The problem with your analogy is that you didn't buy the cow from the government.
A better analogy would be if you were a dairy farmer, and the local government forced you to buy a $1M certificate in order to stay in business and sell your milk to local customers. Then the local government allowed Walmart to ship in milk from out-of-state and sell it with no extra costs, which undercuts you and puts you out of business. Bottom line: the government should never have required you to buy a $1M certificate to stay in business, so it should repay you for that, plus any interest you may have paid on a loan to get that certificate.
Now of course, one flaw with my analogy is that I presumed the farmer was already a farmer. With NYC cab companies, they don't predate the medallions; people buy those things to get *into* the business. But still, the whole thing was wrong to begin with: the medallions were nothing more than a restraint of trade, and a way of limiting competition. The government should never, ever be in the business of limiting competition. Enacting sensible rules to ensure public safety, sure, but limiting competition just to increase profits? Hell no.
Society isn't going to end if tech people stop having kids. The key is that the tech people need to all forgo having children, so that they can devote their lives to their companies. Other (non-tech) people, in other parts of society, will have kids to provide the next generation. This is what we have welfare and many other social programs for: the poor people are having and raising all the kids in society; we're basically paying them for it by giving them handouts. There's no reason for productive people to have children now, since we can simply segregate our society into a higher, productive class and a lower class for breeding. I can't possibly imagine why this won't turn out just fine. Uneducated people are perfectly capable of raising all the physicists and engineers we need for the future.
The problem with your two examples is that they have nothing to do with states that have guns. The cops carry guns in *every* state in the US. We don't have British-style unarmed cops here in the US, even in the most anti-gun states like NJ or IL. So those incidents could have happened anywhere.
What makes the gun-friendly and gun-unfriendly states different is that the non-cops are carrying guns.
Pink is a very masculine color. Or at least it used to be, prior to a few decades ago when somehow things got swapped around. People used to dress their little boy babies in pink, and their little girl babies in blue. Pink, being a shade of red, reflects strong emotion, whereas blue as everyone knows reflects calmness and tranquility (and sadness).
There's lots of other editors for Linux: emacs for one, but also Kate, which has a mode with vi key bindings. There's also an effort underway to do a clean rewrite of vim. Any good editor is going to have either vi or emacs-like functionality. If it doesn't, it's a crap editor because it doesn't give you the power that those editors do in navigating and editing code. The main problem vim has is that it doesn't by default have the ability to parse your source code and do things like autocomplete, but that stuff is added by various extensions like cscope and YouCompleteMe.
No, it's not like Comcast customer service. For one thing, Comcast is basically a monopoly in many markets; you have no choice in whether to use them or not, if you want cable or high-speed internet service. Secondly, Comcast customer service is bad for a good reason: it makes them more profit. Their CS is *designed* to be the way it is, expressly to improve profits. It's not an accident due to incompetence. It only seems that way if you have some naïve notion that monopolist companies actually care about customer satisfaction, which they don't.
With the government, they're incompetent because you (plural) elected them, so you're getting what you voted for. When you have a bad elected government, that just means that the voters are embiciles.
I think it'd be interesting if ISIS attacked a city like Phoenix, where a ridiculous number of people have guns legally (unlike south central LA), and it's an open-carry state with extremely loose restrictions on concealed carry. I guess if nothing else it'd show whether the gun supporters are right or not.
Yep, this is why both maternity and paternity leave should be mandated by law, and equal to each other. It would eliminate this as a factor entirely, plus also give new dads a much-needed break to help take care of their kid and their wife/girlfriend. Every advanced country has this.
Yeah, I get that. The problem I have with it (not telling you what you should do, just my reason for not doing it) is that you also miss out on people who post AC for a very good reason, because posting under their real pseudonym can be dangerous for them. This happens quite a lot on here when people talk about their work; what they post is too unique and could help their employer figure out who they are, by looking at their overall comment history, and googling for that pseudonym, but with an AC post there's no way to tie it to any other posts.
People in engineering and IT complain about the pay being low, while companies complain about being unable to hire qualified people, and that has nothing to do with sex since there's so few women in these fields.
And from what I've seen, the pay for 4-year RNs isn't that bad, and for NPs it's pretty good. For the LPNs it sucks though.
If you don't know, you must be browsing Slashdot with it set to hide all Anonymous Coward posts. There's no way you can miss the torrent of nutso messages from him, especially every time Coren22 posts something. He has mental problems and got into some argument with Coren about hosts files a long time ago, and just won't give up his barrage of angry posts about it. It's really quite sad.
I've got an argument against the hunter/gatherer angle:
In a traditional hunter/gatherer community, such as those in Hawaii before European contact, there's a lot of mixing of the sexes. Sure, supposedly the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering, but there was more to their daily lives than that: they came back to the village and gathered together, making food, etc. So they spent a good amount of time in mixed company, just not during part of the day (this assumes that the hunting and gathering really were segregated).
These days, we don't have any of that. We go to work for 9+ hours (including lunch hour), then we come home to our spouse and maybe kids, and that's it (this assumes you're married; if you're single, you come home to your cat or dog and TV). We don't have communities any more. We don't live with other people, just our nuclear families. So the only mixed company most people in our society get outside of work is going to be something like church, or whatever other extracurricular activities they have on the weekends.
Finally, as an aside, from what I've read about traditional Hawaiian culture (pre-contact), they didn't even have marriage, or any kind of pair bonding. They were entirely promiscuous, had sex parties, no one knew who kids' fathers were (or cared), and kids were taken care of by the village collectively. This didn't apply to royalty though. It's entirely possible that our whole notion of marriage and long-term pair bonding is a modern (post-agriculture) invention.
Unfortunately, that's quite possible (see the OP's remark about his boss saying he would interview *any* woman who applied, regardless of the resume"). That's what you get when you have an extreme situation: people will do things to try to correct it that they normally wouldn't do.
I know some men will disagree with me on this, as they actually like their "boy's club", but many of us really wish we had more women around us at work. What kind of weird guy wants to only be around men all the time, except for the 1 female he shares a house with? That just isn't healthy.
Nursing is probably a better career choice than STEM anyway: it's extremely stable (you have to be really incompetent to get fired as a nurse), the pay is pretty good if you're an RN, there's no ageism, the hours are good (since you actually get paid for your 40 hours and get overtime if you go over), and the social atmosphere is a lot better. Also, you can work anywhere, since there's almost no place that doesn't have a hospital nearby, whereas in STEM you're stuck working in certain cities depending on your industry and specialty.
Honestly, I frequently wish I had gone into a medical profession instead of engineering. Maybe not nursing exactly, but one of the jobs like medical imaging technicians might have been a good choice. I wouldn't make as much absolute money as I do now, but the career stability and better socialization would have made up for it.
The gender pay gap thing is just dumb anyway. If I run a company, and I could save ~25% by just hiring women, why wouldn't I do that? We should see men having a hard time getting employment if this were the case, but it's not.
I've known a couple of guys with sensitive egos. And from what I've seen, women have nothing on a whiny nerd who has had his feelings hurt. Those guys just won't let it go.
That's coming. Before long, natural meat will be obsolete, and we'll be eating industrially-farmed meat, which is produced without the animal. Why bother spending months or years growing a whole cow and letting it roam around outside when you can just artificially grow some cow muscle all by itself in a very short time? The much cheaper cost will put regular cow farming out of business.
Never had shellfish? Oyster, mussels, shrimps,... If so, you're already eating guts
I don't know about you, but I don't eat the head, shell, or tail of shrimp, I only eat the fleshy insides. Most people do the same. You just aren't going to get a meaty texture if you grind up all the exoskeleton and other stuff from these bugs.
Very few ever cared about Scrum. Scrum was never a "thing", so you can't really call it dead as it was never alive.
BS. There's a bunch of (frequently large) companies still using Scrum; I've had several try to interview me. It's not just some tiny niche thing, unless everyone's dumped it in the last 6 months or so.
So you really want to live with people who you can't get along with? That makes very little sense. But hey, if you like that idea, go right ahead. Write yourself a list of what kind of traits would totally irk you in a roommate, and place a Craigslist ad looking for someone with as many of those traits as possible. Have fun!
The KKK never became a theocratic government, nor were they ever all that murderous. They just liked to scare people into submission mostly, and did a few lynchings here and there, but basically just operated as a criminal gang. ISIS is not a gang, it's a government. It has an army, military weaponry, and utterly controls a large amount of territory. The KKK never had any of that, and never had that many members. It was comparatively easy to marginalize the KKK. Not so with ISIS; the only way to dislodge them is to conquer them. And you're an idiot if you think you can live peacefully with them: their stated goal is to conquer all of the middle east and much of Europe to reinstate their Caliphate. The only way to live peacefully with them is to submit to their brutal rule under Sharia Law.
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The problem with your analogy is that you didn't buy the cow from the government.
A better analogy would be if you were a dairy farmer, and the local government forced you to buy a $1M certificate in order to stay in business and sell your milk to local customers. Then the local government allowed Walmart to ship in milk from out-of-state and sell it with no extra costs, which undercuts you and puts you out of business. Bottom line: the government should never have required you to buy a $1M certificate to stay in business, so it should repay you for that, plus any interest you may have paid on a loan to get that certificate.
Now of course, one flaw with my analogy is that I presumed the farmer was already a farmer. With NYC cab companies, they don't predate the medallions; people buy those things to get *into* the business. But still, the whole thing was wrong to begin with: the medallions were nothing more than a restraint of trade, and a way of limiting competition. The government should never, ever be in the business of limiting competition. Enacting sensible rules to ensure public safety, sure, but limiting competition just to increase profits? Hell no.
Society isn't going to end if tech people stop having kids. The key is that the tech people need to all forgo having children, so that they can devote their lives to their companies. Other (non-tech) people, in other parts of society, will have kids to provide the next generation. This is what we have welfare and many other social programs for: the poor people are having and raising all the kids in society; we're basically paying them for it by giving them handouts. There's no reason for productive people to have children now, since we can simply segregate our society into a higher, productive class and a lower class for breeding. I can't possibly imagine why this won't turn out just fine. Uneducated people are perfectly capable of raising all the physicists and engineers we need for the future.
The problem with your two examples is that they have nothing to do with states that have guns. The cops carry guns in *every* state in the US. We don't have British-style unarmed cops here in the US, even in the most anti-gun states like NJ or IL. So those incidents could have happened anywhere.
What makes the gun-friendly and gun-unfriendly states different is that the non-cops are carrying guns.
So in short, your analysis is a failure.
I don't see that as a problem, but rather a feature. It lets me easily navigate the code without having to use a mouse, which is a big interruption.
Pink is a very masculine color. Or at least it used to be, prior to a few decades ago when somehow things got swapped around. People used to dress their little boy babies in pink, and their little girl babies in blue. Pink, being a shade of red, reflects strong emotion, whereas blue as everyone knows reflects calmness and tranquility (and sadness).
There's lots of other editors for Linux: emacs for one, but also Kate, which has a mode with vi key bindings. There's also an effort underway to do a clean rewrite of vim. Any good editor is going to have either vi or emacs-like functionality. If it doesn't, it's a crap editor because it doesn't give you the power that those editors do in navigating and editing code. The main problem vim has is that it doesn't by default have the ability to parse your source code and do things like autocomplete, but that stuff is added by various extensions like cscope and YouCompleteMe.
No, it's not like Comcast customer service. For one thing, Comcast is basically a monopoly in many markets; you have no choice in whether to use them or not, if you want cable or high-speed internet service. Secondly, Comcast customer service is bad for a good reason: it makes them more profit. Their CS is *designed* to be the way it is, expressly to improve profits. It's not an accident due to incompetence. It only seems that way if you have some naïve notion that monopolist companies actually care about customer satisfaction, which they don't.
With the government, they're incompetent because you (plural) elected them, so you're getting what you voted for. When you have a bad elected government, that just means that the voters are embiciles.
I think it'd be interesting if ISIS attacked a city like Phoenix, where a ridiculous number of people have guns legally (unlike south central LA), and it's an open-carry state with extremely loose restrictions on concealed carry. I guess if nothing else it'd show whether the gun supporters are right or not.
Yep, this is why both maternity and paternity leave should be mandated by law, and equal to each other. It would eliminate this as a factor entirely, plus also give new dads a much-needed break to help take care of their kid and their wife/girlfriend. Every advanced country has this.
Yeah, I get that. The problem I have with it (not telling you what you should do, just my reason for not doing it) is that you also miss out on people who post AC for a very good reason, because posting under their real pseudonym can be dangerous for them. This happens quite a lot on here when people talk about their work; what they post is too unique and could help their employer figure out who they are, by looking at their overall comment history, and googling for that pseudonym, but with an AC post there's no way to tie it to any other posts.
People in engineering and IT complain about the pay being low, while companies complain about being unable to hire qualified people, and that has nothing to do with sex since there's so few women in these fields.
And from what I've seen, the pay for 4-year RNs isn't that bad, and for NPs it's pretty good. For the LPNs it sucks though.
No, you're missing how powerful social media is for recruiting extremists to their cause.
If you don't know, you must be browsing Slashdot with it set to hide all Anonymous Coward posts. There's no way you can miss the torrent of nutso messages from him, especially every time Coren22 posts something. He has mental problems and got into some argument with Coren about hosts files a long time ago, and just won't give up his barrage of angry posts about it. It's really quite sad.
I've got an argument against the hunter/gatherer angle:
In a traditional hunter/gatherer community, such as those in Hawaii before European contact, there's a lot of mixing of the sexes. Sure, supposedly the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering, but there was more to their daily lives than that: they came back to the village and gathered together, making food, etc. So they spent a good amount of time in mixed company, just not during part of the day (this assumes that the hunting and gathering really were segregated).
These days, we don't have any of that. We go to work for 9+ hours (including lunch hour), then we come home to our spouse and maybe kids, and that's it (this assumes you're married; if you're single, you come home to your cat or dog and TV). We don't have communities any more. We don't live with other people, just our nuclear families. So the only mixed company most people in our society get outside of work is going to be something like church, or whatever other extracurricular activities they have on the weekends.
Finally, as an aside, from what I've read about traditional Hawaiian culture (pre-contact), they didn't even have marriage, or any kind of pair bonding. They were entirely promiscuous, had sex parties, no one knew who kids' fathers were (or cared), and kids were taken care of by the village collectively. This didn't apply to royalty though. It's entirely possible that our whole notion of marriage and long-term pair bonding is a modern (post-agriculture) invention.
Unfortunately, that's quite possible (see the OP's remark about his boss saying he would interview *any* woman who applied, regardless of the resume"). That's what you get when you have an extreme situation: people will do things to try to correct it that they normally wouldn't do.
I know some men will disagree with me on this, as they actually like their "boy's club", but many of us really wish we had more women around us at work. What kind of weird guy wants to only be around men all the time, except for the 1 female he shares a house with? That just isn't healthy.
Nursing is probably a better career choice than STEM anyway: it's extremely stable (you have to be really incompetent to get fired as a nurse), the pay is pretty good if you're an RN, there's no ageism, the hours are good (since you actually get paid for your 40 hours and get overtime if you go over), and the social atmosphere is a lot better. Also, you can work anywhere, since there's almost no place that doesn't have a hospital nearby, whereas in STEM you're stuck working in certain cities depending on your industry and specialty.
Honestly, I frequently wish I had gone into a medical profession instead of engineering. Maybe not nursing exactly, but one of the jobs like medical imaging technicians might have been a good choice. I wouldn't make as much absolute money as I do now, but the career stability and better socialization would have made up for it.
The gender pay gap thing is just dumb anyway. If I run a company, and I could save ~25% by just hiring women, why wouldn't I do that? We should see men having a hard time getting employment if this were the case, but it's not.
I've known a couple of guys with sensitive egos. And from what I've seen, women have nothing on a whiny nerd who has had his feelings hurt. Those guys just won't let it go.
APK is a prime example of this.
That's coming. Before long, natural meat will be obsolete, and we'll be eating industrially-farmed meat, which is produced without the animal. Why bother spending months or years growing a whole cow and letting it roam around outside when you can just artificially grow some cow muscle all by itself in a very short time? The much cheaper cost will put regular cow farming out of business.
Never had shellfish? Oyster, mussels, shrimps,... If so, you're already eating guts
I don't know about you, but I don't eat the head, shell, or tail of shrimp, I only eat the fleshy insides. Most people do the same. You just aren't going to get a meaty texture if you grind up all the exoskeleton and other stuff from these bugs.
(at least as much meat as a prawn).
When you think about it, prawns/shrimp really aren't very different from insects, nor are crabs and lobsters.
It makes it much harder for them to conduct their recruitment and other operations which depend on an online presence.
Very few ever cared about Scrum. Scrum was never a "thing", so you can't really call it dead as it was never alive.
BS. There's a bunch of (frequently large) companies still using Scrum; I've had several try to interview me. It's not just some tiny niche thing, unless everyone's dumped it in the last 6 months or so.
So you really want to live with people who you can't get along with? That makes very little sense. But hey, if you like that idea, go right ahead. Write yourself a list of what kind of traits would totally irk you in a roommate, and place a Craigslist ad looking for someone with as many of those traits as possible. Have fun!
The KKK never became a theocratic government, nor were they ever all that murderous. They just liked to scare people into submission mostly, and did a few lynchings here and there, but basically just operated as a criminal gang. ISIS is not a gang, it's a government. It has an army, military weaponry, and utterly controls a large amount of territory. The KKK never had any of that, and never had that many members. It was comparatively easy to marginalize the KKK. Not so with ISIS; the only way to dislodge them is to conquer them. And you're an idiot if you think you can live peacefully with them: their stated goal is to conquer all of the middle east and much of Europe to reinstate their Caliphate. The only way to live peacefully with them is to submit to their brutal rule under Sharia Law.