Quebec's education minister quits after the 14 weeks long student strike

slawnwater · 9 days

They obviously know how good they have it, since they fought to get it and are fighting to keep. And they'll keep fighting even when those who have a shitty deal want to see them torn down to their sorry state.

NotYourGuy · 10 days

I use Haxe in FlashDevelop on Virtualbox running Windows on my Linux (Peppermint) netbook.

Haxe targets just about everything, so I can test my game in Linux or Windows. You can also use Eclipse in linux instead of FlashDevelop, but the latter seems to be more commonly used for Haxe, so I figured it would be easier to set up and learn by going with the most common approach. I may give it a shot in Eclipse later on.

It's only been a couple months so far and I'm loving Haxe.

DontCallMeJR · 10 days

It's going to space, can you give it a second!

givegodawedgie · 13 days

You could beam up a pig and re-materialise another Riker.

ALTRUISM_IS_WRONG · 14 days

Ignorance and blind optimism with exclamation points. Yes, America is much nicer than countries it has bombed, conquered, fought proxy wars in and exploited.

Even with ignoring the reasons and the history of why the US is a nicer place to live than the world's slums and battlefields, there is still value in understanding the opportunities and advantages one has in being there than those alternatives. Blind optimism is not the best way, especially when that medical problem that should have been covered by your insurance bankrupts your family, or when your major clients move to China, or your military clients close up shop because the unnecessary wars have slowed, or maybe you get fired one day because your company doesn't need a valid reason to do so.

Blaming Obama for all your problems is just as infantile as exclaiming that "you can BE the president!"

tl;dr: Yes you'd be better off in the US than in Laos, Iraq, Mexico or Chile but that's because of what the US has done to the other nations and their people. Even still, you'd probably be better off in Canada.

CS-NL · 15 days

And you still believe something is true because it's found in a management textbook? Safe to assume their both business degrees of some sort?

CS-NL · 15 days

It's a true story, it was in one of my management textbooks.

Your degree is worthless. You may earn lots of money because of your degree.

TheNosferatu · 20 days

It's definitely a good suggestion. Imagine you aren't making a game, but are designing a spaceship's user interface. How would you represent the identically inconvenient reality in that situation? And if you keep the UI code separate from the simulation code, you can represent the 'reality' in multiple ways and allow the player to swap between them at will (or have multiple views up at once).

subvertc · 22 days

The revolution is going to take a very, very long time. Best make sure you have a few laughs along the way.

bigavz · 24 days

games like d&d aren't racist...

races such as ____ are consummate evil...

I think that's the whole point.

ReddEdIt · 25 days

violence through economic policies, the war on drugs, poverty, etc

The war on drugs is one of literal violence and oppression.

ReddEdIt · 25 days

Both of those movements involved significant violent resistance. Much like how people have tried to paint the Egyptian uprising as non-violent, this was the goal, just as with Martin Luther King Jr.

By whitewashing history to pretend that non-violence is all there was and all that was needed the State has succeeded in turning would-be armies of revolutionaries into mere annoyances. This is essentially the answer to your original question.

Btw, that list includes non-violent protests that ended in tragedy as well as those that were part of a greater whole (as were your examples).

ReddEdIt · 25 days

How many non-violent movements can you name that have wrested power from the oppressors? In a discussion I had on reddit a while back regarding US movements, we came up with only one; women's suffrage, and that took 70 years to succeed.

Linsatiable · 28 days

Get him to bust you out of there.

Speteor · 28 days

here.

kazin420 · 1 month

Your job regardless of what your description is, is to be helpful.

Just like when something goes wrong at home, it's your employer's responsibility to advance you some extra money, give you time off without stress or hassle or give you a ride in when your car breaks down. If your employer does these things, they are awesome and you should reciprocate. If they do not, then your sentimentality is being abused and you are a sucker.

It's the same thing as people sticking with underwater mortgages, because keeping your agreements and paying off your debt are "the right things to do." While on the other hand the bank will happily foreclose and take your home if it can and if someone feels it's a better (or at least easier) financial decision for the company.

When it comes to your job and your business relationships, you should only care as much as you are being cared for.

</a boss>

AbiteMolesti · 1 month

The oil is flowing via the open market and OPEC quotas are no longer adhered to in Iraq. The wide array of foreign corporations involved in the process ensures that there will be plenty of oil available for whomever can afford it. Nothing was "given back to them", unless by "them" you mean wealthy Iraqi businessmen and corrupt politicians who are happy to sell everything to the highest bidder.

As long as your country does not withhold any of its resources for political reasons (either internal or external) then the US is content.

*To look at it from the other direction - even if Exxon-Mobil had secured 100% of Iraqi oil contracts it would not mean that the US had stolen their oil or that the US government would have any control over the pricing or ultimate use of the oil.

AbiteMolesti · 1 month

Why did anyone have to?

AbiteMolesti · 1 month

Wresting control of oil from an OPEC nation into the hands of Western countries is a victory, as having troops stationed in several OPEC nations. "Because of oil" does not mean that an invaded country has its oil stolen from the ground and pumped into the gas tanks of the victors, but is a long term strategy that has more to do with the pushback against embargo of 1973 and ensuring access to a vital resource that the US and partners require to maintain dominance.

AbiteMolesti · 1 month

Yeah, as if trucks can fly or something!

ReddEdIt · 1 month

slavery was already outlawed by the time my family got here.

"I'm not racist because my ancestors were late to the party." ;)

ReddEdIt · 1 month

Just keep in mind your the horrors of your own culture, whatever that may be. None of them are clean, and all the powerful nations on the planet are guilty of many worse things than marrying 9 year olds (such as killing countless thousands of children in bogus wars with no prosecution of the perpetrators calling the shots).

Criticism of one's religion or culture is a bitter pill when coming from someone who believes their own to be a shining example to the unwashed heathens of the world.

Goodguyscumbag · 1 month

Buy high, sell low.

I really think you've answered your own question.

A_Simple_Gentleman · 1 month

Then he'd be paying 401k penalties plus mortgage interest. Certainly better than getting foreclosed upon with 90% equity, but still qualifies as a last resort kind of move.

Daaaaaaaay-o · 1 month

I know it's wrong and believe me it's a battle I constantly fight with him.

Some battles cannot be won. This is one of them. He ain't ever gonna change and things can only get worse - especially if/when there are kids.

ReddEdIt

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