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Universities have become a haven of political correctness, speech-banning, and catering to every special flower at the expense of critical thinking, diversity, and learning. It doesn't help that the costs have gone through the roof and the average graduate (those who actually do graduate) are often less educated than high-school students of many years ago.

If you want to understand why most Conservatives are so upset about the state of Universities/Colleges, just check out some PragerU videos on the topic:

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I certainly don't agree with everything Prager U puts out, but they have lots of very good points that are well illustrated, well supported, and educational.

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Universities have become a haven of political correctness, speech-banning, and catering to every special flower at the expense of critical thinking, diversity, and learning. It doesn't help that the costs have gone through the roof and the average graduate (those who actually do graduate) are often less educated than high-school students of many years ago.

If you want to understand why most Conservatives are so upset about the state of Universities/Colleges, just check out some PragerU videos on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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I certainly don't agree with everything Prager U puts out, but they have lots of very good points that are well illustrated, well supported, and educational.

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Universities have become a haven of political correctness, speech-banning, and catering to every special flower at the expense of critical thinking, diversity, and learning. It doesn't help that the costs have gone through the roof and the average graduate (those who actually do graduate) are often less educated than high-school students of many years ago.

If you want to understand why most Conservatives are so upset about the state of Universities/Colleges, just check out some PragerU videos on the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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I certainly don't agree with everything Prager U puts out, but they have lots of very good points that are well illustrated, well supported, and educational.

Indeed. Maybe those with this opinion have seen the leftist nutjob ideologues taking over campuses and demanding administrative control, assaulting journalists ("I need some muscle over here"), setting fires and beating people for the crime of trying to attend a speaking event, and even trying to implement segregration, often while the faculty and administration either approve or cheer them on.

And with the internet, the leftist media can't cover it up anymore.

Propaganda works by citing a Russian invasion of Crimea that never happened

During 2014, maybe, it was excusable to believe this lie.

But when, a year later, Russian TV broadcast an entire movie celebrating the invasion — and Putin's direct involvement in it — the excuse vanished. In particular, during the interview, that is part of the film, Putin says:

I ordered Minister of Defense, why hide, under the guise of reinforcing our military installations in Crimea, to transfer forces of GRU there, marines, and paratroopers. [...] Our advantage was that I was personally involved. Not because I did everything right, but because the country's top people are involved, things are easier for the operators on the ground".

The cat's been out of the bag since March 2015. Your continuing to lie about it does not help Russia — it just exposes you as an asshole.

Lie to people often enough and they eventually believe it.

Yep, this is generally true. But it will not help you here.

Battlefield 1 is fine using ~10 threads here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Lots of games would run like complete garbage if you forced them to run on one core without hyper-threading.

This is what a little bad publicity will do in the face of a typical government bureaucratic snafu. It's the same thing with other giant corporations. Nothing happens to resolve your issue until your issue becomes an embarrassment to them, and someone high enough up the food chain takes action.

Anyhow, best of luck to those young women. I hope their experience visiting the US is a positive one, despite the initial circumstances, and that they can make a positive impact on the future of their country.

* Corporate IM. Require all remote employees to keep it running.
* Collaboration software (e.g. webex, GoToMeeting, etc):

Hah. Of course remote workers need this to communicate. The problem is us non-WFH types must now attend to yet another comm channel.

As if face-to-face meetings, email, phone, mobile, 'enterprise social' (yammer and friends), noticeboards and paper circulars dropped off at your desk weren't quite enough. Now we must attend to ICQ's modern descendants going 'uh-oh' as well.

Can't replace a guy like that. Thanks Jerry,

  Jerry Orbach Law and Order

Good point. Either way, it's good herd management, to keep the tax cows healthy.

I've been on Slashdot for a while, so I know a bit about cows (MOOOOO).
As far as I know, paying taxes is not one of the things that cows do.

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And good God! That's Ron Howard and now I know where that "Slister Slister!" quote comes from.

They are motors. Specifically A/C motors. Very common.

Also, there is no need for a transmission,
or an alternator
or belts
or oil
or spark plugs
or an exhaust
or an intake
or emissions control systems
etc.

All that is needed is a controller and a battery. With the exception of the Leaf, add a cooling system for the battery. See for yourself.

It is hard to believe that automakers can't make something this simple within a year. They have had at least 20 years since CARB mandated it.

They are motors. Specifically A/C motors. Very common.

Also, there is no need for a transmission,
or an alternator
or belts
or oil
or spark plugs
or an exhaust
or an intake
or emissions control systems
etc.

All that is needed is a controller and a battery. With the exception of the Leaf, add a cooling system for the battery. See for yourself.

It is hard to believe that automakers can't make something this simple within a year. They have had at least 20 years since CARB mandated it.

How many so-called christians are still arguing against same-sex marriage? About wanting to be able to legally discriminate against gays and lesbians? About wanting to tell transsexual women they have to expose themselves to danger by having to pee in men's bathrooms?

Also, the 2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings left 3 dead and 9 wounded. The killer was a delusional fundamentalist christian, probably stirred up by all the anti-planned parenthood hype the fundies have been pushing. So whether he was "really" a christian or not, fundie christians have to bear much of the responsibility for the killings. Same as they do for other violent acts. Same as the pastor calling for hunting permits

You're also being totally ignorant about all the killings done by Christians in Uganda - pushed by American evangelicals. And trying to export it to other parts of the continent, including South Africa.

And the baptist minister who, during the election campaign, said to kill the gays as the cure for AIDS. And of course, there's the rampant pedophilia in many Christian churches. More of his rants here. A chip off the old Westboro Baptist block.

Freedom of speech is not a license to foment hate. Fortunately, other countries are banning such stupidity.

How many so-called christians are still arguing against same-sex marriage? About wanting to be able to legally discriminate against gays and lesbians? About wanting to tell transsexual women they have to expose themselves to danger by having to pee in men's bathrooms?

Also, the 2015 Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings left 3 dead and 9 wounded. The killer was a delusional fundamentalist christian, probably stirred up by all the anti-planned parenthood hype the fundies have been pushing. So whether he was "really" a christian or not, fundie christians have to bear much of the responsibility for the killings. Same as they do for other violent acts. Same as the pastor calling for hunting permits

You're also being totally ignorant about all the killings done by Christians in Uganda - pushed by American evangelicals. And trying to export it to other parts of the continent, including South Africa.

And the baptist minister who, during the election campaign, said to kill the gays as the cure for AIDS. And of course, there's the rampant pedophilia in many Christian churches. More of his rants here. A chip off the old Westboro Baptist block.

Freedom of speech is not a license to foment hate. Fortunately, other countries are banning such stupidity.

Some news you Americans missed:

U.S. accused of trying to incite a civil war by the Ukrainian government in 2013
(use googles/youtubes closed captioning)

That was about a year before we kicked off the overthrow.

Encoding information in DNA is just one step toward achieving a larger goal: data logging into cell genomes. What Seth Shipman is trying figure out more about our brains like how neurons determine which type of thing to become. From his own page:

Yet, despite identical genetics, the neurons in our brain are remarkably diverse at the molecular level – diversity that defines unique cellular properties (think morphology, localization, projection profile, and neurotransmitter type for example) that can be used to classify the mature cell into a category of cell-type.

This video has more information.

How about the US repeal the nonsense "chick war" tariff on pick up trucks? see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Good point. Either way, it's good herd management, to keep the tax cows healthy.

Further, the fact that more people of a particular race are persecuted is not a reflection of bias in the data, rather a bias in the prosecution.

Not necessarily....black people DO commit a large proportion of violent crimes than other races in the US, per capita.

They are only about 13-15% of the population, but commit vastly more violent crimes in the US.

Skip to about 1:09 on the video to get to the meat of the presentation.

Gamers Nexus did 2 videos comparing a 2008 era i7 and a 2011 era 2600k and the AMD was lacking in many benchmarks and games.

My citations are here and here where the 2600k beats the newer Ryzen even further?

I was entertaining the idea of upgrading to an 1800 but my 2014 haswell is just faster unless you do just video editing

Gamers Nexus did 2 videos comparing a 2008 era i7 and a 2011 era 2600k and the AMD was lacking in many benchmarks and games.

My citations are here and here where the 2600k beats the newer Ryzen even further?

I was entertaining the idea of upgrading to an 1800 but my 2014 haswell is just faster unless you do just video editing

Ben Affleck is that you?

GE did a story on it that they posted to youtube years ago.

Probably my favorite part of this story hitting the news is that the spokesperson for this treatment is the girl from the above video. She's 12 now and still completely cancer free. I'm very glad to see she's doing well.

do you really enjoy the phrase '14yo wankers' or do you suffer from some kind of obesity-induced autism that compels you to say it as many times as possible

I was previously using "asshat" as a general description of my critics. But Eli the Computer Guy summed up in a recent video who my real critics are on Slashdot: the 14-year-old wankers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUcFStmtr7k

I can do better than that.

I can do better than that.

I can do better than that.

I can do better than that.

Futurama already did it.

... with blackjack and hookers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The '70s was the golden age of masturbation songs.
My favourite is Skyhooks "Smut" from the album "Living in the 70s".

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Here's a few PSI difference

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you fucking monkey, you think because you have EE in your name this gives you insight on things outside your field?

You mean, on a tanker that it's not meant to have a vacuum inside? You mean, on a tanker they specifically had to dent, because it wouldn't collapse otherwise? Yeah, you're a bright fella... keep telling yourself that.

To assist reading, I would prefer using keywords. For example, 'not A and B' rather than '!A && B'. It seems to improve readability, less error prone (no accidental 'A & B', which is 'A bitand B' with keywords).

I don't know your teaching methodologies, but please watch the Stop Teaching C presentation by Kate Gregory, where she shares her experience on teaching C++ and how to make it less confusing for novices.

As foretold by Methus- I mean, George Carlin
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It's for adrenaline junkies. When the first ding appears in that metal tube, which is far to thin to be considered safe, it will collapse in a split second and trap/crush anybody inside. Some people enjoy skydiving with those wing suits for the rush. Dangerous, and you may not die this time, but people do die. When the fist accident happens, the illiterati of America will be outraged and surprised. How could anyone know that it isn't safe?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

They should have used a pressure differential system, like the tubes at the bank drive through.

Well, arguably Star Trek did not make "wholesale gathering of our voice comms acceptable." At least in The Original Series, you usually had to flip a switch to talk to the computer.

That said, it seems like everything was recorded...

Here's a few PSI difference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

you fucking monkey, you think because you have EE in your name this gives you insight on things outside your field?

... albeit for a somewhat different reading problem, by Victor Borge. Code walk-throught meetings will never be the same.

Perhaps you should consider looking to Victor Borge for advice...

mobile radio transmitter to broadcast a stronger signal on the radio station's normal frequency

Soooooo... that's hacking? Is the verb "hack" just equivalent to "did a nefarious thing" now... on Slashdot? Like, we don't even need computers, internets, IPs, mobiles, or two people on a keyboard to call it hacking?

I'm becoming convinced that the editors just post shit to give us two minutes of rage and keep up the time-on-page metrics, instead of actually posting news for nerds.

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There were some early tests of the concept, but rider reviews were ... mixed.

" I'm multitasking other items at work. "

Sitting on two chairs at once isn't really "multitasking", Chris... No matter what your girlfriend thinks

The funny thing is that traditional football (pre-dating "soccer" by several hundred years), used A LOT more hands and tackling, not to mention standing around, throwing punching, and biting, than modern soccer or even Rugby, American, or Aussie Football.

The closest thing to oirginal football is Italian Calcio Storico.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The smashing, violence, and beatings is overwhelmingly coming from the left. That's how it's been for many years.

I have to agree.

So you feel obligated to agree with a falsehood? Interesting. Why not challenge it? Why not consider how the FBI's report on right-wing violence was suppressed?

My personal theory is that many of the violent people have convinced themselves that their political enemies are in fact bad people and "fair game" for anything.

Yes, the right goes out of its way to declare that people on the left are, in fact, bad people, and see themselves as the martyred heroes for saving themselves from the dastardly villains. That was, in fact, the whole justification of Nazi aggression.

Ever so slightly interesting that you don't mention it.

But it's hardly unknown, it's even in this movie trailer.

It goes like this: It's okay to punch a Nazi; conservatives are all Nazis... and then comes the punching.

Actually, it's conservatives who go to tortuous lengths to declare that liberals are Nazis. It's terribly amusing, and rather pathetic. Not to mention the Muslim accusations, the Communist accusations, and more.

Of course, it turns out the people dumb enough to sell out to the Russians were Trumps, but we can't be paying attention to that.

Here is a web page linking multiple articles arguing that the violence used to prevent Milo Yiannopolous from speaking at Berkeley was justified. "Violence helped ensure safety of students" is a real headline. There was also this quote: "...some white nationalists got their ***** beat." (Just like the Nazi thing above, only this time using "white nationalist". Someone who wanted to hear Milo speak --> white nationalist --> someone it's okay to send to the hospital.)

Here's a video of those white Nationalists's major work:

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365957904/

Do see how they're behaving and justifying themselves.

Even the removal of statues leads to threats of violence.

Some people can't even worship in peace.

Yet you show not the slightest concern about that.

Also, the media coverage may tend to embolden these people. The people who smash things, light things on fire, and send people to the hospital are described as "protesters". The people who wanted to hear Milo speak are described as "alt-Right extremists". I don't want to overstate the contribution of the media but I think it's a part.

The media coverage of the feigned victimization of right-wing speakers was indeed a part, people actually started to believe it was a real problem, or some sudden development, until it petered out, as comments by Milo that even the right-wing couldn't stomach came out, and he, the poster-child for the supposed martydom, became a persona non-grata. So it petered out.

Personally I think that the correct remedy for bad speech is counter-speech.

So not walking away? Not ignoring them? You don't say they're unacceptable, but why not correct?

But ok, enjoy my speech.

Violence isn't acceptable to prevent speech, even if you really disagree.

So is h

Have been harassed in real life.

And it's all done by leftists.

This is pathetic and hilarious all at the same time. And people think Liberals are the snowflakes...

sounds just like a troll justifying trolling...

abuse is abuse

Sure let's go with that. Going by your own post, the above is harassment. Please send victimbux to email address next to UID.

But let's roll with some examples: Kotaku defends why they incited harassment against nintendo. Leftwing journo say's they're being harassed after lying and sicing antifa on other journalists. One of the "big name" people who claimed Gamergate=harassment engaging in harassment. Her organization engaging in targeted harassment, media gives no shits because it doesn't fit the narrative. People directly linked to her organization engage in doxing and harassment. Just remember it's okay when one ideology does it, but only one. Also remember existing is harassment. If you want more examples, try Tim Pool.

sounds just like a troll justifying trolling...

abuse is abuse

Sure let's go with that. Going by your own post, the above is harassment. Please send victimbux to email address next to UID.

But let's roll with some examples: Kotaku defends why they incited harassment against nintendo. Leftwing journo say's they're being harassed after lying and sicing antifa on other journalists. One of the "big name" people who claimed Gamergate=harassment engaging in harassment. Her organization engaging in targeted harassment, media gives no shits because it doesn't fit the narrative. People directly linked to her organization engage in doxing and harassment. Just remember it's okay when one ideology does it, but only one. Also remember existing is harassment. If you want more examples, try Tim Pool.