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Comment New Prudishness? No...it's decency. (Score 1) 432

Listen....Facebook isn't just adults. Hasn't been for a long time now. You can't act like it is any more. I've seen kids as young as 9 with Facebook accounts (yes in violation of blah blah blah...).

The one strange thing I find with Facebook is the people who INSIST on swearing, posting risque pics and more. They act like everyone who might ever friend them would like what they post. Fortunately my friends don't do this often. The real problem is on product pages. I see swearing, threats of volence and other issues on product pages like Chevy's! A product page is not your personal graffiti board! Not everyone wants to see that stuff and I SURE as heck don't want my son to see it.

I put it this way.....would you paste a pic of your naked wife on your front door? When you do that on Facebook....depending on your settings....THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

Facebook=public.....if you go that route when you post stuff....even if just to your friend list....then you probably won't have any issues.

Comment Re:Bill, Are You That Much Out of Touch? (Score 1) 575

Was going to say....we've had REGULAR mobile users groups at the college I work at and TONS of people using them in the office and in the classroom. Our pastors at church started using the iPad for sermon notes and it's been a boon to many kids. Bill's just pissed that his Tablet PC and now the Surface may fail.

Comment Re:I don't do business with lowlife scum (Score 1) 687

You need to do some further study on Paul. I know what you get when you take everything literally, but you have to look at the historical context as well. I don't think Paul was a misogynist. Engage some brain cells on this and study the Bible as a whole as well. I know you probably won't do it because it's popular to bash Christians because of the idiots in our faith(WBC and Pat Robertson)

http://www.preachitteachit.org/articles-blogs/ask-roger/post/archive/2012/february/article/did-paul-hate-women/

Comment Re:I don't do business with lowlife scum (Score 1) 687

You said: "There is a deep current of misogyny that runs throughout the nerd world"

To that I say you sir are wrong.

I work in a very diverse IT department. There's at least 3 women within earshot of my cube and the leader of my IT department is a woman. I also work for a women directly. Even outside of my department and in my geek circles I do not see this misogyny you speak of. Maybe this is gamer culture your talking about? Not sure but in the FLOSS world and in general IT world women have a great deal of respect NOT just because they are nice looking but because they are talented.

With that said, there ARE less women in the IT world. I know plenty of women where it's just not an interest. Trying to get them interested in it is a difficult proposition and it's NOT because of the men that are in the field. It's just because they aren't into it.

Comment Re:sexism (Score 1) 687

I wouldn't have said the last thing....but I somewhat agree.

SO here's her conundrum: Boycott companies that use nice looking females in various forms of dress ( Apple uses nice looking females too I noticed) or stop complaining. The problem with boycotting is you wouldn't be able to buy much from food to computers.

Also, when it comes to booth babes, they CHOOSE to do this. I know many that you'd NEVER be able to talk out of doing the booth babe job and that's the problem. For every single booth babe job there are willing individuals to step into that position. Some love it and don't complain about it.

Comment Re:I don't do business with lowlife scum (Score 1) 687

Some COULD be in our business but most won't and I don't think it is because of stuff like this. Many could care less about the fantastic device they are holding and are just there for the money so they can buy anything they want.

Then there are women who enjoy the attention you get as a booth babe and enjoy their job even with the issues. They have EVERY right to do that. So long as no one is being jerk about it, then I don't see the issue.

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