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Comment Re:Citation Needed (Score 1) 247

I don't know about the scale of abuse increasing or not; that's been hard to find numbers on. Doing some resaerch, though, it seems TIME article (citing studies!) is appropriately named: There's No Comparing Male and Female Harassment Online Interesting stuff I hadn't considered:

women’s harassment is more likely to be gender-based (...) (T)he harassment targeted at men is not because they are men, as is clearly more frequently the case with women. (...) a lot of harassment is an effort to put women, because they are women, back in their “place.”

I won't get into the end part there, not touching that with a ten foot pole. BUT - it's true; very few men are harassed just for being men. Relevant XCKD, perhaps?

Comment Re:You can call for gang rape of Sarah Palin thoug (Score 1) 247

First off, to be clear, I don't think Azealia Banks should get off that one for free. That said? We're talking about it, so she didn't exactly get off without anyone caring, now did she?

racism, bigotry, and sexism against white men don't exist.

Plenty of people are racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted against white men. The difference here is about *systemic* racism and sexism. To compare:

  • Some people being racist against white folks? Shitty, individual racism.
  • A study where identical job applications are sent out, with names like "Johnathan" and "Tyrone." Johnathan gets more callbacks by far. Shittier - systemic racism.
  • A study where identical applications to be professor's assistants were sent out to hundreds of professors, with names like "Robert" and "Samantha." Robert gets far more callbacks. Shittier - *systemic* sexism.

Now, here's the thing - that third one, with the professors? Even women professors judged against the applications based on gender. Very few people in the various "let's get rid of sexism" movements either "hate men" or blame men for everything. That's just not how it is, in reality. Yeah, there are other voices that are louder saying things on the extreme end. Sort of like how most Christians aren't Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. The US has 247 million Christians. Westboro Baptist Church? 40. Does Westboro Baptist get 1 / 6,175,000th the media coverage? Nope - because people like to amplify and repeat the things that the worst / most extreme people say. And that happens regardless of political affiliation. (Come on - how many Trump supporters are *actually* neo-nazis?)

Comment Re:+ tax (Score 1) 418

Yes, that is absolutely correct, which is why I also said eligible. This provision says they want people who do more than 100 transactions or more than $5,000 - the $5,000 limit doesn't quite seem appropriate but I would guess that most people who do >=100 transactions a year are probably doing it for profit. I do wonder if we would see a "cost basis" field when making an auction to track profit.

Comment Re:Linux sNOBs (Score 1) 1347

Which means not automatically giving the command line answer to obvious newbies when a perfectly good GUI tool solution exists for their disto.

Automatically, no. However, avoiding the command-line in favor of a GUI tool is not always an advisable, or even possible, alternative. An anecdotal example involves my recent conversion of my sister (rather tech-illiterate, and definitely not interested in learning the 'why' behind the 'how') to Kubuntu. One of the things I was pleasantly (and admittedly, unexpectedly) surprised at was how much simpler tech support was under linux. Whereas in Windows, it was always a lengthy process describing a series of mouseclicks and movements, under linux it simply involved "open konsole, copy+paste this". This, combined with the lack of bizarro spyware/adware/windows spazzing out events, has made things much easier.

Comment Dot Net Rocks featuring Miguel De Icaza (Score -1, Troll) 596

I think it's funny that this gets slashdot front page coverage, but when I submitted a story ~ 1 year ago about Miguel De Icaza's interview on Dot Net Rocks, it was rejected, even though it was right arounf the 1.0 release of MONO, and it may well have been his first 'radio' interview. http://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showID=76

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