. ..particularly if there are lots of kids at home...
I only had one, but she seemed like several at times. Of all the things I've done in my life nothing beats watching Danger Mouse with her and then bouncing around the house singing "He's the greatest. He's fantastic!. .."
I wouldn't trade that in for anything, least of all a "career."
My cousin David is a nurse. Funny thing is at first he wanted to be a truck driver, but couldn't find a job after getting his commercial license, so he went back to school.
He's very happy (except maybe for that bit about ending up living next to the WTC as a result). As you point out pressures are exerted both ways to persue "sex appropriate" jobs.
I've spent a few years as a "housewife" (excuse me, "homemaker"). If you're a man, socially this means "bum." The stigma is real in some quarters.
I'm not sure what "volumes" it speaks. ..The HOWTO suggests that such attitudes tend to keep women out of technology, not the nature of the female mind or technology itself.
Nothing is wrong with peanut butter, but if you put some on a slice of bread, add some jelly, put another piece of bread on top and then trim the crust off you are violating a patent currently owned by Smucker's.
Check the site [jpeg.org] yourself, and try to find any pledge from them that the specifications for JPEG or JPEG2000 are safe to use.
In a day and age when it isn't safe to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or put out some toys for kids to play with while their parents do business with you, how do you expect them to make such a pledge?
Or, as seems more likely, I was the one who became confused over the similarity of the names, and pun, myself, and entirely missed the point. I guess I should go read Leviathan again or something. It's not like I have to go very far to find a copy.
Yes, I am familiar with Hobson, his horses, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, some of whose works share space in the right next to my desk shelf.
The author of the essay which sparked my comment seemed confused over the similarity of the names, but I chose to stay with his spelling without comment on that score, rather than correct it, which was perhaps an error.
No, we do not. A Hobbesian choice is one in which no choice is actually offered. You can have any color Ford you want, so long as it's black.
I've lived through an actual "democratic" election in a third world country. You were told who the candidate was, and you voted for him.
Oddly enough he won with an overwhelming "mandate from the people."
It wasn't pretty. Mostly because there was never so much as a hint of civil unrest during the process. No bloodshed. No arrests. No fear among the populace. Nothing. Complete civil order reigned as they lined up to vote en masse for the same man. Completely democratic autocracy.
Our system may well be flawed, but it isn't anything like that. ..yet. You still have the power to choose, and the responsibility for that choice still resides with you. You can't pass it off to "the party."
Choose.
If you don't like the candidate either of the "two" parties present to you, choose more wisely.
But choose.
Or they really will end up telling you who to choose someday. And you'll do it. And be happy about it.
Because choosing your leader will be somebody else's problem.
He went as far as naming CEOs who do extensive offshoring "benedict arnold" CEOs.
Ah yes. The old "treason" card. Very classy. I wonder where his watch was made?
Maybe if the various candidates didn't compete so hard to see who can wrap themselves in the flag the tightest it would let a little blood continue to flow to their brains.
. ..are we advanced to the point that it's all incremental steps toward realism from here?
Well, without making any actual prognostications, what with predictions about the future being the hardest to make, let me look to the rear and try to predict the past.
The first 90% of development always advances the quickest and with the highest density of "wow" moments per unit time.
The Bleriot monoplane of 1909 establishing the basic layout of the aeroplane and the 1912 Peugot establishing the double overhead cam four valve head for instance.
Obviously there was still a lot of room for improvement ( and a lot of blind alleys to follow), but one could argue that after that things became largely incremental in the aero and automotive fields ( at least until, say, the AVRO Arrow and the Lotus 25).
Don't worry though, just as obviously incremental development adds up over a decade or three and there's often another "wow" or three out there.
It may well force them to try harder, but there are still a couple of issues.
For starters, I don't know of any way to "force" a difficult problem. You either figure out how to solve it, or you don't. It is a fallacy to believe that an extra million dollars worth of research necessarily brings us one lick closer to a cure for cancer, for instance.
Then there's the issue that snake oil salesmen never have any intention on delivering functionality in the first place. If the product does not actually perform as advertised your money will be cheerfully spent.
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Which brings us back to the first post. . .impress women with your Twiddler technique.
KFG
Jesus Christ! That means an alien space fleet must have crashed in my backyard!
KFG
. . .particularly if there are lots of kids at home ...
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I only had one, but she seemed like several at times. Of all the things I've done in my life nothing beats watching Danger Mouse with her and then bouncing around the house singing "He's the greatest. He's fantastic!. .
I wouldn't trade that in for anything, least of all a "career."
KFG
Which makes it pretty damned hard to figure out which button is the "right" one:
Control Panel
KFG
My cousin David is a nurse. Funny thing is at first he wanted to be a truck driver, but couldn't find a job after getting his commercial license, so he went back to school.
He's very happy (except maybe for that bit about ending up living next to the WTC as a result). As you point out pressures are exerted both ways to persue "sex appropriate" jobs.
I've spent a few years as a "housewife" (excuse me, "homemaker"). If you're a man, socially this means "bum." The stigma is real in some quarters.
Fuck 'em. Do what you want.
KFG
I'm not sure what "volumes" it speaks. . .The HOWTO suggests that such attitudes tend to keep women out of technology, not the nature of the female mind or technology itself.
Q.E.D.
KFG
I'm gonna fool them and get around this silly patent though. I'm patenting the sealed all crust sandwich.
I think I'll call it "pie."
KFG
Bold, new initiatives like this have to start with small and vaguely achievable steps, so, for starters, just work on not repelling women.
KFG
. . .at the very moment their presence in other scientific and engineering disciplines has soared.
Quite frankly, my opinion is that the best people are simply being wiser about their career choices at the moment.
KFG
What's wrong with peanut butter?
Nothing is wrong with peanut butter, but if you put some on a slice of bread, add some jelly, put another piece of bread on top and then trim the crust off you are violating a patent currently owned by Smucker's.
KFG
Check the site [jpeg.org] yourself, and try to find any pledge from them that the specifications for JPEG or JPEG2000 are safe to use.
In a day and age when it isn't safe to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, or put out some toys for kids to play with while their parents do business with you, how do you expect them to make such a pledge?
KFG
Pecunia non olet --Vespasian Circa 70 A.D.
KFG
the people in the living room.
KFG
Or, as seems more likely, I was the one who became confused over the similarity of the names, and pun, myself, and entirely missed the point. I guess I should go read Leviathan again or something. It's not like I have to go very far to find a copy.
Sometimes I'm a little slow.
KFG
Yes, I am familiar with Hobson, his horses, and the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, some of whose works share space in the right next to my desk shelf.
The author of the essay which sparked my comment seemed confused over the similarity of the names, but I chose to stay with his spelling without comment on that score, rather than correct it, which was perhaps an error.
KFG
Now we face yet another Hobbesian choice. . .
.yet. You still have the power to choose, and the responsibility for that choice still resides with you. You can't pass it off to "the party."
No, we do not. A Hobbesian choice is one in which no choice is actually offered. You can have any color Ford you want, so long as it's black.
I've lived through an actual "democratic" election in a third world country. You were told who the candidate was, and you voted for him.
Oddly enough he won with an overwhelming "mandate from the people."
It wasn't pretty. Mostly because there was never so much as a hint of civil unrest during the process. No bloodshed. No arrests. No fear among the populace. Nothing. Complete civil order reigned as they lined up to vote en masse for the same man. Completely democratic autocracy.
Our system may well be flawed, but it isn't anything like that. .
Choose.
If you don't like the candidate either of the "two" parties present to you, choose more wisely.
But choose.
Or they really will end up telling you who to choose someday. And you'll do it. And be happy about it.
Because choosing your leader will be somebody else's problem.
KFG
He went as far as naming CEOs who do extensive offshoring "benedict arnold" CEOs.
Ah yes. The old "treason" card. Very classy. I wonder where his watch was made?
Maybe if the various candidates didn't compete so hard to see who can wrap themselves in the flag the tightest it would let a little blood continue to flow to their brains.
KFG
Sure, there are transcripts. . .
Which are the protected intellectual property of the speech writer.
KFG
. . .right now there are just too many people willing to vote for the lesser of two evils.
When one votes for the lesser of two evils it is difficult to admit to one's self that one voted for evil.
KFG
Without a 4-inch-thick steel building with a security checkpoint that lets no one in who is wearing clothing, you'll never be safe.
And if you have one you'll never be safe.
KFG
"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
Or to say the same thing in a different but more generalized way:
"A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good." -- Thomas Watson Jr.
KFG
Actually, one of my first responses to this was that the blimp provided the prime target.
When security structures start reaching large sizes they have a hard enough time defending themselves.
KFG
. . .are we advanced to the point that it's all incremental steps toward realism from here?
Well, without making any actual prognostications, what with predictions about the future being the hardest to make, let me look to the rear and try to predict the past.
The first 90% of development always advances the quickest and with the highest density of "wow" moments per unit time.
The Bleriot monoplane of 1909 establishing the basic layout of the aeroplane and the 1912 Peugot establishing the double overhead cam four valve head for instance.
Obviously there was still a lot of room for improvement ( and a lot of blind alleys to follow), but one could argue that after that things became largely incremental in the aero and automotive fields ( at least until, say, the AVRO Arrow and the Lotus 25).
Don't worry though, just as obviously incremental development adds up over a decade or three and there's often another "wow" or three out there.
KFG
Nah. We have our own crosses to bear, but Joe Brown is all yours.
KFG
It may well force them to try harder, but there are still a couple of issues.
For starters, I don't know of any way to "force" a difficult problem. You either figure out how to solve it, or you don't. It is a fallacy to believe that an extra million dollars worth of research necessarily brings us one lick closer to a cure for cancer, for instance.
Then there's the issue that snake oil salesmen never have any intention on delivering functionality in the first place. If the product does not actually perform as advertised your money will be cheerfully spent.
KFG