It always used to crack me up back in the day how Americans used to brag about how one of the big advantages to FREE America was that citizens could travel anywhere (as opposed to the evil USSR).
"Oh yeah? Try traveling to Cuba then, Captain Freedom"
The fact that there are still differences between genders and ethnicity means that we need to target those groups more
I agree. And that's why I'm launching an initiative to get more men into elementary education. While things are improving in fields like CS, the gender ratio of men in elementary education has remained stagnant at only 13% for decades. The fact that men are far over-represented in dangerous manual labor jobs, like mining and commercial fishing, shows the deleterious effect of having missed out on the professional opportunities afforded them by a career in this field (with a $53,590 average annual salary). And I think it's about time we did something about it!
And I'm absolutely sure that I can count on the support in this effort of all my liberal friends, who have lead the charge to improve the gender ration in CS and other fields. After all, as they've told me so many times, they're all about equality and fairness.
The only thing keeping straight males out of the fashion industry is feedback from straight males.
Nope, these articles have taught me that the only possible explanation for the underrepresentation of a gender or race in a given field is that the field is either hostile or discriminatory (or both). It can't possibly be by personal choice or because of social pressure from within the gender or race itself.
If someone isn't present, it's because they're being excluded or discriminated against by the powers in the field.
I'm still waiting on all the "Why aren't there more straight men in the fashion industry?" articles that I just know must be coming any day now.....still waiting......
It's any racial group that's in the minority in a given population--except Asians of course, because they just learn, work hard, and refuse to play victims.
How about making the people who complained pay for it?
From what I understand the French in general, and Parisians in particular, complain about EVERYTHING--especially anything that involves change. Any company trying to do business there without knowing that ahead of time has only themselves to blame. If you tried to punish every Parisian who complained, you would have to turn the whole city into a jail.
Nothing in the BTTF series was ever intended to be a real prediction of the future. All the future stuff was just played for comic effect. BTTF2 is no more meant to be an accurate portrayal of the real 2015 than the series' version of 1955 or 1885 were ever meant to be historically accurate. Every era shown (even, to some extent, its own time of 1985) was comically exaggerated for humorous effect. The sights and inventions shown in BTTF2's fictional 2015 were just meant to make audiences in 1988 laugh.
IIRC, wasn't there also supposedly some weird stuff about his dad being some sort of famewhore type too? I seem to remember the implication that his dad might have egged the whole controversy on for publicity.
Fine, then keep a small recruitment office in SF and move your main campus somewhere where your employees don't have to walk the streets holding "Will Suck Dick For A Simple Cot In The Corner" signs.
Introducing the "Mom, Freedom, and Apple Pie Anti-Terrorist Act of 2015," that requires that all phone manufacturers build in government approved backdoors into every phone. And after a few Democrats and Rand Paul pretend to object to it, and briefly pretend to stand up against it, it will be approved by Congress with a unanimous vote and signed by the President (who will also pretend to give a flying fuck about privacy concerns by pinkie-swearing that it won't be abused).
Yeah, that's probably why I said "The only notable exception to this was alternating current, which is Tesla's only truly enduring legacy in this modern age."
Man, I hate the Tesla overrating that goes on any time Edison gets brought up these days. It's almost as bad as all the Europeans with a hate-on for America who always feel the need to chime in with some "High Lord Smellyarse of Essex actually invented it first!" horseshit any time an American is credited with inventing ANYTHING.
Tesla was a brilliant engineer, especially in his early years, no doubt. But he was also mentally unstable (especially in his later years), not-so-great at implementation, a terrible businessman, and more than a little erratic and unfocused. Edison was a much better all-around "inventor." Edison may not have been as brilliant an engineer as Tesla, but he was much more practical and pragmatic and much better at actually applying most of his ideas to practical use. The only notable exception to this was alternating current, which is Tesla's only truly enduring legacy in this modern age.
Now go ahead and mod me down, all you adoring Tesla worshipers. How dare I question the modern "Tesla as Messiah" dogma!
How ironic that Elon Musk, so known for his Tesla worship, is so much more like Edison than he ever was like Tesla--especially in his sense of self-promotion, business sense, and in showmanship. So you Elon Musk fanboys can mod me down too.
If I were Google (or any other tech company), I would be more inclined to relocate to a city where my employees didn't have to live to live in their cars because the Smugville hippies and greedy homeowners have decided it would be a good idea to basically prohibit all new housing construction.
Seriously, do you really NEED to be in SF that badly? Is it really that ESSENTIAL? If you need to kiss-ass in Silicon Valley that badly just to keep up your tech cred, just locate an Office of Bunghole-Tonguing branch office there and locate your main campus somewhere with available affordable housing.
Yeah, because putting a man on the moon was definitely the last hurtle in space. It's not like Russia went on the put up the first space station, or continued to launch men into space with by far the best safety record of any country, or is the only country in the world today still capable of putting men into space. Nope, the space race definitely ended with the first man on the moon.
USA! USA! USA!
BTW, can someone give us a ride to the ISS, please? We'll pay for gas.
Ugh, why does the US get to force other countries to extradite people who violate US laws?
Because when you've got the biggest dick in the room, you tend to do a lot of fucking.
Don't worry, the drunken crazy military spending that the U.S. is putting on its credit card will eventually stop when they can't afford the minimum payments on said credit card anymore. Then the party will end, their dick will shrink, and they'll wake up with a hangover realizing that they're in tens of trillions of dollars in debt with no way to ever pay it off.
I forgot to add, democracy also has nothing to do with communism vs. capitalism (they're economic, not political, systems). You can have a democratic communist system, just like you can have a totalitarian capitalist system.
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It always used to crack me up back in the day how Americans used to brag about how one of the big advantages to FREE America was that citizens could travel anywhere (as opposed to the evil USSR).
"Oh yeah? Try traveling to Cuba then, Captain Freedom"
* please note that the actual award may be less, depending on congestion and other factors
Stop it!
The fact that there are still differences between genders and ethnicity means that we need to target those groups more
I agree. And that's why I'm launching an initiative to get more men into elementary education. While things are improving in fields like CS, the gender ratio of men in elementary education has remained stagnant at only 13% for decades. The fact that men are far over-represented in dangerous manual labor jobs, like mining and commercial fishing, shows the deleterious effect of having missed out on the professional opportunities afforded them by a career in this field (with a $53,590 average annual salary). And I think it's about time we did something about it!
And I'm absolutely sure that I can count on the support in this effort of all my liberal friends, who have lead the charge to improve the gender ration in CS and other fields. After all, as they've told me so many times, they're all about equality and fairness.
SO WHO'S WITH ME?
Perhaps you missed the STRAIGHT part of "straight men."
I hear they're changing their motto:
Square Enix: We're Not Even Trying Anymore
The only thing keeping straight males out of the fashion industry is feedback from straight males.
Nope, these articles have taught me that the only possible explanation for the underrepresentation of a gender or race in a given field is that the field is either hostile or discriminatory (or both). It can't possibly be by personal choice or because of social pressure from within the gender or race itself.
If someone isn't present, it's because they're being excluded or discriminated against by the powers in the field.
Here are the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee finalists:
https://lintvkoin.files.wordpr... ...or, as like to call them, "7 reasons why the myth of Asian high achievement isn't a myth, and also 3 white kids."
I'm still waiting on all the "Why aren't there more straight men in the fashion industry?" articles that I just know must be coming any day now. ....still waiting......
It's any racial group that's in the minority in a given population--except Asians of course, because they just learn, work hard, and refuse to play victims.
Because SJW.
How about making the people who complained pay for it?
From what I understand the French in general, and Parisians in particular, complain about EVERYTHING--especially anything that involves change. Any company trying to do business there without knowing that ahead of time has only themselves to blame. If you tried to punish every Parisian who complained, you would have to turn the whole city into a jail.
Nothing in the BTTF series was ever intended to be a real prediction of the future. All the future stuff was just played for comic effect. BTTF2 is no more meant to be an accurate portrayal of the real 2015 than the series' version of 1955 or 1885 were ever meant to be historically accurate. Every era shown (even, to some extent, its own time of 1985) was comically exaggerated for humorous effect. The sights and inventions shown in BTTF2's fictional 2015 were just meant to make audiences in 1988 laugh.
IIRC, wasn't there also supposedly some weird stuff about his dad being some sort of famewhore type too? I seem to remember the implication that his dad might have egged the whole controversy on for publicity.
it's easier to find the talent you want there.
Fine, then keep a small recruitment office in SF and move your main campus somewhere where your employees don't have to walk the streets holding "Will Suck Dick For A Simple Cot In The Corner" signs.
Introducing the "Mom, Freedom, and Apple Pie Anti-Terrorist Act of 2015," that requires that all phone manufacturers build in government approved backdoors into every phone. And after a few Democrats and Rand Paul pretend to object to it, and briefly pretend to stand up against it, it will be approved by Congress with a unanimous vote and signed by the President (who will also pretend to give a flying fuck about privacy concerns by pinkie-swearing that it won't be abused).
Yeah, that's probably why I said "The only notable exception to this was alternating current, which is Tesla's only truly enduring legacy in this modern age."
Man, I hate the Tesla overrating that goes on any time Edison gets brought up these days. It's almost as bad as all the Europeans with a hate-on for America who always feel the need to chime in with some "High Lord Smellyarse of Essex actually invented it first!" horseshit any time an American is credited with inventing ANYTHING.
Tesla was a brilliant engineer, especially in his early years, no doubt. But he was also mentally unstable (especially in his later years), not-so-great at implementation, a terrible businessman, and more than a little erratic and unfocused. Edison was a much better all-around "inventor." Edison may not have been as brilliant an engineer as Tesla, but he was much more practical and pragmatic and much better at actually applying most of his ideas to practical use. The only notable exception to this was alternating current, which is Tesla's only truly enduring legacy in this modern age.
Now go ahead and mod me down, all you adoring Tesla worshipers. How dare I question the modern "Tesla as Messiah" dogma!
How ironic that Elon Musk, so known for his Tesla worship, is so much more like Edison than he ever was like Tesla--especially in his sense of self-promotion, business sense, and in showmanship. So you Elon Musk fanboys can mod me down too.
or, you know, google could pay a living wage.
If I were Google (or any other tech company), I would be more inclined to relocate to a city where my employees didn't have to live to live in their cars because the Smugville hippies and greedy homeowners have decided it would be a good idea to basically prohibit all new housing construction.
Seriously, do you really NEED to be in SF that badly? Is it really that ESSENTIAL? If you need to kiss-ass in Silicon Valley that badly just to keep up your tech cred, just locate an Office of Bunghole-Tonguing branch office there and locate your main campus somewhere with available affordable housing.
Yeah, because putting a man on the moon was definitely the last hurtle in space. It's not like Russia went on the put up the first space station, or continued to launch men into space with by far the best safety record of any country, or is the only country in the world today still capable of putting men into space. Nope, the space race definitely ended with the first man on the moon.
USA! USA! USA!
BTW, can someone give us a ride to the ISS, please? We'll pay for gas.
Not only that, but they were the first country to use an actual rover to explore, decades before the U.S. started using them.
Yeah, the Americans had ONE first (first man on the moon). Russia had EVERY OTHER SPACE FIRST.
You win, America! Go USA!
Ugh, why does the US get to force other countries to extradite people who violate US laws?
Because when you've got the biggest dick in the room, you tend to do a lot of fucking.
Don't worry, the drunken crazy military spending that the U.S. is putting on its credit card will eventually stop when they can't afford the minimum payments on said credit card anymore. Then the party will end, their dick will shrink, and they'll wake up with a hangover realizing that they're in tens of trillions of dollars in debt with no way to ever pay it off.
Well, they're not actually going to fix the problem. They're just going to have their computers report that it's fixed.
I forgot to add, democracy also has nothing to do with communism vs. capitalism (they're economic, not political, systems). You can have a democratic communist system, just like you can have a totalitarian capitalist system.