The number itself has no meaning. First there is always an imbalance due to random fluctuations, thought 90/10 is unlikely to be entirely random (but we have Feminazis complaining about 60/40 distributions in other fields).
It cuts both ways, too. In some things, there are more men, and in others more women. There are, for example, more female than male nurses.
That is not a problem.
It only becomes a problem if some man who would like to be a nurse can't get the job due to his gender. So for e-sports, the real question is if there are any women who would like to be in e-sports, but can't because of their gender.
It's the difference between equal rights and opportunities, and Gleichschaltung.
Why are you assuming all/. users run Linux on their desktop? Maybe that was true 10 years ago, but it no longer is.
I run OS X on my desktop and Linux on my servers, and away from Windows.
So I play whatever makes the effort to be available on OS X. Both Guild Wards 2 and League of Legends were smart enough to create OS X clients, and there are a few indie titles like FTL that I love.
Again, there are conditions with special rules. If someone is injured, doctors have special priviledges (cutting someone open without his consent would be considered assault in every other situation). If someone has broken the law, lawyers have special priviledges. It doesn't matter if he has broken the law on theft or on bail, he still has the right to talk to a lawyer. It's one of the fundamental principles of the rule of law.
Just one more reason to avoid Steam, and that's even considering that TFA is largely bogus and bans based on this data gathering are a myth.
But that a fucking game center spies on your browser history is crazy. It has no fucking business doing that. Prevent 3rd party tools from accessing the games and modifying them in-memory, etc. - fine with me, that's what I expect with an anti-cheat software. Gather statistics on my online browsing habbits? Quite honestly, this should be illegal and carry jailtime penalties. Why are we giving corporations stalking permissions when private people can go to jail for much less?
And why would you think that. What's more important? Having banks or slightly better social security benefits? My view is that if it is only a few euros, then it's not important and "we" can blow that off.
You're confusing the abstract with the concrete. Having banks in general is not the same as saving a bunch of particular banks that gambled badly.
There are other things one could obtain with those funds - such as a functioning society or productive industry that are more important.
We don't spend money on either of that. If you've been living under a rock for the past decade or two, check up on income distribution. Heck, it's become so bad that even a couple of the ultra-rich are already advocating reversing the trend because they fear there'll be blood otherwise. Theirs.
Why is it that so many governments seem so clueless with technology?
They are not clueless with technology. They are clueless with anything. Look at what the majority of our politicians has actually learnt - they are lawyers, teachers and bureaucrats, most of them. There's the occasional scientist and such. There are almost no business people, especially not entrepeneurs.
Merkel is from the former GDR, and is a prime example of what they used to call a "Wendehals" there - someone who will turn his head (and opinion) into whatever direction is favorable at the moment. Her ability to quickly adapt to public sentiment is what kept her in power so long (and the fact that she ruthlessly gets rid of potential competitors, by "promoting" them away and/or "waiting" for them to fall to some scandal or the other).
So I'll believe it when I see it and not a second earlier. Words are cheap.
see my reply to the other troll you fucked up asshole.
I have friends who are unemployed. They would love to have a job. I have a friend who is so afraid of losing her job that she's having panic attacks and sleep issues.
Frankly, I'd vote immediately for a law to put anyone who play the "unemployed people are just lazy" card without solid evidence into jail with forced labor for life, because it is a lie.
The real parasites in this society are not at the bottom, they are at the top.
Unemployment benefits in Germany are based on an insurance system. I was actually technically unemployed for a few months when I started my own company, so I did collect unemployment benefits for that time. However, for the 10+ years prior to that which I was employed in one company or the other, I paid unemployment insurance premiums from my loan. It's mandatory, btw.
No one is forced "at gunpoint", that's just such a total load of crap that I don't think I know enough english expletives to properly rage on how much nonsense that is.
And no, the 1930s had absolutely nothing to do with unemployment benefits whatsoever. That's another huge, steaming pile of shit.
And your final sentence is the strawman all the people with certain interest put out and it is absolute total utter complete bullshit from top to bottom. There's maybe, maybe one in a thousand unemployed people who actually want to be unemployed. Meanwhile, there's 999 people who would love to have a job, and in fact are distressed and quite often to the point of mental and physical health issues that they don't. It is unbelievably insulting and disrespectful to use the rare exception as a justification for the oppressive inhumane treatment of everyone.
And quite frankly, FUCK YOU for playing the "entitled" card when people fucking pay out of their already small paycheck every fucking month into the fucking unemployment insurance. That's not entitlement, that's fucking upholding the other side of the fucking deal you fucktard.
We can afford a social security twice as expensive. If we stopped increasing income disparity and dared to raise taxes on the rich to... levels they used to be at without the world ending.
Germany had half a trillion Euros available literally overnight when the banks needed to be bailed out, but we're seriously discussing over raising social security benefits a few Euros per month.
Money isn't the issue, and anyone trying to tell you that is pulling a fast one.
Yes, but Russia, for example, is fairly similar to that in many regards, except that it had it industry located largely in the west where the german army left nothing but destruction behind.
I'm not sure if many of us in the west ever realized the massive destruction of Russia during WW2. The numbers are staggering. The book above lists these damages for the german-occupied russian territory:
11.6 million horses
137,000 tractors
65,000 km of railway track
15,800 locomotives
428,000 goods wagons
4,280 river boats
half of all the railway bridges
4.7 million houses
If your competitor had a total domestic damage of one cowshed (if the story about a stray japanese baloon bomb is correct), that is a massive set-back. In fact, not winning a race against an opponent with starting penalties like that would've been utterly pathetic.
It's simply called "Arbeitslosengeld" - unemployment money. That is the regular unemployment benefits as you probably know them from your country.
However, after the Agenda 2010 reforms, after one year of unemployment (irrespective of reasons) or under a variety of other conditions (which largely affect especially young people, like not having worked for at least one year in the job you just lost), you will be moved to "Arbeitslosengeld II" - yes, that's just the same with a roman numeral. In colloquial german it is mostly called "Hartz 4", because a Mr. Hartz was the industrialist/lobbyist who came up with the whole concept and convinced the government of it and it was the 4th part of a multi-part reform.
Hartz 4 is very low, in fact it has been raised at least twice because our highest court has ruled that it violates human rights and doesn't allow for humane living conditions. It is tied to a long list of conditions and regulations and even though it is already set as a minimum living expenses, not meeting those conditions can result in further reductions or non-payment for up to three months.
The "idea" behind it is that unemployed people are just lazy and need to be pushed to get back into work. Somehow, people living in ivory towers never got the newsflash that in most industries the number of available jobs is less than the number of available workers.
Oh yes, they can also force you to work for âÂ1/h. That is not a typo. One Euro per hour. If you refuse, your Hartz 4 money will be cut.
50 years ago, there would've been blood in the streets if they had tried this system. But they were smart and spent a decade (and three different government coalitions) to establish it, and like the frog in the story about boiling waters, the country didn't jump out.
The idea works, that's for sure. I have friends who have been on Hartz 4, and one of them is right now afraid of losing her job because it would mean she loses the small appartment she just rented a few months ago and everything she's worked for for the past years. She has panic attacks and is deathly afraid. I'm not using that term lightly, the german word is "Existenzangst" - existential fear.
It would work if it weren't based on a flawed assumption - that the reason for unemployment is that people don't want to work and much rather enjoy unemployment benefits. That kind of people probably exist. Almost certainly, they are like 1% of the unemployed. For the rest, more force doesn't magically generate jobs.
The hidden agenda (what a fitting term!) is of course to increase pressure on the workforce so people accept worse jobs for less money. And that has worked very well. Wages are actually declining, and a lot of people work in part-time work and a lot of people work for money that nobody sane would've worked for one or two decades ago, because it simply isn't enough to feed and house a family.
Negative. When I was a child, we still had working social security networks over here and losing your job sucked, but didn't make you a hobo. This is an intentional political change. It even has a name: Agenda 2010.
any particular reason you put so much value on making something?
Just to illustrate the point. If the USA were industry-heavy, the example would've probably gone the other way around. The point is that $1000 GDP could be $1000 of manufacturing or $1000 of table waiting, and while an economy needs both, they are not interchangeable.
I'm not trying to make any country better or worse, just saying that if you really want to compare, it makes more sense to go deeper. It's like citing only a companies bottom line, when everyone who has ever worked in some capacity with access to budget data knows how much fudging goes into those numbers.
Why is America a super power? Because we work our asses off. Nuff said.
That is actually false on several accounts.
First, many countries on the planet work harder and longer than americans, especially in Asia. A lot of us westeners get quite a shock when we go working in Asia, because all the bullshit crap we smile politely about in our own culture, like the "company as a family" message some dumbo internal PR asshole actually thinks anyone believes in, is seriously real there.
Second, America is a super power because it profited massively from WW2. The numbers are in books such as "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" (excellent read, strongly recommended). The short is that every other world power was massively devastated by the war, except the USA who emerged from it with no domestic damage, lots of highly skilled immigrants, as debt-holders of several european powers and a strengthened industrial base. When you get stronger while everyone else is essentially burnt down, it's not difficult to emerge as a super power.
Third, time (and effort) worked does not equal productivity.
Unfortunately, it's not a USA thing anymore, you've successfully exported it to at least Europe.
Here in Germany, more than one million employees are receiving a special form of unemployment benefits, because without it they would actually earn less than the unemployment benefits are. That's just insane, and the solution to compensate for the difference with tax money is so psychotic that it is my honest believe each and every one of the politicians who came up with that should be put into a closed mental institution and kept there for life.
GDP is a meaningless number if you don't also look into which sectors contribute how much.
In the USA, the top 3 sectors are renting/leasing/real-estate, government and the financial industry. In other words: Nothings gets actually produced or created in the top 3 sectors, making up close to 30% of the economy.
Other countries are a lot more industry-heavy than the US, which has turned into a service economy. You can judge this one way or the other, but comparing just one number when there are considerable differences in how it is created is a bit shortsighted.
Only if you've been living under a rock for the past 10 years and ignore that today, more people are held up and robbed for their mobile phone than for their cash.
Which is total bullshit because while they are technically correct about the SIM, every mobile phone has an IEMI number - the mobile phone equivalent to your MAC address, and blacklisting phones (the hardware, not the SIM) is common practice in many countries.
One should not be confused by words. The gamer is the only thing casual about "casual games". The rest of it is a cut-throat business, predatory and in many, many, many cases (Zynga is just the top example) outright evil.
And not just towards the gamers^H^H^Hvictims^H^H^Hmarks. If you want to get some of the lowest salaries in IT, go work in the casual games industry.
It's an exploitive industry that I can't wait to see implode and be replace by actual, you know, games again, instead of carefully engineered addiction machines in the disguise of a game.
If you go to non-western cultures, they probably won't have astrology, at least as we know it. They probably have their own systems, but you would have to go beyond words and also check how closely their equivalent of astrology is related to astronomy.
Oh yes, all the way with you on that. The US is not going to give up any control of anything willingly. Heck, you guys still have soldiers stationed in Germany almost 70 years after WW2.
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Strangely there's little outcry from feminists about this, no demands for subsidies or positive action to help men.
Feminism has long stopped being about equality. Heck, it's even in the name - Feminism. Not Equalism.
The number itself has no meaning. First there is always an imbalance due to random fluctuations, thought 90/10 is unlikely to be entirely random (but we have Feminazis complaining about 60/40 distributions in other fields).
It cuts both ways, too. In some things, there are more men, and in others more women. There are, for example, more female than male nurses.
That is not a problem.
It only becomes a problem if some man who would like to be a nurse can't get the job due to his gender. So for e-sports, the real question is if there are any women who would like to be in e-sports, but can't because of their gender.
It's the difference between equal rights and opportunities, and Gleichschaltung.
Why are you assuming all /. users run Linux on their desktop? Maybe that was true 10 years ago, but it no longer is.
I run OS X on my desktop and Linux on my servers, and away from Windows.
So I play whatever makes the effort to be available on OS X. Both Guild Wards 2 and League of Legends were smart enough to create OS X clients, and there are a few indie titles like FTL that I love.
Again, there are conditions with special rules. If someone is injured, doctors have special priviledges (cutting someone open without his consent would be considered assault in every other situation). If someone has broken the law, lawyers have special priviledges. It doesn't matter if he has broken the law on theft or on bail, he still has the right to talk to a lawyer. It's one of the fundamental principles of the rule of law.
Lawyers visiting people in trouble with the law is basically them doing their job, you know?
Just one more reason to avoid Steam, and that's even considering that TFA is largely bogus and bans based on this data gathering are a myth.
But that a fucking game center spies on your browser history is crazy. It has no fucking business doing that. Prevent 3rd party tools from accessing the games and modifying them in-memory, etc. - fine with me, that's what I expect with an anti-cheat software. Gather statistics on my online browsing habbits? Quite honestly, this should be illegal and carry jailtime penalties. Why are we giving corporations stalking permissions when private people can go to jail for much less?
Oh wow.
You ignore everything where you're wrong to the degree of insanity and argue on the one point where you think you can win on a technicality?
I consider you mentally unstable. Get help.
And why would you think that. What's more important? Having banks or slightly better social security benefits? My view is that if it is only a few euros, then it's not important and "we" can blow that off.
You're confusing the abstract with the concrete. Having banks in general is not the same as saving a bunch of particular banks that gambled badly.
There are other things one could obtain with those funds - such as a functioning society or productive industry that are more important.
We don't spend money on either of that. If you've been living under a rock for the past decade or two, check up on income distribution. Heck, it's become so bad that even a couple of the ultra-rich are already advocating reversing the trend because they fear there'll be blood otherwise. Theirs.
Why is it that so many governments seem so clueless with technology?
They are not clueless with technology. They are clueless with anything. Look at what the majority of our politicians has actually learnt - they are lawyers, teachers and bureaucrats, most of them. There's the occasional scientist and such. There are almost no business people, especially not entrepeneurs.
Merkel is from the former GDR, and is a prime example of what they used to call a "Wendehals" there - someone who will turn his head (and opinion) into whatever direction is favorable at the moment. Her ability to quickly adapt to public sentiment is what kept her in power so long (and the fact that she ruthlessly gets rid of potential competitors, by "promoting" them away and/or "waiting" for them to fall to some scandal or the other).
So I'll believe it when I see it and not a second earlier. Words are cheap.
see my reply to the other troll you fucked up asshole.
I have friends who are unemployed. They would love to have a job. I have a friend who is so afraid of losing her job that she's having panic attacks and sleep issues.
Frankly, I'd vote immediately for a law to put anyone who play the "unemployed people are just lazy" card without solid evidence into jail with forced labor for life, because it is a lie.
The real parasites in this society are not at the bottom, they are at the top.
Are you a total fucktard or just an utter idiot?
Unemployment benefits in Germany are based on an insurance system. I was actually technically unemployed for a few months when I started my own company, so I did collect unemployment benefits for that time. However, for the 10+ years prior to that which I was employed in one company or the other, I paid unemployment insurance premiums from my loan. It's mandatory, btw.
No one is forced "at gunpoint", that's just such a total load of crap that I don't think I know enough english expletives to properly rage on how much nonsense that is.
And no, the 1930s had absolutely nothing to do with unemployment benefits whatsoever. That's another huge, steaming pile of shit.
And your final sentence is the strawman all the people with certain interest put out and it is absolute total utter complete bullshit from top to bottom. There's maybe, maybe one in a thousand unemployed people who actually want to be unemployed. Meanwhile, there's 999 people who would love to have a job, and in fact are distressed and quite often to the point of mental and physical health issues that they don't. It is unbelievably insulting and disrespectful to use the rare exception as a justification for the oppressive inhumane treatment of everyone.
And quite frankly, FUCK YOU for playing the "entitled" card when people fucking pay out of their already small paycheck every fucking month into the fucking unemployment insurance. That's not entitlement, that's fucking upholding the other side of the fucking deal you fucktard.
Total bullshit.
We can afford a social security twice as expensive. If we stopped increasing income disparity and dared to raise taxes on the rich to... levels they used to be at without the world ending.
Germany had half a trillion Euros available literally overnight when the banks needed to be bailed out, but we're seriously discussing over raising social security benefits a few Euros per month.
Money isn't the issue, and anyone trying to tell you that is pulling a fast one.
Yes, but Russia, for example, is fairly similar to that in many regards, except that it had it industry located largely in the west where the german army left nothing but destruction behind.
I'm not sure if many of us in the west ever realized the massive destruction of Russia during WW2. The numbers are staggering. The book above lists these damages for the german-occupied russian territory:
If your competitor had a total domestic damage of one cowshed (if the story about a stray japanese baloon bomb is correct), that is a massive set-back. In fact, not winning a race against an opponent with starting penalties like that would've been utterly pathetic.
It's simply called "Arbeitslosengeld" - unemployment money. That is the regular unemployment benefits as you probably know them from your country.
However, after the Agenda 2010 reforms, after one year of unemployment (irrespective of reasons) or under a variety of other conditions (which largely affect especially young people, like not having worked for at least one year in the job you just lost), you will be moved to "Arbeitslosengeld II" - yes, that's just the same with a roman numeral. In colloquial german it is mostly called "Hartz 4", because a Mr. Hartz was the industrialist/lobbyist who came up with the whole concept and convinced the government of it and it was the 4th part of a multi-part reform.
Hartz 4 is very low, in fact it has been raised at least twice because our highest court has ruled that it violates human rights and doesn't allow for humane living conditions. It is tied to a long list of conditions and regulations and even though it is already set as a minimum living expenses, not meeting those conditions can result in further reductions or non-payment for up to three months.
The "idea" behind it is that unemployed people are just lazy and need to be pushed to get back into work. Somehow, people living in ivory towers never got the newsflash that in most industries the number of available jobs is less than the number of available workers.
Oh yes, they can also force you to work for âÂ1/h. That is not a typo. One Euro per hour. If you refuse, your Hartz 4 money will be cut.
50 years ago, there would've been blood in the streets if they had tried this system. But they were smart and spent a decade (and three different government coalitions) to establish it, and like the frog in the story about boiling waters, the country didn't jump out.
The idea works, that's for sure. I have friends who have been on Hartz 4, and one of them is right now afraid of losing her job because it would mean she loses the small appartment she just rented a few months ago and everything she's worked for for the past years. She has panic attacks and is deathly afraid. I'm not using that term lightly, the german word is "Existenzangst" - existential fear.
It would work if it weren't based on a flawed assumption - that the reason for unemployment is that people don't want to work and much rather enjoy unemployment benefits. That kind of people probably exist. Almost certainly, they are like 1% of the unemployed. For the rest, more force doesn't magically generate jobs.
The hidden agenda (what a fitting term!) is of course to increase pressure on the workforce so people accept worse jobs for less money. And that has worked very well. Wages are actually declining, and a lot of people work in part-time work and a lot of people work for money that nobody sane would've worked for one or two decades ago, because it simply isn't enough to feed and house a family.
other way round buddy..
Negative. When I was a child, we still had working social security networks over here and losing your job sucked, but didn't make you a hobo. This is an intentional political change. It even has a name: Agenda 2010.
any particular reason you put so much value on making something?
Just to illustrate the point. If the USA were industry-heavy, the example would've probably gone the other way around. The point is that $1000 GDP could be $1000 of manufacturing or $1000 of table waiting, and while an economy needs both, they are not interchangeable.
I'm not trying to make any country better or worse, just saying that if you really want to compare, it makes more sense to go deeper. It's like citing only a companies bottom line, when everyone who has ever worked in some capacity with access to budget data knows how much fudging goes into those numbers.
Why is America a super power? Because we work our asses off. Nuff said.
That is actually false on several accounts.
First, many countries on the planet work harder and longer than americans, especially in Asia. A lot of us westeners get quite a shock when we go working in Asia, because all the bullshit crap we smile politely about in our own culture, like the "company as a family" message some dumbo internal PR asshole actually thinks anyone believes in, is seriously real there.
Second, America is a super power because it profited massively from WW2. The numbers are in books such as "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" (excellent read, strongly recommended). The short is that every other world power was massively devastated by the war, except the USA who emerged from it with no domestic damage, lots of highly skilled immigrants, as debt-holders of several european powers and a strengthened industrial base. When you get stronger while everyone else is essentially burnt down, it's not difficult to emerge as a super power.
Third, time (and effort) worked does not equal productivity.
Unfortunately, it's not a USA thing anymore, you've successfully exported it to at least Europe.
Here in Germany, more than one million employees are receiving a special form of unemployment benefits, because without it they would actually earn less than the unemployment benefits are. That's just insane, and the solution to compensate for the difference with tax money is so psychotic that it is my honest believe each and every one of the politicians who came up with that should be put into a closed mental institution and kept there for life.
GDP is a meaningless number if you don't also look into which sectors contribute how much.
In the USA, the top 3 sectors are renting/leasing/real-estate, government and the financial industry. In other words: Nothings gets actually produced or created in the top 3 sectors, making up close to 30% of the economy.
Other countries are a lot more industry-heavy than the US, which has turned into a service economy. You can judge this one way or the other, but comparing just one number when there are considerable differences in how it is created is a bit shortsighted.
This is a solution looking for a problem
Only if you've been living under a rock for the past 10 years and ignore that today, more people are held up and robbed for their mobile phone than for their cash.
claiming GSM/SIM's don't allow for black-listing.
Which is total bullshit because while they are technically correct about the SIM, every mobile phone has an IEMI number - the mobile phone equivalent to your MAC address, and blacklisting phones (the hardware, not the SIM) is common practice in many countries.
One should not be confused by words. The gamer is the only thing casual about "casual games". The rest of it is a cut-throat business, predatory and in many, many, many cases (Zynga is just the top example) outright evil.
And not just towards the gamers^H^H^Hvictims^H^H^Hmarks. If you want to get some of the lowest salaries in IT, go work in the casual games industry.
It's an exploitive industry that I can't wait to see implode and be replace by actual, you know, games again, instead of carefully engineered addiction machines in the disguise of a game.
If you go to non-western cultures, they probably won't have astrology, at least as we know it. They probably have their own systems, but you would have to go beyond words and also check how closely their equivalent of astrology is related to astronomy.
Oh yes, all the way with you on that. The US is not going to give up any control of anything willingly. Heck, you guys still have soldiers stationed in Germany almost 70 years after WW2.