I know gender discussions make everyone blind with emotion but come on. How do you go from a few hundred casual drinking buddies over the years to blind-drunk nightly excursions? And from "not once do I remember anyone joking about men not being too smart" to "no women ever make any negative comments about men whatsoever"?
Of course "no women, never" argument is just as stupid as, "all women, always" argument. If I made the argument. You took my rather short counterpoint/anecdote and ran away with it. Far, far away.
I didn't say anything about your friends or family that you didn't say first. You told us that they constantly make fun of you for not being too smart, or did I misinterpret? I don't think it's bad to suggest that you don't need to subject yourself to verbal abuse from people around you, or, in the case of family, choose to take the abuse with at least a big grain of salt.
Are these your friends or your family? If it's the former, time to find new friends. If it's the latter, a dysfunctional family doesn't need to warp your sense of what the rest of the world is like.
Over the years, I've had about a dozen close girlfriends and hundreds of casual girls-night-out buddies. Not once do I remember anyone joking about men not being too smart. Where do you get your "all women, always" from?
As overdue as it was, women and blacks being able to vote is not "6 times better".
60 years to 80 years life expectancy is not "6 times better".
26 to 7 infant mortality is not "6 times better".
8% to 30% college graduation rate is not "6 times better".
Estimated hourly wages have actually fallen drastically, when estimated apples to apples (i.e. adjusted for inflation).
Labor productivity is mostly based on advances in technology, and in any event, working harder is hardly the same as being "6 times better" off.
In other words, let's stay within the context of what is actually being argued. Plus, it's rude to open your argument with, You honestly have to ask this question? If you have something to say, you can say it without implying that @samtp is too dumb to see the obvious.
Add to that the declining purchasing power of the dollar, the growing income disparity and the thinning out of the middle and upper-middle class, etc, etc.
Average life expectancy in the US:
1930 - 60 yrs
2010 - 78 yrs
Clearly, Mr. Buffet's statement is PR rather than fact.
As a 14 year old male nerd, if your computer is broken, you have no choice but to figure out how to fix it. A 14 year old girl on the other hand learns that the easiest way to fix her computer is to get the nerdy guy to fix it for her. This is just simple economics.
I don't know where you get your notion of sophisticated teen fembots out to exploit. As a 14 year old girl, you quickly learn that taking care of your own stuff is much easier than spending the next several months evading a guy who thinks that you owe him sex or girlfriend-ship for his 15 minutes of help.
Women who get into tech usually were raised by a parent who taught them to love technology/science for it's own sake.
Having been in tech for the last 10 years, the only correlation I've seen is being an immigrant. Literally, every single female techie I've worked with was non-US born, myself included.
And it's pretty ironic to have a writer criticize a rushed release by saying, Digg v4 was also suffering from a surprisingly amount of down time. Kettle, meet pot.
You can permanently include and exclude sites with Google Custom Search (http://www.google.com/cse/). I added mine to my iGoogle page so I do all my searches from there instead of google.com.
Future enhancements to Amazon SNS – such as notification delivery over SMS – will provide more protocol options and additional flexibility to mobile application developers.
Does anyone have an educated guess as to when the SMS transport option will be available? How long does it usually take Amazon to add a promised feature?