Skwish-E

Harehunter, What's wrong with me calling myself a Scottish-American and wearing a kilt? (JK, don't get your PIAW). Skwish-E feels that this thread is about played out, and will probably go back to simply making trivial, humorous posts now.

And as I stated, we can fix this in two generations if we try. The very fact that we (as a mixed race group) are openly and civilly discussing this on a Games Forum may be proof of that in itself. Lilith, your point about how blacks are portrayed in media is well made. What can we do about it? I'm renewing my commitment to do my best to avoid movies and tv where such stereotypes are used. And I don't let my kids listen to Gangsta-Rap. (If it is even still called that.)

Wednesday and Saturday are both my birthday! What a coincidence!

My dad's number can beat up your dad's number.

Object-oriented Programming IT Fundamentals II IT Fundamentals III English Composition Introduction to Programming and maybe a couple more classes TBD this semester.

"This spellbook will self destruct in 75 years."

Mountains intervene.

Originally Posted By: Lilith ... there's no injustice in tweaking hiring procedures to produce better social outcomes... And yet it is a bad business practice. My company does not exist to bring social justice, but to bring profit, and the business owners would not want me to be using their investment in a manner that benefits society as a whole at the cost of their profit. Say what you will about the capitalist system, the 1,600 employees of my company count on the company making money so that they can keep their jobs. (I say "my" company, though I am not an owner, just an employee.)

Originally Posted By: Mushroom Merlot and Lizard Steak Not a number, and not necessarily large. Well, you can argue that it's large in absolute value, but if you approach 0 from the negative side, limx->0[1/x] diverges to negative infinity... And negative infinity isn't a big number? But I think you missed my point about Tunguska. Dividing by zero is a BAD IDEA.

The Anasazi just went home. They are looking down on us now from many light years away. Elvis went to visit them later.

Notice I didn't say Black anywhere in my post.

And why do Africa and South America look so much like each other anyway?

I inverted and flipped mine another two times for twice the win!

If I were interviewing 8 people for a job (something I actually do, by the way) and half were white and the other half were not. Let's say I could only fill four positions. three of the whites were well educated, but only one of the non-whites was. If I hire the 4 best educated people, is Dikiyoba saying I am racist in my policy, though not my intention? I would say that if I hired one of the less educated non whites in preference to one of the better educated whites, then I would be using a racist hiring policy. What I would be saying is "Non-whites can't be expected to be held to the same standard as whites, they just aren't up to it. If this guy were white, I would not hire him. This guy 'deserves' the job because he is not white." Now, I just used education as the sole criteria here. In reality, there are many more complex factors, including attitude, technical skill (assessed in my situation with an impartial test), communication skills, bearing and demeanor, and the ability to get along with the other teammates. I actually made offers to 4 people in that last 12 months. One was white, one Chinese, and two Indian. At no point was race a consideration, though at times I had to turn people down due to their legal work status as immigrants.

You want a really big number try 1/0. But don't say I didn't warn you. The last time someone successfully divided by zero was in Tunguska in 1908.

On the day that the old calendar runs out, an ancient wrinkled man comes down out of the Andes and flips the big stone over. There you see that the calendar continues on the other side. Skwish-E, having bought all of the land in the region at crazy low cash prices, then evicts all of his victims and declares Skwish-Topia officially founded.

Bat People! We want Bat People!

Trenton, will you be my first victim ... customer?

Certainly not *our* government. That would have been the *enemy*. And we have always been at war with <insert enemy name here>.

Well, Lord Brocktree, I also am worried that today's generation will end up sending texts to each other even when they are in the same room, leaving the art of elegant conversation in the dust of history. Oops, I guess both of those ships have already sailed off to the Undying Lands.

We have Cat People and Lizard People. How about Turtle People? They would have awesome natural armor, and could tank like nobody's business, but they would be really, really slow. Like max dexterity of 2 kind of slow.

Originally Posted By: The Turtle Moves ...You'd have seen him floating up near the ceiling if you'd only looked up. Of course, you probably would have been sorry. Aaah! My eyes! Nobody wants to see that! Dude! Put on some blinking pants!

Have you gone back to Avadon yet?

Yes, Trenton, like that. In past wars, they have been made to look like brightly-colored toy airplanes or butterflies to entice children to pick them up, then scattered throughout the contryside by infiltrators. In our future war, you could expect them to look like smartphones and I-pads.

I quit using Photoshop when I found the GIMP. I've never needed anything else since then.