Oh man, I'm with you. 3 years ago, I had a [username]@ma.man.ac.uk, account, and recently I got it back. Jesus, we get a lot of spam. So much so, in fact, that the sysadmin has just installed Spam Assassin, which (I'm told) is doing a pretty good job...
I'd love to, but I'm not feeling youthful at the moment, I need to go to the store for inkjet refills, and I've a terrible feeling my penis isn't long enough to satisfy her.
The sad fact of the matter is that US law IS the slippery slope. Point it in a certain direction and it will keep on going in that direction because that is what it's designed to do.
Errr. Bollocks. The US law can't do any of those things. It's an inanimate object. Shooting people is illegal, but no-one claims that a ban on shooting targets is on its way because "it's a slippery slope."
Your lawmakers can only do what you let them get away with, but protesting reasonable laws because they resemble unreasonable ones, and making ludicrous "slippery slope arguments just undermines your cause.
You mean literally? Like for skiing on? No? Then WTF do you mean? Give me a *single* example where the slippery slope argument stands on its own merits.
The task of caching, sorting, cataloguing and frantically masturbating over every piece of pornography in existence has long been accepted as a community project by the slashdot readership.
Because if it was genetic, order(1) changes in to the proportion of women becoming engineers could only take place on evolutionary timescales. i.e. the 5 or 6 fold increase of the last 20 years simply couldn't have happened.
Not because they are discriminated against, but because it's not what they want to do
You miss the point. Why is it not what they want to do? It's either genetical or societal, and I don't believe that women are genetical disposed against it...
Also, if monocultures are boring, should traditionally black colleges diversify by beginning to admit whites and non-black minorities?
my first year of school at kettering, a private engineering school in Michigan, where I got my undergrad B.S. 35% of the girls dropped out before the first semester ended... But something happens and it's not all societal.
What makes you think thats not societal? It could be peer pressure, parental pressure ("not a suitable job for a lady"), a misogynistic atmosphere, any of hundreds of things (I'm not suggesting that it *is* necessarily any of those things, you know the situation better than I, but just because they're wealthy, doesn't mean there aren't cultural disinclinations to one job or another. Societal pressures don't just mean poverty.)
Those groups are "underrepresented" among engineers!
You're right, they are. But most of that is cultural[0]: women were told they couldn't be engineers, so they didn't become engineers. Positive discrimination, as the call for contestants says, can help change those perceptions. This is good. Diversity is a good thing. Monocultures are boring.
Also, more hot chicks wear I work would be great (*damn* did I say that out loud?)
[0] Unless you believe that only white males are genetically predisposed to becoming capable engineers, in which case, well... you're a moron.
Do you see a contradiction in RMS's pressure to have people prefix Linux with GNU (credit where credit is due), and his assertion that the BSD license isn't (wasn't?)
No. Because one is a request (albeit often impolitely put by a fat grumpy hippie) and the other is a contractual term.
I think the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) should requisition a new acronym, or run the risk of George W. (or one of his amphetamine crazed pilots) bombing the fuck out of due to that CAIDA - QAEDA similarity...
Scientists today reported methods on how to store small quantities of ink in feathers (that they have named "quills") in order for writing. They claim this is the first step to mass producing multi-colour documents and distributing them over the internet.
i.e. a nice first step, but -- to be frank -- an unfeasible distance from their lofty goals.
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Oh man, I'm with you. 3 years ago, I had a [username]@ma.man.ac.uk, account, and recently I got it back. Jesus, we get a lot of spam. So much so, in fact, that the sysadmin has just installed Spam Assassin, which (I'm told) is doing a pretty good job...
I'd love to, but I'm not feeling youthful at the moment, I need to go to the store for inkjet refills, and I've a terrible feeling my penis isn't long enough to satisfy her.
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Actually, only one of the above is true
Your lawmakers can only do what you let them get away with, but protesting reasonable laws because they resemble unreasonable ones, and making ludicrous "slippery slope arguments just undermines your cause.
That certainly is a slippery slope. Unfortunately, slippery slope arguments are completely fallacious.
Are you not pulling your
Because if it was genetic, order(1) changes in to the proportion of women becoming engineers could only take place on evolutionary timescales. i.e. the 5 or 6 fold increase of the last 20 years simply couldn't have happened.
But you only need a couple of people who can smash stuff up, like you only need one skilled welder...
G. Owen. That is my name. See the email address gwowen, G. W. Owen is me too. See the URL, gazowen, well Gaz Owen, thats my name too.
Yes, they should.
Jesus, thats one of the dumbest things I've ever typed. *where*, *where*, *where*
I am an idiot.
Also, more hot chicks wear I work would be great (*damn* did I say that out loud?)
[0] Unless you believe that only white males are genetically predisposed to becoming capable engineers, in which case, well
Next.
all you afghani web-surfers will be stuck with your Commodore 64s for the forseeable future...
This article bears a stunning resemblance to this fake one posted by Stoatbringer on this Fark Forum.
I think the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) should requisition a new acronym, or run the risk of George W. (or one of his amphetamine crazed pilots) bombing the fuck out of due to that CAIDA - QAEDA similarity...
Scientists today reported methods on how to store small quantities of ink in feathers (that they have named "quills") in order for writing. They claim this is the first step to mass producing multi-colour documents and distributing them over the internet.
i.e. a nice first step, but -- to be frank -- an unfeasible distance from their lofty goals.
Yeah, but imagine the confusion of a door with the word "Wall" written on it...
#rpm -i exim-foo.bar.rpm
That ought to do it... (Debian wienies can feel free to use apt there or *chortle* dselect)