if it works the other way as well.
I have occasionally been offered surprisingly good deals by one site, when I stopped for a bit, and started pricing other sites... then came BACK to the first site.
Wonder if that's driven by this stuff as well?
Which makes it sadly way less interesting
Yeah, i transitioned to xfce, and used it for quite a while myself. But then it needed updating. And updating it is a pain....
So I migrated to just using fluxbox instead.
- virtual desktops.
- multi-monitor support
- "launcher" in the form of holding down right-mouse-button on rootwin to start what I needed. WITHOUT having to drag my mouse way down to the bottom of my large monitor or anything
- little clock in bottom corner
Everything I need right there. Everything else is pretty much just bloat for me.
Only problem is, he WANTS to be Steve Jobs.
But Steve Jobs, he aint.
Gender is psychology and culture Sex is biology
Sez who? The dictionary sure doesnt. It in fact declares gender == sex. dictionary.com: 1 == grammatical 2. == "sex" (#3 is a bit odd, I cant make a trivial summary, but it's not what you are claiming)
You can be biologically male (ie. have a penis, XY chromosones, etc) and be gendered female (ie. living your life as a woman).
You're using biased language, attempting to frame it as some kind of passive, "it just happens by itself" thing, using language such as "gendered".
More accurate statement might be "You can be biologically male, but still try to pose as a member of the female gender".
To people without a political agenda, the word "gender" is simply a polite synonym for "sex(male or female)"
The fear is that the women's category of sports requiring strength would soon be dominated by men whose genitals did not develope properly in the womb.
Actually, the more prevelant and likely fear, is of the messed up guys who "self identify as female", and go have their genitals chopped off, and then go want to prove their worth against "other females". It's happened before. (eg: "Renee" richards) It should not be allowed to happen again.
It's unfair to REAL women.
(Note to the caped crusaders out there: if I "self-identify" as an oranutang, and sugically have a tail grafted onto my butt, that does not make me an oranutang. Similarly, if I "self-identify" as a girl, and go make those surgical pretenses... that does not make me a girl, either.)
Umm....pretty much all the tools come from china man
200 years ago, it was "all the X comes from Europe"
100 years ago, often it was "all the X comes from America"
now it's "all the X comes from China".
See the pattern? More importantly, do you see what that implies about future power?
Better start teaching your kids Chinese. They own the american goods market, AND they own the american government. (When you control someone's debt, you can effectively control that person too, if desired)
it looks only at federal income taxes, ignoring every other tax, including other federal taxes like the payroll tax
'scuse me? What exactly is this alleged "payroll tax", that is not "income tax" ? !! The only way such a thing could be true in the literal sense, is if it were a tax on the person PAYING the payroll, rather than the person receiving it as their income.
if its on the person paying it, then your claims of "taking more from lower-income folks" is completely bogus.
At any rate, your claim about "50% pays zero taxes" is not even close to "total BS". It's merely taken out of context, where the context was fairly understood as "zero federal income tax".
Bizzare.. I guess only in california is verizon expanding fios. I keep getting FiOS spam in my (US mail)box every month, seems like. And this is when I'm aready a customer :-}
I signed up within the last 12 months. Free installation, and around $75 a month for internet and landline phone.
It took me a while to figure out that the NEW article, really is buried in a sentence that refers to past arguments.
This is really poor editing.
The hyper link should be connected to the (Jeff C says..) phrase instead, or something like that.
There is nothing "friendly" about brainwashing and indoctrinating your children into ....
You probably dont have children, do you?
The primary purpose of parenting (as opposed to, say, an orphanage) is to "indoctrinate", or one might even say brainwash, your children with what you believe is proper behaviour. So the first part of your sentence is not much more than redundantly referring to parenting in general, albeit in an extremely Christianphobic manner.
Conversely, there is nothing intrinsically "unfriendly" about being non-Christian
In theory, this is true. However, in practice, the most loud, publicized, "non-Christian" media viewpoints, do tend to indeed be very anti-family and anti morals.
Family is, by common-sense, long-standing definition, the biological parents of children, staying together exclusively to raise, protect, and care for their children. In particular, the state of the parents is usually called "marriage".
Sadly, the primarily anti-christian media is attacking just about every point of that. eg:
In a related story, creativity and productivity at CERN goes down by 200%.
Seriously, though, it would seem like in theory, fun things such as the actual mass related stuff in Mass Effect (but not crazy stuff like biotics) may finally be on the horizon.
Fun, and potentially scary, times ahead.
Care to give an example or two of factors in the IT workplace that "women don't like" (i.e. enough for significant numbers to avoid/abandon lucrative careers in what was once a very gender-balanced field), but are not themselves sexist?
First of all,I'd be interested in you showing numbers proving that it was EVER a "very gender-balanced field". I'm scheptical of that.
To answer your question, though: I dont think there are individiual, easy-to-point-out examples. I think it's more an issue of attitudes, and work styles. Women are far more likely to choose the "I want to work with people" careers. They are more likely to want to socialize around certain types of things (See the other guys' post about his wife's complaints about her not liking her co-workers' social chices. Women are far more likely to just plain want to Talk More :)
In my workplace, our branch of the IT work, is very, very isolated. Almost zero face-to-face chatting during the day. All cube work, and mostly online, not phone. Perhaps IT has changed to be less phone/in-person support overall, and that may have affected gender ratios.
Most women are not interested in that kind of "work environment". But that doesn't make our area "female hostile"; it simply makes it "not something that most women are interested in", in the same way that watching over 20-30 kindergarteners is "not something that most men are interested in."
Nothing to see here, move along to the next liberal knee-jerk cause.
My wife's colleagues often want to go to strip clubs as part of their social gatherings, and they surely would be surprised to be told such attitude does not make the workplace women friendly.
You just put together, two things that do not belong together. You said "social gatherings". not "work sponsored event". This is not "workplace hostility", this is guys doing what guys want to do outside of work.
If those guys want to go to strip clubs as part of their "social group", they have every right to do so. Going to work with someone, does not give you the right to dictate what they do outside of work.
Nor does it allow you to force people to be "friendly". you are only entitled to "professional".
Certain people at my work, like to socialize around (particular type of group event). I dont like that kind of activity. I think it's gross. But do I get to tell them, "hey you dont get to go do that stuff because it makes me feel excluded" ?? NO. (PS: I'm not making this up, there really is that sort of thing, but I'm censoring the type of event in case someone at my work reads this and feels offended by it)
In exactly the same way your wife has no right to dictate what her "colleagues" do to socialize. If that means that she feels less "socially connected" to them... well, sorry, but that's not the purpose of what a workplace is for.
This is kind of similar to what I was saying in my prior article, tweaked just slightly: There's a difference between "things women don't like or are interested in", and things that are workplace discriminatory. If her co-workers were all members of a BSDM club, and she wasnt interested in joining them... or if they were bisexual, and enjoyed going to a mixed-gender lineup of strippers... would she have any right to complain? no.
Nor does she have any right to complain in the situation you described, if it is purely a "social gathering" outside of work. Same thing applies to "going and pounding whiskys", or "going out to shooting ranges", etc, etc, etc.
"bad attitude" is a subjective, and almost meaningless term.
There's plenty of things that could fall under the female definition of "bad attitude", that are simply"things women dont like", but ARE NOT IN THEMSELVES SEXIST. It's simply that women dont like them.
For that sort of thing: yes, women who are interested in working there, DO just "need a thicker skin". It's not up to the employeer to make everything potpourri scented and color coordinated just to attract more women.
If any feminazis are actually in favour of this idiocy, then consider what would be a fair counterpoint:
There is a "shortage" of men in Kindergarden through 2nd grade public schools. To address this, we must mandate more "male friendly" workplaces in elementary schools. We now require that the teachers' lounge supply free NFL coverage. Also, to address complaints by men of emotional assault, female employees are forbidden to ask male employees, "So, how does that make you FEEL?"
(satire off)
Any man who wishes to work in the elementary school system, needs to get over the fact that it is dominated by women at the moment, and make adjustments for THEM, rather than expect that the more than 75% majority female staff needs to cater to "male specific needs".
Same applies to women applying to male heavy careers. It's supposed to be about the JOB. Unless the men are specifically *rude* to them, they should get over themselves, or find a different career. The old "I want to work with people" work motivation, only is relevant for tier 1 helpdesk support, not for IT as an actual career. IT is primarily about the tech, not the people, and tech is gender-blind.
Which kinda defeats the purpose of having fans from all over the Internet, there's many many bands that won't come to my little corner of the world and you'd have to be a pretty big fan to travel very far just to go to a concert. And even then they still only get one ticket. And maybe that one weekend they are there it doesn't work because you got another important event. You can't live off just a handful of fanatic fans who'll go to any length to see you.
Good point. You guys need to go the "webcomic" route. Do virtual concerts. "Pay per view" as it were. Those then become the equivalent of selling hard-copy versions of the comics.
You could have both "live" versions of this thing, but also fancyschmancy "music video" type stuff.
Oh, and sell DVDs, that are specially decorated and branded, of the videos. Some people still like to "collect" stuff. hence all the biz that popular comic artists do, selling autographed books of the comics that people have already seen for free on the web.
and/or hook up with the "cafepress" type vendors, and sell merchandize through da net.
Lots of ok music out there from people who do just that, but there is a reason indie music hasn't completely toppled the industry... Hint: it's the same reason indie movies haven't toppled Hollywood. There is still something to be said for those who actually devote all their time, not just the weekend, to producing content.. and who can afford the cheaper than before but still expensive pro gear.
No, it has nothing to do with that, and everything to do with MARKETING. You need huge amounts of MARKETING, to make the movie get big box office. Possibly more amounts of money than the movie production costs. Probably more amounts of time for people getting on talk shows, etc, etc. than it took to shoot the movie.
Don't think things like that can happen? Look at Arizona, if you fall behind in your car payments it is a FELONY unless you BRING the car to them.
Aaaand.. why is that a terrible thing? That when people are in possession of something they no longer own, (when they were responsible for "picking it up" for themselves in the first place), they are expected to return it to the rightful owners? Or similarly, that falling in "breech of contract" has consequences?
What you seem to be saying, basically, is, "If you like stealing stuff, dont vote republican".
The implied inverse of that is, if you dont like people stealing stuff, vote Republican.
Works for me.
The key here is "option", or rather, lack thereof. You dont get an option, it's mandatory.
btw, you still have to pay the extra $30 or something, you are looking to avoid paying. family plans, etc. still have a "per device" fee.
how they market speak that shared plan people are "allowed to pool" their network usage. Rather than the more accurate "forced to share usage". It puts people on family plans at the mercy of their teenage daughter. DOOOOOOoooommmmm.....
My mind also does not want to turn off until between 12:00am to 2:00am. It is a fight to get up and a fight to get myself to bed.
Been there, done that. I had huge difficulties going to sleep "early".
From my own experience, I would guess that your issues are mostly a combination of one or more of the following:
Most important tip:
I have tried multiple times in my life and failed
That doesnt mean it is somehow impossible for you. It means you were doing it wrong, repeatedly.
FYI: I got over my late-night ness, when a combination of things happened:
If so then the summary of "without crossing the intervening distance" is a lie. The information was encoded and de-encoded for transit,but it still "travelled". No teleportation here, move along, move alone.