Posts by GT66

You can be certain that if it was a man like Brad Pitt or George Clooney or Prince William doing the cat calling, the "victim" would be gushing about it for weeks. Funny how women can adjust their sensibilities like that. I also find it odd that she would have a camera at the ready for such a quick and fleeting occurrence. Especially, since in all my years and having spent time in Philly, I never heard a catcall being shouted at any woman on the street (not that I doubt it happens) but TBH, if this woman gets so many that she can just snap, snap, snap away with her camera then she must look like the Seinfeld Oh'Henry candy bar heiress character walking down the street in a bra and open blazer. In other words, how do we know she isn't baiting?

Also, the slippery slope here (as with other picto-revenge projects that claim to be because of abuse or harassment) is the allegation of and conviction for a crime whose only occurrence is demonstrated by the photographer's after the fact rationalization. This person could be taking pictures of random people on the street and ascribing all sorts of behaviors to them that are simply untrue and then seeking out her own justice. This is vigilantism.

At least in the case of revenge porn, it is straight up harassment and can be dealt with as such. This on the other hand seeks to create a veneer of legitimacy intended to appeal to people's protective natures and cause them to dismiss the vigilantism with the typical, "He must have done something to deserve it" excuse that tends to accompany men being treated badly justification.

If these men *DID* do the behavior, let her go tol the police and submit her testimony, the picture and a complaint of harassment. Otherwise, she's no better than any other lynch mob.

Nokia's failure

Nokia's dogmatic belief that they needed their own OS is what set them on the path to their doom. They clung to that belief until their only choice was to run into Microsoft's death grip. Expect "new" phones from Nokia to be packed with Microsoft features like brown cases, and half baked OS capabilities. Expect cutting edge branding like Zune II or "Surface XYZ" and most importantly, expect the phones to be priced far higher than all competitors while delivering much, much less.

Microsoft IS NOT Google. The sooner it realizes that, the better their chances of not becoming the next Sun.

How to shoot yourself in the foot American style.

I already did my charity work when I bought the deeply discounted and completely dead ended HP tablet. You'll have to find another sucker Stevie.

This country is messed up

Well, I guess getting an H1B at half the rate of the citizen that *was* doing the job makes it worth it. What confounds me is that the government stupidly thinks foreigners feel some debt of gratitude or loyalty to this country. Perhaps they don't simply because they see how the government treats its citizens.

If you want a job in this country it seems like the simplest way anymore is to leave the country, renounce your citizenship and then come back as an illegal or under an H1B. That you have an American university degree is a bonus as they like to know that the foreign workers they are replacing American citizens with have the same education.

Fathers

"while there were no role models in the industry, teens look to their fathers." You mean the UK still has these? In the US, women have had fatherhood outsourced to the government and the prison system.

That byline is totally worthless without an accompanying picture of George Costanza eating the eclair he pulled out of the trash.

Hello Windows 3.1. I have wondered where you've been.

Seems like more of a cheat than a loophole - like running down the aisle of a moving train. Sure, technically you are moving faster than the train is but you are never going to arrive ahead of the train so ultimately, you are only as fast as the carrier regardless of how fast you are moving on the carrier.

That said, forgive my layman's understanding of this article if I have completely missed the mark.

Media player software that doesn't play media: another Microsoft innovation!