In case you haven't already figured it out, $20K in India would mean you live like a king. You'll have your own brand new apartment and quite possibly a maid or cook. Making $20k over in India is like making $80k in the US.
Apparently it's PC if it makes women better than men. It's what I've noticed. Perhaps it's backlash against centuries of oppression, I don't know, but people are getting irrational.
Your statement reminds me of this paper done by researchers who noted that women athletes were shattering records at a higher pace than men, and when they extrapolated their data, they concluded that women were were going to surpass men at some point in time. There were obvious errors in this paper, yet it was published in Nature. Where was the decision making behind that? PC or subjective PC?
But you have to prove they were discouraged from taking up math and science through being told "Women suck at math" as opposed to being encouraged in other subjects.
There isn't a study that I am aware of that tracks whether or not students chose subjects they had strengths in, or because they were "encouraged or discouraged" to do so.
This topic obviously breeches the relm of genetic behaviour and touches upon learned behaviour.
Of the anomalies, I hardly doubt they were discouraged. In fact, these anomalies probably set themselves apart from the rest by being good at math and science, and thus likely to have receive more attention than those that showed little or no interest.
In anycase, the research should be done, ignorance is never bliss.
Discrimination only occurs when the person isn't open minded. Ignoring the argument because people don't want to deal with the topic only serves to keep people ignorant.
This topic needs to be addressed, there are studies already that show male brains and female brains process things differently, why can't we look further than this?
Perhaps you are a statistical anomaly? There are such things.
Basically you are advocating censorship on a topic that is not "socially acceptable". All this man said was is generally noted. It is not absolute, otherwise you wouldn't see Nobel prize winners in the sciences that are women.
Sometimes these things aren't so good to hear, but we should take the time to look into why such statements are made. If for instance the reverse scenario was stated, for example, "In nursing programs, the percentage of female graduates to male graduates is 95%." Is that to say that men can't be nurses?
The point of the matter is that he's saying things we're all thinking, it's just too bad there are those people who are willing to crusify those who are willing to speak out.
But it doesn't mention in car manuals either that if I happen to drive under a bridge in March 2005 where vandals are waiting with a brick that my windshield might get broken.
At what point should people take responsibility for their own actions?
If you aren't aware, Microsoft does have the autoupdate feature that does the best job it can to protect your system. You can't reasonably expect them to be able to be 100% foolproof.
The information is written in the manuals that come with the computer, it's not the manufacturer's fault if the user doesn't read it, or doesn't follow it.
If the manual says oil changes at 5000 km intervals, and the driver ignores it, can the car maker be held responsible?
They are assuming that you use the car/computer with a reasonable sense of responsibility.
DOT/Car Maker can only expect a level of responsibility at the time of delievery, what you do afterwards they have no reasonable control anymore.
If you happened to bring your car to an unauthorized dealer for service, and something were to break, or they added a bicycle tire instead of a car tire, can the DOT or car maker be blamed for a faulty product? This is just like surfing your computer over to a malicious site, or installing bad software. How can Dell or your ISP be expected to predict every possible scenario in the future?
Then there are the slashdotters that suggest Firefox updates "secretly" so joe sixpack doesn't know about it, yet when MS has an auto-update feature, the same asses are crying foul, "Oh, I want to have full control over what goes on my system."
If I gave someone $10 and they bought a brick to throw into my car that would suck.
Instead of getting MAD at this person, let's just say I kick the shit out of him. Not only have I invalidated his actions by not getting MAD, but I have likely prevented him from receiving another $10 from someone else with which he may throw into that person's car.
So overall he receives his karma, and I help someone else in the future from getting screwed over. That's double good deeds in my book.
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What do you mean you'd rather play games than have sex??? That's insane!
Huh?! You mean it's a men's prison? Oooooh... eeeeeew!
I haven't seen a stiffy, but I have seen camel toe on Counsellor Troy in an episode of ST:TNG
Ahhh yes... we're one step closer to getting Power Ranger suits. Then we all have to learn to talk and nod our heads at the same time.
"I rather doubt the OS in the vehicle is covering critical components such as breaking."
"Breaking"? Who wants a car that can break?
Touche!
That's a tough call about borrowing DVDs, but what happens if we break this situation down to a base case?
Let's say they only sold 1 copy of the DVD before it reached the network of divx rips and redistributed. How would it work then?
If you want job stability do someone nobody else does and nobody wants to do.
"someone"?? You mean sleep my way to job stability?
I can do that!
But in those 5 years you would not have a cook or a maid.
In India, you don't need 150K. Plus, you're forgetting Uncle Sam takes higher taxes away, so your $80k gross is like $60k after you've paid the piper.
In case you haven't already figured it out, $20K in India would mean you live like a king. You'll have your own brand new apartment and quite possibly a maid or cook. Making $20k over in India is like making $80k in the US.
Apparently it's PC if it makes women better than men. It's what I've noticed. Perhaps it's backlash against centuries of oppression, I don't know, but people are getting irrational.
Your statement reminds me of this paper done by researchers who noted that women athletes were shattering records at a higher pace than men, and when they extrapolated their data, they concluded that women were were going to surpass men at some point in time. There were obvious errors in this paper, yet it was published in Nature. Where was the decision making behind that? PC or subjective PC?
Here's the link to the summary.
But you have to prove they were discouraged from taking up math and science through being told "Women suck at math" as opposed to being encouraged in other subjects.
There isn't a study that I am aware of that tracks whether or not students chose subjects they had strengths in, or because they were "encouraged or discouraged" to do so.
This topic obviously breeches the relm of genetic behaviour and touches upon learned behaviour.
Of the anomalies, I hardly doubt they were discouraged. In fact, these anomalies probably set themselves apart from the rest by being good at math and science, and thus likely to have receive more attention than those that showed little or no interest.
In anycase, the research should be done, ignorance is never bliss.
Discrimination only occurs when the person isn't open minded. Ignoring the argument because people don't want to deal with the topic only serves to keep people ignorant.
This topic needs to be addressed, there are studies already that show male brains and female brains process things differently, why can't we look further than this?
Perhaps you are a statistical anomaly? There are such things.
Basically you are advocating censorship on a topic that is not "socially acceptable". All this man said was is generally noted. It is not absolute, otherwise you wouldn't see Nobel prize winners in the sciences that are women.
Sometimes these things aren't so good to hear, but we should take the time to look into why such statements are made. If for instance the reverse scenario was stated, for example, "In nursing programs, the percentage of female graduates to male graduates is 95%." Is that to say that men can't be nurses?
The point of the matter is that he's saying things we're all thinking, it's just too bad there are those people who are willing to crusify those who are willing to speak out.
But it doesn't mention in car manuals either that if I happen to drive under a bridge in March 2005 where vandals are waiting with a brick that my windshield might get broken.
At what point should people take responsibility for their own actions?
If you aren't aware, Microsoft does have the autoupdate feature that does the best job it can to protect your system. You can't reasonably expect them to be able to be 100% foolproof.
The information is written in the manuals that come with the computer, it's not the manufacturer's fault if the user doesn't read it, or doesn't follow it.
If the manual says oil changes at 5000 km intervals, and the driver ignores it, can the car maker be held responsible?
They are assuming that you use the car/computer with a reasonable sense of responsibility.
DOT/Car Maker can only expect a level of responsibility at the time of delievery, what you do afterwards they have no reasonable control anymore.
If you happened to bring your car to an unauthorized dealer for service, and something were to break, or they added a bicycle tire instead of a car tire, can the DOT or car maker be blamed for a faulty product? This is just like surfing your computer over to a malicious site, or installing bad software. How can Dell or your ISP be expected to predict every possible scenario in the future?
Ok, so could you explain Orbital mechanics then or provide links?
I'm just thinking that the odds to hit Titan from here must be astronomical.
Just out of curiousity, what sort of algorithms and formulas did they have to use to calculate the trajectory to make it out to Titan?
If anyone who has a math PhD, could you elaborate how they managed to even get there?
Neither Dell or the ISP should be to blame. That's like blaming the DOT and your auto dealer for you not taking care of your car.
If you don't do oil changes, and maintenance, your car is going to die. Why should it not be any different for computers?
By that same route of thinking, shouldn't stickers be placed into religous text as well?
Mod this flamebait if you wish, but it made you think didn't it?
Actually... they are martyrs.
I wonder if they ever do a movie about the West Coast Avengers would Hawkeye be ever given the line:
"West Siiiiiiiiddddeee!" while holding his fingers in a "W" shape.
I believe there is a company in Canada that takes icebergs and melts them down for their "pure" water to make vodka. Iceberg Vodka info
Perhaps we should send them down to pick up this iceberg and prevent the collision.
Imagine the carnage we could have prevented!
Or, in the other case, how many penguins we can save.
I think the author puts the blame of CherryOS being vapourware on the shoulders of Slashdotters as evident in this statement.
The software was offered as a download, but the stampeding hordes of closet Apple lovers at Slashdot crashed the servers before anyone could get it.
Congratulations folks for contributing!
Exactly!
Then there are the slashdotters that suggest Firefox updates "secretly" so joe sixpack doesn't know about it, yet when MS has an auto-update feature, the same asses are crying foul, "Oh, I want to have full control over what goes on my system."
Is anyone listening to themselves?
Does it remove this spyware "msmsgs.exe" from automatically starting on my windows? And does it uninstall it correctly without causing a catastrophy?
If I gave someone $10 and they bought a brick to throw into my car that would suck.
Instead of getting MAD at this person, let's just say I kick the shit out of him. Not only have I invalidated his actions by not getting MAD, but I have likely prevented him from receiving another $10 from someone else with which he may throw into that person's car.
So overall he receives his karma, and I help someone else in the future from getting screwed over. That's double good deeds in my book.