"So I decided to ask Slashdotters - which other options are there available?"
Why look at the case at all? I'd rather have a PC in a nearby closet or cabinet with extended cables for a monitor and USB. It solves the problems of fan noise, case aesthetics and messy cabling all in one shot.
Discussing other people's use of racist terminology, and the potential motives behind such use, and the emotional response to that use, and the appropriate reaction to such use, is a GOOD thing. Even if it's only one small aspect of the article in question. Of course Slashdot should have posted that.
I think you're right, but I also think you missed the parent's point.
"Nigger" is an inflammatory word. Slashdot has a certain editorial style/voice, and would probably not use (e.g.) phrases like "shit eating faggot" or "suck this, bitch" on the front page, no matter how true, no matter how appropriate the language was to the story. The choice to put the word "nigger" on the front page implies that it isn't in that same league (i.e. not as "bad"). I'm not going to lose sleep over it, but I think it's a little bit surprising.
All you can really do is stop playing or frag the h*ll out of them.
No, you can do more. You can reply with something like,
"Nigger?"... How old are you? You come across as either a child or a fucking idiot.
You'd be surprised how many people in a game will chime in and back you up, but who didn't bother to say anything about it. Well, okay, maybe you wouldn't be surprised, but I sometimes am.
On the eve of elections I'd rather see a Christopher Hitchens / Michael Moore debate. Anything'd be more interesting than the coming presidential debates.
Some worry about the concentration of power in the radio world by companies like Clear Channel. But who listens to radio for music any longer?
I think the real change that Clear Channel has brought about is this:
Stores used to pay companies like muzak to pipe in a pacifying soundtrack for our shopping pleasure. But in the last ten years businesses have figured out that e.g. an actual Hall and Oates song is just as muzakky as an orchestral arrangement of a Hall and Oates song. (No offense to Mr. Hall, Mr. Oates or any other pop entertainers, but there it is.)
Using this insight, Clear Channel is providing a pacifying soundtrack to our stuck-at-work/stuck-in-traffic pleasure.
The latest SW movies have been about nothing other than making George some bank
Just a guess, but it seems like the real problem is that nobody close to Lucas has the heart to tell him that his movies are crap. I mean, he's probably a really nice guy.
ask someone who can't see, hear, smell, or touch...
You haven't left the poor guy/gal much to work with.
How would we do that? With a symbolic language based on varying degrees/amounts of duration, balance, and/or taste? I'd rather save that for the bedroom.
more satisfying to slam down the phone after you get mad at someone !
For the same reason, I can only use "flip" cell phones. Before I got my first one, the only way to hang up on anybody (with any degree of satisfaction) was to throw my phone across the cab of my truck at the end of each conversation.
Actually, that system works fine in the winter, when the windows are rolled up, but...
Maybe in a perfect world a student has the right to be assumed honest 'til proven a plagiarist.
But in that same perfect world doesn't every student also have the right to know that he/she is on a level playing field? If you don't cheat, great. But isn't it also important to know that you're not competing agaist cheaters? They (the hypothetical cheaters) can't take away from your learning experience, but they can displace honest students in class rankings.
science is empirical, and therefore deals with observed characteristics of the real world (i.e., "facts")
I think you might want to rethink this. "Science" doesn't deal with "truth". "Truth" is for closed formal systems like math or logic or faith.
You're right that science is about observation. It's also about making models and predictions and projections based on limited and possibly fallible data. Rinse. Repeat. Having faith in "Truth" puts and end to that process.
... look too hard for evidence of evolution in the Bible; you'll strain your eyes.
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I know it's nitpicking, but isn't "wrong" kind of a misleading term here? I thought the whole idea of modern science rested on the notion that at best science asymptotically approaches "truth" as all the data comes in. "Wrong" to me implies that reaching "truth" is an option.
There are two perfectly good senses in which people use the word "racism". One refers to hatred/descrimination/nepotism/xenophobia etc on an individual and personal level. Another refers to a societal condition which is systemic and has many levels, ranging from internment camps to [ harmless/stupid fucking [take your pick]] caricatures and sterotypes that help *us* label *others*. I would imagine Room101 was using it in the latter sense.
Confusing the two senses in which "racism" is used seems to prematurely end the dialogue.
Talkin' Ghetto" is not cool or neat, it is simply ignorant and is simply a part of the dumbing-down of (at least) the U.S.
Wrong.
Your misconception is a common one. BAE (Black American English) is a dialect with rules and conventions just as any other language or dialect (if there is any difference between language and dialect). It isn't "broken" or "sloppy", and it doesn't reflect "intelligence".
Yes, *we* know that the films are historically innacurate, but say 20 years from now, or 50 years from now, will common people go to history books, or something that is *EASY* for them to watch. It can almost be said that Hollywood is subconciously rewritting history.
If history were so easily rewritten, then it would already be done many times over and we wouldn't know it.
Hmm... maybe it is already done.
What makes *us* (or *you* anyway, I'm kinda dumb) so much smarter than future generations? Or so much more shrewd or cluefull or discerning or whatever?
I'm guessing that future generations will be able to "call bullshit" as well or as poorly as our generation or any other.
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I think you're right, but I also think you missed the parent's point.
"Nigger" is an inflammatory word. Slashdot has a certain editorial style/voice, and would probably not use (e.g.) phrases like "shit eating faggot" or "suck this, bitch" on the front page, no matter how true, no matter how appropriate the language was to the story. The choice to put the word "nigger" on the front page implies that it isn't in that same league (i.e. not as "bad"). I'm not going to lose sleep over it, but I think it's a little bit surprising.
No, you can do more. You can reply with something like,
You'd be surprised how many people in a game will chime in and back you up, but who didn't bother to say anything about it. Well, okay, maybe you wouldn't be surprised, but I sometimes am.
Then frag the hell out of them.
But either way, we win.
On the eve of elections I'd rather see a Christopher Hitchens / Michael Moore debate. Anything'd be more interesting than the coming presidential debates.
"You might feel a little discomfort."
Some worry about the concentration of power in the radio world by companies like Clear Channel. But who listens to radio for music any longer?
I think the real change that Clear Channel has brought about is this:
Stores used to pay companies like muzak to pipe in a pacifying soundtrack for our shopping pleasure. But in the last ten years businesses have figured out that e.g. an actual Hall and Oates song is just as muzakky as an orchestral arrangement of a Hall and Oates song. (No offense to Mr. Hall, Mr. Oates or any other pop entertainers, but there it is.)
Using this insight, Clear Channel is providing a pacifying soundtrack to our stuck-at-work/stuck-in-traffic pleasure.
... oompa loompa.
The latest SW movies have been about nothing other than making George some bank
Just a guess, but it seems like the real problem is that nobody close to Lucas has the heart to tell him that his movies are crap. I mean, he's probably a really nice guy.
It hadn't occured to me that he needs the money.
Then how do classify Euclidian geometry? Where is two dimensional flat space found in nature/reality?
Or do you mean that integers make no sense to you unless you imagine them as amounts? Where is -1 found in nature/reality?
ask someone who can't see, hear, smell, or touch...
You haven't left the poor guy/gal much to work with.
How would we do that? With a symbolic language based on varying degrees/amounts of duration, balance, and/or taste? I'd rather save that for the bedroom.
more satisfying to slam down the phone after you get mad at someone !
For the same reason, I can only use "flip" cell phones. Before I got my first one, the only way to hang up on anybody (with any degree of satisfaction) was to throw my phone across the cab of my truck at the end of each conversation.
Actually, that system works fine in the winter, when the windows are rolled up, but...
...let This American Life do the same so I can uninstall RealPlayer finally.
Maybe in a perfect world a student has the right to be assumed honest 'til proven a plagiarist.
But in that same perfect world doesn't every student also have the right to know that he/she is on a level playing field? If you don't cheat, great. But isn't it also important to know that you're not competing agaist cheaters? They (the hypothetical cheaters) can't take away from your learning experience, but they can displace honest students in class rankings.
science is empirical, and therefore deals with observed characteristics of the real world (i.e., "facts")
I think you might want to rethink this. "Science" doesn't deal with "truth". "Truth" is for closed formal systems like math or logic or faith.
You're right that science is about observation. It's also about making models and predictions and projections based on limited and possibly fallible data. Rinse. Repeat. Having faith in "Truth" puts and end to that process.
Have fun.
... look too hard for evidence of evolution in the Bible; you'll strain your eyes.
I know it's nitpicking, but isn't "wrong" kind of a misleading term here? I thought the whole idea of modern science rested on the notion that at best science asymptotically approaches "truth" as all the data comes in. "Wrong" to me implies that reaching "truth" is an option.
Slaughterhouse Five
Cat's Cradle.
You forgot Venus on the Half-Shell.
Why is the proportion of White to Black so horribly horribly unbalanced. Are the Capricans racist?
They're Mormons. I thought everyone knew that.
Immitating jive is racist?
There are two perfectly good senses in which people use the word "racism". One refers to hatred/descrimination/nepotism/xenophobia etc on an individual and personal level. Another refers to a societal condition which is systemic and has many levels, ranging from internment camps to [ harmless/stupid fucking [take your pick]] caricatures and sterotypes that help *us* label *others*. I would imagine Room101 was using it in the latter sense.
Confusing the two senses in which "racism" is used seems to prematurely end the dialogue.
Talkin' Ghetto" is not cool or neat, it is simply ignorant and is simply a part of the dumbing-down of (at least) the U.S.
Wrong.
Your misconception is a common one. BAE (Black American English) is a dialect with rules and conventions just as any other language or dialect (if there is any difference between language and dialect). It isn't "broken" or "sloppy", and it doesn't reflect "intelligence".
I am married to a man I've been with since 1978 - Terry Gross
Full interview here.
Yes, *we* know that the films are historically innacurate, but say 20 years from now, or 50 years from now, will common people go to history books, or something that is *EASY* for them to watch. It can almost be said that Hollywood is subconciously rewritting history.
If history were so easily rewritten, then it would already be done many times over and we wouldn't know it.
Hmm... maybe it is already done.
What makes *us* (or *you* anyway, I'm kinda dumb) so much smarter than future generations? Or so much more shrewd or cluefull or discerning or whatever?
I'm guessing that future generations will be able to "call bullshit" as well or as poorly as our generation or any other.
The REAL American dream is ... freedom of speach, freedom of the press...
Microsoft... should just STFU.
Oh.