You seem to be trying to mindlessly slap a silly label on me just as quickly as you would like to do it to ISIS. Similarly you are also overlooking the fact that calling them "evil" only helps their cause, as it helps them to portray themselves as victims of hate and oppression (they are, after all, trying to "reclaim the holy lands", amongst other things). During the crusades, the Christians called the Muslims "evil" - and didn't really get what they were after. Just as you make yourself look silly and childish when you call someone else "evil", you end up building up their own local PR.
Evil is a word that describes cartoon villains. Evil is a word that young children use. Evil is a word that makes the argument against the labelled person (or group) itself look childish. Refusal to use the word evil does not in any way suggest an endorsement of the thing that would otherwise be labelled as evil, it just shows that there are better ways to describe the actions and philosophy.
We can adequately describe the difference between them and ourselves without reducing our own discourse to such absurdly childish terminology.
We really live in a more complicated world than that; terms like "evil" have led us into really awful and short-sighted situations before. Perhaps this guy could have phrased his tweet a little more elegantly, but he does have a point that civilized discourse should not reduce itself to calling people - or organizations of people - "evil" (although twitter doesn't help that).
You don't really expect the editors to catch that, do you? Slashdot editors are too busy sending out their resumes to every job opening they can think of. This gig is secondary to them.
It really seems that most people go out that day to buy something for themselves. I guess you can call it a gift to oneself, but that doesn't really seem in line with the idea of the holiday.
I'm comparing this to Benghazi, which the conservatives are still busily wasting time and money attempting to wrap into a conspiracy. Because the administration waited a few days before declaring that attack the act of terrorism, it gave rise to an endless number of conspiracies and became the justification for conservatives to launch an infinite number of "investigations" into the incident. I'm just wondering how they will make this into egg on Obama's face being as he already associated it with terrorism.
We all know they gave up on music years ago, I thought all they ran now was commercials for crap I don't want to buy. I can't tell the difference between their awful reality show and infomercials.
I really don't see what this says about the candidates, other than which ones hired better webmasters. If a candidate has a shitty, unsecured website, that doesn't really say they don't understand or care about security, it just shows they didn't pick a webmaster who does. And how knowledgeable on IT security do we expect the POTUS to be? We don't usually blame the CEO of a company when their website is hacked.
They are wise not to buy them. I have never made a worse financial decision in my life than becoming a home owner, I discourage everyone I meet from ever purchasing real estate. Renting an inexpensive place and spending the difference on hard drugs is a far better idea.
They can't really say they are 100% committed to protecting peoples' privacy when they keep pushing out the facebook app - which is of course dedicated to encouraging people to give up as much of their personal information as possible.
I hear of runners running (no pun intended) into trouble when they are out practicing while wearing headphones. If she's just getting started, do you really want to prioritize on that?
That would be a more valuable feature to me. There are times when I start firefox and I know there is a tab that is going haywire but I can't figure out which one it is...
That did seem really, really, slow; I must have misread something along the way. Indeed the previous entry here says 10 seconds, thank you for the correction.
The problem is that it was one person with an army of bots doing what they pleased, rather than a collaborative clusterfuck like pokemon was, so nobody was having any fun except the botnet owner.
Sure, but as I recall, it was only going to take one keystroke (including space or enter) per 10 minutes. Hence
wget a
would take an hour to enter. I'm surprised they got this far in so little time.
I expect some people are trying to figure out a way to install another OS on top of (or somehow in place of) Arch Linux.
And I suspect others saw this as coming as well. I will say though, I see gentoo as being somewhat snippy and uninspired for this. I would have been really impressed had they managed to install OS X or Windows through this manner (likely the only time in my life I've said that about the latter).
I see that they take the most popular keystroke from the chat. But how do you enter an enter - or how do you distinguish an enter from a space? It is supposed to go one stroke at a time, every 10 minutes. This could be really interesting.
Does anyone have an idea of how many key strokes are required to install Arch Linux? Take that and multiply by 10 to get the minimum amount of time to complete this in minutes. It will be interesting to see how far off the end product is, both in terms of time and final components. I expect some people are trying to figure out a way to install another OS on top of (or somehow in place of) Arch Linux.
The professor is teaching one section of a class where different sections are taught by different faculty. As all the students - regardless of which section they are enrolled in - are enrolled in the same course, they should all be studying the same material. While it is not impossible to ensure that this happens when different sections use different texts, it is a lot easier to ensure that this happens when everyone does use the same text.
I say the professor should have brought up his concerns with the text book earlier; although working in academia I suspect he may have himself been assigned to teach that section without enough time to do so.
Certainly google's servers would burst into flames with the mental health states routinely on display here. I expect it would come back a lot like this Dilbert strip with Wally.
Precisely. The title says "campus censorship", and a lot of people have been trying to claim that universities are themselves somehow inherently unfriendly to certain kinds of speech.
Furthermore, the way the previous commenter wrote his statement -
list of the American Far Left
Is critical here. When saying "of the far left" one indicates a belief that everyone in the "far left" (for whatever that is supposed to mean) is part of at least one organization on that list. Had he instead said "from the far left" it would have been marginally better as it would at least be acknowledging the very obvious fact that there are plenty of "far left" people in this country who are not members of any of those organizations. That statement also coincides with the obvious fact that the previous commenter does not have an elementary grasp on geography as there were some organizations on there - national organization for women, for example - that had some local chapters listed and others notably absent.
If you read the cited document (I know, not a popular thing to do around here) you can see the "coalition" at the end of the document. Notably absent from here is any university or any organization authorized to speak on behalf of one. Their list is as follows:
Feminist Majority Foundation Advocates for Youth American Association of University Women Association of Reproductive Health Professionals Black Womenâ€(TM)s Blueprint Black Womenâ€(TM)s Health Imperative Center for Partnership Studies Center for Women Policy Studies Champion Women Clearinghouse on Womenâ€(TM)s Issues Digital Sisters/Sistas End Rape on Campus GLSEN Hollaback! Human Rights Campaign Institute for Science and Human Values Jewish Women International Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Legal Momentum Media Equity Collaborative Muslim Advocates National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity National Black Justice Coalition National Center for Lesbian Rights National Coalition Against Domestic Violence National Council of Jewish Women National Council of Womenâ€(TM)s Organizations National Disability Rights Network National Domestic Violence Hotline National LGBTQ Taskforce National Organization for Women National Womenâ€(TM)s Law Center SPARK Movement SurvJustice The Andrew Goodman Foundation Turning Anger into Change UltraViolet WMC Speech Project Womenâ€(TM)s Media Center YWCA USA
Local Organizations Atlanta Women for Equality Collective Action for Safe Spaces DC Coalition Against Domestic Violence DC Rape Crisis Center Democratic Womenâ€(TM)s Club of Northeast Broward Empowerment Center â€" Maryland Lincoln County Oregon Democratic Central Committee National Organization for Women â€" Akron Area, Ohio Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Beaver Valley, Pennsylvania Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Boulder, Colorado Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Brevard, Florida Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Central Oregon Coast Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Florida Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Greater Orlando, Florida Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Indiana Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Maryland Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Middlesex County, New Jersey Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Ni-Ta-Nee, Pennsylvania Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Oregon Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Palm Beach County, Florida Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Pennsylvania Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Rhode Island Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Shore Area, New Jersey Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Tacoma, Washington Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Tampa, Florida Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Thurston County, Washington Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Virginia Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Washington Chapter National Organization for Women â€" Washington, DC Chapter Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. PFLAG Oregon Central Coast Womenâ€(TM)s Production Network (Florida)
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You seem to be trying to mindlessly slap a silly label on me just as quickly as you would like to do it to ISIS. Similarly you are also overlooking the fact that calling them "evil" only helps their cause, as it helps them to portray themselves as victims of hate and oppression (they are, after all, trying to "reclaim the holy lands", amongst other things). During the crusades, the Christians called the Muslims "evil" - and didn't really get what they were after. Just as you make yourself look silly and childish when you call someone else "evil", you end up building up their own local PR.
Evil is a word that describes cartoon villains. Evil is a word that young children use. Evil is a word that makes the argument against the labelled person (or group) itself look childish. Refusal to use the word evil does not in any way suggest an endorsement of the thing that would otherwise be labelled as evil, it just shows that there are better ways to describe the actions and philosophy.
We can adequately describe the difference between them and ourselves without reducing our own discourse to such absurdly childish terminology.
We really live in a more complicated world than that; terms like "evil" have led us into really awful and short-sighted situations before. Perhaps this guy could have phrased his tweet a little more elegantly, but he does have a point that civilized discourse should not reduce itself to calling people - or organizations of people - "evil" (although twitter doesn't help that).
It's not Scientific America.
You don't really expect the editors to catch that, do you? Slashdot editors are too busy sending out their resumes to every job opening they can think of. This gig is secondary to them.
Black Friday is a holiday now?
I was referring to the holiday season - which in the US primarily means Christmas.
It really seems that most people go out that day to buy something for themselves. I guess you can call it a gift to oneself, but that doesn't really seem in line with the idea of the holiday.
Except I need a PS4 of course.
Thank you for sharing that with us. The Belgian police have been notified
I'm comparing this to Benghazi, which the conservatives are still busily wasting time and money attempting to wrap into a conspiracy. Because the administration waited a few days before declaring that attack the act of terrorism, it gave rise to an endless number of conspiracies and became the justification for conservatives to launch an infinite number of "investigations" into the incident. I'm just wondering how they will make this into egg on Obama's face being as he already associated it with terrorism.
The Obama Administration has already used the word "terror" in a speech about this.
We all know they gave up on music years ago, I thought all they ran now was commercials for crap I don't want to buy. I can't tell the difference between their awful reality show and infomercials.
I really don't see what this says about the candidates, other than which ones hired better webmasters. If a candidate has a shitty, unsecured website, that doesn't really say they don't understand or care about security, it just shows they didn't pick a webmaster who does. And how knowledgeable on IT security do we expect the POTUS to be? We don't usually blame the CEO of a company when their website is hacked.
They are wise not to buy them. I have never made a worse financial decision in my life than becoming a home owner, I discourage everyone I meet from ever purchasing real estate. Renting an inexpensive place and spending the difference on hard drugs is a far better idea.
They can't really say they are 100% committed to protecting peoples' privacy when they keep pushing out the facebook app - which is of course dedicated to encouraging people to give up as much of their personal information as possible.
I hear of runners running (no pun intended) into trouble when they are out practicing while wearing headphones. If she's just getting started, do you really want to prioritize on that?
That would be a more valuable feature to me. There are times when I start firefox and I know there is a tab that is going haywire but I can't figure out which one it is...
That did seem really, really, slow; I must have misread something along the way. Indeed the previous entry here says 10 seconds, thank you for the correction.
The problem is that it was one person with an army of bots doing what they pleased, rather than a collaborative clusterfuck like pokemon was, so nobody was having any fun except the botnet owner.
Sure, but as I recall, it was only going to take one keystroke (including space or enter) per 10 minutes. Hence
would take an hour to enter. I'm surprised they got this far in so little time.
I expect some people are trying to figure out a way to install another OS on top of (or somehow in place of) Arch Linux.
And I suspect others saw this as coming as well. I will say though, I see gentoo as being somewhat snippy and uninspired for this. I would have been really impressed had they managed to install OS X or Windows through this manner (likely the only time in my life I've said that about the latter).
I see that they take the most popular keystroke from the chat. But how do you enter an enter - or how do you distinguish an enter from a space? It is supposed to go one stroke at a time, every 10 minutes. This could be really interesting.
Does anyone have an idea of how many key strokes are required to install Arch Linux? Take that and multiply by 10 to get the minimum amount of time to complete this in minutes. It will be interesting to see how far off the end product is, both in terms of time and final components. I expect some people are trying to figure out a way to install another OS on top of (or somehow in place of) Arch Linux.
The professor is teaching one section of a class where different sections are taught by different faculty. As all the students - regardless of which section they are enrolled in - are enrolled in the same course, they should all be studying the same material. While it is not impossible to ensure that this happens when different sections use different texts, it is a lot easier to ensure that this happens when everyone does use the same text.
I say the professor should have brought up his concerns with the text book earlier; although working in academia I suspect he may have himself been assigned to teach that section without enough time to do so.
In other words, there is blame to go around.
Certainly google's servers would burst into flames with the mental health states routinely on display here. I expect it would come back a lot like this Dilbert strip with Wally.
Precisely. The title says "campus censorship", and a lot of people have been trying to claim that universities are themselves somehow inherently unfriendly to certain kinds of speech.
Furthermore, the way the previous commenter wrote his statement -
list of the American Far Left
Is critical here. When saying "of the far left" one indicates a belief that everyone in the "far left" (for whatever that is supposed to mean) is part of at least one organization on that list. Had he instead said "from the far left" it would have been marginally better as it would at least be acknowledging the very obvious fact that there are plenty of "far left" people in this country who are not members of any of those organizations. That statement also coincides with the obvious fact that the previous commenter does not have an elementary grasp on geography as there were some organizations on there - national organization for women, for example - that had some local chapters listed and others notably absent.
Looks like a list of the American Far Left to me.
Sure it does, if you don't understand what "Left" means and you failed US geography.