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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Recommend a Game
« on: November 26, 2014, 08:01:55 PM »
Pain Killer.
It's simple fun.
It's simple fun.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: R.I.P. Ferguson
« on: November 26, 2014, 06:39:21 PM »How did you edit it without the edit tag?Of course the best way to get justice is to burn down your own home. Brilliant people those Fergsonians.
I liked your original post better.
But then people might think I'm raciss.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: R.I.P. Ferguson
« on: November 26, 2014, 06:05:31 PM »I think people who are extremely quick to jump to racism do so because they themselves are racist and it only makes sense to them that other people just don't have their racism under control. People tend to assume others think similar things to them but act differently.
Or they can't imagine a more complex answer(like lack of applicants due to social pressures from their peers), having never had to deal with such a situation.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Recommend a Game
« on: November 26, 2014, 05:56:42 PM »
Why not start up Dragon Age?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: R.I.P. Ferguson
« on: November 26, 2014, 01:02:20 PM »No, but it may account for recorded pull overs/stops rather than unofficial ones. If an officer pulls someone over for speeding but doesn't give them a ticket, is that in your data?Know what else affects these statistics? Attitude.
Anyone here get just "a warning"? Think that's in the official log? Especially if the officer should have given you a fine? I doubt it.
Now, how do you best get out of a violation (speeding ticket perhaps)? By being nice. So what happens if you tell the cop " Why the fuck you pull'n me over cracker?" Do you think you'll get a warning or the ticket?
Blacks in St. Louis find the police force undeserving of respect for whatever reason. Maybe it is racism, maybe its not. But I'm sure we can all agree that if you disrespect the authority, you're not gonna get just a warning.
I'm fairly certain that doesn't have much impact on getting pulled over in the first place, which is what we're talking about
Also, shouldn't there be more blacks pulled over than whites by default since whites only account for like 30% of the population?
http://www.city-data.com/city/Ferguson-Missouri.html
Also:
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/aug/17/andrea-mitchell/ferguson-police-department-has-50-white-officers-t/
I'm not surprised at most of the police force is white if the black community is anti-police. Why join the thing you hate?
And since it's not an uncommon statistic (the 75% national average) I'm on the fence about calling it racism. Hell, looking at the educational level of the area, I'm not even sure the black community could muster enough qualified applicants.
And apparently it's not an uncommon problem:
http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/09/14/achieving-diversity-among-police-ranks-not-easy/
Hey, anyone know the opinion of the three black guys on the force? You know, the guys who work with the white "racist" officers?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: R.I.P. Ferguson
« on: November 26, 2014, 04:50:18 AM »
Know what else affects these statistics? Attitude.
Anyone here get just "a warning"? Think that's in the official log? Especially if the officer should have given you a fine? I doubt it.
Now, how do you best get out of a violation (speeding ticket perhaps)? By being nice. So what happens if you tell the cop " Why the fuck you pull'n me over cracker?" Do you think you'll get a warning or the ticket?
Blacks in St. Louis find the police force undeserving of respect for whatever reason. Maybe it is racism, maybe its not. But I'm sure we can all agree that if you disrespect the authority, you're not gonna get just a warning.
Anyone here get just "a warning"? Think that's in the official log? Especially if the officer should have given you a fine? I doubt it.
Now, how do you best get out of a violation (speeding ticket perhaps)? By being nice. So what happens if you tell the cop " Why the fuck you pull'n me over cracker?" Do you think you'll get a warning or the ticket?
Blacks in St. Louis find the police force undeserving of respect for whatever reason. Maybe it is racism, maybe its not. But I'm sure we can all agree that if you disrespect the authority, you're not gonna get just a warning.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dinosaurs
« on: November 25, 2014, 05:40:28 PM »Maybe they're only using small, vegetarian dinosaurs this time.
No T-Rex? Fuck that.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Dinosaurs
« on: November 25, 2014, 04:39:55 PM »
"Hey, know what would be awesome? If we built a park full of dinosaurs just like that one that failed and got a bunch of people killed."
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: R.I.P. Ferguson
« on: November 25, 2014, 04:37:07 PM »
They should just disband the police force. See how long the riots last before burning themselves out.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: R.I.P. Ferguson
« on: November 25, 2014, 09:16:23 AM »
It's so hard to have faith in humanity when they do shit like this.
"I hate the police so I'm gonna burn a Walgreen's!"
"I hate the police so I'm gonna burn a Walgreen's!"
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Technology & Information / Re: Is your government spying on you.
« on: November 23, 2014, 10:10:02 PM »The main problem with linux is driver support. Video cards especially have a tendency to have half-assed drivers from the manufacturers and the best they can do from the community.Everything, yeah. And, surprise surprise, everyone knows how to use it. It's not very complicated. Actually, we do have one computer with Windows 8, but is such a buggy piece of shit that nobody uses it except when they have to. Whether that's due to Windows or the computer itself (probably a mixture of both) I don't know, but the Linux computers run better than just about any equivalent Windows computers I've used. Now that I've personally used a Linux (Unix?) based computer, I think I might switch over once Steam gets more Linux games. It has swayed me.My work uses Linux. It's pretty great. It's like Windows but runs better
For what? Everything? That would be unusual. We use Red Hat and CentOS for our servers, and Windows master race for mostly everything else.
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: On the notion of FES reunification
« on: November 23, 2014, 11:20:32 AM »
I don't care which logo we use.
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Technology & Information / Re: Is your government spying on you.
« on: November 22, 2014, 11:27:05 PM »And how should it be defined? A company that uses 100% linux computers? Because that's just not realistic.Yet one of your main examples uses Linux for their own products.
http://www.zdnet.com/the-truth-about-goobuntu-googles-in-house-desktop-ubuntu-linux-7000003462/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
Amazingly, you two are making Thork look smart. "Linux adopters" are not necessarily companies who have decided to use Linux for the majority of (or even a significant number of) their standard workstations.
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Technology & Information / Re: Is your government spying on you.
« on: November 22, 2014, 10:07:17 PM »
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
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Technology & Information / Re: Is your government spying on you.
« on: November 22, 2014, 09:00:36 PM »Name six that use OSX as their only OS. (not including Apple)They are, just not for desktops. Know why? Because windows is what most people know and training both users and IT staff to use Linux is harder than just going with Windows.Incorrect. Companies use OSX (my company being a prime example) and they don't care that new staff need training. But Linux doesn't enter into it.
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Technology & Information / Re: OpenBSD
« on: November 22, 2014, 08:59:46 PM »Yuck. You know what works right out of the box? Windows.Not always.
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Technology & Information / Re: Is your government spying on you.
« on: November 22, 2014, 08:35:38 PM »They are, just not for desktops. Know why? Because windows is what most people know and training both users and IT staff to use Linux is harder than just going with Windows.Linux is not a viable alternative to Windows. If it was, companies all over the world would be using it because it is free.However, I can assure you that there exist more than three operating systems.
I can't name many that are viable alternatives to Windows other than Linux-based systems and OS X.
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Technology & Information / Re: OpenBSD
« on: November 22, 2014, 05:24:51 PM »My primary hard drive has been 99.4% emptied. It's almost time to shut down Debian for the last time.
Until you find you need it one day.
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Technology & Information / Re: Getting a new smartphone
« on: November 22, 2014, 02:57:59 PM »
I pay $130 for 2 smart phones, 10 GB of data, unlimited talk and text in the US, and cheaper international rates.
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Technology & Information / Re: Getting a new smartphone
« on: November 21, 2014, 06:55:46 PM »They charge you money to sign a new contract? That seems like something that shouldn't exist, and would cause people to switch to a different carrier when their existing contract is up.
It's how they can offer unlimited talk and text. They just swap the cost to something more stable.