WTF is the government allowing cash back on EBT cards in the first place????
They don't for food stamp benefits. But what most tech-bro libertarian right slashdotters don't know is that the cards support multiple types of benefits and that some of the benefits are cash even if food stamps aren't.
For example, someone on unemployment could have both a "food stamp" benefit AND an unemployment benefit on the same card. They could use the same card to purchase food AND get cash from the unemployment portion on the card. Or purchase qualifying food and non-qualifying alcohol on the same card.
This is what the slashdotters who report these incidents are truly seeing, but since they don't know how the cards actually work they think the EBT users are deadbeat cheats and then they mention it on slashdot to the OTHER tech-bros who might be pre-disposed to look down on people not like them.
Being one of those predisposed tech-bros, you got riled up over misinformation, making YOU a low-information citizen.
and lasts for a little longer than just a few years.
US release dates for PlayStation hardware PlayStation: September 9th, 1995 ENOS LIVES PS2: October 26th, 2000 PS3: November 17th, 2006 PS4: November 15th, 2013
So 5, 6 and 7 years respectively aren't long enough considering that many PC gamers thought the extended PS2/PS3 lifespan "held gaming back"
They may have to use a shitty software keyboard but they definitely can communicate anything they want as long as it can be expressed in text.
The Sony machines have USB (and Bluetooth for the PS3/PS4) for keyboards. Any game or application that uses the standard PS3/PS4 text entry widget automatically supports external keyboards. Hell, even the PS2's network adapter setup disc supported USB keyboards.
All right “one“ of the “several“ heralds. Is that good enough for you? None of us are saying that the alt-right has only one source.
It is racist channers, right wingers in/pol/, tea partiers, gamergaters, nativists, so-called libertarian tech-bros complaining about h1b “indo-chimps“ and so on and so forth making common cause.
In his 1992 book American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others, author John George writes that this quote was âoeevidently concocted in the late 1980s for the purpose of trying to make the early birth control advocate seem a racist and anti-Semiteâ and that âoethis fabrication has been kept in circulation by antiabortion and anti-birth control groups.â
yeah anti-abortion and anti-birth control groups...like Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and the newspaper it owns.....the Washington Times.
I'm going to take it that either you live in Australia or some country without PSN access. I'm also going to assume that you're a PC Master Race sort of guy.
I hit steam, buy a PC game for $19.99.
I hit PSN, buy a PSwhatever game for $19.99
I am paying $79.99 for the physical media
Australia? Bandwidth caps and slow internet? Because here in the US new "AAA" PS4 games cost $59.99, unless they're some kind of "Deluxe edition". Also All games are available in digital form, in fact, some games are ONLY available digitally and don't have retail releases.
Of course, since the saves are locked to the console, I'm hosed, where with the PC, I can do a game restore and be OK.
I don't know where you got that idea because that is NOT the case in the Playstation ecosystem. There's cloud saves and you can still physically back them up on top of that, which I just did to USB on the PS3 and PS4. They will be saved at:/PS3/SAVEDATA/game-id-number-foo (for example the PS3 Skyrim option save is in BLUS-30778-OPTION- and/PS4/SAVEDATA/ps4-id-number/game-id-number (PS4 skyrim digital saves are in the CUSA05333 folder)
And to the PC with the Vita via QCMA. where they will be in ~/PS Vita/APP/vita-id-number/game-id/savedata
opens the wallet when EA or Ubisoft demands more cash
Really, and there aren't EA or Ubisoft games on PC?
for the same tired old IP that hasn't changed since the early 2000s,
Considering the top games being played on Steam right now are:
Dota 2 (MOBA) PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (yet another shooter) Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (yet another shooter) H1Z1: King of the Kill (shooter) Grand Theft Auto V Team Fortress 2 (shooter) Football Manager 2017 yearly sports game PAYDAY 2 (co-op shooter) Path of Exile (diablo clone) Warframe (co-op mmo shooter)
You really think PC gamers are some kind of "cerebral master race"? They're no different from the Madden addled Xboxers.
If you like actual gaming, PC is where it is
That's silly, gaming is on any platform you want to do it on. PC, console, mobile-console, phone, tablet, whatever.
The DNC nominated Al Gore Jr, the son of the racist.
Yes, but Gore Jr is not his father.
The DNC nominated Hillary Clinton, who said Byrd was her mentor.
Yes, one of her many mentors in the Senate which she was in LONG after Byrd had apologized for his earlier membership in the Klan. Which IIRC, he did in the 1970's.
Along with their support of Planned Parenthood, an organization that was started with the hope of aborting the blacks out of America according to their founder, Margret Sanger.
That alt-right talking point was investigated and proven to be false.
Go ahead, keep calling me names.
I literally did no such thing. Look if you want to try to deflect from the Republicans being soft on bigotry by saying something like "Nuh uh, you are!" You're going to get laughed at by anybody with even the slightest knowledge of politics over the decades.
Most kids wants to do graphics (hence the popularity of Logo) but good old basic was good at this too. Today Python seems to be a good tool but while the kid is still grasping at varables and loops they want to do graphics and to explain how to do that in Python just blows the mind. Because you can't just draw a line. Or paste a gif.
Sure you can just draw a line
#!/bin/python #the following line tells python we're going to be using turtle graphics import turtle #then we tell the turtle module what kind of turtle shape we want turtle.shape("turtle") #the following two lines tell the turtle to move forward and turn right #and are repeated 4 times turtle.forward(50) turtle.right(90) turtle.forward(50) turtle.right(90) turtle.forward(50) turtle.right(90) turtle.forward(50) #the following line lets us click on the drawing canvas to close it. turtle.exitonclick()
Then one could teach how to use a loop to simplify the program above:
See how those turn and forward instructions are repeated? Well one thing computers are good at doing, is doing things repeatedly, so what if we could tell the computer to repeat the forward and turn four times rather than having to type it four times. We call repeating instructions a "loop":
#!/bin/python import turtle turtle.shape("turtle") #the following line basically says to repeat the following instructions 4 times for x in range (0, 4):
#the following lines MUST be indented. In python, whitespace matters.
#Don't ask, okay. It's a thing, besides it's better than curly braces for
#beginners
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90) turtle.exitonclick()
The two parties switched roles on racism in 1964 and you know it. The northern liberal wing of the Democrats basically purged the most racists. The Democrats which were once the "regional party" of the south and rural conservatives became the urban party and the Republicans went Southern thanks to the Civil Rights act and Nixon's Southern Strategy.
Which is why there are modern Southern Republicans who openly say that if Jefferson Davis was alive today he'd be a Republican.
That's a cop-out. If someone doesn't want to be lumped in with the Nazi's then don't march with them, do a protest a different day.
Now sure, most republicans aren't Nazi's...but...some of the same Republicans condemning Nazis were quite willing to turn a blind eye to racism or use racist dog whistles over the years. Including practically every neo-confederate southerner in the Republican leadership.
Even back in 2008, many Republicans turned a blind eye or condoned the nativist "know nothing" elements of the "Tea party". The "tea party" basically being the "heralds" of the modern "alt-right"
I had read about Linux in various stories on Slashdot and thought that the Linux kit would be an interesting way to learn about it and add functionality to my PS2.
PS2 Linux is basically a RedHat 6 system on 2 DVD's. The default DE is Windowmaker. It would run practically anything you could get to compile on the thing, the limitation being RAM more than anything else. It did serve as a good introduction to Linux and I still run Linux, Fedora now on X86_64.
You're not an expert in neuroscience or sociology. You're not qualified to say what differences are biological, which are cultural, and which are due to bias.
He's basically like your typical slashdotter who thinks that being a coder makes them smart and an expert in everything. Probably read too much Heinlein.
Proven by "whom"? Transpeople didn't just start appearing in this decade, they've been around for a LONG time. In fact one of the seminal works about transpeople was written in 1910!
You have a dick, you go to the men's room. You don't, you go to the ladie's room.
Why the focus on genitals? Why focus so much on "dick" and why not use the proper word...penis. And what happens if someone has their "dick" surgically removed?
Look, maybe you're uncomfortable thinking of gender as fluid or non-binary. Maybe you're uncomfortable around gay people, but that is YOUR fault, not the fault of GLBT people.
With one of the biggest being "Many (not all) women simply don't want to put up with the bullshit such jobs entail."
Then maybe the working conditions need to IMPROVE for EVERYONE? Maybe aspie code-bros need to stop putting up with "crunch time" and crappy conditions for free cheetos and jolt.
REGARDLESS of negative impact upon their company and the quality of their product.
Have you played modern games designed/coded by the predominately male developers? Quality is NOT something they prioritize. So don't go around saying that encouraging women to "not quit" will have a negative impact.
You don't see construction companies falling over themselves to try to hire more women.
Actually there have been efforts to recruit more women in construction. They've had some success with roadwork at least.
You don't see the healthcare and education sectors launching initiatives to recruit more men.
It has been pointed out in various women in tech discussions that the thing you just said....actually does happen. There are and have been on-going initiatives for YEARS to recruit more men into nursing and teaching. Slashdotters don't know about them because well...they're tech-bro aspies who don't know much about social services/nursing/education.
In regards for Asians in tech, perhaps we need to control for "socio-economic status" and perhaps look to see if Asian managers and techs aren't hiring other Asian tech guys because they subconsciously feel "comfortable" around them. And perhaps control for location, since Asian-americans are heavily concentrated on the west coast where the tech companies are. And lets not forget universities, if a tech company recruits mainly from Stanford or Berkely (California) and MIT/Harvard, they're going to get higher than average percentage of upper middle class and up asian guys and upper middle class and up jewish guys than if they say recruited from some state university in Iowa or something.
Aaaand there were more women in computer science in the 80's than there are today...something happened. In fact some think the problem is partly Nintendo's fault for getting retailers to classify the NES as a toy and thusly putting it in the boy-section of toy stores, thusly helping to create a stereotype that love of video games (a big encouraging entry point for many programmers) was a boy thing.
I'm at Target with my 7 year old daughter. She has to use the restroom. I wait outside while she does the needful. As I'm standing there, I see an obvious male walking towards the ladies room. I stop him and say "My daughter is in there. She'll be done momentarily and then it's all yours."[/quote]
I know of Zero instances of a non-binary or trans person assaulting anyone in a restroom. Zero....you can check Lexis/Nexis if you want. What has sometimes happened is someone like YOU seeing a transperson using their preferred bathroom and assaulting THEM.
I also know of Zero instances of some straight guy trying to pass as trans/non-binary to try to "get away" with being a peeping tom.
[quote]Today, I just committed a hate crime.[/quote]
You would a bigoted jerk out of unreasonable fear, yes. Your daughter has nothing to fear from transpeople
Slashdot Mirror
WTF is the government allowing cash back on EBT cards in the first place????
They don't for food stamp benefits. But what most tech-bro libertarian right slashdotters don't know is that the cards support multiple types of benefits and that some of the benefits are cash even if food stamps aren't.
For example, someone on unemployment could have both a "food stamp" benefit AND an unemployment benefit on the same card. They could use the same card to purchase food AND get cash from the unemployment portion on the card. Or purchase qualifying food and non-qualifying alcohol on the same card.
This is what the slashdotters who report these incidents are truly seeing, but since they don't know how the cards actually work they think the EBT users are deadbeat cheats and then they mention it on slashdot to the OTHER tech-bros who might be pre-disposed to look down on people not like them.
Being one of those predisposed tech-bros, you got riled up over misinformation, making YOU a low-information citizen.
I think it's more that you know which games are better, and you can get your hands on them affordably.
Exactly.
and lasts for a little longer than just a few years.
US release dates for PlayStation hardware
PlayStation: September 9th, 1995 ENOS LIVES
PS2: October 26th, 2000
PS3: November 17th, 2006
PS4: November 15th, 2013
So 5, 6 and 7 years respectively aren't long enough considering that many PC gamers thought the extended PS2/PS3 lifespan "held gaming back"
Not just FFXIV, War Thunder (PS4, PC-Windows, MacOS, Linux) and DCUO (PS4, PS3, Windows) as well.
They may have to use a shitty software keyboard but they definitely can communicate anything they want as long as it can be expressed in text.
The Sony machines have USB (and Bluetooth for the PS3/PS4) for keyboards. Any game or application that uses the standard PS3/PS4 text entry widget automatically supports external keyboards. Hell, even the PS2's network adapter setup disc supported USB keyboards.
All right “one“ of the “several“ heralds. Is that good enough for you? None of us are saying that the alt-right has only one source.
It is racist channers, right wingers in /pol/, tea partiers, gamergaters, nativists, so-called libertarian tech-bros complaining about h1b “indo-chimps“ and so on and so forth making common cause.
As for Sanger Story. Go ahead and keep defending the worst of the worst.
That's the story that was proven FALSE.
http://www.snopes.com/margaret...
In his 1992 book American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others, author John George writes that this quote was âoeevidently concocted in the late 1980s for the purpose of trying to make the early birth control advocate seem a racist and anti-Semiteâ and that âoethis fabrication has been kept in circulation by antiabortion and anti-birth control groups.â
yeah anti-abortion and anti-birth control groups...like Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church and the newspaper it owns.....the Washington Times.
40,000 people showed up, threw bottles of piss on them, beat them with clubs, and called them Nazis.
I doubt all 40000 did any such thing. maybe a few dozen tops?
I didn't call the Tea Party Nazi's, I used the word "nativist" and "know nothing" and I called them the "heralds" of the alt-right. know your history.
And there was PLENTY of bigotry coming out of self-identified tea-party people, though I wouldn't call them Nazis
I've not seen this behavior with any games I own, which games?
Who bothers with a console?
I'm going to take it that either you live in Australia or some country without PSN access. I'm also going to assume that you're a PC Master Race sort of guy.
I hit steam, buy a PC game for $19.99.
I hit PSN, buy a PSwhatever game for $19.99
I am paying $79.99 for the physical media
Australia? Bandwidth caps and slow internet? Because here in the US new "AAA" PS4 games cost $59.99, unless they're some kind of "Deluxe edition". Also All games are available in digital form, in fact, some games are ONLY available digitally and don't have retail releases.
Of course, since the saves are locked to the console, I'm hosed, where with the PC, I can do a game restore and be OK.
I don't know where you got that idea because that is NOT the case in the Playstation ecosystem. There's cloud saves and you can still physically back them up on top of that, which I just did to USB on the PS3 and PS4. They will be saved at: /PS3/SAVEDATA/game-id-number-foo (for example the PS3 Skyrim option save is in BLUS-30778-OPTION- and /PS4/SAVEDATA/ps4-id-number/game-id-number (PS4 skyrim digital saves are in the CUSA05333 folder)
And to the PC with the Vita via QCMA. where they will be in ~/PS Vita/APP/vita-id-number/game-id/savedata
opens the wallet when EA or Ubisoft demands more cash
Really, and there aren't EA or Ubisoft games on PC?
http://store.steampowered.com/...
for the same tired old IP that hasn't changed since the early 2000s,
Considering the top games being played on Steam right now are:
Dota 2 (MOBA)
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS (yet another shooter)
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (yet another shooter)
H1Z1: King of the Kill (shooter)
Grand Theft Auto V
Team Fortress 2 (shooter)
Football Manager 2017 yearly sports game
PAYDAY 2 (co-op shooter)
Path of Exile (diablo clone)
Warframe (co-op mmo shooter)
You really think PC gamers are some kind of "cerebral master race"? They're no different from the Madden addled Xboxers.
If you like actual gaming, PC is where it is
That's silly, gaming is on any platform you want to do it on. PC, console, mobile-console, phone, tablet, whatever.
The DNC nominated Al Gore Jr, the son of the racist.
Yes, but Gore Jr is not his father.
The DNC nominated Hillary Clinton, who said Byrd was her mentor.
Yes, one of her many mentors in the Senate which she was in LONG after Byrd had apologized for his earlier membership in the Klan. Which IIRC, he did in the 1970's.
Along with their support of Planned Parenthood, an organization that was started with the hope of aborting the blacks out of America according to their founder, Margret Sanger.
That alt-right talking point was investigated and proven to be false.
Go ahead, keep calling me names.
I literally did no such thing. Look if you want to try to deflect from the Republicans being soft on bigotry by saying something like "Nuh uh, you are!" You're going to get laughed at by anybody with even the slightest knowledge of politics over the decades.
Most kids wants to do graphics (hence the popularity of Logo) but good old basic was good at this too.
Today Python seems to be a good tool but while the kid is still grasping at varables and loops they want to do graphics and to explain how to do that in Python just blows the mind. Because you can't just draw a line. Or paste a gif.
Sure you can just draw a line
#!/bin/python
#the following line tells python we're going to be using turtle graphics
import turtle
#then we tell the turtle module what kind of turtle shape we want
turtle.shape("turtle")
#the following two lines tell the turtle to move forward and turn right
#and are repeated 4 times
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.forward(50)
#the following line lets us click on the drawing canvas to close it.
turtle.exitonclick()
Then one could teach how to use a loop to simplify the program above:
See how those turn and forward instructions are repeated? Well one thing computers are good at doing, is doing things repeatedly, so what if we could tell the computer to repeat the forward and turn four times rather than having to type it four times. We call repeating instructions a "loop":
#!/bin/python
import turtle
turtle.shape("turtle")
#the following line basically says to repeat the following instructions 4 times
for x in range (0, 4):
#the following lines MUST be indented. In python, whitespace matters.
#Don't ask, okay. It's a thing, besides it's better than curly braces for
#beginners
turtle.forward(50)
turtle.right(90)
turtle.exitonclick()
Congratulations, you've just describe "Hour of code"
https://hourofcode.com/us/lear...
Many of the various tutorials are actually "Turtle graphics"
The two parties switched roles on racism in 1964 and you know it. The northern liberal wing of the Democrats basically purged the most racists. The Democrats which were once the "regional party" of the south and rural conservatives became the urban party and the Republicans went Southern thanks to the Civil Rights act and Nixon's Southern Strategy.
Which is why there are modern Southern Republicans who openly say that if Jefferson Davis was alive today he'd be a Republican.
That's a cop-out. If someone doesn't want to be lumped in with the Nazi's then don't march with them, do a protest a different day.
Now sure, most republicans aren't Nazi's...but...some of the same Republicans condemning Nazis were quite willing to turn a blind eye to racism or use racist dog whistles over the years. Including practically every neo-confederate southerner in the Republican leadership.
Even back in 2008, many Republicans turned a blind eye or condoned the nativist "know nothing" elements of the "Tea party". The "tea party" basically being the "heralds" of the modern "alt-right"
2002 for me, this distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I had read about Linux in various stories on Slashdot and thought that the Linux kit would be an interesting way to learn about it and add functionality to my PS2.
PS2 Linux is basically a RedHat 6 system on 2 DVD's. The default DE is Windowmaker. It would run practically anything you could get to compile on the thing, the limitation being RAM more than anything else. It did serve as a good introduction to Linux and I still run Linux, Fedora now on X86_64.
People don't spend all their time in bathrooms, so why the focus on the bathroom?
You're not an expert in neuroscience or sociology. You're not qualified to say what differences are biological, which are cultural, and which are due to bias.
He's basically like your typical slashdotter who thinks that being a coder makes them smart and an expert in everything. Probably read too much Heinlein.
You coder-bros are NOT Lazarus Long.
Proven by "whom"? Transpeople didn't just start appearing in this decade, they've been around for a LONG time. In fact one of the seminal works about transpeople was written in 1910!
You have a dick, you go to the men's room.
You don't, you go to the ladie's room.
Why the focus on genitals? Why focus so much on "dick" and why not use the proper word...penis. And what happens if someone has their "dick" surgically removed?
Look, maybe you're uncomfortable thinking of gender as fluid or non-binary. Maybe you're uncomfortable around gay people, but that is YOUR fault, not the fault of GLBT people.
With one of the biggest being "Many (not all) women simply don't want to put up with the bullshit such jobs entail."
Then maybe the working conditions need to IMPROVE for EVERYONE? Maybe aspie code-bros need to stop putting up with "crunch time" and crappy conditions for free cheetos and jolt.
REGARDLESS of negative impact upon their company and the quality of their product.
Have you played modern games designed/coded by the predominately male developers? Quality is NOT something they prioritize. So don't go around saying that encouraging women to "not quit" will have a negative impact.
You don't see construction companies falling over themselves to try to hire more women.
Actually there have been efforts to recruit more women in construction. They've had some success with roadwork at least.
You don't see the healthcare and education sectors launching initiatives to recruit more men.
It has been pointed out in various women in tech discussions that the thing you just said....actually does happen. There are and have been on-going initiatives for YEARS to recruit more men into nursing and teaching. Slashdotters don't know about them because well...they're tech-bro aspies who don't know much about social services/nursing/education.
In regards for Asians in tech, perhaps we need to control for "socio-economic status" and perhaps look to see if Asian managers and techs aren't hiring other Asian tech guys because they subconsciously feel "comfortable" around them. And perhaps control for location, since Asian-americans are heavily concentrated on the west coast where the tech companies are. And lets not forget universities, if a tech company recruits mainly from Stanford or Berkely (California) and MIT/Harvard, they're going to get higher than average percentage of upper middle class and up asian guys and upper middle class and up jewish guys than if they say recruited from some state university in Iowa or something.
Aaaand there were more women in computer science in the 80's than there are today...something happened. In fact some think the problem is partly Nintendo's fault for getting retailers to classify the NES as a toy and thusly putting it in the boy-section of toy stores, thusly helping to create a stereotype that love of video games (a big encouraging entry point for many programmers) was a boy thing.
[quote]My concern is the following scenario...
I'm at Target with my 7 year old daughter. She has to use the restroom. I wait outside while she does the needful. As I'm standing there, I see an obvious male walking towards the ladies room. I stop him and say "My daughter is in there. She'll be done momentarily and then it's all yours."[/quote]
I know of Zero instances of a non-binary or trans person assaulting anyone in a restroom. Zero....you can check Lexis/Nexis if you want. What has sometimes happened is someone like YOU seeing a transperson using their preferred bathroom and assaulting THEM.
I also know of Zero instances of some straight guy trying to pass as trans/non-binary to try to "get away" with being a peeping tom.
[quote]Today, I just committed a hate crime.[/quote]
You would a bigoted jerk out of unreasonable fear, yes. Your daughter has nothing to fear from transpeople
The real question is, why do you feel that fear?
.
Ha! That was the first thing I thought of as well. That's why I always change the default CGA-ish Dark blue in various terminals to "DodgerBlue"
I also change DIR 01;34 to DIR 37;44 in /etc/DIR_COLORS (it makes directory names show up as white text on a light blue background)