r comments, I would said that you should have
your satire detector upgraded. :)
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ment here. He's assuming that he's "typical"
when in fact he's not.
Of course, esr is also a sexist pig, so I don't know if we really want
him as a "role model" anyway.
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ngly, his tone on the times he thought I was male
was discernably different from the times he thought I was female (a
tendency not limited to esr).
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e do elaborate what you mean. I've only read his work; I haven't
>interacted with him IRL. Are there things I should know?
Eric seems to think he is a 'chick magnet' and asppears to be trying
to collect trophy babes despite already being married. While I don't
kno
bodies. Well-documented industry standards increase
competition, lower consumer costs, increase quality, and accelerate
innovation. (This might explain why Microsoft tries to corrupt
standards whenever it can.)
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someone's own opinion of their self worth and the number of letters
they feel compelled to put after their name.
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browser that
doesn't crash all the time? I'm to the point that if MS came up with a
workable release of IE for Solaris I would use it. I just want something
that works.
thx
Kelly McQuarrie
Unix System Administrator
Ericsson CDMA Systems
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Arvid Warnecke wrote:
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te application-level (or even system-level) programs, any more than
it is necessary to understand quantum physics to design a circuit with
semiconductors.
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Well, of course. That's because you were in computer science. If you
wanted this other stuff, you should have been in MIS, not computer
science or computer engineering. Colleges do a very poor job in
general of matching students to majors, but they're
that aspect of reality is not one for which UIUC is to
blame. The question, therefore, is whether it is reasonable for
people to expect colleges to compensate for the damage done by sexism
in primary and secondary education.
Kelly
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ook into OpenGL (Mesa) under Linux. I've got this
on my list of things to do (but which I never actually get to, sigh).
Kelly
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get into
this kind of a "zone" and spend literally days hacking on a problem
(my record is 71 hours). I can't do this any more, for reasons which
are not entirely clear to me.
Kelly
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o$oft's
>market dominance.
Not to deny that these are interesting, but they are over a year
old. :)
Kelly
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:34:26 -0600 (MDT), Sio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>As a woman, I still really enjoy looking at pretty people. Male AND
>female. Not to mention, when I go to themes.org to look for a theme,
>I am looking at the THEME, not the pics that people have in their
>screenshots.
Ther
part of why I want to
become an attorney, by the way.
Kelly
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related to the issue of sexism in Linux
development circles, which I thought was a major reason for
LinuxChix.org existing.
Kelly
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at
men are taught they have from an early age, not something which men
have no choice but to do as a consequence of their genes.
Kelly
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On Wed, 20 Oct 1999 22:30:44 -0400 (EDT), Ingrid Schupbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I too attend law school, and I too believe freedom of speech is
>incredibly important. But I'm also in favor of speaking out when
>others are being hurtful and thoughtless.
Well, the "free speech market" dep
s my blinders go, keep in mind that I was trained to be a
sexist pig for the first 20-odd years of my life.
Kelly
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about alien babies with two heads.
Kelly
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ufficiently
literate to express themselves coherently, and yet has not given up on
slashdot as proof that Sturgeon's Law applies to the Internet.
Kelly (and, yes, nearly all of my slashdot articles get moderated up
to at least a 2...)
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just sit around and ignore it?
Nothing ever gets changed unless people make a stink.
Kelly
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On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 09:23:19 -0500, Aaron Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>hehe... you mean after ranting about Malda's ego and bad journalism,
>you still post there?
Not recently. :)
Kelly
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or shock value? To get a rise out of you?
No, of course this isn't their intent. It is, however, the effect.
I'm sure 90+% of the male geeks in the Linux community are completely
unaware of the impact their inadvertent sexism has on women. That is
_exactly_ the problem.
Kelly
*
ly or unclothed women. I like
to think it's tasteful, although I suppose that's debatable. (I've
done a few with underclothed men, too, but it's a lot harder to find
good pictures of men to work with.)
Kelly
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On Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:08:01 -0400, Brendan/Coolian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>For the record, no one seems to understand any sort of humor. We all
>seem to be so locked into Politically Correct mode...
Or, more likely, your attempts at humor are just really bad.
Kelly
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wasn't a great fear anyway.
Maybe I'm giving Roblimo more credit than he deserves, but I saw it as
a rather funny satire.
Kelly
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classic example of this being whether
one cremates or buries one's dead); but no cultural group has any
right to maintain a morally reprehensible cultural practice, with no
regard given to whether the practice itself is consider morally
justified within that culture.
Kelly
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, but they're not nearly as threatening. (I probably need a
higher dose.)
Kelly
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As far as the broader issue of depression in geeks, I'm leery. I'm
sure we've all seen the articles that talk about geeks and autism.
I'm not comfortable with making broad claims like that.
Kelly
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on't know who made the
>comments), but the female comments that say "here is really how to
>get laid" don't help the situation.
You're assuming that they were actually posted by women.
Kelly
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most of whom would rather see you buried under a pile of your
own smut? :)
Kelly
(BTW, if I was admitted to the bar, I might consider taking you as a
client, but you'd pay through the nose for it at $250/hr, probably
more like $400.)
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t...
St. John's Wort did nothing for me. Zoloft, on the other hand...
I won't even get into the differences between Black Cohosh and Premarin.
Kelly
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pornography or obscenity. The definitions of
pornography and obscenity are not easy to understand or apply.
Kelly
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n advise her client on how to avoid them. If this is
fearmongering, so be it.
I've read the rest of your message several times, and, to be honest, I
don't understand what you're trying to say. I must be dense this
morning, must be this damn flu I've had all week.
Kelly
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hings like what colors to prefer and to avoid, how much jewelry is
appropriate, and so on.
Kelly
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ometimes feel: alienation from more "traditional" female groups.
Now, most of us don't give a damn about those groups, but there are
some who might
Kelly (who understands alienation better than anyone has any right
to...)
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ng_ after the employer would
know that the employee was TS)?
I'd also want to know whether the employer was subject to FMLA.
Kelly (no, really, I'm not a lawyer!)
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te clubs as far as I
can tell.
Exceptions might apply if your organization is affiliated in some way
with a government entity.
Kelly
[1] Unless they operate a "public accomodation".
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bother me as much generally), and a
strong association of women and science, which is probably the result
of my mother being a doctor.
Kelly
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r consider that this might be part of why you have a hard time
finding satisfactory employment? :)
Kelly
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), which can cause miscarriages, and black cohosh (often taken as
an alternative to hormone replacement therapy post-menopause), which
can damage the heart.
This is wandering off topic, so I'm going to recommend we push this to
grrltalk. :)
Kelly
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t? And
>what was it that She-ra said when she invoked her special powers?
It was my impression that She-Ra was considerably smarter than He-Man.
Kelly
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something of the same problem. People tell me I'm a good
programmer, but I think I suck. Hard to say who's right...
Kelly
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 15:51:04 -0800 (PST), Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I think it should have an optional DISPLAY in some web cgi, but it
>should NOT be run from there.
I _despise_ products that only have a "web" interface.
Kelly
[E
of the math is hairy
>but that doesn't have to be a part of the initial release (resource
>levelling is an n-dimensional problem depending on the criteria
>established).
Oh, bother, somewhere in my mailbox I have a message from someone who
is actually working on this. If I ever
On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 10:19:06 -0800 (PST), Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Most open-source projects ARE led by one person.
The GIMP is probably the largest exception to this rule. :)
Kelly
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has some solution for that, too?
The Python runtime isn't all that large.
Kelly
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le of places out there that let you park your
open source project in their CVS for free.
Kelly
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uot;Don't
talk!" and "FOCUS!" (another KDE "tenet").
GNOME seems to have put considerably more attention into design,
although perhaps not as much as they should.
It probably also helps that a lot of the people in the open source
community have little or no
types of CS, after all; EECS is the "hack and slash"
style, while (Math)CS is a more theoretical approach. Usually the
character of the department is determined by whether it grew out of a
math department or an engineering department.
Kelly
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science -- and that was almost ten years ago.
Kelly
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he PTO grants patents for obvious crap, companies are
going to go for them -- and their lawyers and accountants are going to
advise them to do so. Piddly little boycotts from gadflies like RMS
aren't going to make any difference.
Kelly
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assign the patent to their employer (and
in fact are often required to by their contracts) but only a natural
person can be awarded a patent.
Believe me, if the law allowed it corporations would file the patents
in their own name and cut the inventor out of the loop entirely.
Kelly
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quot; doctrine as a matter of law for patents. Patents
follow the contract, and if the contract is silent, the individual
retains all rights.
Kelly
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validate
user input on Web forms (I claimed that you have to validate the data
at the server anyway because you can't trust the user's client to
behave; he said that this was ridiculous). I suspect he assumed that
because I'm female I don't code Sigh.
Kelly
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On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:37:12 -0500, Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>Apologies for interrupting; I recall quite clearly from a previous
>exchange of messages that you said you were one of the guys, or words
>to that effect.
I am definitely not one of the
't remember any female coders during my time, but I left the
field relatively early. There were plenty of female builders,
though.
Kelly
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gh my posts for the last couple of months to see if I had
said anything strange, though. If anything, you made me laugh. :)
Kelly
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t;done.
Generally, the best place to start for these tidbits is the US
Department of Labor and your state department of labor (or its
equivalent).
Kelly
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might not be liable, but it won't keep you from getting sued.
Kelly
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truly amazing is that Rand was female.
Kelly
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some women feel uncomfortable. That is a real shame.
To be honest, what I really want to do with my life is be a
housewife. Unfortunately, there's not much chance I'll ever have that
option. Life is so depressing.
Kelly
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..
And this is why we've had a female president? You can't tell me that
there haven't been any women with the proper mindset, determination,
willpower, and strength.
Kelly
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un don't want to support them. Remember, you need 2% to get
matching funds.
Kelly
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don't have a monopoly on taking risks --
they're just perceived as having such. The fact that many women have
to be concerned not only for themselves but for their children, for
whom they are the only source of support, does lead to some degree of
legitimate risk aversion, though...
Kelly
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as long as the school operates on
a non-profit basis.)
(This is starting to drift off topic.)
Kelly
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it's quite evident that
the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment intended only to prohibit the
complete denial of basic rights on the basis of race. The current
interpretation of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendents is clearly a
product of the past 70 years of Constitutional interpretation, a
hough. The fact that they reflect on ability to be elected is a
strong condemnation of the American electoral process.
Kelly
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gt;world"? Politics has no place for crooks and liars, although it
>seems that this is all that has been getting involved in it recently,
>for the most part.
It depends on the skeleton. A lot of the time, the "skeletons" are
matters that are quite irrelevant to the ind
On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:15:34 -0500, "Dan McGarry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>A quick way is to read the HTTP response headers from their
>website. If it says 'Apache' (or suchlike) in there anywhere, you'll
>know it's safe to talk to them.
ough it's considered poor form for an attorney to use the title
of "Doctor" by virtue of her J.D. :)
Kelly
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x27;t spell the full version),
>the cutover point has traditionally been marriage not age.
The reason for this is that, traditionally, a woman comes "of age"
when she marries, while men come of age when they reach a certain
age. Traditions suck.
Kelly
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:27:10 -, "Ian Phillips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I quite like Esquire, but mainly for the fact that it is such an
>anachronism these days!
"Esquire", these days, means you're an attorney.
Kelly
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ring_. A dress every now and then would liven
things up, methinks.
Kelly
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pronouns. I have lately gotten into the habit of
using 'she' generically when I write informally (when I write
formally, I avoid using pronouns to refer to indefinite persons
altogether).
Kelly
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would confuse us non-native English
>speakers and we'd probably turn to Esperanto instead :-).
Actually, there have been several efforts to invent such pronouns.
The one I'm most familiar with is the Spivakian "e" (used in the Joy
of TeX): e, em, eir, emself. There ar
carrying a shoulder bag I haven't had either problem
(except for the kids getting into it and stealing things and/or
depositing random things like crackers). And that last problem is
moot now. Sigh.
Kelly
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e going to
take the position that "We're for the guys and LinuxChix is for the
girls."
Kelly
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to pass for a guy anymore. (Is it ok for women to make eye
contact with strangers?)
>* He doesn't get touched anywhere near as often as I do - rarely at
>all. Friends of both of us hug me hello and goodbye, but not him.
This ticks me off too. Damnit, I want hugs, and nobody ever giv
rnity testing, that's also no longer
necessary.
Kelly
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On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:30:30 -0800, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Again, I need to proof read more... My point was that most of the US
>citizenry just plain don't care about the laws or the government.
At least not until those laws land on their head.
Kelly
en't socialized to seek power. They're socialized to seek
security. Aggregation of power is a male thing, or so we're told.
Kelly
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he general public is still afraid of computers ("We don't like what
we don't understand, in fact it scares us"), and often that fear gets
transferred to the priests and acolytes of the Holy Order of the CPU.
Kelly
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s to listen to
>them.)
Especially when you consider that MBA types seems to have a distinct
deficit of useful knowledge of, really, anything
Kelly
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opatriarchy.
I guess I'm just not involved enough in separatist gay groups to hear
much talk about the "heteropatriarchy".
Kelly
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hich seems
>to be all they need to be successful. Maybe it's supposed to be good
>business or something.
I'll admit to bias: I'm a law student, and we tend to look down our
pointy little noses at the business students across campus. We are,
of course, better than they a
erm relationship and have no
plans to date for the indefinite future.
Kelly
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discussing the heteropatriarchy. :)
Kelly
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on use. Reckon that can be done in 6 months or so ?
Why? The only reason for having this is to make it easier for guys
who are attracted to bisexual women (yeh) but are themselves not
actually bisexual to more easily identify their prey.
Kelly
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organization simply because the state expects those things. There are
better ways to obtain legal recognition of marriages (and the other
state benefits of legal clergy) within your religious group, the
easiest being getting all your members ordained by an ordination mill.
Kelly
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s is intended; they serve a valuable purpose. They're
just largely worthless as a source of unbiased factual information.
Kelly
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bing of the nose at the
way the state chooses to recognize religious organizations. I feel
no spiritual or religious attachment whatsoever to that church, and I
don't expect they expect me to either.
Kelly
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her. That would take away a large part of the desire of
religious organizations to be recognized by the state in the first
place. (The other reason is probably priest-penitent privilege.)
Kelly
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ientele is not representative
of the population, and statistics within their clientele almost
certainly do not generalize to the population as a whole.
Of course, I said all of this in my prior message (although in not as
much detail), so I imagine it will be ignored this time as well.
Kelly
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poly. For Adobe, that means .pdf, a proprietary format, could
>only be offered by Adobe.
This is completely incorrect and expresses a serious lack of
understanding of what UCITA would actually do.
Kelly
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oppose UCITA, but because of its attempt to create a proprietary
property interest in raw data. If you took them out, I'd support it.
Kelly
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o me
>that there are big businesses quite willing to pay for closed
>systems.
To be fair, the author did jail time for violating _Norwegian_ law.
DMCA had no application _at all_.
Kelly
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tivity is possible but subject to regulation by the federal, not
state, courts. Can you say "turf war"?
Kelly
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On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:10:20 -0600, coder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>You know, if men were escorted around after dark, think of all the
>crimes that would cease.
The problem is, who are you going to get to do the escorting?
Kelly
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