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  1. Re: Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Thought you were talking about Anita Sarkeesian. You know much like how she claimed that "gamergaters threatened her speaking engagement in Colorado." Except of course, that the threat was so full of BS, that no wonder the FBI said it wasn't credible. The only thing missing from that threat was a navy seal with 300 confirmed kills.

  2. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The fact that women get penalized for it is exactly the problem.

    Really? Guess that's why in most western countries if you take maternity leave you get more money then say if you were injured on the job. And if it's a crippling injury, you might spend the next 20 years fighting for it, never get it, and die in poverty if you're lucky. The worst case, you'll simply commit suicide because it's hopeless. Oh, and if you're a father and want said maternity leave too? After all, it's unfair to burden a single person with all the right? So If you're lucky, really lucky and in the right country you might get a few weeks vs several months or even a year and change. And that is *in* western countries. In some countries as a male, you don't even have the right to apply for it.

    Someone has to cook, clean and take care of children. That it is societally imposed mostly on women is the problem.

    Guess that's why there's been such a big push for daycares right? Never mind that there's been a few studies showing that daycares create shitty kids. But no, it's not societally imposed. Everyone has a choice, unless of course you live in a society that believes women are worth less then men. That isn't the case in western countries.

  3. No it doesn't. ... and the source is Reuters

    Reuters is a bastion of fake news, just like AFP, Canadian Press, and so on. Don't believe? Well that's too bad, I'm a professional fact checker, it's always right. And I'm just as good as ABC news or snopes. Now bow before my prowess.

  4. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem is that said "toxic brand of feminism" is the one being supported by people, promoted by those loud mouths. The same one that's being pushed to create new rules, laws and so on. And it's those same people who are pushing it, that are at the forefront of outrage campaigns against people who dare to tell a off-colour joke. There's a reason why less then 15% of women identify as feminists these days, and feminists much like the DNC haven't figured out why people are deriding them or their views.

  5. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    And the trees are all kept equal, by hatchet, ax, and saw.

    And if you have actual proof of wrongdoing, then you've got a case to take before the labor board don't you? I mean it's not like the vast majority of the cases show that the claims are fake, attempts at revenge, and so on. Seems that there are far too many people who believe that they should get paid for work that they didn't do.

  6. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Jack Thompson ("Based Jack") became a favorite of gamergators. Have you forgotten your GG canon already?

    Sorry, but "reality" doesn't fit with what actually happened. Guess that's what happens when you're so deep in your ideology that you believe everything is "us or them." Would you like to invent some more bullshit, or concede that you enjoy your fake news so much that you'd enjoy more of it?

    Then again, considering your comments on fake news in the past. I guess that now makes you a gamergate supporter, especially with all the fake news that the media has pushed over the last 2 years.

  7. Re:Baby brain on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    But well-balanced, emotionally developed adults know better.

    That's why in policing, some of the new policies include stuff like "women primarily abuse through emotional and psychological abuse" while "men primarily abuse through physical abuse." In countries which have put "emotional abuse is domestic violence" you can be sure that you're going to see an uptick in women being arrested, charged and detained. Get's more interesting when you see the crime stat survey's and start reading Gazette or Juristat and it shows that in cases of emotional abuse nearly 90% of the cases are started by women.

  8. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Well except that we have 20+ years with huge sample sizes(including several that had 10k+ participants), showing no statistical change in belief, action, desire, or anything else. The most that one study has shown is that there was a "short" term change on perception of devaluing a life -- as in under 30 minutes. Then again, going by your reasoning -- society is sexist because it values women more then men as a "valuable" asset to society itself.

  9. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    20%-40% of women are rapists? Wow. Nutter detected. I get it, you hate women, but you are a nutjob.

    Couldn't read huh? That's okay I'll use small words so you get it. The "total" incidence count by country is that women make up around 8-10%. Some countries are as high as 15% -- though some studies show that the count could be as high as 30% of rapists are female -- this is because of positive weighting for women by societies in general. Now we break down into particular predispositions for those assaults, and find that there's a different number. Kind of like this: M:F is a predominantly male crime, but F:M(child) is predominantly a female crime. But in other cases F:F(teen) women make up 30% of them, much like how M:M(teen) make up 8-14% It's similar to the domestic violence numbers, where you see things like 8-20% M:F but 58% F:F or 65% of M:M cases of DV.

    But if you want to get into the interesting bit, you can look at the NISVS study which showed that women accounted for 40% of all rape cases. That's the female being the instigator -- then we can get into the interesting stuff and go from there. Feminists of course love to dispute the number, but then again male rape is such a hugely unreported crime and that's directly due to the social stigma.

    Enjoying criminology yet?

  10. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Come back when the average earnings for equal jobs are equal for women and men.

    They are equal. There's even laws that ensure it. If a man is working in an office tapping away at a keyboard, and a women is doing exactly the same job. If those two same people are working in a mine busting rocks and transporting them around, they're also being paid the same.

    Now, lets toss in that women take more time off then men for sickness. So we'll see a drop in wages. Now, they'll also take time off for pregnancy, and we'll see a drop. Now let's consider that a man will be more likely to take OT, or work longer hours. Now they're not being paid the same. Sorry, this isn't a communist-marxist utopia where people are paid for work they don't do.

    But let's flip it around. How about the cases in Australia and the UK where women are being paid more then men doing the same jobs. Outraged yet? No? You should be, that's overt sexism.

  11. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Please. Let them rant, as long as they do they at least don't harm anyone.

    Yeah, not in the least. We saw jackasses like Jack Thompson get some sway with the trendy fucks in the industry last time. We're seeing it again with Sarkeesian and her ilk, and the trendy fucks in the industry again. This is the garbage that eventually gets spawned out of it. Gamers on the other hand? They don't like identity politics being pushed into their medium. Just a FYI to anyone who's' reading, the stuff being pushed in the GI.biz article is the same BS that was pushed by people like Leigh Alexander. Another adherent to the "but muh progressiveness look at muh virtue signaling..." which lead to the death of her career.

    The whole progressive identity politics virtue signaling bullshit usually kills whatever it attaches to. It's doing a great job of killing comic books, it did a great job of killing atheism for a while until there was a push back. It attempted it in video games and failed, but they're still trying.

  12. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In Israel there was an interesting case a few years ago. An adult woman called Riki Ovadia had invited 10-13 year olds to her apartment to have sex, repeatedly. Feminists actually insisted that the kids "took advantage" of her.

    That's been the case for defense in several high-profile female rapist cases in the US over the last couple of years. Then there's the absolute bat shit insanity that you see which spawns groups like Megalia which violently attack people who refuse to fall in line. Yes kids, that is a feminist group. Best descriptor? Take feminism, add a dash of antifa, heavy sprinkling of racism and racial superiority, with a dose of insanity. Other things include planned attack against men in cafe's using antifreeze(poisoning). Desire and planning of sexual assaults of children(mainly male). On the other hand, if you're white? Well that's okay with their brand--you're the only acceptable ones.

  13. Re:Oh well... on Pregnancy Alters Woman's Brains 'For At Least Two Years' (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nice flamebait. First of all, there are no Feminazi's

    No? You should let them know this. They exist, some of them are such shitty people that they've made it to meme status like big red there.

    That derogatory term is mostly used by male chauvinists who want to enforce old fashioned gender -roles-. There are feminists, and they hold various ideas about equality.

    You mean like the feminists out there that push that women should have nice cushy jobs in offices because "equality" while they don't push them into the nice shitty jobs where you're likely to be killed? You know, fishing, mining and so on. Or those nice shitty well paying jobs that are simply shitty jobs?

    Strange that I remember the big feminist push in the late 80's and early 90's to drive men out of teaching here in the west too(fyi it's now so bad in parts of western countries that men make up less then 8% of teaching staff). They were the original source of the "men are rapists and not safe with children" bit. Then there's the "teach men not to rape" bullshit to boot. But we'll just gloss over the 20-40% rate of women(varies by sexual preference) who are rapists, or that they get much lighter sentence. Usually 1/3 of the sentence of what a man would, even against a minor. What? You didn't know that there were female pedophile rapists? Not even touching stuff like the rape and murders committed by Bernardo and Homolka. FYI she was the instigator in those 30+ cases, and was the one picking the victims.

    no feminist ever said that men and woman were created biologically identical.

    You should pay more attention to the bullshit being pushed. You can even find it from the flappy headed ideology books that they push these days. There's even a huge bunch of bullshit by feminists trying to drive sexual dimorphism as "sexist." Yeah, google that one and weep at the attempts to destroy science.

  14. Re:Key omission from American media on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    Except that's not a real international court, something you are usually not told by the West media

    Except that China did agree to arbitration. Arbitration is a form of court. They even sent their own people there to act in an official capacity, including having their own people argue the case. China lost in the arbitration and decided to stomp their feet over it, you can bet your ass that if they'd won they'd be throwing it around all the time and saying "look, see how they won." The example case they used is rather piss poor on top of that, on top of that the "explanations" given are mostly wrong because in law the entire substance of an article determines the validity of the article itself.

    Ex: An article/law/statue states that "xyz premise must be involved" but "ignoring xyz premise" because you're the losing party even when you sent official representatives doesn't make that any less valid.

  15. Re:Confucious say on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    So what you are saying is that Trump's administration will start WW3 over a fucking drone.

    There's a long road to travel before you hit war. Unless you're Hillary Clinton, then you simply want to bomb sovereign embassies and attack Russian's in Syria.

  16. Re:Key omission from American media on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    That's what you have been told, just like you were told Iraq had WMD.

    That's what the courts told China. China is refusing to abide by now multiple decisions that they were part of, willingly a part of no less.

  17. Re:Confucious say on China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    They are making the US look rash and childish. It's going to be a common theme for the next four years.

    Good thing that Obama is still in office huh? Never mind that China pulled the drone in within sight of the operating vessel. China knows it can pull this bullshit with Obama in office, see what happened with Iran and them seizing sailors in international waters and there being zero consequences. And in multiple other cases where other countries have acted as belligerents towards US military vessels with zero consequences over the last 8 years. The incoming president(Trump) is likely not going to take this, neither are those he's putting into cabinet positions. Which is why they're pulling this now, they know they can get away with it.

  18. Re:Link to the porn please on Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time.

    What next? Beowulf clusters? It's the year of linux? Perhaps a in Soviet Russia...

  19. Endusers have no 30cent prices, and they have fixed prices, there is no fluctuation.

    Didn't even read the link. Those prices *are* what end users are paying.

  20. And that's why the alt-right is so spooked about Twitter and Facebook beginning to reign in the fake news.

    It's not the alt-right. It's anyone who has a desire for open discussion who's spooked over it. In my neck of the woods here in Canada we have two groups of people that mainly live here: Ex-UK citizens who've left over the last decade, and people who fled from communism(either the 1950's or the 1980's). Both groups of people when you sit and just listen in the restaurants and places like Timmy's are saying the same thing. They see striking parallels between the controlling of media, and the desire for particular groups of people to control what's seen and heard.

    Twitter is already facing a crisis of legitimacy. Facebook on the other hand is likely to see one in the next year with their big "fake news" push. People will see it for what it is, propaganda. Round that out with this being a violation of Facebook's common carrier defense? It's going to get very interesting for them, just like it is for reddit.

  21. Re:Wow, and just think... on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    the IRS targeted multiple groups, on both sides, that appeared to be violating the law concerning 501c status.

    Sure was. ~496 right-leaning groups vs 12. Much both sides, you read the articles right? You read the IG report? You saw the part where the IG said that the IRS was targeting particular groups. You also saw the part where multiple people quit in the IRS when it came to light that they were targeting groups at the behest of high-level bureaucrats within the IRS. And that the Obama and IRS are still stonewalling, which is why there are still nearly 50 lawsuits on going.

    further, no groups actually had their 501c status revoked or denied, and the ones that were delayed the longest were "occupy" related groups.

    Uh No. Even the IRS has said it will "stop targeting those groups." One of those groups has been waiting since 2009. Occupy started in 2011.

    He also came to the conclusion that ultimately there was no wrong doing, and no specific targeting of a specific political side, but that the investigation gave the impression of impropriety by essentially taking a shortcut, looking at names of groups and policy positions, rather than looking directly for improper campaign involvement, which is the part that is actually illegal. while the names and positions may be an indicator, it isn't a garuntee of violating the 501c rules.

    Would you like to save face now and read the report, or shall we just start with a quote directly from it:

    The IRS used inappropriate criteria that identified for review Tea Party and other organizations applying for tax-exempt status based upon their names or policy positions instead of indications of potential political campaign intervention. Ineffective management:
     
      1) allowed inappropriate criteria to be developed and stay in place for more than 18 months,
     
      2) resulted in substantial delays in processing certain applications, and
     
    3) allowed unnecessary information requests to be issued.

    In other words, yes the IRS targeted those groups. And yes, your post is full of bullshit.

  22. Re:anyone know.. on Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    what kind of pipe they use for this kinda thing, im thinking some kind of ceramic metal hybrid??

    A few articles I've found on it, state it's 6-layered titanium. Makes sense when you think about it, since titanium has a very high rating against corrosion, buildup resistance against materials on the surface and inside of it and very high resistances to temperatures depending on the "mix" that's used when the tubing manufactured.

  23. Re:It seems like an exaggerated story on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 2

    and now that the competition has been won it doesn't matter how they did it or what they did about it.

    Guess that's why WAPO was as the forefront of pushing the fake news bullshit right? Then even had to go as far as to claim well, no ... we really didn't mean they were fake news. Even though their article where they claimed all those sites were "fake news" weren't, and they had to scramble all over themselves along with the site they were pushing and started disavowing it. Notice how it's now suddenly started dropping off the radar?

    But just to have some fun, you can now wait and see what happens in detroit. Since 37% of their voting machines had more votes then actual ballots in the box. Detroit if you remember went to Clinton, and now there is an investigation being launched into vote tampering.

  24. Re:Wow, and just think... on Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report (politico.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Oh, does it, mein fuhrer?

    You should ask the Obama administration. Just a reminder that the IRS targeted "tea party groups." Multiple people within the IRS resigned, there are multiple cases before the courts. The inspector general stated that the IRS was indeed targeting those right-wing groups and protecting democrat groups. Oh, and the IRS and Obama administration are still stonewalling on the reasoning or even documents as to why they were targeting those groups.

  25. Re:Insert H1B Whining. on Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I know this is Canada but since you're Canadian, I take it you're talking about Canada, unless you were working in the States. The real problem is that Canadians don't want to work in the fields and aren't fast enough to be worth a hourly wage.

    Different part of the country of course. I worked in Ontario. The group of people I was with could do a first pick of a tobacco field(280 acres) in 5 hours when we were riding on the picker. New guys were slower, but that's to be expected.