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Comment Re:Google is not unique (Score 1) 222

The difference is, the corporate labs had lots of smart people and a funding parent company that were interested in the field they were researching. Bell was interested in solid state dohickeys to help them make a better telephone system.

Google is a web advertising company. With enough motivation and money they could hire alternative energy engineers and set up a productive lab and potentially make some breakthroughs, but not in a few years. And since it's Google, who can't even muster up the motivation to keep a web advertising project going more than a few years, they quit.

Comment Re:Oh god, no. (Score 1) 163

Almost by definition, some of those scientists and technology exports would be industry scientists and technology experts, though some wouldn’t be. There’s your range of viewpoints. What I’m arguing is that the range of viewpoints on a science and technology committee need not include the anti-vaxxers, people who don’t believe in evolution, and people who truly think that computers work because of magic smoke. It should mostly or entirely consist of people with some science or technology background in the real world, because those folks are going to have the actual experience needed to understand how their decisions will affect things in practice.

Comment Re:TFA is a crappy piece of socialist propaganda (Score 1) 496

"Women are not paid less if they are doing the same jobs and spending the same time doing them as men do, "
demonstrably false.
I assume the rest of your post is based on that false data and did infect my mind with your stupidity be reading it.

Let be guess:
You incorrectly call it socialist. You assume gathering data that show something you don't like is 'whats wrong with America' and you make ad hom attacks against the article and author

Did I get that about right?
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Comment Re:Bullshit Stats. (Score 4, Insightful) 496

So people who are artists and nurses are stupid?

You are a moron,and I hope you have a lot of daughters so you can watch and try to fight a variety of entrenched attitudes and systems that push them away from what they want to do.
I have a daughter who like science and want's to be a game designer. I see how she has it stacked against her compared to my son.

Society pushes those biases onto the kids, not just parents.

Comment Re:I bet Amazon would love to hire more women. (Score 4, Insightful) 496

" One was competent (but a manly lumber dyke), the rest were air thieves."
So you add a worthless antidote, use negative slang to describe them, and imply the more manly one is the better they are?

Nice way to stack up the microaggression right into misogyny AND homophobia.

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