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Comment Re:Hostile environments (Score 1) 634

I am, gasp, a female software engineer. I work at a defense contractor,

Good. And this rules out the notion of 'socially meaningful' work as a prerequisite. There are plenty of women willing to drop bombs on people (just being facetious here ;-)).

The hostile environment is sometimes present in subtle ways,

The hostile environment has been growing as a reaction to increasing numbers of women in the workplace. As far as I can tell, this 'environment' is manufactured outrage produced by a few social and religious conservatives who are wailing about their loss of control of the 'culture' in this nation.

My solution: Identify the troublemakers and escort them to the door. One thing that threatens almost any companies survival is upper management's loss of control of the company culture. And having employees that actively work against it (or even side track a portion of the organization's resources pursuing their own agendas) is counter productive.

Comment Re:Sevice vs. Ownership (Score 1) 140

Like you won't be asked to provide valid ID to rent/borrow a car. And that a condition of running such a service won't be to hand over records to the local authorities. And if there is an issue of abuse (anything from vandalism to car services being held liable for the presence/absence of occupants) internal cameras will become a condition of rental.

Comment Re:Burden of proof (Score 0) 140

My precious little one can't be seen in a school bus! Think of the embarrassement and damage to the child's self esteem if it is not dropped at school in the obligatory Range Rover. They even dark tint school bus windows now so passers-by can't recognize and/or taunt the poor kids degraded by having to ride in the big yellow bus.

Comment Economics (Score 1) 334

There are quite a few technologies being proposed to solve the energy storage for renewable sources problem. What needs to be addressed is: Who pays for it?

"Our antiquated grid" does just fine when we schedule power from producers with a commitment to produce or provide 'spinning reserve' in the event that they can't. That has been a part of the economic decision making process for decades that selected one source over another. But now, the renewables community is angling to push this part of the responsibility onto other entities. "You need batteries. We'll just sit here and generate when we feel like it."

Comment Re:Why not find out how to keep female engineers? (Score 1) 634

Mandatory unpaid overtime is often just a scam to get more work done for less money. Once overtime has to be paid for, it's amazing how well management can suddenly plan a project to get it done within the 40 hours per week allotted.

Yeah, emergencies come up. But if they are so much a part of the company culture that management has to put a 'mandatory unpaid overtime' clause in the company policy, it was planned in advance.

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