They become huge.

And delicious.

Beavers making dams is (I would argue) 'engineering'. Although maybe more 'crafting' in the sense that they build things to manipulate their environment, but their designs aren't based on any kind of rigorous understanding of the structures they use.

What annoys me is that humans are the only species on the planet that are denied the right to change their environment in this way. When we do it it's "unnatural" and "destroying our environment" when any other species a "marvel of nature".

Exactly. Calling them "engineers" of the ocean ecosystem implies that they are intentionally manipulating ocean ecosystems to further some goal. When you read the actual article, it's mostly about the fact that they shit everywhere.

Not in WA - they're everywhere over here.

If it flies at approximately the same height as where the fireworks explode, how would that happen?

The only evidence that I've seen that anyone has done have been LeVay's brain studies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

So yes, this is something that perhaps ought to be looked into. But considering that bodies can have variant intersex conditions, why couldn't the brain be "intersexed" sometimes.

It's not "newspeak" or "politically correct", it's how things actually are. Havelock Ellis and Magnus Hirschfeld figured that out almost a century ago.

Sex is what parts you have, Gender is how you feel about yourself (and how you feel about the parts).

Maybe in a large city...maybe if your work is close to your bank. But that's probably not the case everywhere else. Sometimes lunch breaks are a half-hour, which would not be long enough for someone to walk to some of the banks in town from various workplaces.

American cities and towns are more "spread out"

And how long has there been misogny in women in IT discussion on slashdot? How long have guys like you been throwing around "social justice warrior" as an epithet? And I'm the bad guy for throwing a few curses around?

No, I'm not.

Is taking away something from you that you stole and giving it back stealing? No, because you didn't earn it in the first place. You might think you did, but you didn't.

In the long term it is. Because then you will HAVE to earn what you get fairly against real competition without "cheating"
Let me use a gaming example? Isn't it more rewarding to beat a game without cheats, than with? Beat it on "Normal" and not "easy"?

I don't think so, I've not seen any feminist use it, but I sure have seen a lot of anti-feminist men do so here on Slashdot.

Modern Slashdotters in their 20's have more in common with jocks than old style geeks/nerds. You've seen the term "brogrammer" bandied around. They may be a programmer, but they watch ESPN and drink brewskis with the bros rather than put on spock ears, go to a con and play Battletech. Besides, being a geek doesn't mean you can't engage in "locker room style" misogyny even if you're a geek.

The "program" is simple, it's: "Don't be a misogynist/racist/etc, and we need to remedy past and present discrimination" What part of that is controversial? We learned the value of that years ago.

I consider the term "social justice warrior" perjorative. Shouldn't we all be striving for social justice that betters us all? And when I talk about social justice it's something I believe in. I've identified strongly as a feminist since about 1991. I consider myself "Third wave" by the way.

  The overuse of that term (and others like "White knight") over the past few months of the various minorities in computing discussions on Slashdot has made me rather angry at what I perceive as the overly privileged locker room mentality here. Normally I'm rather easy going and don't participate in the women in IT discussions in part because I find the misogyny in them disgusting....but I've had enough of what I think of as overly selfish jerks on Slashdot. It's 2014, it's time for those people to get with the program. I'm tired of being "nice".

The thing is, I'm usually not so free with them. I'm just getting tired of the "dickishness" from people who claim to be so smart and superior that they should be running things. Meaning the average politician-bashing "sheeple-bashing" slashdotter

But basically my response is the same as whistlingtony's

The current remedies aren't racism themselves, though I am aware that certain people, like yourself, consider them so.

If you don't like those remedies, then what do you want society to do?

I would call white males receiving preferential treatment in society ever since the US was created, "when". They still do, to a certain extent, though it is better than it was.

http://whatever.scalzi.com/201...

I am well aware of that, but the surgery helps for documentation in some states doesn't it. And most non-trans consider the surgery the "test of realness"

So the surgery still matters, even if it shouldn't.

Look, I understand how you feel, and posted similar things in the other recent discussions on this...but all you'll get is a bunch of overprivileged twats working together to flame you to oblivion and pulling out various "it isn't a problem" "It's not my problem" or "citation needed" on you.

They simply don't understand that they've been privileged, they don't see their lives as that way. They have no experience dealing with people who aren't like them. It's like how Google and Facebook is full of ivy leaguers, or how there seems to be a fairly significatn number of aspie-ish guys with beards in open source. They hire/work with others like themselves. To them it's not discrimination it's just that "These other people whose backgrounds are like mine and who look like me are the best for the job.."

It's bigotry wearing a respectable suit and tie, the hardest kind to fight.

They essentially did, the fallout from that is why we have the problems they're trying to fix.