If that was really the case then people who were given morphine drips in hospitals would have high rates of addiction after leaving the hospital. But this doesn't happen. People who get addicted to Opioids either are in constant, on-going pain (due to injury or other reason) or are purely recreational users who are likely responding to external stresses. Basically, the entire model of addiction you are using is wrong and the numbers on addiction bear this out quite clearly. And before you tell me about "soldier's sickness" after the Civil war, remember that most of those soldiers had on-going, serious pain management issues (due to missing limbs and poor quality surgery at the time). This is why our "war on drugs" has been such a monumental failure, our basic model of addiction is wrong and leads you to believe non-sense (like your post). Heroin is certainly addictive but addiction is a response to stress and pain, not a moral failing or a bio-chemical crutch. A better model is provided by the Rat Park research. Policy using this model as a basis will be much more effective if for no other reason than its a far more accurate model of how humans behave than the practically medieval way we deal with addiction right now.

Most security crews at nightclubs (I moonlight at one sometimes) must have at least 1 woman on them for dealing with problematical females. And generally the female bouncers are quite tough (but not always). Still wouldn't expect the same number of women in those jobs as generally males cause more problems depending on the crowd and thus more male bouncers. Police forces (where many bouncers come from) and other security fields are primarily male so this all works out.

Tell that to my bank account, and my email account that receives at least unsolicited one job offer each day (which generally have a higher salary than a doc or CPA or a lawyer outside of a few select firms plus things they don't generally get like bonuses and options). All that and I can look at myself in the mirror each day (making lots of $$ is law generally requires you giving this up unless you are really lucky or good or both).

Actually, dumb policies like this help me as it will ultimately reduce the number of qualified programmers in the world. Please keep up your mis-information campaign. My banker and descendants thanks you...

Dude, reread his original post. And substitute the word 'learn' for the words 'be told'. Then it will make sense to you. He was a rude asshole, but you are still being either intentional dense or the idiot he says you are.

Funny you should mention that. At Berkeley High (in CA), they had only a girls computer club despite the fact that dozens of boys wanted a computer club. There were no girls who signed up for computer club but they still wouldn't have a boys computer club (or a students computer club which is what it should be). So rather than teaching those that are interested, they denied everyone rather than have an out of balance club. Sad considering Berkeley High used to be an excellent high school. Its now behind the high school I attended in rural Kentucky that has less than 1/20th the budget.

Great strawman, but your strawman happens to actually be a nuclear powered, armor plated tank...with sharks and laser beams!!! Turns out way back in the 60's, when they started to think about what problems computers could one day solve, they listed many: beat world champion at chess, drive cars, etc...one of them was medical diagnosis. It took decades longer than thought to solve the ones they have been able to solve with one exception: medical diagnosis. By the early 80s we had "expert systems" that were more accurate than human doctors at medical diagnosis (especially 24 hrs in to a 36 hr shift). The AMA and insurance companies have basically blocked this tech for decades despite overwhelming evidence that they were killing people by doing so. Today we have started to slowly role out this type of tech for things like drug interaction but not yet for medical diagnosis. Ironic huh?

Every year the city of Philadelphia along seizes $5.8m in civil forfeitures. Less than what robbers steal in that city. Right now, I'm more scared of being robbed by cops than by crooks. That's because cops are currently stealing more than the criminals on a dollar for dollar basis. Stuff like this...http://articles.philly.com/2014-08-14/news/52772884_1_forfeiture-program-drug-trafficking-property

Can you see why we don't trust them? Now tell me why again I should expose my personal information to them, (and ID thieves) to make their job easier? Maybe I'm not certain who I'm more scared of? And maybe I'm not sure them doing their job making my life better or safer. Maybe I think they are worse than the criminals. And it doesn't seem to matter what level of government we are talking about, local, state, or federal. Might be time to start over again with LE, and this time not exclude people with an IQ higher than 102.

It's widely believed that Henry Ford also upped wages to expand his market — paying employees enough to buy the cars they made. While that wasn't Ford's main motivation, it was a welcome byproduct, and a game changer, says University of California, Berkeley, labor economist Harley Shaiken.

I think IBM was initially known for this. It spread to most other major technical companies during the era when IBM was dominate. Sadly this seems to have stopped in many places now. Many software firms do still do this but not nearly as should.

Um, for what purpose? After you use it as an "ETL" tool, the idea is that afterwards you can query it, analyze it, etc. Traditionally you used an ETL tool to get data into a database then used tools that spoke SQL to analyze the data. With Hadoop, you have to write all your ETL tools yourself. So using Hadoop as an ETL tool is really a bridge to nowhere.

I'm not sure you know what entropy is based upon that comment.

They already do that, but instead of AI, but they call it corporate policy. I somehow doubt AI can be significantly more harmful than corporate executives making a one size fits all solution for corporate behavior.

I'm not 100% sure but I think xlib. xcb is mostly dead these days, or so I get that impression. I really wish xcb had more traction but only a few apps need this type of multi-threaded GUI functionality (my app being one of those few) so it seems to get left behind.

Couldn't agree more. I spent 3 years writing an OpenGL app using GTK+. I just spent the last 6 months porting it to QT. And even with having to using C++ in places in the code (I wanted it to be pure C) I couldn't be happier with QT. And I probably couldn't be less happy with GTK+. When I finally got the GTK+ version working on windows, it had terrible performance. GTK+ is a total mess developed by people with no desire for you to use their code. For years the GTK+ devs actively questioned the usefulness of supporting OpenGL and refused to even answer questions about the OpenGL support. The devs are openly hostile to things like OpenGL and they break compatibility on a regular basis. The QT version of my app's code has probably 30000 fewer lines due to far more sane APIs and much more useful widget APIs. Why anyone in this day would use GTK+ for anything unless they were required to use only pure C in their app is beyond me.

This is something I've always seen girls do to girls more than boys to girls. The obvious counterpoint to this is internet trolls, but IRLI rarely see a man do this one. I've seen both sexes mention promiscuity but usually in relation to disease and protection. Males who actually have sex regularly with different partners usually discourage other males from pushing this double standard (for obvious reasons). When I see men do this, its usually a defense mechanism to protect a wounded ego due to being rejected by a female (not that that makes it OK). Which brings me to my favorite quote, "promiscuous is someone who has more sex than you".

This specific double standard has an obvious biological cause but due to modern medical tech has been largely been rendered moot. So society is trying to adjust but its obviously a slow process. Male/female relations are complex and trying to boil any of this stuff down to a simple experiment is going to be really difficult or plain unethical. Some of these questions have caused debate for 1000s of years and will likely cause disagreements for centuries to come. Munches popcorn...please continue...