Not really. CS and IT are not meritocracies. Even if they were there is plenty of sex discrimination from the people in those fields, right from education upwards. On paper the opportunity might be there, but in the real world there are real problems that put women off. How else could you explain the fact that the number of women getting CS degrees has fallen? Have they evolved less interest in the last 10-20 years?

Came her to say this too. We use Panasonic batteries in a couple of products at work (Eneloops and Evoltas). We even managed to blow up a couple of Eneloops as we were assembling them into a pack. That was out fault though (well, the fault of the temp we took on to do it who ignored our instructions), nothing to do with Panasonic. All batteries are dangerous, they pack lots of energy in the form of somewhat volatile chemicals into a small space. You have to treat them carefully, especially the Li-po/Li-ion cells that most laptops use.

So it is completely Sony's fault.

Unless it's just a clever ploy to keep other engineers happy and less likely to accuse him of working for the NSA. Not saying there is any evidence, but you can't be too paranoid these days.

But still, no democracy. Japan is pretty safe. Maybe not quite as safe as Singapore on paper, but a woman can certainly walk down dark alleys at night without fear there too. Yet, they have a democracy and are not a police state. So, I think Singapore could improve.

What you are describing is an impromptu usability test. And that's a good thing to do, especially if you are planning to recommend a particular desktop environment.

But what you need to start with is applications. Running Linux on the desktop is great (I do it at work and at home) but if you have users who need to run Photoshop, or a Windows IDE, or some particular finance application, it's going to be awfully hard to do that on Linux. But let's say your organization has all your applications in the Cloud or on an internally-hosted web application server, and these web applications run fine in Chrome or Firefox. That's a different story. But my guess is that you'll have at least a few programs that require running on the desktop.

My recommendation would be to find interested groups who'd like to try Linux on the desktop, and start there. Make it a pilot project. Take it slow, and meet with someone from that group daily to make sure you're addressing any pain points that come up. Things you'll want to watch out for are shared storage (like on a file server) and printing.

I think Ubuntu has user shares turned on. In which case you right click on the directory and click on the 'share' menu item, just like Windows.

Disclaimer. I wrote the Samba code for this feature...

Thing is, no is suggesting having 50/50 quotas or anything mad like that, except for you. It's a straw man argument.

You appear not to know what racial discrimination means. All that is required is for someone to treat another person differently (to discriminate) because of their race. The races involved is irrelevant. Thos are the rules, stop playing the victim and if you are being racially discriminated against involve the police or start a civil action. The law fully supports you.

In the UK there are incentives for men to enter certain professions that are not available to women. Teaching very young children, for example.

Racism doesn't meant what you think it means, but more to your point the law doesn't ban racism. It bans discrimination on the grounds of race. If a black man fires a white man because he is white then it's illegal.

We are talking about pay for exactly the same job. Two people similarly qualified and with similar experience, one male and one female doing the same job. Often there is some obfuscation, like giving the two slightly different job titles that idiots can then latch on as proof it isn't the same, but it is.

All women should not be disadvantaged by the choices of a subset of them. Again, there is plenty of research showing that women of child bearing age find it harder to get a job in the first place because employers assume they will want maternity leave. Just google "employing child bearing age women" and start reading.

And yes, men do need to cover women taking time out for children to some extent. Society needs children. Society needs women to have children and take some time to bring them up. If that doesn't happen we will end up like Japan, with a massively declining population and all the problems that go with it. If you look at it as "that bitch in my office is going on maternity leave and I have to do all her work and mine now" then yeah, it seems unfair. If your employer doesn't screw you with overwork and you consider that in 30 or 40 years time there will be a doctor to look after you or a shop working to pay tax that in turn pays your pension because you helped create another valuable member of society you might feel better about it.

Jeff, I'm sorry that you're paying more. I'm envious that your state is implementing single-payer, though! California considers and rejects the bill every session, so far.

MVP itself is not-for-profit. Interesting that they think the pool in the two states they focus on is now that much more expensive. I can't imagine why.

Thanks

Bruce

To pick a nit, if you require medical attention after an auto accident, typically the at-fault driver's auto policy would need to cover that.

If they are so kind to stick around and your expenses do not exceed the limits.

Certainly such scams existed, but 30 seconds of googling can typically separate the good from the fraud.

The web helps. At the time, I was not able to see the plan until the salesman was present.

I think you are confusing laissez-faire capitalism with freedom. In this particular case the insurers had the task of operating a risk pool, but no incentive to allow any but the lowest risk customer into the pool. Freedom was harmed overall, as a significant number of people had no viable path to medical care.

There are a good number of people who, like you, would feel less encumbered if they were able to live on an island without any civil services and thus without any burden to pay for their fellow man rather than themselves. My surmise is that few of them would survive very long. However, I would encourage you to try if you are able to find such a place. Go ahead, prove me wrong.