I cannot believe no one has yet mentioned Gilmore's postulate:
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
The potential for exposure of Internet traffic to US snooping creates a a very powerful regulatory force against a particular class of speech on the Internet. So the Internet follows the above rule, grows away from us, and very soon we're at the edge of the network.
Hopefully we'll bounce back once end-to-end encryption is ubiquitous for all Internet protocols and the whole point is moot. (Which will be pretty soon, thanks to a technological arms race being prosecuted by our reigning copyright regime!)
Incidentally, the recently published BGP flaw suggests that China could be routing our traffic through their servers almost undetectably at any time.
I'm not denying the existence of inborn aptitudes that correlate with gender. I don't understand why everyone keeps acting as if that is my point.
My point is that regardless of any statistical relationship between good-at-flower-arrangingness and femaleness, a male who possesses the former trait is very likely to be shamed out of cultivating his skill, and that is a Bad Thing.
So. I don't care that all vocations and avocations are not all gendered exactly 50/50. I just want to see people's passions and talents reflected in every art and science, with as little social pressure as possible preventing this. That is why i want to see these boys-club dynamics abandoned.
I wouldn't blame you for gendering your kids or anything ridiculous like that, but your kids didn't grow up in a vacuum, and they've been bsorbing gender norms from everyone around them their whole lives.
It sounds like you've done all your due diligence in giving your kids the opportunities they need.
But even if your son had a bit of an interest in dance, when you offered lessons, it's likely he would have had to weigh his own desires against the shit he'd inevitably get from his school chums if he told them aout it. That's the dynamic I think we should be seeking to overcome.
Ain't nothing wrong with ballet and pink shirts, as long as they were chosen with the knowledge that coveralls and auto mechanics are ok options too.
the m-w entry, though; it lists "sexual play" before the more conventional -- or maybe just more general -- "physical activity engaged in for pleasure".
Fair enough. The GP's language did leave room for semantic games.
Regardless, does anyone actually believe that saying "biological differences!" is a good enough reason to continue teaching gender norms to people who don't fit them? That's the important bit.
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Hey, you're using my patented Intellectual Property Recursive Protection system!
Um, the Turing-Church thesis promises that every way to accomplish a particular computing task will be "substantially the same" as every other.
Well, I skipped past your reply using my pgDn button. So there.
I'll write a big fat check if you will. It's only fair, since the results of the research might extend both of our lives.
Oh, and that guy might also benefit, and you, and you... Hey, we should form some sort of organizational structure to pool our resources!
I cannot believe no one has yet mentioned Gilmore's postulate:
The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
The potential for exposure of Internet traffic to US snooping creates a a very powerful regulatory force against a particular class of speech on the Internet. So the Internet follows the above rule, grows away from us, and very soon we're at the edge of the network.
Hopefully we'll bounce back once end-to-end encryption is ubiquitous for all Internet protocols and the whole point is moot. (Which will be pretty soon, thanks to a technological arms race being prosecuted by our reigning copyright regime!)
Incidentally, the recently published BGP flaw suggests that China could be routing our traffic through their servers almost undetectably at any time.
That problem has already been solved by a collaboration of millions of computers! Haven't you ever heard of Folding@Home?
"Ok, what about accordion-style from the leftmost edge, with a vertical fold at the beginning!?
Despite being a troll, you might just have a point.
(1, Insightful)!?!?
seriously?
/34/ Richard Stallman.
GO GO GO
that's just it. No matter how far away it is now...
eleven years ago, it was eleven years further.
Hey you.
Let's have sex.
The theorem-proving race was neck-in-neck until we got to the fourth event, the Halting Problem.
No clear winner for this one yet. Stay tuned.
I don't know who thinks there isn't enough drama going on on the ground. Christ.
People. Try looking under a rug or behind a curtain in Beijing. You will find plenty of human misery to get pissed off about.
If I may jump in, I think the Single Transferable Vote is the way to go.
I'm not denying the existence of inborn aptitudes that correlate with gender. I don't understand why everyone keeps acting as if that is my point.
My point is that regardless of any statistical relationship between good-at-flower-arrangingness and femaleness, a male who possesses the former trait is very likely to be shamed out of cultivating his skill, and that is a Bad Thing.
So. I don't care that all vocations and avocations are not all gendered exactly 50/50. I just want to see people's passions and talents reflected in every art and science, with as little social pressure as possible preventing this. That is why i want to see these boys-club dynamics abandoned.
By starting first. Duh.
I wouldn't blame you for gendering your kids or anything ridiculous like that, but your kids didn't grow up in a vacuum, and they've been bsorbing gender norms from everyone around them their whole lives.
It sounds like you've done all your due diligence in giving your kids the opportunities they need.
But even if your son had a bit of an interest in dance, when you offered lessons, it's likely he would have had to weigh his own desires against the shit he'd inevitably get from his school chums if he told them aout it. That's the dynamic I think we should be seeking to overcome.
Ain't nothing wrong with ballet and pink shirts, as long as they were chosen with the knowledge that coveralls and auto mechanics are ok options too.
Nope. not misogynistic at all.
But what about the possibility of a /. geek fighting with her husband over the remote?
As long as tech blogs continue to assume an all-male audience, that is the audience they will get.
I know you're modded flamebait, but i honestly think you have the most insightful comment here.
No no no.
or, say, an adult who is attracted to adolescents but enough of a decent human to keep his attraction to himself?
And what, pray tell, is the scarcest resource for male programmers?
Yup. Chicks.
Fair enough. The GP's language did leave room for semantic games.
Regardless, does anyone actually believe that saying "biological differences!" is a good enough reason to continue teaching gender norms to people who don't fit them? That's the important bit.