It's funny that you should bring in religion in a discussion about gender equality. Since it's nobody's darned business what your religion is (and employers, for example, aren't allowed to ask), that should be a non-issue (and anyone who wants to make it an issue should find something more constructive to do with their time).
As for skin color, discriminatory hiring practices (as well as discrimination against members of the public based on skin color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc) are also banned.
As for the "implementing the binary gender model", we're getting away from that as well. Last year the APA finally officially changed their stance that "transsexualism is a disorder", 40 years after they did the same for other members of the LGBT; it's not perfect, but we're getting there.
Which brings us to the all-girls-only opportunity. It doesn't have to be 50-50. You could set a limit to the class size, and fill it based on 50-50. If there are still spaces left at the end, let the other gender take those unused spaces.
Quotas are only meant to be a temporary measure, BTW.:-)
Depends on the selfish actor's degree of power, The cat gets away with infinite aggression towards the mice, because the mice can never get it together to bell the cat.
If mice were the cat's sole supply of food, the cat that successfully ate all the mice would die of hunger - and kill off all the other cats at the same time.
Now in real life, mice are a lot harder to catch than in fairy tales. Their innate timidity prevents them from taking many of the risks that would get them eaten by the cat.
The best way to fight discrimination is to set the example by not discriminating. A few generations ago, kids were segregated by sex in school. Today we'd see that as definitely interfering with their normal social development.
Ditto this program - admit equal numbers of both sexes/genders, get them to work together and experience the fact that the other sex likes it as well, making it normal that either sex can do it. What are we always telling our kids? "Two wrongs don't make a right." Maybe we should be more consistent in practicing what we preach, or they'll see that discrimination based on sex is still okay.
This has nothing to do with the internet and everything to do with the camera recording patients (both audio and video) without their consent.
I made some videos with my cell phone this summer, and the staff were okay with it as long as NO other patient was in the scene. I agree with them - only jerks would video patients in a hospital, even casually, without their knowledge and consent.
Unless it's to capture a crime being committed, recording people without their consent is a really dick move.
I like the style because it reads like the assembler I used to write. If you read her bio, she spent a LOT of time doing assembler, so any c code is going to have some carry-over. YOU might not like it, but it works, it's easy to understand, and easy to understand beats adding more conditional flags any day.
.. and she should be congratulated for having the courage to submit this, knowing that, this being slashdot, some jerks would post totally uncalled for crap like this.
The faulty logic is yours. It's easy enough to quiz employees on their sports and evaluate the risk accordingly (insurers do this all the time). Predicting an unexpected catastrophic health event 10 years in the future is a bit harder...
"Re-skilling" is not a viable strategy past a certain age. Not only will you end up trying to compete with younger people who actually have experience, but in some cases it's just not physically possible due to the handicaps from the catastrophic health event.
if you're going to accept that 40 is unemployable when retirement is 75 then you have a *massive* social security problem which is not resolved by wishing things were different.
Once an older person (50+) accumulates too many handicaps, they ARE unemployable for all practical purposes. Wishing things were different isn't going to change that. For them, "Freedom 55" means "You're free to drop out of mainline society and be marginalized."
And the schools don't dare inform parents of all the risks - parents would say "What, are you crazy? I'm going to risk my kids future so you can get a stupid trophy for your office? DIAF."
I wish you were right, but experience with the parents of brain-damaged young athletes indicates otherwise.
Maybe it's time to consider that they're engaged in willful child endangerment? Nobody, not even a concussed-out coach, wants to be labeled a child abuser.
You forgot one key point - there's no extradition if the crime isn't a crime in the host country. Until the US enacts sharia law (and has an extradition treaty with those countries) it just ain't gonna happen. So I will continue to violate sharia law with impunity.
Strategies that are too selfish "kill the host". Or invite retaliatory action. This is the same whether it's a virus like ebola or bad actors in society.
External air bags! Someone tries to spear with their helmet, BANG! They get thrown off by their own helmet air bag. Also, if a player is hit in the head and the external airbag deploys, it protects them from secondary contacts, AND ensures they're off the field.
But the problem is that just like the NFL, these high school and college football programs are hiding these head injury risks from the players. It's not the kids' fault that the adults they should be able to trust are putting them into risky situations without properly informing them of the risks.
That's not a solution. Minors can't give informed consent. They are not adults, and the presumption is that, lacking enough real-word experience, they are more subject to peer pressure, etc., and less capable of understanding what "life-long brain damage" really means. Kids think they're invulnerable, that it won't happen to them (a lot of adults also think the same wrt addiction, risky driving habits, etc).
And the schools don't dare inform parents of all the risks - parents would say "What, are you crazy? I'm going to risk my kids future so you can get a stupid trophy for your office? DIAF."
"According to a rigorous health survey conducted by the CDC in 2004, an estimated 25 percent of adults in the U.S. reported having a mental illness in the previous year. Lifetime prevalence rates of mental illness in the U.S. were around 50 percent when measured back in 2004. That means in a family of four, one of you likely has a mental illness.
However, mental illness is greatly weighted toward our senior years, when things start looking pretty bleak.
On the other hand, younger people are more likely to... develop a debilitating substance addiction...
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because of it being a female developer, but then I found out that it wasn't technically female.
Are you proud of yourself, referring to someone as an "it?"
It's funny that you should bring in religion in a discussion about gender equality. Since it's nobody's darned business what your religion is (and employers, for example, aren't allowed to ask), that should be a non-issue (and anyone who wants to make it an issue should find something more constructive to do with their time).
As for skin color, discriminatory hiring practices (as well as discrimination against members of the public based on skin color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, etc) are also banned.
As for the "implementing the binary gender model", we're getting away from that as well. Last year the APA finally officially changed their stance that "transsexualism is a disorder", 40 years after they did the same for other members of the LGBT; it's not perfect, but we're getting there.
Which brings us to the all-girls-only opportunity. It doesn't have to be 50-50. You could set a limit to the class size, and fill it based on 50-50. If there are still spaces left at the end, let the other gender take those unused spaces.
Quotas are only meant to be a temporary measure, BTW. :-)
Not really. Discrimination is favoring one group over another. This favors neither group and would pass human rights legislation.
That's pretty funny, especially since it's healthier for an m2f to have a "dick-otomy" than to be stuck with 2 rocks and a hard place :-)
Try the fish.
Depends on the selfish actor's degree of power, The cat gets away with infinite aggression towards the mice, because the mice can never get it together to bell the cat.
If mice were the cat's sole supply of food, the cat that successfully ate all the mice would die of hunger - and kill off all the other cats at the same time.
Now in real life, mice are a lot harder to catch than in fairy tales. Their innate timidity prevents them from taking many of the risks that would get them eaten by the cat.
The best way to fight discrimination is to set the example by not discriminating. A few generations ago, kids were segregated by sex in school. Today we'd see that as definitely interfering with their normal social development.
Ditto this program - admit equal numbers of both sexes/genders, get them to work together and experience the fact that the other sex likes it as well, making it normal that either sex can do it. What are we always telling our kids? "Two wrongs don't make a right." Maybe we should be more consistent in practicing what we preach, or they'll see that discrimination based on sex is still okay.
This has nothing to do with the internet and everything to do with the camera recording patients (both audio and video) without their consent.
I made some videos with my cell phone this summer, and the staff were okay with it as long as NO other patient was in the scene. I agree with them - only jerks would video patients in a hospital, even casually, without their knowledge and consent.
Unless it's to capture a crime being committed, recording people without their consent is a really dick move.
How does Google Glass compare to Gorilla Glass or sapphire? How far can I drop Google Glass before it shatters?
The real question is how long can you wear it before someone shatters it for you ...
Lesbians have a sense of humor, dykes do not. Now we know which one you are.
The fallacy of the false dichotomy strikes again :-)
I like the style because it reads like the assembler I used to write. If you read her bio, she spent a LOT of time doing assembler, so any c code is going to have some carry-over. YOU might not like it, but it works, it's easy to understand, and easy to understand beats adding more conditional flags any day.
Your "logic" is flawed.
When doing this, there was no way of knowing what the reaction would be.
GM would have gone bankrupt even if its employees had worked for free. That's bad management.
.. and she should be congratulated for having the courage to submit this, knowing that, this being slashdot, some jerks would post totally uncalled for crap like this.
Cue all the programming nazis^purists who thing that "you should never use a goto in c".
The code's very readable - bonus points for style.
If I had 10 weeks to port Doom to the 3DO I would have cut my dick off too
Please, don't let that stop you!
At least this way you won't be as much of a dick :-)
The faulty logic is yours. It's easy enough to quiz employees on their sports and evaluate the risk accordingly (insurers do this all the time). Predicting an unexpected catastrophic health event 10 years in the future is a bit harder ...
while you re-skill
"Re-skilling" is not a viable strategy past a certain age. Not only will you end up trying to compete with younger people who actually have experience, but in some cases it's just not physically possible due to the handicaps from the catastrophic health event.
if you're going to accept that 40 is unemployable when retirement is 75 then you have a *massive* social security problem which is not resolved by wishing things were different.
Once an older person (50+) accumulates too many handicaps, they ARE unemployable for all practical purposes. Wishing things were different isn't going to change that. For them, "Freedom 55" means "You're free to drop out of mainline society and be marginalized."
And the schools don't dare inform parents of all the risks - parents would say "What, are you crazy? I'm going to risk my kids future so you can get a stupid trophy for your office? DIAF."
I wish you were right, but experience with the parents of brain-damaged young athletes indicates otherwise.
Maybe it's time to consider that they're engaged in willful child endangerment? Nobody, not even a concussed-out coach, wants to be labeled a child abuser.
He just managed to spend $4.5M on a splashy political campaign in NZ. In a country of 4 million people that's a very expensive campaign.
That's barely over $1/person. Compare that the the $1 billion for Obama's campaign and $1 billion for Romney's campaign (and $7 billion total election expenses in 2012), and it makes KDC look like a cheap piker.
You forgot one key point - there's no extradition if the crime isn't a crime in the host country. Until the US enacts sharia law (and has an extradition treaty with those countries) it just ain't gonna happen. So I will continue to violate sharia law with impunity.
Strategies that are too selfish "kill the host". Or invite retaliatory action. This is the same whether it's a virus like ebola or bad actors in society.
External air bags! Someone tries to spear with their helmet, BANG! They get thrown off by their own helmet air bag. Also, if a player is hit in the head and the external airbag deploys, it protects them from secondary contacts, AND ensures they're off the field.
But the problem is that just like the NFL, these high school and college football programs are hiding these head injury risks from the players. It's not the kids' fault that the adults they should be able to trust are putting them into risky situations without properly informing them of the risks.
That's not a solution. Minors can't give informed consent. They are not adults, and the presumption is that, lacking enough real-word experience, they are more subject to peer pressure, etc., and less capable of understanding what "life-long brain damage" really means. Kids think they're invulnerable, that it won't happen to them (a lot of adults also think the same wrt addiction, risky driving habits, etc).
And the schools don't dare inform parents of all the risks - parents would say "What, are you crazy? I'm going to risk my kids future so you can get a stupid trophy for your office? DIAF."
But was he referring to rugby players, or their rioting fans?
Did you actually do any research?
On the other hand, younger people are more likely to ... develop a debilitating mental illness ...
The likelihood of developing a mental illness increases with age
"According to a rigorous health survey conducted by the CDC in 2004, an estimated 25 percent of adults in the U.S. reported having a mental illness in the previous year. Lifetime prevalence rates of mental illness in the U.S. were around 50 percent when measured back in 2004. That means in a family of four, one of you likely has a mental illness.
However, mental illness is greatly weighted toward our senior years, when things start looking pretty bleak.
On the other hand, younger people are more likely to ... develop a debilitating substance addiction ...
use of illegal drugs is increasing in the 50+ group. In other words, the older you are, the higher the risk.
On the other hand, younger people are more likely to ... commit suicide ...
The first peak in suicide rates is 15-24 years old. Given that you're not hiring high school or junior college students, we can ignore this group. Suicide rates drop for the next age cohort, and then increase with age. Specifically, suicide rates are highest for women aged 45-54, and for men aged 75 and older.
Also, men are 4x more likely to successfully commit suicide, so to continue your line of thought, maybe employers should only hire women :-)