You know as well as I know and we ALL fucking know that those were his gloves.
Very-tightly-fitting leather gloves tend to NOT fit when you try and put them on atop latex gloves. And when you keep all your fingers splayed at all angles.
And especially when you've been taking medicine for arthritis and then stop, causing your hands to swell up.. yep.
That was untrue. Which list do you see anyway, because the one I saw included a number of books that were written AFTER THE 1996 DATE THAT WAS GIVEN AS WHEN SHE HAD THEM REMOVED.
In other words: If that was true, this bitch can travel through time, which just makes her more awesome.
Um, I'm pretty sure Japan's culture being extremely conservative and disapproving of anything different than the status quo is NOT something new. In fact it's more the whole.. crazy weird kooky stuff.. that's new. That's how Today's Japan is different. The rest? That's just Japan being Japan. They're conservative, they're racist, they're self-conscious, and gosh darn it, people like them.
There's more to it than sheer population density, too -- there's also the distribution.
And there's also the fact that it's not near as fucking backwards as this piece of shock-and-fluff journalism makes it out to be.
There are people, believe it or not, that'll stick with their 10-12/month dial-up connection even if offered high speed. Because it's cheaper. Because that's all they need. These people exist!
Also, as far as Sweden is concerned.. you guys are concentrated into fewer, larger urban areas than we are. And you don't have our ghettos to deal with -- these are people with an overblown sense of entitlement who will rally up and BAAAAWWWW if they don't have free broadband given to them, but if they were given the option of paying for it at normal rates most of them would sit back and BAAAAAWWW that it's too expensive, shut up and enjoy their $180 sneakers. Yes, THOSE people also exist and I know their stupid asses.
But yes in the end it's not the end of the world, it's not as bad as that article claims, it's not even a real article. It's fluff. They played with statistics and wrote 2 paragraphs. See those ads on the side of TFA?
There's also the fact that Japan is about the size of Montana, yet houses a population 4 times that of California.
Population density! It wins! Imagine even CALIFORNIA with 4 times the number of people -- California's got about 20,000 more sq. mi. of land than Japan.
This is a major issue. If you lay 20 miles of major cable in America, you'll be able to connect X people to it -- if you lay 20 miles of major cable in Japan you'll be able to connect at least 4X people to it. While, yes, that means the cable'll have to be bigger to support the load... it also means more people will be paying for it.
Or, what, do you really think anybody wants to drop a few m/billion to run fiber out to Bumfuck, Middle America, so all 3 people that live out there can watch Youtube?
My sister actually 'broke' her left eye briefly -- it wouldn't focus. Too much target shooting (she was in college at the time, shooting competitively, and had been since she was about 12).
Had to do 'exercises' that involved shifting her focus from something close to something far, with her right (dominant) eye closed, if i recall.
I've run in to this myself, too. I've had stretches where I spend too much time focused on my computer monitor, and upon exiting the house I can't really focus more than a few feet in front of me. After a while being outside, I adjust.. but something tells me it's not as full an adjustment as it should be. Possibly the glasses on my face.
I'm only 26, and already feel pretty out of touch and generally disgruntled towards and distrustful of kids these days. And I'm not near at the point yet where they're using all kinds of technology I don't understand. Kids are dumb.
How much money do you actually think they lost due to piracy?
How much money do you think they actually lost due to crazy DRM schemes -- money used for rights to the technology, and for continued support of the technology (which seems to be quite high, from RTFS, I guess)?
The only way their DRM, their efforts to combat piracy, were a good idea was if the second number is smaller than the first number. I'm getting the sneaky suspicion that is not the case.
It happens, oh definitely -- but less in academia than the general workplace (tenure being what it is and all). Plus, this is just over a 9 year period.. I doubt MIT would have very high turnover during a 9 year period, honestly.
Meh.. still no statistics to look at. As far as I'm concerned, that is still nothing more than pushing a particular agenda or, at best, barking at shadows in the dark.
When you set out to find something, it's not hard to sift through numbers and opinions until you find enough crap to support what you want to believe. I've little doubt that most of the bias can be discounted as rubbish -- even from the limited information in that article, an example is made that they have not hired more women in 20 years though the number of women in those fields has increased.
But looking at the one graph provided?
They *have* got rid of men.
Clearly, you're not going to hire MORE people if you're getting RID of people -- nor would you fire 30 people just so you can hire 10 new ones.
And those barriers of entry you're talking about really do not exist either. Sorry.
Hi, I'm a white male. I CURRENTLY HAVE THE MOST DIFFICULT TIME GETTING INTO COLLEGES, HAVE THE LEAST SCHOLORSHIPS AVAILABLE TO ME, AND WHEN MATCHED AGAINST ANYBODY WITH MATCHING CREDENTIALS THAT IS NOT ALSO A WHITE MALE WILL LOSE THAT CONTEST.
No, only in imagi-liberal land will an employer sit down and say "Well, Mr. Mexican here is a much better fit in this company than Mr. Honky, he's clearly more qualified... but I don't hire beaners. Call the dumb white guy!"
It's simply bad business sense. You're letting the better employee loose to work for a competitor. Dumb.
Actually, if you write really big, those stone tablets will last even *longer*. With stone it's a trade-off -- density of information vs. reading it 5,0000 years from now.
I've seen other stats about professors and pay differences, but those showed bias because they did not take into account variation in pay due to field -- professors of math and sciences are often higher-payed than professors of english and language, and since more men tend to the former than women and women tend to have a higher representation in the latter, it skews the results.
Couldn't tell you where that was from, though. That's going back probably close to a decade...
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Dude, don't even throw that one out there.
You know as well as I know and we ALL fucking know that those were his gloves.
Very-tightly-fitting leather gloves tend to NOT fit when you try and put them on atop latex gloves.
And when you keep all your fingers splayed at all angles.
And especially when you've been taking medicine for arthritis and then stop, causing your hands to swell up.. yep.
I heard it was more like 37 times.
That was untrue. Which list do you see anyway, because the one I saw included a number of books that were written AFTER THE 1996 DATE THAT WAS GIVEN AS WHEN SHE HAD THEM REMOVED.
In other words: If that was true, this bitch can travel through time, which just makes her more awesome.
Um, I'm pretty sure Japan's culture being extremely conservative and disapproving of anything different than the status quo is NOT something new.
In fact it's more the whole.. crazy weird kooky stuff.. that's new. That's how Today's Japan is different. The rest? That's just Japan being Japan. They're conservative, they're racist, they're self-conscious, and gosh darn it, people like them.
Not modpoints, mod*bombs*.
WE'RE NOT MODDING YOU DOWN, WE'RE LIBERATING YOU!
(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. Slashdot can't handle that amount of PURE AWESOME.)
Can't say I've ever heard of cops killing anyone with multiple taser hits after they were already unconcious or otherwise subdued.
Ever.
Police don't murder people for kicks.
(You're thinking of the Marines. Police murder people for kick-BACKS, not kicks. Rimshot.)
Thank you for posting that so I don't have to.
This is exactly how I picture this whole escapade went down.
"RUSSIAN MOTHERFUCKER, DO YOU SPEAK IT!"
I'm a personal fan of all the Gore bumper stickers still out there. Never forgive never forget, I guess
There's more to it than sheer population density, too -- there's also the distribution.
And there's also the fact that it's not near as fucking backwards as this piece of shock-and-fluff journalism makes it out to be.
There are people, believe it or not, that'll stick with their 10-12/month dial-up connection even if offered high speed. Because it's cheaper. Because that's all they need. These people exist!
Also, as far as Sweden is concerned.. you guys are concentrated into fewer, larger urban areas than we are. And you don't have our ghettos to deal with -- these are people with an overblown sense of entitlement who will rally up and BAAAAWWWW if they don't have free broadband given to them, but if they were given the option of paying for it at normal rates most of them would sit back and BAAAAAWWW that it's too expensive, shut up and enjoy their $180 sneakers. Yes, THOSE people also exist and I know their stupid asses.
But yes in the end it's not the end of the world, it's not as bad as that article claims, it's not even a real article. It's fluff. They played with statistics and wrote 2 paragraphs. See those ads on the side of TFA?
There's also the fact that Japan is about the size of Montana, yet houses a population 4 times that of California.
Population density! It wins! Imagine even CALIFORNIA with 4 times the number of people -- California's got about 20,000 more sq. mi. of land than Japan.
This is a major issue. If you lay 20 miles of major cable in America, you'll be able to connect X people to it -- if you lay 20 miles of major cable in Japan you'll be able to connect at least 4X people to it. While, yes, that means the cable'll have to be bigger to support the load... it also means more people will be paying for it.
Or, what, do you really think anybody wants to drop a few m/billion to run fiber out to Bumfuck, Middle America, so all 3 people that live out there can watch Youtube?
My sister actually 'broke' her left eye briefly -- it wouldn't focus. Too much target shooting (she was in college at the time, shooting competitively, and had been since she was about 12).
Had to do 'exercises' that involved shifting her focus from something close to something far, with her right (dominant) eye closed, if i recall.
I've run in to this myself, too. I've had stretches where I spend too much time focused on my computer monitor, and upon exiting the house I can't really focus more than a few feet in front of me. After a while being outside, I adjust.. but something tells me it's not as full an adjustment as it should be. Possibly the glasses on my face.
christ that sounds hot, I want one. On my toilet lid.
Nothing flaunts wealth like an excessively extravagant security system preventing unauthorized pooping.
Mod parent up, I've already posted and cannot!
I'm only 26, and already feel pretty out of touch and generally disgruntled towards and distrustful of kids these days. And I'm not near at the point yet where they're using all kinds of technology I don't understand.
Kids are dumb.
I look forward to our first Mario president.
What about a catapult?
Here's a fun little mental exercise.
How much money do you actually think they lost due to piracy?
How much money do you think they actually lost due to crazy DRM schemes -- money used for rights to the technology, and for continued support of the technology (which seems to be quite high, from RTFS, I guess)?
The only way their DRM, their efforts to combat piracy, were a good idea was if the second number is smaller than the first number. I'm getting the sneaky suspicion that is not the case.
I doubt any of those kids would enjoy a red beet egg, and that's CLEARLY racist against my pennsylvania dutch heritage.
I for one eagerly look forward to these kids being forced to eat surstromming. If you don't eat it, you're racist!
It happens, oh definitely -- but less in academia than the general workplace (tenure being what it is and all).
Plus, this is just over a 9 year period.. I doubt MIT would have very high turnover during a 9 year period, honestly.
Meh.. still no statistics to look at. As far as I'm concerned, that is still nothing more than pushing a particular agenda or, at best, barking at shadows in the dark.
When you set out to find something, it's not hard to sift through numbers and opinions until you find enough crap to support what you want to believe. I've little doubt that most of the bias can be discounted as rubbish -- even from the limited information in that article, an example is made that they have not hired more women in 20 years though the number of women in those fields has increased.
But looking at the one graph provided?
They *have* got rid of men.
Clearly, you're not going to hire MORE people if you're getting RID of people -- nor would you fire 30 people just so you can hire 10 new ones.
Are you trying to say that grants for research in hard science have a comparable cost to research in social sciences, even egads liberal arts?
Good christ, that's brilliant. Let's fund the philosophy department as heavily as the physics department.
And those barriers of entry you're talking about really do not exist either. Sorry.
Hi, I'm a white male. I CURRENTLY HAVE THE MOST DIFFICULT TIME GETTING INTO COLLEGES, HAVE THE LEAST SCHOLORSHIPS AVAILABLE TO ME, AND WHEN MATCHED AGAINST ANYBODY WITH MATCHING CREDENTIALS THAT IS NOT ALSO A WHITE MALE WILL LOSE THAT CONTEST.
No, only in imagi-liberal land will an employer sit down and say "Well, Mr. Mexican here is a much better fit in this company than Mr. Honky, he's clearly more qualified... but I don't hire beaners. Call the dumb white guy!"
It's simply bad business sense. You're letting the better employee loose to work for a competitor. Dumb.
Except a woman in a computer class won't get mocked and called faggy by other women, and the men won't think she's just there to try and pick them up.
Heaven forbid one human animal admire the shape of another human animal.
So disrespectful, and all.
This was modded TROLL?
This just in: ./ mods are apparently virgins AND gay.
Smart chicks are definitely a win all-around, and anyone who says differently loves throbbing cocks.
Actually, if you write really big, those stone tablets will last even *longer*. With stone it's a trade-off -- density of information vs. reading it 5,0000 years from now.
any info on that?
I've seen other stats about professors and pay differences, but those showed bias because they did not take into account variation in pay due to field -- professors of math and sciences are often higher-payed than professors of english and language, and since more men tend to the former than women and women tend to have a higher representation in the latter, it skews the results.
Couldn't tell you where that was from, though. That's going back probably close to a decade...