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  1. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    I disagree. I think the problem is that there are women in the workforce serving the needs of rich old bastards instead of taking care of their husband and children.

    There are zero women in my workplace. I love it.

    You know, it's only flamebait or troll if it's a fake position crafted to instigate. It doesn't matter if you hate what I think, if I genuinely believe what I say, I'm not trolling.

    I'm not trolling.

  2. Re:A few hundred extrasolar planets on Astrophysicists Identify the Habitable Regions of the Entire Universe · · Score: 1

    Sure the theory's wrong, but we don't know how yet, and our guesses are just so much better than they were a decade ago.
     
    Of course, in the entire history of the human race, we've never once actually confirmed or refuted a single predictions if this nature. This is where "faith" comes in.

  3. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: 1

    So you're jealous and insecure that they're doing a better job than you. Got it.

    Yeah, I've moved past the point where people like you can shame me into flip flopping. I don't want you around me, and I don't value your approval.

    It doesn't really matter why I hold this position, or how you want to label it. What matters is, I refuse to support companies that woo women away from traditional family life, and I refuse to be sneaky about it in the name of political correctness.

  4. Re:The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    I think professionals should wear suits, and I'm highly competent, as demonstrated by the many world class projects on my CV.

    Your view of the world is flawed.

  5. Re:In case of emergency on Putin To Discuss Plans For Disconnecting Russia From the Internet · · Score: 1

    You're so caught up in your desire to defend your ridiculous "free expression" ideology that you won't acknowledge that facts exist, or that lies exist. There's a huge blind spot that you can't see past because you've decided that your ideology is beyond critical examination.

    That pedantic crap about "thinking hard" just reinforces that for all your cleverness, you're just another idiot who has been crippled by his preconceptions.

    You should probably stick to the contrived world of the chessboard and leave the real world problems to others.

  6. Re:In case of emergency on Putin To Discuss Plans For Disconnecting Russia From the Internet · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can you think of a scenario which can be called an emergency where you would benefit from protection from malicious misinformation?

    Think hard.

  7. Re:Is there a single field that doesn't? on Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem · · Score: -1, Troll

    I disagree. I think the problem is that there are women in the workforce serving the needs of rich old bastards instead of taking care of their husband and children.

    There are zero women in my workplace. I love it.

  8. Re:The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    No, I just understand that there are plateaus that you can't pass if you refuse to look presentable, and that it's a lot easier to present an image of respectability that people outside your field can see than to try to explain to people who don't understand what you do why they should trust you. People who don't understand your field need a way to judge you, and time spent forming a judgement is a risk; if you turn out to be of no use to them, that time was wasted. So, if you make it harder for them than it needs to be, they may just decide not to bother.

    Making your professional life harder for yourself over something so insignificant in the grand scheme of things is really kind of childish. I used to rebel against people who wanted me to cut my hair when I was in high school too, but eventually most people accumulate enough substance as human beings to set aside these childish attempts to assert their individuation.

  9. Re:The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    What if you don't like wearing suits?

    Wear a MacDonalds outfit instead, if that's what makes you happy.

  10. Re:The UK Cobol Climate Is Very Different on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    Quite simply, it's less comfortable to wear. Considering how much you spend at work, even minor differences in comfort can be very important and well worth the salary difference.

    If your suit isn't comfortable, buy a nicer suit. A good suit is extremely comfortable.

  11. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 1

    No, I don't mean a tenured position, I mean the temporary position as a program director that she was fired from. It was a temporary position, and while it took a year to get her out, the wheels began to turn in November of 2013, only 3 months after she started. Which is clearly documented in the article.

  12. Re:Wrong Title on Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist · · Score: 0

    She was a member of two different organizations (Womenâ(TM)s Committee Against Genocide and New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence) that were associated with the organization that committed the violent acts, the May 19 Communist Organization (M19CO).

    She says she didn't know in advance that the violent acts were going to occur, but when she saw them in the news, she knew they were committed by the M19CO, and that the association between the M19CO organization and her own organizations existed.

    She says she was casually acquainted with two of the convicted murderers, Judith Clark and Kuwasi Balagoon, who were members of the M19CO, and she maintained a relationship with Kuwasi Balagoon with letters and an in person visit, until he died.

    Knowing these facts, they don't want to trust her with the position of program director. It was a new assignment, she only had a temporary job. They didn't take away the job she'd been doing for years because of what they found. The whole point of a temporary position is that no promises are made that it's going to last, so any expectations of permanence she had were her own mistake.

    The more autistic among us will play rules lawyer games and insist that, technically, she didn't tell any lies, and given the benefit of the doubt on every occasion, you can't prove that she's not as pure as the driven snow. But they miss the point. The point is, the woman is a radical. Nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but you don't put radicals at the helm of the bureaucracy.

  13. Re:legal loopholes? on Device Boots Drones, Google Glass Off Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    So, the Cyborg Unplug is made by Julian Oliver. Because, PRIVACY!

    Clicking through to his personal site, we're greeted with another one of his creations... the Transparency Grenade. Because, TRANSPARENCY!

    http://julianoliver.com/output...

    So, what happens if I throw a Transparency Grenade into a restaurant with a Cyborg Unplug running? Do they destroy each other?

    HYPOCRISY!!

  14. Re:The key bit on Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" · · Score: 1

    No, if Iran sides with the US in stomping out ISIS, they are definitely not choosing the lesser evil...

  15. Re: The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 1

    No, just lying in bed, working from home at my highly paid job, wondering when it was that slashdot got so lame. Used to be people came back with facts. Or counter arguments. Or opinions of their own. Or experiences of their own.

    But it's been reduced to the point where the only opposition I ever get to my statements is from idiots who try to paint me as something I'm not and attack that. It's sad. You're sad.

    I'm everything I ever said that I was. My life is stranger than fiction most of the time anyway, I have no need to lie to get people excited.

  16. Re:Corporate "laws" on A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    I agree... there should be a color for this. In between "Free" and "Partly free"; there should be a "Technically Free but de-facto censored" category

    Why are you so afraid to call a spade a spade? The USA is NOT a free country. They censor people, they incarcerate more of their population than any other country, they make debt slaves of the people that remain... they are NOT FREE, and they're using war to spread their NOT FREEDOM everywhere they can because they hate OUR freedom.

  17. Re:Your life is SO AWFUL. on A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship · · Score: 1

    Your ad hominem attack is irrelevant to the topic at hand. It's also flat out wrong; I've traveled to numerous different countries, and spent several years living outside my home country.

    You talk about infrastructure like it's the be-all-and-end-all of everything. It's not.

  18. Re: What about.. on A Horrifying Interactive Map of Global Internet Censorship · · Score: 0, Troll

    Takes some seriously Orwellian doublethink to pretend copyright enforcement isn't censorship. The idea that the USA is a bastion of freedom... wake me up when there's a study made by people who aren't batshit crazy.

  19. Re: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation on The Evolution of Diet · · Score: 1, Troll

    Get her addicted to cigarettes and cocaine. And pull out her molars. That'll get the weight off.

  20. Re: The real crime here on 33 Months In Prison For Recording a Movie In a Theater · · Score: 2

    Fake violence, like two guys punching it out, clearing the air and getting on with no lasting harm and no festering resentment.

    As opposed to real violence, involving weapons, maiming and death.

    Punch out your neighbor. Maybe you'll end up friends afterwards.

  21. Re: I skipped to the ending on Researchers Made a Fake Social Network To Infiltrate China's Internet Censors · · Score: 0

    How on earth does this make him a "scumbag" and why do you want his career to fail, exactly?

    Ever heard of something called integrity? This man has none. He crafted a huge lie and operated under false pretenses. Who cares why he did it? He did it. Nothing he says or does can be trusted now. People who spread lies and misinformation like this JUSTIFY censorship.

  22. Re: I skipped to the ending on Researchers Made a Fake Social Network To Infiltrate China's Internet Censors · · Score: 0

    Espionage is not science. There's this thing called the scientific method, look it up.

    I hope this guys career ends it the toilet. It takes a real scumbag to carry off this kind of hoax.

  23. Re: So what they need, then... on New Research Suggests Cancer May Be an Intrinsic Property of Cells · · Score: 1

    He's right, though. Could be a form of epilepsy. Should get her checked by a real doctor.

  24. Re: "Not eradicated" isn't needed on New Research Suggests Cancer May Be an Intrinsic Property of Cells · · Score: 0

    A deep evolutionary pathway "gets it", dude. Like a bridge to nowhere, it goes its own way. Not like those shallow evolutionary pathways that just want to converge. I hate those guys!

  25. Re: Bricking or Tracking? on Smartphone Kill Switch, Consumer Boon Or Way For Government To Brick Your Phone? · · Score: 2

    I'd recommend reading "The Conquest of Bread" by Peter Kropotkin.

    My perspective is that governments and economies are command and control technologies for civilizations, and the ones we have are ill suited to a world without scarcity. They destroy wealth to make the system work as it is, and with the technologies emerging, it's going to become ridiculous. So, the imperative is to create a better command and control technology, one that is fair, makes everyone feel suitability represented, elevates the right people at the right time and works toward abundance instead of destroying it.