"Privelege" is shorthand for a handful of things. Basically, it means that, through the quirks of society, economy, and genetics, that you have been placed into a situation where the topic at hand is not a thing you've ever had to worry about. And because of this, you've dismissed somebody's perfectly legitimate grievances. This isn't to say that you're a bad person; you can be the nicest person in the world, but because of those aforementioned quirks, you're dismissive about a situation that you've never really had to consider.
Basically, when someone says "your privelege is showing", they're telling you to stop and take a look at what you've just said, and try to consider the situation from somebody else's point of view. So in this case, the "privelege" is being male, and its showing in the OP's post when they dismiss the concerns of women who would be offended by something called PantyShot and upskirt.
To switch to a topic that some nerds might be a bit more familiar with, let's assume that you were bullied growing up. Then you meet someone who was much more socially successful than you, and when the topic of bullying comes up, he says that victims of bullying should just get over it; after all, it happened years ago and that's only elementary school stuff, right? This hypothetical person is showing their privelege: they're dismissing valid concerns for the bullied and you'd be rightly pissed off to have your viewpoint so flippantly ignored.
tl;dr: "Your privelege is showing" means "stop and take a look at what you said from the other side of the fence."
(I apologize for any spelling errors; I'm stuck on IE and have no in place spell check).
I hate to reply to myself, but I thought I should mention one the single best uses of a roundabout I've ever seen. If one travels from Highway 417 in Eastern Ontario and heads south on March Road (I say this so people can look at a map if they'd like), it's a blindingly boring stretch of road. Mostly straight, a bit hilly, and lends itself quite amiably to speeding like an idiot. I've accidentally gone as much as 40 km/h over the speed limit (or about 20 km/h more than I was aiming for). This is fine for the country road, but eventually you get to the small town of Almonte, where the traffic picks up considerably.
In the past, I suspect this resulted in maniacs speeding through town, on their way to the next destination. However, by use of a roundabout, they forcibly slow people on their way in, putting them in a much better frame of mind for the town, without bringing traffic to a complete halt, and likely resulting in collisions from people running the stop sign.
Not only that, but the idiots who are likely to try and speed through anyways get themselves into trouble before entering the town and endangering the residents. I though that this was a genius little piece of civil engineering, and if I ever meet the man who thought of it, I'd gladly buy him a round.
Really? As a native from Ottawa, I've found absolutely no issues whatsoever using roundabouts. So long as the yield directions are set up properly, it's quite useful. Most people know how to use them properly, and I've never seen an accident at one yet. Besides, so long as they're put in the right place, they can definitely speed up traffic.
Umm. Isn't he, in theory at least, paying for his own SSI and Medicare by working now? At least, that's what I understood the theory to be. Then again, I'm just a silly scientist with no economic knowledge whatsoever.
Encrypt your mail: That's fairly easy. You need to get yourself set up with GPG, the Gnu Privacy Guard. If you use Linux, then most e-mail clients support it (like Evolution), but if you're a Windows user, then you need Thunderbird and the enigmail add-on. What GPG does allow you to sign / encrypt e-mail. It does this using public key cryptography. First you create a public key and a private key. These are tied together. Never give away your private key. The public key can go to anyone and everyone. Now what happens is, when you send an e-mail, you sign it with your private key. Now, anyone who reads your e-mail can get your public key and verify that you are in fact the person who sent it. To encrypt e-mail, you need the other person's public key. Then, when your friend receives the e-mail, he can decrypt it with his private key. Anyone without his private key will see nothing but gibberish.
POP3: Also fairly easy. Once you have yourself set up with an e-mail client like Thunderbird, Evolution, or Outlook, you just need to check if your e-mail provider supports POP3. If it does, you just have to change the appropriate settings. This downloads the e-mails to your computer and deletes them from the server, making your computer the only place that stores the e-mail.
Hate to be a nitpick, but papal infallibility has some fairly strict conditions for which it has to meet. The pope could rape kiddies on air and still not have violated the rules of papal infallibility.
To put it simply, the pope has to 1) be the pope, 2) be speaking in the office of the pope, 3) define something, 4) that something has to be concerning either faith or morals, and 5) declare that the whole church has to hold this to be true.
So if any of those 5 aren't true, then the papal infallibility isn't applicable. Thus, the "degradation of human life" that you claim the pope has caused, even if true (I'm not saying one way or the other, I'm just nit-picking), does not disprove the concept of infallibility.
And that's where I stop reading this article. Thank you ClickOnThis. You've actually saved me quite a bit of time trying determine how what I (thought) I learned two years ago in my Modern class was somehow a new technique. I'd mod you up, but sadly, I lack the points. Merci.
BEDMAS, my friend.
1. Brackets.
2. Exponents.
3. Division/Multiplication.
4. Addition/Subtraction
The only thing you really have to worry about is division. In that case, read left-to-right. So 1/2/3 = (1/2)/3 = 1/6, rather than 1/2/3 = 1/(2/3) = 3/2.
If you're uncertain, consider talking to a university. Specifically, talk to someone in the Comp. Sci. (or equivalent) department. They might not know where to go, but they can probably start pointing you in the right direction. Most people in academics have to publish, so talking to them might give you an idea of where to look.
Three college/university students living under one roof. In March, we used 83 GB. In April, 107 GB. This month, we've used 24 GB thus far (not including today). At that rate, we'll use a total of 124 GB for May.
I'm currently paying $41 with taxes for a 5 Mbit (actually closer to 2 Mbit) Dry Loop DSL line with a 200 GB bandwidth cap, and I get charged only $0.25/GB/month that I go over.
The CRTC and Bell are basically saying that the agreement that I have with Teksavvy is null and void, and that I should actually be paying $62.37 ($41 + $22.50*1.13).
How do we use so much data? Easy: Bittorrent, downloading games that I paid for (TF2, Half Life, etc...), as well as ssh for when I need to get files from home.
Or you could try doing it the Canadian way. It's not the best method, but it sort of works.
Here are the rules of the game. (NB: all limits are adjusted for inflation annually)
1. Individual limits:
a) $5000/year to each registered party
b) $5000/year to a leadership candidate in a registered party
c) $5000/year to independents
2. Corporation limits:
a) $1000/year to each registered party (includes leadership candidates)
b) $1000/year to independents
c) In the case of two elections in a year, another $1000 to the any party originally donated to
d) $1000 to a failed leadership candidate they already donated to
3. Public funding
a) After passing a particular threshold (2% nationally or 5% locally), a party will receive $1.75/vote.
4. Spending limits
a) $0.70 per eligible voter in your district
b) 20% of that for nomination contests
This has the following effects.
1. Companies/corporations hold less power. Yes they have a higher chance of donating the maximum, but a rich individual can easily "outdonate" a company.
2. Everyone in a given district has the same spending limit. Going over it incurs some heavy penalties. This means that there's less incentive to try and get as much money as you can, because you can't spend it all.
3. The public funding money allows parties to not worry so much about private funds, and thus reducing the sway of lobbyists.
Like I said, it isn't perfect, but it seems like it's a hell of a lot better than the current American system.
Heh. Nice to see results from this. I just did some work related to SPIRE in Summer 08. Namely, some nonlinearities with regards to bolometers (the type of detector used on SPIRE). Just some coop work, but it's kind of nice to see a project you worked on get some nice results. Unfortunately, you can't see the effects of my work because they only show up as second and third harmonics, and the data here doesn't show enough to see it.
Actually, the point is more like this. With old Battle.net, me and my brothers could use one CD, one game, and three different logins (with only one of us playing at any given time). With the new Battle.net, it might not be possible for multiple players to use the same CD to play at separate times.
Ok. You're making an unjustified assumption. You're assuming that someone is (guilty XOR innocent). Legally, the situation is more along the lines of (guilty XOR not guilty). In particular, to be convicted of something (found guilty), they must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the crime. I would suggest that "innocent" is a more specific case of "not guilty". I.E. "innocent" implies "not guilty", but not the other way around.
To put it another way, consider the following scenario. I go out and kill someone, and the whole thing is caught on camera. There is no doubt whatsoever that I did it, and in fact I wrote a letter to the DA explaining all the details, enclosing a vial of my blood, as well as a videotape of me writing the letter. In the following manhunt, I die. I was never tried legally, and hence never found guilty. Does that mean that I'm innocent?
Actually, we did need the first 999,999 rats. So we could figure out what doesn't work. To (mis)quote Edison, "I didn't fail, I just found a thousand ways not to make a lightbulb".
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"Privelege" is shorthand for a handful of things. Basically, it means that, through the quirks of society, economy, and genetics, that you have been placed into a situation where the topic at hand is not a thing you've ever had to worry about. And because of this, you've dismissed somebody's perfectly legitimate grievances. This isn't to say that you're a bad person; you can be the nicest person in the world, but because of those aforementioned quirks, you're dismissive about a situation that you've never really had to consider.
Basically, when someone says "your privelege is showing", they're telling you to stop and take a look at what you've just said, and try to consider the situation from somebody else's point of view. So in this case, the "privelege" is being male, and its showing in the OP's post when they dismiss the concerns of women who would be offended by something called PantyShot and upskirt.
To switch to a topic that some nerds might be a bit more familiar with, let's assume that you were bullied growing up. Then you meet someone who was much more socially successful than you, and when the topic of bullying comes up, he says that victims of bullying should just get over it; after all, it happened years ago and that's only elementary school stuff, right? This hypothetical person is showing their privelege: they're dismissing valid concerns for the bullied and you'd be rightly pissed off to have your viewpoint so flippantly ignored.
tl;dr: "Your privelege is showing" means "stop and take a look at what you said from the other side of the fence."
(I apologize for any spelling errors; I'm stuck on IE and have no in place spell check).
I hate to reply to myself, but I thought I should mention one the single best uses of a roundabout I've ever seen. If one travels from Highway 417 in Eastern Ontario and heads south on March Road (I say this so people can look at a map if they'd like), it's a blindingly boring stretch of road. Mostly straight, a bit hilly, and lends itself quite amiably to speeding like an idiot. I've accidentally gone as much as 40 km/h over the speed limit (or about 20 km/h more than I was aiming for). This is fine for the country road, but eventually you get to the small town of Almonte, where the traffic picks up considerably.
In the past, I suspect this resulted in maniacs speeding through town, on their way to the next destination. However, by use of a roundabout, they forcibly slow people on their way in, putting them in a much better frame of mind for the town, without bringing traffic to a complete halt, and likely resulting in collisions from people running the stop sign.
Not only that, but the idiots who are likely to try and speed through anyways get themselves into trouble before entering the town and endangering the residents. I though that this was a genius little piece of civil engineering, and if I ever meet the man who thought of it, I'd gladly buy him a round.
Really? As a native from Ottawa, I've found absolutely no issues whatsoever using roundabouts. So long as the yield directions are set up properly, it's quite useful. Most people know how to use them properly, and I've never seen an accident at one yet. Besides, so long as they're put in the right place, they can definitely speed up traffic.
Hate to be that guy, but what's the story with Danger Mouse?
Umm. Isn't he, in theory at least, paying for his own SSI and Medicare by working now? At least, that's what I understood the theory to be. Then again, I'm just a silly scientist with no economic knowledge whatsoever.
Encrypt your mail: That's fairly easy. You need to get yourself set up with GPG, the Gnu Privacy Guard. If you use Linux, then most e-mail clients support it (like Evolution), but if you're a Windows user, then you need Thunderbird and the enigmail add-on. What GPG does allow you to sign / encrypt e-mail. It does this using public key cryptography. First you create a public key and a private key. These are tied together. Never give away your private key. The public key can go to anyone and everyone. Now what happens is, when you send an e-mail, you sign it with your private key. Now, anyone who reads your e-mail can get your public key and verify that you are in fact the person who sent it. To encrypt e-mail, you need the other person's public key. Then, when your friend receives the e-mail, he can decrypt it with his private key. Anyone without his private key will see nothing but gibberish.
POP3: Also fairly easy. Once you have yourself set up with an e-mail client like Thunderbird, Evolution, or Outlook, you just need to check if your e-mail provider supports POP3. If it does, you just have to change the appropriate settings. This downloads the e-mails to your computer and deletes them from the server, making your computer the only place that stores the e-mail.
I hope that helps.
Hate to be a nitpick, but papal infallibility has some fairly strict conditions for which it has to meet. The pope could rape kiddies on air and still not have violated the rules of papal infallibility.
To put it simply, the pope has to 1) be the pope, 2) be speaking in the office of the pope, 3) define something, 4) that something has to be concerning either faith or morals, and 5) declare that the whole church has to hold this to be true.
So if any of those 5 aren't true, then the papal infallibility isn't applicable. Thus, the "degradation of human life" that you claim the pope has caused, even if true (I'm not saying one way or the other, I'm just nit-picking), does not disprove the concept of infallibility.
8/9 and 1/9 respectively.
Poopsocking: when a game is so addictive / good or the game punishes you for putting it down to the point that you'd rather poop in a sock.
Anti-poopsocking: Rewarding the player for putting the game down / punishing the player for not putting the game down.
And that's where I stop reading this article. Thank you ClickOnThis. You've actually saved me quite a bit of time trying determine how what I (thought) I learned two years ago in my Modern class was somehow a new technique. I'd mod you up, but sadly, I lack the points. Merci.
BEDMAS, my friend. 1. Brackets. 2. Exponents. 3. Division/Multiplication. 4. Addition/Subtraction The only thing you really have to worry about is division. In that case, read left-to-right. So 1/2/3 = (1/2)/3 = 1/6, rather than 1/2/3 = 1/(2/3) = 3/2.
For the record, the term you're looking for is a plurality of votes. Simply more than anyone else.
If you're uncertain, consider talking to a university. Specifically, talk to someone in the Comp. Sci. (or equivalent) department. They might not know where to go, but they can probably start pointing you in the right direction. Most people in academics have to publish, so talking to them might give you an idea of where to look.
But what about people like me?
Three college/university students living under one roof. In March, we used 83 GB. In April, 107 GB. This month, we've used 24 GB thus far (not including today). At that rate, we'll use a total of 124 GB for May.
I'm currently paying $41 with taxes for a 5 Mbit (actually closer to 2 Mbit) Dry Loop DSL line with a 200 GB bandwidth cap, and I get charged only $0.25/GB/month that I go over.
The CRTC and Bell are basically saying that the agreement that I have with Teksavvy is null and void, and that I should actually be paying $62.37 ($41 + $22.50*1.13).
How do we use so much data? Easy: Bittorrent, downloading games that I paid for (TF2, Half Life, etc...), as well as ssh for when I need to get files from home.
So let me put it this way.
FUCK.
THIS.
NOISE.
Bloody git.
To be fair, you're probably only doing 5 hours of real work in a day anyways. So that sounds about right.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1518208&cid=30841250
I outlined the Canadian method there. If you want more information, start here
Or you could try doing it the Canadian way. It's not the best method, but it sort of works.
Here are the rules of the game. (NB: all limits are adjusted for inflation annually)
1. Individual limits:
a) $5000/year to each registered party
b) $5000/year to a leadership candidate in a registered party
c) $5000/year to independents
2. Corporation limits:
a) $1000/year to each registered party (includes leadership candidates)
b) $1000/year to independents
c) In the case of two elections in a year, another $1000 to the any party originally donated to
d) $1000 to a failed leadership candidate they already donated to
3. Public funding
a) After passing a particular threshold (2% nationally or 5% locally), a party will receive $1.75/vote.
4. Spending limits
a) $0.70 per eligible voter in your district
b) 20% of that for nomination contests
This has the following effects.
1. Companies/corporations hold less power. Yes they have a higher chance of donating the maximum, but a rich individual can easily "outdonate" a company.
2. Everyone in a given district has the same spending limit. Going over it incurs some heavy penalties. This means that there's less incentive to try and get as much money as you can, because you can't spend it all.
3. The public funding money allows parties to not worry so much about private funds, and thus reducing the sway of lobbyists.
Like I said, it isn't perfect, but it seems like it's a hell of a lot better than the current American system.
I would like to tell the EU to fuck off. Our country, our rules.
Heh. Nice to see results from this. I just did some work related to SPIRE in Summer 08. Namely, some nonlinearities with regards to bolometers (the type of detector used on SPIRE). Just some coop work, but it's kind of nice to see a project you worked on get some nice results. Unfortunately, you can't see the effects of my work because they only show up as second and third harmonics, and the data here doesn't show enough to see it.
Actually, the point is more like this. With old Battle.net, me and my brothers could use one CD, one game, and three different logins (with only one of us playing at any given time). With the new Battle.net, it might not be possible for multiple players to use the same CD to play at separate times.
If you drive along with the flow of traffic, you are less likely to get pulled over for speeding.
The whole point is to make it so that just having an encryption program on your computer is not suspicious in and of itself.
Ok. You're making an unjustified assumption. You're assuming that someone is (guilty XOR innocent). Legally, the situation is more along the lines of (guilty XOR not guilty). In particular, to be convicted of something (found guilty), they must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you committed the crime. I would suggest that "innocent" is a more specific case of "not guilty". I.E. "innocent" implies "not guilty", but not the other way around.
To put it another way, consider the following scenario. I go out and kill someone, and the whole thing is caught on camera. There is no doubt whatsoever that I did it, and in fact I wrote a letter to the DA explaining all the details, enclosing a vial of my blood, as well as a videotape of me writing the letter. In the following manhunt, I die. I was never tried legally, and hence never found guilty. Does that mean that I'm innocent?
Actually, we did need the first 999,999 rats. So we could figure out what doesn't work. To (mis)quote Edison, "I didn't fail, I just found a thousand ways not to make a lightbulb".
C) Microsoft employees? On my Slashdot?? ;)
It's more likely than you think.