My ideal is that everyone else takes public transport, and my 40 minute commute then becomes a 4 minute commute. I might need to remove the speed governor from my car, and get better tires, and add a rocket or two, but money well spent!

Only trivially so.

Acting in your own self interest is the default state if you will. You can call it a moral or ethical "code" if you like, but that's like debating whether Atheism is a religion - it doesn't really matter.

I would personally reject any moral code that excludes my self-interest, as I believe moral codes should concern themselves with the interests of people, and I'm a people too! Moral codes that exclude my interest because of my race or sex or whatever don't count in my book.

But my point was: humanity will likely never agree on the definition for moral behavior, but simple self-interest is much easier to discuss, and action which server neither your self-interest nor any moral code, well, don't do those.

Parents who at the same christmas complain if the daughter plays to much on the new computer express a bias.

Anecdote pulled out of posterior invagination.

Television programming where the only computer affiliate is a dorky guy who might be brilliant at computers but is awkward at anything else expresses a bias.

As opposed to the shows that have computer geeks being a woman (47 listed, not including Arrow, Flash or Supernatural)?

Yes, you can argue by purposely not including information showing the opposite.

Get rid of the unconscious steering away...

Note to you - you're not a mind reader.

You mean like wearing the wrong shirt or telling the wrong joke?

That's because it is. Go hang around some feminist sites these days like feministing or the mary sue, and you'll find out that using bullshit to make up your point is pretty much accepted. And of course if you point out the flaw, you're automatically a persona non grata to be purged from the ranks.

That comment is so good, it's almost like the BS that was spewed out the other day on sites like The Guardian, Time, and other outlets about how "teenage boys don't like big breasted women." Of course, when you look at what little data there is you find out that: There was no confirmation data, it used a online poll, it was heavily circulated on feminist sites, especially those espousing an anti-male point of view. Well, I mean the data is out there...you know the data that says said paygap is by choice.

Unless of course you're supporting the idea that women should be paid more, for less work. But that seems rather sexist to me.

+5 insightful. But you forgot the Cowboy Neal option, because I'd ride him into orbit.

If "attain equality" means attacking, doxing, harassing, throwing death threats and getting people fired from their jobs because they have a different viewpoint or because they make a joke you don't like. I don't want anything to do with them, and that is how the fast majority of SJW's are.

China has a decade or two of growth over India (and you can't believe a word the government approves about conditions in China - this is a totalitarian state with total information control, and many Potemkin Businesses). It may have been the right decision 30 years ago, but does anyone really doubt manufacturing is on its way out? China has had rough economic times for the past decade as American manufacturing returns to American robots (at least, if the Chinese stock market is any guide - hard to be certain).

Sure - they have a long way to go (though they're far better off than a lot of the world), but real economic change takes generations, and they're far ahead of where they were 20 years ago. Eh, opinions vary, but I can at least say I've researched it considerably before putting my money where my mouth is.

Does the word "symbol" in my initial post confuse you? What about the word "inspiration"? As in "half the people my age I know who work in tech were inspired by NASA and science fiction". It's important for mankind that our reach exceed our grasp. It's important to see it's not just other nations who can do these things. Don't worry, as you point out most tech workers on local projects are doing much more practical things, but dammit, symbols are important.