Being a man I personally don't think men are evil and yes the comment is a bit overboard but the way some people go on about how hard it is to gain equality, they're essentially saying that.
My only real gripe with "equality" is the push for women to be kept on the same level as a man despite leaving work for a year during maternity leave and it has nothing to with their gender. I think anyone who leaves for a year can't possibly expect to just jump back in and reap the rewards of the people who were working during that year.
But it's also the fact people push for this in the name if equality while ignoring the fact that maternity leave is unfair itself as the women get a year and the man gets 2 weeks.
If you want to say a woman is more suited to watch the child, that is fine. But the mere fact a woman doesn't have to take all that time off and instead can opt for as little as 2 weeks herself and imply giving the kid to a stranger while she works is better than the father is just insane.
I'm all for equality because it is fair but only when it's done properly.
I would not say going by personal experience is ill-informed. Clearly certain women do exist that are like that. No where did I state that all women are like that so it's not like I'm generalising about a whole group.
It would be more fair to compare top men to top women. Really, comparing an average woman to a fat man is just a bit silly because fat men wouldn't perform in sport on a paid competitive level (bowling is not a sport). Plus it's like saying you can run faster than Stephen Hawking. You don't really use that as a selling point.
In short, if there's a difference, it's not the sex, it's the sexism. Anyone who can't acknowledge this is a bigot and a twit.
That comment is just as ignorant as anything a bigot would say.
I'd say it's not boys stopping girls from taking maths in school and it's not boys stopping girls from taking programming. In fact, from my experience in school, and what I've seen, most school aged boys would love to have a girl that was into something that they found cool.
Sure sexism plays a part in some instances but like everything else it's not black and white. A lot of girls don't do math because that's not where the cool boys are. Their social standing would take a hit if they were caught carrying a calculator and hanging around the nerds and yes believe it or not, a girl's self image means a lot. Hence the market for make-up, push-up bras, high-heel shoes, fad diets and anything else that will make them feel like they're something they're not.
And no those things aren't forced upon girls either. Which is why girls with a lot of image issues (and especially food issues) go through a lot of boyfriends because the guy gets fed up listing to them talk about what they're not going to eat today.
It's not the case with all woman, because again, not everything is black and white, but a lot of girls compete amongst each other to attract boys and math will only attract nerds in their eyes.
So let's not be ignorant and just blame everything on men being some sort of evil being because it's simply not true.
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Tetris is still simply amazing. It's a shame the guy got screwed out of a load of money because you just knew that nothing he'd create afterwards would reach the awesomeness of Tetris.
It's not their right to install it in the first place and what is the point of not allowing people to uninstall it but disable it. If it's not being used either way then let me fucking uninstall it like I want.
In all honest, it would not surprise me if they did it on purpose. Their customer support is horrible. I requested to have roaming turned on for when I went to the US. I did this about a month before leaving.
I get to the US and nothing, no signal at all.
I get back to the UK and about 6 months after my trip, what happens? I get a fucking text telling my my roaming is now enabled. That was only the beginning, they did nothing but fuck up every single thing I requested including transferring my number to my new provider. Of course they never give you anything in writing even though you know they have email so it ends up costing me more money to get my number.
The only things we haven't got are the stupid things like flying cars. No one in their right mind wants some soccer mom flying her little precious in some tank-like flying SUV.
The internet alone has changed so too. But people need to get it out of their heads that we'll all of the sudden, one day, wear nothing but white and fly around in cars.
All that needs to be done is make IE8 removable. Like completely removable, not just a "hide the icon" sort of uninstall and give OEMs the right to put whatever browser they want on their systems.
Why bother fucking about with some sort of software that asks the user? There probably won't be any expectation of this ballot system giving the pros and cons of each browser so they'll just opt for the familiar IE they've always used.
EU proves to be ineffective by being too late on doing something about this problem and picking a poor solution.
I was born in American and lived there for the first 24 years of my life so I am aware of how the system works and in fact I'm still part of the system since I have to file US taxes and, in fact, received a economic stimulus check to spend on the UK economy courtesy of Bush.
I'm fully aware of when the democrats had taken control. I do agree that congress has to take responsibility too. So it's a bit unfortunately that people forget either blame the democrats for the supposed woes of the Reagan era or give the democrats praise they deserve for whatever it is they like about the Reagan era.
The economic problems started under Clinton with the dot com bust and Bush did inherit an economy that wasn't in the greatest shape. His priority should have only been to fix the economy. Up until 11/9/01 when his focus should have been the economy and going after Bin Laden.
Instead he blew a big wad of money on just about everything except Bin Laden. While at the same time the housing market was going shit.
The democrats could have done more but the damage was done long before. You can't just undo a sham of a housing market by electing democrats.
I didn't vote for Obama but I also didn't vote for McCain. Neither was a good choice though ultimately better than the likes of Hillary.
The problem is I don't want an iPhone just to play Doom and Wolfenstein. I can play them anywhere and better on my EEE and won't leave greasy finger prints all over the screen when I'm done.
IMO, while Google is a good company and generally does well with open source. I do find their support for Linux to generally be terrible. You either get stuff running in wine if at all and it never seems to perform as well.
They need to get some good Linux developers in their company.
What if it was standardised and GTK was all there was and it didn't do the job? They'd be pretty fucked. They have multiple tools to choose from and pick the best one for the job.
If they want to standardise then pick the best distro for their market and build it for that. Being that it's open source other can mod it to work on their distro if required.
You've posted this a few times and on the off chance you actually believe this then you're a tit.
There are racist people of all colours but black people primarily vote democrat in every election and there's a good chance Obama would have lost as a Republican. Especially when the last government was Republican and complete cocked up the US.
True. I was being slightly sarcastic. I think both have their places. Though admittedly Java gets a lot of grief, some of which is unwarranted, imo.
Java, imo, had a really bad start. More so because of all the god awful applets that were created and it definitely still has more room for improvement.
I don't think it'll necessarily in trouble. The idea of Java is excellent and some real effort goes into it as a result of it being open sourced then I don't think it has to worry about going away.
I think it's done quite well considering both MS and Apple seem keen to keep it off their systems.
This is the thing, people are anti religion seem to think they're above everyone else and spout off things like "religion starts war" which has been true at some points but those who do that are no different than the likes of Fred Phelps. Ignorance doesn't stick to one belief system and I think non religious people need to disown the ignorant in their group too.
There are good and bad people believe in anything you can find on the planet. People discriminating a particular group should realise that too.
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To be fair if people are buying more netbooks rather than desktops then it's true.
Being a man I personally don't think men are evil and yes the comment is a bit overboard but the way some people go on about how hard it is to gain equality, they're essentially saying that.
My only real gripe with "equality" is the push for women to be kept on the same level as a man despite leaving work for a year during maternity leave and it has nothing to with their gender. I think anyone who leaves for a year can't possibly expect to just jump back in and reap the rewards of the people who were working during that year.
But it's also the fact people push for this in the name if equality while ignoring the fact that maternity leave is unfair itself as the women get a year and the man gets 2 weeks.
If you want to say a woman is more suited to watch the child, that is fine. But the mere fact a woman doesn't have to take all that time off and instead can opt for as little as 2 weeks herself and imply giving the kid to a stranger while she works is better than the father is just insane.
I'm all for equality because it is fair but only when it's done properly.
I would not say going by personal experience is ill-informed. Clearly certain women do exist that are like that. No where did I state that all women are like that so it's not like I'm generalising about a whole group.
Not true because, as someone pointed out, a lot of boys do the same. You don't get to join the popular circles by being a math whiz.
It would be more fair to compare top men to top women. Really, comparing an average woman to a fat man is just a bit silly because fat men wouldn't perform in sport on a paid competitive level (bowling is not a sport). Plus it's like saying you can run faster than Stephen Hawking. You don't really use that as a selling point.
In short, if there's a difference, it's not the sex, it's the sexism. Anyone who can't acknowledge this is a bigot and a twit.
That comment is just as ignorant as anything a bigot would say.
I'd say it's not boys stopping girls from taking maths in school and it's not boys stopping girls from taking programming. In fact, from my experience in school, and what I've seen, most school aged boys would love to have a girl that was into something that they found cool.
Sure sexism plays a part in some instances but like everything else it's not black and white. A lot of girls don't do math because that's not where the cool boys are. Their social standing would take a hit if they were caught carrying a calculator and hanging around the nerds and yes believe it or not, a girl's self image means a lot. Hence the market for make-up, push-up bras, high-heel shoes, fad diets and anything else that will make them feel like they're something they're not.
And no those things aren't forced upon girls either. Which is why girls with a lot of image issues (and especially food issues) go through a lot of boyfriends because the guy gets fed up listing to them talk about what they're not going to eat today.
It's not the case with all woman, because again, not everything is black and white, but a lot of girls compete amongst each other to attract boys and math will only attract nerds in their eyes.
So let's not be ignorant and just blame everything on men being some sort of evil being because it's simply not true.
Tetris is still simply amazing. It's a shame the guy got screwed out of a load of money because you just knew that nothing he'd create afterwards would reach the awesomeness of Tetris.
It's google with a background image, a flashy video preview and a not quite right page layout.
It's not their right to install it in the first place and what is the point of not allowing people to uninstall it but disable it. If it's not being used either way then let me fucking uninstall it like I want.
Pikachu fur makes great underwear.
Not this time, buddy.
In all honest, it would not surprise me if they did it on purpose. Their customer support is horrible. I requested to have roaming turned on for when I went to the US. I did this about a month before leaving.
I get to the US and nothing, no signal at all.
I get back to the UK and about 6 months after my trip, what happens? I get a fucking text telling my my roaming is now enabled. That was only the beginning, they did nothing but fuck up every single thing I requested including transferring my number to my new provider. Of course they never give you anything in writing even though you know they have email so it ends up costing me more money to get my number.
I'll never deal with them again.
The only things we haven't got are the stupid things like flying cars. No one in their right mind wants some soccer mom flying her little precious in some tank-like flying SUV.
But for things that matter, like growing body parts, we're coming along just fine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzcEWmstN7U
The internet alone has changed so too. But people need to get it out of their heads that we'll all of the sudden, one day, wear nothing but white and fly around in cars.
All that needs to be done is make IE8 removable. Like completely removable, not just a "hide the icon" sort of uninstall and give OEMs the right to put whatever browser they want on their systems.
Why bother fucking about with some sort of software that asks the user? There probably won't be any expectation of this ballot system giving the pros and cons of each browser so they'll just opt for the familiar IE they've always used.
EU proves to be ineffective by being too late on doing something about this problem and picking a poor solution.
I was born in American and lived there for the first 24 years of my life so I am aware of how the system works and in fact I'm still part of the system since I have to file US taxes and, in fact, received a economic stimulus check to spend on the UK economy courtesy of Bush.
I'm fully aware of when the democrats had taken control. I do agree that congress has to take responsibility too. So it's a bit unfortunately that people forget either blame the democrats for the supposed woes of the Reagan era or give the democrats praise they deserve for whatever it is they like about the Reagan era.
The economic problems started under Clinton with the dot com bust and Bush did inherit an economy that wasn't in the greatest shape. His priority should have only been to fix the economy. Up until 11/9/01 when his focus should have been the economy and going after Bin Laden.
Instead he blew a big wad of money on just about everything except Bin Laden. While at the same time the housing market was going shit.
The democrats could have done more but the damage was done long before. You can't just undo a sham of a housing market by electing democrats.
I didn't vote for Obama but I also didn't vote for McCain. Neither was a good choice though ultimately better than the likes of Hillary.
Yes if you want low quality shit which is what he's talking about making in a couple days.
The BFT 9000.
The problem is I don't want an iPhone just to play Doom and Wolfenstein. I can play them anywhere and better on my EEE and won't leave greasy finger prints all over the screen when I'm done.
IMO, while Google is a good company and generally does well with open source. I do find their support for Linux to generally be terrible. You either get stuff running in wine if at all and it never seems to perform as well.
They need to get some good Linux developers in their company.
What if it was standardised and GTK was all there was and it didn't do the job? They'd be pretty fucked. They have multiple tools to choose from and pick the best one for the job.
If they want to standardise then pick the best distro for their market and build it for that. Being that it's open source other can mod it to work on their distro if required.
You've posted this a few times and on the off chance you actually believe this then you're a tit.
There are racist people of all colours but black people primarily vote democrat in every election and there's a good chance Obama would have lost as a Republican. Especially when the last government was Republican and complete cocked up the US.
True. I was being slightly sarcastic. I think both have their places. Though admittedly Java gets a lot of grief, some of which is unwarranted, imo.
Java, imo, had a really bad start. More so because of all the god awful applets that were created and it definitely still has more room for improvement.
I don't think it'll necessarily in trouble. The idea of Java is excellent and some real effort goes into it as a result of it being open sourced then I don't think it has to worry about going away.
I think it's done quite well considering both MS and Apple seem keen to keep it off their systems.
This is the thing, people are anti religion seem to think they're above everyone else and spout off things like "religion starts war" which has been true at some points but those who do that are no different than the likes of Fred Phelps. Ignorance doesn't stick to one belief system and I think non religious people need to disown the ignorant in their group too.
There are good and bad people believe in anything you can find on the planet. People discriminating a particular group should realise that too.
I was being facetious but judging by the troll mod, people didn't quite get it.
Scientists are humans too and a job won't change some humans from being cheats.