drakeandrews

Whilst I understand the idea you're trying to get across, we have to make it clear to these people that they're outright not welcome any more. Getting this asshat barred from future GDC's can only be a good thing and perhaps if (and when) people get up in arms over it a la Adria Richards, they need to be warned, or even barred, too.

Doing nothing because you fear the verbal reprisals of a group of immature misogynists seems, to me at least, the worst of all possible options.

How is one supposed to innovate when they're scared of what that persistent cough means, but can barely afford to feed their family let alone pay a doctor. And if it is something malignant, they cannot even begin to think of how they'd pay for ongoing treatment? How is one supposed to innovate when they're homeless and surviving literally meal to meal?

Contrary to what you (somehow) believe, innovation can only really flourish (as opposed to the sporadic jumps made otherwise) when you are safe, warm and well fed.

I am at a top 10 UK university. One of the people I have been assigned to work on a group project with would probably fail this question, we are end-of-second year students.

A bunch of people I grew up with created a website for a fake, unpaid media internship. It got several hundred applicants, including three people who tracked down one of the peoples phone number and called him, demanding an interview.

Germany is also practically communist when compared with the USA. It has a public healthcare system, invented the modern welfare state and up until recently used its conscription laws to get young adults to staff its nursing homes and ambulances (amongst other things) for about €3/hour.

No.

I'm going to go with no. If you'll excuse me, I need to go lie down because that sentence broke something in my understanding of english.

When written in chinese, is there any more indication that it's not just the same word forty or so times than in the romanised version?

There was a sign in front of a lake saying:

    PRIVATE PROPERTY
    NO SWIMMING ALLOWED

But by adding a few punctuation marks:

    PRIVATE PROPERTY?
    NO, SWIMMING ALLOWED.

The meaning of the sign was reversed.

In the years between now and 1913, Europe has risen from literally centuries of war, China has lifted more people out of poverty than I can fathom, the USA has made great strides towards equality and we have made the first steps towards being a spacefairing civilisation. Medical technology has advanced a hundredfold, or even a thousandfold.

We still have quite a way to go, but we should not kid ourselves into thinking we have not come a long way already lest we begin to slip back again.

Assuming they could port this to android and it worked, I'd buy it in a heartbeat.

I think technically the judge hacked the adoption process.

I'd love to see another novel written about the scenario espoused at the end of the book about the groups of people who couldn't have the jack installed. But then I remember that Forever Peace exists. If you haven't read it, don't.

Remind me never to leave the EU. Seriously. Ten days, total, per year? I'd likely be dead within six months.

Ergo it has everything to do with HN.

This video popped into my stream a week ago now, I must have watched it eight or ten times now. It's certainly hit a chord with me.

I went to a secondary school (ages 10-14, first half of high school?) where the senior teachers gave the speeches about a "Zero-Tolerance Approach to Bullying!" and how they had only had three cases of bullying in the last few years. They lied, cooked the figures and redefined bullying to cases of systematic physical abuse which was rare. Because they did have a zero-tolerance policy towards violence.

I have two sets of parents, my dad and then my mum and step-mum. Starting secondary school someone found this out and like a lot of people suggested here when they tried to use it to verbally abuse me I exacted violence against him. Not wanting it to explode into something more, the school kept it very quiet and I didn't get punished, but neither did he. Instead, if he ever told anyone else what happened or about my parents he'd get off scott free. To his defense no-one found out for three and a half years. Instead, I got three and a half years of verbal abuse, the little physical things one can get away with in corridors, my possessions taken and hidden. Some teachers tried to help but there is only so much they can do when most of them don't care. "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will break them for you" is something I remember hearing from a sympathetic teacher.

Then one day, it suddenly became common knowledge. I found myself faced with what felt like a third of the school who wanted to see me beaten. Fortunately, I appeared to be the only person who didn't know this was going to happen, there were almost as many if not more people behind me (and quickly, around me) who were adamant that I was going to be okay. The next six months were basically hell. Then as the natural progression of things, I shifted schools to a school that had a teacher who kept everyone in line and looked after those who needed help, be they the abused or the abuser. I was lucky in that I found a support network that let me rebuild myself and my self-esteem after. I am who I am despite, not because, of what I've been through. Even if there are still days where I have to look a little closer at the mirror to remind myself of that.

It's very easy for the abused to turn into abusers, hell I nearly did. It is what is making me so uncomfortable reading these comments advocating that the solution is to let the abused extract violence on their abusers. In too many cases, the abused discovers that they like the taste of violence, the power it grants them over those weaker or slower than them. And I can't knock them for that, violence feels wonderful. That's why I've had to be very careful not to let myself slip into that mold and remind myself that on the other side there is someone who is feeling the very same pain you shirk from.

Github offers five, whilst Bitbucket offers what is in essence an unlimited account to academic users.

In the UK at the least, it is trivial to gain some level of incorporation (fill out an online form, pay £20, have an address). I assume the same is possible in the USA.

Having never touched Fortran or similar, I'd never know. Unless I've spent so long working with it it's erased all memory of it from my brain. We must spread the word, we could make millions.

> Ulric McDwarf has torn his brain > Ulric McDwarf has broken his spleen

Ah, Dwarf Fortress. How I love you. Wait, no, the other one. Hate. Definitely hate.

I think you're right in that by the point you've made a tornado proof suit, it is actually a vehicle.

XRP?

Are spacesuits clothes?

If I wear a suit designed such that I had an air supply, sufficient protection from cold, a filter system for external air and enough padding (and or other measures) to ensure I could survive a fall at not-insignificant speeds and impacts from other debris, would this qualify as tornado proof?

It's called not being in a tornado zone. :P

Or I'm sure some of the suits ordinance disposal techs wear are probably tornado proof.

I was written May 2011 from the top of the article, but some of the footnotes have been updated recently.

Russian state TV claims that the meteor was intercepted by an anti-ballistic missile system, which (if true) means the meteor was struck by a 10kt nuclear warhead.

Nuke Map allows you to enter the yield of your choice.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/

Oh gods. Oh, dear, gods.

First things first, the word they're looking for is gender, not sex. Sex is one's biology and matters in a handful of cases (such as certain medical procedures and intimate relationships) where as gender is how one presents one's self. Gender is the thing that they are attempting to differentiate by here. And there aren't just two either. What is a potential participant is neither male nor female? Or both? Congrats, you've just managed to alienate a whole bunch of people who've just had it reinforced that they've no place in society.

Second, the reaction to a "gender battle" shouldn't be something to be applauded or goaded on. Placing people in a group based on their gender and pitting them against each other is at best going to affect the decisions of the judges based on pre-existing prejudcies (conscious or otherwise) and at worst reinforce the ideals that lead to comments like "Why are you out of the kitchen?".

So yeah. This is a bad thing and the organisers should feel bad.