It's a strange thing, he did the same thing to me, presumably others as well. Not sure what attaches him to us in particular other than the fact that our names have two lowercase L's in them, which is what he takes advantage of to create his spoofed profiles.
Yep, he probably will change his to match yours. This is mainly because on slashdot, most people recognize other people by their signature rather than their name. If he doesn't copy your signature, most people won't ever mistake him for you, and he knows that. So, he did the same thing to me.
At first I just made a joke of it and kept changing my signature to say different goofy things, and just watched him copy it. After a while I stopped and created my current signature, which he never copied. (Though given that all of his accounts with my name have been banned it's kind of moot now.)
Actually what's generally known about the more primitive societies is that they tended to be more matriarchal. Along with patriarchal societies came monogamy (something women tend to want more than men do, ironically) and fairness was codified (aka laws.)
Indeed, most animals are very matriarchal as well.
Is it really something that needs eliminating? I'm reminded of that time Mr. Garrison said he doesn't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die. It's a joke, and it's funny.
I mostly ignore him, but had to modify my signature to make the distinction clear when a few accusations were thrown my way, and I just happened to notice that he's up to it again a minute ago.
So basically you can fap to porn all day and the knowledge and influence will just magically appear in some cases? Or more realistically, when opportunity doesn't knock, you have to build doors?
That's a really silly argument though, and anybody making it is REALLY grasping at straws. There's certain things that you can't mitigate very effectively. Take the 2011 tsunami in Japan, probably the most destructive in recorded history, yet it certainly isn't the biggest. And how do you mitigate that? Sorry but no levee in the world is going to prevent all of those houses from being flooded and then swept out to sea. The only way they aren't getting destroyed is if they weren't built in the first place. Kind of like the state they were in maybe 100 years ago.
And what the fuck, if anything, does climate do to affect a tsunami?
Further, let's look at disasters that don't even originate on earth and therefore climate has zero effect on: Coronal mass ejection.
If we were hit by one in 2012 it would have done (according to estimates) over $2.6 trillion worth of damage. In 1859 when we were hit by one, the destruction wouldn't be anywhere comparable because that $2.6 trillion infrastructure didn't even exist.
But lets look even at things that we are pretty sure are affected by climate, like Hurricane Sandy. How the fuck do you prevent a subway from getting flooded by a hurricane, other than not building the subway to begin with?
Honestly I'm sick of this invented war that some people call class warfare. It just doesn't fucking exist, nobody has declared war on anybody else except for the OWS types, and even then they make up less than 1% of the population themselves.
This is a great time for one of those "all other things being equal" comparisons. Slashdot has a great piece recently that would fit for a perfect thought experiment, and said experiment actually would show why Pielke is right on this one:
Here's the experiment: Think about the differences in the infrastructure in 1859 vs the infrastructure in 2012. It's really a no brainer, a coronal mass ejection would be far more destructive in 2012. This is a perfect "all other things being equal" because the climate doesn't factor into those costs should that occur. Our infrastructure is a lot bigger now than it was then, so there's a lot more to destroy.
On that, you are misinformed. People such as Jesse Jackson may use such proportions to show what he perceives as discrimination, but actual AA laws in the US do no such thing. You can begin your education in this area with JFK's executive order 10925 and go from there.
I don't think I mentioned any AA laws. AA sets guidelines, and the individual institutions must implement them. That implementation will of course vary depending on how the institution grades its students. Here are two examples:
Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.
Effectively this says that race plays a determining factor in whether or not you pass. If you are Asian, your score must be nearly twice as high as a black student in order to be considered passing. Even if you did much better than every black student in the class, but you weren't quite up to the Asian standard, you still fail while the black students pass. (Also look at another thing they're doing here - basically if you're black, you aren't expected to perform much better than somebody who is literally retarded.
This really is no different than the days where blacks were required to take tests in order to vote where the white people weren't held to any standard at all.
On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent.
I disagree with your conclusion that Asians are being "fucked over" based solely on the fact that they would gain if AA were tossed. If speed limits were abolished, people would drive faster, consuming more fuel. Does this mean that gas stations are being "fucked over" by speed limits? No.
That's a very bad analogy. A better one would be saying that if you're asian, you're only allowed to drive 20MPH, and blacks are allowed to drive 60MPH. The goal would be to make sure that asians are late to their interviews more so that fewer of them will show up, thus increasing the number of blacks while decreasing the number of asians.
First, I don't know what the daily beast is trying to say. I'm not a regular reader of that website, rather I just pulled the first thing I found to back my claim; if you actually read slashdot regularly you'll find multiple sources saying the same thing on a somewhat recurring basis, and they come from all kinds of different sources.
Is the daily beast biased? Who knows, but bias or not when you're right, you're right, and when you're wrong, you're wrong. If Hitler said night was black, I'm not going to argue with him on that just because I think he's wrong on a bunch of other stuff. It seems like you already hate the daily beast (why I don't know) but unless you have proof of the contrary, or a good reason to suspect their wrong, announce it rather than saying something to the effect of "well I just hate them." In other words, attack the argument, not the person.
Second, I don't need to create such an argument because a lot of Asians are already doing exactly that. And rightfully so as they're the ones getting screwed the hardest. I'm already about to graduate from college myself, and after that happens I intend on being self employed and/or contracting, so AA doesn't apply to me in either case, nor do I have any kids, thus I have no dog in this fight. At the same time though, when I spot an injustice I will call it out, regardless of whether or not it affects me.
Third, when I say AA is working as intended, I mean exactly that: It is keeping the races aligned according to a rather arbitrary definition of what percent of them "ought to be" there, with complete disregard of the number of them who even apply to begin with or actually do belong there. I never said that it is intended to fuck over Asians, however and this is the key: Its intended result does have the effect of fucking over Asians, even though fucking over Asians isn't the intent of the program itself.
If the cryptography used is strong enough it would be. Even though RSA rigged one of their implementations, the math behind it is still solid and can be used without the NSA breaking it. If that really bothers you still, you could always go with elliptic curve. The bonus of EC is that its smaller keys are as good as longer RSA keys, so no need for crazy 4096 bit pads.
This was meant to be a reply to a different post (I hit a different reply link from what I intended) but anyways I think I got my point across enough that I didn't create a second identical post in the correct place.
So long as Google can read your emails, so can the NSA. All they have to do is get a court order. With the way email works, any email provider can read your emails really, so it's not just google.
What ultimately needs to happen is for emails to become assymetric encrypted.
That's funny when you take a few things into consideration:
US population: Whites make up 76% Blacks make up 16% Asians make up 4.8% Hispanic isn't a race, but it is about 16% of the US (Yes, that totals more than 100% of the population, but again Hispanic isn't a race as they come in all three of the above flavors. However they are still weighted the same in affirmative action.)
Now if they were counting world statistics, they might have something in his case, as Asians make up about 60% of the world's population. They are absolutely without a doubt the majority race, in that case. However, in the world's population whites make up about 10%, and blacks some 15%, and hispanics some 30% (again, hispanic not a race.) In light of that, whites are actually quite a minority.
Yet it would be a cold day in hell before they'd allow a white guy in there (Unless he has at least one ancestor from a Spanish speaking country) See how silly that is?
That presentation wasn't about minorities. And this is a douchebag thing to do, but not to the white or asians, but to the people they supposedly represent: What they're telling everybody else is that they were making a presentation aimed at people who somehow ought to be A) Rejected by society and then B) Felt sorry for at every turn so that they are always given a leg up.
Hey, not my idea, they came up with it, I'm just telling it like it is.
I didn't prove anything, I just stated a fact: There is no connection between autism and vaccines.
That's it, and that is the absolute truth. All of the "supposed" connections have turned out to be false. Not only that, but the numbers are actually in for those who don't vaccinate, and guess what? They have autism at the same rates.
There's a certain irony in the fact that white students usually bring these affirmative action lawsuits (and that defenses of affirmative action are often framed in terms of white privilege). The evidence seems to show that if completely race-neutral admissions policies were adopted at colleges and universities, the admissions rates for blacks and hispanic would fall dramatically . . . but the admissions rates for whites wouldn't change much. The primary beneficiaries would be Asian students, who would fill nearly four out of five of the extra admissions slots.
So in other words, the research shows that if affirmative action was removed, whites would be unaffected, but Asians would replace blacks and hispanics in big numbers.
So what is the end result of affirmative action? Asians get fucked, and a sizable number of hispanics and blacks who are given these position in their place really shouldn't be there. No matter how you slice it, everybody loses here, even if you believe in white guilt and that white people need to be punished (affirmative action doesn't currently appear to punish them.)
So I still stand by my statement that the claim that "95% of people think affirmative action is to help Asians" has got to be incorrect.
I didn't make that claim. What I said was 95% of the ones I argue with about it say that.
If they really were smart though they'd recognize that there really is no good reason not to vaccinate.
Symptoms like fever, cough, sneeze, etc are the result of immune reaction to a perceived pathogen, whether a real threat or not. Immunizations simulate a real infection, which causes those symptoms, but you don't actually get sick from it. There is zero connection between autism and vaccines.
The result of vaccination is to cause your immune system to produce antibodies that will cause an infection to die out before it becomes a threat. This is why vaccines prevent 90% of infections, and having everybody around you get sick is likely to result in you getting sick as well even if you're vaccinated. Sometimes your immune system produces these antibodies until you die, sometimes it stops after so many years so you need to do it over again.
Because you do have that extra protection, why on earth would you choose to forgo vaccination? Only either a moron or somebody without a fucking clue would choose otherwise; definitely a far cry from the "very smart people" you mention.
Pretty much. I've had arguments with a lot of people over affirmative action, and 95% of the time they think it helps Asians get a job and education. Basically they think it helps everybody but whites, and they themselves are huge advocates of white guilt. They quickly shut up once I show them facts about how affirmative action actually fucks over Asians pretty bad, in fact it screws them much worse than white people, mainly because they have an even higher interest in higher education and the high tech career fields than whites do while being an even smaller portion of the population than blacks.
The problem with affirmative action is it assumes that a given percent of every race is interested in x career or y school, but that just doesn't reflect reality one bit. Take music for example; by far more black people are into rap, but there's nothing inherent about rap that makes them like it more or white people like it less. The underlying cause of this schism is a simple cultural difference. The same thing is likely to cause them to be less interested in IT careers, so they don't even apply for those jobs.
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And by the way I'm libertarian, so I don't think he targeted either of us due to a particular political view.
It's a strange thing, he did the same thing to me, presumably others as well. Not sure what attaches him to us in particular other than the fact that our names have two lowercase L's in them, which is what he takes advantage of to create his spoofed profiles.
Yep, he probably will change his to match yours. This is mainly because on slashdot, most people recognize other people by their signature rather than their name. If he doesn't copy your signature, most people won't ever mistake him for you, and he knows that. So, he did the same thing to me.
At first I just made a joke of it and kept changing my signature to say different goofy things, and just watched him copy it. After a while I stopped and created my current signature, which he never copied. (Though given that all of his accounts with my name have been banned it's kind of moot now.)
Actually what's generally known about the more primitive societies is that they tended to be more matriarchal. Along with patriarchal societies came monogamy (something women tend to want more than men do, ironically) and fairness was codified (aka laws.)
Indeed, most animals are very matriarchal as well.
Is it really something that needs eliminating? I'm reminded of that time Mr. Garrison said he doesn't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die. It's a joke, and it's funny.
Off topic, but you and I seem to have a mutual fan manifest by slashdot's disdain for serif fonts. Note these are two different URLs:
http://slashdot.org/~gIobaljus...
http://slashdot.org/~gIobaIjus...
This one will probably be taken soon:
http://slashdot.org/~globaIjus...
I mostly ignore him, but had to modify my signature to make the distinction clear when a few accusations were thrown my way, and I just happened to notice that he's up to it again a minute ago.
If it works out for you, it's most likely an accident of birth -- your parents had cash.
Pretty sure I posted data debunking that theory...
Oh yeah, I did: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Next subject.
So basically you can fap to porn all day and the knowledge and influence will just magically appear in some cases? Or more realistically, when opportunity doesn't knock, you have to build doors?
That's a really silly argument though, and anybody making it is REALLY grasping at straws. There's certain things that you can't mitigate very effectively. Take the 2011 tsunami in Japan, probably the most destructive in recorded history, yet it certainly isn't the biggest. And how do you mitigate that? Sorry but no levee in the world is going to prevent all of those houses from being flooded and then swept out to sea. The only way they aren't getting destroyed is if they weren't built in the first place. Kind of like the state they were in maybe 100 years ago.
And what the fuck, if anything, does climate do to affect a tsunami?
Further, let's look at disasters that don't even originate on earth and therefore climate has zero effect on: Coronal mass ejection.
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
If we were hit by one in 2012 it would have done (according to estimates) over $2.6 trillion worth of damage. In 1859 when we were hit by one, the destruction wouldn't be anywhere comparable because that $2.6 trillion infrastructure didn't even exist.
But lets look even at things that we are pretty sure are affected by climate, like Hurricane Sandy. How the fuck do you prevent a subway from getting flooded by a hurricane, other than not building the subway to begin with?
The key thing is that most of them are self made, and aren't born into wealth. Some 70% of them, in fact.
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ne...
Honestly I'm sick of this invented war that some people call class warfare. It just doesn't fucking exist, nobody has declared war on anybody else except for the OWS types, and even then they make up less than 1% of the population themselves.
This is a great time for one of those "all other things being equal" comparisons. Slashdot has a great piece recently that would fit for a perfect thought experiment, and said experiment actually would show why Pielke is right on this one:
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Here's the experiment: Think about the differences in the infrastructure in 1859 vs the infrastructure in 2012. It's really a no brainer, a coronal mass ejection would be far more destructive in 2012. This is a perfect "all other things being equal" because the climate doesn't factor into those costs should that occur. Our infrastructure is a lot bigger now than it was then, so there's a lot more to destroy.
Perfect analogy for what Pielke is saying.
On that, you are misinformed. People such as Jesse Jackson may use such proportions to show what he perceives as discrimination, but actual AA laws in the US do no such thing. You can begin your education in this area with JFK's executive order 10925 and go from there.
I don't think I mentioned any AA laws. AA sets guidelines, and the individual institutions must implement them. That implementation will of course vary depending on how the institution grades its students. Here are two examples:
http://nwpr.org/post/firestorm...
Here's what the Virginia state board of education actually did. It looked at students' test scores in reading and math and then proposed new passing rates. In math it set an acceptable passing rate at 82 percent for Asian students, 68 percent for whites, 52 percent for Latinos, 45 percent for blacks and 33 percent for kids with disabilities.
Effectively this says that race plays a determining factor in whether or not you pass. If you are Asian, your score must be nearly twice as high as a black student in order to be considered passing. Even if you did much better than every black student in the class, but you weren't quite up to the Asian standard, you still fail while the black students pass. (Also look at another thing they're doing here - basically if you're black, you aren't expected to perform much better than somebody who is literally retarded.
This really is no different than the days where blacks were required to take tests in order to vote where the white people weren't held to any standard at all.
http://tampa.cbslocal.com/2012...
On Tuesday, the board passed a revised strategic plan that says that by 2018, it wants 90 percent of Asian students, 88 percent of white students, 81 percent of Hispanics and 74 percent of black students to be reading at or above grade level. For math, the goals are 92 percent of Asian kids to be proficient, whites at 86 percent, Hispanics at 80 percent and blacks at 74 percent.
I disagree with your conclusion that Asians are being "fucked over" based solely on the fact that they would gain if AA were tossed. If speed limits were abolished, people would drive faster, consuming more fuel. Does this mean that gas stations are being "fucked over" by speed limits? No.
That's a very bad analogy. A better one would be saying that if you're asian, you're only allowed to drive 20MPH, and blacks are allowed to drive 60MPH. The goal would be to make sure that asians are late to their interviews more so that fewer of them will show up, thus increasing the number of blacks while decreasing the number of asians.
First, I don't know what the daily beast is trying to say. I'm not a regular reader of that website, rather I just pulled the first thing I found to back my claim; if you actually read slashdot regularly you'll find multiple sources saying the same thing on a somewhat recurring basis, and they come from all kinds of different sources.
Is the daily beast biased? Who knows, but bias or not when you're right, you're right, and when you're wrong, you're wrong. If Hitler said night was black, I'm not going to argue with him on that just because I think he's wrong on a bunch of other stuff. It seems like you already hate the daily beast (why I don't know) but unless you have proof of the contrary, or a good reason to suspect their wrong, announce it rather than saying something to the effect of "well I just hate them." In other words, attack the argument, not the person.
Second, I don't need to create such an argument because a lot of Asians are already doing exactly that. And rightfully so as they're the ones getting screwed the hardest. I'm already about to graduate from college myself, and after that happens I intend on being self employed and/or contracting, so AA doesn't apply to me in either case, nor do I have any kids, thus I have no dog in this fight. At the same time though, when I spot an injustice I will call it out, regardless of whether or not it affects me.
Third, when I say AA is working as intended, I mean exactly that: It is keeping the races aligned according to a rather arbitrary definition of what percent of them "ought to be" there, with complete disregard of the number of them who even apply to begin with or actually do belong there. I never said that it is intended to fuck over Asians, however and this is the key: Its intended result does have the effect of fucking over Asians, even though fucking over Asians isn't the intent of the program itself.
I hope that is clear enough for you. Thank you.
If the cryptography used is strong enough it would be. Even though RSA rigged one of their implementations, the math behind it is still solid and can be used without the NSA breaking it. If that really bothers you still, you could always go with elliptic curve. The bonus of EC is that its smaller keys are as good as longer RSA keys, so no need for crazy 4096 bit pads.
This was meant to be a reply to a different post (I hit a different reply link from what I intended) but anyways I think I got my point across enough that I didn't create a second identical post in the correct place.
So long as Google can read your emails, so can the NSA. All they have to do is get a court order. With the way email works, any email provider can read your emails really, so it's not just google.
What ultimately needs to happen is for emails to become assymetric encrypted.
I think the biggest success was no labor union left behind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I hear people complain about CEOs making millions, but nobody ever complains about union bosses making millions.
That's funny when you take a few things into consideration:
US population:
Whites make up 76%
Blacks make up 16%
Asians make up 4.8%
Hispanic isn't a race, but it is about 16% of the US (Yes, that totals more than 100% of the population, but again Hispanic isn't a race as they come in all three of the above flavors. However they are still weighted the same in affirmative action.)
Now if they were counting world statistics, they might have something in his case, as Asians make up about 60% of the world's population. They are absolutely without a doubt the majority race, in that case. However, in the world's population whites make up about 10%, and blacks some 15%, and hispanics some 30% (again, hispanic not a race.) In light of that, whites are actually quite a minority.
Yet it would be a cold day in hell before they'd allow a white guy in there (Unless he has at least one ancestor from a Spanish speaking country) See how silly that is?
That presentation wasn't about minorities. And this is a douchebag thing to do, but not to the white or asians, but to the people they supposedly represent: What they're telling everybody else is that they were making a presentation aimed at people who somehow ought to be A) Rejected by society and then B) Felt sorry for at every turn so that they are always given a leg up.
Hey, not my idea, they came up with it, I'm just telling it like it is.
Same info, only from Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/...
Happy?
I didn't prove anything, I just stated a fact: There is no connection between autism and vaccines.
That's it, and that is the absolute truth. All of the "supposed" connections have turned out to be false. Not only that, but the numbers are actually in for those who don't vaccinate, and guess what? They have autism at the same rates.
Actually what he doesn't realize is that affirmative action is very much applying to Asians. A) It shits on them B) It is working as intended.
Don't believe me? Here you go:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
There's a certain irony in the fact that white students usually bring these affirmative action lawsuits (and that defenses of affirmative action are often framed in terms of white privilege). The evidence seems to show that if completely race-neutral admissions policies were adopted at colleges and universities, the admissions rates for blacks and hispanic would fall dramatically . . . but the admissions rates for whites wouldn't change much. The primary beneficiaries would be Asian students, who would fill nearly four out of five of the extra admissions slots.
So in other words, the research shows that if affirmative action was removed, whites would be unaffected, but Asians would replace blacks and hispanics in big numbers.
So what is the end result of affirmative action? Asians get fucked, and a sizable number of hispanics and blacks who are given these position in their place really shouldn't be there. No matter how you slice it, everybody loses here, even if you believe in white guilt and that white people need to be punished (affirmative action doesn't currently appear to punish them.)
So I still stand by my statement that the claim that "95% of people think affirmative action is to help Asians" has got to be incorrect.
I didn't make that claim. What I said was 95% of the ones I argue with about it say that.
I would like to thank you for your post as you just gave further credence to one of my key points.
I really doubt a majority of people think affirmative action helps Asians.
Tell that to this guy:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
If they really were smart though they'd recognize that there really is no good reason not to vaccinate.
Symptoms like fever, cough, sneeze, etc are the result of immune reaction to a perceived pathogen, whether a real threat or not. Immunizations simulate a real infection, which causes those symptoms, but you don't actually get sick from it. There is zero connection between autism and vaccines.
The result of vaccination is to cause your immune system to produce antibodies that will cause an infection to die out before it becomes a threat. This is why vaccines prevent 90% of infections, and having everybody around you get sick is likely to result in you getting sick as well even if you're vaccinated. Sometimes your immune system produces these antibodies until you die, sometimes it stops after so many years so you need to do it over again.
Because you do have that extra protection, why on earth would you choose to forgo vaccination? Only either a moron or somebody without a fucking clue would choose otherwise; definitely a far cry from the "very smart people" you mention.
Pretty much. I've had arguments with a lot of people over affirmative action, and 95% of the time they think it helps Asians get a job and education. Basically they think it helps everybody but whites, and they themselves are huge advocates of white guilt. They quickly shut up once I show them facts about how affirmative action actually fucks over Asians pretty bad, in fact it screws them much worse than white people, mainly because they have an even higher interest in higher education and the high tech career fields than whites do while being an even smaller portion of the population than blacks.
The problem with affirmative action is it assumes that a given percent of every race is interested in x career or y school, but that just doesn't reflect reality one bit. Take music for example; by far more black people are into rap, but there's nothing inherent about rap that makes them like it more or white people like it less. The underlying cause of this schism is a simple cultural difference. The same thing is likely to cause them to be less interested in IT careers, so they don't even apply for those jobs.