React they did. Overreact, probably not so much. BS corporate emails should cause far more quitting than they usually do. How else is management going to learn?

In general, management can't learn. If you quit, they just assume the problem is with you.

And once they find Dr. Mann, he's (golly gee) gone nutso and of course has a sabotaged base waiting. Nobody but Hollywood would do this. An unstable astronaut like that would never get into space.

Yeah, never.

But that's OK, later on the hero steals a ship from the far future and somehow knows how to fly it, too.

Did you actually watch the movie?

File it with flying cars, fusion power (or thorium cycle or pebble bed or whatever nuclear power suits your fancy), batteries or caps with extremely high (approaching that of liquid chemical fuels) energy and power density, practical large-scale solar power, and a cure for the common cold as stuff we'll always talk about but never ever get.

So we can enginer our way out into space and through wormholes. But we can't cure* a crop blight?

Of course we could. But we didn't, so we won't. Typical SF causality loop.

If that were true, then she should say that.

Yeah, she should. Doesn't mean she will. The noise is an acceptable proxy complaint for the real complaint, which she feels will cause strife. Which means that if he solves the noise problem in a way which doesn't solve the real complaint, she will either find another proxy complaint, or will act irritated and upset without saying why.

If you really think that, try to tell a police officer to go fuck himself.

Been there and done that. Well, I told him to rot in hell, but same idea. I can't say the result was pleasant, but I was not convicted of a crime as a result.

The worst physics didn't involve strong gravity fields or high velocities or accelerations. Just Newton's Third Law and an energy argument. The second-worst bit of science was biological, but also involved an energy argument.

Spoilers:
1) Matt Damon's spaceship just would have been gently pushed away when he opened the airlock. Maybe gently pushed to one side or another depending on the partial seal. It certainly would NOT have set the entire Endurance vehicle spinning like mad.

2) The blight was better adapted because it utilized nitrogen from the air instead of oxygen? Yeah I don't think so; what do you combine with N2 that yields energy instead of spending it?

But what is definitely outside of the range of a statistical fluke is the resulting level of "fem-bashing" on Slashdot. It appears like the majority of postings addressing problems with the study as such combine this criticism with a load of prejudicial bile. That does not point towards "this would call for a larger sample size" or "it would be good to exclude some systematic errors" but rather "we don't want such studies performed".

Not sure what you mean by "fem-bashing". If you mean bashing women, no. If you mean bashing feminists (particularly a certain sort who advocates not equality but female superiority), yes.

It appears the reason this study was performed was not to contribute to the sum total of human knowledge, but to produce a pre-determined result (because of the systemic errors included) in order to bash men. We really don't need that sort of study at all.

Centipede (Dona Bailey, later driven from the industry by male co-workers)

Really? That's not what she said. She specifically said she was NOT intimidated out of the industry.

BTW, why didn't you mention one of the most well-known women in gaming: Roberta Williams?

Back in the early 80's something like 40% of CS graduates were women. Why do you think they seem to have collectively chosen to avoid it and related fields? It clearly wasn't a problem earlier, after all.

You're looking at it backwards. In the late 70's and early 80's, female participation in CS shot up much faster than female participation in other traditionally-male STEM subjects, and fell back down just as fast. Why did it shoot up so fast in the 80's? Something was different in CS, and the "computer geeks are more misogynistic than any other group" hypothesis fails to explain it.

How can people think men are inferior when we have this enormous history of men doing brilliant things? Seriously... people that take that posture need to read a book or go to a museum.

Didn't you know? We men have been using our superior size, strength, and proficiency at unarmed combat (along with a whole lot of rape) to keep women down for millenia. If it weren't for that, women would be running everything and would be recognized as the great superiors in all categories.

This is horrible advice. Giving up something you really love doing because the partner doesn't like it sows the seeds of resentment. OP needs to find a technical solution to the noise issue so he can still play and she can get relief from the computer noise.

It's not the noise.

The governments set the number of taxis, the rates, the accepted payment methods, the service areas, and the types and colors of the cars used. Yet it's a "private" service. Basically it's an outsourced bureaucracy, with most of the disadvantages of private firms along with the disadvantages of a city service.

Modern vehicle do NOT need to belch smoke. Only museum vehicles and egotist owners do that.

Diesel boosters have been claiming this for at least 30 years. And they still belch smoke and stink like diesels.

The salespeople saw money. The business people, who would normally assess risk, got blinded by the prospect of making huge amounts of money. The engineers who could see disaster coming were not consulted or ignored.

Ten years ago I would have said you were a crank. Five years ago I would have ignored the comment. But this country has gone seriously down hill over the past decade and a half.

Nope, this hasn't changed. Read up on the Neidorf E911 case.