Comment Re:Just staggering... (Score 1) 193
The materials aren't worth the labor to extract them
Thousands of meth addicts will disagree.
The materials aren't worth the labor to extract them
Thousands of meth addicts will disagree.
Self-esteem is a part of social/emotional development. You can't think well of others (and stop undermining them) until you think well of yourself.
if they cannot point to any evidence.
Here's some: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/ev...
Although the null result tends to dominate in studies of academic preformance (no preference for single-sex or coeducational settings), single sex does show advantages in the accumulated studies in the social/emotional areas.
But that's out of 171 who took it. So 41%. Not great, but then considering that these are people who are thinking about a career where they are likely going to be replaced by cheap offshore labor, they probably aren't the brightest bulbs in the marquee anyway.
excluding boys from something they sorely love to do.
As opposed to something they have the aptitude for?
Perhaps the point is that if we can eliminate the societally imposed gender biases, more women who have the skills will excel in STEM fields. While all the boys who have delusions of being great coders will just have to live with a career paving parking lots.
Maybe. Some educators believe that women only groups are not nearly as destructively competitive as when the opposite sex is present. Anecdotally, I know some women who have been raised to compete for a goal rather than against each other in sports or academics. They tend to do much better in their careers than the average female. The question is: Can this behavior be taught (perhaps at an early age) or are these few outliers genetic anomalies?
Maybe. But this doesn't explain the difference in STEM hiring. Only the numbers of each gender that excel in their fields. There are plenty of male morons in CS, engineering and science. And we (hiring organizations) seem not to filter them out effectively. So why should the population of women in these fields depend on how many make it to the upper tail of the bell curve when we hire men who are on the back side of the hump?
Because it prevents the religious organizations from proselytizing on behalf of political candidates.
Not so much of a problem. Religious organization proselytizes on behalf of a candidate and sudenly contributions to them become non tax deductible. Same rules for secular political campaign fundraising. And along with this comes some intrusive auditing to determine which funds are being spent for what. I'm really OK with this. The ability to look inside a church and find out where the funds go is far more valuable thn keeping them out of politics. Which they get into anyway with no supervision.
The minute we allow government to dictate what is or isn't a religion is the instant we lose all religious freedom.
So why is there a tax exempt catagory for religious organizations? That puts the government squarely in the middle of the business of determining what is/is not a legitimate religion.
I say we treat them all as non profit organizations if they can meet the qualifications and leave it at that. If you want to wear a collander on your head, that's not the government's business.
The reasons are clearly described here
I read through that and didn't see anything about "We're all idiots".
Their reasons involve context switching and interprocess communications. Context switching has got to happen (unless they run IE in kernel space) so just get it over with. Interproces communication has always been a weakness in Microsoft systems. Since day one. Multitasking OSs are here, folks. Get over DOS.
With floppies.
Yo dawg!
A persistant "Whoosh"ing noise seems to be getting worse accompanying Slashdot comments. I wonder what it is?
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