Most likely the reason eeeeevil Rupert Murdoch's solution scales better is he wasn't constrained by the problem of keeping people of the wrong gender and ethnicity out of the program.
There's at least two classes of damage to the road
1) Damage attributable directly to vehicle traffic. On a road used by heavy trucks, this is essentially 100% caused by heavy trucks. A Suburban versus a Prius makes no real difference.
2) Damage due to weather, time, nature, etc. This damage makes more sense to apportion out by mileage to the road users regardless of weight.
Simply being male doesn't make you evil in the eyes of a SJW. Being a *white*, *heterosexual*, *male* makes you evil (and responsible for all bad stuff in the world).
Any one makes you suspicious and any two seals the deal. I say embrace it. Be the evil they claim. There's even prizes: if you commit 1 million documented microaggressions you'll get a free puppy (to kick) from the Patriarchy.
If reading comics counts as science, no wonder it's in a state.
I imagine it comes under "sociology", which is counted as a science. This study probably has better research practices than 90% of the sociology papers out there,
Of course, if it becomes cheaper to produce opiates from yeast than from current processes, trying to keep the yeasts secret or locked up will be futile. The stuff reproduces itself; all it takes is one well-bribed or entrepreneurial employee.
An obviously critical part of a PTC installation is tens of thousands of trackside antennas, so the locomotive can communicate with the whole PTC network.
Technically you don't need that for mere automatic speed control. The train just needs a GPS and IPS (for when GPS isn't available -- actually you could skip this and do it with dead reckoning based on other speed indicators) and track maps (annotated with speed limits). If you really needed to you could do it without GPS by putting up machine readable signs with the location (and perhaps any special speed limits) encoded, no antennas needed. You don't need an environmental impact statement for every sign you put up.
Something smells when it comes to passenger rail costs.
When you've built up 150 years of regulations all of which are considered absolutely vital for life safety, the cost of compliance is probably a quarter billion per mile before you've so much as acquired ROW.
The term might have appeared occasionally in the past, but around mid-2013 it took on anew and wholly pejorative connotation.
The term used in exactly the current way goes back at least to 2009, with Will Shetterly's blog entitled "Social Justice Warriors: Do Not Engage". It's probably older than that; there are earlier tumblr references. Google Trends isn't everything.
It doesn't make any sense to complain the term is pejorative. Any term those of us who find Social Justice Warriors repugnant uses to describe them will be pejorative, just as "liberal" is to a conservative or vice-versa.
Women (and men) come into their sexuality when they are teenagers (or late pre-teens for some). Thus, most of them will have their first experience of being viewed sexually either by
1) Other teenagers who are just as unfamiliar with sexuality as they are.
2) Older men, which is automatically not positive in modern society.
Neither of these is a formula for a "positive and empowering" experience. Being a teenager has its drawbacks.
Not really sure what it has to do with sexism in science.
Step 1 would be to determine what the current level of sexism is in the particular institutions. But "social justice" skips this by positing "privilege", which amounts to an inexhaustible source of sexism. That way, if there ever actually appears to be bias towards women (which there often does), just wave the magic wand and presto, that bias is simply countering "privilege".
Personally I think current "social justice" antics demonstrate there isn't much sexism against women. If you have to go to "microaggressions" to find any, and aren't willing to even consider that these "microaggressions" might just be people dealing with people imperfectly and not necessarily related to gender, it seems clear there aren't any serious problems.
Let's be clear, it's not simply feeling a bit uneasy because you are the only woman.
A lot of feminists define that as sexism also.
It's actual sexism, often unintentional but sexism none the less.
Quite often, it is treating women no differently than they treat men. Yet when they do it to women it's sexist. Of course, if they treat women better than they treat men, it's also sexist.
Or maybe, just perhaps, you are not the one that all the Sturm und Drang are directed at. I see a whole lot of hand wringing in the comments indicating that a lot of guys here feel personally affronted by this story (and similar stories).
That's just sticking your head in the sand. As a white cis male heterosexual geek, I'm exactly who they're directing their ire at; I've been told as much. And that's just from my race, sex, and sexuality, before I start saying anything they disagree with, which really sets them off.
Vet schools on average admit 4 males for ever female student admitted. But when the personal details on applications are obscured, so that the selection committees do not know the gender of applicants - it switches to 60/40 female selection !
Since vet schools are 80% female, I assume you managed to accidentally reverse the genders here.
Call me when men are wearing glorified sweat pants and pajamas to work.
Hello, is Mr. Coward? Yes, I'm calling you to tell you that men are wearing glorified (and not-so-glorified) sweat pants and pajamas to work. Just check out any tech campus.
The term "brogrammer" is kind of a shibboleth; if someone seriously talks about "brogramming" or the "brogramming culture", they're completely disconnected from reality. The whole "brogramming" thing was a hoax, an obvious joke based on the juxtaposition of the opposites of "nerds" and "bros". The press and blogs picked up on it as if it were real (it's still not clear which were in on the joke).
There's no "brogramming culture" where coders with popped collars drink Natty Bo and lift weights in one hand while pounding code in the other. There may be a few fake "brogrammers" out there in a life-imitates-art sort of way, and a few legitimate "bros" who are actually programmers, but "brogramming" was never a thing.
You want to know how to really contribute to the problem? Tell women that their co-workers, who will be largely male, are a horrible bunch of sexists who will mistreat them based on their gender. If they don't quit right there, teach them that any action those men take is a "microaggression" directed at them as a result of their gender. Teach them that the appropriate response to these "microaggressions" is to be extremely upset and angry, possibly to file a complaint with management or HR. Tell them (and convince HR) that a man defending himself from such a complaint is itself sexism and oppression. This will ensure the women always believe they are being oppressed, that they always feel uncomfortable, and that their male co-workers will never feel comfortable with them and will be apprehensive if they are anywhere around.
Then, once you've done this, blame the toxic environment you've created on male sexism. It's a positive feedback loop.
Sorry ladies, that's not why you're being treated like crap in grad school. You're being treated like crap because everyone is treated like crap in grad school. Yes, something should be done about that, but it isn't driven by sexism.
There's an couple pat answers to that, though:
F: "Bad thing X happened to me! I'm being oppressed because of my gender!" M: "Bad thing X happens to everyone" F: "Stop mansplaining, shitlord oppressor!"
F: "Bad thing X happened to me! I'm being oppressed because of my gender!" M: "What are you talking about? Bad thing X happens to me all the time" F: "It's not about YOU, shitlord oppressor!"
No, we're not actually outsiders. Your SJW group is very small; it's just powerful for its size because it is utterly ruthless and has the protection of authority. Most everyone else has to keep their heads down where you reign. But I think you've about reached your limit and are on the downswing. Your hypocrisy is showing everywhere. Your tactics have generated disgust in the uninvolved. Your overreach has been spotlighted on the national stage (more than once). You have influential opponents in the Left as well as the Right.
Much of your power lay in your pretense and conviction that your views represent the majority of people and the totality of right-thinking people. It's becoming clearer and clearer that this is simply not the case. You're going to go back to being just another radical hate group, same way as you started.
C++ exceptions in particular aren't "broke". But exceptions in general are. The last thing I need in my language is spooky action at a distance. When I write two function calls in a row I want to know that, barring the end of the process, once the first is completed it'll execute the second. Not skip executing the second because somewhere deep in a library routine an exception was thrown that was caught somewhere above me in the call stack.
Men being cavemen is reinforced by women -- regressive / aggressive behavior is rewarded by them. They like to bitch about knuckledragger behavior, yet men who don't exhibit it are ignored in the dating / mating arena.
Well, if that's what you believe, the logical thing to do is to behave that way and succeed.
And in that way, a pickup artist is born.
As someone else pointed out upthread, the problem with PUAs isn't so much them; they're insignificant compared to the larger population of men who act that way naturally. The problem with PUAs is they succeed... and that's not really a problem they've created.
If you change "male" to "female" then that's exactly what feminists were saying back in the 60s. You can fix the problem by adopting feminist ideals. Feminists want the same liberation for men, always have.
Meanwhile your fellow SJW PopeRatzo is busy razzing men for being unmasculine "pissbabies"; the masculine idea, of course, is to never complain.
Have you actually tried talking to women like they were people?
Unless things have changed a lot in the last 25 years, most women don't regard nerds as people worth talking to. Believe it or not, two different people can attempt the same approach and get entirely different results.
If it's an oscillator, it must have positive feedback. That's what causes the oscillation. The oscillation itself may be stable, but that doesn't imply negative feedback.
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Most likely the reason eeeeevil Rupert Murdoch's solution scales better is he wasn't constrained by the problem of keeping people of the wrong gender and ethnicity out of the program.
There's at least two classes of damage to the road
1) Damage attributable directly to vehicle traffic. On a road used by heavy trucks, this is essentially 100% caused by heavy trucks. A Suburban versus a Prius makes no real difference.
2) Damage due to weather, time, nature, etc. This damage makes more sense to apportion out by mileage to the road users regardless of weight.
Or the Men In Black.
Any one makes you suspicious and any two seals the deal. I say embrace it. Be the evil they claim. There's even prizes: if you commit 1 million documented microaggressions you'll get a free puppy (to kick) from the Patriarchy.
I imagine it comes under "sociology", which is counted as a science. This study probably has better research practices than 90% of the sociology papers out there,
Pseudoephederine is already produced from yeast.
Of course, if it becomes cheaper to produce opiates from yeast than from current processes, trying to keep the yeasts secret or locked up will be futile. The stuff reproduces itself; all it takes is one well-bribed or entrepreneurial employee.
Technically you don't need that for mere automatic speed control. The train just needs a GPS and IPS (for when GPS isn't available -- actually you could skip this and do it with dead reckoning based on other speed indicators) and track maps (annotated with speed limits). If you really needed to you could do it without GPS by putting up machine readable signs with the location (and perhaps any special speed limits) encoded, no antennas needed. You don't need an environmental impact statement for every sign you put up.
When you've built up 150 years of regulations all of which are considered absolutely vital for life safety, the cost of compliance is probably a quarter billion per mile before you've so much as acquired ROW.
The term used in exactly the current way goes back at least to 2009, with Will Shetterly's blog entitled "Social Justice Warriors: Do Not Engage". It's probably older than that; there are earlier tumblr references. Google Trends isn't everything.
It doesn't make any sense to complain the term is pejorative. Any term those of us who find Social Justice Warriors repugnant uses to describe them will be pejorative, just as "liberal" is to a conservative or vice-versa.
Women (and men) come into their sexuality when they are teenagers (or late pre-teens for some). Thus, most of them will have their first experience of being viewed sexually either by
1) Other teenagers who are just as unfamiliar with sexuality as they are.
2) Older men, which is automatically not positive in modern society.
Neither of these is a formula for a "positive and empowering" experience. Being a teenager has its drawbacks.
Not really sure what it has to do with sexism in science.
Step 1 would be to determine what the current level of sexism is in the particular institutions. But "social justice" skips this by positing "privilege", which amounts to an inexhaustible source of sexism. That way, if there ever actually appears to be bias towards women (which there often does), just wave the magic wand and presto, that bias is simply countering "privilege".
Personally I think current "social justice" antics demonstrate there isn't much sexism against women. If you have to go to "microaggressions" to find any, and aren't willing to even consider that these "microaggressions" might just be people dealing with people imperfectly and not necessarily related to gender, it seems clear there aren't any serious problems.
A lot of feminists define that as sexism also.
Quite often, it is treating women no differently than they treat men. Yet when they do it to women it's sexist. Of course, if they treat women better than they treat men, it's also sexist.
That's just sticking your head in the sand. As a white cis male heterosexual geek, I'm exactly who they're directing their ire at; I've been told as much. And that's just from my race, sex, and sexuality, before I start saying anything they disagree with, which really sets them off.
Since vet schools are 80% female, I assume you managed to accidentally reverse the genders here.
Hello, is Mr. Coward? Yes, I'm calling you to tell you that men are wearing glorified (and not-so-glorified) sweat pants and pajamas to work. Just check out any tech campus.
The term "brogrammer" is kind of a shibboleth; if someone seriously talks about "brogramming" or the "brogramming culture", they're completely disconnected from reality. The whole "brogramming" thing was a hoax, an obvious joke based on the juxtaposition of the opposites of "nerds" and "bros". The press and blogs picked up on it as if it were real (it's still not clear which were in on the joke).
There's no "brogramming culture" where coders with popped collars drink Natty Bo and lift weights in one hand while pounding code in the other. There may be a few fake "brogrammers" out there in a life-imitates-art sort of way, and a few legitimate "bros" who are actually programmers, but "brogramming" was never a thing.
Mostly it involves the "power of the widow".
You want to know how to really contribute to the problem? Tell women that their co-workers, who will be largely male, are a horrible bunch of sexists who will mistreat them based on their gender. If they don't quit right there, teach them that any action those men take is a "microaggression" directed at them as a result of their gender. Teach them that the appropriate response to these "microaggressions" is to be extremely upset and angry, possibly to file a complaint with management or HR. Tell them (and convince HR) that a man defending himself from such a complaint is itself sexism and oppression. This will ensure the women always believe they are being oppressed, that they always feel uncomfortable, and that their male co-workers will never feel comfortable with them and will be apprehensive if they are anywhere around.
Then, once you've done this, blame the toxic environment you've created on male sexism. It's a positive feedback loop.
There's an couple pat answers to that, though:
F: "Bad thing X happened to me! I'm being oppressed because of my gender!"
M: "Bad thing X happens to everyone"
F: "Stop mansplaining, shitlord oppressor!"
F: "Bad thing X happened to me! I'm being oppressed because of my gender!"
M: "What are you talking about? Bad thing X happens to me all the time"
F: "It's not about YOU, shitlord oppressor!"
No, we're not actually outsiders. Your SJW group is very small; it's just powerful for its size because it is utterly ruthless and has the protection of authority. Most everyone else has to keep their heads down where you reign. But I think you've about reached your limit and are on the downswing. Your hypocrisy is showing everywhere. Your tactics have generated disgust in the uninvolved. Your overreach has been spotlighted on the national stage (more than once). You have influential opponents in the Left as well as the Right.
Much of your power lay in your pretense and conviction that your views represent the majority of people and the totality of right-thinking people. It's becoming clearer and clearer that this is simply not the case. You're going to go back to being just another radical hate group, same way as you started.
C++ exceptions in particular aren't "broke". But exceptions in general are. The last thing I need in my language is spooky action at a distance. When I write two function calls in a row I want to know that, barring the end of the process, once the first is completed it'll execute the second. Not skip executing the second because somewhere deep in a library routine an exception was thrown that was caught somewhere above me in the call stack.
Well, if that's what you believe, the logical thing to do is to behave that way and succeed.
And in that way, a pickup artist is born.
As someone else pointed out upthread, the problem with PUAs isn't so much them; they're insignificant compared to the larger population of men who act that way naturally. The problem with PUAs is they succeed... and that's not really a problem they've created.
Meanwhile your fellow SJW PopeRatzo is busy razzing men for being unmasculine "pissbabies"; the masculine idea, of course, is to never complain.
Unless things have changed a lot in the last 25 years, most women don't regard nerds as people worth talking to. Believe it or not, two different people can attempt the same approach and get entirely different results.
Climate "science" in a nutshell.