Maybe you can't say what the issue is. I can. As can most educated people.
Most people that can't in general terms haven't being bothered to understand what is happening and just parrot what people with eccentric but rebellious views have to say about the matter.
People that actually try to understand the issue are convinced quite swiftly about the urgency of the problem.
Unless you think the Chinese care much about conspiracy theories.
People in the IT industry are the only ones I know that deride their users, the people that actually justify paying for IT services.
If people are closing anti-virus renewal enticements it is maybe because the price seems excessive, or the product is not working as expected, or the renewal process it too intrusive and cumbersome.
The user should always be the last person to be blamed, specially when general patterns of behaviour are recognized, which would point to an inability from the part of the service provider.
The first wave of programmers were mostly women for many historical reasons.
As soon as their male bosses and peers realised they were creating this "equality monster" they began to make sure women no longer accessed positions of responsibility in technical jobs.
And the only way it is going to happen is when people like you, that know how it is to be discriminated against, tell to all the geeks-nerds all the things they are failing to see.
"Growing a pair" is not a solution, it is pandering to the inadequacies, insecurities and prejudices of men in the field.
Describe your misogynist behaviour as "natural" ( "Do guys have to pretend not to be geeks" ) .
Ignore social consequences of misogynist behaviour ("And so what if it does?", "If girls don't want to go into computer science because of geeks, then so what?").
The irking think is that people (men?) utter these comments with a straight face.
Don't you guys have mothers, sisters and daughters? Do you think it is acceptable that they should have to deal with all this mindless sexism if they would want to pursue a technical career?
Also remember that you can negotiate many of the conditions of the job you take.
Teachers do a lot of work out of hours, if that is the only reason you are going into teaching I would think twice, IT people are more likely to be compensated properly for unsocial working hours.
"it's just saying a male dominated environment turns off women"
That would have been the situation with most jobs during most of human history.
It is the typical "blame the victim" mentality, putting the onus of improvement on the oppressed part rather than the oppressor. Truly despicable frankly.
Any men worth the name should be doing soul searching instead of trying to find excuses for the unacceptable low amount of women in certain careers.
Those are just excuses from people that are not willing to address the real issue: sexism in the work place.
We know there are professions openly hostile to women, IT amongst them, you can't make an excuse by citing examples of careers which men don't want to follow.
I have seen the term mentioned several times in the thread.
Do people really get peace of mind by buying overpriced, unnecessary cover?
My "peace of mind" (whatever that is really) I am sure is not going to be disturbed if I am unlucky enough to have to replace something that breaks out of its statutory covered period (quite long in the UK).
So far I have never been in that position, when something has broken it is normally between the warranty period.
If you just sit down and do the math the numbers simply don't add up. Now, knowing I am not wasting my money unnecessarily certainly gives me "peace of mind"
What people selling you guarantees are counting on is that you don't have time to make an objective judgement, which it seems many people don't do.
Get a filing cabinet, put aside 2 or 3 divisions for receipts and guarantee papers (electronics, software, others, whatever!) and then file them in chronological order.
Unless you are buying something every day (are you?) I fail to see how somebody can't stick to such basic method of archival.
There are a few bits, data. You can't steal data. Get that into your head please.
Why the company didn't have a copy of them?
Why their exit procedures didn't include to ensure all necessary passwords were handed over (in reality the correct procedure would have been for the passwords be known by somebody else or stored in a secure location to which other pople in the company could have access).
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Maybe you can't say what the issue is. I can. As can most educated people.
Most people that can't in general terms haven't being bothered to understand what is happening and just parrot what people with eccentric but rebellious views have to say about the matter.
People that actually try to understand the issue are convinced quite swiftly about the urgency of the problem.
Unless you think the Chinese care much about conspiracy theories.
Do you look also at OSes independent of their version?
Do you have a job actually?
People in the IT industry are the only ones I know that deride their users, the people that actually justify paying for IT services.
If people are closing anti-virus renewal enticements it is maybe because the price seems excessive, or the product is not working as expected, or the renewal process it too intrusive and cumbersome.
The user should always be the last person to be blamed, specially when general patterns of behaviour are recognized, which would point to an inability from the part of the service provider.
The two type of users are
- The ones that know they do not know much.
- The ones that think they know more than others, but know as little as the ones in the first group.
No way. Never.
It does not scale well.
And it is insecure (ask your Windows representative what stuff from Active Directory goes into the registry for example).
The first wave of programmers were mostly women for many historical reasons.
As soon as their male bosses and peers realised they were creating this "equality monster" they began to make sure women no longer accessed positions of responsibility in technical jobs.
And the only way it is going to happen is when people like you, that know how it is to be discriminated against, tell to all the geeks-nerds all the things they are failing to see.
"Growing a pair" is not a solution, it is pandering to the inadequacies, insecurities and prejudices of men in the field.
Describe your misogynist behaviour as "natural" ( "Do guys have to pretend not to be geeks" ) .
Ignore social consequences of misogynist behaviour ("And so what if it does?", "If girls don't want to go into computer science because of geeks, then so what?").
The irking think is that people (men?) utter these comments with a straight face.
Don't you guys have mothers, sisters and daughters? Do you think it is acceptable that they should have to deal with all this mindless sexism if they would want to pursue a technical career?
.... when IT is not openly hostile to women.
Then we can talk about the choices they are making *freely*.
Also remember that you can negotiate many of the conditions of the job you take.
Teachers do a lot of work out of hours, if that is the only reason you are going into teaching I would think twice, IT people are more likely to be compensated properly for unsocial working hours.
Now tell us something that is really useful please.
Guys in a privileged positions in a given marketplace referring to tired clichés and stereotypes is evidence of absolutely nothing.
"it's just saying a male dominated environment turns off women"
That would have been the situation with most jobs during most of human history.
It is the typical "blame the victim" mentality, putting the onus of improvement on the oppressed part rather than the oppressor. Truly despicable frankly.
Any men worth the name should be doing soul searching instead of trying to find excuses for the unacceptable low amount of women in certain careers.
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How do I deride allegations of sexism? By doing a sexist rant.
Well done AC, well done.
Those are just excuses from people that are not willing to address the real issue: sexism in the work place.
We know there are professions openly hostile to women, IT amongst them, you can't make an excuse by citing examples of careers which men don't want to follow.
... if the IT field was not hostile to women.
As it is women are treated badly in general terms, but the sexism, very often completely not seen as such, clearly needs to be addressed.
Many folks out there use your same reasoning just to mask their obvious misogyny.
The problem with people in IT is that they don't know how to say NO.
I do know how, and that has ensured a long career while having a fulfilling life outside work.
The claims about them have already been thoroughly debunked.
But you should know that, otherwise you would not be trolling as an AC.
I have seen the term mentioned several times in the thread.
Do people really get peace of mind by buying overpriced, unnecessary cover?
My "peace of mind" (whatever that is really) I am sure is not going to be disturbed if I am unlucky enough to have to replace something that breaks out of its statutory covered period (quite long in the UK).
So far I have never been in that position, when something has broken it is normally between the warranty period.
If you just sit down and do the math the numbers simply don't add up. Now, knowing I am not wasting my money unnecessarily certainly gives me "peace of mind"
What people selling you guarantees are counting on is that you don't have time to make an objective judgement, which it seems many people don't do.
So you don't know ...
The only things that are not user replaceable are things soldered to the board, and this only because it was made by a machine in all likelihood,
But an HDD?
Really?
I am sorry, but this is a bullshit excuse.
Get a filing cabinet, put aside 2 or 3 divisions for receipts and guarantee papers (electronics, software, others, whatever!) and then file them in chronological order.
Unless you are buying something every day (are you?) I fail to see how somebody can't stick to such basic method of archival.
"I can tell you that we're a few inches away from a Bolshevik party."
But clearly know nothing about history or politics for that matter.
You follow your company's policies.
If your company does not have policies for this:
a) They are a bunch of amateurs. ... now!
b) They should start writing them
And BTW, all this should be requested formally (in writing or by means of the internal change management procedures or problem ticketing system).
There are a few bits, data. You can't steal data. Get that into your head please.
Why the company didn't have a copy of them?
Why their exit procedures didn't include to ensure all necessary passwords were handed over (in reality the correct procedure would have been for the passwords be known by somebody else or stored in a secure location to which other pople in the company could have access).