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Are you talking about Siri?
Recently my 8 year-old had a Personal Geography Homework assignment where he had to come up with facts about every city he had lived in or visited. His 1st question was
"Can you tell me about Portsmouth please"
Siri replied
"You want to know about Horse Fleas?"
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Jeeze, I didn't realise that Siri was that knowledgeable!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In this morning's email, I received a missive[^] from Microsoft lauding the accomplishments of female inventors. To say the least, they missed a few. They mentioned ![Rose | [Rose]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif) Ada Lovelace[^]  , but missed others who are key to our industry  :
You can find out more here[^]
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now.
© 2009, Rex Hammock
modified 8-Mar-16 11:38am.
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I'm sure Bruce Jenner is celebrating...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Stewie Griffin called it first, back in 2009 :
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When is International Man's day? If it does not exist: Why not? Are women more special than men?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Quote: Are women more special than men?
No.
But nor are men more special than women.
Unfortunately not everybody sees the world that way.
Quote: It began as a massive protest by women who wanted better working conditions, better pay, and the right to vote. But since then, the holiday has evolved into a day of awareness on women's progress in the ongoing fight for gender equality, and a day to address issues across the globe that directly affect women.
Bustle[^]
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Are women more special than men?
Ask your wife.
Don't worry, we'll visit you until you get out of hospital...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Quote: we'll visit you until you get out of hospital
Very funny! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: When is International Men's day
November 19th[^]
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Women are much more special to me.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: Are women more special than men?
Quite the other way around.
Men get to vote, are allowed to have jobs, they get paid more for the same jobs, they get jobs easier, they are less often (sexually) assaulted, and they are overall taken more seriously than women.
For some reason (*cough*religion*cough*) both men and women alike have oppressed women and limited their life's choices.
It's time women got a little push in the back to close the social gap that, unfortunately, still exists between men and women.
As I understood men are mean and sexist pigs and don't deserve their own day
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Sander Rossel wrote: and they are overall taken more seriously than women.
Usually this is directly proportional to the time they can keep their mouth shut. After that...
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Thanks for proving my point! 
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Quote: (*cough*religion*cough*)
cough bollocks cough
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Really? Isn't it the first woman who was created from the rib of a man therefore in debt to us? Or a woman who cast the first sin and expelled us from paradise?
Fast forward to now, we had one political party who had a view that woman should not be able to have publicly leading roles (funny as it's the biggest party in my municipality and we have a woman for mayor, also funny as they also operate nationwide and we had a queen at the time ). Anyway, it was a Christian party who followed their bible. They had to drop that view though as they were about to lose their government funding as our constitution forbids racism. Luckily our constitution weighs heavier than religion
Wasn't it the church who forbade women from working as they should be at home raising kids?
I won't even start about the rights of women in many Islamic countries.
Mind you that this is all under the banner of religion (whether you think it's the true spirit of that religion is irrelevant).
The opposite might be true, Christians for equal rights etc., but there is no denying that religion has been a source of hate throughout history and continues to be.
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Yes, really. Religion did not create these inequalities. They were already present in the simple reality of life before technology and birth control and all the myriad other changes that make equality a possibility today. The Genesis account is entirely aetiological, seeking to explain what is not to create some new order with the authority of God. Arab strictures about women certainly predate Islam by centuries (after all Islam dates from nearly 600 years after the foundations of Christianity and thousands of years after the origins of Judaism). And, of course, let us remember that the inequalities have been fully maintained for decades in predominantly atheistic cultures around the world.
Unquestionably the, usually spurious, interpretation of religious texts have been used as a weapon in maintaining the status quo but it's by no means the case that religion can be blamed for that status quo arising in the first place or should take the entire blame for any delay in the speed of reform. Anyone familiar with the history of the Middle East, for example, will be aware that the 'rights' of women in the Deuteronomic law far exceeded those of their contemporaries outside Israel and, of course, one is only a Jew at all by virtue of one's mother. Similarly, many of the Pauline strictures that come in for such feminist ire were actually designed to protect women from the shaming and potential arrest which might follow from public display of the new freedoms they enjoyed as Christians. We simply cannot imagine now how utterly scandalous a statement at the time was ...
Quote: There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
And what hasn't been used at some time as such a weapon? Biology, evolutionary theory, politics, history; all have been turned to the keeping of women in their place at some time, without the aid of religion in any form. Your implied thesis that it's all religion's fault just won't wash. Hatred may find religion a convenient companion and justifier but it does not depend on religion for its existence. Just ask anyone who's ever been in the middle of a dispute over a parking space!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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9082365 wrote: Your implied thesis that it's all religion's fault just won't wash
It's not all religion's fault, it's just the biggest and most widespread (well, I'd say bigotry, but somehow that often manifests itself in the form of religion and there we go again)
Nevermind me, some "sweet" old lady already told me I'd burn an eternity in hell simply for disbelieving. Nothing I do in life, other than believing in Jesus, matters
9082365 wrote: predominantly atheistic cultures
Do those exist? 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Men ... get paid more for the same jobs
That one always confuses me.
It implies that businesses are run by morons, because if women can do the same jobs for less money then surely employing only women would make profits soar. So I guess most business owners are morons.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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GuyThiebaut wrote: businesses are run by morons
What word confuses you? 
To put that in perspective, entire countries are run by morons!
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why does it confuse you?
A well known quote is
"A womans work is never done"
Surely this explains why they get payed less 
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Cornelius Henning wrote: When is International Man's day?
Every other day of the year. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Cornelius Henning wrote: When is International Man's day?
You should ask Richard Herring[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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It's like White History Month... Doesn't exist...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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