tomwalker

There are always neigh-sayers

(sorry)

There was a McDonald's beside the southern General hospital in Govan that has now closed

I appreciate the honesty and lack of 'spin'.

I was considering GoCardless but a survey of my customers stopped me.

" I didn’t create Cryptoparty just so a bunch of privileged white boys could.."

Why did she drag race into it? Completely unnecessary. She has valid points without this.

Why do we need to continue to increase or maintain the population?

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My grandfather worked as a bar manager (not owner) and his wife did not work. They were one of the first to get a TV and washing machine on their street, had a car, went on foreign holidays every few years and had 5 children.

What wage would you need to be in a similar position today?

The real losers are those that just wanted to go to a conference to talk about Ruby.

And I assume that you would want to be speaking at a conference because you have a great talk to give, not for anything else.

The conference could be all white, the conference could be all female, the conference could be all black. These details do not matter. It should be the best speakers.

I don't think any conference should be allowed to have proceed without a single black person, Eskimo, female or badger on the speak list.

Here are a few shows that were also not diverse enough for my liking: London Boat show - too many white males http://www.londonboatshow.com/2013/whats_on/attractions__eve...

British Educational Training and Technology Show - not a single person with a double barrel name :( http://www.bettshow.com/Conferences-Features

The baby show - only females speaking. This is COMPLETELY unacceptable. This show should NOT go ahead. Refunds all around http://www.thebabyshow.co.uk/excel/new-parent/for-baby

Professional Beauty- not enough males http://www.professionalbeauty.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=149/nocach...

/sarcasm

Unfortunately there is a large group of people that do abuse the system.

A family member of mine is the head for a large region of Scotland for the Department of Work and Pensions.

They say that it is terrible what goes on. The average pensioner scrapes by and often do not take all that they are entitled to despite paying into the system for decades as you said.

On the other side is a huge amount of people claiming incredible amounts and have never worked in their life.

The people that do work hard and hit a rough patch are consistently those that claim the least, often waiting a lot longer than they need to before claiming anything.

Uk has the 4th largest defence budget in the world of £46.3 billion. We spend £62.3 billion on welfare. [http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2013UKbn_12b...]

What a fantastic problem to have!

well, to put it a different way, it allowed those working through the book to make small updates to compensate for django updates :)

I read this book when it had side comments - they were fantastic help

It is about time that this sexual discrimination is ended

In the United Kingdom it is about $8.40 for a US gallon of petrol(gas)

I just hope that the work that resulted in this device will produce many benefits to nonweaponary nuclear science.

I like the design.

A low bandwidth version would be useful though.

I just don't understand why there should be female only events. It should be a beginners class, regardless of sex.

Making divides just feels odd

Should we allow male only events?

As a fellow doctor I agree with everything you say.

I agree- have a few "learn more" buttons, videos etc

I am not saying that we should ensure that white males dominate anything.

I just believe that there should be NO discrimination whether positive or negative.

People should get a position based on their merit. If it ends up that a profession is all male or all female, so be it.

I would never spout a ridiculous angle such as 'child minders are predominantly female so lets make it easier for a male to get the job'.

In my cohort of 12 individuals, 4 are male. This is not unusual unless you do surgery.

"Looking at the figures shows that the picture is unambiguous. Not only are women doctors to outnumber their male counterparts in the UK by 2017, in general practice this will happen in the next four years. Entry data from medical schools show that over the past four decades the number of men entering medicine has doubled whereas the number of women has increased 10-fold."

http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=2...

In my profession it is becoming predominantly female. If I was to advertise an all male study group, or limit an event to 50 percent fem ale, I would be called exclusionary or sexist I feel.

Isn't that sexist?

Medicine is a huge industry. Where I am from, women are 70 percent of entrants. They still get help with applications (women in medicine career days etc). They are more likely to take long career breaks and work part time. In the UK, where the tax payer pays for education + all treatment this is not cost efficient. I don't have a link but a recent bmj article showed over a career, 1.7 women cover the same hours as men excluding time off for illness.

If I was to suggest a "men in medicine" society I would be shunned for trying to make a new generation of 'the old boys club'. In fact, my club would probably be considered illegal due to discrimination. If I was to suggest that moves were made to make medical school 50:50 admission then I would be laughed at despite decades of pushing for increased female intake.

Men are often told we have the best of it but we also have the worst. Homelessness, drug abuse, assault, suicide, car accidents, alcoholism etc are all higher in men. When I did some time doing general practice (primary care) I realised that the amount of men aged 40-80 that live by themselves and are alone is huge in comparison to the amount of females.

Let's keep things simple.

Stop the social engineering. If more men go to school to be engineers then so be it. If a female is in your engineering class then she shouldn't be treated differently- she shouldn't have more chance of getting a job either if she gets the same grades.

If we "need" to push more women into tech then why shouldn't we push them out of other careers in the name of equality.

Edit: For clarity, I don't believe that we should 'rebalance' medicine, I was being sarcastic.

For the non-UK readers, a sarnie is a sandwich.

I agree that this is useful, especially if you are disabled, but it is just a matter of time before "terrorism" is cited as a reason to take it down.

> I order them 150-200 at a time

Wow. That's is a HUGE pile of t shirts.

You say "washed-once" is a good look but do you throw them away afterwards?

I think 150 t shirts would last me 150+ years