What, so the grading is performed arbitrarily? This is unacceptable. Who cares about the "kevinism" part, this reveals a far more serious issue. If there is no objective basis by which to grade the object, be it a test or paper, then it simply cannot be graded period.
[...] and proceeded to post scattershot about how the problem is actually the opposite of what people's experiences are.
Except the experiences I've heard are the exact opposite, that homogeneous communities often have far less conflict than heterogeneous ones. Unless you back your asserted experiences, there's really no reason for me to take your word over anyone else's.
The network's normal conditions are insufficient for specialized services such as video streaming, online video games, voice calls, and other such fringe usages of the internet. Therefore, we can apply special rules to those usages, and then throttle everything else down to nothing.
Are you implying gamergate was a harassment campaign? I haven't seen any indication of this, aside from blithering and whining from radical feminists and their butt buddies.
To tell the truth, a lot of the jargon used by academic feminists, from TM to privilege and even to "sexism" (which is used in a slightly different way to how most of us use it) is confusing, awkward, and frequently likely to be misinterpreted.
Feminism uses these terms intentionally because it specializes in redefining already-existing terminology in an attempt to beat opponents in debates when at odds with truth and logic, a position that, as I'm sure you're well aware, feminism finds itself in more often than not.
It sounds like some dumbass comments suggesting the massive harassment campaigns against women in tech aren't happening, despite being rather obviously visible.
Yes, the terrible horrible massive harassment campaigns that nobody has been able to spot, identify, or even witness. This conspiracy is less credible than "the phone company killed kennedy".
There is virtually no discussion of the issues raised by the program described.
Open your eyes, bitch. The article is filled with them.
Viewing at -1? Not an option, because that's flooded with more crap.
That "crap" you refer to is the actual content of this site. If you can't stand it, then I direct you to return to tumblr, reddit, or whatever other hugbox you've all moved on to now.
We can't have an adult discussion here because you knuckleheads [...]
What? I'm completely unrelated to/r/KotakuInGaming, I don't even browse reddit because, in my opinion, the site is defective by design. The developers have intentionally constructed the system to stifle all discussion and debate.
And yeah, some, like you, live in denial, absolutely convinced that any woman complaining about harassment and death threats on the 'net is somehow part of some kind of weird conspiracy to cut your balls off and steal your vidja.
Death threats? Harassment? What the fuck are you talking about? I never said anything about this, nor does the article. Are you really that desperate to play the victim game? Regardless, death threats and harassment are a normal part of online interaction. It comes with the playing field, if you don't like it, you can simply get the fuck out.
If so, did you miss the dozen or so other articles in the last year that dealt with similar articles, where the comments section was flooded by knuckleheads from/r/KotakuInAction?
What? These aren't "knuckleheads from/r/KotakuInAction" as you claim, these are the actual staple slashdot commenters.
Where almost every comment that tried to discuss sexism
Your kind have shown repeatedly that there is nothing to discuss, since you fail to bring up anything relating to sexism. Instead you choose to bring up irrelevant garbage and then redefine the word sexism to include such garbage. And of course, when people see your shit for what it is and mod your ass down, what do you do? You whine about the patriarchy, and other such SJW-style nonsense. Nobody here is buying it, go whine elsewhere.
But no....the more likely explanation is that you DIDN'T click send, and the mail clients on multiple touch enabled devices are all just buggy enough that they are all just randomly sending emails on their own.
You and I both know this is a problem with the touch screen interface. Touch screen technology just isn't ready for prime time yet.
The Doom community is still very much alive to this day. New levels and levelpacks come out all the time, and there are quite a number of forks of the engine, enough that you could map out their genealogy. Some of those forks are still in active development.
I guess I must not be part of your political persuasion then, because damn. A lot of that list makes him look bad, but some of them make him look really good:
1) Rand Paul opposes gun control measures and voted with his party to filibuster the Manchin-Toomey amendment, which would've merely expended background checks to include internet sales and gun shows.
Good, good.
2) Rand Paul, like Ron Paul before him, has repeatedly objected to key provisions of the Civil Rights Act.
I'd have to see those "key provisions" to have an opinion on this one.
5) Rand Paul voted against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
Again, it's very possible there's some bad, terrible shit in there. I'd have to see his reasons for opposition before believing this to be a point against him.
7) Rand Paul is a fan of paleoconservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and has appeared on Jones' show numerous times. He's also endorsed his share of wild conspiracy theories.
Guilt by association.
9) Rand Paul has repeatedly voted to de-fund and repeal the Affordable Care Act, and would very likely do so as president. He's also spread "horror stories" about the law in Kentucky even though his state's exchange is one of the best in the nation.
He sounds good for the push for repealing. I would need to see these "horror stories" to determine anything about this part, though. Given this seems like a pretty left-wing site, the horror stories could have actually been legitimate objections which the left is so fond of labeling as hate/racism/sexism/etc.
12) Rand Paul supports the flat tax.
Is there ANYONE other than congressmen and their cronies who don't support this?
14) Rand Paul supports Voter ID laws, saying there's "nothing wrong" with them.
And what is wrong with them, exactly? I'm legitimately curious, I've never quite understood the problem with them. As long as there's a requirement not to allow which candidates/bills/etc were voted on to be tied or associated with the person or their ID, I just don't see the problem.
15) Rand Paul, in addition to a series of racially-questionable associates, is a supporter of both states' rights and nullification, archaic tent-post beliefs held by neo-Confederates.
As am I, States' Rights is perhaps the greatest issue facing our nation today. And nullification is the right of the jury; whether by design or intentional, it is indeed a good feature.
In fact, that last point alone if even a very good reason for me to vote for this guy. Shit, if he was a convicted serial rapist I would still have to think about it, that last point is just too strong.
The points I didn't quote are issues I'm not challenging, though. If they are accurate then, well, fuck.
This isn't at taxpayer expense. It is at car owners' expense. Only people with cars have to pay the car tax that funds the roadways, not all taxpayers. To conflate the two is disingenuous.
This isn't at taxpayer expense. It is at home owners' expense. Only people with homes and real estate have to pay the property tax that funds the schools, roadways, city services, etc, not all taxpayers. To conflate the two is disingenuous.
And that's why there's opposition from people. Anti-vaxxers are dumb as shit, but they have rights. If they're paying for schools (through taxes) then they get a say in how the schools operate.
Why did you conveniently list only languages that use braces to delimit code blocks? The common "FIOC" complaints have never been about "muh braces", they're about making code blocks implied by indents rather than explicit. Braces are just one form of explicit block delimiters, but there are others. Ruby, for example, starts blocks implicitly with if, until, while, etc and ends them with "end". Despite not having braces, it's fine, because the blocks are explicit. The start or end of a block does not accidentally occur, where as this can happen all the time in python.
By the way, what is python's way of handling grouped statements like these:
for (int y = 0;y < height;++y) for (int x = 0;x < width;++x) {
code here }
Technically the inner for statement is within the outer for statement, but an annoying additional level of indentation can be avoided because the language doesn't require it. Besides, it looks nicer to the programmer. Even if you contest the need for this as two loops instead of one, just look at C#'s nested using statements, which are often on the same indent for simplicity.
[...] the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Again, this is plain as day. What the supreme court, or any court at all for that matter, has to say about this is of absolutely no relevance.
When the supreme court decides to ignore the constitution or reinterpret parts of it as if they simply did not exist, it is invalidating its own existence. At that point, the Supreme Court as defined by the Constitution of the United States of America does not actually exist, and all that remains is a rogue entity claiming to be as such.
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If the kids are called Kevin, Bejoncé, Kanye or Ronny for example, they get lower grades for the same content.
What, so the grading is performed arbitrarily? This is unacceptable. Who cares about the "kevinism" part, this reveals a far more serious issue. If there is no objective basis by which to grade the object, be it a test or paper, then it simply cannot be graded period.
[...] and proceeded to post scattershot about how the problem is actually the opposite of what people's experiences are.
Except the experiences I've heard are the exact opposite, that homogeneous communities often have far less conflict than heterogeneous ones. Unless you back your asserted experiences, there's really no reason for me to take your word over anyone else's.
Do you have an argument somewhere, or are you just blowing shit out of your feceshole?
I've read the linked article, however it does not assert any causal link between "low diversity" and "anti-gay violence".
So, I reiterate my previous question: "What?"
Seattleites are struggling with [...] declining diversity.
What? What does this even mean? How does one struggle from declining diversity? Don't communities generally struggle with inclining diversity?
8chan is doing well, it seems everyone has moved over from 4chan now.
The network's normal conditions are insufficient for specialized services such as video streaming, online video games, voice calls, and other such fringe usages of the internet. Therefore, we can apply special rules to those usages, and then throttle everything else down to nothing.
Now that's what I call neutral.
Are you implying gamergate was a harassment campaign? I haven't seen any indication of this, aside from blithering and whining from radical feminists and their butt buddies.
To tell the truth, a lot of the jargon used by academic feminists, from TM to privilege and even to "sexism" (which is used in a slightly different way to how most of us use it) is confusing, awkward, and frequently likely to be misinterpreted.
Feminism uses these terms intentionally because it specializes in redefining already-existing terminology in an attempt to beat opponents in debates when at odds with truth and logic, a position that, as I'm sure you're well aware, feminism finds itself in more often than not.
It sounds like some dumbass comments suggesting the massive harassment campaigns against women in tech aren't happening, despite being rather obviously visible.
Yes, the terrible horrible massive harassment campaigns that nobody has been able to spot, identify, or even witness. This conspiracy is less credible than "the phone company killed kennedy".
There is virtually no discussion of the issues raised by the program described.
Open your eyes, bitch. The article is filled with them.
Viewing at -1? Not an option, because that's flooded with more crap.
That "crap" you refer to is the actual content of this site. If you can't stand it, then I direct you to return to tumblr, reddit, or whatever other hugbox you've all moved on to now.
We can't have an adult discussion here because you knuckleheads [...]
What? I'm completely unrelated to /r/KotakuInGaming, I don't even browse reddit because, in my opinion, the site is defective by design. The developers have intentionally constructed the system to stifle all discussion and debate.
And yeah, some, like you, live in denial, absolutely convinced that any woman complaining about harassment and death threats on the 'net is somehow part of some kind of weird conspiracy to cut your balls off and steal your vidja.
Death threats? Harassment? What the fuck are you talking about? I never said anything about this, nor does the article. Are you really that desperate to play the victim game? Regardless, death threats and harassment are a normal part of online interaction. It comes with the playing field, if you don't like it, you can simply get the fuck out.
If so, did you miss the dozen or so other articles in the last year that dealt with similar articles, where the comments section was flooded by knuckleheads from /r/KotakuInAction?
What? These aren't "knuckleheads from /r/KotakuInAction" as you claim, these are the actual staple slashdot commenters.
Where almost every comment that tried to discuss sexism
Your kind have shown repeatedly that there is nothing to discuss, since you fail to bring up anything relating to sexism. Instead you choose to bring up irrelevant garbage and then redefine the word sexism to include such garbage. And of course, when people see your shit for what it is and mod your ass down, what do you do? You whine about the patriarchy, and other such SJW-style nonsense. Nobody here is buying it, go whine elsewhere.
But no....the more likely explanation is that you DIDN'T click send, and the mail clients on multiple touch enabled devices are all just buggy enough that they are all just randomly sending emails on their own.
You and I both know this is a problem with the touch screen interface. Touch screen technology just isn't ready for prime time yet.
Do people still make Wolfenstein mods?
The Doom community is still very much alive to this day. New levels and levelpacks come out all the time, and there are quite a number of forks of the engine, enough that you could map out their genealogy. Some of those forks are still in active development.
SAT scores correlate closely with measured IQ, and, when taken together with high school grades, are a decent predictor of success at university.
Wow, SAT scores correlate with and predict several equally worthless and meaningless numbers? Truly incredible.
I guess I must not be part of your political persuasion then, because damn. A lot of that list makes him look bad, but some of them make him look really good:
1) Rand Paul opposes gun control measures and voted with his party to filibuster the Manchin-Toomey amendment, which would've merely expended background checks to include internet sales and gun shows.
Good, good.
2) Rand Paul, like Ron Paul before him, has repeatedly objected to key provisions of the Civil Rights Act.
I'd have to see those "key provisions" to have an opinion on this one.
5) Rand Paul voted against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act.
Again, it's very possible there's some bad, terrible shit in there. I'd have to see his reasons for opposition before believing this to be a point against him.
7) Rand Paul is a fan of paleoconservative conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and has appeared on Jones' show numerous times. He's also endorsed his share of wild conspiracy theories.
Guilt by association.
9) Rand Paul has repeatedly voted to de-fund and repeal the Affordable Care Act, and would very likely do so as president. He's also spread "horror stories" about the law in Kentucky even though his state's exchange is one of the best in the nation.
He sounds good for the push for repealing. I would need to see these "horror stories" to determine anything about this part, though. Given this seems like a pretty left-wing site, the horror stories could have actually been legitimate objections which the left is so fond of labeling as hate/racism/sexism/etc.
12) Rand Paul supports the flat tax.
Is there ANYONE other than congressmen and their cronies who don't support this?
14) Rand Paul supports Voter ID laws, saying there's "nothing wrong" with them.
And what is wrong with them, exactly? I'm legitimately curious, I've never quite understood the problem with them. As long as there's a requirement not to allow which candidates/bills/etc were voted on to be tied or associated with the person or their ID, I just don't see the problem.
15) Rand Paul, in addition to a series of racially-questionable associates, is a supporter of both states' rights and nullification, archaic tent-post beliefs held by neo-Confederates.
As am I, States' Rights is perhaps the greatest issue facing our nation today. And nullification is the right of the jury; whether by design or intentional, it is indeed a good feature.
In fact, that last point alone if even a very good reason for me to vote for this guy. Shit, if he was a convicted serial rapist I would still have to think about it, that last point is just too strong.
The points I didn't quote are issues I'm not challenging, though. If they are accurate then, well, fuck.
This isn't at taxpayer expense. It is at car owners' expense. Only people with cars have to pay the car tax that funds the roadways, not all taxpayers. To conflate the two is disingenuous.
This isn't at taxpayer expense. It is at home owners' expense. Only people with homes and real estate have to pay the property tax that funds the schools, roadways, city services, etc, not all taxpayers. To conflate the two is disingenuous.
It's a tax, you moron.
And who answers questions about the lectures?
performance data will be standardized and immediately produced (and therefore 'individualized')
What? How is that individualized in any way? Is this not the very inverse of individualized?
This is a mere strawman, and a poor one at that.
Your choice to not vaccinate, you get to pay.
And that's why there's opposition from people. Anti-vaxxers are dumb as shit, but they have rights. If they're paying for schools (through taxes) then they get a say in how the schools operate.
No taxation without representation.
Why did you conveniently list only languages that use braces to delimit code blocks? The common "FIOC" complaints have never been about "muh braces", they're about making code blocks implied by indents rather than explicit. Braces are just one form of explicit block delimiters, but there are others. Ruby, for example, starts blocks implicitly with if, until, while, etc and ends them with "end". Despite not having braces, it's fine, because the blocks are explicit. The start or end of a block does not accidentally occur, where as this can happen all the time in python.
By the way, what is python's way of handling grouped statements like these:
Technically the inner for statement is within the outer for statement, but an annoying additional level of indentation can be avoided because the language doesn't require it. Besides, it looks nicer to the programmer. Even if you contest the need for this as two loops instead of one, just look at C#'s nested using statements, which are often on the same indent for simplicity.
An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos
Freedom of speech.
There done. Issue solved. Next?
[...] the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Again, this is plain as day. What the supreme court, or any court at all for that matter, has to say about this is of absolutely no relevance.
When the supreme court decides to ignore the constitution or reinterpret parts of it as if they simply did not exist, it is invalidating its own existence. At that point, the Supreme Court as defined by the Constitution of the United States of America does not actually exist, and all that remains is a rogue entity claiming to be as such.