Let's state five basic facts;: Someone is not racist if they tell a racist joke. Someone is not sexist if they tell a sexist joke. Someone is not a homophobe if they tell a homophobic joke. Jokes at an after dinner speech are not inappropriate. Hunt's comments were taken out of context.
Do try and join society instead of trying to oppress it into some narrow minded thought policed travesty.
Do you disagree that men fall in love with women at work? Do you disagree that women fall in love with men at work? Do you disagree that some women cry when receiving criticism of their work?
I'm happy to discuss constructive approaches to working through these challenges but you don't appear to agree that there are even challenges to work through?
Your friends may have moved on just as you're getting into a game and looking for a group.
My friends are roughly my age, and we all earn enough to play new games without worrying about the cost.
We're all also sensible enough to recognise that the cost isn't justified, so we're all running several months to several years behind the curve, and tend to migrate to the same games at about the same time.
Sucks for online multiplayer games, works beautifully for co-op, isn't terribly relevant for single-player games. But we're all too old and slow for online FPS anyway.
Pre-ordering is the only way that you can get special editions (i.e. the Pip-Boy edition being released this week).
If it's a physical special edition with a limited run of trinkets, statues or books that you want, sure.
If it's a digital special edition with in-game artefacts designed to drive pre-sales and segment the player base, fuck you for supporting that piece of shit business model.
I'll get on with working through my backlog of high quality PC games with gameplay experiences to match anything released historically and often graphics and sound that are far better.
Console ports are lazy and don't represent the high-end of PC gaming, but that doesn't negate the other options available, whether it's indie games that match the AAA games of just a couple of years ago, the AAA games that fully exploit PC capabilities or the esoteric games that reach a market previously unavailable and genuinely do different and interesting things.
Golden age of gaming? Maybe, maybe not, but I've never had access to so many such high quality games before.
ISIS aren't operating in Pakistan or Africa. Drones aren't dropping laser guided 500kg bombs in Iraq. Your question evades my point so I shall evade your question.
Working how? Antagonising a whole new generation of potential terrorists who see people sat in comfort 7000 miles away killing their relatives at a wedding is working to what fucking objectives?
Just because Americans aren't dying doesn't mean it's working.
Of course benchmarks are relevant. I don't give a fuck about size, running cooler is nice but frankly I want to know whether dropping $200, $300, $897 on whichever of these cards will run the games I play at the resolution I use or whether that same cash budget would buy higher performance from Nvidia.
Running the benchmarks will help confirm that the cards and their drivers can cope with the vagaries of multiple configurations and potentially draw out certain less effective combinations.
Benchmarks for the sake of stroking yourself might only matter for Fiji but they're fucking useful for making informed purchase decisions.
Indeed, they explicitly turn the fuckups into suicide bombers. Go over there, be no use to them, cause trouble, change your mind... Here's a vest, there's a checkpoint and remember, we know where your mother lives..
I'm not aware of the UK burning people alive or beheading them in the last 75 years in a non-military-conflict situation, although you're welcome to link to incidents of which I'm unaware.
If you start talking about the military use of incendiary devices then I'll ignore you.
You can speak your mind, as long as your mind doesn't want to troll or post racist/sexist/homophobic abuse.
Now that's just bullshit.
In a "Safe Space" men get harassed for stating simple facts. Women get applauded for being sexist towards men.
I tell you what a safe space really is: One where you can speak your mind and not be abused, silenced or forced out because you had the temerity to challenge the groupthink.
Yeah, I tend to ignore the factually incorrect and mod up the responses.
If I have 15 mod points I'll usually only use 2-3 of them to mod down, and that's normally people spamming, being genuinely hateful or unnecessarily trolling.
As an example, genuinely hateful would be using racial slurs in an aggressive and demeaning manner to insult or attack someone. On the flipside, discussing racial characteristics - even if unpopular or wrong - to try and make a point or discuss through an issue is something I'll avoid modding down, although I may mod up a response.
In action? I wont mod down, "black people are less intelligent than white people." I will mod up the reply, "All academic studies suggesting that's the case have identifiable flaws, particularly around how they measure intelligence." I will mod down "Fucking niggers are thick."
What are my personal views on relative racial intelligence? Doesn't fucking matter.
Slashdot's moderation system has been excellent since first introduced. Hiding karma and metamoderation helped rather than damaged it and other changes (karma for +1 funny) have tweaked it but it's been a massive factor in making the comments readable and worth reading.
I'm constantly amazed that other sites don't offer anything as straightforward and effective, or even just copy the Slashdot approach outright.
It's the reason I've found it so hard to replace Slashdot now that the posted articles are as much political and placed as they are interesting. Nobody else does comments this good.
CmdrTaco'll be getting an Internet Hall of Fame recognition in 20 years or so just for the moderation system.
Bittorrent doesn't execute machine instructions without your permission, whereas a virus carries implicit transfer of ownership by dint of installing itself on your computer.
But that sidesteps your point. As I said, it's a fair question.
Providing the JavaScript to an anti malware company so they could block it in the browser would be the more reasonable comparison.
Suing the ISP for computer misuse is possibly an option too.
Of course the Israeli firm may hold copyright on the original source but there's a derived work involved too, and if they do exert ownership then I'd be asking them why their code has been added to my website - again, that's against the law in the uk, not sure on the equivalent laws in India.
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He started the distraction argument as going both ways though, thus placing the issue firmly on humans and not those of specific gender.
Of course most workplaces get through this challenge just fine.
Let's state five basic facts;:
Someone is not racist if they tell a racist joke.
Someone is not sexist if they tell a sexist joke.
Someone is not a homophobe if they tell a homophobic joke.
Jokes at an after dinner speech are not inappropriate.
Hunt's comments were taken out of context.
Do try and join society instead of trying to oppress it into some narrow minded thought policed travesty.
Which part of what he said do you disagree with?
Do you disagree that men fall in love with women at work?
Do you disagree that women fall in love with men at work?
Do you disagree that some women cry when receiving criticism of their work?
I'm happy to discuss constructive approaches to working through these challenges but you don't appear to agree that there are even challenges to work through?
I used to play all the battlefields that way, so not a massive difference for me.
What I can't do now is play UT and be the first to react, aim and pull the trigger.
Your friends may have moved on just as you're getting into a game and looking for a group.
My friends are roughly my age, and we all earn enough to play new games without worrying about the cost.
We're all also sensible enough to recognise that the cost isn't justified, so we're all running several months to several years behind the curve, and tend to migrate to the same games at about the same time.
Sucks for online multiplayer games, works beautifully for co-op, isn't terribly relevant for single-player games. But we're all too old and slow for online FPS anyway.
Pre-ordering is the only way that you can get special editions (i.e. the Pip-Boy edition being released this week).
If it's a physical special edition with a limited run of trinkets, statues or books that you want, sure.
If it's a digital special edition with in-game artefacts designed to drive pre-sales and segment the player base, fuck you for supporting that piece of shit business model.
I pity your blinkered view of gaming.
I'll get on with working through my backlog of high quality PC games with gameplay experiences to match anything released historically and often graphics and sound that are far better.
Console ports are lazy and don't represent the high-end of PC gaming, but that doesn't negate the other options available, whether it's indie games that match the AAA games of just a couple of years ago, the AAA games that fully exploit PC capabilities or the esoteric games that reach a market previously unavailable and genuinely do different and interesting things.
Golden age of gaming? Maybe, maybe not, but I've never had access to so many such high quality games before.
I prefer the default option
0) If denominator is zero, provide abusive error messages to the caller for not checking their inputs.
ISIS aren't operating in Pakistan or Africa. Drones aren't dropping laser guided 500kg bombs in Iraq. Your question evades my point so I shall evade your question.
Hence basic shit like rollback capabilities and error recovery. You know, fundamental it practices that have been common sense for decades.
Shit, assume your batch always runs to completion and you've pretty much guaranteed it's going to fuck things up massively.
Working how? Antagonising a whole new generation of potential terrorists who see people sat in comfort 7000 miles away killing their relatives at a wedding is working to what fucking objectives?
Just because Americans aren't dying doesn't mean it's working.
Of course benchmarks are relevant. I don't give a fuck about size, running cooler is nice but frankly I want to know whether dropping $200, $300, $897 on whichever of these cards will run the games I play at the resolution I use or whether that same cash budget would buy higher performance from Nvidia.
Running the benchmarks will help confirm that the cards and their drivers can cope with the vagaries of multiple configurations and potentially draw out certain less effective combinations.
Benchmarks for the sake of stroking yourself might only matter for Fiji but they're fucking useful for making informed purchase decisions.
Call me picky but I would differentiate between actions mid battle and child decisions made in a quasi-jurisdictional context.
Dropping a bomb on someone to progress a military objective is perhaps a different class of behaviour to sentencing someone to crucifixion.
Indeed, they explicitly turn the fuckups into suicide bombers. Go over there, be no use to them, cause trouble, change your mind... Here's a vest, there's a checkpoint and remember, we know where your mother lives..
I'm not aware of the UK burning people alive or beheading them in the last 75 years in a non-military-conflict situation, although you're welcome to link to incidents of which I'm unaware.
If you start talking about the military use of incendiary devices then I'll ignore you.
Oh, so slaughtering innocent men is fine is it?
Anyway the women should fucking defend themselves, at which point it is a fight, thus negating your point.
and the .com for any jurisdiction outside the US redirects you to the appropriate country TLD version based on your geo-location data
Why outside the US? Why not redirect to the .us tld too?
Should the french redirect be to .fr or .eu? or .cunt?
Reddit are censoring the speech that they permit on their site, by removing that speech.
Why are you so opposed to using the term in that context?
You can speak your mind, as long as your mind doesn't want to troll or post racist/sexist/homophobic abuse.
Now that's just bullshit.
In a "Safe Space" men get harassed for stating simple facts. Women get applauded for being sexist towards men.
I tell you what a safe space really is: One where you can speak your mind and not be abused, silenced or forced out because you had the temerity to challenge the groupthink.
Reddit is not a safe space.
Yeah, I tend to ignore the factually incorrect and mod up the responses.
If I have 15 mod points I'll usually only use 2-3 of them to mod down, and that's normally people spamming, being genuinely hateful or unnecessarily trolling.
As an example, genuinely hateful would be using racial slurs in an aggressive and demeaning manner to insult or attack someone. On the flipside, discussing racial characteristics - even if unpopular or wrong - to try and make a point or discuss through an issue is something I'll avoid modding down, although I may mod up a response.
In action? I wont mod down, "black people are less intelligent than white people." I will mod up the reply, "All academic studies suggesting that's the case have identifiable flaws, particularly around how they measure intelligence." I will mod down "Fucking niggers are thick."
What are my personal views on relative racial intelligence? Doesn't fucking matter.
But it did get discussed, and it did reach a broad audience.
Shit, I remember when there weren't 3-4 websites you could hold a discussion on about anything.
Slashdot's moderation system has been excellent since first introduced. Hiding karma and metamoderation helped rather than damaged it and other changes (karma for +1 funny) have tweaked it but it's been a massive factor in making the comments readable and worth reading.
I'm constantly amazed that other sites don't offer anything as straightforward and effective, or even just copy the Slashdot approach outright.
It's the reason I've found it so hard to replace Slashdot now that the posted articles are as much political and placed as they are interesting. Nobody else does comments this good.
CmdrTaco'll be getting an Internet Hall of Fame recognition in 20 years or so just for the moderation system.
Because they're acting like a big baby?
Bittorrent doesn't execute machine instructions without your permission, whereas a virus carries implicit transfer of ownership by dint of installing itself on your computer.
But that sidesteps your point.
As I said, it's a fair question.
Providing the JavaScript to an anti malware company so they could block it in the browser would be the more reasonable comparison.
Suing the ISP for computer misuse is possibly an option too.
Of course the Israeli firm may hold copyright on the original source but there's a derived work involved too, and if they do exert ownership then I'd be asking them why their code has been added to my website - again, that's against the law in the uk, not sure on the equivalent laws in India.
we've reached the equilibrium where graphics pumped out by some indie dev ain't far below what a AAA title claims to have
Hmm. It's a rare indie that delivers graphics on a par with the long running so called AAA franchises deliver.
However, indie graphics are certainly usually at least 'good enough' and gameplay is king. Always.