The last company I worked at hard a woman CEO, and she was an absolute NIGHTMARE to work with (as were the other two women I had worked under in the past).
This is hardly something that can be attributed to women though. One of the most basic reasons that this happens (because you're right, research does show female managers tend to be more likely to be overbearing) is a fault of society. Women have only recently been welcomed, and in many cases are still not, into the folds of upper management. The fact that many women managers at the top levels are overbearing is a product of the fact that in the past and now even still it takes an extremely headstrong and determined woman to make it there. Thus, only the women who have the "to hell with you all, I'm going to do it" attitude make it there. The women at the top levels of corporations today are super type A personalities who want everything their way. This is society's fault.
The exodus from the Church of Finland is just another example of the desire of citizens to opt out of certain government services that do not serve them. As an American I would like to opt out of Social Security, farm subsidies, K-12 public schools, and public television.
Bzzzzt! Wrong! Public education serves everyone, most especially the ones who are upper class and/or business owners. At low cost to themselves they get an educated workforce that is mroe productive, or an educated workforce for the companies they are invested in. It serves those in the middle class by providing them a route to the upper class and again, better workforce. It serves those in the lower class because it gives them a way out of the lower economic class.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that public education helps to remove class barriers, while making those at the top more money. Everyone benefits.
Learn the difference between "Gpay is useless" and "Gpay is useless to me". I would pay for your English lessons, if I could use Gpay to transfer funds from Greece.
That is a good idea, but you should also pay for your own. There is a big glaring comma splice in there. Have fun in class!
Slashdot, for all it's flaws, has less quantity but more quality. I don't want the news that is the most popular, I want the news I need to know about. That takes editing (but my comments don't...)
You're implying that articles like this are something you NEED to know about? You REALLY NEEDED to know about "The 10 Tech People Who Don't Matter"???
More specifically than food, what they need is the land and education to grow their own food. All the good land in Africa is owned by greedy first-world investment companies who are "investing" in the African economy by providing factory and industry jobs. Except that what they do is have all the Africans work in these factories and processing plants for low wages, and then there is no room for the Africans to grow food. As a result the Africans have to buy food on the global economy, which is enormously expensive and unaffordable.
One has to look at the root of the problem instead of simply saying "they need food".
But I wholeheartedly agree with you about the need for non-corrupt governments in Africa bit....maybe we could use one of those in the U.S. too.....
I have performed tech support for math/computer science professors with doctoral degrees. I actually got the infamous "my machine won't turn on" issue that is resolved by plugging it in. Ph.D.'s don't necessarily reflect intelligence or for another matter, credibility.
School is kind of like prison now, you beat someone up on the first day and they'll respect you. If you don't beat someone up on the first day, someone will beat you up and you'll be suspended regardless!
Hmmm....I bet a lot of prisoners wish they could get suspended from prison.
Your smoking and requiring medical care as a result still overall increases the cost of medical insurance in the country. And, as I said before, there are still long term effects of your smoking to the environment, though I would wager those are very low when compared to the things that really matter, like power production. However, it still bothers me when I have to walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke to walk out of some buildings.
Hey, shouldn't people be allowed to produce pollution they breathe themselves? Do you care if I smoke and ruin my own lungs, so long as you don't have to breathe it? That is, doesn't the offense of pollution, if offense there be, come from producing pollution that other people have to breathe?
Except that there are long term effects of pollution that affect everyone. Yours is a very narrow-minded and short term viewpoint, you're missing the big picture. And we're not really talking about smoking here, we're talking about electricity production, food growth/procesing, etc. The fact that you want to kill yourself a little faster than you would otherwise die has no bearing on this discussion. Leave your "Cigarettes are my right" antics out of this.
Since you brought it up though, yes, I do care if you smoke and ruin your lungs because my tax dollars will pay for medicare to take care of your cancer-filled lungs when you get old. So yes, you smoking does affect me in a very real way, in the pocketbook.
Whether you agree with this or not this should strike you as an enormous event likely of the millennium should this be successful. This single event may open the doors to ethical debates we've only seen the tips of, and in the end it may not just stop at words, but violence. One side would argue that violence is already occurring just to do it at all.
110 words, the rest is ads. What an absolutely useless website.
It would appear that you do not truly believe it to be useless, as you apparently think the 110 words described the product that you were interested in. What is in reality happening is that you wish to jump on the anti-marketing "I don't ever want to see any marketing on anything I read" bandwagon. Sorry, but business has to market its products or they don't sell, and money drives innovation. You like innovation, don't you? I bet you like your nice LCD you're looking at now a lot better than an old black and white tube TV.
"Joe's theater is not responsible for any loss of vision, headaches, cancer, or conditions of the eye due to exposure to infrared, laser, or other light sources. View at your own risk."
Wow....that was a little defensive sounding. I would just like to point out that I am not attacking you but you appear to be attacking me. For the record, you appear to meet the definition of a zealot perfectly, so it isn't flamebait, it's accurate. It's like calling a hooker a hooker, maybe someone doesn't like it but that doesn't make it not true. If the shoe fits....
Zealot- "A fanatically committed person." Taken from dictionary.com
At any rate, to address your discussion about people trying to find ways in, I don't buy that. Certainly, there are a few out there who are working on it. And I do agree with many Mac fanatics that the primary reason Mac is so secure is that it is designed well. However, I believe that the few holes that there are in Macs are not found as quickly or often because of low market share, not because they aren't there. It makes much more sense for any adware company or virus writer etc to be going after the windows market.
Fact:(to respond in kind) I run Windows XP on one of my machines which has considerable surfing done on it and all I have is AVG Free Antivirus on it. I don't need any adware protection crap because I'm not stupid. Running a single Antivirus program is not going to eat up that much system resources unless you have a very old very slow computer. And I don't get any of these viruses that bother everyone either, because I'm intelligent about which emails I open and so on. So by your statements, maybe I shoudl just bag the antivirus all together, since I rarely if ever have a problem. Sounds absurd huh? And as far as firewalls go, please don't tell me that you're so sure of your secure mac that you've turned off any type of firewall protection because you "don't need it". So that leaves.....one virus scanner running on my machine. Wow, that's so much software. Maybe you have problems with spyware and viruses on your Windows box, but that has a hell of a lot more to do with you than the computer.
Fact: as far as you saying that virus scanners don't catch the new ones, that's not entirely true and you obviously don't follow the security market very well. Major leaps forward have been made scanning technology and threat detection, so no, certainly not all new ones, but some yes. And as far as that goes, not many peopel get infected before an update comes out that addresses it and then once your virus scanner auto-updates, you're good.
Fact: I can't produce statistics, but having worked in several different corporate environments I can tell you that Macs are a VERY VERY VERY slim minority in the corporate world. And any slashdotter who actually does IT work on a corporate level can attest that if one tries to compare a home computer to one in a corporate environment, they obviously don't understand corporate IT. Please don't compare your 2 year old home powerbook to a corporate computer (even if it were a corporate owned mac), it's painful to hear you try to make such comparisons.
Once more, stop attacking me about hating macs.I love macs and my next computer will be a mac, I use one almost exclusively at work, even though I have a powerful Windows box on my desk too. But I don't belive in half the rhetoric that is spouted off by the "pro mac" (like that better than zealot?) people.
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I have to admit, you've given me a lot to think about there, and made some very good points...Do you happen to have any references?
I never criticized anyone in Greek. You did criticize someone about English.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that public education helps to remove class barriers, while making those at the top more money. Everyone benefits.
Haven't travelled much have you? That's actually quite common for restaurants to do in many countries around the world.
Wow...must be a rough life.
I bet SuSe doesn't accuse you of anything...gotta love Microsoft...
More specifically than food, what they need is the land and education to grow their own food. All the good land in Africa is owned by greedy first-world investment companies who are "investing" in the African economy by providing factory and industry jobs. Except that what they do is have all the Africans work in these factories and processing plants for low wages, and then there is no room for the Africans to grow food. As a result the Africans have to buy food on the global economy, which is enormously expensive and unaffordable.
One has to look at the root of the problem instead of simply saying "they need food".
But I wholeheartedly agree with you about the need for non-corrupt governments in Africa bit....maybe we could use one of those in the U.S. too.....
I have performed tech support for math/computer science professors with doctoral degrees. I actually got the infamous "my machine won't turn on" issue that is resolved by plugging it in. Ph.D.'s don't necessarily reflect intelligence or for another matter, credibility.
Your smoking and requiring medical care as a result still overall increases the cost of medical insurance in the country. And, as I said before, there are still long term effects of your smoking to the environment, though I would wager those are very low when compared to the things that really matter, like power production. However, it still bothers me when I have to walk through a cloud of cigarette smoke to walk out of some buildings.
Whether you agree with this or not this should strike you as an enormous event likely of the millennium should this be successful. This single event may open the doors to ethical debates we've only seen the tips of, and in the end it may not just stop at words, but violence. One side would argue that violence is already occurring just to do it at all.
110 words, the rest is ads. What an absolutely useless website. It would appear that you do not truly believe it to be useless, as you apparently think the 110 words described the product that you were interested in. What is in reality happening is that you wish to jump on the anti-marketing "I don't ever want to see any marketing on anything I read" bandwagon. Sorry, but business has to market its products or they don't sell, and money drives innovation. You like innovation, don't you? I bet you like your nice LCD you're looking at now a lot better than an old black and white tube TV.
"Joe's theater is not responsible for any loss of vision, headaches, cancer, or conditions of the eye due to exposure to infrared, laser, or other light sources. View at your own risk."
the signature on a treaty is no stronger than the signing arm.
What should be said is that the signature's strength is inversely proportional to the strength of the signing arm.
If the signing arm is strong, then they know they can break the treaty, so the treaty is weak...
in the analogy the RIAA would be the police he was talking about. you would be the drug dealer. try thinking longer than two seconds before posting.
Wow....that was a little defensive sounding. I would just like to point out that I am not attacking you but you appear to be attacking me. For the record, you appear to meet the definition of a zealot perfectly, so it isn't flamebait, it's accurate. It's like calling a hooker a hooker, maybe someone doesn't like it but that doesn't make it not true. If the shoe fits....
Zealot-
"A fanatically committed person."
Taken from dictionary.com
At any rate, to address your discussion about people trying to find ways in, I don't buy that. Certainly, there are a few out there who are working on it. And I do agree with many Mac fanatics that the primary reason Mac is so secure is that it is designed well. However, I believe that the few holes that there are in Macs are not found as quickly or often because of low market share, not because they aren't there. It makes much more sense for any adware company or virus writer etc to be going after the windows market.
Fact:(to respond in kind) I run Windows XP on one of my machines which has considerable surfing done on it and all I have is AVG Free Antivirus on it. I don't need any adware protection crap because I'm not stupid. Running a single Antivirus program is not going to eat up that much system resources unless you have a very old very slow computer. And I don't get any of these viruses that bother everyone either, because I'm intelligent about which emails I open and so on. So by your statements, maybe I shoudl just bag the antivirus all together, since I rarely if ever have a problem. Sounds absurd huh? And as far as firewalls go, please don't tell me that you're so sure of your secure mac that you've turned off any type of firewall protection because you "don't need it". So that leaves.....one virus scanner running on my machine. Wow, that's so much software. Maybe you have problems with spyware and viruses on your Windows box, but that has a hell of a lot more to do with you than the computer.
Fact: as far as you saying that virus scanners don't catch the new ones, that's not entirely true and you obviously don't follow the security market very well. Major leaps forward have been made scanning technology and threat detection, so no, certainly not all new ones, but some yes. And as far as that goes, not many peopel get infected before an update comes out that addresses it and then once your virus scanner auto-updates, you're good.
Fact: I can't produce statistics, but having worked in several different corporate environments I can tell you that Macs are a VERY VERY VERY slim minority in the corporate world. And any slashdotter who actually does IT work on a corporate level can attest that if one tries to compare a home computer to one in a corporate environment, they obviously don't understand corporate IT. Please don't compare your 2 year old home powerbook to a corporate computer (even if it were a corporate owned mac), it's painful to hear you try to make such comparisons.
Once more, stop attacking me about hating macs.I love macs and my next computer will be a mac, I use one almost exclusively at work, even though I have a powerful Windows box on my desk too. But I don't belive in half the rhetoric that is spouted off by the "pro mac" (like that better than zealot?) people.