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  1. Re:Why "SJW"? on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    Eh they tend to all come from gender studies classes and modules, would be the reason why.

  2. Re:One bad apple spoils the barrel on Combating Recent, Ugly Incidents of Misogyny In Gamer Culture · · Score: 1

    Which of course highlights the underlying hypocrisy of the feminist discourse, rather than encouraging women to take their own agency it removes their agency by characterising them as victims. Yes, you are weakening and harming women.

    Take my girlfriend for example, a gentle creature who wouldn't hurt a fly, and I mean that literally, but put her in whatever game and she shifts gears into some sort of terrifying Godfather/Mad Max/Viet Cong/Leon mindset and kicks ass with the best of them. That's a woman, not a child as feminists would have her be, a woman who earns respect rather than expecting it because vagina.

    But hey, keep pushing that narrative, you crayon eater. "Moreover" indeed.

  3. Re:it's not a technical problem on E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone · · Score: 1

    I'm getting a bit worried to be honest, these days I'm running into more and more people of all ages, but younger people in particular, who almost proudly admit they don't read for pleasure.

  4. Re:Another wasted research project on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Anti gravity is not the same thing as gravity. That's why they put "anti" in front of it. And disputing the claim that gravity increases proportional to the inverse square of the distance is the same as saying it's not an attractive force. So, yeah, still pretty stupid.

  5. Re:Progressive JPEG on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 1

    Slashcode seems to have erased the tag itself, it was figure, the figure tag.

  6. Re:Another wasted research project on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Studies have found between 0% and 100% chance of gravity always being an attractive force. Does gravity not sound like a very reliable science to you?

    This is pretty stupid, since studies have found gravity to be an attractive force 100% of the time.

  7. No he doesn't claim god is on his side, his way of playing to his parish is to make himself out to be a fearless and rugged strongman. Thing is though if god's your gimmick you've always got an out - just say you're being tested. If you're claiming you can wrestle polar bears, you'd better not back down from a fight or you lose support. So to be honest a politician is better off cleaving to religion than machismo, as long as the voters swallow it.

    Also I'm not sure who this "we" thing is paleface, my country isn't part of any military agreements, except maybe the UN peacekeeping forces.

  8. Re:Progressive JPEG on New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster · · Score: 2

    Which is really uncomfortable to look at. My eyes keep trying to focus on the blurry image and can't. Also how do they propose to test client bandwidth, maybe the client is downloading an ISO or five at the same time but wants the higher res images anyway.

    Anyway @media does this already with normal image tags and can be refined to any degree of granualarity needed, and yes img srcs can be changed in CSS.

    And really the plethora of new tags making an appearance is getting weird. I came across a tag recently whose main advantage seems to be in terms of SEO, as in google will probably rate images displayed under higher in sciencey-sounding searches. No indication as to how this won't be abused by spammers just like every other meta-esque tagging scheme, of course.

  9. Re:Put it this way on Invasion of Ukraine Continues As Russia Begins Nuclear Weapons Sabre Rattling · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If he does back down he risks losing a lot more than the next election.

  10. Wow on Invasion of Ukraine Continues As Russia Begins Nuclear Weapons Sabre Rattling · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought we were through with all this by the turn of the century. And I mean you can say that he's bluffing but really, Putin's a psychopath. If you corner a genuine bona fide psycho they'll take you down with them if they can, and they don't need any 72 virgins as an excuse either. Even if he's not, he'll have to act like one - to lose face in his position would represent a fundamental weakening of power, he'd lose support overnight, be deposed and likely disposed of.

    It would seem to me that western leaders have been caught with their pants well and truly around their ankles in this situation, I doubt they were expecting this kind of heavy handedness, er, ever again. So my guess is they'll back out and leet him have his way.

  11. Re:Another wasted research project on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Any science with a 6% to 85% chance of being accurate (not a margin of error, but chance of actually existing) doesn't sound very reliable to me. Genetics will have an effect on weight but simple physics can't really be ignored here - energy in, energy out. Someone that exercises a lot, using a lot of energy, and doesn't eat much isn't going to be overweight because there isn't any spare energy to convert into fat.

    Conversely, someone that takes in a lot of high energy food and doesn't exercise will in all likelihood build up fat. I know it's a more complicated picture but at the end of the day energy is going into an overweight person's body and it's not being used.

  12. Re:neither science nor news. on Watch UK Inventor Colin Furze Survive a Fireworks Blast In a Metal Suit · · Score: 0

    lacks userbase from what im told.

    Oh, it lacks the only thing that makes slashdot interesting you mean?

    Say what you like about slashdot but they've an excellent hands-off policy when it comes to discussions about whatever, that can be relied upon. The same can't be said for your "alternatives".

    Please mod this and the parent post as offtopic, thanks.

  13. Re:Talking to "different" people is bad for you on Study: Social Networks Have Negative Effect On Individual Welfare · · Score: 1

    Hardly. It sounds to me a lot more like someone's trying to drum up a moral panic about "hate speech" and "discrimination" online.

    Besides, have the authors factored in facebook's enormous ongoing social experiments with their userbase?

  14. Re:Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 0

    Go ahead and ask the average person in Eastern Europe what they think about marxism and they won't be long setting you very straight indeed, tms. But of course they weren't doing it right were they. Nobody seems to do it right, despite millions dying. Odd, that.

  15. Re:Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 0

    It rewards psychopaths, results in shitty systems which punish the public and takes the creative principle for ransom.

    Bwahaha you slackjawed imbecile, you realise you've just described the actual outcomes of everything marxist?

    and budding psychopaths who hope that they can scramble their way up the mountain of bodies

    For reals, over 100 million people would like a word. And they seem a bit pissed.

    Possibly just maybe your polisci 101 lecturer wasn't giving you an honest education, dipshit.

    Food for thought.

  16. Re:Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 2

    It is if they're willing to play it smart enough.

    I mean you didn't think that computer you're typing on was so cheap because the manufacturers decided to give you a winning personality discount, did you?

    Also I'd advise anyone whining about monopolies to take a good long look at the standard contracts existing publishers make authors sign, as we're on the subject.

  17. Re:Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 1

    What praytell is preventing them from starting their own Amazons? It's not like they're short of a few bucks. Although to be honest I expect the ultimate fallout from this conflict to be writers circumventing publishers entirely and just working with editors and artists directly.

  18. Comfortable, were we? on Japanese Publishers Lash Out At Amazon's Policies · · Score: 1

    Time to compete.

    Oh and by the way, welcome to capitalism.

  19. Re:Obvious Reason on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 2

    Oh look, a feminist shooting the messenger. Quelle surprise.

  20. Re:Meh on For $1.5M, DeepFlight Dragon Is an "Aircraft for the Water" · · Score: 1

    Going really fucking fast is an end unto itself, my friend!

  21. Re:Obvious Reason on Why Women Have No Time For Wikipedia · · Score: 2, Informative

    I mean, face it, men are just more willing to be the trolls and make life miserable for each other. Women see that and avoid the whole issue altogether.

    Turns out that's a steaming pile, who knew eh. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

    They simply see what happens as basically a bunch of horny teenagers with ragers going on, and simply steer clear to avoid the trouble.

    Too bad you don't know any actual female gamers: http://www.pokket.tv/wp/wp-con...

  22. Meh on For $1.5M, DeepFlight Dragon Is an "Aircraft for the Water" · · Score: 1

    Get back to me when they can supercavitate.

  23. Re:Just tell them on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Yeah I mean I've only posted this three or four times in the story already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. Re:It's OK to attack mythology and superstition... on Drought Inspires a Boom In Pseudoscience, From Rain Machines To 'Water Witches' · · Score: 1

    UFOs actually exist. Yes, they do. Not to say that they are aliens but there's a long and well documented history of flying objects we can't identify.

    So how about we spend a few generations stamping out atttitudes like yours and then we can view the world as it really is.

  25. Re:*Dons asbestos suit* on Anita Sarkeesian, Creator of "Tropes vs. Women," Driven From Home By Trolls · · Score: 1

    Fair Use, do you know it?

    So you didn't even bother looking it up. That tells me all I need to know you intellectual goatse! Don't let any flies in there, I believe there may be adverse short to mid term consequences!