Nope. It's the liberals that keep making things up that conservatives say.
Still, it's pretty sad that liberals would turn their back on any oppressed people purely because they have hold a vicious hatred for the party that's trying to do something about it. Really shows their colors.
If conservatives were doing it, they'd be labeled racist or sexist. But the liberals are doing it, and I consider them completely racist and sexist. The Democrats have just because the party of "No".
"No" to everything the republicans say and "No" to any new ideas.
This is actually pretty easy to enforce... All they have to do is start banning accounts. Something like, ban accounts of people that radically change their billing info. Doesn't have to be that, but you get the idea.
People will stop buying accounts if they think they'll end up losing money by buying an account that's about to be banned.
People tend to say this when "facts" of something don't jibe with what their view of the world is, and therefore they denegrate anything Fox News has to say.
When CBS engages in this sort of thing, and there's actual PROOF of it (Mapes coordinating with the Kerry campaign), the left is strangely silent.
I find that hypocricy pretty amusing, and typical.
If this were in fact true, (and it's not), there would be massive evidence of this, and it would have been brought out years ago, or at the very least this last election cycle. There is no proof of what you say because it didn't happen that way.
You're engaging in the same wishful thinking that CBS was, and what you WISH was true is blinding you to what in FACT was the real truth.
Wrong. It did have preemptive multitasking. The reason that the whole thing crashed when a program went crazy is because it didn't have memory protection between programs.
See? This is exactly my point. People consider that the color of skin or a person's sex is never to be a factor in hiring, and rightly so. Racists and sexists have no business being... er, well, in business.
However, turn it over to politics, and people can be as discriminatory as they want. Don't fool yourself, that's still discrimination.
I live and breath academics every single day, and have for twenty years. While they give the appearance of not being "too overtly recist/sexist" (to use your words), it's FAR from dead. FAR. They exist, as this guy the story is talking about clearly points out.
It gets even worse when your talking about tenure; the "club" there is nearly as bad as some of those exclusive country clubs; oh, not that you could prove in court as an applicant, but it exists. Pretty damn sad.
Last year, only four of 32 tenured job openings were offered to women.
And I bet none of them were conservatives; so much for diversity....Anyway, that's neither here nor there. The reason that nearly no women probably went for the jobs in the first place is because of this guy. Word about people like this gets around pretty quickly (just think of the bozos at your company that are like this, if you're unfortunate enough to have one). This sort of thing happens a lot more in academia (well, and in the working world too), than people like to admit. It's not just guys that do it either. The are plenty of women with chips on their shoulders when it comes to hiring men too.
Maybe one day we'll end up with a system that treats everyone with some respect, and this sort of crapola won't happen. Until people like this are gone, and we don't have systems in place that promote people just because of whatever class they happen to fall into, it's not going to happen. It's just going to continue.
showing good studies that demonstrate the this isn't at all correct.
Actually, we should see studies on why HE thinks this is correct. Just because he says he has studies that prove women aren't good at these these areas doesn't mean squat. A few years ago there was a group of people saying they figured out cold fusion, and we all know where that lead.
This guy's an idiot, and they'll probably eat this guy alive up there for saying that...
Interestingly enough, I doubt they would be this upset if he said men were worse at math and science than women...
OK, now don't get me wrong, Physics is not an easy subject. It's great that people are working on it to make it more kid friendly.
However, I know many Physics majors that, even through the booming 90s, didn't graduate and go on to actually work for places they could apply their skills.
What kind of expectations do they give the kids they are showing this stuff to TODAY for jobs tomorrow?
I have to say that Apple's finally done a good thing by bringing their prices down a bit. This will at least make people not dismiss a Mac out of hand just because of the entry price point. Say what you want about leaving out the monitor keyboard and mouse, but enough people will let that slide and get one.
My real question is, how many of the Mac mini people will upgrade when Tiger rolls out? It's going to be like a $100 upgrade, based on previous major OS releases... is that right?
Weird as it seems to all of us who'd probably get the upgrade even if it was $150, I bet more than a few new Mac users would balk at anything more than a $50 upgrade cost.
Cry me a river about the deficit. The Democrats didn't give a crap about the deficit before the Republican Congress and the Internet bubble erased it under Clinton, and now all of the sudden it's a big issue with them. Somehow. Magically. They sure didn't give a crap about it during the 1980s when they were in control of Congress.
And don't get me started on Senator Byrd... He's the biggest pork barrel spender EVER.
I know for a fact this is absolutely not true. I know someone that didn't have a math degree and didn't have a PHD and received a job offer from Wolfram as a senior level engineer.
Those votes weren't rejected by mistake. The only "mistake" was that they were some how "valid" after being initially rejected.
If every county was allowed to do the same thing (they weren't...they had already "certified" and weren't allowed to go back and check this sort of thing), I might agree with you, but that's not what happened. Heavily Democrat King County was able to go back and look at things like this, and the Republican counties were not.
Add to that the overseas militiary votes that weren't counted, and I have to still say that the Democrats counted until they "won" and then wanted everything stopped.
Why is it that it was the Democrat counties that always seem to have these "anomolies" in voting?
Happened in King County here, happened in 2000 in Palm Beach County in Florida.
What's the deal? Are they just manufacturing votes, or are they just honestly that stupid that they can't count everything correctly in the first place?
I think it's the first. They just kept counting and "finding" votes until they won.... Same thing they tried in Florida in 2000.
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Nope. It's the liberals that keep making things up that conservatives say.
Still, it's pretty sad that liberals would turn their back on any oppressed people purely because they have hold a vicious hatred for the party that's trying to do something about it. Really shows their colors.
If conservatives were doing it, they'd be labeled racist or sexist. But the liberals are doing it, and I consider them completely racist and sexist. The Democrats have just because the party of "No".
"No" to everything the republicans say and "No" to any new ideas.
One thing..It sure stirs up all the people that are bigots against religion. So much for "tolerance".
This is actually pretty easy to enforce... All they have to do is start banning accounts. Something like, ban accounts of people that radically change their billing info. Doesn't have to be that, but you get the idea.
People will stop buying accounts if they think they'll end up losing money by buying an account that's about to be banned.
People tend to say this when "facts" of something don't jibe with what their view of the world is, and therefore they denegrate anything Fox News has to say.
When CBS engages in this sort of thing, and there's actual PROOF of it (Mapes coordinating with the Kerry campaign), the left is strangely silent.
I find that hypocricy pretty amusing, and typical.
If this were in fact true, (and it's not), there would be massive evidence of this, and it would have been brought out years ago, or at the very least this last election cycle. There is no proof of what you say because it didn't happen that way.
You're engaging in the same wishful thinking that CBS was, and what you WISH was true is blinding you to what in FACT was the real truth.
Actually, it was 1985, not 1987.
Wrong. It did have preemptive multitasking. The reason that the whole thing crashed when a program went crazy is because it didn't have memory protection between programs.
Sorry, but that's complete BS. If you had evidence of this, it would have been all over the papers. It's nothing more than a conspiracy theory.
See? This is exactly my point. People consider that the color of skin or a person's sex is never to be a factor in hiring, and rightly so. Racists and sexists have no business being... er, well, in business.
However, turn it over to politics, and people can be as discriminatory as they want. Don't fool yourself, that's still discrimination.
I live and breath academics every single day, and have for twenty years. While they give the appearance of not being "too overtly recist/sexist" (to use your words), it's FAR from dead. FAR. They exist, as this guy the story is talking about clearly points out.
It gets even worse when your talking about tenure; the "club" there is nearly as bad as some of those exclusive country clubs; oh, not that you could prove in court as an applicant, but it exists. Pretty damn sad.
Yes... and yours was exactly the reaction I expected. Thanks for your open mindedness.
The New York Times is actually thinking of going OFF the Internet, at least according to stories from a few weeks ago.
And I bet none of them were conservatives; so much for diversity.
Maybe one day we'll end up with a system that treats everyone with some respect, and this sort of crapola won't happen. Until people like this are gone, and we don't have systems in place that promote people just because of whatever class they happen to fall into, it's not going to happen. It's just going to continue.
This guy's an idiot, and they'll probably eat this guy alive up there for saying that...
Interestingly enough, I doubt they would be this upset if he said men were worse at math and science than women...
OK, now don't get me wrong, Physics is not an easy subject. It's great that people are working on it to make it more kid friendly.
However, I know many Physics majors that, even through the booming 90s, didn't graduate and go on to actually work for places they could apply their skills.
What kind of expectations do they give the kids they are showing this stuff to TODAY for jobs tomorrow?
I have to say that Apple's finally done a good thing by bringing their prices down a bit. This will at least make people not dismiss a Mac out of hand just because of the entry price point. Say what you want about leaving out the monitor keyboard and mouse, but enough people will let that slide and get one.
My real question is, how many of the Mac mini people will upgrade when Tiger rolls out? It's going to be like a $100 upgrade, based on previous major OS releases... is that right?
Weird as it seems to all of us who'd probably get the upgrade even if it was $150, I bet more than a few new Mac users would balk at anything more than a $50 upgrade cost.
The Superdrive is also available, but it's $100, not $50.
Cry me a river about the deficit. The Democrats didn't give a crap about the deficit before the Republican Congress and the Internet bubble erased it under Clinton, and now all of the sudden it's a big issue with them. Somehow. Magically. They sure didn't give a crap about it during the 1980s when they were in control of Congress.
And don't get me started on Senator Byrd... He's the biggest pork barrel spender EVER.
Deficits. Please.
CNN isn't centrist. It leans to the left.
Yeah, even posts like yours.
Not so. I know a few contractors and several full-timers with no degree in computing.... all working at a desk.
I know for a fact this is absolutely not true. I know someone that didn't have a math degree and didn't have a PHD and received a job offer from Wolfram as a senior level engineer.
This guy sounds like he was putting his own personal "lows" into this, rather than looking at it more objectively.
Smugglers in SWG a low?
EQ2 dead? OK, EQ2 might not be everyone's favorite, but ripping on EQ2 while praising WoW is just fanboy talk.
Those votes weren't rejected by mistake. The only "mistake" was that they were some how "valid" after being initially rejected.
If every county was allowed to do the same thing (they weren't...they had already "certified" and weren't allowed to go back and check this sort of thing), I might agree with you, but that's not what happened. Heavily Democrat King County was able to go back and look at things like this, and the Republican counties were not.
Add to that the overseas militiary votes that weren't counted, and I have to still say that the Democrats counted until they "won" and then wanted everything stopped.
Why is it that it was the Democrat counties that always seem to have these "anomolies" in voting?
Happened in King County here, happened in 2000 in Palm Beach County in Florida.
What's the deal? Are they just manufacturing votes, or are they just honestly that stupid that they can't count everything correctly in the first place?
I think it's the first. They just kept counting and "finding" votes until they won.... Same thing they tried in Florida in 2000.
That election was a joke. Military voters were left out.
Democrats kept recounting until they won. Period.
They tried this in Florida in 2000, and they failed to steal the election then. They stole this one.