epistemiclife - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Sad (Score 1) 266

by epistemiclife on Thursday October 23, 2008 @02:06PM (#25484897) Attached to: Voters Swayed By Candidates Who Share Their Looks

I've heard statistics from some sources as high as 97% of black voters will be voting for Obama, just google for some of it it's out there. Even if they're off and lets say it's only 85%, still.

If 85% of white people voted for McCain, it would be considered racist.

Just saying.

Check your statistics (and your assumptions). Democratic presidential candidates always get ~90% of the black vote; so, it's just unreasonable to suggest that this is because Obama is black. Kerry got ~88% of the black vote in 2004, while Gore got ~90%. Current estimates suggest that OBama has ~91% of the black vote, which is essentially unchanged. In the Democratic primaries, Senator Clinton was doing very well among black voters in polls, until certain incidents in South Carolina.

Submission + - Netscape 9.0 Beta Out for Linux, OS X, and Windows (netscape..com)

Submitted by epistemiclife on Monday June 11, 2007 @12:08PM

epistemiclife writes: The company which spun off Mozilla has released beta 1 of version 9.0 of its long-running Navigator browser for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. This is notable, since version 8.0 was exclusive to Windows, making this the first major update for OS X and Linux, since version 7.2. It is based on Firefox 2.0, and "Netscape extensions" for Firefox 2.0 are available as add-ons to Firefox users.

Submission + - MIT Faculty Accused of Racism

Submitted by epistemiclife on Monday June 04, 2007 @01:50PM

epistemiclife writes: CNN reports that a professor at MIT has resigned in protest, because a colleague was denied tenure. He charges that it was because he is black. DiverseEducation.com expounds upon this, by referencing similar issues with MIT in the past, as well as with other institutions which focus on science and engineering.

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