In an effort to be politically correct, the statue was to include black, white, and Hispanic firefighters. However, it was cancelled in an outcry about rewriting history -- the depicted firefighters are white. Sounds like everyone involved needs to watch this episode of South Park on loop until they understand the error of their ways.
Oh, believe me, I know what internet addiction is like. I feel claustrophobic on a computer without a net connection... >.> However, it's definitely possible to ditch the 'net for an extended period of time, unless you have commitments that mean it's necessary (as your work/study are), and even then you can cut out your personal net time. I went traveling last year, and for four months the only net access I had was the odd hour here and there in a 'net cafe, strictly to keep in email contact with family and friends. It feels weird at first, but pretty soon you feel freer for it, the best analogy I can think of is if you habitually wear a watch and then take it off. If you and your lady ever have the opportunity to just up roots and go walkabout I can highly, highly recommend it.
(Hoping to go back to northern Thailand with my girlfriend, some of the most amazing countryside I've ever seen, and the most awesome motorcycling scenery. Maybe this time instead of working south to Ko Phangan we can head northeast through Laos / Cambodia / Vietnam / China...)
You mean to say that Ramen lasers don't work by converting a powder and a dried noodle cake into a delicious snack, which then powers a geek who invents frikkin' lasers?
depending on the settings, you might lose out some dynamic range in the movies and tv shows but these have already been compressed before broadcast at studio level AND master control; meaning you can't really squash more what has been squashed already. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I'd really like to REDUCE the volume range (not sure if 'dynamic range' is the right word) of most of the movies I watch. It's nice in the theaters to have so much range that you can literally hear a pin drop, then a minute later have a jumbo jet taking off over your head. However, I live in an apartment with a busy road outside, and with my surround sound system, the only way I can still hear the quiet bits of a movie while not waking the neighbors is by constantly adjusting the volume. Recently I've taken to just playing the sound through my crummy TV speakers, because they even everything out a lot.
I'd like to see an alternate audio track "English for people with neighbors" that doesn't have tiny whispered conversations interspersed with SWELLING MAJESTIC ORCHESTRAL MUSIC!!! SEE IT SOUNDS BIG!! THE FLOOR'S SHAKING! WOW!!!! The new LotR series was a horrible culprit of that, great movies but for god's sake turn the orchestra down. >.<
To work around keyloggers, he could enter his password using character map, or store passwords in a text file on a thumb drive and cut and paste. (Unless the monitoring software stores the contents of all text files opened, or something, in which case have a big binary file with passwords inserted somewhere in the middle, and grep 'em out when needed?)
The guy did steal, he is being punished, and he is confined to home, but they make him purchase Windows? Nope. They said he can only use Windows. They're not making him buy it, just saying he has to do so if he wants to use a computer.
Wait a goddamn second...are you saying that women are SMALLER than than men? WTF are you talking about? Do you have statistics or scientific evidence to back that up? On average? Yes, yes I am. And yes I do. (see ggp post)
That's like saying that men, in general, are stronger than women. Zing.;) Apart from it being more socially acceptable, of course. Kinda like how (correct me if I'm wrong here, this is from second-hand knowledge of US culture only) you can pay out on 'white trash' as much as you want, but if you were to say 'black trash' then whoa, you're in for it.
Sorry, should have phrased that better: "women shouldn't be fighting alongside men on the front lines". Amazon units should be fine in modern, relatively-small-scale ops, although for the above reasons they still make more useful (or damaging, depending what side you're on) hostages. Also, historically, if your country was to lose 1/4 of its population in a war, having the men go off to fight and leaving the women at home will leave you with the same net troop production ability, which will give you a long term population advantage in a protracted conflict. That's assuming you're not already at the food cap, however... (damn, less RTSes for me!:P )
E.g., as an extreme example of 4, there's a whole horde of machos arguing that a woman shouldn't ever be allowed to join the army and carry a 6 pound assault rifle, because women are on the average weaker. Never mind that even a couch-potato of either sex can jolly well use one, and that the whole point of the army is to drill you and train you into the shape they want you, even if you hadn't moved more than from the couch to the fridge in your whole life before. Women shouldn't be on the front lines, but not because they'd make worse front-line soldiers than men. They'd probably perform better, all things considered (greater durability and pain tolerance, smaller size for better stealth ops, lower ration requirements and equipment material costs). The problem is that by and large, men are hardwired to protect women, and that leads to them doing stupid nonsensical things like risking a division to save a single hostage.
When I stopped working out, my BMI had me as clinically obese. I've got a fair bit more fat now, and don't look as good, but I'm back down to 'healthy'... time to hit the gym and get phat again!:P
It seems like you care more about the fact that you can add conditions to a true statement to make a new, false statement than you do about reading what I wrote.
Adding 'supposing there are weak females who bring the average down below the male average, removing them from the survey would result in females being stronger than males on average' is true but irrelevant. After that you've basically listed a bunch of reasons that women may be considered more physically fit than men, and then, in a non sequitur, conclude that the original statement doesn't stand. That's as nonsensical as your assertion that average is a "subtle concept" and that "typical" is better. If you think mode is a better measure of central tendency than mean, then by all means find some data about modal properties of humans and post that, but please don't try to redefine mean as mode just because you like it better. To be honest, your post sounds like you're trying to impress a feminist friend of yours who doesn't understand statistics.
If you want actual facts, try this. According to this research, on average:
Men are taller, heavier, leaner and stronger than women
Body weight does not correlate with knee-extensor muscle strength
Heavier men are stronger, the same does not hold true for women
Men have larger muscles than women
Men and women have statistically similar muscle strength per unit area
In both men and women, larger muscles are stronger.
None of this has any bearing on whether an individual will be suitable, successful or competent in any scenario. It's just useful information when dealing with, or predicting future observations about, populations similar to the sampled one. Trying to state otherwise is ingenuous.
Hmm... don't Australians have topless beach, beer, grilled shrimp and beer? It's not against the law to go topless*, but that doesn't mean the chicks here do it too often (apart from breastfeeding). Beaches, we have lots of. Grilled shrimp, if that's your thing. Beer? Yeah, mate, we got beer.:)
* Source: wiki. For heavens' sake, they're only breasts anyway. See them on a regular basis and they aren't any more fun to look at than anywhere else on the female body (ie. still awesome but it's possible to look away;).
My buddy, who always whoops my ass (I work out enough to be strong), always gets his elbow off the table. Well, the official rules, Article XII, Rules for the Competition, states:
23. Competitors may not intentionally attempt to cause a foul for themselves after the go, i.e. picking up elbow. So your friend was cheating.:P
Goes to show you how ridiculously profitable this stuff is under our current legal system.
No wonder people kill each other over it.
Not that I'm a fan of legalizing meth, mind you. Well, people are going to fuck their lives up with drugs whether they're legal or not. Personally, I'd prefer that they do it on quality controlled substances under medical supervision than that they go around mugging people for the cash to score hits. That way at least they don't mess up anyone ELSE.
Spend less time failing to understand mathematics and more time in the gym, and maybe you'll be stronger than the average woman. "On average, men are stronger than women" is a fact, if on average, men are indeed (as has been measured) stronger than women. Whether it's a good metric or a relevant argument is an entirely different matter.
Since this is Slashdot, I'll put it in terms you may be able to understand: I have a white sports car. It's decently fast. If someone were to research statistics of cars' top speeds, and find that on average, red cars are faster than white cars, it's irrelevant whether my white car or any other white car is faster than most red cars, because my car isn't an average white car. The statistic says that if you pick a random white car and a random red car, chances are the red car is faster.
Likewise, if it's been shown that on average men are stronger than women, and you pick a random woman and a random man, odds are that the man is physically stronger than the woman. That's not discrimination, it's statistics. Anyone telling you different is wrong.
You mean that copy protection crackable by magic markers is 'effective'? I think they mean 'effectively' in the sense of 'in effect', not 'with good performance'.
Well, from the sounds of it this has as much in common with rockets as it has with said spam. A rocket isn't "something that has expanding gas" or "something that uses hydrogen peroxide". A rocket is a device for producing thrust by ejecting propulsion mass. "Piston powered" would be more like it.
Obligatory wiki link excluded since I'm sure you're all smart enough to find it.:P
If you were like, well, most of us here - it's different because instead of getting 2% more than them in a test, or running a bit faster, you made their best academic efforts look pathetic.
Hell, I didn't realise until highschool that you were expected to lose marks on a test. The only thing I ever lost marks on was poor handwriting or teacher error.*
* no, seriously - they asked what one simple machine a hand drill was. I rightly answered that it was both a lever (the crank) and an inclined plane (the cutting edge of the bit). I was marked down for giving two answers, but the teacher would never explain how what I'd said was wrong, or what the right answer was.
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Oh, believe me, I know what internet addiction is like. I feel claustrophobic on a computer without a net connection... >.> However, it's definitely possible to ditch the 'net for an extended period of time, unless you have commitments that mean it's necessary (as your work/study are), and even then you can cut out your personal net time. I went traveling last year, and for four months the only net access I had was the odd hour here and there in a 'net cafe, strictly to keep in email contact with family and friends. It feels weird at first, but pretty soon you feel freer for it, the best analogy I can think of is if you habitually wear a watch and then take it off. If you and your lady ever have the opportunity to just up roots and go walkabout I can highly, highly recommend it.
(Hoping to go back to northern Thailand with my girlfriend, some of the most amazing countryside I've ever seen, and the most awesome motorcycling scenery. Maybe this time instead of working south to Ko Phangan we can head northeast through Laos / Cambodia / Vietnam / China...)
..!., :P
Does that qualify?
You mean to say that Ramen lasers don't work by converting a powder and a dried noodle cake into a delicious snack, which then powers a geek who invents frikkin' lasers?
You think that net connectivity is actually a biological necessity? O_o gtfo house imo.
I propose a new strategy, Chewbacca; Let the droid win!
To work around keyloggers, he could enter his password using character map, or store passwords in a text file on a thumb drive and cut and paste. (Unless the monitoring software stores the contents of all text files opened, or something, in which case have a big binary file with passwords inserted somewhere in the middle, and grep 'em out when needed?)
Au contraire! I'm finally getting enough! ;)
Sorry, should have phrased that better: "women shouldn't be fighting alongside men on the front lines". Amazon units should be fine in modern, relatively-small-scale ops, although for the above reasons they still make more useful (or damaging, depending what side you're on) hostages. Also, historically, if your country was to lose 1/4 of its population in a war, having the men go off to fight and leaving the women at home will leave you with the same net troop production ability, which will give you a long term population advantage in a protracted conflict. That's assuming you're not already at the food cap, however... (damn, less RTSes for me! :P )
When I stopped working out, my BMI had me as clinically obese. I've got a fair bit more fat now, and don't look as good, but I'm back down to 'healthy'... time to hit the gym and get phat again! :P
Adding 'supposing there are weak females who bring the average down below the male average, removing them from the survey would result in females being stronger than males on average' is true but irrelevant. After that you've basically listed a bunch of reasons that women may be considered more physically fit than men, and then, in a non sequitur, conclude that the original statement doesn't stand. That's as nonsensical as your assertion that average is a "subtle concept" and that "typical" is better. If you think mode is a better measure of central tendency than mean, then by all means find some data about modal properties of humans and post that, but please don't try to redefine mean as mode just because you like it better. To be honest, your post sounds like you're trying to impress a feminist friend of yours who doesn't understand statistics.
If you want actual facts, try this. According to this research, on average:
None of this has any bearing on whether an individual will be suitable, successful or competent in any scenario. It's just useful information when dealing with, or predicting future observations about, populations similar to the sampled one. Trying to state otherwise is ingenuous.
* Source: wiki. For heavens' sake, they're only breasts anyway. See them on a regular basis and they aren't any more fun to look at than anywhere else on the female body (ie. still awesome but it's possible to look away
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No wonder people kill each other over it.
Not that I'm a fan of legalizing meth, mind you. Well, people are going to fuck their lives up with drugs whether they're legal or not. Personally, I'd prefer that they do it on quality controlled substances under medical supervision than that they go around mugging people for the cash to score hits. That way at least they don't mess up anyone ELSE.
Spend less time failing to understand mathematics and more time in the gym, and maybe you'll be stronger than the average woman. "On average, men are stronger than women" is a fact, if on average, men are indeed (as has been measured) stronger than women. Whether it's a good metric or a relevant argument is an entirely different matter.
Since this is Slashdot, I'll put it in terms you may be able to understand: I have a white sports car. It's decently fast. If someone were to research statistics of cars' top speeds, and find that on average, red cars are faster than white cars, it's irrelevant whether my white car or any other white car is faster than most red cars, because my car isn't an average white car. The statistic says that if you pick a random white car and a random red car, chances are the red car is faster.
Likewise, if it's been shown that on average men are stronger than women, and you pick a random woman and a random man, odds are that the man is physically stronger than the woman. That's not discrimination, it's statistics. Anyone telling you different is wrong.
Sir, you make an excellent point!
You mean that copy protection crackable by magic markers is 'effective'? I think they mean 'effectively' in the sense of 'in effect', not 'with good performance'.
I do not think it means what you think it means.
Well, from the sounds of it this has as much in common with rockets as it has with said spam. A rocket isn't "something that has expanding gas" or "something that uses hydrogen peroxide". A rocket is a device for producing thrust by ejecting propulsion mass. "Piston powered" would be more like it.
:P
Obligatory wiki link excluded since I'm sure you're all smart enough to find it.
If you were like, well, most of us here - it's different because instead of getting 2% more than them in a test, or running a bit faster, you made their best academic efforts look pathetic.
Hell, I didn't realise until highschool that you were expected to lose marks on a test. The only thing I ever lost marks on was poor handwriting or teacher error.*
* no, seriously - they asked what one simple machine a hand drill was. I rightly answered that it was both a lever (the crank) and an inclined plane (the cutting edge of the bit). I was marked down for giving two answers, but the teacher would never explain how what I'd said was wrong, or what the right answer was.