WWF won't let you play a word not in its dictionary, so what's the point of challenging? If the game allows the play, it's necessarily a fair play.
Only if "yells" means "makes a reasonable request in a polite tone of voice."
Of course there is, but like I said, substantial progress toward integration started happening in the 1960s, shortly after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. I'd recommend Chapter 2 of Gerald Rosenberg's book The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? for a discussion of the empirical evidence on this-- but the bottom line is that real progress was being made by the early 1960s.
Regarding the black/white prom thing, I suspect that one of them is the "official" school prom to which all students are formally invited (but don't attend) and the other is a privately organized event to which only the white kids are invited? That shows one of the really tricky things about measuring compliance; formally, events like that are "integrated" even if the reality is quite different.
You didn't realize it because most of what immafatty said is wrong, or at least grossly oversimplified. For example anti-miscegenation statutes (those that outlaw interracial marriage) weren't declared unconstitutional until 1967, but not every state had laws against interracial marriage, so it isn't the case that "blacks" as a group were forbidden to marry whites until then. I don't know where the idea that schools weren't desegregated until the 1970s comes from; the Supreme Court ended legal segregation in the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, and significant progress toward integration was made following the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (although that process certainly continued into the 70s).
That is a really complicated question. After the Civil War the country passed three constitutional amendments (basically with a gun to the South's collective head). The Thirteenth outlawed slavery and indentured servitude. The Fourteenth guaranteed "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws" to all US citizens (including freed slaves) and provided that "[n]o State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States." There really was a robust racially egalitarian impulse at the outset of Reconstruction-- maybe not what we would call full equality for blacks, but a lot better than what ended up happening. It all fell apart by the 1870s, when the Supreme Court gutted the Fourteenth Amendment in the Slaughter-House Cases and the Civil Rights Cases and the old Southern aristocracy reasserted itself politically. As it had done in the decades before the Civil War, the north was willing to sacrifice the rights of southern blacks in order to preserve a political equilibrium with the south; although that began to change a bit in the 1930s and 40s, that equilibrium would basically remain in place at least until the Warren Court started reasserting the Fourteenth Amendment on behalf of African Americans in the 1950s, and even then very little really changed until the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Davos looks too noble; Balon doesn't look noble enough.
The most glaring thing that hits me as I'm re-watching the series is how bloody inefficient the pads are when they seem to need a different one for every publication. O'Brien is taking a stack of technical manuals on vacation, so he needs a stack of separate pads. Send that man a Kindle.
While I suspect you're right on the rape count, I doubt early hunter-gatherer societies were sufficiently well-developed organizationally to sustain a relatively sophisticated system like slavery.
Except for the part where scientific consensus was changed as new evidence became available? Yeah, totally dogmatic.
I was really hoping that's where it was headed. Having killed off all the rest of their recurring cast they need to start building up the stable again.
His head does look a bit Cartman-like.
"Not for Those Who Want: Busywork. Some of the interstitial space stuff—battles with enemy fleets, blasting asteroids into smithereens—just feels like filler, no matter how good it looks."
Doesn't that mean it IS for people who want busywork?
Can you elaborate a bit on how this project turns the whole Earth into a telescope?
I stopped reading at that line. Before writing a rant about what's wrong with detective games, seems like the least a responsible writer could do is familiarize himself with the leading example of the genre.
I agree. This was a pretty good episode in its own right but the writers are really boxing themselves in here killing off every single supporting character on the show (not just Cas and now Bobby but Ellen, Jo, even Grandpa Skinner et al., Ruby, Anna, etc. etc.). Sam and Dean are now cut off completely from the rest of the hunter community, and while Jared and Jensen can certainly carry the show on their own it just seems like a lot of narrative possibilities are foreclosed.
Torchwood: Children of Earth offered a pretty good twist on the stealing our resources plot.
Seems like you're just quibbling about what "innovation" means. In fact your article is a history of innovation-- a game taking something good that was done before and making it better, and in turn providing the baseline from which the next round of innovation departs. I haven't played MW3-- don't play first-person shooters at all, actually-- but if it really doesn't add anything to what's already been done with the genre, that seems like a valid criticism.
Quit before you waste even more of your time. I can't understand why io9 is so crazy about this book.
"Unless you have a rare condition that produces a "micropenis," or an organ that's 2.5 standard deviations smaller than the average penis size, your penis is not unusually small."
If we're talking standard deviations, isn't anything less than one SD pretty much by definition "unusually small" (i.e., bottom 32%)?
If we're talking standard deviations, isn't anything less than one SD pretty much by definition "unusually small" (i.e., bottom 32%)?
Unlike all the rest, Bandi actually does sound like it could have had potential, even if it would have been The Trouble With Tribbles redux.
