Dharun Ravi gets.... 30 DAYS? Oh. Really?

[JKellyMap]

@Lemur866

My point is, there’s a big difference between using your own computer set up in a shared living space, and sneaking into someone’s private living space to plant a camera.

To record someone surreptitiously, you mean? You’re kidding, right?

What other heinous acts would you find okay just because the perpetrator happens to share a living space with you?

[carnivorousplant]

@mister_nyx

there is no style guide in the world that treats three periods in a row with no spaces as an ellipsis.

And I’ve a MInSc!
Fight my ignorance, where does the space go?

Thanks!

[not_what_you_d_expect]

@Clothahump

No. You’re comparing apples and oranges. The rock throwing incident is illegal to start with. I’m not sure the taping was. It most assuredly was not a hate crime.

Tyler Clementi made voluntary choices. No one forced him to kill himself. He made that choice by himself alone. And frankly, I have no sympathy for him. Suicide is a coward’s way out in almost all cases. He chose to kill himself instead of saying "Dude, give me a copy of that tape - I’m gonna use it for advertising!!', thereby turning the prank around and rubbing Ravi’s face in it.

Tyler was still a young man and he was likely having one of his first sexual experiences. Add to that the fact that it was a same sex encounter, which is frowned on by an awful lot of society.

I think you’re being terribly unfair to him.

[billfish678]

@mister_nyx

It’s fine that you’re uneducated; that doesn’t indicate any failing on your part. But any adult of normal intelligence is entirely capable of not making the sort of errors you made.

Hint, some people here, me included, don’t give a rat’s ass about perfectly written posts. We treat this place more as an informal chat room. If the post in question is understandable that is good enough for us. We save our perfect work for peer reviewed journals, the work place, or our articles for National Geographic. Harping on someone’s writing errors just indicates you don’t have anything substantial to say about the actual subject at hand.

[Jackknifed_Juggernaut]

@mister_nyx

I don’t know about tests of intelligence, dude…

Clearly. Smart people in the 21st century typically understand the difference between writing something on a message board vs. writing a term paper. We even use in lieu of “I am smiling”. You should get a hobby once you pass your GED.

[Clothahump]

@mister_nyx

The whole bit about the bullying victim who has absolutely no sympathy for anyone else who was also a bullying victim sort of reminds me of the fact that children who are abused are disproportionately likely to grow up and abuse their children. It would appear this is a very common phenomenon.

Your statement reminds me of the fact that people who post statements like yours are total assholes. It would appear this is a very common phenomenon.

Jesus fucking Christ. Do you really expect everyone to climb on the whine wagon with you? I simply point out that Clementi made a series of piss-poor decisions and all of a sudden, assholes like you are all over me for daring to not join in on the pity party. Fuck off.

[gamerunknown]

Someone pointed out that a similar incident with Erin Andrews earned the perpetrator 30 months in jail. Some obvious differences, but not to the tune of the crime being thirty times as heinous.

[Condescending_Robot]

He didn’t make a “choice” to have a disease. That’s an idiotic thing to say.

[mister_nyx]

@carnivorousplant

And I’ve a MInSc!
Fight my ignorance, where does the space go?

Thanks!

Well, we were taught in school to intersperse spaces with periods . . . like so.

However, many edited publications prefer a precomposed ellipsis character in which the periods are separated by spaces narrower than regular ones (generally set off from surrounding words with regular spaces). I’m hoping that this special character will show up properly: “Lorem ipsum … dolor sit amet”.

What you won’t see in edited publications, or in text by anyone who is putting even a modicum of effort into it is…this.

[QUOTE=billfish678]
Hint, some people here, me included, don’t give a rat’s ass about perfectly written posts.
[/QUOTE]

Very clearly the case. And other people are perfectly right to judge you for it and to categorize you with the other stupid posters, the ones who put everything in one gigantic paragraph or use a new line for every sentence.

[QUOTE=Clothahump]
Your statement reminds me of the fact that people who post statements like yours are total assholes. It would appear this is a very common phenomenon.

Jesus fucking Christ. Do you really expect everyone to climb on the whine wagon with you? I simply point out that Clementi made a series of piss-poor decisions and all of a sudden, assholes like you are all over me for daring to not join in on the pity party. Fuck off.
[/QUOTE]

I doubt you’d be this emotional and hostile if what I said hadn’t hit home.

[billfish678]

@mister_nyx

Very clearly the case. And other people are perfectly right to judge you for it and to categorize you with the other stupid posters, the ones who put everything in one gigantic paragraph or use a new line for every sentence..

Have fun with that sparky. You’ll be in good company around here with the other holier than thou full of them fucking selves posters who are more concerned with form than content (mostly because their content sucks donkey balls).

[carnivorousplant]

@mister_nyx

Very clearly the case. And other people are perfectly right to judge you for it and to categorize you with the other stupid posters, the ones who put everything in one gigantic paragraph or use a new line for every sentence.

I’m nice to you, and you’re dissing my friends instead of talking about the OP.

[mister_nyx]

@billfish678

Have fun with that sparky. You’ll be in good company around here with the other holier than thou full of them fucking selves posters who are more concerned with form than content (mostly because their content sucks donkey balls).

The content of the guy you’re defending consisted of bragging about how smart he is. I guess that’s what you think of as good content? It was a childish post. Did you think it merited a serious response?

[billfish678]

@mister_nyx

The content of the guy you’re defending consisted of bragging about how smart he is. I guess that’s what you think of as good content? It was a childish post. Did you think it merited a serious response?

That’s your own damn fault for falling into the “I’m smarter than you” trap. If you wanna compare peni by getting into a grammar/spelling/whatever contest have at it.

BTW, you know those multiday test they give you at the end of high school to make sure you are smart enough to actually be graduated? I scored a perfect 100 percent on mine. How did you do? Because IMO anybody who couldn’t score a perfect on the “lets make sure you aren’t such a moron that we should not graduate you” test…is well…a moron.

[mister_nyx]

@billfish678

That’s your own damn fault for falling into the “I’m smarter than you” trap. If you wanna compare peni by getting into a grammar/spelling/whatever contest have at it.

“peni”?

BTW, you know those multiday test they give you at the end of high school to make sure you are smart enough to actually be graduated? I scored a perfect 100 percent on mine. How did you do? Because IMO anybody who couldn’t score a perfect on the “lets make sure you aren’t such a moron that we should not graduate you” test…is well…a moron.

. . . So I take it you’re unaware that different states have different high school graduation requirements? I didn’t have to take a test like that.

I’m actually curious, though, because I’ve never heard of a standardized test that gives its results graded on a percentage (as opposed to a percentile) basis.

[billfish678]

@mister_nyx

. . . So I take it you’re unaware that different states have different high school graduation requirements? I didn’t have to take a test like that.

I’m actually curious, though, because I’ve never heard of a standardized test that gives its results graded on a percentage (as opposed to a percentile) basis.

So, you live in one of those hick states that don’t actually test students before they graduate?

Yes, our state standardized test did tell you how many questions you got wrong. Heck, it might have even told you which ones you did get wrong, I don’t recall, and the clay tablets have long since turned to dust.

But, back to my point. Sure, if you want to judge someone’s post on your ideal of perfect grammar/spelling/whatever have fun and knock yourself out. But IMO your a damn foolish tool for doing so. There are a few people on this forum that I think are really fracking stupid (and not due to format/grammar/whatever). And you know what? EVEN those people once in a while say something that makes me think “damn, thats a good point”.

[mister_nyx]

@billfish678

Sure, if you want to judge someone’s post on your ideal of perfect grammar/spelling/whatever have fun and knock yourself out.

Actually, the subtext was that I was judging someone for being such a useless fuck that he wrote a post bragging about how smart he was in an attempt to win an internet argument. Because that’s hilarious and totally judgment-worthy. You just apparently didn’t pick up on it.

But IMO your a damn foolish tool for doing so.

What’s that about my damn foolish tool?

[carnivorousplant]

Would some useless fuck remind me what the fuck the fucking OP was fucking about?

[billfish678]

I think it was about some Indian dude that did not speak the King’s English and got deported for it.

[carnivorousplant]

@billfish678

I think it was about some Indian dude that did not speak the King’s English and got deported for it.

Oh.

Well, Hell, what are we arguing about?

[pikey_pete]

@Jackknifed_Juggernaut

Clearly. Smart people in the 21st century typically understand the difference between writing something on a message board vs. writing a term paper. We even use in lieu of “I am smiling”. You should get a hobby once you pass your GED.

jeez, I almost…ALMOST wish there was a like button on this site (because sometimes I am lazy.)