John McCain says no: Today in Tweets

Public universities are forced to be “platform absolutist” if they allow student groups to invite speakers for non-academic purposes.

I don’t see why universities should have to allow hate speech on campus. It creates a hostile environment for students, faculty and staff who are members of the group/s targeted by that hate speech.

Let’s not forget that Milo publicly outed a student as trans at one of the schools where he was invited to speak.

Apparently you believe the right to a platform to spew hate speech is more important than the right of students to be safe where they live and go to school. Good to know where you stand.

Oh, and both my k-8 and high schools had a policy against hate speech. Neither students or employees were allowed to engage in on campus. So I don’t believe that it would be illegal for universities to deny speakers a platform on campus due to hate speech.

@Petal
http://www.animal-space.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/cats-fixing-computer-251115.jpg
That sounds like a RAM problem. I don’t actually know anything about RAM problems, but I’ve heard a similar situation described, and I’m pretty sure it was a RAM problem in the end…

Damn, I got off lucky at my college. The worst thing our College Republicans did was hold those Affirmative Action bake sales. (For those who aren’t familiar, AA bake sales are like regular bake sales, only you get a discount if you’re a visible minority. Because it’s SO UNFAIR for these minorities to get SPECIAL PRIVILEGES, boo hoo!) Pretty mild for an “edgy” stunt, IMO.

You say “nothing happens” after you enter your password, could you elaborate on that?

If it goes to a black screen, or just your background, and you have a cursor but nothing to click on, try hitting Ctrl+Shift+Esc to see if the Task manager comes up.

If its an emergency you can use the Task manager to launch things, do what you need and then work on getting it fixed. (Make sure you’re in the detailed view for the Task Manager, hit File > Run New Task, then you can browse to the things you want to open.)

Unfortunately there’s a million reasons Windows 10 will do that, most common would be hardware error (RAM, or maybe more likely Hard Drive), Virus infection, anti-virus fucking up, random malware or junk embedded into explorer.exe causing it to hang, or failed update (which could be caused by any number of the other reasons.)

If your computer has any kind of hardware diagnostics, I’d run that first to see if theres anything wrong with it, or at the very least if you can open the Task Manager, then file > run new task, and type in “eventvwr” (no quotes), then go into Windows Logs and then System and look for errors from “disk” (although, just because there isn’t any doesnt mean the hard drive doesn’t have problems.) Basically when Windows does that kind of thing, especially when an update or something takes waaaaay too long to install, first thing I like to eliminate is the hard drive, since its kind of important to know if its failing or not.

@IP:

I was already in Windows 10!

Well, there’s your mistake right there, if it wasn’t a new machine that you couldn’t get with anything better. 🙂

I will never update this machine from 7. Never. They can have my 7 when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers. And any new machine I get I have more than half a mind to blow the W10 off it and replace it with Ubuntu. If I can have my Steam and id Software games (mostly the Quakes and HLs) and emulators on it. 🙂

Meanwhile, I recommend you take your zonked W10 box in to a technician and see if they can do some sort of repair on it. There’s probably some way to fix it using a safe mood or command prompt or rescue disk boot and then some serious wizardry. (Though not using Previous Versions/System Restore. M$ took that away from W10 users so it could rent it back to them for a monthly fee in the form of OneDrive and their online backup service, which the adware that is W10’s Explorer will constantly remind them of.)

If not … I hope you had a good backup.

In either case … I don’t recommend trusting Microsoft again. Ever.

I’m sorry this happened to you.

@Taffer

I’ve given up for the night, but the last few times I’ve tried to start up it’s actually gotten to the desktop only to freeze entirely. I can’t move the mouse cursor at that stage, and the keyboard does nothing. I will probably continue trying tomorrow morning, presumably.

@PoM

Couldn’t get to safe mode, but after many attempts I got to the repair screen or whatever. I tried the process of returning to before the update, but it was just stuck on that screen for a while and then it said the process failed.

@IP

Do you know what the number of the update was? I wonder if it was the Creators update, since you said you delayed it a while and then it took 10 hours. Creators has alllllllll the issues and the supposed benefits are kind of minimal.

It sounds like this might be your problem?

http://www.drivethelife.com/windows-10/windows-10-black-screen-after-creators-update.html

@IP

I tried to post a link twice and it got eaten, so I’ve emailed David to ask if he can release it. It sounds like maybe you’re a victim of the Creators update.

OT: Football players in USA kneel during the national anthem

N.F.L. Protests: Players Respond to Trump by Kneeling and Locking Arms

With the support of owners, some of whom joined their teams on the field, dozens of players knelt in silent protests, while Tom Brady and others opted to stand and lock arms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/sports/nfl-trump-anthem-protests.html?mcubz=1

Nowadays every time I hear the national anthem, I weep. That said, I believe — Katie willing and the river don’t rise — that we’ll get our country back from those who are committed to hatred.

I wonder if the reviewer realises the original Trek would have been accused of being PC if the term had been in common use in 1966. Not only did they have a black woman and an Asian man as regular characters in important roles on the Enterprise, Roddenberry had the temerity to introduce a Russian character into the cast in the second season. Not to mention the content of some of the scripts.

Maybe,I think the only reason that all the haters tolerated Sulu,Uhura and Chekhov is because they were under the command of a white man who was the main character Now that non-white, non-males re in the spot light it’s SWJ,PC liberal socialism out to destroy western society .

By the way has any one been watching ‘The Orville’? the third episode was all about gender identity and how some ones sex does not determine their value to society

http://nypost.com/2017/09/24/jared-kushner-used-private-email-account-for-white-house-matters/

Now awaiting the outrage from the right with cries of “but his emails!” …

Months? Then it needs to be completely evacuated. They’ll have no workable way to preserve food. Not in that climate. They’ll starve if they stay.

And the Nikki Reed thing sounds just horrible.