Its sort of a 'guy' thing. Men like to get up in each other's face with insults. Even if its just good natured ribbing. You drive a Ford instead of a Chevy? Like the Lakers instead if the Knicks? Use vi instead of emacs? Bwahhahaha! Women (I know I'm going to get some mod-down for this) tend to do things more subtly and behind people's backs.
The trouble with the Internet is that gender isn't immediately evident. And because IT/engineering was traditionally a man's world, the default assumption is that you are posting to or in front of a bunch of guys who understand this mentality.
Perhaps its the geek culture that attracts misogynists. Or at last that slice of misogynists that wants to retreat from mixed social or work groups because the IT department has been a male bastion. But then there are a lot of different cultures that have their own subset of women haters. Traditional blue collar professions had their own memes surrounding the idea that women just can't do the job, so they are not welcome on the construction site (other than as the cute secretary in the foreman's trailer). When women did start appearing, a subset of men refused to judge them on their abilities. Same thing in traditional engineering professions back in the old days. "Women can't do math" or "don't have the requisite spatial/mechanical skills". I've heard it all before in my travels through the aforementioned professions.
The geek persona just expresses misogyny in one particular fashion that seems to stand out more in our society. So it gets attention. I don't see the alpha male or controlling sociopath cultures being singled out. But the attitude that women are here to serve men at their pleasure or comply with their wishes is every bit as bad as that of people who are just trying to retreat to a corner of their lives where they don't have to deal with women as equals. In fact, these other types of men are possibly more dangerous in that they seek out women to dominate.
Perhaps the issue should be our tolerance of all forms of misogyny. The geek expression of it has been in the news lately, but that may only be because the other forms have become more or less typical behaviors in our society.
No, what's needed is an infinite supply of money, of course.
This study was done in Washington State. Now I don't know about the rest of the state, but in Seattle, the school district (and its funds) are being pulled in a number of directions, none of which are economicaly optimal.
First, there's the neighborhood school interests. In the past, many small schools were constructed to put them in all the neighborhoods. But economics (and common sense) dictates that consolidating these into fewer, larger buildings is the way to go. Now, try fighting that battle with all of the parents' groups when they learn that their local school will be shut down.
And then there's the historical monument group. Many of Seattle's older schools are brick buildings. In an earthquake zone. Seismic refitting is very expensive, often much more than calling in the bulldozer and building new to code. But both the neighborhood school interest groups and the historical building preservation groups push money into maintaining these crumbling relics.
Its as simple a problem as engine diameter and ground clearance. The only way to fix ground clearance is to install longer landing gear. Which means bigger gear bays and now you might as well throw the whole structure out and start with a fresh design.
Looking at what today's mission for a B-52 is, I wonder why they don't just put a bomb rack in a cargo plane or a 747.
They are made by the very same people they eventually go homicidal on.
So, the six people who died in Santa Barbara were targeted because they shit on Rodger? I don't think so.
Leaving the issue of made vs born aside for the moment, many people who go off the deep end just take their problems out on targets of convenience. Even if someone actually did 'shit on them', odds are when the snap, the shitee will just go off on the nearest person or on a group that they believe represents their tormentor.
Time to wake up to reality. There is a vast difference between an education at a top school and the other colleges.
That depends on the market. A recent Economist article (probably paywalled) compared the ROI for degrees from a number of universities. The ROI from the University of Washington (Seattle) is higher than that for MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech and a bunch of other 'big name' tech schools.
It depends on what the market wants. And the market in business is willing to pay well for talent, regardless of the name of the school. Faculties, on the other hand, probably place a higher premium on the name and type of degree. The Economist article didn't look at market segments that way, so if you have your heart set on a faculty job, the big name might be worth it. But on average, no.
The purpose of ethanol is to enhance the supply of oxygen in gasoline,
Perhaps with older carbureted engines. But today's emission controlled systems with O2 sensors and closed loop fuel control just change the fuel mixture to make the combustion stoichiometric. Provide some of the needed oxygen in the liquid fuel and the engine controller will sense that and increase the fuel to air ratio to make it balance. The result: Lower mileage. Plus now the oil companies can effectively charge us for some of the oxygen we we used to get for free through the air filter.
Then came Prohibition. These backyard stills were largely destroyed. Those that remained were hidden away and the alcohol was too valuable to burn in a car.
There's the conspiracy theory that prohibition was supported by Standard Oil to shut down the local auto fuel stills and bost the demand for gasoline. Larger production facilities of ethanol continued to produce it for non beverage uses because these were esy to regulate. But the farmers' stills had to go.
Today, you can produce ethanol from cane sugar. But you can't buy sugar in the USA at a price which would make fuel use economical, thanks to the sugar cartel.
There are numerous impediments, either intentional or accidental, to interesting alternative fuel technologies.
One can hope, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Much of the justification for the AT&T/Direct TV merger is to give the merged company more leverage with content providers. Streaming TV puts the power in the hands of the consumer and makes the physical transport layer a commodity.
I would have liked to see the merger made conditional on a shift to a la carte programming, at least on AT&T's terrestrial systems. Handing that much control over from a cable company to customers isn't going to happen without a fight.
Back when the Universal Sevice Fund was created for rural POTS, that was a heavly regulated and well defined service. So when the government mandated redistribution of funds for the telecoms (actually only the one back then) to build rural systems, they knew what they'd be getting.
Broadband Internet service is poorly defined. Lacking any sort of network neutrality (and other common carrier regulations), there is no telling what exactly will get built and once built, what people in rural communities will be able to do with it.
They should name this the Take The Money and Run Plan.
Right. Probable cause that evidence exists of a crime that has been commited.
What I'm saying is that collecting intelligence pointing to a crime that might be commited in the future is stepping over the bounds of how this country was originally envisioned. The occasional conspiracy may develop into a full blown crime or act of terrorism. But I'd rather lose 3000 people once every dozen years than give up the principles upon which this country was founded.
the FBI,.... finds that it can indeed gather the information it needs for its investigation through a regular search warrant applied directly to its suspect.
This works for past bad deeds. Where the evidence of a crime already exists and only needs to be collected. It doesn't help with collecting data in anticipation of future wrongdoing.
This works to deter people or organizations who don't want to get caught after the fact. It doesn't help in the event that organization doesn't care one way or another. Like the people flying planes into buildings. Sure, go ahead and charge them with a crime. They are beyond caring.
What this comes down to is: In order to live in a society with the sort of freedoms we have beed accustomed to for the past few hundred years, we are going to have to live with 3000 lives more or less lost every decade or so. On the other hand, we could live in neat and orderly society. But I don't want to be caned for chewing gum in public. I'll put up with the occasional sticky wad under the bus seat in exchange for my freedom.
Australia is already home to some of the strangest and most dangerous animals. Cane toads, poisonous snakes and spiders, drop bears, to name a few. We don't need any radioactivity speeding up the mutation process.
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Its sort of a 'guy' thing. Men like to get up in each other's face with insults. Even if its just good natured ribbing. You drive a Ford instead of a Chevy? Like the Lakers instead if the Knicks? Use vi instead of emacs? Bwahhahaha! Women (I know I'm going to get some mod-down for this) tend to do things more subtly and behind people's backs.
The trouble with the Internet is that gender isn't immediately evident. And because IT/engineering was traditionally a man's world, the default assumption is that you are posting to or in front of a bunch of guys who understand this mentality.
Perhaps its the geek culture that attracts misogynists. Or at last that slice of misogynists that wants to retreat from mixed social or work groups because the IT department has been a male bastion. But then there are a lot of different cultures that have their own subset of women haters. Traditional blue collar professions had their own memes surrounding the idea that women just can't do the job, so they are not welcome on the construction site (other than as the cute secretary in the foreman's trailer). When women did start appearing, a subset of men refused to judge them on their abilities. Same thing in traditional engineering professions back in the old days. "Women can't do math" or "don't have the requisite spatial/mechanical skills". I've heard it all before in my travels through the aforementioned professions.
The geek persona just expresses misogyny in one particular fashion that seems to stand out more in our society. So it gets attention. I don't see the alpha male or controlling sociopath cultures being singled out. But the attitude that women are here to serve men at their pleasure or comply with their wishes is every bit as bad as that of people who are just trying to retreat to a corner of their lives where they don't have to deal with women as equals. In fact, these other types of men are possibly more dangerous in that they seek out women to dominate.
Perhaps the issue should be our tolerance of all forms of misogyny. The geek expression of it has been in the news lately, but that may only be because the other forms have become more or less typical behaviors in our society.
Oblig. Calvin and Hobbes
No, what's needed is an infinite supply of money, of course.
This study was done in Washington State. Now I don't know about the rest of the state, but in Seattle, the school district (and its funds) are being pulled in a number of directions, none of which are economicaly optimal.
First, there's the neighborhood school interests. In the past, many small schools were constructed to put them in all the neighborhoods. But economics (and common sense) dictates that consolidating these into fewer, larger buildings is the way to go. Now, try fighting that battle with all of the parents' groups when they learn that their local school will be shut down.
And then there's the historical monument group. Many of Seattle's older schools are brick buildings. In an earthquake zone. Seismic refitting is very expensive, often much more than calling in the bulldozer and building new to code. But both the neighborhood school interest groups and the historical building preservation groups push money into maintaining these crumbling relics.
Where do you put the play ground?
Parking lot.
Its as simple a problem as engine diameter and ground clearance. The only way to fix ground clearance is to install longer landing gear. Which means bigger gear bays and now you might as well throw the whole structure out and start with a fresh design.
Looking at what today's mission for a B-52 is, I wonder why they don't just put a bomb rack in a cargo plane or a 747.
I think the example of mis-classifying pedestrians as clear road is over-reaching a bit to find a problem.
On the other hand, the AI might end up in trouble when deciding to run over cats and avoid dogs.
virgin
$200 of daddy's money in the right part of town could have fixed that easily.
Heck, with a fancy BMW, if you can't catch a case of herpes, you're not really trying.
Humans are animals, beasts if you will.
Missing the obligatory postscript "between the sheets".
They are made by the very same people they eventually go homicidal on.
So, the six people who died in Santa Barbara were targeted because they shit on Rodger? I don't think so.
Leaving the issue of made vs born aside for the moment, many people who go off the deep end just take their problems out on targets of convenience. Even if someone actually did 'shit on them', odds are when the snap, the shitee will just go off on the nearest person or on a group that they believe represents their tormentor.
They also represent the majority of the people who cross the street in the middle of a block.
Time to wake up to reality. There is a vast difference between an education at a top school and the other colleges.
That depends on the market. A recent Economist article (probably paywalled) compared the ROI for degrees from a number of universities. The ROI from the University of Washington (Seattle) is higher than that for MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech and a bunch of other 'big name' tech schools.
It depends on what the market wants. And the market in business is willing to pay well for talent, regardless of the name of the school. Faculties, on the other hand, probably place a higher premium on the name and type of degree. The Economist article didn't look at market segments that way, so if you have your heart set on a faculty job, the big name might be worth it. But on average, no.
The purpose of ethanol is to enhance the supply of oxygen in gasoline,
Perhaps with older carbureted engines. But today's emission controlled systems with O2 sensors and closed loop fuel control just change the fuel mixture to make the combustion stoichiometric. Provide some of the needed oxygen in the liquid fuel and the engine controller will sense that and increase the fuel to air ratio to make it balance. The result: Lower mileage. Plus now the oil companies can effectively charge us for some of the oxygen we we used to get for free through the air filter.
Then came Prohibition. These backyard stills were largely destroyed. Those that remained were hidden away and the alcohol was too valuable to burn in a car.
There's the conspiracy theory that prohibition was supported by Standard Oil to shut down the local auto fuel stills and bost the demand for gasoline. Larger production facilities of ethanol continued to produce it for non beverage uses because these were esy to regulate. But the farmers' stills had to go.
Today, you can produce ethanol from cane sugar. But you can't buy sugar in the USA at a price which would make fuel use economical, thanks to the sugar cartel.
There are numerous impediments, either intentional or accidental, to interesting alternative fuel technologies.
The Internet will likely replace cable TV
One can hope, but I wouldn't hold my breath. Much of the justification for the AT&T/Direct TV merger is to give the merged company more leverage with content providers. Streaming TV puts the power in the hands of the consumer and makes the physical transport layer a commodity.
I would have liked to see the merger made conditional on a shift to a la carte programming, at least on AT&T's terrestrial systems. Handing that much control over from a cable company to customers isn't going to happen without a fight.
Back when the Universal Sevice Fund was created for rural POTS, that was a heavly regulated and well defined service. So when the government mandated redistribution of funds for the telecoms (actually only the one back then) to build rural systems, they knew what they'd be getting.
Broadband Internet service is poorly defined. Lacking any sort of network neutrality (and other common carrier regulations), there is no telling what exactly will get built and once built, what people in rural communities will be able to do with it.
They should name this the Take The Money and Run Plan.
the US military's ideas on the importance of securing nuclear weapons
They load the software from 8 inch floppy disks.
Right. Probable cause that evidence exists of a crime that has been commited.
What I'm saying is that collecting intelligence pointing to a crime that might be commited in the future is stepping over the bounds of how this country was originally envisioned. The occasional conspiracy may develop into a full blown crime or act of terrorism. But I'd rather lose 3000 people once every dozen years than give up the principles upon which this country was founded.
the FBI, .... finds that it can indeed gather the information it needs for its investigation through a regular search warrant applied directly to its suspect.
This works for past bad deeds. Where the evidence of a crime already exists and only needs to be collected. It doesn't help with collecting data in anticipation of future wrongdoing.
This works to deter people or organizations who don't want to get caught after the fact. It doesn't help in the event that organization doesn't care one way or another. Like the people flying planes into buildings. Sure, go ahead and charge them with a crime. They are beyond caring.
What this comes down to is: In order to live in a society with the sort of freedoms we have beed accustomed to for the past few hundred years, we are going to have to live with 3000 lives more or less lost every decade or so. On the other hand, we could live in neat and orderly society. But I don't want to be caned for chewing gum in public. I'll put up with the occasional sticky wad under the bus seat in exchange for my freedom.
Australia is already home to some of the strangest and most dangerous animals. Cane toads, poisonous snakes and spiders, drop bears, to name a few. We don't need any radioactivity speeding up the mutation process.
Anything for Curiousity to see? Dust in the atmosphere? Seismic waves? The top of the meteor slowly unscrewing?