"...this research will allow hot sauce companies to scientifically claim to use the hottest known peppers."
...Which will have nothing at all to do with how the sauces actually taste, but will appeal to the machismo of those consumers who pride themselves on their insensitive palates. Maybe they'll be stocked in the same aisle with the super-long hot dogs, Mach-5 razors and Rogaine.
If one exceptional student can pass the class just by reading the notes and the textbook, it's not a mark against the instructor, it just means that it's a good textbook and the other student was good at taking notes.
"6. The research I can find on "female advantage" is completly comprised of two things: that we survive skin cancer more often and perform better on timed tests and tasks."
Your investigation didn't turn up Affirmative Action?
"7. Research indicates affirmative action bans don't affect the typical college student at the typical school but dramatically reduce minority enrollment at prestigious schools. Research indicates female applicants are knocked for being a parent while men are rewarded for it."
Ah, so you did hear about Affirmative Action, and your evidence is that it works against "non-minority" applicants (which I take to mean white males). Your evidence supports my point. Did you not bother to follow the links yourself? Or did you just lose track of who was saying what? As for males being knocked for being childless while females are rewarded for it, I suppose that's interesting but pretty narrow-- I wouldn't want to be accused of cherry-picking.
"11. Go ahead, Beta, troll ME for the following, I dare you:..."
What followed was a little hard to parse (apart from all of the childish name-calling). But one phrase in a grammatically incomplete sentence caught my eye:
"...speaking in stale cliche (cliche is MADE of truth, cliche is OVERWHELMINGLY COMMON truth)."
I'm not certain, but I think this is a reference to my statement to Claire Ryan: "your fourth [paragraph] is a stale cliche." The paragraph in question was:
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, mate.
You seem to be defending this (or maybe defending cliches in general, I can't tell). Consider this: "UFOs are real and the government is engaged in a massive cover-up. Denial ain't just a river." See? It doesn't really add anything, except to show that the author couldn't think of anything less vapid (or worse, that the author imagines getting the applause of a studio audience of uncritical dimwits).
Did it occur to you that I could do the same as you? Don't you think I could do a Google search and paste dozens of links into the discussion without thinking, without even considering whether my "evidence" had any bearing on my opponents point? I didn't do that because [drum roll] it would have been a stupid waste of everyone's time. I have higher respect for my own opinions, and I maintain a higher signal-to-noise ratio (among other standards).
Could you please not contribute to the stereotype that women are no good at math and logic? Your first paragraph is a straw man argument, your second is an irrelevant (and unsupported) assertion, your third is argument by stereotype that conspicuously fails to address my point, and your fourth is a stale cliche. You give the painful impression of someone equipped with a collection of old talking points and no ability (or willingness) to endanger them by considering the facts or entertaining a new idea.
Address my point and I'll discuss this topic (and your points) with you. Show me I'm wrong, and I'll concede. Otherwise I'm not going to bother with you any further.
Your message is dated 2012, so you'll have to do better than making assertions like "it absolutely does". A white male could assert that these days he is the one who is being systematically (and legally) discriminated against by race- and gender-biased hiring and university admission practices. His claim would have more weight than yours, unless you can put up some evidence (from this century).
Approach this discussion with at least some awareness of the advantages you get just for being female (and non-white?), and your argument will seem a lot more compelling.
I used to work in a technology workplace with a heavy-handed "diversity in hiring" policy that worked out to quotas (although we weren't supposed to use that word). Upper management wanted a diverse-looking workforce. The result was that our technical staff was mostly male and mostly competent (no correlation), and lower-level management was mostly tech-incompetent women who were good at self-promotion, politics and not much else. It was the kind of place that could make a man sexist, if he were a sloppy thinker.
I understand your point. If the problem with the list is that it consists almost entirely of white males, then the goal must be to create a list that is racially and sexually balanced. If, on the other hand, the list should be based on accomplishment or merit, then the problem with the list is not that it all white men, the problem is that it is silly and arbitrary.
In other words, to try to "fix" the list by balancing its demographics is to make it worthless.
Or an exception to copyright that would let consumers make their own subtitles and share them. Fansubs are usually better than what the distributors come up with anyway.
An exception to the ADA to allow people to create and publish art without being sued would be nice too.
1) That is not "some redesign", that is a radical change of business model that would be legally impossible without the cooperation of third parties, and in any case could easily change a viable, innovative business into a non-starter. Calling that "some redesign" is like calling aggressive chemotherapy "an adjustment of diet".
2) Ah, you want a free, open-source speech-to-text library for Java. Built and maintained by Somebody Else.
3) If the implementation is impossible or would break the business (as is often the case with ADA), having "a reasonable time to implement" isn't worth much.
1) What "redesign" could bring Netflix into compliance?
2) What "few new classes" must be built into Java?
3) What should all websites that could run foul of the ADA do unless/until those new classes are built into Java?
4) How will the ADA wreck the very worst abuses of data mining?
Walk me through this one, would you? I can't follow your logic at all. Are you saying that even though the ADA can wreck some online businesses we should tolerate it because the data mining business might be among them?
"[Failure to satisfy impatient investors] could well happen if those being sued sense that IV is under pressure, and decide as a result to opt for a long, hard -- and expensive -- fight in the courts to exploit that fact.
That cuts both ways. If IV must make a big profit soon or go under, then it has nothing to lose. If it sues me then maybe I should go to court, in the hopes that it will collapse before I lose too much money, but then again maybe I should settle, because I know that if I fight, IV can't break off the attack in the hopes of finding a weaker target tomorrow.
Why the hell don't these lawyers learn some basic crytography and accept responsibility for their own secure communications, instead of putting it on everyone else?
"The MOI said that the term “pirate” could mislead members of the public into voting for people they believed to be real, sea-based pirates. The country’s Criminal Code outlaws acts of piracy, the MOI added.
Are they really concerned that the party will advocate sea-faring piracy?"
Are they really concerned that the public would choose to vote for real pirates?
A registry that grants rights we already have gives the authorities an excuse to deny those rights to the people who don't use it AND the power to restrict those rights later even for those who do.
The procedure for registering something can become complicated and expensive without limit, but it will be kept reasonable for the mainstream users that the gatekeepers don't want to rouse; Go outside the mainstream and you'll find it almost impossible to comply; stay in the mainstream and the process will be pretty easy-- but darned if you don't have to submit a lot of personal information to the registry.
If first sale rights are frowned upon, exercising them will start to involve lots of paperwork, sent to some overworked and underfunded branch of the Copyright Office that will get around to processing it someday. If format-shifting is frowned upon, it will be available for any format on this list -- which hasn't been updated in years -- the format shifting itself to be done on one of these approved black boxes-- which come with their own limitations, costs, and legal entanglements.
If you don't believe me, just ask gun owners what happens once a registry is in place. Or heck, look at what happened to [EXAMPLE DELETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GODWIN'S LAW].
"It's not just the right of the person who speaks to be heard, it is the right of everyone in the audience to listen and to hear... Your own right to hear and be exposed is as much involved in [freedom of speech] as is the right of the other to voice his or her view."
Christopher Hitchens, 2006 debate on "Be It Resolved: Freedom of Speech Includes the Freedom to Hate."
The concern is that someone might learn of that same risk [for breast cancer] for $499 by spitting in a tube and hitting the "breast cancer result" button at 23andMe, a company that will test saliva samples for diseases as well as for DNA ancestry. No one should take an action, such as prophylactic surgery without confirming results from 23andMe, which reports on only the three most common mutations.
Wait... what? Where is this hypothetical DIY oncologist going to get surgery? Will she buy an iSurgeon for $799.95 and download Mastectomyv3.0, or just consult WebMD and do it herself, using robotic tools she made with a 3D printer?
If we're supposed to know what melanoma looks like, and to perform self-examinations for breast/testicular tumors, it makes no sense at all to forbid us to looking at our own genomes.
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"In education, you attend classes, take your own notes and read the book." [emphasis added]
Taking notes is an important skill, one which most university students learn, and one which this guy may have neglected.
But on the whole you're dead wrong.
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...Which will have nothing at all to do with how the sauces actually taste, but will appeal to the machismo of those consumers who pride themselves on their insensitive palates. Maybe they'll be stocked in the same aisle with the super-long hot dogs, Mach-5 razors and Rogaine.
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On the post: Bias In Tech & Media: Lists That Perpetuate The Stereotypes
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Merit
"6. The research I can find on "female advantage" is completly comprised of two things: that we survive skin cancer more often and perform better on timed tests and tasks."
Your investigation didn't turn up Affirmative Action?
"7. Research indicates affirmative action bans don't affect the typical college student at the typical school but dramatically reduce minority enrollment at prestigious schools. Research indicates female applicants are knocked for being a parent while men are rewarded for it."
Ah, so you did hear about Affirmative Action, and your evidence is that it works against "non-minority" applicants (which I take to mean white males). Your evidence supports my point. Did you not bother to follow the links yourself? Or did you just lose track of who was saying what? As for males being knocked for being childless while females are rewarded for it, I suppose that's interesting but pretty narrow-- I wouldn't want to be accused of cherry-picking.
"11. Go ahead, Beta, troll ME for the following, I dare you:..."
What followed was a little hard to parse (apart from all of the childish name-calling). But one phrase in a grammatically incomplete sentence caught my eye:
"...speaking in stale cliche (cliche is MADE of truth, cliche is OVERWHELMINGLY COMMON truth)."
I'm not certain, but I think this is a reference to my statement to Claire Ryan: "your fourth [paragraph] is a stale cliche." The paragraph in question was:
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, mate.
You seem to be defending this (or maybe defending cliches in general, I can't tell). Consider this: "UFOs are real and the government is engaged in a massive cover-up. Denial ain't just a river." See? It doesn't really add anything, except to show that the author couldn't think of anything less vapid (or worse, that the author imagines getting the applause of a studio audience of uncritical dimwits).
Did it occur to you that I could do the same as you? Don't you think I could do a Google search and paste dozens of links into the discussion without thinking, without even considering whether my "evidence" had any bearing on my opponents point? I didn't do that because [drum roll] it would have been a stupid waste of everyone's time. I have higher respect for my own opinions, and I maintain a higher signal-to-noise ratio (among other standards).
On the post: Bias In Tech & Media: Lists That Perpetuate The Stereotypes
Re: Re: Re: Merit
Address my point and I'll discuss this topic (and your points) with you. Show me I'm wrong, and I'll concede. Otherwise I'm not going to bother with you any further.
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Re: Merit
Approach this discussion with at least some awareness of the advantages you get just for being female (and non-white?), and your argument will seem a lot more compelling.
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On the post: Bias In Tech & Media: Lists That Perpetuate The Stereotypes
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In other words, to try to "fix" the list by balancing its demographics is to make it worthless.
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An exception to the ADA to allow people to create and publish art without being sued would be nice too.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Really tough one
2) Ah, you want a free, open-source speech-to-text library for Java. Built and maintained by Somebody Else.
3) If the implementation is impossible or would break the business (as is often the case with ADA), having "a reasonable time to implement" isn't worth much.
4) What?
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Re: Re: Re: Really tough one
2) What "few new classes" must be built into Java?
3) What should all websites that could run foul of the ADA do unless/until those new classes are built into Java?
4) How will the ADA wreck the very worst abuses of data mining?
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Re: Really tough one
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win or die
That cuts both ways. If IV must make a big profit soon or go under, then it has nothing to lose. If it sues me then maybe I should go to court, in the hopes that it will collapse before I lose too much money, but then again maybe I should settle, because I know that if I fight, IV can't break off the attack in the hopes of finding a weaker target tomorrow.
On the post: If You're Typosquatting Domain Names To Get Misaddressed Emails, Maybe Don't Target A 'Brand Protection' Law Firm
the arguments of lawyers and engineers
Hmm... I think I just answered my own question.
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the meaning of "we"
Wait... no you don't, Congressman.
On the post: Taiwan Denies Use Of 'Pirate Party' Name Because People Might Think They're Actual Sea-Faring Pirates
which is worse?
Are they really concerned that the party will advocate sea-faring piracy?"
Are they really concerned that the public would choose to vote for real pirates?
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one case is not a syndrome
On the post: Do We Need A 'Circle Section' Registry To Prove Digital Ownership?
grant them once this power
The procedure for registering something can become complicated and expensive without limit, but it will be kept reasonable for the mainstream users that the gatekeepers don't want to rouse; Go outside the mainstream and you'll find it almost impossible to comply; stay in the mainstream and the process will be pretty easy-- but darned if you don't have to submit a lot of personal information to the registry.
If first sale rights are frowned upon, exercising them will start to involve lots of paperwork, sent to some overworked and underfunded branch of the Copyright Office that will get around to processing it someday. If format-shifting is frowned upon, it will be available for any format on this list -- which hasn't been updated in years -- the format shifting itself to be done on one of these approved black boxes-- which come with their own limitations, costs, and legal entanglements.
If you don't believe me, just ask gun owners what happens once a registry is in place. Or heck, look at what happened to [EXAMPLE DELETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH GODWIN'S LAW].
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freedom to find out
Christopher Hitchens, 2006 debate on "Be It Resolved: Freedom of Speech Includes the Freedom to Hate."
On the post: Your Genome, Your Data
we're grown-ups
Wait... what? Where is this hypothetical DIY oncologist going to get surgery? Will she buy an iSurgeon for $799.95 and download Mastectomyv3.0, or just consult WebMD and do it herself, using robotic tools she made with a 3D printer?
If we're supposed to know what melanoma looks like, and to perform self-examinations for breast/testicular tumors, it makes no sense at all to forbid us to looking at our own genomes.
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