You are right, we go around the bush again... I'm tired of that so lets just stick to the situation at hand.
If the victim's truly "couldn't help it" then they are going to be victims forever and are not worthy of blame, they can't help it after all. However, that also means they are incapable of NOT being a victim and should be monitored like children to protect them from being victimized again. I have a younger sister who is handicapped and requires constant supervision to keep her from these kinds of dangers. I don't blame her, but we have to monitor her for her safety. But I don't see where these women where disabled in a way where they "couldn't help" doing what they did and I don't see them as helpless enough to require monitoring like my sister.
You see, your view excuses them from any blame and leaves them with a "I'm just a victim, and I'll always be a victim" perspective. Mine says, "You let somebody do a bad thing to you. Next time say NO! because you don't deserve to be treated that way, you don't need to be a victim next time."
Which perspective will lead these women to something better? I think it's mine because I'm encouraging them to recognize that they have control over things like this, they CAN say no. You just tell them they are blameless victims that couldn't help it so when it happens again, they are just as powerless as they where the first time to stop it. To me, that's just SAD.
Why is this considered acceptable? Get physical access to my iPhone (for example - Android is probably the same?), good luck getting in.
Sure, with a PC there's a few things that are a lot more difficult to secure (e.g., the boot process) but throwing hands up in the air and giving up because of physical access is a cop out.
Hand me your Iphone, I'll get in... There ARE ways.
Not everyone has someone who raised them to be assertive! So this "Oh, just refuse to be a victim!" is complete bullshit.
I don't know what world you live in, but in mine I have a responsibility for a lot of what happens to me. You don't go out on an ice covered lake until the ice is thick enough or you don't get to complain about falling in. You don't speed though school zones and complain when a kid walks in front of your car.
There are times you cannot avoid being a victim because the situation is out of your control, but there ARE times when you CAN avoid it. One should be wary of situations where risks are being taken and protect yourself, slow down in school zones, don't walk on ice covered lakes and in this case don't send nudie pictures to your professor when he tries to pressure you into it.
But instead of empowering women and encouraging them to be assertive we get folks like you who want to claim they couldn't help it and thus are not responsible in anyway for being a victim. Next you will tell me that the shoplifter couldn't help it, or the mass murder isn't responsible for his behavior because of how they where raised. I'm sorry, but this doesn't wash with me. Adults are adults and should be held responsible for their actions and these women victims where in part responsible for allowing themselves to be victims in a situation where they clearly could have avoided it. Be a bit more assertive and don't be a victim all the time.
Don't get me wrong, this professor is largely to blame for his actions in seeking out and manipulating these women, but they wouldn't have been easy targets had they been a bit more assertive and wouldn't have been victims today had they just said no to the pervert.
Yea, sure. Actually I'm saying that in this case, being a victim was avoidable by simply refusing to allow oneself to be victimized, not that the perpetrator who preyed on week vulnerable women wasn't to blame... But don't let common sense invade your sense of Political Correctness....
There are a number of services that will store your data for you and it's well encrypted. Unless you are a confirmed cheapskate like me, and don't mind the headache of actually performing backups, encrypted online is the way to go.
If online doesn't float your boat or if you really think somebody will be interested enough to break into your stuff, then do what I do. I first back everything up to my NAS, then I backup the NAS to three hard drives. One drive is stored at the in-laws house and gets swapped every time we visit, One is stored in my file cabinet and gets swapped every weekend with the last one that stays in the server and gets a snapshot backup every few days. The NAS is built on OpenMediaVault and has a Raid 5 array with a hot spare. The NAS has a SATA drive bay that I can just push in a bare drive (2.5 or 3.5).
I use "rsync" to push all my data from the various windows and Linux boxes I'm backing up automatically to the NAS, so I end up with a minimum of three copies of all backed up data (the original on the original host, and two in the RAID array) I'll have four copies once the NAS is backed up, and FIVE copies once we visit the In-laws. Overkill, I know. However, it's worth it given that I happened to loose a few years of pictures once and my wife about came unglued. I'm NOT doing that again.
Yea, always a good policy to disrespect the people who are charged with protecting you and your stuff... There are a few officers who abuse their authority, but most really are out to protect and serve. May I suggest you think about being grateful? We really don't pay them all that much considering the risks they take everyday.
I had every cop on duty in the small town I live in show up at my home once. What where they looking for? Some kids playing with guns during school...
It turned out to be some neighbor who called to complain about my kid playing with the kids across the street (both home schooled) and their arsenal of bright blue and orange nurff guns that shot orange foam darts about 15 feet, the day before.
They showed up with all three squad cars and 5 officers, right after lunch to let us know we where violating a non-existent curfew law.. What a waste of time and resources.
LOL.. I can assure you, most places have reasonable traffic laws, Germany is not unique in that regard... What may be different is the understanding of and obedience to the existing laws. If my experiences in Texas are any indicator, there is LOTS of room for improvement in that area around here, but I'm guessing the Germans have their share of less than ideal drivers.
I'm glad you live in a world without fear where all people can stand up and make a stand for what's right and doing so makes all the evil that humans do go away. I do not live in that world. I live in the real world.
Where did I say evil goes away when you assert yourself? What I did say is that many evil men will seek other prey that is easier to catch and you will spare yourself such troubles as this article describes. Or are you supposing that women should be doormats for men to wipe their feet on?
Evil can and will find you regardless of who you are, but you can make yourself less of a target and avoid much trouble if you think about the situation and prepare for the likely problems you may encounter. Might you still end up in a no-win series of events? Perhaps, but if you have done everything you can to avoid it, you will have no blame in being a part of it.
I'm just saying that you should do what you can to avoid being a target and in this case a bit of self respect would have certainly helped.
Oh for crying out loud. I have to explain how a mugging and getting somebody to send you naked pictures over the internet are different? Next you will tell me I'm blaming the woman for being raped when nothing is further from the truth.
I see your point and I'd like to add one. Unless this was done in private, this kind of behavior is going to be pretty obvious to anybody looking on. If you see something like this underway, even if it's not something you are involved in, you do have a responsibility to say something. All to often the helpless are left that way because people around them didn't care enough to give them a hand. I've seen it in the school yard with children and as an adult...
No one's talling[SIC] you [SIC]should be ashamed of yourself for harassing women.
Now, my question is, why do we get inundated with stories about women being harassed by men, but never stories about the many men who are harassed by women?
Why do you think? It's the same reason we hear about a white cop shooting a black kid but never about a black cop shooting a white one. What fits the PC narrative?
So you didn't watch how the bullies worked all this out on the playground as a kid? Or better yet, when you where an adult, watch your kids playing with a group of kids?
Seemed pretty straight forward to me how the abusers identify likely targets and how the suitable targets would react to situations. Even as adults, the behaviors are similar, even if the fine details of how it's done are a bit more nuanced.
So what you're saying is women are weaker and more manipulable than men?
No, only that THESE women where without the necessary self respect to RESIST this dirt bag and tell him to get lost. This lack of self respect is not related to gender, even though their gender was apparently part of the reason they where targets.
Oh man... This whole "They where manipulated into doing this by some guy" is just plain SAD. I have no doubt this guy did some pretty despicable things and violated the rules he agreed too. I also have no doubt that these women where at least partially responsible for what happened because they didn't say "NO!" to the guy in authority for what ever reason.
Clearly Lewin gets punished for violating the code of conduct, but it's just as clear that he was taking advantage of a set of women who where ill prepared to tell him to bugger off. I know it's not PC to ascribe blame, but these poor women do need to realize that they do have control and are not powerless to say no and they need to respect themselves enough to give the abuser the boot, and thus have some level of responsibility for what happened to them.
Look ladies, yea I'm a middle aged white male, but why do some of you let these things happen to you?
Now I'm not saying this guy doesn't deserve to be castigated for demeaning women, but shesh ladies, you need to have some self respect. I'm not saying this wasn't harassment, but don't let some scumbag do this kind of thing to you. Where is the outcry for the way this woman was raised? Where is the outcry for the mentalities that lead to a woman who cannot or will not stand up for herself? Who thinks that this kind of behavior is OK? That asking for and expecting racy pictures over the internet is something you can do? Why do we see situations where women are OBVIOUSLY bullied into doing things they wouldn't or didn't really want to do?
I raised my daughter to not be afraid to say no and mean it. To tell these abusers to take a hike, don't be manipulated into doing things you don't want to. If they don't respect you, they are not worth dealing with. Don't suffer fools who disrespect you and above all, respect yourself enough to say "NO WAY scumbag!" and mean it regardless who's asking or what position they hold.
I'm not discounting that modern technology hasn't drastically improved efficiency in automatic transmissions. I'm sure it has. I'm just saying that manuals have the ability of being more efficient by virtue of being simpler and lighter.
The added weight of the actuating devices in an automatic will lower your efficiency if nothing else. I understand that they've come a long way, but there are *still* losses when automating things. All things being equal, the manual transmission simply has to be more efficient, if for no other reason than it weighs less, so for a highway trip with the same payload over the same road, manual will win, even if by a very little bit.
Now if you don't drive the manual correctly and don't choose perfect shift points, you might induce more inefficiency than an automatic, but that's about driving habits and skill and not the efficiency of the transmission. Plus it may be that for city driving, no human can be accurate enough with the shift points to stay within an automatic computer controlled modern automatic, but again that's about the ability of the operator, but on the highway with the cruse control set, a manual will be better.
If driving efficiency is your goal, step #1 is ditching the manual shifter. You don't have the remotest hope of beating the computer at that game anymore.
There is no way a manual transmission isn't more efficient in most cases, providing you drive them correctly. Manual transmissions are lighter, cheaper to build, and have lower operating losses (no torque converter and hydraulic pumps to run). Now if you drive a manual wrong and don't shift at the right times, MPG could be bad, but on the highway where shifting isn't done, you are going to literally drive away from an automatic efficiency wise.. Oh, and a manual transmission will last a LOT longer and cost you a lot less to maintain than that automatic.
Also #1 rule in driving efficiency isn't ditching the manual shift.... The #1 is managing your driving to minimize how hard you press either the gas or break. The less you press the peddles, the more MPG you will get and the less wear and tear you will do to your car. Don't be aggressive, drive smooth and calm. I find that I use more efficient shift points too, when I'm not trying to eek out that last ounce of performance... Well, that and keeping your tires inflated...
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You are right, we go around the bush again... I'm tired of that so lets just stick to the situation at hand.
If the victim's truly "couldn't help it" then they are going to be victims forever and are not worthy of blame, they can't help it after all. However, that also means they are incapable of NOT being a victim and should be monitored like children to protect them from being victimized again. I have a younger sister who is handicapped and requires constant supervision to keep her from these kinds of dangers. I don't blame her, but we have to monitor her for her safety. But I don't see where these women where disabled in a way where they "couldn't help" doing what they did and I don't see them as helpless enough to require monitoring like my sister.
You see, your view excuses them from any blame and leaves them with a "I'm just a victim, and I'll always be a victim" perspective. Mine says, "You let somebody do a bad thing to you. Next time say NO! because you don't deserve to be treated that way, you don't need to be a victim next time."
Which perspective will lead these women to something better? I think it's mine because I'm encouraging them to recognize that they have control over things like this, they CAN say no. You just tell them they are blameless victims that couldn't help it so when it happens again, they are just as powerless as they where the first time to stop it. To me, that's just SAD.
Flash doesn't run on my IOS device... Go Apple...
Why is this considered acceptable? Get physical access to my iPhone (for example - Android is probably the same?), good luck getting in.
Sure, with a PC there's a few things that are a lot more difficult to secure (e.g., the boot process) but throwing hands up in the air and giving up because of physical access is a cop out.
Hand me your Iphone, I'll get in... There ARE ways.
Not everyone has someone who raised them to be assertive! So this "Oh, just refuse to be a victim!" is complete bullshit.
I don't know what world you live in, but in mine I have a responsibility for a lot of what happens to me. You don't go out on an ice covered lake until the ice is thick enough or you don't get to complain about falling in. You don't speed though school zones and complain when a kid walks in front of your car.
There are times you cannot avoid being a victim because the situation is out of your control, but there ARE times when you CAN avoid it. One should be wary of situations where risks are being taken and protect yourself, slow down in school zones, don't walk on ice covered lakes and in this case don't send nudie pictures to your professor when he tries to pressure you into it.
But instead of empowering women and encouraging them to be assertive we get folks like you who want to claim they couldn't help it and thus are not responsible in anyway for being a victim. Next you will tell me that the shoplifter couldn't help it, or the mass murder isn't responsible for his behavior because of how they where raised. I'm sorry, but this doesn't wash with me. Adults are adults and should be held responsible for their actions and these women victims where in part responsible for allowing themselves to be victims in a situation where they clearly could have avoided it. Be a bit more assertive and don't be a victim all the time.
Don't get me wrong, this professor is largely to blame for his actions in seeking out and manipulating these women, but they wouldn't have been easy targets had they been a bit more assertive and wouldn't have been victims today had they just said no to the pervert.
The poster admits as much, but his point is still valid.
Yea, sure. Actually I'm saying that in this case, being a victim was avoidable by simply refusing to allow oneself to be victimized, not that the perpetrator who preyed on week vulnerable women wasn't to blame... But don't let common sense invade your sense of Political Correctness....
There are a number of services that will store your data for you and it's well encrypted. Unless you are a confirmed cheapskate like me, and don't mind the headache of actually performing backups, encrypted online is the way to go.
If online doesn't float your boat or if you really think somebody will be interested enough to break into your stuff, then do what I do. I first back everything up to my NAS, then I backup the NAS to three hard drives. One drive is stored at the in-laws house and gets swapped every time we visit, One is stored in my file cabinet and gets swapped every weekend with the last one that stays in the server and gets a snapshot backup every few days. The NAS is built on OpenMediaVault and has a Raid 5 array with a hot spare. The NAS has a SATA drive bay that I can just push in a bare drive (2.5 or 3.5).
I use "rsync" to push all my data from the various windows and Linux boxes I'm backing up automatically to the NAS, so I end up with a minimum of three copies of all backed up data (the original on the original host, and two in the RAID array) I'll have four copies once the NAS is backed up, and FIVE copies once we visit the In-laws. Overkill, I know. However, it's worth it given that I happened to loose a few years of pictures once and my wife about came unglued. I'm NOT doing that again.
Yea, always a good policy to disrespect the people who are charged with protecting you and your stuff... There are a few officers who abuse their authority, but most really are out to protect and serve. May I suggest you think about being grateful? We really don't pay them all that much considering the risks they take everyday.
I wouldn't call it a law but more of a foundational legal principle. But I'm sure the distinction is lost on the majority of /. readers....
In the short run anyway... Eventually the bad guys will just take over if you let them.
Oh I don't know....
I had every cop on duty in the small town I live in show up at my home once. What where they looking for? Some kids playing with guns during school...
It turned out to be some neighbor who called to complain about my kid playing with the kids across the street (both home schooled) and their arsenal of bright blue and orange nurff guns that shot orange foam darts about 15 feet, the day before.
They showed up with all three squad cars and 5 officers, right after lunch to let us know we where violating a non-existent curfew law.. What a waste of time and resources.
LOL.. I can assure you, most places have reasonable traffic laws, Germany is not unique in that regard... What may be different is the understanding of and obedience to the existing laws. If my experiences in Texas are any indicator, there is LOTS of room for improvement in that area around here, but I'm guessing the Germans have their share of less than ideal drivers.
I can see some of the molecular gastronomy folks doing some odd things.
Perhaps, but given the possible sources of the acid used, I'm going to avoid eating an egg treated with it.
LOL
I think I can speak for her when I say, "bugger off scumbag!"
If that doesn't work for you, the 12 Ga shotgun in the gun safe should suffice to hold you at bay until the police arrive.
I'm glad you live in a world without fear where all people can stand up and make a stand for what's right and doing so makes all the evil that humans do go away. I do not live in that world. I live in the real world.
Where did I say evil goes away when you assert yourself? What I did say is that many evil men will seek other prey that is easier to catch and you will spare yourself such troubles as this article describes. Or are you supposing that women should be doormats for men to wipe their feet on?
Evil can and will find you regardless of who you are, but you can make yourself less of a target and avoid much trouble if you think about the situation and prepare for the likely problems you may encounter. Might you still end up in a no-win series of events? Perhaps, but if you have done everything you can to avoid it, you will have no blame in being a part of it.
I'm just saying that you should do what you can to avoid being a target and in this case a bit of self respect would have certainly helped.
Oh for crying out loud. I have to explain how a mugging and getting somebody to send you naked pictures over the internet are different? Next you will tell me I'm blaming the woman for being raped when nothing is further from the truth.
I see your point and I'd like to add one. Unless this was done in private, this kind of behavior is going to be pretty obvious to anybody looking on. If you see something like this underway, even if it's not something you are involved in, you do have a responsibility to say something. All to often the helpless are left that way because people around them didn't care enough to give them a hand. I've seen it in the school yard with children and as an adult...
No one's talling[SIC] you [SIC]should be ashamed of yourself for harassing women.
Now, my question is, why do we get inundated with stories about women being harassed by men, but never stories about the many men who are harassed by women?
Why do you think? It's the same reason we hear about a white cop shooting a black kid but never about a black cop shooting a white one. What fits the PC narrative?
So you didn't watch how the bullies worked all this out on the playground as a kid? Or better yet, when you where an adult, watch your kids playing with a group of kids?
Seemed pretty straight forward to me how the abusers identify likely targets and how the suitable targets would react to situations. Even as adults, the behaviors are similar, even if the fine details of how it's done are a bit more nuanced.
So what you're saying is women are weaker and more manipulable than men?
No, only that THESE women where without the necessary self respect to RESIST this dirt bag and tell him to get lost. This lack of self respect is not related to gender, even though their gender was apparently part of the reason they where targets.
Oh man... This whole "They where manipulated into doing this by some guy" is just plain SAD. I have no doubt this guy did some pretty despicable things and violated the rules he agreed too. I also have no doubt that these women where at least partially responsible for what happened because they didn't say "NO!" to the guy in authority for what ever reason.
Clearly Lewin gets punished for violating the code of conduct, but it's just as clear that he was taking advantage of a set of women who where ill prepared to tell him to bugger off. I know it's not PC to ascribe blame, but these poor women do need to realize that they do have control and are not powerless to say no and they need to respect themselves enough to give the abuser the boot, and thus have some level of responsibility for what happened to them.
Look ladies, yea I'm a middle aged white male, but why do some of you let these things happen to you?
Now I'm not saying this guy doesn't deserve to be castigated for demeaning women, but shesh ladies, you need to have some self respect. I'm not saying this wasn't harassment, but don't let some scumbag do this kind of thing to you. Where is the outcry for the way this woman was raised? Where is the outcry for the mentalities that lead to a woman who cannot or will not stand up for herself? Who thinks that this kind of behavior is OK? That asking for and expecting racy pictures over the internet is something you can do? Why do we see situations where women are OBVIOUSLY bullied into doing things they wouldn't or didn't really want to do?
I raised my daughter to not be afraid to say no and mean it. To tell these abusers to take a hike, don't be manipulated into doing things you don't want to. If they don't respect you, they are not worth dealing with. Don't suffer fools who disrespect you and above all, respect yourself enough to say "NO WAY scumbag!" and mean it regardless who's asking or what position they hold.
I'm not discounting that modern technology hasn't drastically improved efficiency in automatic transmissions. I'm sure it has. I'm just saying that manuals have the ability of being more efficient by virtue of being simpler and lighter.
The added weight of the actuating devices in an automatic will lower your efficiency if nothing else. I understand that they've come a long way, but there are *still* losses when automating things. All things being equal, the manual transmission simply has to be more efficient, if for no other reason than it weighs less, so for a highway trip with the same payload over the same road, manual will win, even if by a very little bit.
Now if you don't drive the manual correctly and don't choose perfect shift points, you might induce more inefficiency than an automatic, but that's about driving habits and skill and not the efficiency of the transmission. Plus it may be that for city driving, no human can be accurate enough with the shift points to stay within an automatic computer controlled modern automatic, but again that's about the ability of the operator, but on the highway with the cruse control set, a manual will be better.
If driving efficiency is your goal, step #1 is ditching the manual shifter. You don't have the remotest hope of beating the computer at that game anymore.
There is no way a manual transmission isn't more efficient in most cases, providing you drive them correctly. Manual transmissions are lighter, cheaper to build, and have lower operating losses (no torque converter and hydraulic pumps to run). Now if you drive a manual wrong and don't shift at the right times, MPG could be bad, but on the highway where shifting isn't done, you are going to literally drive away from an automatic efficiency wise.. Oh, and a manual transmission will last a LOT longer and cost you a lot less to maintain than that automatic.
Also #1 rule in driving efficiency isn't ditching the manual shift.... The #1 is managing your driving to minimize how hard you press either the gas or break. The less you press the peddles, the more MPG you will get and the less wear and tear you will do to your car. Don't be aggressive, drive smooth and calm. I find that I use more efficient shift points too, when I'm not trying to eek out that last ounce of performance... Well, that and keeping your tires inflated...
Yes, all those blind drivers need tactile feedback on the turn signal.
I see what you did there....