Abbreviates "NS"....
And the moron-fraction makes its expected appearance....
Yes. But if will be them getting shot at, and, you know, that have training and equipment you do _not_ have.
They were lucky...
The single, most stupid fantasy used to promote guns. First, it is unlikely to happen, ever. Second, if it does you run and call the police.
"Futurist" is the same as "clueless moron". I had hoped for Stephenson to not have lost his sanity or his insights, but apparently it is too late.
And they can even, gasp!, used in hyperlinks!
These people are as greedy as they are stupid.
You seem to have trouble understanding statistics or reading plain text. All the information you are missing was actually there.
Indeed. Being female is not a valid excuse for laziness.
Indeed. Being a victim is _convenient_. You do not have to change anything on your side. (Well, you should if you want to get your agency back, but that is not the public perception...) It however has extreme drawbacks, such as far less control over your life. No smart person goes that way.
These feminists are stupid. There are physical differences in men and women and they are quite enough to explain the gender disparity. While CS, on the surface, seems to be a purely mental activity, the larger situation matters. One thing is that CS is _hard_. Quite a few women these days still sell their reproductive capabilities in exchange for a meal-ticket or at least go for a less demanding education because they know that have this fall-back option. Yes, it is not politically correct to say so, but it _is_ happening. That is a pure physical (not mental) factor right there that reduces the number of women in any thing that is hard to learn. Sure, men and women are on average probably equally lazy, but men do not have this convenient and traditional way out of that quandary and hence need to try harder and know that.
As I said, these feminists are stupid. Ignoring relevant facts leads to faulty conclusions.
As to "women need to be taught CS differently", just no. That is patently false. I know quite a few women in CS and none of them found that they were somehow taught "wrong". Sure if was hard work for all of them to learn, but that is just as true for the men. Sure, getting women _interested_ in CS may have to be done different in order to overcome cultural factors, but once they are, there is no need for a different style.
No. Most people cannot be taught that skill. Not at all. Just as most people cannot be taught to use Math beyond very simple things. And yes, I have experience in that area. These "useful" apps create far more problems than they solve. In fact, your attitude is the root cause for the ongoing software crisis: Too many wannabes doing things that critically require competent engineers. It is really no surprise that most software is f*cked up these days.
Right on the mark. We do not have to few people in CS. We have far too many, and hence too many mediocre ones and they create most of the problems.
"Protozoa are small, and bacteria are small, but viruses are smaller than the both put together."