Mykeru, what a Cnut, eh? Discuss.

[Dick Strawkins]

In other news, last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother is getting in trouble on Twitter under the hashtag #HowIMetYourRacism, BuzzFeed, Jezebel, and this guy http://blog.angryasianman.com/2014/01/w ... i-met.html. Their crime? This:

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther06.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther09.jpg
http://www.angryasianman.com/images/ang ... ther08.jpg

For context, this occurs during a parody of oriental action films. Surprisingly, they're not going after the stereotypes on show but allegedly the characters are done up in yellowface. I don't see it, but then I'm a privileged white male who is unaware of the racism around him.

Aw kee-rist, there they go again. Fuck those bored, blighted, over-indulged wastrels.

The top Buzzfeed tweet is from Suey Park, the Jen McCreight of Korean SJWs who's renown is a hashtag, #NotYourAsianSidekick (so some people assume "Asians" are smart overachievers, how fucking horrendous. Especially when you're the living counterexample). Of course she's all over this, she wants her 16th minute of fame. If you poke around at her site you'll find this:

http://imgur.com/dMUeEpD.png

Nevermind the stone racism, it's criminally unfunny. Bjarte could spelunk in it all day and not find a thing that amuses him.

So dress-up is yellowface. Alright then, no spaghetti westerns for you. And there will be no Japanese surfer dudes, no Chinese cattle rustlers, and no Korean James Bond types, ever, because cultural authenticity is what the shining justice of our future demands. Fuck acting, it has to be ethnically real. You chumps can be noodle makers, samurai, and tree spirits. So solly.

These are the types who made "oriental" an insult for no fucking reason, except that they could. Orientals, the ones not raised in suburban navel-gazing America, couldn't give two shits about it. Now the snowflakes call themselves the more imprecise "Asian." Yet they're the same bunch who'll give USAians grief for using "American." Hey eastern rim imperialist dipshits, guess what? You don't own all of Asia!

The biggest piece of crossover asian popular culture in the past couple of years was the 'Gangnam Style' song and video by Psy - a song that is basically European techno and US pop, mixed with Korean lyrics. The video shows him hanging around in saunas, trains, horse-riding stables and tennis courts, all 'cultural appropriations' from outside Korea. Likewise the clothes worn by him and his dancers are modern western influenced style.
And so what.
Everybody knows that modern culture, wherever you find yourself on this planet, contains mixtures of aspects of different cultures.
Everyone has a phone, TV and computer. Everyone eats a mixture of dishes that originate in different parts of the world, today it's pasta, tomorrow curry, yesterday it was chilli, and so on.
Cultural appropriation has occurred throughout history whenever people were introduced to new ideas - in particular those that provided some kind of advantage to peoples then current lives.
Is immunization and use of antibiotics cultural appropriation by non westerners?
How about the use of mobile phones?

Of course it's silly to think of these uses as a kind of stealing by one group from another, yet that is how the SJWs frame it.

I am beginning to see SJW activism as a kind of version of alternative medicine in regards the aim of achieving genuine equality of opportunity.
Just like some aspects of alternative medicine have historically turned out to be effective (for example some herbal medicine has been found to contain active pharmaceuticals), most is either ineffective or prevents real treatments from being tried. And those forms that are effective are rapidly taken up by the medical profession and become subsumed under 'medicine'.
Likewise SJW activism, if it ever stumbles upon a genuinely innovative idea for achieving equality (and I have yet to see one emerging from that quarter), will see that idea being taken up by society as a whole, or at least that left leaning segment of society (which is far larger than the tiny fraction that are SJWs.) It will not remain a unique policy of the SJWs.

The other thing I've noticed is thatthe things they tend to get particularly worked up about all fall under the realm of normal human behavior.
In other words, telling a tasteless joke, trying to chat up someone, admitting you are attracted to someone due to their physical appearance, having sexual preferences for one gender or physical type, etc. Admitting any of these can set them off and yet not only can we expect almost all of these to be common to most individuals in society, we can expect that SJWs themselves, as members of society will likewise behave in this way (and reading the drunken tweets of SJWs at conferences playing 'Cards Against Humanity' should be enough proof for anyone.)
Mockery of their actions and highlighting their hypocrisy remains the best defence.

[bhoytony]

I was taught by a couple of nuns in primary school and I cannot think of anyone less suited to deal with young children. They were fucking horrible bastards, treating five and six year olds as if they were grown adults.
My head teacher in secondary school was an ex-nun and I have to say she was one of the most unpleasant people have ever come across. The only good thing I can say about having these horrible fuckers "educating" me is that I was never, ever tempted to believe any of the ridiculous shite they spouted about their religion.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

On monday evening I cooked some Alice Spring Chicken, which is supposed to be an Australian dish but is mostly a creation of the very USAian "Outback" steakhouse chain. I am actively appropriating another country's cultural appropriation of another country, which in fact didn't even create that recipe in the first place.

SJW's, have at it!

[Dick Strawkins]

I was taught by a couple of nuns in primary school and I cannot think of anyone less suited to deal with young children. They were fucking horrible bastards, treating five and six year olds as if they were grown adults.
My head teacher in secondary school was an ex-nun and I have to say she was one of the most unpleasant people have ever come across. The only good thing I can say about having these horrible fuckers "educating" me is that I was never, ever tempted to believe any of the ridiculous shite they spouted about their religion.

My first two years in education involved the ironically named 'Sisters of Mercy', who showed none of it to classes of terrified 4 year olds, who they didn't hesitate to beat at the slightest provocation. 40 years later I can still remember the sting of a steel rule on the knuckles.

It's weird seeing the way nuns are often presented in the media, in particular in US movies, as kindly social workers.
That's not what I remember. The nuns involved in education that I remember, like their male contemporaries the Christian Brothers (who were in charge of the next school I attended), were twisted inside, so much so that even the children they terrorized could see it.
I remember speaking to a priest once about those who joined the Christian Brothers and he was incredibly negative about it - saying that the boys went in far too early - with the unspoken implication that this resulted in a serious and permanent psychological damage, the result of a closed culture of strict corporal punishment and sexual repression (and, most likely, abuse.)

[Barael]

Fuck. The click-wheel button broke on my Razer Naga (Molten Edition) so I'm MMO/Shooter fucked for the next couple of days. Yeah, I know, first world problems. :violin: :roll: But it was a shit-cool looking mouse that's functional in everything but shooting the enemy...:

I'd love to get another one, but seeing as it only lasted two years, I think I'll step down in price and get the 2014 Razer Naga MMO mouse instead:

Same essential functionality, but without the extra $60 of 'cool' you get from the Molten. I may have to give up gaming in shame... :oops:

You might want to give Logitch G600 a try, I at least found the button feel a lot better than on the Naga (although the shape of the mouse itself is a bit clunkier):

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com ... -mouse.jpg

[another lurker]

"In one experiment, mothers were asked to guess the steepness of a carpeted slope that their 11-month olds would be able to crawl. Then the children actually crawled the slope, and the difference between actual and mother-predicted angles was noted.

The results showed that both boys and girls were able to crawl the same degree of incline. However, the predictions of the mothers were correct within one degree for the boys and underestimated their daughter’s ability by nine degrees.

What this shows is that the presumption that boys are more physical causes parents to encourage their boys more in physical activities while cautioning their girls. This further translates into providing more opportunities for boys to be physical and fewer for girls. The result?

Boys actually do develop stronger physical skills than girls. But not because of anything innate or biological, but rather because of the gender roles that the parents subconsciously projected onto their babies. "

http://fuckyeahfeminists.com/post/70193 ... -guess-the
http://everydayfeminism.com/2013/11/gnp ... it-sexism/
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/upl ... 202000.pdf

Looks like some incredibly stupid nonsense, but I haven't looked over the pdf yet and probably won't get to it tonight.

I hate this phony ideologically-based reasoning. Babies and children are not yet dimorphic in any significant way. Then puberty hits. Come 16 and it's sorted out as most every boy and girl is significantly into puberty and suffering from the consequences of their hormones. And 16 is giving it a cushion.

And no amount of PoMo feminism will ever change that. And it's something that every person who calls himself, or herself, a skeptic should realize and accept. To massage in a quote I love... "... reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- RP Feynman

As athletic populations, men and women are different -- men will never be as suited for ultra-endurance and flexibility as women and women will never be as good in the speed/strength areas as men. And men and women know this. And while they may erroneously project different levels of competency it's less out of 'malevolence or cultural dysfunction' but more along the lines of we're approximating machines, not computing machines. And our approximation model says that, on average, boys are more capable in feats-of-strength/speed athletic activities than girls due to superior our inherent, biologically-driven physical attributes.

So, let's do a brief run-down.

On average a man is 5' 9" and weighs 190lbs. He's, on average, 15% fat. A woman is, on average, 5' 4" and weighs 163lbs. She's, on average, 27% fat. Men, on average can process (thanks to relatively larger lungs) 10% more oxygen than a woman. Men also breathe faster than women and have a greater stride length than women. Plus our hips are better suited for most types of running due to inherent biological differences.

The consequences are obvious as the world-record holder women in the 100-, 200-, 400-, 800-, 1,500- and 3,000 m runs are slower than the best times by 15-year-old U.S. boys. This is despite the fact that these elite, Olympic women get far more coaching and support at their level than HS boys do at track which is, usually, an afterthought (unlike the Big 3 -- Football, Baseball, Basketball) in most HS athletics.

OTOH, women do have SOME significant physical advantages and they're clear to those of us without ideological blinders. Women are much better at burning fat and carbohydrates. Therefore on ultra-endurance events, they've got a competitive advantage. And those hips that suck for most running, guess what, they're actually better for 'ultra endurance' events. This makes women superior at things like swimming the English Channel.

Women are also, inherently, more flexible (both ligaments and muscle fibers) than men and possess a lower center of gravity relative to height. That's why they're gymnasts and can do things that men really can't do in most of the 'flexibility' events, like the balance beam, the floor exercises, uneven parallel bars, etc. Only on the super physically demanding apparatus, like the rings, do men out-perform women.

And no amount of PoMo Feminism will change that.

The funny thing is, they didn't do a dance/ballet test to check for gender discrimination against boys. I think it'd be interesting, but I believe it would likely only show that our approximation machines are getting it right for adults while getting it wrong for children. Though I think they'd get it wrong and assume it was cultural problem when, in fact, it's recognizing men and women are different and our behavior towards the education and opportunities we give to our children reflects that.

welch had hair on his ass long before puberty :cdc: :bjarte:

[didymos]

More SJW video game bullshit. This time Dracula is a rapist.

Yeah, he is. The original anyway, though you have to read a bit between the Victorian lines because it seems so tame to us modern folk. Anyway, the answer to that is "And so? He's fucking evil. It's kinda his bag."

[Really?]

Do you guys have any questions?

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/423545755798745088

"What's the difference between "harassment" and fair criticism and what should be the penalty for those who cry the former when experiencing the latter?"

[another lurker]

Prison rape...big surprise (not) - female guards assaulting male prisoners...

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/15/10_year ... s_partner/

As we’ve reported, the department has found alarming rates of abuse by staff on youngsters in custody. In a 2013 survey of more than 8,700 juveniles housed in 326 facilities across the country, 8 percent said they experienced sex abuse at the hands of the staff supervising them. Twenty percent of those who said they were victimized by staff said it happened on more than 10 occasions. But perhaps the most surprising finding: Nine out of 10 victims were males abused by female staffers.

. We’ve found about 300 cases total of female-on-male abuse – cases that were reported in the media between 1990 and 2013. About 30 of the cases were related to juveniles. And if I remember correctly, of those 30, there were only seven or nine actual convictions.

Women, given the opportunity, and the situational power, will rape and abuse those weaker than them. They are not, by any means, 'superior' to men.

[Michael J]

I was taught by a couple of nuns in primary school and I cannot think of anyone less suited to deal with young children. They were fucking horrible bastards, treating five and six year olds as if they were grown adults.
My head teacher in secondary school was an ex-nun and I have to say she was one of the most unpleasant people have ever come across. The only good thing I can say about having these horrible fuckers "educating" me is that I was never, ever tempted to believe any of the ridiculous shite they spouted about their religion.

My first two years in education involved the ironically named 'Sisters of Mercy', who showed none of it to classes of terrified 4 year olds, who they didn't hesitate to beat at the slightest provocation. 40 years later I can still remember the sting of a steel rule on the knuckles.

It's weird seeing the way nuns are often presented in the media, in particular in US movies, as kindly social workers.
That's not what I remember. The nuns involved in education that I remember, like their male contemporaries the Christian Brothers (who were in charge of the next school I attended), were twisted inside, so much so that even the children they terrorized could see it.
I remember speaking to a priest once about those who joined the Christian Brothers and he was incredibly negative about it - saying that the boys went in far too early - with the unspoken implication that this resulted in a serious and permanent psychological damage, the result of a closed culture of strict corporal punishment and sexual repression (and, most likely, abuse.)

I went to a Marist Brothers highschool in the 70s and thought it was pretty cool. A couple of the Brothers joined to avoid the Vietnam draft. It was funny as the Brothers tended to be pretty liberal (ie A loving God isn't going to send anyone to hell) while many of the lay teachers were nutters (Women are evil because they caused the original sin).

I agree though from what I heard from the girls catholic schools that the Nuns tended to be very strict. In One Girls school the nuns basically told the girls not to bother doing the hard subjects because they were going to get married later. Most of the girls I knew pretty much flunked highschool and were pretty angry a few years later when they figured out what happened to them. Some went back and did makeup courses and went to Uni or tech and are now doing quite well.

[Ape+lust]

The biggest piece of crossover asian popular culture in the past couple of years was the 'Gangnam Style' song and video by Psy - a song that is basically European techno and US pop, mixed with Korean lyrics. The video shows him hanging around in saunas, trains, horse-riding stables and tennis courts, all 'cultural appropriations' from outside Korea. Likewise the clothes worn by him and his dancers are modern western influenced style.
And so what.
Everybody knows that modern culture, wherever you find yourself on this planet, contains mixtures of aspects of different cultures.
Everyone has a phone, TV and computer. Everyone eats a mixture of dishes that originate in different parts of the world, today it's pasta, tomorrow curry, yesterday it was chilli, and so on.
Cultural appropriation has occurred throughout history whenever people were introduced to new ideas - in particular those that provided some kind of advantage to peoples then current lives.
Is immunization and use of antibiotics cultural appropriation by non westerners?
How about the use of mobile phones?

Of course it's silly to think of these uses as a kind of stealing by one group from another, yet that is how the SJWs frame it.

I am beginning to see SJW activism as a kind of version of alternative medicine in regards the aim of achieving genuine equality of opportunity.
Just like some aspects of alternative medicine have historically turned out to be effective (for example some herbal medicine has been found to contain active pharmaceuticals), most is either ineffective or prevents real treatments from being tried. And those forms that are effective are rapidly taken up by the medical profession and become subsumed under 'medicine'.
Likewise SJW activism, if it ever stumbles upon a genuinely innovative idea for achieving equality (and I have yet to see one emerging from that quarter), will see that idea being taken up by society as a whole, or at least that left leaning segment of society (which is far larger than the tiny fraction that are SJWs.) It will not remain a unique policy of the SJWs.

Alt med is a great analogy. The intent is right, but the lazy parroting of shibboleths (natural is better, patriarchy is the root of all ills) is such posturing bullshit. It's funny the "skepitical" wing of social justice has problems with homeopathy when they seem to believe like cures like (die cis scum).

The other thing I've noticed is thatthe things they tend to get particularly worked up about all fall under the realm of normal human behavior.
In other words, telling a tasteless joke, trying to chat up someone, admitting you are attracted to someone due to their physical appearance, having sexual preferences for one gender or physical type, etc. Admitting any of these can set them off and yet not only can we expect almost all of these to be common to most individuals in society, we can expect that SJWs themselves, as members of society will likewise behave in this way (and reading the drunken tweets of SJWs at conferences playing 'Cards Against Humanity' should be enough proof for anyone.)

Yes, that's one thing that makes me nuts, that they want to beat all the rascality out of our relations with each other. There's no room for perverse impishness... or so they'd like us to think. You can't make me believe they don't crack "incorrectly" when outsiders aren't around. Everyone does it, so they're going lose on that front. It's a friendly thing in the right context, it takes the edge off rotten situations and bonds people with humor. Like Cleese's scathing sendoff of Chapman. That was the finest gift anyone could give to the man's memory.

Mockery of their actions and highlighting their hypocrisy remains the best defence.

Oh lordy, I feel a justice-ism welling up in me: THIS. 1000 times, THIS.

[Aneris]

Speaking of which.

I tried to revisit Amanda Marcotte's “Why Do People Bag On Cats So Much?” but it seems to be gone. I could at least retrieve the name of the article and it can be viewed in cache, but all links in search engines to the actual article direct me to a dead end. Can somebody confirm this?

If so, the question is, why is it gone?

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

IMO, and I've stated it before, humour is probably one of the best conflict-deflating tools evolution gave us.

And then there was Bjarte.

:bjarte:

[KiwiInOz]

Got hitched and am now officially "R. Kelly" :D

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

This. A 1000 times this.

[Ape+lust]

Speaking of which.

I tried to revisit Amanda Marcotte's “Why Do People Bag On Cats So Much?” but it seems to be gone. I could at least retrieve the name of the article and it can be viewed in cache, but all links in search engines to the actual article direct me to a dead end. Can somebody confirm this?

If so, the question is, why is it gone?

I was hoping someone realized they'd cut a check to make the site look blindingly stupid, but no, it's still there. I don't know why you can't reach it from where you are, but the RawStory link is good from the US.

[Aneris]

Speaking of which.

I tried to revisit Amanda Marcotte's “Why Do People Bag On Cats So Much?” but it seems to be gone. I could at least retrieve the name of the article and it can be viewed in cache, but all links in search engines to the actual article direct me to a dead end. Can somebody confirm this?

If so, the question is, why is it gone?

I was hoping someone realized they'd cut a check to make the site look blindingly stupid, but no, it's still there. I don't know why you can't reach it from where you are, but the RawStory link is good from the US.

I just noticed with another article that my browser is acting up strangely. A friend installed all kinds of browser stuff I can barely manage, perhaps it has to do with them, stuff like Ghostery and Disconnect. But I had never problems before...

[free thoughtpolice]

Do you guys have any questions?

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/423545755798745088

"What's the difference between "harassment" and fair criticism and what should be the penalty for those who cry the former when experiencing the latter?"

I have a question.
- If nearly 73 % of people reporting threats on the internet are women is it possible that the somewhat larger numbers is because women are more likely to report than men rather than they are more likely to be threatened?
I know Pharyngulites think it's a big deal when women are called bad names much less threatened. FFS Ophie used to get paid every time someone called her a "gendered insult" or even mildly disagreed with her. Much is made about Becky's "wall of hate".
On the other hand, when Tethys threatened to cut me with a broken bottle I was met with "you know she's a woman right" as if female on male threats are OK and "what are you worried about. you think she's going to come through the computer screen at you". When even the sensitive snowflakes at Pharyngula have that attitude; basically that threats only count when directed at women, it would seem that men have less incentive to report threats than women do.

[welch]

Fuck. The click-wheel button broke on my Razer Naga (Molten Edition) so I'm MMO/Shooter fucked for the next couple of days. Yeah, I know, first world problems. :violin: :roll: But it was a shit-cool looking mouse that's functional in everything but shooting the enemy...:

http://www.hitechreview.com/uploads/201 ... Molten.jpg


I'd love to get another one, but seeing as it only lasted two years, I think I'll step down in price and get the 2014 Razer Naga MMO mouse instead:

http://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 00x392.jpg

Same essential functionality, but without the extra $60 of 'cool' you get from the Molten. I may have to give up gaming in shame... :oops:

I've got the slightly not regular Naga, and it's coming up on 4 years old now. Great mouse, awesome for MMOs

[Easy J]

I found the methodology of that study very suspect. When describing the mothers selected, it sounded to me like each participant was someone the "researchers" knew personally. Each participant received a medal for participating, rather than, you know, money or something else valuable one would give a stranger for her/his time. The study has the stink of soft sciences, which isn't necessarily bad, but it definitely makes any conclusions suspect.

The study is actually not nearly as SJW as the articles reporting on it, which I found incredibly slimy on the part of the reporting SJW websites. The study outright admits that the bias in mothers may be in ANTICIPATION of later sexual dimorphism. Which I don't think anyone would really argue with, outside of the SJWs, of course. This is a clear-cut case of correlation/causation fallacy. Researchers notice that mothers are biased to think their infant sons are stronger than their infant daughters. This isn't true, because the genders haven't diverged yet (because the babies aren't grown up enough yet, duh.) The mothers' expectations would probably be more accurate for 10 or 15-year old sons and daughters.

So the SJWs conclude that, because the mothers are incorrectly estimating the difference in skills between male and female infants, they are somehow the cause of the sexual dimorphism between men and women. That really is the argument being made. That the attitude of the mother is creating the sexual strength difference between all men and all women. Like every damn mother is fucking strength-training her son while locking her daughter in a room to play with dolls. Obviously the SJWs reporting on the study never heard of tomboys or male nerds. Some women are stronger than some men, but in my experience, even lazy slacker men can usually lift and carry more than women who exercise regularly. YMMV on that one.

So basically its as if dog owners are causing their St. Bernard puppies to grow larger than their poodle puppies due to their cultural attitudes being somehow impressed on the pups.

[welch]

Gotta say kind of laughing at the meltdown over the Net Neutrality ruling. Once again, the lolbertarian streak in the tech industry gets them ratfucked by the folks who know how things work. like Verizon.

Funny that.

Waiting for PZ and Canuck to have a crying fit over it.

[Really?]

Do you guys have any questions?

https://twitter.com/msnbc/status/423545755798745088

"What's the difference between "harassment" and fair criticism and what should be the penalty for those who cry the former when experiencing the latter?"

I have a question.
- If nearly 73 % of people reporting threats on the internet are women is it possible that the somewhat larger numbers is because women are more likely to report than men rather than they are more likely to be threatened?
I know Pharyngulites think it's a big deal when women are called bad names much less threatened. FFS Ophie used to get paid every time someone called her a "gendered insult" or even mildly disagreed with her. Much is made about Becky's "wall of hate".
On the other hand, when Tethys threatened to cut me with a broken bottle I was met with "you know she's a woman right" as if female on male threats are OK and "what are you worried about. you think she's going to come through the computer screen at you". When even the sensitive snowflakes at Pharyngula have that attitude; basically that threats only count when directed at women, it would seem that men have less incentive to report threats than women do.

Not only that, our misandrist society teaches boys and men that their mental and physical safety is subordinate to that of women. We're told to "man up"...in other words, to suck up our fears and to just do the work that keeps society going.

[Tribble]

Speaking of which.

I tried to revisit Amanda Marcotte's “Why Do People Bag On Cats So Much?” but it seems to be gone. I could at least retrieve the name of the article and it can be viewed in cache, but all links in search engines to the actual article direct me to a dead end. Can somebody confirm this?

If so, the question is, why is it gone?

Maybe, and it's only speculation, that they're getting tired of her bullshit at The Raw Story and are seeking to reign her in -- preserving the benefit of 'the Marcotte brand' but not alienating other people and driving traffic away. After all, The Raw Story is a business and gaining followers is their goal.

Or it could be they just delete blog entries after a while.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

I've got the slightly not regular Naga, and it's coming up on 4 years old now. Great mouse, awesome for MMOs

I have a wireless, 3 buttons mouse.

On the other hand, for my flight simulations, I have a Saitek X-52. Behold the marvel:

http://lockon.co.uk/upload/iblock/a3e/5 ... system.jpg

[KiwiInOz]

On monday evening I cooked some Alice Spring Chicken, which is supposed to be an Australian dish but is mostly a creation of the very USAian "Outback" steakhouse chain. I am actively appropriating another country's cultural appropriation of another country, which in fact didn't even create that recipe in the first place.

SJW's, have at it!

There is an Irish Bar-Indian Restaurant in Alice Springs. Very pleasant. I met the original drummer for the Village People, there. He was working with Aboriginal youth.

[Gumby]

Gotta say kind of laughing at the meltdown over the Net Neutrality ruling. Once again, the lolbertarian streak in the tech industry gets them ratfucked by the folks who know how things work. like Verizon.

Funny that.

Waiting for PZ and Canuck to have a crying fit over it.

Waiting for my Netflix to triple my monthly fee :bjarte:

However, I can't blame the broadband companies for wanting streaming services to pay extra for the fast lane.

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

On monday evening I cooked some Alice Spring Chicken, which is supposed to be an Australian dish but is mostly a creation of the very USAian "Outback" steakhouse chain. I am actively appropriating another country's cultural appropriation of another country, which in fact didn't even create that recipe in the first place.

SJW's, have at it!

There is an Irish Bar-Indian Restaurant in Alice Springs. Very pleasant. I met the original drummer for the Village People, there. He was working with Aboriginal youth.

We have an Italian-Thaï restaurant here. Quite good, though...

[Aneris]

Yesterday in the “Essential reading for conference organizers” PZ Myers asserted in the comments below...

Richard Dawkins is the face of Big Atheism. And the real problem is that we have a Big Atheism in the first place.

I searched the Slymy Well of Wisdom about the phrase “big atheism” and some obscure references to TAM came up. But I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. However, I have some idea what it could mean.

Alright there is an international league of atheists that are a bit like celebrities. It used to be the Horsemen. Perhaps it is now The Unbelievers and a cast of internationally known characters who more or less affiliate with atheism, recently, Bill Nye. And Richard Dawkins is certainly the most known of them all.

But how could it be a bad thing to have people who are known beyond specialized groups? Isn't it inevitable that with more acceptance of atheism some non-believers will eventually wind up being known by believers and non-believers alike? I suppose it would be nice to not see the same face on some TV channel all the time when it comes to atheism. Believers could dismiss it more easily, and what they have to say was probably said by them many times before. This can be boring to atheists. But I rather see Dawkins ten times more than having the media deem nobody interesting enough to bring them on. Dawkins doesn't steal attention away from local talent, either. He rather makes the crowds bigger, and then they are more people overall in the tent, then local talent may have a bigger audience in the long run.

I don't understand why Richard Dawkins is the face of the real problem and don't understand what this real problem is. Anyone else familiar with the phrase Big Atheismâ„¢ or The Real Problemâ„¢? Or is Peezus Exegesis a waste of time?

[welch]

I've got the slightly not regular Naga, and it's coming up on 4 years old now. Great mouse, awesome for MMOs

I have a wireless, 3 buttons mouse.

On the other hand, for my flight simulations, I have a Saitek X-52. Behold the marvel:

http://lockon.co.uk/upload/iblock/a3e/5 ... system.jpg

mmm...saitek does make the hotness.

[welch]

Gotta say kind of laughing at the meltdown over the Net Neutrality ruling. Once again, the lolbertarian streak in the tech industry gets them ratfucked by the folks who know how things work. like Verizon.

Funny that.

Waiting for PZ and Canuck to have a crying fit over it.

Waiting for my Netflix to triple my monthly fee :bjarte:

However, I can't blame the broadband companies for wanting streaming services to pay extra for the fast lane.

And there's considerable evidence that the net neutrality people are clamoring for will radically raise the barrier to entry for smaller providers.

[Ape+lust]

Speaking of cultural appropriation -- why is Manga the only kind of cartoon justice leaguers know how to trace? Whenever one of them says, "I made a comic," I know what it looks like before I see it. And where in the social justice contract is the agreement they'll never call each other out for it? I've even seen manga-style scribblings calling out cultural appropriation :?

[Ape+lust]

Yesterday in the “Essential reading for conference organizers” PZ Myers asserted in the comments below...

Richard Dawkins is the face of Big Atheism. And the real problem is that we have a Big Atheism in the first place.

I searched the Slymy Well of Wisdom about the phrase “big atheism” and some obscure references to TAM came up. But I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. However, I have some idea what it could mean.

Alright there is an international league of atheists that are a bit like celebrities. It used to be the Horsemen. Perhaps it is now The Unbelievers and a cast of internationally known characters who more or less affiliate with atheism, recently, Bill Nye. And Richard Dawkins is certainly the most known of them all.

But how could it be a bad thing to have people who are known beyond specialized groups? Isn't it inevitable that with more acceptance of atheism some non-believers will eventually wind up being known by believers and non-believers alike? I suppose it would be nice to not see the same face on some TV channel all the time when it comes to atheism. Believers could dismiss it more easily, and what they have to say was probably said by them many times before. This can be boring to atheists. But I rather see Dawkins ten times more than having the media deem nobody interesting enough to bring them on. Dawkins doesn't steal attention away from local talent, either. He rather makes the crowds bigger, and then they are more people overall in the tent, then local talent may have a bigger audience in the long run.

I don't understand why Richard Dawkins is the face of the real problem and don't understand what this real problem is. Anyone else familiar with the phrase Big Atheismâ„¢ or The Real Problemâ„¢? Or is Peezus Exegesis a waste of time?

Big Tobacco. Big Pharma. Big Atheism. He's being a dick, as usual.

[free thoughtpolice]

Speaking of cultural appropriation -- why is Manga the only kind of cartoon justice leaguers know how to trace? Whenever one of them says, "I made a comic," I know what it looks like before I see it. And where in the social justice contract is the agreement they'll never call each other out for it? I've even seen manga-style scribblings calling out cultural appropriation :?

I think some of them know how to trace furry and my little pony comics too, and then there is :bjarte:

[Phil_Giordana_FCD]

mmm...saitek does make the hotness.

Mine looks a bit more "used" than that picture. Plus Gefan accidentally put his feet on it a few times (it's stored under my coffee table).

The "pro" version of the X-52 was used as a prop in the "The Day the Earth Stood Still" remake as a drone-piloting device. I made the entry about this on the movie's IMDB trivia:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/tri ... =tr0787214

Not my biggest achievment, but still :D

[Gumby]

Yesterday in the “Essential reading for conference organizers” PZ Myers asserted in the comments below...

Richard Dawkins is the face of Big Atheism. And the real problem is that we have a Big Atheism in the first place.

I searched the Slymy Well of Wisdom about the phrase “big atheism” and some obscure references to TAM came up. But I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. However, I have some idea what it could mean.

Alright there is an international league of atheists that are a bit like celebrities. It used to be the Horsemen. Perhaps it is now The Unbelievers and a cast of internationally known characters who more or less affiliate with atheism, recently, Bill Nye. And Richard Dawkins is certainly the most known of them all.

But how could it be a bad thing to have people who are known beyond specialized groups? Isn't it inevitable that with more acceptance of atheism some non-believers will eventually wind up being known by believers and non-believers alike? I suppose it would be nice to not see the same face on some TV channel all the time when it comes to atheism. Believers could dismiss it more easily, and what they have to say was probably said by them many times before. This can be boring to atheists. But I rather see Dawkins ten times more than having the media deem nobody interesting enough to bring them on. Dawkins doesn't steal attention away from local talent, either. He rather makes the crowds bigger, and then they are more people overall in the tent, then local talent may have a bigger audience in the long run.

I don't understand why Richard Dawkins is the face of the real problem and don't understand what this real problem is. Anyone else familiar with the phrase Big Atheismâ„¢ or The Real Problemâ„¢? Or is Peezus Exegesis a waste of time?

Big Atheism, to me, simply means that there are some big-name atheists out there who, by their presence, sort of give visible faces and identity to the movement.

Remember when he was wanting to be the "Fifth Horseman", the driving force behind atheism on the Internet? If that's not "big atheism", I don't know what is.

Now, he's against "big atheism".

IMO his tune changed because he's pissed because he's not one of the Big Atheists. That's what happens when you shit all over a community.

[Dick Strawkins]

Quiz.

Which FTB star do we have with the following impersonation of Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch?

It’s probably less commonly known that I grew up in poverty. I slept on the floor half my pre-adult life, to save my family the crippling expense of buying a new bed.

[youtube]Xe1a1wHxTyo[/youtube]

[Ape+lust]

Speaking of cultural appropriation -- why is Manga the only kind of cartoon justice leaguers know how to trace? Whenever one of them says, "I made a comic," I know what it looks like before I see it. And where in the social justice contract is the agreement they'll never call each other out for it? I've even seen manga-style scribblings calling out cultural appropriation :?

I think some of them know how to trace furry and my little pony comics too, and then there is :bjarte:

Yeah, you're right. That's true. I've just seen manga so often I associate the style with preachy messages.

[AndrewV69]

Speaking of which.

I tried to revisit Amanda Marcotte's “Why Do People Bag On Cats So Much?” but it seems to be gone. I could at least retrieve the name of the article and it can be viewed in cache, but all links in search engines to the actual article direct me to a dead end. Can somebody confirm this?

If so, the question is, why is it gone?

I found the article in question here:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/20/w ... s-so-much/

BTW ... What are we to make of the seemingly sadistic sexof felines? ??

At first, the female will reject the male, but eventually the female will allow the male to mate. The female will utter a loud yowl as the male pulls out of her. This is because a male cat's penis has a band of about 120–150 backwards-pointing penile spines, which are about one millimeter long;[154] upon withdrawal of the penis, the spines rake the walls of the female's vagina, which is a trigger for ovulation. This act also occurs to clear the vagina of other sperm in the context of a second (or more) mating, thus giving the later males a larger chance of conception.

[Gumby]

Gotta say kind of laughing at the meltdown over the Net Neutrality ruling. Once again, the lolbertarian streak in the tech industry gets them ratfucked by the folks who know how things work. like Verizon.

Funny that.

Waiting for PZ and Canuck to have a crying fit over it.

Waiting for my Netflix to triple my monthly fee :bjarte:

However, I can't blame the broadband companies for wanting streaming services to pay extra for the fast lane.

And there's considerable evidence that the net neutrality people are clamoring for will radically raise the barrier to entry for smaller providers.

So on the one hand you have the net neutrality people, who, if they get their way, could raise the barrier for smaller broadband providers. On the other hand you have yesterday's ruling, which could raise the barrier for startup streaming services (for example).

I readily admit I am almost completely ignorant of this issue but it seems to me no matter which way the pendulum swings, smaller companies get the shaft.

[Gumby]

Quiz.

Which FTB star do we have with the following impersonation of Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch?

It’s probably less commonly known that I grew up in poverty. I slept on the floor half my pre-adult life, to save my family the crippling expense of buying a new bed.

[.youtube]Xe1a1wHxTyo[/youtube]

I cheated and googled it. It's not surprising he manages to display monumental narcissism while trying to lay claim to a humble childhood. That fucker couldn't not brag if his life depended on it.

[Ape+lust]

Quiz.

Which FTB star do we have with the following impersonation of Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch?

It’s probably less commonly known that I grew up in poverty. I slept on the floor half my pre-adult life, to save my family the crippling expense of buying a new bed.

Would it be the one whose privations included cherry-smoked salmon?

[Dick Strawkins]

Quiz.

Which FTB star do we have with the following impersonation of Monty Python's 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch?

It’s probably less commonly known that I grew up in poverty. I slept on the floor half my pre-adult life, to save my family the crippling expense of buying a new bed.

Would it be the one whose privations included cherry-smoked salmon?

I don't think so (I don't know who was the cherry smoked salmon fan)

Another clue, the person in question claims:

at the Ivy League level I faced real discrimination and disdain from some of my professors, who looked down on me and my blue collar background and dialect.

[Really?]

I've got the slightly not regular Naga, and it's coming up on 4 years old now. Great mouse, awesome for MMOs

I have a wireless, 3 buttons mouse.

On the other hand, for my flight simulations, I have a Saitek X-52. Behold the marvel:

http://lockon.co.uk/upload/iblock/a3e/5 ... system.jpg

Um, next time could you add a trigger warning for "phallus?" Honestly, I don't know why members of The Patriarchy always feel the need to design tools that make flying a plane or putting a screw into a piece of wood so rapey.

[Ape+lust]

Would it be the one whose privations included cherry-smoked salmon?

I don't think so (I don't know who was the cherry smoked salmon fan)

Another clue, the person in question claims:

at the Ivy League level I faced real discrimination and disdain from some of my professors, who looked down on me and my blue collar background and dialect.

Peez was the one who didn't have much, but his daddy was resourceful enough to gather bulldozed cherry trees and smoke trout (not salmon, I got that wrong) with it.

Blue collar dialect. I don't know who that would be. Unless Laden's mushmouth rambling qualifies as a dialect.

[Gefan]

My sincere thanks to the multi-talented Monsieur Giordana and the lovely Ali for their hospitality during the recent "Slymepit Summit" in Nice.
Welcoming me at the airport with a sign that read; "Evil Slymepitter" was an especially nice touch.

[John Greg]

HAHAHA.

[Gumby]

My sincere thanks to the multi-talented Monsieur Giordana and the lovely Ali for their hospitality during the recent "Slymepit Summit" in Nice.
Welcoming me at the airport with a sign that read; "Evil Slymepitter" was an especially nice touch.

"Evil Slymepitter" seems a bit redundant, but it was a nice thought. :D

[katamari Damassi]

Would it be the one whose privations included cherry-smoked salmon?

I don't think so (I don't know who was the cherry smoked salmon fan)

Another clue, the person in question claims:

at the Ivy League level I faced real discrimination and disdain from some of my professors, who looked down on me and my blue collar background and dialect.

Peez was the one who didn't have much, but his daddy was resourceful enough to gather bulldozed cherry trees and smoke trout (not salmon, I got that wrong) with it.

Blue collar dialect. I don't know who that would be. Unless Laden's mushmouth rambling qualifies as a dialect.

Is it the guy who had to change his name because he was always being mistaken for a thieving gypsy?

[KiwiInOz]

Or is Peezus Exegesis a waste of time?

I assume that this is a rhetorical question.

[welch]

mmm...saitek does make the hotness.

Mine looks a bit more "used" than that picture. Plus Gefan accidentally put his feet on it a few times (it's stored under my coffee table).

The "pro" version of the X-52 was used as a prop in the "The Day the Earth Stood Still" remake as a drone-piloting device. I made the entry about this on the movie's IMDB trivia:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970416/tri ... =tr0787214

Not my biggest achievment, but still :D

Very nice. I think the only thing I really can claim is putting Betteridge's Law on Wikipedia

[welch]

Waiting for my Netflix to triple my monthly fee :bjarte:

However, I can't blame the broadband companies for wanting streaming services to pay extra for the fast lane.

And there's considerable evidence that the net neutrality people are clamoring for will radically raise the barrier to entry for smaller providers.

So on the one hand you have the net neutrality people, who, if they get their way, could raise the barrier for smaller broadband providers. On the other hand you have yesterday's ruling, which could raise the barrier for startup streaming services (for example).

I readily admit I am almost completely ignorant of this issue but it seems to me no matter which way the pendulum swings, smaller companies get the shaft.

Well the basic problem is that once again, Stupidcon valley decided that they could ignore How Things Work and that their Aura Of Awesome Coolness would be all that's needed to win. Because angry blog posts are how you get the government to agree with you.

Meanwhile, the luddites like Verizon and Comcast so STUPIDLY stuck to things like trade associations and lobbyists. Oh, and they forgot that Google long ago sided with VZ et al in this, because Google Fiber makes them INTO a Verizon.

So in essence, the Net Neutrality Nits ceded the ENTIRE battlefield and fight in favor of standing a continent away and shaking their wee tiny fists while their enemies actually engaged the powers that be.

HOW COULD THINGS HAVE GONE SO WRONG.

morons.

[Lsuoma]

Fuck. The click-wheel button broke on my Razer Naga (Molten Edition) so I'm MMO/Shooter fucked for the next couple of days. Yeah, I know, first world problems. :violin: :roll: But it was a shit-cool looking mouse that's functional in everything but shooting the enemy...:

http://www.hitechreview.com/uploads/201 ... Molten.jpg


I'd love to get another one, but seeing as it only lasted two years, I think I'll step down in price and get the 2014 Razer Naga MMO mouse instead:

http://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 00x392.jpg

Same essential functionality, but without the extra $60 of 'cool' you get from the Molten. I may have to give up gaming in shame... :oops:

Which buttons do you have assigned to rape? Do you have different buttons for rape mother and rape daughter?

[ROBOKiTTY]

So I was at the hospital today, and Blurred Lines was playing, and I heard a staff member at the mental health service make a joke about being insane with one of those bracelets for patients.

It's nice to live in this town.

[welch]

Fuck. The click-wheel button broke on my Razer Naga (Molten Edition) so I'm MMO/Shooter fucked for the next couple of days. Yeah, I know, first world problems. :violin: :roll: But it was a shit-cool looking mouse that's functional in everything but shooting the enemy...:

http://www.hitechreview.com/uploads/201 ... Molten.jpg


I'd love to get another one, but seeing as it only lasted two years, I think I'll step down in price and get the 2014 Razer Naga MMO mouse instead:

http://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 00x392.jpg

Same essential functionality, but without the extra $60 of 'cool' you get from the Molten. I may have to give up gaming in shame... :oops:

Which buttons do you have assigned to rape? Do you have different buttons for rape mother and rape daughter?

you use the right mouse button for target selection, then the numberpad for specific penile targets.

[AndrewV69]

What part of NO do you people not understand?

[youtube]hCRDskZrUMU[/youtube]

[Karmakin]

And there's considerable evidence that the net neutrality people are clamoring for will radically raise the barrier to entry for smaller providers.

So on the one hand you have the net neutrality people, who, if they get their way, could raise the barrier for smaller broadband providers. On the other hand you have yesterday's ruling, which could raise the barrier for startup streaming services (for example).

I readily admit I am almost completely ignorant of this issue but it seems to me no matter which way the pendulum swings, smaller companies get the shaft.

Errr...what?

Why does network neutrality hurt smaller broadband providers? Isn't the big problem a lack of infrastructure, the impossibility of building new infrastructure and the lack of a framework to force existing infrastricture holders to share it with up and comers?

[dogen]

Fuck. The click-wheel button broke on my Razer Naga (Molten Edition) so I'm MMO/Shooter fucked for the next couple of days. Yeah, I know, first world problems. :violin: :roll: But it was a shit-cool looking mouse that's functional in everything but shooting the enemy...:

http://www.hitechreview.com/uploads/201 ... Molten.jpg


I'd love to get another one, but seeing as it only lasted two years, I think I'll step down in price and get the 2014 Razer Naga MMO mouse instead:

http://techgage.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... 00x392.jpg

Same essential functionality, but without the extra $60 of 'cool' you get from the Molten. I may have to give up gaming in shame... :oops:

Which buttons do you have assigned to rape? Do you have different buttons for rape mother and rape daughter?

you use the right mouse button for target selection, then the numberpad for specific penile targets.

How about rape by dickwolves? Do you need to chord for that?

[AndrewV69]

Why does network neutrality hurt smaller broadband providers? Isn't the big problem a lack of infrastructure, the impossibility of building new infrastructure and the lack of a framework to force existing infrastricture holders to share it with up and comers?

OK Welch educate them.

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[rant deleted]

I was going to but all that is coming out is one rant after another ... saying infrastructure in front of me is like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

[AndrewV69]

You know,

[rant deleted]

Whatever man. Fuck.

[welch]

Which buttons do you have assigned to rape? Do you have different buttons for rape mother and rape daughter?

you use the right mouse button for target selection, then the numberpad for specific penile targets.

How about rape by dickwolves? Do you need to chord for that?

That's what the two buttons behind the wheel are for. Top for anal, bottom for vaginal.

[welch]

Why does network neutrality hurt smaller broadband providers? Isn't the big problem a lack of infrastructure, the impossibility of building new infrastructure and the lack of a framework to force existing infrastricture holders to share it with up and comers?

OK Welch educate them.

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[rant deleted]

[rant deleted]

I was going to but all that is coming out is one rant after another ... saying infrastructure in front of me is like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Dude, even *I* know better. There's so many things involved in that kind of networking infrastructure, and the limitations on income created by common carrier status are not small. (There's a reason why only a SMALL number of companies actually build TEH WIREZ.) Fuck, I gave up on trying to explain that while information may want to be free, the hardware needed to get it from CLOUD to you is anything but. Got tired of people telling me that shit had no continuing costs.

and honestly, when you start contemplating a bottle of vodka via the rectum because it speeds things up, it's time to just let it go.