Hell, from what I hear at my company, VPs will look at a project with a 2+ year time line and say 'cut it in half'. Gee, I hope the half we get done is the important one. Dictating schedules work ok if you can also identify the important 2-3 things to get done.
Whats the difference between computing class, and German class? I don't think "computing classes" are, by and large, needed.
Work tech support sometime - people treat the computer like it's magic and your the wizard - fix it without any info whatsoever and without inconveniencing them one whit.
What do you expect? A Harvard president says what you did, more or less, and because he has a penis, he's forced to resign. There's no way to have an honest debate on the subject because of the feminist extremists who crucify anyone that suggests a biological basis. You want women in computers, fine: it's a bad idea with jobs going overseas, but if your plan is thus, you have to start a whole lot earlier.
It isn't a logical gap: certain professions require or attract specific skills and interests: if men and women differ in that sense, then it's natural to expect that they'll be represented differently. It isn't like the computer thing is the only place this happens either - look at nursing for instance.
The last bit was a dig at you for insisting on total equality (sorry you missed that). There are differences and you have to accept that. The only thing you can really hope for is being treated well based on your abilities, and it's been my experience in tech that women get a pretty decent shot at that here.
No, we don't all know this. More specifically, we don't all "know" that differences that superficially exist matter in some material way to whether or not someone can have a meaningful and productive career in a particular area; we also don't "know" that those apparent differences are biological, as opposed to socially conditioned (and thus, whether we should simply accept them, or challenge as a regrettable and changeable part of the status quo).
Sure we do. hormones affect a whole lot of the boy/girl differences, as evidenced by people going through sex change ops - M2F lose some spatial ability and gain insight into peoples' facial expressions and empathy. It isn't black and white, but there's no point in denying it. I suppose next you'll go campaigning for men to carry the fetus part time.
We shall see. I vote for hubris on the part of the San Fran DA - seriously, who in their right mind hands passwords to an unknown person on a concall, and who fires someone for having the only passwords after a year?
given the choice, would you have the only password or give it to people that you know (from past experience) would screw it up and ruin your night's sleep? From what I've read, that's where childs was.
good luck documenting that from a holding cell. Also please not that he'd been the sole holder of various passwords for over a year with managements knowledge and apparent approval before this. I don't know why you're so intent on putting this on Childs. Hell, I still want to know how they justify holding him for 2 years on $5M bail without resorting to wounded pride.
oh sure, arrest someone, then have the person that so far as the arrestee knows doesn't even work there anymore call you demanding passwords. And they call Childs a dick...
He did all that - the network ran like a dream and childs' only error was in following his contract and not telling his 'boss' the password (because he isn't allowed to) while in lockup on a speakerphone.
What is there to refute in that statement? If I had written "hit by a bus" would you feel a need to refute that? Perhaps you need to review your attitudes towards gays and others who choose to live alternative lifestyles. Bigot.
It's inflammatory and you know it. It doesn't matter what lifestyle Childs has, you just want to get a rise.
No, I don't feel like wasting the time on that insanity - fired and made to pay back salary because he's the only one with the passwords? Get real. Also, how do you refute 'over enthusiastic bondage play with his gay lover'?
The simple fact is this guy IS guilty of one major (though not legal) flaw. He didnt THINK about the situation, and instead of handing the passwords over, BUT documenting EVERYTHING, he decided to be an ass about it. He had a very valid reason to be an ass, but he should have washed his hands of it.
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So they usually blow it.
Hell, from what I hear at my company, VPs will look at a project with a 2+ year time line and say 'cut it in half'. Gee, I hope the half we get done is the important one. Dictating schedules work ok if you can also identify the important 2-3 things to get done.
I'm not a nerd - I'm a full person that does work with computers. There is, however, enough other stuff in my life that that doesn't define me.
Whats the difference between computing class, and German class? I don't think "computing classes" are, by and large, needed.
Work tech support sometime - people treat the computer like it's magic and your the wizard - fix it without any info whatsoever and without inconveniencing them one whit.
Guns are social? Staring downrange trying to hit the 10 ring, I really don't want to be talked to.
So running into a wall at 100mph isn't violent?
could it be that 3W radio by your head running for 10-20 minutes?
And BMI is utter crap. A body fat index around 12-12% and good cardio ability is a way better measure of health. I happen to be muscular.
In that case, I'm 5'11", 185 - the picture of health.
I predict there will be absolutely no "hot chick" avatars in the Microsoft MMORPGs!
Well of course: if the obsessive nerds find out that the hot chick in game X is actually a hot chick in real life, they'll harass her til she leaves.
What do you expect? A Harvard president says what you did, more or less, and because he has a penis, he's forced to resign. There's no way to have an honest debate on the subject because of the feminist extremists who crucify anyone that suggests a biological basis. You want women in computers, fine: it's a bad idea with jobs going overseas, but if your plan is thus, you have to start a whole lot earlier.
It isn't a logical gap: certain professions require or attract specific skills and interests: if men and women differ in that sense, then it's natural to expect that they'll be represented differently. It isn't like the computer thing is the only place this happens either - look at nursing for instance.
The last bit was a dig at you for insisting on total equality (sorry you missed that). There are differences and you have to accept that. The only thing you can really hope for is being treated well based on your abilities, and it's been my experience in tech that women get a pretty decent shot at that here.
Here's something kind of biased with cites. Here's something more scholarly. and another one here.
We all know men and women are different
No, we don't all know this. More specifically, we don't all "know" that differences that superficially exist matter in some material way to whether or not someone can have a meaningful and productive career in a particular area; we also don't "know" that those apparent differences are biological, as opposed to socially conditioned (and thus, whether we should simply accept them, or challenge as a regrettable and changeable part of the status quo).
Sure we do. hormones affect a whole lot of the boy/girl differences, as evidenced by people going through sex change ops - M2F lose some spatial ability and gain insight into peoples' facial expressions and empathy. It isn't black and white, but there's no point in denying it. I suppose next you'll go campaigning for men to carry the fetus part time.
Reminds me of the slogan at my Alma Matter: "Sex kills. Come to RPI and live forever."
We shall see. I vote for hubris on the part of the San Fran DA - seriously, who in their right mind hands passwords to an unknown person on a concall, and who fires someone for having the only passwords after a year?
given the choice, would you have the only password or give it to people that you know (from past experience) would screw it up and ruin your night's sleep? From what I've read, that's where childs was.
good luck documenting that from a holding cell. Also please not that he'd been the sole holder of various passwords for over a year with managements knowledge and apparent approval before this. I don't know why you're so intent on putting this on Childs. Hell, I still want to know how they justify holding him for 2 years on $5M bail without resorting to wounded pride.
you can have ALL of my 9 and 11 dollar bills.
oh sure, arrest someone, then have the person that so far as the arrestee knows doesn't even work there anymore call you demanding passwords. And they call Childs a dick...
I'm done with your idiocy.
He did all that - the network ran like a dream and childs' only error was in following his contract and not telling his 'boss' the password (because he isn't allowed to) while in lockup on a speakerphone.
What is there to refute in that statement? If I had written "hit by a bus" would you feel a need to refute that? Perhaps you need to review your attitudes towards gays and others who choose to live alternative lifestyles. Bigot.
It's inflammatory and you know it. It doesn't matter what lifestyle Childs has, you just want to get a rise.
No, I don't feel like wasting the time on that insanity - fired and made to pay back salary because he's the only one with the passwords? Get real. Also, how do you refute 'over enthusiastic bondage play with his gay lover'?
The simple fact is this guy IS guilty of one major (though not legal) flaw. He didnt THINK about the situation, and instead of handing the passwords over, BUT documenting EVERYTHING, he decided to be an ass about it. He had a very valid reason to be an ass, but he should have washed his hands of it.
By ass, you mean following his contract, right?
Really. And what if the reason was that he was never given budget to actually do these things?