This generation sees that their parents had it pretty good, burning all the oil and buying up property that shot up on value. Cheap education, great pension...
And pile up all the debt for their kids to pay off.
I noticed ages ago that when I visit my bank's web site the browser gets slow and even typing is fairly unresponsive on the secret code entry screen. So I disabled Javascript for that site and now it's fine.
Whatever their stupid security system is, apparently disabling it is the fix.
Two people are running a 100m race. One notices that there are hurdles in their lane. They suggest that to make it a fair competition the hurdle be removed, and you tell them that they need to prove themselves the "equal" of someone running down a clear lane. Furthermore, the mere suggestion of levelling the playing field should offend them.
Ah, okay, now we are getting somewhere. I'm not an expert on California law, so perhaps you can give me an example of where this kind of slippery slope has happened before.
Well, I take issue with your premise. If the board is already not a meritocracy then it's hard to see how this could make it harder for qualified people to get on. If anything, it's more likely that they would at least put some effort into finding a qualified woman if forced to.
The term "alternative right" was coined by conservative philosopher Paul Gottfried. The alt-right adopted it as part of their identity as an alternative to mainstream, allegedly corrupt politics and media.
Have you noticed how they like to talk about the political elite and mainstream media, then offer themselves up as the alternative? Until people started to associate the term with white supremacy and Nazism, they were quite fond of it.
Keep in mind that the mainstream left in the US is what Europe would consider social conservatives or something like that, slightly right of centre. The actual left, real socialists are few and far between in US politics.
No, these ideas go back long before feminism was even invented. In fact men in the ancient world are often cited as examples of these toxic stereotypes.
Not sure how that makes it sexist... But in any case, there is a vast amount of scholarly work around the subject so it's demonstrably not as arbitrary as you claim.
Actually it's usually who you know, or even where you went to school.
The benefit of having women on the board is often better conditions for everyone working there, resulting in better retention and more opportunity to hire good candidates. There are other benefits too. For society the benefit is fairness and more equal opportunity.
Sounds like your battery is worn out. When batteries start to near their end of life their behaviour during charge and discharge starts to change.
Apple had trouble with this before, you may recall, with phones going from 50% to 2% instantly. They eventually did a free battery replacement scheme to cover it; maybe yours is covered.
The technical reason is that battery state of charge is estimated by measuring voltage and load. The voltage falls off as the battery discharges. More load also makes the battery voltage sag. So to estimate state of charge you need to know the voltage and load, and then fudge it a bit so for example it never goes up even if your estimate was a bit low.
Fast charging creates more heat. Older batteries get hotter. It's likely that the charging system is ending charge prematurely with a worn out, hot battery. A slow charge mitigates that and actually puts more energy into the battery before the system thinks it is full.
Why not force companies to have a certain number of members from different financial, ethnic or religious backgrounds?
Actually that has proven to be quite beneficial in many countries. Some European ones do it. Front line workers on the board, with an equal say.
Tends to limits the excesses of corporate pay, abuse of workers and the kind of illegal activity that makes them end up going bust and leaving the general staff with no severance or pensions while the execs parachute into another lucrative boardroom.
The fact that 20 people turned up to Unite the Right this year is because they badly misjudged the reaction of the nation last year. They convinced themselves that many ordinary people agreed with them but just needed permission to come out and say it by seeing the nationalists march openly and proudly.
What actually happened is that they lost their jobs, someone got murdered and the expected widespread support never materialised. The bubble they had been living in burst.
They are called nationalists because the alt-right wants to create an ethnostate. They think America is a "white country" and want to make it more racially pure. These ideas and the term "nationalist" dates back to the Nazis, or "National Socialists".
The reason they are associated with the more mainstream right of US politics (which is actually far right by most standards, with the Democrats being a somewhat right of centre too) is that some members of the GOP have been saying the same stuff and the alt-right has been trying to take control of that party. Don't forget that Steve Bannon was Trump's close adviser and campaign manager, a lot of the populist language Trump uses comes from him. The alt-right really thought that with Trump in power they were about to become the mainstream of US politics, but fortunately it didn't happen.
I hope that American conservatives do push back hard against this a reclaim the Republican party with more moderate views.
they think they're being targeted because they're women. Wrong.
The Hampton-Alexander Review found evidence that this is true. Excuses given for not appointing women to exec level included:
- "I don't think women fit comfortably into the board environment" - "My other board colleagues wouldn't want to appoint a woman on our board" - "All the 'good' women have already been snapped up" - "We have one woman already on the board, so we are done - it is someone else's turn"
Women are smarter in a certain way. They see how bad it is and decide it's not worth it earlier than men do. They preserve more of their vital years for thing that matter than men do. This has to be counted as a form of intelligence.
Ihave a friend who works at a hospital. She watches high powered men die all the time. They almost all regret how they dpent their lives.
So the logical thing is to support efforts to make those roles more attractive to women, because that would benefit everyone, men included. A change of culture would be good for all concerned.
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It's easy to criticise, but what is your plan?
This has worked in the past. Unless you have a better plan...
This generation sees that their parents had it pretty good, burning all the oil and buying up property that shot up on value. Cheap education, great pension...
And pile up all the debt for their kids to pay off.
Gender is a complex mixture of things, mostly social.
To me the message seems fairly consistent. There are basically two camps: biological essentialists and everyone else.
Yes, it benefits everyone. It's a combination of both things and more.
I noticed ages ago that when I visit my bank's web site the browser gets slow and even typing is fairly unresponsive on the secret code entry screen. So I disabled Javascript for that site and now it's fine.
Whatever their stupid security system is, apparently disabling it is the fix.
Bizarre logic.
Two people are running a 100m race. One notices that there are hurdles in their lane. They suggest that to make it a fair competition the hurdle be removed, and you tell them that they need to prove themselves the "equal" of someone running down a clear lane. Furthermore, the mere suggestion of levelling the playing field should offend them.
Space Force is pork for the military industrial complex and the communities being wrecked by his other financial mismanagement.
Ah, okay, now we are getting somewhere. I'm not an expert on California law, so perhaps you can give me an example of where this kind of slippery slope has happened before.
I did, it's in the post you replied to.
No one is saying that there is no such thing as gender, they are saying that gender is not binary and not purely biological.
Got anything better than a strawman?
Well, I take issue with your premise. If the board is already not a meritocracy then it's hard to see how this could make it harder for qualified people to get on. If anything, it's more likely that they would at least put some effort into finding a qualified woman if forced to.
The term "alternative right" was coined by conservative philosopher Paul Gottfried. The alt-right adopted it as part of their identity as an alternative to mainstream, allegedly corrupt politics and media.
Have you noticed how they like to talk about the political elite and mainstream media, then offer themselves up as the alternative? Until people started to associate the term with white supremacy and Nazism, they were quite fond of it.
Keep in mind that the mainstream left in the US is what Europe would consider social conservatives or something like that, slightly right of centre. The actual left, real socialists are few and far between in US politics.
Negative stereotypes of men pervade our culture
Yes, that's what toxic masculinity is.
thanks to feminists.
No, these ideas go back long before feminism was even invented. In fact men in the ancient world are often cited as examples of these toxic stereotypes.
Not sure how that makes it sexist... But in any case, there is a vast amount of scholarly work around the subject so it's demonstrably not as arbitrary as you claim.
Actually it's usually who you know, or even where you went to school.
The benefit of having women on the board is often better conditions for everyone working there, resulting in better retention and more opportunity to hire good candidates. There are other benefits too. For society the benefit is fairness and more equal opportunity.
Your argument would be more convincing if you could propose an alternative solution, rather than just attacking other people's.
Here we are, having a debate, free flow of ideas (apart from the odd triggered moderator)... What the fuck are you talking about?
What what point in history were men and women equal in the West?
Sounds like your battery is worn out. When batteries start to near their end of life their behaviour during charge and discharge starts to change.
Apple had trouble with this before, you may recall, with phones going from 50% to 2% instantly. They eventually did a free battery replacement scheme to cover it; maybe yours is covered.
The technical reason is that battery state of charge is estimated by measuring voltage and load. The voltage falls off as the battery discharges. More load also makes the battery voltage sag. So to estimate state of charge you need to know the voltage and load, and then fudge it a bit so for example it never goes up even if your estimate was a bit low.
Fast charging creates more heat. Older batteries get hotter. It's likely that the charging system is ending charge prematurely with a worn out, hot battery. A slow charge mitigates that and actually puts more energy into the battery before the system thinks it is full.
So what is your solution?
But even China isn't crazy enough to even try that. They still use HTTPS for secure web site connections, for example.
In practice they know they can't really stop it, what they actually want is the ability to throw charges at anyone they catch using it.
Why not force companies to have a certain number of members from different financial, ethnic or religious backgrounds?
Actually that has proven to be quite beneficial in many countries. Some European ones do it. Front line workers on the board, with an equal say.
Tends to limits the excesses of corporate pay, abuse of workers and the kind of illegal activity that makes them end up going bust and leaving the general staff with no severance or pensions while the execs parachute into another lucrative boardroom.
The fact that 20 people turned up to Unite the Right this year is because they badly misjudged the reaction of the nation last year. They convinced themselves that many ordinary people agreed with them but just needed permission to come out and say it by seeing the nationalists march openly and proudly.
What actually happened is that they lost their jobs, someone got murdered and the expected widespread support never materialised. The bubble they had been living in burst.
They are called nationalists because the alt-right wants to create an ethnostate. They think America is a "white country" and want to make it more racially pure. These ideas and the term "nationalist" dates back to the Nazis, or "National Socialists".
The reason they are associated with the more mainstream right of US politics (which is actually far right by most standards, with the Democrats being a somewhat right of centre too) is that some members of the GOP have been saying the same stuff and the alt-right has been trying to take control of that party. Don't forget that Steve Bannon was Trump's close adviser and campaign manager, a lot of the populist language Trump uses comes from him. The alt-right really thought that with Trump in power they were about to become the mainstream of US politics, but fortunately it didn't happen.
I hope that American conservatives do push back hard against this a reclaim the Republican party with more moderate views.
Biology is a biological fact, but it's not binary either. There is a spectrum of biology too, and biology can be altered.
they think they're being targeted because they're women. Wrong.
The Hampton-Alexander Review found evidence that this is true. Excuses given for not appointing women to exec level included:
- "I don't think women fit comfortably into the board environment"
- "My other board colleagues wouldn't want to appoint a woman on our board"
- "All the 'good' women have already been snapped up"
- "We have one woman already on the board, so we are done - it is someone else's turn"
Women are smarter in a certain way. They see how bad it is and decide it's not worth it earlier than men do. They preserve more of their vital years for thing that matter than men do. This has to be counted as a form of intelligence.
Ihave a friend who works at a hospital. She watches high powered men die all the time. They almost all regret how they dpent their lives.
So the logical thing is to support efforts to make those roles more attractive to women, because that would benefit everyone, men included. A change of culture would be good for all concerned.