Yeah... because people grow up in a vaccuum, and because anecdotes prove your case. I've seen girls playing with guns, and little boys playing with stuffed animals. Hell, I was a boy with stuffed animals.
The culture we are in defines our gender roles for us until we are able to break out... to whatever degree we can/want to manage that. It's amazing what degree of built in bias we can impart without being aware of it, and of how quickly and thoroughly it can permeate even houses where the parents don't particularly want it to.
Once we have a system in place for elementary through college that doesn't constantly tell them "Boys are good at math, you are good at soft sciences," and a culture that constantly tells them "Grow up to be nurturing, not smart," maybe that's a legit statement. But we're not in that culture, and we don't have that system.
Yes it would, when you're taking minor biological differences and using them as an excuse not to try and give females the same math instruction as boys.
Evolutionary biology isn't a science, and most of this crap comes out of there. I recommend looking up a few of these studies, and finding the three separate ones that show that women are attracted primarily to the traits present in evolutionary biologists.
It's an entire "science" dedicated to proving that it's ok to cheat on your wife, because it's natural. Well, A)that's crap, and B)something being natural doesn't actually make it worth doing. I mean, naturally I'd crap all over the place, instead of in a toilet. I can't see anyone suggesting that has advantages.
Except that there's also the question of "Why are women overwhelmingly prevalent in nursing, but underrepresented in doctor positions?"
The small differences in tendency between the genders don't explain a huge gap away. The societal pressures to conform to those tendencies do.
The "men->things, women->people" stereotype, like all stereotypes, is false in the specific. But more than that, it's false in that it implies natural causation for something that is cultural.
You're correct that the separation of church and state is important, and we need to get us some of that back.
On the other hand, as this chart shows here, it's not like we've ever really had a non-Christian as president. I mean, hell, it was a giant thing that Kennedy was Catholic instead of Protestant.
It needs, badly, not to matter... but it mattered 20 years ago too.
I think the point there is that XMMS was a mature, featureful, and highly used media player. Then, they repurposed the name and nothing but and produced a completely different program, that came in as a new entrant in a very crowded field, and hasn't seen large mainstream adoption.
It's not that it's bad... it's that many people (me included) were interested in XMMS. But most of us don't care about XMMS2, because it doesn't do what we needed out of XMMS, and we already have eight things that do a better job of what XMMS2 does.
What I'm confused by is that you're using it to listen to Music For Airports. I mean, I love Bryan Eno as much as the next guy (more, usually), but that album?
I'm not saying do deep research... I'm just saying a quick google for their corporate website to see where they list themselves as incorporated wouldn't be a problem.
Black helicopters and unregistered CIA-rented jets, is it?
No, they don't. On the other hand, neither are corporations automagically right because they employ people for the benefit of the corporation. You can have a good boss who pays you, or you can have a bad boss who tries to garnish your wages illegally and beats you when no one's looking.
We live in a situation where nine out of ten corporations are abusive bosses, who are constantly pushing at the government with their financial power to remove those laws that protect citizens from potential abuses of corporate power.
Some of this comes from corruption at the top. But some of this comes from the current mindset that ethics doesn't matter; that a corporation is run right if its only concern is pure profit, at the expense of anything at all.
Except that the real problem isn't with corporations exerting power through their employees' votes, it's with them exerting power through lobbying and campaign contributions and such.
And those dangerous subversions have grown up in our democracy, but are not inherent to it.
Lots of potential issues, some more valid than others... But isn't it possible that the FBI has information on the company's ownership, server locations, and such?
Instead of providing unproven hypotheticals, why not just look up Valve's company status? They're based in Bellevue, Washington.
As for their server locations... that's harder to find out, but there's not really a reason to think that they are in India, as the bulk of high-end hosting solutions are still in the U.S., and Valve probably runs their own servers, given that they have to support Steam.
Also, Germany doesn't extradite its citizens to America.
Two different, overlapped jurisdictions, one of which has sovereignty over the other.
And assuming that you could actually stop partaking in federal benefits (such as protection by the Army, Navy, etc., or the highway system and all traffic benefits conveyed by it) then it might be a viable route to claim just state citizenship. Still a stupid route, but legally defensible.
Except the thing he did in country A (Germany) is illegal in country A (Germany) as well.
Not that I entirely disagree with your main point; it seems to me that extradition would be a preferable method here. But your example is wrong, and the person is still way, way guilty of a crime according to both nations' laws.
Pedophilia hysteria is a problem, although prosecuting either of your example cases isn't hysterical.
20 to 15 is a condition where the adult member cannot possibly think the younger is of an age that can consent, and (by U.S. law, at least... I'm not sure on U.K. law) cannot have been legally ok for the two preceding years.
As far as the second example... I know that under Florida law, 24 - 17 isn't a problem, but 30 to 17 is. And I'm not sure that that's wrong. I'm not sure there is the potential for a healthy relationship there.
Way to make a reasonable argument and then still come off like a bad guy.
Seriously. You'd be modded at least two higher if you hadn't added the "Uh" at the front, and hadn't accused the poster of "criminal reasoning" at the end.
I do wonder how they decide whether physical location of the perpetrator or physical location of the server is the important one. I believe they've ruled both ways in different circumstances.
So... a prefix in English got overloaded in a different context. Shocking!
And the issue isn't really whether it was a good or bad idea to use kilobyte to recognize the computationally significant grouping instead of 1000. The question is, is 1024 bytes what we mean by a kilobyte, when we have need to speak of such things. The answer being "Yes, dammit."
In absence of a strong reason to change, common usage defines language. The hard drive manufacturers are using a definition no one uses outside the context of the outsides of hard drive boxes.
Because the target demographic for ARM is what will be affected by this, not a segment of the market that doesn't really have a keen interest in low-power high-performance processors.
It's much more interesting to figure out what a technology-combination will do than what it won't do.
Really? What if you owned your home, but couldn't afford to sell it? What if, at a lower expense than you moving, the government could, I don't know, move fifty miles out to sea?
There are regulations and laws governing testing for reasons, and this one happens to be a good one. From a cold, calculated perspective, whale-watching tours tend to bring in fairly good tourist revenue.
Anyway, people are missing the point. It's not "Don't test the sonar!", it's "Test the sonar responsibly!"
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Yeah... because people grow up in a vaccuum, and because anecdotes prove your case. I've seen girls playing with guns, and little boys playing with stuffed animals. Hell, I was a boy with stuffed animals.
The culture we are in defines our gender roles for us until we are able to break out... to whatever degree we can/want to manage that. It's amazing what degree of built in bias we can impart without being aware of it, and of how quickly and thoroughly it can permeate even houses where the parents don't particularly want it to.
Cultural conditioning is not biology.
The sexes are not the same in a limited set of physical ways, none of which unfit women for engineering work or other hard sciences.
They are culturally separated by societal roles that were defined in previous centuries, and which are harmful to equality.
Also, equal == the same in all real senses of the word, as far as opportunity and treatment under the law go.
How is over half the population a minority?
Women are an oppressed majority, which is an even subtler and crappier deal in some ways.
I call bullshit.
Once we have a system in place for elementary through college that doesn't constantly tell them "Boys are good at math, you are good at soft sciences," and a culture that constantly tells them "Grow up to be nurturing, not smart," maybe that's a legit statement. But we're not in that culture, and we don't have that system.
Yes it would, when you're taking minor biological differences and using them as an excuse not to try and give females the same math instruction as boys.
Evolutionary biology isn't a science, and most of this crap comes out of there. I recommend looking up a few of these studies, and finding the three separate ones that show that women are attracted primarily to the traits present in evolutionary biologists.
It's an entire "science" dedicated to proving that it's ok to cheat on your wife, because it's natural. Well, A)that's crap, and B)something being natural doesn't actually make it worth doing. I mean, naturally I'd crap all over the place, instead of in a toilet. I can't see anyone suggesting that has advantages.
Except that there's also the question of "Why are women overwhelmingly prevalent in nursing, but underrepresented in doctor positions?"
The small differences in tendency between the genders don't explain a huge gap away. The societal pressures to conform to those tendencies do.
The "men->things, women->people" stereotype, like all stereotypes, is false in the specific. But more than that, it's false in that it implies natural causation for something that is cultural.
To be fair, she's a whackjob, and one who belongs to the fringe-end of evangelical churches.
Again, I'm not making a judgment on her (or anyone else in the race) on religious grounds, but that's a fair one to make, if you are.
You're correct that the separation of church and state is important, and we need to get us some of that back.
On the other hand, as this chart shows here, it's not like we've ever really had a non-Christian as president. I mean, hell, it was a giant thing that Kennedy was Catholic instead of Protestant.
It needs, badly, not to matter... but it mattered 20 years ago too.
Is 14% plenty for a group that makes up slightly over half the population?
I guess there's less institutionalized rape in the CS field, though.
I think the point there is that XMMS was a mature, featureful, and highly used media player. Then, they repurposed the name and nothing but and produced a completely different program, that came in as a new entrant in a very crowded field, and hasn't seen large mainstream adoption.
It's not that it's bad... it's that many people (me included) were interested in XMMS. But most of us don't care about XMMS2, because it doesn't do what we needed out of XMMS, and we already have eight things that do a better job of what XMMS2 does.
What I'm confused by is that you're using it to listen to Music For Airports. I mean, I love Bryan Eno as much as the next guy (more, usually), but that album?
It's accurately titled, I'll give it that.
I'm not saying do deep research... I'm just saying a quick google for their corporate website to see where they list themselves as incorporated wouldn't be a problem.
I don't understand what you're getting at, here.
Ah, then we are in agreement.
No, they don't. On the other hand, neither are corporations automagically right because they employ people for the benefit of the corporation. You can have a good boss who pays you, or you can have a bad boss who tries to garnish your wages illegally and beats you when no one's looking.
We live in a situation where nine out of ten corporations are abusive bosses, who are constantly pushing at the government with their financial power to remove those laws that protect citizens from potential abuses of corporate power.
Some of this comes from corruption at the top. But some of this comes from the current mindset that ethics doesn't matter; that a corporation is run right if its only concern is pure profit, at the expense of anything at all.
Except that the real problem isn't with corporations exerting power through their employees' votes, it's with them exerting power through lobbying and campaign contributions and such.
And those dangerous subversions have grown up in our democracy, but are not inherent to it.
Lots of potential issues, some more valid than others... But isn't it possible that the FBI has information on the company's ownership, server locations, and such?
Instead of providing unproven hypotheticals, why not just look up Valve's company status? They're based in Bellevue, Washington.
As for their server locations... that's harder to find out, but there's not really a reason to think that they are in India, as the bulk of high-end hosting solutions are still in the U.S., and Valve probably runs their own servers, given that they have to support Steam.
Also, Germany doesn't extradite its citizens to America.
Two different, overlapped jurisdictions, one of which has sovereignty over the other.
And assuming that you could actually stop partaking in federal benefits (such as protection by the Army, Navy, etc., or the highway system and all traffic benefits conveyed by it) then it might be a viable route to claim just state citizenship. Still a stupid route, but legally defensible.
Except the thing he did in country A (Germany) is illegal in country A (Germany) as well.
Not that I entirely disagree with your main point; it seems to me that extradition would be a preferable method here. But your example is wrong, and the person is still way, way guilty of a crime according to both nations' laws.
Pedophilia hysteria is a problem, although prosecuting either of your example cases isn't hysterical.
20 to 15 is a condition where the adult member cannot possibly think the younger is of an age that can consent, and (by U.S. law, at least... I'm not sure on U.K. law) cannot have been legally ok for the two preceding years.
As far as the second example... I know that under Florida law, 24 - 17 isn't a problem, but 30 to 17 is. And I'm not sure that that's wrong. I'm not sure there is the potential for a healthy relationship there.
Way to make a reasonable argument and then still come off like a bad guy.
Seriously. You'd be modded at least two higher if you hadn't added the "Uh" at the front, and hadn't accused the poster of "criminal reasoning" at the end.
I do wonder how they decide whether physical location of the perpetrator or physical location of the server is the important one. I believe they've ruled both ways in different circumstances.
So... a prefix in English got overloaded in a different context. Shocking!
And the issue isn't really whether it was a good or bad idea to use kilobyte to recognize the computationally significant grouping instead of 1000. The question is, is 1024 bytes what we mean by a kilobyte, when we have need to speak of such things. The answer being "Yes, dammit."
In absence of a strong reason to change, common usage defines language. The hard drive manufacturers are using a definition no one uses outside the context of the outsides of hard drive boxes.
Because the target demographic for ARM is what will be affected by this, not a segment of the market that doesn't really have a keen interest in low-power high-performance processors.
It's much more interesting to figure out what a technology-combination will do than what it won't do.
I've never had an alien failure, over about six-ish years. Moderate usage.
I have had to track down dependencies a few times, though.
Really? What if you owned your home, but couldn't afford to sell it? What if, at a lower expense than you moving, the government could, I don't know, move fifty miles out to sea?
There are regulations and laws governing testing for reasons, and this one happens to be a good one. From a cold, calculated perspective, whale-watching tours tend to bring in fairly good tourist revenue.
Anyway, people are missing the point. It's not "Don't test the sonar!", it's "Test the sonar responsibly!"
Your quote has no location related data, so his statement about moving the exercises still stands.