Awww, c'mon Vita Nuova, why don't you just come right out and say you think women are mentally inferior so we can flame you properly? At least Bendrrr had the coconuts to do it!
maybesbabies
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What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?
by minimus inare you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?
you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?
there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.
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What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?
by minimus inare you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?
you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?
there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.
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maybesbabies
I did not omit Apollonious from the last sentence, I copied and pasted it exactly as it was written. And I was not trying to attribute the theories of Apollonius to Hypatia with my highlighting, I was trying to illustrate the concepts involved. However, you suffered a sin of omission yourself:
Great response! But a little tricky, too. I would also like to highlight "She edited the work On the Conics of Apollonius" and "With Hypatia's work on this important book, she made the concepts easier to understand."
Whereas the sentence is continued with "thus making the work survive through many centuries". Obviously, she was not just scribing his ideas, she was translating them into simpler form, allowing for future scientists to understand what may otherwise have been lost to time. Many scientist have done this, and it is credited as revised theorem. Still, it refutes your point about women not being smart enough to match the other great men in history.
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What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?
by minimus inare you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?
you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?
there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.
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maybesbabies
Can you name any female equivalent (or superior) to the achievements of an Einstein, a Shakespeare, or a Michelangelo?
Just a few here:
Hypatia:
Hypatia was known more for the work she did in mathematics than in astronomy, primarily for her work on the ideas of conic sections introduced by Apollonius. She edited the work On the Conics of Apollonius, which divided cones into different parts by a plane. This concept developed the ideas of hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. With Hypatia's work on this important book, she made the concepts easier to understand, thus making the work survive through many centuries. Hypatia was the first woman to have such a profound impact on the survival of early thought in mathematics. Later, Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz expanded on her work.
She paved the way for Einstien and others!
Ada Byron, the Lady Lovelace:
At the age of 17 Ada was introduced to Mary Somerville, a remarkable woman who translated LaPlace's works into English, and whose texts were used at Cambridge. Though Mrs. Somerville encouraged Ada in her mathematical studies, she also attempted to put mathematics and technology into an appropriate human context. It was at a dinner party at Mrs. Somerville's that Ada heard in November, 1834, Babbage's ideas for a new calculating engine, the Analytical Engine. He conjectured: what if a calculating engine could not only foresee but could act on that foresight. Ada was touched by the "universality of his ideas". Hardly anyone else was.
Babbage worked on plans for this new engine and reported on the developments at a seminar in Turin, Italy in the autumn of 1841. An Italian, Menabrea, wrote a summary of what Babbage described and published an article in French about the development. Ada, in 1843, married to the Earl of Lovelace and the mother of three children under the age of eight, translated Menabrea's article. When she showed Babbage her translation he suggested that she add her own notes, which turned out to be three times the length of the original article. Letters between Babbage and Ada flew back and forth filled with fact and fantasy. In her article, published in 1843, Lady Lovelace's prescient comments included her predictions that such a machine might be used to compose complex music, to produce graphics, and would be used for both practical and scientific use. She was correct.
When inspired Ada could be very focused and a mathematical taskmaster. Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." A software language developed by the U.S. Department of Defense was named "Ada" in her honor in 1979.
She paved the way for computer programming!
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards:
In 1868, she was accepted to Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York and graduated with a B.S. degree in 1870. She was then accepted at the MIT as a special student in chemistry (i.e. she was not charged tuition, but MIT was not obligated to her either) and graduated in 1873 with her second B.S. degree. That same year, she received an M.S. degree in chemistry from Vassar. She continued her studies at MIT for two more years, but was not awarded the Ph.D. degree, as was later claimed by her husband, because her professors did not want the first Ph.D. degree in chemistry from MIT to be awarded to a woman.
In 1875 she married Professor Robert H. Richards, head of the department of mining engineering at MIT. She started working with her husband on the chemistry of ore analysis and this work led to her being elected in 1879 the first woman member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers.
In 1876 she successfully petitioned the Woman?s Education Association of Boston to contribute funds to open the Woman?s Laboratory at MIT. She worked there as an assistant director under Professor John Ordway. She encouraged other women to enter the scientific field and provided opportunities for their training. Women were taught basic and industrial chemistry, biology and mineralogy. With Ordway's help, some were then able to obtain industrial and government consulting jobs.
Beginning in 1876, she was head of the science section of the Society to Encourage Studies at Home. In 1882, she co-founded the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (later known as the American Association of University Women). In 1884, she started working at MIT's new laboratory of sanitation chemistry as an assistant to Professor William Nichols. This was a salaried faculty appointment. Prior to this, she taught classes without pay. She introduced biology to MIT's curriculum and founded the oceanographic institute, known as Woods Hole. In addition, she tested home furnishings and foods for toxic contaminants, investigated water pollution and designed safe sewage systems.
I could go on, but this would be a lenghty post indeed!
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Anti-Americanism
by Englishman inhow do you define someone as anti-american?
if you strongly disapprove of, say, america's foreign policies, yet basically have an affection for american people, does this still make you an anti-american?
is it possible that people are being accused of being anti-american inaccurately?
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maybesbabies
I have a really cute little 38 special. It's shiney and soooo smooth. Sometimes I just have to give it a little kiss before I fall asleep.
And I only shoot anti americans and stuff
Wow, now that's just scary! Glad to see you're doing your part to promote peace and unity!
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If your still-JW parent died...
by starfish422 inwould you attend the funeral/memorial service?
assuming that it would be held in a kh; or even if it wasn't.. this is something that's been on my mind lately; honestly, i'm not sure why.
my parents are both still relatively young; 60 and 61. my dad has been diagnosed with skin cancer but both are otherwise healthy.. i really don't know whether i would; particularly for my father.
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maybesbabies
My father is 74, and probably set to go soon. I think that he's going to go the way your father did, E-Man. He didn't even attend my mothers funeral when she died, and I think he doesn't want one for himself, either. I don't think I'd go to the memorial service if the KH had one, but I'd remember him in my own way.
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What's Your Opinion of the Opposite Sex?
by minimus inare you of the mind that all men and all women are basically the same?
you know---all men just have one thing on their mind or all women are just users?
there's so much stereotyping when it comes to males and females...typical man, typical woman.
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maybesbabies
We are all individuals, and no two people are exactly the same. I don't think it's fair to stereotype based on sex, or anything else. There is no "typical" person, period. I think negatively or positively about people based on their independent actions, not on their gender. But, that's me, could be that I'm being "typical"!
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I got my voters registration card in the mail today!
by TresHappy inopened the mail this morning and guess what, i've got my voters registration card.
i'll be voting for the first time in many years!
how cool is that?
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maybesbabies
Woo-hoo for you! It feels good, don't it?
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maybesbabies
Woo-Hoo Brummie, now I know why you have so many Biatches!!! Your wife must be in heaven, you can wash dishes, change diapers, and rub her shoulders all at the same time!
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Anti-Americanism
by Englishman inhow do you define someone as anti-american?
if you strongly disapprove of, say, america's foreign policies, yet basically have an affection for american people, does this still make you an anti-american?
is it possible that people are being accused of being anti-american inaccurately?
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maybesbabies
Hear, Hear, JWbot, I agree with you there! Disagreeing with the policies and actions of your President do not make you anti-American. I love my country, and it's people, but I also love people from many other lands, and disagree with their governments as well. Does hating Saddam make you anti-Iraq? No, becuase you obviously care about the well being of its people. Disagreeing with a war doesn't make you Anti-American, it makes you anti-War. Many people I know hated Clinton, and bashed him on a regular basis, but then tell me that disliking Bush's policies makes me anti-American. I think there is a definite double standard that has sprung up in America, and I think it's part and parcel with suppressing dissent and free speech.
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I'm going to be published!!!
by Lady Lee ina couple of years ago i was part of an on-line writers group.
a few of us got together and wrote an anthology of xmas stories called tales of christmas.. i wrote a story about my first xmas after leaving the dubs.
the book is being published.
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maybesbabies
Way to go Lady Lee!!!!! You're in the big time now!!!! I'm so happy for you!!!