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If more people knew the 'g' part of that acronym then they probably wouldn't be doing it quite so much...
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(Re-posted here from S&F to this preferred forum category.) Does this happen because the new & improved site is so wildly popular now ? Occurred approx 4pm (GMT+11) on 31/10/2019 lasting at least 10 minutes.
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Moved to Error & Bug Reports
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Agreed on both. I believe this can cause more harm than good. A generation from now someone will be trotting this out as the new reason for the difference in success rates; "We were taught differently !" and thereby discriminated/disadvantaged or may certainly claim to be. Lest we forget how IQ testing methods and outcome studies have been accused of racism. The article mentions that English scores were likewise also notably different and alluded to additional subjects as sub-par. To me this is more suggestive of the quality of general education and/or the diligence of the student, possibly affected by socio-economic factors and certainly not exclusively a mathematics education problem. Even if we assume a worst-case causality that a genetic component exists I don't believe it should carry quite such a strong stigma. The traits discussed are not the full measure of a person's worth or ability to succeed in society. My math will never be as good as some academics on this forum and I'm fine with that. Having limited natural ability in the subjects that we typically measure can still get you appointed (or elected) to hold office in many countries.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/27/us/trump-transcript-isis-al-baghdadi.html Must be the same guy who worded the letter to Erdogan; Puerile locker room bravado...
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Alrighty then; perhaps for anyone who may care to know: (1) I had not intended to quote richravizza, I accept that those words were 'El Paso' content. (2) The image depicts a fictional comic & movie villain infamously known by some for wiping out half of all universal life with a snap of his fingers in a magical gauntlet. (3) This villain is merely a parody on the 'El Paso' manifesto and should not detract from the subject thread. This is Greta's moment in the limelight.
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No, no, you cannot counter a gun problem with more guns, you're missing John's message. Better to bludgeon the armed assailant with a bulb of garlic, until it's banned. I greatly enjoyed firearms for recreational target shooting and I probably still would if I had the opportunity. In South Africa I had a concealed carry pistol for 15 years. I empathize with the gun community and I get where their interests lie. With that being said... In 15 years I never had occasion to draw my pistol in response to a threat and I have since emigrated to Australia. FYI on Australia's NFA; one such study here , a pertinent summary note includes; Their research also showed that while there had been 13 mass shootings (using the definition of five or more people killed) in the 18 years before the law changes, there had been only one (Margaret River in May 2018) in the 22 years following. Modelling suggested that if shootings had continued at a similar rate as that prior to the NFA, then approximately 16 incidents would have been expected by February 2018.
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Oppose Equal Pay for U.S. Women's Soccer Team!
metalslug replied to winsor's topic in Speakers Corner
I'm wondering if these comments were intended as jocular. Realistically of course, we're unlikely to see either of these things. It's an age-old argument and a degree of naivety in ignoring physical gender differences and there should be no stigma to that. Would anyone really find it entertaining to see a female quarterback sacked by a 250 pound male linebacker or be on the receiving end of any substantial sport contact ? In an era of progressive politics, safe spaces and the 'me too' movement; even the social interactions of genderless team contact sports would be potentially absurd before they even take the field. However, I do find it curious that chess competitions have gender categories. I was hopeful that this could be an area of equality but no such luck; There are no 'men-only' tournaments but there are 'women-only' tournaments. Not to hijack the thread too much, this topic is discussed here and, yes, high ranking female players are duly noted there. Referring back to the OP; I watch sports to admire the best skills and to be entertained by spectacular moves, I don't go to 'see my team win'. Winning is just the gravy. I generally expect most sports enthusiasts feel this way and hence this drives the 'economy' of sports. It's fantastic if the women's team genuinely, objectively play better but it's less remarkable if winning their gender category is the only criteria for 'better'. -
As a tiny sampling (maybe I'll just get one): I'd be keen know if any posters on this forum would state here that their vote for Trump was influenced by (what we now know to be) Russian misinformation or meddling. As a 'just sayin', I do not regard the leaking of Hillary's emails (assuming they are authentic) as misinformation, it's on par with parading Trump's dirty laundry. I believe the Russian's have received way too much credit here and I am keen to be enlightened by some solid causality that counters my belief.
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Fair point. Although, you can't have it both ways I guess; Either democracy died many years ago ever since the electoral college had that role, or it's an integral part of a living democracy.
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I don't like Trump much myself, but unless I've missed evidence somewhere that the actual vote count was tampered with, he's the guy that voting Americans wanted. Sure, it's a sad a reflection of a 'government of the people', but it's about as democratic as it gets.
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Oppose Equal Pay for U.S. Women's Soccer Team!
metalslug replied to winsor's topic in Speakers Corner
Err.. no it doesn't. He asserted they should get paid more <than the men> because they are better <than the men> . That's how I read it, more is not equal. -
I'm fairly sure that "Captain, my captain" is not a cricket reference, more likely a reference to Walt Whitman's poem which was popularised as a phrase since Dead Poets Society. This livery was only applied to one 737-86N around year 2010, it has likely been repainted or discontinued since then. Good for a laugh, though!
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I'm going to need help on this one. How does the article or incident correlate to Trump ? (I have never watched 'Empire').
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So; the Flores Consent Decree from 1997 (during Clinton's term) and related applicable immigration law passed by US Congress during whichever years, are regarded by you as equivalent to the executive orders of a Nazi dictator during the 1940's ? ...and consequently implying that government officials have the option to thumb their nose at such laws in much the same way as German officers should have ? Seriously ?
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BillyVance's "You Can't Make This Up" News Stories Thread
metalslug replied to BillyVance's topic in The Bonfire
You may already know that bait and groper are types of fish but the rest of the dialogue is like nothing I've heard. The author of the article does not appear to be Australian nor is English his first language. It may be a story that was (mis)translated to Urdu and back again. Although, I've never been to Queensland... -
Should trump Apologize to Africa for Comments?
metalslug replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
I was born on the African continent and lived there most of my life, I'm as African as most DZcommers are American. I regard Trump's comment as being objectively offensive although I'm not offended by it because I'm sufficiently secure in my identity and I consider the source. Would an apology really give anyone satisfaction ? It's not going to change Trump's mindset on anything, he'll just be more careful in future regarding who he shares an honest opinion with. An apology in this context would be akin to "I'm sorry those comments were made public" because nobody would believe anything more sincere. -
A Chkdsk should not take more than about 4 hours even on a 1TB drive. I'm now inclined to agree with an earlier poster that your HDD is on it's way out. Cut your losses. Get a new HDD, an OS disc, your "drivers and utilities" and your backups and start fresh.
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I have never owned a Dell of any kind, so I cannot comment for sure. Most "drivers and utilities" discs are only add-ons installed after Windows. However, major manufacturers have been known to customize their versions of Windows to include their preferred drive partitioning, hardware drivers and utilities as part of the Windows installation. The easiest way to know is to put yours in and try boot from it. Does your laptop offer any other menu options during boot up ? Sometimes options briefly appear similar to "Press F12 for menu..." which may take you to some Dell recovery options. Some manufacturers such as HP create a semi-hidden partition on their laptops that contain recovery files and utilities accessible from the boot menu. It may be worth checking for that.
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It could make it worse if you have installed or updated anything significant since the last restore point. The latest hardware drivers, Windows updates, service packs, installations of MS Office or other programs installed after the restore point... Any of these things could either be gone or downgraded to an earlier version after a system restore. If you had perhaps manually created a restore point in the past when your computer was all good then system restore may be lucky to return it to that state but if you have a dodgy HDD or corrupt system files then bets are off. For a Windows Repair; The advisory regarding the Windows 7 ISO on the forums states that you would need to get the ISO for the same version as yours (Ultimate, Enterprise, Home, 32-bit, 64-bit etc.) and so you should not be using just any old Windows 7 disc for a Repair. If you're down to your last option and decide to re-install the entire OS then any version you can get your hands on will do, provided you're happy with it's features.
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I don't think a system restore is going to help you much. The Windows "system restore" is little more than a Windows registry backup; It refers to drivers, system files, settings and programs that were installed or referenced on your computer at a specific point in time (your restore point) and attempts to "re-link" the OS to those files if they still exist on your HDD. System restore cannot generally recover files that are either totally deleted or corrupted. I am assuming that you noticed in my earlier post to this link that; "If you do not have a Windows 7 installation disc you can download a free legal ISO image of Windows 7 SP1 at Windows 7 Forums" For that you will of course need another computer to download and burn approx 3.5GB to DVD, but if you are able then I believe it's your best bet. The added bonus is that if the repair doesn't work then you can use the same disc to re-install the entire OS as a last resort.
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Hm.. is that true for all values of 2 ?
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It does appear that you may have some file corruption issue. Not necessarily related to a virus, it may have resulted from a bad sector on your HDD or not shutting down correctly. For that kind of problem you will probably need to do a Windows 7 repair and for that you will need an installation disc. My Google-fu found this link to a forum that suggests steps to take. It's further down the page at "Instructions for a Windows 7 Repair installation." No 'mericans were harmed during the making of this post.