I don't see the problem here. How much do you think that page impression is earning the site? The reason micropayments have never taken off is that advertising is easier. Make advertising harder, and maybe I'll finally get a mechanism that supports the sites I visit without demanding that I be exposed to brain viruses when I visit it. This is a win for me, and it's a win for the site—ask any web designer how much they love making space for ads on their pages.
Um. Thermostats controlled by the utility are optional. You can go your own way if you want. The reason they are good is not that they are cheating, but rather than it's to everybody's benefit not to overload the grid: if you overload it, it goes down, and then everybody loses. It's called cooperation. This is not what Stallman and Doctorow are talking about. Open source software in those devices would be great, and indeed there are some pretty nice open source home energy control systems available today.
Actually, it does: if the balance of men to woman in a work environment is at parity, both in terms of hierarchy and in terms of peers, women co-workers no longer seem unusual. So it's worth it to try to arrange for this to be the case.
IDK, I swim in some pretty elite circles, and that's not what I'm hearing. I am hearing that the patriarchy is bad, but I agree with that. The patriarchy does suck: it holds us to standards most of us don't want to be held to, rewards the ones who are happy to be assholes, punishes gentleness and kindness, and all around just sucks.
I think that the rhetoric on all sides is pretty jacked up now—twitter encourages that. So stop reading twitter. Statistically, all the noise and negativity you are hearing on twitter is a tiny percentage of the population. In the real world, it's not like that.
That's unlikely, considering how many people take three minimum wage jobs to get by. In any case, a good reason to support a $15 minimum wage, amirite?
Thanks, but... Straight white aggressive males? Not much fun to be around. Everything's always a battle. It's way too much stress. I'd rather be a regular straight white male who occasionally gets blamed for things I didn't do. The company I get to keep that way is more entertaining.
I'm pretty sure that if you just said you wanted to be happy and treated fairly, people would sympathize with you. I certainly do. I'm wondering if that's all you said.
Yes, I felt that I was to blame for most things. Rape, my fault. Racism, my fault. It sucked. My response was to work for social justice, not to get angry. I could see sexism in action all around me. I could see racism in action all around me. I had no illusions that they were problems, so I had no problem with trying to do something about it, even though I wasn't the one who caused it. I was probably 25 before I referred to myself as a man, because being a man was supposed to be bad.
I get what it feels like to be looked at that way. As an adult, I am afraid to talk to children for fear of being accused of being a child molester. That really sucks too, and it damaged my relationship with both of my nieces.
What I don't get is why the step after that, for so many, appears to be doubling down instead of trying to make the world a better place.
I get that there are no job prospects in some communities, but jobs in a lot of communities go unfilled because nobody wants them. I'm pretty sure being white won't disqualify you.
I gotta say, I get treated pretty nicely. When I was a twenty-something I was really resentful because I couldn't figure out how to get dates. I want to believe that there is more to this kerfuffle than that, but I really just don't get it. Why are my youthful brethren so discontent?
The irony of this is that I am desperate for Netflix to stop with the damned Marvel shows, because they suck. (No offense if you like them—that's just how I feel about them, and I know reasonable people can feel otherwise). So for me it is unmitigated good news if they can't renew.
Nope. You knew where you were in the class pecking order. I had no idea. I assumed I was at the bottom, but actually I wasn't and that was one of the reasons I got beat on sometimes: I didn't yield when someone trying to climb above me made a move.
I'm sure there are human drives to have hierarchy, but they are by no means universal. The only reason I know what you are talking about is that ok an adult now and can see the pattern. I don't feel the pattern at all.
Architecture is a kind of engineering, and arguably more akin to what software engineers do than the kind of engineering you are talking about. But of course what I just described happens there too: badly designed plumbing, stupid placement of electrical outlets, HVAC that meets the specification but has hot spots or cold spots in places where you want to be. There really aren't a lot of jobs delivering something that's of value to an end user where empathy for the end-user doesn't make it more likely that what you produce won't suck.
A "true blouse?" Wow, that's a new one. Is this red pill speek?
I understand really well what your idea of being a man entails, and you are correct that I do not want to be that way. It's stressful and unpleasant. The only reason to be that way is that you've been beaten into it. Usually happens either at home, or else in school. Fortunately, as you correctly surmise, I was too far from the peak of the bell curve to even understand why I was being beaten up, so I couldn't have conformed even if I had wanted to. Looking back on it, I'm really glad that was the case. I'm sorry you didn't have the same good fortune I did.
You can make aerodynamics your top priority, or you can make power-to-the-pavement your top priority, or you can make speed your top priority, but you can only have one top priority.
Ever moved into a new apartment or house and after a while wondered "why the fuck did they engineer this this way, this is stupid?" If so, then you just answered your question.
That's what the author said, but I don't think there's much truth to it. Yes, a lot of us are socialized to want competition, but is it really what we want, or just what we were taught to want? I rode that bandwagon into my thirties before I realized what a lousy ride it was, and then I got off. I'm much happier since. In point of fact life would be better for all of us if it were not only not encouraged, but not acceptable to work more than a seven hour work day.
If you think about it, doing so is actually depriving other people of the opportunity to excel, assuming that those extra hours are productive, and just causing damage if they aren't.
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I don't see the problem here. How much do you think that page impression is earning the site? The reason micropayments have never taken off is that advertising is easier. Make advertising harder, and maybe I'll finally get a mechanism that supports the sites I visit without demanding that I be exposed to brain viruses when I visit it. This is a win for me, and it's a win for the site—ask any web designer how much they love making space for ads on their pages.
It's actually market pressure, not "the left."
The slippery slope argument is a bit tired.
Sufficiently difficult-to-maintain open source software is indistinguishable from proprietary.
Um. Thermostats controlled by the utility are optional. You can go your own way if you want. The reason they are good is not that they are cheating, but rather than it's to everybody's benefit not to overload the grid: if you overload it, it goes down, and then everybody loses. It's called cooperation. This is not what Stallman and Doctorow are talking about. Open source software in those devices would be great, and indeed there are some pretty nice open source home energy control systems available today.
Actually, it does: if the balance of men to woman in a work environment is at parity, both in terms of hierarchy and in terms of peers, women co-workers no longer seem unusual. So it's worth it to try to arrange for this to be the case.
IDK, I swim in some pretty elite circles, and that's not what I'm hearing. I am hearing that the patriarchy is bad, but I agree with that. The patriarchy does suck: it holds us to standards most of us don't want to be held to, rewards the ones who are happy to be assholes, punishes gentleness and kindness, and all around just sucks.
I think that the rhetoric on all sides is pretty jacked up now—twitter encourages that. So stop reading twitter. Statistically, all the noise and negativity you are hearing on twitter is a tiny percentage of the population. In the real world, it's not like that.
That's unlikely, considering how many people take three minimum wage jobs to get by. In any case, a good reason to support a $15 minimum wage, amirite?
Thanks, but... Straight white aggressive males? Not much fun to be around. Everything's always a battle. It's way too much stress. I'd rather be a regular straight white male who occasionally gets blamed for things I didn't do. The company I get to keep that way is more entertaining.
Testify.
God help you if you're missing a front tooth.
I'm pretty sure that if you just said you wanted to be happy and treated fairly, people would sympathize with you. I certainly do. I'm wondering if that's all you said.
Yes, I felt that I was to blame for most things. Rape, my fault. Racism, my fault. It sucked. My response was to work for social justice, not to get angry. I could see sexism in action all around me. I could see racism in action all around me. I had no illusions that they were problems, so I had no problem with trying to do something about it, even though I wasn't the one who caused it. I was probably 25 before I referred to myself as a man, because being a man was supposed to be bad.
I get what it feels like to be looked at that way. As an adult, I am afraid to talk to children for fear of being accused of being a child molester. That really sucks too, and it damaged my relationship with both of my nieces.
What I don't get is why the step after that, for so many, appears to be doubling down instead of trying to make the world a better place.
I get that there are no job prospects in some communities, but jobs in a lot of communities go unfilled because nobody wants them. I'm pretty sure being white won't disqualify you.
I gotta say, I get treated pretty nicely. When I was a twenty-something I was really resentful because I couldn't figure out how to get dates. I want to believe that there is more to this kerfuffle than that, but I really just don't get it. Why are my youthful brethren so discontent?
The irony of this is that I am desperate for Netflix to stop with the damned Marvel shows, because they suck. (No offense if you like them—that's just how I feel about them, and I know reasonable people can feel otherwise). So for me it is unmitigated good news if they can't renew.
Nope. You knew where you were in the class pecking order. I had no idea. I assumed I was at the bottom, but actually I wasn't and that was one of the reasons I got beat on sometimes: I didn't yield when someone trying to climb above me made a move.
I'm sure there are human drives to have hierarchy, but they are by no means universal. The only reason I know what you are talking about is that ok an adult now and can see the pattern. I don't feel the pattern at all.
Architecture is a kind of engineering, and arguably more akin to what software engineers do than the kind of engineering you are talking about. But of course what I just described happens there too: badly designed plumbing, stupid placement of electrical outlets, HVAC that meets the specification but has hot spots or cold spots in places where you want to be. There really aren't a lot of jobs delivering something that's of value to an end user where empathy for the end-user doesn't make it more likely that what you produce won't suck.
Oops, that wasn't directed at me. Might as well have been, though—I'm as much of a "true blouse" as Animojo. :)
A "true blouse?" Wow, that's a new one. Is this red pill speek?
I understand really well what your idea of being a man entails, and you are correct that I do not want to be that way. It's stressful and unpleasant. The only reason to be that way is that you've been beaten into it. Usually happens either at home, or else in school. Fortunately, as you correctly surmise, I was too far from the peak of the bell curve to even understand why I was being beaten up, so I couldn't have conformed even if I had wanted to. Looking back on it, I'm really glad that was the case. I'm sorry you didn't have the same good fortune I did.
Yup. It was SJWs that nearly killed Microsoft and did kill DEC. Not stubborn idiots with too much power, protecting their fiefdoms.
You can make aerodynamics your top priority, or you can make power-to-the-pavement your top priority, or you can make speed your top priority, but you can only have one top priority.
Ever moved into a new apartment or house and after a while wondered "why the fuck did they engineer this this way, this is stupid?" If so, then you just answered your question.
That's what the author said, but I don't think there's much truth to it. Yes, a lot of us are socialized to want competition, but is it really what we want, or just what we were taught to want? I rode that bandwagon into my thirties before I realized what a lousy ride it was, and then I got off. I'm much happier since. In point of fact life would be better for all of us if it were not only not encouraged, but not acceptable to work more than a seven hour work day.
If you think about it, doing so is actually depriving other people of the opportunity to excel, assuming that those extra hours are productive, and just causing damage if they aren't.
Rebuttal? I see what you did there.
The link works for me in incognito mode. Is it possible that you have some adware installed that you don't know about?