If the parent think it is important for their student to have pretty shoes, that is very difficult to overcome.
No, it's not. After the sentence in the compulsory school uniform section saying that you have to wear the approved trousers, shirt, etc, you just add the words "and only plain black lace up shoes may be worn" or something.
Kids won't know or care about whether their boring school shoes cost GBP10 or GBP500.
trying to force every discussion on anything into a discussion on social justice is not only pointless, but it turns people off of your cause.
But it's pretty relevant in a story involving the disadvantages that poorer kids face at school, although no doubt it's their own fault for having stupid parents.
All you say about condoms is true, but the best response I've seen to that is since we're preparing we can do better than a condom. If you had the choice, would you actually choose a (delicate) condom to hold your water? I wouldn't, which is why I've always thought that a small durable plastic bag folded very small makes much more sense than a condom.
Since you're packing this all ahead, you have plenty of time to think it through and make the best choice.
With the amount of crap OP lugs around, why not just add a big fucking bucket?
By the same argument no-one should ever spend a single day in jail. The time stolen from them can never be replaced.
No, but they can at least be financially compensated, and given the chance to have some sort of normal life. That is not an option if you've hanged them.
I don't understand how people think life in a cage is some kind of social sign of progress compared to the death penalty. I guess they prefer to watch someone suffer for as long as possible.
The point is to give the criminal a long, long time to think about what he's done. There is not any chance of rehabilitation if you execute them.
Doctors have told me (and there are published studies to back them up) that people who are assaulted with guns are much more likely to die than people assaulted by any other means.
Yes, it's why modern armies tend to arm their soldiers with automatic rifles rather than half a brick in a sock.
The only reason why I can see the word "privilege" being so popular is because it elicits emotional guilt. And because of that, you will always get pushback from people who don't like to be guilt-tripped.
The point about socio-economic privelege is that it has nothing to do with the individual's talent, intelligence, charisma, drive or hard work: they're just lucky. But they generally act as though they deserve their luck, which pisses less priveleged people off.
Would you mind being born black in the USA? I wouldn't wish that on anybody.
I'm guessing plenty of people in the Middle East would happily trade places. A few North Koreans too.
"At least the US is not as bad as Syria or North Korea" is a pretty pathetic argument. You might as well go full retard and say "at least blacks in the US aren't treated as badly as jews were in Nazi Germany".
If you have the willpower and the ability, you can succeed in this country regardless of what circumstances you were born into. Hard work can in fact bring you out of poverty.
Of course it can. It's just not very likely. The odd genius rising from rags to riches says very little about the experience of the average person, and no, not everyone can be above average.
Whereas, if you start out with rich parents, you have to positively fuck your life up to end in poverty.
Why are black people generally good at running, and Asians generally good at rote learning? Why are strong men and weight-lifters generally East European?
Yes, and why do most Irish people have bright red hair, and most Scotish people are mean, and most French people smell of garlic, and most Germans are humourless, and...
Oh, wait, they're not.
It's racists and bigots who group people together into stereotypes.
Its for the collective!? Our government loves us all and cares about us so much!
I know this is slashdot, but I thought even libertarians admitted the need for collective (government) action in things like defence. And protecting society from preventable diseases is at least as much a matter of self defence as having an army to fight off invaders.
in a great many cases, that unacceptable treatment came simply because they're grad students
If a woman is treated badly, then a human being is treated badly. If a man is treated badly, then a human being is treated badly. Personally, I'm against human beings getting treated badly.
Men will generally stop treating women as sex objects when they - throughout their lives - stop encountering women acting like that.
I often wonder how people like you treat your mother, or grandmother, or sister, or niece, or female boss, or female doctor, or female soldier, or whatever.
Or could it be that, gasp, because some women act like X not all women do?
I expect at least half of the comments here to contain the words "SJW" or "social justice" (as all-purpose insults) together with lengthy whinges about how sexism literally doesn't even exist any more so why do slashdot keep posting stories about it, and anyway even if it does it's now only discrimination against men, and anyway girls just aren't physically strong enough to do Real Science and that's a FACT.
You have more important things to worry about, like the worldwide cabal of evil feminists who have taken control of the entire internet. Now they're coming for you.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what LAW was broken here?
Is it actually in law that you can't tell folks how to beat a polygraph....or were they saying they were advertising this advice for sale but it was a fraud?
It sounds like it was both simultaneously, which seems amusingly Catch 22.
Every "men's rights" story contains lots of unpleasant posts using the term SJW. I can only assume thtat the ones that get deleted cross the line into actual rape/death threats.
All you need to understand is that/. will often NOT remove spam or troll posts like this, but WILL remove posts that use the three-letter acronym for 'ess jay doubleyew' in gender-related topics like women in STEM.
Speaks volumes about the/. leadership.
Utter tosh. I know slashdot allows "SJW" posts, since it gives me a way of quickly scanning and ignoring them.
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If the parent think it is important for their student to have pretty shoes, that is very difficult to overcome.
No, it's not. After the sentence in the compulsory school uniform section saying that you have to wear the approved trousers, shirt, etc, you just add the words "and only plain black lace up shoes may be worn" or something.
Kids won't know or care about whether their boring school shoes cost GBP10 or GBP500.
In neither case do I see why you would waste lecture time by playing computer games.
trying to force every discussion on anything into a discussion on social justice is not only pointless, but it turns people off of your cause.
But it's pretty relevant in a story involving the disadvantages that poorer kids face at school, although no doubt it's their own fault for having stupid parents.
J-Frame .38
AK47. With a drum magazine.
And a bayonet.
You can never be too prepared.
All I carry on my keychain is keys. Can't get any simpler than that.
I don't even carry any keys. Can't get any simpler than that.
All you say about condoms is true, but the best response I've seen to that is since we're preparing we can do better than a condom. If you had the choice, would you actually choose a (delicate) condom to hold your water? I wouldn't, which is why I've always thought that a small durable plastic bag folded very small makes much more sense than a condom.
Since you're packing this all ahead, you have plenty of time to think it through and make the best choice.
With the amount of crap OP lugs around, why not just add a big fucking bucket?
By the same argument no-one should ever spend a single day in jail. The time stolen from them can never be replaced.
No, but they can at least be financially compensated, and given the chance to have some sort of normal life. That is not an option if you've hanged them.
I don't understand how people think life in a cage is some kind of social sign of progress compared to the death penalty. I guess they prefer to watch someone suffer for as long as possible.
The point is to give the criminal a long, long time to think about what he's done. There is not any chance of rehabilitation if you execute them.
Doctors have told me (and there are published studies to back them up) that people who are assaulted with guns are much more likely to die than people assaulted by any other means.
Yes, it's why modern armies tend to arm their soldiers with automatic rifles rather than half a brick in a sock.
How many executed prisoners reoffend?
So clearly the answer is to execute eveeryone for their first criminal offence, no matter how minor.
tl;dr version: I am a super special snowflake.
The only reason why I can see the word "privilege" being so popular is because it elicits emotional guilt. And because of that, you will always get pushback from people who don't like to be guilt-tripped.
The point about socio-economic privelege is that it has nothing to do with the individual's talent, intelligence, charisma, drive or hard work: they're just lucky. But they generally act as though they deserve their luck, which pisses less priveleged people off.
there is no such thing as reverse discrimination. all discrimination, is discrimination
That is true only in the word-playing sense that anti-racists are racist because they recognise racism.
I'm guessing plenty of people in the Middle East would happily trade places. A few North Koreans too.
"At least the US is not as bad as Syria or North Korea" is a pretty pathetic argument. You might as well go full retard and say "at least blacks in the US aren't treated as badly as jews were in Nazi Germany".
If you have the willpower and the ability, you can succeed in this country regardless of what circumstances you were born into. Hard work can in fact bring you out of poverty.
Of course it can. It's just not very likely. The odd genius rising from rags to riches says very little about the experience of the average person, and no, not everyone can be above average.
Whereas, if you start out with rich parents, you have to positively fuck your life up to end in poverty.
Why are black people generally good at running, and Asians generally good at rote learning? Why are strong men and weight-lifters generally East European?
Yes, and why do most Irish people have bright red hair, and most Scotish people are mean, and most French people smell of garlic, and most Germans are humourless, and...
Oh, wait, they're not.
It's racists and bigots who group people together into stereotypes.
Missing the most famous spaceship ever, The Death Star...
That's because this is about science fiction, not children's fantasy.
Oh, I'm trying so hard to keep a straight face.
Its for the collective!? Our government loves us all and cares about us so much!
I know this is slashdot, but I thought even libertarians admitted the need for collective (government) action in things like defence. And protecting society from preventable diseases is at least as much a matter of self defence as having an army to fight off invaders.
in a great many cases, that unacceptable treatment came simply because they're grad students
If a woman is treated badly, then a human being is treated badly. If a man is treated badly, then a human being is treated badly. Personally, I'm against human beings getting treated badly.
Men will generally stop treating women as sex objects when they - throughout their lives - stop encountering women acting like that.
I often wonder how people like you treat your mother, or grandmother, or sister, or niece, or female boss, or female doctor, or female soldier, or whatever.
Or could it be that, gasp, because some women act like X not all women do?
I expect at least half of the comments here to contain the words "SJW" or "social justice" (as all-purpose insults) together with lengthy whinges about how sexism literally doesn't even exist any more so why do slashdot keep posting stories about it, and anyway even if it does it's now only discrimination against men, and anyway girls just aren't physically strong enough to do Real Science and that's a FACT.
You have more important things to worry about, like the worldwide cabal of evil feminists who have taken control of the entire internet. Now they're coming for you.
You shouldn't mock the afflicted.
I'm trying to figure out exactly what LAW was broken here?
Is it actually in law that you can't tell folks how to beat a polygraph....or were they saying they were advertising this advice for sale but it was a fraud?
It sounds like it was both simultaneously, which seems amusingly Catch 22.
Which are illegal.
All you need to understand is that /. will often NOT remove spam or troll posts like this, but WILL remove posts that use the three-letter acronym for 'ess jay doubleyew' in gender-related topics like women in STEM.
Speaks volumes about the /. leadership.
Utter tosh. I know slashdot allows "SJW" posts, since it gives me a way of quickly scanning and ignoring them.