Calling someone the N word re-enforces stereotypes about them. If words really had no effect, people wouldn't bother with them.
I can call you every bad word in the dictionary and that would not oppress you.
Check my post history here on Slashdot. I get called an "SJW" a lot, and look at how it affects the response to my posts. Perfectly reasonable arguments result in "troll" and "flamebait" mods, and when people respond they assume all kinds of crazy things. Here is an example from today: https://slashdot.org/comments....
In other words, relentless use of terms like "SJW" have had a very real oppressive effect on me. I'm not crying victim here, this is a relatively minor annoyance and certainly nothing compared to what people of colour have to put up with.
If it was as clear and powerful as you make it, why didn't the other racial epitaphs keep their power?
Because of history. White people in particular did not start from the position of being enslaved and legally 2nd class citizens in the US.
No other race or word has the same rules applied
Can't speak for the US but you can be prosecuted just as much for calling someone a cracker as the n word in the UK.
The -ize spelling is the correct British spelling. It's actually called the Oxford spelling as it is used by the Oxford Dictionary. I prefer it, personally. Spell checkers are a bugger for it, hardly any support British spelling properly with both -ize and -our/-re words.
I've never heard anyone in the UK say sidewalk. But really these things are pretty common for us in the UK, along with US cars getting really bad MPG ratings because a US gallon is smaller than ours. We also import quite a lot of French words because they sound refined and high class to us, e.g. eau du toilet and pour homme/pour famme.
A few years back I told my friends not to get me anything for xmas. If they really must then a card is acceptable, but no gifts.
It's a big load off. No need to rush around buying extra stuff for people, trying to get through shops that are 50% seasonal crap. Not having to do that is actually the best possible gift they can give me.
But who is she as a person? Without filling that in, you just get a one-dimensional action movie.
Which sadly is enough for at least 5 Transformers movies.
Nintendo could do a Pixar with this one. Mario is the most family friendly character in gaming... When Peach invites him over to eat some cake, they really do just eat some cake.
As part of the maintenance contract with Boeing they would agree to cover costs like this. Business supply contracts are not like consumer law, they typically don't have warranties and the like.
The airline could sue Boeing to make them pay for the fix, but after years in court and millions in legal fees they probably wouldn't win. After all, when other defects are found the airline usually pays the maintenance costs. At best the manufacturer might supply some free placements, but they aren't going to fit them.
And yeah, fitting a software update and testing it out can cost a million bucks because everything controlled by that software has to be re-tested as well. Even if the software has been certified, you have to make sure it was loaded correctly...
I'm surprised you let that stand since I was applying the basic standard of racism to a black man, which we all "know" can never be a racist.
You are surprised that your bizarre assumptions about me applying different standards based on skin colour are wrong?
I mean... How am I supposed to discuss something with you if you just assume all these crazy things and even when you find evidence that your assumptions are wrong just carry on with them anyway?
Is there literally anything I can say to stop you doing this?
I've been playing with Qubes OS. It lets you create VMs quickly and seamlessly, meaning you can easily run multiple copies of applications that are completely separate. It's great for running multiple versions of things, and for running untrusted software like Java in a heavily protected sandbox. The VMs are mostly transparent, the apps appear on the desktop as if they were running natively, except for some limitations on things like copy/paste and file access.
Take a look at Fox News, plenty of white people on there getting offended...
The reason that black people can, to some extent, use the N word while white people generally can't is historical reasons. Not just going back as far as slavery, there was segregation back in the 50s and even after that there was a lot of racism. The N word was used by white people to oppress black people, that's just a historical fact, and even today we see that it's still used in that manner by some people.
Of course, white people can use the N word in some contexts, when it is very clear that they have a good, non-racist reason to. But for the most part, if a white person just says it without any context, or worse uses it to refer to a black person, due to the prevalence of white people using it abusively they probably won't get the benefit of the doubt from strangers.
Slashdot has definitely changed. I remember when it was more of a marketplace of ideas, where interesting comments were actually modded "interesting" instead of "flamebait" or "troll". I remember when everything wasn't a conspiracy of some kind.
Back on topic, imagine a Beowulf cluster of the top 500 supercomputers!
The main issue with Windows is not scaling, it's been able to make good use of >100 cores since the early 2000s. The issue is management.
These computers don't run one single OS. They run multiple copies of the same OS on nodes, and dispatch work to those nodes using special high speed interconnects. When you have thousands of CPUs, power supplies, RAM modules etc. some of them are going to fail, so you divide them up into nodes that can fail and recover individually.
Windows is not well suited to this. With Linux you can just create an OS image and deploy it over a network. Windows can kinda do that, but it's awkward and not really suited to embedded, headless operation in a highly networked environment.
Nonsense. Just look at the efforts to decontaminate parts of Japan. Some areas are now on their 4th round of decontamination, with layers of top-soil being removed and replaced yet again, and it's still not working. It's really, really hard to clean those areas up, and once one area is cleared it just gets re-contaminated from neighbouring ones as plants, soil and animals move around.
You really think that a bunch of environmentalist protesting is enough to defeat multi-billion dollar companies and their armies of lawyers?
And if so, how come they fail so hard in other areas, like stopping fracking, or getting Trump to agree to Paris, or preventing non-nuclear environmental disasters, or banning inefficient fossil fuel vehicles...
And how come the anti-environmentalists fail to block wind farms?
Musk may have screwed Tesla by saying that employees should be thick skinned and accept an apology. The law requires that the abuse stops, not that people apologise (however sincerely) for it. Apologising is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for saying anything you like in the workplace, at most it will lessen the severity of the reprimand/punishment.
His statement really sounds like an admission that Tesla does have a problem and that there are no formal, effective procedures to deal with it.
I'm surprised you didn't notice that, because you actually wrote "[w]hat you have to do is take whatever steps are necessary to end racial harrassment of the plaintiff in your workplace" so clearly you are aware of what is required.
Just check their post history, they think everything is a conspiracy created by Communists/trade unions/leftists. They don't need evidence, commies are everywhere, they infiltrated everything!
Most jurisdictions require companies to act when they become aware of racism. Presumably management were made aware somehow (complaint, saw it happening) and failed to act of he is intending to sue.
No, these guys use techniques developed since the 50s to identify divisions and drive a wedge into them. They are professional trolls, part of a coordinated effort to destabilize western countries.
They do this on an installation scale. Thousands of accounts, 12 hour shifts, backed by a team of analysts and propaganda experts.
TFA is trying to make the situation seem bad, when in fact it's good.
The 2020 plan is extremely ambitious. It was supposed to be really, really hard to meet and they knew as far back as 2013 that they were likely to miss it. The idea isn't to set an easy goal that can be met with minimal effort, it's a Kennedy style moon shot. It worked too, like the US there is a lot of public support for it and willingness to put the effort in.
The 2020 goal was a 22% cut in emissions, but it looking like a 15% cut will be possible. Some people say that is a failure... Ignoring that it's still a massive cut. Coal plan shut-downs started last year and will continue into 2019, so picking stats from just before this started is unfair.
The 2050 plan is the bigger, longer term goal that involves really massive cuts to emissions. 2020 is just a step on the way to it.
Quality of life in Germany remains high. Base energy cost is comparable to the rest of western Europe, including France, it's just the tax that makes it more expensive to consumers. And there are big discounts available for those less well off. They decided to pay for clean energy, that was a conscious decision and the electorate have had multiple opportunities to express their support for it.
They pay more tax because they are not short sighted and see the longer term benefit. For people who can't afford it there are heavy discounts available. You are basically complaining that they decided to tax and spend for a cleaner future, it has little to do with the cost of generation which is pretty average by EU standards.
France is the most nuclear heavy country in Europe, and they pay for it. Not through their electricity bills, but through other taxes. The industry is heavily, heavily subsidised. About a decade ago they got fed up with it and started to cut off the supply of tax money to energy companies, and the ones heavily invested in nuclear nearly went out of business. They stayed afloat by taking on foreign projects as part of the expected nuclear renaissance, which failed to materialize and is now costing other governments a fortune too.
Because this is the shitty world we live in. For what it's worth Windows does support something similar with WinUSB devices, but you still have to write separate code for Windows/Linux/MacOS/Android.
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How can words oppress people?
Calling someone the N word re-enforces stereotypes about them. If words really had no effect, people wouldn't bother with them.
I can call you every bad word in the dictionary and that would not oppress you.
Check my post history here on Slashdot. I get called an "SJW" a lot, and look at how it affects the response to my posts. Perfectly reasonable arguments result in "troll" and "flamebait" mods, and when people respond they assume all kinds of crazy things. Here is an example from today: https://slashdot.org/comments....
In other words, relentless use of terms like "SJW" have had a very real oppressive effect on me. I'm not crying victim here, this is a relatively minor annoyance and certainly nothing compared to what people of colour have to put up with.
If it was as clear and powerful as you make it, why didn't the other racial epitaphs keep their power?
Because of history. White people in particular did not start from the position of being enslaved and legally 2nd class citizens in the US.
No other race or word has the same rules applied
Can't speak for the US but you can be prosecuted just as much for calling someone a cracker as the n word in the UK.
The -ize spelling is the correct British spelling. It's actually called the Oxford spelling as it is used by the Oxford Dictionary. I prefer it, personally. Spell checkers are a bugger for it, hardly any support British spelling properly with both -ize and -our/-re words.
I've never heard anyone in the UK say sidewalk. But really these things are pretty common for us in the UK, along with US cars getting really bad MPG ratings because a US gallon is smaller than ours. We also import quite a lot of French words because they sound refined and high class to us, e.g. eau du toilet and pour homme/pour famme.
A few years back I told my friends not to get me anything for xmas. If they really must then a card is acceptable, but no gifts.
It's a big load off. No need to rush around buying extra stuff for people, trying to get through shops that are 50% seasonal crap. Not having to do that is actually the best possible gift they can give me.
But who is she as a person? Without filling that in, you just get a one-dimensional action movie.
Which sadly is enough for at least 5 Transformers movies.
Nintendo could do a Pixar with this one. Mario is the most family friendly character in gaming... When Peach invites him over to eat some cake, they really do just eat some cake.
I prefer Pauline, the O.G. princess and Mario love interest. Current mayor new New Donk City, and a talented singer.
As part of the maintenance contract with Boeing they would agree to cover costs like this. Business supply contracts are not like consumer law, they typically don't have warranties and the like.
The airline could sue Boeing to make them pay for the fix, but after years in court and millions in legal fees they probably wouldn't win. After all, when other defects are found the airline usually pays the maintenance costs. At best the manufacturer might supply some free placements, but they aren't going to fit them.
And yeah, fitting a software update and testing it out can cost a million bucks because everything controlled by that software has to be re-tested as well. Even if the software has been certified, you have to make sure it was loaded correctly...
I'm surprised you let that stand since I was applying the basic standard of racism to a black man, which we all "know" can never be a racist.
You are surprised that your bizarre assumptions about me applying different standards based on skin colour are wrong?
I mean... How am I supposed to discuss something with you if you just assume all these crazy things and even when you find evidence that your assumptions are wrong just carry on with them anyway?
Is there literally anything I can say to stop you doing this?
I've been playing with Qubes OS. It lets you create VMs quickly and seamlessly, meaning you can easily run multiple copies of applications that are completely separate. It's great for running multiple versions of things, and for running untrusted software like Java in a heavily protected sandbox. The VMs are mostly transparent, the apps appear on the desktop as if they were running natively, except for some limitations on things like copy/paste and file access.
Take a look at Fox News, plenty of white people on there getting offended...
The reason that black people can, to some extent, use the N word while white people generally can't is historical reasons. Not just going back as far as slavery, there was segregation back in the 50s and even after that there was a lot of racism. The N word was used by white people to oppress black people, that's just a historical fact, and even today we see that it's still used in that manner by some people.
Of course, white people can use the N word in some contexts, when it is very clear that they have a good, non-racist reason to. But for the most part, if a white person just says it without any context, or worse uses it to refer to a black person, due to the prevalence of white people using it abusively they probably won't get the benefit of the doubt from strangers.
Slashdot has definitely changed. I remember when it was more of a marketplace of ideas, where interesting comments were actually modded "interesting" instead of "flamebait" or "troll". I remember when everything wasn't a conspiracy of some kind.
Back on topic, imagine a Beowulf cluster of the top 500 supercomputers!
The main issue with Windows is not scaling, it's been able to make good use of >100 cores since the early 2000s. The issue is management.
These computers don't run one single OS. They run multiple copies of the same OS on nodes, and dispatch work to those nodes using special high speed interconnects. When you have thousands of CPUs, power supplies, RAM modules etc. some of them are going to fail, so you divide them up into nodes that can fail and recover individually.
Windows is not well suited to this. With Linux you can just create an OS image and deploy it over a network. Windows can kinda do that, but it's awkward and not really suited to embedded, headless operation in a highly networked environment.
Nonsense. Just look at the efforts to decontaminate parts of Japan. Some areas are now on their 4th round of decontamination, with layers of top-soil being removed and replaced yet again, and it's still not working. It's really, really hard to clean those areas up, and once one area is cleared it just gets re-contaminated from neighbouring ones as plants, soil and animals move around.
You really think that a bunch of environmentalist protesting is enough to defeat multi-billion dollar companies and their armies of lawyers?
And if so, how come they fail so hard in other areas, like stopping fracking, or getting Trump to agree to Paris, or preventing non-nuclear environmental disasters, or banning inefficient fossil fuel vehicles...
And how come the anti-environmentalists fail to block wind farms?
Nice in theory, but nuclear is already one of the most expensive forms of energy available and you want to add to that cost with reprocessing and R&D.
Any solution has to be cheaper, safer and cleaner than renewables + batteries.
You tried to paint a picture of an openly racist black man, by being openly racist yourself. Ironic.
Musk may have screwed Tesla by saying that employees should be thick skinned and accept an apology. The law requires that the abuse stops, not that people apologise (however sincerely) for it. Apologising is not a get-out-of-jail-free card for saying anything you like in the workplace, at most it will lessen the severity of the reprimand/punishment.
His statement really sounds like an admission that Tesla does have a problem and that there are no formal, effective procedures to deal with it.
I'm surprised you didn't notice that, because you actually wrote "[w]hat you have to do is take whatever steps are necessary to end racial harrassment of the plaintiff in your workplace" so clearly you are aware of what is required.
Just check their post history, they think everything is a conspiracy created by Communists/trade unions/leftists. They don't need evidence, commies are everywhere, they infiltrated everything!
Most jurisdictions require companies to act when they become aware of racism. Presumably management were made aware somehow (complaint, saw it happening) and failed to act of he is intending to sue.
No, these guys use techniques developed since the 50s to identify divisions and drive a wedge into them. They are professional trolls, part of a coordinated effort to destabilize western countries.
They do this on an installation scale. Thousands of accounts, 12 hour shifts, backed by a team of analysts and propaganda experts.
Only if they post exclusively during Moscow office hours, occasionally forget to disable location metadata and are being paid.
The trick to writing release notes is to cover up your gaffes, cock-ups and drunken coding sessions.
That bug that formats your hard drive? "Minor bug fixes."
That cat meme easter egg you tried to add in turned into a huge, show stopping bug? Better list the deleted code as a "quality enhancement."
I find it's best to avoid apps when possible. If you just google "spirit level" on your phone it brings one up, no installation necessary.
TFA is trying to make the situation seem bad, when in fact it's good.
The 2020 plan is extremely ambitious. It was supposed to be really, really hard to meet and they knew as far back as 2013 that they were likely to miss it. The idea isn't to set an easy goal that can be met with minimal effort, it's a Kennedy style moon shot. It worked too, like the US there is a lot of public support for it and willingness to put the effort in.
The 2020 goal was a 22% cut in emissions, but it looking like a 15% cut will be possible. Some people say that is a failure... Ignoring that it's still a massive cut. Coal plan shut-downs started last year and will continue into 2019, so picking stats from just before this started is unfair.
The 2050 plan is the bigger, longer term goal that involves really massive cuts to emissions. 2020 is just a step on the way to it.
Quality of life in Germany remains high. Base energy cost is comparable to the rest of western Europe, including France, it's just the tax that makes it more expensive to consumers. And there are big discounts available for those less well off. They decided to pay for clean energy, that was a conscious decision and the electorate have had multiple opportunities to express their support for it.
Their electricity rates are high because of tax, not because it costs a lot to produce: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/s...
They pay more tax because they are not short sighted and see the longer term benefit. For people who can't afford it there are heavy discounts available. You are basically complaining that they decided to tax and spend for a cleaner future, it has little to do with the cost of generation which is pretty average by EU standards.
France is the most nuclear heavy country in Europe, and they pay for it. Not through their electricity bills, but through other taxes. The industry is heavily, heavily subsidised. About a decade ago they got fed up with it and started to cut off the supply of tax money to energy companies, and the ones heavily invested in nuclear nearly went out of business. They stayed afloat by taking on foreign projects as part of the expected nuclear renaissance, which failed to materialize and is now costing other governments a fortune too.
Because this is the shitty world we live in. For what it's worth Windows does support something similar with WinUSB devices, but you still have to write separate code for Windows/Linux/MacOS/Android.