If thou gazest long into the Pit, the Pit will also gaze into thee

We learn: Not drinking is a sign of mental issues. Asking about her being on birth control means the person believes he has "mormon supersperm". Men are fucktoys for RW. Refusing drunk Rebecca's demand to fuck her right now is grounds for being kicked out and ridiculed publicly. Imagine the reactio...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXFKTekTUxo&feature=youtube_gdata_player - ExNewAger We learn: Not drinking is a sign of mental issues. Asking about her being on birth control means the person believes he has "mormon supersperm". Men are fucktoys for RW. Refusing drunk Rebecca's demand to fuck her ...

How much of that infrastructure that Netflix uses beyond their servers are they paying for? None. As I pointed out the network is paid for by the user fees. You assert that is not the case for the US, I assert that is the case for other countries and therefore in principle possible. Here is long ar...

The original request was not for people to stop talking but for content creators to make their content available at the same time to all interested customers. Which currently doesn't happen for rather viable economic reasons. Those may one day change, but right now they are what they are, and there...

Not only is welch a poopyhead, but he is also probably an android, as characterized by his binary black-and-white thinking and walls of text bravely grappling strawmen and completely missing the point. tl;dr: "YOU DON'T AGREE WITH ME, YOU'RE WRONG" I give you my permission to use that. You'll save ...

Fine tuning is just the question "why are things the way they are" wrapped in some misleading(*) science mumbo-jumbo. The answer is: we don't know yet. Exactly. We don't know. That is why we call it a problem . We don't know why the universe is fine-tuned. We don't know why, for example, the cosmol...

I always wonder why when laymen (I'm assuming) think fine-tuning is trivially dismissed they never seem to ask why scientists (even the most militant atheist scientists like Krauss) recognize it as a serous problem? It is not an argument from authority--I am not saying we are right because we are s...

I think there might be something to what the anti-racist groups are saying. Why didn't Wallraff just have an actual Somalian subject for his documentary? Probably professional inertia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GÃ¼nter_Wallraff : This style of research is based on what the reporter experiences p...

The C+= parody language is seeing a lot of action on twitter. Of course, some have deemed it "harassment": https://twitter.com/search?q=C%20PLUS%20equality&src=typd&f=realtime Also, laughing at the notion of a "feminist" programming language means, of course, you're just defensive and don't care ab...

I had been wondering about how that might actually work. Everyone trying to sell their shares at the same time would likely cause the market to drop leading, as you suggested, to something like what may have taken place not long ago in Russia â€“ if that is what youâ€™re referring to. But in that c...

So, if the government were to wave its magic wand and immediately expropriate that wealth and then, in effect as the new owners, redistribute 80% of that â€“ some $40 trillion â€“ to the 90% who donâ€™t currently own it, I would think that it would be obliged to print that amount of money â€“ addin...

printing money has never, that I know of, been very successful in creating the goods and services and products that the money supposedly can buy - with hyperinflation being the inevitable result . http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1/ http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=q1m htt...

printing money has never, that I know of, been very successful in creating the goods and services and products that the money supposedly can buy - with hyperinflation being the inevitable result . http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1/ http://research.stlouisfed.org/fredgraph.png?g=q1m htt...

Looks like C+= is gaining momentum. From the chat on http://www.twitch.tv/notch : Emilylyons as developer of minecraft notch could really help the womens programming community i wish he would write this in c plus equality to raise awareness and stop programming from being so sexist for once, we can ...

Fucked up the quotes. This was my part:

goddamn 'nym wrote: In the previous Gitroversy about gendered language in source code comments the same happened. Someone commented that it/she/he set up a repo to collect IIRC feminist tactics or something. It was deleted shortly afterwards.

Sounds like this was the software used to control the Improbability Drive in THHGTTG. Excuse my poutrage, but GitHub's removal of a parody repository but one that was non spamming, non libelous, non threatening is one of the more outrageous acts by a FOSS company I've seen in quite some time. The r...

It gets even better. There's plenty more, dinging just about every warped idea justice warriors have floated. https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality This whole thing is under active "development", including trolls: https://github.com/FeministSoftwareFoundation/C-plus-Equality...

Secretly, Rebecca Watson wants to be me. Keep it to yourself. Well bless her, she tries really hard. She should kick the doughy mascot to the curb, though. http://i.imgur.com/7CPUkV9.png It seems very important to her that the targets of her stereotyping agree to it. I bet with a small language cha...

Dawkins has a nasty habit of saying stupid crap without really thinking through how its going to sound to the reader. That's it. It doesn't make him a misogynist or a racist or a bigot. It makes him a 70 year old man who's shit at social media. Dawkins is perfect at social media. He has 860+k follo...

FlyingV wrote:I guess women can't be funny. :( (I was joking.)

Already disproved. Upthread a number of people mentioned that they laughed at Rebecca Watson's jokes.

FlyingV wrote:That's only because women don't have to be told to wash between the folds.

Circumcision is necessary so that 10 seconds can be saved when teaching children about personal hygiene.

I bet you also have some surgical remedies for kids forgetting to wash behind the ears.

There is also more of the code comment discussion on the original pull request:

https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015

James Caruthers wrote:Patriarchy is whatever FTB needs it to be. It's the same as saying "the jews" or "the Illuminati."

Idiots, really. Everyone knows its the Bilderbergs.

welch wrote:
goddamn 'nym wrote:
DeepInsideYourMind wrote:Oh, yeah add the BBC series Auschwitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz: ... l_Solution' and tell me that wars are never necessary
And a war would have prevented that? At what human cost to the intervening party?
oh aren't you cute.

ugh what?

DeepInsideYourMind wrote:Oh, yeah add the BBC series Auschwitz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz: ... l_Solution' and tell me that wars are never necessary

And a war would have prevented that? At what human cost to the intervening party?

See, I value privacy...but what that means to me isn't that you just stop collecting all data. It means you firewall it. You make sure that information DOES NOT under any circumstances get used in any other way. Anonymize everything, then once you get judicial approval (and I understand why this ha...

I'm starting to think Google's mission for YouTube is to find a new power source, namely to increase the frustration levels of its users to near destructive proportions so they can harness the screams for fuel. I'm genuinely confused as to what they're trying to accomplish with this update. The def...

Hahahahahahahaha!!!! We have an internal for-sale list where I work - the following was just posted: ======================================================= Lowering to $10 From: McSellSell, Vendor Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:23 AM To: for-sale@big-company.com Subject: [FS] $15 - Surly-Ramics ...

It may not be public knowledge that Julian Assange of Wikileaks fame used to be a BSD user. He even had some commit-privileges in NetBSD (proff@NetBSD . org). He seems to have mostly fallen off the charts mid to late 2000. He imported Surfraw into pkgsrc in August 2000 ( commit message ). Two or th...

I think you need to pick better examples. LibreOffice was forked from OpenOffice in 2010. Most of its "shitty UI" was written by StarDivision/Oracle. In TWO YEARS they can't even begin to fix it? WTF happened to all the amazing speed and efficiency of Open Source . (I already know. UI is actually r...

Git wrote:As someone who has a degree in, and spent 15 years as a commercial software programmer,

I don't even disagree with welch on that one but I can't help but highlight your argument from authority. Now lets get to comparing who has the biggest one.

To quote Jordan Hubbard, one of the folks who founded FreeBSD: The GPL is not something we really considered to be a license so much as a political manifesto, and speaking purely for myself, I prefer to keep my license agreements and my politics separate. I feel that code which isn't being used in ...

oh bless your heart, you think that because I think RMS and his little fundies are full of shit that I have no use for open software. Could you be any more precious? Or wrong? There are a number of advantages to that developmental methodology, and just as many disadvantages, which is why things lik...

So basically, if you aren't a programmer, you have to hope the person you're asking is competent and telling you the truth. Which you have absolutely no way to verify yourself. Except by finding someone ELSE to to check on them, so on and so forth. Which is exactly the situation that people have wi...

RMS' basic premise is that if your system doesn't run free software then you can not be in full control of your system. I think this is fundamentally sound. You can argue that we accept the lack of control because we can't possibly review all the code or are not programmers, but the fact is still t...

He tries "very hard never to use GPL software" while he posts on a blog run by GPL software. I didn't actually read the second paragraph, but wow, what a lunatic. I am not sure what Stallman's politics are, but he certainly does not favor corporate exploitation of their employees, or paying them mi...

Her and Matt's descriptions don't match up perfectly and I threw in a "if that is in fact what happened". It's not clear to me exactly how the body shot went down. Did I say I wanted anyone to cheer for getting the guy fired? No. By all means defend him. There are ways of defending him without atta...

Why is it every time the slymepit learns of an alleged sexual assault or harassment you seem to focus almost 100% of your criticism on the victim? Gee maybe the boss was in the wrong for convincing a subordinate to do a bodyshot , putting his mouth on her boob and kissing and fingering her (if that...

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He tries "very hard never to use GPL software" while he posts on a blog run by GPL software.

Kind of embarrassed to ask this tech question of our internet savants here but... I accidentally deleted IE sometime ago and I'm wondering if there was a plug-in or driver that I might have eliminated with it that is causing my other browsers problems. I generally use Chrome but I often have to re-...

This is so wrong, but OTOH, I guess if you actually know that you are, let's say, 90% genetically predisposed to having a child who will have a disability which will make h/er suffer, that it seems inhumane to knowingly reproduce. Ethically, I'd say it's wrong to reproduce if you know you will like...

Here is my hyper-skeptical reading of this: http://blogjustine.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/because-it-needs-to-be-said - Joe began to start rubbing my back and kissing my forehead (let me say this is not uncommon behavior between me and men I consider close friends. I have a close relationship with a l...

Crommunist wrote:Crommunist: I can fully empathize with someone who canâ€™t quite get the words out until after the first encounter. This is also simply not the same as lying when a partner enquires.

Being a selfish liar is in my book a more severe obstacle to a relationship than being HIV+.

I think these 2D plots are silly, so here is mine: Surely no coincidence that I, like every Pitter who's taken the political compass test so far, place well down in the lower left quadrant. I also noted with interest that both obama and Romney are found cheek-to-jowl in the far upper right (authori...

I think these 2D plots are silly, so here is mine:

http://www.politicalcompass.org/faceboo ... &soc=-6.92

Pundits are great for news channels and the like because not only do viewers get to listen to someone who will confirm their beliefs, but pundits also say inflammatory things, which is good for ratings. And ratings are ALL that matters these days. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-12-20...

8 pages behind but following the Silverman/Block Bot twitter thing. The "political correctness" and "dog whistle" cards have just been played: https://twitter.com/MAMelby/status/380938819291213824 https://twitter.com/MrAtheistPants/status/380939486362091520 Yes, yes, you're allowed to say it...but ...

I urge you to gain a better understanding of Nazi Germany than the simplistic black/white, good vs. evil nonsense. If you think any society is immune to this gradual process of institutionalized racism you missed an opportunity to learn from history. The spadework was done over centuries by the Cat...

Tell you what, go tell Pakistan and India that. Or Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia. And when Pakistan and India, and Croatia, Serbia and Bosnia have lived together peacefully for say a century in one giant borderless state, then we can move onto the Middle East, ok? Today 502m citizens of the European U...

Yes nation states are racist concepts that need to die out. To the extent they de facto exist today they certainly are allowed to restrict who does what within their borders limited obviously by international conventions. Tell you what, go tell Pakistan and India that. Or Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia...

Do we really want a world that is a melting pot, everyone looking the same, thinking the same, or would we prefer a world that is more of a tossed salad, with distinct types of lettuce, cheese, anchovies, etc., making for a more interesting taste. New York is a melting pot. Is everyone looking the ...

I guess America's Indigenous Peoples are racist too since they won't allow me entry into their tribes and sovereign nations, allowing me to own and invest in their casinos. Yes nation states are racist concepts that need to die out. To the extent they de facto exist today they certainly are allowed...

I skim-read Israel and Palestine . And this goes here: The Israel-Palestine Discussion Zone I was discussing racism. A recurring subject here. Often without references to Israel or Palestine. What is it about the mention of Israel or Palestine that requires the discussion about racism to be silence...

Last I heard Netanyahu may require DNA tests to prove immigrants have a Jewish â€˜bloodlineâ€™ so I would say some Jews subscribe to this notion. Always heart warming to see someone fight for racial purity. And like with everything Israel its also really high-tech, not like the old Aryan certificat...

Always heart warming to see someone fight for racial purity. And like with everything Israel its also really high-tech, not like the old Aryan certificates. But would Jews from antiquity actually pass? I thought these distinct genetic groups only developed once they settled as smaller groups outsid...

Last I heard Netanyahu may require DNA tests to prove immigrants have a Jewish â€˜bloodlineâ€™ so I would say some Jews subscribe to this notion. Always heart warming to see someone fight for racial purity. And like with everything Israel its also really high-tech, not like the old Aryan certificat...

Had to de-lurk because up until a few days ago I too believed there was no particular health benefits to a circumcised penis. This was until I watched a tv programme the other evening where the subject was discussed, particularly noting that HIV rates in Africa are linked to whether the local popul...

As a skeptic, I disagree. As a skeptic I disagree with the the AAP study, see my comments earlier: http://slymepit.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=130721#p130721 The benefits may be minimal and noncompelling in light of the ethical issues, but it doesn't change the benefits, just makes them inconsequenti...

According to the AAP, there are some valid medical reasons to circumcise. http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/New-Benefits-Point-to-Greater-Benefits-of-Infant-Circumcision-But-Final-Say-is-Still-Up-to-parents-Says-AAP.aspx http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/new-aap-policy-o...

Matt is now a joke. I've stopped watching the Atheist Experience because every time I do, I don't see a free thinker. I see a mean-spriited, biased gasbag and find that may, just may some of the criticisms that the religious made of him were accurate. Agreeing with religious people on anything scar...

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