On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 09:48:13PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > The alternative is that there is nothing interesting here. It's not a > very interesting alternative. Occam's razor says we go with it until > we have a reason to do otherwise.
Translation: "LALALALALA! I'M NOT LISTENING!" > I hypothesise that you are a gerbil. Gerbils can't form rational > arguments. Therefore you are wrong. > > Your burden-of-proof notion is completely backwards, and the above is > an example of why. The burder of proof rests upon the one who wants to > introduce an assertion. I can demonstrate evidence that I'm not a gerbil quite handily. I even have people in the Debian project who have met me and can back up that I am, indeed, a person. I can also provide evidence that there is sexism present in #debian, and on the whole. I hope you don't actually consider yourself a scientist because you're really bad at this whole "Scientific Method" thingy. > > You replied to Manoj's mail, which was in the context of the larger > > discussion. In addition to that, the example you cite is in the HOWTO, > > which is a document written by a number of women who all share this > > opinion completely outside of the specifics of the Debian proeject. Your > > advice goes both ways. > > And here's what I said, quoting the entire text of the mail: > > > Hey, I remember that incident, and the author of the HOWTO has blown > > it out of all proportion. Try talking to the people involved. > > Yup, precisely what I meant, and no references to anything else. What > was that you were saying? >On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:21:08AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> You have an alternate theory explaining the low incidence of >> women in male dominated activities like Debian, free software coding, >> coding in general, and CS overall? >Sunspots. It's at least as convincing. Manoj was talking about "free software coding, and CS overall" in addition to Debian as a whole. The HOWTO you reference also deals with the larger scope as an example. Do try and pay attention. - David Nusinow
