+5 insightful for this garbage. I love slashdot. The guy sees the same sickness in his culture that showed up in the Santa Barbara murderer and he's calling it out. The reaction here, ultra defensive, delusions of being personally attacked, and all of it moderated to the limit, speak volumes about Slashdot, and not in a good way.
RTFA. There is nothing in the article attacking anyone on Slashdot. It's not calling every nerd a rapist, a misogynist, or a killer. It's saying wake up and starting thinking about other people for a change.
No, he is seeing the actions of a mentally unstable guy and blaming everyone in his culture for it - "what the fuck is wrong with us?", "We need to grow up."
I resent the implication that because of the actions of one guy, I'm also a mass-murdering rapist and must apologise for being so because I'm nerdy.
>In short, we were happy with the old EEC. Anything further should start with rebuilding the EC into something that actually resembles a functioning democracy, with strict limits on the mandate of this superstate.
Is that not ironic UK giving democracy lessons ? Is not UK one of the last country in Europe where church, nobles, and others have life long or hereditary special privileges ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ) ?
No different to the European Commission - the non-elected part of the EU "democratic" process.
I am one and I agree. We have Chav politics for Chav people.
The place is run by the tabloid press and whatever the latest Witch hunt happens to be. It suits the wealthy for the plebs to be at each others throats demanding jack boots on their own freedom. Bread and circuses.
You couldn't make it up - Foaming mob demanding the death of Pediatricians force Government to disconnect the internet and replace it with Disney, Netflix and Sesame Street.
Having said that, the enlightened Australian equivalent has already installed their own great firewall of China "The web filter will also block access to websites about politically sensitive issues which have changing criminality statuses e.g., euthanasia and abortion".
Enjoy your totalitarian prison convict.
This is one of the issues that make me want to vote yes in the independence referendum.
The only problem is Wee Eck and the SNP are just as bad (Im sure a censored net will be their top priority if they win).
The only winning move is to get the hell off this damp, expensive, nanny-state island.
Dont need the NRA to whip people in a frenzy. People looking to ban certain types of guns and magazines are the ones that whip people up in a frenzy. Those same people refer to Japan and the UK as a shining example, places where guns are outrigt banned. So when you refer to places that ban guns as your example you are basically saying without admitting that we should outright ban guns. These are the type of statments that whip people up i a frenzy.
Neither the UK or Japan have an outright ban on guns.
basically we may reasonably deduce that there's something terribly wrong with american society, resulting in many individuals placing little value on another person's life
The people who will beat each other to death for a cheap TV on Black Friday are also allowed almost unregulated access to firearms........
Also, for the "little value on another person's life", go read the comments of any/. article about healthcare and note the high frequency of "why should MY money help some poor person? They should just die in the gutter." posts.
So in other words he went WAY past the target audience for something like that? Who of that 14-20 'tard group would wanna watch a bunch of geeks coding?
Why not? They watch every other piece of crap on TV.
You want to be gay? Fine
You want to live with your gay partner? Fine
You want to call it marriage? Not fine. Marriage is a Religious practice uniting 1 man and 1 woman for the purpose of procreation.
Between gay folks, it's called Civil Union - you get the same rights and shit as married couples, you just don't get to call it marriage.
Discussion over, I've solved it for everyone, if you disagree, fuck off.
Bzzzzt. Wrong. Civil unions do not get the same legal rights as married couples. That's the Whole Fucking Point(tm) of the gay marriage movement.
We aren't against gay marriage because it goes against the status quo. That is just a counter argument to the notion that conservatives are "using government force to deny gay people their rights" where no such situation exists. It is the gay activists demanding new, special rights and to use government to force others to accept their behavior as normal, beyond merely tolerating it.
No, its a change to the law that states that any 2 people, rather than just a man and a woman, can get married. There are certain legal benefits only granted to married couples and the current law is effectively "no gays allowed to have these rights".
Seems to me, OKCupid trying to boycott a perfectly good company and product over a single person's political views, is grounds for boycotting OKCupid.
Stupidity abounds. This is a grand example of the INtolerance of opposing views we have been seeing since Obama took office. (I'm not blaming him, just pointing out the approximate timing.)
On the other hand, remember how Slashdot reacted to the owner of Chick-Fil-A and his anti-gay stance.
And linguistic utterances like "Darmok at X" or "Darmok in situation Y" would no longer BE metaphors -- they would simply be denotative phrases with specific meanings, having nothing to do with the abstraction "Darmok."
Exactly. The phrase "Jesus wept" is used to describe frustration, but I don't know the story behind it.
Those who zoom in on and follow me while I'm behind a wall, only to shoot as soon as I get to a window/corner (wallhack)
I'm not familiar with the mechanics of Call of Duty series, but I did read an article long ago about people being wrongly accused of wallhacking because they tracked the opponent by listening for footsteps and then attacked as soon as the opponent stepped out of concealment. Does COD make a sound when opponents move?
Yes. Also, there is an aim assist feature turned on by default in some COD games (definitely in Black Ops) where the crosshairs will loosely track an enemy that appears in your line of sight, even if they then duck behind cover.
He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.
How about we just play a bunch of movies and commercials from the good ol' days (1950's and before) where this sort of stuff was the norm.
look kids, a woman, and see how happy she is with a new vacuum cleaner!
Ok, but take commercials from today and compare (from UK TV):
(1) Oven Pride: "So easy a man could do it". (2) Some greek-style yougurt (cant remember the name) ad featuring a woman and several semi-naked men (she even uses one as a footstool). (3) Any Boots advert (showing women as hyper-organised and efficient while men are useless and lazy).
Flip the genders in those ads and there would be pitchfork-and-torch-wielding outcry. But because its directed against men, it's ok for daytime television.
I agree that ads like the ones you mention are wrong but the standard for what is wrong has to be the same for both genders.
What do you do for the woman who just got a restraining order against a violent man threatening to kill her?
The same way it would work currently (from what I understand - Im not American) with the exemption to the cooling off period if your life is in danger and you need to buy a gun.
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+5 insightful for this garbage. I love slashdot. The guy sees the same sickness in his culture that showed up in the Santa Barbara murderer and he's calling it out. The reaction here, ultra defensive, delusions of being personally attacked, and all of it moderated to the limit, speak volumes about Slashdot, and not in a good way.
RTFA. There is nothing in the article attacking anyone on Slashdot. It's not calling every nerd a rapist, a misogynist, or a killer. It's saying wake up and starting thinking about other people for a change.
No, he is seeing the actions of a mentally unstable guy and blaming everyone in his culture for it - "what the fuck is wrong with us?", "We need to grow up."
I resent the implication that because of the actions of one guy, I'm also a mass-murdering rapist and must apologise for being so because I'm nerdy.
>In short, we were happy with the old EEC. Anything further should start with rebuilding the EC into something that actually resembles a functioning democracy, with strict limits on the mandate of this superstate.
Is that not ironic UK giving democracy lessons ? Is not UK one of the last country in Europe where church, nobles, and others have life long or hereditary special privileges ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ) ?
No different to the European Commission - the non-elected part of the EU "democratic" process.
I am one and I agree. We have Chav politics for Chav people.
The place is run by the tabloid press and whatever the latest Witch hunt happens to be. It suits the wealthy for the plebs to be at each others throats demanding jack boots on their own freedom. Bread and circuses.
You couldn't make it up - Foaming mob demanding the death of Pediatricians force Government to disconnect the internet and replace it with Disney, Netflix and Sesame Street.
Having said that, the enlightened Australian equivalent has already installed their own great firewall of China "The web filter will also block access to websites about politically sensitive issues which have changing criminality statuses e.g., euthanasia and abortion".
Enjoy your totalitarian prison convict.
This is one of the issues that make me want to vote yes in the independence referendum. The only problem is Wee Eck and the SNP are just as bad (Im sure a censored net will be their top priority if they win).
The only winning move is to get the hell off this damp, expensive, nanny-state island.
a lot of women = a number of human females greater than an arbitrary number larger than 2, depending on context
a lot of Woman = one human female with a big personality or big physical measurements of one sort or another, or both.
A whole lot of Woman = Rosie
Or else, you know, travel inside the plane, in the environment designed and regulated for human comfort.
Obviously, parent never flies economy.....
Dont need the NRA to whip people in a frenzy. People looking to ban certain types of guns and magazines are the ones that whip people up in a frenzy. Those same people refer to Japan and the UK as a shining example, places where guns are outrigt banned. So when you refer to places that ban guns as your example you are basically saying without admitting that we should outright ban guns. These are the type of statments that whip people up i a frenzy.
Neither the UK or Japan have an outright ban on guns.
Jesus was a hippie.
He had long hair and didn't have a job. What more do you want?
basically we may reasonably deduce that there's something terribly wrong with american society, resulting in many individuals placing little value on another person's life
The people who will beat each other to death for a cheap TV on Black Friday are also allowed almost unregulated access to firearms........
Also, for the "little value on another person's life", go read the comments of any /. article about healthcare and note the high frequency of "why should MY money help some poor person? They should just die in the gutter." posts.
Finally, I can tailgate to within 6 inches of the guy in front of me. I'll get home that much faster!
If you drive a Land Rover, you will be doing this already. No need for cameras.
The OK cupid stunt came afterwards.
I had to read that a couple of times. Damn Spoonerisms......
The British call them "mobiles"
Short for "mobile phone". Same as "cell" is short for "cellphone".
So in other words he went WAY past the target audience for something like that? Who of that 14-20 'tard group would wanna watch a bunch of geeks coding?
Why not? They watch every other piece of crap on TV.
Gay rights isn't political.
You want to be gay? Fine You want to live with your gay partner? Fine You want to call it marriage? Not fine. Marriage is a Religious practice uniting 1 man and 1 woman for the purpose of procreation.
Between gay folks, it's called Civil Union - you get the same rights and shit as married couples, you just don't get to call it marriage.
Discussion over, I've solved it for everyone, if you disagree, fuck off.
Bzzzzt. Wrong. Civil unions do not get the same legal rights as married couples. That's the Whole Fucking Point(tm) of the gay marriage movement.
We aren't against gay marriage because it goes against the status quo. That is just a counter argument to the notion that conservatives are "using government force to deny gay people their rights" where no such situation exists. It is the gay activists demanding new, special rights and to use government to force others to accept their behavior as normal, beyond merely tolerating it.
No, its a change to the law that states that any 2 people, rather than just a man and a woman, can get married. There are certain legal benefits only granted to married couples and the current law is effectively "no gays allowed to have these rights".
Not paying the fine.. so you admit they're being punished for not offering birth control options. (And no asshole, there's no straw man here)
As an agnostic I stand by the Catholic church on this one. Fuck you.
I disagree. If a company wants to operate in the US they have to play by the same rules as every other company.
ad-holmium? Why is that even in my spellcheck dictionary? What does that even mean?
I think it means attacking Sherlock, not the argument.
Seems to me, OKCupid trying to boycott a perfectly good company and product over a single person's political views, is grounds for boycotting OKCupid. Stupidity abounds. This is a grand example of the INtolerance of opposing views we have been seeing since Obama took office. (I'm not blaming him, just pointing out the approximate timing.)
On the other hand, remember how Slashdot reacted to the owner of Chick-Fil-A and his anti-gay stance.
And linguistic utterances like "Darmok at X" or "Darmok in situation Y" would no longer BE metaphors -- they would simply be denotative phrases with specific meanings, having nothing to do with the abstraction "Darmok."
Exactly. The phrase "Jesus wept" is used to describe frustration, but I don't know the story behind it.
Those who zoom in on and follow me while I'm behind a wall, only to shoot as soon as I get to a window/corner (wallhack)
I'm not familiar with the mechanics of Call of Duty series, but I did read an article long ago about people being wrongly accused of wallhacking because they tracked the opponent by listening for footsteps and then attacked as soon as the opponent stepped out of concealment. Does COD make a sound when opponents move?
Yes. Also, there is an aim assist feature turned on by default in some COD games (definitely in Black Ops) where the crosshairs will loosely track an enemy that appears in your line of sight, even if they then duck behind cover.
BTW do you know what the 3 most commonly used passwords are.....
"Secret", "sex" and (thanks to XKCD) "correct horse battery staple".
bb guns are outlawed in my town. You can own them but you cannot use them within the town borders.
Your 2nd Amendment doesn't cover BB guns? Genuine question here - can a town pass the same laws about firearms?
In-game chat can be useful but I wouldn't be opposed to a racist asshole filter within chat. I'm really not very concerned about 1st amendment rights.
1st amendment means the racist arsehole can speak, not that you have to listen.
He's talking about the messages baked into the game by the developer, not those from the interactions with other players. He's also not limiting his comments to multi player games.
How about we just play a bunch of movies and commercials from the good ol' days (1950's and before) where this sort of stuff was the norm.
look kids, a woman, and see how happy she is with a new vacuum cleaner!
Ok, but take commercials from today and compare (from UK TV):
(1) Oven Pride: "So easy a man could do it".
(2) Some greek-style yougurt (cant remember the name) ad featuring a woman and several semi-naked men (she even uses one as a footstool).
(3) Any Boots advert (showing women as hyper-organised and efficient while men are useless and lazy).
Flip the genders in those ads and there would be pitchfork-and-torch-wielding outcry. But because its directed against men, it's ok for daytime television.
I agree that ads like the ones you mention are wrong but the standard for what is wrong has to be the same for both genders.
But it is "Safety Yellow"
You know, it looks safer than those dangerous red or black multimeters.
You mean those "Assault Multimeters"?
What do you do for the woman who just got a restraining order against a violent man threatening to kill her?
The same way it would work currently (from what I understand - Im not American) with the exemption to the cooling off period if your life is in danger and you need to buy a gun.