Generally I don't want GPS in a car because the tech had been moving too fast but it might be more reasonable at this point than a year or two ago. But it really annoys me that they group ancient and basic technology in with the high end models.
Seriously, what possible excuse is there for not having cruise control in literally every consumer car on the market at this point? This is basic car 101 functionality. It's essential for any long drive. I think the functional options should be decoupled from the luxury and entertainment options.
First one would have to agree that a marriage is a contract. Second, I don't believe in enforcing contracts entered under duress. Examples being an employee pressured to admit fault, accept changes to employment terms, or submit to drug testing as a condition of continued employment. There is no valid basis for marriage to be on the books as government recognized institution. Social pressure to enter into one constitutes duress and therefore if marriage is contract they are all invalid.
There also isn't really a meeting of minds. Even someone who wants to get married is generally entering into what they believe is a commitment to spend the rest of their lives with someone they love not a commitment to take half of everything they work for and to pay them for... well nothing... for some length of time when that doesn't work out.
"It's about commenters like the one I responded to being SO RESISTENT to even the POSSIBILITY that it might be that they find a reason that it must be untrue without having any facts about the basis for it one way or another. THAT'S what sexism is."
I was pointing out that it is WHY they are resistant that matters. That poster could have been resistant because they don't believe gender is a factor in performance at all and therefore anything that claims men are better than women or women are better than men has to have an underlying cause not related to gender. The poster would then automatically posit what that underlying cause might be. The poster could well believe that beyond anything that directly biologically related to having a male or female reproductive system it is completely and automatically invalid to assume gender as a causation for a correlation. Therefore, it isn't correct to automatically assume the drive was sexism.
Your post explains that you believe gender can be causation beyond reproduction but your beliefs do not impact the poster's motivation or mine. There is nothing in the content or either my post or the one you responded to that is sexist in and of itself. It is a logical fallacy to attack the hypothetical motivation of the poster rather than the content of their post.
You are letting emotion cloud your judgement. I'm not saying that because you indicated you are a woman. I'm saying that because there are 21 words in your reply that are either in bold print or all caps and you began with "Cute. Nice try," which is clearly confrontational. It is obvious you feel you've been discriminated against and are angry about it. That anger could well be justified and perfectly valid. But neither I nor the person you had responded to said anything in those posts to merit it being unleashed on us. So please, take a deep breath. Center yourself. Consider the possibility that we are just people trying to have a rational conversation about a sensitive topic. Explosive reactions, whether or not they come from a valid history of bad experience, make people uncomfortable and are counterproductive to a real discussion.
"I accept that men can be better than women, because I've never been allowed to think anything else."
A man can be better than a woman or a woman can be better than a man. If you aggregate the groups into large enough samples it may be that one gender or the other outperforms in some area due to biological tendencies (some sort of instinctual or hormonal pattern). But the problem with aggregates is that the information they convey is purely academic. These things can't be applied at the individual level. At the individual level there are men who feel drives that on average would be found in women and vice versa and hormone levels are all over the charts in individuals. Yes, these individuals are a "minority" but they are VERY significant subset.
"And don't pretend at me that hearing "you go girl" and "grrrrrl power" bullshit has somehow magically eradicated sexism"
On the contrary. Most of that "you go girl" and "grrrrl power" stuff IS sexism.
I'm sorry if you feel you've been discriminated against but the answer isn't eye for an eye. Stop trying to beat the boys at their games and start focusing on having the girls games given equal respect to the boys games. Stop trying to empower women by telling them they can win in a man's world or by showing them women can succeed in a man's world and start changing the world.
Men tend to have higher testosterone levels, highly competitive, the aggressive territorial alpha lone wolf is their game. This is represented by the President, the CEO, the doctor, the athletic gold medalist. Women tend to have higher estrogen levels, focus in a more outward manner, better group dynamic skills. In the man's world that type of thinking gives you an edge at the local level, nursing, and middle management. So work to emphasize the importance of these types of roles. Work to have a nurses educated expanded and
"Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement."
If the potentially unimportant history belongs to us all then us all should be paying the cost to investigate and preserve it. As long as the costs of society are unfairly offloaded onto the shoulders of individuals society has no room to complain when they try to subvert those costs. This is why we have taxes. Presumably those individuals are paying their fair share according to the tax code, that should be the ONLY time they have to pay money for the benefit of society or for any sort of society provided service.
Things like this and feels for government services, id cards, plate registration, tolls, etc are just ways for some people to avoid paying their share of taxes. Someone who made a billion dollars this year undoubtedly required a massive utilization of infrastructure, police protection, legal structure, etc either directly or indirectly to make that possible while someone who made $20,000 likely worked for him, used a tiny fraction of that, and gained only a small fraction of the benefit from what he did use. Why exactly is it appropriate for them to pay an equal toll to drive on a road that is part of that infrastructure? It isn't, the toll exists so the man who made a billion can pay far less than his share at the expense of the man who made $20,000.
Good? Women haven't been respected in the past. Now women are gaining respect but both men and women tend to respect women and men who are successful pursuing typically masculine goals. It should be possible for women to be feminine and pursue feminine goals and be equally respected to men.
The sexism in our society now comes from both genders and it is the attitude that roles which are about being aggressive, power centric, and domineering are more important and valuable than those focused on relationships, care, and nurturing. Aggression, territorial behavior, domination, clinical assessment. These are traits pushed by testosterone and therefore are things that men traditionally value and our society was built by men. Look at the education requirement gaps between the traditional male and female job roles, the salary gaps, the perceived importance gaps that is where the problem lies. It's great that women can be doctors and men nurses now but the real issue that is that doctors are seen as more valuable than any nurse. These are two equally important roles with different approaches to patient care and it would be difficult to support the claim that the role of the diagnostician is more important in the outcome of patient care than that of the nurses. When these roles and the countless others like them are corrected in a way that respects the feminine approach to problems equally to the male approach we will be seeing the real end to gender discrimination. As long as we are counting the number of people with alternate genitalia in male dominated fields or the salary gaps between them we have a long way to go.
If there is one thing a man SHOULD see a woman as it is a sex object and vice versa (or whatever gender an individual is interested in). Ultimately, that IS the distinction between them. To not see women as sex objects is to deny and disrespect their gender. It is entirely possible to admire a woman bending over her desk to get a paper and to subsequently respect the content of that paper she wrote on it's own independent merits.
Which part was sexist? He is absolutely right. There is no valid basis for spousal support or community property. It becomes even more ridiculous the greater the disparity in income. Why exactly is it worth more to be a stay-at-home mom married to a rockstar than one married to a guy who works at 7-11? Reverse the genders in the roles and the point remains the same.
In all the attempts to validate domestic partnerships legally the last gaps have been closed. There really is no valid reason to have a legal concept of marriage anymore. Unmarried individuals live together and divide property without issue. Why should marriage change the rules? Take it off the books and let marriage stay a private and/or religious notion.
That only leaves the tax break. Drop it for married people and spread the savings among everyone or let anyone who has lived together and shared expenses for 6 months out of the year file jointly and get the breaks.
"As though a part of your brain was uncomfortable with the possibility that high-performing women in the sciences, when compared to male peers with similar lifestyles, outperform those male peers."
It's as though part of your brain is uncomfortable with the possibility that high-performing men in the sciences, when compared to female peers with similar lifestyles, outperform those female peers.
It is a two way street. Either gender is a valid indicator of potential performance and therefore discrimination against a particular gender is completely valid or it is not. It isn't okay just because the supposedly repressed group is being posited as superior.
Only 17 arrests by that same source. Assange isn't being extradited for the crime of rape because he hasn't been charged with any crime. Also, I think you'll find that "rape" to the rest of world means some sort of actual sexual assault where one party forces another to have sex with them against their will which is a much more serious thing than a technical violation of consent after the fact, even if you buy that the later qualifies as a crime at all.
Give them name changes, passports, a ticket to wherever they want to go, and a payoff check in exchange for releasing the US government from liability for their treatment. Don't disclose their identities and release them quietly.
Problem solved. It isn't like people are going to recognize them on the street.
I doubt it's a money saving effort. They've already spent a ridiculous amount of time and money getting him extradited in the first place which is hardly typical.
More likely the issue is that if they charged him they would be obligated to make him answer for those Swedish charges before extradition to the US.
"You can face at least questions over "throw away" statements."
Sure but it is unusual in the extreme to face extradition to answer those questions or for a completely different nation to spend millions attempting to seize you for that extradition or to battle the embassy of another nation that is granting you asylum.
Even if he had been convicted of rape, in the UK, and escaped to seek asylum in the embassy it is highly unlikely the police would actively guard the place. Police only expend that kind of effort if there is political pressure. This isn't something that is likely to help or hurt an official in re-election so where do you think the pressure is coming from?
Do the same thing the police do for all other identified suspects with warrants. It isn't as if police normally actively pursue people with arrest warrants, they wait for the people in question to make a mistake and turn up the warrant when they run their information. If you are wanted by police the vast majority of the time they don't even check your home or work.
They wouldn't spend 6 million camping the embassy in hopes to enforce a warrant on a no name serial rapist who had allegedly done his deed IN LONDON. I've known people who "evaded" the police for years on felonies in the US by simply by not getting pulled over. Worked the same job, lived in the same residence, took no actions to hide whatsoever.
Police don't have the manpower for that sort of tv style active pursuit. The same is true of investigation. They typically interview whoever, gather evidence at the scene, run tests with a cost factor appropriate for the crime which generally means no real forensics or lab testing, sorry CSI, and wait for some kind of information to come to them. The vast vast majority of the time police only solve crimes when they either witnessed them happening, someone snitches, or someone confesses.
Because they have no legal basis for making the currency illegal, no jurisdiction if they did, and no legal technical route that could be used to enforce such a law. That is all assuming government. A corporate player makes just as much sense.
An overt government/corporate attack on Bitcoin could spur public outcry and outrage. That would increase the popularity and the number of people who supported the system making it that much harder to shut down. It might push it to the point of being mainstream.
Me too. Destabilizing a completely open peer-to-peer decentralized monetary system that breaks the shackles of government control really doesn't seem like the bag of the hacker community at large. This feels more like a corporate or even government backed venture.
Universities are great for covering material but they are lousy at teaching you how to apply it. There are no shortage of students who get excellent marks and rip up maths like they are nothing but can't recognize and resolve daily real world challenges that arise where those maths can solve the problems. The same is true of most other material.
With nothing more than simple algebra, high school chemistry, basic physics, and a bit of simple electrical theory you can dazzle and impress even people with technical degrees with your mastery of the world around you.
$5000 could easily get most industry niche apps running on wine.. where they will stay running on new and fast hardware/linux unlike the current niche apps which in some cases STILL need DOS.
Disney ported Photoshop 5 (I think it was 5, too lazy to look) to be used by their animation department for $20,000 if I recall correctly. Most industry niche software is nowhere near as complex as Photoshop 5.
Most of that niche software is stuff like estimating, inventory, retail serial programmers, specialized accounting, that sort of thing. The software itself is fairly simple. You could probably have someone describe the software functions, menuing, features, etc from the niche software you use and have what amounts to a clone built from scratch for $5000 - $10000 in most cases which isn't bad. Go to a trade show, find a few like minds, split the cost and it becomes pretty much no cost.
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Linux has a macro kernel... all the drivers are part of the kernel and run in kernel in kernel space...
As good or better depending on the blend. I used to keep a grinder and fresh grind for each pot. At one point I had Kona shipped direct from the plantation, roasted a weeks worth at a time manually and ground that fresh daily.
The sealed pod keeps the coffee fresh. The pressurized system forcing the hot water through the grounds and making each cup fresh makes a huge difference. Especially on the second or third cup of the day.
Toss in creme fresh and real sugar and you are looking at a great cup of coffee every time. Of course it depends on the variety. Surprisingly the Starbucks varieties are actually quite good. They taste like burnt crap if you go to an actual Starbucks.
" as anyone who has served in the military (a minority, but a very large minority) is acquainted with a variety of weapon types"
That certainly is not true. There is nothing on small arms training for the majority of the Navy for instance. And the vast majority of the population has no military background.
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Generally I don't want GPS in a car because the tech had been moving too fast but it might be more reasonable at this point than a year or two ago. But it really annoys me that they group ancient and basic technology in with the high end models.
Seriously, what possible excuse is there for not having cruise control in literally every consumer car on the market at this point? This is basic car 101 functionality. It's essential for any long drive. I think the functional options should be decoupled from the luxury and entertainment options.
First one would have to agree that a marriage is a contract. Second, I don't believe in enforcing contracts entered under duress. Examples being an employee pressured to admit fault, accept changes to employment terms, or submit to drug testing as a condition of continued employment. There is no valid basis for marriage to be on the books as government recognized institution. Social pressure to enter into one constitutes duress and therefore if marriage is contract they are all invalid.
There also isn't really a meeting of minds. Even someone who wants to get married is generally entering into what they believe is a commitment to spend the rest of their lives with someone they love not a commitment to take half of everything they work for and to pay them for... well nothing... for some length of time when that doesn't work out.
"It's about commenters like the one I responded to being SO RESISTENT to even the POSSIBILITY that it might be that they find a reason that it must be untrue without having any facts about the basis for it one way or another. THAT'S what sexism is."
I was pointing out that it is WHY they are resistant that matters. That poster could have been resistant because they don't believe gender is a factor in performance at all and therefore anything that claims men are better than women or women are better than men has to have an underlying cause not related to gender. The poster would then automatically posit what that underlying cause might be. The poster could well believe that beyond anything that directly biologically related to having a male or female reproductive system it is completely and automatically invalid to assume gender as a causation for a correlation. Therefore, it isn't correct to automatically assume the drive was sexism.
Your post explains that you believe gender can be causation beyond reproduction but your beliefs do not impact the poster's motivation or mine. There is nothing in the content or either my post or the one you responded to that is sexist in and of itself. It is a logical fallacy to attack the hypothetical motivation of the poster rather than the content of their post.
You are letting emotion cloud your judgement. I'm not saying that because you indicated you are a woman. I'm saying that because there are 21 words in your reply that are either in bold print or all caps and you began with "Cute. Nice try," which is clearly confrontational. It is obvious you feel you've been discriminated against and are angry about it. That anger could well be justified and perfectly valid. But neither I nor the person you had responded to said anything in those posts to merit it being unleashed on us. So please, take a deep breath. Center yourself. Consider the possibility that we are just people trying to have a rational conversation about a sensitive topic. Explosive reactions, whether or not they come from a valid history of bad experience, make people uncomfortable and are counterproductive to a real discussion.
"I accept that men can be better than women, because I've never been allowed to think anything else."
A man can be better than a woman or a woman can be better than a man. If you aggregate the groups into large enough samples it may be that one gender or the other outperforms in some area due to biological tendencies (some sort of instinctual or hormonal pattern). But the problem with aggregates is that the information they convey is purely academic. These things can't be applied at the individual level. At the individual level there are men who feel drives that on average would be found in women and vice versa and hormone levels are all over the charts in individuals. Yes, these individuals are a "minority" but they are VERY significant subset.
"And don't pretend at me that hearing "you go girl" and "grrrrrl power" bullshit has somehow magically eradicated sexism"
On the contrary. Most of that "you go girl" and "grrrrl power" stuff IS sexism.
I'm sorry if you feel you've been discriminated against but the answer isn't eye for an eye. Stop trying to beat the boys at their games and start focusing on having the girls games given equal respect to the boys games. Stop trying to empower women by telling them they can win in a man's world or by showing them women can succeed in a man's world and start changing the world.
Men tend to have higher testosterone levels, highly competitive, the aggressive territorial alpha lone wolf is their game. This is represented by the President, the CEO, the doctor, the athletic gold medalist. Women tend to have higher estrogen levels, focus in a more outward manner, better group dynamic skills. In the man's world that type of thinking gives you an edge at the local level, nursing, and middle management. So work to emphasize the importance of these types of roles. Work to have a nurses educated expanded and
"Your former employer filled undocumented, potentially important history (which belongs to us all) with cement."
If the potentially unimportant history belongs to us all then us all should be paying the cost to investigate and preserve it. As long as the costs of society are unfairly offloaded onto the shoulders of individuals society has no room to complain when they try to subvert those costs. This is why we have taxes. Presumably those individuals are paying their fair share according to the tax code, that should be the ONLY time they have to pay money for the benefit of society or for any sort of society provided service.
Things like this and feels for government services, id cards, plate registration, tolls, etc are just ways for some people to avoid paying their share of taxes. Someone who made a billion dollars this year undoubtedly required a massive utilization of infrastructure, police protection, legal structure, etc either directly or indirectly to make that possible while someone who made $20,000 likely worked for him, used a tiny fraction of that, and gained only a small fraction of the benefit from what he did use. Why exactly is it appropriate for them to pay an equal toll to drive on a road that is part of that infrastructure? It isn't, the toll exists so the man who made a billion can pay far less than his share at the expense of the man who made $20,000.
Good? Women haven't been respected in the past. Now women are gaining respect but both men and women tend to respect women and men who are successful pursuing typically masculine goals. It should be possible for women to be feminine and pursue feminine goals and be equally respected to men.
The sexism in our society now comes from both genders and it is the attitude that roles which are about being aggressive, power centric, and domineering are more important and valuable than those focused on relationships, care, and nurturing. Aggression, territorial behavior, domination, clinical assessment. These are traits pushed by testosterone and therefore are things that men traditionally value and our society was built by men. Look at the education requirement gaps between the traditional male and female job roles, the salary gaps, the perceived importance gaps that is where the problem lies. It's great that women can be doctors and men nurses now but the real issue that is that doctors are seen as more valuable than any nurse. These are two equally important roles with different approaches to patient care and it would be difficult to support the claim that the role of the diagnostician is more important in the outcome of patient care than that of the nurses. When these roles and the countless others like them are corrected in a way that respects the feminine approach to problems equally to the male approach we will be seeing the real end to gender discrimination. As long as we are counting the number of people with alternate genitalia in male dominated fields or the salary gaps between them we have a long way to go.
If there is one thing a man SHOULD see a woman as it is a sex object and vice versa (or whatever gender an individual is interested in). Ultimately, that IS the distinction between them. To not see women as sex objects is to deny and disrespect their gender. It is entirely possible to admire a woman bending over her desk to get a paper and to subsequently respect the content of that paper she wrote on it's own independent merits.
None of that makes it a balanced and fair situation.
Which part was sexist? He is absolutely right. There is no valid basis for spousal support or community property. It becomes even more ridiculous the greater the disparity in income. Why exactly is it worth more to be a stay-at-home mom married to a rockstar than one married to a guy who works at 7-11? Reverse the genders in the roles and the point remains the same.
In all the attempts to validate domestic partnerships legally the last gaps have been closed. There really is no valid reason to have a legal concept of marriage anymore. Unmarried individuals live together and divide property without issue. Why should marriage change the rules? Take it off the books and let marriage stay a private and/or religious notion.
That only leaves the tax break. Drop it for married people and spread the savings among everyone or let anyone who has lived together and shared expenses for 6 months out of the year file jointly and get the breaks.
"As though a part of your brain was uncomfortable with the possibility that high-performing women in the sciences, when compared to male peers with similar lifestyles, outperform those male peers."
It's as though part of your brain is uncomfortable with the possibility that high-performing men in the sciences, when compared to female peers with similar lifestyles, outperform those female peers.
It is a two way street. Either gender is a valid indicator of potential performance and therefore discrimination against a particular gender is completely valid or it is not. It isn't okay just because the supposedly repressed group is being posited as superior.
Only 17 arrests by that same source. Assange isn't being extradited for the crime of rape because he hasn't been charged with any crime. Also, I think you'll find that "rape" to the rest of world means some sort of actual sexual assault where one party forces another to have sex with them against their will which is a much more serious thing than a technical violation of consent after the fact, even if you buy that the later qualifies as a crime at all.
"Its typical for to seek extradition for fugitives from justice."
Actually no, it is not. It is expensive, cumbersome, time consuming, and it is only done in extreme cases for very severe crimes.
But WHY do they care so much?
Give them name changes, passports, a ticket to wherever they want to go, and a payoff check in exchange for releasing the US government from liability for their treatment. Don't disclose their identities and release them quietly.
Problem solved. It isn't like people are going to recognize them on the street.
I doubt it's a money saving effort. They've already spent a ridiculous amount of time and money getting him extradited in the first place which is hardly typical.
More likely the issue is that if they charged him they would be obligated to make him answer for those Swedish charges before extradition to the US.
"You can face at least questions over "throw away" statements."
Sure but it is unusual in the extreme to face extradition to answer those questions or for a completely different nation to spend millions attempting to seize you for that extradition or to battle the embassy of another nation that is granting you asylum.
Even if he had been convicted of rape, in the UK, and escaped to seek asylum in the embassy it is highly unlikely the police would actively guard the place. Police only expend that kind of effort if there is political pressure. This isn't something that is likely to help or hurt an official in re-election so where do you think the pressure is coming from?
He has to be charged before he can be tried. Him being charged and tried aren't things Sweden needs to keep secret to stealth him in.
Do the same thing the police do for all other identified suspects with warrants. It isn't as if police normally actively pursue people with arrest warrants, they wait for the people in question to make a mistake and turn up the warrant when they run their information. If you are wanted by police the vast majority of the time they don't even check your home or work.
They wouldn't spend 6 million camping the embassy in hopes to enforce a warrant on a no name serial rapist who had allegedly done his deed IN LONDON. I've known people who "evaded" the police for years on felonies in the US by simply by not getting pulled over. Worked the same job, lived in the same residence, took no actions to hide whatsoever.
Police don't have the manpower for that sort of tv style active pursuit. The same is true of investigation. They typically interview whoever, gather evidence at the scene, run tests with a cost factor appropriate for the crime which generally means no real forensics or lab testing, sorry CSI, and wait for some kind of information to come to them. The vast vast majority of the time police only solve crimes when they either witnessed them happening, someone snitches, or someone confesses.
Why bother guarding the embassy?
Some of us need our phones to communicate with females in addition to work functions.
Because they have no legal basis for making the currency illegal, no jurisdiction if they did, and no legal technical route that could be used to enforce such a law. That is all assuming government. A corporate player makes just as much sense.
An overt government/corporate attack on Bitcoin could spur public outcry and outrage. That would increase the popularity and the number of people who supported the system making it that much harder to shut down. It might push it to the point of being mainstream.
Me too. Destabilizing a completely open peer-to-peer decentralized monetary system that breaks the shackles of government control really doesn't seem like the bag of the hacker community at large. This feels more like a corporate or even government backed venture.
Universities are great for covering material but they are lousy at teaching you how to apply it. There are no shortage of students who get excellent marks and rip up maths like they are nothing but can't recognize and resolve daily real world challenges that arise where those maths can solve the problems. The same is true of most other material.
With nothing more than simple algebra, high school chemistry, basic physics, and a bit of simple electrical theory you can dazzle and impress even people with technical degrees with your mastery of the world around you.
$5000 could easily get most industry niche apps running on wine.. where they will stay running on new and fast hardware/linux unlike the current niche apps which in some cases STILL need DOS.
Disney ported Photoshop 5 (I think it was 5, too lazy to look) to be used by their animation department for $20,000 if I recall correctly. Most industry niche software is nowhere near as complex as Photoshop 5.
Most of that niche software is stuff like estimating, inventory, retail serial programmers, specialized accounting, that sort of thing. The software itself is fairly simple. You could probably have someone describe the software functions, menuing, features, etc from the niche software you use and have what amounts to a clone built from scratch for $5000 - $10000 in most cases which isn't bad. Go to a trade show, find a few like minds, split the cost and it becomes pretty much no cost.
Linux has a macro kernel... all the drivers are part of the kernel and run in kernel in kernel space...
As good or better depending on the blend. I used to keep a grinder and fresh grind for each pot. At one point I had Kona shipped direct from the plantation, roasted a weeks worth at a time manually and ground that fresh daily.
The sealed pod keeps the coffee fresh. The pressurized system forcing the hot water through the grounds and making each cup fresh makes a huge difference. Especially on the second or third cup of the day.
Toss in creme fresh and real sugar and you are looking at a great cup of coffee every time. Of course it depends on the variety. Surprisingly the Starbucks varieties are actually quite good. They taste like burnt crap if you go to an actual Starbucks.
" as anyone who has served in the military (a minority, but a very large minority) is acquainted with a variety of weapon types"
That certainly is not true. There is nothing on small arms training for the majority of the Navy for instance. And the vast majority of the population has no military background.