Well, one difference is that when the clitoris is excised it eliminates that problematic issue of 'female orgasm' for the most part. It steals a woman's entire possibility of sexual pleasure. Plus there is a top-down theological system of coercion in place forcing the 'procedure' on young Islamic women.
Female breast enlargement isn't forced on women from a theological point of view, it's simply cosmetic surgery gone out of control. Social pressures related to appearance are shallow compared to the full-force cultural hammering that Islamic women fact.
Your trying to equate the issues is offense. It's similar to High School 'human rights' students who might try to equate their not being able to publish a newspaper to horrendous rights abuses from the past like the Holocaust or the Soviet Gulag system.
I'm just glad to see people brave enough to counter it on apple.slashdot.org. I used to wince and wait for my 'flamebait' modification when making your sort of comment. Now I see multiple comments to this effect at +2 and holding. It seems Jobs' Reality Distortion Field has finally worn off about this particular lie.
Is there anything they could license in from the people who make Executor (ardi.com). Executor is a fully functioning Macintosh emulator (all the way down to the 68000 processor) that I ran on Linux and Windows back in the mid 90's. It only runs MacOS 6 and earlier code, however. But could be updated.
I imagine Apple hates ardi, though. I used to like Executor quite a bit. It was good enough to play the Apple port of Wolfenstein 3D, with sound and everything, on a Linux or Windows box with an intel processor.
I remember when Microsoft tried to latch onto 'X' back a few years. I got a postcard through their developers mailing last with a big 'X' on the front. It related to Active X. I looked the card over at the time and said 'what poseurs' because I was already pretty impressed with the X Window System on various unix-like OSes.
Apple sorta bought into that same hype, calling their tenth version of Mac OS 'X', though they did also import in some 'unix roots' with their NeXT merger (while abandoning their actual Unix port, A/UX).
Yes. Apple makes their money by marooning their customers out on an island. They keep it 'nice' to stay on that island, and actively discourage the mainland from adopting the nice amenities they provide to their island dwellers.
That's an apt metaphor for Apple, in a nutshell. (is 'Nutshell' an O'Reilly owned term yet?)
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Someone needs to jumpstart those poor folks forward into 1983 and floppy diskettes.
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'To support US trade unionists' translates:
To commemorate the Mayday Massacre of US laborers in Chicago, which occured on May 1st.
What's with all the 'Europe' stuff? It's a holiday that commemorates an American event in history.
Then all those great 60's tunes could be used in televison and radio commercials to such excess that they would by now be considered annoying background noise.
There you have it. A hierarchy of tiers defined by seniority, and a 'cannot be fired' mentality. It ossifies the methods and the structure of the schools, leading to the bullshit you describe.
A flatter performance-based hierarchy would cut out a lot of that nonsense.
I'm sorry if I somehow implied the school administrators shouldn't be canned also, often they should be the first fired.
Why is there an audiocassette forming the skull on that banner? Do we need to airlift in big boxes of 5-1/4" floppy drives and diskettes in kind of a Geek Rescue campaign?
And it would then be your right to completely quit expressing that 'stuff' in social settings. So the tyrranical 99% could suck air and FOAD, etc. etc.
Eventually there wouldn't be much to watch on TV but reruns.
Well, in the Muslim woman case you cite, the 'believers' are imposing their views on women who aren't as enamored with their 'beliefs' as they are themselves.
It's convenient if you are the ruling class of person in a culture (i.e. a man) to impose 'values' and let anybody else those rules affect just suffer.
And let's probe a little deeper and explore female genital mutilation. Do you think a 12 year old girl should be brainwashed to think her clitoris should be surgically removed? She's 'free' in her social setting because those are her 'values?'
Sun shopped around quite a bit for a standards body who they could work with. However, there seem to have been irregularities at every place they stopped. It seems like it has to be a Sun problem that prevented a robust standard from being established. Perhaps somebody else could help explain this more. I just remember the issue coming up in the past.
I was at work at my new temp job when the IT drone came through the place and told the regulars 'Shut down your Outlook and don't start it up again until I tell you it's okay' last week.
Hadn't encountered that one before. But the last place I worked was a Groupwise place a few years back.
Times appear to have changed. I don't think they're using the complex scheduling features of Outlook, but I'm just a contrator there, so didn't make any comments.
This is no good for a server of course, but ideal for a workstation.
No, it's fine also for a server, since a server generally has fixed software on it that runs unchanged. The dialogue might pop up (or show up in a log) while the admin is setting up and configuring the system, but it wouldn't impede proper operation of the server.
Before we pay teachers more money, maybe they should get their shit together and start doing a better job of teaching.
Or, if that won't work, fire them all and selectivly rehire only the former teachers who do a good job of teaching. If we're going to pay them more, it'll possibly attract actual honest-to-good competent people to the profession. There's no reason we should allow the current dregs to be 'grandfathered' into higher pay.
A bunch of dumb and now poor Union Fucks in the rust belt are supposed to get our sympathy because they thought they deserved permanent high paying jobs as unskilled laborers turning the same five screws for 40 years?
It would be pretty easy to make the same case against the leaders of the National Trade Unions. They're betraying their country and their (laid off because the plant closed, because the International refused to budge or deal with management) people.
Union Bosses and CEOs are a lot closer to the same thing than many people think.
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Suggest that to Richard Stallman. Get back to us on his response.
Well, one difference is that when the clitoris is excised it eliminates that problematic issue of 'female orgasm' for the most part. It steals a woman's entire possibility of sexual pleasure. Plus there is a top-down theological system of coercion in place forcing the 'procedure' on young Islamic women.
Female breast enlargement isn't forced on women from a theological point of view, it's simply cosmetic surgery gone out of control. Social pressures related to appearance are shallow compared to the full-force cultural hammering that Islamic women fact.
Your trying to equate the issues is offense. It's similar to High School 'human rights' students who might try to equate their not being able to publish a newspaper to horrendous rights abuses from the past like the Holocaust or the Soviet Gulag system.
I'm just glad to see people brave enough to counter it on apple.slashdot.org. I used to wince and wait for my 'flamebait' modification when making your sort of comment. Now I see multiple comments to this effect at +2 and holding. It seems Jobs' Reality Distortion Field has finally worn off about this particular lie.
Is there anything they could license in from the people who make Executor (ardi.com). Executor is a fully functioning Macintosh emulator (all the way down to the 68000 processor) that I ran on Linux and Windows back in the mid 90's. It only runs MacOS 6 and earlier code, however. But could be updated.
I imagine Apple hates ardi, though. I used to like Executor quite a bit. It was good enough to play the Apple port of Wolfenstein 3D, with sound and everything, on a Linux or Windows box with an intel processor.
I remember when Microsoft tried to latch onto 'X' back a few years. I got a postcard through their developers mailing last with a big 'X' on the front. It related to Active X. I looked the card over at the time and said 'what poseurs' because I was already pretty impressed with the X Window System on various unix-like OSes.
Apple sorta bought into that same hype, calling their tenth version of Mac OS 'X', though they did also import in some 'unix roots' with their NeXT merger (while abandoning their actual Unix port, A/UX).
Yes. Apple makes their money by marooning their customers out on an island. They keep it 'nice' to stay on that island, and actively discourage the mainland from adopting the nice amenities they provide to their island dwellers.
That's an apt metaphor for Apple, in a nutshell.
(is 'Nutshell' an O'Reilly owned term yet?)
Someone needs to jumpstart those poor folks forward into 1983 and floppy diskettes.
'To support US trade unionists' translates:
To commemorate the Mayday Massacre of US laborers in Chicago, which occured on May 1st.
What's with all the 'Europe' stuff? It's a holiday that commemorates an American event in history.
Definitely.
Then all those great 60's tunes could be used in televison and radio commercials to such excess that they would by now be considered annoying background noise.
The huge disfunctional bureacracy,
There you have it. A hierarchy of tiers defined by seniority, and a 'cannot be fired' mentality. It ossifies the methods and the structure of the schools, leading to the bullshit you describe.
A flatter performance-based hierarchy would cut out a lot of that nonsense.
I'm sorry if I somehow implied the school administrators shouldn't be canned also, often they should be the first fired.
Why is there an audiocassette forming the skull on that banner? Do we need to airlift in big boxes of 5-1/4" floppy drives and diskettes in kind of a Geek Rescue campaign?
Hey. Bandwidth should be free. And so long as it's not free, the people who have the bandwidth should give of it willingly and not complain.
So these, er, fine fellows should just suck it up and deal with the fact that they have none for the moment, because somebody else wanted it.
And it would then be your right to completely quit expressing that 'stuff' in social settings. So the tyrranical 99% could suck air and FOAD, etc. etc.
Eventually there wouldn't be much to watch on TV but reruns.
Well, in the Muslim woman case you cite, the 'believers' are imposing their views on women who aren't as enamored with their 'beliefs' as they are themselves.
It's convenient if you are the ruling class of person in a culture (i.e. a man) to impose 'values' and let anybody else those rules affect just suffer.
And let's probe a little deeper and explore female genital mutilation. Do you think a 12 year old girl should be brainwashed to think her clitoris should be surgically removed? She's 'free' in her social setting because those are her 'values?'
I was in a public rest room this afternoon where there was a vending machine that would dispense condoms for cash payment.
There was not a credit card reader on the vending machine.
Any suggestions what I should do? My expense account manager will NOT reimburse for cash purchases.
Sun shopped around quite a bit for a standards body who they could work with. However, there seem to have been irregularities at every place they stopped. It seems like it has to be a Sun problem that prevented a robust standard from being established. Perhaps somebody else could help explain this more. I just remember the issue coming up in the past.
I was at work at my new temp job when the IT drone came through the place and told the regulars 'Shut down your Outlook and don't start it up again until I tell you it's okay' last week.
Hadn't encountered that one before. But the last place I worked was a Groupwise place a few years back.
Times appear to have changed. I don't think they're using the complex scheduling features of Outlook, but I'm just a contrator there, so didn't make any comments.
This is no good for a server of course, but ideal for a workstation.
No, it's fine also for a server, since a server generally has fixed software on it that runs unchanged. The dialogue might pop up (or show up in a log) while the admin is setting up and configuring the system, but it wouldn't impede proper operation of the server.
It's rapidly approaching the point where the only reason to hire one will be because they do their job well.
Yikes! I guess the typical slashbot is in trouble, then.
Before we pay teachers more money, maybe they should get their shit together and start doing a better job of teaching.
Or, if that won't work, fire them all and selectivly rehire only the former teachers who do a good job of teaching. If we're going to pay them more, it'll possibly attract actual honest-to-good competent people to the profession. There's no reason we should allow the current dregs to be 'grandfathered' into higher pay.
A bunch of dumb and now poor Union Fucks in the rust belt are supposed to get our sympathy because they thought they deserved permanent high paying jobs as unskilled laborers turning the same five screws for 40 years?
Small houses on big chunks of land in the country. And my car is a paid-for 1993 model. That's what happens. But it sucks to be anybody else, I guess.
Actually, he betrayed the Monarchy of Britain, not the British People.
'God Save The Queen' 'She Ain't No Human Being.' etc. etc.
It would be pretty easy to make the same case against the leaders of the National Trade Unions. They're betraying their country and their (laid off because the plant closed, because the International refused to budge or deal with management) people.
Union Bosses and CEOs are a lot closer to the same thing than many people think.
So the problem really is people who were stupid enough to sign up to mortgages in the Bay Area.
Well, I guess they can enjoy their weather.
I paid $120K for a house built in 1900 on 4.9 acres of land. It wasn't in California, of course.
But times have changed, the Internet has decentralized communications and culture. You don't have to live on a coast to stay connected.