"Every post like mine"? What's wrong with my post? I've worked in dozens of places, and most of them have had highly toxic macho cultures, men talking about women like they are pieces of meat and belittling their abilities, even when women are present. If the truth reinforces an accurate portrayal, that's not irony.

The article is talking about primary school children, not women. 50 years ago women (generally speaking) weren't interested in management, politics, science, high level medicine, or a host of other traditionally male occupations. So now, if women generally aren't interested in IT (largely due to the hostile environment that any male dominated sphere inevitably creates), should we maintain that prejudice for future generations?

Absolutely. It's inconceivable that there's something specifically wrong with American elementary school teachers. The same thing is happening all over the world, and there isn't a grand global conspiracy to indoctrinate primary, elementary, prep, whatever the local term is, teachers with a male-centric view of IT.

The "area around the capitol" is the capital. So... double not wrong?

You've solved the Drake Equation?

They'd probably try to convert us to their religion.

A new explanation wasn't needed. We've always known that there are godless heathens in foreign lands. Alien life on another world is a much bigger step, theologically speaking.

That's what mathematicians refer to as "trivial", which is one of the most derogatory terms in mathematics.

He's referencing GWB's mangled attempt at the quote.

Who am I kidding? The '90s was a bleak period for British sci fi.

And this article linked from yours shows just how disingenuous that approach is. Brilliant.

The great thing about statistics and graphs is that by carefully selecting your data you can do things like this with them.

I suspect that the latter category also substantially overlaps the first three. Hah, poked you back!

Which company is or was being spied on by whom is irrelevant. Every company should take measures to ensure that no agency can spy on them, simple as that.

So, Airbus's reaction to this should be just to accept that anyone can eavesdrop on their VPNs? Are Boeing ok with European governments snooping on their VPNs? Maybe China should be allowed to snoop on all our communications as well. After all, more eyes means less corruption, right? And since American companies never bribe, they have nothing to hide by letting every government in the world listen in on all their internal communications.