We can't single out IT and say how sexist and terrible its constituents are when I'm sure there are still much worse places (harassment-wise, etc.) for snowflakes like refineries, steel mills, oil rigs, railroads, heavy equipment repair, and probably almost any other blue collar job where you get dirty or risk your life
I've worked in a few of those places and it appears to me (as a male observer) that those places have become far less "sexist and terrible" than I.T. in general, and the increasing number of women in those places (while declining in I.T.) appears to back me up.
ExoMars project began to materialize in July–August 2009 when ESA signed contracts with NASA and Roscosmos to develop the mission. However, due to budgetary cuts in 2012, NASA terminated its participation in the project. One year later, Roscosmos became the main partner for ESA when the agencies signed a deal obligating the Russian side to deliver launch services, scientific instruments for TGO and landing systems, together with rover instruments, for the mission in 2018.
So that's when the sharing stopped. I can't find the bit where they had to give up on all NASA derived work, it was somewhere else on the internet three or four years ago.
I see far more women in professional roles in mining than in I.T. these days when it used to be the other way around. The decline is so blatantly obvious that it's hard to see that things like the posts here denying it are anything other than agenda pushing lies.
So, mister team leader "engineer", what is really behind it? Is it anger that you are stuck for years at just being a team leader and not a real engineer and want to keep a group of people that you do not belong to from threatening your position? The bit about bullying a girl out of the workplace because you did not have the authority to fire here is especially pathetic and sickening. If you had a problem you should have taken it to your superior to sort it out instead of just picking on someone until they left.
As for 1 it's starting to look like in a few decades most of the world (including Texas) can forget about beef whether we like it or not. It's a land use issue with increasing volumes of food required not a climate one. Bacon is in far less danger.
China has spent more on windmills and pollution controls in the last few years than the rest of the world put together. Of course with the pollution controls they are playing catchup with a very long way to go before they get decent air and water quality. India and Brazil are not standing still either. Russia is Russia and oil oligarchs have probably more say in things than their equivalents in the USA.
I should have bookmarked it, but there's a graph of funding into fusion research that shows why. In the last thirty years we've put in the equivalent to less than five years worth of work compared with the peak of fusion research when that "20 years" suggestion was made.
Instead it was all get rich quick "Carbon Credit" schemes
The problem there is economists, mostly from the USA, heard about climate science and decided to make a quick buck out of the misfortune of others. Don't blame the guys who model the climate for that.
Yes, just like those bullshit coders have more than one language to code in - C, C++, python, perl and a whole lot of things instead of programming in Apple Integer BASIC like God intended. Looks stupid doesn't it? Maybe you should listen to the experts coder boy instead of expecting everything to be more simple than setting a clock.
If the 1024 pixel width they chose didn't fit in someone's 800x600 monitor? Well obviously it was the reader's fault and they needed to upgrade to a better GPU and monitor.
This sort of shit is rampant with software development as well as web design. I had a developer who had a fixed window size for his piece of shit dotnet application used in-house and it wouldn't fit on the monitors of most of the clerical staff. So they all got shiny new monitors... but had to stay on the same slow as shit PCs for three years more than had been budgeted for.
The web browsers on the large e-ink readers are quite good now so that's how I read web novels and news sites. A side benefit of e-readers now needing serious processing power to deal with badly structured PDF files is that they are quick enough to run such full featured web browsers as if you were viewing it on a PC (so long as you don't have a lot of tabs open). Unfortunately due to the licencing model of e-ink the large screen devices are stupidly expensive. Amazon had one that wasn't (better licencing deal negotiated) but they are very rare.
Initially NASA did. Then others outside of NASA stepped in. There has been a bit about it but a recent BBC world service radio program summed things up better than others I've read/heard. It was in the last week so probably available for download.
Notice what I said about I.P. - they couldn't use the same landing system used by the NASA Viking landers either but had to have some key differences - stupid isn't it?
Also, I really don't understand how IP applies since these are not products for commercial sale nor used for commercial purposes
Even if only NASA buys a specific component from Boeing (for example) it's still a commercial product. While NASA has I.P. sharing arrangements with it's suppliers the diplomatic pissing contest excluded the ESA from that. The ESA did it quickly, got Russian help and thought it would work but it was still the first of it's kind. NASA was building on stuff going way back to Viking and before. It also turns out that parachutes are not as simple to get right as we would think, especially when the air is not very dense. It took a few splats of test rigs before the Apollo parachutes were ready.
what is it that is lacking in the ESA program that is not able to get landings right?
In this situation they were originally going to use NASA's landing system, and worked with NASA for a few years on it, but then had to develop their own from scratch after a diplomatic pissing contest led to NASA's support being withdrawn. Even worse they couldn't use any good ideas they had picked up from NASA for I.P. reasons. Their new system didn't work first time. It's not a matter of fucking up on attempt three after two good landings but a fuckup first time on a new system.
Telling the diplomats to fuck off will help both NASA and ESA.
Your armed populace is worthless and a minor speedbump unless it works together. A few guys with guns are nothing but targets. Sorry to burst your bubble but you keep on preaching stupidity. Go talk to someone in the military to find out exactly how stupid you have been.
Chile has a VERY well armed population with many guns that are currently banned for civilians in the USA. It's a perfect example. Even with that they could not stop the vicious and dictatorial regime coming in and disarming them.
which is why the Second Amendment specifically mentions "militia."
So where is your local well organized militia that is going to work together and work as you are suggesting? They don't exist! Looks like lone gunman getting picked off one by one to me.
Apparently you are not familiar with the English language as it was used in the 1700s. "Well regulated" meant "in good working order, well-organized".
Ah yes - the excuse that relies on the founding fathers being fucking idiots - how insulting. Read a fucking novel from the 1700s and you'll see that you have been lied to and the language has not changed that much at all.
I'm sorry but that makes zero sense. Steam is a well defined phase of water. Please try again.
thinking so hard over a trollish slashdot post
Feel free to once again add a patronizing link, suggestions about my education and how wonderful your father, but not you, is if you are unable to think of something sensible to write.
It's out of depth power station management such as Johnson that resulted in TEPCO's fuckup at Fukishima in Japan by cutting corners that non-technical management has no clue that they should not have been cut. It's people like that the cost us the manned space program by ignoring their engineers warnings about not launching when it was too cold. When they know so little about what they are responsible for that they start talking about steam coming out of cooling towers they are a danger. A simple half hour briefing on how the entire place works would have cured that mistake, but such types don't even take that time.
Then no second amendment guns for you. Did you have to give them up? Why do you push such an idiotic line when you know it is not true yourself?
it is a separate thing from the 2nd Amendment... Reading comprehension, dude
Since you are tying them all in together to try to justify an argument you'd better work on that reading comprehension - unless you are deliberately lying like that traitor running the NRA Oliver North.
So kid, in a few decades time when you turn 45 are you going to hand all your guns in? No guns for girls either? No? Then maybe the second amendment has got fuckall to do with your right to own a gun despite what people running the NRA like that guy that sold guns to Iran and Hezbolla, Oliver North, want you to think.
You've been played by a traitor and are pretending it is patriotism. That's just so fucked up.
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I think you replied to the wrong post
You are correct - there was a long and rambling AC post full of hate, yet modded up, that I meant to reply to.
Sorry about that.
I've worked in a few of those places and it appears to me (as a male observer) that those places have become far less "sexist and terrible" than I.T. in general, and the increasing number of women in those places (while declining in I.T.) appears to back me up.
So that's when the sharing stopped. I can't find the bit where they had to give up on all NASA derived work, it was somewhere else on the internet three or four years ago.
I see far more women in professional roles in mining than in I.T. these days when it used to be the other way around.
The decline is so blatantly obvious that it's hard to see that things like the posts here denying it are anything other than agenda pushing lies.
So, mister team leader "engineer", what is really behind it? Is it anger that you are stuck for years at just being a team leader and not a real engineer and want to keep a group of people that you do not belong to from threatening your position?
The bit about bullying a girl out of the workplace because you did not have the authority to fire here is especially pathetic and sickening. If you had a problem you should have taken it to your superior to sort it out instead of just picking on someone until they left.
As for 1 it's starting to look like in a few decades most of the world (including Texas) can forget about beef whether we like it or not. It's a land use issue with increasing volumes of food required not a climate one.
Bacon is in far less danger.
China has spent more on windmills and pollution controls in the last few years than the rest of the world put together. Of course with the pollution controls they are playing catchup with a very long way to go before they get decent air and water quality.
India and Brazil are not standing still either. Russia is Russia and oil oligarchs have probably more say in things than their equivalents in the USA.
I should have bookmarked it, but there's a graph of funding into fusion research that shows why. In the last thirty years we've put in the equivalent to less than five years worth of work compared with the peak of fusion research when that "20 years" suggestion was made.
The problem there is economists, mostly from the USA, heard about climate science and decided to make a quick buck out of the misfortune of others. Don't blame the guys who model the climate for that.
Yes, just like those bullshit coders have more than one language to code in - C, C++, python, perl and a whole lot of things instead of programming in Apple Integer BASIC like God intended.
Looks stupid doesn't it?
Maybe you should listen to the experts coder boy instead of expecting everything to be more simple than setting a clock.
This sort of shit is rampant with software development as well as web design. I had a developer who had a fixed window size for his piece of shit dotnet application used in-house and it wouldn't fit on the monitors of most of the clerical staff. So they all got shiny new monitors ... but had to stay on the same slow as shit PCs for three years more than had been budgeted for.
The web browsers on the large e-ink readers are quite good now so that's how I read web novels and news sites. A side benefit of e-readers now needing serious processing power to deal with badly structured PDF files is that they are quick enough to run such full featured web browsers as if you were viewing it on a PC (so long as you don't have a lot of tabs open).
Unfortunately due to the licencing model of e-ink the large screen devices are stupidly expensive. Amazon had one that wasn't (better licencing deal negotiated) but they are very rare.
Initially NASA did. Then others outside of NASA stepped in. There has been a bit about it but a recent BBC world service radio program summed things up better than others I've read/heard. It was in the last week so probably available for download.
It's not software.
Notice what I said about I.P. - they couldn't use the same landing system used by the NASA Viking landers either but had to have some key differences - stupid isn't it?
Even if only NASA buys a specific component from Boeing (for example) it's still a commercial product. While NASA has I.P. sharing arrangements with it's suppliers the diplomatic pissing contest excluded the ESA from that.
The ESA did it quickly, got Russian help and thought it would work but it was still the first of it's kind. NASA was building on stuff going way back to Viking and before.
It also turns out that parachutes are not as simple to get right as we would think, especially when the air is not very dense. It took a few splats of test rigs before the Apollo parachutes were ready.
In this situation they were originally going to use NASA's landing system, and worked with NASA for a few years on it, but then had to develop their own from scratch after a diplomatic pissing contest led to NASA's support being withdrawn. Even worse they couldn't use any good ideas they had picked up from NASA for I.P. reasons.
Their new system didn't work first time. It's not a matter of fucking up on attempt three after two good landings but a fuckup first time on a new system.
Telling the diplomats to fuck off will help both NASA and ESA.
He's got a low UID - he will know unlike millenials who may have never heard of it.
Also I was attacking the kneejerk assumption and not the person.
Chile had a VERY well armed population when Pinochet came to power - it didn't help. There are many similar examples.
Your armed populace is worthless and a minor speedbump unless it works together. A few guys with guns are nothing but targets.
Sorry to burst your bubble but you keep on preaching stupidity. Go talk to someone in the military to find out exactly how stupid you have been.
So where is your local well organized militia that is going to work together and work as you are suggesting? They don't exist! Looks like lone gunman getting picked off one by one to me.
Ah yes - the excuse that relies on the founding fathers being fucking idiots - how insulting.
Read a fucking novel from the 1700s and you'll see that you have been lied to and the language has not changed that much at all.
Feel free to once again add a patronizing link, suggestions about my education and how wonderful your father, but not you, is if you are unable to think of something sensible to write.
It's out of depth power station management such as Johnson that resulted in TEPCO's fuckup at Fukishima in Japan by cutting corners that non-technical management has no clue that they should not have been cut. It's people like that the cost us the manned space program by ignoring their engineers warnings about not launching when it was too cold. When they know so little about what they are responsible for that they start talking about steam coming out of cooling towers they are a danger. A simple half hour briefing on how the entire place works would have cured that mistake, but such types don't even take that time.
Wow - you managed to bring Trump and Hillary into this too? Are you sure you are a human being and not Microsoft's lame chatbot Tay?
Then no second amendment guns for you. Did you have to give them up?
Why do you push such an idiotic line when you know it is not true yourself?
Since you are tying them all in together to try to justify an argument you'd better work on that reading comprehension - unless you are deliberately lying like that traitor running the NRA Oliver North.
So kid, in a few decades time when you turn 45 are you going to hand all your guns in?
No guns for girls either?
No?
Then maybe the second amendment has got fuckall to do with your right to own a gun despite what people running the NRA like that guy that sold guns to Iran and Hezbolla, Oliver North, want you to think.
You've been played by a traitor and are pretending it is patriotism. That's just so fucked up.