While not exactly non-existant, among hackers and engineers, the female population, in my experience is statistically insignificant -- on an order of.5% in the groups I've seen.
You're a tiny minority. Get over it. It's not mens fault that no women get into those fields. TRUST ME. THEY'RE MORE THAN WELCOME.:P
There's a difference between integration and transparancy. For example, I don't really realise when I'm using firefox or mozilla because it's transparant -- it's my window to the internet, and that's how it is. If I'm not using some features in moz/firefox, even using IE is transparant, because it works the same.
Integration, on the other hand, is how when I type a URL into the address bar in explorer, it brings up IE -- which is fine, except that I don't want to use IE.
That doesn't mean it's not funny to point out the inconsistency.
Besides, suspension of disbelief also requires things to follow pretty much the same rules. Just like when I was playing KOTOR today, and that crazy bitch decides to sacrifice herself to save me from this dark jedi I was trouncing. WTF? I had already dragged down 90% of his health and one more hit from my dual lightsabres would have killed him really dead, and I had used thermal detonators at a distance to do most of the work, so I was still at full health, and I was jacked up on stims! Why did she have to do that, other than as a thinly veiled deus ex machina?
In this case, it's an object from the real world not working like it should. Instead of bringing you into the world, you go "damn, I should buy some energizers. Then I could go a few hours without having to recharge my flashlight!".:)
i wan't that two mater but theres nothing i can dew now. its gone. i use to be able of spelling and grammer but now only carbonized grey matter is there. in my brain.
The glowstick is a good idea in theory, but you don't have enough colour granularity to do it realistically. There are only 255 shades of red, green, or blue(and another 8 of alpha), which would mean that you'd end up with too little space to do it.
I think SOMEONE needs to stop reading papers on evolutionary psychology for a bit!
People often have all sorts of motives in life, and generalizing an entire species(at least half of it) which boasts one of the most complicated minds in the animal kingdon is just a recipe for being wrong.:P
Nobody can dispute that it's not addictive in people who have addictive personalities. The thing is, crack is SO addictive, that it's a pathetic comparison which probably DOESN'T come from someone who was ever actually addicted to crack.
Regardless though, this is just a stupid story. A witness says something. How are we supposed to react? It's a silly comparison, but it's not being made by any actual elected officials, but some guy with hairy palms who they asked to speak.
Jokes like that are hard to do perfectly. Impossible over the internet.
Observe.
Me:The reason I stopped watching star trek is that every episode was the same. It was like "Oh my god! The borg are attacking! And my hair is falling out! And the toilet is backed up!", and some random guy would go "hmm...I've got it! We just remodulate the tachyon emitters!" "Of course!"
Didn't the packaging for the first movie have something written on it to that effect? Something like "a hilarious movie showing just crazy some fans are!"?
It's been a while since I've seen it in movie stores, mind you... Probably because it's been a while since I've been to a movie store.
I wouldn't say their intelligence marginalizes them, because there are a lot of incredibly intelligent non-nerds out there who are admired for their strengths. The problem with a lot of nerds is generally under the things that interest them, rather than sheer intelligence. From my experience, even having some pretty damn geeky stuff to lay claim to (I'm working on a freeware RPG, and I've already finished one.) isn't enough to hurt a person who understands people to the most basic degree and works within the confines of the system.
In other words? Intelligent or stupid, social martyrdom is usually caused by social factors. Blaming it on intellect is often just a security blanket.
Yes. Some don't seem to realize that the period known as the "dark ages" wasn't some bastion of paganism or atheism, it was the golden age of christianity.
There isn't a problem with individuals believing in the religion, but believing it's a progressive force is just plain silly.
Actually, since the Lord, God, created this world 6000 years ago exactly as it is today, he also created all the good ideas back then too. Therefore, from our perspective, there are no good liberal ideas, because our lord and saviour gave all the good ideas to us just as our race began, leaving only crappy ideas like communism to be thought of by imperfect humans.
When we find the fossilized space ship, we'll show ALL you whiny liberals how things are really done! AND WE'LL BOMB IRAQ, BECAUSE IT'S JUST FUN TO DO! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thanks asshole, at first I couldn't get it out of my head, now I can't get it out of my head AND I have this lingering feeling that there's a greater message about the state of humanity hidden inside it that I'm almost, but not quite liberal enough to figure out on my own.
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While not exactly non-existant, among hackers and engineers, the female population, in my experience is statistically insignificant -- on an order of .5% in the groups I've seen.
:P
You're a tiny minority. Get over it. It's not mens fault that no women get into those fields. TRUST ME. THEY'RE MORE THAN WELCOME.
Why the ds in the current eq'n?
Windows 95 says that's a half-truth at best.
There's a difference between integration and transparancy. For example, I don't really realise when I'm using firefox or mozilla because it's transparant -- it's my window to the internet, and that's how it is. If I'm not using some features in moz/firefox, even using IE is transparant, because it works the same.
Integration, on the other hand, is how when I type a URL into the address bar in explorer, it brings up IE -- which is fine, except that I don't want to use IE.
That doesn't mean it's not funny to point out the inconsistency.
:)
Besides, suspension of disbelief also requires things to follow pretty much the same rules. Just like when I was playing KOTOR today, and that crazy bitch decides to sacrifice herself to save me from this dark jedi I was trouncing. WTF? I had already dragged down 90% of his health and one more hit from my dual lightsabres would have killed him really dead, and I had used thermal detonators at a distance to do most of the work, so I was still at full health, and I was jacked up on stims! Why did she have to do that, other than as a thinly veiled deus ex machina?
In this case, it's an object from the real world not working like it should. Instead of bringing you into the world, you go "damn, I should buy some energizers. Then I could go a few hours without having to recharge my flashlight!".
i wan't that two mater but theres nothing i can dew now. its gone. i use to be able of spelling and grammer but now only carbonized grey matter is there. in my brain.
The glowstick is a good idea in theory, but you don't have enough colour granularity to do it realistically. There are only 255 shades of red, green, or blue(and another 8 of alpha), which would mean that you'd end up with too little space to do it.
The patch helped that dramatically.
SS2 is still one of my favourite games of all time.
What's the electricity throwing machination of death running on?
Why don't we use one of those to keep our flashlight running?
the store is just down the street, and I needed to stop off at walmart to get some cheap frozen dinners anyway. :P
Your post has burnt out the part of my brain that once understood correct spelling and grammar, you insensitive clod!
I'd point out how stupid your arguement is, but I don't think I really have to. It speaks for itself.
The fact that non-wankers are bed wetters should be sung from the rooftops. That could get rid of a lot of self-righeous lying. :P
So, "geek" now includes any drunken fratboy with nothing to do on a Friday night?
Not A friday night, ANY friday night.
I think SOMEONE needs to stop reading papers on evolutionary psychology for a bit!
:P
People often have all sorts of motives in life, and generalizing an entire species(at least half of it) which boasts one of the most complicated minds in the animal kingdon is just a recipe for being wrong.
Nobody can dispute that it's not addictive in people who have addictive personalities. The thing is, crack is SO addictive, that it's a pathetic comparison which probably DOESN'T come from someone who was ever actually addicted to crack.
Regardless though, this is just a stupid story. A witness says something. How are we supposed to react? It's a silly comparison, but it's not being made by any actual elected officials, but some guy with hairy palms who they asked to speak.
You are welcome. And I'm a lady, so that's Ms. Asshole to you, sir. But feel free to just call me assholette
That's ok, I'm an equal opportunity whiner, and luckily, asshole is a non gender specific insult.
The meaning may be there...if fact...if you just open your heart....
GAH! Now I think there might be deeper meaning in YOUR message!
I hope the message is "don't call women assholes", because otherwise I'm totally missing it -- AGAIN!
Jokes like that are hard to do perfectly. Impossible over the internet.
Observe.
Me:The reason I stopped watching star trek is that every episode was the same. It was like "Oh my god! The borg are attacking! And my hair is falling out! And the toilet is backed up!", and some random guy would go "hmm...I've got it! We just remodulate the tachyon emitters!" "Of course!"
Others:*Hysterical Laughter*
Not so great in text form, eh?
Only if we can get "The Rock" to play K'tar'toran!
"K'tar'toran thinks you need a taste of...THE KLINGONS ELBOW!" (oh my god! Pink slip on a pole! Oh my god!)
Didn't the packaging for the first movie have something written on it to that effect? Something like "a hilarious movie showing just crazy some fans are!"?
It's been a while since I've seen it in movie stores, mind you... Probably because it's been a while since I've been to a movie store.
Are you telling me that not only would the women Kirk seduces not have Vaginas, but they might not even have LIPS?!
that would certainly put a damper on "it's called...a kiss," wouldn't it?
I wouldn't say their intelligence marginalizes them, because there are a lot of incredibly intelligent non-nerds out there who are admired for their strengths. The problem with a lot of nerds is generally under the things that interest them, rather than sheer intelligence. From my experience, even having some pretty damn geeky stuff to lay claim to (I'm working on a freeware RPG, and I've already finished one.) isn't enough to hurt a person who understands people to the most basic degree and works within the confines of the system.
In other words? Intelligent or stupid, social martyrdom is usually caused by social factors. Blaming it on intellect is often just a security blanket.
Yes. Some don't seem to realize that the period known as the "dark ages" wasn't some bastion of paganism or atheism, it was the golden age of christianity.
There isn't a problem with individuals believing in the religion, but believing it's a progressive force is just plain silly.
Actually, since the Lord, God, created this world 6000 years ago exactly as it is today, he also created all the good ideas back then too. Therefore, from our perspective, there are no good liberal ideas, because our lord and saviour gave all the good ideas to us just as our race began, leaving only crappy ideas like communism to be thought of by imperfect humans.
When we find the fossilized space ship, we'll show ALL you whiny liberals how things are really done! AND WE'LL BOMB IRAQ, BECAUSE IT'S JUST FUN TO DO! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Or sing it like Dylan
Thanks asshole, at first I couldn't get it out of my head, now I can't get it out of my head AND I have this lingering feeling that there's a greater message about the state of humanity hidden inside it that I'm almost, but not quite liberal enough to figure out on my own.