When the boss or the coworkers are pretty much only sexually harassing women (and it's not just "asking them out for dates" - repeatedly after being told no) then this is gender-specific problem, and saying "The only exception is that sometimes the men ask the women out on dates" is just so tone-deaf... and following that with ", which (apparently?) women don't like" is blaming the woman because the man can't conduct himself in a professional manner.
There's sexual harassment, and there's discrimination as well, and that discrimination is pervasive. Everything from meetings to pay and promotions. It's not just about inappropriately repeatedly asking for dates when the woman says no.
And if you followed the link, you would have found there was more to the story. Also, Tesla failed to identify the "neutral 3rd party expert" in the link you provided, so anyone who doesn't take this claim with a grain of salt is very naive. Or did you not notice that they weren't exactly forthcoming and transparent? Kind of hurts their credibility.
And your grandparents would have washed your mouth out with soap for disrespecting women. Your grandparents worked hard so you could have a better life - don't disrespect that by using it as an excuse to disrespect others. For that, they'd have taken you out to the woodshed.
I've never seen a power supply that costs 80% of the cost of a new computer, even with computer prices declining year-over-year. Also, I've always replaced power supplies with generic power supplies. No need to buy a specific model. Worse case scenario (pardon the pun) shove everything into a different case if you can't fit it into the original one. It's not like there aren't tons of cases hanging around.
Even the summary makes it clear it's more than one woman who has run into problems. I know, it's no longer in fashion to read the summary, and you obviously didn't, so here, let me help you with that:
Other women recalled being catcalled by male employees, feeling unsafe around male managers, and being subjected to sexist comments by their superiors, the report states
It's also the tagline under the headline of the second story:
"A female engineer who came forward with claims of harassment says she was fired in retaliation. But now other women have voiced similar concerns."
"Merk42 didn't read the summary. Don't be like Merk42. Read the summary":-)
The problem with that is that shit rolls downhill. Management does it, so those under them do it as well because it's okay and because they too want to feel a bit empowered and they can't beat up on management.
And half the time they don't even realize they're doing it, because everything - management treating underlings as disposable slaves, and men treating women like shit, has been normalized, especially in the post-2000 tech environment that has reduced everyone to a cog who is replaceable at a whim, and where shareholders generally won't hold you to account as long as you make them the bucks, no matter how many people's necks you have to stand on, regardless of the sex of the necks you stomp.
If you can't do 100 hour weeks (and not be paid for 60 of them like a good slave), if you object to the overt sexism (you need to "toughen up" instead of expecting to be treated properly) you're not a "team player" - even when the goal of the team owners is to milk you dry as quickly as possible and then toss you aside for the next sucker.
All workers are suffering, and all workers are looking for outlets. Women just happen to be the "easy target du jour", like usual. Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. And as a result both sexes come out behind.
You have the power ahead of time - you don't have the power post hoc to change your mind. Tough shit if you lack self control.
Once you create a situation - and in this case it's entirely voluntary on your part - you can't cry about the consequences later when you were aware of them ahead of time. Grow up and stop your whining. You are the one who has the power to not become a father. Don't exercise it - then accept the consequences. That's not sexist - that's telling you to take your share of the outcome when you do something stupid.
What's hypocritical is you saying that somehow you don't have the same power to prevent conception as a woman does, that somehow only the woman has a responsibility and an ability to prevent conceptions, when you know damn well you're lying because you don't want to take responsibility for controlling your own fertility. Because you think with your dick.
Nobody solders new dram chips into dimms because ram has been cheaper than paper clips for years. It's not like back in the days of individual ram chips (not dimms) where 64k was $100 in 8 individual packages that you socketed into the board individually. (And when you had to desolder a cpu to replace it. Did that once).
People want the right to fix things that can be fixed cheaply by swapping parts, and there's no reason why computers can't be designed to do that. Even a motherboard swap is cheaper than tossing the box, and many people would take that as an opportunity to do an in-place upgrade.
If you're too stupid to take precautions, how is that not your own fault?
If it's her body, her right, her choice, then it should be her responsibility, too. If she didn't like the outcome, what was she doing sleeping with a guy without protection who didn't want to start a family?
If you didn't want a kid, what were you doing sleeping with a woman without protection who wanted to start a family? Or do you not have autonomy over your body, your right, and your choice to use contraception, or even forego sex? (oh, right, you don't want to use a condom because it feels like wearing a raincoat, you don't want to get a vasectomy because the thought of losing your virility makes you cringe, you regard unprotected sex as your birthright and you'll never refuse sex when you're drunk or horny or just plain desperate).
Colt's great contribution was to the use of interchangeable parts. Knowing that some gun parts were made by machine, he envisioned that all the parts on every Colt gun to be interchangeable and made by machine, later to be assembled by hand. His goal was the assembly line. This is shown in an 1836 letter that Colt wrote to his father in which he said,
The first workman would receive two or three of the most important parts and would affix these and pass them on to the next who would add a part and pass the growing article on to another who would do the same, and so on until the complete arm is put together.
Engineers have been capable of building devices that are easier to repair all the time - but only when that's one of the goals. Built-in obsolescence has been a thing for decades. Desktop computers are a lot easier to diagnose and repair than the original PC. Laptops? Ha!
Never said that "men have a monopoly on sexual stupidity."
How about when she decides to have the baby knowing full well she can bilk it out of him whether he wants to or not, forcing all three of them to live in poverty.
You're responsible for your own contraceptive practices, she's responsible for hers. If you're too stupid to take precautions, how is that not your own fault? It's clearly not like you don't know the long-term risks.
New terms superseding old terms is not changing terms retroactively. The new terms only apply from that date forward. For example, you can't say "our new rate is 2x the old rate, and we're applying it retroactively for the last 3 years".
If you depend entirely on someone else to perform a service for you, then you should have considered what you'll do if/when they stop. Especially if it's important to you.
What a total lack of insight into the modern world. It would be a full-time job to consider every single service you use, and what you'd have to do it they stop. Police, fire, water, electricity, drug manufacturers, inspectors of all sorts (even if you don't fly, you don't want a plane dropping body parts on you). Think of any part of the economy that goes on strike, and how it can affect you directly or indirectly. You going to waste time wondering about a possible truckers strike, rail strike, highway maintenance strike, police strike, garbage strike, doctor's strike, ambulance strike, fireman's strike, meteor strike?
Or are you just going to deal with it when you know it may happen soon?
Problem is that many of the people he hasn't contacted in years probably didn't notify him of their new email address... so if he want's to look up an old co-worker or school chum, he may be out of luck.
And when there's a family feud? Or someone keeps trying to email ISOs? Or misuses it to spam their new get-rich-quick scheme? Or gets caught with kiddie pr0n? Or keeps forwarding infected chain emails? Or their computer gets hacked? Or the person running it dies, or is in the hospital for an extended period just as the domain comes up for renewal, and someone else grabs it after it goes back up for grabs?
Next they'll claim that everyone should have their own area code so that nobody can take away their phone number. This is slashdot - where more and more, logic goes to die of loneliness.
There are plenty of people who keep their old email address when a company is bought out. Remember rocketmail, hotmail, yahoo, aol? It was really handy because you know that if you received something from someone with an @aol.com email address not to expect them to be able to know much technical stuff.
My computer isn't working.
Is it turned on?
I can't tell - the power is out.
No, the sick part is that it is child's play on the server side to move the email folder, and 20 years of email can be a lot of email. They're just being dicks. Or maybe they can't do it because they don't have their own email server either, having farmed it out to "the cloud" through some 3rd party or something.
It's been calculated that for most of our existence, the average lifespan was just under 20. This was due to high infant and child mortality, high mortality of mothers (hey, big heads come with their own problems), and things that we just shrug off today after a visit to the doctor could leave one uncompetitive, or dead.
As one example, I tore the cartilage in one of my knees when I was 19. The knee works fine, but without surgery I would have been crippled. That's a serious problem in a nomadic hunter-gatherer society.
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When the boss or the coworkers are pretty much only sexually harassing women (and it's not just "asking them out for dates" - repeatedly after being told no) then this is gender-specific problem, and saying "The only exception is that sometimes the men ask the women out on dates" is just so tone-deaf ... and following that with ", which (apparently?) women don't like" is blaming the woman because the man can't conduct himself in a professional manner.
There's sexual harassment, and there's discrimination as well, and that discrimination is pervasive. Everything from meetings to pay and promotions. It's not just about inappropriately repeatedly asking for dates when the woman says no.
And if you followed the link, you would have found there was more to the story. Also, Tesla failed to identify the "neutral 3rd party expert" in the link you provided, so anyone who doesn't take this claim with a grain of salt is very naive. Or did you not notice that they weren't exactly forthcoming and transparent? Kind of hurts their credibility.
And your grandparents would have washed your mouth out with soap for disrespecting women. Your grandparents worked hard so you could have a better life - don't disrespect that by using it as an excuse to disrespect others. For that, they'd have taken you out to the woodshed.
I've never seen a power supply that costs 80% of the cost of a new computer, even with computer prices declining year-over-year. Also, I've always replaced power supplies with generic power supplies. No need to buy a specific model. Worse case scenario (pardon the pun) shove everything into a different case if you can't fit it into the original one. It's not like there aren't tons of cases hanging around.
Other women recalled being catcalled by male employees, feeling unsafe around male managers, and being subjected to sexist comments by their superiors, the report states
It's also the tagline under the headline of the second story:
"A female engineer who came forward with claims of harassment says she was fired in retaliation. But now other women have voiced similar concerns."
"Merk42 didn't read the summary. Don't be like Merk42. Read the summary" :-)
Well then maybe the "man" should grow up and act like a real man and not a PFY with raging hormones.
The problem with that is that shit rolls downhill. Management does it, so those under them do it as well because it's okay and because they too want to feel a bit empowered and they can't beat up on management.
And half the time they don't even realize they're doing it, because everything - management treating underlings as disposable slaves, and men treating women like shit, has been normalized, especially in the post-2000 tech environment that has reduced everyone to a cog who is replaceable at a whim, and where shareholders generally won't hold you to account as long as you make them the bucks, no matter how many people's necks you have to stand on, regardless of the sex of the necks you stomp.
If you can't do 100 hour weeks (and not be paid for 60 of them like a good slave), if you object to the overt sexism (you need to "toughen up" instead of expecting to be treated properly) you're not a "team player" - even when the goal of the team owners is to milk you dry as quickly as possible and then toss you aside for the next sucker.
All workers are suffering, and all workers are looking for outlets. Women just happen to be the "easy target du jour", like usual. Situation Normal, All Fucked Up. And as a result both sexes come out behind.
You have the power ahead of time - you don't have the power post hoc to change your mind. Tough shit if you lack self control.
Once you create a situation - and in this case it's entirely voluntary on your part - you can't cry about the consequences later when you were aware of them ahead of time. Grow up and stop your whining. You are the one who has the power to not become a father. Don't exercise it - then accept the consequences. That's not sexist - that's telling you to take your share of the outcome when you do something stupid.
What's hypocritical is you saying that somehow you don't have the same power to prevent conception as a woman does, that somehow only the woman has a responsibility and an ability to prevent conceptions, when you know damn well you're lying because you don't want to take responsibility for controlling your own fertility. Because you think with your dick.
People want the right to fix things that can be fixed cheaply by swapping parts, and there's no reason why computers can't be designed to do that. Even a motherboard swap is cheaper than tossing the box, and many people would take that as an opportunity to do an in-place upgrade.
So, your advice sucks because you can arbitrarily end service, same as any telco. They're making the same argument you do - their domain, their rules.
If you're too stupid to take precautions, how is that not your own fault?
If it's her body, her right, her choice, then it should be her responsibility, too. If she didn't like the outcome, what was she doing sleeping with a guy without protection who didn't want to start a family?
If you didn't want a kid, what were you doing sleeping with a woman without protection who wanted to start a family? Or do you not have autonomy over your body, your right, and your choice to use contraception, or even forego sex? (oh, right, you don't want to use a condom because it feels like wearing a raincoat, you don't want to get a vasectomy because the thought of losing your virility makes you cringe, you regard unprotected sex as your birthright and you'll never refuse sex when you're drunk or horny or just plain desperate).
Colt's great contribution was to the use of interchangeable parts. Knowing that some gun parts were made by machine, he envisioned that all the parts on every Colt gun to be interchangeable and made by machine, later to be assembled by hand. His goal was the assembly line. This is shown in an 1836 letter that Colt wrote to his father in which he said,
The first workman would receive two or three of the most important parts and would affix these and pass them on to the next who would add a part and pass the growing article on to another who would do the same, and so on until the complete arm is put together.
Engineers have been capable of building devices that are easier to repair all the time - but only when that's one of the goals. Built-in obsolescence has been a thing for decades. Desktop computers are a lot easier to diagnose and repair than the original PC. Laptops? Ha!
Are you sure about that? Nature has equipped women to enjoy sex far more than men - multiple orgasms being one example.
How about when she decides to have the baby knowing full well she can bilk it out of him whether he wants to or not, forcing all three of them to live in poverty.
You're responsible for your own contraceptive practices, she's responsible for hers. If you're too stupid to take precautions, how is that not your own fault? It's clearly not like you don't know the long-term risks.
Contracts of adhesion ("take-it-or-leave-it" contracts) are subject to various consumer protection laws that try to limit abuse.
New terms superseding old terms is not changing terms retroactively. The new terms only apply from that date forward. For example, you can't say "our new rate is 2x the old rate, and we're applying it retroactively for the last 3 years".
If you depend entirely on someone else to perform a service for you, then you should have considered what you'll do if/when they stop. Especially if it's important to you.
What a total lack of insight into the modern world. It would be a full-time job to consider every single service you use, and what you'd have to do it they stop. Police, fire, water, electricity, drug manufacturers, inspectors of all sorts (even if you don't fly, you don't want a plane dropping body parts on you). Think of any part of the economy that goes on strike, and how it can affect you directly or indirectly. You going to waste time wondering about a possible truckers strike, rail strike, highway maintenance strike, police strike, garbage strike, doctor's strike, ambulance strike, fireman's strike, meteor strike?
Or are you just going to deal with it when you know it may happen soon?
Problem is that many of the people he hasn't contacted in years probably didn't notify him of their new email address ... so if he want's to look up an old co-worker or school chum, he may be out of luck.
And when there's a family feud? Or someone keeps trying to email ISOs? Or misuses it to spam their new get-rich-quick scheme? Or gets caught with kiddie pr0n? Or keeps forwarding infected chain emails? Or their computer gets hacked? Or the person running it dies, or is in the hospital for an extended period just as the domain comes up for renewal, and someone else grabs it after it goes back up for grabs?
Next they'll claim that everyone should have their own area code so that nobody can take away their phone number. This is slashdot - where more and more, logic goes to die of loneliness.
There are plenty of people who keep their old email address when a company is bought out. Remember rocketmail, hotmail, yahoo, aol? It was really handy because you know that if you received something from someone with an @aol.com email address not to expect them to be able to know much technical stuff.
My computer isn't working.
Is it turned on?
I can't tell - the power is out.
No, the sick part is that it is child's play on the server side to move the email folder, and 20 years of email can be a lot of email. They're just being dicks. Or maybe they can't do it because they don't have their own email server either, having farmed it out to "the cloud" through some 3rd party or something.
Maybe businesses should stop sending out emails without a valid reply address.
It's been calculated that for most of our existence, the average lifespan was just under 20. This was due to high infant and child mortality, high mortality of mothers (hey, big heads come with their own problems), and things that we just shrug off today after a visit to the doctor could leave one uncompetitive, or dead.
As one example, I tore the cartilage in one of my knees when I was 19. The knee works fine, but without surgery I would have been crippled. That's a serious problem in a nomadic hunter-gatherer society.