I used to know a bright, funny girl who had a kid. She had the kid and put it up for adoption. For whatever reason (quite possibly diet - she didn't eat all that well) she was seemingly permanently dull after that, and not all that lively/funny, either.
Quite possibly the whole adoption thing sobered her right up? Major life choices affect people like that.
Did they mean that the person in question was not female and therefore useful, or useful and therefore not female (which is the option I tend toward)?
The latter, though on that team most everyone was useless. (I stole my job from a guy.)
That being said, I'm still a good cook, and I feel it is an important life skill to be able to do at least minor sewing tasks. I prefer to keep only the useful parts of my traditional gender role. Can we all stop acting helpless now?
But then how would guys (and the competent girls who mother/babysit the helpless ones) get their ego boosts? Seriously though, I sometimes feel like people equate asking questions with being helpless, though I don't see why asking questions is such a bad thing. Plus, we both know that half that helplessness is a lazy attempt to get somebody else to do the work, which is a stunt plenty of guys (like most of my teammates) pull.
Or at least feels that being stupid and or helpless is indeed a defining gender characteristic.
I think she's just trying to write a chicklit computer manual. I think the title's a bit condescending, 'cause uh no the standards for geekdom should not be lowered just 'cause of gender, but the audience is totally different from the./ crowd. The actual book is no more or less degrading than a standard "for dummies" guide.
BTW, if this is happening to you a lot the problem is probably that the way you describe things is different than the way your audience learns things.
I'd totally agree with that if it was just me, but this also happens to lots of other girls I know. A couple of times the question wasn't even an explanation thing but a "what tool should I use?" and the agreement is always with the guy's suggestion. I know a brilliant female engineer who this happens to too. The flip side to this is in any group setting, guys almost always ask other guys questions instead of asking the girl.
there is a public performance or when a 'copy' is made.
What constitutes a public performance? Is it okay to read a story to a class of school kids (like just about every reading class ever) bit not an auditorium full of kids? Is a daycare group consisting of 5 kids okay, but one with 30 not?
Uh,X chromosomes trigger a protein that depletes brain cells? And early onset osteoporosis is why girls can't do hardware. Dunno what it is that makes girls useless, I think it's the tendancy to ask questions. Guys whole shutting up and disappearing until they know the answer, and never owning up that they don't, is so much more productive.
The above is mostly venting related to my most favorite quote from some teammates on a high school robotics team "you're not a girl; you're useful". They kind of ignored the fact that the way team was structured, most everybody was useless (really insular, etc.) and that they didn't let girls (or really anyone) code/build 'cept a core team. That's probably what drives me most nuts: most guys are just as tech illiterate as most girls.
A commonly occurring phenomena in engineering/tech is that guy asks question, girl gives answer, guy nods and asks again, guy2 gives exact same answer as girl, guy listens to guy2 and asks him for more information. So very head banging, as is incompetent guy wanting to wire/build stuff 'cause girl is too fragile (even though she can wire/build) better.
It actually may work better for kids who are younger, or for a certain type of student, but it's a fairytale where the main character solves a series of math puzzles (solutions fully explained in text) while running all over an arabian like land. There's even a princess.
only the parents can really judge whether or not their kid is mature enough to view "mature content."
Parents are HORRIBLE at judging when their kids are mature.
Bad parents, which is the type you're ranting about. The good ones are pretty good judges of their kid's emotional health and tend to be on base with what their kid(s) should be exposed to (and what they are). There's also a major difference between not wanting a kid to do something and pretending it doesn't exist, and good parents tend to be the type that knows the line: they may believe in abstinence, but they'll make sure their kid has the knowledge he or she needs to navigate his or her environment. I know plenty of religious families, and the kids learn about sex when they're ready for it (or even before they really understand it-which is incredibly funny but also hits home that a kid maybe old enough to have sex but not ready for it).
Getting into MIT was just the beginning; actually making it through chewed up a lot of undergrads compared to places like Harvard and Yale.
How much of that can be explained by it basically being an engineering school, considering that engineering in general has a really high drop down/drop out rate?
What's the use of having a class so huge that the professor can't even know all his students, doesn't grade papers(his TAs do that), the student can't necessarily see the screen well or hear the professor.
I've been in classes with 30 students where that still happened, and attendance was down to at best 1/3rd by the end of the semester 'cause no attendance was taken. I've also been in huge lecture classes where almost everyone consistently showed up 'cause the professor structured his class/lesson so that class was basically mandatory if you wanted to pass. Basically, I think it's got more to do with the prof than the class size.
This is different from Catholicism, being Muslim, or Protestantism, where the "believing" part is a prerequisite.
That's cause Judaism is also considered an ethnicity, so it's as much about blood as about beliefs. Even the strictest denominations of Judaism will accept a hardcore athiest as a Jew if his mother is Jewish. It's just his level of Judaism that will be questioned. In the same vein even a heretic or someone who converts out is always considered a Jew. Believing is only a prerequisite for being an observant Jew, and even then there are about a zillion definitions of belief.
How are teams supposed to simulate actual conditions if the terrain is so unstable and chaotic?
For low friction: Tape down plastic table cloths and coat with oil? Or practice on a lawn after it's been washed? I'm sure the teammates can come up with some way to make a slippery field. I can see urban schools having a disadvantage, but they'll make do. My team also built the PVC tetrahedrons, but we had to limit all our practice to the some what narrow hall ways, so our biggest challenge was often just avoiding crashing the bot into a)students b)lockers.
And what about people who have all 3? (And use/check 'em enough for each account to have equal wait) Do the people count for each mail provider, or a new category all together?
Some Western countries today (not sure if that covers the US) punish statutory rape / child abuse, as defined by their own laws, even if it happens outside the country, and even if the act itself was legal in the jurisdiction where it was committed.
The US does that too, if it's a US citizen, in order to discourage pedo-tourism. As the fictional chars aren't US citizens, the logical extension doesn't fly.
And Shakespeare, don't forget Juliet (as in Romeo and Juliet) is thirteen.
But her parents were trying to marry her off, so 13 was probably around the age of marriage (and therefore age of consent) in that time period. So going by that logic, anything written in a society where kids have sex young should be fine.
does it become illegal? Two stick figure drawings with a caption "10 year olds" would be considered illegal if you didn't pencil in some shorts? Madness.
And at what age? If they go by age of consent and statutory rape laws, do books get banned on a state by state basis? Does the bookstore need to throw out half its manga section 'cause it depicts teens having sex? Even though this stuff is marketed to 14 year olds?
For example, when the new administration is looking to negotiate a deal with North Korea, they need to know exactly what the old administration was doing and why. They need to know what overtures the US has made and why.
But shouldn't all that data then (at the least) be archived in whatever database they already use for that stuff (probably kept at some intelligence agency) and/or in the Secretary of State's computer system or whatever databases he or she, and whoever else needs the info, already uses. Also at the archives for posterity, sure, but why keep the working copy there if it adds to the cost unnecessarily?
I doubt there is any pressing need for the Barney cam (and probably some of the other date in the 100TB total) to be protected or accessible at anywhere near the levels of some of the other stuff, and most of the data will mostly be accessed by different people.
Avoiding command line would probably be in everybody's best interest, as command line seems to scare everybody who's not a) already a hardcore linux fan or b) been using windows since the DOS days
I think the whole point is to make linux appear friendly, and I doubt highlighting the part of linux that requires a cheat sheet is the way to do it.
Cause that makes sense. A company that develops software would have need of its employees being knowledgeable in any religion.
My friend works for a company that makes religious software, so occasionally maybe. Though even then, probably just the person/people in the company responsible for the content, and he'd probably be hired with that in mind.
actively practice a religion is probably illegal, but requiring someone to be knowledgeable in the religions practices even if it requires training, probably isn't anymore illegal than requiring someone to receive training about how to operate a piece of machinery.
I somehow doubt that, as I know of quite a few people teaching in Jewish schools who are pretty clueless about Jewish laws and aren't formally trained 'cause they're not teaching the religious courses. Seriously, if it's got nothing to do with the job (and I can see it actually kind of being reasonable in a school setting) it's a violation to make it mandatory. Not least of which 'cause it probably violates someone else's right to practice their religion in peace. (Or hell, it flat out could violate a tenant of the religion is prayer or going into a church are involved.)
lebscorpio answered, but the geeky grammar explanation is that use of a and an is tagged to phonetics, not letters, so a gets used for a consonant sound and an when for a vowel sound.
In this case: an 'cause commonly LED is read as el-ee-dee, (probably non accurate phonetic spelling) and el is a vowel sound.
And all the other Archie comics, like Archie, Jughead, and Cherry Blossom. And Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Josie and the Pussy Cats, and just about anything else for girls. I'm currently into Amelia Rules, which is a great comic book for tweens.
Only with a partner between the ages of 15 and 18, excluding marriage, in many states. Statutory rape laws and all that. Not the best citation, but it works.
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I used to know a bright, funny girl who had a kid. She had the kid and put it up for adoption. For whatever reason (quite possibly diet - she didn't eat all that well) she was seemingly permanently dull after that, and not all that lively/funny, either.
Quite possibly the whole adoption thing sobered her right up? Major life choices affect people like that.
Did they mean that the person in question was not female and therefore useful, or useful and therefore not female (which is the option I tend toward)?
The latter, though on that team most everyone was useless. (I stole my job from a guy.)
That being said, I'm still a good cook, and I feel it is an important life skill to be able to do at least minor sewing tasks. I prefer to keep only the useful parts of my traditional gender role. Can we all stop acting helpless now?
But then how would guys (and the competent girls who mother/babysit the helpless ones) get their ego boosts? Seriously though, I sometimes feel like people equate asking questions with being helpless, though I don't see why asking questions is such a bad thing. Plus, we both know that half that helplessness is a lazy attempt to get somebody else to do the work, which is a stunt plenty of guys (like most of my teammates) pull.
Or at least feels that being stupid and or helpless is indeed a defining gender characteristic.
I think she's just trying to write a chicklit computer manual. I think the title's a bit condescending, 'cause uh no the standards for geekdom should not be lowered just 'cause of gender, but the audience is totally different from the ./ crowd. The actual book is no more or less degrading than a standard "for dummies" guide.
BTW, if this is happening to you a lot the problem is probably that the way you describe things is different than the way your audience learns things.
I'd totally agree with that if it was just me, but this also happens to lots of other girls I know. A couple of times the question wasn't even an explanation thing but a "what tool should I use?" and the agreement is always with the guy's suggestion. I know a brilliant female engineer who this happens to too. The flip side to this is in any group setting, guys almost always ask other guys questions instead of asking the girl.
there is a public performance or when a 'copy' is made.
What constitutes a public performance? Is it okay to read a story to a class of school kids (like just about every reading class ever) bit not an auditorium full of kids? Is a daycare group consisting of 5 kids okay, but one with 30 not?
Uh,X chromosomes trigger a protein that depletes brain cells? And early onset osteoporosis is why girls can't do hardware. Dunno what it is that makes girls useless, I think it's the tendancy to ask questions. Guys whole shutting up and disappearing until they know the answer, and never owning up that they don't, is so much more productive.
The above is mostly venting related to my most favorite quote from some teammates on a high school robotics team "you're not a girl; you're useful". They kind of ignored the fact that the way team was structured, most everybody was useless (really insular, etc.) and that they didn't let girls (or really anyone) code/build 'cept a core team. That's probably what drives me most nuts: most guys are just as tech illiterate as most girls.
A commonly occurring phenomena in engineering/tech is that guy asks question, girl gives answer, guy nods and asks again, guy2 gives exact same answer as girl, guy listens to guy2 and asks him for more information. So very head banging, as is incompetent guy wanting to wire/build stuff 'cause girl is too fragile (even though she can wire/build) better.
It actually may work better for kids who are younger, or for a certain type of student, but it's a fairytale where the main character solves a series of math puzzles (solutions fully explained in text) while running all over an arabian like land. There's even a princess.
The Man Who Counted by Malba Tahan (aka Julio de Melo e Sousa>=)
Parents are HORRIBLE at judging when their kids are mature.
Bad parents, which is the type you're ranting about. The good ones are pretty good judges of their kid's emotional health and tend to be on base with what their kid(s) should be exposed to (and what they are). There's also a major difference between not wanting a kid to do something and pretending it doesn't exist, and good parents tend to be the type that knows the line: they may believe in abstinence, but they'll make sure their kid has the knowledge he or she needs to navigate his or her environment. I know plenty of religious families, and the kids learn about sex when they're ready for it (or even before they really understand it-which is incredibly funny but also hits home that a kid maybe old enough to have sex but not ready for it).
did he actually teach during it?
Teach, really well actually. It was an intro psych class and he made it a point of having the lectures really add to the class.
Getting into MIT was just the beginning; actually making it through chewed up a lot of undergrads compared to places like Harvard and Yale.
How much of that can be explained by it basically being an engineering school, considering that engineering in general has a really high drop down/drop out rate?
What's the use of having a class so huge that the professor can't even know all his students, doesn't grade papers(his TAs do that), the student can't necessarily see the screen well or hear the professor.
I've been in classes with 30 students where that still happened, and attendance was down to at best 1/3rd by the end of the semester 'cause no attendance was taken. I've also been in huge lecture classes where almost everyone consistently showed up 'cause the professor structured his class/lesson so that class was basically mandatory if you wanted to pass. Basically, I think it's got more to do with the prof than the class size.
This is different from Catholicism, being Muslim, or Protestantism, where the "believing" part is a prerequisite.
That's cause Judaism is also considered an ethnicity, so it's as much about blood as about beliefs. Even the strictest denominations of Judaism will accept a hardcore athiest as a Jew if his mother is Jewish. It's just his level of Judaism that will be questioned. In the same vein even a heretic or someone who converts out is always considered a Jew. Believing is only a prerequisite for being an observant Jew, and even then there are about a zillion definitions of belief.
How are teams supposed to simulate actual conditions if the terrain is so unstable and chaotic?
For low friction: Tape down plastic table cloths and coat with oil? Or practice on a lawn after it's been washed? I'm sure the teammates can come up with some way to make a slippery field.
I can see urban schools having a disadvantage, but they'll make do. My team also built the PVC tetrahedrons, but we had to limit all our practice to the some what narrow hall ways, so our biggest challenge was often just avoiding crashing the bot into a)students b)lockers.
And what about people who have all 3? (And use/check 'em enough for each account to have equal wait) Do the people count for each mail provider, or a new category all together?
Just the perp and you're right. I was confusing the legality of in world acts with the observer of the acts, but that's a whole other debate.
Some Western countries today (not sure if that covers the US) punish statutory rape / child abuse, as defined by their own laws, even if it happens outside the country, and even if the act itself was legal in the jurisdiction where it was committed.
The US does that too, if it's a US citizen, in order to discourage pedo-tourism. As the fictional chars aren't US citizens, the logical extension doesn't fly.
If you're gonna go with Genesis, you may as well highlight the actual child marriage:
Rebecca was about 3* when she married Isaac.
*Scholars debate what that number really means and whether that was the right age, but most of the bible thumpers are literalists anyway.
And Shakespeare, don't forget Juliet (as in Romeo and Juliet) is thirteen.
But her parents were trying to marry her off, so 13 was probably around the age of marriage (and therefore age of consent) in that time period. So going by that logic, anything written in a society where kids have sex young should be fine.
does it become illegal? Two stick figure drawings with a caption "10 year olds" would be considered illegal if you didn't pencil in some shorts? Madness.
And at what age? If they go by age of consent and statutory rape laws, do books get banned on a state by state basis? Does the bookstore need to throw out half its manga section 'cause it depicts teens having sex? Even though this stuff is marketed to 14 year olds?
For example, when the new administration is looking to negotiate a deal with North Korea, they need to know exactly what the old administration was doing and why. They need to know what overtures the US has made and why.
But shouldn't all that data then (at the least) be archived in whatever database they already use for that stuff (probably kept at some intelligence agency) and/or in the Secretary of State's computer system or whatever databases he or she, and whoever else needs the info, already uses. Also at the archives for posterity, sure, but why keep the working copy there if it adds to the cost unnecessarily?
I doubt there is any pressing need for the Barney cam (and probably some of the other date in the 100TB total) to be protected or accessible at anywhere near the levels of some of the other stuff, and most of the data will mostly be accessed by different people.
Avoiding command line would probably be in everybody's best interest, as command line seems to scare everybody who's not
a) already a hardcore linux fan
or
b) been using windows since the DOS days
I think the whole point is to make linux appear friendly, and I doubt highlighting the part of linux that requires a cheat sheet is the way to do it.
Cause that makes sense. A company that develops software would have need of its employees being knowledgeable in any religion.
My friend works for a company that makes religious software, so occasionally maybe. Though even then, probably just the person/people in the company responsible for the content, and he'd probably be hired with that in mind.
actively practice a religion is probably illegal, but requiring someone to be knowledgeable in the religions practices even if it requires training, probably isn't anymore illegal than requiring someone to receive training about how to operate a piece of machinery.
I somehow doubt that, as I know of quite a few people teaching in Jewish schools who are pretty clueless about Jewish laws and aren't formally trained 'cause they're not teaching the religious courses. Seriously, if it's got nothing to do with the job (and I can see it actually kind of being reasonable in a school setting) it's a violation to make it mandatory. Not least of which 'cause it probably violates someone else's right to practice their religion in peace. (Or hell, it flat out could violate a tenant of the religion is prayer or going into a church are involved.)
lebscorpio answered, but the geeky grammar explanation is that use of a and an is tagged to phonetics, not letters, so a gets used for a consonant sound and an when for a vowel sound.
In this case:
an 'cause commonly LED is read as el-ee-dee, (probably non accurate phonetic spelling) and el is a vowel sound.
And all the other Archie comics, like Archie, Jughead, and Cherry Blossom. And Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Josie and the Pussy Cats, and just about anything else for girls. I'm currently into Amelia Rules, which is a great comic book for tweens.
15 is legal in some states.
Only with a partner between the ages of 15 and 18, excluding marriage, in many states. Statutory rape laws and all that. Not the best citation, but it works.