Obvious troll is obvious, but I think you'll find the "war on nerds" is receding. Google is finally large enough to buy congresscritters, 90s nostaliga and "nerd culture", i.e. a whole slew of hipsters posing as nerds has never been more popular, video games went mainstream, 76% of all computers world wide run Linux, and the tech sector is the hottest field to work in. Being a "nerd" is now cool and has been for around 7-10 years now. The hipsters have finally stopped pretending to be rock'n'roll types and now want to be us.
If you don't have a powerful 1Ghz+ dualcore internet capable computer in your pocket you're a looser, and even the trendies recent memes made online from nerds. Heck you are even on slashdot(you wouldn't see me caught dead hanging out with your lame friends).
On ESPN and I saw them discussing the physics of the flight of a baseball when discussing sports, estimating both the neccary force for a home run, and the actual force of the ball using some pretty good maths. Their new mascot for football is a robot as well.
Just about every industry is computerized, and the most powerful businesses and governments in the world depend on computers to function, and for their power. To include the massive intra-national cyberwars, again, all fought by nerds.
President Obama won both elections because of internet help. First with a large grassroots movement of cyber-activists, second with a specialized team of nerds loaned from google to help connect with people. Unlike "Real People", they don't have social intellegence to connect with people, they just run statistics on people based on what they get from google, and then instead of misguiding insticts, make decisions based on logic and observation.
Oh, speaking of "Real People", most of you are simply puppets that do whatever advertising tells you to do. Of course back in 1995 you'd have some fancy pants media type doing that. Guess who does the programming for that today? Some fucking neckbeard. The same type who told you to "Vote Obama" in 2012. But a liiiberaal consparacy you say? Guess who the only real bunch of "conservatives" really able to stick up to him? you guessed it, internet libertarians, more nerds. 20 years ago, if the media industry wanted legilsation passed it was rubber stamped. Today, SOPA/PIPA sank like a stone. Guess who's been the only real driving force in politics in the last 5 years? Nerds nerds more nerds. Some liberal nerds, some libertarian nerds.
suggesting to turn down an offer from the State would be... Unwise.
there is no shortage of tech jobs. If you can't see that, you're not working in industry. You'll get paid more and treated better elsewhere.
I have, and I think it proves my point. Snowden was obviously the smartest bulb in his shop by a long margin. Also, the only one with a damn concious. Correlation, hackers tend to be less sociopathic. I guess thats why we don't see the harm in security tools.
If they did have any talent pre-snowden, I can guaruntee the pushback against hacker types in general would have either got them all fired, or drove them to quit. The government is a bunch of scared idiots who talk a better game than they have, and then try and pawn some unrelated person into doing the work they say the do. What the snowden leaks showed is the NSA has the capacity to attack misconfigured and obsolete systems, and will to do it at absolute scale. All this because they don't really know what they are doing and are thrashing around like a wounded animal.
Thats not the actions of a proffesional outfit. Thats a stuck pig running around scared for its life, doing extremely desperate measures for damage control.
The leverage we have over the federal government is "No, we won't work for you"
There is this myth in America that you can solve any problem simply by throwing money at it, or that simply by paying someone mid-six figures you'll get the very best person on planet earth to do the job.
If you were correct the US would have never lost viet-nam, ISIS would have never taken over eastern Iraq, and we never would have been hit on 9/11.
The real thing that we can't comprehend is that "paying a bazillion dollars" doesn't automagically make things happen.
high-functioning sociopaths who seem to make some of the best programmers.
haw haw, pure slander. I think you mean best lawyers, politicians, media-corespondants, etc....
Here is the solution. Before someone tries doing anything dumb, aggressive, that would hardly be noticed and not be effective, lets do something that will truley kick 'em in the pants:
go on strike!
They need us more than we need them. Its aparant. I am sick of being viewed as a terrorist when they need people like us to perpetrate their new digital wars. This is the last straw that broke the camel's back. I am sick of media propaganda making us all out to be anti-social terrorists. I am sick of being view as "crazy". I am sick of this fucking bullshit, while other obvious fuck ups in mainstream society get a pass. I am sick of being a perminant suspect, especially when my actions are what makes me valuable to the same people after me.
The plan:
1. Stop working for them. Don't get a job doing computers for LE, Corrections, Intellegence, or Military
2. Don't give them advice and recommendations, further than "stop treating me like a terrorist". Stop giving them recommendations that would help them against their other victims
3. If someone asks you to put a backdoor in any piece of hardware or software just say no, and go to the press/wikileaks
4. Don't be affraid to leak pertinant evidence of their otherwise wrongdoing to the press/leaks organization. They make no bones about investigating you or smearing you as a terrorist/mental patient/criminal. Don't be affraid to do the same to them
5. Communicate to your fellow techies what we are doing and why. Heckle recruiters and warn n00bs to try and get other people to do the same.
6. Co-operate as little allowed by law with any of the organizations mentioned in point one. If you can afford to do so, commit civil disobediance, make sure you have a lawyer handy.
7. Stand in solidarity with everyone else getting picked on unfairly. Stop the bullying by saying "I simply won't believe their crap", and tell other people how you feel.
I think thats the point. Once they start fighting back, you can now openly declare war, and then have everyone who even remotely looks suspicious arrested.
Read, the war on nerds continues
Realisticly what can we do?
How about this, until this happy horse shit stops, lets all boycott working for the federal government. Take a job somewhere else. Unexpectedly find reasons to be somewhere else when they ask for help. Play internet detective and debunk all their theories on digital warfare.
Someone else can wage digital war on North Korea, Syria, Russia, and China. Someone else can keep state secrets safe. Just pass this around until we get a complete boycott on working for Uncle Sam.
Lets also continue to heckle recruiters and inform the n00bs to stay away from these people.
'Persuasion' cannot be held responsible for the personal choice to act. You are scapegoating social constructs for bad personal choices. Didn't your mother ever ask you if you would jump off a cliff just because your friends did?
you are not responding to my argument, which is a straw man. Then you have an argument from authority, i.e. the mother.
By your logic, Hitler did nothing wrong, it was all the low ranking mebers of the SA/SS, Wermarcht, that did all the killing. All politicians like Bush, Obama, etc... are exempt from whatever political decisions they made too because, well shit they never actually did anything, just made speaches and gave orders. That applies to all leaders of all countries all places.
The argument is that someone giving orders is just as responsible, not that one party gets off the hook somehow.
If nobody follows the order to kill, then you cannot sanction the person who made the order, No harm was done.
from personal experiance(US Army), the US goverment's technical capabilities generally lag far behind their ability to bullshit, which of course is their greatest asset.
The US Government most likely has third rate hackers, and it can catch in sting operations or pressure to work for it. Few if any of the real talent gives a damn, as many of them are in one of the social groups the government has more or less made enemies of state and society for the last 4 decades. The ones that aren't get caught up in the mix, as the government, and affiliated corporations tend to go after the entire computer scene for the actions of a few, building resentment. Many of the ones that nominally support the system also have deeply held convictions, that if they found out the true nature of the system would not hesitate to jump ship. Even the few which are die hard pro-government and its member corporations are viewed with enough hostile suspicion, that they wouldn't be trusted on anything sensentive.
Whats left are political lackies, the government can dress these people up as "the best experts in the world", and we'll all believe it, but their actual skills lack.
Unlike a rock hitting you on the head, they have no intrinsic value not defined by another person. The meaning of a word can change overnight.
Again, not what we are talking about. The concept of "giving orders", is as old as civilization, and until we live in a world free of hiearchy, there will be people in a position to give orders.
There are many ways to deny someones rights using speech, one is giving orders, or otherwise persuading someone else to deny rights.
The 'value' of the word is totally dependent on the person's reaction, which is usually quite variable, but the value is the choice to react, not the word itself.
The fact that social constructs aren't completely solid doesn't mean they don't exist.
And it is person who made that choice that must be held accountable, not the word he claims to have provoked him.
and no one is claiming otherwise. If someone orders an assassination, both the person who did the hit, and the person who gave the order are both liable. This has always been the case.
speech can do a lot actually. unless you think that the entire premise of both psychology and sociology are made up, then yes, speech can do a lot.
Not going that far, imagine if someone followed you around all day with a bullhorn, and shouted random words everytime you went to speak. Free Speech? or is he using his speech to deny someone elses speech?
The subject as to whether the U.S. is a democracy has also been beaten to death in every university in the nation, however, it tends to be more of a bar conversation than a serious conversation in political theory.
Thats more proof we are not a democracy. We have more serious political discussions drunk, then we do in electing leaders.
However, to say it was never a "democracy" is really a semantic question where you redefine democracy to be "direct democracy;" or have to include institutions which are uncommonly present in the world's democracies.
not "direct" democracy, I am talking we were not even a representative democracy, when we founded, and the smoking gun of course is the federalist papers which outline a very anti-democratic sentiment in the founders intent. You can't walk away from this by deconstructing the word "democracy". Its quite obvious they did everything in their power to shield government officials from the population as much as possible without implementing a king or aristocracy.
We we are a republic ruled by high minded elites, and despite many reforms, still are. We have the exact government our founders wanted, if only slightly less repressive.
What I want, is actual representative democracy, and actual freedom.
I once had a government ask me what "I was hiding from", and why do we need all the heavy crypto, and secrecy, and why we don't post with our real names.
I smiled and asked him if transparency was so open, why does the government classify things, and why don't Federal Agents publish their names publicly on their websites?
Guess who's killed more random innocent people? I'm simply a man with an opinion, no army, and no weapons.
thats exactly my stance. Greater society does not see it as socially acceptable for a women to be an Engineer at any level in this country. You'll have to challenge larger cultural institutions to get that to change. No one wants to challenge larger cultural institutions.
yeah, its much easier just to be a meat puppet, and sex trophy for pop culture. Not sexist at all, not one bit. Doesn't promote unhealthy stereotypes at all.
The sad truth is, that from at least many of the sexism stories that have I've seen, such as gamergate, it looks like the "protagonist" went out of their way to pick a fight, and then bit off more than they can chew. It seems less like sexism, but more like irresponsible we-make-the-news journalism by media types looking for a career as proffesional agitators.
even if some of them are super-powerful like Marissa Mayer or Meg Whitman
Women in tech please, not Women CEOs working at tech companies. I wonder where those so called "Anarchist" and "Socialist" feminists are now?
by "not being bro enough", you mean "flaming homosexaul", and by "bullied", you mean "state prosecution and conviction, then forced to take sterelization chemicals", yes.
lower stamina requirements you mean. There are no strength requirements for the US Army. You seem to be pretty blissfuly ignorant on how the army works, or what it wants in soliders.
The army's requirement for combat arms(field soliders), is to be able to hump around a certain amount of gear and weapons, and then use them, not fighting hand to hand(exceptions mabey for SF, Rangers, etc...). Many learn hand to hand fighting because, well, same reason they joined the army. The PT test, tests stamina and endurance, not strength.(push ups, sit ups, 2 mile run)
The army is also a big place, and only %9 of the army are people doing the fighting. You don't need to be really strong to do paper work, or work most logistics jobs, which in history has been the true strength of the US Army.(few other armies in history compare to the US Army's logistical capabilities).
So yes, you get a bigger pool of people to draw from when getting logistics people.
Because techies threatened the status quo. We pissed off Big Media, and the government, and now they are simply attacking us. This is push back for SOPA/PIPA, Snowden, Manning, Wikileaks, Anonymous, Free Software, and decades of being inconvienant to the status quo.
So they get some "radicals" in marketing to come fuck with us. Nothing more.
that my friend is pure propaganda based on speculation.
ISIS supporters are mostly westerners, people who grew up with technology, and a firm grasp of western culture. They seem to be able to use computers just fine.
still waiting on that "representative democracy". No sir, the constitution was written by federalists and not democratic republicans as often claimed.
We were/are a republic for the rich and powerful, a government of insiders and buerocrats. "Representative Democracy" is little more than propaganda from mid 20th century. When we where founded, we were little more "representative" than England who's had "representative democracy" in some form since the magna carta, and especially since the era of the long parllament.
The government works damn close to how the so called "founding fathers", a term which is late 19th century propaganda, wanted it. The government exists to protect the wealthy and powerful. What reforms that did happen, happened slowly, over the course of 150 years, and where done at gunpoint, only after major unrest.
It took Shay's rebellion before they dropped the property ownership requirement on voting, it took the civil war to end slavery, it took ~50 years of riots, civil unrest, flat out military conflicts against the poor and working class before the 17th amendment passed giving dirrect vote on the Senate that only happened as late as the 20th century.
No sir, we don't have a democracy, never had a democracy.
Completely FALSE. No wonder you are so confused Davy. You are still in the Matrix, so please let me help you out of it. Ready? here are the definitions:
why yes, I've see the light, from now on it, I'm going to stop reading historicaly relivant documents essential to the formation of various political ideas, and start reading conspiracy laden blog posts written by advertisers who only see history through the lense of the last 30 or so years.
Communism: State control of the means of production. State control of the Fruits of Production. A form of Socialism at the Extreme Left of the political spectrum.
Fascism: State control of the Fruits of Production. The means of production remain in private hands (but may be directed by the State). A form of Socialism are the Far Left of the political spectrum.
Socialism: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". One of numerous forms of involuntary wealth re-distribution enforce via State coercion (ie. implicit force from the State). Wealth is confiscated from the productive to the politically favored by the politically powerful. An involuntary "win-lose" system.
Free Market: system where both parties engage in **voluntary** trade. Since the trade is voluntary exchanges only happen if both sides feel they are gaining, thus it is a "win-win" system.
Now I'm fairly intrested in where you got this information. I got my information from reading historically relevant documents and even talking to proponents of all thre ideaologies. I even pointed at works that you should read.
Communism - Theorhetical end state of communist revolution, where everything is shared, and there is a moneyless economy, where everyone is equal and united. Made famous by Karl Marx, which is sometimes falses attibuted all communist thought. Communism is a subsection of Socialism. There is no "state" in communism, along with no nations, no class, wealth,(some even say no recognition of gender, etc....). This is "to each his ability....". There has yet to be a communist society, but only "Socialist States run by Communists". The fact that a ruling group simply desires communism, does not make communism magicly appear. No group of Communists(people who want to set up communism), have ever really suceeded in setting up communism(the end idea state of their ideaology). Some communists saw use of a Socialist State to achieve their ends, and some saw organic melting away of old structures, and simply not replacing them with anything.
Socialism - Umbrella of disimilar ideas, with the common theme of "the workers own the means of production". Socialist ideas generally support working class unity, over that of race, class, nation, with some exceptions. Some socialists preach revolution, others are social democrats that work within a democratic system. Some socialists are Statists who want a large centralized worker state, and others confederations of trade unions, still others advocate a market system, without capital ownership(see mutualism of JP Proudhoun). There is no "redistribution of wealth", just over the means of production.
Fascism - Economicly "third position", that respects private property within the realm it falls under the state. I.E. people are allowed to own property unless it interferes with the will of society as a whole dictated from a strong central state. The State, as well as all other things are run as a "meritocracy", where desirable canidates are given the job even if they are not popular(anti-democracy). The state supports itself via taxes and smooths out the edges with generios welfare programs to aid those among the poor that are worthy in the eyes of the State. Otherwise respects private property, but relies heavily on taxes to mediate redistribution of wealth based on needs of the state. Also present in fascism is militarism, some form of nationalism, or exclusionary group ties. There are many types of fascism, National Socialism(NatSoc, or nazis), being the most famous.
How many women do you see working in factory lines building cars? How many women Engineers did you see in detroit? How many women were on "the deadliest catch", or do that job in general? How many women work in oil fields? How many women work with, or design equipment for forrestry or logging?
So then you only ask "Why are there no women in tech", but the answer is the same for all of them. Its not socially acceptable for a woman in Today's society, be it either it materialist pop culture, nor traditionalist culture, does not promote of women in engineering. Not for any class of machine. Not for wood choppers,, not for automobiles, and computers is no diffrent.
You want women in tech, then change society to make it more acceptable as a career path. I think you can start by stop dehumanizing the tech nerds with horrid stereotypes that drive women away.
Its not. Also consider the source. Its the Roman Catholic Church. For centuries before Fundimentalist Islam, they were the crazy religeious nuts. Given Islam and Chrisitanities(Jews too) shared history, and massive culture exchange throughout the years, as well as a common founder, its clear that we are dealing with one big fucked up religeon. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Between this, and the Hardiem Censorship of the rally, I think Charlie Hedbo needs to do some more cartoons.
Slashdot Mirror
If you don't have a powerful 1Ghz+ dualcore internet capable computer in your pocket you're a looser, and even the trendies recent memes made online from nerds. Heck you are even on slashdot(you wouldn't see me caught dead hanging out with your lame friends).
On ESPN and I saw them discussing the physics of the flight of a baseball when discussing sports, estimating both the neccary force for a home run, and the actual force of the ball using some pretty good maths. Their new mascot for football is a robot as well.
Just about every industry is computerized, and the most powerful businesses and governments in the world depend on computers to function, and for their power. To include the massive intra-national cyberwars, again, all fought by nerds.
President Obama won both elections because of internet help. First with a large grassroots movement of cyber-activists, second with a specialized team of nerds loaned from google to help connect with people. Unlike "Real People", they don't have social intellegence to connect with people, they just run statistics on people based on what they get from google, and then instead of misguiding insticts, make decisions based on logic and observation.
Oh, speaking of "Real People", most of you are simply puppets that do whatever advertising tells you to do. Of course back in 1995 you'd have some fancy pants media type doing that. Guess who does the programming for that today? Some fucking neckbeard. The same type who told you to "Vote Obama" in 2012. But a liiiberaal consparacy you say? Guess who the only real bunch of "conservatives" really able to stick up to him? you guessed it, internet libertarians, more nerds. 20 years ago, if the media industry wanted legilsation passed it was rubber stamped. Today, SOPA/PIPA sank like a stone. Guess who's been the only real driving force in politics in the last 5 years? Nerds nerds more nerds. Some liberal nerds, some libertarian nerds.
suggesting to turn down an offer from the State would be... Unwise.
there is no shortage of tech jobs. If you can't see that, you're not working in industry. You'll get paid more and treated better elsewhere.
If they did have any talent pre-snowden, I can guaruntee the pushback against hacker types in general would have either got them all fired, or drove them to quit. The government is a bunch of scared idiots who talk a better game than they have, and then try and pawn some unrelated person into doing the work they say the do. What the snowden leaks showed is the NSA has the capacity to attack misconfigured and obsolete systems, and will to do it at absolute scale. All this because they don't really know what they are doing and are thrashing around like a wounded animal.
Also, the NSA fired 90% of its sysadmins right after the snowden leaks where made public.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
Thats not the actions of a proffesional outfit. Thats a stuck pig running around scared for its life, doing extremely desperate measures for damage control.
The leverage we have over the federal government is "No, we won't work for you"
If you were correct the US would have never lost viet-nam, ISIS would have never taken over eastern Iraq, and we never would have been hit on 9/11.
The real thing that we can't comprehend is that "paying a bazillion dollars" doesn't automagically make things happen.
high-functioning sociopaths who seem to make some of the best programmers.
haw haw, pure slander. I think you mean best lawyers, politicians, media-corespondants, etc....
go on strike!
They need us more than we need them. Its aparant. I am sick of being viewed as a terrorist when they need people like us to perpetrate their new digital wars. This is the last straw that broke the camel's back. I am sick of media propaganda making us all out to be anti-social terrorists. I am sick of being view as "crazy". I am sick of this fucking bullshit, while other obvious fuck ups in mainstream society get a pass. I am sick of being a perminant suspect, especially when my actions are what makes me valuable to the same people after me.
The plan:
1. Stop working for them. Don't get a job doing computers for LE, Corrections, Intellegence, or Military
2. Don't give them advice and recommendations, further than "stop treating me like a terrorist". Stop giving them recommendations that would help them against their other victims
3. If someone asks you to put a backdoor in any piece of hardware or software just say no, and go to the press/wikileaks
4. Don't be affraid to leak pertinant evidence of their otherwise wrongdoing to the press/leaks organization. They make no bones about investigating you or smearing you as a terrorist/mental patient/criminal. Don't be affraid to do the same to them
5. Communicate to your fellow techies what we are doing and why. Heckle recruiters and warn n00bs to try and get other people to do the same.
6. Co-operate as little allowed by law with any of the organizations mentioned in point one. If you can afford to do so, commit civil disobediance, make sure you have a lawyer handy.
7. Stand in solidarity with everyone else getting picked on unfairly. Stop the bullying by saying "I simply won't believe their crap", and tell other people how you feel.
Lets stand united and do this.
I think thats the point. Once they start fighting back, you can now openly declare war, and then have everyone who even remotely looks suspicious arrested.
Read, the war on nerds continues
Realisticly what can we do?
How about this, until this happy horse shit stops, lets all boycott working for the federal government. Take a job somewhere else. Unexpectedly find reasons to be somewhere else when they ask for help. Play internet detective and debunk all their theories on digital warfare.
Someone else can wage digital war on North Korea, Syria, Russia, and China. Someone else can keep state secrets safe. Just pass this around until we get a complete boycott on working for Uncle Sam.
Lets also continue to heckle recruiters and inform the n00bs to stay away from these people.
We don't need a war, we need to go on strike.
The hierarchy is self imposed.
what?
'Persuasion' cannot be held responsible for the personal choice to act. You are scapegoating social constructs for bad personal choices. Didn't your mother ever ask you if you would jump off a cliff just because your friends did?
you are not responding to my argument, which is a straw man. Then you have an argument from authority, i.e. the mother. By your logic, Hitler did nothing wrong, it was all the low ranking mebers of the SA/SS, Wermarcht, that did all the killing. All politicians like Bush, Obama, etc... are exempt from whatever political decisions they made too because, well shit they never actually did anything, just made speaches and gave orders. That applies to all leaders of all countries all places. The argument is that someone giving orders is just as responsible, not that one party gets off the hook somehow.
If nobody follows the order to kill, then you cannot sanction the person who made the order, No harm was done.
and if someone does, someone dies.
from personal experiance(US Army), the US goverment's technical capabilities generally lag far behind their ability to bullshit, which of course is their greatest asset.
The US Government most likely has third rate hackers, and it can catch in sting operations or pressure to work for it. Few if any of the real talent gives a damn, as many of them are in one of the social groups the government has more or less made enemies of state and society for the last 4 decades. The ones that aren't get caught up in the mix, as the government, and affiliated corporations tend to go after the entire computer scene for the actions of a few, building resentment. Many of the ones that nominally support the system also have deeply held convictions, that if they found out the true nature of the system would not hesitate to jump ship. Even the few which are die hard pro-government and its member corporations are viewed with enough hostile suspicion, that they wouldn't be trusted on anything sensentive.
Whats left are political lackies, the government can dress these people up as "the best experts in the world", and we'll all believe it, but their actual skills lack.
Unlike a rock hitting you on the head, they have no intrinsic value not defined by another person. The meaning of a word can change overnight.
Again, not what we are talking about. The concept of "giving orders", is as old as civilization, and until we live in a world free of hiearchy, there will be people in a position to give orders. There are many ways to deny someones rights using speech, one is giving orders, or otherwise persuading someone else to deny rights.
The 'value' of the word is totally dependent on the person's reaction, which is usually quite variable, but the value is the choice to react, not the word itself.
The fact that social constructs aren't completely solid doesn't mean they don't exist.
And it is person who made that choice that must be held accountable, not the word he claims to have provoked him.
and no one is claiming otherwise. If someone orders an assassination, both the person who did the hit, and the person who gave the order are both liable. This has always been the case.
Not going that far, imagine if someone followed you around all day with a bullhorn, and shouted random words everytime you went to speak. Free Speech? or is he using his speech to deny someone elses speech?
I hate to say this, but the quality of build is top notch. You'll never find more excellently polished laptops available to the regular consumer.
Yes, some people do care about alluminum cases, and fit and finish.
The subject as to whether the U.S. is a democracy has also been beaten to death in every university in the nation, however, it tends to be more of a bar conversation than a serious conversation in political theory.
Thats more proof we are not a democracy. We have more serious political discussions drunk, then we do in electing leaders.
However, to say it was never a "democracy" is really a semantic question where you redefine democracy to be "direct democracy;" or have to include institutions which are uncommonly present in the world's democracies.
not "direct" democracy, I am talking we were not even a representative democracy, when we founded, and the smoking gun of course is the federalist papers which outline a very anti-democratic sentiment in the founders intent. You can't walk away from this by deconstructing the word "democracy". Its quite obvious they did everything in their power to shield government officials from the population as much as possible without implementing a king or aristocracy.
We we are a republic ruled by high minded elites, and despite many reforms, still are. We have the exact government our founders wanted, if only slightly less repressive.
What I want, is actual representative democracy, and actual freedom.
This is fucking disgusting. We make a big stink about "letting parents be able to raise their kids".
Except when a handful of parents do the right thing. Helicopter parenting is borderline abuse.
I once had a government ask me what "I was hiding from", and why do we need all the heavy crypto, and secrecy, and why we don't post with our real names.
I smiled and asked him if transparency was so open, why does the government classify things, and why don't Federal Agents publish their names publicly on their websites?
Guess who's killed more random innocent people? I'm simply a man with an opinion, no army, and no weapons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Its easier to pick on a few nerds.
The sad truth is, that from at least many of the sexism stories that have I've seen, such as gamergate, it looks like the "protagonist" went out of their way to pick a fight, and then bit off more than they can chew. It seems less like sexism, but more like irresponsible we-make-the-news journalism by media types looking for a career as proffesional agitators.
even if some of them are super-powerful like Marissa Mayer or Meg Whitman
Women in tech please, not Women CEOs working at tech companies. I wonder where those so called "Anarchist" and "Socialist" feminists are now?
by "not being bro enough", you mean "flaming homosexaul", and by "bullied", you mean "state prosecution and conviction, then forced to take sterelization chemicals", yes.
The army's requirement for combat arms(field soliders), is to be able to hump around a certain amount of gear and weapons, and then use them, not fighting hand to hand(exceptions mabey for SF, Rangers, etc...). Many learn hand to hand fighting because, well, same reason they joined the army. The PT test, tests stamina and endurance, not strength.(push ups, sit ups, 2 mile run)
The army is also a big place, and only %9 of the army are people doing the fighting. You don't need to be really strong to do paper work, or work most logistics jobs, which in history has been the true strength of the US Army.(few other armies in history compare to the US Army's logistical capabilities).
So yes, you get a bigger pool of people to draw from when getting logistics people.
So they get some "radicals" in marketing to come fuck with us. Nothing more.
ISIS supporters are mostly westerners, people who grew up with technology, and a firm grasp of western culture. They seem to be able to use computers just fine.
We were/are a republic for the rich and powerful, a government of insiders and buerocrats. "Representative Democracy" is little more than propaganda from mid 20th century. When we where founded, we were little more "representative" than England who's had "representative democracy" in some form since the magna carta, and especially since the era of the long parllament.
The government works damn close to how the so called "founding fathers", a term which is late 19th century propaganda, wanted it. The government exists to protect the wealthy and powerful. What reforms that did happen, happened slowly, over the course of 150 years, and where done at gunpoint, only after major unrest.
It took Shay's rebellion before they dropped the property ownership requirement on voting, it took the civil war to end slavery, it took ~50 years of riots, civil unrest, flat out military conflicts against the poor and working class before the 17th amendment passed giving dirrect vote on the Senate that only happened as late as the 20th century.
No sir, we don't have a democracy, never had a democracy.
this my friends is a partisan hack.
Completely FALSE. No wonder you are so confused Davy. You are still in the Matrix, so please let me help you out of it. Ready? here are the definitions:
why yes, I've see the light, from now on it, I'm going to stop reading historicaly relivant documents essential to the formation of various political ideas, and start reading conspiracy laden blog posts written by advertisers who only see history through the lense of the last 30 or so years.
Communism: State control of the means of production. State control of the Fruits of Production. A form of Socialism at the Extreme Left of the political spectrum. Fascism: State control of the Fruits of Production. The means of production remain in private hands (but may be directed by the State). A form of Socialism are the Far Left of the political spectrum. Socialism: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need". One of numerous forms of involuntary wealth re-distribution enforce via State coercion (ie. implicit force from the State). Wealth is confiscated from the productive to the politically favored by the politically powerful. An involuntary "win-lose" system. Free Market: system where both parties engage in **voluntary** trade. Since the trade is voluntary exchanges only happen if both sides feel they are gaining, thus it is a "win-win" system.
Now I'm fairly intrested in where you got this information. I got my information from reading historically relevant documents and even talking to proponents of all thre ideaologies. I even pointed at works that you should read. Communism - Theorhetical end state of communist revolution, where everything is shared, and there is a moneyless economy, where everyone is equal and united. Made famous by Karl Marx, which is sometimes falses attibuted all communist thought. Communism is a subsection of Socialism. There is no "state" in communism, along with no nations, no class, wealth,(some even say no recognition of gender, etc....). This is "to each his ability....". There has yet to be a communist society, but only "Socialist States run by Communists". The fact that a ruling group simply desires communism, does not make communism magicly appear. No group of Communists(people who want to set up communism), have ever really suceeded in setting up communism(the end idea state of their ideaology). Some communists saw use of a Socialist State to achieve their ends, and some saw organic melting away of old structures, and simply not replacing them with anything. Socialism - Umbrella of disimilar ideas, with the common theme of "the workers own the means of production". Socialist ideas generally support working class unity, over that of race, class, nation, with some exceptions. Some socialists preach revolution, others are social democrats that work within a democratic system. Some socialists are Statists who want a large centralized worker state, and others confederations of trade unions, still others advocate a market system, without capital ownership(see mutualism of JP Proudhoun). There is no "redistribution of wealth", just over the means of production. Fascism - Economicly "third position", that respects private property within the realm it falls under the state. I.E. people are allowed to own property unless it interferes with the will of society as a whole dictated from a strong central state. The State, as well as all other things are run as a "meritocracy", where desirable canidates are given the job even if they are not popular(anti-democracy). The state supports itself via taxes and smooths out the edges with generios welfare programs to aid those among the poor that are worthy in the eyes of the State. Otherwise respects private property, but relies heavily on taxes to mediate redistribution of wealth based on needs of the state. Also present in fascism is militarism, some form of nationalism, or exclusionary group ties. There are many types of fascism, National Socialism(NatSoc, or nazis), being the most famous.
So then you only ask "Why are there no women in tech", but the answer is the same for all of them. Its not socially acceptable for a woman in Today's society, be it either it materialist pop culture, nor traditionalist culture, does not promote of women in engineering. Not for any class of machine. Not for wood choppers,, not for automobiles, and computers is no diffrent.
You want women in tech, then change society to make it more acceptable as a career path. I think you can start by stop dehumanizing the tech nerds with horrid stereotypes that drive women away.
Its not. Also consider the source. Its the Roman Catholic Church. For centuries before Fundimentalist Islam, they were the crazy religeious nuts. Given Islam and Chrisitanities(Jews too) shared history, and massive culture exchange throughout the years, as well as a common founder, its clear that we are dealing with one big fucked up religeon. The apple does not fall far from the tree.
Between this, and the Hardiem Censorship of the rally, I think Charlie Hedbo needs to do some more cartoons.