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  1. Re:This is really simple on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    Yes, not getting money and end up in the street is a good solution.

    "Third, I don't get months and months free time off constantly like women do every time they get pregnant."
    You would in a civilized country where you could take off time when you wife is pregnant.

    "You can't afford to lose someone for months at a time in important positions."
    The you have crap of management. Don't blame women becasue you can't mange projects well, and you company screws you over from spending time with your new born child.

  2. Re:So what? and false on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    Since I actually no how to run a company and can make decisions based on 10-20 year plans, I would destroy you company, and NO ONE would be working more then 40 hours.

    "Bob, working those long hours, produces twice as much."
    nope. In fact he will produce less then a 30 hour work week if it goes on for too long.

  3. Re:this isn't new on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    That would be a great point if people got paid by the hour. They do not. Hence we have a gap.

  4. Re:Money talks on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    For the same reason women get offered less. "A Man can do it better! So I'll hire a man."

    For the vast majority of people that is going on deep in their brain. This include women who make job offers to other women.

  5. Re:Gender lies in society, wage gap on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    "find some guy to enslave (18-24 years)"
    You're pretty much a huge ass.

    "Men 'earn' more. Normalized. The gap is life choice, not gender."
    wrong. factually, provable wrong.
    Look at offers. Women are regularly offer less money to start.
    Idiot.

  6. Re:In other news... on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    The should get a maid, or stop working for free.

  7. Re:Misogyny on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    You can't come up with good idea in a vacuum.
    Also, most engineers are implementing, not thinking up new ideas.

  8. Re:I am not surprised on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 0

    "All of that is just more ways of saying "men are inferior"."
    Sigh. Idiots like you are why we can't seem to progress anymore.

  9. Re:I am not surprised on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    That's a nice anecdote that will many peoples biased narrative. Thanks.

    Next time try using data.
    Did you negotiate your contract with the client, or did someone else hire you to contract to work for a contract they had?

    I wonder how you know you're not getting paid less.

  10. Re:Similar to most studies on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 1

    People pay to watch the top rank player in a group. Sponser don't like to sponser number 100.

  11. Re:Similar to most studies on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 2

    Oh, reports you say? well then, I guess that clinches it.

    Salaries our paid be the government, not whom ever happens to be in the white house.
    Not that those numbers are really believable:
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/file...

    If you will note, there are more women at the entry level position.

    The president has no control over their salaries.

    What this shows is the Obama is doing a pretty good job as president. All number show improvement, so no one can attack him with actual job performance facts. SO Fox et. al. Attack things near him, attack with ad homs, attack with lies.

  12. Re:Similar to most studies on All Else Being Equal: Disputing Claims of a Gender Pay Gap In Tech · · Score: 0

    Too bad no facts actually back him up. It's cute that you just blindly follow whatever fits your narrative.

    You should probably study logical fallacy's and critical; thinking, then re-watch that crap.

  13. Re:From the FAQ on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    That's nice that they don't insure them, but that doesn't mean their sloppy security doesn't make the liable.

  14. Re:So, doomed to fail? on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a systematic flaw in electronic currency.
    You can not hid secrets from the future with math. ANd presumable you want a currency that will last decades.

  15. Re:First? on Merlin's Magic: The Inside Story of the First Mobile Game · · Score: 1

    nuances? once you know the trick, you can score a few hundred points with football.
    Run, Run, Run, Punt as fast as you can. Don't dodge, just run forwards. You can get a field goal every few seconds.

  16. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Blah blah blah, make it yourself, blah blah blah.
    We can make any food item ourselves, but why? This is easier, quieter. It's about personal trade off.
    Me, I never prepare my own coffee.

  17. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    It's a fire hazard. It draws at least 1300 watts. That's the fire hazard.

    You should probably understand what things mean before talking about them.

  18. Re:Attention, MODS! on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1
  19. The semi of the future on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    won't have a cab.
    Why would you need one without a driver?

  20. Re:We don't understand anything anymore! on Scientists Revive a Giant 30,000 Year Old Virus From Ice · · Score: 1

    Taken out of context and going to be used by idiots to prop up the god damn false dichotomy.

  21. Re:Here are 2 reasons this is crap on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 1

    point and laughs... think women are easy to 'fix'

    LOL

  22. Re:carplay? on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 1

    No more the B&N suing Dalton for using the term 'Book Store"
    I mean, realy.

  23. Re:The sad part, IMO? on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 1

    Good luck driving that down the road.
    Yeah, nothing says wanker like wanting to listen to music while you drive... except for posting some hate with the sole purpose of saying what you would drive. Those people are huge wankers. amirite?

    Ferrari does make a wide variety of models.
    If you are driving the FF why wouldn't you want a nice stereo?

  24. Re:innovation on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 1

    Had been.
    The are just about out of the momentum that Steve Jobs left behind.

    Apple is Steve Jobs. He was as much of the product as anything sold by Apple.
    He had great charisma, he new how to speak so people wanted to listen, and he knew how to be a media darling.
    He was also highly driven, got be to better better then they thought they could be, and was highly intelligent.
    When he spoke, it felt like he was in love with the product he was talking about. He told you why he thought it was awesome, and with enthusiasm,.

    No other CEO at Apple has had all those qualities. Every other one felt like they where just selling you something they happened to have.

  25. Re:Apple Maps! on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 0

    "Did I say adequate?"
    is it inadequate?

    I think the point is that it's nice that Apple has gotten to where everyone else was 5 years. ago