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Serious / Re: Opinions on the raising of children by same-sex parents?
« on: March 03, 2016, 10:22:08 AM »
The justice system prescribes laws, and crimes only exist in the parameters of those laws, so the justice system is responsible for all crime.

The system is only responsible for the crime if all actions are determined, at which point any attempt at justice is completely arbitrary and morality is a farce.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/movies/jj-abrams-takes-steps-to-lift-diversity-in-filmmaking.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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“What we realized was, it has to be a systematic approach,” of asking for diverse crews and artists, he said in an interview with Charles Duhigg, a reporter for The New York Times.

“The Oscar issue was symptomatic of a problem; it wasn’t the problem,” Mr. Abrams added. “The Oscars is the last stop on the train. The first stop is what gets made.”

Mr. Abrams, a writer, producer and the director of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” sent a memo last week to studios and agents announcing a new policy at his production company, Bad Robot, requiring that any lists of writers, directors, actors and others to be considered for a project should “be at the very least representative of the country we live in. Which roughly breaks down to: 50 percent women, 12 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Asian.”

There's more commentary in the article. What're your thoughts on this? I sympathize with the desire many here feel to hire only the most qualified, but if it's demonstrable that bias in favor of white males prevents others from gaining the experience necessary to be the most qualified, I don't see an issue with affirmative action in this case. And at the end of the day, he can hire whomever he wants.

Edit: To clarify the title, the article specifies that those considered for roles or jobs should be proportional, not necessarily resulting in total proportionality.

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The Flood / Re: How do you eat Cereal?!
« on: March 02, 2016, 08:16:30 PM »
Pouring milk before the cereal is insanity.

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The Flood / Re: Anti Virus and Virus Scan?
« on: March 02, 2016, 10:52:47 AM »
MSE is good, along with Malwarebytes.

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Serious / Re: John Oliver's Donald Trump segment
« on: March 02, 2016, 10:41:23 AM »
18 minutes of well-reasoned arguments and then the last three minutes were just shitting on his ancestor's last name, basically just insulting his fans' intelligence.

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Serious / Re: Super Tuesday Thread: March 1st, 2016
« on: March 01, 2016, 06:03:31 PM »
Clinton vs. Trump 2016 confirmed

The end times are truly upon us. Let us pray.

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The Flood / Re: Let's talk about cuddling instead of sex
« on: March 01, 2016, 06:01:42 PM »
Sex is just high-intensity cuddling.

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The Flood / Re: make some pros and cons about yourself
« on: March 01, 2016, 02:04:00 PM »
Pros  :)
  • Is a turkey
Cons  :(
  • Is hurtful

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The Flood / Re: Who would win in a fight between Hillary and Bernie?
« on: March 01, 2016, 01:18:59 PM »
Hillary would lose but then throw a staff member under the bus for the failure.

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The Flood / Re: About To Start The ACT
« on: March 01, 2016, 10:16:33 AM »
It's really useless in the long run.

I got an extra $3k per year in scholarships and admission into an honors college because of my ACT scores.

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Serious / Re: Conservative artists?
« on: February 29, 2016, 08:15:09 PM »
I think most art mediums are dominated by liberal/progressive people because art is all about doing new things and exploring new areas, which isn't exactly in line with conservative thinking.

It's absolutely shocking how many intelligent, reasonable people believe this rhetoric.

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 09:47:46 PM »
"Blacks deserve equal respect in fi- LOL CHINKS ARE GOOD AT MATH AND BUILT YOUR IPHONES"

Chris Rock, everybody.

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 09:24:51 PM »
RIP the stream, gotta find new one....again....

I stayed with it and it works fine now.

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 09:04:16 PM »
Ex MACKINA

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:44:57 PM »
Emmanuel Lubezki is god-tier, so it's okay. I still think Hateful Eight deserved it for reviving the road show, though.


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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:26:44 PM »
What the fuck is Jared Leto even wearing?

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:14:44 PM »
Got another stream. What did I miss?

bruh

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:06:42 PM »
The one by Freshtv1? Try looking it up on Youtube search, says there's 173k people watching right now.

EDIT: And they just cut me.

FUCK ABC.

Blocked by Disney. How are you watching it?

Yeah, your link doesn't work for me.

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:03:18 PM »
Here, but it's very quiet but that may just be my shitty monitor.

YouTube


Link plz

Blocked by Disney. How are you watching it?

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:00:41 PM »
Ugh, I got a good stream on Youtube but it's so fucking quiet and I have the volume all the way up.

Link plz

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The Flood / Re: Oscars 2016 thread
« on: February 28, 2016, 04:26:15 PM »
If Hateful Eight doesn't win the cinematography award, none of it matters. Star Wars doesn't deserve any wins.

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The Flood / Re: Interstellar was more human than 2001
« on: February 28, 2016, 11:01:09 AM »
2001 was about the species as a whole, Interstellar was about the individual.

Yeah, this is right. Interstellar isn't even in the same league as 2001, though, and it's definitely wrong to consider Interstellar as a counterpoint to 2001. They're not two sides of the same coin just because Interstellar was narrower in scope and had a black hole scene.

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Serious / Re: Conservative artists?
« on: February 28, 2016, 09:05:24 AM »
Country music, less so on the pop-country side, is the musical embodiment of typical Southwestern conservativism.

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The Flood / Re: Tomorrow I'm going to make the best smoothie ever
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:30:30 AM »
Cleanses aren't real, just eat clean.

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The Flood / Re: Interstellar was more human than 2001
« on: February 28, 2016, 08:12:48 AM »
Interstellar was good, but it was like the Kidz Bop version of 2001.

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The Flood / Re: MOD BIAS REEEEEEEEEEE
« on: February 27, 2016, 11:28:55 PM »
It is pretty hypocritical to repeatedly say he has no expectation or need for privacy, and then bait Kupo with those PMs.

But all forum drama is retarded. Stop acting like toddlers.

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The Flood / Re: You swipe right and get matched
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:18:33 PM »


Dinosaurs are really into fisting, according to Chris Pratt.

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The Flood / Re: The South isn't racist
« on: February 27, 2016, 10:09:49 PM »
The Heartland and Midwest are probably more racist, tbh fam
Bloody Kansas was some shit, man. People getting hacked up with goddamn swords.

Well even today, just look at where all the race riots, ghettos, black slums or most of the high-profile police shootings of unarmed black guys are located...not the south, that's for sure. There's no rap about being "straight outta Lafayettville".

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