This should be higher voted. Women entering the workforce in droves is in large part why wages have stagnated since the 60s & 70s. It's plain old supply and demand, available labor surged so rates went down. Add the glut of "undocumented workers" and all combined you've just solved why it takes a dual-income family to raise kids anymore if you don't want to be raising them in poverty.
Go back and watch the original series. The quasi-religions stuff was pulled right from ToS with the people of light. They're effectively angels just as head-Baltar and head-6.
Who gets to decide what qualifies as "fake news" vs "real news"? Thus far the bulk of the stories surrounding the subject are largely just the left-leaning mainstream media outlets being butthurt over Trump's win and Bannon giving Breitbart a huge heaping of credibility. This move by the left to censor various news outlets is largely just a response to them getting their comeuppance for their hubris.
In the end let's call this #fakenews trend what it is: an attack on conservative and right-leaning media outlets not already in the fold of what constitutes the "mainstream media". Even if you don't take a news/media company seriously, that doesn't for a second think they should be excluded from the marketplace of ideas. That includes those on the fringe like Infowars, Hell, even The Inquirer has broken some very real and legitimately big stories over the years.
I have plenty of things I could complain about with Trump too, but with all the media bullshit there is no way my complaint would ever be viewed as valid. Telling a crowd that maybe they can protect their 2nd amendment rights was turned into "Trump claimed Kill Hillary", and Trump satirically saying "maybe Russia can release those emails she deleted" became "Trump claimed he wanted Russia to hack America", and the Russian influence in the DNC and Clinton foundation are ignored, but "Trump loves Putin".
Don't forget the new instance of the media shilling for Hillary with the Trump PTSD/Veteran thing where Trump said troops see bad shit in war and sometimes can't handle the stress and trauma of it, which he implied can be a factor in the far too high suicide rates our veterans have, and thus he suggested they need our help and support. The media immediately turned around and had the gall to frame that as "Trump calls veterans weak".:smh: What a bunch of assholes. Can you say "Yellow Journalism"?
Exactly. If anything this might encourage content producers to embed 3rd party advertisements into their videos thereby doing an end-run around Google's policy. Granted this probably violates their Terms of Service, or maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But if it happens it'd just go to show that advertisers are willing to make it happen and Google would lose out two ways: costs from hosting and lost ad revenue they could have been getting by said advertiser.
Google going full-retard with this SJW nonsense means a 3rd party free-speech solution is ripe for the making.
This couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact school curriculum and testing standards were restructured in the late 90s to cater to girls' strengths. Nope, not at all.
If Google really wants to compete in the VR realm they've got to step up their game with something that rivals the Hololens. If someone can combine that with the RIFT they're going to be YUGE in the VR/AR game.
Someone must have watched the movie Allegiant and thought to themselves "Hey, that's a good idea! Let's make that." Drones that can be tied to an operator and feed visual information back to them from around corners or watch their back INSIDE the same structure would be a huge improvement in situational awareness.
"Women also tend to take jobs that are more fulfilling, even if it's at a lower pay."
Case in point, 9 of the top 10 paying jobs are male dominated. Conversely, 9 of the 10 worst paying jobs are female dominated. That cannot be overlooked.
Once we statistically control for every difference we’re able to observe between men and women—including job title and specific employer names—we still find an “adjusted” gender pay gap internationally, ranging between 3.9 percent in Australia and 6.3 percent in France. This amounts to women earning on average between 94 cents and 96 cents per dollar earned by men.
3.9 to 6.3% is pretty damn small and may very well fall within the researcher's margin of error. And even if it doesn't, is that small of a different really because of discrimination? I highly doubt it. More than likely it traces right back to women's valuing different things from men, like benefits, time off, etc rather than raw pay.
> So far, medical science has done essentially nothing whatsoever to stop ageing from killing us.
That's just not true. There's a lot of longevity research ongoing and has been for years. It's only recently we're starting to see it pay dividends is all. Case in point, a pharmaceutical approach will see the light of day to slow aging with clinical _human trials_ starting next year! They hope a 120 year lifespans will become commonplace with some outliers living as long as 150-160 years old.
Stopping aging outright as the article claims is probably pretty far off, but to say nothing whatsoever is being done to extend human longevity is factually incorrect.
I suspect the reason for wanting more women in programming is simple: it'll drive down pay rates. The larger one's pool of available labor, the less you can pay people to do said job. It's supply & demand 101.
The #1 reason wages has stagnated, and in many respected regressed, since the 60s (adjusted for inflation) is because women entered the workforce in droves. That drove down rates on a society-wide basis and is largely responsible for why it now takes 2 incomes to provide the lifestyle a single income could have afforded a family of four 40+ years ago.
It's well documented women and men have different innate drives. The more free a society becomes, the more we can indulge our natural predispositions. That was the general consensus of this documentary that delved into the "gender equality paradox":
"The Nordic Council of Ministers (a regional inter-governmental co-operation consisting of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland) has decided to close down the NIKK Nordic Gender Institute. The NIKK had been the flagship of “Gender Theory”, providing the “scientific” basis for social and educational policies that, from the 1970s onward, had transformed the Nordic countries to become the most “gender sensitive” societies in the world.
The decision was made after the Norwegian State Television had broadcasted a television documentary called “Hjernevask” (the Norwegian word for “brainwash”) in which comedian Harald Eia exposed the hopelessly unscientific character of the NIKK."
You're right, it is about power. Sexbots would empower men and give them choice on a level never before seen in history. That scares the hell out of people, mainly women, many of whom would for the first time in their lives have to offer more to a man than their looks/sex. There's a good discussion of this topic right here:
"So long as they offer an experience comparable to Steam"
Took the words right out of my mouth. It MUST be the same as how Steam works. If you can install Steam on a system, then you know the game will work too 99% of the time.
"According to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994). Kanin also studied rape allegations in two large Midwestern universities and found that 50 percent of the allegations were recanted by the accuser....
Kanin's findings are hardly unique. In 1985 the Air Force conducted a study of 556 rape accusations. Over one quarter of the accusers admitted, either just before they took a lie detector test of after they had failed it, that no rape occurred. A further investigation by independent reviewers found that 60 percent of the original rape allegations were false....
According to a 1996 Department of Justice Report, of the roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases analyzed with DNA evidence over the previous seven years, 2,000 excluded the primary suspect, and another 2,000 were inconclusive. The report notes that these figures mirror an informal National Institute of Justice survey of private laboratories, and suggests that there exists "some strong, underlying systemic problems that generate erroneous accusations and convictions." (that's 40% for those not counting)...
That false allegations are a major problem has been confirmed by several prominent prosecutors, including Linda Fairstein, who heads the New York County District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit. Fairstein, the author of Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, says, "there are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen.""
The 2% figure feminists often cite is a good example of the Woozle Effect:
This. The girl was quoted in texts that it was consensual and enjoyed their activities and everything was fine. Then her sister, who the boy had a relationship with, found out about them having sex and dragged the girl in front of her parents and police and made her accuse him. This is all by people who know them personally as the sister walked in on the girl in a party talking to her friends about having hooked up with him.
You forgot about DragonLance. I do believe those predate Forgotten Realms and were the first books based on D&D. They grew out of gaming sessions the writers had as players and most, if not all of the companions were characters various people actually played.
I agree that the second one was much better and actually was true to the source material. They even brought back the cleric who was killed right at the very end after the adventure was complete.
Make each book into it's own movie and you've also got follow-on films in the can with the Twins trilogy. And then there's the companions books that could each be made into a prequel.
Robots fighting robots is actually a good thing when you think about it. Who cares if countries try to one-up each other with better AI systems so long as it's taking troops off the battlefield.
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This should be higher voted. Women entering the workforce in droves is in large part why wages have stagnated since the 60s & 70s. It's plain old supply and demand, available labor surged so rates went down. Add the glut of "undocumented workers" and all combined you've just solved why it takes a dual-income family to raise kids anymore if you don't want to be raising them in poverty.
Go back and watch the original series. The quasi-religions stuff was pulled right from ToS with the people of light. They're effectively angels just as head-Baltar and head-6.
Who gets to decide what qualifies as "fake news" vs "real news"? Thus far the bulk of the stories surrounding the subject are largely just the left-leaning mainstream media outlets being butthurt over Trump's win and Bannon giving Breitbart a huge heaping of credibility. This move by the left to censor various news outlets is largely just a response to them getting their comeuppance for their hubris.
In the end let's call this #fakenews trend what it is: an attack on conservative and right-leaning media outlets not already in the fold of what constitutes the "mainstream media". Even if you don't take a news/media company seriously, that doesn't for a second think they should be excluded from the marketplace of ideas. That includes those on the fringe like Infowars, Hell, even The Inquirer has broken some very real and legitimately big stories over the years.
Don't forget the new instance of the media shilling for Hillary with the Trump PTSD/Veteran thing where Trump said troops see bad shit in war and sometimes can't handle the stress and trauma of it, which he implied can be a factor in the far too high suicide rates our veterans have, and thus he suggested they need our help and support. The media immediately turned around and had the gall to frame that as "Trump calls veterans weak". :smh: What a bunch of assholes. Can you say "Yellow Journalism"?
Exactly. If anything this might encourage content producers to embed 3rd party advertisements into their videos thereby doing an end-run around Google's policy. Granted this probably violates their Terms of Service, or maybe it doesn't. I don't know. But if it happens it'd just go to show that advertisers are willing to make it happen and Google would lose out two ways: costs from hosting and lost ad revenue they could have been getting by said advertiser.
Google going full-retard with this SJW nonsense means a 3rd party free-speech solution is ripe for the making.
This couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact school curriculum and testing standards were restructured in the late 90s to cater to girls' strengths. Nope, not at all.
If Google really wants to compete in the VR realm they've got to step up their game with something that rivals the Hololens. If someone can combine that with the RIFT they're going to be YUGE in the VR/AR game.
Meanwhile Twitter's stock is in freefall. I don't understand how this is going to make shareholders happy taking on a huge fiscal burden like this.
Someone must have watched the movie Allegiant and thought to themselves "Hey, that's a good idea! Let's make that." Drones that can be tied to an operator and feed visual information back to them from around corners or watch their back INSIDE the same structure would be a huge improvement in situational awareness.
"Women also tend to take jobs that are more fulfilling, even if it's at a lower pay."
Case in point, 9 of the top 10 paying jobs are male dominated. Conversely, 9 of the 10 worst paying jobs are female dominated. That cannot be overlooked.
3.9 to 6.3% is pretty damn small and may very well fall within the researcher's margin of error. And even if it doesn't, is that small of a different really because of discrimination? I highly doubt it. More than likely it traces right back to women's valuing different things from men, like benefits, time off, etc rather than raw pay.
> So far, medical science has done essentially nothing whatsoever to stop ageing from killing us.
That's just not true. There's a lot of longevity research ongoing and has been for years. It's only recently we're starting to see it pay dividends is all. Case in point, a pharmaceutical approach will see the light of day to slow aging with clinical _human trials_ starting next year! They hope a 120 year lifespans will become commonplace with some outliers living as long as 150-160 years old.
Stopping aging outright as the article claims is probably pretty far off, but to say nothing whatsoever is being done to extend human longevity is factually incorrect.
I suspect the reason for wanting more women in programming is simple: it'll drive down pay rates. The larger one's pool of available labor, the less you can pay people to do said job. It's supply & demand 101.
The #1 reason wages has stagnated, and in many respected regressed, since the 60s (adjusted for inflation) is because women entered the workforce in droves. That drove down rates on a society-wide basis and is largely responsible for why it now takes 2 incomes to provide the lifestyle a single income could have afforded a family of four 40+ years ago.
It's well documented women and men have different innate drives. The more free a society becomes, the more we can indulge our natural predispositions. That was the general consensus of this documentary that delved into the "gender equality paradox":
http://rixstep.com/2/20111127,...
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRe...
You're right, it is about power. Sexbots would empower men and give them choice on a level never before seen in history. That scares the hell out of people, mainly women, many of whom would for the first time in their lives have to offer more to a man than their looks/sex. There's a good discussion of this topic right here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRe...
Exactly. There's a good discussion of this topic over here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheRe...
"So long as they offer an experience comparable to Steam"
Took the words right out of my mouth. It MUST be the same as how Steam works. If you can install Steam on a system, then you know the game will work too 99% of the time.
Actual studies on the subject have found upwards of half of all rape claims in the US are false.
https://archive.is/at8Uo
https://archive.is/R4TNM
"According to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994). Kanin also studied rape allegations in two large Midwestern universities and found that 50 percent of the allegations were recanted by the accuser. ...
Kanin's findings are hardly unique. In 1985 the Air Force conducted a study of 556 rape accusations. Over one quarter of the accusers admitted, either just before they took a lie detector test of after they had failed it, that no rape occurred. A further investigation by independent reviewers found that 60 percent of the original rape allegations were false. ...
According to a 1996 Department of Justice Report, of the roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases analyzed with DNA evidence over the previous seven years, 2,000 excluded the primary suspect, and another 2,000 were inconclusive. The report notes that these figures mirror an informal National Institute of Justice survey of private laboratories, and suggests that there exists "some strong, underlying systemic problems that generate erroneous accusations and convictions." (that's 40% for those not counting) ...
That false allegations are a major problem has been confirmed by several prominent prosecutors, including Linda Fairstein, who heads the New York County District Attorney's Sex Crimes Unit. Fairstein, the author of Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, says, "there are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about half simply did not happen.""
The 2% figure feminists often cite is a good example of the Woozle Effect:
https://archive.is/gaqiW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This. The girl was quoted in texts that it was consensual and enjoyed their activities and everything was fine. Then her sister, who the boy had a relationship with, found out about them having sex and dragged the girl in front of her parents and police and made her accuse him. This is all by people who know them personally as the sister walked in on the girl in a party talking to her friends about having hooked up with him.
You forgot about DragonLance. I do believe those predate Forgotten Realms and were the first books based on D&D. They grew out of gaming sessions the writers had as players and most, if not all of the companions were characters various people actually played.
I agree that the second one was much better and actually was true to the source material. They even brought back the cleric who was killed right at the very end after the adventure was complete.
DragonLance Chronicles
Make each book into it's own movie and you've also got follow-on films in the can with the Twins trilogy. And then there's the companions books that could each be made into a prequel.
Dear researchers,
Never go full potato.
Robots fighting robots is actually a good thing when you think about it. Who cares if countries try to one-up each other with better AI systems so long as it's taking troops off the battlefield.
More like Robot Jox. However, what I'm really hoping for is a BattleTech :)