Basically, I'd like to mod TF2 to make a CustomTF2 that would be compatible with existing TF2 maps and game modes. AFAIK they've never released the source, but I'm curious if some combination of other tools would make it possible.
>>It says "The California State University" at the top of the tuition info I quoted; if it's not the University of California, what the heck is it, then?
There's the state universities (SDSU, SJSU, SFSU, Fresno State, etc.), and the University of California (UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSF, etc.), two different public education systems. The state universities are cheaper and more crowded, and the UC system is considered to have a better academic reputation. The state universities don't offer nearly as good a grad school program, if they offer it at all, but they tend to offer things like teacher credential and business programs that some UC schools ignore.
For example, if you want to be a teacher and you're at UC San Diego, you have to drive across town to SDSU to get it. Likewise, if you're in Air Force ROTC at UCSD, you have to drive to SDSU twice a week, and so forth.
The state schools tend to have better athletics programs, with the exception of UCLA and Berkeley.
The University of California has a number of top ten public school spots in the various lists, such as best Pharmacy School (UCSF), best Bioengineering Department (UCSD) and so forth, and owns half of the spots on the overall top 10 list.
>>My United domestic flights have sucked so badly, that I have refused to give them a try with international.. even though they have been cheaper.
I fly enough to get status, which probably biases me toward them... basically, getting free United+ upgrades every time I fly across the country is why I prefer them. I don't need the hot towel and free drinks in first class... I just need the damn legroom, and don't want to have to pay for it every time I fly.
>>Provided it is a nice European carrier like Lufthansa, who actually has free beer and back of the seat entertainment systems. Unlike American carriers who charge for beer and have 70s entertainment systems in the aircraft.
I've never flown Lufthansa, but my friends really hated it last year. Mainly because of the food, I think.
As another poster said, the best service is on Asian airlines, but I've been relatively happy with United and Delta. Maybe some of their in-flight stuff is outdated, but it really depends on the plane. On my trip to Japan last year they had quite modern systems.
I hate US Airways though. I only fly them as a last resort.
>>But let me ask you, how many white guys get the same deal?
"...we do award a large majority of our student scholarships to women, minorities, and the disabled." (https://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/collegescholarship.aspx)
And minority is defined solely as African-American, Hispanic, and Native American.
How many white guys get a minority or woman scholarship? Um, I know of one guy... and he nearly got kicked out of school. It was because the scantron misread his mark on his college application form. He had to show them his applications to other schools to prove he wasn't trying to get favorable admission by pretending to be black. (Kind of explodes your preferential treatment for white people doesn't it?)
>>Or was she in fact, quite smart, and thus likely to get those same offers whatever her race
She was a smart chick, but she was absolutely recruited so heavily because she was both a woman and a minority. Nobody even tried to pretend otherwise. Microsoft doesn't, and neither did she.
And this is just one program at one company among many.
>>Now, on to what I will accept as evidence: statistics showing that white men have worse social outcomes overall than minorities.
Ah, but fairness in society merely guaranteed equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. You can give incentives to increase desired outcomes (and there are a lot of incentives for minorities to go into high tech), but you can't force them to become computer scientists without holding a gun to their head. And I don't think you'd go that far.
>>You could make your argument more persuasive with some kind of statistics or citations to back it up. What you've got now doesn't even qualify as anecdotal, it's just bald faced assertion.
Really? You're going to go out on a limb and claim that Microsoft doesn't put especial efforts into recruiting and giving scholarships to women and minority computer science people? Want to place a bet on how long this claim of yours will stand up to a Google search?
I know it existed, because my (female, Hispanic) partner in my assembly class was courted for years by Microsoft during her undergraduate years. Internships every year; scholarships, free software, guaranteed job out of college.
Or are you claiming there isn't a tremendous amount of support available for any minority wanting to go to college? You think that will stand up to a google search as well?
Let me know how much you want to bet on this, before you get a Let Me Google This For You link.
Since the US was there on REQUEST of the U.N. and had no desire to take over anything or stay behind- merely to end an atrocity and restore peace to the region, I wouldn't call that an invasion at all. It was an involvement in a civil war - on REQUEST of the international community.
Oh, well, since the UN requested they be there, it was okay?
And this is different from the Pope requesting England intervene in the atrocities taking place in the Levant, how?
After you account for differences in time and place, the two are very close parallels.
>>Seems that in most of the rest of the world, that's been at least the protestant consensus for a long time now.
Yeah, since the 1960s the consensus has changed on the crusades, though the facts have not. Before, it was considered appropriate to invade to protect a minority population from being slaughtered, now it is considered inappropriate.
A lot of it has to do with the work of an Islamic scholar whose name I can't recall... he did most of the work getting the consensus view changed to be a war of Euoropean aggression against the thoughtful, peaceful, algebra-inventing Muslims of the Middle East.
>>Anyone who does 10 minutes of research will find that the whole notion of the "Cristian Nation" is laughable.
It is laughable, especially when you misspell it.
>>Texas buys the most textbooks, and thus has undue influence on the industry.
This isn't true, actually. The reason Southern States have traditionally been influential in the development of textbooks is because they've been alleged to be more likely to reject textbooks if they portray the South in a bad way. That's why chapters on the Civil War, the argument goes, whitewash issues regarding slavery and Jim Crow and whatnot.
Of course, the people making these arguments have never read a modern textbook, but I digress.
From TFA: >>a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.'"
This honestly made me laugh. Public school governance? Content standards? Apolitical? WOW. Leland obviously has never worked in public education.
I say we remove him and all those powers that be that put him there!
In all seriousness, though, do you know how easy it is to get a scholarship, grant, or job if you're, say, a female Hispanic student in computer science? There ARE inequalities, but our society pretty strongly stacks the deck for anyone of the right skin color to succeed if they want to.
The bigger issue is why females and minority students DON'T want to, but it's a lie to say that society will stamp them down if they try to go for it.
>>It's one thing to say you're OK with the level of inequality we have now, I can't argue with you if that's your position, but don't try to claim that it doesn't exist or that the solutions are not well known and documented.
The solution are documented - higher tax rates destroys the economy, so lower tax rates are better and result in increased tax revenues.
>>There is a fundamental shelter built into any progressive tax system;
That's not a shelter - if you look at what rich people were paying in the 1950s, it never approached a marginal rate of 90%.
>>Take a look at your morality: was it moral just because your ancestors were on the invading side?
I doubt my ancestors were on either side.
>>Hell, that reason doesn't even take you very far through the First Crusade.
Sorry, should have qualified my statement. I generally only consider the first three crusades.
The Byzantine Empire had done a lot of stuff to piss off the Latins, namely betraying their trust during the first crusade, and Alexis didn't really do much to help... but yeah, the Fourth Crusade involved a real diversion from what most of the crusaders thought they'd be doing when they signed up.
No. For the sake of simplifying hundreds of years of history, just consider the first one or three.
>>the crusades were called "the single biggest collective sin in the history of all Christianity".
Exactly my point.
>>I don't think there has been anybody who deemed them a "just war" since the Enlightenment.
Read a textbook or history book from the 1950s, then. The groupthink has changed on them, even leading to fundamentalist churches changing their mindset.
>>That they were largely unsuccessful, that there was military and political factors involved are asides here.
I'm not talking about the success of them. Except for the first, they were mainly stalemates and failures. I'm talking about the right or wrongness of invading the Levant.
>>I don't believe there can EVER be a case where the INVADERS get to claim 'just war'
Were you for or against our involvement in the Balkans during the Clinton administration? That's the closest modern day analogy.
And... trick question: Were the Muslims the invaders or the defenders of the Levant?
>>In what whacked out place did you go to school that taught any different ?
Oddly enough, I tend to read lots of primary and secondary sources and determine for myself if what the history being taught in school is accurate or not.
Believe it or not: America didn't win WWII all by itself, that Christopher Columbus really was a dick, and that the Communist Part of USA back in the McCarthy days really was an appendage of the Soviet Union.
I'm well aware of our previous high tax rates, and if you've ever studied the effects of them, you'd not be nearly so eager to go back to it. A 90% tax rate - without any tax shelters - would destroy our economy and lower total tax receipts.
From what I read, it was closer to 26 hours, but if nothing else, it shows that when humans are exposed to constant bright lights (as we are in our modern society, with TVs and computers), it will tend to mess up our sleep cycles.
>>"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..." >>I hope that clears things up for these right wing wackos who are confused about our founding fathers' intentions.
Bzzt, wrong.
Adams was criticized severely by, well, pretty much everyone for those words. Including the founding fathers, whom you have to cherry pick pretty damn carefully to try to portray as a bunch of Dawkins-esque atheists.
If you know history (and you don't), you'd know how what the founding father's intentions were: to have a nation where you had freedom of religion but not freedom from religion, which is what most atheists seem to think these days.
>>The problem is not the 25% hardcore dipshits who will always lean this way. Nothing can be done to help them.... >>I wish there were more I could do to reach them, beyond conversing with them delicately and providing an alternative example by what I say and how I live my life.
Says the caring, tolerant beacon of humanity.
Have you ever wondered if YOU are the problem? No? Probably not.
>>And I would say that not knowing history, is better then knowing a fake version of history.
All history is, is the creation of fake memories.
The accuracy of said fake memories, and the lessons people draw from them are what people are arguing over.
As long as their facts are accurate, (dare I say it?) they're perfectly free to emphasize parts of American history over others. Every textbook has to pick and choose what to include, and I do think the Texas people have a point in that we've moved pretty far away from what people would consider traditional American history.
>>Immigrants would be given amnesty and a path to citizenship. >>The top marginal tax rate would be closer to 90% than the current 35%. >>Housing, food, and a meaningful job would be a right >>Workers would collectively own the businesses they work for.
Huh, I didn't know Michael Moore posted on Slashdot.
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Yeah, not a real fan of FF.
Basically, I'd like to mod TF2 to make a CustomTF2 that would be compatible with existing TF2 maps and game modes. AFAIK they've never released the source, but I'm curious if some combination of other tools would make it possible.
So if you have Garry's Mod and TF2 both, you'd be able to create mods, say, making new classes and such?
My URL might give away my interest in the subject.
>>Get him a copy of TF2, which will come with Valve's Hammer software.
Can you actually mod TF2, or just make maps for it?
I'm not interested at all in just making maps.
>>People trained in education who know how to eliminate personal opinion and bias from teaching facts?
Facts are only a small part of history, and are, in fact, the least interesting part. Sort of the skeleton, as you will, of the field.
>>The momentum of the Big Bang, the energy we will get back in the eventual collapse...
Eventual collapse?
Haven't kept up with physics, eh? =)
>>It says "The California State University" at the top of the tuition info I quoted; if it's not the University of California, what the heck is it, then?
There's the state universities (SDSU, SJSU, SFSU, Fresno State, etc.), and the University of California (UCSD, UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSF, etc.), two different public education systems. The state universities are cheaper and more crowded, and the UC system is considered to have a better academic reputation. The state universities don't offer nearly as good a grad school program, if they offer it at all, but they tend to offer things like teacher credential and business programs that some UC schools ignore.
For example, if you want to be a teacher and you're at UC San Diego, you have to drive across town to SDSU to get it. Likewise, if you're in Air Force ROTC at UCSD, you have to drive to SDSU twice a week, and so forth.
The state schools tend to have better athletics programs, with the exception of UCLA and Berkeley.
The University of California has a number of top ten public school spots in the various lists, such as best Pharmacy School (UCSF), best Bioengineering Department (UCSD) and so forth, and owns half of the spots on the overall top 10 list.
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/national-top-public
>>My United domestic flights have sucked so badly, that I have refused to give them a try with international.. even though they have been cheaper.
I fly enough to get status, which probably biases me toward them... basically, getting free United+ upgrades every time I fly across the country is why I prefer them. I don't need the hot towel and free drinks in first class... I just need the damn legroom, and don't want to have to pay for it every time I fly.
>>Provided it is a nice European carrier like Lufthansa, who actually has free beer and back of the seat entertainment systems. Unlike American carriers who charge for beer and have 70s entertainment systems in the aircraft.
I've never flown Lufthansa, but my friends really hated it last year. Mainly because of the food, I think.
As another poster said, the best service is on Asian airlines, but I've been relatively happy with United and Delta. Maybe some of their in-flight stuff is outdated, but it really depends on the plane. On my trip to Japan last year they had quite modern systems.
I hate US Airways though. I only fly them as a last resort.
>>But let me ask you, how many white guys get the same deal?
"...we do award a large majority of our student scholarships to women, minorities, and the disabled."
(https://careers.microsoft.com/careers/en/us/collegescholarship.aspx)
And minority is defined solely as African-American, Hispanic, and Native American.
How many white guys get a minority or woman scholarship? Um, I know of one guy... and he nearly got kicked out of school. It was because the scantron misread his mark on his college application form. He had to show them his applications to other schools to prove he wasn't trying to get favorable admission by pretending to be black. (Kind of explodes your preferential treatment for white people doesn't it?)
>>Or was she in fact, quite smart, and thus likely to get those same offers whatever her race
She was a smart chick, but she was absolutely recruited so heavily because she was both a woman and a minority. Nobody even tried to pretend otherwise. Microsoft doesn't, and neither did she.
And this is just one program at one company among many.
>>Now, on to what I will accept as evidence: statistics showing that white men have worse social outcomes overall than minorities.
Ah, but fairness in society merely guaranteed equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. You can give incentives to increase desired outcomes (and there are a lot of incentives for minorities to go into high tech), but you can't force them to become computer scientists without holding a gun to their head. And I don't think you'd go that far.
>>You could make your argument more persuasive with some kind of statistics or citations to back it up. What you've got now doesn't even qualify as anecdotal, it's just bald faced assertion.
Really? You're going to go out on a limb and claim that Microsoft doesn't put especial efforts into recruiting and giving scholarships to women and minority computer science people? Want to place a bet on how long this claim of yours will stand up to a Google search?
I know it existed, because my (female, Hispanic) partner in my assembly class was courted for years by Microsoft during her undergraduate years. Internships every year; scholarships, free software, guaranteed job out of college.
Or are you claiming there isn't a tremendous amount of support available for any minority wanting to go to college? You think that will stand up to a google search as well?
Let me know how much you want to bet on this, before you get a Let Me Google This For You link.
>>Yes. It really was that high. Source is the IRS's own figures.
You didn't read what I said. The rate WAS that high, but that wasn't what people were PAYING, even with dollars in the 90% bracket.
Oh, well, since the UN requested they be there, it was okay?
And this is different from the Pope requesting England intervene in the atrocities taking place in the Levant, how?
After you account for differences in time and place, the two are very close parallels.
>>Seems that in most of the rest of the world, that's been at least the protestant consensus for a long time now.
Yeah, since the 1960s the consensus has changed on the crusades, though the facts have not. Before, it was considered appropriate to invade to protect a minority population from being slaughtered, now it is considered inappropriate.
A lot of it has to do with the work of an Islamic scholar whose name I can't recall... he did most of the work getting the consensus view changed to be a war of Euoropean aggression against the thoughtful, peaceful, algebra-inventing Muslims of the Middle East.
>>Anyone who does 10 minutes of research will find that the whole notion of the "Cristian Nation" is laughable.
It is laughable, especially when you misspell it.
>>Texas buys the most textbooks, and thus has undue influence on the industry.
This isn't true, actually. The reason Southern States have traditionally been influential in the development of textbooks is because they've been alleged to be more likely to reject textbooks if they portray the South in a bad way. That's why chapters on the Civil War, the argument goes, whitewash issues regarding slavery and Jim Crow and whatnot.
Of course, the people making these arguments have never read a modern textbook, but I digress.
From TFA:
>>a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.'"
This honestly made me laugh. Public school governance? Content standards? Apolitical? WOW. Leland obviously has never worked in public education.
>>The powers that be don't want them to.
Damn that Obama!
I say we remove him and all those powers that be that put him there!
In all seriousness, though, do you know how easy it is to get a scholarship, grant, or job if you're, say, a female Hispanic student in computer science? There ARE inequalities, but our society pretty strongly stacks the deck for anyone of the right skin color to succeed if they want to.
The bigger issue is why females and minority students DON'T want to, but it's a lie to say that society will stamp them down if they try to go for it.
>>It's one thing to say you're OK with the level of inequality we have now, I can't argue with you if that's your position, but don't try to claim that it doesn't exist or that the solutions are not well known and documented.
The solution are documented - higher tax rates destroys the economy, so lower tax rates are better and result in increased tax revenues.
>>There is a fundamental shelter built into any progressive tax system;
That's not a shelter - if you look at what rich people were paying in the 1950s, it never approached a marginal rate of 90%.
>>Take a look at your morality: was it moral just because your ancestors were on the invading side?
I doubt my ancestors were on either side.
>>Hell, that reason doesn't even take you very far through the First Crusade.
Sorry, should have qualified my statement. I generally only consider the first three crusades.
The Byzantine Empire had done a lot of stuff to piss off the Latins, namely betraying their trust during the first crusade, and Alexis didn't really do much to help... but yeah, the Fourth Crusade involved a real diversion from what most of the crusaders thought they'd be doing when they signed up.
>>Christianity was spread throughout this area, mostly by the sword and on the threat of being tortured to death
I think you're confusing Christianity with Islam.
Just saying.
(Have you even ever bothered to read a history book, and not just aping what your hippie friends have told you?)
>>Does that include the children's crusade ?
No. For the sake of simplifying hundreds of years of history, just consider the first one or three.
>>the crusades were called "the single biggest collective sin in the history of all Christianity".
Exactly my point.
>>I don't think there has been anybody who deemed them a "just war" since the Enlightenment.
Read a textbook or history book from the 1950s, then. The groupthink has changed on them, even leading to fundamentalist churches changing their mindset.
>>That they were largely unsuccessful, that there was military and political factors involved are asides here.
I'm not talking about the success of them. Except for the first, they were mainly stalemates and failures. I'm talking about the right or wrongness of invading the Levant.
>>I don't believe there can EVER be a case where the INVADERS get to claim 'just war'
Were you for or against our involvement in the Balkans during the Clinton administration? That's the closest modern day analogy.
And... trick question: Were the Muslims the invaders or the defenders of the Levant?
>>In what whacked out place did you go to school that taught any different ?
Oddly enough, I tend to read lots of primary and secondary sources and determine for myself if what the history being taught in school is accurate or not.
Believe it or not: America didn't win WWII all by itself, that Christopher Columbus really was a dick, and that the Communist Part of USA back in the McCarthy days really was an appendage of the Soviet Union.
I'm well aware of our previous high tax rates, and if you've ever studied the effects of them, you'd not be nearly so eager to go back to it. A 90% tax rate - without any tax shelters - would destroy our economy and lower total tax receipts.
From what I read, it was closer to 26 hours, but if nothing else, it shows that when humans are exposed to constant bright lights (as we are in our modern society, with TVs and computers), it will tend to mess up our sleep cycles.
>>"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion..."
>>I hope that clears things up for these right wing wackos who are confused about our founding fathers' intentions.
Bzzt, wrong.
Adams was criticized severely by, well, pretty much everyone for those words. Including the founding fathers, whom you have to cherry pick pretty damn carefully to try to portray as a bunch of Dawkins-esque atheists.
If you know history (and you don't), you'd know how what the founding father's intentions were: to have a nation where you had freedom of religion but not freedom from religion, which is what most atheists seem to think these days.
>>The problem is not the 25% hardcore dipshits who will always lean this way. Nothing can be done to help them. ...
>>I wish there were more I could do to reach them, beyond conversing with them delicately and providing an alternative example by what I say and how I live my life.
Says the caring, tolerant beacon of humanity.
Have you ever wondered if YOU are the problem? No? Probably not.
>>And I would say that not knowing history, is better then knowing a fake version of history.
All history is, is the creation of fake memories.
The accuracy of said fake memories, and the lessons people draw from them are what people are arguing over.
As long as their facts are accurate, (dare I say it?) they're perfectly free to emphasize parts of American history over others. Every textbook has to pick and choose what to include, and I do think the Texas people have a point in that we've moved pretty far away from what people would consider traditional American history.
>>I find nothing insulting with being compared to him, and it says more about you than it does me when you consider his name to be a pejorative.
Considering that you can consider a 90% tax bracket with a straight face, I think that says more about the both of you.
>>Immigrants would be given amnesty and a path to citizenship.
>>The top marginal tax rate would be closer to 90% than the current 35%.
>>Housing, food, and a meaningful job would be a right
>>Workers would collectively own the businesses they work for.
Huh, I didn't know Michael Moore posted on Slashdot.
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