Mr. HyppÃnen hasn't been paying attention if he believes "surveillance thatâ(TM)s not targeted at them but at non-americans". That's the NSAs line, but the Snowden revelations have shown that to be pretty much a lie. They're willing to spy on Americans who are up to three hops from a target, and they're Hoovering up American's call records wholesale.
If there is an assumption that everyone involved in tech must be engaged in the same culture of science fiction, superhero comics, and video gaming, then, yeah, something trivial might make those who are interested less likely to walk away after hitting the wall of "YOU ARE NOT JUST LIKE ME!!!! SCARY!!!! GO AWAY!!!!"
You've got it backwards. There's no requirement that everyone involved in tech be engaged in the same culture of science fiction, superhero comics, and video gaming. But a lot of people involved in tech are, and one common assertion is that this culture drives away women. That is, it is not the men but the women who react with "YOU ARE NOT JUST LIKE ME!!!! SCARY!!!!"
Which, frankly, is the affected womens' problem. There's nothing inherently anti-female about such things. It's not enough to say "these things drive away women, therefore they have to go", as if gender equality were the only concern involved and the effect this would have on the men and women in tech who do enjoy that culture is irrelevant.
You're calling me a misogynist and you think the burden of proof is on me to demonstrate I am not? No, I don't think so.
You make these assertions, but never once support them.
WHICH assertions? Be more specific. This statement: "As far as I can tell, when an attack is made on men in tech about the gender imbalance in tech, it tends to come from feminists who espouse the views I described." is based mostly on previous slashdot discussions.
"There's nothing wrong here, and only those with illegitimate positions think there is. If you say there is, you must be some sort of man-hating bitch, so your opinion is worthless, which reinforces my belief." You've created a epistemological closure.
I reject your paraphrase. In particular, I never said "there's nothing wrong here", nor did I say that anyone who said there was something wrong was a "man-hating bitch".
Geekdom, hackerdom, tech, or whatever you want to call it is its own culture. It may be predominantly white male, but it is not the same thing as white male culture at large. If it was, we'd be more interested in football and reality TV and less interested in roleplaying games and Star Trek.
Yes. Which has led some feminists to decide that it is geek culture which drives women away from the field, and that therefore geek culture is sexist and must be changed (by force if necessary).
Some feminists are misandrists, in particularly some really famous ones are(the press loves misandry all the drama of misogyny with none of the backlash). Feminism and feminists in general are generally not.
As far as I can tell, when an attack is made on men in tech about the gender imbalance in tech, it tends to come from feminists who espouse the views I described.
Overall in my life I've encountered far fewer misandrists than I have misogynists, casual or otherwise, you're a pretty good example for instance. You get your hate on for feminism because a few members are a bit misandrist and you use it as an excuse to denigrate attempts to genuinely improve the lot of women because you can tar those efforts with the "feminist" label and then push it back.
Opposing feminism as I have described it does not make me a "misogynist". Not being willing to accept the reasoning that "There are relatively few women in tech, therefore you horrible male nerds are discriminating against them and must be punished and/or discriminated against to level the playing field" also does not make me a "misogynist".
I'm afraid I can't condense it down to a dictionary definition. However, I'm certain your wikipedia definition does not characterize it properly, as feminism seeks to exclude the input of males on all issues, and simultaneously hold us responsible for all the ills of the world. Feminism claims the right to put men at a disadvantage in any given situation, on the theory that men have so much "privilege" that any discrimination against us is only partially compensating for it. That's not equality.
Attacking feminism is not the same as attacking women, and feminism is NOT the belief that women are just as smart as capable as any man and deserve to be treated as such.
What altruism? If you altruistically worked to improve the neighborhood, you wouldn't care that you can't be around to reap the benefits. You can't validly invoke altruism and then claim to be personally screwed for not being rewarded for it.
Improving your neighborhood because you expect to enjoy the improvements isn't altruistic; it's self-interested. And doing that without taking some steps to secure your interest is foolish.
Which is not really solving the problem, and is going to backfire big time when a guy who went into the program because it let him "artistically express his cultural background" faces a manager who wants him to write some mundane piece of code by the end of this week.
It'll bite him sooner than that, when the compiler or interpreter responds to his attempts with pages of error messages. It turns out that it's not practical to handicap the computers such that white males must write syntactically perfect programs to get any results at all, while minorities and women are allowed some number of errors depending on their relative disadvantage. It's even less practical to allow semantically incorrect programs to work properly merely because they are authored by a disadvantaged person.
It's not, oh-my-god, a woman! We must chase here away! it's more like, oh-my-god, a woman, we should do everything we can to make sure she sticks around.
Which, predictably, chases plenty of women away. However, the men are damned no matter which choice they make -- if she leaves because they chase her away on purpose, it's their fault. If she leaves because they try too hard to keep her, it's their fault. And if they treat her the same as they would a man, and she leaves, well, that's their fault too!
And hell, womyn-born-womyn won't even need to deal with the sexist shit I need to deal with when I go to college like mandatory date rape classes and all the little other ways that assigned males are discriminated against in college.
Mandatory date rape classes? What do you cover, the merits of GHB versus just getting them drunk?
So you worked for years, decades maybe to make your neighborhood a desirable place to live. Got on the school's PTA, residents association, neighborhood watch, voted every election, helped clean up the housing stock. Now someone with more money wants to live there, so GTFO peon. Thanks for your hard work, now fuck off.
Two things you should have done. 1) Ensure you received the payoff for the things you did as you did them. and/or 2) Obtain an equity stake in the neighborhood by buying property.
If you actively worked to make the neighborhood a desirable place expecting no payoff besides your own enjoyment of that place in the future, and you were renting, you should have "sucker" tatooed backwards on your forehead.
The reason to target techies is because many of them are lying libertarians who have no concept of the struggles of real people.
Yeah, tell us all about how "techies" aren't "real people". The younger ones who grew up after geekdom lost most of its stigma will just give you a quizzical look. The older ones who understand are more likely to just put you over in the "enemy" category and not give a flying fuck about your struggles.
Yeah, your computer mouse is broken, so just throw out the whole new computer because obviously it's not needed since it's broken. Just like copyright.
With copyright, everything's broken but the right mouse button. And that only works 1/3rd of the time.
Beta lactam resistance is common. That's the class of antibiotics which includes penicillin; not an antibiotic of last resort by any means. (Resistance is so common that if you're prescribed a beta lactam antibiotic nowadays, it'll probably be compounded with a beta lactamase inhibitor) Since beta lactam resistance is so common, the gene will no doubt be common in the waste stream, not just in China but everywhere.
Butanol is being looked at because it is less corrosive and also higher energy density than ethanol, almost approaching that of gasoline. (Exhaust smells like bananas).
Bananas. Right. Until you get a little butyric acid formation (which you will), at which point it smells like vomit.
If you really want a backup mechanical failsafe, get yourself a small mechanical thermostat and wire it up in parallel. No electronic thermostat that I know of has a mechanical backup.
Inequality exists towards both genders. Feminism in practical application is concerned with the interests of women. Where that conflicts with the interests of men, the interests of women take precedence. What is amusing is the notion that feminist theory is about gender equality but feminism in practical application is only about getting more stuff for women. That's not equality in the least.
If feminism was merely advocacy for women (ignoring or dismissing mens concerns) that would be one thing; it would just be the position of an interest group.
What really sets it up for lampooning is the whole "theory" part of it, which in order to justify the positions of feminism sets up layers and layers of nonsense which at their core deny logic itself. Not deny a particular argument, but deny the validity of logical reasoning.
It really doesn't take an alternative zeroth order logic to put forth the proposition that women should be the legal, political, and social equals of men. But it does take such a "logic" to support some of the positions put forth by feminists, and to prevent horrible people (many of them male) from driving trucks through the holes in their reasoning
But if you actually have worked your ass off and supported yourself and your family without taking handouts from the government or anyone else, how can someone tell you it is a myth?
Then they pull out the schools/infrastructure/defense argument, as if those were the same as welfare.
What exactly is the efficiency of a heat pump when the outside air temp is below 20F like it is in the upper midwest this week?
1.0 or less. Because despite all the theoretical nonsense others have posted, an air-source heat pump simply won't work with the outside temperature below 20 degrees, so you'll be running on auxiliary heat. To make it worse, the heat pump might run a defrost cycle, pulling heat generated by the strip heaters out of the house to warm the outside coils.
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Mr. HyppÃnen hasn't been paying attention if he believes "surveillance thatâ(TM)s not targeted at them but at non-americans". That's the NSAs line, but the Snowden revelations have shown that to be pretty much a lie. They're willing to spy on Americans who are up to three hops from a target, and they're Hoovering up American's call records wholesale.
You know there's something rotten when a "recycling" bill is mostly sponsored by Republicans. Probably pork.
Yeah, but half the time it misses a deadline and cuts off in a burst of static.
You've got it backwards. There's no requirement that everyone involved in tech be engaged in the same culture of science fiction, superhero comics, and video gaming. But a lot of people involved in tech are, and one common assertion is that this culture drives away women. That is, it is not the men but the women who react with "YOU ARE NOT JUST LIKE ME!!!! SCARY!!!!"
Which, frankly, is the affected womens' problem. There's nothing inherently anti-female about such things. It's not enough to say "these things drive away women, therefore they have to go", as if gender equality were the only concern involved and the effect this would have on the men and women in tech who do enjoy that culture is irrelevant.
You're calling me a misogynist and you think the burden of proof is on me to demonstrate I am not? No, I don't think so.
WHICH assertions? Be more specific. This statement: "As far as I can tell, when an attack is made on men in tech about the gender imbalance in tech, it tends to come from feminists who espouse the views I described." is based mostly on previous slashdot discussions.
I reject your paraphrase. In particular, I never said "there's nothing wrong here", nor did I say that anyone who said there was something wrong was a "man-hating bitch".
Yes. Which has led some feminists to decide that it is geek culture which drives women away from the field, and that therefore geek culture is sexist and must be changed (by force if necessary).
A hint to whom? Geeks who never even thought about trying out for football, and were held in contempt by those who did?
As far as I can tell, when an attack is made on men in tech about the gender imbalance in tech, it tends to come from feminists who espouse the views I described.
Opposing feminism as I have described it does not make me a "misogynist". Not being willing to accept the reasoning that "There are relatively few women in tech, therefore you horrible male nerds are discriminating against them and must be punished and/or discriminated against to level the playing field" also does not make me a "misogynist".
I'm afraid I can't condense it down to a dictionary definition. However, I'm certain your wikipedia definition does not characterize it properly, as feminism seeks to exclude the input of males on all issues, and simultaneously hold us responsible for all the ills of the world. Feminism claims the right to put men at a disadvantage in any given situation, on the theory that men have so much "privilege" that any discrimination against us is only partially compensating for it. That's not equality.
Attacking feminism is not the same as attacking women, and feminism is NOT the belief that women are just as smart as capable as any man and deserve to be treated as such.
What altruism? If you altruistically worked to improve the neighborhood, you wouldn't care that you can't be around to reap the benefits. You can't validly invoke altruism and then claim to be personally screwed for not being rewarded for it.
Improving your neighborhood because you expect to enjoy the improvements isn't altruistic; it's self-interested. And doing that without taking some steps to secure your interest is foolish.
It'll bite him sooner than that, when the compiler or interpreter responds to his attempts with pages of error messages. It turns out that it's not practical to handicap the computers such that white males must write syntactically perfect programs to get any results at all, while minorities and women are allowed some number of errors depending on their relative disadvantage. It's even less practical to allow semantically incorrect programs to work properly merely because they are authored by a disadvantaged person.
Which, predictably, chases plenty of women away. However, the men are damned no matter which choice they make -- if she leaves because they chase her away on purpose, it's their fault. If she leaves because they try too hard to keep her, it's their fault. And if they treat her the same as they would a man, and she leaves, well, that's their fault too!
Mandatory date rape classes? What do you cover, the merits of GHB versus just getting them drunk?
(yes, I know, "THAT'S NOT FUNNY")
Two things you should have done.
1) Ensure you received the payoff for the things you did as you did them.
and/or
2) Obtain an equity stake in the neighborhood by buying property.
If you actively worked to make the neighborhood a desirable place expecting no payoff besides your own enjoyment of that place in the future, and you were renting, you should have "sucker" tatooed backwards on your forehead.
Yeah, tell us all about how "techies" aren't "real people". The younger ones who grew up after geekdom lost most of its stigma will just give you a quizzical look. The older ones who understand are more likely to just put you over in the "enemy" category and not give a flying fuck about your struggles.
Then what do you do with all the people whose only asset is the ability to do such labor?
With copyright, everything's broken but the right mouse button. And that only works 1/3rd of the time.
Beta lactam resistance is common. That's the class of antibiotics which includes penicillin; not an antibiotic of last resort by any means. (Resistance is so common that if you're prescribed a beta lactam antibiotic nowadays, it'll probably be compounded with a beta lactamase inhibitor) Since beta lactam resistance is so common, the gene will no doubt be common in the waste stream, not just in China but everywhere.
Bananas. Right. Until you get a little butyric acid formation (which you will), at which point it smells like vomit.
Everyone wants smaller and cheaper. Better? If it increases the BOM cost by a fraction, forget it.
If you really want a backup mechanical failsafe, get yourself a small mechanical thermostat and wire it up in parallel. No electronic thermostat that I know of has a mechanical backup.
If feminism was merely advocacy for women (ignoring or dismissing mens concerns) that would be one thing; it would just be the position of an interest group.
What really sets it up for lampooning is the whole "theory" part of it, which in order to justify the positions of feminism sets up layers and layers of nonsense which at their core deny logic itself. Not deny a particular argument, but deny the validity of logical reasoning.
It really doesn't take an alternative zeroth order logic to put forth the proposition that women should be the legal, political, and social equals of men. But it does take such a "logic" to support some of the positions put forth by feminists, and to prevent horrible people (many of them male) from driving trucks through the holes in their reasoning
Then they pull out the schools/infrastructure/defense argument, as if those were the same as welfare.
1.0 or less. Because despite all the theoretical nonsense others have posted, an air-source heat pump simply won't work with the outside temperature below 20 degrees, so you'll be running on auxiliary heat. To make it worse, the heat pump might run a defrost cycle, pulling heat generated by the strip heaters out of the house to warm the outside coils.