I'm not the person you're replying to -- nor had I heard of this controversy until this article -- but it's quite clear to me that Vox Dey (Theodore Beale) has used arguments that are straight out of far-right racist diatribes. Defending himself against the charge of being a racist, he called his opponent (a black woman) a "half-savage" and went on a rant about how societies founded by white men were more civilized than those founded by Africans. This is the exact language you find on Stormfront. There is no doubt in my mind that he's using racist arguments he got from racist sources.
I'm not familiar with the other authors involved with Sad Puppies, but the fact that Beale is among their supporters does not bode well. If they really aren't racist, they should distance themselves from him and anyone else espousing similar arguments. The idea that charges of racism are baseless slander is transparently false.
Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone. You'd still look dorky as hell, but at least people would know what you were doing.
Either that, or you'd get a bunch of wisenheimers asking what Dr. Klaw's latest scheme is.
I heard from a saleman that they only claim to lose money. He said that in any business there is no way they will actually lose money by selling something but they just use it as an excuse as to why they arent making money.
It's so nice to see that the Enron execs are finding themselves new jobs.
I'm pretty sure that businesses can lose money, just like the rest of us. If I make a widget for $20 and I can only sell it for $15, I've taken a loss of $5, have I not?
Americans are a puritan bunch... and the puritans did approve of killing people (remember, they burned witches for entertainment value)... just not of sex.
That's not strictly true. The Puritans were a somwhat repressive bunch, like most of the religious colonists of their day, but they weren't quite as prudish as their name makes them sound. They strongly disapproved of sex outside of wedlock -- but once you were married, it was a different story. They believed a healthy sex life was an important component of a successful marriage, to the point where Puritan ministers actually acted as "sex councilors" if things weren't going well! Puritans actually thought that sex was a kind of duty -- if God didn't want you to do it, he certainly wouldn't have given you such a strong sex drive.
Compared to the "puritanical" groups we have today, the Puritans themselves were pretty sexually liberated.
As for the killing, well, I think you're pretty much on the nail with that one. But again, that was a widespread problem. For most of human history, life was pretty cheap. Killing for various purposes was a common occurance, despite the fact that every Sunday people told each other not to do it. It is only comparatively recently that the right to life has been well respected.
Ogg may be better sound quality-wise, but for the majority of mp3 users, mp3's "sound good enough" and Ogg doesn't offer enough of an improvement for people to encode all of their stuff over again.
True enough... but if they're encoding for the first time and have the choice between a standard mp3 and a smaller, better sounding ogg -- each of which is equally playable thanks to winamp -- then that's probably what they'll do. It's what I'm doing.
No... Laptop displays create *no* distractions in a dimly lit theatre...
Indeed. Ever been to a Star Trek movie premiere? When I saw Generations on opening night, the front row looked like an Olympic judging panel. Which, in many ways, it probably was.
This assumes that cellphones can give you braincancer
Why assume that? AFAIK, the only argument ever advanced for this was from a guy whose wife died of brain cancer. She was constantly using a cellphone, and developed a tumor right next to where she always held the phone. The guys argument was essentially, "It's obvious! It *has* to be the phone that gave her cancer! What else could it be?"
In actual studies there has been no correlation shown between cellphone use and brain cancer. A lot of people use cellphones, and have been for years. Wouldn't there be vastly more cases of brain cancer than there are, if it was such a risk?
I am now a "Thirty-Something" and no one in Hollywood and TV Land gives a damn if I am entertained anymore.
Strange... I recently found myself thinking along the same lines, except I'm 20-something. It used to be that I could turn on the TV on any weeknight and find something "good enough" -- not great, but enjoyable in some way. Now, flipping through TV Guide is about as interesting as reading a dictionary. Perhaps it has less to do with demographics and more to do with a universally increasing rate of suckage.
Or maybe TV is about as bad as it ever was, and I am making a logical scope violation. Maybe it's not the world that's changed, maybe it's me. I still prefer to end the day by sitting in one place for at least an hour to be entertained in a non-interactive way, as a means of ushering in sleep (I think most daily TV watchers do so for similar reasons.) But that doesn't work if I don't like what I'm seeing. Reading sometimes works, but that's often too "active" an activity for the purposes of winding down.
TV works best, perhaps because of the similarity of the experience to a dream state.
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I'm not the person you're replying to -- nor had I heard of this controversy until this article -- but it's quite clear to me that Vox Dey (Theodore Beale) has used arguments that are straight out of far-right racist diatribes. Defending himself against the charge of being a racist, he called his opponent (a black woman) a "half-savage" and went on a rant about how societies founded by white men were more civilized than those founded by Africans. This is the exact language you find on Stormfront. There is no doubt in my mind that he's using racist arguments he got from racist sources.
I'm not familiar with the other authors involved with Sad Puppies, but the fact that Beale is among their supporters does not bode well. If they really aren't racist, they should distance themselves from him and anyone else espousing similar arguments. The idea that charges of racism are baseless slander is transparently false.
Then you could stick your thumb in your ear and extend your pinky to use the phone. You'd still look dorky as hell, but at least people would know what you were doing.
Either that, or you'd get a bunch of wisenheimers asking what Dr. Klaw's latest scheme is.
Don't forget they also make crappy portable game systems.
Salamander is a very good name. It's a mythological creature related to fire, like Phoenix, and it's a lizard, like Mozilla.
You! You are bear. That is your name for that is your soul. And you! You are... salamander.
I call them as I see them.
Dogbert, no! Don't do it!
I heard from a saleman that they only claim to lose money. He said that in any business there is no way they will actually lose money by selling something but they just use it as an excuse as to why they arent making money.
It's so nice to see that the Enron execs are finding themselves new jobs.
I'm pretty sure that businesses can lose money, just like the rest of us. If I make a widget for $20 and I can only sell it for $15, I've taken a loss of $5, have I not?
Americans are a puritan bunch... and the puritans did approve of killing people (remember, they burned witches for entertainment value)... just not of sex.
That's not strictly true. The Puritans were a somwhat repressive bunch, like most of the religious colonists of their day, but they weren't quite as prudish as their name makes them sound. They strongly disapproved of sex outside of wedlock -- but once you were married, it was a different story. They believed a healthy sex life was an important component of a successful marriage, to the point where Puritan ministers actually acted as "sex councilors" if things weren't going well! Puritans actually thought that sex was a kind of duty -- if God didn't want you to do it, he certainly wouldn't have given you such a strong sex drive.
Compared to the "puritanical" groups we have today, the Puritans themselves were pretty sexually liberated.
As for the killing, well, I think you're pretty much on the nail with that one. But again, that was a widespread problem. For most of human history, life was pretty cheap. Killing for various purposes was a common occurance, despite the fact that every Sunday people told each other not to do it. It is only comparatively recently that the right to life has been well respected.
SSJ2? Hardly. I'd be hard pressed to even allow you to measure up against Oolong.
Every time I forget my password and can't be bothered to remember which email account I registered it with, my power increases.
The Pope is Catholic
There's a war in Afghanistan
CmdrTaco's grammar and spelling leave something to be desired
Your cat only loves you because you feed it
That girl would go out with you, if you'd only ask
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition
Let's meet our next contestant, Sybil Fawlty. Special subject: The Bleeding Obvious.
Ogg may be better sound quality-wise, but for the majority of mp3 users, mp3's "sound good enough" and Ogg doesn't offer enough of an improvement for people to encode all of their stuff over again.
True enough... but if they're encoding for the first time and have the choice between a standard mp3 and a smaller, better sounding ogg -- each of which is equally playable thanks to winamp -- then that's probably what they'll do. It's what I'm doing.
No... Laptop displays create *no* distractions in a dimly lit theatre...
Indeed. Ever been to a Star Trek movie premiere? When I saw Generations on opening night, the front row looked like an Olympic judging panel. Which, in many ways, it probably was.
When are we going to trust the government.
When they stop spying on us, lying to us, and stealing from us, for a start.
This assumes that cellphones can give you braincancer
Why assume that? AFAIK, the only argument ever advanced for this was from a guy whose wife died of brain cancer. She was constantly using a cellphone, and developed a tumor right next to where she always held the phone. The guys argument was essentially, "It's obvious! It *has* to be the phone that gave her cancer! What else could it be?"
In actual studies there has been no correlation shown between cellphone use and brain cancer. A lot of people use cellphones, and have been for years. Wouldn't there be vastly more cases of brain cancer than there are, if it was such a risk?
I am now a "Thirty-Something" and no one in Hollywood and TV Land gives a damn if I am entertained anymore.
Strange... I recently found myself thinking along the same lines, except I'm 20-something. It used to be that I could turn on the TV on any weeknight and find something "good enough" -- not great, but enjoyable in some way. Now, flipping through TV Guide is about as interesting as reading a dictionary. Perhaps it has less to do with demographics and more to do with a universally increasing rate of suckage.
Or maybe TV is about as bad as it ever was, and I am making a logical scope violation. Maybe it's not the world that's changed, maybe it's me. I still prefer to end the day by sitting in one place for at least an hour to be entertained in a non-interactive way, as a means of ushering in sleep (I think most daily TV watchers do so for similar reasons.) But that doesn't work if I don't like what I'm seeing. Reading sometimes works, but that's often too "active" an activity for the purposes of winding down.
TV works best, perhaps because of the similarity of the experience to a dream state.