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Mordhaus
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Your video, Terry Crews explains why he decided to build his own PC, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

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Racist is what you do, not what you say.
Would have been a lot more effective if they'd shown the converse as well (someone who is PC doing something racist).
How Disney uses Language in Animated Films
Disney are actually using the music and the lyrics to have the desired specific emotional effect on their musically and geographically poorly informed audience. Specific languages are present not for accuracy or making sense, purely for cinematic effect. It is much easier to use a real language and real obscure culture references than trying to come up with something original, like Klingon. Correct use of a specific language or musical reference is probably just an inside joke. Everything Disney does is cultural appropriation, that is their day job. They dont do documentaries, they are into compiled rehashed fairytales. If that one song was PC it was probably done that way on purpose, decided by Disneys equal opportunities department. A proper Inuit movie would have to be shot from an Inuit script with an Inuit score drawn by real Inuit men on Inuit snow in the only possible way you can draw while your fingers are freezing.
Have I been Trumped by Google? (Sift Talk Post)
@dag @lucky760 Thanks to my nephew [who isn't even a PC guy] I now know I'm cookin' with Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.953) and Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133

Hopefully this info will help in resolving whatever is going on.
I'm not proficient enough [nor do I have the inclination to stress myself out right now] to understand what hoops to jump through with regards to Chrome nor do I really want to download another browser for one site. But thank you for your suggestions mxxcon [even if they're greek to me]
@Mordhaus and @PlayhousePals what version of Chrome and OS are you running?
Have you tried submitting from incognito mode or Chrome's guest profile?
When you open Chrome's dev console, what errors/messages do you see there?
The unreleased Last StarFighter arcade game clip.
Oddly enough, while it never was released; it /was/ remade:
http://www.roguesynapse.com/games/last_starfighter.php
Totally free and playable on PC.
Rex Murphy | Free speech on campus
I never claimed to or would say I speak for all of any group. Congrats on assuming.
I fail to see how fighting against equal protection for trans people under hate crime laws isn't transphobic. And his flimsy defense of "it will force me to call someone something i dont want to" isn't true of the bill in the slightest if you read the thing and mostly a smoke screen for his distaste for trans acceptance. The place where Peterson works adopted almost identical protection for trans individuals in 2014. But he hasn't noticed or been effected... because it doesn't do what he thinks.
And your analogy is stupid and reductive. Someone being upset they can't call people "faggot" anymore because of PC nonsense doesn't put you on the same level of marginalized groups fighting for basic rights anymore than his refusal to accept that trans people get to self identify / get equal protection puts him anywhere close to the trans and gay people fighting at Stonewall for the right to exist.
Regardless of all of that, I wasn't talking to you and I was offering someone who seemed genuinely interested in the other side some view of that side. I'm not interested in the vitriol from some rando on the internet who has made being "anti-sjw/anti-feminist" an identity.
1. You don't speak for all trans/POC/gays etc, so you can only describe your personal experience. There are a number of documented trans people who agree with Peterson and don't want the state strong arming people in to mouthing the words...
2. Peterson does not promote transphobia, he resists being forced to speak certain words. They are not synonymous. If the fuckwits yelling their heads off spent the time to listen, they'd understand that.
3. Peterson was fine with the idiots at the event chucking a trantrum because it showed them up to be the intolerant idiots, not him. He was calm and reasonable, and if they had listened to him then put questions to him, they may have advanced whatever cause they claim to represent. Instead they came across as a pack of morons. /shrug
4. You talk about drawing lines around things, lines that should not be crossed, but without people daring to propose going outside those lines, gay rights would not be a thing... You see? It takes a brave person to step outside the lines and propose something that may be offensive to some. Same with women rights, transgender folk etc.
5. You have the right to be offended. You do not have the right to not be offended.
6. Mobs strongarming people in to silence has far more to do with Nazi ideology than resisting being forced to speak certain words. It's okay to punch Nazi's right?? \= )
Standby - Short film by Charlotte Regan
Gary? That's PC Dave Quinnan!
Rex Murphy | Free speech on campus
I don't mind Rex's appearance, and I can say I usually agree -- and intrigued when I don't -- with his views, but what irk me most about watching his shows lately (that is, about the past 4~5 years) is his creeping smug delivery. It isn't showing in this particular segment though. But man... when he does it, I always goes "Is this at all necessary?"
Back to the topic at hand. Progressives really needs to get its act together. Juvenile crap like these zerg rushes are not serving anyone or any worthy causes. Just more ammunition for the Right to dismiss your argument.
You think Peterson's a wacko? Then let him talk all he wants to let others form their opinion that he's a wacko. I'd rather listen to him and try to figure out what the hell made him act/talk that way then give him the opportunity to say he's a PC "victim."
Rex Murphy | Free speech on campus
You know, I'd love to hear from one of the people who shut down these events.
'cos in general, I'm pretty much on their side. I consider myself a feminist, I think most people arguing against "PC" are just looking for an excuse to be racist or sexist and I fully support their right to protest against speakers they find objectionable.
But shutting down debate is completely counter to the point of a university. "Safe spaces" are fine, but you learn NOTHING until you step outside your comfort zone.
So please, if there's anyone reading this who participated in these events, I genuinely want to hear your side.
Jeff Bridges channels 'The Dude' to honor John Goodman
You can get your own Dude sweater for a quaint $239.00
https://www.pendleton-usa.com/product/Men/SWEATERS/SWEATERS/THE-ORIGINAL-WESTERLEY/173082/sc/1727/c/1727/pc/1814.uts
Whole New Worlds: An Aladdin History of Exoplanets
Wasn't easy being a planet hunter back in the day
*promote
I'm looking for
1 tug
The pull of a planet
1 tell
A wobbling sun
I've searched for years
Haven't found a one
But they're out there
1 jump
In radial redshift
1 slip
Of spectral lines
They'll see if I can show them the sines
Pish tosh
Green men
Take five
Take ten
Just a little cash guys
Budget's tight
Don't fund this trash guys
I can take a hint
Better face the facts
Second-hand'll have to do
Eww
All you planet hunters at the bottom
You've got fact & fantasy entwined
Finding planets except they haven't got one
Well they gotta be forming readily
When you think about it given we've got nine
1 jump
A blip in the spectrum
1 shift of meters per second
1 graph of period power
They laugh but I'm not sour
Here goes
18 months of data
Cross & correlate it
All I gotta do is run
Pish tosh
Green men
Ah don't mind them
If only they'd look closer
Would they see a pure void
No sirree
They'd find out
There's worlds galore
To see
Make way for Pegasi
51 Pegasi
First was a world
Round an old pulsar
That's true
But the news
Is a sun-like star
With wobble
Too quick & precise
To be designed
No fluke not a spot
If you like it hot
You're gonna love this find
Pegasi 51b
Planet discovered
Orbit traced
Every 4 days
Hot as can be
Its order-Jupiter size
Was something of a surprise
Especially given its star's proximity
Pegasi 51b
It's a new era
To detect
Exoplanets
Soon there'll be three
As planet pulls on its Sun
It shifts the stellar spectrum
That's how we found 51b Pegasi
How'd a planet get so close in orbit
Cause I thought you needed ice to form it
Did it later undergo some strange migration
Star too small to be so long-pulsating
And too old to be so quick rotating
Is there any other good interpretation
This will certainly help with our funding
We got your funding
We got your funding
Got a surface of 1200 C
It's treacherous
So treacherous
If in time this new breakthrough feels mundane
Planets are common
That's proof
Of the truth
I've been telling you
This is no mean anomaly
Pegasi 51b
Planet uncovered
Round a far
Main sequence star
Spectral type G
We know its mass to be high
Half Jupiter by sine i
It's 15.61 pc from home
And it shakes our faith in how planets are formed
And its star is in Pegasus
Give it an A and thus
Label the planet as b
51 Pegasi
Plotting Doppler shifts is glacial-pace
And that astrometry never prevails
But baby you're in luck cause
Up in space
You got a planet-finder never fails
You got the power of statistics now
You got a view without an atmosphere
So no more nights spent locked up in your tower
All you gotta do is wait right here
And I say
Kepler the planet-searcher
Got a dip, no 2, no 3
We just measure brightness
Plot it out & that's transiting photometry
When your stars do this
And your curves displace
Then your star's got this
Transiting its face
Then you hit compute
And lookie here
You get good diameter data
From that dip
And orbit distance from the length of year
Well now we need this tale supported by
A ground observer with a good Échelle
We got 2000 planets certified
2000 more that only time will tell
But let's take em all, plot em out
And find out if we're really all alone
Is there a rocky world we've found no doubt
That orbits in the habitable zone
Like home?
Kepler the planet searcher
Got an Earth 452b
Part of a throng
40 billion strong
There ain't never been a field
Clever as the field
There ain't never been a field
Better than the field they call
Exoplanetology
I can show you a world
A shining shimmering planet
Found concealed in the band-shifts
Of the closest star in sight
I've found hope in the skies
And facing wonder I wonder
Could the sine wave discovered be
A planet fit for life
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of blue
Placed in that narrow zone
Where water flows
Midway tween cold & steaming
A whole new world
Its sun a faint, reddish hue
Could there be waiting here
A biosphere
Evolving in this whole new world to view
Fathoming a whole new world to view
Unbelievable find
Indescribable feeling
Earthlings someday revealing
Through directly captured light
A whole new world
Don't just stare from a far
Though nigh impossible to see
Wouldn't close up be bolder
Next to its parent's flair
If life is there
We'll know through atmosphere spectroscopy
A whole new world
Block the glare of the star
A laser starshot to pursue
With a star-shaped occulter
Chasing that crazy dream
That's always been
Of walking in a whole new world with you
a whole new world
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase
A home in space
For you and me
Women Drivers in GTA V
...not sure if serious...
One can find many clips from the game featuring this, uh, behavior by female AI NPCs. I've seen it myself while playing. I tend to think that it is 100% intentional, and therefore good AI, at least in terms of "working as intended".
To me, I find it hilarious, if not very PC. But considering how the GTA series is known for pushing (if not utterly destroying) the limits of PCness / good taste, I take that as further evidence that "bad" female driver AI is very very intentional.
Wat?
How about "Bad AI in GTA V"?
Hey! Transgender Kids
So yeah, im a half in, half out of the closet trans person living a genderfluid reality. Complicated existence, and unlesz you're in the demographic or a serious ally, you just don't understand what it's like. This isn't a new revelation, I have known this about myself as long as i have had self awareness.
I grew up during the Reagan era, so no one gave a shit that I thought I was a girl.
Literally just shit on and reshaped and fear thunderstruck, raped, molested as a form of homosexual comversion -- you got this shit?
I just didn't understand what people meant when they were trying to explain the differencez between male and female because i was CERTAIN i was a girl when I was 3 years old. And yes i have those memories. In fact, the age of 4 through 7 are the most vivid and awful memories of my reality an you may stare theough me and rwfuse to understand if you want, but like the song says "We exist." (By Arcade Fire; Cool song even if the musician isnt trans.)
Anyway. We are just shit on. I'm used to it. A friend of mine used to call me a white nigger and honestly, as racial insensitive as that is (a black guy telling me this) that is the feeling. Police brutality and all. Whatever. You dont want to understand so just dont bother. I got sick to death of explaining this so long ago it doent matter to me. How fu king sad is that? How fu ling sad is my goddamn perspective? How can I even be happy in this world? Its shit.
Logic: If you are so afraid we are a bunch of rapists, what about gay people who aren't transgender -- where do they take a pee where people won't fear them molesting people of the same sex? I mean, is there going to be a "Gays Only" and "Transgender Only" bathroom?? It doesn't make sense even if you fear us.
And in my humble and humiliated existence, gay people have wanted nothing to do with me and have even tried to convert and change my opinions of myself. Even in the middle of FUCKING LA PRIDE. Assholez like that CUNT Milo. He can go DIE.
It doesn't make sense. Have you ever peed in a Men's Restroom with a dress on? Totally awkward.
I know I'm using colloquialisms and non-PC language, but I'm just really depressed about this -- as if I wasn't already depressed about everything all the time lol
Republicans. Fuck you. I have no other means of relating my disappointment in the entirity of all reality -- the very fabric of this universe is hate.
Monkey Island 2 - IBM PC-Speaker Soundtrack
That is not bad for PC speaker.
Vintage Ferrari F1 312B2 Engine Test Dyno
I am not sure this is working as intended. I distinctly remember these engines would physically shake a massive concrete grandstand under your feet. I can not get that from my earphones or PC speakers.
Interesting how the two end parts of the exhaust system appear to be differently tuned.