Personally, I think it's some form of evolved Darwinism. Geeks are the hunter/gatherers of the 00's, stalking code with the intensity of a hungry tiger.
Personally, I like to watch a guy work. My last boyfriend was a NA and I'd run down to his office when he was working late and just watch him. It never failed to turn me on.
Let me start off by saying I am absolutely for free speach. Without it we all become mindless drones spouting tired ideas with no real sense of who we are as individuals. Therefore there is no blocking software installed on my computer.
The real question here is not if you let your children view xxx.com or not, but if it's appropriate for a public library. Until a few days ago I would have shouted, "Down with censorship! No blocking software!" A trip to my public library changed that though.
I was looking for a particular book and had forgotten the author's name. Being a true geek I logged on to a terminal to look it up rather than doing it the old fashioned way. While waiting for a page to load I took a look around and noticed a man two terminals down checking out some porn and fondling himself. While I firmly believe it is this guy's right to view and do whatever he wishes in his home, I also don't think the rest of the world needs to be subjected to it in graphic detail.
"When being interviewed, you speak through a computerized chat room of some sort, or maybe through an opaque screen and voice disguiser (probably a bit expensive). Then, absolutely nothing besides your skills will be known." Ok, this is a bit extreme. Face it, if you're working with other people your personilty counts. But as an applicant you can refuse to fill out that stupid sex/race area of an application. I haven't filled one of those out in years.
Everyone has to prove themselves in a new job, the trick is selling your skills in an interview. By relying on your sex, either in the area of phisycal appeal or as a need to fill a quota, you are prostituting yourself to a supposedly "pro-women" system. Regardless of sex, hiring and promotion decisions should be made on a skills-only basis.
As for affirmative action, I think other than in the "equal pay for equal work" area, it has served it's purpose and is now allowing women to get ahead simply because they're women. Isn't this sexism also? A system has been created where a woman doesn't have to be as skilled as a man in order to be hired or promoted. It's unfair and it's wrong.
I could not agree more. To go one step further; I honestly feel that quota requirements in any profession do more harm to women than good. How is a woman supposed to know if she was hired because of her abilities or her gender if the company that hired her is trying to meet a quota? I, for one, would like to KNOW that I was hired for my skills and not my tits.
There is a huge gender gap in the computer industry, and this is may due to girls being turned away from science and math at an early age, but isn't that more of a parental concern? If your daughter wants to study science and math it's your obligation as a parent to encourage her, not to rely the school system to do it for you. Conversely, if your daughter wants to study home ec, what's the problem with that?
If you see this gender gap as a problem, you have two things to do: 1. Hone your skills so you can compete on an even playing field, and 2. Stop letting the government raise your kids, give them the skills to compete when they enter the workforce.
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Personally, I think it's some form of evolved Darwinism. Geeks are the hunter/gatherers of the 00's, stalking code with the intensity of a hungry tiger.
Personally, I like to watch a guy work. My last boyfriend was a NA and I'd run down to his office when he was working late and just watch him. It never failed to turn me on.
Let me start off by saying I am absolutely for free speach. Without it we all become mindless drones spouting tired ideas with no real sense of who we are as individuals. Therefore there is no blocking software installed on my computer.
The real question here is not if you let your children view xxx.com or not, but if it's appropriate for a public library. Until a few days ago I would have shouted, "Down with censorship! No blocking software!" A trip to my public library changed that though.
I was looking for a particular book and had forgotten the author's name. Being a true geek I logged on to a terminal to look it up rather than doing it the old fashioned way. While waiting for a page to load I took a look around and noticed a man two terminals down checking out some porn and fondling himself. While I firmly believe it is this guy's right to view and do whatever he wishes in his home, I also don't think the rest of the world needs to be subjected to it in graphic detail.
"When being interviewed, you speak through a computerized chat room of some sort, or maybe through an opaque screen and voice disguiser (probably a bit expensive). Then, absolutely nothing besides your skills will be known." Ok, this is a bit extreme. Face it, if you're working with other people your personilty counts. But as an applicant you can refuse to fill out that stupid sex/race area of an application. I haven't filled one of those out in years.
Everyone has to prove themselves in a new job, the trick is selling your skills in an interview. By relying on your sex, either in the area of phisycal appeal or as a need to fill a quota, you are prostituting yourself to a supposedly "pro-women" system. Regardless of sex, hiring and promotion decisions should be made on a skills-only basis.
As for affirmative action, I think other than in the "equal pay for equal work" area, it has served it's purpose and is now allowing women to get ahead simply because they're women. Isn't this sexism also? A system has been created where a woman doesn't have to be as skilled as a man in order to be hired or promoted. It's unfair and it's wrong.
I could not agree more. To go one step further; I honestly feel that quota requirements in any profession do more harm to women than good. How is a woman supposed to know if she was hired because of her abilities or her gender if the company that hired her is trying to meet a quota? I, for one, would like to KNOW that I was hired for my skills and not my tits.
There is a huge gender gap in the computer industry, and this is may due to girls being turned away from science and math at an early age, but isn't that more of a parental concern? If your daughter wants to study science and math it's your obligation as a parent to encourage her, not to rely the school system to do it for you. Conversely, if your daughter wants to study home ec, what's the problem with that?
If you see this gender gap as a problem, you have two things to do: 1. Hone your skills so you can compete on an even playing field, and 2. Stop letting the government raise your kids, give them the skills to compete when they enter the workforce.
My sentiments exactly.