If we assume that there was a time when Mars was far more hospitable (and it's not a big leap, considering we know that it must have once had a denser atmosphere, shallow seas and was considerably more geologically active), we can imagine life evolving there. When conditions began to deteriorate as the atmosphere thinned and the planet basically froze up, it would probably have lead to mass extinctions, but possibly not universal extinction. Unless the change in conditions was extremely rapid, it would have happened over millions of years, and that would certainly have been a long enough adaptive landscape for at least some populations to evolve ways of dealing with the harsher conditions.
It's self-sterilizing if we assume that life on Mars couldn't have found a way to deal with perchlorates. Extremophiles here on Earth demonstrate that life can evolve to survive in some pretty inhospitable and outright toxic environments.
I didn't say those exhibiting fear of women were hitting on them. What they're doing is claiming that sexual harassment is a-okay, and some of them are even laiming that it's the woman's fault.
But, it is perfectly OK if you are the President and you are having a relationship with a young intern. Right? Tim S.
No it is not okay, and what Bill Clinton (and heaven knows how many other presidents) have done is a classic example of an authority figure abusing their power for sexual favors.
Neither was it okay for the current POTUS to brag at one point that he could grab the genitals of any woman he wanted.
There is when it's in a workplace setting. What might be appropriate at a nightclub or a bar isn't going to be appropriate in your 9-5 job. You're not being paid to hit on your coworkers, and they're not being paid to tolerate it. Social rules are built on context, so what is an appropriate action in one environment is a major faux pas in another; as in it's totally acceptable to defecate in a washroom, but totally unacceptable to do it on the sidewalk.
For christs sake, didn't you have parents to teach you how to behave? Do you suffer some sort sort of impulse control issues? Are you mentally ill? Are you twelve?
That's long debunked psychobabble. The brain isn't a pressure cooker, and no, holding back your emotions is not only healthy, but pretty much a requirement of living among your fellow human beings. Those that lack impulse control are rightfully viewed as having some sort of emotional and/or cognitive defect.
I certainly have felt attraction to coworkers throughout my working life, and even where I wasn't married and thus had no significant other to betray, it just never felt appropriate to act on such feelings. The way to deal with them is to shift your focus elsewhere. If you're looking for love, well there's a whole world of people out there, so find your dating opportunities elsewhere. At least that's always been my rule, and while there might be a few days of discomfort as I grapple privately with my feelings, in the end, such attractions fade.
I think the very idea of ascribing specific sexual behaviors to one gender is absurd, and utterly unfounded, and another example of how some posters on Slashdot seem to believe this bizarre notion that all women are whores and all men are testicle-driven morons.
My company's policy doesn't have gender specific language. It outright bans harassment, so it is irrelevant whether the harasser is a man or a woman, or the victim is a man or a woman. What counts is that the company will not tolerate the behavior, and that it has disciplinary mechanisms at its disposal up to and including termination of employment. Your myths about motivation are irrelevant, pretty much false, and would do the company know favors if it got called into court over a harassment lawsuit.
Let me ask you. Can you keep your feelings to yourself? Can you gently rebuff someone who comes on to you? Can you control your urges, get through the day, and not hit on coworkers?
And I know of at least three cases in the last five years of organizations I work with where the "down low" blew up in various unpleasant ways, one in which the Executive Director (non-profit) had a rather torrid affair with his secretary, leading to the nightmare situation of severe disruption, and ultimately forcing the Board to basically oust him and take control, though so far as I was concerned, they waited far too long, and should have forced the two of them to decide whether they wanted to remain with the organization.
Bully for the couple in question. I'm sure it can work, but there enough legal and organizational risks that in general, yes, I'd say my company policy would ban her from being his direct subordinate (or visa versa).
When a manager has a sexual relationship, or even an emotional affair, with a subordinate, it alters the workplace dynamic. People will inevitably see favoritism, whether it's fair or not, and the manager's response, either to actually show his lover favoritism, or to go to the opposite extreme and be hard on that person as a show of resolve and strength, all have implications. A good manager understands he isn't managing robots, but human beings, who take their cues from management.
That's not even talking about the fallout of a breakup, which can have legal implications. Frankly I view anyone in management having an affair with a subordinate as a form of employment suicide, and there isn't a lawyer or HR expert in the world that will say "Just tell your girlfriend's peers to mind their own business". They're going to put it on the same level of horrible idea as open bars at company functions. In the risk-assessment world, having affairs with your staff is just one big bad fucking idea.
That's why the very best policy is not to have affairs with subordinates, and it's why most modern policies either outright ban such relationships, or require that the subordinate move into another department so that they are no longer under the manager's direct supervision. My company is very small, so there aren't enough "departments" as it were, so it's pretty much an outright ban. If I want to have a relationship with one of my staff, one of us is going to have to resign.
I get hte impression here that many posters are stark raving terrified of women, and incredibly resentful. I imagine there are all sorts of interesting psychological reasons for these feelings, though I confess I can't quite understand them. As I said elsewhere, I've worked with women my entire working life; they've been my bosses, coworkers, and subordinates, and while I've seen my share of antisocial behavior, I never saw women having any great predilection for that kind of behavior than men. I get that when the two sexes spend a good deal of time together, there's bound to be a certain amount of sexual tension, but we are all supposed to be adults that can manage our feelings and expectations, and understand what is appropriate or inappropriate in a workplace.
But here the hate and resentment in some circles is just profoundly disturbing. I suppose some of the posters are just genuinely afraid of women, don't really understand them, don't spend any time around them, and thus easily fall into believing in some sort of "us vs. them" narrative that is becoming rather common in men's rights circles. Some perhaps have had bad experiences, and I admit when I've personal relationship problems, it's easy to fall into an emotional and overly generalized view of the opposite sex as being somehow complicit in my own problems. But again, I'm an adult, I manage these feelings, recognize them as wrong and prejudicial, and get over my own hangups.
There are no lack of workplace bullying lawsuits, and while I can't speak for every organization, the definition of harassment in our policies is pretty darned broad, and largely because our lawyers over the years have made it pretty clear that if a harassment lawsuit of any kind is delivered to our doorstep, we'd better be able to show that not only did we have policies in place to protect employees, but that they were enforced. Even the articles of incorporation and the shareholders agreement have language to force the removal of a director, which allows even members of the board to be held to account for violating company harassment policies.
Or, you know, just keep it in your pants like an adult. I have worked for most of my life with women, some as bosses and supervisors, some as equals, and some as subordinates, and I've never had any issues at all.
As it should. A work place is a place where work happens. Bosses hitting on their subordinates shouldn't happen. It's toxic to a work culture. My company has very strong policies about sexual harassment, including a ban on anyone entering into a sexual relationship with a subordinate. While the latter isn't sexual harassment, it's terrible for morale, and can be incredibly disruptive.
Surely your an adult and you can keep your hands to yourself, and you tongue firmly planted in your mouth when it comes to sexual or even flirtatious comments. And if you are incapable of that, then I would suggest the problem is yours. I know damned few fucking women that come to work hoping their boss or the guy in the cubicle next to them hits on them
I mean, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Are you all incapable of actually holding down a job that involves working with women? Are you that emotionally-driven that you can't just do your goddamned job and treat your coworkers with dignity and respect? Whether it's sexual harassment, or any other kind of harassment, any boss who doesn't take that seriously is asking for goddamned trouble, up to and including costly lawsuits. If you can't keep it in your pants, literally or metaphorically, then a judge will make you.
One of my proudest achievements was managing to get OpenRADIUS compiled under Cygwin (this was around 2003 or 2004), but what it did teach me is that while Cygwin was at the time the best available solution for running *nix software on Windows, it still sucked horribly. I installed Cygwin again a few years back and found that while some things had been cleaned up, all in all it was still a bloody awful kludge.
I'm the same. I like as light and small form a laptop as possible, and that makes for a fairly shitty development machine. I also like to monitor setups, and while you can do it with laptops, I find it interesting awkward.
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I'm sure he loses sleep over the thought of you turning him away...
If we assume that there was a time when Mars was far more hospitable (and it's not a big leap, considering we know that it must have once had a denser atmosphere, shallow seas and was considerably more geologically active), we can imagine life evolving there. When conditions began to deteriorate as the atmosphere thinned and the planet basically froze up, it would probably have lead to mass extinctions, but possibly not universal extinction. Unless the change in conditions was extremely rapid, it would have happened over millions of years, and that would certainly have been a long enough adaptive landscape for at least some populations to evolve ways of dealing with the harsher conditions.
You're right. It was uncalled for. Fungi are a noble group, and in no way should be compared to Trumps.
It's self-sterilizing if we assume that life on Mars couldn't have found a way to deal with perchlorates. Extremophiles here on Earth demonstrate that life can evolve to survive in some pretty inhospitable and outright toxic environments.
Come on, that's no way to talk about Donald Trump Jr!
(I know I know, flamebait and off topic, but you only live once)
So you think men are by nature little more than rapists?
Haven't read the news today, I see...
I didn't say those exhibiting fear of women were hitting on them. What they're doing is claiming that sexual harassment is a-okay, and some of them are even laiming that it's the woman's fault.
No it is not okay, and what Bill Clinton (and heaven knows how many other presidents) have done is a classic example of an authority figure abusing their power for sexual favors.
Neither was it okay for the current POTUS to brag at one point that he could grab the genitals of any woman he wanted.
There is when it's in a workplace setting. What might be appropriate at a nightclub or a bar isn't going to be appropriate in your 9-5 job. You're not being paid to hit on your coworkers, and they're not being paid to tolerate it. Social rules are built on context, so what is an appropriate action in one environment is a major faux pas in another; as in it's totally acceptable to defecate in a washroom, but totally unacceptable to do it on the sidewalk.
For christs sake, didn't you have parents to teach you how to behave? Do you suffer some sort sort of impulse control issues? Are you mentally ill? Are you twelve?
That's long debunked psychobabble. The brain isn't a pressure cooker, and no, holding back your emotions is not only healthy, but pretty much a requirement of living among your fellow human beings. Those that lack impulse control are rightfully viewed as having some sort of emotional and/or cognitive defect.
I certainly have felt attraction to coworkers throughout my working life, and even where I wasn't married and thus had no significant other to betray, it just never felt appropriate to act on such feelings. The way to deal with them is to shift your focus elsewhere. If you're looking for love, well there's a whole world of people out there, so find your dating opportunities elsewhere. At least that's always been my rule, and while there might be a few days of discomfort as I grapple privately with my feelings, in the end, such attractions fade.
About all I've learned from your post is that you are likely mentally ill, or at the very least severely emotionally retarded.
Until a love triangle forms... Even relationships between equals in a company can be problematic.
How exactly does any of this disprove what I said? In fact it confirms what I've been saying, that such behavior is toxic.
I think the very idea of ascribing specific sexual behaviors to one gender is absurd, and utterly unfounded, and another example of how some posters on Slashdot seem to believe this bizarre notion that all women are whores and all men are testicle-driven morons.
My company's policy doesn't have gender specific language. It outright bans harassment, so it is irrelevant whether the harasser is a man or a woman, or the victim is a man or a woman. What counts is that the company will not tolerate the behavior, and that it has disciplinary mechanisms at its disposal up to and including termination of employment. Your myths about motivation are irrelevant, pretty much false, and would do the company know favors if it got called into court over a harassment lawsuit.
Let me ask you. Can you keep your feelings to yourself? Can you gently rebuff someone who comes on to you? Can you control your urges, get through the day, and not hit on coworkers?
And I know of at least three cases in the last five years of organizations I work with where the "down low" blew up in various unpleasant ways, one in which the Executive Director (non-profit) had a rather torrid affair with his secretary, leading to the nightmare situation of severe disruption, and ultimately forcing the Board to basically oust him and take control, though so far as I was concerned, they waited far too long, and should have forced the two of them to decide whether they wanted to remain with the organization.
Bully for the couple in question. I'm sure it can work, but there enough legal and organizational risks that in general, yes, I'd say my company policy would ban her from being his direct subordinate (or visa versa).
When a manager has a sexual relationship, or even an emotional affair, with a subordinate, it alters the workplace dynamic. People will inevitably see favoritism, whether it's fair or not, and the manager's response, either to actually show his lover favoritism, or to go to the opposite extreme and be hard on that person as a show of resolve and strength, all have implications. A good manager understands he isn't managing robots, but human beings, who take their cues from management.
That's not even talking about the fallout of a breakup, which can have legal implications. Frankly I view anyone in management having an affair with a subordinate as a form of employment suicide, and there isn't a lawyer or HR expert in the world that will say "Just tell your girlfriend's peers to mind their own business". They're going to put it on the same level of horrible idea as open bars at company functions. In the risk-assessment world, having affairs with your staff is just one big bad fucking idea.
That's why the very best policy is not to have affairs with subordinates, and it's why most modern policies either outright ban such relationships, or require that the subordinate move into another department so that they are no longer under the manager's direct supervision. My company is very small, so there aren't enough "departments" as it were, so it's pretty much an outright ban. If I want to have a relationship with one of my staff, one of us is going to have to resign.
I get hte impression here that many posters are stark raving terrified of women, and incredibly resentful. I imagine there are all sorts of interesting psychological reasons for these feelings, though I confess I can't quite understand them. As I said elsewhere, I've worked with women my entire working life; they've been my bosses, coworkers, and subordinates, and while I've seen my share of antisocial behavior, I never saw women having any great predilection for that kind of behavior than men. I get that when the two sexes spend a good deal of time together, there's bound to be a certain amount of sexual tension, but we are all supposed to be adults that can manage our feelings and expectations, and understand what is appropriate or inappropriate in a workplace.
But here the hate and resentment in some circles is just profoundly disturbing. I suppose some of the posters are just genuinely afraid of women, don't really understand them, don't spend any time around them, and thus easily fall into believing in some sort of "us vs. them" narrative that is becoming rather common in men's rights circles. Some perhaps have had bad experiences, and I admit when I've personal relationship problems, it's easy to fall into an emotional and overly generalized view of the opposite sex as being somehow complicit in my own problems. But again, I'm an adult, I manage these feelings, recognize them as wrong and prejudicial, and get over my own hangups.
There are no lack of workplace bullying lawsuits, and while I can't speak for every organization, the definition of harassment in our policies is pretty darned broad, and largely because our lawyers over the years have made it pretty clear that if a harassment lawsuit of any kind is delivered to our doorstep, we'd better be able to show that not only did we have policies in place to protect employees, but that they were enforced. Even the articles of incorporation and the shareholders agreement have language to force the removal of a director, which allows even members of the board to be held to account for violating company harassment policies.
It seems his idiot son is doing a rather good job to ruin the Presidency.
Or, you know, just keep it in your pants like an adult. I have worked for most of my life with women, some as bosses and supervisors, some as equals, and some as subordinates, and I've never had any issues at all.
As it should. A work place is a place where work happens. Bosses hitting on their subordinates shouldn't happen. It's toxic to a work culture. My company has very strong policies about sexual harassment, including a ban on anyone entering into a sexual relationship with a subordinate. While the latter isn't sexual harassment, it's terrible for morale, and can be incredibly disruptive.
Surely your an adult and you can keep your hands to yourself, and you tongue firmly planted in your mouth when it comes to sexual or even flirtatious comments. And if you are incapable of that, then I would suggest the problem is yours. I know damned few fucking women that come to work hoping their boss or the guy in the cubicle next to them hits on them
I mean, what the fuck is wrong with you people? Are you all incapable of actually holding down a job that involves working with women? Are you that emotionally-driven that you can't just do your goddamned job and treat your coworkers with dignity and respect? Whether it's sexual harassment, or any other kind of harassment, any boss who doesn't take that seriously is asking for goddamned trouble, up to and including costly lawsuits. If you can't keep it in your pants, literally or metaphorically, then a judge will make you.
One of my proudest achievements was managing to get OpenRADIUS compiled under Cygwin (this was around 2003 or 2004), but what it did teach me is that while Cygwin was at the time the best available solution for running *nix software on Windows, it still sucked horribly. I installed Cygwin again a few years back and found that while some things had been cleaned up, all in all it was still a bloody awful kludge.
I'm the same. I like as light and small form a laptop as possible, and that makes for a fairly shitty development machine. I also like to monitor setups, and while you can do it with laptops, I find it interesting awkward.
Maybe you don't want to delve too deeply into that.