Trolls of this nature are unusual and they don't just target women. They target everyone.
For some reason, it's culturally acceptable for men to learn how to defend themselves from sociopaths (who, like all predators prefer soft targets to hard targets).
However if anyone ever tries to talk about teaching women any kind of self defense, the accusations of "victim blaming" start up immediately.
Which is exactly what you'd expect sociopaths to instigate. Of course they'd oppose any effort to turn soft targets into hard targets.
The problem is sociopaths, and sociopaths come in all genders and races.
Sociopaths are very good at mobilizing well-intentioned humans for their own purposes.
Humans tend to conform to the desires of sociopaths instead of confront them, because natural selection did not historically favor humans who opposed sociopaths.
While environmental studies professors continue to pump out ready excuses for imposing increasing economic feudalism in Europe and North America, China and India are going to build out nuclear power and produce energy. I doubt they'll be dissuaded from trying because of anything this professor says.
When people like this say, "the world can't" remember that they actually mean, "we aren't going to let you."
"Us" is all the people who have to live in a world where a fraction of the population uses violence and coercive power to get what they want and are looking forward to a post-state society.
Everything you're saying is true, and the effect as been that people see what is happening, and they are responding.
The central planners tipped their hand by revealing just how effectively a small group of SV insiders control so much of the web, and now everybody knows about it.
The degree to which the SJW crowd has to resort to increasingly-inflammatory headlines and articles gives me a lot of hope, because it indicates that the collective unconscious of the Internet really does have a funcitoning immune response that can limit the damaged caused by that particularly nasty virus.
Both aluminium and plastic have both elastic deformation and plastic deformation modes.
Depending on the exact material involved, plastic might have a larger or a smaller elastic deformation range than aluminium.
Bitcoin is a social movement dedicated to the elimination of central banks by providing a superior alternative.
This is obviously of concern to the entire class of people who derive unearned benefits via the operation of central banks. That class has an well-trained group of mercenaries that specialize in identifying, infiltrating, and disrupting social movements which threaten the profits of the ruling classes (see the transformation of Occupy the Fed into Occupy Wall Street into irrelevance) via well documented methods (see Snowden leaks, etc.)
Bitcoin is going to be attacked from every angle until such time until either it or central banks no longer exist.
This is probably a bad example because the end result was the invention of Git, and so you'd have a hard time these days convincing people that Tridgdell's actions had a bad outcome.
If you'd actually read the linked mailing list post (or even just read the quotes of it in the summary) you'd see that none of the abusive comments are aimed at people, they're aimed at the code. He calls the code a bunch of mean, nasty, insulting things, but he doesn't say anything about the people who worked or released that code. I think the distinction is important here. It's not abuse if there's nobody to be abused.
Secondarily: if you read the rest of the thread, he goes on to work with everyone very productively on tracking down the exact nature of the underlying bugs, posts deep analyses of the code generation differences, proposes a patch for his own kernel to work around this GCC bug, and goes and files the upstream Bugzilla report with the GCC team himself. On the whole I'd say this is pretty responsible and cooperative behavior.
What are you doing bringing objective facts into a Slashdot debate, I mean SWJdot?
I expect exchange rates to move in my favor, but that's just a side benefit. The real advantage of abandoning the Dollar for Bitcoin is that my liquidity and savings are no longer tied up in murder-based blood money.
Did you know human livers are a single broken gene away from maufacturing vitamin C from glucose, just like almost every other mammal?
The liver perform every step in the process except the final one, because of a single transacription error that was introduced into the germline back in ancient times
It would be cool to see what happens when they fix that.
And what's up with this "In 1942, more than 80 percent of Americans slept seven hours a night or more. Today, 40 percent sleep six hours or less" part?
I had to do some mental math to convert those equilvent comparisons 20% got less than 7 hours in 1942, and today 40% get less than 6.
Why would they make me do mental math when they know I probably didn't get enough sleep last night?
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Did I say anything about fighting back?
For some reason, it's culturally acceptable for men to learn how to defend themselves from sociopaths (who, like all predators prefer soft targets to hard targets).
However if anyone ever tries to talk about teaching women any kind of self defense, the accusations of "victim blaming" start up immediately.
Which is exactly what you'd expect sociopaths to instigate. Of course they'd oppose any effort to turn soft targets into hard targets.
The problem is not feminists or anti-feminists.
The problem is sociopaths, and sociopaths come in all genders and races.
Sociopaths are very good at mobilizing well-intentioned humans for their own purposes.
Humans tend to conform to the desires of sociopaths instead of confront them, because natural selection did not historically favor humans who opposed sociopaths.
I lost count of the number of things that are factually and conceptually wrong with that post.
While environmental studies professors continue to pump out ready excuses for imposing increasing economic feudalism in Europe and North America, China and India are going to build out nuclear power and produce energy. I doubt they'll be dissuaded from trying because of anything this professor says.
When people like this say, "the world can't" remember that they actually mean, "we aren't going to let you."
"Us" is all the people who have to live in a world where a fraction of the population uses violence and coercive power to get what they want and are looking forward to a post-state society.
On a sidenote, this is yet another problem that Bitcoin will solve for us.
Of course, I mean the problem that bank accounts and income streams can be garnished.
So many men are going benefit from the ability to hold their savings and earn income in a currency which no judge can remotely confiscate.
Actually 4chan has been executed.
All the old mods were mass-fired and replaced with new ones, one who have absolutely no connection with the community there.
Word on the street is that Moot has a new group of friends now and is trying to get into the SV startup scene.
New friends didn't approve of 4chan, so handng the site over to executioners was part of his initation ritual.
Everything you're saying is true, and the effect as been that people see what is happening, and they are responding.
The central planners tipped their hand by revealing just how effectively a small group of SV insiders control so much of the web, and now everybody knows about it.
The degree to which the SJW crowd has to resort to increasingly-inflammatory headlines and articles gives me a lot of hope, because it indicates that the collective unconscious of the Internet really does have a funcitoning immune response that can limit the damaged caused by that particularly nasty virus.
I was worried for a while.
I came here to post that exact response.
Both aluminium and plastic have both elastic deformation and plastic deformation modes. Depending on the exact material involved, plastic might have a larger or a smaller elastic deformation range than aluminium.
Old people.
A cohort of TV viewers die every day and are not replaced by younger ones.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/co...
It's a fun way to be proved right.
They don't even bother pretending to hide what they are doing.
Bitcoin is a social movement dedicated to the elimination of central banks by providing a superior alternative.
This is obviously of concern to the entire class of people who derive unearned benefits via the operation of central banks. That class has an well-trained group of mercenaries that specialize in identifying, infiltrating, and disrupting social movements which threaten the profits of the ruling classes (see the transformation of Occupy the Fed into Occupy Wall Street into irrelevance) via well documented methods (see Snowden leaks, etc.)
Bitcoin is going to be attacked from every angle until such time until either it or central banks no longer exist.
The end does not justify the means.
If you were going to go that route, you shouldn't have lead off by arguing from consequences to begin with.
This is probably a bad example because the end result was the invention of Git, and so you'd have a hard time these days convincing people that Tridgdell's actions had a bad outcome.
If you'd actually read the linked mailing list post (or even just read the quotes of it in the summary) you'd see that none of the abusive comments are aimed at people, they're aimed at the code. He calls the code a bunch of mean, nasty, insulting things, but he doesn't say anything about the people who worked or released that code. I think the distinction is important here. It's not abuse if there's nobody to be abused.
Secondarily: if you read the rest of the thread, he goes on to work with everyone very productively on tracking down the exact nature of the underlying bugs, posts deep analyses of the code generation differences, proposes a patch for his own kernel to work around this GCC bug, and goes and files the upstream Bugzilla report with the GCC team himself. On the whole I'd say this is pretty responsible and cooperative behavior.
What are you doing bringing objective facts into a Slashdot debate, I mean SWJdot?
We'll just have to see, won't we?
Are we talking about the bitcoin that was used on Silk Road?
Absolutely.
I expect exchange rates to move in my favor, but that's just a side benefit. The real advantage of abandoning the Dollar for Bitcoin is that my liquidity and savings are no longer tied up in murder-based blood money.
Bitcoin is a human rights movement.
Excellent news.
Seriously, I love hearing that. Not everybody deserves to be a Bitcoin early adopter.
Did you know human livers are a single broken gene away from maufacturing vitamin C from glucose, just like almost every other mammal?
The liver perform every step in the process except the final one, because of a single transacription error that was introduced into the germline back in ancient times
It would be cool to see what happens when they fix that.
And what's up with this "In 1942, more than 80 percent of Americans slept seven hours a night or more. Today, 40 percent sleep six hours or less" part?
I had to do some mental math to convert those equilvent comparisons 20% got less than 7 hours in 1942, and today 40% get less than 6.
Why would they make me do mental math when they know I probably didn't get enough sleep last night?