Trump is good at misdirection and baiting the media and the public-at-large. When he says "look over here at this naughty Amazon", he's not serious; he's really trying to divert attention from some fjnork-up someplace else.
I thought he usually dealt with "naughty Amazons" using third-party non-disclosure agreements.
There is and has been a push to try to get more men into teach at the elementary school level, a career field that is heavily dominated by women (~78.5% women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).
From my personal experience (computer) engineering pays a reasonable starting wage but there is no career path to speak of unless you jump into management. I do plenty to keep my skills up to date and all that really does is keep me at the same senior level salary I had 7 years ago...
Oddly enough, my organization has opportunities to move up and stay technical by moving to the research side of the house. The problem is, you also have to move to the geographic location of one of the labs.
Considering Tarzan or Hunchback original stretches the meaning of the word further than any word should ever reasonably expect to be stretched.
As opposed to Snow White or Sleeping Beauty? You might as well limit it to "Steamboat Willy"! (Even Bambi is based on a book that had come out ~20 years earlier.)
What Disney has traditionally been good at is retelling an older story in a format that both kids and their parents enjoy watching.
Interesting. I wonder what other liquors, or even wines might benefit from this trick?
Well, wine is already in the 10%-20% alcohol range (as opposed to whiskey at ~40%), so you've essentially already benefited from this effect. Essentially any mixed drink made with a harder liquor is going to take advantage of this, however
First of all, I'm talking way younger than dolls or bob the builder. Boys and girls start acting like boys or girls after just a few months of age.
OK, so give me some examples of boy or girl specific behavior that would occur at an age early enough they were not getting toys. And what age are you thinking?
Secondly, it makes no difference which toys you give to which gender. Like I said earlier, you give a boy a doll, and he will play with it as though it were a ball or a tank or some other type of vehicle. You give a girl a fire truck, and she'll feed it a bottle. Same thing with gender-neutral toys. Give a boy legos, and he'll build a fort and smash it. Give the exact same legos to a girl, and she'll bake you a cake.
Anecdotes are just that. My daughter loves building things with blocks or legos (or having me build them when she was younger) and then proceeding to smash them. Yes, she is also nurturing to some of her stuffed animals.
I don't blame you for thinking I'm crazy. Before I had kids, I wouldn't have believed it, either. But if you look at the responses here from other parents, you'll see that I'm not an anomaly.
Let me state, one last time, that you missed the entire point of all my posts: The differences are observable, BUT they are as much an effect of the way society treats kids as they are of nature. As a parent, you are probably aware that young children are sponges, absorbing everything they see or hear, even if you don't notice it.
For example, many people here have cited examples of male toddlers playing with make believe guns. I ask you to consider if they created the entire concept of a gun (including the shape) out of their imagination, or if they saw a clip on television or a billboard somewhere that showed a male grown-up holding a gun. Which do you think is more likely?
People treat little kids differently based on whether they are a boy or a girl, regardless of what you as a parent want (or even what the kid wants).
I'd love to hear an example of that. Remember, I'm talking about kids who aren't even 1 year old yet.
Sure. What do kids get as a gifts for (insert holiday celebration of your choice) from their relatives (especially Grandma/Grandpa)? Do the girls all get Bob the builder toys and the boys get a play kitchen and dolls? Probably not.
Your "wearing pink" example is silly. How would a 9-month-old know that pink is a "girl" color?
How do you know that pink is a "girl" color? It's societal. Society thinks that pink is a "girl" color, so people tend to give girls pink clothes. The girls then either like the color or recognize that they get positive reinforcement for liking it (e.g. grandma smiles and says "How cute!") and wear it more often.
That might be true, but we noticed the differences since long before they were old enough to even have a gender identity. How could a child take clues from society about his or her gender roles before even knowing his or her own gender?
Unless you dress your kid in earth tones and name them "Pat", society at large knows if they are a boy or a girl and treats them "appropriately". If the relatives always give your kid pink things, chances are the kid will be predisposed towards wearing pink. No self-knowledge required on your offspring's part. People treat little kids differently based on whether they are a boy or a girl, regardless of what you as a parent want (or even what the kid wants).
In the end, you do what you can to give your kids the tools to break free from gender stereotypes, but it really is up to them.
5. The benefits suck. Is there any other employer in this day and age that doesn't have maternity leave? Ummm, legally, any company in the U.S. is required to allow you 3 months off under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), but they don't have to pay you. The feds will allow you to use your sick leave for that time to be paid your full salary. A lot of private employers won't be paying you for that time off.
Regular secret clearances do not require drug testing. Background checks for secret clearances are also little more than checking arrest records and credit records - they don't even bother to call the references you put down on the SF-86 form. Also, if you work for a contractor doing the same work you will have the same security clearance requirements. Really? My references were called and to the best of my knowledge, I don't even have a Secret clearance. And the guys I've met with Top Secret so expect that process to take 1-2 years. (Although I think that has more to do with just being overloaded with work recently.) Regardless, it's not really onerous.
Under benefits I would add paid overtime and not being expected to constantly work 60-80 hour weeks. It's really nice to be able to see your family.
OK, I know this is off topic, but if suicide is illegal in the state of Washington, can someone please tell me what the "punishment" for attempted suicide is (since successful suicide would appear to be too late)? I'm going to go out on a limb and say "Life".
source the occasional second-hand replacement 3.5" FDD drive Meh. When I started working at my current job ~4 years ago, I had to volunteer one of my personal 5.25" drives to get a program off a floppy that was still being used once a year. Even now, the program still requires us to use floppy disks, but at least we've upgraded that to 3.5" (one more thing on my to-do list).
This is NOT a radar! It must be difficult to make a living calculate exactly what the radar is doing if you don't know the difference between radar frequencies (in the gigihertz region) and HF in the range 2.8 to 10 MHz.
Actually radar stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. It is not specific to a frequency range. While most current radar systems may be in the microwave range, many early radar systems were, in fact, in the HF portion of the spectrum. (Scroll down to the "Frequency Bands"section of the above wikipedia article for more info.)
From the best of my understanding "police" officers are not employed by universities. This may be different here in Canada, but universities here have private security forces, which are far from the police.
Depends on the university. RPI's Public Safety, for instance, has arrest powers. The University of Michigan has had its own police force, including two canine units, since 1992.
I don't know. It all almost seems fitting when you consider that this was a case of prior art. (For those not in the know, the famous picture/statue actually commemorate the second flag raising of the day, done, depending on the source, to either record the moment properly for posterity, make the flag more visible, or keep the orginal flag for the Marine Corps battalion.)
If you're like me, you are always transporting data from home to work, and back.
And if you're a cheap, lazy bastard like me, you just email everything back and forth. (I mean, sure I can use my 512MB MuVo TX FM as a flash drive, but that's so much effort...)
If a modern geek were dropped off naked on an island and told to start over, he'd never get to the point of smelting iron in one lifetime.
Only if said geek hadn't read Caveman Chemsitry. The book covers everything from making fire, through making gless and smelting copper, to producing plastics.
I think there's some confusion about the difference between creativity and knowledge. Sure, knowledge is useful when you're trying to be creative, but it's not the same thing.
In general, the internet provides a lot of knowledge (some of it even accurate), but whether that translates to increased creativity is debatable.
In fact, some could argue that the increased availability of knowledge actually limits creativity. ("Why do I ned to come up a with a way to do that? Here's six different ways I found on the internet.")
Oh dear God, I hadn't realized that Liechtenstein, the worlds 187th most populous nations, denied women the vote! We should all take pity on the entire gender.</sarcasm>
Look, if your argument is that discrimination occurring in the past (and often before you were born) is the cause of all your problems, you need to seriously think about what you should be doing to change things. Women's suffrage in the U.S. is a done deal.
Maybe you want to figure out, for instance, how to change the way Universities deal with women faculty that want to have families or how to change corporate culture to be more understanding for people that want to have families, rather than living in the past...
There are definitely societal issues that need to be resolved with regard to the way (insert your favorite ethnic/gender/social group) are treated. Focusing on problems from a hundred years ago does not help your case. Address today's problems.
make $35/hour then get billed out for more than $150/hr
I once had a boss at a small consulting firm that explained the difference between his employees' wages and their billed rates like this: For every dollar he payed the employees, he had to spend a dollar on taxes, medical, overhead, etc. Since it was a consulting firm, he also really couldn't guarantee having work coming in more than half the time. That means, to stay afloat, he should be charging about four times what he was paying. ($35*4=$140, so about the same ballpark here.) Interestingly enough, the company still ended up folding after close to ten years. I guess he wasn't charging enough to cover payroll between jobs after all.
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Trump is good at misdirection and baiting the media and the public-at-large. When he says "look over here at this naughty Amazon", he's not serious; he's really trying to divert attention from some fjnork-up someplace else.
I thought he usually dealt with "naughty Amazons" using third-party non-disclosure agreements.
There is and has been a push to try to get more men into teach at the elementary school level, a career field that is heavily dominated by women (~78.5% women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics).
From my personal experience (computer) engineering pays a reasonable starting wage but there is no career path to speak of unless you jump into management. I do plenty to keep my skills up to date and all that really does is keep me at the same senior level salary I had 7 years ago...
Oddly enough, my organization has opportunities to move up and stay technical by moving to the research side of the house. The problem is, you also have to move to the geographic location of one of the labs.
JFK's dad was JFK, just an average Joe.
Close. His initials were JPK
Considering Tarzan or Hunchback original stretches the meaning of the word further than any word should ever reasonably expect to be stretched.
As opposed to Snow White or Sleeping Beauty? You might as well limit it to "Steamboat Willy"! (Even Bambi is based on a book that had come out ~20 years earlier.)
What Disney has traditionally been good at is retelling an older story in a format that both kids and their parents enjoy watching.
Damn! I was sure he said there was a frog in his bidet...
Interesting. I wonder what other liquors, or even wines might benefit from this trick?
Well, wine is already in the 10%-20% alcohol range (as opposed to whiskey at ~40%), so you've essentially already benefited from this effect. Essentially any mixed drink made with a harder liquor is going to take advantage of this, however
First of all, I'm talking way younger than dolls or bob the builder. Boys and girls start acting like boys or girls after just a few months of age.
OK, so give me some examples of boy or girl specific behavior that would occur at an age early enough they were not getting toys. And what age are you thinking?
Secondly, it makes no difference which toys you give to which gender. Like I said earlier, you give a boy a doll, and he will play with it as though it were a ball or a tank or some other type of vehicle. You give a girl a fire truck, and she'll feed it a bottle. Same thing with gender-neutral toys. Give a boy legos, and he'll build a fort and smash it. Give the exact same legos to a girl, and she'll bake you a cake.
Anecdotes are just that. My daughter loves building things with blocks or legos (or having me build them when she was younger) and then proceeding to smash them. Yes, she is also nurturing to some of her stuffed animals.
I don't blame you for thinking I'm crazy. Before I had kids, I wouldn't have believed it, either. But if you look at the responses here from other parents, you'll see that I'm not an anomaly.
Let me state, one last time, that you missed the entire point of all my posts: The differences are observable, BUT they are as much an effect of the way society treats kids as they are of nature. As a parent, you are probably aware that young children are sponges, absorbing everything they see or hear, even if you don't notice it.
For example, many people here have cited examples of male toddlers playing with make believe guns. I ask you to consider if they created the entire concept of a gun (including the shape) out of their imagination, or if they saw a clip on television or a billboard somewhere that showed a male grown-up holding a gun. Which do you think is more likely?
Sponges, I say.
People treat little kids differently based on whether they are a boy or a girl, regardless of what you as a parent want (or even what the kid wants).
I'd love to hear an example of that. Remember, I'm talking about kids who aren't even 1 year old yet.
Sure. What do kids get as a gifts for (insert holiday celebration of your choice) from their relatives (especially Grandma/Grandpa)? Do the girls all get Bob the builder toys and the boys get a play kitchen and dolls? Probably not.
Your "wearing pink" example is silly. How would a 9-month-old know that pink is a "girl" color?
How do you know that pink is a "girl" color? It's societal. Society thinks that pink is a "girl" color, so people tend to give girls pink clothes. The girls then either like the color or recognize that they get positive reinforcement for liking it (e.g. grandma smiles and says "How cute!") and wear it more often.
That might be true, but we noticed the differences since long before they were old enough to even have a gender identity. How could a child take clues from society about his or her gender roles before even knowing his or her own gender?
Unless you dress your kid in earth tones and name them "Pat", society at large knows if they are a boy or a girl and treats them "appropriately". If the relatives always give your kid pink things, chances are the kid will be predisposed towards wearing pink. No self-knowledge required on your offspring's part. People treat little kids differently based on whether they are a boy or a girl, regardless of what you as a parent want (or even what the kid wants).
In the end, you do what you can to give your kids the tools to break free from gender stereotypes, but it really is up to them.
Under benefits I would add paid overtime and not being expected to constantly work 60-80 hour weeks. It's really nice to be able to see your family.
Organ trail? Good God, what kind of sick, gore-filled rendition of Oregon trail have you been playing? At least it teaches anatomy...
The special Donner Party version?
When correcting others, it's usually good to have a clue yourself.
"The IRI would transmit radio waves over the frequency range 2.8 to 10 MHz." from "Effects in the Ionosphere" http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/ion5.html
This is NOT a radar! It must be difficult to make a living calculate exactly what the radar is doing if you don't know the difference between radar frequencies (in the gigihertz region) and HF in the range 2.8 to 10 MHz.
Actually radar stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. It is not specific to a frequency range. While most current radar systems may be in the microwave range, many early radar systems were, in fact, in the HF portion of the spectrum. (Scroll down to the "Frequency Bands"section of the above wikipedia article for more info.)
From the best of my understanding "police" officers are not employed by universities. This may be different here in Canada, but universities here have private security forces, which are far from the police.
Depends on the university. RPI's Public Safety, for instance, has arrest powers. The University of Michigan has had its own police force, including two canine units, since 1992.
I don't know. It all almost seems fitting when you consider that this was a case of prior art. (For those not in the know, the famous picture/statue actually commemorate the second flag raising of the day, done, depending on the source, to either record the moment properly for posterity, make the flag more visible, or keep the orginal flag for the Marine Corps battalion.)
If you're like me, you are always transporting data from home to work, and back.
And if you're a cheap, lazy bastard like me, you just email everything back and forth. (I mean, sure I can use my 512MB MuVo TX FM as a flash drive, but that's so much effort...)
If a modern geek were dropped off naked on an island and told to start over, he'd never get to the point of smelting iron in one lifetime.
Only if said geek hadn't read Caveman Chemsitry. The book covers everything from making fire, through making gless and smelting copper, to producing plastics.
I think there's some confusion about the difference between creativity and knowledge. Sure, knowledge is useful when you're trying to be creative, but it's not the same thing.
In general, the internet provides a lot of knowledge (some of it even accurate), but whether that translates to increased creativity is debatable.
In fact, some could argue that the increased availability of knowledge actually limits creativity. ("Why do I ned to come up a with a way to do that? Here's six different ways I found on the internet.")
Oh dear God, I hadn't realized that Liechtenstein, the worlds 187th most populous nations, denied women the vote! We should all take pity on the entire gender.</sarcasm>
Look, if your argument is that discrimination occurring in the past (and often before you were born) is the cause of all your problems, you need to seriously think about what you should be doing to change things. Women's suffrage in the U.S. is a done deal.
Maybe you want to figure out, for instance, how to change the way Universities deal with women faculty that want to have families or how to change corporate culture to be more understanding for people that want to have families, rather than living in the past...
There are definitely societal issues that need to be resolved with regard to the way (insert your favorite ethnic/gender/social group) are treated. Focusing on problems from a hundred years ago does not help your case. Address today's problems.
"I'm great, I was an AA student"
I knew quite a few those. It really tended to hurt their grades...
Funny. If you'd signed this post as Roy G. Biv, I'd have really lost it...
Which reminds me of the mnemonic my dad once told me for resistor codes:
Bad
Boys
Rape
Our
Young
Girls
But
Violet
Gives
Willingly
make $35/hour then get billed out for more than $150/hr
I once had a boss at a small consulting firm that explained the difference between his employees' wages and their billed rates like this: For every dollar he payed the employees, he had to spend a dollar on taxes, medical, overhead, etc. Since it was a consulting firm, he also really couldn't guarantee having work coming in more than half the time. That means, to stay afloat, he should be charging about four times what he was paying. ($35*4=$140, so about the same ballpark here.) Interestingly enough, the company still ended up folding after close to ten years. I guess he wasn't charging enough to cover payroll between jobs after all.