And kids don't thing of money, they think of cool things. The find out about 'cool thing' from the media. So having a Space Program that is big, and exciting and in the news has kids want to go into engineering and science. Most kids don't even realize there is a pay differences in jobs until the are between 10-12.
Do you really think some 9 year old sits down and does a cost analysis between careers to determine what they want to do? ALL you would see is an influx of crappy engineers and Scientists, along with pressure to create an easier path for a PE via trade schools.
If you want to use money as a motivate, guarantee them time off and a good retirement. And engineer and scientist should get a sabbatical every 5 years, and 50% of there averaged pay in retirement.
Why are people getting so wrapped up, particularly adults, in the details?"
Because we just can't hear enough from you people who feel the need to interject into something you aren't interested in just to tell other people they shouldn't be interested in it.
"though are getting better and better at faking it" now you get to let everyone know the difference between faking it and not faking it is. Good luck with that. Oh, please acquire a PhD in one of the appropriate areas before responding with you half baked 'idea'.
A) no one is selling you women. B) "They are drawing my attention to thigh-high boots, to low-cut shirts, and, frankly, to the hard work of a really expensive bra." So? why it's it their fault you can see past that?
Jeez, that was the most pathetic attempt at calling something sexism I have ever seen.
Yes, that's a great argument. Magical thinking people held them in special regard. Ancient people did a lot of stupid shit. Native American Culture is dead. has been dead for 60 years. This trying to hang onto what are ancestors did while using rifles, driving cars, and running casinos is a laughable abuse of ones own culture. All cultures die eventually, the question is do you want you kids and their kids to continue to live in squalor, or move on? Frankly, a lot of people I talk to seem more interested n their option of culture surviving then their own children's welfare.
gender dysphoria doesn't mean you want to be a different gender. This is a common myth. People who are uncomfortable with the gender get told they should be a different gender, but they never get any actual treatment. The reasons for the feeling can be quit varied.
" self-analysis "
that doesn't work. Too many biases, no way to clinacally look at the data,.
"having existed since my earliest memories as a toddler" no you haven't. You have tricked yourself into having those memories, just like everyone else who thinks they have memories of being a toddler.
All you have don't is created a very elaborate confirmation bias. Which isn't to say you are wrong, but you are probably wrong. I know far too many transgender people who return to being unsatisfied 5 years latter. The real issue never addressed. It's sad to see sexual orientation being the first thing people jump to, it wrecks their lives and they don't really get help. .
" There is more than just Male and Female." No, no there is not. You can talk about the spectrum, but that is different.
": When designing systems do not consider gender to be a fixed field for a person."
and if my system is to count the number of male and female to run projections of societal dynamics? How about determining gender specific medical needs? I could go on and on.
" BTW Slashdot will not allow for changing user names, i would like to keep my 5 digit it, but move away from my old masculine sounding username." ah, another spoiled person claiming a made up minority status so you can changer what ever you want and have no consequences.
If you really had commitment a 5 digit id on a website where the ID has no meaning wouldn't matter to you. You just feel the need to be special. Protip: You are not special, no one give a shit about you that doesn't actually know you.
You may identify with a different gender, but that doesn't change you gender and more then Identifying with a black person makes you black. This is sloppy 70s pop psychiatry run amok. To be clear: I don't care if you identify with another gender, I don't car if you want to dress, talk, and hang out with a different gender. DO so, have fun. I would be right their trying to stop anyone who would prevent you from doing those things. Regardless of chemicals you take, or surgeries you under go; your gender does not change.
no. Stuff takes time to develop and make available. You need to be able to protect yourself before other people have access, so it's tricky. 14 years with a 7 extension cost 10k and doubling ever 5 years.
This means that authors have time to deal with the business aspect. It's long enough where a corporation wont just wait 5 years and take the material, and if someone is making money, they can continue to make money, be eventually the cost to renew will be more then they make.
A shield is useless if you have no recourse against the people who violate your rights.
Do you know what a corporation is? even the slightest clue? A corporation can be just ONE person. Are you saying a author who incorporates can't own their own copyright? Are you saying an author can;liscent their copyright to whomever they want? You solution is based on the shallowest of understanding.
If you want anyone to even to begin to consider what you have to say, stop using terms like Mickey Mouse copyright.
"anarchy and fucking freedom" these are mutually exclusive. You can not have both. You should grow up and thing upon that.
"Also, we have enough production capability in the world that we could easily be living in a post-scarcity communist society by now." THANK. It's more then goods. When the complete supply chain is robotic, then we can consider a completely social economy. Not Communism. Again, grow up and read up.
And, of course, land will always be a scarcity.
"...even if we all only work just 4 hours a week." Yes, are work week could be cut in half, although not down to 4 hours yet.
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Ha! didn't take the tags change.
I changed sarcasm it ignorant.
Yes, yes, I see the irony.
Especially with only 38% of our gravitational field to work with...
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There are a lot of high paying STEM jobs.
And kids don't thing of money, they think of cool things. The find out about 'cool thing' from the media. So having a Space Program that is big, and exciting and in the news has kids want to go into engineering and science.
Most kids don't even realize there is a pay differences in jobs until the are between 10-12.
Do you really think some 9 year old sits down and does a cost analysis between careers to determine what they want to do?
ALL you would see is an influx of crappy engineers and Scientists, along with pressure to create an easier path for a PE via trade schools.
If you want to use money as a motivate, guarantee them time off and a good retirement.
And engineer and scientist should get a sabbatical every 5 years, and 50% of there averaged pay in retirement.
Why are people getting so wrapped up, particularly adults, in the details?"
Because we just can't hear enough from you people who feel the need to interject into something you aren't interested in just to tell other people they shouldn't be interested in it.
"they don't get hungry,"
So these mythical device don't require energy? Interesting.
Ha, I kid, it' snot interesting, it's a pathetically narrow and ignorant view of current cutting edge robotics and AI.
"It's a machine."
and you are a chemical factory? so what.
"though are getting better and better at faking it"
now you get to let everyone know the difference between faking it and not faking it is. Good luck with that. Oh, please acquire a PhD in one of the appropriate areas before responding with you half baked 'idea'.
Well done,. you just describe all of science fiction. ,I mean, AI dimensional travelling car, to the Monolith.
From Heinlein needing a magical..
Do you know what the difference between science fiction and fantasy is? Nothing.
7/8/9 should be about freeing the droids.
"Gaming is essentially childish"
in no way is that true.
A) no one is selling you women.
B) "They are drawing my attention to thigh-high boots, to low-cut shirts, and, frankly, to the hard work of a really expensive bra."
So? why it's it their fault you can see past that?
Jeez, that was the most pathetic attempt at calling something sexism I have ever seen.
Geekoids law: /. approaches 100% if you have to click on the 'Read the rest of this comment...' link
The odds someone is wrong on
Yes, that's a great argument. Magical thinking people held them in special regard. Ancient people did a lot of stupid shit.
Native American Culture is dead. has been dead for 60 years. This trying to hang onto what are ancestors did while using rifles, driving cars, and running casinos is a laughable abuse of ones own culture. All cultures die eventually, the question is do you want you kids and their kids to continue to live in squalor, or move on?
Frankly, a lot of people I talk to seem more interested n their option of culture surviving then their own children's welfare.
The are a lot of information systems that need to know the actual gender. Birth records, scientific research, census.
I suspect it's not your answer that's too simple, but you.
gender dysphoria doesn't mean you want to be a different gender. This is a common myth. People who are uncomfortable with the gender get told they should be a different gender, but they never get any actual treatment. The reasons for the feeling can be quit varied.
" self-analysis "
that doesn't work. Too many biases, no way to clinacally look at the data,.
"having existed since my earliest memories as a toddler"
no you haven't. You have tricked yourself into having those memories, just like everyone else who thinks they have memories of being a toddler.
All you have don't is created a very elaborate confirmation bias.
Which isn't to say you are wrong, but you are probably wrong. I know far too many transgender people who return to being unsatisfied 5 years latter. The real issue never addressed. It's sad to see sexual orientation being the first thing people jump to, it wrecks their lives and they don't really get help.
.
" There is more than just Male and Female."
No, no there is not. You can talk about the spectrum, but that is different.
": When designing systems do not consider gender to be a fixed field for a person."
and if my system is to count the number of male and female to run projections of societal dynamics? How about determining gender specific medical needs? I could go on and on.
" BTW Slashdot will not allow for changing user names, i would like to keep my 5 digit it, but move away from my old masculine sounding username."
ah, another spoiled person claiming a made up minority status so you can changer what ever you want and have no consequences.
If you really had commitment a 5 digit id on a website where the ID has no meaning wouldn't matter to you. You just feel the need to be special.
Protip: You are not special, no one give a shit about you that doesn't actually know you.
You may identify with a different gender, but that doesn't change you gender and more then Identifying with a black person makes you black.
This is sloppy 70s pop psychiatry run amok.
To be clear: I don't care if you identify with another gender, I don't car if you want to dress, talk, and hang out with a different gender. DO so, have fun. I would be right their trying to stop anyone who would prevent you from doing those things.
Regardless of chemicals you take, or surgeries you under go; your gender does not change.
They would if they built and owned it, like say.. an author.
no. Stuff takes time to develop and make available. You need to be able to protect yourself before other people have access, so it's tricky. 14 years with a 7 extension cost 10k and doubling ever 5 years.
This means that authors have time to deal with the business aspect. It's long enough where a corporation wont just wait 5 years and take the material, and if someone is making money, they can continue to make money, be eventually the cost to renew will be more then they make.
no one gives a shit becasue its out of fashion. What you seem to fail to realize is that it's still on the air.
I mean, yeah reclaim copyrights are crap for a number of reasons, but people loosing interest with an available work isn't one of them.
Thats a stupid argument. You are saying people would becasue people might make n -x instead of n, they would rather make 0.
Yes, becasue people are never property.
You sig is just a paraphrasing of what terrorist and radical have said becasue they would rather issue violence then thought.
A shield is useless if you have no recourse against the people who violate your rights.
Do you know what a corporation is? even the slightest clue? ;liscent their copyright to whomever they want?
A corporation can be just ONE person. Are you saying a author who incorporates can't own their own copyright? Are you saying an author can
You solution is based on the shallowest of understanding.
If you want anyone to even to begin to consider what you have to say, stop using terms like Mickey Mouse copyright.
No, it's probably a reasonable number,. You should price specialized manufacturing and engineering software some time.
"anarchy and fucking freedom"
these are mutually exclusive. You can not have both. You should grow up and thing upon that.
"Also, we have enough production capability in the world that we could easily be living in a post-scarcity communist society by now."
THANK. It's more then goods. When the complete supply chain is robotic, then we can consider a completely social economy.
Not Communism. Again, grow up and read up.
And, of course, land will always be a scarcity.
"...even if we all only work just 4 hours a week."
Yes, are work week could be cut in half, although not down to 4 hours yet.