trolling new sites just for the sake of trolling... has been taken too far in recent days... for an example of this, go to lovetestclub.com and look at what a few geekizoid readers managed to cause... most of the damage has since been removed by the site's admin, but if you read some of the more innocent looking threads, you'll notice some very inciteful responses. Thus, I warn you that trolling a random message board just for the sake of trolling a message board is probably something that you should reconsider.
not that its entirely important... but your line should be... What kind of customer marketing decided on a 000 suffix
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care to back that up those statistics with case studies? Can you find a "less qualified" minority that was admitted to your school so that he/she can verify your fantastic tale
No, although I would happily do so if I could. The problem is that there are no grades/demographics published by my school. I am speaking entirely from personal experience and first person discussion among fellow students. For instance, one of my friends at school is a hispanic man *name withheld because a lot of people from my school read slashdot*, who scored well in his rural high school (fouth in his class of about 500 students), but failed out of my school after two semesters. This kind of information isn't published anywhere, so I can't show you that he was underqualified coming in (1200 SAT compared to the 1510 Median) or that he received more financial aid than white students from the same financial background, but I can promise you both are the case.
PS if your school is 75% White and 75% male, then you must be a what? White male? You must like it that way seeing as how unwilling you are to let the school even try to change that statistic...
First off, take a stat class, the chances of me being white male, based on those two conditions, are about 50%, substantial, but that doesn't mean i must be a white male. Secondly, I do enjoy it, but I would NOT mind if the school changed by admitting QUALIFIED minorities to equal out the distribution.
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Any minority that receives DOLLAR ONE from any minority scholarship had to be admitted first, which makes them JUST as qualified (if not more so) than you
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. what planet have you been living on? Affirmative action extends far beyond financial aid, all the way to the admissions office. My school, although specifically against affirmative action, does lower its standards for minorities in an attempt to erase the 75% white, 75% male ethnic and gender divide, and what keeps happening, year after year, is the minorities they admit with the lower standards fail out, leaving the upper classes 75% white, 75% male. Year in, and year out.
The yellow tide is going to disenfranchise white college kids, boohoo.
No. It wont. The 'yellow tide' is going to merely shift the location of the white college kids. The white students who legitimately deserve scholarships and acceptance to the middle class, state universities (we'll use UC's here, since that was the base school mentioned in the thread, being UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine), will be denied the scholarships or rejected altogether, and forced to go to lesser schools (the analogy would be the cal-state system, CSU Northridge, Fullerton, etc) which admit pretty much anyone. Meanwhile, the truly intelligent white college students will still be attending the schools that any truly intelligent students can get into, the private institutions that admit solely on academic achievements, not on race. The one downside is the SUBSTANTIAL amount of financial aid available to minorities that isn't available to whites. IE: A hispanic valedictorian was given a full ride to my school, although his GPA, SAT, courseload, and extracurricular activities pale in comparison to mine. I was given merely $10k/year of 'assistance', much of which is comprised of loans.
I guess you don't know about the quotas/caps at some schools which disallow entrance of more hordes of asians because the schools gotta give those poor white kids (TM) a fighting chance.
These, if they exist, and I've yet to hear of a school that actually used a system like this, are far less numerous than the schools still practicing de facto affirmative action.
You really have no idea how it feels to be hated/fear persecution simply for the color of your skin do you, because if you did you'd never write the pap you did
I happen to, for the most part, agree with him. And just for the record, I spend most of my weekends in North Pasadena, Ca. which, for those of you who dont have the priviledge of living in california, is 99% minority (I went to the supermarket last night to buy some beer, there were exactly two other white people in the store with me. One was my girlfriend, one her roommate.)I know better than most what its like to be discriminated based on the color of one's skin, and I'd bet that you, despite your ramblings, have never been truly discriminated against. When was the last time you got your ass kicked in a parking lot for 'parking in the wrong spot' ?
I'm taking 18 units at school, and trying to juggle a girlfriend (funny part: she's a high school drop out, and insists college is a waste of time:) oh well, she's cute, I'll tolerate her stupidity), and can assure you that 4 hours a day is enough until you're 17, after that, plan on spending 5-6 hours waking time and 7-8 hours "sleeping" time, with those values substantially increased on weekends:).
Two things to note:
Time values do not hold during midterms/finals (I thought about having myself castrated so I could study, but thankfully reconsidered).
Finding a girlfriend who also goes to school may change these values, as she'll have a lot less free time than my girlfriend does.
Either way...ditch IRC, find a girlfriend, they're all over the place, just open your eyes.
is you support biology topics because you're a kharma whoring bastard?
I guess I should thank you for responding, and letting me bring up yet another problem with slashdot besides the three useless staffers (michael, timothy, katz), and that is the oh-so-great practice of kharma whoring. I'm sick of seeing fifty anonymous posts for every ten posts with names because people are afraid they'll lose their precious kharma. It's pathetic; it leads to a practice of overly-cautious and self-conscious posting, which limits actual valid conversation. I want to point out, for all of you who think I'm talking out of my ass, that this is my third consecutive post that 99% of all readers would have posted anonymously, with no fear at all attached, because kharma is not something that should be bargained for, it should be a fortunate side effect and nothing more. If your whole goal is to see "+5, informative" show up next to your post, type it into your bio, or make it your email address. Otherwise, post because you have something to say, not because you want recognition for what you have done.
Apparently you live in a hole. Southern california is WORSE than northern california, we've been having these blackouts since the 115 degree heat of July ( http://www.scebiz.com/servlet/scc_adm?template=/so lutionscc/rates/i-6/history.tmpl - yes, that is 'sce' meaning SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON)... and what's worse, if you study that 'blocking history', you'll notice that its becoming more and more frequent. I can also tell you from personal experience its lasting longer and longer each time, meaning its losing its effectiveness. Soon, I'd be willing to bet that the general population will be experiencing rolling blackouts instead of only those on the I-6 plan.
Have you ever been to California? There aren't as many areas that get winds consistantly strong enough to power wind generators. There are areas that have wind turbines (such as Techapie (sp?--it's at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada Mountains by Mojave)), but the wind we get off the ocean isn't as strong or consistant as the wind the Pacific Northwest gets (note, I'm saying this as a San Diegan who lived in Tacoma for a few years)
heh, first off, its 'tehachapi', but there's also the banning pass region between banning and palm springs (east of la about 80 miles) that also has wind powered generators.
The other thing is - get rid of those WinNT and Win2K boxen! Switch to some decent boxen with good cycle usage like *nix.
Good point
Christ, I hate zealots like you. Does anyone really think that this has ANYTHING to do with powerusage by computers? Try considering the fact that there's a housing boom going on, with tens of thousands of new houses being built all over the state. Then consider the fact that about 10,000 Mwh is unavailable due to previously scheduled maintenance of one of So. Cal. Edison's plants.
Southern california Edison employs the same plan, I believe, as their Northern california counterpart, where they allow large companies and schools to pay lower rates if they agree to shut down power IF the reserves ever run low. The fact that this is the first time for Intel surprises me, since its the 17th time for those of us in southern california.
this isn't really new, its been going on since summer in southern california. ( Shutoff history for southern california ) My school is on the same plan (it was not forced on intel, companies are given the option to save money by going on the plan in case of emergencies), and we've been blacked out about 15 times since school started in August. Lately its gotten so bad that the school has choosen to pay the $7.50/kwh fee to keep power ON so students can prepare for finals.
Read it.. its written by/for the LA area, which I can assure you does NOT have 10 digit dialing...
This is yet another example of people assuming everything applies to them. Guess what, IT DOESN'T. This article, despite your huge ego, was apparently not written for you. Don't assume that it sucks because it doesn't apply, just realize that it doesn't apply and move on.
The Los Angeles/Orange County region is stopping it... it was proposed here a few years ago, and people had fits about it...that was back when LA was 213, OC was 714, and 'the valley' was 818. Since then, its become less of an issue, since dialing 11 numbers is almost required ( LA is 213, 210, 323, OC is 714, 949, the valley is 818, 626, and there's also a few in the outter lying regions that used to be 714/818 that are now 909, 661, etc).
The logic in this move is basically that the mass of new numbers caused a mass of new area codes, and now dialing the extra digits is almost mandatory anyway, so why not just take the extra step and force people to dial them to free up more numbers.
Sure, I'll gladly agree my high school was filled with a large number of morons (graduated from a california public school in 99), BUT, those people aren't looking for IT jobs, much less looking for them overseas. Keep this question in context, and the answer is NO. Take it out of context, as you all have, and the answer is YES. Give credit where credit is due, there are a large number of brilliant and skilled kids coming out of american schools, they just dont receive the credit they're due because of the huge number at the other end of the spectrum on which you all seem to focus.
I think assuming that EVERYONE is aware of what is happening to the Linux stocks is a huge overstatement. Until I clicked that link, I didn't know (probably because I'm still in college, and have ZERO money to invest at the moment), and that is actually a story *I* would have liked to see on slashdot.
That, at least, has some meaning to at least some of us (slashdot's not only being run by kharma whores, its also going bankrupt), unlike some of the other stupid and pointless articles that NOBODY gives a fuck about.
As for your pathetic little personal remarks... grow up. The man/boy/girl/child/pedophile/whatever makes a legitimate first post, posts an intelligent comment (congrats, l33t j03, nice to see you back), and you act like a two year old with a fork up your arse.
please see My number 1:
1) If slashdot was filled with humorless linux nerds, I'd stop reading it altogether. If you truly can't stand the A/C posting, change your threshhold and deal with the 14% of the posts that are up to your level, and leave the rest of us to sit and laugh at the childish humor. If you have a problem with that, lemme know, I'll send someone over to pull the penis bird outta your ass.
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To avoid repetition, I scrolled through all the posts to see if anyone else had mentioned this... and I've come to the conclusion that either: 1) nobody from california reads slashdot or 2) nobody from california that reads slashdot voted. This year, california implemented electronic voting. The story is H ere
Electronic voting powered by Java...taking place at the normal polling place, not over the web, using a pseudo-smart card technology. Great Stuff.
Where i'm from, fighting in high school is automatic 5 day suspension...and since my high school was like 20 minutes from where this kid's school is, i'm sure their policies are similar... 2 day suspension sounds about right.
no, that would make me someone who's lazy and prefers to click links instead of copy/paste, and someone who's sympathetic to the other fuckers who are as lazy as me...
and me being a kharma whore..isn't quite accurate...since i am now, and have been for months, in negative kharma...which doesn't bother me, because everything i post is an honest comment, and i dont care if i get modded down as flamebait because i express my opinion.
Instead of taking a few seconds to check the actual url, this fine person is trying to post early so that he gets modded up. This might be a decent post, had he: 1) checked which url actually works, and 2) taken a few seconds to make it into a real link.
Well, I may be wrong, but I would say that a more important right would be wether or not I would like to live in a capitalist, democratic society. It seems to be taken as a given.
Um, you can move.... there's many other countries besides the United States... try Canada, where all the other fucking retards hang out.
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trolling new sites just for the sake of trolling ... has been taken too far in recent days... for an example of this, go to lovetestclub.com and look at what a few geekizoid readers managed to cause... most of the damage has since been removed by the site's admin, but if you read some of the more innocent looking threads, you'll notice some very inciteful responses. Thus, I warn you that trolling a random message board just for the sake of trolling a message board is probably something that you should reconsider.
not that its entirely important... but your line should be...
What kind of customer marketing decided on a 000 suffix
care to back that up those statistics with case studies? Can you find a "less qualified" minority that was admitted to your school so that he/she can verify your fantastic tale
No, although I would happily do so if I could. The problem is that there are no grades/demographics published by my school. I am speaking entirely from personal experience and first person discussion among fellow students. For instance, one of my friends at school is a hispanic man *name withheld because a lot of people from my school read slashdot*, who scored well in his rural high school (fouth in his class of about 500 students), but failed out of my school after two semesters. This kind of information isn't published anywhere, so I can't show you that he was underqualified coming in (1200 SAT compared to the 1510 Median) or that he received more financial aid than white students from the same financial background, but I can promise you both are the case.
PS if your school is 75% White and 75% male, then you must be a what? White male? You must like it that way seeing as how unwilling you are to let the school even try to change that statistic...
First off, take a stat class, the chances of me being white male, based on those two conditions, are about 50%, substantial, but that doesn't mean i must be a white male. Secondly, I do enjoy it, but I would NOT mind if the school changed by admitting QUALIFIED minorities to equal out the distribution.
Any minority that receives DOLLAR ONE from any minority scholarship had to be admitted first, which makes them JUST as qualified (if not more so) than you
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. what planet have you been living on? Affirmative action extends far beyond financial aid, all the way to the admissions office. My school, although specifically against affirmative action, does lower its standards for minorities in an attempt to erase the 75% white, 75% male ethnic and gender divide, and what keeps happening, year after year, is the minorities they admit with the lower standards fail out, leaving the upper classes 75% white, 75% male. Year in, and year out.
The yellow tide is going to disenfranchise white college kids, boohoo.
No. It wont. The 'yellow tide' is going to merely shift the location of the white college kids. The white students who legitimately deserve scholarships and acceptance to the middle class, state universities (we'll use UC's here, since that was the base school mentioned in the thread, being UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine), will be denied the scholarships or rejected altogether, and forced to go to lesser schools (the analogy would be the cal-state system, CSU Northridge, Fullerton, etc) which admit pretty much anyone. Meanwhile, the truly intelligent white college students will still be attending the schools that any truly intelligent students can get into, the private institutions that admit solely on academic achievements, not on race. The one downside is the SUBSTANTIAL amount of financial aid available to minorities that isn't available to whites. IE: A hispanic valedictorian was given a full ride to my school, although his GPA, SAT, courseload, and extracurricular activities pale in comparison to mine. I was given merely $10k/year of 'assistance', much of which is comprised of loans.
I guess you don't know about the quotas/caps at some schools which disallow entrance of more hordes of asians because the schools gotta give those poor white kids (TM) a fighting chance.
These, if they exist, and I've yet to hear of a school that actually used a system like this, are far less numerous than the schools still practicing de facto affirmative action.
You really have no idea how it feels to be hated/fear persecution simply for the color of your skin do you, because if you did you'd never write the pap you did
I happen to, for the most part, agree with him. And just for the record, I spend most of my weekends in North Pasadena, Ca. which, for those of you who dont have the priviledge of living in california, is 99% minority (I went to the supermarket last night to buy some beer, there were exactly two other white people in the store with me. One was my girlfriend, one her roommate.)I know better than most what its like to be discriminated based on the color of one's skin, and I'd bet that you, despite your ramblings, have never been truly discriminated against. When was the last time you got your ass kicked in a parking lot for 'parking in the wrong spot' ?
Two things to note:
Time values do not hold during midterms/finals (I thought about having myself castrated so I could study, but thankfully reconsidered).
Finding a girlfriend who also goes to school may change these values, as she'll have a lot less free time than my girlfriend does.
Either way...ditch IRC, find a girlfriend, they're all over the place, just open your eyes.
is it in yet? oh, sorry.
is you support biology topics because you're a kharma whoring bastard?
I guess I should thank you for responding, and letting me bring up yet another problem with slashdot besides the three useless staffers (michael, timothy, katz), and that is the oh-so-great practice of kharma whoring. I'm sick of seeing fifty anonymous posts for every ten posts with names because people are afraid they'll lose their precious kharma. It's pathetic; it leads to a practice of overly-cautious and self-conscious posting, which limits actual valid conversation. I want to point out, for all of you who think I'm talking out of my ass, that this is my third consecutive post that 99% of all readers would have posted anonymously, with no fear at all attached, because kharma is not something that should be bargained for, it should be a fortunate side effect and nothing more. If your whole goal is to see "+5, informative" show up next to your post, type it into your bio, or make it your email address. Otherwise, post because you have something to say, not because you want recognition for what you have done.
I usually use http://underground.sub-list.com ... they rank all their sites, and remove sites that use forced voting, pop-ups, etc.
Southern california definately IS being affective. I live in claremont (30 miles east of LA), and we've been asked to shut down power 17 times already this summer ( http://www.scebiz.com/servlet/scc_adm?template=/so lutionscc/rates/i-6/history.tmpl )
Apparently you live in a hole. Southern california is WORSE than northern california, we've been having these blackouts since the 115 degree heat of July ( http://www.scebiz.com/servlet/scc_adm?template=/so lutionscc/rates/i-6/history.tmpl - yes, that is 'sce' meaning SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON)... and what's worse, if you study that 'blocking history', you'll notice that its becoming more and more frequent. I can also tell you from personal experience its lasting longer and longer each time, meaning its losing its effectiveness. Soon, I'd be willing to bet that the general population will be experiencing rolling blackouts instead of only those on the I-6 plan.
Have you ever been to California? There aren't as many areas that get winds consistantly strong enough to power wind generators. There are areas that have wind turbines (such as Techapie (sp?--it's at the southern tip of the Sierra Nevada Mountains by Mojave)), but the wind we get off the ocean isn't as strong or consistant as the wind the Pacific Northwest gets (note, I'm saying this as a San Diegan who lived in Tacoma for a few years)
heh, first off, its 'tehachapi', but there's also the banning pass region between banning and palm springs (east of la about 80 miles) that also has wind powered generators.
The other thing is - get rid of those WinNT and Win2K boxen! Switch to some decent boxen with good cycle usage like *nix.
Good point
Christ, I hate zealots like you. Does anyone really think that this has ANYTHING to do with powerusage by computers? Try considering the fact that there's a housing boom going on, with tens of thousands of new houses being built all over the state. Then consider the fact that about 10,000 Mwh is unavailable due to previously scheduled maintenance of one of So. Cal. Edison's plants.
Southern california Edison employs the same plan, I believe, as their Northern california counterpart, where they allow large companies and schools to pay lower rates if they agree to shut down power IF the reserves ever run low. The fact that this is the first time for Intel surprises me, since its the 17th time for those of us in southern california.
this isn't really new, its been going on since summer in southern california. ( Shutoff history for southern california ) My school is on the same plan (it was not forced on intel, companies are given the option to save money by going on the plan in case of emergencies), and we've been blacked out about 15 times since school started in August. Lately its gotten so bad that the school has choosen to pay the $7.50/kwh fee to keep power ON so students can prepare for finals.
Los Angeles is a backwater place where the population is less than the crowd at the local football stadium ? Read the article before posting nonsense.
Read it.. its written by/for the LA area, which I can assure you does NOT have 10 digit dialing...
This is yet another example of people assuming everything applies to them. Guess what, IT DOESN'T. This article, despite your huge ego, was apparently not written for you. Don't assume that it sucks because it doesn't apply, just realize that it doesn't apply and move on.
The Los Angeles/Orange County region is stopping it... it was proposed here a few years ago, and people had fits about it...that was back when LA was 213, OC was 714, and 'the valley' was 818. Since then, its become less of an issue, since dialing 11 numbers is almost required ( LA is 213, 210, 323, OC is 714, 949, the valley is 818, 626, and there's also a few in the outter lying regions that used to be 714/818 that are now 909, 661, etc).
The logic in this move is basically that the mass of new numbers caused a mass of new area codes, and now dialing the extra digits is almost mandatory anyway, so why not just take the extra step and force people to dial them to free up more numbers.
Sure, I'll gladly agree my high school was filled with a large number of morons (graduated from a california public school in 99), BUT, those people aren't looking for IT jobs, much less looking for them overseas. Keep this question in context, and the answer is NO. Take it out of context, as you all have, and the answer is YES. Give credit where credit is due, there are a large number of brilliant and skilled kids coming out of american schools, they just dont receive the credit they're due because of the huge number at the other end of the spectrum on which you all seem to focus.
I think assuming that EVERYONE is aware of what is happening to the Linux stocks is a huge overstatement. Until I clicked that link, I didn't know (probably because I'm still in college, and have ZERO money to invest at the moment), and that is actually a story *I* would have liked to see on slashdot.
That, at least, has some meaning to at least some of us (slashdot's not only being run by kharma whores, its also going bankrupt), unlike some of the other stupid and pointless articles that NOBODY gives a fuck about.
As for your pathetic little personal remarks... grow up. The man/boy/girl/child/pedophile/whatever makes a legitimate first post, posts an intelligent comment (congrats, l33t j03, nice to see you back), and you act like a two year old with a fork up your arse.
please see My number 1: 1) If slashdot was filled with humorless linux nerds, I'd stop reading it altogether. If you truly can't stand the A/C posting, change your threshhold and deal with the 14% of the posts that are up to your level, and leave the rest of us to sit and laugh at the childish humor. If you have a problem with that, lemme know, I'll send someone over to pull the penis bird outta your ass.
To avoid repetition, I scrolled through all the posts to see if anyone else had mentioned this... and I've come to the conclusion that either: 1) nobody from california reads slashdot or 2) nobody from california that reads slashdot voted. This year, california implemented electronic voting. The story is H ere
Electronic voting powered by Java...taking place at the normal polling place, not over the web, using a pseudo-smart card technology. Great Stuff.
Where i'm from, fighting in high school is automatic 5 day suspension...and since my high school was like 20 minutes from where this kid's school is, i'm sure their policies are similar... 2 day suspension sounds about right.
no, that would make me someone who's lazy and prefers to click links instead of copy/paste, and someone who's sympathetic to the other fuckers who are as lazy as me...
and me being a kharma whore..isn't quite accurate...since i am now, and have been for months, in negative kharma...which doesn't bother me, because everything i post is an honest comment, and i dont care if i get modded down as flamebait because i express my opinion.
Instead of taking a few seconds to check the actual url, this fine person is trying to post early so that he gets modded up. This might be a decent post, had he: 1) checked which url actually works, and 2) taken a few seconds to make it into a real link.
For everyone else, here's the link.
Well, I may be wrong, but I would say that a more important right would be wether or not I would like to live in a capitalist, democratic society. It seems to be taken as a given.
Um, you can move.... there's many other countries besides the United States... try Canada, where all the other fucking retards hang out.