And, on another personal note, "Va te faire foutre, connard." Wait until Brittany is demanding to leave France because they have Parisiens so much. Wonder whether you'll be laughing so much then.
What do they mean "no local banks"? There are no banks in Scotland?
Pretty much none Scottish-owned, no.
Or they have no currency all their own?
No. They use British pound sterling.
And why would leaving Great Britain curtail access to EU markets and freedom of movement?
Because they'd immediately be out of the EU and have to apply to rejoin, which would take at least several years.
Is Great Britain going to set up some sort of naval blockade around Scotland?
Could do, if they refused to pay their debts. Probably not though, as English politicians tend to be rather spineless. Wouldn't be surprised if they just gave Salmond half the British navy.
As a fellow European (Belgium, not UK) it's funny to see the arguments being used by the "better together" campaign. They are all typically the same arguments used by the rest of Europe for increased European integration
Scotland has a heck of a lot more in common with Britain than mainland Europe; linguistically, geographically, historically, and culturally, to name but a few. One union makes a lot more sense than the other.
Heh. John Oliver is about as English as George W. Bush. I wonder whether Jon Stewart would be quite so gung-ho about allowing those southern states to secede? Maybe a bit of patriotism would seep in all of a sudden...
A lot of "yes" campaigners seem to have been sold on the idea that any warning of economic doom upon a "yes" vote is scaremongering, bullying, or "undermining the Scottish democratic process." Bullshit. Many intelligent people looking at this from a rational perspective have concluded that the "sweet spot" for Scotland is staying in the union and having devo-max; basically getting it both ways, with lots of self-government combined with a net financial income from the rest of the UK, as well as obviously ease of trade.
However, the pro-independence SNP are 100% blinkered on independence, at any cost. They will therefore paint warnings like this as lies designed purely to scupper their frankly loony picture of a prosperous independent Scotland, and a lot of Scots buy into it. Shame, really.
Americans might look on with bemusement; I can understand that. I guess it's a bit like Florida choosing to break away from the US, having a pro-Florida political party endlessly demonizing "them" (the rest of the US) as causing pretty much every economic and political woe Florida has going for it. As an English guy, I think this whole situation really sucks. If the UK breaks up, the whole of Britain will be worse off for it, but I suspect Scotland will take the bigger brunt of the pain. And given that it will have made the decision, it will deserve to.
For a simple example that Writer is not fit for businesses: it cannot properly handle even basic tasks such as working with templates.
Don't foget macros. I've been switching over to LibreOffice and this is probably the single biggest issue i have. Word has a nice built-in IDE for creating VBA macros, and LibreOffice has fuck all. Its IDE has no IntellSense equivalent, and figuring out how to code in it is very difficult. As for coding in other languages, they all seem to require a Java Runtime Environment for some strange reason.
"Boys fall in love with computers as machines; girls see them as tools to do something else," said Barbara Ericson, a senior research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who tracks the AP exam.
What does this have to do with self-confidence? This is women approaching computers from a different perspective (on average).
"Then girls think, Ãfmaybe I don't belong because I don't love them like the boys do.Ãf(TM)"
And they'd be right. Why do they belong at a company passionate about technology if they aren't passionate about technology? They don't belong there any more than I belong in a doctor's surgery as anything but a patient - I'm not passionate about healthcare and didn't take exams to become a qualified doctor.
Number of birds OR humans killed by nuclear power? More like "thanks you ignorant greenies", who are ironically the ones probably complaining about this solar plant.
Unfortunately that doesn't quite work either - look at the Twitter trolls, who spew forth such abuse that several high-profile twitter users cancelled their accounts.
I don't get this - doesn't Twitter allow you to just totally ignore users? Or maybe even only pay attention to users on a whitelist basis? If not, why not use social networking services that do? I don't really see how trolls could defeat that mechanism.
I don't get the point in these super-super-fast speeds over copper. In the UK right now we're aiming for FTTC which leads to speeds of 20Mbps - 50Mbps. 50Mbps should be enough for anyone.:-)
On the other hand, there is a definite shortage of women CS and engineering grads
There is only a "shortage" if you assume the numbers should be 50/50. Have you considered that there may be real differences between male and female brains that make men and women just want to go down different lines of work, and men are more likely to be interested in those subjects? Factor that in and the numbers may be perfectly alright.
The experience was fantastic. after a single-level phone tree, the phone was answered on the second ring by a very nice man in india who answered all my questions. it turned out i had a technical problem rather than a licensing problem, so he connected me with another very nice indian man who solved my problem within 5 minutes.
Did the "MS technical department" ask you to install Ammyy Admin on your machine? If so, you may have a bigger problem than you thought...
I used to be entirely pro-nuclear on a scientific basis. Now I see how humans behave in practice when it comes to the trade-off between safety and profit/reputation. I see how much nuclear power is really reverse Hollywood accounting, where you hide how much of the real cost is borne by government. And I would prefer a transition from fossil directly to renewable
And could you explain how your "renewables" will be significantly cheaper than nuclear? Or not take up shitloads of space for the same amount of power generation? Or generate a significant baseload of electricity as the wind and sunlight fluctuate?
Microsoft just needs to make an OS that delivers what end-users actually want, with a solid XP emulator so people can continue to run their mission-critical stuff that still requires it.
They could call it something like "Windows 7 with Windows Virtual PC".
But we aren't talking about those issues right here in this post. We're talking about women right now, so let's stick to the topic.
No, because it's a fucking stupid topic.
Why should we only care about women getting insulted online? That's sexist. If you wanna talk about anyone getting insulted/trolled online, fine, but why should we listen to this sexist BS as if women have it worse "in the gaming world" than men? They don't.
It's a bit like campaigning about female genital mutilation. Why don't people campaign against all infant genital mutilation? Similarly, it's because Western culture seems to value girls and women's bodily integrity more than that of men and boys. I don't think it's unreasonable for us to get over that sexism. And if we can't, we should just go back to traditional gender roles because we can't get the equality thing right.
In fact, the article seems to be mostly about women (largely in the gaming press) interacting with the still-all-too-ugly disposition of the anonymous hoards of gaming fans that interact with them
Exactly. This entire article is basically along the lines of "I'm a woman, and I have received some very nasty insulting text via means of email, Twitter, or whatever. Some of it used terms that could only be directed at females." Look, these women need to learn how to ignore non-credible rape and assault threats. Does anyone have a single example of one such woman actually being raped or assaulted by an internet troll, you know, in real life?
The only way to deal with this is absolute zero tolerance policies, at least on forums (literal or otherwise) that you have any control over.
No, the way to deal with it is to teach these women how to ignore people on the internet and/or grow a thicker skin. I learnt pretty quickly - the hard way - to ignore people who were acting like dicks on the internet, within a year of starting to use it. I mastered that pretty well. These women don't seem to want to bother with that. By all means, give people the power to easily ignore someone (I'm sure it already exists on most services) but I wouldn't go down the "zero tolerance" route. Who's going to be deciding what's unacceptable speech? Feminists and social justice warriors, and ANY criticism of them they decide they don't like will be collateral damage of this aggressive censorship. People need to learn to get over things.
And for fuck's sake Slashdot, stop equating internet trolling to credible "daily harrassment of woman" - that makes it sound a lot more serious than it really is.
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Any voter should consider the probable situation twenty or fourty years from now, not whatever happens in a year or two.
What, you mean when they're on their deathbed? Yeah, that'll be really useful for them during the bulk of their lives.
The UK agreed to this vote.
Cameron ageed to this vote. Most UK citizens would not have. There was no good reason I can see for Cameron to have agreed to it.
And, on a more personal note: "Votez 'Oui', amis écossais ! Juste pour emmerder les Anglais !". The Auld Alliance shall rise again! ;-)
And, on another personal note, "Va te faire foutre, connard." Wait until Brittany is demanding to leave France because they have Parisiens so much. Wonder whether you'll be laughing so much then.
Firmly tongue in cheek. Of course.
What do they mean "no local banks"? There are no banks in Scotland?
Pretty much none Scottish-owned, no.
Or they have no currency all their own?
No. They use British pound sterling.
And why would leaving Great Britain curtail access to EU markets and freedom of movement?
Because they'd immediately be out of the EU and have to apply to rejoin, which would take at least several years.
Is Great Britain going to set up some sort of naval blockade around Scotland?
Could do, if they refused to pay their debts. Probably not though, as English politicians tend to be rather spineless. Wouldn't be surprised if they just gave Salmond half the British navy.
As a fellow European (Belgium, not UK) it's funny to see the arguments being used by the "better together" campaign. They are all typically the same arguments used by the rest of Europe for increased European integration
Scotland has a heck of a lot more in common with Britain than mainland Europe; linguistically, geographically, historically, and culturally, to name but a few. One union makes a lot more sense than the other.
Heh. John Oliver is about as English as George W. Bush. I wonder whether Jon Stewart would be quite so gung-ho about allowing those southern states to secede? Maybe a bit of patriotism would seep in all of a sudden...
A lot of "yes" campaigners seem to have been sold on the idea that any warning of economic doom upon a "yes" vote is scaremongering, bullying, or "undermining the Scottish democratic process." Bullshit. Many intelligent people looking at this from a rational perspective have concluded that the "sweet spot" for Scotland is staying in the union and having devo-max; basically getting it both ways, with lots of self-government combined with a net financial income from the rest of the UK, as well as obviously ease of trade.
However, the pro-independence SNP are 100% blinkered on independence, at any cost. They will therefore paint warnings like this as lies designed purely to scupper their frankly loony picture of a prosperous independent Scotland, and a lot of Scots buy into it. Shame, really.
Americans might look on with bemusement; I can understand that. I guess it's a bit like Florida choosing to break away from the US, having a pro-Florida political party endlessly demonizing "them" (the rest of the US) as causing pretty much every economic and political woe Florida has going for it. As an English guy, I think this whole situation really sucks. If the UK breaks up, the whole of Britain will be worse off for it, but I suspect Scotland will take the bigger brunt of the pain. And given that it will have made the decision, it will deserve to.
Yes TNG had poker. Riker was into jazz, but who else?
Sisko played baseball (at one point all of the DS9 crew did, worse episode ever in my opinion) and Bashir/O'Brien played racketball and tennis.
gets both larger, (higher BMI, greater average height), and older, (aging population). Something's gotta give.
Maybe ?
For a simple example that Writer is not fit for businesses: it cannot properly handle even basic tasks such as working with templates.
Don't foget macros. I've been switching over to LibreOffice and this is probably the single biggest issue i have. Word has a nice built-in IDE for creating VBA macros, and LibreOffice has fuck all. Its IDE has no IntellSense equivalent, and figuring out how to code in it is very difficult. As for coding in other languages, they all seem to require a Java Runtime Environment for some strange reason.
"Boys fall in love with computers as machines; girls see them as tools to do something else," said Barbara Ericson, a senior research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology who tracks the AP exam.
What does this have to do with self-confidence? This is women approaching computers from a different perspective (on average).
"Then girls think, Ãfmaybe I don't belong because I don't love them like the boys do.Ãf(TM)"
And they'd be right. Why do they belong at a company passionate about technology if they aren't passionate about technology? They don't belong there any more than I belong in a doctor's surgery as anything but a patient - I'm not passionate about healthcare and didn't take exams to become a qualified doctor.
Number of birds OR humans killed by nuclear power? More like "thanks you ignorant greenies", who are ironically the ones probably complaining about this solar plant.
I've been looking for ways to reduce my time actively playing Farmville for a while now.
Unfortunately that doesn't quite work either - look at the Twitter trolls, who spew forth such abuse that several high-profile twitter users cancelled their accounts.
I don't get this - doesn't Twitter allow you to just totally ignore users? Or maybe even only pay attention to users on a whitelist basis? If not, why not use social networking services that do? I don't really see how trolls could defeat that mechanism.
I'd quite like to lose the spammers too.
I don't get the point in these super-super-fast speeds over copper. In the UK right now we're aiming for FTTC which leads to speeds of 20Mbps - 50Mbps. 50Mbps should be enough for anyone. :-)
On the other hand, there is a definite shortage of women CS and engineering grads
There is only a "shortage" if you assume the numbers should be 50/50. Have you considered that there may be real differences between male and female brains that make men and women just want to go down different lines of work, and men are more likely to be interested in those subjects? Factor that in and the numbers may be perfectly alright.
The experience was fantastic. after a single-level phone tree, the phone was answered on the second ring by a very nice man in india who answered all my questions. it turned out i had a technical problem rather than a licensing problem, so he connected me with another very nice indian man who solved my problem within 5 minutes.
Did the "MS technical department" ask you to install Ammyy Admin on your machine? If so, you may have a bigger problem than you thought...
I used to be entirely pro-nuclear on a scientific basis. Now I see how humans behave in practice when it comes to the trade-off between safety and profit/reputation. I see how much nuclear power is really reverse Hollywood accounting, where you hide how much of the real cost is borne by government. And I would prefer a transition from fossil directly to renewable
And could you explain how your "renewables" will be significantly cheaper than nuclear? Or not take up shitloads of space for the same amount of power generation? Or generate a significant baseload of electricity as the wind and sunlight fluctuate?
Microsoft just needs to make an OS that delivers what end-users actually want, with a solid XP emulator so people can continue to run their mission-critical stuff that still requires it.
They could call it something like "Windows 7 with Windows Virtual PC".
If it were, why is no-one doing it and making a fortune?
Opposition from the greens, and lazy people who buy into their BS?
And they tend to oppose nucelar power which is our best way of actually getting enough "clean energy" for modern society.
Actually, it would be more like "va te faire foutre". :-)
But we aren't talking about those issues right here in this post. We're talking about women right now, so let's stick to the topic.
No, because it's a fucking stupid topic.
Why should we only care about women getting insulted online? That's sexist. If you wanna talk about anyone getting insulted/trolled online, fine, but why should we listen to this sexist BS as if women have it worse "in the gaming world" than men? They don't.
It's a bit like campaigning about female genital mutilation. Why don't people campaign against all infant genital mutilation? Similarly, it's because Western culture seems to value girls and women's bodily integrity more than that of men and boys. I don't think it's unreasonable for us to get over that sexism. And if we can't, we should just go back to traditional gender roles because we can't get the equality thing right.
In fact, the article seems to be mostly about women (largely in the gaming press) interacting with the still-all-too-ugly disposition of the anonymous hoards of gaming fans that interact with them
Exactly. This entire article is basically along the lines of "I'm a woman, and I have received some very nasty insulting text via means of email, Twitter, or whatever. Some of it used terms that could only be directed at females." Look, these women need to learn how to ignore non-credible rape and assault threats. Does anyone have a single example of one such woman actually being raped or assaulted by an internet troll, you know, in real life?
The only way to deal with this is absolute zero tolerance policies, at least on forums (literal or otherwise) that you have any control over.
No, the way to deal with it is to teach these women how to ignore people on the internet and/or grow a thicker skin. I learnt pretty quickly - the hard way - to ignore people who were acting like dicks on the internet, within a year of starting to use it. I mastered that pretty well. These women don't seem to want to bother with that. By all means, give people the power to easily ignore someone (I'm sure it already exists on most services) but I wouldn't go down the "zero tolerance" route. Who's going to be deciding what's unacceptable speech? Feminists and social justice warriors, and ANY criticism of them they decide they don't like will be collateral damage of this aggressive censorship. People need to learn to get over things.
And for fuck's sake Slashdot, stop equating internet trolling to credible "daily harrassment of woman" - that makes it sound a lot more serious than it really is.