The 77 cents on the dollar argument is based on adding up the incomes of all the working women in the country, dividing it by the number of women in the country, and doing the same for the men.
As another replier stated, jobs that are more commonly held by mostly women frequently have lower pay than jobs that are usually held by men. However, there is more to the point.
There is also historical evidence to shows many examples of professions that were once predominately male then began to see an influx of women in the profession, wages tend to fall (which often then has the effect of causing more men to seek work elsewhere and allowing more women to join, but the wages have dropped).
Just a side comment, but don't you think it's a little demeaning to dismiss the heartfelt beliefs of major segments of today's human population as "mythology"?
Is it only demeaning if the beliefs are held by a major segment? There are still people who believe in or honor the Norse gods too, but I have yet to hear anyone get upset about the phrase "North Mythology".
Listen, I fully support anyone's right to believe in whatever crazy thing they want (as long as nobody nobody else is being hurt or deprived of rights in the process) but that doesn't mean that I have to legitimize anyone's myths or handle its believers with kids gloves, whether the a vast majority or a tiny minority.
I wonder why both references to this occurrence got down-rated to 0... I thought about the exact same story.
This isn't an E-Book issue, this is an issue of sloppy search and replace, which can (and has) happened on printed publications.
The story which my parent post is referencing was one where they decided to replace every instance of the word "mage" with the word "wizard". Therefor, words like "damage" became "dawizard".
Do you really think that by claiming to be an atheist means you're more fit to vote?
Not necessarily, but it's been my experience that atheists do tend to have better critical thinking skills, in general. There are exceptions of course; I've known idiot atheists, and brilliant and insightful theists.
Marijuana is a bit different. While I think it should be legalized as well, drugs are seen by the general populace (right or wrong) as being bad. At best, many see marijuana as "less bad".
I really have trouble believing that we are going to convince the general populace that posting your 10 year-old's birthday party, which includes singing "Happy Birthday" as they blow out the candles, is a valid crime. They are are destroying so much of "fair use", and extending copyrights to such absurd lengths, that it is hard for me to believe that there won't eventually be a public backlash as more and more people become hit by it.
I want to see the MPAA and RIAA clamp down on everything we do online. Let them start taking down mere references to copyrighted works, little kids posting videos of themselves dancing or singing a popular song, takedowns of birthday party videos where a song happens to be playing on the radio in the background, videos with samples and soundbites, music and video reviews, and book reports. Take it all down!
I mean that's where it's headed already, so I say let them continue until the average person realizes what utter bullshit it is and demands that lawmakers end this bullshit and legislate them back to the stone ages and bring an end to the abomination that is the modern state of copyright.
If there's one thing the US is good at, it's overreacting and over-legislating once we find our boogeymen and the average person starts getting pissed off. Let it work for the good for once.
Ok, this probably will never happen, but a guy can dream, can't he?
Geeks and nerds often care about education related issues, which 'we would rather kill our females then let them learn to read' falls under.
Yes, as a geek/nerd, I care about education issues, social issues, and civil rights issues. Most of the geeks/nerds that are in my social circles are also.
Notice, I did say a "subset" of both conservatives and liberals. You see, I do not assume that all conservatives are ignorant radical Bible Thumpers or greedy sociopaths. I realize that there are some conservatives out there that even make arguments worth merit.
Unlike yourself, who seems to have bought into the conservative propaganda regarding "liberal media", "liberal radicalism", and the lack of common sense by those with left sympathies.
Do creationists really have much of a foothold in California? I wouldn't have expected that to be the case, but I wouldn't know. It seems to have the reputation of being a fairly liberal state though.
As much as I may dislike the Christian Right trying to inject their belief system into public education, it's not like the Right (or any subset of it) has a monopoly on ruining education with their ideas and beliefs.
It seems to me that the coddling don't-hurt-their-self-esteem attitude that is churning out kids that have screwed up expectations, inadequate educations, and a distorted view of their own competence is a product of a subset of liberal thinkers.
...they were just warning him that his subscription was about to run out.
It's ironic that a man who works for an organization that uses the same business model: paying protection money so nothing bad happens to himself or his property, just had something bad happen to him for not paying a different organization protection money.
You do understand the difference between paying a security guard for their service (even if he is both incompetent and unnecessary) and paying a mafia lackey, right?
It's not like McAfee is making implied threats of, "Nice computer you got there... it'd be a shame if something happened to it..."
Well, I wasn't really expecting it to turn into a literal chicken vs egg, I meant it merely to jokingly question the intelligence of football players before the injuries...
However, that was done by someone else in the mere couple minutes between when I hit Reply and actually hit Submit.
They had a very detailed setting (often in the form of detailed histories found in books), but it is a tad on the dull side. However, a many MMO's have survived a dull back story.
I think the real challenge is going to be in balance. Bethesda's track record has been rather weak in this department. Cheesy skill and power combinations, exploitable mechanics (for either very powerful or just strange effect), and much build min-maxing.
And if they fix all of those things, will it still seem like an Elder Scrolls game?
Basically, Valve is going to tell a paying customer that he is a jerk (indirectly by offering him a higher price than others). Great business model.
Next release, they can tell a paying customer if he is a moron or not - i.e. if a customer paid for a valve game even after being indirectly being told by Valve that he is a jerk, that means he is a moron.
I see nothing wrong with that, when a small number of unpleasant players can ruin the perception and experience of many people. I have quit subscription games in the past because of briefing and anti-social players. For them to tolerate jerks, just because they are paying customers, is shooting themselves in the foot a lot more than making a small number of people, who are ruining the game pay, extra.
If a child is present, congrats, you're a sex offender.
It doesn't always require that a child is present... People have been put on sex offender lists for both mooning and public urination, without children being present. It's the result of our "tough on crime" and "zero tolerance" attitudes.
Quick question... Which do you think costs more in the long run? Government covering costs of birth control to help reduce unwanted pregnancies, the cost to government and society that result from unwanted parenthood? These unwanted children will incur additional costs in welfare, education, and (statistically speaking) increases in crime.
A party complaining about "welfare mothers" doesn't have a lot of room to complain about making birth control more accessible.
No it isn't. It's the most intellectually lazy way of criticising Muslims imaginable. Americans predominantly espouse Christianity but it doesn't seem to stop them invading countries like Iraq and killing 100,000 people. Extremists responsible for this attack represent Muslims about as accurately as McVeigh represents Christians.
I understand what you are saying, and agree with you... but it's hard for most Americans to recognize that there are crazy extremist Christians as well and fail to recognize that there are some pretty extreme statements that could be picked out of the Bible also. Furthermore, like Christianity and the American political right, it isn't just religious zealots behind a lot of extremism, but those seeking power utilizing propaganda and religious sentiments out of political or economic motivation.
Many also fail to realize that some extremist actions were not even motivated by extremists Muslims, but ordinarily non-violent but devout Muslims that became manipulated, blackmailed, or otherwise compromised and were coerced into acts of violence.
It's easier to see the world in pure good and evil, and assume that you are always the good guy and "they" are always the bad guy.
In a world where people tweet about their sexual experiences and eager thousands read about them the morning after...
His point is that society is collectively tweaking the norm of what is acceptable...
Just because the type of behavior in the summary happens does not mean that it is now the norm. Yeah, many people overshare, but the example of behavior cited is still an outlier, not a norm.
Sure. I actually had Python supported Turtle in mind when I suggested LOGO/Turtle. I imagine it would be pretty easy to step into Python after being introduced to Turtle through Python. Though, I didn't actually complete my thought process in my post.
The reason I mention it (rather than just straight Python) is that it is a lot easier to be visual, and I think that visual representations of patterns of code really does help the learning process. For example, nested loops are a lot easier to create a mental model for when you see it drawing a box or triangle. A 2-dimensional array becomes much easier to understand after you progress through Hunt the Wumpus or Battleship type games. What I remember about LOGO was that it was much easier to make certain types of shapes than in BASIC, and it seemed more analogous to a pen, which was more familiar.
But as I said before, the most important part is really just developing the patterns of the types of thinking that are used. There will be a new cool trendy language by the time he's an adult anyway.;-)
It helps teach some basic concepts, while at the same time giving more feedback (which is good for kids). BASIC on a TRS-80 Color Computer and LOGO on a TI-99 4A were 2 of my earliest introductions to programming. I also learned about logic through some very old game that used many types of logic gates to solve various puzzles involving flow of power (I wish I remembered the name).
You could also pick up a copy of the board game Robo Rally, which is an amusing game that involves planning and visualizing instructions that you will be executing at a later time (with lots of uncontrolled variables screwing things up). While not being like actual programming, it's a fun way to exercise some of the types of thought patterns involved.
In my opinion, at that age, the choice of Language isn't really as important as just some of the basic ideas involved, such as sets of instructions, iterations and control structures, and logical decisions.
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The 77 cents on the dollar argument is based on adding up the incomes of all the working women in the country, dividing it by the number of women in the country, and doing the same for the men.
As another replier stated, jobs that are more commonly held by mostly women frequently have lower pay than jobs that are usually held by men. However, there is more to the point.
There is also historical evidence to shows many examples of professions that were once predominately male then began to see an influx of women in the profession, wages tend to fall (which often then has the effect of causing more men to seek work elsewhere and allowing more women to join, but the wages have dropped).
Just a side comment, but don't you think it's a little demeaning to dismiss the heartfelt beliefs of major segments of today's human population as "mythology"?
Is it only demeaning if the beliefs are held by a major segment? There are still people who believe in or honor the Norse gods too, but I have yet to hear anyone get upset about the phrase "North Mythology".
Listen, I fully support anyone's right to believe in whatever crazy thing they want (as long as nobody nobody else is being hurt or deprived of rights in the process) but that doesn't mean that I have to legitimize anyone's myths or handle its believers with kids gloves, whether the a vast majority or a tiny minority.
I wonder why both references to this occurrence got down-rated to 0... I thought about the exact same story.
This isn't an E-Book issue, this is an issue of sloppy search and replace, which can (and has) happened on printed publications.
The story which my parent post is referencing was one where they decided to replace every instance of the word "mage" with the word "wizard". Therefor, words like "damage" became "dawizard".
the most beautiful typo: "Dawizard".
Do you really think that by claiming to be an atheist means you're more fit to vote?
Not necessarily, but it's been my experience that atheists do tend to have better critical thinking skills, in general. There are exceptions of course; I've known idiot atheists, and brilliant and insightful theists.
Marijuana is a bit different. While I think it should be legalized as well, drugs are seen by the general populace (right or wrong) as being bad. At best, many see marijuana as "less bad".
I really have trouble believing that we are going to convince the general populace that posting your 10 year-old's birthday party, which includes singing "Happy Birthday" as they blow out the candles, is a valid crime. They are are destroying so much of "fair use", and extending copyrights to such absurd lengths, that it is hard for me to believe that there won't eventually be a public backlash as more and more people become hit by it.
I want to see the MPAA and RIAA clamp down on everything we do online. Let them start taking down mere references to copyrighted works, little kids posting videos of themselves dancing or singing a popular song, takedowns of birthday party videos where a song happens to be playing on the radio in the background, videos with samples and soundbites, music and video reviews, and book reports. Take it all down!
I mean that's where it's headed already, so I say let them continue until the average person realizes what utter bullshit it is and demands that lawmakers end this bullshit and legislate them back to the stone ages and bring an end to the abomination that is the modern state of copyright.
If there's one thing the US is good at, it's overreacting and over-legislating once we find our boogeymen and the average person starts getting pissed off. Let it work for the good for once.
Ok, this probably will never happen, but a guy can dream, can't he?
I'm glad it didn't turn out to be a liberal bias. I would tire quickly of the phrase "Liberal Pedia" constantly from Conservatives.
Though, it still might not stop Fox.
Geeks and nerds often care about education related issues, which 'we would rather kill our females then let them learn to read' falls under.
Yes, as a geek/nerd, I care about education issues, social issues, and civil rights issues. Most of the geeks/nerds that are in my social circles are also.
A Pyrrhic victory, to a battle forced upon him?
Notice, I did say a "subset" of both conservatives and liberals. You see, I do not assume that all conservatives are ignorant radical Bible Thumpers or greedy sociopaths. I realize that there are some conservatives out there that even make arguments worth merit.
Unlike yourself, who seems to have bought into the conservative propaganda regarding "liberal media", "liberal radicalism", and the lack of common sense by those with left sympathies.
Do creationists really have much of a foothold in California? I wouldn't have expected that to be the case, but I wouldn't know. It seems to have the reputation of being a fairly liberal state though.
As much as I may dislike the Christian Right trying to inject their belief system into public education, it's not like the Right (or any subset of it) has a monopoly on ruining education with their ideas and beliefs.
It seems to me that the coddling don't-hurt-their-self-esteem attitude that is churning out kids that have screwed up expectations, inadequate educations, and a distorted view of their own competence is a product of a subset of liberal thinkers.
...they were just warning him that his subscription was about to run out.
It's ironic that a man who works for an organization that uses the same business model: paying protection money so nothing bad happens to himself or his property, just had something bad happen to him for not paying a different organization protection money.
You do understand the difference between paying a security guard for their service (even if he is both incompetent and unnecessary) and paying a mafia lackey, right?
It's not like McAfee is making implied threats of, "Nice computer you got there... it'd be a shame if something happened to it..."
Well, I wasn't really expecting it to turn into a literal chicken vs egg, I meant it merely to jokingly question the intelligence of football players before the injuries...
However, that was done by someone else in the mere couple minutes between when I hit Reply and actually hit Submit.
They had a very detailed setting (often in the form of detailed histories found in books), but it is a tad on the dull side. However, a many MMO's have survived a dull back story.
I think the real challenge is going to be in balance. Bethesda's track record has been rather weak in this department. Cheesy skill and power combinations, exploitable mechanics (for either very powerful or just strange effect), and much build min-maxing.
And if they fix all of those things, will it still seem like an Elder Scrolls game?
I wonder how long is it going to take before this turns into a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" debate.
Basically, Valve is going to tell a paying customer that he is a jerk (indirectly by offering him a higher price than others). Great business model.
Next release, they can tell a paying customer if he is a moron or not - i.e. if a customer paid for a valve game even after being indirectly being told by Valve that he is a jerk, that means he is a moron.
I see nothing wrong with that, when a small number of unpleasant players can ruin the perception and experience of many people. I have quit subscription games in the past because of briefing and anti-social players. For them to tolerate jerks, just because they are paying customers, is shooting themselves in the foot a lot more than making a small number of people, who are ruining the game pay, extra.
The odd thing is, I've never actually heard anyone ever say "I have a Mac, so I'm immune"
Perhaps not, but I can honestly say that I have heard, "But Macs don't get viruses, right?"
If a child is present, congrats, you're a sex offender.
It doesn't always require that a child is present... People have been put on sex offender lists for both mooning and public urination, without children being present. It's the result of our "tough on crime" and "zero tolerance" attitudes.
The better stuff is light years better.
I don't know if that was intentional, but... *chuckle*
Quick question... Which do you think costs more in the long run? Government covering costs of birth control to help reduce unwanted pregnancies, the cost to government and society that result from unwanted parenthood? These unwanted children will incur additional costs in welfare, education, and (statistically speaking) increases in crime.
A party complaining about "welfare mothers" doesn't have a lot of room to complain about making birth control more accessible.
No it isn't. It's the most intellectually lazy way of criticising Muslims imaginable. Americans predominantly espouse Christianity but it doesn't seem to stop them invading countries like Iraq and killing 100,000 people. Extremists responsible for this attack represent Muslims about as accurately as McVeigh represents Christians.
I understand what you are saying, and agree with you... but it's hard for most Americans to recognize that there are crazy extremist Christians as well and fail to recognize that there are some pretty extreme statements that could be picked out of the Bible also. Furthermore, like Christianity and the American political right, it isn't just religious zealots behind a lot of extremism, but those seeking power utilizing propaganda and religious sentiments out of political or economic motivation.
Many also fail to realize that some extremist actions were not even motivated by extremists Muslims, but ordinarily non-violent but devout Muslims that became manipulated, blackmailed, or otherwise compromised and were coerced into acts of violence.
It's easier to see the world in pure good and evil, and assume that you are always the good guy and "they" are always the bad guy.
If only humans had simpler and less powerful brains. Then we might be able to figure out how they work!
Oh... wait....
In a world where people tweet about their sexual experiences and eager thousands read about them the morning after...
His point is that society is collectively tweaking the norm of what is acceptable...
Just because the type of behavior in the summary happens does not mean that it is now the norm. Yeah, many people overshare, but the example of behavior cited is still an outlier, not a norm.
Sure. I actually had Python supported Turtle in mind when I suggested LOGO/Turtle. I imagine it would be pretty easy to step into Python after being introduced to Turtle through Python. Though, I didn't actually complete my thought process in my post.
The reason I mention it (rather than just straight Python) is that it is a lot easier to be visual, and I think that visual representations of patterns of code really does help the learning process. For example, nested loops are a lot easier to create a mental model for when you see it drawing a box or triangle. A 2-dimensional array becomes much easier to understand after you progress through Hunt the Wumpus or Battleship type games. What I remember about LOGO was that it was much easier to make certain types of shapes than in BASIC, and it seemed more analogous to a pen, which was more familiar.
But as I said before, the most important part is really just developing the patterns of the types of thinking that are used. There will be a new cool trendy language by the time he's an adult anyway. ;-)
Have you considered LOGO (or Turtle)?
It helps teach some basic concepts, while at the same time giving more feedback (which is good for kids). BASIC on a TRS-80 Color Computer and LOGO on a TI-99 4A were 2 of my earliest introductions to programming. I also learned about logic through some very old game that used many types of logic gates to solve various puzzles involving flow of power (I wish I remembered the name).
You could also pick up a copy of the board game Robo Rally, which is an amusing game that involves planning and visualizing instructions that you will be executing at a later time (with lots of uncontrolled variables screwing things up). While not being like actual programming, it's a fun way to exercise some of the types of thought patterns involved.
In my opinion, at that age, the choice of Language isn't really as important as just some of the basic ideas involved, such as sets of instructions, iterations and control structures, and logical decisions.