There's two kinds of men who treat women like shit; there's the extroverts who are really skilled at reading body language and figuring out which women actually like their treatment, and which don't.
No, there's only one type. The "success rate" of their "skills" depends almost entirely on happenstance, the chance of finding a woman who is interested in that kind of behavior at that particular time.
it's pretty sad really, for the women, but IMO the fault lies with their parents for not clueing them into this and warning them about these men.
And here's the flawed reasoning your erroneous conclusion came from: you assume that women do not have wills and desires of their own, let alone the capacity to act upon them.
And yet, Windows 7 is completely usable on my 1024x600 netbook.
Only for a subset of "uses." There are plenty of system windows that won't fit comfortably even in a 720p display, especially with the default taskbar size in Windows 7, and that's before considering the screen real estate dedicated to menus, tabs and especially ribbons.
On my own 1024x600 netbook, I'm running XP and, even with the taskbar auto-hidden and small icons being used in Firefox, I still find myself reaching for the F11 key more often than not.
Even Ubuntu specifically lists a resolution of 1024x768 as a requirement nowadays.
I recently tried installing it on my netbook with a resolution of 1024x600 (the typical netbok resolution)
The official system requirements for both 7 and Vista call for at least 768 horizontal lines. The last version of Windows intended for such low resolutions is XP, and the last version of Office is 2003.
There's much to be gained from upgrading to a discrete sound card, though.
Yeah, like yet another occupied expansion slot.
With the availability of mini-ITX boards and their whopping one (1) expansion slot on the board, these sound boards had best give me eargasms before I'd be willing to commit to consuming that increasingly limited resource.
And the real kicker is that it's these small form factor boards that are used in home theater PCs that are hooked up to serious speaker systems to begin with. It's the full-sized ATX boards with the 10" fans and case lighting that typically gets hooked up to integrated monitor speakers, or worse.
He was given a set of rules (the Senate rules, that is), and he is trying to change them for the better. In the meantime, he plays by the existing rules, which he did not make. There is nothing contradictory about that.
Then why isn't he trying to introduce this particular piece of legislation itself as a rider? If he is truly committed to "working within the system to change the system," why is he insisting his "change the system" legislation stand alone and go down a path guaranteed to go nowhere? Wouldn't be more effective to tack this onto a flood insurance bill?
you can hardly blame him for playing by the existing rules, while he is in the process of trying to change them for the better.
But you can certainly question his priorities, as he is perfectly willing to sacrifice legislative purity for the sake of other issues he apparently feels more strongly about than you do.
From what I can tell, this is the first actual Bluetooth keyboard to be released by Microsoft for years. Looking for a replacement for my Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 7000, all I could find from Microsoft were "wireless" keyboards, using their usual proprietary wireless connections (and no mention of encryption).
We live in an era where we shy back from the edge achieved in the past.
That "edge" was paid for by conspicuous consumption, the efforts of well-heeled individuals and groups to do little more than to show off how rich they are.
Concorde was always intended for the kinds of people who felt their private jets couldn't cover the distance fast enough.
Air transport speeds have stagnated around mach 0.9
More people have access to more flights to more places for less money.
the top speed at Indianapolis was recorded more than a decade ago
More people own cars that are both safer and less expensive to operate.
and the optimistic plan for a return to the moon has three times the development time of the original flight
And those plans are done within a budget that NASA would have found difficult to launch a Redstone with in the 60's.
grave acts of harrasment including threats, intimidations, and all sorts of physical stuff are punished but jokes and banter are treated for what they actually are.
Who gets to decide what is or is not "just a joke?"
We already have women in teams who can somehow handle this (and deliver apropriate verbal slaps).
I'm sorry, but "preempting" implies that it's not happening already. You obviously already have an ongoing harassment problem in a culture of permissiveness, the classic "hostile work environment." Any of these women who are "handling it" (which, should be noted, is not their fucking job) can likely put your company in a world of legal hurt at any time.
Walk away from your computer and go talk to HR and legal right now, and not necessarily in that order. Also, have a long, detailed letter of resignation handy. There's nothing anybody here can do for you beyond point and laugh.
it can highlight bad managers or other employees that have caused you so much grief and they might be reined in so that they don't continue to make life hell for others.
Doing upper management's job for them is not a part of my own job description. If they can't figure out why there's so much churn in so-and-so's department, that's their problem.
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There's two kinds of men who treat women like shit; there's the extroverts who are really skilled at reading body language and figuring out which women actually like their treatment, and which don't.
No, there's only one type. The "success rate" of their "skills" depends almost entirely on happenstance, the chance of finding a woman who is interested in that kind of behavior at that particular time.
it's pretty sad really, for the women, but IMO the fault lies with their parents for not clueing them into this and warning them about these men.
And here's the flawed reasoning your erroneous conclusion came from: you assume that women do not have wills and desires of their own, let alone the capacity to act upon them.
That's a terrible idea. What about all the women that have to live in Las Vegas?
That's the city's/state's problem, not the conventions'. It's up to the local voters to decide how things happen in their own home.
Because what the internet needs is more Venn diagrams!
And yet, Windows 7 is completely usable on my 1024x600 netbook.
Only for a subset of "uses." There are plenty of system windows that won't fit comfortably even in a 720p display, especially with the default taskbar size in Windows 7, and that's before considering the screen real estate dedicated to menus, tabs and especially ribbons.
On my own 1024x600 netbook, I'm running XP and, even with the taskbar auto-hidden and small icons being used in Firefox, I still find myself reaching for the F11 key more often than not.
Even Ubuntu specifically lists a resolution of 1024x768 as a requirement nowadays.
I recently tried installing it on my netbook with a resolution of 1024x600 (the typical netbok resolution)
The official system requirements for both 7 and Vista call for at least 768 horizontal lines. The last version of Windows intended for such low resolutions is XP, and the last version of Office is 2003.
This isn't news.
There's much to be gained from upgrading to a discrete sound card, though.
Yeah, like yet another occupied expansion slot.
With the availability of mini-ITX boards and their whopping one (1) expansion slot on the board, these sound boards had best give me eargasms before I'd be willing to commit to consuming that increasingly limited resource.
And the real kicker is that it's these small form factor boards that are used in home theater PCs that are hooked up to serious speaker systems to begin with. It's the full-sized ATX boards with the 10" fans and case lighting that typically gets hooked up to integrated monitor speakers, or worse.
a new version of the flight software on the Mars rover Curiosity
Is anybody else thinking that any changes to the flight software is now a few days too late?
In order to have a legitimate copy of the BIOS, you need to own a PS2.
In order to make a legitimate copy of the BIOS, you need a hacked PS2.
If you already have a hacked PS2, what's the point of a PS2 emulator?
You have to get a copy of Sony's PS2 BIOS to get it to work.
Special relativity says earth's frame of reference is just as valid as Mars'.
Ephemeris time?
It's scheduled to land at 1:31 AM EST
EDT!
"It's why I stopped watching CNN, their ratio of news to commercials is 50/50."
Only if you assume "news" and "commercials" don't overlap.
He was given a set of rules (the Senate rules, that is), and he is trying to change them for the better. In the meantime, he plays by the existing rules, which he did not make. There is nothing contradictory about that.
Then why isn't he trying to introduce this particular piece of legislation itself as a rider? If he is truly committed to "working within the system to change the system," why is he insisting his "change the system" legislation stand alone and go down a path guaranteed to go nowhere? Wouldn't be more effective to tack this onto a flood insurance bill?
you can hardly blame him for playing by the existing rules, while he is in the process of trying to change them for the better.
But you can certainly question his priorities, as he is perfectly willing to sacrifice legislative purity for the sake of other issues he apparently feels more strongly about than you do.
Sen. Paul's version S. 3359 One Subject at a Time Act
Would this be the same Senator Paul who insists on tacking abortion riders onto flood insurance bills?
I note that even the official summary of the bill has the phrase "and for other purposes" tacked onto it.
class action seldom really benefits anyone but the law firms
Perhaps, but arbitration seldom really benefits anyone but the defendants.
How about trying to maintain a foreign policy that encourages peace and free trade?
That's exactly what we have, you just forgot the "or else" part.
From what I can tell, this is the first actual Bluetooth keyboard to be released by Microsoft for years. Looking for a replacement for my Wireless Entertainment Keyboard 7000, all I could find from Microsoft were "wireless" keyboards, using their usual proprietary wireless connections (and no mention of encryption).
Have you taken a good, long look at the license agreement yet?
We live in an era where we shy back from the edge achieved in the past.
That "edge" was paid for by conspicuous consumption, the efforts of well-heeled individuals and groups to do little more than to show off how rich they are.
Concorde was always intended for the kinds of people who felt their private jets couldn't cover the distance fast enough.
Air transport speeds have stagnated around mach 0.9
More people have access to more flights to more places for less money.
the top speed at Indianapolis was recorded more than a decade ago
More people own cars that are both safer and less expensive to operate.
and the optimistic plan for a return to the moon has three times the development time of the original flight
And those plans are done within a budget that NASA would have found difficult to launch a Redstone with in the 60's.
Equating a dumb spoken remark and physical abuse is stupid.
Yes, one is simple assault and the other is battery. Totally different crimes!
grave acts of harrasment including threats, intimidations, and all sorts of physical stuff are punished but jokes and banter are treated for what they actually are.
Who gets to decide what is or is not "just a joke?"
We already have women in teams who can somehow handle this (and deliver apropriate verbal slaps).
I'm sorry, but "preempting" implies that it's not happening already. You obviously already have an ongoing harassment problem in a culture of permissiveness, the classic "hostile work environment." Any of these women who are "handling it" (which, should be noted, is not their fucking job) can likely put your company in a world of legal hurt at any time.
Walk away from your computer and go talk to HR and legal right now, and not necessarily in that order. Also, have a long, detailed letter of resignation handy. There's nothing anybody here can do for you beyond point and laugh.
it can highlight bad managers or other employees that have caused you so much grief and they might be reined in so that they don't continue to make life hell for others.
Doing upper management's job for them is not a part of my own job description. If they can't figure out why there's so much churn in so-and-so's department, that's their problem.