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I'm using the Baldur's Gate Trilogy Mod, which ports BG1 into the BG2 engine, then merges the two into one huge-tastic game.

Any other mods? Not even fixpacks/tweakpacks?

Ed boy: the problem is that the police is also giving itself the right to refuse any protest without justification. the fine for breaching the law are just gignormous. Preventing people from striking is an attack on a fundamental right.

But it's not 'without justification'. The police are allowed to refuse when they believe that the protest will compromise public safety and security. That's bloody good justification by my standards.

As for fundamental rights, people also have the fundamental right to protect themselves and their property from harm. This law is just defining that this right may take priority over the right to protest.

That and a gathering of 50 people is not that big in cases of major issues. If the government did something ridiculous and everyone stood up they could just point and say 'sit down' if they want to keep their change. Giving large amounts of control to the government isn't always a good idea. I understand their reasoning, but it's a step too far. People need to be able to protest no matter the circumstance.

If they handled his properly and held conferences with the protesters and heard them out then maybe there wouldn't be so much violence. They shouldn't need to fear their own people. If people are getting so worked up about it maybe they should reroute funds from other projects to reach a better compromise.

It kind of scares people when your tuition fees double over five years, even if it's still cheaper than most.

I would object to the claim that 'people need to be able to protest no matter the circumstance'. Not only because there are counterexamples, but because what most people call protesting is not protesting. The definition of protesting is  to 'Express opposition through action or words'. However, most people interpret that as 'disrupt and obstruct things that you do not disagree with'. By one definition, once you have made your feelings clear, then job's done. By the other, you are actively seeking the detriment of others. That is a lot harder for me to support.

You also say that the protests are a sign that the government is doing the wrong thing, and whenever there are protests it means that the government should seek some compromise. That I disagree with. There are times when protesters need to be told 'no matter how much you moan about this, it's not going to change'. For example, there plenty of people who would happily protest in favour of laws discriminating against people based on race or sexuality. Even if the government does try to seek a compromise, it won't stop the protest. For example, the government increased tuition fees, so students protested againsr the fee rise. If they had raised taxes and kept the fees the same, people would have protested against increased taxes. If they had kept fees low and not raised taxes, they would have to borrow money and have people protesting against their lack of fiscal sustainability. No matter what happens, people are going to protest.

Ed boy, protests are never convenient for the ruling body. That's why they're protests in the first place.

That's one of the qualities of protests, that they're not convenient. Being inconvenient for the ruling body is a byproduct of protesting, not the target. It is not a good thing. It is something that one should want to see reduced, not maximized. If it's your target, the you are not protesting.

Also, from looking at the original post, it seems that you're only really interested in getting into a specific university. I would heavily advise against being so invested in a single university.

Which country are you in/interested in going to?

Quote from: Lagslayer on May 09, 2012, 11:25:28 am

The bias in your post makes my blood boil because you don't seem to realize it's even there.

At any rate, until you provide some rationale or proof behind saying that I'm wrong or biased, I'm just going to assume you're talking out of your arse.

Let's look at one of your recent posts in this thread.

TBH, if you seriously consider Obama to be a liberal, you're brainwashed, willfully ignorant, or youthfully ignorant. Harsh, but that's about the truth of it.

What you are saying is that if someone disagrees with you, they are unquestionably wrong.

You are not discussing the matter.

You are not willing to discuss the matter.

Discussion is not about getting other people to think in the way you want. It is about determining the optimal conclusion with the aid of other people. Until you are willing to accept that your current attitude may be inaccurate, it will be impossible to engage in meaningful discussion.

The bias being that you are exhibiting is a bias against ideas that you do not currently hold, and a bias towards ideas that you currently hold. Until you can put your ego to rest, and start discussing your ideas instead of preaching them, you're just obstructing others who want to participate in open-minded discussion.

We first prove that any element of the left hand side is an element of the right hand side.

Let a∈(A\B)∪(B\A)
→(a∈(A\B)) OR (a∈(B\A))
→In either case, a∉(A∩B) and a∈(A∪B)
→a∈(A∪B)\(A∩B)

So the left hand side is a subset of the right hand side.

Now let b∈(A∪B)\(A∩B)
→b∉(A∩B) and b∈(A∪B)
→b∉(A∩B) and b∈((A∪B)∩B)∪((A∪B)∩B')
→b∉(A∩B) and b∈((A∩B)∪B)∪((A∪B)/B)
→b∈(B/(A∩B)∪(A/B)
→b∈(B/A)∪(A/B)

So the right hand side is a subset of the left hand side.

So they are equal.

I think if the gender is relevant to the situation, such quotas are acceptable. If one of a college's goals is diversity, for example, achieving a generally balanced gender split might be a worthwhile goal, because it adds (hypotheticall) value to all the students that attend.

If by diversity, you mean both genders equally represented, then yes. If you mean both genders faily represented, then no.

If you want both genders to be faily evaluated, then you want gender to play no part in whether they get in or not. In that case, then quotas are a terrible idea.

Though I would ask you to elaborate on how it will add value to all students. I can certainly see how it would add value to some students, but all is a very big claim.