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Comment Re:One question (Score 3, Informative) 453

What women want is as varied as what men want, and the vast majority of us born after 1965 have no interest in a guy's money. Just like men, what hat we look for financially speaking varies all over the place depending on our own abilities & future plans. We're not in an era where women plan to stay home for the rest of their lives tending kids anymore, you know...

There are no "types" of feminism that are about "trashing men" -- and secure, non-sexist modern guys have no problem dating feminists. There's certainly countless guys & feminist women like that in my area, and contrary to whatever weird stereotypes you're going on, most feminist women get particularly attractive & successful guys. Funny thing, all of the anti-feminist, sexist guys I've known were also the "desperate" sorts that considered themselves the "nice guy" because they were passive-aggressive but not overtly abusive, and victimized because women supposedly "all" women want handsome rich buff dudes.

As far as divorce, that's statistically much harder on whichever spouse makes far less money, which is almost always the woman. It's extremely rare for someone to pay more in alimony than they keep for themselves, and child support rarely covers the actual expenses of raising the child -- that's assuming that alimony/child support are paid, of course, when in a significant percentage of cases they aren't. The one thing that is far worse for women when it comes to divorce is that they're far more likely than guys are to be attacked or killed by their soon-to-be-ex as a result. (Happened a year or so to a woman in my town, in fact; an elementary school teacher was shot to death by her husband while walking back to her car after seeing the lawyer.)

To be blunt, the people with an ax to grind are the ones that speak up, and tend to hang out with others that share their views -- folks without a grudge feel no need to mention it. The resentful crowd interprets everyone else's silence as meaning they have no experience, rather than that the person had a positive or neutral one. My father, ex-stepfather, Dad's GF's ex-husband, my paternal & maternal grandfathers, and my maternal uncle don't have a horror story about their divorces, which is how I know that it leads to them seeing no reason to bring the divorce up or hang with guys likely to rant on the topic.

Comment Re:lube (Score 2) 453

A couple more for fun:

...all I saw in the stores were lubricants that were flavored with cinnamon and paprika, or designed to somehow "heat" your private parts. No way, Jose! (I experienced the "heat" thing personally once after an adventurous incident with a toaster. I'll stick with "room temperature" from now on, thank you very much.)

I know what you're thinking, "Dave maybe you should ease up on the porn, the kids haven't seen you in weeks." "My god, the cats all white and sticky" To that I say: shut up and mind your own business, if I want to spend my free time drinking jack and wackin' it to some teen runaway making bad life decisions well that's my business. And I'm sorry about the cat but I ran out of tissues. Anyway I highly recommend this product, it's the perfect gift for Mothers Day.

Comment Re:Perhaps its a good thing. (Score 1) 377

You're mixing up people playing those games with stereotypes about regular gamers. The casual crowd drawn to Zynga's fare plays it primarily in spare moments while standing in line, during brief mental downtime, for a few minutes before bed, and so forth -- they're still living full lives, holding jobs and/or attending school, and having kids if they're remotely interested in being a parent. Games aren't a reason that a person fails (or decides not to) reproduce or have a loving relationship; personal & economic issues are the cause for those decisions.

Comment Re:My anger; thier vulnerability (Score 2) 377

Actually, spectrum folk aren't lacking in empathy -- it's more of a "Mars vs. Venus" situation between us and non-autistics, with most members of each side communicating & reacting just differently enough that they can seem oblivious from the others' perspective. If you're interested in the high-quality scientific research backing that claim, the Autism & Empathy site has plenty of it, as well as anecdotal essays by neurotypical allies (friends, parents, siblings, partners, etc.) and autistics all over the spectrum.

Comment Re:Whoa! All of a sudden... (Score 1) 377

My understanding from relatives is that the games are primarily played in short bursts when visibly socializing isn't an option and the person wants a little mental downtime, so it'd have little-to-no bearing on what kind of social life the person has. I faintly recall some kids in my younger brother's crowd being like that with the tamagotchi toys they were into back in the 90s, and becoming emotionally attached to one or more objects (real or virtual) one collects or focuses on during downtime is hardly a new concept for humanity.

Comment Re:Ya no kidding (Score 1) 243

broadcasting false mouse events as my hands pass over the touchpad.

Don't recent versions of Windows have a way to filter those out? In Linux, I believe the built-in standard for at least the past few years is to ignore the touchpad while the keyboard is in use plus a user-customizable number of seconds afterward... If Windows doesn't come with that ability yet, perhaps there's a third-party program that can handle it.

Comment Re:Now only if... (Score 1) 135

General purpose forums have proven impossible to moderate with all have access- Usenet was the first example of that.

What? The vast majority of users didn't need or want mods, which is why they were always add-ons and never the main newsgroup... When the rest of us didn't feel like wasting time on the relatively rare trolls would just tell their newsreader to ignore the latest one and any replies to him/her. It was a great hangout into the early 00s, when spammers deluged it in so much crap that our newsreaders' filters couldn't keep up, ISP-wide blocklists interfered with users' posts being seen around the world, and NNTP servers started dropping posts all over the place.

Comment No -- he got the guy's name from WHOIS (Score 5, Informative) 184

The only thing that Barr did correctly was look up WHOIS info on the People's Liberation Front's website after an Anonymous guy claimed to be "Supreme Commander" of the PLF... When Barr confronted him, the guy claimed it was a joke, so Barr pointed to an innocent man instead. (Ars Tech article on the 'correct' Commander X.) Otherwise, Barr's tactics -- including analyzing what the people wrote -- gave him completely wrong answers.

Comment Re:Kudos (Score 1) 1061

"Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech" means the government doesn't interfere with what we say -- not that other citizens lose their right to express how they feel about what we say or do. That's one of the "burdens" of freedom: we have to face the consequences of our choices, including in terms of how others treat us as a result of them.

Comment Re:New features (Score 1) 235

It switched to being for folks that like technology, instead of for "geeks" -- people that never lost the childhood drive to explore, dream up creative things to do with, and generally learn about electronics & the world around them. That's my impression as someone that's been here since 97-98, at least...

Comment Re:Modern Luddites (Score 1) 544

No: going without food causes starvation, lacking shelter when it's too hot/cold causes hyper/hypothermia; while folks 13-40 live longer, those conditions are all eventually fatal. In addition to that, having no reliably clean water & sewage system (they require shelter) or vaccines causes often-fatal diseases to spread -- and having no medical care would mean a high moratlity rate of that women/infants during labor, people with a common disorder like asthma or appendicitis, that are seriously injured, or develop a disease their immune systems are too old/young/weakened to handle.

Maybe you wouldn't mind suffering to death one way or another (or believe you'll be suicidal as soon as you're no longer a healthy adult in your prime)... As one of the people that would've wound up dead in infancy, childhood, or as an adult in my "prime" from those problems, I'd rather keep exploring the wacky state of existence we call "life."

Comment Re:valuable content (Score 1) 55

IME, they're linked to primarily by bloggers that openly love infographics and sometimes as a modern form of clipart. I follow quite a few blogs of various kinds, and the periodic infographics I see are usually posted on their own more as a factoid-of-the-day because they look cool, and virtually never convey information better than a sentence or two could.

Comment Get on the waitlist for a CFFA (Score 1) 338

There's a well-established project called CFFA that lets Apple II+, IIe, IIe enhanced, and IIgs computers use a CF card as if it were a floppy, though the current run is sold out... From what I've heard, it's definitely worth buying for someone that can afford the $150 and uses the system even periodically, since CFFA lets them back up all of their floppy disks before they fail.

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