Comment Re:Honest question. (Score 2) 479
Sounds sexist to me. I've spent time in hospitals and the male nurses seemed just as compassionate as the female nurses.
Sounds sexist to me. I've spent time in hospitals and the male nurses seemed just as compassionate as the female nurses.
There's also the FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) which currently has something like 50k active missing juvenile cases which are not part of that classification because of unknown variables.
Such as runaways, etc. Also, these have been on file since 1967. Figure 50,000 divided by 48 years is a bit over 1000 cases a year.
So, in that case, the chances of your child becoming "missing" is about the same as them dying in a fire. They're still far more likely to die of poisoning, drowning, or in a car accident.
You go in for an interview and go through a procession of seven people who speak the other language. You are confronted with the possibility that this is what your work environment will be like. Not everyone is up for that.
You're right. So you don't take the job.
I always say that an interview goes both ways. I also like to see how people deal with me--I'm going to have to work with these people after all. If the interviewer is a jerk in the interview, they're probably a jerk to work with. You need to decide if the job is worth it or not.
Because they're not allowed in the water?
"Women aren't good programmers--they don't have the brains for it."
That is sexist comment which I've heard before. Which means that person is not going to hire a woman because he's convinced that women won't be able to do the job. If you have enough of those people hiring, a woman won't even get a chance to prove otherwise.
So, yes, you're forcing them to confront their stereotypical image of a woman's skills by forcing them to hire women. Perhaps they'll learn that their stereotypes are not correct.
I somewhat agree with you--yes, hiring someone who may not be as skilled as someone else just because that someone is a woman is bad. But how would you suggest countering these stereotypes?
Simply throwing someone into a position because they do or do not happen to have a dick doesn't mean you're putting someone competent or appropriate in place.
Conversely, denying someone a position because they do or do not happen to have a dick is also a bad move.
If I deny a nursing position to a man because "men aren't compassionate enough to be nurses," wouldn't you say that's a bad thing?
So what happens to the fluid?
We have a couple of "Nostalgia Channels" around--MeTV and Antenna TV. I recently spent some time in a hospital (and recuperating at home) and got hooked on Adam-12.
Some of those old shows are amusing to watch with a contemporary eye.
So you're this guy.
I'm wondering if they'll have a "Here comes the Boss" button that suddenly pops up a spreadsheet.
I [...] was shocked to see every table have 2 iPads, and at the bar, there being a whole row of them.
Not to mention cash registers. I see lots of iPad cash registers at hep restaurants and coffee/tea shops.
When it comes to businesses using tablets, I usually see them as a retail person's PC. If I'm interested in buying something and they don't have it in stock, the retail person can see if they have it at other stores without having to go over to a shared retail person's PC.
[...] and if Obama is involved somehow.
Obama's a lame duck.
[...] and if Benghazi! is involved somehow.
FTFY.
Besides disasters, there's also the CITGO-Venezuela heating oil program.
Or a Moran.
In addition to expanding the ISS, Russian developers viewed the NEM module as the basis for future Russian efforts to send humans beyond the Earth orbit. Thanks to its multi-function design, life support and power-supply capability, one or a whole cluster of such vehicles could provide habitation quarters and laboratories for a station at the so-called Lagrange points, which were considered as a staging ground for the exploration of the Moon, asteroids and Mars.
In case of an international agreement on the construction of a manned outpost in the Lagrange point, the NEM-based laboratory could constitute the Russian contribution into the effort. The NEM-based outpost could be serviced and staffed by the crews of US-European Orion spacecraft and by Russia’s next-generation spacecraft, PTK NP. Simularly, the NEM module, possibly in combination with other hardware, could serve as an outpost in the orbit around the Moon. Also in 2014, plans were hatched to make the NEM-based laboratory a part of the post-ISS Russian space station, VShOS, in the high-inclination orbit.
The Russians have always understood that a space station is nothing more than a prototype of an interplanetary spaceship. They are therefore simply carrying through with the same engineering research they did on their earlier Salyut and Mir stations, developing a vessel that can keep humans alive on long trips to other planets.
This approach makes a lot more sense than NASA’s SLS/Orion project, which does not give us what we need to make long interplanetary voyages, and costs a lot more.
We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated.
