There's active racism. It's the virulent kind. The asshole with shaved heads attacking people on the street.
There's passive racism. It's just as evil
Really, so basically lynching people is about as bad as not hiring some people? Besides, it's too easy to just label 'racist' someone who has a 'problem' with a so-called race, not try to understand and come up with canned explanations like "it's just hate", "he's just being ignorant" or " happened in his childhood that made him like this". It's too easy and it doesn't help.
What people label 'racism' can be, contrarily to what many like to think, justifiable. Justifications vary depending on people's reasons for thinking what they do, but it can be discomfort with other races, not knowing anyone of the other race and therefore thinking of that group as a foreign group you're too unfamiliar with to be comfortable. It can be just a bad image, an image of hardly overcomeable differences, an image of hostility/non-acceptance, a shock of cultures, and so on... A white guy in a suit isn't necessarily evil because he won't hire the black guy to be his assistant, for possibly any of the aforementioned reasons.
But just saying "it's evil" and closing the case doesn't help understanding the problem a bit, and you can't fix a problem you don't understand. A lot of people think that the way to deal with this problem is to make certain opinions so unacceptable that people fear expressing them, by fear of sounding "evil". Getting people to shut up about what they, in a way, identify as societal issues, won't do anything to help fix the problem. You can shut up about that stomach ache by fear of sounding like a pansy, but that won't prevent you from eventually throwing up. So if you don't listen, you won't know what to do besides make people want to shut up. But if you heed a bit of my insight, you can now see that some solutions can involve familiarising groups people together from an early age, making people realise that antagonisms and hostility are greatly exaggerated, and educating people about all the different cultures they might encounter out there as to allow them to understand and even feel familiar with them.
Oh and as for characters being white, the thing is, be it in movies or video games, you pretty much *need* a reason to make a non-white hero, particularly in some countries such as the USA. Nobody flips a coin to decide the 'race' of characters, and hardly anyone picks random races without even thinking of it, you'll just pick a white guy unless you have a reason not to.
What do you guys learn at school? It's not a question of amounts of melanin but types of melanin, as well as their depth. So you're not deficient. Look it up.
What's even the point of this protection? All it's supposed to protect will be cracked before you even get to put the DVD in your computer. So, what's the point at all?
Too bad, I was planning on exceptionally buying the game, but it looks like once again the pirated version will probably be less hassle than the retail version.
Oh drop the fucking violins. It's exactly like saying that anyone who has a child doesn't regret having them, despite having considered abortion. That doesn't mean that you should get rid of abortion just because "you'll see in the end you'll love your child". Of course people love their children, it's (due to) an evolutionary trait, that doesn't mean that people want a disabled kid but that they just don't know it yet. If you stopped making it sound like these are the bee's knees, everyone knows that raising such a child is very difficult. Plus, parents tend to outlive such of their offsprings, which is something no parent wants. Anyone who wants to make such a child must have twisted morals and a twisted sense of self interest.
But if not for that date, then when else would we set our upcoming Impending Doom day? We need those for, you know, having the feeling of being at the ends of times and therefore on a sort of historical cutting edge, rather than in the middle of a long era during which our precise time isn't much more important than any other time in history.
Being a homebrew game dev I've always given this much thought, and I think, why on Earth does such a sophisticated game as Half Life 2 or Call of Duty 4 MP need have static pre-rendered screens when loading something? It seems to me like no-one really ever puts much thought in it, and think that it's just the way it's meant to be.
What you really should do depends on your game, but here's a thought : for example, in a FPS, you can find yourself directly enclosed in a vehicle/small room. This would be so fast to load, you can do the rest of the loading (which I'll assume mainly stresses on disk I/O) while you're in there. Of course there are plenty alternatives, you can do like CoD4 does for single player missions and have a sort of cool looking briefing that is directly relevant and helps with providing a setting and context and improve immersion. Alternatively, you can offer something interactive, like a map and let the user decide of some stuff, and let them choose their inventory, something like that, or just any kind of activity relevant to the main game. It can even be a mini-game, especially if the loading time is long!
It was in an Idle post, there was a guy named Shampoo who wrote a bunch of ideas, most infeasible, impractical or already existing in some way, and finalising each invention claim by "this idea was invented by Shampoo".
Yeah, I think it's a long shot before we can even make an automated glider that won't break in a Earth tornado. As for the plummeting in Jupiter, we've already done that. Galileo sent a probe in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
It wouldn't grow up in society. You don't even need to grow up in society to be a healthy person. That's how you can homeschool your children. Not like a Neanderthal could go to regular school anyways or interact normally with people, you can't really project your childhood on a Neanderthal and try to imagine what would happen.
This being said, you must keep in mind how much this would teach us, in biology, medicine (I would hardly be surprised if it taught us something that could be used to cure something, i.e. a genetical resistance to one of our diseases or something), neurology, ethnology, philosophy, linguistics (what do you know, maybe we could probably teach them a spoken language, or even written! And knowing what their cognitive and speech abilities are would be amazing), and so on.
As for being lonely, just make twins, or triplets, that would also teach you about social interactions between themselves, and you'd probably see a form of communication emerge which would be of course very interesting to learn about.
Replace Texas with America, and yes, absolutely, in a way. It's not bad luck that you had him as president, twice. That's what happens when an aspect of your culture/civilisation favours the personality of a politician and his religious beliefs relatively much compared to the rest. Our civilisation is our product just as we're the product of our civilisation.
If you understand market forces then you'll understand why both will always co-exist, in a pretty divisive way. By divisive, I mean some stuff will be open source, some will not.
In cases when the open source alternative will be as good as the commercial alternative, open source will ultimately win. In the case of niche software products where the few FOSS efforts would not be sufficient, commercial alternatives will emerge to fill the demand gap. That's how in works in theory. That's why broad appeal apps have great FOSS versions, whereas commercial apps thrive in specific niches. There's no program more expensive than very special purpose professional programs. That's how the cake is being shared.
I remember reading about something to that effect a decade ago. A backpack system that when deployed would slowly make drinking water out of the air, even in the middle of a desert, which was what this thing was made for.
Well in a way, I think that saying that what you know is what Google knows is like a pianist saying he knows as many scores as he has in his library. The problem is that for the pianist to play any of these, he'll first have to decipher the score, and that's a time-consuming process.
My point is this : you can look up anything you want on Google, but the difference between being able to look up anything and to know anything is that when you know something you "process" it and can use it in your process of thinking. For example, you can look up any philosophy on Wikipedia, but as long as you don't know them they're of no use to you. So in the end, you still only know what you know, you just have the ability to access to new stuff to know very fast.
Mmmh, maybe I drifted off-topic a bit, sorry about that:).
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I'm a 56 year old geezer. When I was a kid, I never saw a man with boobs. Never.
I'm 22, and me neither. Probably because everybody there had a healthy diet and never knew what a hamburger tasted like.
Sexual orientation isn't driven by the laws of supply and demand?
This is madness.
This is Sparta! ..cus!
There's active racism. It's the virulent kind. The asshole with shaved heads attacking people on the street.
There's passive racism. It's just as evil
Really, so basically lynching people is about as bad as not hiring some people? Besides, it's too easy to just label 'racist' someone who has a 'problem' with a so-called race, not try to understand and come up with canned explanations like "it's just hate", "he's just being ignorant" or " happened in his childhood that made him like this". It's too easy and it doesn't help.
What people label 'racism' can be, contrarily to what many like to think, justifiable. Justifications vary depending on people's reasons for thinking what they do, but it can be discomfort with other races, not knowing anyone of the other race and therefore thinking of that group as a foreign group you're too unfamiliar with to be comfortable. It can be just a bad image, an image of hardly overcomeable differences, an image of hostility/non-acceptance, a shock of cultures, and so on... A white guy in a suit isn't necessarily evil because he won't hire the black guy to be his assistant, for possibly any of the aforementioned reasons.
But just saying "it's evil" and closing the case doesn't help understanding the problem a bit, and you can't fix a problem you don't understand. A lot of people think that the way to deal with this problem is to make certain opinions so unacceptable that people fear expressing them, by fear of sounding "evil". Getting people to shut up about what they, in a way, identify as societal issues, won't do anything to help fix the problem. You can shut up about that stomach ache by fear of sounding like a pansy, but that won't prevent you from eventually throwing up. So if you don't listen, you won't know what to do besides make people want to shut up. But if you heed a bit of my insight, you can now see that some solutions can involve familiarising groups people together from an early age, making people realise that antagonisms and hostility are greatly exaggerated, and educating people about all the different cultures they might encounter out there as to allow them to understand and even feel familiar with them.
Oh and as for characters being white, the thing is, be it in movies or video games, you pretty much *need* a reason to make a non-white hero, particularly in some countries such as the USA. Nobody flips a coin to decide the 'race' of characters, and hardly anyone picks random races without even thinking of it, you'll just pick a white guy unless you have a reason not to.
By what logic couldn't they scale up by throwing more money at the problem? There's nothing inherently unscalable there..
http://streammygame.com/smg/index.php There you go
What do you guys learn at school? It's not a question of amounts of melanin but types of melanin, as well as their depth. So you're not deficient. Look it up.
What's even the point of this protection? All it's supposed to protect will be cracked before you even get to put the DVD in your computer. So, what's the point at all?
Too bad, I was planning on exceptionally buying the game, but it looks like once again the pirated version will probably be less hassle than the retail version.
With a camera?
And I prefer the term 'darkness-challenged', thank you.
Oh drop the fucking violins. It's exactly like saying that anyone who has a child doesn't regret having them, despite having considered abortion. That doesn't mean that you should get rid of abortion just because "you'll see in the end you'll love your child". Of course people love their children, it's (due to) an evolutionary trait, that doesn't mean that people want a disabled kid but that they just don't know it yet. If you stopped making it sound like these are the bee's knees, everyone knows that raising such a child is very difficult. Plus, parents tend to outlive such of their offsprings, which is something no parent wants. Anyone who wants to make such a child must have twisted morals and a twisted sense of self interest.
But if not for that date, then when else would we set our upcoming Impending Doom day? We need those for, you know, having the feeling of being at the ends of times and therefore on a sort of historical cutting edge, rather than in the middle of a long era during which our precise time isn't much more important than any other time in history.
Being a homebrew game dev I've always given this much thought, and I think, why on Earth does such a sophisticated game as Half Life 2 or Call of Duty 4 MP need have static pre-rendered screens when loading something? It seems to me like no-one really ever puts much thought in it, and think that it's just the way it's meant to be.
What you really should do depends on your game, but here's a thought : for example, in a FPS, you can find yourself directly enclosed in a vehicle/small room. This would be so fast to load, you can do the rest of the loading (which I'll assume mainly stresses on disk I/O) while you're in there. Of course there are plenty alternatives, you can do like CoD4 does for single player missions and have a sort of cool looking briefing that is directly relevant and helps with providing a setting and context and improve immersion. Alternatively, you can offer something interactive, like a map and let the user decide of some stuff, and let them choose their inventory, something like that, or just any kind of activity relevant to the main game. It can even be a mini-game, especially if the loading time is long!
It was in an Idle post, there was a guy named Shampoo who wrote a bunch of ideas, most infeasible, impractical or already existing in some way, and finalising each invention claim by "this idea was invented by Shampoo".
Yeah, I think it's a long shot before we can even make an automated glider that won't break in a Earth tornado. As for the plummeting in Jupiter, we've already done that. Galileo sent a probe in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
It wouldn't grow up in society. You don't even need to grow up in society to be a healthy person. That's how you can homeschool your children. Not like a Neanderthal could go to regular school anyways or interact normally with people, you can't really project your childhood on a Neanderthal and try to imagine what would happen.
This being said, you must keep in mind how much this would teach us, in biology, medicine (I would hardly be surprised if it taught us something that could be used to cure something, i.e. a genetical resistance to one of our diseases or something), neurology, ethnology, philosophy, linguistics (what do you know, maybe we could probably teach them a spoken language, or even written! And knowing what their cognitive and speech abilities are would be amazing), and so on.
As for being lonely, just make twins, or triplets, that would also teach you about social interactions between themselves, and you'd probably see a form of communication emerge which would be of course very interesting to learn about.
That's a blunt and arguably exaggerated and inaccurate way to put it, but in a sense, yes.
Replace Texas with America, and yes, absolutely, in a way. It's not bad luck that you had him as president, twice. That's what happens when an aspect of your culture/civilisation favours the personality of a politician and his religious beliefs relatively much compared to the rest. Our civilisation is our product just as we're the product of our civilisation.
the privately funded space-flight company, have successfully tested their nine-engine cluster
But can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these? If only global _cooling_ was our problem..
Yeah, let's all blame it on George Bush and act like it wasn't there before or like no cultural factor (of old origin) has to do anything with that.
The outrage! Pretending to be able to edit Slashdot comments was invented by Shampoo^H^H^H^H^H^H me!
If you understand market forces then you'll understand why both will always co-exist, in a pretty divisive way. By divisive, I mean some stuff will be open source, some will not.
In cases when the open source alternative will be as good as the commercial alternative, open source will ultimately win. In the case of niche software products where the few FOSS efforts would not be sufficient, commercial alternatives will emerge to fill the demand gap. That's how in works in theory. That's why broad appeal apps have great FOSS versions, whereas commercial apps thrive in specific niches. There's no program more expensive than very special purpose professional programs. That's how the cake is being shared.
I remember reading about something to that effect a decade ago. A backpack system that when deployed would slowly make drinking water out of the air, even in the middle of a desert, which was what this thing was made for.
My point is this : you can look up anything you want on Google, but the difference between being able to look up anything and to know anything is that when you know something you "process" it and can use it in your process of thinking. For example, you can look up any philosophy on Wikipedia, but as long as you don't know them they're of no use to you. So in the end, you still only know what you know, you just have the ability to access to new stuff to know very fast.
Mmmh, maybe I drifted off-topic a bit, sorry about that :).