it's basicly a yellow brown ring slightly out from the pupil on a blue background. You wouldn't notice it much unless you were looking for it. I've seen similar eye colours with the ring further out or with different shading or different background colours or even different coloured rings in the same place but the exact combination seems to run in my dad's family and I've never seen it far from his home town. It seems to be dominant since the majority of kids in the family exibit it.
The point was that skin color gets treated as special.
If I put a job ad in the paper with a line "all applicants must have black hair or be willing to dye their hair black" nobody would bat an eyelid. If I put a job ad in the paper with a line "all applicants must have white skin or be willing to dye their skin white" (assuming there were an easy way to change skin colour) I'd have to be careful of letterbombs.
Either way they "HAVE TO" to get the job.
People get offended because skin colour is "holy" when in reality it isn't important in the slightest.
"simple, inefficient, based on the oldest technology they can get away with, and remains unchanged pretty much as long as they aren't forced to improve it." "complete polar opposite of NASA tech"
Seems the safest place for it. The only risk is at launch and I imagine they'll be very paranoid about that bit. Once it's on the moon it's great. nothing can go wrong which will bother any of us back on earth and it produces enough power for a small town.
thing is that it's the moon, there's no rain, no wind, no groundwater. no need to bury it. just find a crater a little out of the way and make it into a big pile.
If in future the prospect if the land being needed comes up then you just load it up into a truck and deal with it properly since that that point there would likely be more machinery around.
You could even produce an artificial "race" by setting up one group who all have a certain mark on their forheads but otherwise have no connection. Someone who gets mugged by someone with that mark is unlikely to trust the next person they see with that mark even though that group is totally artifical and they have no other links. etc.
You can use it in your favour as well. Whatever race you are try to slot into one of his groups. If you know what clothes the interviewer is going to wear try to dress as alike as possible. Speak the same. If he speaks kings English do the same. If he speaks like an AOL user speak the same then shoot yourself. If he's wearing a tie steal your competitions tie.(search for "derren brown" "train station") Skin colour is just another distinguishing feature. If you were white but had some freaky tattoo on your face from growing up in some cultish little community you'd likely be at even more of a disadvantage.
I have a very odd eye colour. I've only ever seen it around the area where my dad was born. It's a fair bet that anyone who shares that same eye colour is a blood relation of some kind and shares other genes. Helping them helps my genes as well.
Now say I have blue skin. Anyone who shares that same skin colour is more likely to be a blood relation however distant. etc
of course with the numbers of people involved white/black is a very tenuous connection but a connection none the less.
Yes, black jeans weren't as good as black trousers. The only variation was that it was easiest of all with glasses rather than with contacts or without. My guess is that "guys with glasses start less fights" or are percieved to.
Why is it whenever I hear the term "the white/black race" I cringe a little. It's a bloody adaption to resist radiation. There are people out there with white skin to whom you're more distantly related than you are to others with black skin. You're as closely related to the aborigines in australia and the indians as some of the people from different tribes in africa are to each other. Ya for a few generations you can get some outbreeding depression but it's very slight and right now resources are pleantiful enough that the odd mutations and the chances for 2 step mutations they bring can be supported. distinctness isn't a big advantage. it's part of the reason why certain "purebreed" dogs are utter nutcases.
You can't and _shouldn't_ have to dye the color of your skin.
"_shouldn't_"??? Wow, this is part of it though. Skin color is holy. it's alright to change your hair colour but changing your skin colour is some kind of betrayal. If tomorrow someone developed a method as easy and cheap as hair dye to change your skin colour would you look down on people who took advantage of it? if yes why?
It's a pity about the lack of souls... Has that one increased quite a bit of late? I think southpark made that one fun for a while. There are some Gingers without light skin or freckles. They are called 'Daywalkers.'
Here it's "foxy" and or "carrot top". Used to annoy my sister no end:D
Interesting though that I can say "I only find women with black hair attractive" and nobody will blink. If I however say "I only find women with black/white skin attractive" Suddenly I'm a flavour of racist.
Hell I could probably get away with including "applicants must have black hair" on a job ad and get away with it.
they're both nothing more than pigments but if you use one to make a descision about people then you're a dirty racist.
Lets adjust your experiment. Put 2 groups of people who know nothing about how the world works into a room, half wearing all white clothes, half wearing all black clothes but otherwise few other distinguishing features.
Let them mill around a little. I'd put money down you'd end up with most of the black shirts on one side and all the white shirts on the other. Leave it for a little while for people to get used to it.
Now bring in a researcher in white or black clothes and do the 2 experiments with each group. I'd bet my right arm you'd get a better reaction from people wearing the same as the researcher.
it's tribalism and it's very hardwired into peoples heads.
Back in the day I used a simple method of getting into clubs without challenge. I wore black. In the same style as the bouncers.
The basis: Since I was dressed the same as the bouncers they were more inclined to treat me in a positive way. And it worked. very very well. When I didn't wear black I tended to be challenged much more etc.
Now people are hardwired to act like this. Someone who dresses the same, acts the same looks the same is more likely to be trusted than someone who looks or acts in a very different manner. It's tribalism. Wanna bet you're immune?
As far as I'm concerned skin colour is no more important than hair colour.(damn dirty gingers!)Is reacting more positively to someone with brown hair than to someone with blond hair racist?
Lets just throw in that distracting "talking" thing which many people are utterly addicted to. They waste hours every day talking or being talked at. Many love to exchange lots of gossip and when they hear something juicy or tell a joke and their reward center is triggered by another talker reacting positively they get a buzz like with a slot machine and it can be terrible for your concentration.
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no no, they're the ones who I'm giving an advantage to!
The "some sort of hairbraned scheme like this. " bit threw me off, otherwise I would have taken it as simply a joke.
it's basicly a yellow brown ring slightly out from the pupil on a blue background. You wouldn't notice it much unless you were looking for it. I've seen similar eye colours with the ring further out or with different shading or different background colours or even different coloured rings in the same place but the exact combination seems to run in my dad's family and I've never seen it far from his home town. It seems to be dominant since the majority of kids in the family exibit it.
Replace "black hair" with "purple hair".
Now who am I discriminating against? What protected race,creed or gender?
The point was that skin color gets treated as special.
If I put a job ad in the paper with a line "all applicants must have black hair or be willing to dye their hair black"
nobody would bat an eyelid.
If I put a job ad in the paper with a line "all applicants must have white skin or be willing to dye their skin white" (assuming there were an easy way to change skin colour)
I'd have to be careful of letterbombs.
Either way they "HAVE TO" to get the job.
People get offended because skin colour is "holy" when in reality it isn't important in the slightest.
"simple, inefficient, based on the oldest technology they can get away with, and remains unchanged pretty much as long as they aren't forced to improve it."
"complete polar opposite of NASA tech"
space shuttle anyone?
the eye colour thing is real though you have to know what to look for to spot it.
the 2 weeks of darkness cut off some of that radiation and it's easier to use tried and tested methods before looking for oddball ones.
Seems the safest place for it.
The only risk is at launch and I imagine they'll be very paranoid about that bit.
Once it's on the moon it's great. nothing can go wrong which will bother any of us back on earth and it produces enough power for a small town.
thing is that it's the moon, there's no rain, no wind, no groundwater.
no need to bury it.
just find a crater a little out of the way and make it into a big pile.
If in future the prospect if the land being needed comes up then you just load it up into a truck and deal with it properly since that that point there would likely be more machinery around.
Hell,the place is already radioactive.
You could even produce an artificial "race" by setting up one group who all have a certain mark on their forheads but otherwise have no connection.
Someone who gets mugged by someone with that mark is unlikely to trust the next person they see with that mark even though that group is totally artifical and they have no other links. etc.
You can use it in your favour as well.
Whatever race you are try to slot into one of his groups.
If you know what clothes the interviewer is going to wear try to dress as alike as possible.
Speak the same. If he speaks kings English do the same. If he speaks like an AOL user speak the same then shoot yourself. If he's wearing a tie steal your competitions tie.(search for "derren brown" "train station") Skin colour is just another distinguishing feature. If you were white but had some freaky tattoo on your face from growing up in some cultish little community you'd likely be at even more of a disadvantage.
I have a very odd eye colour. I've only ever seen it around the area where my dad was born. It's a fair bet that anyone who shares that same eye colour is a blood relation of some kind and shares other genes. Helping them helps my genes as well.
Now say I have blue skin. Anyone who shares that same skin colour is more likely to be a blood relation however distant. etc
of course with the numbers of people involved white/black is a very tenuous connection but a connection none the less.
Yes, black jeans weren't as good as black trousers. The only variation was that it was easiest of all with glasses rather than with contacts or without. My guess is that "guys with glasses start less fights" or are percieved to.
Unless the NIMBY crowd change to NIMOrbit
lol.
what was the phrase.
"only in america can a poor black boy grow up to be a rich white woman"
I meant something as simple and hard to spot as hair dye.
Crazy people aren't the only ones who might choose this.
Why is it whenever I hear the term "the white/black race" I cringe a little.
It's a bloody adaption to resist radiation.
There are people out there with white skin to whom you're more distantly related than you are to others with black skin.
You're as closely related to the aborigines in australia and the indians as some of the people from different tribes in africa are to each other.
Ya for a few generations you can get some outbreeding depression but it's very slight and right now resources are pleantiful enough that the odd mutations and the chances for 2 step mutations they bring can be supported.
distinctness isn't a big advantage. it's part of the reason why certain "purebreed" dogs are utter nutcases.
You can't and _shouldn't_ have to dye the color of your skin.
"_shouldn't_"???
Wow, this is part of it though. Skin color is holy. it's alright to change your hair colour but changing your skin colour is some kind of betrayal.
If tomorrow someone developed a method as easy and cheap as hair dye to change your skin colour would you look down on people who took advantage of it? if yes why?
It's a pity about the lack of souls...
Has that one increased quite a bit of late? I think southpark made that one fun for a while.
There are some Gingers without light skin or freckles. They are called 'Daywalkers.'
Here it's "foxy" and or "carrot top". :D
Used to annoy my sister no end
Interesting though that I can say "I only find women with black hair attractive"
and nobody will blink.
If I however say "I only find women with black/white skin attractive"
Suddenly I'm a flavour of racist.
Hell I could probably get away with including "applicants must have black hair" on a job ad and get away with it.
they're both nothing more than pigments but if you use one to make a descision about people then you're a dirty racist.
Down with Hairism!
genetic diversity.
Same reason girls tend to like boys from out of town.(ok there's the no commitment thing too but..)
Avoids inbreeding.
Skin colour is just something big and obvious.
Lets adjust your experiment.
Put 2 groups of people who know nothing about how the world works into a room, half wearing all white clothes, half wearing all black clothes but otherwise few other distinguishing features.
Let them mill around a little. I'd put money down you'd end up with most of the black shirts on one side and all the white shirts on the other.
Leave it for a little while for people to get used to it.
Now bring in a researcher in white or black clothes and do the 2 experiments with each group. I'd bet my right arm you'd get a better reaction from people wearing the same as the researcher.
it's tribalism and it's very hardwired into peoples heads.
Back in the day I used a simple method of getting into clubs without challenge.
I wore black.
In the same style as the bouncers.
The basis: Since I was dressed the same as the bouncers they were more inclined to treat me in a positive way.
And it worked.
very very well.
When I didn't wear black I tended to be challenged much more etc.
Now people are hardwired to act like this. Someone who dresses the same, acts the same looks the same is more likely to be trusted than someone who looks or acts in a very different manner.
It's tribalism. Wanna bet you're immune?
As far as I'm concerned skin colour is no more important than hair colour.(damn dirty gingers!)Is reacting more positively to someone with brown hair than to someone with blond hair racist?
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Lets just throw in that distracting "talking" thing which many people are utterly addicted to. They waste hours every day talking or being talked at. Many love to exchange lots of gossip and when they hear something juicy or tell a joke and their reward center is triggered by another talker reacting positively they get a buzz like with a slot machine and it can be terrible for your concentration.