PS. His sexist comments are rubbish too. I usually like his crypto posts, however, as long as they are technical rather than legal...
Paul's sexist comments are very interesting - I hope to find more time to comment on them too. I don't know if they have the same kind of "affirmative action" in the U.K. that they have in the U.S. - here if you find a woman in the position of authority, there's a good chance that she was promoted ahead of more qualified men to meet some quota, and is therefore incompetent.
We do not have such laws as far as I`m aware (I try to know as little as possible about law and finance/econimics as I find them intensely boring, even if they are necessary knowledge as a proponent of freedom of action and speech) but in my experience a number of employers promote women ahead of men in order to avoid costly industrial tribunals brought for discrimination. I also believe for the same reasons a lot of known homosexuals, blacks, <insert minority group of choice here> are promoted ahead of more qualified white, straight males. Datacomms Technologies web authoring and data security Paul Bradley, Paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk Paul@crypto.uk.eu.org, Paul@cryptography.uk.eu.org Http://www.cryptography.home.ml.org/ Email for PGP public key, ID: 5BBFAEB1 "Don`t forget to mount a scratch monkey"