@BartSilverstrim But the trouble for me is that I did silly stuff like that in college... the misinformation surrounding the case, the application of new technologies, the alignment with the anti-bullying and rise in gay teen suicides...
as a white person, if I use the "N word" it's hate speech. If minorities use it, it's fine. Wha?!
IF you legislate the hell out of saying things, or dividing up what you're allowed to say versus not allowed to say, don't you think there's going to be resentment and/or backlash at some point?
It depends on intent. If you try and slip it into casual conversation, then you're just misguided and probably dumb, but it's not hateful. If you use it to degrade someone, then that's hateful
Does there come a point when you're afraid of lawsuits to the point where, for example, you'd favor hiring some guy just because he isn't a woman, and you won't deal with sexual harassment issues?
It's all in the application and intent. Should I be offended if I overhear Ethabelle reciting hip-hop lyrics? Not really. I don't care. Or should I be offended if I'm in Indiana and someone yells the epithet at me? There, it makes a difference.
Maybe because someone that has a deep seeded hatred for someone based on a stereotype is much less likely to be rehabilitated in jail and released as a productive member of society?
We now have a mandate to not use the word "retard" anymore. People aren't "retarded" they're "intellectually disabled." Which is stupid. Because "retard" means "slow." "Disabled" means it doesn't work. It's broken. As a pedant, I'd take offense to the new more politically correct term.
@MDMarra Are we going to dub out every move where "the R word" is used, like all those "intellectually disabled" folks want to do with the twin towers in movies?
@MDMarra I get that the word is offensive, I find it offensive when black people go around using the N-word because I have some friends who have had the unique displeasure of having it used as a racial slur in some less-than-friendly circumstances. I don't go around telling people not to say it, though I ask my friends not to use it around me.
And we had to watch a video about a gay kid getting bullied. Keep in mind that we have high school boys who wore high heels in school and another who is openly gay who after school wore costume wings and a skirt and ran around the track. During practice. And there was nothing made of these things because in our school no one cared.
Sometimes I think it's just to make things harder to throw around... "intellectually disabled" doesn't roll off the tongue like "retard" does.... so you don't hear kids going down the hall saying, "hey intellectually disabled..."
There's nothing wrong with referring to certain mental conditions as 'mentally retarded" or "retarded". But it is wrong if people go around calling other people retarded instead of "dumb" or "stupid"
@BartSilverstrim Most people that are actually retarded do understand their surrounding, etc. Do you know how heartbreaking it is for them to hear other people using "retard" so negatively?
@MDMarra In this country one of the very few rights they haven't taken away yet is the right to use the words we want, regardless of if they offend someone.
@BartSilverstrim You obviously have no one in your family like that if that's your stance on it. Lucky you.
@voretaq7 I wasn't saying it should be illegal to say retard. I was pointing out that @BartSilverstrim took the wrong message away from those commercials.
Apparently. But I'm more irritated with several abuses in the system that have come from special services, as well as family members that got several little perks from pity when he was more than capable of doing things and used his disability as a crutch.
@LucasKauffman Nice one! I guess I should go back and poke around with it at some point. The main downside to mlmmj when using it for one-shot mailouts is that it requires me to manually copy the raw email file around on the server and manage all the subscriptions. Sympa looks easy enough for the marketing department to use.
@Ladadadada my problem was that it made another alias file for some reason, and when using postfix sympa,postfix and the webserver user need to be in the same group
serverfault.com/questions/64050/… Running Windows updates on 80 servers over the weekend, only critical and security updates. A combo of 2003 and 2008 servers, kinda hard to test to see if something is going to break since they're all doing different things. Any info, ideas?
@PeterGrace I'm assuming this VM is FreeBSD based (not terribly familiar with KACE, though I know they're a large contributor). You can't resize UFS2 partitions. You'd have to boot the installer disk to a console, with the old and a new vmdk; replicate the partition layout, format, and copy everything over.
the interface is disjointed, people in open source can't stop circlejerking each other and standardize on one widget tech; there's ten projects that try to do the same thing and they ALL SUCK because they don't want to pool resources and just make a good product
I've been trying to install OpenIndiana on an HP DL320 G6 for a while now. I've got a 16GB HP SDHC card in the onboard slot and a SATA CD-Rom with oi-dev-151a-text-x86.iso burnt to a disc.
Installation seems to progress fine until I get to the actual installation portion. The SD card is picked ...
Programmers and their mindsets are...special. Like snowflakes. Snowflakes of frozen acid.
I've found that using Linux at work is a great way to even it out. OS X also has a lot of BSD-type underpinnings to compromise when I need something to work, although Apple really effed up some of the UNIX functionality in favor of their own stuff.
My wife got irritated with me because I said it surprised me that she wanted to be a "computer engineer" when she was in high school, as she didn't fit what I thought was a technology type.
@Joel Ok, so I'm about to nerd out. In one ep of Voyager, Paris gave the km/s of warp 9.9, which Voyager could cruise at. Given the number of lightyears away that they were from earth, it would have been a 3.3 year journey as a straight shot at warp 9.9. Hardly insurmountable.
Disregard the absurdity of time travel and anything of the like. Even given that time travel is possible, the planet wasn't in the same exact spot in the galaxy in 1955 and 1995. The DeLorean would have time traveled back and arrived into empty space.
You can hand-wave this away by claiming that the car adjusts for this.
@BartSilverstrim Assuming that the DeLorean creates a singularity (which is the most reasonable way I'm aware of to bridge two points in space-time), wouldn't the gravity of the singularity be WAY WAY MORE than the earth's?
but unless they're fusing that interstellar hydrogen and using the energy to create teeny tiny bits of antimatter to feed the warp reactor we're back to "If there were enough antimatter floating around to power a starship it would start destroying shit with BIG EXPLOSIONS"
A TNG Tec manual suggest that a galaxy Class ship has a device that can create Antimatter. Although it's never cannonlly brought up, Kirk did say there power source renews itself in "The Mark of Gideon". --TOSrules 08:26, Feb 9, 2005 (CET)
@MDMarra I can also tell you more than you ever wanted to know about jumpgates and hyperspace in B5 (which seems FAR MORE PLAUSIBLE as a means of travel, I'm just sayin')
A black hole starship is a theoretical idea for enabling interstellar travel by propelling a starship by creating an artificial black hole and using a parabolic reflector to reflect its Hawking radiation. In 2009, Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland of Kansas State University published a paper investigating the feasibility of this idea. Their conclusion was that it was on the edge of possibility, but that quantum gravity effects that are presently unknown may make it easier or make it impossible.
Although beyond current technological capabilities, a black hole starship offers some advanta...
faster than light travel is a fascination of mine - I have quite a few books with theoretical models, most of which involve all sorts of interesting non-enstenian mathematics built on top of black holes
@Joel you can do it with massive acceleration too (relativistic gravity should theoretically work just as well, and you'd crank yourself up to "black hole" mass long before you hit the speed of light)
Here's the thing. I think that the universe it teeming with life. I'm talking billions of planets with life. Someone would have visited if FTL travel were possible
Realistically, if we could build a ship that approached the speed of light, we could travel to distant stars in (what would appear to us) be be a short time, but would be thousands of years to other observers
I hope all these fucking physicists find the Higgs particle so that they can get back to figuring out how the fuck I can be on a FTL ship before I die.
@voretaq7 This is what I do to our dev team if I want to stall a meeting. "Yesterday I read that deleting all your comments from your code will make it go faster!" Oh the nerd rage
(In defense of Randall Munroe I too have filled a blackboard working on this problem and gotten nowhere. I feel better about that because he's WAY smarter than I am.)