I said it was unreasonable to assume from my Slashdot handle and posting history that I am white and heterosexual. Furthermore, I said that my race and sexual preference are not germane to the discussion. Why should the value of my statements have anything to do with the color of my skin or who I like to have sex with? Unless, of course, you're a racist or a homophobe.
Lena probably assumed that when you said that "there is something wrong when the general population begins to fear the police, and I think that is starting to happen in the United States," this fear was something you've noticed recently, thus making you part of the general -- as opposed to minority -- population, because Lena's point was that minority populations were already quite familiar with the fear of police. Plus, you do have the Italian handle. So, to me and by that logic, her assumption was reasonable. You can disagree; I won't mind.
And, your race -- whatever it might be -- is germane to the discussion. You race would affect the strength of your argument. If you were in the majority population, your opinion of "take responsibility for your life, and quit whining about how unfair the system is" would lack merit because it would be uninformed: you would not have seen how many cops were racist or whatever. You wouldn't have walked in the other man's shoes, so you wouldn't know whether the other man was taking responsibility but still being treated unfairly by anyone's definition.
Conversely, if you are (as appears to be the case) in a minority population, you opinion would be more informed, thus a stronger argument.
Finally, to answer your question of "since you seem so curious to know, however, would it be reasonable to assume that you are racist or homophobic?," I am neither, though given my defense of stereotypes, I can see it being reasonable to believe otherwise. But, no, I'm just rational. So put me in that category instead.
You sure do make a lot of assumptions about people.
Are you saying that one shouldn't assume things about other people? That is, unless I know you, I shouldn't form an opinion of you? Or make a guess at your beliefs? I shouldn't put you in a group, unless I know for sure you belong in that group? And I guess that same rule would apply to everyone. I guess I wouldn't have much to say to you, or anyone, then. After all, I wouldn't want to offend you by accident, or talk about something you don't care about. I mean, sure, you're here on Slashdot, posting the story, but I shouldn't assume you know how to use a computer, or care about police brutality. I don't know for sure; I should ask first.
It's stupid. Of course I will assume things about you! At the least, I have to classify you as a threat to my life or not. I have to decide if you're smart enough to follow this conversation or not. I have to decide whether you can take a joke, I have to decide how tolerant you are, I have to guess what your buttons are and avoid them.
Assumptions are both natural and necessary. It pisses me off that people don't see that. "Stereotypes are bad." That's rot. Stereotypes are good. They keep everyone from choice paralysis.
The bad thing is when you don't change your opinions of a person after you find out the truth! It is closed, stubborn minds that give the whole thing a bad name.
But I think his assumptions were dead on, and you're just being bitchy. I think he was right, and therefore right to make the guess. The poster assumed you were white and/or heterosexual; you haven't denied it. Are saying that you are not?
In which case, both he and I will stand corrected, and we'll both have a better notion of how accurate our guesses generally are.
Laser Lover didn't writes "Molecules made by combining an electron with their anti-particle positron have not been created by researchers at the University of California Riverside. The team's long term goal is to never use...
Many of the same criticisms have been leveled at the Sword of Truth series, which also seems to be slowing infinitely, in a sci-fi version of the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise
Yeah, the middle books of the Sword of Truth series dragged on a bit, but the pace has picked up since then. The editing got tighter. You can tell that the plot is coming to an end.
It will use the same basic logical steps to solve a problem, just faster and / or in parallel - and this may appear magical looking at the solution but if you sat down and examined the 'recipe', assuming it will tell you, it will be possible to follow the reasoning.
Not necessarily. I can give you one example right now: devices that were programmed genetically. They work, but we don't really understand how. Here is one example. I also remember an article about a researcher who worked on some sort of automata. The designs the algorithms came up with were masses of spaghetti code virtually impossible to decipher. One of the solutions even used an impurity in the silicon -- a capacitor or something that fluctuated between two states as the device heated up.
And what if a machine uses some weird quantum computing? We might not be able to follow that, either.
You also have to make sure you're using left joins and right joins properly. See, if you use left joins, but turn the server counter-clockwise, all those joins have to run uphill to execute, which is slower. Right joins will work much faster.
Unfortunately, sometimes you have both left and right joins. That's a pain, because the server's no longer load balanced -- some queries run uphill and some downhill. That's why a good row-store databases also include upper and lower joins. If you use those in preference to left and right joins, when the server is rotated, the queries are horizontal, which means no net up/down load.
But, oh, buddy, if you had only been there. The magic is gone now -- I agree, you're absolutely right. But back then? There was magic freaking EVERYWHERE. It really was incredible.
I guess I feel for y'all then. Can't miss what I've never experienced.
The Marine campaign was creepy as hell. Killing the Marines in the Alien campaign was just fun, and killing both as the Predator felt like a standard tactical FPS.
When you think about, that is exactly what I'd expect. Kudos to the developers!
Only if it's shorter than everyone else's. If it's longer than everyone else's, even if it's short by today's standards, you still get to have said "I've lived a long life."
Unless your rehearsals are in front of a jaded audience, I don't think they'll as effective a feedback tool as an album.
A truly album focused artist will have a reason for every single track on the album, otherwise there's no need for the album at all - it's just a bunch of tracks.
You're right about an album-focused artist, but only a small part of the audience is equally album-focused, as we see by the continuing precipitous drop in album sales.
For an album-focused artist, I'd guess he refines his work by throwing a bunch of albums on the wall and seeing which ones stick. An order of magnitude more work for the same end result, but that's the price one pays for vision, yes?:)
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I didn't say nobody should make any assumptions.
Well, good. Naturally, I agree.
I said it was unreasonable to assume from my Slashdot handle and posting history that I am white and heterosexual. Furthermore, I said that my race and sexual preference are not germane to the discussion. Why should the value of my statements have anything to do with the color of my skin or who I like to have sex with? Unless, of course, you're a racist or a homophobe.
Lena probably assumed that when you said that "there is something wrong when the general population begins to fear the police, and I think that is starting to happen in the United States," this fear was something you've noticed recently, thus making you part of the general -- as opposed to minority -- population, because Lena's point was that minority populations were already quite familiar with the fear of police. Plus, you do have the Italian handle. So, to me and by that logic, her assumption was reasonable. You can disagree; I won't mind.
And, your race -- whatever it might be -- is germane to the discussion. You race would affect the strength of your argument. If you were in the majority population, your opinion of "take responsibility for your life, and quit whining about how unfair the system is" would lack merit because it would be uninformed: you would not have seen how many cops were racist or whatever. You wouldn't have walked in the other man's shoes, so you wouldn't know whether the other man was taking responsibility but still being treated unfairly by anyone's definition.
Conversely, if you are (as appears to be the case) in a minority population, you opinion would be more informed, thus a stronger argument.
Finally, to answer your question of "since you seem so curious to know, however, would it be reasonable to assume that you are racist or homophobic?," I am neither, though given my defense of stereotypes, I can see it being reasonable to believe otherwise. But, no, I'm just rational. So put me in that category instead.
You sure do make a lot of assumptions about people.
Are you saying that one shouldn't assume things about other people? That is, unless I know you, I shouldn't form an opinion of you? Or make a guess at your beliefs? I shouldn't put you in a group, unless I know for sure you belong in that group? And I guess that same rule would apply to everyone. I guess I wouldn't have much to say to you, or anyone, then. After all, I wouldn't want to offend you by accident, or talk about something you don't care about. I mean, sure, you're here on Slashdot, posting the story, but I shouldn't assume you know how to use a computer, or care about police brutality. I don't know for sure; I should ask first.
It's stupid. Of course I will assume things about you! At the least, I have to classify you as a threat to my life or not. I have to decide if you're smart enough to follow this conversation or not. I have to decide whether you can take a joke, I have to decide how tolerant you are, I have to guess what your buttons are and avoid them.
Assumptions are both natural and necessary. It pisses me off that people don't see that. "Stereotypes are bad." That's rot. Stereotypes are good. They keep everyone from choice paralysis.
The bad thing is when you don't change your opinions of a person after you find out the truth! It is closed, stubborn minds that give the whole thing a bad name.
But I think his assumptions were dead on, and you're just being bitchy. I think he was right, and therefore right to make the guess. The poster assumed you were white and/or heterosexual; you haven't denied it. Are saying that you are not?
In which case, both he and I will stand corrected, and we'll both have a better notion of how accurate our guesses generally are.
The only real way to win a war militarily then, is to totally annihilate the enemy.
Either that, or to add their biological and technological distinctiveness to your own, and adapt their culture to service yours.
That's how China "won" against its various invaders. It just assimilated them. That's also what Rome did to its defeated enemies.
Though, perhaps that's not a "military" victory.
It's Bizarro-Slashdot!
As a systems analyst with positive Karma I can be used to help herd up fellow slashdoters with the purpose to serve your brain eating needs...
Positive karma? Not for long, buddy-boy.
*click* *click*
Many of the same criticisms have been leveled at the Sword of Truth series, which also seems to be slowing infinitely, in a sci-fi version of the paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise
Yeah, the middle books of the Sword of Truth series dragged on a bit, but the pace has picked up since then. The editing got tighter. You can tell that the plot is coming to an end.
Penny Arcade also mentioned the heart-attack thing, and is asking the community to help.
I hear that adding the photons also makes them lighter...
I still says it's because of the R-type stickers we slapped on that bad boy.
It will use the same basic logical steps to solve a problem, just faster and / or in parallel - and this may appear magical looking at the solution but if you sat down and examined the 'recipe', assuming it will tell you, it will be possible to follow the reasoning.
Not necessarily. I can give you one example right now: devices that were programmed genetically. They work, but we don't really understand how. Here is one example. I also remember an article about a researcher who worked on some sort of automata. The designs the algorithms came up with were masses of spaghetti code virtually impossible to decipher. One of the solutions even used an impurity in the silicon -- a capacitor or something that fluctuated between two states as the device heated up.
And what if a machine uses some weird quantum computing? We might not be able to follow that, either.
You also have to make sure you're using left joins and right joins properly. See, if you use left joins, but turn the server counter-clockwise, all those joins have to run uphill to execute, which is slower. Right joins will work much faster.
Unfortunately, sometimes you have both left and right joins. That's a pain, because the server's no longer load balanced -- some queries run uphill and some downhill. That's why a good row-store databases also include upper and lower joins. If you use those in preference to left and right joins, when the server is rotated, the queries are horizontal, which means no net up/down load.
You know, you could probably fix a lot by saying if a single provision in an act was found unconstitutional then the entire bill was void.
That's probably why so many bills and contracts have that clause that says if one part is invalid then there is no effect on the rest of parts.
Ironic, since we usually try to avoid fracturing our wafers.
Is it just me, or does that sound kinda dirty?
God, I hope it's not just me...
Try voting when you're homeless.
That's actually doable in every state.
Or running for office.
That's a different story. But then, even if you do have a house, you still need lots o' moolah to stand a chance, even in local elections.
It has a suitably cryptic name...they call it "the Pioneer anomoly."
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But, oh, buddy, if you had only been there. The magic is gone now -- I agree, you're absolutely right. But back then? There was magic freaking EVERYWHERE. It really was incredible.
I guess I feel for y'all then. Can't miss what I've never experienced.
Heh. Monkeys!
Luckily, my computer has paradox-absorbing crumple zones.
The Marine campaign was creepy as hell. Killing the Marines in the Alien campaign was just fun, and killing both as the Predator felt like a standard tactical FPS.
When you think about, that is exactly what I'd expect. Kudos to the developers!
Parent deserves an "insightful" mod.
Even if everyone supports one standard, the bottom line here is that the data has to centralized somewhere in order to maintain data consistency.
Not necessarily, the data could be distributed, redundant, and synchronized.
You know, it's just a rumor that he said that. The source of the report, Capitol Hill Blue, has a poor reputation for accuracy:
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Why not just call it Star Wars: The Search for More Money?
Wait for the sequel...5th edition.
A short lifespan is poverty.
Only if it's shorter than everyone else's. If it's longer than everyone else's, even if it's short by today's standards, you still get to have said "I've lived a long life."
No, that's what rehearsals are for.
:)
Unless your rehearsals are in front of a jaded audience, I don't think they'll as effective a feedback tool as an album.
A truly album focused artist will have a reason for every single track on the album, otherwise there's no need for the album at all - it's just a bunch of tracks.
You're right about an album-focused artist, but only a small part of the audience is equally album-focused, as we see by the continuing precipitous drop in album sales.
For an album-focused artist, I'd guess he refines his work by throwing a bunch of albums on the wall and seeing which ones stick. An order of magnitude more work for the same end result, but that's the price one pays for vision, yes?