If you would like to meet Kate, I suggest you go into a bathroom, turn off the lights, and say "Bloody Kate" three times in front of the darkened mirror.
Tried that. My cats walked in, looked at me disdainfully and walked out again.
I have re-bought games on Steam because I lost the 16 digit CD key necessary to reinstall them with the CD and they cost 5 Yankee dollars on Steam.
I've bought games on steam because it's too much hassle digging through the cupboard to find the CDs in the first place. And because in my younger days I maybe couldn't afford all of the games I liked. Just don't ask how I knew I liked them.
These days I own a hundred games on Steam that I've never played - on Steam. Some of them are because they came in bundles, some are to reward developers from years past, some are just ones I haven't gotten around to yet. Steam makes it easy for me to reward developers for great games, and makes it easy for me to track, install and play those games.
DRM? It's one of the few implementations that helps me manage my rights - identify, acquire, download, install and play.
Fair point regarding DRM vs Copy Protection. I take solace in my ability to strip the DRM from Steam games if they ever withdraw the service, and/or take them to court for restitution.
Of course, the copy protection often led to loss of access - losing the code wheel or the casette inlay, installing software the game manufacturer's rootkit wouldn't work with, etc.
I will concede though that I too have no idea who Kate is.
Segregation? Still? Jim Crow laws? No, not any more. Racism? Yes. I've been racially discriminated against. What? I'm of Anglo-Saxon descent? Nonetheless, I've suffered racial discrimination.
What's your fucking point then? Because frankly pulling up shit that happened over half a century ago is utter bullshit. Fuck me, let me tell you about the fucking Normans. They killed my ancestors, the fuckers.
Get over it. Get on with life. Stop carrying a chip on your shoulder and stop pretending that white people somehow have this inherent systemic intentional bias towards them. I know too many successful people that aren't white to believe for a fucking minute that race is the issue.
Not true at all. However, as you say: This is Britain.
Even if they win, the courts are very likely to award £1 damages and no costs. Judges wont want to bankrupt a woman over a single twitter comment, especially if it was true.
How about you change the work environment? It's muppets like you perpetuating a broken environment that cause the problems.
Not to mention that most 40yo women I know would rip apart any number of 20-something guys with absolute ease and total confidence. Hiring even one would probably improve the team signficantly just by changing behaviours.
Say, they wrote a test and they were less competent but they got a higher score because they wrote it on a full stomach, and had the black kid had breakfast he would have done equally well.
I grew up wearing second-hand clothes because my parents couldn't afford new ones. We didn't own a telephone until I was 18. Shit, we didn't own a colour television until I was 7. We didn't own a car until I was 7.
Tell me, am I black or white? Did I eat properly or not? Did I get an education or not?
Don't fucking pretend white people have some inherent advantage. Tell the fucking president.
Removing unconscious bias in the hiring process is worthwhile.
I think it was Super Freakonomics (but may have been another book, so apologies if I got it wrong) that mentioned that orchestras were overwhelmingly male, despite a large number of talented female instrument players.
So they stopped having people play in front of a group of assessors. Instead they had the assessors listen to someone playing behind a curtain, and hire based on the quality of the music.
Gender balance rapidly closed in on 50/50. Draw your own conclusions.
You missed his point. You stated that life isn't fair, therefore men have to deal with the shit that causes.
He merely asked why women don't also have to deal with the shit that causes. Using the unfairness as an excuse why men have to deal with unfairness and women don't is ducking the issue.
No, they rated you as 'troll' because you're trolling.
You're ignoring the industries with 90% female employment. You're ignoring average working hours. You're ignoring rates of death at work. You're ignoring the sacrifices men have to make because they're expected to earn a family income. You're ignoring the superior pay women under 25 get compared to men.
In other words, you're ignoring anything at all that might possibly make you look like the cunt you are. That's trolling.
But if you weren't (unconsciously) being sexist, then every time a man and a woman were equally qualified for a position, on average you should end up with the same number of men and women being hired.
So were 15% of the qualified applications female? If so, Etsy aren't being sexist. If significantly more or less then Etsy are potentially being (unconsiously) sexist.
Sadly the article doesn't state the gender balance of the applicant pool or its most qualified people.
Except that they didn't change or lower standards. So no, 'best' was still meeting the same criteria; it just happens that if you have a pool of 20 people not 10, twice as many of them are likely to pass the bar.
Actually if there's a ship going down and the crew refuse to let a man board a lifeboat because there's a woman waiting in the queue behind him, I'm going to attack those crew in his defence. He has as much right to a chance of survival as she does.
Chivalry is all well and nice, but women want equality. That includes an equal chance of dying.
bringing a woman's perspective is a skill that no male applicant can possess
That's sexist. It may be correct, but it's also sexist. What is this "woman's perspective" that you seek? What insights, skills, experience and contribution are you hoping from that team member?
Assess the individual on those criteria, not on their sex.
I find the default software on my RT-N66U to be pretty solid. It's a fine router too, easy to configure, hasn't even needed rebooting since I bought it.
Sorry, but this just fucking annoys me. What the fuck is 'lockdown' and why fucking bother. Maybe it's because I went to schools that actually suffered terrorist attacks.
Which incidentally is why I have no fucking sympathy for Boston right now. People in Boston funded the terror attacks against me. Cunts.
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If you would like to meet Kate, I suggest you go into a bathroom, turn off the lights, and say "Bloody Kate" three times in front of the darkened mirror.
Tried that. My cats walked in, looked at me disdainfully and walked out again.
I have re-bought games on Steam because I lost the 16 digit CD key necessary to reinstall them with the CD and they cost 5 Yankee dollars on Steam.
I've bought games on steam because it's too much hassle digging through the cupboard to find the CDs in the first place. And because in my younger days I maybe couldn't afford all of the games I liked. Just don't ask how I knew I liked them.
These days I own a hundred games on Steam that I've never played - on Steam. Some of them are because they came in bundles, some are to reward developers from years past, some are just ones I haven't gotten around to yet. Steam makes it easy for me to reward developers for great games, and makes it easy for me to track, install and play those games.
DRM? It's one of the few implementations that helps me manage my rights - identify, acquire, download, install and play.
Fair point regarding DRM vs Copy Protection. I take solace in my ability to strip the DRM from Steam games if they ever withdraw the service, and/or take them to court for restitution.
Of course, the copy protection often led to loss of access - losing the code wheel or the casette inlay, installing software the game manufacturer's rootkit wouldn't work with, etc.
I will concede though that I too have no idea who Kate is.
Who needs Sims? We have Dwarf Fortress.
Steam's DRM is far less obtrusive than the DRM used on games I bought in 1986. In 1987. In 1988...1991...1995...2001...2008
Then I started using Steam.
So the people that took 4 hours possibly had low SAT scores. That would help explain why they took 4 hours.
It's still got fuck all to do with their gender or race.
Segregation? Still?
Jim Crow laws? No, not any more.
Racism? Yes. I've been racially discriminated against. What? I'm of Anglo-Saxon descent? Nonetheless, I've suffered racial discrimination.
What's your fucking point then? Because frankly pulling up shit that happened over half a century ago is utter bullshit. Fuck me, let me tell you about the fucking Normans. They killed my ancestors, the fuckers.
Get over it. Get on with life. Stop carrying a chip on your shoulder and stop pretending that white people somehow have this inherent systemic intentional bias towards them. I know too many successful people that aren't white to believe for a fucking minute that race is the issue.
Why do you think the term 'white trash' exists?
You forgot QCs - Queen's Counsel.
Not true at all. However, as you say: This is Britain.
Even if they win, the courts are very likely to award £1 damages and no costs. Judges wont want to bankrupt a woman over a single twitter comment, especially if it was true.
So basically you're as immature, ignorant and bigoted as your team. Rock on, way to go. Moron.
As I said, you're ducking the issue.
Btw, if you want to know what a Man is, read Kipling.
http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
Personally I prefer Heinlein's version:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12051-a-human-being-should-be-able-to-change-a-diaper
Note that Heinlein didn't differentiate on gender. Neither should you; it's not fair.
How about you change the work environment? It's muppets like you perpetuating a broken environment that cause the problems.
Not to mention that most 40yo women I know would rip apart any number of 20-something guys with absolute ease and total confidence. Hiring even one would probably improve the team signficantly just by changing behaviours.
Say, they wrote a test and they were less competent but they got a higher score because they wrote it on a full stomach, and had the black kid had breakfast he would have done equally well.
I grew up wearing second-hand clothes because my parents couldn't afford new ones. We didn't own a telephone until I was 18. Shit, we didn't own a colour television until I was 7. We didn't own a car until I was 7.
Tell me, am I black or white? Did I eat properly or not? Did I get an education or not?
Don't fucking pretend white people have some inherent advantage. Tell the fucking president.
Removing unconscious bias in the hiring process is worthwhile.
I think it was Super Freakonomics (but may have been another book, so apologies if I got it wrong) that mentioned that orchestras were overwhelmingly male, despite a large number of talented female instrument players.
So they stopped having people play in front of a group of assessors. Instead they had the assessors listen to someone playing behind a curtain, and hire based on the quality of the music.
Gender balance rapidly closed in on 50/50. Draw your own conclusions.
You missed his point. You stated that life isn't fair, therefore men have to deal with the shit that causes.
He merely asked why women don't also have to deal with the shit that causes. Using the unfairness as an excuse why men have to deal with unfairness and women don't is ducking the issue.
No, they rated you as 'troll' because you're trolling.
You're ignoring the industries with 90% female employment. You're ignoring average working hours. You're ignoring rates of death at work. You're ignoring the sacrifices men have to make because they're expected to earn a family income. You're ignoring the superior pay women under 25 get compared to men.
In other words, you're ignoring anything at all that might possibly make you look like the cunt you are. That's trolling.
But if you weren't (unconsciously) being sexist, then every time a man and a woman were equally qualified for a position, on average you should end up with the same number of men and women being hired.
So were 15% of the qualified applications female? If so, Etsy aren't being sexist. If significantly more or less then Etsy are potentially being (unconsiously) sexist.
Sadly the article doesn't state the gender balance of the applicant pool or its most qualified people.
statistically, women are more likely to be single parents
Yet I don't hear the feminists bitching about the fathers that are being financially screwed by the courts and denied custody of their children.
Anyway, childcare matters as much to couples as it does to single parents.
Except that they didn't change or lower standards. So no, 'best' was still meeting the same criteria; it just happens that if you have a pool of 20 people not 10, twice as many of them are likely to pass the bar.
Actually if there's a ship going down and the crew refuse to let a man board a lifeboat because there's a woman waiting in the queue behind him, I'm going to attack those crew in his defence. He has as much right to a chance of survival as she does.
Chivalry is all well and nice, but women want equality. That includes an equal chance of dying.
bringing a woman's perspective is a skill that no male applicant can possess
That's sexist. It may be correct, but it's also sexist. What is this "woman's perspective" that you seek? What insights, skills, experience and contribution are you hoping from that team member?
Assess the individual on those criteria, not on their sex.
It is also fair to introduce some bias
I don't get why this is so treatening or unfair
Perhaps it's because it isn't fair to introduce some bias.
Removing bias is great. Introducing objectivity is great. Introducing bias is fucking moronic.
Which part of "don't discriminate based on sex" is so difficult? It works both ways.
Out of curiosity, how did the '7' on his hat change to a '3'?
Of course it can. Why would I need pfsense when I have a cheap efficient dedicated device with gig ethernet and twin 450Mbps wifi links?
I find the default software on my RT-N66U to be pretty solid. It's a fine router too, easy to configure, hasn't even needed rebooting since I bought it.
Before that, my school went on lockdown
Sorry, but this just fucking annoys me. What the fuck is 'lockdown' and why fucking bother. Maybe it's because I went to schools that actually suffered terrorist attacks.
Which incidentally is why I have no fucking sympathy for Boston right now. People in Boston funded the terror attacks against me. Cunts.