little quibble... fansub anime is a copyvio. however, as ScrewMaster points out below, there are many places with free content on the intarweb. creativecommons.org links to many of them.
and isn't that the problem? (that it's "just a figure of speech", that is)
this is one of those cases where it really isn't about being "PC" or not, it's about not being mean. we're here. we're queer. we don't like being called names:-(
i won't argue with you that stereotypes come from facts - the problem with them is that they take a few facts, without the context in which they exist, and reinforce them.
if the stereotype is that women are bad with computers, and we continue to joke about it and make fun of women for it, we're not going to want to go into comp sci in droves very well, are we? playing on those stereotypes reinforces them, and does not consider the ways in which technology is gendered, and we're directed in subtle ways towards different things from a very early age.
it can be "just a joke", and with the best intentions, but it's still part of the problem.
*sighs*
and come on. we need more geek girls. let's do the best we can to encourage more female geekyness!
i was going to go through a point-by-point deconstruction of your first argument, starting with a reference to the series of films "killing us softly", which are about not sexism, but violence against women in advertising.
but then i remembered. comparing the suffering of one group to the suffering of another does no good. women's sufferage - remember that? one of the reasons women (and specifically white, upper-class women) wanted the vote was to counterbalance the effect that the flood of immigrants would have on the nation. this was how it was spun in canada and in the states. in other words, racism advancing the cause of women.
your complaints about misandry are well taken - but please don't go blaming women alone for misandry. systems of oppression work together, and the "woe is me, i'm even WORSE off" attitude doesn't help.
misandry comes from the same source as misogyny - the idea that we have certain roles and abilities based on gender. we do to some infinestimal degree - i certainly can't pee standing up without making a mess, and you can't "bleed for five days and not die" to paraphrase the Park - but we need to separate the rest of it from our chromosomes and genetalia. only then will misogyny AND misandry be relegated to the same rubbish heap as racism.
to expand upon what an AC said about your comment, you shouldn't be the one sayng this, considering your link....
but for serious. there's a big difference between a funny joke, and a bunch of stereotypes. learn it. frymaster is right - this is one of the reasons male nerds don't get dates.
yeah. i'm sure that there are enough slashdotters who know martial arts. we'll but out a paypal hat to get money for a bus to go down there and dispense the beatings. who's with me?
Several Canadian universities (Carleton, Toronto) use somethign called WebCT. It seems highly flakey to me, and I'd be 100% not surprised if it was here that the vulnerabilities were found.
they even have wifi in their phone number. wonder what it's good for, as they "don't offer tech support?" maybe just "um, guys, can you hit the reset switch?"
Slashdot Mirror
why on earth didn't they just buy a couple more used IIvx's? Those things are cheap...
StarOffice does have a WP filter. It's quite good. And SO is still much cheaper than M$ Office
-Leigh
little quibble... fansub anime is a copyvio. however, as ScrewMaster points out below, there are many places with free content on the intarweb. creativecommons.org links to many of them.
-Leigh
dood.
sounds like you need dosbox.
http://www.dosbox.sf.net
-Leigh
BEST SIG EVAR
*grins*
-Leigh
and isn't that the problem? (that it's "just a figure of speech", that is)
:-(
this is one of those cases where it really isn't about being "PC" or not, it's about not being mean. we're here. we're queer. we don't like being called names
-Leigh
note that i said male geeks - we of the fairer geeky sex have to beat male geeks off with sticks. ram works especially well. :-]
-Leigh
i won't argue with you that stereotypes come from facts - the problem with them is that they take a few facts, without the context in which they exist, and reinforce them.
if the stereotype is that women are bad with computers, and we continue to joke about it and make fun of women for it, we're not going to want to go into comp sci in droves very well, are we? playing on those stereotypes reinforces them, and does not consider the ways in which technology is gendered, and we're directed in subtle ways towards different things from a very early age.
it can be "just a joke", and with the best intentions, but it's still part of the problem.
*sighs*
and come on. we need more geek girls. let's do the best we can to encourage more female geekyness!
-Leigh
i was going to go through a point-by-point deconstruction of your first argument, starting with a reference to the series of films "killing us softly", which are about not sexism, but violence against women in advertising.
but then i remembered. comparing the suffering of one group to the suffering of another does no good. women's sufferage - remember that? one of the reasons women (and specifically white, upper-class women) wanted the vote was to counterbalance the effect that the flood of immigrants would have on the nation. this was how it was spun in canada and in the states. in other words, racism advancing the cause of women.
your complaints about misandry are well taken - but please don't go blaming women alone for misandry. systems of oppression work together, and the "woe is me, i'm even WORSE off" attitude doesn't help.
misandry comes from the same source as misogyny - the idea that we have certain roles and abilities based on gender. we do to some infinestimal degree - i certainly can't pee standing up without making a mess, and you can't "bleed for five days and not die" to paraphrase the Park - but we need to separate the rest of it from our chromosomes and genetalia. only then will misogyny AND misandry be relegated to the same rubbish heap as racism.
-Leigh
to expand upon what an AC said about your comment, you shouldn't be the one sayng this, considering your link....
but for serious. there's a big difference between a funny joke, and a bunch of stereotypes. learn it. frymaster is right - this is one of the reasons male nerds don't get dates.
-Leigh
1. release formerly profitable software for free
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
are they doing tose little google text ads or what?
-Leigh
got any links to the text of the Linus-minix guy debate? i have an obscure interest in Minix...
-Leigh
MS exploit virus comes out.
mysterious patching virus starts making the rounds. massive consequences.
we should be doing this more often, kids.
-Leigh
yeah. i'm sure that there are enough slashdotters who know martial arts. we'll but out a paypal hat to get money for a bus to go down there and dispense the beatings. who's with me?
and expensive: each ebay auction does cost the seller a bit of change....
that being how ebay makes their money afterall
-leigh
Several Canadian universities (Carleton, Toronto) use somethign called WebCT. It seems highly flakey to me, and I'd be 100% not surprised if it was here that the vulnerabilities were found.
-Leigh
they even have wifi in their phone number. wonder what it's good for, as they "don't offer tech support?" maybe just "um, guys, can you hit the reset switch?"
-Leigh
have you had luck running it on mac osx? on the faq, it says that it doesn't work...
zero, the biography of a dangerous idea by charles seife (sp?)
the god particle, by leon lederman
the particle garden, by someone whose name i can't remember.
good math and good physics. enjoy!
-Leigh
if you're not far from the t-dot, come to the next slashdot meetup. they rox0r.
-Leigh
All I can say is,
ANNE ROCKS.
(Just reread the unabriged version of Stranger in a Strange Land for - oh - the fifth time?)
Oh my god, your sig is so funny I just about peed myself laughing. I think I need more sleep.
*sniff*
:-]
that was beautiful.
now i've just got to clean the shithole that is my room, so that i may get my grad present - a superdrive iMac
the RW media is 20$. the write-once stuff is cheaper.
Yeah, it's significantly less than the $7 billion the Canadian government has sort of lost...
now despite our low dollar, that's still a fair chunk of change, about $4B US.