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Comment Re: and if it goes down full stike on NK (Score 1) 54

You mean like the U.S.'s domestic oil production that Bush couldn't pursue because environmentalists couldn't bear the impact it would have on their cause?

Oh wait, somehow it's OK now because their own guy is in office?

If you were paying attention, these Environmental Strawmen you are railing against are just as pissed at th e current occupant as they were at President Cheney.

Comment sheesh (Score 1) 552

I'm not anti immigration, but it seems like sort of an inefficient system. I mean if 95 percent of great programmers aome from outside the US, does that mean we're for shit at programming, or does the rest of the world turn out programmers that aren't great too? If a non-us Citizen is already a geat programmer, there should be no problem getting him or her over here.

Oh wait......

THen we'd have to pay them what they are worth, and not rely on the indentured servant system.......

Comment Other ideas for Blliy (Score 4, Funny) 183

I was just on Youtube, and they have energy figured out:

You can heat your house with two tea candles and a couple clay flower pots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Perpetual motion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

There is a lot more. These guys and gals have us to the point of completely free energy.

But while the communist cabal of evil "real" scientists are all busy trying to shackle the world with their hoohaw global warming money and freedom grab when they aren't out killing puppies, and figuring out ways to break Jerry Sandusky out of jail - the true inventors working tirelessly in their garages have solved all our energy problems

WAKE UP AMERICA! from a cave in Idaho, where men are still men, and the sheep are pretty nervous

Comment Re:Boring (Score 2) 68

They didn't even have a pole. Just what are they teaching women about how to make money these days?

I expect to be downmodded to the lowest level of turtles, but I think it is the idea of since today, dancing is quite popular, and that if they can get young girls to think that programmers dance all day, they might decide to become programmers.

I mean Beyonce is a programmer right?

Comment Re:Here's a brilliant idea... (Score 1) 54

Lets just air-gap those systems -- unless someone can explain why we need to make a nuclear reactor accessible from the Internet.

So the bean counters and shareholders can check up on them and make sure they are serving them in the cheapest and most profitible way possible?

Then later the IOTs can control your refrigerator and stove for maximum efficiency.

Comment Re:No s**t Sherlock (Score 2) 368

Care to cite a single case where that 'twas the sole provocation and the related result?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Howzabout no provocation. When the prosecution got hold of the video refuting everything they said happened, teh lying, and the completely unnescessary violence and needless property damage, the prosecution dropped charges, and the police were put on trial. Watch the whole thing, it was shown that they started going on the resisting arrest rant, busting out the windows, punching the guy, and accusing him of "tring to grab my gun" while his hands were up.

Then again, I suspect with your ridiculous, "Cite a single case" comment, you fully approve of the way they handled this, the way they hid the evidence, don't ya?

Hey, here's another one for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Oh yeah, I'll bet that lady cop doing the strip search had a good time, especially since she used the same glove to insert her finger up the woman's vagina after she stuck it up the woman's rectum

Enjoy, and Merry Fsstivus.

Comment Re:Risk = Reward (Score 1) 224

Just on a point of order, women have worked outside the home as long as men have worked. The only "liberating" that was done involved fewer requirements for physical strength in order to work and the mass production of white goods, reducing the effort involved in housework to a couple of hours a day.

Glad you brought that up. The modern day conveniences had taken the housewife position from a full time job, to one that can be accomplished in short order. So a lot of women were likely getting bored out of their minds. And while little children are in need of constant attention, after they are all off at school, there is a vacuum that needs filled.

Now your mentioning of women working outside the home is interesting, because it brings up the matter of the "Rosie the Riveter" women working in industry during World War 2.

These ladies performed completely competent work. So why, after the war, did they so willingly trade off their war work, to go back to being housewives?

Comment Re:Risk = Reward (Score 1) 224

If STEM jobs are so bad why do men do them? Do women just make better choices?

Note - you applied the word "bad" here. For most of my career, I wouldn't have thought of doing anything else. That's not a "bad" job.

But the rub is this. Many - most? women wouldn't do what I did. Why? I dunno, I can only give reasons from experience. And perhaps for many people, a job with irregular hours, travel, sometimes dangerous work, sometimes working in primitive conditions, and work so diverse in nature, I kept a suit shirt and tie as well as farmer clothing because I never knew what would come up. For some, that was a bad job. I loved the variety of the work. But no reason why any motivated female couldn't do it.

And I think that's the point. Motivation. Not all tech jobs are as demanding. But if I only programmed all day - yeah, I'd not find that a good job.

Comment Re:Risk = Reward (Score 2) 224

That is NOT what the study said. The study stated that men were more likely to receive the Darwin awards than females. They suggested possible reasons for this including selection and reporting bias (ex. it's more OK to laugh at the deaths of men then that of men).

Would it not be true that natural selection would select for women who were predisposed toward being risk averse? If you want your offspring to survive to reproduce, you can't be doing the prehistorical version of base jumping.

And for men, especially in prehistoric times, those who took risks might have been rewarded with more and better food, and therefore could provide more for their offspring.

Simplistic, it's true, but I have to say there is something to it. My better half is quite risk averse - but it happened after we had a child. Before that, she was into horseback riding and some sports. After the child was born, th ehorseback riding tailed off unti she just stopped. Now, she's pretty much stopped any risky behavior at all. As in a merry-go-round is beyond her comfort level.

On the other hand, I'm into Hockey (playing) motorcycling, and regularly climb towers and rooftops as part of my other hobby. As a concession, to her, I haven't bungee jumped - yet.

This is not to say that if a woman wants to do something, she shouldn't because it is a "guy thing". If she can, there's no reason why she shouldn't.

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