I've had a real motorcycle. At 74 MPG it didn't get the efficiency this thing does, I also wound up wet and cold at work in February a lot. I might just get another motorcycle, but my work commute will be with this thing.
There are two cars I want right now (well, one is being released soon).
1. The Elio for getting to work and back. Perfect for getting me and my backpack the 30ish miles there and back, and even good for going to lunch with a coworker. Excellent fuel mileage, and unlike a Smart Car (which doesn't really get that great of fuel mileage considering) I wouldn't be concerned about having to defend my manhood every time I stepped out of it or worry about random strangers trying to give me a wedgie for driving it.
2. The Subaru Outback as my vacation and haul the family around ride. The ability to easily carry many bicycles, kayaks, luggage, and people offroad, at good high cruising speeds Not to mention, great gas mileage for a rugged/versatile vehicle.
I don't care about data platforms, just the ability to interface with what's there. The Elio would let me put whatever I wanted in there and tie it to the stereo, I'm guessing a Nexus 9 would be perfect. The Subaru support Bluetooth audio so I'll put my Nexus 9 in there too!
I've been saying this since I was a we little lad. We do the jobs we like. I like I.T. I like computers, I have since I was a kid. My sister on the other hand liked crops and animals, she works in agriculture.
How is it that science can explain how and why our hormones and evolution drive men and women to different interest, yet science (or in reality H.R.types) can't accept the findings of science?!?!
Slashdot under current management is just pandering to the H.R. and equal outcome everything crowds.
Think we could lobby to have the traditional green changed to more of a lavender color?
Come to think of it the entire/. name itself just screams patriarchy! I mean, come on, it looks like the penis of a semi-erect man on his back! Maybe we can rename the entire site parenthesis dot ( . ) to empower women more!
One of my favorite things about the job I referenced is most of the people we hired were in their late teens or early 20's and were eager to learn and prove themselves. To this day it's still the age group I like to work with the most. Of course I expected a lot of churn, I would have been disappointed at my trainees if they didn't ditch that place after some training.
I love interactive documentation - I find myself hovering my cursor on a regular basis on stuff I'm unsure of and I'm always disappointed when it doesn't work.
So years ago I was in varying positions at an ISP, but regardless of title "head tech" pretty much applied. We kept getting kids right out of high school that claimed to know computers well but had never used a command line, didn't know what an IRQ was etc.. As this was the Windows 95/98 era and this was a dial-up ISP some manuals had to be written.
I of course wrote them.
I made flow charts for email troubleshooting (I hated Visio so I used a graphical editor instead), I had grids for IRQ/Address settings, I had step by steps for undoing AOL I.P. stack sabotage (how many of you remember that?) Fact was I wrote really good documentation that anyone from teenager to adult could use to troubleshoot the "normal" day to day issues a worker at an ISP faces without making a condescending script. If you used it for reference it was an answer key, if you read every word you often would know why that problem occurred. I'm of the belief understanding an issue is always better than just knowing what the fix is.
Long story short - the documents leaked out of the company. On the north side of town there was a help-desk outsourcing company that tended to have a lot of employee migration with our own - in both directions. A buddy of mine went to work at a different ISP and saw my documents turn up there with my name replaced on the credit line (he knew I wrote them - he watched and knew the marks I put in things that were dead giveaways it was my stuff).
I no longer worked at the old company and was still finding out about my documents leaking all over the damned place. I decided to put the documentation GPL on the things and throw them out on my webserver. If figured if I put them out on the web myself then there was a verifiable copy out in the wild, it would shine a light on the plagiarizers, and I was hoping to maybe get offered jobs or something. Later I was criticized with "that really should have been Creative Commons". Fuck you, I did this before Creative Commons even existed.
My web server and the backups were physically stolen from my home, but there's still an archive. To this day I still write in the "explain it, don't step it" method.
My Casio is up to year 8 on the original battery. If my corpse fell where there was plenty of sunshine but not so much dirt as to wash up and bury my wrist I could see it going quite some time more. It's good for 200 meters diving, it should handle exposure for a good long time.
This is mostly why my participation dropped. I didn't care about the misogyny rules for the most part, I only ran afoul of them once when I said women were just as mean and nasty as men. I quit participating because the left-wing compliance echo chamber was so deafeningly loud and had mod powers. I happen to know a lot of us libertarian types love Fark otherwise.
I'm not the one spending my time in San Francisco.
Yeah, sure point your Prius towards Texas and if you survive the trip through the Western end to the gulf we can settle it like men, or one one real man and one San Francisco nancy in the lawn in front of the San Jacinto monument.
If you need any additional evidence that there's a masculinity crisis, just take a look at that single sentence, oft-repeated by beta males.
You poor, pitiful bastard.
You know what's masculine behavior? Not whining like a little pissbaby.
Bring that statement over here in person and we'll determine what a beta male is - oft repeated should say something.
Seems to me like you're the one whining about men - and women - realizing that there's a real problem, so much so that you attempt to deflect attention from the problem by pinning it on those who see the truth. You're what is known as an Uncle Tim.
BTW, my very feminine wife who recently provided me with a very healthy male offspring that looks just like me has read the book, paid attention to what is going on in the world around her, which includes her fathers experience, her brothers, and mine, and she's quite concerned about the world our son is going to grow up in.
Go be a little pussy boy with the masses, us real men will continue to seek out good women or retreat from the society that loathes us on some fronts and fight on others, but we aren't going to become the new bitch. Even if it requires further dividing the political and social world to keep you anti-masculinity folks out of our lives.
It seemed even tempered and well thought out to me, even if her commentary was on blog posts. These weren't Slashdot rants, or even rants in general, what I saw as real case studies, just a modern format.
Her original commentary on the man-cave phenomenon and what have you really was thought provoking.
On the other hand, another book I've read on the topic - also written by a woman - that I can not recommend fits into the hurts not helps category. This one was well researched and I must say is a fairly accurate, pre-blog post era writing, so you can't hang that on it, but the author was so angry and accusatory I usually can't suggest it to anyone, for the sole purpose she was so angry about it.
Odds are stacked against men. From the fake "rape culture" propaganda and an environment that ensures if she regrets a hook up you will too, stacked courts, diminishing reasons to get married. Why hook up with a woman when she can change her mind, take at minimum half your stuff, and if you have kids the courts are stacking in such a way that a man will lose?
Men are playing video games and retreating from women and normal society in general because masculine men have an uphill battle to fight. When even former places of refuge for men to be masculine are attempting to force masculinity out of society men are retreating even further into their own self contained worlds.
3rd wave feminist recognized that men were retreating into games so they created the Gamer Gate fiasco which was nothing more than a false flag bitch-a-thon trying to take over that refuge as well. It's still a bit early to say, but I think they failed, but since Gamer Gate was nothing more than a political move rest assured, there will be another double-downed attempt to destroy that refuge again.
I hadn't kept up with Gohmert all that much. I did some homework on him last night and this morning.
Not near the level of stupid as Sheila Jackson Lee.
400 year old constitution, talking about North and South Vietnam and their place in the world of politics, says she's a freed slave, wants TSA on buses, not to mention outright racist rants and abuse of her own office staff. Gohmert screwed up on the balanced budget amendment, said some hilarious things about caribou, and has made some other screw ups, but isn't even playing in the same foam-lined playground as Sheila Jackson Lee.
The fact we've covered all of these bases and not even mentioned how embarrassing Jason "Don't Record the Police" Villalba is really says something about how bad Republicrats are in general.....
and the power goes back to the people disrupting the old-guard but stabilizing and empowering the individual who no longer deals with run-away inflation.
Gosh, who could have ever guessed that would happen?
Slashdot Mirror
I've had a real motorcycle. At 74 MPG it didn't get the efficiency this thing does, I also wound up wet and cold at work in February a lot. I might just get another motorcycle, but my work commute will be with this thing.
in my cars.
There are two cars I want right now (well, one is being released soon).
1. The Elio for getting to work and back. Perfect for getting me and my backpack the 30ish miles there and back, and even good for going to lunch with a coworker. Excellent fuel mileage, and unlike a Smart Car (which doesn't really get that great of fuel mileage considering) I wouldn't be concerned about having to defend my manhood every time I stepped out of it or worry about random strangers trying to give me a wedgie for driving it.
2. The Subaru Outback as my vacation and haul the family around ride. The ability to easily carry many bicycles, kayaks, luggage, and people offroad, at good high cruising speeds Not to mention, great gas mileage for a rugged/versatile vehicle.
I don't care about data platforms, just the ability to interface with what's there. The Elio would let me put whatever I wanted in there and tie it to the stereo, I'm guessing a Nexus 9 would be perfect. The Subaru support Bluetooth audio so I'll put my Nexus 9 in there too!
Mod parent up!
I've been saying this since I was a we little lad. We do the jobs we like. I like I.T. I like computers, I have since I was a kid. My sister on the other hand liked crops and animals, she works in agriculture.
How is it that science can explain how and why our hormones and evolution drive men and women to different interest, yet science (or in reality H.R.types) can't accept the findings of science?!?!
Slashdot under current management is just pandering to the H.R. and equal outcome everything crowds.
Think we could lobby to have the traditional green changed to more of a lavender color?
Come to think of it the entire /. name itself just screams patriarchy! I mean, come on, it looks like the penis of a semi-erect man on his back! Maybe we can rename the entire site parenthesis dot ( . ) to empower women more!
Redundant huh? I would argue the article itself is at this point.
Why aren't they bitching about trash collectors, construction workers, and cattle wranglers being mostly men?
One of my favorite things about the job I referenced is most of the people we hired were in their late teens or early 20's and were eager to learn and prove themselves. To this day it's still the age group I like to work with the most. Of course I expected a lot of churn, I would have been disappointed at my trainees if they didn't ditch that place after some training.
I love interactive documentation - I find myself hovering my cursor on a regular basis on stuff I'm unsure of and I'm always disappointed when it doesn't work.
So years ago I was in varying positions at an ISP, but regardless of title "head tech" pretty much applied. We kept getting kids right out of high school that claimed to know computers well but had never used a command line, didn't know what an IRQ was etc.. As this was the Windows 95/98 era and this was a dial-up ISP some manuals had to be written.
I of course wrote them.
I made flow charts for email troubleshooting (I hated Visio so I used a graphical editor instead), I had grids for IRQ/Address settings, I had step by steps for undoing AOL I.P. stack sabotage (how many of you remember that?) Fact was I wrote really good documentation that anyone from teenager to adult could use to troubleshoot the "normal" day to day issues a worker at an ISP faces without making a condescending script. If you used it for reference it was an answer key, if you read every word you often would know why that problem occurred. I'm of the belief understanding an issue is always better than just knowing what the fix is.
Long story short - the documents leaked out of the company. On the north side of town there was a help-desk outsourcing company that tended to have a lot of employee migration with our own - in both directions. A buddy of mine went to work at a different ISP and saw my documents turn up there with my name replaced on the credit line (he knew I wrote them - he watched and knew the marks I put in things that were dead giveaways it was my stuff).
I no longer worked at the old company and was still finding out about my documents leaking all over the damned place. I decided to put the documentation GPL on the things and throw them out on my webserver. If figured if I put them out on the web myself then there was a verifiable copy out in the wild, it would shine a light on the plagiarizers, and I was hoping to maybe get offered jobs or something. Later I was criticized with "that really should have been Creative Commons". Fuck you, I did this before Creative Commons even existed.
My web server and the backups were physically stolen from my home, but there's still an archive. To this day I still write in the "explain it, don't step it" method.
Turns out lots of places want idiot guides and don't care to understand.
Because anyone who deserves the label tech knows better, it does however suggest you're an idiot.
My Casio is up to year 8 on the original battery. If my corpse fell where there was plenty of sunshine but not so much dirt as to wash up and bury my wrist I could see it going quite some time more. It's good for 200 meters diving, it should handle exposure for a good long time.
This is mostly why my participation dropped. I didn't care about the misogyny rules for the most part, I only ran afoul of them once when I said women were just as mean and nasty as men. I quit participating because the left-wing compliance echo chamber was so deafeningly loud and had mod powers. I happen to know a lot of us libertarian types love Fark otherwise.
You're really having to dig now.
Why would I want to even go there, much less take horses?
I'm not the one spending my time in San Francisco.
Yeah, sure point your Prius towards Texas and if you survive the trip through the Western end to the gulf we can settle it like men, or one one real man and one San Francisco nancy in the lawn in front of the San Jacinto monument.
You sound like a fucktard with his head so far up his ass he can't see reality for what it is.
If you need any additional evidence that there's a masculinity crisis, just take a look at that single sentence, oft-repeated by beta males.
You poor, pitiful bastard.
You know what's masculine behavior? Not whining like a little pissbaby.
Bring that statement over here in person and we'll determine what a beta male is - oft repeated should say something.
Seems to me like you're the one whining about men - and women - realizing that there's a real problem, so much so that you attempt to deflect attention from the problem by pinning it on those who see the truth. You're what is known as an Uncle Tim.
BTW, my very feminine wife who recently provided me with a very healthy male offspring that looks just like me has read the book, paid attention to what is going on in the world around her, which includes her fathers experience, her brothers, and mine, and she's quite concerned about the world our son is going to grow up in.
Go be a little pussy boy with the masses, us real men will continue to seek out good women or retreat from the society that loathes us on some fronts and fight on others, but we aren't going to become the new bitch. Even if it requires further dividing the political and social world to keep you anti-masculinity folks out of our lives.
It seemed even tempered and well thought out to me, even if her commentary was on blog posts. These weren't Slashdot rants, or even rants in general, what I saw as real case studies, just a modern format.
Her original commentary on the man-cave phenomenon and what have you really was thought provoking.
On the other hand, another book I've read on the topic - also written by a woman - that I can not recommend fits into the hurts not helps category. This one was well researched and I must say is a fairly accurate, pre-blog post era writing, so you can't hang that on it, but the author was so angry and accusatory I usually can't suggest it to anyone, for the sole purpose she was so angry about it.
Odds are stacked against men. From the fake "rape culture" propaganda and an environment that ensures if she regrets a hook up you will too, stacked courts, diminishing reasons to get married. Why hook up with a woman when she can change her mind, take at minimum half your stuff, and if you have kids the courts are stacking in such a way that a man will lose?
Men are playing video games and retreating from women and normal society in general because masculine men have an uphill battle to fight. When even former places of refuge for men to be masculine are attempting to force masculinity out of society men are retreating even further into their own self contained worlds.
3rd wave feminist recognized that men were retreating into games so they created the Gamer Gate fiasco which was nothing more than a false flag bitch-a-thon trying to take over that refuge as well. It's still a bit early to say, but I think they failed, but since Gamer Gate was nothing more than a political move rest assured, there will be another double-downed attempt to destroy that refuge again.
Here's a really good book on the subject written by a woman no less, so don't dismiss it as just men sitting around bitching.
without one mention of Agenda 21.
I hadn't kept up with Gohmert all that much. I did some homework on him last night and this morning.
Not near the level of stupid as Sheila Jackson Lee.
400 year old constitution, talking about North and South Vietnam and their place in the world of politics, says she's a freed slave, wants TSA on buses, not to mention outright racist rants and abuse of her own office staff. Gohmert screwed up on the balanced budget amendment, said some hilarious things about caribou, and has made some other screw ups, but isn't even playing in the same foam-lined playground as Sheila Jackson Lee.
Fortunately you can't blame her on Texas.
The fact we've covered all of these bases and not even mentioned how embarrassing Jason "Don't Record the Police" Villalba is really says something about how bad Republicrats are in general.....
Sheila Jackson Lee saves him from being the most embarrassing rep from Texas, meaning, yes you can get lower.
(at least he's getting this one right)
You mean like J-Script and C#?
and the power goes back to the people disrupting the old-guard but stabilizing and empowering the individual who no longer deals with run-away inflation.
Gosh, who could have ever guessed that would happen?
*cough*Ron Paul*cough*