Wow, that is bad... How many hours have you used it, on a guess?

That's the similar thing as the nuclear umbrella. Nobody can ensure whether or not if you launch a nuke off a planet then none won't hit back one of yours. In the same way, Russia could have nuked any of the European countries with the uncertainty that the US would have retailed on Russian lands.

The interesting question I have is this. What if one country colonizes a planet, controls it completely, and prospers? What reason would they have to no longer stay true to the "I won't fire my nukes if you don't fire yours" rule?

Because they could spark old hatreds once more. And they would have complete immunity to the repurcussions because they control another world. We couldn't lob nukes over to mars in precision strikes. Not fast enough anyway.

Consider that little question.

I've said to Cheat before, and I'll also say this here; it's too early for Sep7agon to go down the donation route.

I'm starting to think that maybe you should just go with the donation route to pay for the site.

No, Spec Ops is also a direction I would like to avoid.

Like a WW2 era Spec Ops: The Line?

How do you mean?

That kind of thing is where it becomes a waste of money. Everything you described. It's over-saturated.

That's an interesting choice because of the classes involved, and employment-wise it can lead you to a few interesting places, too.

Lucky for me, I ended up not caring what people say and became a history major. I could do this at just about any accredited school in the nation.

As I said, it's a matter of being respectful, not necessarily offensive. Anyhow, I do agree, over time things tend to improve, and there are incidents, and what concerns me is the number of unreported incidents from both women and specially men who are pressed by society in different manners not to share these things.

There's a real reason as I think people who hate on either gender are getting us nowhere. The game changers are people who put effort, not only to tackle the societal limitations, but also the legislations and established beliefs  that confront against a society that strives to improve.

However, even the stupidest things out there, and pointless ones have a basis, and the difficulty is to grasp that basis first and then understand the core issue, and not the outlying nonsense around it. The core issue that some people feel to express their anger through the idea that is feminism is a clear sign that as a society we still have many walls to tackle.

It's a mess we are carrying from past generations, and a mess that people will carry in the future. It was made by misconception, stereotypes, half-truths, religions and seclusion. Those are things that tie us down, not only when it comes to the fact of your gender, nationality, or race, but also as humans as a whole.

Feminism... Women's rights in general is a battle on many fronts. You can pick up issues from schools, to workplaces, to religious groups to the wide picture of a country's society and culture. Sometimes, some people use the wrong means to express their concern and intent, and I agree that those are things that tie us into a slower development.

There's something to say about everything, and also there are plenty of women that do not really feel the issues either, nor care about them or can't perceive them. So it's also an "inside" battle of sorts, which at the end of the day it leaves nothing, but either hope or disappointment. Because something good happened, or something bad happened that makes you worry for the future, and others.

I don't know about other males, but I certainly wouldn't be offended if you called them "boys." I don't see the point in getting caught up in semantic arguments about word association.

Yes, it is a problem. Catcalling is annoying for people who have to deal with it. The men who continue to publicly harass women in that manner clearly have warped views of ethics and morality, but they're outliers. We're working hard as a culture to ingrain the idea that everyone has a right to their sovereignty, and overall we're doing a pretty damn good job.

Ok, I might be nitpicking now, but you did call grown ass men as men, and now you are talking about grown ass women as girls? Seriously? How do you really expect people to take you seriously with that kind of obvious bias?

I wonder what the ratio of "men who harassed her" to "men who went about their business and didn't give a shit" was. Jessica Williams did a similar bit on the Daily Show about a month back. In such a densely populated urban area as New York, with such a large sample size of men, you're bound to catch a few catcallers.

Now, I get where the girls are coming from- being harassed in any way is annoying. But this is much less of a problem than people like to pretend it is.

Look carefully. When she's told "good evening" the tone is slightly teasing, and his eyes are sizing her breasts up. That's the harassment. It's not disturbing when it happens once, or maybe twice, but when it happens too many times during a day when you are just walking down the street, going to work, in work, or going back home, that's what happens.

It also happens on Sep7agon, but in a much relaxed manner which doesn't really cause any issues.

It's been a few days since I've watched it, but from what I remember the hellos and good evening/afternoon/mornings seemed to be your average everyday ones. Were there instances of harassment in this video? Yes, definitely, but from what I recall those instances I'm talking about weren't it.

That's the card I am ready to play any time it's necessary.

When I was in High School and had these group projects.. I told the group.. Don't do anything! I'll do it all and I won't fuck up your grade. They listened and we'd usually walk away with a mid 90 at worst.

Study minimally? Please, don't get it wrong. I study the whole semester minimally. That's the big difference. You set your own priorities, and if your priority is to just have a merry time with your parent's money then it's your call, the reason my parents are shelling money for me is so I can actually get a degree, and maybe anything good that comes with it.

I can't actually study more than an hour or two consecutively, so I do that during the weekends, or days without classes, and due to taking notes and following up to anything that might be unclear to me then I can be successful in my classes, because when you crack how school works then you just do the same thing repetitively.

Things like Playing Baseball and joining a frat were a higher priority than studying. I wish I did have the time to study, just couldn't make the time.

And now in grad school I would love to study 24/7. I mean right now I think I have something like a 40 in one of my classes. But work and parenting prevent me from studying, it blows.

I'm just saying, you should feel lucky you can study minimally and still do great. I wish I had those brains.

Yeah, you don't "study your ass" when you work the last days before an exam or final. Also, you can study at some points, but means taking time off other things. For someone like me who doesn't care about a social life altogether, I do find myself with plenty of time.

Usually the few days leading up to an exam/final.

I mean most people can't study all year round.

I already do that, and I started doing it years ago. When we tackle SQL and we talk about functions in MySQL and Oracle SQL it's all stuff I did back in 2008, it just comes back to me. Yeah, maybe there's some new stuff and some details, but those are really specific things that you can find out by yourself even in a work environment from someone else, or from your own experience.

The biggest challenge I am facing currently is writing a 2D engine from scratch. Which later I will attempt to transform into a full blown 3D engine. However, if I start talking about that with another student or professor then there won't be any fruitful conversation. Hasn't occurred to me yet, at least.

Or, accelerate things.

Learn on your own. Challenge yourself.

Moved it to Serious.

Maybe it's not challenging because you're too damn good at it!

I also think this should belong in Serious

I am at the second year of my studies, but it feels wholly pointless. There are nice things, the place's great, the people are nice, and the professors quite good and supportive to strive to do more work...

But it's also filled with moronic idiots that I'd rather wipe my hands with them before even dealing with them, the students from the US tend to be mostly stereotypical and always within in their social circles meanwhile they spout some nonsense about getting out of your comfortable area when they have a huge student loan to pay their "vacation" to a semester in a US college in Greece.

The Greek students... There are two kinds of them; those who do study, and the huge number of people who are there, drinking coffee in the cafeteria and wasting their parent's money at a private institution. Without having some kind of realistic ambition, interest in a craft or maybe talent in some cases. (The lot of them also get quite a huge number of financial aid, too)

I'll sound like a bitch, but I do have talent, I do have interest in what I do and I love it, but college is just making me more arrogant as the assignments feel like leg work. They are not challenging, and it feels idiotic to do "group assignments" just to deal with the fact that the other person will fuck up things and whatever happens I will have to gather the pieces to put things back together. The programming course was in Java, it was nice, but there was no challenge there either.

I want challenge, I want the brutal kind of challenge with competition, and to actually feel the A slapped onto my courses worth my time and effort. Whenever I am slapped with a grade, it only leaves a bad taste, a sense of disappointment and lack of achievement.

What's the point? It's not challenging, it feels like legwork, and it lacks any kind of fascination as the challenge didn't get any good after my first year. Whenever I talk about video game development I am met with lack of expertise, interest and misunderstanding.

Alright. Tell me the amount of time I should ban myself for.