Yes, they are. They are free to open factories in at-will states just like Toyota, BMW and several others have done so.

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It is terribly different in that unusable non-biodegradable material is removed, and as we develop new combustion systems and CO2 sequestration techniques, we know (should know) what to do with the CO2 exhaust.

There are no perfect solutions. Just alternatives, and it is up to us in being sufficiently smart (or at least in not being callously stupid) to string multiple alternatives into acceptable solutions.

Yes, you should get flamed for it. Your theory does not hold water when we compare the proportion of women going into engineering in general, and software in particular, in India and China. Those proportions are greater than ours, so this is obviously a cultural issue, and not an innate female avoid-locking-horns issue.

I also find it laughable to compare software programmer's competitiveness with male horn-locking. Out of all the activities to compare, software development is the Peewee Herman of activities. If you want to discuss activities that evoke horn-locking and competitiveness then look into being a professional athlete or a member of the military.

But software development/IT? YOU. GOT. TO. BE. KIDDING.

There is a lot of misogyny in software development, specially in the US, and in particular in Silicon Valley circuits that cater to the young and brass unwashed man-boy masses. But misogyny =/= male competitiveness.

Nor does software engineering has a strange-hold on competitive behavior. There is competitiveness in law, business, sports and politics where women participate in great numbers. So the competitive drive as a factor is also a bad, flawed theory.

For all the cultural advances that our society has made, the reality is that our society pigeonholes men and women into these roles from infancy which leads to the participation % of genders in specific industries, %s that you do not see in other cultures.

Furthermore, sexism is rampant in software development, and STEM in general. So of course women do not come on board. And that so many juvenile beta-male responses are made on this forum to deny the existence of sexism, or to decry some fabled "female agenda", that simply proves that sexism is indeed rampant and entrenched.

Gawd, I'm going to steal that one and make it a sig.

Yakuza or no Yakuza, you DO NOT want to lose Yakuza money. Jokes aside, some people think the Yakuza are just some film-generated form of fiction. Been in Japan a few times, I've seen them. They are real, and you can just tell you don't want to mess with them, their property or their money.

Common good right to broadcast >> faux right to insulate your organs from faux transgressions. Damn, I should have a right to block someone's anus before he/she releases a silent fart that might contaminate the atmosphere near my own personal space :/

I rather deal with bacteria than with rancid-smelly people. YMMV :)

Not sure if this a solution to... what? One can cut to one's heart content, but without structural reforms, the problems that plague NSA will remain there. So, we cut funding, and all we get is to cripple a vital organization that needs to function well, without fixing the things that makes it not function well. Funding is not the root cause. It is not a monetary problem, but a political one.

FTFY

Some of them aren't. Some of them are worth more than what they are paid. Same in all careers and walks of life. Welcome to this thing that we call life.

45-year old guy here says you are full of it. Unless we are confining the job search a very narrow area with a history of ageism (Silicon Valley), I call bs on that kind of statements (statements I've been seeing for the last 20 years). Some of my colleagues/ex-colleagues are approaching their late 50's and are still getting well-paid, 6-figure gigs (both perm and contract).

If you are worth your shit, you will get a job in IT regardless of your age.

You know, as a minority (foreign-born Hispanic, naturalized citizen), I'm tired of hearing and reading these kind of headlines. Companies are not supposed to actively try to correct failures in the social fabric or failures in government policy when it comes to access to education across racial and income barriers.

It is nice when companies donate to charity, or hire interns or have outreach programs to increase their diversity pools. But those are nice-to-have, those are not imperatives.

If companies have few African-American or Hispanic engineers, or female engineers, shit, that is not the fault of the Yahoos, Googles, Facebooks and many other (comparatively) progressive companies in this country. It is not a fault that need to be corrected by them.

It is a social issue. African American and Hispanic communities should ask themselves why they do not produce more engineers. And yes, they they have suffered from discrimination and lack of equal access to resources (even now). But that doesn't completely explain their reduce representation in the STEM workforce. It is about culture.

I mean, as a Hispanic, I see it all the time. At least in my community, we have zero role models, zero focus on education when it comes to the media that is targeted to our community, etc, etc. Same with the African-American communities.

We have Chinese-American, Japanese-American, Indian-American, Hmong-American, -American communities with old and recent arrivals that produce engineers. Why not us?

There is a cultural component that we need to be responsible for, as well as a government policy that needs to ensure education is affordable, geographically accessible and, more important, diversified beyond the mere 4-year college goal (.ie. vocational training.)

Asking a company why it has so few X-ethnicity engineers is barking at the wrong tree. We should be asking those communities why you don't produce as many engineers as this other minority group.

It is barking at the wrong tree, it is putting the blame away from where it belong.

Source: Minority engineer fucking tired of seeing fellow community members dumbing down their own potential.

Corporate ethics are different from country to country (compare how corps act in the US with corps in Japan or Germany.) Hell, even within this country, corporate ethics used to mean something not long ago.

First world problem. I came to this country from the second poorest country in the world, and my wife is from Japan which has the 3rd largest nominal GDP. The opportunities we have had here to pursue our dreams are great. For me specifically.

It is true that the gap between the haves and have-nots has widen in the last 30 years, but c'mon. It is not doom and gloom. With all the difficulties that exist in this country, people can still get a better chance at pursuing their dreams than in most other countries. I scratch my head when people spout first world problems like you are doing right now.