You are dysfunctional because you don't believe your bonding with your children can or even should be as intense as their mother's. Of course, your complete dysfunction prevented you from understanding that. It is likely, even after having it explained to you, you still won't recognize it.
Your grandfather instincts would be wrong. I have one son that is 9, and another that is T - 7 days and counting. I am also the primary care giver for both my current son and the one on the way. It isn't lack of empathy. It is lack of misandry that makes me say this. In a modern 1st world country, women don't HAVE to get pregnant. They GET to get pregnant. Maybe your wife hated being pregnant, my mine loves it. So do most other women who actually want their children. Sure, there are some down sides, but the fact that is, there are also lots of up sides.
men simply don't need several months of paid leave to watch their new born eat, shit and sleep (they do little else for the first 3 months)
That right there tells us both the kind of man you are. Here is a hint. The fact that you are absent from the daily activities of your children and sexist isn't because you have a penis. It is a failing in you as a person. It isn't 1950 any more. Having a penis doesn't stop you from changing a diaper.
You are simply rationalizing your misandry. The same logic that says it is not discriminatory to give women more paid leave is the same logic that rationalizes it to be fair to simply fire the women who get pregnant, or just not hire them at all. The 4 weeks extra are not about medical leave. They are about giving women extra time to bond with their children because Yahoo! sees women as being inherently more important as parents than men. It is wrong and it is no more moral than giving extra paid time off to people based on their race.
The fact that some carriers don't offer tethering is looking for failure. The question isn't whether there are carriers that don't offer it. The question is whether there are carriers that do.
And in fact, there are.$5 a month for a cell phone. Not magic jack. Not VIOP. A basic cell phone. That is the cost to add an extra line with T-Mobile.
A lot of households may not want to enter long term agreements that increase the total recurring fees. There are also lots who don't mind so that they are rarely out of internet access. There are also lots that happily reduce their monthly fees so that they can have internet access everywhere they go.
We are not at ubiquitous tethering at this point, but we are moving toward it at a rapid rate. You seem to be looking for situations that tethering won't work. No doubt you will find those situations, just has you find people that don't have cell phones at all. The number of people in those groups are shrinking.
No kidding. They should also make hiring practices that give preference to humans that can guarantee they won't gestate a fetus too, right? Because that wouldn't be sexist? Making excuses for your misandry doesn't make it any less sexist.
Paid leave is not a right. Not being discriminated based on your gender IS. Labor recovery is not even close to 8 weeks. That means that the entire difference can only be attributed to sexual discrimination of exactly the kind that is bad.
This is about gender discrimination, not racial. I'm pretty sure that Sweden has pretty close to the same gender variance as every other country on the planet.
A newborn needs to be with his mother - and nursing on mother's milk.
My perfectly healthy son would be evidence to the contrary. Comments like yours are spouted regularly, but they are simply BS. We can debate whether there is benefit to breast feeding or not, but once you say "Needs" you lose credibility.
Women or not better at those things. People who do those things are better at those things. Saying that women are better at childcare is like saying that men are better at math. The environmental differences so greatly out weigh the biological differences that it you can't even say whether there is a biological difference at all. Yahoo! is a good example of the environmental difference, and they are making the problem worse.
I would point out that there is enough evidence that the bond between mothers and their children are sufficiently weak that states like CA (I would presume most states) have literally made laws that allow mothers to abandon their children at drop off points in an attempt to keep them from murdering them.
Yes, the benefits of nursing while likely have some benefits over formula, the benefits are questionable at best. I challenge anyone to spot which child was breast fed and which ones were formula fed without being specifically told or seeing physical evidence such as a can of formula in the house.
Unfortunately, breast feeding has become a political hammer. From massive exaggerations for the health benefits to women that breast feed to the point of child molestation, something that should be a complete non-issue has become, well... a political hammer.
The difference is that salaried/hourly are contract issues. They fall into the same category as how much you are paid. Gender discrimination is like racial discrimination. It is supposed to be illegal.
People are bent because it is wrong. We have decided that we want a society with equal rights between the genders. This is not equal. Men have gotten the shaft when it comes to children for most of the time society has existed. We are finally getting to a place where we don't have to take one for the team when it comes to spending time with our children vs. actually feeding our children. Now is the time to speak up and say that discrimination is wrong.
Would your defense of Yahoo! be the same if the discrimination was drawn along racial lines instead of gender?
This is true. A better example than "Sure, and the teachers should be able to fix the heater when it breaks." would be that you expect the teacher to know how to turn the heater up when it gets too cold in the classroom.
Unfortunately, people seem to think that "I don't know computers." is a valid excuse. I could completely understand this back in the 80's, but it just isn't a valid excuse anymore. I don't know how good are bad the phishing was that these teacher fell for, so I don't know if it is legitimate that they fell for it, but "I don't know computers." is definitely not a valid reason.
A) They got cell phones irrelevant to tethering, so asking what they are giving up to get the cell phone is the wrong question
B) Cell phone plans are now cheaper than land line plans for many people, so for those people they are better off getting rid of their landlines and having a cell phone assigned to a house is an economical wise choice. My family of 3 has 4 cell phones. One for each person and one that is a 'house' phone. The house phone is free for the first year and $5 a month after that. Thus no inconvenience to young members of the household. Besides, I don't make my 9 year old son buy his own clothes, food, electricity, or gas. There is no reason to make him buy his own food. Your perception of cellphones seems to be stuck in the 90's.
C) No matter how much more or less they pay for it, being away from an internet connection is becoming rarer and rarer. Thus complaints about being away from an internet connection is becoming less and less valid.
This is exactly how people treat their smartphones/tablets. My point isn't whether their systems are in good shape or bad. My point is that "administration" of smartphones/tablets is essentially the same as for a PC.
I liken 7" vs. 10" to really expensive pants. Do you buy the long pants or the shorts. Once the price get low enough, you buy several of each.
I should probably change my analogy to shoes, since shoes are only about 3 times more expensive than tablets. Are dress shoes or sneakers better? Which should we buy?
With tethering moving to the mainstream, the amount of time that people are away from a usable Wi-Fi connection is getting rarer and rarer. A few years ago, I took a 3 month road trip with my family. I didn't need to take time off. My wife did the driving between destinations, and I sat in the back seat with a good strong WiFi connection for 90% of the time. This was in a moving vehicle. Most of that 10% disconnect time was while traveling through State and National parks. Most content created also isn't code, so Xcode is an irrelevant niche.
The whole question of laptop or tablet is wrong. Laptops an tablets are the same device that are just missing different parts of a correctly built machine. Much like PDAs and mobile phones were once different devices, today they are the same device. The question isn't whether laptops or tablets are better. The Question is what name will be apply to devices that have the computer behind the touch screen and snap into a clamshell keyboard?
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You mean abuses like men getting equal treatment?
You are dysfunctional because you don't believe your bonding with your children can or even should be as intense as their mother's. Of course, your complete dysfunction prevented you from understanding that. It is likely, even after having it explained to you, you still won't recognize it.
men simply don't need several months of paid leave to watch their new born eat, shit and sleep (they do little else for the first 3 months)
That right there tells us both the kind of man you are. Here is a hint. The fact that you are absent from the daily activities of your children and sexist isn't because you have a penis. It is a failing in you as a person. It isn't 1950 any more. Having a penis doesn't stop you from changing a diaper.
You are simply rationalizing your misandry. The same logic that says it is not discriminatory to give women more paid leave is the same logic that rationalizes it to be fair to simply fire the women who get pregnant, or just not hire them at all. The 4 weeks extra are not about medical leave. They are about giving women extra time to bond with their children because Yahoo! sees women as being inherently more important as parents than men. It is wrong and it is no more moral than giving extra paid time off to people based on their race.
The fact that some carriers don't offer tethering is looking for failure. The question isn't whether there are carriers that don't offer it. The question is whether there are carriers that do.
And in fact, there are.$5 a month for a cell phone. Not magic jack. Not VIOP. A basic cell phone. That is the cost to add an extra line with T-Mobile.
A lot of households may not want to enter long term agreements that increase the total recurring fees. There are also lots who don't mind so that they are rarely out of internet access. There are also lots that happily reduce their monthly fees so that they can have internet access everywhere they go.
We are not at ubiquitous tethering at this point, but we are moving toward it at a rapid rate. You seem to be looking for situations that tethering won't work. No doubt you will find those situations, just has you find people that don't have cell phones at all. The number of people in those groups are shrinking.
No kidding. They should also make hiring practices that give preference to humans that can guarantee they won't gestate a fetus too, right? Because that wouldn't be sexist? Making excuses for your misandry doesn't make it any less sexist.
Paid leave is not a right. Not being discriminated based on your gender IS. Labor recovery is not even close to 8 weeks. That means that the entire difference can only be attributed to sexual discrimination of exactly the kind that is bad.
This is about gender discrimination, not racial. I'm pretty sure that Sweden has pretty close to the same gender variance as every other country on the planet.
A newborn needs to be with his mother - and nursing on mother's milk.
My perfectly healthy son would be evidence to the contrary. Comments like yours are spouted regularly, but they are simply BS. We can debate whether there is benefit to breast feeding or not, but once you say "Needs" you lose credibility.
Exactly. Planning for a skeleton crew to be the norm means you already failed.
Women or not better at those things. People who do those things are better at those things. Saying that women are better at childcare is like saying that men are better at math. The environmental differences so greatly out weigh the biological differences that it you can't even say whether there is a biological difference at all. Yahoo! is a good example of the environmental difference, and they are making the problem worse.
I would point out that there is enough evidence that the bond between mothers and their children are sufficiently weak that states like CA (I would presume most states) have literally made laws that allow mothers to abandon their children at drop off points in an attempt to keep them from murdering them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=california+safe+surrender+law&safe=off&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=o-GCUe6LMKbliwL_yIGQCQ&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=928
Yes, the benefits of nursing while likely have some benefits over formula, the benefits are questionable at best. I challenge anyone to spot which child was breast fed and which ones were formula fed without being specifically told or seeing physical evidence such as a can of formula in the house.
Unfortunately, breast feeding has become a political hammer. From massive exaggerations for the health benefits to women that breast feed to the point of child molestation, something that should be a complete non-issue has become, well... a political hammer.
That is complete BS. Just because you are dysfunctional doesn't mean that the rest of us men are. Step out of the 1950s.
The difference is that salaried/hourly are contract issues. They fall into the same category as how much you are paid. Gender discrimination is like racial discrimination. It is supposed to be illegal.
People are bent because it is wrong. We have decided that we want a society with equal rights between the genders. This is not equal. Men have gotten the shaft when it comes to children for most of the time society has existed. We are finally getting to a place where we don't have to take one for the team when it comes to spending time with our children vs. actually feeding our children. Now is the time to speak up and say that discrimination is wrong.
Would your defense of Yahoo! be the same if the discrimination was drawn along racial lines instead of gender?
This is true. A better example than "Sure, and the teachers should be able to fix the heater when it breaks." would be that you expect the teacher to know how to turn the heater up when it gets too cold in the classroom.
Unfortunately, people seem to think that "I don't know computers." is a valid excuse. I could completely understand this back in the 80's, but it just isn't a valid excuse anymore. I don't know how good are bad the phishing was that these teacher fell for, so I don't know if it is legitimate that they fell for it, but "I don't know computers." is definitely not a valid reason.
A) They got cell phones irrelevant to tethering, so asking what they are giving up to get the cell phone is the wrong question
B) Cell phone plans are now cheaper than land line plans for many people, so for those people they are better off getting rid of their landlines and having a cell phone assigned to a house is an economical wise choice. My family of 3 has 4 cell phones. One for each person and one that is a 'house' phone. The house phone is free for the first year and $5 a month after that. Thus no inconvenience to young members of the household. Besides, I don't make my 9 year old son buy his own clothes, food, electricity, or gas. There is no reason to make him buy his own food. Your perception of cellphones seems to be stuck in the 90's.
C) No matter how much more or less they pay for it, being away from an internet connection is becoming rarer and rarer. Thus complaints about being away from an internet connection is becoming less and less valid.
This is exactly how people treat their smartphones/tablets. My point isn't whether their systems are in good shape or bad. My point is that "administration" of smartphones/tablets is essentially the same as for a PC.
Neither. They continue to use their wired internet at home and use the phone service they already have to tether.
I liken 7" vs. 10" to really expensive pants. Do you buy the long pants or the shorts. Once the price get low enough, you buy several of each.
I should probably change my analogy to shoes, since shoes are only about 3 times more expensive than tablets. Are dress shoes or sneakers better? Which should we buy?
With tethering moving to the mainstream, the amount of time that people are away from a usable Wi-Fi connection is getting rarer and rarer. A few years ago, I took a 3 month road trip with my family. I didn't need to take time off. My wife did the driving between destinations, and I sat in the back seat with a good strong WiFi connection for 90% of the time. This was in a moving vehicle. Most of that 10% disconnect time was while traveling through State and National parks. Most content created also isn't code, so Xcode is an irrelevant niche.
My order at a restaurant. Many of the restaurants I go to now take orders on a tablet. My order most certainly is content.
I posted something similar above, but would add that as prices drop, it will be common for households to have more than one tablet per person.
The whole question of laptop or tablet is wrong. Laptops an tablets are the same device that are just missing different parts of a correctly built machine. Much like PDAs and mobile phones were once different devices, today they are the same device. The question isn't whether laptops or tablets are better. The Question is what name will be apply to devices that have the computer behind the touch screen and snap into a clamshell keyboard?