Free Speech is being prorgressively eroded (mostly by the "Progressives", ironiclly).
Free speech is a political concept. My experience is that progressives will generally seek social pressure to modify speech and conservatives will seek political pressure to modify speech. So, to me, it is ironic that you claim progressives try to stifle it. It is not, in my view, stifling free speech (a political concept) to use free speech to shame someone into not continuing to say something you disagree with. A bill like http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/15/tennessee-lawmaker-sponsors-dont-say-gay-bill-in-state-house/ is an attempt at stifling free speech. To rephrase, speech isn't free in a social sense, and it should never be treated as such. On the other hand, it should be free politically, that is, should not be politically suppressed through legislation or executive action.
Also, I don't think that this woman's actions represent progressiveness anymore than the more extreme elements of the tea party speak for most of the conservative party. So, while I agree that there are insane pressures against women in the workplace, I do not think this woman has a firm grip on reality.
I call everyone a bitch, male or female. Pretty sure I know a lot of people who do. I don't really think about gender when I use the term. I know of others in my life who don't as well. I remember once taking a survey of how many people thought couple meant two versus couple could mean a small amount (including more than two). A surprising number of people say they use it in situations where they mean more than two. There is a lot of inherent disagreement about the actual meaning of commonly used words. For that reason, I don't think the use of bitch is sufficient to mark someone a sexist.
She is a 'bitch' or rather a person of dubious quality, because of her delusions of grandeur, her lack of touch with reality, and her aggressive transference of ills received from one quarter onto another.
I read some of what she wrote, I think she touched on the bit that I agree with when she said she was afraid of having her experience denied. I don't deny that there are socials pressures that make it difficult to be a programmer as a female, but I do deny that these gentlemen contributed to that outside of her own warped view of reality. You have to be well primed by previous experience to see it the way she does. And, I wonder if subconsciously she knew that when she wrote that about being worried with having her experience denied.
Still, what makes her a bitch is dragging someone's ass out into the internets to have them shamed. She is also a coward, because she didn't confront them directly. Or, if she had other reasons for not confronting them, then I would think her craven. Still, I don't think there was anything to confront. I don't think it necessarily devalues anyone to compare something to a penis.
Also, its pretty obvious that there are plenty of very rude people who get to keep their jobs because of some superlative skill. So, that is just patently false. It would be nice if everyone was polite. But, even rude people need to eat or can be useful to society if locked into a closet and given the appropriate tools.
I'm sure there's a law against this affecting your credit, but this has only happened to me once, and the sums involved were tiny. How is it possible over 30 cards?
My sister agrees that the early tomb raiders were somewhat chauvinist but says of the very latest that it feels like a video game with high appeal for women to play.
Many of the final fantasy have sexy (but not sex object...) female characters that you can play. Female characters in RPG games are everywhere.
Still, I agree with the spirit of your point. Yet, I don't the think answer is to step down the objectification of women but to step up the objectification of men. We actually have a pretty hard time dealing with "sexual aggression" and not being heard.
Actually, I've never played an MMO where all those things weren't true. And, I've never played a better MMO than WoW (while trying nearly all of them). However, I perceive the end game to be both simultaneously better and significantly worse. The smoothness of the experiences and the quality of everything has improved, but the choices behind the bosses in cataclysm felt more like a button mash then a thinking man's boss, which they pioneered quite well in BC, Sunwell particularly, and took to rather new heights in Ulduar and the last three bosses of Icecrown.
The emphasis on DPS, gear, and rotation over survival has quite saddened me. However, the gameplay, graphics, and delivery of information about the boss and his abilities has just radically improved since vanilla. I'd say sheer gameplay is just oodles better, but the boss/dungeon design is very sporadic over the years.
Ahh, I disagree. I find that douchebags make ad hominens and people with honor sign things to say "I said this, and I stand by it." Maybe the internets will change that permanently, but I hope not. I like the idea behind signing things. The very act of putting something that represents me specifically at the end has, many a time, made me reflect on whether I wanted to actually say what I was about to post. But, I suppose you're just trolling and of course you can't be bothered to establish a reputation so you post as an AC.
uhh I run cinnamon on Ubuntu, probably because cinnamon is amazing and I still like Ubuntu's package manager and default/etc configurations and the other nice stuff. It also took 10 minutes to get up and running with cinnamon.
It is a false choice to say that pandering to mercantile interests will always go against the FOSS/Server interests. They often can align. Plus, Linux has succeeded despite its desktop and difficulty to install, not because of it. Shuttleworth isn't advocating putting trusted computing in the hands of MS, he just is saying things should be easier on the desktop. And why the hell not?
Bull, I've pre-ordered many games and every time I was happy. Gaming websites were able to play the game and review it, and it was always from a studio I knew had consistently good games or an IP that had been consistently pleasing. I also, every time, received an incentive for pre-ordering. Although, I'd have done it anyway just to be able to play it right away. For instance, I have pre-ordered Heart of the Swarm. I'll be one of those "idiots" trying to login at midnight. WOO! If it doesn't work for you, fine. But, I think you're projecting. The market is also not uninformed.
This absolutely not true. Of course Blizzard cares about whether people are going to keep playing or not. It is a brand. It is IP with value. They do not want it watered down. Future sales matter, people's passion about it fuels the RMA, people buying collectors editions of future Blizzard games because of access to D3, posters, merch, a steady stream of small sales (like D2 got). On top of those concerns, top talent wants to go to places where they make great games. There are real people in these places.
The failure of the linux desktop has very little to do with the kernel. I would think it in spite of the kernel "ideology" except for the open source philosophy viz a viz video card drivers and the like. But, really, that should be non-negotiable. As well, your opinion seems to have a broad aim that sounds good without being narrowly tailored in a way that is analytic or usable. Maybe politics is the career for you?
Yet, I find places with cheaper food tend to give more tables to the server. Having been a server for four years at different restaurants that I could make more money in a place where the plate costs were lower because not only did I have more tables, the service cycle was less difficult, and the table turnover was a lot (lot) higher. Moreover, the places with really high plate costs tended to be much more careful in their hiring requiring more experience and maintaining higher standards. So, I would argue that you're tipping more per person not just because the food is higher quality but because the service should be as well.
Ultimately, there does seem to be some kind of sense for paying as a percentage of the meal. There are certain restaurants where the table turnover is so low, the number of tables so low, that if you didn't, no server would want to work there and you would get very poor service as a result despite a considerably marked up plate. From the consumer's point of view, that can't be very good. Still, servers get paid jack and its a very stressful job for those who take pride in their work.
yes, in an all out war with Russia or China we would need to strike more than 1,000 targets. and contrary to popular belief fueld by Hollywood, this would neither kill all human nor plunge us into a nuclear winter.
From a wikipedia article...
A minor nuclear war with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas could produce climate change unprecedented in recorded human history. A nuclear war between the United States and Russia today could produce nuclear winter, with temperatures plunging below freezing in the summer in major agricultural regions, threatening the food supply for most of the planet. The climatic effects of the smoke from burning cities and industrial areas would last for several years, much longer than previously thought. New climate model simulations, which are said to have the capability of including the entire atmosphere and oceans, show that the smoke would be lofted by solar heating to the upper stratosphere, where it would remain for years.
You're cynical about congress. But, people really don't vote for these issues in any kind of numbers. Not when there are much more important single wedge issues to get irate about. Also, people don't want to be informed about this until it starts retarding babies or dramatically increasing cancer rates. And then, they seem to only think it happens to them when it happens to them.
I much more blame the electorate than congress for this lack of attention. If we took a million people to the capital building, or wrote a million letters, or even wrote a million emails, we might get some attention paid to this issue.
The parent to your post was talking about religious states, IE, politics. I think you made a false assumption that being pro religion means pro religious state. Do you have quotes from Newton expressing his views on the religious state?
Even if you did, the idea that Newton is the master of all metaphysics because he was quite good at math and physics is hardly a logical inference.
Finally, ending with an ad hominem in order to debase the other poster is quite lame.
You say its worth exactly fuck. I say I found it intensely interesting experience and I wasn't alone. A game doesn't have to be popular with the majority of players for it to be popular. It wasn't the best engine, it wasn't the worst. But, it did something really well in a beautiful way, and that is remarkable (ie, worth remarking upon).
D3, at the time, easily had the most beautiful dynamic lighting of anything out there. I'm not sure that its fair to claim that it was underperforming for what it was doing at the time that it was doing it.
Well, this seems quite the hokey explanation. Am I wrong to intuitively think that skirting closer to a blackhole and trying to maintain speed would take exponentially more power/fuel? Or would it be truly a linear increase?
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I think that the courts would rule that you cannot reasonably rely on the promise of a politician ergo estoppel doesn't apply
You're right, the second amendment needs to guarantee the right of the US citizen to possess space weapons platforms and drones.
fyi stopped reading after your first ad hominen. I honestly would have given it a fair shake, if your tone and words didn't drip invective.
my god, you're my hero
Free Speech is being prorgressively eroded (mostly by the "Progressives", ironiclly).
Free speech is a political concept. My experience is that progressives will generally seek social pressure to modify speech and conservatives will seek political pressure to modify speech. So, to me, it is ironic that you claim progressives try to stifle it. It is not, in my view, stifling free speech (a political concept) to use free speech to shame someone into not continuing to say something you disagree with. A bill like http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/02/15/tennessee-lawmaker-sponsors-dont-say-gay-bill-in-state-house/ is an attempt at stifling free speech. To rephrase, speech isn't free in a social sense, and it should never be treated as such. On the other hand, it should be free politically, that is, should not be politically suppressed through legislation or executive action.
Also, I don't think that this woman's actions represent progressiveness anymore than the more extreme elements of the tea party speak for most of the conservative party. So, while I agree that there are insane pressures against women in the workplace, I do not think this woman has a firm grip on reality.
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I call everyone a bitch, male or female. Pretty sure I know a lot of people who do. I don't really think about gender when I use the term. I know of others in my life who don't as well. I remember once taking a survey of how many people thought couple meant two versus couple could mean a small amount (including more than two). A surprising number of people say they use it in situations where they mean more than two. There is a lot of inherent disagreement about the actual meaning of commonly used words. For that reason, I don't think the use of bitch is sufficient to mark someone a sexist.
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She is a 'bitch' or rather a person of dubious quality, because of her delusions of grandeur, her lack of touch with reality, and her aggressive transference of ills received from one quarter onto another.
I read some of what she wrote, I think she touched on the bit that I agree with when she said she was afraid of having her experience denied. I don't deny that there are socials pressures that make it difficult to be a programmer as a female, but I do deny that these gentlemen contributed to that outside of her own warped view of reality. You have to be well primed by previous experience to see it the way she does. And, I wonder if subconsciously she knew that when she wrote that about being worried with having her experience denied.
Still, what makes her a bitch is dragging someone's ass out into the internets to have them shamed. She is also a coward, because she didn't confront them directly. Or, if she had other reasons for not confronting them, then I would think her craven. Still, I don't think there was anything to confront. I don't think it necessarily devalues anyone to compare something to a penis.
Also, its pretty obvious that there are plenty of very rude people who get to keep their jobs because of some superlative skill. So, that is just patently false. It would be nice if everyone was polite. But, even rude people need to eat or can be useful to society if locked into a closet and given the appropriate tools.
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What female assumes she shouldn't be a programmer because some guy makes a penis joke that denigrates nobody? The woman under question.
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I'm sure there's a law against this affecting your credit, but this has only happened to me once, and the sums involved were tiny. How is it possible over 30 cards?
sc2: heart of the swarm?
My sister agrees that the early tomb raiders were somewhat chauvinist but says of the very latest that it feels like a video game with high appeal for women to play.
Many of the final fantasy have sexy (but not sex object...) female characters that you can play. Female characters in RPG games are everywhere.
Still, I agree with the spirit of your point. Yet, I don't the think answer is to step down the objectification of women but to step up the objectification of men. We actually have a pretty hard time dealing with "sexual aggression" and not being heard.
Z
Hear hear,
Actually, I've never played an MMO where all those things weren't true. And, I've never played a better MMO than WoW (while trying nearly all of them). However, I perceive the end game to be both simultaneously better and significantly worse. The smoothness of the experiences and the quality of everything has improved, but the choices behind the bosses in cataclysm felt more like a button mash then a thinking man's boss, which they pioneered quite well in BC, Sunwell particularly, and took to rather new heights in Ulduar and the last three bosses of Icecrown.
The emphasis on DPS, gear, and rotation over survival has quite saddened me. However, the gameplay, graphics, and delivery of information about the boss and his abilities has just radically improved since vanilla. I'd say sheer gameplay is just oodles better, but the boss/dungeon design is very sporadic over the years.
Z
Ahh, I disagree. I find that douchebags make ad hominens and people with honor sign things to say "I said this, and I stand by it." Maybe the internets will change that permanently, but I hope not. I like the idea behind signing things. The very act of putting something that represents me specifically at the end has, many a time, made me reflect on whether I wanted to actually say what I was about to post. But, I suppose you're just trolling and of course you can't be bothered to establish a reputation so you post as an AC.
Z
uhh I run cinnamon on Ubuntu, probably because cinnamon is amazing and I still like Ubuntu's package manager and default /etc configurations and the other nice stuff. It also took 10 minutes to get up and running with cinnamon.
Z
It is a false choice to say that pandering to mercantile interests will always go against the FOSS/Server interests. They often can align. Plus, Linux has succeeded despite its desktop and difficulty to install, not because of it. Shuttleworth isn't advocating putting trusted computing in the hands of MS, he just is saying things should be easier on the desktop. And why the hell not?
Z
Bull, I've pre-ordered many games and every time I was happy. Gaming websites were able to play the game and review it, and it was always from a studio I knew had consistently good games or an IP that had been consistently pleasing. I also, every time, received an incentive for pre-ordering. Although, I'd have done it anyway just to be able to play it right away. For instance, I have pre-ordered Heart of the Swarm. I'll be one of those "idiots" trying to login at midnight. WOO! If it doesn't work for you, fine. But, I think you're projecting. The market is also not uninformed.
Z
This absolutely not true. Of course Blizzard cares about whether people are going to keep playing or not. It is a brand. It is IP with value. They do not want it watered down. Future sales matter, people's passion about it fuels the RMA, people buying collectors editions of future Blizzard games because of access to D3, posters, merch, a steady stream of small sales (like D2 got). On top of those concerns, top talent wants to go to places where they make great games. There are real people in these places.
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In my opinion,
The failure of the linux desktop has very little to do with the kernel. I would think it in spite of the kernel "ideology" except for the open source philosophy viz a viz video card drivers and the like. But, really, that should be non-negotiable. As well, your opinion seems to have a broad aim that sounds good without being narrowly tailored in a way that is analytic or usable. Maybe politics is the career for you?
Z
Yet, I find places with cheaper food tend to give more tables to the server. Having been a server for four years at different restaurants that I could make more money in a place where the plate costs were lower because not only did I have more tables, the service cycle was less difficult, and the table turnover was a lot (lot) higher. Moreover, the places with really high plate costs tended to be much more careful in their hiring requiring more experience and maintaining higher standards. So, I would argue that you're tipping more per person not just because the food is higher quality but because the service should be as well.
Ultimately, there does seem to be some kind of sense for paying as a percentage of the meal. There are certain restaurants where the table turnover is so low, the number of tables so low, that if you didn't, no server would want to work there and you would get very poor service as a result despite a considerably marked up plate. From the consumer's point of view, that can't be very good. Still, servers get paid jack and its a very stressful job for those who take pride in their work.
Z
yes, in an all out war with Russia or China we would need to strike more than 1,000 targets. and contrary to popular belief fueld by Hollywood, this would neither kill all human nor plunge us into a nuclear winter.
From a wikipedia article...
A minor nuclear war with each country using 50 Hiroshima-sized atom bombs as airbursts on urban areas could produce climate change unprecedented in recorded human history. A nuclear war between the United States and Russia today could produce nuclear winter, with temperatures plunging below freezing in the summer in major agricultural regions, threatening the food supply for most of the planet. The climatic effects of the smoke from burning cities and industrial areas would last for several years, much longer than previously thought. New climate model simulations, which are said to have the capability of including the entire atmosphere and oceans, show that the smoke would be lofted by solar heating to the upper stratosphere, where it would remain for years.
Here is the original source It has a really neat video with a well spoken guy!
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You're cynical about congress. But, people really don't vote for these issues in any kind of numbers. Not when there are much more important single wedge issues to get irate about. Also, people don't want to be informed about this until it starts retarding babies or dramatically increasing cancer rates. And then, they seem to only think it happens to them when it happens to them.
I much more blame the electorate than congress for this lack of attention. If we took a million people to the capital building, or wrote a million letters, or even wrote a million emails, we might get some attention paid to this issue.
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I have a bad feeling about this....
The parent to your post was talking about religious states, IE, politics. I think you made a false assumption that being pro religion means pro religious state. Do you have quotes from Newton expressing his views on the religious state?
Even if you did, the idea that Newton is the master of all metaphysics because he was quite good at math and physics is hardly a logical inference.
Finally, ending with an ad hominem in order to debase the other poster is quite lame.
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You say its worth exactly fuck. I say I found it intensely interesting experience and I wasn't alone. A game doesn't have to be popular with the majority of players for it to be popular. It wasn't the best engine, it wasn't the worst. But, it did something really well in a beautiful way, and that is remarkable (ie, worth remarking upon).
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D3, at the time, easily had the most beautiful dynamic lighting of anything out there. I'm not sure that its fair to claim that it was underperforming for what it was doing at the time that it was doing it.
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Well, this seems quite the hokey explanation. Am I wrong to intuitively think that skirting closer to a blackhole and trying to maintain speed would take exponentially more power/fuel? Or would it be truly a linear increase?
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