He suggests a.45. Go check your crime stats for NYC again. The data clearly indicates that more crime happens in big cities than in small, rural towns. It has to do with population density.
I know you're from some redneck small town who thinks New York is full of big bad criminals like in the movies but I hate to tell you that New York is one of the safest cities in the country. Unless you are a car service driver in the South Bronx you aren't going to be anywhere near a criminal.
And the responses to your comment are a clear example of why people don't admit to being female around the internet. I hope you continue to slap our assholes around cause they need it. Someone has to speak up. Good job.
We should lock them all up in their houses for protection and require them to have a male escort to go anywhere! They would be so much safer! You could then get rid of the rape laws because clearly any woman who manged to sneak away from her protectors to get raped really wanted it so its not rape. We can then burn her at the stake for being a whore and send the man to therapy for the trauma of being tempted by the evil, coniving temptress.
People that put you down for trying to help out are just as bad. The world would be a better place if we would all help each other out. There is nothing wrong with holding a door. Do people seriously expect another person to slam a door in their face? Wouldn't that just be plain rude? Didn't their parents teach them manners?
Assholes are everywhere. Next time someone yells at you for holding a door, apologize and then slam it in their face. The fem-nazis do as much damage to women's equality as bigoted men. Equality means that I can chose to have a career or stay at home with my kids and both choices are valid.
She's not even two yet and I hate pink. Like I said, she stays home with her dad who likes to dress her up like a dinosaur. Where the fuck did she pick up the stereotype that she should prefer the pink shirt to the blue shirt?
We didn't buy my daughter any baby dolls until she was over a year old. She saw one at a garage sale, picked it up and would not let it go. She now has 3 more and loves them. She feeds them, diapers them, puts them to bed, panics if the one loses it's pacifier, etc. She stays at home with her dad who keeps trying to get her to play with dinosaurs, so it's not like she picked it from other children. She likes the dinosaurs cause they make Daddy happy, but she LOVES those baby dolls. Her dad buys half her clothes in the boys section cause he likes dinosaurs, etc and he dresses her the way that only a dad can (I once came home and she was wearing a pink sun dress and blue jeans). Yet if you give her a choice between a pink shirt and a blue shirt she will pick pink. You definitely don't need to encourage gender stereotypes for them to emerge.
One of the reasons women do not sometimes speak up when harassed or threatened, etc is because sometimes it is felt that the community supports the harasser. It is often simply easier to leave a community that does not want rather than attempt to change it. Why do I need the headache of putting up with bigots so that I can participate in a optional community that doesn't want me? If you do not value me, I can go elsewhere. The open source development community is not something that is essential. It is purely optional.
Another reason is that often when you do speak up people respond by complaining that you are an overly sensitive whiner and how typical of a woman to not have the balls to take it. So again, why bother? I don't need you so if you obviously don't need me, fuck off. I have better things to do. Like my real job that pays me.
It's not that women need the help of MEN, but that when people are being asses it is the job of other PEOPLE to step up and say "No! We do not treat people that way!" The same call for decency applies to all kinds of harassment, not just gender. It is your job as a member of the community to represent the community and make sure the people you want to be there feel welcome and the people who step out of line get put in their place. This has nothing to do with men protecting women, but for decent people standing up for what is right. All that is required for evil to flourish is for good to do nothing.
The attitude that you need do nothing because a woman should stand up for herself all on her own only supports the asshats and serves to isolate the woman. This proves to her that the community does not want her and she is better off going someplace else.
I will depend largely on the individual. I went to a specialized high school that focused on art where I studied creative writing. Half the day we spent learning physics and calculus at a regular high school and the other half we spent reading poetry and fiction at art school. In order to meet the graduation requirements we ended up having to take a history class on Saturday from the local university. I went on to college to major in computer science and math, along with almost all my class. We made fun of the one girl who got a special award when we graduated high school because the award had to go to a student that was going on to study art in college and she was the only one who met the requirements. So we were an entire class of individuals specializing in creative writing in high school so that we could go on to college to get STEM degrees...
Not everyone is going to thrive in that environment, but there are a lot of kids who will greatly benefit from it. This idea that all kids need the exact same educational system is seriously flawed and only serves to hurt us. Pretty much every study concerning childhood development states that each kids learns differently and at different paces, yet we insist on jamming them all through the same learning system. Don't ruin it for the rest of us just cause it wouldn't work for you. Let the individual parents and teachers make the determination if the specialization will benefit an individual kid.
Funny how people seem to think that "Free Speech" implies no consequences of voicing the opinion. Why is the difference between being allowed to say whatever you want and being responsible for your actions so hard?
I know someone who can no longer prove their citizenship in the US. The hospital where she was born was destroyed by Castro, including all records. The church she was baptized in burned down, with all records. Her naturalization papers dissolved in the flood waters of hurricane Katrina. All she has left now is her drivers license. I no longer have medical records from when I was a kid because they all dissolved during hurricane Katrina. Be careful about assuming that you can just request a copy if you need it.
Why does everyone assume that access to your medical records means you will be given the only copy in existence and there won't be a digital file stored on the server or a copy in your doctors office? Seriously, in this day and age why would you assume that just because you walk out of an office holding a sheet of paper your doctor must no longer have access to that data? Even without digital records we have had photocopiers for how many years now?
Doesn't that indicate a problem with the system if ANY bill can be "must pass"? If I tacked on a clause to your electric bill saying "by paying this bill you agree to sell yourself into slavery but if you don't pay it I'll turn off your lights," we would call that extortion.
I'm pregnant and my dentist refused to do dental x-rays... Here's a hint, dental X-Rays are a low, targeted (not at the abdomen) dose and they put they nice lead blanket on you. Yet, despite the fact that the amount of radiation directed at the fetus would be less than flying cross country they refused to do it. I bet they just won't tell you. Kind of like at the airport.
I didn't get the impression the CNN piece was implying you would be a professional software developer, just able to do some basic script type stuff, etc which would be useful in daily life. For example, I'm not a contractor, I can hang a shelf on a wall and patch drywall. It is valuable to know how to read and write even if you aren't writing publications. Non-professional photographers know how to take pictures. Knowing basic coding skills is useful, even if you don't write software professionally. It would let you write small stuff to help you with day to day tasks. Normal people should know how software and computers work. It shouldn't be a black box filled with magic smoke.
You aren't the only one that laughs at their kid and says "I told you not to do that." How else are they going to learn about gravity? Granted, had the kid been seriously hurt you would have had a different reaction, but a little pain with no damage teaches a valuable lesson.
I'm sure that over eating is the only possible cause of type 2 diabetes just like it's the only cause of heart failure and smoking is the only cause of lung cancer and drinking is the only cause of liver failure. Do you also believe that AIDs is the wrath of God? Correlation != causation. While some people are able to control their diabetes through diet and exercise, there are plenty of fit, active people that cannot.
How are though poor wagon makers going to make any money if we allow the automobile makers to introduce their new product into the market? How are the poor film makers going to make any money if we allow people to use digital cameras? What about those poor people importing ice from the arctic? How are they going to survive if we allow refrigeration? However did artists survive for thousands of years without copyright and mass distribution? And those poor, poor artists without a major record contract! How do they get by? Why is it that a print of a Van Gogh sells for a couple bucks but a real one sells for millions?
Your inability to adapt your business model to a changing world doesn't mean we should hold the world back.
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He suggests a .45. Go check your crime stats for NYC again. The data clearly indicates that more crime happens in big cities than in small, rural towns. It has to do with population density.
I know you're from some redneck small town who thinks New York is full of big bad criminals like in the movies but I hate to tell you that New York is one of the safest cities in the country. Unless you are a car service driver in the South Bronx you aren't going to be anywhere near a criminal.
Isn't Wall Street around there somewhere?
And the responses to your comment are a clear example of why people don't admit to being female around the internet. I hope you continue to slap our assholes around cause they need it. Someone has to speak up. Good job.
That's not what my Verizon network specs tell me... There is an entire table of in-band and out-of-band signals the device has to contend with.
We should lock them all up in their houses for protection and require them to have a male escort to go anywhere! They would be so much safer! You could then get rid of the rape laws because clearly any woman who manged to sneak away from her protectors to get raped really wanted it so its not rape. We can then burn her at the stake for being a whore and send the man to therapy for the trauma of being tempted by the evil, coniving temptress.
We shipped them back to Russia, so I guess it depends on your POV.
These rocks were stamped "Made on Mars."
People that put you down for trying to help out are just as bad. The world would be a better place if we would all help each other out. There is nothing wrong with holding a door. Do people seriously expect another person to slam a door in their face? Wouldn't that just be plain rude? Didn't their parents teach them manners?
Assholes are everywhere. Next time someone yells at you for holding a door, apologize and then slam it in their face. The fem-nazis do as much damage to women's equality as bigoted men. Equality means that I can chose to have a career or stay at home with my kids and both choices are valid.
She's not even two yet and I hate pink. Like I said, she stays home with her dad who likes to dress her up like a dinosaur. Where the fuck did she pick up the stereotype that she should prefer the pink shirt to the blue shirt?
We didn't buy my daughter any baby dolls until she was over a year old. She saw one at a garage sale, picked it up and would not let it go. She now has 3 more and loves them. She feeds them, diapers them, puts them to bed, panics if the one loses it's pacifier, etc. She stays at home with her dad who keeps trying to get her to play with dinosaurs, so it's not like she picked it from other children. She likes the dinosaurs cause they make Daddy happy, but she LOVES those baby dolls. Her dad buys half her clothes in the boys section cause he likes dinosaurs, etc and he dresses her the way that only a dad can (I once came home and she was wearing a pink sun dress and blue jeans). Yet if you give her a choice between a pink shirt and a blue shirt she will pick pink. You definitely don't need to encourage gender stereotypes for them to emerge.
One of the reasons women do not sometimes speak up when harassed or threatened, etc is because sometimes it is felt that the community supports the harasser. It is often simply easier to leave a community that does not want rather than attempt to change it. Why do I need the headache of putting up with bigots so that I can participate in a optional community that doesn't want me? If you do not value me, I can go elsewhere. The open source development community is not something that is essential. It is purely optional.
Another reason is that often when you do speak up people respond by complaining that you are an overly sensitive whiner and how typical of a woman to not have the balls to take it. So again, why bother? I don't need you so if you obviously don't need me, fuck off. I have better things to do. Like my real job that pays me.
It's not that women need the help of MEN, but that when people are being asses it is the job of other PEOPLE to step up and say "No! We do not treat people that way!" The same call for decency applies to all kinds of harassment, not just gender. It is your job as a member of the community to represent the community and make sure the people you want to be there feel welcome and the people who step out of line get put in their place. This has nothing to do with men protecting women, but for decent people standing up for what is right. All that is required for evil to flourish is for good to do nothing.
The attitude that you need do nothing because a woman should stand up for herself all on her own only supports the asshats and serves to isolate the woman. This proves to her that the community does not want her and she is better off going someplace else.
I will depend largely on the individual. I went to a specialized high school that focused on art where I studied creative writing. Half the day we spent learning physics and calculus at a regular high school and the other half we spent reading poetry and fiction at art school. In order to meet the graduation requirements we ended up having to take a history class on Saturday from the local university. I went on to college to major in computer science and math, along with almost all my class. We made fun of the one girl who got a special award when we graduated high school because the award had to go to a student that was going on to study art in college and she was the only one who met the requirements. So we were an entire class of individuals specializing in creative writing in high school so that we could go on to college to get STEM degrees...
Not everyone is going to thrive in that environment, but there are a lot of kids who will greatly benefit from it. This idea that all kids need the exact same educational system is seriously flawed and only serves to hurt us. Pretty much every study concerning childhood development states that each kids learns differently and at different paces, yet we insist on jamming them all through the same learning system. Don't ruin it for the rest of us just cause it wouldn't work for you. Let the individual parents and teachers make the determination if the specialization will benefit an individual kid.
And they are both covered by the 1st amendment! How convenient!
Funny how people seem to think that "Free Speech" implies no consequences of voicing the opinion. Why is the difference between being allowed to say whatever you want and being responsible for your actions so hard?
I know someone who can no longer prove their citizenship in the US. The hospital where she was born was destroyed by Castro, including all records. The church she was baptized in burned down, with all records. Her naturalization papers dissolved in the flood waters of hurricane Katrina. All she has left now is her drivers license. I no longer have medical records from when I was a kid because they all dissolved during hurricane Katrina. Be careful about assuming that you can just request a copy if you need it.
Why does everyone assume that access to your medical records means you will be given the only copy in existence and there won't be a digital file stored on the server or a copy in your doctors office? Seriously, in this day and age why would you assume that just because you walk out of an office holding a sheet of paper your doctor must no longer have access to that data? Even without digital records we have had photocopiers for how many years now?
Doesn't that indicate a problem with the system if ANY bill can be "must pass"? If I tacked on a clause to your electric bill saying "by paying this bill you agree to sell yourself into slavery but if you don't pay it I'll turn off your lights," we would call that extortion.
I'm pregnant and my dentist refused to do dental x-rays... Here's a hint, dental X-Rays are a low, targeted (not at the abdomen) dose and they put they nice lead blanket on you. Yet, despite the fact that the amount of radiation directed at the fetus would be less than flying cross country they refused to do it. I bet they just won't tell you. Kind of like at the airport.
Churches are tax exempt anyway. And the hookers and blow are part of the religion. Stop repressing my religion!
I didn't get the impression the CNN piece was implying you would be a professional software developer, just able to do some basic script type stuff, etc which would be useful in daily life. For example, I'm not a contractor, I can hang a shelf on a wall and patch drywall. It is valuable to know how to read and write even if you aren't writing publications. Non-professional photographers know how to take pictures. Knowing basic coding skills is useful, even if you don't write software professionally. It would let you write small stuff to help you with day to day tasks. Normal people should know how software and computers work. It shouldn't be a black box filled with magic smoke.
Probably cause the Irish have a better since of humor from their bar stools?
Some kids need a helmet :P.
You aren't the only one that laughs at their kid and says "I told you not to do that." How else are they going to learn about gravity? Granted, had the kid been seriously hurt you would have had a different reaction, but a little pain with no damage teaches a valuable lesson.
We can capture the CO2 and feed it to trees via an elaborate contrivance. We could then chop down the trees to make pretty things.
I'm sure that over eating is the only possible cause of type 2 diabetes just like it's the only cause of heart failure and smoking is the only cause of lung cancer and drinking is the only cause of liver failure. Do you also believe that AIDs is the wrath of God? Correlation != causation. While some people are able to control their diabetes through diet and exercise, there are plenty of fit, active people that cannot.
How are though poor wagon makers going to make any money if we allow the automobile makers to introduce their new product into the market? How are the poor film makers going to make any money if we allow people to use digital cameras? What about those poor people importing ice from the arctic? How are they going to survive if we allow refrigeration? However did artists survive for thousands of years without copyright and mass distribution? And those poor, poor artists without a major record contract! How do they get by? Why is it that a print of a Van Gogh sells for a couple bucks but a real one sells for millions?
Your inability to adapt your business model to a changing world doesn't mean we should hold the world back.