The title talks about gender AND race gaps. So let's talk about race too. But your commentary works as well for racial differences too. It's just not as popular to point it out.
"This is a sticky issue but there are differences between whites and blacks.
Anthropologists and neurologists have been proving this for some time.
Now I am not saying blacks are not capable of doing the work. Rather, they don't want to do it or don't find it interesting. And yes, there are exceptions but statistically most blacks simply don't want to do technical work. Its not what makes them happy.
What is more, why are we so hyper obessessed about the race gap in these fields? What about the lack of black lumber jacks or black coal miners or black crab fishers?
I'm sorry, but why is it that they only care about jobs considered high status? And really, is tech even high status at this point? Oh sure, there are some extremely well paid positions in that industry but there are also a lot that pay nothing. Its a range.
And while we're at it, lets point out that the start ups were by and large set up by collections of interested young whites that started out with NOTHING.
Nothing is stopping blacks from doing the same thing but generally speaking they don't do it. They're not the sort to drop out of college, start some crazy company with some friends, and risk everything to make a go of it in one thing or another. They just aren't wired that way. And to be honest, most whites aren't wired that way either.
Statistically some whites are... and while some blacks are... its a tiny percentage.
In any case, this race gap argument is bullshit and needs to get filed as legacy affirmative action bullcrap."
It' still kind of works though I kind of got a grin talking about black coal miners... I kind of thought they ALL were.
Men have personalities. Women have personalities. They quite often very different. They lead people into different directions in life.
Why aren't we asking why there aren't more "jocks" in science and why there aren't more "nerds" in sports? It's the SAME CAUSES.
And every time the topic comes up, it invariably results in recommendations of making an environment more comfortable for the other party. And this push ALWAYS goes one direction without fail. So here it is.
WHITE MEN: You must change everything about yourself. You are to blame for everyone else not being like you. Women don't want to work with you in your job and it's always YOUR FAULT. Black people never feel welcome or equal in your work place either and guess whose fault that is? That's right. It's your fault.
Has no one ever wondered or asked why we're only pushing to have more diversity in a white man's environment? Why it's considered wrong for there to even be a white man's environment? Why is there no push for diversity in churches? Why is there a Korean Christian church around the corner? Why aren't there more Christians and Jews in mosques? There is a long, long list of things women do which men have no interest and yet no one is pushing for more diversity in those areas.
Diversity is code for anti-white-male. Show me I'm wrong by pointing to an instance calling for diversity that isn't targetting while males?
Yes, we should use government issued IDs with biometrics to prove our identity with every transaction. It's the last link in the chain they haven't quite closed yet... well that and paper cash.
Is this the next false flag? We've already got just about everyone convinced that magic card numbers are "identity" And we've already convinced the public that breech of this "identity" somehow hurts the person identified (not the banks or retailers) and that the banks and retailers are being generous by helping us out of this mess when it happens. And on top of that? When it happens, we get "free credit monitoring services!"
We're now seeing an avalanche of these types of breeches. What are they planning? A National ID to prevent "identity theft"? Biometric tracking?
Oh we don't need to look any further than the constant concentration of wealth.
The wealthy want more. Where can they get it? From the greatest consumers of all? No. Those are the poor. Of all the people who are famous for living beyond their means, it is the poor. Mostly, that's why they are poor. So that's not it.
The middle class still believe the harder you work, the better you will be. That's an endless amount of drive. Surely they will continue being middle class even after they become poor. What's killing the middle class? Lack of working opportunities. Where are they going and why? We know these answers. What gets me are all these consumer oriented businesses who can't see they are destroying their customers and when they are gone, where will they turn?
Not quite a ruse. It's just that they are both collectivists and their leadership is extremely beholden to interests other than the people of the US.
They are both beyond help and it's time for something new to happen. The old just doesn't work any longer and they are going to do anything and everything to hang on to what they have and fight changing anything at all.
The existence of GMOs have NOT boosted production in the slightest. What GMOs do is make the plants immune to a particular herbicide. This herbicide immunity, by the way, is an immunity being acquired by other "pest" plants which were the original target of the herbicide.
In the absense of GMOs the people would still be fed. GMOs do not represent a world-saving technology. What they represent is a danger to the world's food supply not only because it comes under control of a small collection of companies, but because it reduces the varieties of plants available. In the event a disease develops to wipe out these GMOs, there may be extreme starvation and human suffering due to the continual growth of GMO use.
Please shill for Monsanto elsewhere. You're just wrong about so much.
As for murder? Well, just wait until someone resists. You will find that, just as in the case of the Bostom bombing, not only will direct suspects be killed under strange circumstances where witnesses and evidence contradicts official stories, but people who knew the suspects are also killed. Kind of sounds like what you're saying of the Gestapo.
You're either being intentionally deceitful or you're wilfully ignorant of what has been going on.
That's the thing that I can't get past. We haven't surrendered anything. We haven't "traded" security for liberty. We haven't made any bargains of the sort. All of these "erosions" on our freedoms and rights have been perpetrated against us without our will and without our knowledge. They have lied and cheated and stolen from us our birthrights as humans as recognized and defined to us under the US constitution. And without the revelations, the world would still be living under the huge, thick blanket of lies.
Are we all expected to blame ourselves for "voting someone in"? This goes back futher than many people know and isn't tied to any one president or any one political party. We keep wanting to simplify everything to the point that we simply can't and do not want to understand the full scope of the disillusionment we are experiencing.
If they are infinitely weaker, then by the math of the infinite, they must have been infinitely powerful which is not what they should be. And since they are STILL doing the things they have been doing with no indication that they have stopped or slowed down in any way, they must STILL be infinitely powewrful.
Where an organization like that exists, we are all in danger.
Yeah, we've just seen the story recently (or was that somewhere else?) where a woman who had moved her home off the grid and had her story told on the local news received a visit by the local government declaring her home unfit for human habitation without so much as an inspection.
But there is a way. It is, as one would expect, the responsibility of the homeowner to buy all the stuff needed to move off the grid. So why not perform the act through a weening process? I've pointed it out before that as home lighting is trying to become more efficient, LED lighting wants to work on lower power but efficiency is actually harmed with each AC-DC conversion for each LED lamp. So why not start by going DC in the home? Starting with lighting and moving on to appliances and other fixtures until eventually all AC is either derived from your own from your own inverter or all your devices are converted until you are weened. I think it should be perfectly okay with the utilities that your local power does not interface with the grid.
First of all, as a formerly "awkward teen" and presently mostly well adjusted adult (what geek on here can claim otherwise?) I can say that socializing isn't as natural for some as it is for others. So a potential contributing factor is likely attributable to the epidemic proportions in the rate of ASD. (Among children now worse than 1:30!) If you want to point to social disorders, there's an obvious problem that doesn't require technology as a scapegoat.
Next, there's the "everyone's doing it and if you don't let your children participate, you are HARMING their social interaction, not helping it" problem. That's right. I just said that if parents didn't allow their children to text and facebook, they would become awkward among their participatory peers. So while there are clear signs of dependency and even addiction, it is also the new media by which kids interact. And we can say the same thing for smoking cigarettes and marijuana as well. Social and peer factors are huge in teenage years. If parents taught their children to love and respect them, then their input and advice would be valued. So yes, there is a factor of parental blame to be spread around... but you might have to trace that back one or two more generations back before you find the source.
And if you want to place blame on technology, let's talk to the people who CREATE and MARKET the technology. They are aiming these markets directly at children. It's just as outrageous as cigarette companies marketing their product to children isn't it? Eventually, it was curtailed. Then again, Disney markets sex to kids and no one has managed to say much or stop them. Perhaps it's just not as obvious. But the fact remains, for the areas we're talking about, it's pretty clear and obvious the means and methods involved are specifically marketed to the demographic under discussion. Aren't they to blame for exploiting this market of children?
I'm not defending parents who buy their preteens frikken expensive phones and ipads and the like. I personally feel like it's outrageous. I didn't do it and I'm not going to do it. But I'm not going to tell parents they shouldn't do that as I'm sure there are things they could assert I'm doing wrong in their view as well. (I'm also pretty sure they wouldn't listen to the likes of me anyway.) So not going ot cast stones. I will, instead, try to lead by example as much as possible,
So I guess part of the topic is the question of whether parents today are raising their kids wrong. I have to say, "unquestionably." But this problem started when most of us were kids and slightly before then. Anyone recall referring to the TV as "the babysitter"? Anyone who recalls hearing this probably knows exactly what I'm driving at. But the problem is increased exponentially as those children are now parents and if they didn't grow up with good parents, then how on earth are they expected to know how to raise children?! Am I wrong in observing that we have a generation of immature parents (not 'young' parents, but childish parents) trying to raise children without a clue as to how to do it?
We have 2-3 generations of consumerist, debt-financing people acting like zombies all over the US and we're only NOW talking about what's wrong with kids? And we have the audacity to blame parents who were mostly raised by deficient parents? I say mostly, because a small handful of us actually did have some level of parenting and grandparenting in our lives and managed to absorb their wisdom and all that. And I did say grandparenting. What do we do with grandparents these days? Put'm in a home right? Not in my family. But what do I know -- I'm an outlier. None of my grandparents ever spent a day in a retirement home or community or any such facility. My mother, for example, acquired some land and set up two homes on it where one was inhabited by my grandmother. Imagine that? How could that have happened?
Here's a clue-stick for anyone here who doesn't understand how it REALLY works.
I love that they say possible but not exploited. Like suuuuure. They would just save that one for later right? They will never leave any option or opportunity open. they collect more data than they will ever ever ever need. It's like the NSA is run by obsessive hoarders.
All sorts of mischief will ensue from this. Thought it was bad enough guys taking cell phone pictures of girls' asses in line at McDonald's? How about ball-toss down-the-blouse shots? How about tossing it over fence level at your topless sunbathing neighbor?
It has been demonstrated that the intelligence agencies (plural) in the US government is the tail that wags the dog. This is historically true and more than likely true today as well. When you've got the dirt on many people, how tempting would it be to leverage that into getting your way? It's a temptation many could not avoid exploiting.
With the failure of so many blue cities and states, it should be increasingly more obvious that their philosophy/ideology is wrong. Issues like gun control invariably fail to account for the increase in crime which results. (Interestingly, states which outlawed radar detectors enjoyed better road safety when those bans were lifted, so why can't they accept the same for gun laws? Unfair comparison? Maybe.) The practice of taxing to provide too much to people and making them dependent on the government will result in a strain on the economy and the local tax payers. Some people will continue living in such areas while others will certainly want to leave which certainly decreases the people from which they can leech taxes which means they will have to increase taxes to compensate and the downward spiral continues.
Why do they not get it? Also, who are they giving these government contracts to? Their friends? Yeah, they are. That kind of crap needs to stop too.
It's supposed to be the courts. But when the courts rule one way and then law enforcement ignores it, we're just lost. It's depressing. Law enforcement will, for example, trample various right and punish locally even executing prisoners (calling it an accident) when they know the judiciary will rule against them. It's sick. It's disgusting. We don't have rule of law. We have rule of governments.
At the moment, until the people can trust their government again, participating in government makes you a bad guy especially if your job is essentially protecting the bad guys.
The most significant move to protect the security of the US is for the US to stop ficking with people in other nations. While I recognize that won't stop the Chinese or the Israelis (the Israelis will consider the US an enemy if we stop supporting them) it's a step in the direction of regaining the trust of the people of the US and the other nations of the world. Without trust, we don't have anything... or we won't for long to be sure.
Put that experience on a resume and you're likely to see more rejections than you would expect normally. There was a time when "government job" meant something but now it means something else entirely to a growing number of people and businesses out there. Things are getting polarized. Working and living in the DC area showed me exactly how polarized they are even 3-4 years ago.
Do you acknowledge that the largest part of Bitcoin's fluctuation has to do with politics? (Also hacking) Seriously. Bitcoin took a hit when the government got involved with various activities which are connected to it.
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The title talks about gender AND race gaps. So let's talk about race too. But your commentary works as well for racial differences too. It's just not as popular to point it out.
"This is a sticky issue but there are differences between whites and blacks.
Anthropologists and neurologists have been proving this for some time.
Now I am not saying blacks are not capable of doing the work. Rather, they don't want to do it or don't find it interesting. And yes, there are exceptions but statistically most blacks simply don't want to do technical work. Its not what makes them happy.
What is more, why are we so hyper obessessed about the race gap in these fields? What about the lack of black lumber jacks or black coal miners or black crab fishers?
I'm sorry, but why is it that they only care about jobs considered high status? And really, is tech even high status at this point? Oh sure, there are some extremely well paid positions in that industry but there are also a lot that pay nothing. Its a range.
And while we're at it, lets point out that the start ups were by and large set up by collections of interested young whites that started out with NOTHING.
Nothing is stopping blacks from doing the same thing but generally speaking they don't do it. They're not the sort to drop out of college, start some crazy company with some friends, and risk everything to make a go of it in one thing or another. They just aren't wired that way. And to be honest, most whites aren't wired that way either.
Statistically some whites are... and while some blacks are... its a tiny percentage.
In any case, this race gap argument is bullshit and needs to get filed as legacy affirmative action bullcrap."
It' still kind of works though I kind of got a grin talking about black coal miners... I kind of thought they ALL were.
Men have personalities. Women have personalities. They quite often very different. They lead people into different directions in life.
Why aren't we asking why there aren't more "jocks" in science and why there aren't more "nerds" in sports? It's the SAME CAUSES.
And every time the topic comes up, it invariably results in recommendations of making an environment more comfortable for the other party. And this push ALWAYS goes one direction without fail. So here it is.
WHITE MEN: You must change everything about yourself. You are to blame for everyone else not being like you. Women don't want to work with you in your job and it's always YOUR FAULT. Black people never feel welcome or equal in your work place either and guess whose fault that is? That's right. It's your fault.
Has no one ever wondered or asked why we're only pushing to have more diversity in a white man's environment? Why it's considered wrong for there to even be a white man's environment? Why is there no push for diversity in churches? Why is there a Korean Christian church around the corner? Why aren't there more Christians and Jews in mosques? There is a long, long list of things women do which men have no interest and yet no one is pushing for more diversity in those areas.
Diversity is code for anti-white-male. Show me I'm wrong by pointing to an instance calling for diversity that isn't targetting while males?
Yes, we should use government issued IDs with biometrics to prove our identity with every transaction. It's the last link in the chain they haven't quite closed yet... well that and paper cash.
Is this the next false flag? We've already got just about everyone convinced that magic card numbers are "identity" And we've already convinced the public that breech of this "identity" somehow hurts the person identified (not the banks or retailers) and that the banks and retailers are being generous by helping us out of this mess when it happens. And on top of that? When it happens, we get "free credit monitoring services!"
We're now seeing an avalanche of these types of breeches. What are they planning? A National ID to prevent "identity theft"? Biometric tracking?
Oh we don't need to look any further than the constant concentration of wealth.
The wealthy want more. Where can they get it? From the greatest consumers of all? No. Those are the poor. Of all the people who are famous for living beyond their means, it is the poor. Mostly, that's why they are poor. So that's not it.
The middle class still believe the harder you work, the better you will be. That's an endless amount of drive. Surely they will continue being middle class even after they become poor. What's killing the middle class? Lack of working opportunities. Where are they going and why? We know these answers. What gets me are all these consumer oriented businesses who can't see they are destroying their customers and when they are gone, where will they turn?
Idiots.
Not quite a ruse. It's just that they are both collectivists and their leadership is extremely beholden to interests other than the people of the US.
They are both beyond help and it's time for something new to happen. The old just doesn't work any longer and they are going to do anything and everything to hang on to what they have and fight changing anything at all.
It's for their protection. Don't the congressmen need to be safe like the rest of us?
Try again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/business/energy-environment/04weed.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
There was an article right here on slashdot which served to announce the problem which had been speculated to happen eventually has been confirmed.
The existence of GMOs have NOT boosted production in the slightest. What GMOs do is make the plants immune to a particular herbicide. This herbicide immunity, by the way, is an immunity being acquired by other "pest" plants which were the original target of the herbicide.
In the absense of GMOs the people would still be fed. GMOs do not represent a world-saving technology. What they represent is a danger to the world's food supply not only because it comes under control of a small collection of companies, but because it reduces the varieties of plants available. In the event a disease develops to wipe out these GMOs, there may be extreme starvation and human suffering due to the continual growth of GMO use.
Please shill for Monsanto elsewhere. You're just wrong about so much.
ICE is not TSA though they are both under DHS.
As for murder? Well, just wait until someone resists. You will find that, just as in the case of the Bostom bombing, not only will direct suspects be killed under strange circumstances where witnesses and evidence contradicts official stories, but people who knew the suspects are also killed. Kind of sounds like what you're saying of the Gestapo.
You're either being intentionally deceitful or you're wilfully ignorant of what has been going on.
I seem to recall Apple recently acquired a certain type of government security approval. I wonder if any of that is related.
That's the thing that I can't get past. We haven't surrendered anything. We haven't "traded" security for liberty. We haven't made any bargains of the sort. All of these "erosions" on our freedoms and rights have been perpetrated against us without our will and without our knowledge. They have lied and cheated and stolen from us our birthrights as humans as recognized and defined to us under the US constitution. And without the revelations, the world would still be living under the huge, thick blanket of lies.
Are we all expected to blame ourselves for "voting someone in"? This goes back futher than many people know and isn't tied to any one president or any one political party. We keep wanting to simplify everything to the point that we simply can't and do not want to understand the full scope of the disillusionment we are experiencing.
If they are infinitely weaker, then by the math of the infinite, they must have been infinitely powerful which is not what they should be. And since they are STILL doing the things they have been doing with no indication that they have stopped or slowed down in any way, they must STILL be infinitely powewrful.
Where an organization like that exists, we are all in danger.
Yeah, we've just seen the story recently (or was that somewhere else?) where a woman who had moved her home off the grid and had her story told on the local news received a visit by the local government declaring her home unfit for human habitation without so much as an inspection.
But there is a way. It is, as one would expect, the responsibility of the homeowner to buy all the stuff needed to move off the grid. So why not perform the act through a weening process? I've pointed it out before that as home lighting is trying to become more efficient, LED lighting wants to work on lower power but efficiency is actually harmed with each AC-DC conversion for each LED lamp. So why not start by going DC in the home? Starting with lighting and moving on to appliances and other fixtures until eventually all AC is either derived from your own from your own inverter or all your devices are converted until you are weened. I think it should be perfectly okay with the utilities that your local power does not interface with the grid.
First of all, as a formerly "awkward teen" and presently mostly well adjusted adult (what geek on here can claim otherwise?) I can say that socializing isn't as natural for some as it is for others. So a potential contributing factor is likely attributable to the epidemic proportions in the rate of ASD. (Among children now worse than 1:30!) If you want to point to social disorders, there's an obvious problem that doesn't require technology as a scapegoat.
Next, there's the "everyone's doing it and if you don't let your children participate, you are HARMING their social interaction, not helping it" problem. That's right. I just said that if parents didn't allow their children to text and facebook, they would become awkward among their participatory peers. So while there are clear signs of dependency and even addiction, it is also the new media by which kids interact. And we can say the same thing for smoking cigarettes and marijuana as well. Social and peer factors are huge in teenage years. If parents taught their children to love and respect them, then their input and advice would be valued. So yes, there is a factor of parental blame to be spread around... but you might have to trace that back one or two more generations back before you find the source.
And if you want to place blame on technology, let's talk to the people who CREATE and MARKET the technology. They are aiming these markets directly at children. It's just as outrageous as cigarette companies marketing their product to children isn't it? Eventually, it was curtailed. Then again, Disney markets sex to kids and no one has managed to say much or stop them. Perhaps it's just not as obvious. But the fact remains, for the areas we're talking about, it's pretty clear and obvious the means and methods involved are specifically marketed to the demographic under discussion. Aren't they to blame for exploiting this market of children?
I'm not defending parents who buy their preteens frikken expensive phones and ipads and the like. I personally feel like it's outrageous. I didn't do it and I'm not going to do it. But I'm not going to tell parents they shouldn't do that as I'm sure there are things they could assert I'm doing wrong in their view as well. (I'm also pretty sure they wouldn't listen to the likes of me anyway.) So not going ot cast stones. I will, instead, try to lead by example as much as possible,
So I guess part of the topic is the question of whether parents today are raising their kids wrong. I have to say, "unquestionably." But this problem started when most of us were kids and slightly before then. Anyone recall referring to the TV as "the babysitter"? Anyone who recalls hearing this probably knows exactly what I'm driving at. But the problem is increased exponentially as those children are now parents and if they didn't grow up with good parents, then how on earth are they expected to know how to raise children?! Am I wrong in observing that we have a generation of immature parents (not 'young' parents, but childish parents) trying to raise children without a clue as to how to do it?
We have 2-3 generations of consumerist, debt-financing people acting like zombies all over the US and we're only NOW talking about what's wrong with kids? And we have the audacity to blame parents who were mostly raised by deficient parents? I say mostly, because a small handful of us actually did have some level of parenting and grandparenting in our lives and managed to absorb their wisdom and all that. And I did say grandparenting. What do we do with grandparents these days? Put'm in a home right? Not in my family. But what do I know -- I'm an outlier. None of my grandparents ever spent a day in a retirement home or community or any such facility. My mother, for example, acquired some land and set up two homes on it where one was inhabited by my grandmother. Imagine that? How could that have happened?
Here's a clue-stick for anyone here who doesn't understand how it REALLY works.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/101713-cisco-nsa-backdoor-274965.html
I love that they say possible but not exploited. Like suuuuure. They would just save that one for later right? They will never leave any option or opportunity open. they collect more data than they will ever ever ever need. It's like the NSA is run by obsessive hoarders.
All sorts of mischief will ensue from this. Thought it was bad enough guys taking cell phone pictures of girls' asses in line at McDonald's? How about ball-toss down-the-blouse shots? How about tossing it over fence level at your topless sunbathing neighbor?
Where do I get one?
It has been demonstrated that the intelligence agencies (plural) in the US government is the tail that wags the dog. This is historically true and more than likely true today as well. When you've got the dirt on many people, how tempting would it be to leverage that into getting your way? It's a temptation many could not avoid exploiting.
I was going to say that.
RSA compromised with money. Cisco compromised already documented. Juniper? I don't know but I wouldn't doubt it.
NSA, you've turned the world against the US and all its businesses. Happy yet?
With the failure of so many blue cities and states, it should be increasingly more obvious that their philosophy/ideology is wrong. Issues like gun control invariably fail to account for the increase in crime which results. (Interestingly, states which outlawed radar detectors enjoyed better road safety when those bans were lifted, so why can't they accept the same for gun laws? Unfair comparison? Maybe.) The practice of taxing to provide too much to people and making them dependent on the government will result in a strain on the economy and the local tax payers. Some people will continue living in such areas while others will certainly want to leave which certainly decreases the people from which they can leech taxes which means they will have to increase taxes to compensate and the downward spiral continues.
Why do they not get it? Also, who are they giving these government contracts to? Their friends? Yeah, they are. That kind of crap needs to stop too.
It's supposed to be the courts. But when the courts rule one way and then law enforcement ignores it, we're just lost. It's depressing. Law enforcement will, for example, trample various right and punish locally even executing prisoners (calling it an accident) when they know the judiciary will rule against them. It's sick. It's disgusting. We don't have rule of law. We have rule of governments.
At the moment, until the people can trust their government again, participating in government makes you a bad guy especially if your job is essentially protecting the bad guys.
The most significant move to protect the security of the US is for the US to stop ficking with people in other nations. While I recognize that won't stop the Chinese or the Israelis (the Israelis will consider the US an enemy if we stop supporting them) it's a step in the direction of regaining the trust of the people of the US and the other nations of the world. Without trust, we don't have anything... or we won't for long to be sure.
The world is already routing around the damage.
Put that experience on a resume and you're likely to see more rejections than you would expect normally. There was a time when "government job" meant something but now it means something else entirely to a growing number of people and businesses out there. Things are getting polarized. Working and living in the DC area showed me exactly how polarized they are even 3-4 years ago.
US dollars are used in the same stuff and more often.
Do you acknowledge that the largest part of Bitcoin's fluctuation has to do with politics? (Also hacking) Seriously. Bitcoin took a hit when the government got involved with various activities which are connected to it.