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Comment Re:Bring it on ladies... (Score 0) 244

You are an old white male. You speak into the wind as your opinion to them means nothing. As an ally they will eventually eat you alive when you are the only ones left standing.

It's no longer about justice or equality. SJWs are never satisfied. Ever. Their victim narrative will forever consume them as they topple each person higher then them on the oppression pyramid.

Comment Radio Shack TRS-80 (Score 1) 857

My Dad's TRS-80 Model III was the first I can recall using. I was about 3, and I like to press the clicky red reset button on it. I think he didn't enjoy that, as he was probably working on something at the time. A kid can be worse than a cat when it comes to computer interference.
The first I owned, as a gift, was a Color Computer II, with the game cartridges like Doubleback, and Megamunchers. Didn't do much computing on it. Then we got a Commodore 64 and Vic 20 parts. Never got the Vic 20 going, but we had fun with the Commodore 64. The school, where my Dad was a teacher had his Model III, and a Model IV, and a bunch of Apple ][, and ][e computers. Soon there was an 8088 as well.

Comment Re:Enough with Diversity (Score 1) 265

The women-in-STEM supporters are really happy to hear about women being in STEM, but they can't do a damn thing about all the assholes.

Yes. So am I, but you know how to get rid of the assholes?
Dismantle their arguments.

They can't bitch about quotas when there are none. When will we take away the training wheels and treat women and men the same regarding merit? Yeah, the STEM field is full of arrogant assholes, but that never stopped real pioneers and innovators. The STEM professions are not for the faint of heart and trying to cultivate a special space for women does a disservice to capable women everywhere. Talk to Sallie Ride about the shit she had to deal with during her astronaut training. They kept puttin' front and center misogyny right in her face and she kept going. It wasn't easy, but it proved point and her experience puts current workplace microagressions and diversity issues in their place.

It's a self fulfilling prophesy. "Oh well, I don't want to go into a STEM field because the men will just be assholes." Meanwhile, "Women don't want to be in STEM field, because they don't choose those fields thus they aren't interested". Break the cycle! There's more women than men attending universities in the US. They can be going for STEM fields and make women in those fields commonplace. When more women are available in the technical labor force and as company founders the less arguments can be made. The labor pool diversity takes care of itself, since it'll be real obvious in a hurry that all the unemployed STEM workers all of a sudden happen to be women.

I work with some very intelligent women who code and project manage circles around me. Some were hired before quotas and some were hired afterwards. The ones after and their co workers always have that niggling doubt of being hired for 'diversity' reasons. It's time to take off the crutches and remove the hypersensitivity. In another two decades it's going to be the Gen X crowd at the helm and we can do away with this bullshit.

 

Comment Re:Enough with Diversity (Score 1) 265

BS of the highest order.

The more probable scenario.

"What's that, little girl full of hopes and dreams? Line right up and get a degree in a STEM field! We need women in engineering of all disciplines, and game development! We need scientists! We have scholarships and funding for women willing to enter STEM fields! If you're having problems you can meet at the Campus Women's STEM group and mentor program! We also have paid internships for diversity candidates and you qualify!"

"No. I'm not interested in Computer Science or Game Development. Maybe become a Biologist, but I want to be a Nurse or a Veterinarian. Maybe a Fashion Designer or a Singer! Or maybe get an art or psychology degree."

"Please! Enter a STEM field!! We need a diverse field, since there aren't so many women in it right now and women can do anything!"

"Nnnnnno!"

Comment This isn't a victory for Behring-Breivik. (Score 3, Insightful) 491

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

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