But this doesn't seem to shed any new light on things. Does it give us new insight into what we should be doing or avoiding? Does it provide us with any new ways to deal with problems? Nothing is obvious to me off the bat, but time will tell if some novel application of this observation will bear fruit. Right now, it's just an interesting phenomenon.

Cable yoinking has been going on for as long as there have been cables. It's not about the superiority or inferiority of the type of connector - it's about the structural integrity of cable itself. Or, to put it bluntly, if Apple's can't stand up to a decent amount of yoinking, especially given the ease with which the magnetic connector can be yoinked, then that is a flaw in the product. To put it more bluntly, Apple sacrificed durability for a aesthetics.

http://www.planetside2.com/faq.html

And you'd be laughed out of court. The Pandaren were an April Fools joke from 2003-ish. Kung Fu Panda came out in 2008.

Irrelevant. If the design of the product drives people to use it in a certain way and the product does not hold up under that use then the product is faulty. I believe this was demonstrated by the "You're holding it wrong." debacle.

Are you trying to use sarcasm here or just woefully misinformed about sports? Either way, your point is unclear.

Racial trends in sports are very obviously tied to cultural factors. For example, the equipment cost per person in basketball is much lower than other sports, as is the amount of space and upkeep required for a basketball court vs other sports' facilities. It is therefore an ideal sport for a poor urban populations, which happens to be the demographic most African Americans fall into.

I think you misread that. They are using SAT scores as a hypothetical example for the situation they are discussing, not categorically stating it as a statistical fact.

I'm having trouble finding where it says that. Can you quote it here?

Many minorities pursue careers in sports and music because their other opportunities for social and economic advancement are more limited. It's not genetics. It's culture. Specifically, it's a culture recovering from long-term, widespread racism.

That doesn't make you a racist, but it does demonstrate that you have racist tendencies.

There is more going on here than this article addresses and way more going on than you address, but the difference is that you make a lot of broad assumptions based on prejudice and the article doesn't. The article just looks at numbers and shows that something statistically significant is going on. You cite (or rather, you conspicuously don't cite, but ask us have faith in your authority) egregious examples, but we all know that anecdotal evidence is not reliable. I could also offer egregious examples of white people being treated more leniently than minorities, but without real statistical analysis, we don't know if either of these examples represents a significant trend.

The article is convincing in that they thoroughly document their process and statistics. The article does not explain why the numbers came out that way, though it does suggest further avenues for research that could help determine that. You dismiss the article not because of any methodological or mathematical flaws, but because it doesn't fit your worldview. The article is based on statistical analysis and your worldview is, by definition, biased and incomplete.

You don't appear to be actively or maliciously racist, but merely blind to your own prejudice.

There's about as much role-playing going on here as there is in a typical shooter. This is competitive economics, not role-playing.

And for the record, i'm not complaining about it. I'm saying essentially the same thing you are. This sort of thing is what the game is about. To borrow terminology from other MMOs, PvP happened on a PvP server.

If you want to prove something you already know, you're science-ing wrong, or rather you're not doing science at all.

I read the same stories over and over again about EVE it really shouldn't be considered news anymore. It's Monday: babies were born, people died, people got scammed in EVE - business as usual.

The people who are serious about that game are there precisely to play with exactly those sorts of behavior. I feel a little sorry for new players who don't know that yet, but even the most basic research about the game would clue you in. What other games would call griefing and fraud are the real game of EVE - all that crap about spaceships is just to keep the marks distracted while the sharks nibble away at them.

This one time i was at a baseball game and i bought a beer without leaving my seat. Did Lodsys get their cut off that?

Isn't it trademark that covers the whole wishy-washy "look and feel" thing, or is that patents? I often get my Imaginary Property laws mixed up.