Sluthate is a troll site like Landover Baptist or Flat Earth Society. Don't take it too seriously.

That's awesome, man. I'm glad to hear you're going to be okay.

So is this gonna be a thing? Just pasting articles from Halo Archive here?

Alrighty, on topic. Fall of Reach is easily one of the worst sci-fi books I've ever read. Yeah it's fun to get a bit of Halo backstory, but Nylund is such an abysmal writer that it's hard to read them as an adult (originally read it in fifth grade, which is about where it pegs on terms of complexity and quality). The characters are boring cardboard archetypes with no outstanding qualities, and almost no depth is given to any ethical discussion surrounding the Spartan program (and I'd argue that it still hasn't been developed).

In Nylund's credit he wrote the book in only a few months and didn't have much of a framework to go off of, but if you're reading a Halo book it's because you found the Wikipedia entry a bit too dry, not because you want good sci-fi.

Alrighty Sep7agon, as you may know most of my close friends are pretty hardcore liberals, so I've been seeing this stuff floating around social media today. Apparently some high school girl got sent home because of what she was wearing, pictured here:Here's a quote from a family member:

Today, my sister was sent home from school for wearing the clothes in the picture below. And I'm sorry but I have to stand up for my family and for women who are degraded and judged for their bodies and clothing everyday. People wonder why women feel insecure about their bodies or what they wear.. And it's beause you're told your clothing is inappropriate when you're completely fully clothed, even when you're not showing cleavage or anything. How about instead of body shaming women, school systems should start teaching 15-18 year old boys to stop degrading women with their eyes and contributing to the rape culture of today's society. Bottom line, girls cannot go to school in comfortable clothes THAT COVER EVERYTHING because school systems are afraid that hormonal boys won't be able to control their eyes and minds. And that is such a bigger problem than worrying about clothing. No, I do not believe that all boys in middle school/high school degrade young women or sexualize their bodies. That is my point.. this is not an inappropriate outfit, yet some are worried it might be seen that way, so they send girls home to change to try to avoid an issue and THAT is the problem.

And then another response:



So I have no idea what the school's dress code is, though let's say, hypothetically, that it generally bans leggings. Without sexualizing this person in any way, my opinion would be that leggings are basically tights and therefore aren't really an appropriate substitution for pants, even when mostly covered by a shirt. The second picture equates yoga pants with Under Armor shirts, though I think the analogy fails if you compare apples to apples and put a picture of a guy in compression shorts next to it. I think most sane people would agree it's inappropriate for a guy to wear compression shorts by themselves in an academic setting. In athletics it's fine, and if you look at uniforms from cheerleading to volleyball you can see that schools in general allow these types of clothes for those specific uses.

So the question I pose to you is if you think this is an unfair reaction by the school, and whether a dress code is really a result of body shaming or boys "degrading women with their eyes" and more of a policy to keep school at least a partially professional environment.

Kind of legitimizes Master Chief's "new" armor design.

Did they ever officially explain that? I thought the nanobots angle got debunked.

Hi, I'm Fred. Nope this is possibly one of the shittiest Spartan names ever.

The whole group sounds like they're in an old sitcom or something.

Anger, present an argument about why it's wrong. All you're doing is saying "you're wrong, I'm right" over and over.

In my engineering capstone course (semester or year-long group project applying your lessons), we had a guy that literally did nothing. On the last day when we were set to present to the class, we were preparing in a computer lab beforehand and he had signed onto the computer we were using. We finished the project, and since he was logged on he said he'd email it to each of us so we could load it up in the class. So he did that, logged off, then we went to class. We got there, and 5 minutes before our presentation he realized that he didn't attach the file, and since it was a public university computer it didn't save the data after logging off. Literally our entire presentation was gone.

And that's the day I almost murdered a man.

Except the PATRIOT Act is/was a violation of Constitutional rights no matter how you want to spin it, and it's continuation an ongoing violation of our rights. Given that, the NSA is on illegal bounds with the Constitution and it should not stand.

See, you can have a personal opinion on whether something should be legal or not, but whether the PATRIOT Act is currently legal is without question. It's been upheld by the Supreme Court. To say that what they're doing is illegal is to willfully ignore this fact. Stating its legality is in no way tantamount to saying it is right, or should exist. And the privacy issues aren't even very significant, in my opinion. I think the way they handled metadata demonstrated that they're actively trying to protect privacy. It can be argued that the FISA court is too liberal in its issuing of warrants, but that has yet to be demonstrated to any significant degree, and the point remains that as part of the contract all customers agree to upon using communication services, very little of what you transmit actually belongs to you; rather, it's the property of the carriers.

It's easy to defame this as insipid violations of privacy, yet we're more than happy to agree to this in contracts to use the latest and greatest technology. You can't stand on a soapbox and claim the sanctity of your cell phone data while demanding to have near unlimited access to channels of communication and information. Oliver's example is hardly relevant, too. It's not that the NSA is digging for dick pics, it's that they're autonomously sifting through billions of messages to connect links of terrorist information networks, taking that link to a court to be evaluated, then upon issuance of a warrant they finally have access to actually see that data. And at the end of the day, to say that the most important revelation from Snowden's leaks is the ability of the NSA to obtain communications records, something that police have been able to do through the exact same methods for decades, is to completely miss the significance of all the terrorist surveillance programs he compromised.

I got to blow up a car with C4 last summer. That was pretty sweet.

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Dime a dozen? What's the last prominently and (cautiously) promising cancer "cure" you've heard of?

Specifically regarding viruses combating cancer? Measles, HIV, and herpes for starters.

Did they produce the same kind of promising results as this has in Phase 1?

Yes. The point is that there's really not much to discuss here. I read the article, thought it was interesting, then left the thread.

Link results then, I'm curious to see about those.

You're welcome to do your own research into it, but I'm not your personal source of data. I recommend the American Journal of Medicine.

Some detail on his platform:

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Rand_Paul.htm

Good on some issues, iffy on many others. I wish we'd see some socially liberal/economically conservative politicians in the mix.

Can't beat the Dragon of the West.

Full episode. Skip to 15:00.

So a bit of humor up front, but I feel like John asked some poignant questions that a lot of people would have liked to ask. He didn't just pander to either side, though I feel like he could've hit harder. He frequently cut off Snowden from explaining himself to put on the mask of a typical dumb American that doesn't care about technical answers.

I would've preferred an actual journalist do the interview, though. John put too much time into making it funny instead of asking about the real controversy behind his actions. Ultimately, half the interview is about dick pic analogies and it feels like he's wasting everyone's time.

It now falls on a British holiday, so they want that to boost sales. In addition, they probably expect the overseas hype to make opening weekend in the U.S. even more profitable.