Not all homosexuals have buttsex, although the logic there escapes me completely. I'm pretty sure that if I were gay, I'd still want to fuck. In any case, the ancient greeks didn't believe (overall) that women and men could have equitable relationships of any kind, so women mostly hung out with women and men with men. They wrote a lot more about male-male sex than female-female because it was mostly men doing the writing, and they were extremely self-centered, but apparently there was a lot of female homo sex going on too.

I think they should return the Olympics to its original condition, though permitting females to participate. That would really liven things up...

I can't speak for anyone else, but my fantasy women were all invented by Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, or Piers Anthony. I'll readily admit that's still quite sophomoric, but at least it's beyond infantile.

I also can't speak for anyone else, but part of the attraction to computing for me was that it is a solitary activity. Not necessarily because I want to be solitary, but because I don't have as many social skills as many other people. My mother was depressive and my father was depressive and absentee, so they had nothing valuable or positive to teach me. I was moved away from my peer group right at the end of elementary school and never recovered socially. So that supports your theory, if not your vitriol.

Intent is always relevant.

Yeah, and those people were the tools, since today supercomputers are built out of PCs — but even then it was a true computing revolution, and PCs were used to solve serious problems. I always think about Autocad when this comes up. That kind of software used to have to run on a workstation.

Also Weird Science, and Wargames. But it's a short list.

Minecraft has more female players than many games, but it still has vastly more male players than female. As for the Java side, or either side for that matter, have you seen the way Minecraft players behave? Playing on public servers is often nauseating. Kids are naming their sword stuff like "FUCK HER RIGHT IN THE PUSSY" and then definitely primarily targeting females when they PvP, or naming sticks "dildo", throwing them at girls, and telling them they're ugly. And these are just children. Imagine what the weed-dicks responsible for the death threats around gamergate are like to women. It would be surprising if the ratio of female programmers involved with modding minecraft weren't lower than the average ratio of females involved in programming.

Sorry, here comes some more. I think more women are interested in parenting than men. One of my favorite examples is a picture someone posted to the internets of how their daughter handled her toy cars. She drove them around "like a boy would", with screeching tires and so on. Then when she was done she put them to bed in a crib, lying on their backs, and covered them with a blanket. And today, the teacher has to spend more time parenting, because less is going on at home.

Interestingly, we all descend from just one woman, but not from just one man.

Uh what? That's illegal. It's both trespassing and creating a public nuisance. And if you do normal things that people do when they live, then it's a lot of other things besides, some of which are actually legal at home but not under a bridge.

Amen. And I don't even use the term SJW. But it's the truth that men aren't really encouraged to go into computer programming, either. Society sees programmers as nerds and dorks, and the only way it cares about them is if they are also successful businessmen. Men are simply more likely to get sufficiently involved in programming to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous assholes.

I don't think there's any question that some women suffer in the workplace due to the actions of some men, though. Whether women overall should earn the same money per career for less days worked per career is another argument, and one I don't care to have. Still, misogyny would be unlikely not to be part of the reason why women don't want go into tech. They know it's a men's world, and they know what it's like working in those environments. Cause, effect, vicious circle, still true.

while that's true, at least half the time they're swapping. Put in enough RAM and disable swap and they speed right up, too. Maybe not as much as SSD, but more RAM benefits you whether you have SSD or not.

It isn't. Most of those updates only require a reboot because of laziness, not because open files can't be replaced.

I think you've really nailed it here. Wood is a poor choice for something like this, because a boat only has to be aggressively sealed in certain places, but this is exposed to water everywhere. The best choice I can think of is probably polycarbonate, which has the added advantage of additional resistance to sharkbite. Plus, you know, it's transparent. That would be seriously cool. You can sand and buff out the inevitable scratches. Barring that, I'd use sheet Aluminum. Heck, I probably have enough for the job right here, since it doesn't need to be any heavier-weight than necessary to prevent deformation.

Now, if only I had some bending equipment, I could get some heavier sheet than what I've got (.025 6160, IIRC) and make some ribs. I suppose I'd also want a recumbent Aluminum bicycle to start with.

Frankly though, I would just use a prop. Which would not be nearly as cool. So this is still cool :)

Wow. I mean, seriously, wow. Because they're only allowed 40 stamps at a time, they can't possibly have more than that? You do realize they're not allowed cellphones or drugs at all, and they still wind up getting their hands on those? Logic, it's not just for a tiny part of your comment any more.

I don't know if they should spend billions, but they should really institute some logic to detect and correct routing loops. Right now these are detected by humans. If there's one ZIP on the address and another zip in the metadata (due to data entry failure, or misaddressing by the sender) then you'll get a routing loop until a human notices. That's pathetic given that every package is scanned when is passes through a sort facility, and they really ought to know where it's going.

I read it, and it doesn't say what you want it to say. It says that "Various lab tests all came back within normal ranges" but it doesn't say what those lab tests were, or if they were in fact the ones that you'd want to perform. Clearly they weren't. If you have a point then make it, don't just pound on the table harder.