On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Julie wrote:
> enough to be my mother and lives in another state ...) and a lesbian
> separatist also has kind things to say about some men.
Agreed. I didn't mean to suggest that lesbian separatist==man hater either
> I don't know about "philosophy" and "practice". I think
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Rick Scott wrote:
> [1] I don't think anyone here seriously thinks this, but I'd like
> to point it out for the record: lesbian != man-hater, eh?
but just to clarify, lesbian separatism is an actual philosophy and
practice
but most lesbians are not separatists
some sep
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Assume this is true. It implies that the method used to get sex, or
> girlfriends, or a wife, etc.. is programmatic. I.e. this things are
> predictable and can be behaviourally controlled, and that humans can be
> trained to do them. This is a d
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Rick Scott wrote:
> Seeing as I know a lot of people (myself included) don't read
> Slashdot on anything approaching a regular basis, I was wondering
> if anyone had anything to say about:
>
> http://tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/sextips/
since no one else has taken this one up.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory&sid=2001/3/1/154933/1604
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Simon Britnell wrote:
> I don't recall seeing anything I thought was a troll, which makes me think
> that some of my posts may be considered trolls.
That may predate you, too. I remember one person (definetly not you, he
knows who he is though) who actually asked why wome
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, lou wrote:
> were outbreaks of polio, I remember hearing about them in the news at the
> time. I know many don't like the idea about vaccinations, but the diseases
> are still out there.
I don't think anyone (resonable, at least..I'll grant that there's at
least one guy ou
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Magni Onsoien wrote:
> After reading more about this issue I tend to feel that parents who, for
> no proved health reason (like immune deficiency), except their children
> from the vaccination programme are terribly irresponsible. Giving the
> recommended immunization to the
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Wood, Mary wrote:
> not what he does know]). I blame mostly social standards, as
> I also believe that **in general** most people are sheep and
> will blindly eat whatever the ruling class feeds them. Kind
> of a pessimistic view I know ... perhaps I've just happened
> to
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Wood, Mary wrote:
> ***GENERALIZATION WARNING***
> In a lot of ways, I feel that the biggest obstacle women
> have to overcome to achieve equal status is the female
> gender en masse. For every one of us who is honest and
> confident about her abilities, there seems to be a
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ing book.
I have Kate Millet's address, and keep meaning to write her (I read
_The_Last_Time_I_Wore_a_Dress_ last february, and it's been on my todo
list since then..bad vinnie). She also has written quite a bit of feminist
analysis that I keep meaning to read. Ah well.
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, but I /do/ that. I buy two or three pairs of pants a year - and
> wear them till they're just about dead in the crotch then buy another
> two or three pairs. The previous year's set will do for emergencies till
> they die completely, by which ti
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Julie wrote:
> It's 45" (114cm) from my waist to the damned floor and I have a hard
> time buying pants with the correct rise.
duh question: have you tried men's pants?
I'm one of those ridculously short people with a short waist (I'm not sure
why they call it that, since t
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, srl wrote:
> Then again, some of us *choose* names that will deliberately confuse
> people. ;) I'd rather play with people's assumptions about what "male"
> and "female" mean. What better way for someone to question their
> assumptions about gender than for them to assume I'm
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Jennifer Steinbachs wrote:
> On the other hand, does one really want to hide behind
> initials? And then, sooner or later, people will know
> the name that goes with those initials...
Definetly, but most people, most of the time, are working on unconcious
bias. While there
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Alexander Sendzimir wrote:
> Don't you think gender-neutral naming is a patch/bandaid on the
> greater issue of stereotype and bias? This is not a critisism. I'm
> making an observation.
Absolutely.
But I also think that letting people make their assumptions (based on
stere
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Annette Stroud wrote:
> He thinks that random adults who meet him treat him better if
> they think he is a girl; they have different expectations.
Weird. I've found the opposite...I get more respect as a 12 y/o boy than
as a 22 year old female. As if for some reason if I'm f
have been polarised into "boy names" and "girl names". What do we do with
> the left over names like Chris, Kelly, etc?
one of these days I'm going to change my name to something a bit
more gender neutral (well, *I* think 'Jordan Dakota Catron' is gender
neutral..
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> (dunno if you noticed, btw, but the person I was responding to had a male
> name and I presumed the person was male, not female. I don't think, based
> on your reaction, that you were aware of this?)
You'd think having a (female)
er this goal :)
though I'll grant, your literalness can be useful
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that he seems to assume that all women *really* want to have sex with him
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t/secretarial stuff) that I
had to wear a dress. Since part of my job was running up and down ladders in the
warehouse to get things, this struck me as a really bad idea (tm) -- so I asked him
if he'd wear a dress (well he said...)
He let me wear a suit and tie with the rest of the guys :P
On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> microway (www.microway.com) has good prices, good hardware.. though they
> focus mostly on alpha based systems
out of curiousity, which part of intel compatible don't you understand?
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oops, I should probably check threads next time :P
(still, the point stands, since you *were* using microway as an example,
earlier. but I think I'll shut up now, since I really am sick of trying to
explain this)
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been the experience...
I dunno..I understand what you mean about malpractice suits -- my mom is a
nurse, it does suck that malpractice costs are what they are. The
difficulty is finding the balance between holding medical professionals
responsible and not bankrupting the good ones...
Vinnie
On We
ff)
> I don't follow you here... blah
The attitudes I was speaking of were anti-DOJ/US action against MS, not
necessarily how one feels about MS themselves
Vinnie
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t.. I'm
Yeah, but that's not important in this debate (the point is that yes, they
are a monopoly, but it's not related to the MS case)
Vinnie
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how is this self
> defense?
it's not...I never said it was...I said that MS was not defending itself
against IBM
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On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, curious wrote:
> If OS/2 was marketable enough of a product... it wouln't have had to be
> dumpted... however Microsoft's marketing unfortunatly won... I'm surprised
> your being so defensive of IBM... if any company could be acused of being
> strong armed against compeditors.
arkets
(trains/postal) are limited to the government, rather than limited *by*
the government.
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ssion, out of email
> wheee kill all the white people (kidding :) )
huh?
> ahh bugs.. probably the most advanced creature in terms of darwanism..
> they survive anything.. yet are so low on the chain...
> and with the advent of computers.. a whole new species of bugs have come
&
ca we have
> enforced passenger railroad compitition... I'm so glad that If I decided
> that Amtrack was doing a horrible job I could compete with them.. or
> heck.. if I wanted to start a mail system to compete with the us postal
> system.. ahhh yes... I'm soo glad we have these
I don't think it was is because I know you,
from anyone else I'd just assume trollishness)
Can anyone else make this clearer? I get the feeling I'm missing
the point.
> but they are all diffrent..
but they are all individuals!
Vinnie
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rate' decisions -- i.e. if I,
Vinnie, choose to break a law, I, Vinnie, get punished. If a corporation
breaks a law (meaning the people behind the corporation) the corporation
gets smacked (and it's rather limited what you can do...often times fines
don't even make a dent in the increase
the difficulties of proving a
negative are well documented.
And that still showed a lack of tact (which I know is pointless to
complain to you about, but you *really* ought to start thinking about
that)
> exactly :)
well then why were you asking which men? It was clear she meant all of
the
olks complain when it puts a few
rules on it, even though the humans have many many rules on them...
I did tell you I figured out that I could stomach a lassie faire free
enterprise system if the government got completely out and no longer
allowed business owners to hide behind their 'corpora
id, and you're male, and the two may not have
much to do with eachother :P
> hmmm what is wrong with having a male "ruled" world? and why should women
> have equal rights?
Um..dear, one of the first rules of using vinnie tactics is a little thing
called 'timing' -- th
;t
know how to get from here to there..I was thinking on the plane about how
the human ability to generalize (i.e. to see a class of 'tree' as opposed
/this object with leaves/ and /that object with leaves/) gives us so much,
but screws us over with people
this was going somewhere, but
clear we're related -- we have the same basic facial
and body types, but I have my father's colouring)
Vinnie
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rl
scouts or womens-clubs-at-church, not to mention a billion different
mailing lists, etc...
I'm not a lawyer, though, and I don't have the time to go play one right
now..anyone with real legal experience have a comment? :)
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eans I have to read at something under 2 which takes so much
annoying *time* )
> You're assuming that they were actually posted by women.
heh.
Vinnie
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own comments [I have *never* been moderated up,
something which amuses me...I dunno, maybe I really am that pointless])
blah, I'm babbling now.
Vinnie
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Nicole wrote:
> > but has anyone noticed the poll?
> >
> > I'd be annoyed, if I weren't so b
;t so busy
(what I wanna know is how comments like 'big honkin' penis' get moderated
up to two...)
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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J B wrote:
> I was always taught that a woman's place was wherever she wanted to beof
> course my mother was one of the first feministshe had the picture of the
> woman peeing in the urinal on her bathroom wall in the mid 70's....
exactly
Vin
'women's
work' -- and again, if a particular set of individuals don't mind that,
then that's fine -- it just shouldn't be considered the one right way..
Vinnie
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looking
for a therapist)
> Society encourages a lot of things we dislike. Just remember that we're
> all part of the society, even the outsiders. What I'm trying to say
> here is: I have seen the enemy and it is us.
Yeah, mobs are different from individuals, and that gets confusing, darn
it! :)
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ese are all the
things that need to be done. I'll do all of these if you'll do all of
these' -- being read into the artical..
This was my /. quote today, though..it's bad when you find yourself
wondering if a random database was trolling :)
> The duration of passion is pr
personal lives
than public lives, I guess...
hmm..am I missing something?
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it's weekly world news, isn't that synonymous?
:)
Vinnie
On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Blackjax wrote:
> http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/1476.html
>
>
> I certainly hope this is a joke.
>
>
>
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le very often or both. You can always try to use it to
> transfer their interest where you want it to. It quite often
> works. Also if you reverse the sexes.
Um. what country do you live in? And can I move there?
Being *female* causes (for some definition of cause that isn't exactly
causitive
src=shots/939550509.jpg
In other words, if I want to see adult themes, and there are random porno
shots in the screen shots, that's one thing...If I want to see music et
al, that's a totally different thing...
It's not exactly about whether or I want to see it -- it's about the
r there (which is rarely)
usually the second or third one I click on does
but then the laws of probability don't tend to apply much to me or
something :)
I posted up two..you might try music (which I know one is from)
also, there was one in computers somewhere...but I don't think it w
club, so I think we're still technically here, but we are drifting...
if deb would like, I imagine we could move this to grrltalk
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[EM
an be.
we'll see..I lack time in large ways
Not to mention I just finally got X recompiled on my box, and I'm working
with some serious hardware limitations right now...
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ging up 'maybe it would be better to
*not* include scantily clad women in your screenshots' and 'you will go to
jail if you put scantily clad women in your screenshots'
Vinnie
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rious idiots I encountered in one seattle day... :) )
And it's not just segregation of themes -- the idea of adult themes having
adult pics in their screenshots is one thing, and isn't particularly
interesting to me right this moment...it's that the other themes do,
too...
Vinnie (
tie in -- in that it is a bad thing and it can't (or at least
shoudln't) be dealt with with censorship..the question being what to do
about it...
sorry if this isn't making a whole hell of a lot of sense, I quit smoking
yesterday and now my head hurts and I can't seem to get t
and
stuff :) (deb would you be cool with that? I can't imagine not, but I
should probably ask :) )?
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eek make sense -- I mean, they might have made sense if
we were talking about linus's pecs or something but I couldn't make
sense of them in light of the fact that all of the topics were
intelligent, though not necessarily geek related...
Vinnie (stating the obvious?)
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