*grunt* fire good.

You've obviously never been in a department head meeting when production systems go down. Shit is flying everywhere and everyone is throwing it at each other.

Should of read your own link, it was literally the entire second paragraph.:

Boys have a larger variance in their scores than girls, so if you are trying to form a team of the very best of math(s) students it will most likely have a majority of boys if not be exclusively boys. And it is not a matter of only boys taking higher studies in math, as the third sentance explicitly calls out that girls are taking higher math courses as well. So no, there is no gender driven discrimination going on here, It is just a reflection of the team members performance. That you simply don't like it or feel threatened by it is irrelevant.

The Wikipedia entry also provides a link to studies which explain why high performing math teams tend to have more males than females. Linky.
The long and short of it is that while both boys and girls have similar average scores, the boys have a higher variance than the girls. Meaning they have more very high scoring members of the population and also very low scorers. The girls scores were more clustered around the mean.
So if there was a team made up of the highest scoring math students there is a much higher chance it will be mostly boys. No penis driven oppression, no grand conspiracy, the teams are drawn from the best in the population. Though, if it makes people feel better they could form a team of the absolute worst math students and it would be mostly boys as well.

Tell us, how close are you to the hiring process? I ask because I applied to a company for an IT security analyst position a few months back, and I spent 45 minutes talking to some HR person about my skills in MS office before they would even let me schedule a talk with a hiring manager. Including asking if I would consider myself an expert in MS Word! So if you are getting tired of seeing "Microsoft office" as a skill on developers resume I would recommend you get HR out of the god damn way and start looking at resumes yourself. Don't blame people for gaming the system HR set up to filter resumes for you.

Exactly my point: real off-roaders build for practicality, posers build for looks.

Ironically, most of the off-road enthusiasts I know preferred older vehicles because of that reason. A new vehicle getting rolled is a tragedy, while some old truck/jeep rolling is no big deal. And roll overs are a way of life in off-roading (hence why they have roll bars). So it doesn't make much sense to buy a brand new shiny jeep if it might get rolled on it's first outing, it is a better idea to buy an old beat up jeep and build from there.

Yup, pretty much.

Conspicuous consumption mostly, with a hint of posering. They see that ranchers and cowboys are seen as manly, and want to be seen as manly too. So they buy a truck, which is what cowboys and ranchers drive. And of course only the latest and most bad ass will do, so it gets the full treatment: Lift kit, over-sized tires, brushguard, fog lamps, the whole works. Of course they will never use even a quarter of the features they bought, but that doesn't matter cause it is all about appearances.

Sorry, but until you apologize for your statement that I can't really have a dialog with a homophobe.

I fail to see how someone's sexual orientation has any effect on their ability to perform in the scientific fields Narcc. You sound like a homophobic bigot when you say stuff like that.

Yeah, it is weird how HR types have such a hard on for Office skills. I applied to a job a few weeks back for a security analyst position, they emailed back to set up a phone interview.
Get to the phone call and the person on the other end is asking about my familiarity with everything in Office. Every part of office, by name and asking if I am an expert in it.
Them:"What is your skill level with MS Word?"
Me:"I am familiar with it"
Them: "Would you say you are an expert with it?"
Me:"Yeah sure"
Mean while I am wondering if I am interviewing for a secretary position or something. But nope, that was the initial interview for a security analyst position: how much do I love Office. Seriously, if someone has a career in IT can we just assume they might have run into an office suite or two in their time and move on?

So google search results are considered proof now?
Oh my this sounds fun.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=obama+is+...
Hmm, seems that Obama is a muslim, who knew?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glenn+bec...
and Glenn beck killed a puppy, that rat bastard.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=illuminat...
And now I confirmed the illuminati are real, ye gods the truth is blinding!
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=I+am+a+se...
Damn straight.

Interesting idea, argue it in court because that is where you will end up. Again, consider you are still plotting a premeditated attack on an open forum. Slashdot may not have the readership it once did, but it is still the internet. Also cmdrtaco may have resisted a subpoena for poster information, but do you think the DHI group will?

Let's say you scenario plays out perfectly, you manage to attack a gun owner unprovoked in broad daylight and miraculously end up not getting shot. What then? What will you do when the police arrest you and you are staring down a trial and conviction for assault and battery? More over, what defense will you offer up when the prosecutor cites the post you and that other chucklehead made as evidence of premeditation, bumping your charges up to aggravated assault?

Face it, you and your ilk or no different than a bunch of homophobes talking on Facebook about how you're gonna go gay-bashing later. Just because you don't like something does not give you the right to attack others for it. Grow the fuck up, people will do things you don't approve of but no one made you judge, jury, and executioner of what is right or wrong.