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[Shun Goku Satsu Rake]

The even worse irony is if you've ever been to CMS sites like Wix or what have you that let you design your own web pages and all, in school we learned how to make those, and now they be wrecking a dude's ability to make a living because they just walk you through all the easy stuff to get a site thats "good enough" out on the web

 

[Shun Goku Satsu Rake]

Not to the extent of Wix itself obviously, but I'm sure given enough time I could create something comparable, and thats just a little disheartening lol

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Yeah Adobe Dreamweaver. But html is pretty intuitive. Have a CSS book that I never really bothered opening.

 

[#HBC | Mac]

The even worse irony is if you've ever been to CMS sites like Wix or what have you that let you design your own web pages and all, in school we learned how to make those, and now they be wrecking a dude's ability to make a living because they just walk you through all the easy stuff to get a site thats "good enough" out on the web

such is technology

the whole point is to make it simpler, cheaper and faster to do things. It should be a good thing jobs for creating simple sites are going away now because a better alternative to hiring someone came around. Just like it was a good thing that farmers lost their jobs because of the invention of agriculture machinery. (though if you're one of those that have the legit opinion that all this technological growth might not be necessary, feel free to disagree)

when ppl complain about tech taking their jobs, I feel like a lot of the blame goes to technology. that shouldn't be the concern, tech is doing what it should be, by making reducing the amount of work ppl have to do. blame should go to the socioeconomical systems that allow the rich / powerful, who can afford to buy / create new tech, to reap all the monetarial gain that new technology provides due to increased efficiency. If those gains were shared by the public, this wouldn't be an issue.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

@ #HBC | Mac Technology is required, however having been educated more on the topic than your average Joe, I would say that genetically engineered crops should be more extensively tested on human beings for the development of allergens and autoimmune diseases before they can hide among non-genetically engineered crops. Right now companies like Monsanto not only bribe politicians hard on a regular basis with millions of dollars to prevent super markets and other food retailers from having the ability to list whether produce is genetically modified or not, but also introduced a provision to add $7 billion that would primarily benefit big agribusinesses i.e. Monsanto against potential price swings and competitive price matching.

Right now more and more foods are becoming genetically engineered which happens to correlate with an increase in people having cases of cancer, children developing allergies to peanuts, and an increase in people taking GERD-based drugs like Nexium/Prilosec also known as esomeprazole/omeprazole. It is not a coincidence that our food is going downhill with the general wealth of our country as the income inequality continues to become more disproportional and companies have the ability to look at consumers as cash cow targets continuing to pay off politicians to continue to milk profits and pay off consumers on an individual basis when their products kill them. Correlation doesn't imply causation. Because it is impossible to make a case for causation when you are not even allowed to know whether you are eating a genetically modified product or not.

 

[#HBC | Mac]

do you think genetic engineering is (can be) useful though in general

and yea, monsanto is pretty evil. tho they're an example of how large companies are **** as opposed to genetic engineering being ****. a lot of ppl who I've talked to are of the opinion the genetic engineering is terrible because of things Monsanto does. But it's not the tech that's bad it's the application

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

do you think genetic engineering is (can be) useful though in general and yea, monsanto is pretty evil. tho they're an example of how large companies are **** as opposed to genetic engineering being ****. a lot of ppl who I've talked to are of the opinion the genetic engineering is terrible because of things Monsanto does. But it's not the tech that's bad it's the application

Genetic engineering is necessary with population expansion continuing at an exponential rate. However, there hasn't been adequate research on human beings, because no one would be a willing lab rat to consume only genetically modified products throughout the course of their life and a company wouldn't want to publicize the results of such a research if it turned out badly.

However, I can say this. The immune system is known for having two types of 'working' systems. One set is a pre-definied definitions list that is hard coded into the DNA that recognizes common traits of foreign pathogens and invaders. What's scary is the second system which is the 'adaptive' system that 'learns' what should be treated as a foreign invader and goes out to kill it. When you take artificially created products, especially those with recombinant DNA in them then I feel that you have begun to enter a territory where you can't say for certain that someone's immune system won't tag your food as being foreign simply because there are already differences between a genetically modified and a non-genetically modified plant species with a portion of the gene being a recombinant that has a built-in gene for antibiotic resistance. This has the potential to trigger an immune system reaction in the gastrointestinal effect similar to Crohn's Disease. Which causes flare-ups leading people to become cognizant of the symptom and treat with medication, however not fixing the underlying cause.

Other factors are in the food you eat, especially at cheap Chinese restaurants (which I love) and that's why I'm concerned when I go out to eat because everyone knows they put MSG in your food. However, MSG is known for causing all sorts of health complications to the extent that even mice:

We previously reported that injection of monosodium glutamate (MSG) in ICR mice leads to the development of significant inflammation, central obesity, and type 2 diabetes. To directly address the long-term consequences of MSG on inflammation, we have performed serial analysis of MSG-injected mice and focused in particular on liver pathology. By 6 and 12 months of age, all MSG-treated mice developed NAFLD and NASH-like histology, respectively. In particular, the murine steatohepatitis at 12 months was virtually undistinguishable from human NASH. Further, dysplastic nodular lesions were detected in some cases within the fibrotic liver parenchyma. We submit that MSG treatment of mice induces obesity and diabetes with steatosis and steatohepatitis resembling human NAFLD and NASH with pre-neoplastic lesions. These results take on considerable significance in light of the widespread usage of dietary MSG and we suggest that MSG should have its safety profile re-examined and be potentially withdrawn from the food chain.

It's not a question of whether genetically engineering highly resistant plant products are necessary, it is a requirement with the exponentially growing popular and reduction of natural land to sustain the population. However, corporations will never fine tune their products for adequate human consumption so long as they continue to be bribed by the hands that feed us all.

 

[#HBC | Nabe]

peculiar you ask raz but not me

uhhh

^

I'm not really too sure what I would do otherwise.

come and work in a greenhouse in ontario

I'm still trying via connections but even people I know are telling me the job market is weak right now for entry positions because everyone and their mom is working with computers so average coder's are a dime a dozen, and the positions that do open are usally the higher ups that I just can't possibly qualify for

come and live in waterloo ontario and be surrounded by tech, and meanwhile work in a greenhouse

this will be the beginning of the glorious dgames commune

 

[Circus]

but you know who comes next
batman

kiiiiiiiinda hope they go with "Dark Knight" instead of "Batman" though*

*this is a very special and layered joke because "Dark Knight" is also an actual class in Fire Emblem I'm so clever how do I do it

btw I approve of your new user title

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

Once again we delved into political discussion, and once again we can trace the root of the problem to the horrors of wealth inequality and the role that that inequality plays in the corruption of our political system to the detriment of the majority of the population

This is kind of a shameless "go read Picketty" plug but John Oliver does a fantastic job of doing some introductory analysis of a lot of the issues that are discussed in Capital in the 21st Century, and how they relate to socio-political phenomena:

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

I watched it already. What's amazing is the Uganda one.

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

The key highlight of that reel was when he said something along the lines of:

Yes we acknowledge that the game is rigged. Which makes it all the sweeter when we win this thing.​

Spoiler

You could argue that this is the current attitude going into kids who decide to go to Law School and are aware that the market is incredibly saturated. However, they feel that they are special and have the market factor that distinguishes them from everyone else and can make it big in the country. It's a by-word that the top five percent that graduate from a T-50 school have a relatively good chance of landing a law school job (although largely false since a lot of firms are straight out contracting in many areas) and many students believe that they are the exception to the 95%.

However, everyone who did decent in the LSAT is comparatively smart compared to the general populace. All of them 'worked hard' in order to get where they were and all of them believe that they can make some interval of the 5%. It's taking all these factors into account that leads to the gradient effect. Unlike undergrad, professional schools have students that are more responsible and professional minded as well as older in age. They have heavily selected and made the investment themselves to turn this into a life career choice. It's delusional that few of them not only expect to be the top 5% of law school, but also the top 10% of their own law school proteges in terms of gaining full time gainful employment in a field of actually practicing law itself.

I went through a similar phase when I rationalized that it was okay for me to reduce my hours because I would spend the time to apply for the next big catch and I could do it because I had a B.S. which set me apart from everyone else and it was only a bad stroke of luck that I wasn't finding gainful employment from any of the big employers. When months went by I realized that I had snowflake syndrome. I still have snowflake syndrome, albeit one that is tamed by having a better sense of what the employment market actually is at the moment and what employers are currently looking for currently.

What's central is to realize that jobs aren't a 'game' where the conditions should be stacked against individuals. Or that income inequality isn't solely another issue entirely apart from our everyday lives. Or that diminished minimum wage income or the raising of the minimum wage to $15 in areas like Seattle are matters set apart from us if we live in other areas of the country or make a sizable amount higher than either factor. All these problems are interrelated.

It's no coincidence that the Democrats are heavily pushing requirements like mandatory healthcare insurance and also promoting raising the minimum wage. When you lose the bipartisan dynamic you realize that Democrats are forcibly trying to raise the minimum standards, however adding 'good-for-society' premiums that will sap away from the additional income that they grant citizens. Also they are aware that as a reflection of their chances that inflation and income market goods will likely rise as a reflection of the income rise. This does successfully create flux that will provide opportunities from people who may have been living in ghetto like conditions to grasp an opportunity to rise to the middle class. However, what's integral is to look at the key behind what the Democrats are doing. They are forcibly attempting to create rifts of change to create small gaps of opportunity, however they can't assist people in pushing themselves to claw for every small opportunity that may come along the way.

The message will always remain that although we aren't special snowflakes among the snow, we still need to have a venture capitalist mind set in current America in order to simply survive. The only moral virtue that I try to adhere myself to is to survive and continue the climb. I think I posted the clip from the Game of Thrones featuring 'Chaos is a Ladder.' The game is chaotic and you can't fall down without having some hell of a support to catch you on the bottom. However, I truly to believe that the climb is what creates individuality and also respectability in how we overcome such adversity within a disproportionate system. And while I also think that intellectual criticism should be encouraged, I will continue to believe that actions speak louder than words and you can tell how desperate someone is by what they are willing to do in order to make it in this country rather than listen to a mob protest in Zuccotti Park. Wealthy capitalists are aware that people are suffering and are aware of the suffering they have caused in order for themselves to get ahead. When we carve out our own niche for ourselves the question isn't what our ideology is currently (the us that are continuing to develop our skill sets), but whether we can still respectably hold unto our belief system when we achieve something of our own and balance protecting what we've 'gained' with our moral sensibility.

So yes, the game IS rigged. However, what's crucial is our attitude to those who are still struggling once we are able to win the rigged game. Do we attribute our success to our personal quality and ultimately shun everyone below us as simply being underachievers? Lazy maggots? People swept by the distractions of modern America i.e. religion, computers, films, and free media? When you are in control it is very hard to abstract yourself from your own bias that comes with your position and the frequent short comings that come along the way. However, making a living should not be considered to have a game-like difficulty level because people's lives are on the line with their job and career. However, we think of it that way because it's the most positive way that our current generation can take the current market and still strive to get ahead.

 

[#HBC | Mac]

john oliver's new show has been pretty on point

Yes we acknowledge that the game is rigged. Which makes it all the sweeter when we win this thing.​

by far the best line, **** had me in tears

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

Wow just read a ridiculous article.

Spoiler

Reporting ****, and Wishing She Hadn't
Source: New York Times
​

> In the early-morning hours on the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in central New York... he found her - bent over a pool table as a football player appeared to be sexually assaulting her from behind in a darkened dance hall with six or seven people watching and laughing. Some had their cell phones out, apparently taking pictures...

> Later, records show, a sexual-assault nurse offered this preliminary assessment: blunt force trauma within the last 24 hours indicating "intercourse with either multiple partners, multiple times or that the intercourse was very forceful."

> It took the college just 12 days to investigate the **** report, hold a hearing and clear the football players. The football team went on to finish undefeated in its conference, while the woman was left, she said, to face the consequences - threats and harassment for accusing members of the most popular sports team on campus.

> The woman at Hobart and William Smith is no exception. With no advocate to speak up for her at the disciplinary hearing, panelists interrupted her answers, at times misrepresented evidence and asked about a campus-police report she had not seen. The hearing proceeded before her ****-kit results were known, and the medical records indicating trauma were not shown to two of the three panel members.

> Yet privacy laws did not stop Hobart and William Smith from disclosing the name of the woman - a possible **** victim - in letters to dozens of students... The school said it was legally obligated to identify Anna... the district attorney who was assessing the case disagreed, calling the identification "unnecessarily specific and, in my mind, a poor exercise of judgment."

> The day after the episode, the senior football player told two campus officers that he could not recall Anna's name even though he had spent much of the evening with her. The player denied having sexual contact with her during or after the fraternity party. Only after the officers confronted him with reports to the contrary did he acknowledge having "sexual contact" - but not sex - at the Barn, and engaging in oral sex with Anna at the fraternity house.

> While the panel did not ask the players about their changed accounts, it did let the senior give an opening statement. "I come from a wonderful family with strong Christian values," he said. "I have been blessed with a beautiful mother, grandmothers, nieces, and amazing aunts." And he added: "I treat women with the respect and honor they deserve."

> Several hours after the last witness, the panel announced its decision clearing all three athletes on all counts.

> Anna's lawyer appealed the decision to clear the senior player, Mr. Flowers, the student-affairs administrator, granted the family additional time to file its appeal and reviewed the ****-kit results and hospital records. He upheld the panel's ruling, though he did find a violation of the no-contact order.

> On May 2, the day after the federal government announced that Hobart and William Smith was among the schools under investigation, the school sponsored an event used on other campuses called "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes," in which men walk around campus in high-heeled shoes to raise awareness of sexual assault.

> The Geneva police hardly distinguished themselves in Anna's case... Detective Choffin mischaracterized witness statements, put the words of one student in the mouth of another, and stated that he "never saw any discrepancies or alterations" in what the two football players told the authorities, even though they had initially lied about having sexual contact with their accusers. And while Anna's blood alcohol tests had been done many hours after she last had a drink, he also stated unequivocally that her level "would not make a person impaired to the point of blacking out."

> Against her parents' wishes, Anna plans to return to Hobart and William Smith in the fall.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/us/how-one-college-handled-a-sexual-assault-complaint.html

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

@ Raziek @ #HBC | Red Ryu

What programming languages are highly desirable in the current job market or the type of industry you're gravitating towards working in when you graduate from college?

Do you feel that your coding is at a professional level or do companies mostly look for basic competencies in programming, pseudocode, and logical reasoning in order to hire new employees?

What is the 'safest' way of transitioning into a computer science related job? Do students usually take internships during the last two years of their school and end up working full time for those companies or is there a built-in school related program that leads into computer oriented jobs in the area?

What made you think of pursuing computer science and do you have any regrets / second thoughts about going into it? What other sub-related jobs would you consider if you couldn't land a solid job as a computer science professional.

Decided to do this off memory and my phone.

I've changed majored a few years ago, programming to IT Support. I plan on going back to learn it more but right now I wanna just finish school.

I think Learning Ruby and C++ is what I need to learn, I did learn html, Java, .SQL, and Visual Basic. Visual Basic was more so to learn basics before I went to the other stuff.

Since I'm going into a field that wants to learn what is needed fir the situation. If my job is to manage and build databases I'll need SQL, same for the other areas. I don't think it will be high professional but I do think it will get better as I progress in a job. IT is more about management and fixing but it can go into networking and programming as well.

My school straight up gets us into computer related jobs from internships and other programs to help students out. I wouldn't fully know how this will affect other people since my school does it for me. Though it is usually part time.

I wish I never had mental issues that made me drop out if school for two years and that I finished school 2 years ago.

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

john oliver's new show has been pretty on point

**** yeah it has. I love it. I haven't watched nearly enough of it tbqh but every episode I've seen has been top notch

So yes, the game IS rigged. However, what's crucial is our attitude to those who are still struggling once we are able to win the rigged game. Do we attribute our success to our personal quality and ultimately shun everyone below us as simply being underachievers? Lazy maggots? People swept by the distractions of modern America i.e. religion, computers, films, and free media? When you are in control it is very hard to abstract yourself from your own bias that comes with your position and the frequent short comings that come along the way. However, making a living should not be considered to have a game-like difficulty level because people's lives are on the line with their job and career. However, we think of it that way because it's the most positive way that our current generation can take the current market and still strive to get ahead.

Amen to this dude. Noblesse Oblige

Wow just read a ridiculous article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/us/how-one-college-handled-a-sexual-assault-complaint.html

****ing awful to see this **** happen. It's way, way too common.

What's extra scary is my sister just graduated from this school this year. I'll have to ask her if she knew any of the parties involved.

Guess HWS doesn't have the nickname "Brobart" for no reason

 

[#HBC | Acrostic]

@ #HBC | FrozeηFlame

The ABA announced that Law Schools can bypass LSAT requirements for 10% of their total law school admissions if said students scored in the top 85% of their SAT and/or ACT, GRE, or GMAT and achieved a cumulative GPA of a 3.5 or above through three years of undergraduate school work. So basically scoring at least an 1850-60 on your SAT and some course padding.

The governing council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar has wrapped up its comprehensive review of the law school accreditation standards. The council, which met Friday in Cleveland, approved five of the six remaining proposed changes in the standards, including one that would permit schools to admit up to 10 percent of their entering class with students who haven’t taken the LSAT and one that would limit the number of transfer credits a school can grant for prior law study not taken as a JD-degree student at an ABA-approved school.

 

[#HBC | Dancer]

Need a replacement for Monster Mafia. Day 5, over 2.1k in.

 

[Dramatic Flair]

kickstarter.com/projects/sirlin/yomi

Everyone back this Kickstarter! It's super fun! We play it all the time! We need 18k more to hit the Final Stretch Goal of Foil Aces for ALL CHARACTERS!

If you've got $240, be a hero. If you've got LESS than that, donate anyway!

 

[BSL]

Isn't this just for the physical release?

 

[Raziek]

Yes.

10char

 

[#HBC | Mac]

"I was drunk like a ***** but not drunk like the *****"

Alright lil wayne

Edit: b itch

 

[Circus]

Wow just read a ridiculous article.

Spoiler

Reporting ****, and Wishing She Hadn't
Source: New York Times
​

> In the early-morning hours on the campus of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in central New York... he found her - bent over a pool table as a football player appeared to be sexually assaulting her from behind in a darkened dance hall with six or seven people watching and laughing. Some had their cell phones out, apparently taking pictures...

> Later, records show, a sexual-assault nurse offered this preliminary assessment: blunt force trauma within the last 24 hours indicating "intercourse with either multiple partners, multiple times or that the intercourse was very forceful."

> It took the college just 12 days to investigate the **** report, hold a hearing and clear the football players. The football team went on to finish undefeated in its conference, while the woman was left, she said, to face the consequences - threats and harassment for accusing members of the most popular sports team on campus.

> The woman at Hobart and William Smith is no exception. With no advocate to speak up for her at the disciplinary hearing, panelists interrupted her answers, at times misrepresented evidence and asked about a campus-police report she had not seen. The hearing proceeded before her ****-kit results were known, and the medical records indicating trauma were not shown to two of the three panel members.

> Yet privacy laws did not stop Hobart and William Smith from disclosing the name of the woman - a possible **** victim - in letters to dozens of students... The school said it was legally obligated to identify Anna... the district attorney who was assessing the case disagreed, calling the identification "unnecessarily specific and, in my mind, a poor exercise of judgment."

> The day after the episode, the senior football player told two campus officers that he could not recall Anna's name even though he had spent much of the evening with her. The player denied having sexual contact with her during or after the fraternity party. Only after the officers confronted him with reports to the contrary did he acknowledge having "sexual contact" - but not sex - at the Barn, and engaging in oral sex with Anna at the fraternity house.

> While the panel did not ask the players about their changed accounts, it did let the senior give an opening statement. "I come from a wonderful family with strong Christian values," he said. "I have been blessed with a beautiful mother, grandmothers, nieces, and amazing aunts." And he added: "I treat women with the respect and honor they deserve."

> Several hours after the last witness, the panel announced its decision clearing all three athletes on all counts.

> Anna's lawyer appealed the decision to clear the senior player, Mr. Flowers, the student-affairs administrator, granted the family additional time to file its appeal and reviewed the ****-kit results and hospital records. He upheld the panel's ruling, though he did find a violation of the no-contact order.

> On May 2, the day after the federal government announced that Hobart and William Smith was among the schools under investigation, the school sponsored an event used on other campuses called "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes," in which men walk around campus in high-heeled shoes to raise awareness of sexual assault.

> The Geneva police hardly distinguished themselves in Anna's case... Detective Choffin mischaracterized witness statements, put the words of one student in the mouth of another, and stated that he "never saw any discrepancies or alterations" in what the two football players told the authorities, even though they had initially lied about having sexual contact with their accusers. And while Anna's blood alcohol tests had been done many hours after she last had a drink, he also stated unequivocally that her level "would not make a person impaired to the point of blacking out."

> Against her parents' wishes, Anna plans to return to Hobart and William Smith in the fall.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/us/how-one-college-handled-a-sexual-assault-complaint.html

Absolutely despicable; unfortunately, hardly shocking. This is why so many victims of **** actually never come forward, and why it's so ridiculous to think that the threat of false accusation of **** is even close to being as prevalent an issue as **** itself. The idea that anyone would feel inclined to lie about something like this when they see how the victims of cases featuring compelling evidence are treated is unbelievable.

wrt John Oliver's show: I've been meaning to give it a look but it continuously drifts off my radar.

 

[Shun Goku Satsu Rake]

Made me think of Ashemu and Acrostic simultaneously

 

[BSL]

Yes.

10char

How are we supposed to play all the time if it's physical?

 

[Raziek]

How are we supposed to play all the time if it's physical?

I wasn't implying that we play the physical version all the time, just that we play the game. Obviously you can only play physically locally.

 

[BSL]

I wasn't implying that we play the physical version all the time, just that we play the game. Obviously you can only play physically locally.

Oh I read it as "we can play together all the time" and I was like dafux

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

Frozen is the best Disney movie I have ever seen, more so if you get the overall message.

 

[BSL]

I think you're wrong.

 

[Circus]

Frozen is the best Disney movie I have ever seen, more so if you get the overall message.

I can't argue that Frozen is the best Disney movie you've ever seen, since only you can determine that, but it's a very bold claim. There's a lot to like about it, but most of that is the same stuff you find in all of Disney's best stuff. Good music, likable and admirable characters, great animation, etc. About the only thing I think it has that other Disney movies don't is the "twist" at the end, which, while certainly a breath of fresh air for a movie of its type, is still very predictable within the context of the movie. In all other respects, it's at turns funny, touching, etc., but I don't know that it's any more so than any of the movies in Disney's most recent golden age.

But it doesn't have any anthropomorphic animals in it!

 

[#HBC | Amidamaru]

I would donate but atm I have 0 dollars

 

[Handorin]

Made me think of Ashemu and Acrostic simultaneously

I think we should step back and appreciate this video more. Weird Al is pretty smart. American grammar is pretty bad. Relevant videos:

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

 

[adumbrodeus]

Frozen was amazing. Absolutely amazing.


You really gonna parody social justice concepts as a reaction to a story about **** being ignored Zozo, seriously?

 

[#HBC | Red Ryu]

I can't argue that Frozen is the best Disney movie you've ever seen, since only you can determine that, but it's a very bold claim. There's a lot to like about it, but most of that is the same stuff you find in all of Disney's best stuff. Good music, likable and admirable characters, great animation, etc. About the only thing I think it has that other Disney movies don't is the "twist" at the end, which, while certainly a breath of fresh air for a movie of its type, is still very predictable within the context of the movie. In all other respects, it's at turns funny, touching, etc., but I don't know that it's any more so than any of the movies in Disney's most recent golden age.

But it doesn't have any anthropomorphic animals in it!

Fun fact I hated Robin Hood til I rewatched, still think it is just, eh but ok.

I still loved it for how it pretty much 180'd the Disney trope of marring someone you barely know.

Or even how people can be naive with it or just shut the world out. Finding balance in the middle is what makes it better.

 

[#HBC | FrozeηFlame]

@ #HBC | FrozeηFlame

The ABA announced that Law Schools can bypass LSAT requirements for 10% of their total law school admissions if said students scored in the top 85% of their SAT and/or ACT, GRE, or GMAT and achieved a cumulative GPA of a 3.5 or above through three years of undergraduate school work. So basically scoring at least an 1850-60 on your SAT and some course padding.

So this has JUST been approved as a new legitimate practice?

I'm curious to see how many schools will. actually admit students without LSAT scores using these requirements if this is breand new. If it isn't brand new, I'm curious what schools actually do choose to do this, how often they choose to, and how that choice trends with school tier.

 

[#HBC | ZoZo]

Frozen was amazing. Absolutely amazing.


You really gonna parody social justice concepts as a reaction to a story about **** being ignored Zozo, seriously?

i didnt even read the thread but hey **** being ignored is damn bad

You ****lord. With that attitude, everybody is going to be ****** everbody! It's going to be a rapefest! Get on the bus, and BAM - *****. Clock in at work, boss ***** you. Go home, dog ***** you. Look in the mirror, **** yourself.
You clearly haven't been paying attention to the tumblr macros. **** is caused by people not hating men enough! Next, you are going to say it's not a good idea for my 15 year old daughter to swill tequila on the beach in Mexico with frat boys while wearing nothing but a thong! Teenage girls should be free to act as irresponsible as humanely possible without repercussion.
And if something does happen, you'd better believe that it's the fault of posts like yours, buddy. And TV. TV doesn't show enough "enthusiastic consent", so our boys think that donkey punching a girl and humping her unconscious body is the norm!
**** is a product of our culture not being mad enough at men, period! Magazines make girls anorexic, and Game of Thrones turned my 17 year old cousin into a **** monster. He ***** daily by looking at women (yes, looking at women can be ****) when they walk by in neon yoga pants (jeez, we just want to be comfortable, we're not here for you to sexualize against our will!). He ***** through the internet when he watches porn, because objectification ****.
He even has a little girlfriend, who told him she wanted to suck his ****, and so he let her. But she's 17 also - which means that he ***** her by allowing her to voluntarily give him a bj, because she was underage. It doesn't matter that he is too, because she is just a poor innocent girl and he is an all powerful male.
His father is exactly the same! He and his wife had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner and then had sex. Which is clearly **** because if a female has had any amount of alcohol she cannot give consent. It doesn't matter that he had drank just as much, because men cannot be ***** and sex is something taken from a woman by a man.
I'm a **** victim myself, how do you feel now, mr. Redpill? I made a post on Craigslist that said "I want to have 5 big black men use me as a cumdumpster", and so 5 big black men came over and I sucked all of their ***** while the others were ****ing me. But right before the last one came in me, I thought to myself "hmmm, my husband is going to be home soon, I should stop," and yet he did not telepathically read my mind and know to stop, hence ****.
I also got ***** when I went to a bar and went home with some guy. I invited myself back to his place, and tore off his pants and blew him. But the next day, he didn't ask me to be his girlfriend, and I started thinking how slutty that seems and decided that I regretted it - so clearly he was ****** me when I sucked his **** on purpose.
Get your **** together, and check your privilege. You could never understand, because no men have ever had to worry about anything bad ever happening to them. 1,000 women were ***** tonight because your post doesn't put enough blame on men, the media, society, and anyone else who is not a woman!

 

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What about Brave, RR

 

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So this has JUST been approved as a new legitimate practice? I'm curious to see how many schools will. actually admit students without LSAT scores using these requirements if this is breand new. If it isn't brand new, I'm curious what schools actually do choose to do this, how often they choose to, and how that choice trends with school tier.

Waivers were granted in the past, but only on a requested basis.

The recommendation to eliminate the LSAT as an admission requirement follows the movement of undergraduate institutions away from requiring the ACT or SAT as part of the application process. The Grutter v. Bollinger[7] case followed by the enactment of state laws which prohibit race based affirmative action programs in college admissions[8] have created a dilemma for many law schools. Law schools face the ABA requirement that they create a racially diverse student body[9] and also face the pressure of reporting LSAT scores of their incoming students to U. S. News which utilizes those scores as one component of its law school rating matrix.[10] Recently, the University of Michigan received a waiver of the LSAT requirement as justified by the need to admit its own graduates into its law school.[11] What was unspoken but understood by this waiver request was that few of the University’s African American students could match the LSAT scores of the Caucasian applicants to its law school. This dilemma is not unique to Michigan. Seven other law schools have recently been granted LSAT waivers by the ABA.[12]

http://asulawjournal.lawnews-asu.org/wp-admin/post-new.php#_edn13

The 'Wolverine's Scholarship Program' was introduced back in 2008 and offered any student with a 3.8 or above GPA to be admitted in the Law School program back in 2008 if they agreed not to take the LSAT. The following is a suspected criticism of the program with respect to providing a guess at the underlying intent:

My MoneyLaw colleague Tom Bell (Chapman) notes Michigan's new Wolverine Scholars Program -- in which Michigan undergrads with a minimum 3.80 GPA are admitted to Michigan Law School if they agree to not take the LSAT. The rankings benefit is that there is no LSAT score to report to U.S. News, while the minimum 3.80 GPA will boost Michigan's median 3.64 GPA, which counts 10% in U.S. News' methodology. Other schools presumably will follow Michigan's lead and create similar programs to recruit their undergrads while also goosing their U.S. news ranking.

 

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So this has JUST been approved as a new legitimate practice? I'm curious to see how many schools will. actually admit students without LSAT scores using these requirements if this is breand new. If it isn't brand new, I'm curious what schools actually do choose to do this, how often they choose to, and how that choice trends with school tier.

Also I highly doubt that a lot of Tier-1 schools will openly adopt the requirements 'as is' given that many of them have a standard GPA test acceptance rate of 3.7+ which eclipses the need to accept students with a 3.5 and would be lowering their own standards and rankings. However, the rankings only have value to the schools if there are consumers (students) willingly to throw money into the system.