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Comment Re:Equality (Score 0) 490

Farming? That's a lot closer to 50/50 than most city or urban people might think. I'm not saying it is exactly 50/50, just a lot closer than non-farmers would believe. The work has to be done, after all, and the whole family pitches in, and does the work.

In fact, in ancient societies, the women WERE the farmes, and the men only deigned to perform tasks that the women found impossible to do.

Comment Once again: FFS! (Score 1) 490

Girls and boys are different. Men and women are different. Despite all the gay-wad bullshit with cross-gendered people, the vast majority of men are men, and women are women.

You want female engineers? Give them a fucking REASON to want to be engineers! If that means gender focused toys, tools, or whatever, GIVE IT TO THEM!

There simply are not any women who find all of my activities appealing. That's because they aren't men. The most masculine women in the world thinks that guys are a pain in the ass, and stupid, for all the crap we do.

STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THEM! RESPECT THEM AS THEY ARE!

The ladies have some legitimate complaints about us guys, but you can't turn men into women, either. Sometimes, we're going to get under each other's skins. It happens. Hell, even MEN get under my skin sometimes, and I ARE ONE!

So - ladies, come on in, join the crowd. And, if the odd guy gets to damned obnoxious, just kick him in the nuts. It's doubtful you'll have to repeat it. Word gets around. "That woman ain't going to put up with no shit! Cool it!"

Comment Problem is (Score 4, Informative) 368

The problem is, the music isn't the artist's property. The labels claim all the rights. The artists theoretical royalties invariably end up being a shit sandwich, without much bread. The labels signed the deal with Apple, because they know that the artists have signed away all their rights already.

Comment political speech (Score 0) 233

Political speech was the primary form of speech on the founding father's minds. Religious speech would have been secondary. All other forms of speech are included, of course, but political and religious enemies are the most dangerous.

The comment in question falls under political speech. The commenter is commenting on a political candidate, after all. Calling a candidate a pedophile hardly differs from the bipartisan mudslinging that takes place in most elections anyway.

IMO, the Supreme Court has exceeded it's authority in this case.

Comment Your router (Score 2) 127

Whatever you use for a router can do it. I have a Netgear open source router. Flashed it with Tomato firmware, then installed the MVPS Hosts file on it. A startup script updates the Hosts file at boot, and then every four days after booting. Of course, the concept isn't exclusive to Netgear, or to commercial routers. Install it on your gateway, whatever that gateway may be.

I would be interested to hear how much bandwidth you save by blocking advertising for a company. I'd also be interested in learning how much your internet improves in terms of responsiveness. It made a big difference for me, but I don't administer hundreds or thousands of computers.

Comment Re:It's not the adverts in themselves (Score 3, Insightful) 127

Yes, of course it is. If I'm browsing YOUR site, then I've implied that I have some trust in YOUR site. Cross site scripting demands that I also trust those other ten, twenty, fifty, or maybe even thousand other sites. If you demand that kind of trust, then I don't need your site. Drive-by installation of malware is far to common for us to trust all those unidentified sites.

Comment Re:maybe robots can fly the drones (Score 0) 298

If killing another human being is "easy peasy" for you, and doesn't impart any stress into your life than you would be classified as a sociopath.

If it were one or more of those fine ISIS chaps I was targeting, no, I'd not have a problem killing them without a second thought.

Enemies I have no problem with taking out. I do value life, but it goes in order of my life, family life, friends lives, neighbors lives, countrymen....and down the chain. By the time I get to the bad guys, they are on the easy peasy list pretty quickly.

It is a mindset sure, but not difficult for me. For example I did think long and hard before going for a Concealed Carry license and more broadly, having a gun in my house at all times. If you are not willing to use it and shoot to kill, you'd best not have one. I a clear and easy with that decision and am a gun owner.

Same here...easier here in that it is bad guys and you are pretty much completely abstracted from any blood and guts associated with the hit.

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