tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7404652980788821532..comments2024-03-29T05:14:33.223-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Blue SolidarityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66881476778413071492009-08-08T11:54:07.497-07:002009-08-08T11:54:07.497-07:00Policemen are para-military. Firemen are not.Policemen are para-military. Firemen are not.Menoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44765102914458697552009-08-05T15:58:30.033-07:002009-08-05T15:58:30.033-07:00What do you think of the NBC police drama Southlan...What do you think of the NBC police drama <i>Southland</i>?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-52593026494601847962009-08-05T08:36:09.790-07:002009-08-05T08:36:09.790-07:00can't believe...Sorry, no disrespect to your s...can't believe...Sorry, no disrespect to your sis but thats just a roundabout argument from anecdote.<br /><br />On average are female programmers around 50% of the total?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12330022670908034422009-08-04T09:16:46.303-07:002009-08-04T09:16:46.303-07:00"Try the computer industry. Very few women ca..."Try the computer industry. Very few women can pass a programming interview."<br /><br />umm, better be careful. You never know when the reincarnation of the late, great Grace Hopper (1906-2006) will walk through the door.<br /><br />I really, really hope that they will do away with AA for women (and others) asap. .<br /><br /> My sister got lucky and married the programming industry even before embarking on a rigorous course at the local community college. She also married a man and has two kids. She made 3x my salary in a more artsy schmartsy venue, 10 years ago. She has gone onward and upward, most recently landing in an Indian owned company who treat her ok for a non-Indian. They definitely prefer her to the resident Russians who are considered rude and pushy (but who can blame them.)<br />Aside from her I've known a lot of female programmers and didn't realize they were such a rare commodity or of such questionable quality. I'll have to ask my self-made programmer sister. I'll find out from her. She doesn't like games and she doesn't play games.can't believe my eyesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55544597750794041872009-08-04T01:55:18.039-07:002009-08-04T01:55:18.039-07:00Bob said commented about the relative danger of fi...Bob said commented about the relative danger of firefighting and police work, compared to other occupations.<br /><br />One point about police work is that you don’t know what will happen when you walk out of the station door. <br /><br />Could be a guy having an epileptic fit, could be a crazy with a knife, could be anything.<br /><br />It’s like being on active military service all the time.Felixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81495293252622996212009-08-03T16:10:09.889-07:002009-08-03T16:10:09.889-07:00You are a strange young man bro.
It's hard f...<i>You are a strange young man bro.</i> <br /><br />It's hard for people two SD or more apart in IQ to relate to one another. (go ahead, I'll leave the low-hanging fruit for you)<br /><br /><i>Although rather likable in a kitten that's been caught out in the rain sort of way</i> <br /><br />Aww, is this about when I called you a tragic mulatto? Wait, I never checked to see if Steve ever posted that...<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76278291589624622862009-08-03T08:20:30.574-07:002009-08-03T08:20:30.574-07:00"I lived in Montreal for four years, went to ..."I lived in Montreal for four years, went to school there, and it's a perfectly civil place. I practice moral relativism: nobody is bad, everything is the same, it's wrong to judge, Satan is your pal, etc., etc."<br /><br />Nationalism is a great bulwark against multiculturalism; Montreal or Quebec more broadly is hardly the best example of Canadian hostility, it's just where I happened to run into this kid.<br /><br />What do you supposed happens when you combine the world's highest immigration rate with Canadian dicklessness plus a government which actively stokes hatred against whites? A sweetheart society?<br /><br />For what it's worth Montreal is noticeably more friendly than my unfortunate duckburg and it made me realize how much my own city had changed without me noticing it. That shouldn't be the case, given Montreal's size and cosmopolitanism; I argue that it is the nationalism, the unity of the Quebecois that makes the difference, that keeps the immigrants in line. That, and about eight billion bucks a year in transfer payements plus billions more in subsidies helps take the edge off. <br /><br />Vancouver is a bit of another exception in that when everybody has money an multi-ethnic society can function. The biggest complaint against Chinese besides the driving, which really isn't *that* bad, being their propensity to tear down houses and erect the biggest possible house up to the property line border; not exactly break out the pitchforks stuff, although I hear ethnic gang violence is a much bigger issue today than when I lived there (actually a Montreal stripper told me that; when strippers tell you a city is getting too crazy and too violent...).<br /><br />It's awful up here, I cannot overemphasize how awful. Immigration is a big factor, feminism is another, the gayification of Canada yet another. I have seen Canadian society become substantially and noticeably less civil in my relatively short lifetime.<br /><br />The dearth of sirness holds across Canada though, I've worked and lived all over the place and it's simply not part of Canadian culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27198697375005711352009-08-02T23:00:23.779-07:002009-08-02T23:00:23.779-07:00Anyway, it's one of the things I like about Am...<i>Anyway, it's one of the things I like about America, yes sir and no sir. Maybe it's changed in the past few years down there, but there is no sir up here in Canada, just a seething hostility.</i><br /><br />Oh come now, don't you think that's a bit rich? I lived in Montreal for four years, went to school there, and it's a perfectly civil place. There are rude buggers like everywhere but it's certainly no social dystopia. You might have an interesting point, but exaggerations like that won't help you.<br /><br />And yes, I'm aware it's different in the south. But nearly no one north or west of WV can really pull off this sort of thing off without sounding officious...the forumulas have been colonized by vicious, vacuuous authority. <br /><br />By the way, there's nothing uniquely southern American about this courtliness. I live now in Europe and travel regularly, and nearly every language has its own formulas for "yes, sir/ma'am", "no, sir/ma'am", and they are typically capable of using them a lot more persuasively than the majority of Americans (obvious exceptions -- officials in public bureaus, etc. -- applying, naturally). <br /><br />By the way, as in so many areas of cultural decline, the British are, of course, ahead of us here, too.ERMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-28137870595123562392009-08-02T20:40:30.873-07:002009-08-02T20:40:30.873-07:00but there is no sir up here in Canada, just a seet...<i>but there is no sir up here in Canada, just a seething hostility.</i><br /><br />Please expound on this. I've been to Montreal/Q. City a few times, Vancouver twice. Seemed polite to very polite, certainly mellow as compared to the nasty northeast where I am now. So I'm not sure what you mean.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20667360360623234342009-08-02T16:57:46.695-07:002009-08-02T16:57:46.695-07:00"(of course, I gave him a dirty look on the w..."(of course, I gave him a dirty look on the way through 'cause I'm such a hater and stuff :P)"<br /><br />You are a strange young man bro.<br /><br />Although rather likable in a kitten that's been caught out in the rain sort of wayTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39331064614924577372009-08-02T16:14:42.663-07:002009-08-02T16:14:42.663-07:00"Try the computer industry. Very few women ca...<i>"Try the computer industry. Very few women can pass a programming interview."</i><br /><br />There was at least one woman on every one of my development teams. A couple of them were damn good programmers and the ones who weren't were no more mediocre than most of the male programmers on my teams.Michael Carr - Veritas Literaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04017030835398885411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54523284433348779202009-08-02T14:42:52.962-07:002009-08-02T14:42:52.962-07:00The Wikipedia article on "white working class...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Working_Class" rel="nofollow">The Wikipedia article on "white working class"</a> itself needs some work.Jim Boweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12686155123469135528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-7021033064013527652009-08-02T11:40:02.324-07:002009-08-02T11:40:02.324-07:00Women are the minority in programming fields, but ...Women are the minority in programming fields, but they are plenty common. It implies a kind of sheltered worldview to suspect that women can't pass programming interviews. Many women are among the best programmers I have worked with.<br /><br />You might have better luck in one of the engineering fields, women are making inroads but I have seen plenty of teams with nary a female in sight.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21587521166218720842009-08-02T11:36:54.071-07:002009-08-02T11:36:54.071-07:00"Another difference is that firemen want to b..."Another difference is that firemen want to be cops but cops don't want to be firemen."<br /><br />This would be belied, in NYC at least, by the number of guys who get on the job as cops so they have a better chance of transferring into the department. I've heard of guys going from the cops to the department, but not the other way around. <br /><br />Further, the mission, task, and role disputes between both since approximately the 60's, also puts that statement in doubt. I'm talking about, especially, NYPD's Emergency Services units. At best you could say this was a toss-up between cops and fireman and more properly the reserve of a third institution: hospitals. At worst you could say, as the NYFD veterans I know would say, that thanks to the civil unrest in the 60's the cops, in an effort to boost morale and better their PR, totally muscled in on the more universally admired rescue work that had been formerly the province of the FDNY. In a nutshell, the cops got sick and tired of doing cop work.<br /><br />Cops and Firemen still get into scuffles over these role/jurisdictional problems. See, e.g. Ground Zero recovery history. <br /><br />I'd be curious to see the stats on cop to fireman vs. fireman to cop transfers.<br /><br />I'd also be curious to see any stats on incidents between cops and fireman. My knowledge is only anecdotal and, as you can probably tell, sourced from, and therefore probably biased in favor of, firemen.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18300064299643040666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46447218270486606702009-08-02T10:55:11.377-07:002009-08-02T10:55:11.377-07:00Cop in the Hood is a good blog by Peter Moskos, a ...<a href="http://www.copinthehood.com/" rel="nofollow">Cop in the Hood</a> is a good blog by Peter Moskos, a Baltimore cop for a time who is now a Sociology professor at John Jay in NYC.<br /><br />Brought to my attention by Moskos' Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun on GatesGate, linked <a href="http://www.copinthehood.com/2009/07/op-ed-in-baltimore-sun.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.AMachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08872008617279528583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14905770253221652472009-08-02T09:42:12.935-07:002009-08-02T09:42:12.935-07:00An armed society is indeed a polite society, I thi...<i>An armed society is indeed a polite society, I think the military culture has something to do with it.</i><br /><br /><i>The only people who ever call me "sir" are cops, airline employees lying to my face, border guards, and others who are being openly patronizing. It's obviously degenerated into an authoritarian codeword for "sh*thead", and I could do without ever hearing it again.</i><br /><br />Y'all need to travel more, damnit. As the saying goes in the South: "We say grace, and we say ma'am, and if you don't like it we don't give a damn."<br /><br />I've been saying sir and ma'am since I moved to the South as a teenager. It's never patronizing. If I think you're an a-hole you'll know. Yes, some people use it patronizingly, but not all and not even most.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47787581635735954592009-08-02T06:48:18.607-07:002009-08-02T06:48:18.607-07:00just a seething hostility.
I find that difficult...<i>just a seething hostility.</i> <br /><br />I find that difficult to believe, but if true, just flee. SE U.S. will blow you away with the courtesy. Yesterday had a black guy (maybe late forties or early fifties) do that thing that generally I only see a certain type of southern white guy do - hold the door to the store open for you when you're still 20 paces away; hell, I only do that for guys when the mood strikes me.<br /><br />(of course, I gave him a dirty look on the way through 'cause I'm such a hater and stuff :P)<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5845878953572232842009-08-02T06:42:51.980-07:002009-08-02T06:42:51.980-07:00Maybe it's changed in the past few years
Yea...<i>Maybe it's changed in the past few years</i> <br /><br />Yeah, it's croaking - not that it was ever ubiquitous in my experience (I had a stranger ask me if I was in the military once, after I'd "sirred" him a couple times). I'm one of those sir and ma'am types, use both religiously in certain contexts (always with elders, always with peers I don't know, not as much with younger folks and obvious "chavs" I don't know, only occasionally with peers I know). It's an odd American habit; it's not as if any of us are landed gentry.<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73411670599570230432009-08-02T06:23:50.735-07:002009-08-02T06:23:50.735-07:00It might just be the cameras, but I don't thin...<i>It might just be the cameras, but I don't think so.</i> <br /><br />Something tells me the cop from <i>Crash</i> gets the night off when the <i>Cops</i> team shows up.<br /><br />And yes, it's the cameras. Probably not <i>all</i> the cameras, but they have a substantial effect.<br /><br />I'd bet people who don't change their behavior substantially in front of a camera are extremely rare.<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-363431191155895762009-08-02T04:02:05.537-07:002009-08-02T04:02:05.537-07:00"I could do without ever hearing it again.&qu..."I could do without ever hearing it again."<br /><br />I hear you, but consider: the other day I was playing poker in Montreal, there was a 25 year old kid, a bit of a "chav" shall we say, one of the older guys at the table was needling him a bit, and the kid was all "yes sir" and "no sir". <br /><br />Seemed very, very strange, I'd never seen a 25 year old, let alone a "chav", use the phrase. Turned out he was American, and moved to Canada because of a girl. It really, really sticks out, there's not a 25 year old in Canada who has that phrase in his vocabulary. <br /><br />It looked good on him, and America, for what it's worth. Sometimes when I'm in the states and I'm getting "yes sir/no sir" from the guy I'm asking for directions at the gas station, usually older than me, I'm taken aback. An armed society is indeed a polite society, I think the military culture has something to do with it. <br /><br />Anyway, it's one of the things I like about America, yes sir and no sir. Maybe it's changed in the past few years down there, but there is no sir up here in Canada, just a seething hostility.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20680550553401207142009-08-02T02:30:29.698-07:002009-08-02T02:30:29.698-07:00"If one didn't want to work with or for w..."If one didn't want to work with or for women, would there be any other job as good as fireman?"<br /><br />Try the computer industry. Very few women can pass a programming interview.<br />******************************<br />These days it seems that no US citizen - male or female - can pass a programming interview.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10109336465236815082009-08-01T23:13:26.385-07:002009-08-01T23:13:26.385-07:00He told me about an incident he witnessed, when a ...<i>He told me about an incident he witnessed, when a fireman emerged from a building with an infant. He handed the child to the grateful mother, then said, "Next time, remember where you put your f-----g baby."</i><br /><br />Good for the fireman.<br /><br /><i>In contrast, the cop had once been asked for his badge number by an angry woman. Why? Because he hadn't called her "ma'am."</i><br /><br />The only people who ever call me "sir" are cops, airline employees lying to my face, border guards, and others who are being openly patronizing. It's obviously degenerated into an authoritarian codeword for "sh*thead", and I could do without ever hearing it again. "Ma'am" I imagine is exactly equivalent. I'm guessing this woman was from the older generation.ERMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18236326306112667162009-08-01T23:09:36.149-07:002009-08-01T23:09:36.149-07:00"If one didn't want to work with or for w..."If one didn't want to work with or for women, would there be any other job as good as fireman?"<br /><br />Try the computer industry. Very few women can pass a programming interview.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-77359203873226776052009-08-01T20:52:11.247-07:002009-08-01T20:52:11.247-07:00"I know that the cameras are on..."
Whe..."I know that the cameras are on..."<br /><br />When the cameras aren't on, police in inner city areas routinely beat people up, plant drugs on people, lie in court and take bribes from drug dealers. Middle class white people are in denial about this.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63322002055236666982009-08-01T18:49:15.930-07:002009-08-01T18:49:15.930-07:00I knew a guy once who could do the wry statement w...I knew a guy once who could do the wry statement well. Unfortunately for his family, he had a brother who became addicted to heroin. Jeff said that his brother Joe would be happy if he could just get the drug; he'd happily stay cooped up in his apartment all day if he could just get the blasted drug!<br />So Jeff opined, "Hey why not make it legal then get the Fire Department to drive around and deliver the drugs? Guys like Joe would stay indoors all day and be no problem and it would give the Firemen something to do."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com