A lot of men are actually quite interested in that kind of work for very practical reasons:
1. It pays retty damned well for the kind of work it is 2. The hours are great and leaves most of the day to do whatever one wants to do.
My point is as it was. We have equal opportunity laws in place. If someone is in violation of them, let it be pursued. But to keep studying over and over and over again is ridiculous. It has been studied to death. We already know why women choose what they choose. We already know why there appears to be a glass ceiling which is actually a self-imposed limitaiton most of the time.
If a poll of pre-career young men and young women was taken (and with all these studies, I'm sure there must be more than a few) when asked the question of "rate the importance of having children and raising a family in the future" I would be utterly shocked if women didn't rate that importance higher than men. And statistically, that is precisely what affects career choices, career longevity, career performance and career dedication ratings of individual employees. And this isn't exactly a sexist issue. At this very moment, I have a co-worker who is male. Where we work, the unspoken expectation is "we work until the work is done." But he insists on going home at 4pm sharp as he is responsible for picking up his little boy. He makes 3x what his wife does and he is willing to compromise his career. Make no mistake about it -- it's a "career limiting choice." It's true when a guy does it and true when a woman does it. It's actually worse when a guy does it because we expect this behavior from female workers don't we?
Thankfully, people who go about labelling others with "bigot" and "racist" and "sexist" and the like are becoming a dying breed. -ism tensions all over the world are coming to a head especially as far more important concerns like survival are coming into the forefronts of everyone's minds. It is at that time when animal nature of staying with your group for support and safety will be the norm. No political correctness can cause enough guilt to overcome that.
Nature will always win out over human social constructs. It is only in times of peace and prosperity can we lend ourselves to higher matters and -isms. (Or to put it in more exact terms, it is when we run out of REAL problems that we can start creating problems like -isms.) And when you realise we do not live in a time of peace or prosperity, you will see why your petty assertions are not just meaningless, they are unpopular and unwanted.
Throughout the history of humanity, we go through these ridiculous cycles of enlightenment followed by religious/political darkness. We are presently in a period of darkness but will soon be out when the rest of all hell breaks loose.
Look. As long as there is nothing in a person's way (and this is already the case by law) these kinds of studies need to be abandoned. The fact is, there are FAR fewer female garbage truck drivers than male. Also, far fewer female auto mechanics. Are they being disciminated against there too? Or is it more likely they don't have an interest. And if it is lack of interest, look to that research. The more we understand our differences, the better off we will be.
What is the deal with bike helmet design anyway? Most of them look like you're supposed to be going 80 miles per hour. Mine doesn't look like that though. Lazersport.com's Urbanize is my helmet. It's nice.
That's ridiculous reasonig. It presumes people can't adapt their knowledge to new applications. I have no trouble with that.
And Cisco people come more expensively than Cisco gear. Seems to me it would be cheaper to go with something "not cisco." This is why I said "maybe worse" [than Microsoft] because they REALLY leverage their critical mass hard and they do so by creating this army of Cisco loyalists because they all have the IT industry fooled into thinking they are worth more.
None of what has been presented actually says Cisco is "superior." It all says Cisco is conveniently entrenched.
What amazes me is the current level of brand name dominance in technology. (I know, I'm repeating myself so I'll abbreviate) It's all so consumerist. We don't care what it actually does or doesn't do... or even how well it does it. We just care about the brand name.
"Do you know about networking?" "I'm Cisco Certified!!" "That wasn't the question..."
How many Cisco certified people do you know that don't know anything about networking?? I know a lot. It's the brand name that makes them important and the brand name that makes these devices valuable.
It tickles me to hear people say "Linux" and "toy" in the same sentence knowing that Cisco uses Linux in almost everything these days. That's like saying "I own a Lexus, you wouldn't catch me dead in a Toyota... those cars are crap!!" Sorry, but... you know?
And to me the real killer is that networking is 99.999% about being protocol implementation faithful so ALL devices of all brands should do the same damned things. (Yes, I know there are Cisco specific protocols and people should avoid them to avoid vendor lock-in.) Cisco isn't quite as bad as Microsoft, but in some ways, they're worse.
I think you don't quite get it. It's not "countries" that hold economic sway. It's a rather small collection of bankers. Countries don't control their own money any more. Pretty much every nation "outsourced" their monetary policy to "the cloud."
Now, the US Dollar is pretty much the world's exchange currency, but BRIC is set to replace the dollar.
I'm not saying things will be better once the US collapses. But it will give the US a chance to reboot and become something better (but might become worse). The people in charge are NOT going to give up short term benefits in favor of a better long-term future.
Economic power used to have something to do with production and crap like that. Now it's all about who is in control of the money. Problem is, those in control of money are not particularly responsible or interested in the welfare of the world.
1. The US's influence over the world will implode 2. The US's influence over the world will be "something something something 'DarkSide' something something something 'Complete!'"
What happens next should be obvious. Personally, I hope US influence implodes -- we need freedom and democracy again.
Free software, as good as it often is, does not do well in a consumerist society. We believe that anything good costs money and inversely, if it costs money it must be good and the more money it costs, the better it must be. What's more the implied belief is that if it's free, it can't be good.
But depite all that, it's not just people that are increasingly using it, it's that business is increasingly using it. I don't mind, terribly, that commercial software business actually uses free software to make their stuff... I do but I don't. VMWare still pisses me off in the sense that their product is Linux all over and yet they won't make a Linux client for it. (Way to take without giving back VMWare!!!)
But where the whole industry is going is changing. Where things will be in 3 to 5 years will be quite telling of where we're going and whether or not Microsoft will remain relevant into the future and all that. But one thing I know is certain: Things will not stay the same simply because Microsoft doesn't want them to change. And as Microsoft is apparently terrible at change, a pretty dismal picture is being painted for them. And seriously, are people really buying into the "cloud" nonsense?! Especially now with the NSA controlling the world's data?
Free software is and will be the way forward. Nothing is killing it. And I'm pretty sure open source software will be the way to restore trust in computing and in the internet.
If I were to do business in Japan and moved money in and out of a Japanese account for my business in Japan, does the IRS have the right to tax my business in Japan?
The IRS taxes on US business activity... in US currency. Not sure I agree with the IRS getting involved with something like this especially since I think they really don't understand what they are getting involved in.
Yeah, I get that already... Thanks NSA. I have ceased using a backup service for all my stuff -- I'll start subscribing to your services for data recovery.
If the shotgun shell evidence was relevant, it would reinforce their theory that squirming is an admission of guilt. They wouldn't leave that out unless the evidence was "inconclusive." That's the thing about shotgun shell evidence. It's either inconclusive or it's not. It's never proof of innocence.
You have to admit that these discussions help some. I'm sure others might argue to the contrary, but discussion and debate brings about new ideas (for some) to consider.
...and I might add that the shotgun shell evidence was not mentioned as direct evidence of guilt in this case. If they had matched the shells with the shotgun, they wouldn't need to rely on "he was squirming in his seat when I asked him!" as evidence. "He just LOOKED guilty as hell!"
Firing pin marks are EXTREMELY bad evidence. On some rare occasions, a firing pin might be deformed enough to leave a distinctive mark, but that's not quite the norm.
Shotguns and consistency are hard to put together.
If body language is testimony, then I am afraid we will have to release a LOT of convicted rapists. "She said 'No!' but her eyes said 'Yes!'" Sound familiar? Or is it the exclusive domain of the government to be allowed to interpret the meaning of body language? (And before anyone says "it was the jury, not the government!" I'll remind you that jurists *ARE* government and so is the prosecution who claims this is evidence and the judges who allow it.)
Let's just change the miranda rights script to say "anything can and will be used against you... if you say something it can and will be used against you... if you say nothing, it can and will be used against you." Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
If this isn't cause to oppose the entire judicial system, I don't know what is. When you make people believe that they are screwed no matter what they do, even when it is within their rights, people are going to just decide not to lay down and take it -- they'll fight back in some OTHER way.
Let's say this another way: This decision endangers law enforcement personnel.
Slashdot Mirror
Please stay at home and drink beer. We don't need you peeing in our gene pool.
A lot of men are actually quite interested in that kind of work for very practical reasons:
1. It pays retty damned well for the kind of work it is
2. The hours are great and leaves most of the day to do whatever one wants to do.
My point is as it was. We have equal opportunity laws in place. If someone is in violation of them, let it be pursued. But to keep studying over and over and over again is ridiculous. It has been studied to death. We already know why women choose what they choose. We already know why there appears to be a glass ceiling which is actually a self-imposed limitaiton most of the time.
If a poll of pre-career young men and young women was taken (and with all these studies, I'm sure there must be more than a few) when asked the question of "rate the importance of having children and raising a family in the future" I would be utterly shocked if women didn't rate that importance higher than men. And statistically, that is precisely what affects career choices, career longevity, career performance and career dedication ratings of individual employees. And this isn't exactly a sexist issue. At this very moment, I have a co-worker who is male. Where we work, the unspoken expectation is "we work until the work is done." But he insists on going home at 4pm sharp as he is responsible for picking up his little boy. He makes 3x what his wife does and he is willing to compromise his career. Make no mistake about it -- it's a "career limiting choice." It's true when a guy does it and true when a woman does it. It's actually worse when a guy does it because we expect this behavior from female workers don't we?
Thankfully, people who go about labelling others with "bigot" and "racist" and "sexist" and the like are becoming a dying breed. -ism tensions all over the world are coming to a head especially as far more important concerns like survival are coming into the forefronts of everyone's minds. It is at that time when animal nature of staying with your group for support and safety will be the norm. No political correctness can cause enough guilt to overcome that.
Nature will always win out over human social constructs. It is only in times of peace and prosperity can we lend ourselves to higher matters and -isms. (Or to put it in more exact terms, it is when we run out of REAL problems that we can start creating problems like -isms.) And when you realise we do not live in a time of peace or prosperity, you will see why your petty assertions are not just meaningless, they are unpopular and unwanted.
Throughout the history of humanity, we go through these ridiculous cycles of enlightenment followed by religious/political darkness. We are presently in a period of darkness but will soon be out when the rest of all hell breaks loose.
No. Men and women play different roles biologically. They have different drives biologically.
We should do what nature wants us to do, not what the politics of the day say we should. When we mess with nature, there is always a consequence.
Look. As long as there is nothing in a person's way (and this is already the case by law) these kinds of studies need to be abandoned. The fact is, there are FAR fewer female garbage truck drivers than male. Also, far fewer female auto mechanics. Are they being disciminated against there too? Or is it more likely they don't have an interest. And if it is lack of interest, look to that research. The more we understand our differences, the better off we will be.
I have been looking forward to this for a long, long time... I
As screw the build up. I just wanted to say "peta-file" It's a funny word.
Say it isn't so!?
What is the deal with bike helmet design anyway? Most of them look like you're supposed to be going 80 miles per hour. Mine doesn't look like that though. Lazersport.com's Urbanize is my helmet. It's nice.
Damnit! Now I can't not see it. I was fine untl you pointed it out. Thanks for ruining my life forever.
It's a fair argument. If you are not compiling your binaries, how do you know what you have is compiled from the source you have available?
Truth? You don't. If you suspect something, you should investigate.
...this is it. We've got drones on Mars already. They just don't fly yet.
That's ridiculous reasonig. It presumes people can't adapt their knowledge to new applications. I have no trouble with that.
And Cisco people come more expensively than Cisco gear. Seems to me it would be cheaper to go with something "not cisco." This is why I said "maybe worse" [than Microsoft] because they REALLY leverage their critical mass hard and they do so by creating this army of Cisco loyalists because they all have the IT industry fooled into thinking they are worth more.
None of what has been presented actually says Cisco is "superior." It all says Cisco is conveniently entrenched.
What amazes me is the current level of brand name dominance in technology. (I know, I'm repeating myself so I'll abbreviate) It's all so consumerist. We don't care what it actually does or doesn't do... or even how well it does it. We just care about the brand name.
"Do you know about networking?" "I'm Cisco Certified!!" "That wasn't the question..."
How many Cisco certified people do you know that don't know anything about networking?? I know a lot. It's the brand name that makes them important and the brand name that makes these devices valuable.
It tickles me to hear people say "Linux" and "toy" in the same sentence knowing that Cisco uses Linux in almost everything these days. That's like saying "I own a Lexus, you wouldn't catch me dead in a Toyota... those cars are crap!!" Sorry, but... you know?
And to me the real killer is that networking is 99.999% about being protocol implementation faithful so ALL devices of all brands should do the same damned things. (Yes, I know there are Cisco specific protocols and people should avoid them to avoid vendor lock-in.) Cisco isn't quite as bad as Microsoft, but in some ways, they're worse.
I think you don't quite get it. It's not "countries" that hold economic sway. It's a rather small collection of bankers. Countries don't control their own money any more. Pretty much every nation "outsourced" their monetary policy to "the cloud."
Now, the US Dollar is pretty much the world's exchange currency, but BRIC is set to replace the dollar.
I'm not saying things will be better once the US collapses. But it will give the US a chance to reboot and become something better (but might become worse). The people in charge are NOT going to give up short term benefits in favor of a better long-term future.
Economic power used to have something to do with production and crap like that. Now it's all about who is in control of the money. Problem is, those in control of money are not particularly responsible or interested in the welfare of the world.
One of two bad things will happen:
1. The US's influence over the world will implode
2. The US's influence over the world will be "something something something 'DarkSide' something something something 'Complete!'"
What happens next should be obvious. Personally, I hope US influence implodes -- we need freedom and democracy again.
Free software, as good as it often is, does not do well in a consumerist society. We believe that anything good costs money and inversely, if it costs money it must be good and the more money it costs, the better it must be. What's more the implied belief is that if it's free, it can't be good.
But depite all that, it's not just people that are increasingly using it, it's that business is increasingly using it. I don't mind, terribly, that commercial software business actually uses free software to make their stuff... I do but I don't. VMWare still pisses me off in the sense that their product is Linux all over and yet they won't make a Linux client for it. (Way to take without giving back VMWare!!!)
But where the whole industry is going is changing. Where things will be in 3 to 5 years will be quite telling of where we're going and whether or not Microsoft will remain relevant into the future and all that. But one thing I know is certain: Things will not stay the same simply because Microsoft doesn't want them to change. And as Microsoft is apparently terrible at change, a pretty dismal picture is being painted for them. And seriously, are people really buying into the "cloud" nonsense?! Especially now with the NSA controlling the world's data?
Free software is and will be the way forward. Nothing is killing it. And I'm pretty sure open source software will be the way to restore trust in computing and in the internet.
...still don't know her last name...
If I were to do business in Japan and moved money in and out of a Japanese account for my business in Japan, does the IRS have the right to tax my business in Japan?
The IRS taxes on US business activity... in US currency. Not sure I agree with the IRS getting involved with something like this especially since I think they really don't understand what they are getting involved in.
Yeah, I get that already... Thanks NSA. I have ceased using a backup service for all my stuff -- I'll start subscribing to your services for data recovery.
If the shotgun shell evidence was relevant, it would reinforce their theory that squirming is an admission of guilt. They wouldn't leave that out unless the evidence was "inconclusive." That's the thing about shotgun shell evidence. It's either inconclusive or it's not. It's never proof of innocence.
You have to admit that these discussions help some. I'm sure others might argue to the contrary, but discussion and debate brings about new ideas (for some) to consider.
...and I might add that the shotgun shell evidence was not mentioned as direct evidence of guilt in this case. If they had matched the shells with the shotgun, they wouldn't need to rely on "he was squirming in his seat when I asked him!" as evidence. "He just LOOKED guilty as hell!"
Seriously...
http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/collect.html
Even this says that shotgun shells vary greatly in terms of quality of evidence.
Firing pin marks are EXTREMELY bad evidence. On some rare occasions, a firing pin might be deformed enough to leave a distinctive mark, but that's not quite the norm.
Shotguns and consistency are hard to put together.
If body language is testimony, then I am afraid we will have to release a LOT of convicted rapists. "She said 'No!' but her eyes said 'Yes!'" Sound familiar? Or is it the exclusive domain of the government to be allowed to interpret the meaning of body language? (And before anyone says "it was the jury, not the government!" I'll remind you that jurists *ARE* government and so is the prosecution who claims this is evidence and the judges who allow it.)
This ruling simply frightens and disturbs me.
Let's just change the miranda rights script to say "anything can and will be used against you... if you say something it can and will be used against you... if you say nothing, it can and will be used against you." Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
If this isn't cause to oppose the entire judicial system, I don't know what is. When you make people believe that they are screwed no matter what they do, even when it is within their rights, people are going to just decide not to lay down and take it -- they'll fight back in some OTHER way.
Let's say this another way: This decision endangers law enforcement personnel.