It's named after a fungus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28fungus%29
There's plenty that's been written about trans issues and gender issues, much of which is available for free on the Web. Trans people are not unpaid tutors or teachers for cis people (if you don't know what "cis people"…
On this point, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's "Person Paper on Purity in Language": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html Hofstadter makes the same point (that words that claim to be both…
So if somebody raped your mother, it would make you happier if they felt no remorse than if they said they were sorry about what they'd done?
puzzled My name, as the author, is at the top. Do you know a lot of women named "Tim"? (Kake, the original author, is a woman, but I contributed that particular item. Yes, I know that's not obvious from the list, which…
The second point was meant to be about inanimate software constructs: for example, "This guy jumps to that guy without pushing a new stack frame." The difference between "hi guys and girls" and "hi guys and girls, I…
Sorry, I call bullshit. Under some theories (not particularly more or less credible than yours), rape is an "evolutionary urge". As is sex between adult men and 13-year-olds, as are all kinds of violent acts. Part of…
I'm a guy.
Interestingly enough, the maintainer of the checklist (me) is a man who went to Wellesley.
It's named after a fungus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_%28fungus%29
There's plenty that's been written about trans issues and gender issues, much of which is available for free on the Web. Trans people are not unpaid tutors or teachers for cis people (if you don't know what "cis people"…
On this point, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's "Person Paper on Purity in Language": http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html Hofstadter makes the same point (that words that claim to be both…
So if somebody raped your mother, it would make you happier if they felt no remorse than if they said they were sorry about what they'd done?
puzzled My name, as the author, is at the top. Do you know a lot of women named "Tim"? (Kake, the original author, is a woman, but I contributed that particular item. Yes, I know that's not obvious from the list, which…
The second point was meant to be about inanimate software constructs: for example, "This guy jumps to that guy without pushing a new stack frame." The difference between "hi guys and girls" and "hi guys and girls, I…
Sorry, I call bullshit. Under some theories (not particularly more or less credible than yours), rape is an "evolutionary urge". As is sex between adult men and 13-year-olds, as are all kinds of violent acts. Part of…
I'm a guy.
Interestingly enough, the maintainer of the checklist (me) is a man who went to Wellesley.