You see governments nationalising existing businesses as a very bad idea, yet somehow don't seem to take issue with businesses privatising government through creating their own monopolies or leveraging natural monopolies, and then lobbying the ever-loving hell out of government to get precisely what they want, all at the expense of the tax payer and most definitely the subscriber. Genius. Even when faced with evidence from other developed countries that sharing a common last-mile between different countries helps boost competition, which keeps companies on their toes and provides much better service at a lower price to the subscriber. You're a strange one.
Those are not natural monopolies, so I don't know what your point is. You might as well point at your shoe and say "HA! HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?! SEE??" as that would have the same effect. If you can't see how a physical connection to shared infrastructure is different to two grocery stores or two cell companies you might want to take some time to acquaint yourself with the differences, at least to avoid such embarrassment later.
Just a guess - maybe people believed the hype? All those years of hearing how awesome America is and how it's the greatest country on Earth, singing the pledge every day at School, flags everywhere, etc. made them complacent, and any suggestion it wasn't was shot down in patriotic pique, meaning the situation only got worse. If something can not be rationally criticized - be it China or the US - it will fester, with its worse aspects eventually challenging its better aspects. Nationalism and patriotism are reasons for the US's decline. Both are fine and useful concepts for struggling countries or communities, but when it becomes de rigueur in more powerful countries or communities, it outlives its usefulness to the extent it tends to becomes a problem. Just think how much shit a President would get if he/she didn't wear a US flag pin - that's not healthy for a country.
No, it's a "Protected Designation of Origin", as Champagne is a place, not a specific product. It would help you not look quite so bombastic if you understood that against which you choose to rail.
Reduction of global population is achieved through improved education, healthcare, and security. Once a population has those, the birth rate drops, as people need to have fewer children to guarantee that enough survive into childhood.
Making generalisations only serves to make you look irrational, which reflects poorly on your position whether it is right or wrong. Just to help you out, every time you want to write "liberals" or "conservatives" and ascribe a behaviour or attribute to each and every one of them (beyond subscribing to their particular -ism in question), stop - it's wrong, and you're hurting yourself.
It is insanity especially when people like you exist, who espouse tolerance and rationalism when it suits you, but then turns around and vomit hatred and discrimination when it doesn't. You are part of the problem. You find no problem in turning to racism or sexism when you believe it suits your goal. Again, and I've said this before - you are a bad person.
Maybe they don't want to be in computing because they know there are plenty of loud, ridiculous, victim emos like you who are screaming about being oppressed because of some nonsense articles you've read, or your (clearly) poor grasp of statistics. As long as attitudes like yours continue to exist in the computing industry, don't act surprised when some people don't want anything to do with it. Your pathetic rants against feminism are definitely illuminating. You sound like an Elliot Rodgers beta model. Your entire post paints men as blameless and women as the perpetrators of this evil scheme, whereas the truth is clearly somewhere in the middle, heavily nuanced, and not able to be described in a rant-filled five paragraphs in a Slashdot post.
If you read what he actually said, you'd note he used the word "more", meaning they already have some white people with social skills. As it is, they most likely are experiencing what happens when you get too many testosterone-fueled guys in the same working environment. If you want to call that sexist, then fine - but don't expect anyone to take you seriously in this discussion.
I knew you'd be in this thread - I look forward to the wisdom you will undoubtedly have spewed across the debate.
Trying to lump in the equality movement with those who think all-anything companies are a good idea just shows you are arguing against a notion of "politically correct" you have been taught by whoever you get your news from, and not from the actual movement in question.
Why am I not surprised this misogynistic, racist fool doesn't know what he's talking about?
We don't - we need to figure out why women aren't applying for these jobs. It very well be that the often-toxic working environment they're forced to endure is putting them off. Your comment is a great example of the kind of "logic" which causes these places to exist.
There is no such thing as a public blog, as a blog is:
"a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis."
So you might want to try being a bit more accurate with the words you pick, and try not to leave out the mountains of evidence that not only did they know what TPB was being used for, that they actively encouraged it.
Again, for the record, I am a huge TPB supporter, but we can't get anywhere if people simply make stuff up to support their position. Like you are doing. Frequently.
Well, you're not painting the whole picture, be it on accident or by purpose. It wasn't a "blog" they created, but a directory of user-uploaded files. These files are arranged in their directory by type, including "TV Shows", "Movies", "Windows Games", etc. They provided no mechanism to deal with allegations of copyright infringement hosted by their site, and went even further by publicly haranguing legal firms which requested the take-down of such infringing material. Clearly the content is under their control, as they host it. That is clearly facilitating, by definition. I'm a big supporter of TPB, but I don't believe in lying to make a point, as the only point that is made in such cases is that you are a liar.
Well, apart from the Wright brothers' plane not being the first (just the first heavily-publicised), there were working tablets before Apple created the iPad. So no. Not even close. They might have brought the first massively-popular tablet to market, but to claim they invented it is pretty bizarre.
So because one woman was able to rise to the top of her field, it instantly makes it impossible for any other women to be denied their due? Even when massive amounts of evidence point to that being a daily occurrence? Your logic is part of the problem, sunshine. You might as well travel back to the civil rights movement, point to a free black person (in another country if you have to), and claim slavery doesn't exist. As Aristotle said: "One swallow does not a summer make".
You have two choices when answering this question - assume you know best and go with gut instinct, or look at the statistics and make an informed decision. The statistics show that your gut instinct is wrong - humans are not made to be drivers, as our "sensor package" was designed to run around jungles being scared of movement in bushes, not to control a heavy machine travelling at decent speeds.
That was not an ad-hominem, as it was pertinent to the discussion. If he'd said he was wrong because his trousers were green, you'd have a point. I'm not entirely surprised a racist misogynist like yourself has difficulty using these concepts accurately, as you clearly prefer to operate outside of logic, in order to preserve your twisted world-view.
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You see governments nationalising existing businesses as a very bad idea, yet somehow don't seem to take issue with businesses privatising government through creating their own monopolies or leveraging natural monopolies, and then lobbying the ever-loving hell out of government to get precisely what they want, all at the expense of the tax payer and most definitely the subscriber. Genius. Even when faced with evidence from other developed countries that sharing a common last-mile between different countries helps boost competition, which keeps companies on their toes and provides much better service at a lower price to the subscriber. You're a strange one.
Those are not natural monopolies, so I don't know what your point is. You might as well point at your shoe and say "HA! HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?! SEE??" as that would have the same effect. If you can't see how a physical connection to shared infrastructure is different to two grocery stores or two cell companies you might want to take some time to acquaint yourself with the differences, at least to avoid such embarrassment later.
Just a guess - maybe people believed the hype? All those years of hearing how awesome America is and how it's the greatest country on Earth, singing the pledge every day at School, flags everywhere, etc. made them complacent, and any suggestion it wasn't was shot down in patriotic pique, meaning the situation only got worse. If something can not be rationally criticized - be it China or the US - it will fester, with its worse aspects eventually challenging its better aspects. Nationalism and patriotism are reasons for the US's decline. Both are fine and useful concepts for struggling countries or communities, but when it becomes de rigueur in more powerful countries or communities, it outlives its usefulness to the extent it tends to becomes a problem. Just think how much shit a President would get if he/she didn't wear a US flag pin - that's not healthy for a country.
Or, just maybe, he wasn't the owner, and was simply the captain?
I'd rather not, as to encourage the US's attitudes towards worker protection or food safety would be disastrous.
No, it's a "Protected Designation of Origin", as Champagne is a place, not a specific product. It would help you not look quite so bombastic if you understood that against which you choose to rail.
Reduction of global population is achieved through improved education, healthcare, and security. Once a population has those, the birth rate drops, as people need to have fewer children to guarantee that enough survive into childhood.
Making generalisations only serves to make you look irrational, which reflects poorly on your position whether it is right or wrong. Just to help you out, every time you want to write "liberals" or "conservatives" and ascribe a behaviour or attribute to each and every one of them (beyond subscribing to their particular -ism in question), stop - it's wrong, and you're hurting yourself.
Apart from "devise" and "connexion" that sentence is perfectly valid British English, which is awesome.
That's why internet in many US cities is a joke? Because of those sparsely-populated cities of millions of people. Gotcha. Great logic!
It would cost them thousands to get the vaccine to you and to monitor your reaction.
It is insanity especially when people like you exist, who espouse tolerance and rationalism when it suits you, but then turns around and vomit hatred and discrimination when it doesn't. You are part of the problem. You find no problem in turning to racism or sexism when you believe it suits your goal. Again, and I've said this before - you are a bad person.
Maybe they don't want to be in computing because they know there are plenty of loud, ridiculous, victim emos like you who are screaming about being oppressed because of some nonsense articles you've read, or your (clearly) poor grasp of statistics. As long as attitudes like yours continue to exist in the computing industry, don't act surprised when some people don't want anything to do with it. Your pathetic rants against feminism are definitely illuminating. You sound like an Elliot Rodgers beta model. Your entire post paints men as blameless and women as the perpetrators of this evil scheme, whereas the truth is clearly somewhere in the middle, heavily nuanced, and not able to be described in a rant-filled five paragraphs in a Slashdot post.
If you read what he actually said, you'd note he used the word "more", meaning they already have some white people with social skills. As it is, they most likely are experiencing what happens when you get too many testosterone-fueled guys in the same working environment. If you want to call that sexist, then fine - but don't expect anyone to take you seriously in this discussion.
I knew you'd be in this thread - I look forward to the wisdom you will undoubtedly have spewed across the debate.
Trying to lump in the equality movement with those who think all-anything companies are a good idea just shows you are arguing against a notion of "politically correct" you have been taught by whoever you get your news from, and not from the actual movement in question.
Why am I not surprised this misogynistic, racist fool doesn't know what he's talking about?
We don't - we need to figure out why women aren't applying for these jobs. It very well be that the often-toxic working environment they're forced to endure is putting them off. Your comment is a great example of the kind of "logic" which causes these places to exist.
Most of the western world is better than the plea-bargain-three-strikes-old-sparky nonsense the US is currently engaged in.
There is no such thing as a public blog, as a blog is:
"a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis."
So you might want to try being a bit more accurate with the words you pick, and try not to leave out the mountains of evidence that not only did they know what TPB was being used for, that they actively encouraged it.
Again, for the record, I am a huge TPB supporter, but we can't get anywhere if people simply make stuff up to support their position. Like you are doing. Frequently.
Well, you're not painting the whole picture, be it on accident or by purpose. It wasn't a "blog" they created, but a directory of user-uploaded files. These files are arranged in their directory by type, including "TV Shows", "Movies", "Windows Games", etc. They provided no mechanism to deal with allegations of copyright infringement hosted by their site, and went even further by publicly haranguing legal firms which requested the take-down of such infringing material. Clearly the content is under their control, as they host it. That is clearly facilitating, by definition. I'm a big supporter of TPB, but I don't believe in lying to make a point, as the only point that is made in such cases is that you are a liar.
They haven't run a tracker since November 2009, btw.
Well, apart from the Wright brothers' plane not being the first (just the first heavily-publicised), there were working tablets before Apple created the iPad. So no. Not even close. They might have brought the first massively-popular tablet to market, but to claim they invented it is pretty bizarre.
So because one woman was able to rise to the top of her field, it instantly makes it impossible for any other women to be denied their due? Even when massive amounts of evidence point to that being a daily occurrence? Your logic is part of the problem, sunshine. You might as well travel back to the civil rights movement, point to a free black person (in another country if you have to), and claim slavery doesn't exist. As Aristotle said: "One swallow does not a summer make".
You have two choices when answering this question - assume you know best and go with gut instinct, or look at the statistics and make an informed decision. The statistics show that your gut instinct is wrong - humans are not made to be drivers, as our "sensor package" was designed to run around jungles being scared of movement in bushes, not to control a heavy machine travelling at decent speeds.
Don't assume just because something is open source that it doesn't have backdoors. That is terrible logic.
That was not an ad-hominem, as it was pertinent to the discussion. If he'd said he was wrong because his trousers were green, you'd have a point. I'm not entirely surprised a racist misogynist like yourself has difficulty using these concepts accurately, as you clearly prefer to operate outside of logic, in order to preserve your twisted world-view.