I might have skewed the demographic. I installed W10 Pro on my Mac via Bootcamp last week. Now after Microsoft stops sending updates, W10 will finally be stable

My grandfather had a CoCo. Whenever I visited (which was fairly often as my grandparents were less than an hour away at the time), I worked through the tutorials in Getting Started with Color BASIC . Eventually, I got a TI-99/4A at home, and then an Apple IIe. All of those put me on the path to where I am today, 40+ years later.

I make no assumptions, that is what you are doing. Using an experience is not an assumption Some times it flies in the face of those who do.

Now, you are quick to make some specific assumptions regarding my worldview. Oh, my friend, what is my worldview?

Given the assumptions you have already made about me, you could not be more wrong. Why you decide to diss on my son is pretty weird. He is not married and has no intention of it because of his experiences with toxic women.

My SO, was the VP in her company, and the highest paid person in it, She had entire teams of men working for her, they adored her, but knew when she issued an order, it had to be performed.

Smart, no one's fool, and what you would call a "Boss Babe" today We're complete equals.

But she knows how to be feminine as well, Between the two of us, we do navigation through life. Good to have the feminine and masculine karma.

As well, in an academic environment, I worked with women on programs to encourage young women into STEM careers.It wasn't working too well. Before you blame that on me, they were in charge, not me. But I did what I could, and at their direction.

And that is where my technical/science background got me to question the assumptions that were being made. The same assumptions, the same approaches, the same bad guys, the same victims. We followed them every year, and the results were the same. We polled these young ladies after the programs, and there was one constant - more of the young ladies wanted to be in entertainment as Divas than in any STEM field.

In science/engineering, if you try the exact same experiment over and over, you will always get the same results. Something is askew.

There is also the mantra that in the best controlled experiments, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.

The assumptions were that women and me would be equally represented in STEM careers if only the internalized misogyny of men were eradicated, that women only needed nurtured and men 's misogyny suppressed, and all other impediments removed, these women who were passionate about STEM, but one encounter with a man could immediately destroy that passion drove women to other careers, That's the ticket.

So my interest in why these efforts were a complete failure got me to doing research. I interviewed many women scientists and engineers to get their input.

All said they were sure they wanted to be that form a very young age. All said that nothing was going to stand in their way. Almost 100 percent said these programs were a waste of time.

We did have a few women who washed out. Three became stay at home moms, and one started her own day care. All were happy. The day care woman cried on my shoulder more than once about how she hated engineering. Awkward.

But since retirement at 55, I continued my research on an quasi - amateur level, and have come to some conclusions. The first is obvious,

Men and women have the same intellectual capacity. Any differences are at the individual level.

If a woman wants to be in a particular field, there is no reason she should not.

But if a woman would prefer to be a stay at home mother/wife, and run the household, that is not a bad thing. It's a different thing.

Despite being told that women can "have it all", no, no one has it all.

The present day narrative of working until your mid thirties and mid forties, then marrying, and having children is completely backwards.

That age range is where a person really hits their stride.

It is doubly wrong because there are many women who are in perimenopause in their mid 40s. Female fertility has an expiration date.

Finally, it is triple wrong because of two things. Men who reach that age without getting married are much less inclined to do so, especially if they are going to front the IVF costs.

The other related thing is that men are inherently attracted to youth, beauty, and cooperativeness.

Anyhow, I'm bowing out of this convo. You are as open to changing your opinion as a climate change denier or trickle down economy believer. Any posting I have done is like that, in that I neither expect or care what your opinion is, it is to give others who are perhaps not as locked into their narrative as you re

They also think timber framed houses in a first world country is absolutely fine,

What exactly is wrong with them....?

Are you saying everyone needs to build their homes 100% out of cinderblocks, no matter where they are in the world?

Even if they could extend life for hundreds of years it would be terrible for society.

Well, I'll be happy to let you and other people altruistic enough to volunteer for early death, do just that.

Moi?

I'm wanting to live a long as I possibly can (in comfort and enjoying life the way I do now)....and would be willing to do just about anything to do so.

I don't get why to some people their own lives don't seem to be that important, but to me...MY life is the #1 priority to me.

I only get 1 life as far as I know, on this planet....I'd like to have it last as long as I possibly can.

I do, however, need to lose weight first, as that I'd prefer NOT to go through eternity as a fat vampire...

RTFA anonymous coward who seems to believe that the South Korean military does not deal with deal with classified info.

Anything I can do to piss off further?

I assumed nothing. I wrote - and you quoted it - that you "appear" to believe something about women. Then claimed I made a wild leap of assumption

Your discussion method doesn't work, because you do appear to have a fixed narrative. Have a nice day.

Where on earth did you come up with that strange idea?

I did not make any leap - You just got triggered, and drew a very incorrect interpretation.

In general, Men want sex, and women control access to it . Women want relationships, and men control access to that. You can search that out.

You might want to consider that not every statement made is 100 percent of whichever sex you may or may not like. But some things are true,

Women are trying to put off marriage until the time that they enter the geriatric pregnancy phase of life. That is pretty expensive stuff. You can look that up

The problem is, Men who reach their mid 30's mid 40's without marriage are a lot less likely to desire marriage and children. You can look that up.

Side note 1 - imagine a 45 year old woman who desires to start having children and a 45 year old man is her love interest. They will be retiring around the time their child becomes a full adult.

Side note 2 - Given that the so called old standard model was a man and woman getting married soon after their teens, and having children while young and strong enough, then saving money at an accelerated state for retirement. There is a mathematics problem there. So many people are not good at math today. You save and invest - you do not wait for your job that is going to change the world will hand that money to you.

Side note 3. There is a wonderful thing for a father and child when he is youthful enough to enjoy activities. I played on the same Ice Hockey teamteam as my son when he was in high school, That's priceless. You won't do that when you are in your 60's with an 18 year old.

Final note - and this one will trigger the bejabbers out of you. I married my wife 30 days after she turned 18. Freakin out yet? She is a smart woman, and determined by biology, that she wanted to either have a child by 25 during her roughly peak fertility. We've been married 46 years now, and are young enough to enjoy things with our money, Kid went to college, an is rising in his corporation, buying his first house soon.

For what it is worth, he is "Red Pilled, after two separate women tried to spermjack him.

Oh, my, you just proved my point.

We are speaking about the South Korean Military. Not Some places.

They cannot use your idea of Androids are secure enough, unless the South Korean never deals with any classified information. As an ally of the USA, that would be very strange indeed.

I know that the Pine and Purism offerings have hardware switches, But every phone would have to be inspected to insure the switches are in the right position. Any meeting I had responsibility would have every cell and smartphone and recording device left outside. My meeting, DOD and my rules.

You are twisting yourself into a knot trying to talk about more or less stringent. It's military, Any military deal in classified information, and unless you disable everything that a smartphone does, the proceeds of the classified meeting can be recorded and disseminated to adversaries.

It can even happen at non classified meetings with NDA's. What level of security are these phones secure at? Even then, We're talking about military.

Isn't there a doctor shortage in the USA

Yep...because there is such a push and had been for awhile to get doctors of color, and the female persuasion.....while actively at the expense of qualified white males....

They'd rather have foreign Dr.s in the US versus native, qualified white male doctors.

This screening happens at the medical school level.....there are plenty that would do it, but racial profiling is keeping the numbers of doctors down in the US.

So, US people are unable to learn from other cultures that may be doing some things better?

We can "see" what other cultures and countries do...we don't have to like them or want to emulate them.

I personally already pay over 32% or so in taxes...I would not want to pay upwards towards 50% in taxes to try to do national universal health care in the US.

That and the US currently DOES have a government run healthcare system...the VA.

I've seen first hand how BADLY that is run...over budget and under performing by a mile with services.

No thank you, I don't want a federal system like that to be what I depend upon for my health needs.

As bad and $$ as the system is here, I'll take it over that nightmare of an alternative.

Where's the overreach? It's literally the purpose of the Executive branch to implement the laws that Congress passes. Offering instruction on how to expedite green energy projects in addition to the other streamlining measures is 100% within the letter and intent of the law.

Except, that's not what they did. The law said:

streamline the approval process for major construction projects, such as oil pipelines, highways and power lines for wind- and solar-generated electricity.

But what the Biden admin did was:

But they also lay out additional requirements created to prioritize projects with strong environmental benefits, while adding layers of review for projects that could harm the climate or their surrounding communities.

But here, while here they "prioritize projects with environmental benefits". This means they're ignoring parts of the law that also expedited things like oil pipelines and new roads. This bill was for ALL forms of energy, not just green.

The part with the "adding layers of review"....that's just liberal-speak for "if we find projects we don't like, we'll throw them into red-tape bureaucracy hell, and you'll never have a chance of your project approval ever seeing review much less the light of day."

It's sneaky...but they've basically changed the meaning and put their thumbs on the scales of what gets green lit and approval streamlined.

Weirdly, none of the .EU porn sites I like are following these laws.

So, uh...er......can you list out some of those sites?

You know...just as examples?

;)

41.9 degrees Celsius is approximately 107.42 degrees Fahrenheit.

44.9 degrees Celsius is approximately 112.42 degrees Fahrenheit.

Thank you.

I was about to comment that Slashdot is a US centric site, and if someone posts an article like this, they really NEED to translate the temperatures into F too, as that per usual, you're lucky for Slashdotters to read the whole summary, you can't then expect for us all to open up another tab and start googling for a damned translation of the temperatures.

40C doesn't mean squat to me...but 107F + does.....

Anyway...thanks for the info!! It actually made the article mean something to me.