If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

Are there any lawyers at the Pit? I am curious about the legality of this program at "Hackbright Academy". http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/09/hackbright-academy/ For $7500, in the heart of San Francisco, for 10 weeks, this company will teach women, and women only, how to be "pro developers". In addit...

(snipped)...women are apparently treated so horribly in IT. Wait. We are? Where have I been the past 18 years while all this "horrible" stuff was happening to my gender in IT?? Apparently so. It's not my experience either in a couple of decades of software development where I've had many women boss...

Are there any lawyers at the Pit? I am curious about the legality of this program at "Hackbright Academy". http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/09/hackbright-academy/ For $7500, in the heart of San Francisco, for 10 weeks, this company will teach women, and women only, how to be "pro developers". In additi...

Agreed. I am sure there are plenty of fathers getting shafted by the Family Courts. I knew of some horrendous cases through the Psychoexwife.com website. But this and Glennsacks are self selected groups, IOW, a bunch of anecdotes. How they fit into the overall stream of data is the real question. Y...

No doubt there are more than a few men who have gotten the shaft in that process – sometimes you get the elevator and sometimes you get the shaft. But specifically and as we have discussed, there are something like a million divorces per year in the US so it is not a stretch to believe some men h...

It boots faster, it runs faster. You can switch between a standard desktop or the start screen. Desktop works much like Win7. Start screen, well, its pretty much all apps, and they run blisteringly fast, and I've only got an i3. You can scroll, or use page up/down to move through the tiles, and bec...

Hi Al,... Dual boot you weenie. The critiques thus far are W8 is OK if you can handle the learning curve and efficient if you rely on battery life dependent devices. But if you use a lot of legacy stuff and older games, it is annoying. Rants from a couple of folks that have diddled for a while, giv...

Hi Al, So, I got Windows 8 today. Gotta say, I am really impressed. If I understand what you are saying, you had a Win 7 laptop and upgraded it to 8. I have a Win 7 laptop, about 18 months old, i7, so still pretty fast, with a standard harddisk that I borked the partition table last week. I can eith...

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/why-we-get-fat/ Has Taubes destroyed the old low-fat myth only to create his own new low-carb myth? Rather than jumping on the low-carb bandwagon before his ideas are properly tested, the precautionary principle suggests that it might be more reasonable...

decius wrote:For the lurkers, Gary Taubes is an unqualified charlatan, whose pseudoscience is debunked here.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/ind ... e-get-fat/

Have you read that article?

It hardly would be called a debunking, and it in no way supports calling Taubes a charlatan.

I was actually pretty shocked, I mean seriously, at the tone deafness of PZ making light of that murder. FARKers where I hang out, yeah, we're assholes, but bonafide feminist atheists? Wow. The privilege he must have to think that was acceptable. Anyway, I am also somewhat astonished that Al leaves ...

Regarding the MRA-and-the-depressed-wife, I find it fascinating that PZ automatically assumed the woman would be staying home and looking after the kid. That's really what I took away from all that. Some of our whitest knights are closeted sexist pigs, go figure.... And some of our most skeptical s...

David Futrelle had an sad day Thursday, it started off on a high when PZ Myers linked to him, but ended with Manboobz down in the dumps. so I'm thinking of him, and hope this song will cheer him up. [youtube]Yop62wQH498[/youtube] He promises in his blog that Friday will be better. Friday he'll get e...

Here is an interesting post from Maryam Namazie, an atheist who left Iran, works to stop Sharia Law in Britain, and founded "Iran Solidarity". She is a person who has done the real work and taken real risks of fighting oppression. Watch as she calls bullshit. http://freethoughtblogs.com/maryamnamazi...

FWIW: I read a Barbara Kay column the other day reviewing a book, The Victims' Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind published a couple of days ago. http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/09/05/barbara-kay-the-face-of-identity-studies-on-campus/ Barbara Kay: ...

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Don't worry. This is just a vacation so I don't burn out completely. I'll be back, hopefully with a shiny new book for you to read!

Hi, Two things, One, when I click on links here, I am redirected through anonym.to but doing so seems to lose any URL anchor tags (like a comment link). That's in opera. Is there anyway to stop the redirect, or any way not to lose the anchor tags? Does this work better in other browsers? And two, re...

I apologize, I don''t know if this is the right place to lul over IBTP. Here's a URL which is just factually wrong (it's a minor thing but easily researched) http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2012/08/30/fifty-shades-of-gunsmoke/ Where Twisty writes In a brief, shining moment for American televisio...

I disagree with her claim that classical-feminism (she calls it equity-feminism).. the first-wave and the early-second wave.. was really equitable. Equity would mean gain some rights, lose some privileges for e.g voting rights were extended to ALL men in return for their promise to be available for...