Not SJW-ism at all. Somebody is finally saying what many of us already knew.

You can pretty much just replace "SJW" for "Opinion I disagree with" or "City slicker opinions I dont understand" whenever you see it appear. Helps if you picture the poster chewing tobacco and cussing at "Them commie professors" when its used in relationship to academics. Its a pretty damn meaningless term, and it seems to get thrown at scientists and academics a lot on this board. I'd expect it out of the fox news comment section, but I honestly thought that sort of anti intellectualism didn't have a home on slashdot. Apparently I'm wrong.

I used to, but we haven't really got much in the way of that these days since Myspace shat the bed and our singer moved to the US. I should probably do something about it.

You can probably thank apple for this, to some extent. The growing popularity of the Mac has meant that porting there has become viable and this means fairly generic C++ with Open GL and unixy OS expectations. From there to linux is really just a change of compiler flags.

Well, that and steam.

How about the cops doing some time for shooting a random innocent?

Theres definately an argument to be made for that.

With all that said, I sort of understand how it happens. If they get a phonecall saying someones berking out with a machine gun or whatever , they *have* to respond, and unfortunately this seems to be the consequences.

What I do wonder is why so many SWAT raids end in violence in the US when so many other countries just dont have that sort of problem. My guess is poor training.

There was one case where the cops shot the father of a swatting victim. I believe the person behind the swatting attack is doing some fairly serious time though.

Apologies on my dismal spelling/etc above. Serves me right for posting before my first coffee

Whilst I support what Spotify do on principle (I havent pirated a single song since spotify came out, although I had already started buying my most loved stuff on iTunes) it does represent a pretty bad deal for artists. I've had a fair few thousand listens on spotify, not bad for a small band, but haven't seen more than a few measly cents off this.If this translated to, say, a hundred sales on iTunes, well it'd be somethng. There has to be a middle ground where artists can get paid (I'd love to write you guys music for a living), but lets music be free.

I ended up putting my stuff on torrents, beause screw it, if I'm not going to be paid, I might as well at least get some exposure out of it. But it'd be nice to sell a few albums.

nothing says meritocracy like generalizing, shaming, and stereotyping men with logical fallacies either.

What logical fallacy? The guy was booted out of forum after forum for being a total psychopath, and then he races around going on about how its "SJWs" at fault and the death of open source blah blah blah. No, he was booted out of everywhere he went for acting like a complete asshole and frightening people with his threats.

The "turnout requirement" where an election had to be done over if voters failed to show up originated in the USSR. There was only one candidate on the ballot, but if you failed to turn out and vote for him you could get yourself and your neighbors in hot water.

Pretty sure ancient athens was not in the soviet block. Pretty sure 1700s era Georgia (US) was not in the soviet block.

The only thing that was in the Soviet block was the Soviet block, and guess what? They didn't have compulsary voting. Yes they had a turnout requirement, aka a Quorum. B

Don't just [i]make shit up[/i] if you want to make apoint dude. Its a very dishonest way to argue.

You mean MineeUSA? Thats who we're talking about right? The guy who publically stated that he wants those who "harm" pedophiles killed? The guy who rants on about how women should be raped and then forced to marry their rapist? The guy who constantly sent death threats to members of the debian womens group?

This is your evidence that SJWs have killed open source? The face that an open rape advocate got banned from a womens group.

Good work retard!

All languages follow rules. Its just not the rules you probably think they are.

Or maybe the fact that there are more scientists publishing today than there were 20 years ago.

The article not the study, completely ignores one fact. The world population has tripled in 70 years. More papers being published is a result of more people existing. While not the sole reason, it is something to remember.

It does make me wonder if we're hitting some sort of plateau where its just too hard to be a generalist in any field anymore. Like, is physics too specialized now that we won't see another Einstein who mastered multiple fields of physics?

Keep in mind, the early thinkers where often philosophers who where expert in ALL the fields of science, mathematics AND humanities, and would write wide ranging books covering all the fields and innovating in all the fields. This, I suggest is now completely impossible for one person to achieve.

Her problem isn't that she's incompetent. Her problem is her hands aren't working properly. Taking a kiddie glove approach to people with disabilities can come across as patronizing and demeaning. Just something to be aware of.

Because for all the shady conspiracy theories around, most drug manufacturers actually see themselves as being in the business of saving lives. The hypocrates oath and all that. Yeah I know, shocking stuff. But I'm pretty much a socialist so I'm *wired* to distrust corporations and even I can see why a company might see this sort of thing as unethical.

I truly think we're in terrifying territory when "We can't afford to keep this perfectly healthy guy alive so lets kill him" is even part of the conversation.

Rehabilitate and release. If they can't be rehabilitated, move them into psychiatric care because they are clearly broken.

But don't kill. Its 2015. We're supposed to be *better* than that.