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Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Wed, 25 May 2005 06:06:20 -0000

I had an uncle named Pee Wee. And my grandfather didn't even have a name, just initials.

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Wed, 25 May 2005 17:06:20 -0000

I had an uncle named Pee Wee. And my grandfather didn't even have a name, just initials.

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 07:07:12 -0000

Wow. A 4.2 GPA. Is that like a perfect GPA plus .2 extra credit? Or is it an Affirmative Actioned GPA, where you got a 3.5 and then a multiplier was added to get it to 4.2?

And I can't find conrads in the dictionary. Could you please define that, and perhaps explain the etymology?

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Sun, 12 Jun 2005 18:07:12 -0000

Wow. A 4.2 GPA. Is that like a perfect GPA plus .2 extra credit? Or is it an Affirmative Actioned GPA, where you got a 3.5 and then a multiplier was added to get it to 4.2?

And I can't find conrads in the dictionary. Could you please define that, and perhaps explain the etymology?

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:07:18 -0000

"Since the beginning of time?" I think that if you want to not have names like the tyrants who have oppressed black people since the beginning of time, you should run away from African names as quickly as possible. Hereditary slavery in America was terrible, but nothing like the literal thousands of years of slavery, murder, and pillage that African have thrust upon each other, over and over, well into modern time.

You only have to look at some beast like Mugabe, who is currently enslaving black people because they believe in a different invisible man in the sky and starving the rest to death ala Stalin to see that abusing black people is not a European peculiarity. I have a hard time seeing how a rational black person would not run from African history as fast as a white person should run from European history.

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:06:35 -0000

Uhh... If it was a real ghetto, they were all Jewish.

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:07:18 -0000

"Since the beginning of time?" I think that if you want to not have names like the tyrants who have oppressed black people since the beginning of time, you should run away from African names as quickly as possible. Hereditary slavery in America was terrible, but nothing like the literal thousands of years of slavery, murder, and pillage that African have thrust upon each other, over and over, well into modern time.

You only have to look at some beast like Mugabe, who is currently enslaving black people because they believe in a different invisible man in the sky and starving the rest to death ala Stalin to see that abusing black people is not a European peculiarity. I have a hard time seeing how a rational black person would not run from African history as fast as a white person should run from European history.

Re: Education - Study: Exotic Names Don't Make Grade For Black Students

Phelps — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:06:35 -0000

Uhh... If it was a real ghetto, they were all Jewish.

Re: Gun control?

Phelps — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:36:22 -0000

Because the state will not protect your children in that daycare. If you think that it is safe because only children are there, the people of Beslan and Dunblane would disagree.

The state has no duty to protect you or your children individually. None. The police have an obligation to pursue the criminal after you are dead, which I am sure will be amusing in whatever afterlife there is, but it still ruins your dinner plans for that weekend.

If the state has no obligation to protect me and mine, then I will handle it myself.

Re: Jerome Armstrong's Nutroots

Phelps — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:36:00 -0000

Google strikes again. The old cache has been updated with a cache from June 24, the day after this post. At best, google tries to respider a story that has a lot of cache hits. At worst, google is jumping in with the far-left and tossing things down the memory hole.

Re: A tournament that didn’t get busted

Phelps — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:15:35 -0000

Yup, played in that one last year. (Simply because I work in law and thought I might see someone there. I'm not a poker player generally.) Sponsered by the local LEO union, $100 buy in, cash prize based on number of participants.

Re: A tournament that didn’t get busted

Phelps — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:15:35 -0000

Re: Appeals Court Says Feds Need Warrants to Search E-Mail

Phelps — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:21:47 -0000

"When asked how George W. Bush could be the mastermind behind a government practice that has been ongoing for 20 years, Wired Commenter 'Thinker' replied, "He's very clever. And very stupid."

Re: Download Race: Helio Fin v. iPhone v. Sidekick v. HSDPA RAZR2

Phelps — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:44:26 -0000

9 seconds on my iPhone.

Re: Download Race: Helio Fin v. iPhone v. Sidekick v. HSDPA RAZR2

Phelps — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:46:11 -0000

Also, how about some screenshots of what the pages look like on the different devices? You could make a pretty good argument that the only one that loaded the real homepage at all was the iPhone.

Re: Guitar Wars: Activision Says Harmonix “Painting A Misleading Picture”

Phelps — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:10:40 -0000

I read it the same way. I am having a hard time seeing where Activision has the legal authority to stop them from releasing the patch, unless Activision has some sort of in with Sony.

Sony is the one who should jump in, too, because my decision to get a 360 instead of a PS3 is looking better and better every day. (And yes, I bought GH3 simply to get another controller for RB.)

Re: Guitar Wars: Activision Says Harmonix “Painting A Misleading Picture”

Phelps — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:13:50 -0000

And to be clear, I think Activision is cutting off their nose to spite their face. For a casual player, GH3 sucks rocks. (I'm selling mine back to Gamestop next time I go.) The only reason I bought it was because it came bundled with a controller that would be compatible with RB.

Re: Study: Girls Prefer 2-D Games

Phelps — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:14:07 -0000

It's fairly well known that men are likely to have more spacial awareness than women. (Yes, some women have very keen spacial awareness. Most don't.) I would presume that means that trying to figure out the metaphor for the 3D animation is more like work to them than for the boys. Since it is easier for the boys, it is less of a barrier and they are more open to the game itself. The girls are capable of playing the game, but it is supposed to be a game, not work.

Ask teh wiki.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_Visualization_Ability

Re: Early Riser - Magazine - The Atlantic

Phelps — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:39:13 -0000

No, a commodity-based currency is not a valid mechanism, any more than a rain-based currency or a Reality-TV based currency. The Fed bases the currency supply on the actual value of America. Going to a commodity-based currency puts the monetary supply in the hands of miners instead (or whoever is producing the commodity of choice).

And for all the people who think that the gold system is heaven for savers, you are free to buy all the gold certificates and gold coins you want right now. If you invested everything in gold in 1980, then you would be a pauper now. If you invested in 1990, you would have had almost no growth. It is only when you are looking at short (2-7 year) cycles that gold looks good.

Re: Inside Rock Band’s New In-Game Music Store

Phelps — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:26:17 -0000

It will tell me a lot about their philosophy if they have made it so that you can't accidentally rebuy a song you have already loaded. (I haven't yet, but I think that is a major flaw.)

Re: on matters of steak

Phelps — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:42:05 -0000

I actually handle things exactly opposite. I start with a rocket hot skillet, sear one side properly, and then put the whole thing in a 225 oven for about 10 minutes, or until I get 128 in the center, and pull it to let carryover take it to 132-136 (aka, medium rare.)

One tip -- kosher the steak while you are letting it come to room temp. Put piles and piles of kosher salt on. That will draw some of the water soluble proteins to the surface. It isn't true aging, but it tastes pretty close. Just scrape the salt off before you cook it. Between having this on the top to speed the Maillard reaction, and having less carryover time (and therefore a shorter rest) is the reason I sear first, then put it in the oven.

Re: on matters of steak

Phelps — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:56:44 -0000

To be clear, I sear one side, flip it, and then put it in the oven (without waiting for that side to sear on the burner.)

Re: John Wiley Price, You've Been Schooled

Phelps — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:30:00 -0000

Does his record on the website mention pulling Uzis on peace officers too?

Re: Your ‘conspiracy theory’ is my blood and flesh

Phelps — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:56:35 -0000

This is the fundamental disconnect that I think this country is seeing highlighted right now. I agree that covert testing on foster children is horrible and stupid. The government does horrible and stupid things more often than not (which is why I am libertarian and want to get rid of as much of the government as possible.)

But how do you make the leap from "the government tested drugs on black, latino and white foster children" to "the US created AIDS in an effort to exterminate black people as a race"? These really are night and day. In one case, you have stupid people doing something stupid that they at least think will help the people they are experimenting on. In the other, you have premeditated plan for genocide. The two are not comparable in most people's minds.

Re: Your ‘conspiracy theory’ is my blood and flesh

Phelps — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:24:25 -0000

I wonder about government intentions, but more often than not, sloth and stupidity are a better explanation than malice. Tuskegee and the eugenic sterilization happened to powerless victims. Black people are no longer powerless in America. It is like when they asked Willie Sutton why he robbed banks. "That's where the money is." Tuskegee happened to black men because they were powerless more than simply because they were black.