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  1. Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 1

    So, male nurses can do things female nurses can't. And therefore they are deserving of higher pay because they are expected to do more. And therefore there is a discrimination lawsuit waiting when women aren't paid as well as men!

  2. Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 1

    I saying that people in fact do worry about the underrepresentation

    People worry about things way too much. This is normal and natural. I also realize normal and natural is offensive to some people.

  3. Wow on Pi Stays Sky High In 2015 Hacker SBC Survey · · Score: 3, Insightful

    With 1721 voting

  4. Re:Violation of that which is sacrosanct on Microsoft Research Paper Considers Serving Web-ads From Localhost · · Score: 3, Funny

    Of course all farm animals are equal, its just that some are more equal than others

  5. Re:Unpossible on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 1

    Which is why you use Wallets one time, and one time only. And then only after washed / tumbled currency is inserted into it. And for the super paranoid, you can wash / trade wallets so that a wallet is not associated with a single user.

  6. Re:Unpossible on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 2

    No, they won't. Most people don't have a clue what Fiat Currency actually means. They have no idea how the FED and world banking systems work. They barely know how anything works.

    This is the problem within the IT and Engineering crowds, we simply assume people are like us, when they are clearly not anything like us. We learn about things, all the time. The other people, the "average" guy, doesn't care to learn about the same things.

  7. Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 2

    I just attended a nursing graduation at a local University. Probably 10-1 Female to Male Graduates. (rough estimate). Tell me again how men are represented adequately in Nursing? The link below says it is 85% (close to my guestimate)

    http://www.randalolson.com/201...

    1) Health Professions (85% women): nursing assistant, veterinary assistant, dental assistant, etc.

    Females have better representation in Engineering and Computer Science (18-19%) than males do in Nursing.

    And I can come up with a whole slew of possible reason why women shy away from certain kinds of jobs, and are more attracted to others. Here is a good example, women tend to be more social than men. They need the company of other people. So then are attracted to jobs that have more social interactions than jobs that don't have much social interactions. This has nothing to do with ability. When women find out that there is not much social interactions in programming ... well they are not all that excited about it.

  8. Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 0

    Well, if the liberal Politicians in DC were so hung up on Women's equality in pay, then they would pay their women staffers the same as the male staffers, but ... they don't.

    And if women do really work for less, then any bright American Entrepreneur type would hire only women, because it would cost them less, giving them a substantial advantage in the marketplace.

    However, those things are NOT true. A man typically works every day possible (gaining experience), and women take time off to have kids and whatnot. The fact is, men's priorities are always the same as women's priorities. Again, Gender Attractions and men and women tend to be different.

    It isn't always HeMan's Women Haters Club conspiracy. And again, it doesn't speak to workplaces that are woman dominated, like cosmetology and nursing. Where nobody complains about over representation.

  9. Re:What is a republic? on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 1

    Murder in your own home falls under the same reasoning? Criminal activities suddenly do not become legal when done within a home. I would challenge the Supreme Court's interpretation, and have it reconsidered.

  10. Re:What is a republic? on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 1

    Who you fuck is not a matter for the state to be prosecuting or otherwise interfering with. Because it's none of their damned business.

    Except that it is, by the very fact that the state sanctions such contracts and as established it as a right. This isn't Schrodinger's cat, which is both a Right and Not a Right until you look at it.

  11. Re:What is a republic? on Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be "Actively Listening In" On Calls In UK · · Score: 2

    Making it Contract Law, means that marriage is no longer a "civil right" as such. If it is a civil right, then it is in the realm of criminal law, and thus eligible for criminal penalties for those that violate those rights. Having an affair is a violation of the civil rights of the partner, as it is a direct cause of harm to that right. I would even suggest that having an affair is a crime, even if ALL parties are consenting to it, for the same reason one cannot consent to being a slave or being a human sacrifice, as those things we have deemed harmful to our society in general.

    The problem here is that certain people want things, until it is inconvenient, and then they don't want those very things they petitioned for. We cannot simply say something is legal (or illegal) while it is convenient and then turn around and toss it aside when it becomes inconvenient.

  12. Re:Male-ness is a Secondary Characteristic on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 2

    Why does nobody ever worry about boys under-representation on things, like Nursing ?

    I mean, I know the reason why there are disparities between genders in certain fields, and it isn't representative of some hidden misogynist agenda of the HeMan Woman's Haters Club. The fact is, that there are Gender Attractions to certain kinds of work, and why can't we just leave it at that.

    Men and Women tend to be different.

  13. Re:Cognitive Dissonance on WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is actually worse. We're funding education for the next 20 years, based on what the past 20 years were like. Think about it for a second, we are reflexively thinking that our world in 20 years will resemble our world from 20 years ago (40 year gap). This is fairly short sighted and is always the case with education, we're teaching our kids like we should have been educated, but not according to how they need to be educated.

  14. Re:Umm, what? on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    A fax has legal protections no other electronic communications has. It needs to change, but won't. There is a reason why faxes are still used.

  15. Re:I stopped using it 5 years ago on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 1

    I'd take crappy Lo-Fi music over the MIDI crap my company plays. That was torture even when it was a "cool feature" (30 years ago).

  16. Re:FFS on Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Criticizes Role of Women In Labs · · Score: 1

    I have never seen a man cry at work*. Ever. I have seen women cry at work. Several times. Is that observation sexist? And am I alone in my experiences?

    * short of getting kicked in the nuts.

  17. Re:Projections. on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 1

    Except for the fact that Al-Qaeda and such came out of Afghanistan of the 80's and have direct lineage to Taliban and the Mujaheddin that fought the USSR. Part of which can be traced back to Jimmy Carter in the late 70's. Which can be traced back to the 1950s, and back then to WW1. And our issues with the Islamists goes all the way back to the founding of our country.

    You cannot isolate it to a singular source. And remember, it was Obama calling them the JV team just a year and a half ago. Yeah, underestimating your foe is a critical blunder. There is plenty of blame to spread around.

    But no, it didn't start with Bush. He just made things difficult. Before you go hog wild on GWB, remember, HRC was one of the very loudest voices for going to war too. Of course, "what difference does it make, at this point" probably works.

  18. Re:Unpossible on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 4, Informative

    I am not a dumbass. I speak for those that don't know certain things are even possible. Those that use SilkRoad /OpenBazzare probably already know about these things, or at least should. Your Grandma doesn't.

    Yes, you can (and should) use a new wallet every transaction, by default.

    Yes, you can wash your currency between transfers to new wallets, and probably should do that too.

    You and I are both well versed in these things, but most people are not.

  19. Re:bundle on Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Java will never be removed. However the plugin model used by Java (NPAPI) is being phased out completely, so that it won't even run on browsers. The same can be said for Flash and Shockwave plugins using that same NPAPI plugin model.

    It hurts right now, but like going to the doctor to remove a big tumor, short term pain results in a healthier system.

  20. Re:Unpossible on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It will stop once they realize that all crypto currencies are in fact traceable via their block chain. It will be mitigated by washing services, but you'll find governments eventually regulating those out of business.

  21. Re:Untouchable? on OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million · · Score: 2

    Only because someone cries "There ought to be a law" and it is so. And as long as politicians keep getting elected to make all the "there ought to be a law" laws, then we're stuck with that system.

  22. Re:Stupidity of Leadership on San Francisco Public Schools To Require Computer Science For Preschoolers · · Score: 1

    To be honest, that kind of education is something schools cannot teach, at least not in the setup they currently have. Which is why schools are failing our kids.

    And guess what else they learn when the play with rocks? Geology, Chemistry, Mathematics and probably start picking up bits of Latin. The best kind of learning is exploring.

  23. Re:Projections. on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 1

    No war in Iraq -> No ISIS today

    Maybe. Maybe not. The fact that Isis grew in strength from both Taliban influences and the Syrian civil war is inconsequential in your view. They saw Obama pulling out of Iraq as a vacation of power, and took the queue and left Syria and stated to take over a weak Iraq, with no US troops anywhere to be found.Yeah, all of that is Bush's fault.

  24. Re:Why? on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 0

    Nothing is ever "settled"

    That is not what all the AGW promoters are saying. They say it is "settled"

  25. Re:Visualisation tools? on NASA Releases Massive Climate Change Data Set · · Score: 0

    models are only accurate to the continental scale

    Actually, they aren't accurate for much. The system is too complex to say anything very useful.

    ALSO, using models based on 70 years of data, for climate that spans thousands of years is short sighted. The problem with older results is that they aren't accurate enough, and too short means they aren't scalable for long term projections.