Godammed SDN

[adr-admin]

Get ur fill of sci-fi, science, and MOCKERY OF STUPID PEOPLE

[Zod]

There's two components to "the affairs of other boards" rule. The first is (was) the ban on making threads to snipe at other boards, which honestly was mostly to keep the peace between SDN and SB in the early days of the board. While I don't think it's generally good or healthy for a majority of a board's traffic to be about other boards (he says, on Testingstan, in this thread), I don't think there's any reason "don't talk about other boards" should be a general principle, either. I don't see it as being much different from a thread that made fun of, say, Darkstar's website, or a dumb conservative's blog. If the target deserves it, then have at it--and HPCA definitely deserves it.

The second is part of a broader, longstanding policy that people shouldn't be punished on SDN for things they say and do elsehwere on the Internet, unless what they do elsewhere directly impacts SDN. Now, that doesn't mean you have to pretend that whatever they said elsewhere doesn't matter. You can use what they say elsewhere as evidence of intent, for example, which is what just happened with ADR. You can take issue with how ADR's statements here were used against him on SDN in this particular case, but there isn't and has never been some kind of blanket rule that you can't take someone's statement's elsewhere as evidence he or she intends to break the rules on SDN.

You can lump these two ideas together under the same broad category, but I don't think it's being inconsistent to say "You can make fun of other boards here, but we won't punish you for things you say elsewhere on the Internet". I don't see any logical reason why you can't have both policies. And as far as the first one goes, while I've said for a while (both here, in public on SDN, and in the mod forum) that I think the administration makes unnecessary trouble for itself by not communicating clearly, if a rule hasn't been enforced in years and isn't in the official board policies anymore (the AR, ID, and DR rule list), it's really not fair to call its continued nonenforcement "inconsistent".

You'd think they'd wait until someone actually breaks the rules instead of just jumping on the first post they don't like and going "AHA!".

[starku]

even mike hung shit on people for their HPCA hypocrisy

but now it's just a team of people two disinterested or busy to administer so...

[Veef]

Get ur fill of sci-fi, science, and MOCKERY OF STUPID PEOPLE

[Aaron]

Well Rob has a little guy so no wonder.

[starku]

my local policeman is really busy too

i'm happy he complains about it all the time as he selects crimes to prevent

[Aaron]

Well dude, i think its time the intellectual crucible died.

[starku]

i told you forums don't die

well unless the owner gets cross and takes them down

they just become stagnant rather than vibrant, looking backwards instead of forward, obsessed with challenge instead of facing challenge, destroying instead of producing, etc

like life really

i guess we'd call it 'emo' :V

[Veef]

so is SDN gonna start combing its hair weird and doing the finger guns like Toby McGuire in Spiderman 3

[Flagg]

so is SDN gonna start combing its hair weird and doing the finger guns like Toby McGuire in Spiderman 3

There was no Spiderman 3.

[starku]

man connor had another change of mind with his bizarre obsession with 40k
brace yourself for another 50 threads

[xon]

Ugh, I need to stop posting in that Income Inequality thread.

What are you talking about, and what does this have to do with income distribution


LOLOL

How am I suposed to reply to him without decending into a pointless nitpicking war when the guy demonstrates he doesn't understand wealth vs income?!

[Losonti Tokash]

i just don't engage, i have limited resources that could be better used on people who are receptive

[adr-admin]

Play numbers: net assets vs annual income. It's a pretty flat line through the middle class.

[Veef]

man connor had another change of mind with his bizarre obsession with 40k
brace yourself for another 50 threads

he ruined LoGH right

[starku]

no that was vympel

[Veef]

hatch disappears on ship turret

liquid metal hulls

[Phantasee]

but mercury poisoning

[starku]

logh just takes place in an area of space with a very high level of ambient light

OBVIOUSLY

[Veef]

the Spartanians are so cool

[uraniun235]

the Spartanians are so cool

i love that they have the same rear exhaust design as the big starships

[adr-admin]

hahaha i could probably post virtually anything and be accussed of trolling

amazing

[xon]

Play numbers: net assets vs annual income. It's a pretty flat line through the middle class.

That would work.

I was also thinking of demonstrating that the gini index is naive as it uses "just" mean income with some bucketting and is very vulnerable to bucket sizing as well as outliers, but that requires understanding maths which might be a little hard for someone who appears to be having problems with the simple definition of income vs wealth.

But, it appears to be quite pointless.

hahaha i could probably post virtually anything and be accussed of trolling

amazing

That thread is horrible.

[adr-admin]

and now i'm contributing to it going even further downhill


stats aint my strong suit but there's no need to even get into that shit

[xon]

Yes, before hitting stats the debate needs to move past simple addition & subtraction.

I'm expecting my ref (http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html) to be called out for some stupid reason. It's actually remarkably hard to find historical wealth distribution info for the USA.