I Doubt any kind of genital surgery was common in the 19th century
Excuse me, but the poster was talking about medical and scientific attitudes, not medical and scientific acts.
Also, you're wrong. Surgery on the intersexed goes back at least to the mid-1700's. See page 49 this report. That's the 18th century.
And if you read the rest of the paper, the problem is that the attitude of many in the medical community has not changed - doctors want to "fix" children at a very young age, without any real test to know what the right solution is in any individual case, or whether the patient is content to just leave well enough alone. At least with transsexuals you can get feedback from the patient, even at a young age, as to what is "right" for them.
If you feel that's not the case I would recomend offering solutions or suggestions instead of just whining about the way things are.
Posting on sites like slashdot IS doing something - it's providing real-life examples of "hey, there's a problem here" and getting it out into the open. We can't all say "well, there's a problem, so I'm going to devote the next 2 decades to becoming a doctor and THEN fighting it." Just not practical, and in the meantime another 20 years of IS children "get it in the groin", so to speak. I know, that's rather blunt language, but how would you like someone messing around with your "bits" without your permission, or even knowledge?
Personally I think allowing people who can not care for themselves to be born is absolutely inhumane.
Well, I guess that takes care of the human race... no human can take care of themselves without a lot of care in the first few years, and even later we still depend on each other as a society, to provide jobs, policing, etc.
Or we could go all Romulus and Reemus, and let the wolves raise our kids:-)
Seeing as the examples are for java, it's braindead before birth. Written by someone who doesn't even know that the System class has ways to get the os.name, os.arch, and os.version. Funny if they think that if the test fails, it defaults to Window 7, and they try to run it on a non-windows-hosted java runtime.
For most programs, the proper behavior on an error is to abort, then fix the program logic or repair the busted hardware. Assertions, etc...
As for why you'd want to allocate a new resource (the 3rd example in your first link) in a destructor, that's such an obvious no-no that I wouldn't even think of it in a million years. That is a very contrived example.
The argument around gets as an example of how c leads to bad design is bogus. Even the man pages point out the problem.
Worse, his counter-example is broken, since most if the code is missing - even when you look at the page in source view.
And I've seen c++ programmers make the same mistake about putting strlen() in a conditional test. More efficient code wouldn't use either strlen() or a for() loop, but take advantage of the fact that strings in c are null-terminated.
As for the ending:
The fact is: Look at almost any complicated data structure made in C, and it will almost invariably be a horrible mess which is very error-prone and extremely hard to understand and maintain.
I’m not saying that many such data containers made in C++ aren’t a mess. However, C++ at least offers you the tools to make it cleaner. C doesn’t offer you anything (after all, it’s a “sparse” and “straightforward” language) and thus C constructs tend to look like a huge mess.
Have you looked at the mess that is the string class in the stl? Even that is fugly. When I use c++, I write my own classes, not because I can, but because I want code that I know will behave the way I expect it to. The extra time to hack together a minimal string class and debug it is more than paid back when trying to figure out where something is going wrong. And that goes for pretty much any container class. If you can't write your own basic c++ containers, how the heck can you be expected to design (or even understand) something more complex?
C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using
the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other
total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
- infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me
that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full
of BS that it's not even funny)
I *do* like the ability to free up resources in a c++ destructor, but as he points out, that's not something you want to rely on in system software. The c++ committee has java envy.
So that's why if they can't smell their own urine, they usually die within a few years. Good to know it's not just "because they got used to the smell."
And no, I'm not being facetious here.
Exactly. Make everything blurry enough, and it all looks fake. Or real. Or whatever. How did this make it out of the firehose? (Oh, right, too many people don't actually READ the summary in the firehose, never mind the actual article(s). Just the headline ).
There is no room in my universe for racism. Or for attacking people based on sex, gender identity, etc. I think that is true for many, perhaps the majority, of people are the same (I may be overly optimistic here, but it is definitely getting better with time).
That being said, I'm probably as guilty of getting my back up whenever I hear the accusation of Femi-nazi being thrown at anyone, because it's been used inappropriately so often in the past to avoid discussing issues of legitimate concern.
The people making threats should be called what they are - bullies. That they're doing it "in the name of feminism" or claiming to be a "social justice warrior" doesn't change the fact that they are bullies. They "get off" on being bullies - the whole "Femi-nazi" or SJW thing is just a vehicle for them to exploit. Anyone who wants to fight for social justice or promote any cause has a lot more credibility if they don't drag the level of discussion down to racism, threats, and other stupid behavior.
Now, about the collusion between the game sites in attacking their core customers - they obviously did this as "click bait". It's one thing to be controversial - another to throw out ethics and collude in an attack on a specific group of people for money. Stories should be covered based on their own merit, period.
The problem with protesting journalists is that journalists can and will write whatever they want about the people protesting them.
Only up to a point. Attacking your core audience sounds like they got the footgun out and didn't know it was loaded. Now they're paying the price. Anyone who remembers Maureen O'Gara's attacks on Linux, PJ, and Groklaw, and her false denials that she wasn't getting paid by SCO or otherwise working with them knows how this will end.
No, scantily clad does not equal mysoginist - ever been to the beach?
For those not in the know, the "slut walk" is an annual protest that started after a cop told a college class that they should be careful not to dress "slutty" or they would increase their risk of sexual assault. A combination of "blame the victim" and "men can't control their actions", denigrating both genders.
Does that sound like a view that promotes either misogyny or misandy?
I wouldn't know. I prefer games like SimCity (and can verify that SimCity2000 IS beatable. Got the "exodus" message, no cheats, have the game save files for every "year" of the 700 game years (a 24-hour marathon session, actually), but it took a long time, with lots of errors, to figure out the best approach). So am I a "gamer?" Not in any real sense - the SimCity series is the only one that really floats my boat. SimCity 4 Rush Hour got boring after I had covered most of the world with a city that was making more money than I could ever spend, after buying every single monument and special structure. Sadly, it's dumbed down, less of a challenge, and thus boring.
Some games are classics for a reason. Some games have near-universal appeal. And many modern games aren't hard-coded so that the main player is one gender or sex.
Actually, this is not a new UK law - it's a European Union directive, so it applies to the whole of the European Union.
However, it's still more restrictive on what can and cannot be parodied:
If a parody conveys a discriminatory message (for example, by replacing the original characters with people wearing veils and people of colour), the holders of the rights to the work parodied have, in principle, a legitimate interest in ensuring that their work is not associated with such a message.
Certain really funny scenes in Spaceballs were just outlawed. "There goes the neighborhood."
However, when looking at the text of the actual law, it doesn't make any mention of discrimination in the list of changes. Neither does the 11-page explanatory notes section. My guess? Someone added their own interpretation, not realizing that the old test of "fair dealing" is modified by this new directive.
..but all I can think of is someone posting beautiful romantic insightful feelings...
True story: One of my former co-workers finally asked me for some help in writing his online profile and stuff because he was getting no responses, so I looked at what he had posted.
Me: "Dude, you make yourself sound like a lovelorn chick!" was my first reaction. Which explained why some of the responses he got were from guys (his first name isn't necessarily one that would identify his gender). "Rule for any sort of success? Just. Be. Yourself. Anything else comes across as unnatural and sticks out."
Him: "Yeah, but then I won't get any responses!"
Me: "That's the way it is. Would you rather get 1 good response, or 100 responses that dump you within minutes of meeting you?"
I re-wrote his profile for him, and he *gasp* got a response. And then spent the next two weeks refusing to reply, creating all sorts of "justifications" as to why not. "She might not like me. Women who answer ads turn into crazies. She's probably fat. She'll make fun of the way I dress."
I get it. Guys take the risk of asking someone out, get shot down, and either get gun-shy or realize that it's not the end of the world and try, try again. It's like that joke:
Little Johnny runs up to Suzie and pulls down his pants. "Ha, ha, I've got one of these and you don't."
Little Suzie pulls up her skirt and says "Well, I've got one of these and my mommy says that with one of these I can get as many of those as I want."
I was fortunate never to have heard of her until now. She's a troll, just like a lot of other griefers. They enjoy hurting people because that feeds their inner brat.
However, Intel should have made it clear, via a press release, not a poorly-worded spokesperson's reply, as to why they are taking this action. I've posted it elsewhere, but I'll repeat the salient part here to save a few clicks:
Gamers are a diverse and growing segment of the population, and we are enthusiastic about making products that help them get the most out of their gaming experience. We have decided to pull our advertising from [list of sites] because they continue to promote an outdated view of gamers that stigmatizes people. At Intel, we listen to the men and women who buy our products, and we appreciate both their patronage and their concerns. Therefore, we have decided not to subsidize web sites that have become platforms for disparaging our customers. We will, of course, continue to advertise in other, more appropriate venues. If you feel that a site showing our advertising is violating this policy, please let us know. Thank you.
Now something like *that* would have sent a clear, powerful message, and it's something that pretty much everyone who wants to advance beyond the old stereotypes can get behind.
Exactly. And that whole "a lot of them creeps?" Well, there's an old saying, "you have to kiss a lot of frogs to get a prince."
Also
allows women to peruse men's pictures and their answers to the "Question of the Day" ("You found a magic lamp and get three wishes. What are they?") and view their Video Challenges ("Show us a hidden gem in Seattle"). If a woman is suitably impressed by a man's answers, she can make herself visible to him. Only then can he see what she looks like. "It's a far more thoughtful — and cautious — approach than the one taken by the dating app of the moment, Tinder, which is effectively a "hot or not" game,
How is this not a variant of the "hot or not" game? To NOT be a variant, it should allow BOTH sides to see each others pics only after she's decided that she's impressed only by his answers, not his answers and photos.
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I Doubt any kind of genital surgery was common in the 19th century
Excuse me, but the poster was talking about medical and scientific attitudes, not medical and scientific acts.
Also, you're wrong. Surgery on the intersexed goes back at least to the mid-1700's. See page 49 this report. That's the 18th century.
And if you read the rest of the paper, the problem is that the attitude of many in the medical community has not changed - doctors want to "fix" children at a very young age, without any real test to know what the right solution is in any individual case, or whether the patient is content to just leave well enough alone. At least with transsexuals you can get feedback from the patient, even at a young age, as to what is "right" for them.
If you feel that's not the case I would recomend offering solutions or suggestions instead of just whining about the way things are.
Posting on sites like slashdot IS doing something - it's providing real-life examples of "hey, there's a problem here" and getting it out into the open. We can't all say "well, there's a problem, so I'm going to devote the next 2 decades to becoming a doctor and THEN fighting it." Just not practical, and in the meantime another 20 years of IS children "get it in the groin", so to speak. I know, that's rather blunt language, but how would you like someone messing around with your "bits" without your permission, or even knowledge?
Personally I think allowing people who can not care for themselves to be born is absolutely inhumane.
Well, I guess that takes care of the human race ... no human can take care of themselves without a lot of care in the first few years, and even later we still depend on each other as a society, to provide jobs, policing, etc.
Or we could go all Romulus and Reemus, and let the wolves raise our kids :-)
Seeing as the examples are for java, it's braindead before birth. Written by someone who doesn't even know that the System class has ways to get the os.name, os.arch, and os.version. Funny if they think that if the test fails, it defaults to Window 7, and they try to run it on a non-windows-hosted java runtime.
Titan.
You might gain a few calendar years, but lose in actual minutes of life.
going to watch the kettle? so to speak.
I imagine they would have to have one hell of an upgrade in remote control or assisted intelligence to handle any emergencies.
Why not have them awake and doing all sorts of science outside the immediate earth-moon environment? Kill 2 birds with one stone.
"But it will take more resources."
Better than Hal9000 turning them into corpsicles.
"During interplanetary transit, the crew would receive low-level electrical impulses to key muscle groups to prevent muscular atrophy."
What about "that" muscle? Or is it going to be an all-women crew?
If it's anything like the music for their flash presentation, I don't think even senility will save it.
For most programs, the proper behavior on an error is to abort, then fix the program logic or repair the busted hardware. Assertions, etc ...
As for why you'd want to allocate a new resource (the 3rd example in your first link) in a destructor, that's such an obvious no-no that I wouldn't even think of it in a million years. That is a very contrived example.
Worse, his counter-example is broken, since most if the code is missing - even when you look at the page in source view.
And I've seen c++ programmers make the same mistake about putting strlen() in a conditional test. More efficient code wouldn't use either strlen() or a for() loop, but take advantage of the fact that strings in c are null-terminated.
As for the ending:
The fact is: Look at almost any complicated data structure made in C, and it will almost invariably be a horrible mess which is very error-prone and extremely hard to understand and maintain.
I’m not saying that many such data containers made in C++ aren’t a mess. However, C++ at least offers you the tools to make it cleaner. C doesn’t offer you anything (after all, it’s a “sparse” and “straightforward” language) and thus C constructs tend to look like a huge mess.
Have you looked at the mess that is the string class in the stl? Even that is fugly. When I use c++, I write my own classes, not because I can, but because I want code that I know will behave the way I expect it to. The extra time to hack together a minimal string class and debug it is more than paid back when trying to figure out where something is going wrong. And that goes for pretty much any container class. If you can't write your own basic c++ containers, how the heck can you be expected to design (or even understand) something more complex?
C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes: - infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full of BS that it's not even funny)
I *do* like the ability to free up resources in a c++ destructor, but as he points out, that's not something you want to rely on in system software. The c++ committee has java envy.
So that's why if they can't smell their own urine, they usually die within a few years. Good to know it's not just "because they got used to the smell." And no, I'm not being facetious here.
Exactly. Make everything blurry enough, and it all looks fake. Or real. Or whatever. How did this make it out of the firehose? (Oh, right, too many people don't actually READ the summary in the firehose, never mind the actual article(s). Just the headline ).
Definitely someone I would love to meet in a fair public discussion, just to have the chance to shame such views.
Yes, but she's not likely to engage in a fair public discussion.
Even better. All someone has to do is clue her into my current .sig and everyone can just sit back and watch her foam at the mouth. Works for me.
So I've learned over the last day. Definitely someone I would love to meet in a fair public discussion, just to have the chance to shame such views.
(Looked at the unmangled links you posted below).
There is no room in my universe for racism. Or for attacking people based on sex, gender identity, etc. I think that is true for many, perhaps the majority, of people are the same (I may be overly optimistic here, but it is definitely getting better with time).
That being said, I'm probably as guilty of getting my back up whenever I hear the accusation of Femi-nazi being thrown at anyone, because it's been used inappropriately so often in the past to avoid discussing issues of legitimate concern.
The people making threats should be called what they are - bullies. That they're doing it "in the name of feminism" or claiming to be a "social justice warrior" doesn't change the fact that they are bullies. They "get off" on being bullies - the whole "Femi-nazi" or SJW thing is just a vehicle for them to exploit. Anyone who wants to fight for social justice or promote any cause has a lot more credibility if they don't drag the level of discussion down to racism, threats, and other stupid behavior.
Now, about the collusion between the game sites in attacking their core customers - they obviously did this as "click bait". It's one thing to be controversial - another to throw out ethics and collude in an attack on a specific group of people for money. Stories should be covered based on their own merit, period.
The problem with protesting journalists is that journalists can and will write whatever they want about the people protesting them.
Only up to a point. Attacking your core audience sounds like they got the footgun out and didn't know it was loaded. Now they're paying the price. Anyone who remembers Maureen O'Gara's attacks on Linux, PJ, and Groklaw, and her false denials that she wasn't getting paid by SCO or otherwise working with them knows how this will end.
Chained to a piano..
Chained to a piano..
But Jimmy Hoffa doesn't. 55-gallon drums filled with cement are HEAVY!
Or possibly like Star Trek:TOS "We'll outfit you with a pair of concrete galoshes!"
No, scantily clad does not equal mysoginist - ever been to the beach?
For those not in the know, the "slut walk" is an annual protest that started after a cop told a college class that they should be careful not to dress "slutty" or they would increase their risk of sexual assault. A combination of "blame the victim" and "men can't control their actions", denigrating both genders.
Does that sound like a view that promotes either misogyny or misandy?
Some games are classics for a reason. Some games have near-universal appeal. And many modern games aren't hard-coded so that the main player is one gender or sex.
I'm sure there will be many people posting about how "there's a conspiracy to hide Atlantis, which is why they haven't 'found' it in this study."
However, it's still more restrictive on what can and cannot be parodied:
If a parody conveys a discriminatory message (for example, by replacing the original characters with people wearing veils and people of colour), the holders of the rights to the work parodied have, in principle, a legitimate interest in ensuring that their work is not associated with such a message.
Certain really funny scenes in Spaceballs were just outlawed. "There goes the neighborhood."
However, when looking at the text of the actual law, it doesn't make any mention of discrimination in the list of changes. Neither does the 11-page explanatory notes section. My guess? Someone added their own interpretation, not realizing that the old test of "fair dealing" is modified by this new directive.
..but all I can think of is someone posting beautiful romantic insightful feelings...
True story: One of my former co-workers finally asked me for some help in writing his online profile and stuff because he was getting no responses, so I looked at what he had posted.
Me: "Dude, you make yourself sound like a lovelorn chick!" was my first reaction. Which explained why some of the responses he got were from guys (his first name isn't necessarily one that would identify his gender). "Rule for any sort of success? Just. Be. Yourself. Anything else comes across as unnatural and sticks out."
Him: "Yeah, but then I won't get any responses!"
Me: "That's the way it is. Would you rather get 1 good response, or 100 responses that dump you within minutes of meeting you?"
I re-wrote his profile for him, and he *gasp* got a response. And then spent the next two weeks refusing to reply, creating all sorts of "justifications" as to why not. "She might not like me. Women who answer ads turn into crazies. She's probably fat. She'll make fun of the way I dress."
I get it. Guys take the risk of asking someone out, get shot down, and either get gun-shy or realize that it's not the end of the world and try, try again. It's like that joke:
Little Johnny runs up to Suzie and pulls down his pants. "Ha, ha, I've got one of these and you don't."
Little Suzie pulls up her skirt and says "Well, I've got one of these and my mommy says that with one of these I can get as many of those as I want."
You're welcome. If you develop it into a site, a note saying who you got the idea from is all I ask :-)
I was fortunate never to have heard of her until now. She's a troll, just like a lot of other griefers. They enjoy hurting people because that feeds their inner brat.
However, Intel should have made it clear, via a press release, not a poorly-worded spokesperson's reply, as to why they are taking this action. I've posted it elsewhere, but I'll repeat the salient part here to save a few clicks:
Gamers are a diverse and growing segment of the population, and we are enthusiastic about making products that help them get the most out of their gaming experience. We have decided to pull our advertising from [list of sites] because they continue to promote an outdated view of gamers that stigmatizes people. At Intel, we listen to the men and women who buy our products, and we appreciate both their patronage and their concerns. Therefore, we have decided not to subsidize web sites that have become platforms for disparaging our customers. We will, of course, continue to advertise in other, more appropriate venues. If you feel that a site showing our advertising is violating this policy, please let us know. Thank you.
Now something like *that* would have sent a clear, powerful message, and it's something that pretty much everyone who wants to advance beyond the old stereotypes can get behind.
Exactly. And that whole "a lot of them creeps?" Well, there's an old saying, "you have to kiss a lot of frogs to get a prince."
Also
allows women to peruse men's pictures and their answers to the "Question of the Day" ("You found a magic lamp and get three wishes. What are they?") and view their Video Challenges ("Show us a hidden gem in Seattle"). If a woman is suitably impressed by a man's answers, she can make herself visible to him. Only then can he see what she looks like. "It's a far more thoughtful — and cautious — approach than the one taken by the dating app of the moment, Tinder, which is effectively a "hot or not" game,
How is this not a variant of the "hot or not" game? To NOT be a variant, it should allow BOTH sides to see each others pics only after she's decided that she's impressed only by his answers, not his answers and photos.