Besides there have been trans people everywhere throughout history. It is only in a few barbaric cultures where it has ever been a major issue
You mean like Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming?
Yes those are states with compulsory sterilization for transgender people who want to update their birth certificate. Fortunately, only Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma also require it to update a driver license.
And don't forget her unprecedented level of unpleasantness. For instance, she was allocating meeting time in 5 minutes increments and had people waiting in line next to her office for "their" 5 minutes to make sure her time was not wasted; subordinates, peers, superiors, vendors - everyone was "equal" when it came to waiting for an Audience.
She, on the other hand, frequently showed up late to meetings. Sometimes hours late like in some famous instances where people had to wait for her to show up for a dinner with important clients.
The real guilty people are those who hired her at Yahoo. Any background check would have raised all those issues.
Dude not only do you suck at being snippy, you're wrong and that "Israeli Engineering Open House" blog page is not a reference.
She was not in charge of search - she was actually removed from that team because the real search guy (Amit Singhal) complained and they sent her to the shopping division ("Products Search") where they eventually put someone above her because she was a pain in the ass.
Yeah. She was in charge of search, and we all know how much Google search sucks. Maybe instead of "Altaba," they should call the new company "Alta Vista."
Wrong. She was not in charge of search at all. She had a role in the design of the search page, then she was in charge of user experience and the shopping stuff. The search stuff was (is) handled by engineers not by a PM/QA person.
I wonder what words "Shapespeare" would have used for transgender characters. Or any of the other people you mention.
For instance I'm sure Dickens insights in the matter would have been fascinating, as was his view of Jews or African Americans (he's the one who mentioned "the melancholy absurdity of giving these people votes" after all).
I imagine that the author feels attraction to both men and women and as such describes herself as bi, even though she has not yet had the opportunity to engage in a relationship with a man.
In the quote she explicitly states that she has lost her virginity to a female vim user.
Here's what that Leah person has to say about "the sexist" RMS:
For instance, he once described women who have never used GNU Emacs as EMACS virgins. Leah is an emacs virgin. Leah Rowe is a woman, and she recommends Vim. Her.vimrc is on vimuser.org. Personal statement from Leah: RMS's comments about emacs virgins is especially offensive to me. Not only is it sexist in general (and directed at me, because I don't use emacs), but also offensive towards my sexuality. His statement implies that men are supposed to have sex with virgin women, and that women only lose their virginity to men. To this day, I've only ever been in lesbian relationships, although I am bi. I lost my virginity to a woman. I find it extremely insulting when someone assumes that I only like men, or that I'm generally interested in men. The woman that I lost my virginity to also happens to be a Vim user, and she is indeed an emacs virgin, like me.
When the transgender employee filed a complaint, they were fired because the complaint was seen as troublemaking
Is this correct? Is "they" the correct pronoun to use for a transgender person? Are both his/her original and updated gender not good enough? Or maybe that person just identifies as plural?
I believe Microsoft is aware that the device war is lost, they're just milking it while it lasts. But that doesn't mean they stopped innovating; for instance, 5 years ago their cloud offering was a half-baked web Office and a retarded ASP.Net hosting service; now you can run Kafka queues, execute Hadoop jobs or get real-time speech-to-text services.
Meanwhile Apple innovation is forcing their customers to buy bluetooth headphones and adding emojis in the chat app.
The biggest mistake Microsoft made with windows phone was charging a license fee for the OS. It should have been free for all manufactures to use.
That's a tough business case to make. Microsoft makes around 3 billions a year with Windows Phone. Would they really have a bigger market share if they had given that away? Would it be worth more than 3 billions for them?
Look at Windows desktop. They make 12 billions a year just on OEM licenses even though everyone is announcing the Death of PC. Microsoft is a profit machine, year in year out, and this is because they sell stuff they don't give it away.
Show me anyone's laptop which is fundamentally different now than it was in 2013.
Even $400 bargain machines at Best Buy have touch screen and/or are convertible. Many models have powerful GPU that are required for VR devices. The Yoga Book keyboard can work as a drawing board. The Razer Blade Stealth has a 4k display and an external plug-in GPU. MSI has a laptop that can track eye movement and use it to control video game cameras. The list goes on but the Macbook is not on it.
They'll be cursing bozo out soon enough when things start breaking.
Or maybe things won't start breaking. Maybe things work just fine - especially since the alleged asshole has been there for decades - and an ecosystem that's been in place just got rid of an outsider that didn't fit in.
The world is a rich tapestry. Some organizations thrive with neurotics and sociopaths in key roles - for instance, Steve Jobs was a piece of shit but he was the driving force at Apple. See what happened when they kicked him out for being an asshole.
Barry Bonds was not a positive presence but he sure helped his team win. And there are many other famous cases.
This being said, if someone at work is unpleasant, is making one's life difficult and is well-regarded by senior management, then yes quitting is the best solution if putting up with it is not an option. This is not kindergarten, this is real life.
I have seen ugly flame wars turn into really interesting discussions, and while it's the exception rather than the norm, it just cannot happen if one gives up on trolls too quickly. Things can turn nasty because some people are unable to manage their emotions, not just because they're being mischievous, so it doesn't always mean there's nothing worth discussing under the layer of childish insults.
When the discussion becomes only empty insults then it's a dead end, but as long as there's something to address that could be of interest to other readers I don't see a problem with feeding trolls.
Sorry, but you are a fucking moron and a waste of life. Go die in a fire.
Go die in a fire? What are you, a petulant teenage girl?
What I'm trying to explain to you is that individually you are of no concern to any of those corporations, all they want is some stats so they can tune their ad campaigns. Just from the way you express yourself it's obvious that you have no secret worth harvesting anyways so pipe down with the lame privacy defender impression, nobody is trying to look at your bad Hunger Games fan fiction.
So you don't give a shit what people think because they're insignificant. Well guess what, nobody cares about your stuff either. You could print it out and leave it at the reception desk of Microsoft or Google and at best they would say a polite thank you before dumping it in the recycle bin.
The only value you have for those corporations is as a contributor to their metrics so they can fine-tune their ad campaigns, and it has to occur within the parameters of their system. You personally are meaningless to them and so are your precious files.
The policy's primary reasoning/justification was probably "clearing shelf space to make room for new books"
Yes get rid of that Steinbeck crap so there's more room for extra copies of "The Secret" and "Fifty shades of Grey". It's called the Blockbuster Syndrome.
The federal debt under Obama has increased by $8,946,567,665,023.71. That's just the debt, not the whole spending. The real problem here is not Israel.
Slashdot Mirror
This looks like a local setting, not a "web-based" setting at all.
Nowadays those are the same things.
Besides there have been trans people everywhere throughout history. It is only in a few barbaric cultures where it has ever been a major issue
You mean like Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, District Of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming?
Yes those are states with compulsory sterilization for transgender people who want to update their birth certificate. Fortunately, only Alabama, Louisiana, North Carolina and Oklahoma also require it to update a driver license.
And don't forget her unprecedented level of unpleasantness. For instance, she was allocating meeting time in 5 minutes increments and had people waiting in line next to her office for "their" 5 minutes to make sure her time was not wasted; subordinates, peers, superiors, vendors - everyone was "equal" when it came to waiting for an Audience.
She, on the other hand, frequently showed up late to meetings. Sometimes hours late like in some famous instances where people had to wait for her to show up for a dinner with important clients.
The real guilty people are those who hired her at Yahoo. Any background check would have raised all those issues.
Dude not only do you suck at being snippy, you're wrong and that "Israeli Engineering Open House" blog page is not a reference.
She was not in charge of search - she was actually removed from that team because the real search guy (Amit Singhal) complained and they sent her to the shopping division ("Products Search") where they eventually put someone above her because she was a pain in the ass.
it's actually an acronym
"She failed at Google"
Yeah. She was in charge of search, and we all know how much Google search sucks. Maybe instead of "Altaba," they should call the new company "Alta Vista."
Wrong. She was not in charge of search at all. She had a role in the design of the search page, then she was in charge of user experience and the shopping stuff. The search stuff was (is) handled by engineers not by a PM/QA person.
I wonder what words "Shapespeare" would have used for transgender characters. Or any of the other people you mention.
For instance I'm sure Dickens insights in the matter would have been fascinating, as was his view of Jews or African Americans (he's the one who mentioned "the melancholy absurdity of giving these people votes" after all).
Show me anyone's laptop which is fundamentally different now than it was in 2013.
Even $400 bargain machines at Best Buy have touch screen and/or are convertibl
Which was all the hype in 2013. So what is new again?
Except for Macbooks, right? As for what else is new, look at the rest of the post you truncated in your reply.
I imagine that the author feels attraction to both men and women and as such describes herself as bi, even though she has not yet had the opportunity to engage in a relationship with a man.
In the quote she explicitly states that she has lost her virginity to a female vim user.
Here's what that Leah person has to say about "the sexist" RMS:
For instance, he once described women who have never used GNU Emacs as EMACS virgins. Leah is an emacs virgin. .vimrc is on vimuser.org.
Leah Rowe is a woman, and she recommends Vim. Her
Personal statement from Leah: RMS's comments about emacs virgins is especially offensive to me. Not only is it sexist in general (and directed at me, because I don't use emacs), but also offensive towards my sexuality. His statement implies that men are supposed to have sex with virgin women, and that women only lose their virginity to men. To this day, I've only ever been in lesbian relationships, although I am bi. I lost my virginity to a woman. I find it extremely insulting when someone assumes that I only like men, or that I'm generally interested in men. The woman that I lost my virginity to also happens to be a Vim user, and she is indeed an emacs virgin, like me.
https://libreboot.org/why-not-...
If that person's thinking was a piece of code I wouldn't even try to debug it.
It's the other way around.
GNU and FSF do not belong in the libreboot community at this point.
https://libreboot.org/gnu-insu...
Let's hope the rich and vibrant libreboot community can thrive again now that the transphobic, intolerant GNU and FSF can no longer oppress them.
And this:
When the transgender employee filed a complaint, they were fired because the complaint was seen as troublemaking
Is this correct? Is "they" the correct pronoun to use for a transgender person? Are both his/her original and updated gender not good enough? Or maybe that person just identifies as plural?
What the fuck, people. What the fuck.
I believe Microsoft is aware that the device war is lost, they're just milking it while it lasts. But that doesn't mean they stopped innovating; for instance, 5 years ago their cloud offering was a half-baked web Office and a retarded ASP.Net hosting service; now you can run Kafka queues, execute Hadoop jobs or get real-time speech-to-text services.
Meanwhile Apple innovation is forcing their customers to buy bluetooth headphones and adding emojis in the chat app.
The biggest mistake Microsoft made with windows phone was charging a license fee for the OS. It should have been free for all manufactures to use.
That's a tough business case to make. Microsoft makes around 3 billions a year with Windows Phone. Would they really have a bigger market share if they had given that away? Would it be worth more than 3 billions for them?
Look at Windows desktop. They make 12 billions a year just on OEM licenses even though everyone is announcing the Death of PC. Microsoft is a profit machine, year in year out, and this is because they sell stuff they don't give it away.
Show me anyone's laptop which is fundamentally different now than it was in 2013.
Even $400 bargain machines at Best Buy have touch screen and/or are convertible. Many models have powerful GPU that are required for VR devices. The Yoga Book keyboard can work as a drawing board. The Razer Blade Stealth has a 4k display and an external plug-in GPU. MSI has a laptop that can track eye movement and use it to control video game cameras. The list goes on but the Macbook is not on it.
I would settle for a switch statement.
They'll be cursing bozo out soon enough when things start breaking.
Or maybe things won't start breaking. Maybe things work just fine - especially since the alleged asshole has been there for decades - and an ecosystem that's been in place just got rid of an outsider that didn't fit in.
The world is a rich tapestry. Some organizations thrive with neurotics and sociopaths in key roles - for instance, Steve Jobs was a piece of shit but he was the driving force at Apple. See what happened when they kicked him out for being an asshole.
Barry Bonds was not a positive presence but he sure helped his team win. And there are many other famous cases.
This being said, if someone at work is unpleasant, is making one's life difficult and is well-regarded by senior management, then yes quitting is the best solution if putting up with it is not an option. This is not kindergarten, this is real life.
why feed the troll? i mean really....
I have seen ugly flame wars turn into really interesting discussions, and while it's the exception rather than the norm, it just cannot happen if one gives up on trolls too quickly. Things can turn nasty because some people are unable to manage their emotions, not just because they're being mischievous, so it doesn't always mean there's nothing worth discussing under the layer of childish insults.
When the discussion becomes only empty insults then it's a dead end, but as long as there's something to address that could be of interest to other readers I don't see a problem with feeding trolls.
Sorry, but you are a fucking moron and a waste of life. Go die in a fire.
Go die in a fire? What are you, a petulant teenage girl?
What I'm trying to explain to you is that individually you are of no concern to any of those corporations, all they want is some stats so they can tune their ad campaigns. Just from the way you express yourself it's obvious that you have no secret worth harvesting anyways so pipe down with the lame privacy defender impression, nobody is trying to look at your bad Hunger Games fan fiction.
So you don't give a shit what people think because they're insignificant. Well guess what, nobody cares about your stuff either. You could print it out and leave it at the reception desk of Microsoft or Google and at best they would say a polite thank you before dumping it in the recycle bin.
The only value you have for those corporations is as a contributor to their metrics so they can fine-tune their ad campaigns, and it has to occur within the parameters of their system. You personally are meaningless to them and so are your precious files.
It might be just you doing something wrong
It takes courage to say that.
So this is an example of that 'fake news' I keep hearing so much about? Or does that depend entirely on who is spreading the news?
And those geniuses wonder why people take their news on Trump's twitter feed rather than in the mainstream media.
The policy's primary reasoning/justification was probably "clearing shelf space to make room for new books"
Yes get rid of that Steinbeck crap so there's more room for extra copies of "The Secret" and "Fifty shades of Grey". It's called the Blockbuster Syndrome.
This is why I am wondering why bitcoin hasn't caught up with porn.
Value fluctuates insanely. Millions disappear from big exchanges. People get robbed at gunpoint when trying to do in-person exchange.
I'm not saying it's bad but there are enough issues with bitcoin to scare away mainstream customers.
antagonizes Israel
If I was sending someone $3.1 billion per year I'd think they'd let me antagonize them as much as I wanted.
The Right is flipping out over Obama's $85M in 'vacation costs', that's all of 10 days of money sent to Israel.
The federal debt under Obama has increased by $8,946,567,665,023.71. That's just the debt, not the whole spending. The real problem here is not Israel.