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6211
« on: November 07, 2015, 04:48:52 PM »
Why is the US still so anti-secular these days?
6212
« on: November 07, 2015, 01:29:26 PM »
Good to have you back. It gets a little lonely, being the only mod on the superior side of the world.
6213
« on: November 07, 2015, 01:27:58 PM »
He's not doing such a terrible job for a weeb.
6214
« on: November 07, 2015, 01:25:05 PM »
Glad to hear you're not fully leaving.
6215
« on: November 07, 2015, 11:34:35 AM »
I lend some credence to the notion that women as equally qualified as men can provide a different perspective to the group, making a diverse cabinet of individuals valuable than a homogeneous one.
I fully agree with this. Especially in bodies of public governance that make decisions affecting a society as a whole, it's both important and beneficial that both genders are represented. I'm just not too sure that if simply going with a mandatory 50/50 split (especially in fields where there are noticeably more male candidates) is the best or most fair solution.
6216
« on: November 07, 2015, 11:15:23 AM »
Gender quotas have always been a conflicting issue for me. On the one hand, I'm all in favor of more equality and fairness in governing areas of our society. Especially since institutions like the parliament are supposed to represent their voters and the people, it only makes sense that both genders are proportionally represented. On the other, the idea that it's very likely that generally more qualified people for a job get their application denied (or even worse, get fired) to give their position to someone less capable just because of their gender? That notion doesn't exactly sit well with me either.
6217
« on: November 07, 2015, 11:07:41 AM »
who cares
Straight white dudes that feel too threatened that other people are now gaining traction as well
Or people who have genuine concerns about fairness, perhaps.
6218
« on: November 07, 2015, 06:05:37 AM »
I use it pretty much always unless I'm quoting someone.
6219
« on: November 07, 2015, 04:03:14 AM »
At least he's still Belgian.
6220
« on: November 05, 2015, 10:02:51 PM »
US only, probably?
6221
« on: November 05, 2015, 10:01:13 PM »
Nice blog.
Thanks, friend.
Anytime, guy.
I might just take you up on that offer, buddy.
6222
« on: November 05, 2015, 09:56:30 PM »
Nice blog.
Thanks, friend.
6223
« on: November 05, 2015, 09:55:53 PM »
Many things come to mind. Classes with a 10-15% pass rate, 5 hour long exams, three exams on 4 days (all of which made up 100% of their respective grade for the year), 80 something pages of thesis written in a month, studying 2000 pages of pure joy for one exam...
6224
« on: November 05, 2015, 09:52:17 PM »
Early as shit (4 something am) because I have a train to catch at 5. Discuss the wonders of excursions and "school trips", even though this could hardly be considered one. Bored and having breakfast while waiting for time to pass, so talk to me Flood.
6225
« on: November 05, 2015, 03:12:10 PM »
No American ones, no.
6226
« on: November 05, 2015, 06:57:52 AM »
Shame. Your taste in ponies might not have been as good as mine, but it was nice having another one around.
6227
« on: November 04, 2015, 05:35:52 PM »
I don't really see this going anywhere, to be honest. At least not in this form without any very stringent safeguards.
6228
« on: November 04, 2015, 03:06:04 PM »
Holy shit, I completely forgot about that game. I used to play the demo that came on some random disc with a magazine all the time.
6229
« on: November 04, 2015, 02:32:09 PM »
At least no one's been hurt, apparently.
6230
« on: November 04, 2015, 01:55:05 PM »
I thought you were trolling until a few posts in.
6231
« on: November 04, 2015, 08:55:38 AM »
"What does it mean to fight in trials?
Flawlessness.
Only guardians understand true Flawlessness.
True Flawlessness lies in dedication, and fairplay.
Flawlessness earned, not abused.
The trials are raw crucible. The tests of true fighting skills. Those are required.
The banhammer, then, is both the sanction and the answer.
And thus, what it means, to fight in trials.
What does it mean to be a cheater?
I say, it’s all about where you belong.
Competitive players go for the wins, Casuals for the fun.
But Cheaters don’t belong online.
Trials, you wanna play?
You better have a good connection, and a good team.
A lot of us are just players. But that’s not the only path.
Some of us know the difference a lagswitch can make.
Some of us… they do DDoS. Mess up with the game.
And so, we give them a name…
Trials Cheaters.
We fight their shadows, bring them down.
Never forget the banhammer will be coming."
Give this man a job at Bungie. His writing is exactly up to the standards the've grown accustomed to.
6232
« on: November 04, 2015, 04:12:50 AM »
In my research I noticed that Belgium is one of the few countries that doesn't have a sizable right wing party. The closest thing you have to such is Vlaams Belang who seem to only have the goal of Flemish independence and don't seem to have any goals in mind beyond that; though they do share the common trait of anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, and even antisemitism of other far right parties. However like I said they seem to be extremely unpopular unanimously throughout the country even in the Flanders region. Just an observation I made that Belgium is somewhat unique in that the far right seems to be nearly extinct and not rising in response to recent immigration issues.
Yeah, the only (far) right party that we have is indeed the Vlaams Belang ("Flemish Interest") and they're pretty much dead at this point. They were a very relevant party about a decade ago, but their increasingly racist and at times even antisemitic undertones (even followed by a court conviction) drove away most of their voters to the center right parties. But the right in Belgium is still very much alive, though, with the New Flemish Alliance (center-right) even being the largest federal (and Flemish) party after last year's elections. However, they lack a lot of what other right wing parties do have. They're not anti-EU, not particularly anti-immigration, not racist or antisemitic and so on. They advocate Flemish independence and are really just economically and fiscally conservative right. I would not even be that opposed to voting for them, really. They're a sound party.
6233
« on: November 04, 2015, 03:55:08 AM »
leftist economic policies
I find that pretty hard to believe, to be honest. Sure, it's probably the case that most -right and far-right parties have conservative economic policies (UKIP), but some don't (National Front). Hell, when it comes to UKIP voters, most of them support the complete renationalisation of the railways by a wide margin.
Well, that's more or less what Slash mentioned at the start. The European right is so divided on different issues that they're far from a uniform bloc. They can have very different policies on statism, foreign relations and so on. From my experience though, a lot of them still have decidedly rightist and conservative economic policies. And I always considered FN to be pretty conservative economically. They started off being extremely pro free market and then took a turn for pretty hard protectionism. As far as I know, FN has been vocally against welfare, selective taxes and state regulation. It's true that they loosened up on those issues like a decade ago (after being hailed and even convicted for being rather racist), but that kind of goes along with what I'm saying about more leftist policies even in right wing parties. I might very well be wrong on FN's economic policies, but I always thought of them as more conservative in that aspect even though they turned more statist. I also find it hard to believe that policy has been more "left-wing" for the past couple of decades. In the UK at least, almost all of post-1980 politics has been defined in the shadow of Thatcher. Sure, we had a couple of "lefty" policies such as the introduction of the minimum wage, the renationalisation of railways under Blair and recently Osborne's implementation of a living wage, but it doesn't seem like UKIP has risen because of these things in any significant way. Especially since the Great Recession, pretty much all of Continental and British politics has been phrased in terms of austerity, fiscal overreach by prior governments, monetary restraint (not so much Britain) etc.
That is just the UK, though. But you do have a point. I think I would've been better of phrasing it as center rather left-wing. My point was mainly that while I don't think that far right parties are going to end up in the lead, there is a general cycle between leftists and rightist governance in the EU states. What it seems to me is that this is a reactionary change to center left being more dominant some years ago, to the European bureaucracy and to the increased immigration the Union now faces. In 2007, about half of the EU's population was led by the center-left. Four years afterwards, that was down to only about 15% and now we're back up to about 32%.  This is the Guardian's compilation of political orientation of heads of state and national memberships of the European Council. Red is left-wing (only present in Greece), orange is center-left, yellow is liberal, light blue is center-right, dark blue is conservative-right (only present in the UK). As you can tell, center left and right still make up most of the Union. The UK has always been a bit of an outlier, but from what I can tell, I'd still say that this constitutes a moderate shift towards the (center) right after a few years of many countries being considerably left-leaning.
6234
« on: November 03, 2015, 04:11:58 PM »
Atheist.
6235
« on: November 03, 2015, 04:09:01 PM »
(Also I really welcome some criticism if I made any mistakes, namely Flee, because while I've done quite a lot of reading on this I still feel weak on the subject.
Seems about right to me. Many have noticed more right leaning parties on the rise in Europe. I doubt that it's lasting, though. This isn't the first time that the right wing parties rose in response to increased immigration, leftist economic policies and EU bureaucracy. No way of telling what this will turn into, but I believe you're right in thinking that this does not mark the return of fascism. Also worth noting is that European right and American right are not exactly the same. Most of these parties are still pretty socially progressive on most issues. They are just generally more anti-immigration and more fiscally conservative than the left leaning parties.
6236
« on: November 03, 2015, 02:36:01 PM »
Encryption, anonimity and nemo tenetur in criminal (procedural) law.
The effects of gun control in the Western developed world from a legal perspective.
The legal protection of open source software in Belgian and Western European Law.
(In progress:) Human Rights in the law as an obstacle to the efficient combating of cybercrime.
Take your pick.
How long did those end up being? Page-wise I suppose
Never gotten the chance to read a thesis.
Encryption and gun control were rather short, sitting only at about 60 pages.
Open source software was considerably longer, coming in at around a 110 pages (not including annex and bibliography).
Human rights and cybercrime is still in its early fases (read: a random bunch of sources compiled) but it's probably going to be around a 100 too.
Unfortunately none of that large font size, spacing or double sized gaps in between lines. Times New Roman size 12, 1.5 interline with a few hundred footnotes (that don't count for word count, unfortunately).
My god I couldn't imagine writing something that long.
Do you plan on publishing anything later in life, whether it be for Academia or your own personal interest?
Well, two of my theses can be found online, one has a physical copy at the local university and academic library, and I contributed to research on Belgian cybercrime that has been part of a Deliverable for the European Commission, so there's that. But yeah, I do hope to get a PhD and get into research somewhat soon.
6237
« on: November 03, 2015, 01:06:48 PM »
Encryption, anonimity and nemo tenetur in criminal (procedural) law.
The effects of gun control in the Western developed world from a legal perspective.
The legal protection of open source software in Belgian and Western European Law.
(In progress:) Human Rights in the law as an obstacle to the efficient combating of cybercrime.
Take your pick.
Why are you doing 4 thesis?
Two were for my Bachelor's (even though one is strictly considered a seminar's thesis), the third is for my Master's and the fourth is for my specialised Master's I'm taking now.
Stop pissing about and do a PhD already jeeze
I'm hoping to in a year or two.
6238
« on: November 03, 2015, 01:05:50 PM »
Encryption, anonimity and nemo tenetur in criminal (procedural) law.
The effects of gun control in the Western developed world from a legal perspective.
The legal protection of open source software in Belgian and Western European Law.
(In progress:) Human Rights in the law as an obstacle to the efficient combating of cybercrime.
Take your pick.
How long did those end up being? Page-wise I suppose
Never gotten the chance to read a thesis.
Encryption and gun control were rather short, sitting only at about 60 pages. Open source software was considerably longer, coming in at around a 110 pages (not including annex and bibliography). Human rights and cybercrime is still in its early phases (read: a random bunch of sources compiled) but it's probably going to be around a 100 too. Unfortunately none of that large font size, spacing or double sized gaps in between lines. Times New Roman size 12, 1.5 interline with a few hundred footnotes (that don't count for word count, unfortunately).
6239
« on: November 03, 2015, 01:01:50 PM »
Encryption, anonimity and nemo tenetur in criminal (procedural) law.
The effects of gun control in the Western developed world from a legal perspective.
The legal protection of open source software in Belgian and Western European Law.
(In progress:) Human Rights in the law as an obstacle to the efficient combating of cybercrime.
Take your pick.
Why are you doing 4 thesis?
Two were for my Bachelor's (even though one is strictly considered a seminar's thesis), the third is for my Master's and the fourth is for my specialised Master's I'm taking now.
6240
« on: November 03, 2015, 12:52:53 PM »
Eh, nope?
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