This has gone far enough, time for a backlash - I won't employ women in the future.
That's a bit weak. Shouldn't you be treatening to rape and torture to death any girl who dares to use a computer? What sort of a half-arsed bigot are you?
Classist? Because by making a program like this available to children who live in low-income households is somehow unfair to kids from wealthy families?
If you're a rabidly elitist right winger (i.e. the typical slashdot reader) then anything which threatens that elite is labelled as class warfare. It is an attempt to ironically take a Marxist term and use it against egalitarian left wingers.
You forgot to mention the large number of stories about brilliant but poor male geeks fighting their way out of the sort of poverty that makes the "Four Yorkshiremen" sound like a walk in the park, and ending up rich and happy, and so anyone else could too, so what are all these women/blacks/gays compalining about?
How come sexual discrimination seems to be a one way thing with the political classes? Can you imagine the fuss and uproar if someone dared suggest a National Center for Men & [insert vocation with not many men here]? I'm sick & tired of this hypocritical social engineering.
Yes, I know, the only real minority rights group nowadays is us white, middle class, heterosexual males.
I'm sure that, if only I were a black disabled lesbian, I'd have it easy.
Nope. We're sick of all those dirt-poor little boys in Appalachia lording their white male privilege over down-trodden little rich girls living in Grosse Pointe!
I'd still rather be a dirt-poor little boy in Appalachia than a dirt-poor little girl in Appalachia.
It's really coming to something when victim culture is so bad people get upset when helping other people makes them feel like it's some giant feminazi conspiracy to keep them poor and uneducated.
Please point out the comparable computer education program that ONLY serves young boys that this program attempts to counter-balance...
I suppose you also think that in the absence of actual apartheid laws, there is no racism in the US?
Boys show less interest in ballet, sorry, have inherently less opportunities in ballet, does it mean we should be providing free ballet lessons for them?
Ballet is a relatively niche subject. The argument is that Computer Science/coding is now as core as basic numeracy and literacy, and there would be something wrong if only a minority of girls could read and write.
I do not see a good reason for having a girls only class.
There it is. If you don't understand the issues involved, why do you hold such a strong opinion on the subject?
Holy Reading Comprehension Batman!
(What makes you think he doesn't understand the issues involved?)
Because if he did understand the issues involved, he would have to acknowledge that there are many good reasons for having a girls only class. He might not agree with them, but his original comment appeared to dismiss their very existence.
Yeah, no. This would be akin to you going to a soup kitchen in a poor black community and saying that no men are allowed inside because only low income women deserve free food.
Yeah, no. This would in fact be more akin to you going to a soup kitchen in a poor black community and saying that no men are allowed inside because there are already plenty of other soup kitchens supplying men and they don't let many women use them.
You haven't figured it out yet, have you? This has nothing to do with equality, period.
No, it's just a part of the feminazi conspiracy to work alongside our lizard overlords in eliminating gree market loving men entirely from the world and creating a reptilian-matriarchal-communist new World Order where guns are banned and only lesbians are allowed mustaches.
They do not use electricity at all unless required to do so (by health codes, such as refrigerators in their food processing areas).
They use natural gas for lighting, and all hand tools.
Most of them are farming and have large open air spaces.
In fact, since they tend to be closed-in, they are needing new people to come in so their incidence of genetic diseases would decrease, and refresh the gene pool.
Don't they also have to have stupid Seventeenth Century religious beliefs?
The job of the NSA is to spy and if they don't spy on everything spyable they aren't doing their job. Can't even figure out why this would worthy of a./ headline.
The job of a burglar is the break in and take stuff, if they don't break in and take stuff they aren't doing their job.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't shoot them on sight or that anyone who defends that kind of behavior shouldn't get ran out of town.
Except for the fact that burglary is illegal, and the NSA et al have full legal authority to do what they do, that's a great analogy.
But you should have made it a car-jacking or something to follow slashdot "shit analogy" guidelines.
terror bombing and the mass muder in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 45
My father was scheduled to be landing on the beaches of Japan to force their surrender in WW2. If not for the atomic bombs that lead to Japan's capitulation he, my siblings, my children, and my grandchildren may very well not be here today. There is no way you can make me feel sorry for the killing of thousands that saved the lives of millions.
I have never understood the logic behind the argument that the Japanese were prepared to fanatically fight to the last man, woman and child (and would therefore have caused millions of Allied casualties), and yet they suddenly surrendered when the US dropped a couple of impressive bombs.
Why didn't they just go on fighting anyway? What's the difference between your country being destroyed by invading troops and destroyed by bombing?
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I don't think longevity is foremost in the mind of someone who wants to go from 0-60 mph in 2.2 seconds.
YOLO.
For all of the rest of the world (except Burma, which doesn't count), the car weighs 636kg, and does 0-100 km/hr in 2.2 sec.
Except that 0 - 60 mph in 2.2 secs is not equal to 0 -100 km/hr in 2.2 secs.
I've been noticing more typos on the BBC website lately.
Best we sell it to Rupert Murdoch ASAP then.
Yes, because your one son and one daughter perfectly (and conveniently) reflect the experience of all other men and women.
I'm sorry if it is offensive to some people, but women and men are different.
And people with dark skin and light skin are different. Which is trivially true, but meaningless, unless you choose to turn it into racism.
This has gone far enough, time for a backlash - I won't employ women in the future.
That's a bit weak. Shouldn't you be treatening to rape and torture to death any girl who dares to use a computer? What sort of a half-arsed bigot are you?
Classist? Because by making a program like this available to children who live in low-income households is somehow unfair to kids from wealthy families?
If you're a rabidly elitist right winger (i.e. the typical slashdot reader) then anything which threatens that elite is labelled as class warfare. It is an attempt to ironically take a Marxist term and use it against egalitarian left wingers.
the terrible horrible massive harassment campaigns that nobody has been able to spot, identify, or even witness
Have you recently woken up from a coma and so missed the shitfest that was Gamergate?
You forgot to mention the large number of stories about brilliant but poor male geeks fighting their way out of the sort of poverty that makes the "Four Yorkshiremen" sound like a walk in the park, and ending up rich and happy, and so anyone else could too, so what are all these women/blacks/gays compalining about?
Clown.
How come sexual discrimination seems to be a one way thing with the political classes? Can you imagine the fuss and uproar if someone dared suggest a National Center for Men & [insert vocation with not many men here]? I'm sick & tired of this hypocritical social engineering.
Yes, I know, the only real minority rights group nowadays is us white, middle class, heterosexual males.
I'm sure that, if only I were a black disabled lesbian, I'd have it easy.
Everyone deserves equal opportunity, right?
Nope. We're sick of all those dirt-poor little boys in Appalachia lording their white male privilege over down-trodden little rich girls living in Grosse Pointe!
I'd still rather be a dirt-poor little boy in Appalachia than a dirt-poor little girl in Appalachia.
Please point out the comparable computer education program that ONLY serves young boys that this program attempts to counter-balance...
I suppose you also think that in the absence of actual apartheid laws, there is no racism in the US?
That's because there isn't a good reason for having a girls-only class.
No, what you mean is that there isn't a reason that you agree with.
Boys show less interest in ballet, sorry, have inherently less opportunities in ballet, does it mean we should be providing free ballet lessons for them?
Ballet is a relatively niche subject. The argument is that Computer Science/coding is now as core as basic numeracy and literacy, and there would be something wrong if only a minority of girls could read and write.
I do not see a good reason for having a girls only class.
There it is. If you don't understand the issues involved, why do you hold such a strong opinion on the subject?
Holy Reading Comprehension Batman!
(What makes you think he doesn't understand the issues involved?)
Because if he did understand the issues involved, he would have to acknowledge that there are many good reasons for having a girls only class. He might not agree with them, but his original comment appeared to dismiss their very existence.
Yeah, no. This would be akin to you going to a soup kitchen in a poor black community and saying that no men are allowed inside because only low income women deserve free food.
Yeah, no. This would in fact be more akin to you going to a soup kitchen in a poor black community and saying that no men are allowed inside because there are already plenty of other soup kitchens supplying men and they don't let many women use them.
You haven't figured it out yet, have you? This has nothing to do with equality, period.
No, it's just a part of the feminazi conspiracy to work alongside our lizard overlords in eliminating gree market loving men entirely from the world and creating a reptilian-matriarchal-communist new World Order where guns are banned and only lesbians are allowed mustaches.
Did you just make that shit up, or is there a lunatic conspiracy theory website you copied it from?
So you intend to drive around in a shit heap all your life to avoid the very slight possibility that your car will be hacked?
You wish... My '92 M-B 600SEL runs fine, and I expect it to continue running fine for many years.
Q How can you tell if someone drives a Mercedes Benz?
A They will immediately let you know.
Screw that I just got a '57 Chevy from Cuba.
If you are involved in an accident you are far more likely to die or be seriously injured than with a modern car.
People who choose cars based on looks/image rather than engineering are just another type of idiot hipster.
So why is she not simply converting to Amish?
They do not use electricity at all unless required to do so (by health codes, such as refrigerators in their food processing areas). They use natural gas for lighting, and all hand tools. Most of them are farming and have large open air spaces.
In fact, since they tend to be closed-in, they are needing new people to come in so their incidence of genetic diseases would decrease, and refresh the gene pool.
Don't they also have to have stupid Seventeenth Century religious beliefs?
So, they have to hide from the Sun during the day like a vampire also?
I expect their tinfoil hats work as sunshades quite well.
After all, how many conspiracy theorists have a glowing tan?
The job of the NSA is to spy and if they don't spy on everything spyable they aren't doing their job. Can't even figure out why this would worthy of a ./ headline.
The job of a burglar is the break in and take stuff, if they don't break in and take stuff they aren't doing their job.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't shoot them on sight or that anyone who defends that kind of behavior shouldn't get ran out of town.
Except for the fact that burglary is illegal, and the NSA et al have full legal authority to do what they do, that's a great analogy.
But you should have made it a car-jacking or something to follow slashdot "shit analogy" guidelines.
terror bombing and the mass muder in Hiroshima and Nagasaki 45
My father was scheduled to be landing on the beaches of Japan to force their surrender in WW2. If not for the atomic bombs that lead to Japan's capitulation he, my siblings, my children, and my grandchildren may very well not be here today. There is no way you can make me feel sorry for the killing of thousands that saved the lives of millions.
I have never understood the logic behind the argument that the Japanese were prepared to fanatically fight to the last man, woman and child (and would therefore have caused millions of Allied casualties), and yet they suddenly surrendered when the US dropped a couple of impressive bombs.
Why didn't they just go on fighting anyway? What's the difference between your country being destroyed by invading troops and destroyed by bombing?