As far as I know, there is also a lot of pressure for boys for not to like math (or other academic subjects at school). And being a nerd is social death sentence for boys. Girls don't like nerds.
And in practise, most people in IT field, aren't really super good at mathematics. They might be somewhat above average, but university level mathematics tends to be strugle for most of them/us.
If a woman lies to a man by saying that they can have sex without condom because she is using pills, is she guilty of rape? Or is there some kind of double standard where woman is allowed to lie about using contraceptives, but man isn't?
If this is war, Iran has right to retaliate. Has USA thought how expensive it would be, if Iran sends a worm or virus that bricks large percentage of computers in USA by reflashing hard drives, BIOSes, GPUs, corrupting data on hard drives etc and at the same time does massive DDOS against banks, net shops, stock markets etc using botnet?
And is there any evidence that there is more sexual harassment in IT compared to fields where there are more women? I feel that women try to blame men for their own faults and use those blames to get an unfair advantage -- positive discrimination
It is also interesting note how there doesn't seem to be ever quotas or men or some other forms of positive discrimination on fields where men are the minority, like nursing or being a vet. And I have heard that sexual harassment against men is very common in nursing field.
Drug companies use more money on advertisements than on R&D. And at least in Finland drug advertisements is quite limited (because of laws against it) compared to US.
I am a gay and I am happy to see that Ravi didn't receive tougher punishment. I would have liked to see even milder punishment. One life was already needlessly destroyed and destroying another life would not have made things better, but worse.
What Ravi did, wasn't completely correct, but his intention was not cause Clementis death, which was quite unexpected consequence. I feel that the only reason why this was so widely reported in news, was because the suicide was so unexpected.
Instead of punishing Ravi, it would be much wiser to learn from it. I think there are at least two lessons that should be learned:
1) Some people might do suicide for reasons that seem quite minor to other people and you should avoid bullying anybody. Maybe Ravi, a bit older and wiser, could tell younger students what bullying can cause, even if the consequence was not your intention.
2) Try to grow a bit thicker skin. If you receive minor bullying, that is really stupid reason to kill yourself or somebody else.
Israel is constantly making their illegal settlements in occupied area larger and larger, and in same process driving Palestinians to even smaller areas, limiting their access to water (& farming land) from occupied areas, but giving it generously to illegal settlers, destroying their houses etc. That is ethnical cleansing.
Yes, over half of university students in Iran, are women:
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Well over half of university students in Iran are now women. In the applied physics department of Azad University 70% of the graduates are women - a statistic which would make many universities in the West proud. ...
Middle-East includes more countries than just Saudi-Arabia, which is maybe the worst offender, although it is the friend of USA. Although women are not allowed to drive in Saudi-Arabia, it doesn't mean that the same is true in other Middle-Eastern countries. And in many countries in Middle-East, young women are better educated than men, just like in in western countries.
If I remember correctly, even in fundamentalist Iran, over half of the university students are female.
Without Hezbollah Israel would probably had done similar kind of ethnic cleansing in Lebanon that Palestinians have faced within Palestine. Remember, Hezbollah was more or less started only after Israel attacked and occupied Lebanon and the main goal of Hezbollah was driving Israel out of the country.
And in Israel some of the Jews have started their own gender separation, which is worse than in many Arabic/Muslim countries. For example, in many parts of Israel, women aren't allowed to use the same sidewalks, they have to sit in a different parts of busses etc. And women who don't obey, are severely beaten.
I remember using Inc (or Succ) with pointers at least in Borland Pascal 7. It could be that TP 6 didn't support it and/or BP 7 supports Inc only without the second argument form (where you can specify increment by some other amount than by 1).
And as far as I remember, you usually didn't have to split pointer into segment and offset (or vice versa), unless you were calling BIOS/DOS interrupts/assembly functions (or doing low level stuff, like DMA access or writing directly to video RAM) -- even when I did pointer arithmetic.
Turbo Pascal 3 may have been quite limited (I don't think I have ever used TP 3), but the later versions of Turbo/Borland Pascal were really good IMHO.
They were insanely fast compilers even though the computers were quite slow, had nice integrated profilers, had object oriented libraries for writing windowed UI:s, help/documentation was really good and typically included small example programs to demonstrate how to use some function, it was easy to use Pascal with assembly language etc.
I haven't seen as developer friendly system since Borland Pascal. It was really easy to start learning programming using Borland Pascal, but it wasn't any toy system as you could write also large and complex programs.
For me Pascal syntax of pointers made more sense than C syntax. I started serious programming with Turbo/Borland Pascal and because the concept of pointers was so clear in Pascal, I was able to help my friends with their pointer problems in C. They had trouble understanding the concept of pointers, because C syntax was so confusing (eg. array and pointer are sometimes interchangeable, but sometimes they aren't).
I still sometimes use cdecl with complex definitions to make sure I have parsed/generated the C syntax correctly. However, pointer arithmetic was/is usually easier in C.
It seems that my guesstimate for preventable cancers was probably too low. According to one source: "The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that 50 percent to 75 percent of U.S. cancer deaths are caused by three harmful behaviors: tobacco use, lack of exercise and poor diet."
And too much sun exposure increases the risk of skin cancers and promiscuous sex increases risk of getting HPV strains that increase risks of many types of cancer.
Just by stopping smoking, exercising, eating fatty fish, nuts, fruits and vegetables etc, avoid eating too much meat, not eating too much food etc would greatly decrease risk of heart disease and cancer.
Of course treatment for heart disease and cancer is also getting better, but still it would be much better to avoid getting sick in the first place. And many of the required lifestyle changes wouldn't be that hard for most people.
Not necessarily. My grandmother is 93 years old and the only thing she has ever needed replacement for is her teeth and even that would have been unnecessary, if she would have taken better care of her teeth 40 years ago, when she was taking care of my sick grandfather and had a lot of stress. And she might be even healthier if she had avoided the stress of having experienced war twice in her lifetime and almost getting killed in both of them and also some other negative experiences during her life.
She says that when she is sitting, she feels herself young, but when she is standing, she starts getting back pain and remembers that her balance is not as good as it used to be. And she will not be able to walk long distances anymore.
For her, the only major problem seems to be that almost all of her original friends have died years ago. If her friends would have lived as long, this wouldn't be issue.
The only times she has been in hospital was during child birth, fixing broken ankle and one surgery to remove malignant tumor when she was younger.
Many major diseases are to large extend preventable. Heart disease (and many related diseases) would be much rarer if people would follow a healthy lifestyle. And about 30 percent of cancers could be prevented with better lifestyle choices. And I am sure we could reduce a lot the number of people who die in traffic accidents and other kind of accidents.
Healthy lifestyle alone won't increase lifespan to 150 years, but it would add many years to average life and also improve the quality of life during old age. And we already know many of the changes we should do to our lifestyle.
Not building and extending the illegal settlements in occupied territories (which btw is a war crime) would surely help. Illegal settlements aren't needed even for any security purposes, but they make reaching more difficult or even impossible.
In my opinion, the political leaders in Israel clearly do not want peace, because their actions for building illegal settlements speak louder than empty words. They want grab as much more land as possible and want to force Palestinians out -- which is also know as ethnic cleansing. This is the modus operandi of zionism and Israel was founded by forcing Palestinians out and never letting them back.
Even if you cannot avoid buying some product made in Israel, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't boycott Israel when buying some other products which have alternative sources.
As far as I have seen, it is usually the Israel who has bombed, bulldozed or otherwise destroyed the health clinics, power plant, toilets etc funded by EU.
It seems that after the lotilla incident Israel allowed at least once shipment of shoes and clothes in Gaza -- the first one in three years! But maybe shoes and clothes are weapons material...
For example. construction material is not let into Gaza. Most oft he buildings Israel bombed in the latest massacres haven't been rebuild because of this.
And at least quite recently (not sure if it is the case after the flotilla incident) even school books and shoes where prohibited. And there is constant lack of medicine and fresh water, which forces many of the refugees to drink salty water which damages kidneys and makes them sick.
But people on Gaza have in some ways better situation than Palestinians in West Bank. In West Bank Israel is constantly making the illegal settlements larger and driving Palestinians away. Maybe the Palestinians in West Bank would be left alone, if they also would shoot rockets. It seems that force in the only language that Israel understands.
Boycotting Israel in the land of "free", may cause you 10 years prison sentence, so watch out. BTW, it seems that boycotting Israel is illegal also in France, but a Jewish group which USA has classified as a terrorist group and which is illegal even in Israel (but many Jewish semi-terrorist groups are still allowed or even silently encouraged by Israel), is legal in France:
I don't think this is the case. in most (probably in all other TWO countries except USA) boycotting Israel goods is legal. And these anti-boycott laws in USA predate WTO. However, if you do boycotting by your own initiative (and not because urged by Arab league, then I think it is legal even in USA)
And even if boycotting is not prohibited, the country itself is not boycotting other country (at least if it doesn't ask/require its citizens to boycott).
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As far as I know, there is also a lot of pressure for boys for not to like math (or other academic subjects at school). And being a nerd is social death sentence for boys. Girls don't like nerds.
And in practise, most people in IT field, aren't really super good at mathematics. They might be somewhat above average, but university level mathematics tends to be strugle for most of them/us.
If a woman lies to a man by saying that they can have sex without condom because she is using pills, is she guilty of rape? Or is there some kind of double standard where woman is allowed to lie about using contraceptives, but man isn't?
If this is war, Iran has right to retaliate. Has USA thought how expensive it would be, if Iran sends a worm or virus that bricks large percentage of computers in USA by reflashing hard drives, BIOSes, GPUs, corrupting data on hard drives etc and at the same time does massive DDOS against banks, net shops, stock markets etc using botnet?
And is there any evidence that there is more sexual harassment in IT compared to fields where there are more women? I feel that women try to blame men for their own faults and use those blames to get an unfair advantage -- positive discrimination
It is also interesting note how there doesn't seem to be ever quotas or men or some other forms of positive discrimination on fields where men are the minority, like nursing or being a vet. And I have heard that sexual harassment against men is very common in nursing field.
Drug companies use more money on advertisements than on R&D. And at least in Finland drug advertisements is quite limited (because of laws against it) compared to US.
I am a gay and I am happy to see that Ravi didn't receive tougher punishment. I would have liked to see even milder punishment. One life was already needlessly destroyed and destroying another life would not have made things better, but worse.
What Ravi did, wasn't completely correct, but his intention was not cause Clementis death, which was quite unexpected consequence. I feel that the only reason why this was so widely reported in news, was because the suicide was so unexpected.
Instead of punishing Ravi, it would be much wiser to learn from it. I think there are at least two lessons that should be learned:
1) Some people might do suicide for reasons that seem quite minor to other people and you should avoid bullying anybody. Maybe Ravi, a bit older and wiser, could tell younger students what bullying can cause, even if the consequence was not your intention.
2) Try to grow a bit thicker skin. If you receive minor bullying, that is really stupid reason to kill yourself or somebody else.
Israel is constantly making their illegal settlements in occupied area larger and larger, and in same process driving Palestinians to even smaller areas, limiting their access to water (& farming land) from occupied areas, but giving it generously to illegal settlers, destroying their houses etc. That is ethnical cleansing.
As ar as I know, Hezbollah is military force which is not very concerned about modesty issues etc, unlike so called Jewish Talebans:
Yes, over half of university students in Iran, are women:
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Well over half of university students in Iran are now women. In the applied physics department of Azad University 70% of the graduates are women - a statistic which would make many universities in the West proud.
Middle-East includes more countries than just Saudi-Arabia, which is maybe the worst offender, although it is the friend of USA. Although women are not allowed to drive in Saudi-Arabia, it doesn't mean that the same is true in other Middle-Eastern countries. And in many countries in Middle-East, young women are better educated than men, just like in in western countries.
If I remember correctly, even in fundamentalist Iran, over half of the university students are female.
Without Hezbollah Israel would probably had done similar kind of ethnic cleansing in Lebanon that Palestinians have faced within Palestine. Remember, Hezbollah was more or less started only after Israel attacked and occupied Lebanon and the main goal of Hezbollah was driving Israel out of the country.
And in Israel some of the Jews have started their own gender separation, which is worse than in many Arabic/Muslim countries. For example, in many parts of Israel, women aren't allowed to use the same sidewalks, they have to sit in a different parts of busses etc. And women who don't obey, are severely beaten.
I remember using Inc (or Succ) with pointers at least in Borland Pascal 7. It could be that TP 6 didn't support it and/or BP 7 supports Inc only without the second argument form (where you can specify increment by some other amount than by 1).
And as far as I remember, you usually didn't have to split pointer into segment and offset (or vice versa), unless you were calling BIOS/DOS interrupts/assembly functions (or doing low level stuff, like DMA access or writing directly to video RAM) -- even when I did pointer arithmetic.
Here are more examples of pointer arithmetic using Pascal (extensions).
Borland Pascal had limited support fort pointer arithmetic. For example you could use Inc on pointers.
Turbo Pascal 3 may have been quite limited (I don't think I have ever used TP 3), but the later versions of Turbo/Borland Pascal were really good IMHO.
They were insanely fast compilers even though the computers were quite slow, had nice integrated profilers, had object oriented libraries for writing windowed UI:s, help/documentation was really good and typically included small example programs to demonstrate how to use some function, it was easy to use Pascal with assembly language etc.
I haven't seen as developer friendly system since Borland Pascal. It was really easy to start learning programming using Borland Pascal, but it wasn't any toy system as you could write also large and complex programs.
For me Pascal syntax of pointers made more sense than C syntax. I started serious programming with Turbo/Borland Pascal and because the concept of pointers was so clear in Pascal, I was able to help my friends with their pointer problems in C. They had trouble understanding the concept of pointers, because C syntax was so confusing (eg. array and pointer are sometimes interchangeable, but sometimes they aren't).
I still sometimes use cdecl with complex definitions to make sure I have parsed/generated the C syntax correctly. However, pointer arithmetic was/is usually easier in C.
It seems that my guesstimate for preventable cancers was probably too low. According to one source: "The National Cancer Institute (NCI) reports that 50 percent to 75 percent of U.S. cancer deaths are caused by three harmful behaviors: tobacco use, lack of exercise and poor diet."
And too much sun exposure increases the risk of skin cancers and promiscuous sex increases risk of getting HPV strains that increase risks of many types of cancer.
Just by stopping smoking, exercising, eating fatty fish, nuts, fruits and vegetables etc, avoid eating too much meat, not eating too much food etc would greatly decrease risk of heart disease and cancer.
Of course treatment for heart disease and cancer is also getting better, but still it would be much better to avoid getting sick in the first place. And many of the required lifestyle changes wouldn't be that hard for most people.
Not necessarily. My grandmother is 93 years old and the only thing she has ever needed replacement for is her teeth and even that would have been unnecessary, if she would have taken better care of her teeth 40 years ago, when she was taking care of my sick grandfather and had a lot of stress. And she might be even healthier if she had avoided the stress of having experienced war twice in her lifetime and almost getting killed in both of them and also some other negative experiences during her life.
She says that when she is sitting, she feels herself young, but when she is standing, she starts getting back pain and remembers that her balance is not as good as it used to be. And she will not be able to walk long distances anymore.
For her, the only major problem seems to be that almost all of her original friends have died years ago. If her friends would have lived as long, this wouldn't be issue.
The only times she has been in hospital was during child birth, fixing broken ankle and one surgery to remove malignant tumor when she was younger.
Many major diseases are to large extend preventable. Heart disease (and many related diseases) would be much rarer if people would follow a healthy lifestyle. And about 30 percent of cancers could be prevented with better lifestyle choices. And I am sure we could reduce a lot the number of people who die in traffic accidents and other kind of accidents.
Healthy lifestyle alone won't increase lifespan to 150 years, but it would add many years to average life and also improve the quality of life during old age. And we already know many of the changes we should do to our lifestyle.
Not building and extending the illegal settlements in occupied territories (which btw is a war crime) would surely help. Illegal settlements aren't needed even for any security purposes, but they make reaching more difficult or even impossible.
In my opinion, the political leaders in Israel clearly do not want peace, because their actions for building illegal settlements speak louder than empty words. They want grab as much more land as possible and want to force Palestinians out -- which is also know as ethnic cleansing. This is the modus operandi of zionism and Israel was founded by forcing Palestinians out and never letting them back.
Even if you cannot avoid buying some product made in Israel, it doesn't mean that you shouldn't boycott Israel when buying some other products which have alternative sources.
As far as I have seen, it is usually the Israel who has bombed, bulldozed or otherwise destroyed the health clinics, power plant, toilets etc funded by EU.
It seems that after the lotilla incident Israel allowed at least once shipment of shoes and clothes in Gaza -- the first one in three years! But maybe shoes and clothes are weapons
material...
For example. construction material is not let into Gaza. Most oft he buildings Israel bombed in the latest massacres haven't been rebuild because of this.
And at least quite recently (not sure if it is the case after the flotilla incident) even school books and shoes where prohibited. And there is constant lack of medicine and fresh water, which forces many of the refugees to drink salty water which damages kidneys and makes them sick.
But people on Gaza have in some ways better situation than Palestinians in West Bank. In West Bank Israel is constantly making the illegal settlements larger and driving Palestinians away. Maybe the Palestinians in West Bank would be left alone, if they also would shoot rockets. It seems that force in the only language that Israel understands.
Boycotting Israel in the land of "free", may cause you 10 years prison sentence, so watch out. BTW, it seems that boycotting Israel is illegal also in France, but a Jewish group which USA has classified as a terrorist group and which is illegal even in Israel (but many Jewish semi-terrorist groups are still allowed or even silently encouraged by Israel), is legal in France:
French Activist summoned to court over Israel Boycott Video
I don't think this is the case. in most (probably in all other TWO countries except USA) boycotting Israel goods is legal. And these anti-boycott laws in USA predate WTO. However, if you do boycotting by your own initiative (and not because urged by Arab league, then I think it is legal even in USA)
And even if boycotting is not prohibited, the country itself is not boycotting other country (at least if it doesn't ask/require its citizens to boycott).