Honestly, you will be interviewed by people who have no idea what your job is or how to do it.

I have to admit, that does seem to explain the serious problems with Google Base, youtube, GMail, Google+ and Adwords.

You made me laugh. Good for you. I like to start my days that way. :)

In a post entitled: "Re: child rearing impacts women disproportionately", AC says:

It's sad that nobody sees this statement as the serious social problem that it is.

There's an entire industry that recognizes this specific serious social problem. That industry is the condom and other birth control manufacturers.

What is the difference when a company does it?

The difference is that friendship isn't one of society's formal mechanisms to provide income, and thereby access to improving one's security and stability. Working is. So when it's okay for a company to say "no blacks" or "no gays" or "no women" or "no one over 35" or whatever -- basically discrimination by class unrelated to capacity to perform the work -- then we get into a situation where aggregate behaviors of this type result in whole classes being disenfranchised.

I have known a few [gay people], some throw it in your face, others keep it to themselves.

Yeah, I've known heteros like that too. It's shocking how they just act like it's "okay" to talk about the opposite-sex people they care most about in life. They should really know better and keep that damned hetero stuff in the closet.

Next thing you know, it'll be okay to say "wife" or "husband" in the office. It's a damned slippery slope, I tell you. Next thing you know, people will be acting like it's reasonable to talk about their kids. Next thing you know, they'll think it's okay to, you know, actually bring them to the office for a visit!

I'm sorry, I have to sit down and fan myself for a moment now. I'm just soooo upset.

Those who keep it to themselves are welcome to work for me. Those who don't, wouldn't get along with me anyway. Since I've never employed more than 20 people at a time, everyone who works for me more or less has to get along with me.

Thank God we have people like you working to make sure that these things Just Don't Happen On Your Watch. You, sir, are a true hero.

"Obama's America"?

So, people weren't working with people they hated, wasting away their lives, needing money, under Bush-II? Clinton? Bush-I? Etc.?

By "lifestyle", you imply choice, which is an incorrect analysis of threat vectors for HPV. In any case, even if it were only sexual behavior that resulted in HPV transmission (it isn't), sexuality is hardly a "lifestyle." The vast majority of people engage in it, and of the remainder, a large number are trying to or intend to.

HPV presently has about a 50% incidence in the US population.

Combine that fact with the knowledge that HPV 16 and 18 cause about 70% of cervical cancers and that these can be passed non-sexually -- now it is obvious we need to vaccinate.

No. It isn't the same. Vaccines serve to reduce everyone's risk. Your immunity helps the little baby next door who is too young to vaccinate, and the lady down the street who is allergic to albumen or whatever. Then there's herd immunity -- once a certain proportion of an inter-social group are immune, it becomes much more difficult for a disease to really get any momentum going, and that helps everyone. We share our air, and it's very worthy that we don't share it in such a way that is dangerous insofar as we can avoid it.

Vaccination is a very, very good thing. Intentionally avoiding vaccination when vaccination is possible is an act of aggression -- or stupidity.

The only reason it's being "shoved" down people's throats is because there are clueless idiots (cough/Jenny McCarthy/cough) out there spreading dangerous unscientific nonsense and fomenting unrest with regard to this in any way they can. People were not getting vaccinated who definitely should have been getting vaccinated. It was bad for everyone. So, just as we don't let idiots take a crap on the sidewalks even if they might like to, we aren't going to let idiots (or their children) become transmission vectors for disease, either.

Buck up and go get stuck, and encourage everyone you know to do so as well. It's the right thing to do.

That sounds very hipster to me

...and...

Personal opinions of other people don't matter

I believe you've determined the precise value of your remarks. Zero. :)

If you can encourage others by honestly explaining the benefits of your life experience, please do so!

I try to do so. I write software I hope people will get good use out of; I write about social issues, superstition, AI issues and more. I keep an oar in around here most of the time as well, as you'll see if you navigate my comment history.

I'm old and creaky now, so these are the things I can realistically do.

Ok, then and users bitten by new OS versions that break the user's software have no right to complain either, amirite?

"no right"... don't think that means what you think it means.

OS X has changed very little since 10.0, at the most basic level.

Yeah... no. They broke cron, they inflicted that insane "app nap" nonsense on us (broke damned near every real-time application out there... I spend a *lot* of time explaining to OS X users that it needs to be turned off or OS X will summarily stop giving the required amount of CPU time to the app) there's sand-boxing, the changes in spaces functionality, they utterly broke UTF-8 console printing (and didn't fix it... just left it broken unless you upgraded -- and yes, they knew about it in time, I talked to "Mr. CUPS himself about it), dropped PPC emulation, moved image support from apps to OS (which broke the dickens out of Aperture upgrades, among other things), they broke getting to local websites on your LAN, and they quit giving us actual media, which I simply find annoying and short-sighted. And they still haven't fixed many of the OS bugs, for instance, you still can't have more than one app listening to a UDP broadcast reception port as far as I know. I don't have any idea whose brilliant think it was to decide that "broadcast" meant only one app can listen, but there you go.

Definitely quite a few reasons to be reticent about moving to a new version of OSX. These things matter.

Anyone familiar with OS X 10.5 would be right at home with 10.10 Yosemite.

Sure -- if you don't mind a good deal of your stuff breaking. Inconveniently enough, I do mind. Hence, 10.6.8, and staying there as long as possible, too.

Did you even read what I wrote? Or was that just a convenient place to hang your remark? If that's the case, never mind, carry on. :)

I welcome change and advance, I think it does us all good in the long run. That doesn't mean I will choose to partake in same.

What's the point of this conversation?

Some things interest some people; other things interest other people. Sometimes there is overlap. Here on slashdot, considering the age, stability, and desirability of one OS version as related to another is quite topical in terms of the issues the site generally is understood to cover.

Perhaps you should wander off and find a story you are interested in. No need to read the ones that don't provoke an interest, you know. You do know that, right?

Still running OSX 10.6.8 -- an OS version ca. July 2011

Isn't broken in the sense that anything about it significantly impedes what I use the computer for; anything that was really crappy -- like Safari -- has been replaced with something that worked better.

Ergo, no need to "fix" it.

I have more interesting things to do with my time than adopt change for the sake of change.

There's a great deal positive that can be said for a stable OS environment, not the least of which is that software which I develop for it will work for more people than software that utilizes functionality only available from a later version of the OS. Speaking for myself, I view a statement about any application of the general form "requires late version of/latest OS" as an abject failure of the developer to think of the users.

That's not to say that others aren't, or shouldn't be interested in the latest OS version-- it's just that I am not, and that addresses the question that was asked.