You realize that there's more difference between your average man and your average woman than between your average NFL linebacker and your average man, right? (seriously, compare the stats some time - height, average bench strength, etc). You do realize how commonly women are raped and abused by men, and how they might happen to be more sensitive to the implicit or explicit threats of violence from someone that they're highly unlikely to be able to fight off?

I'm tall, 182 centimeters, and I still once had a guy literally pick me up and carry me back to his apartment when I tried to walk away from him.

There's a bit of a difference in that one in every four women actually will be raped in their life, and a sizeable percent of those getting those threats already have been.

Yes, men are raped too. About 91% of rape cases are male->female, 8% male->male, 0.8% female->female, and 0.2% female->male. Men are virtually always the perpetrator, but even when the victim is male (not nearly as common, but still way more common than we as a society should accept), the perpetrator is still overwhelmingly likely to be male.

(and if the excuse for the stats is "men aren't as likely to report being raped by a woman because of shame"... so is there no shame for a guy to report being sodomized against his will by a man?)

The basic point is: when you're threatening a violent crime against a person who may well have been a victim of such, and even if they haven't, very likely has friends who have and is more than aware of their vulnerability in this regard, that's taking it to a whole different level.

Nice being a straight cis white male when a venue is dominated by other straight cis white males, isn't it?

And just to make clear, the problem of insulting people isn't along the lines of "ching chong chow chee" or whatnot. The problem case is along the lines of:

Scenario 1:

Man: "What does that do? Sorry, I don't know perl."
Crowd: "You don't know perl? Geez, you're stupid."

Scenario 2:

Woman: "What does that do? Sorry, I don't know perl."
Crowd: "Geez, women are stupid."

Same here. I've routinely had ten tabs of Cracked.com, which is fairly heavy as far as I can tell, fit in half a GB. But then I use Flashblock to keep SWFs from starting automatically on most sites, and I have a few Facebook hostnames blocked in my /etc/hosts.

Well you have now. Often I've made musical recordings as proofs of concept for posts to web forums related to Dance Dance Revolution and classic NES games. And when these aren't in tracker format, they're in .ogg format. Here are some test cases:

• 10.2.2.: original piano ambient composition
• Onderheynah: original rhythmic noise composition
• Dam Dam Baby Baram, Lodeamari Bombacy, Messimizer, Overplayed, and Zodinubis: mash-ups of similar-sounding songs from video games
• Balloon Fever and Birdo's Theme: remixes of NES games' music
• Butterfly and Maxx Unlimited: covers of DDR songs using hardware limits of the NES
• Gymnopedie 1: beginning of a cover of an Erik Satie piece in the musical style of a Kirby game

If the "malware blocking" is anything like the analogous feature in Internet Explorer (called "SmartScreen"), then it's going to be harder for end users to download and install a newly compiled executable release of an application developed and self-published by an individual, even if that program is distributed under a free software license. IE repeatedly warns users that if an executable is "not commonly downloaded" by other IE users participating in SmartScreen, it should be deleted on sight, especially if the developer hasn't paid protection money to a member of the Authenticode CA cartel.

They're no worse then the Volvo diesels they traded in for Pius'. The problem has always been the drivers.

Used hardware vendor says rack space is free...run your data center on Pentium 3s. News at 11.

If that were true they would by beans. BS on poor people working hard. Double BS!

We can have a civilized discussion about government debt without jumping to BS numbers* for total debt can't we?

* Also: Citation needed for the total debt number. Based on your previous citation (which you clearly didn't even read) you're not doing well. Your claiming that, on average, US citizens/business/government carries 12x yearly income in debt?

No accounting for taste. Go back to watching movies about gay cowboys eating pudding.

In some cases, it's either deploy one JavaScript web app or deploy 15 native apps, one for each of 15 platforms. You can get the web app designed, implemented, tested, and deployed before you even become approved as a developer on half of those platforms.