What I'm saying is none of these social constructs are based on science
Cutting you off right there chief. Albinoism is a lack of melanin in the skin. Melanin can be imperically measured... SCIENCE! The color of your skin, your hair color, and the shape of your eyes are not a social construct.
the group of people they use stereotypes on can just as easily create and use stereotypes as a weapon against them. And I'd go so far as to say this would be the ethical thing to do because the only way to show a bully why something is wrong is to do it to them so they can experience how it feels.
When the jock gets passed up on a job for being too blonde, too fit, too good looking, he will know how it feels and will learn "THATS WRONG!" and when this happens eventually he will learn "THAT IS BULLSHIT! RACE IS BULLSHIT!".
Frankly this rant is the kind of nonsenical garbage that I would expect to come from someone who's mommy didn't hug him enough as a child...
But until he learns that I'm fine with discriminating against him because if someone believes stereotypes should apply to others, it should apply to them as well.
So why should I hire a racist? If they believe in races over believing in genetics then they are no better than individuals who don't believe in evolution.
I don't think people are talking about imbred Billy Bob talking about how he "hates thum darkies". At least not with regard to this particular article. I believe they're talking about instinctual subconscious favoritism, which I believe exists.
As far as I'm concerned they behave as a race, and they think and act alike so the stereotype applies until they decide to grow up.
So you're racist then, since you seem to hate them?
The worst thing you can do is simply sit back and let the dumbest most retarded ignorant among us take control of and hijack all the stereotypes, do all the discrimination, and create countless numbers of victims without consequence. So would I hire someone who I suspect to be a racist?
Indeed, but this isn't helping your argument.
Sure I'd hire this person, but they shouldn't expect to get a high salary or get promoted, they can be the janitor.
And this is completely ethical because only the enlightened should be rewarded. Ignorance should never be rewarded and this is the problem with concepts like race, it primarily rewards the ignorant at the expense of the intelligent.
So you're saying that, without actually knowing for sure, you'd not hire someone on the presupposition that you believe that either they're racist, or you're intimidated by the fact that they're attractive and in shape, and then you go on to accuse THEM of being ignorant?
Frankly, I'm not sure how to respond, but to be honest, it makes me uncomfortable that you're here.
Virtual Machines aren't the magic solution people typically regard them to be, no matter how amazing the tech is. The problem with VM and market data is we're talking literally millions of messages a second. VMs can't support production level processing of that level of traffic. I know for a fact that RMDS (the Reuters infrastructure software) isn't supported on any 'virtualization' technology other than Solaris Zones. I can also tell you that it has almost zero consideration put into it when it comes to security. Generally the philosophy is "Padlock the front door, leave all the others wide open."
Also. These market data people are the same ones who can't track down a god damned duplex mismatch between two boxes WHEN I TELL THEM WHERE IT IS. If places start actually doing stuff like this, I'm going to be doing a whole lot of flinching in the short future.
That's the argument made with Facebook. Doesn't mean that damn near everyone on the planet is willfully jumping all over the chance to hand over their entire lives.
In that case, you can do it for the cost of tv + 6x4 sheet of plexiglass + 4 table legs. The problem in my opinion isn't the hardware, its the "making the technical solution more time efficient" part that keeps me away from it. Any time I've tried to implement a technical aspect into a tabletop game, it's usually gone south. Something as simple as displaying maps probably wouldn't be too hard, so long as the software has solid fullscreen support with rotate, and ideally some sort of way to in realtime scale the picture. Right now, I'm having a wetdream about something like a fullscreen google maps, except with user supplied images and running on a local box. One minor setback: A 70" tv has dimensions of 6"x3.6", making it just under what I would consider "ideal" for a game table. That's not viewable dimensions, thats including the 3-4" border on every side. With this in mind, the current Sony 70" LCD is a little pricy at $32999.99. I think that, sadly, the underslung projector is the way to go.
You could probably go one better than that and put 2d barcodes on the bottom of your miniatures that classifies what each individual one is (probably a seperate one for grouping designation in the case of 40k and it's ilk) and engineer the multitouch camera to also read and interpret those codes. That way you don't need a separate camera...err... patent pending, of course.:P
Do you know how resistant the translucent inlays are? The table I'm using right now has a 6x4 melamine surface on it, which is resistant to everything from dry erase markers to Sharpie, however, it scratches REALLY easy. I'd hate to have shelled out this kind of cash, and then have a divot in part of it the first time a pewter mini gets dropped. I'd also be terrified of drinks around it getting spilled into the table and leaching their way into corners of the drop surface. The other nice thing about the melamine surface is that by design it's the most water resistant thing I've ever come across.
For $8500, I would build one before I bought this one. With a cheap projector and some patience, I've priced DIY multitouch tables at less than $1000. If you could actually make a slick interface for the multitouch that did not look like a pain in the ass like all of the ones I've seen thus far, you could probably justify that kind of price.
Part of the difference is the automatic level of quality difference between the two. Starcraft fans have been wanting a new release for about 10 years. It's not "Madden '11" or "The Sims 50". They're both companies who are "Too big to fail" and print their own money regardless of failed releases, but the difference is that Blizzard you can trust to not release unless it's well put together, even if it's a beta. Really, it's like if you expected me to pay to test drive a car; Blizzard is offering me this while EA is offering me this.
Admittedly so, but if you can't pick yourself up by the bootstraps and act mature in the work place, you deserve everything coming to you. Maybe it's petty, and maybe it's not the high ground, but it gets the job done.
Write a script that will hammer the everlasting fuck out of his shared drive when he's trying to do something. As (I assume) the IT department, he will complain to you. When he does, politely say, "Yeah, I think that can happen when users constantly access files on a remote shared drive. Someone must be doing that to your box. It really sucks, huh?"
When someone acts like a child, you must treat them like a child. Some people just have to find out what "Think about how that would make you feel" really means the hard way.
Well, because Bennett Haselton is the Internet's Most Savvy Great-Grandpa! In fact, he just upgraded himself from Earthlink to a DSL connection ALL BY HIMSELF! He did have to spend some time on the phone with the tech figuring how how to get his TCP/IP setting set properly in Windows 98 though.
* Quake (well, original Quake with software rendering)
You're selling them short, on my EEEPc 900 I can run WoW. Would definitely handle hardware rendered Quake. Quake II and III too I'd imagine. I wonder if the Pad will be able to do that.
I have an extra special super secure proxy I want you to use, especially for logging into all your bank accounts. You can get to it at http://notcapturingyourpacketsiswear.com:8080/
Seriously though, I have a hard time trusting anyone, but paid proxy service > random proxy nabbed from Google. At least with a paid one you know who it was that was looking at your data.
Go visit www.yzzzyrd.com in IE and tell me pop ups are a good thing, until then, crawl back under whatever rock from 10 years ago that you came out from. Popups are good like a geocities web address is good.
I've never understood this particular brand of grammar-nazism. "Going" describes action, "forward" describes direction. You can go forward, just as you can go in any relative direction, backwards, up, down, in, out, left, starboard, etc.
The car was going backwards, but now it is going forward.
I've never seen Zeitgeist, nor do I subscribe to 9-11/alien/Obama/fluffy pink bunny/2012/whatever conspiracies, but I personally can't shake the feeling that I'm being constantly lied to through the Media. Maybe it's just my rampant cynicism, but if that were the case, what made me rampantly cynical to begin with? The fact that different 'news organizations' can report a completely different side of a story with sometimes absolutely zero overlap indicates to me there is a good chance that no one has the story correct, if there even was a story to begin with.
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What I'm saying is none of these social constructs are based on science
Cutting you off right there chief. Albinoism is a lack of melanin in the skin. Melanin can be imperically measured... SCIENCE! The color of your skin, your hair color, and the shape of your eyes are not a social construct.
the group of people they use stereotypes on can just as easily create and use stereotypes as a weapon against them. And I'd go so far as to say this would be the ethical thing to do because the only way to show a bully why something is wrong is to do it to them so they can experience how it feels.
When the jock gets passed up on a job for being too blonde, too fit, too good looking, he will know how it feels and will learn "THATS WRONG!" and when this happens eventually he will learn "THAT IS BULLSHIT! RACE IS BULLSHIT!".
Frankly this rant is the kind of nonsenical garbage that I would expect to come from someone who's mommy didn't hug him enough as a child...
But until he learns that I'm fine with discriminating against him because if someone believes stereotypes should apply to others, it should apply to them as well.
So why should I hire a racist? If they believe in races over believing in genetics then they are no better than individuals who don't believe in evolution.
I don't think people are talking about imbred Billy Bob talking about how he "hates thum darkies". At least not with regard to this particular article. I believe they're talking about instinctual subconscious favoritism, which I believe exists.
As far as I'm concerned they behave as a race, and they think and act alike so the stereotype applies until they decide to grow up.
So you're racist then, since you seem to hate them?
The worst thing you can do is simply sit back and let the dumbest most retarded ignorant among us take control of and hijack all the stereotypes, do all the discrimination, and create countless numbers of victims without consequence. So would I hire someone who I suspect to be a racist?
Indeed, but this isn't helping your argument.
Sure I'd hire this person, but they shouldn't expect to get a high salary or get promoted, they can be the janitor.
And this is completely ethical because only the enlightened should be rewarded. Ignorance should never be rewarded and this is the problem with concepts like race, it primarily rewards the ignorant at the expense of the intelligent.
So you're saying that, without actually knowing for sure, you'd not hire someone on the presupposition that you believe that either they're racist, or you're intimidated by the fact that they're attractive and in shape, and then you go on to accuse THEM of being ignorant?
Frankly, I'm not sure how to respond, but to be honest, it makes me uncomfortable that you're here.
This echoed my thoughts perfectly.
Virtual Machines aren't the magic solution people typically regard them to be, no matter how amazing the tech is. The problem with VM and market data is we're talking literally millions of messages a second. VMs can't support production level processing of that level of traffic. I know for a fact that RMDS (the Reuters infrastructure software) isn't supported on any 'virtualization' technology other than Solaris Zones. I can also tell you that it has almost zero consideration put into it when it comes to security. Generally the philosophy is "Padlock the front door, leave all the others wide open."
Also. These market data people are the same ones who can't track down a god damned duplex mismatch between two boxes WHEN I TELL THEM WHERE IT IS. If places start actually doing stuff like this, I'm going to be doing a whole lot of flinching in the short future.
Disclaimer: I support the stuff.
That's the argument made with Facebook. Doesn't mean that damn near everyone on the planet is willfully jumping all over the chance to hand over their entire lives.
In that case, you can do it for the cost of tv + 6x4 sheet of plexiglass + 4 table legs. The problem in my opinion isn't the hardware, its the "making the technical solution more time efficient" part that keeps me away from it. Any time I've tried to implement a technical aspect into a tabletop game, it's usually gone south. Something as simple as displaying maps probably wouldn't be too hard, so long as the software has solid fullscreen support with rotate, and ideally some sort of way to in realtime scale the picture. Right now, I'm having a wetdream about something like a fullscreen google maps, except with user supplied images and running on a local box. One minor setback: A 70" tv has dimensions of 6"x3.6", making it just under what I would consider "ideal" for a game table. That's not viewable dimensions, thats including the 3-4" border on every side. With this in mind, the current Sony 70" LCD is a little pricy at $32999.99. I think that, sadly, the underslung projector is the way to go.
You could probably go one better than that and put 2d barcodes on the bottom of your miniatures that classifies what each individual one is (probably a seperate one for grouping designation in the case of 40k and it's ilk) and engineer the multitouch camera to also read and interpret those codes. That way you don't need a separate camera...err... patent pending, of course. :P
Do you know how resistant the translucent inlays are? The table I'm using right now has a 6x4 melamine surface on it, which is resistant to everything from dry erase markers to Sharpie, however, it scratches REALLY easy. I'd hate to have shelled out this kind of cash, and then have a divot in part of it the first time a pewter mini gets dropped. I'd also be terrified of drinks around it getting spilled into the table and leaching their way into corners of the drop surface. The other nice thing about the melamine surface is that by design it's the most water resistant thing I've ever come across.
For $8500, I would build one before I bought this one. With a cheap projector and some patience, I've priced DIY multitouch tables at less than $1000. If you could actually make a slick interface for the multitouch that did not look like a pain in the ass like all of the ones I've seen thus far, you could probably justify that kind of price.
Part of the difference is the automatic level of quality difference between the two. Starcraft fans have been wanting a new release for about 10 years. It's not "Madden '11" or "The Sims 50". They're both companies who are "Too big to fail" and print their own money regardless of failed releases, but the difference is that Blizzard you can trust to not release unless it's well put together, even if it's a beta. Really, it's like if you expected me to pay to test drive a car; Blizzard is offering me this while EA is offering me this.
Your mom has a remarkable ability to create musical palindromes.
Admittedly so, but if you can't pick yourself up by the bootstraps and act mature in the work place, you deserve everything coming to you. Maybe it's petty, and maybe it's not the high ground, but it gets the job done.
Oh, how I wish I hadn't posted already. +1 good sir.
It's really easy, I swear:
Write a script that will hammer the everlasting fuck out of his shared drive when he's trying to do something. As (I assume) the IT department, he will complain to you. When he does, politely say, "Yeah, I think that can happen when users constantly access files on a remote shared drive. Someone must be doing that to your box. It really sucks, huh?"
When someone acts like a child, you must treat them like a child. Some people just have to find out what "Think about how that would make you feel" really means the hard way.
Well, because Bennett Haselton is the Internet's Most Savvy Great-Grandpa! In fact, he just upgraded himself from Earthlink to a DSL connection ALL BY HIMSELF! He did have to spend some time on the phone with the tech figuring how how to get his TCP/IP setting set properly in Windows 98 though.
I wish I had mod points. Good show, sir!
* Quake (well, original Quake with software rendering)
You're selling them short, on my EEEPc 900 I can run WoW. Would definitely handle hardware rendered Quake. Quake II and III too I'd imagine. I wonder if the Pad will be able to do that.
I'm really enjoying the +1 Informative on the "I'm just retarded." comment too.
Yeah, that's the one. I'm just retarded.
I have an extra special super secure proxy I want you to use, especially for logging into all your bank accounts. You can get to it at http://notcapturingyourpacketsiswear.com:8080/ Seriously though, I have a hard time trusting anyone, but paid proxy service > random proxy nabbed from Google. At least with a paid one you know who it was that was looking at your data.
Go visit www.yzzzyrd.com in IE and tell me pop ups are a good thing, until then, crawl back under whatever rock from 10 years ago that you came out from. Popups are good like a geocities web address is good.
- He's blinking... it's Morse Code..
- What does it say? - "Kill me." Over and over again. It says, "Kill me."
Were you a loan officer in a previous life?
Okay, that actually makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
I've never understood this particular brand of grammar-nazism. "Going" describes action, "forward" describes direction. You can go forward, just as you can go in any relative direction, backwards, up, down, in, out, left, starboard, etc.
The car was going backwards, but now it is going forward.
What am I missing?
I've never seen Zeitgeist, nor do I subscribe to 9-11/alien/Obama/fluffy pink bunny/2012/whatever conspiracies, but I personally can't shake the feeling that I'm being constantly lied to through the Media. Maybe it's just my rampant cynicism, but if that were the case, what made me rampantly cynical to begin with? The fact that different 'news organizations' can report a completely different side of a story with sometimes absolutely zero overlap indicates to me there is a good chance that no one has the story correct, if there even was a story to begin with.