Hey, who am I to argue with happiness?

Amen, from a downstate Illini.

Think of it as evolution in action...

Pushing beliefs (up to a limit) is what people do. Governments do what is necessary to ensure that fairness is balanced with justice. Discriminating against a subset of people who's behavior is not heinous, nor voluntary, to most of us seems to be unjust.

And I'm afraid my thirst for justice trumps your "right to discriminate". I'm sorry, but it just does. Unless you're a total asshat. You can try to obfuscate the asshattery by appealing to ideals, but we live in a boots on the ground world, where reality tends to trump ideology. We, as a society, try to limit asshattery.

The folks who are pushing this law are asshats, period. They're not even following their own religion's tenets, because they are not loving their fellow man as themselves (but I guess that part doesn't matter). Not to mention the fact that these asshats assume to speak for the entire Christian community, many of which do not share their beliefs on homosexuality. These people don't act like Christians, they act like asshats. I am not sorry that our society tries to limit the actions of such. Good Indianans, control your asshats.

It doesn't matter how the fuck the government wants to tax individuals vs. businesses. You can comply with the law or suffer the consequences of not doing so. That's what governments do. If you want your anarchist paradise... well, have at it, but don't assume the rest of us want to come along for the ride.

No brain? No reply.

Exclamation mark.

So does capitalism.

Because doing it right is not-automatable and therefore expensive. Really, really expensive. I worked for a company that effectively did nothing but take FDA data from package inserts and recoded it into machine form using industry-standard codes, taxonomies, etc. Even with the slow pace of FDA approvals and insert updates, it took a team of about a dozen clinicians, another dozen bio-informaticists, another couple dozen (relatively specialized - do you know what an ALP test is and what it's used for?) coders to keep up the data system to support this.

And why does it take all these people? Because you're trying to imbue more than information - you're trying to imbue structure and meaning so people can understand and find and code to stuff. And, even though a good Google search can always help, some of this shit is tricky.

For the example in the article, if you index news correctly, it's more than reporters typing a couple links. It's managing subject taxonomies, figuring out valid references, keeping external references updated, etc., etc., etc. It costs. A lot.

Hey! For some of us, that's our jobs. Yes, we check statistics on code check-ins to see what's going on. We believe in visibility and bringing access to this data for warehousing and analysis. And we can often see issues with modules (like code suckage - for example when your defect database has particular components that align with points of high code churn, it's not a spot you'd want to vacation in). Statistics about the code and its production can tell you a lot, if you listen. But I don't think you're interested in listening.

And that's the thing... Egalitarian and fair are neither when one group has been systematically discouraged for (well, forever).

You actually need to go with stats then to redress the issue. And the stats don't actually lie (much).

You don't like their stats? Get your own. Figure out how many % of women are actually interested in programming vs. anecdotal evidence that "women don't want to do STEM" or "networking is biased". There are other places where you could gather appropriate statistics and bolster your case. However, whining about fair, when (as we all know) the world isn't fair, is still just whining.

Show how they are wrong with numbers. And then show how the world is (somehow) unfair to you and work to make it better for you. That is what these women are doing.

It basically shows that they're better tactical thinkers than you, because they're fighting on the ground, not up in ivory towers whining about "egalitarian" and "fair". They're better strategic thinkers than you because they will end up winning and redefining egalitarianism and fairness while you're still whining about ideals. I'm with Chairman Mao on this one - power flows through the barrel of a gun. They're fighting -you're whining.

Then why do East Asians score higher than whites?

I give up. Because the test scores their answers that way? Because white people weren't quite smart enough to devise a test that was able to systematically discriminate against all races other than Caucasian without being caught? Because Asians with stupid kids don't force them to take the test? There are any number of reasons.

However, the factoid asked by you still says nothing about the validity of IQ test either across race or in general. I'd say you've got one around 110-115 - better than most by enough to sort of know it, not quite smart enough to be particularly creative in your arguments. Try to study a bit more, and you'll be up with the Mensans in no time.

Me? I tend to make my own scales. I'm pretty high on most of them, Dunning-Kruger effect notwithstanding.

No, because it's fucking stupid, and contributes 0 to anything other than the wallet of those who get "offended" about "representation" as a profession.

And here it is. I don't know why you're so pissed off about the "professionally offended" as you call them, but if you bring down the statistics people complain about, then they'll either (a) stop complaining about them or (b) be seen as complaining about nothing and become a source of mirth, rather than a touchstone for people's anger.

More importantly, why are you so angry about this? You should do something about that before it affects your health...

Certainly the free market will sort all of this out. Companies/government that fail to secure their critical infrastructure will crash and burn, those that don't profit!

It just so happens that google glasses here is only MOSTLY dead.

Yes, it's pining for the fiords, as we speak...

I'm sure Tony will get right on that "Why the fuck should I let you record me" thing. I'm sure he'll be on that right after the "nerdy creep" thing.