The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread VIII

[holy king]

probably.

 

[Cutlass]

I over have 850 books in my database. Is this a bad thing?

EDIT: I divided the number of pages (program gives) by the number of books and got average of 203 pages per book. But some of them are childhood picture books and others are huge 1000-page textbooks and most of them are in between.

No. But if you aren't going to read them again, you should try and sell them, or give them to charity. They're just taking up space.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

The problem is, I do read them.

 

[Cutlass]

So organize them so you can find what you want and don't worry about it.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I tried to tape my broken toe to my big toe so it would heal straight but it didn't exactly work. Can I use a very, very short stick or something instead?

 

[holy king]

it's a toe. you dont need any kind of stabilizer at all, just rest it as much as possible and it will be alright.

 

[Yared]

Are there really different "races" among humans? Or are the differences so inconsequential that you can't really say ethnic east Asian people are a different race to ethnic west Africans?

If there aren't any, is it racist to call someone racist since you're acknowledging that someone is discriminating someone else based on race?

 

[Cutlass]

Are there really different "races" among humans? Or are the differences so inconsequential that you can't really say ethnic east Asian people are a different race to ethnic west Africans?

If there aren't any, is it racist to call someone racist since you're acknowledging that someone is discriminating someone else based on race?

The genetic differences that make the 'races' distinct are less than the differences within each 'race'. So to use 'race' as if people are a slightly different species is wrong. I kind of prefer to use the phrase 'ethnic group'. Because a group that has been more or less in isolation from other groups can develop physical traits that are notably different from other groups. But it's a lot like saying a German Shepard is a separate 'race' from a golden retriever. If you keep the populations separate, they'll have some different traits. But nothing is stopping them from breeding together if you leave them to it.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

There used to be, back when people couldn't travel as much all over the world and when social customs still encouraged staying within your own group. We can still see the vestiges of these influences. Although these effects are disappearing.

 

[Yared]

Or no, wait, you're acknowledging that someone is discriminating someone else based on an imaginary (to you) concept of race. Nvm the second part...

Thanks guys.

 

[Cutlass]

Or no, wait, you're acknowledging that someone is discriminating someone else based on an imaginary concept of race. Nvm the second part...

If you mean race as a political concept that people acted on, and that many people still act on, as opposed to a biological concept, then yes people have and do act on that political concept. But the political concept isn't backed up by biological fact.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Race is just how much of a suntan you have, I suppose. But people like to divide others up by how much of a suntan they have.

 

[MagisterCultuum]

Race can be defined by many different features (not just skin tone), but is an ultimately arbitrary social construct.

 

[cardgame]

Race can be defined by many different features (not just skin tone), but is an ultimately arbitrary social construct.

Except when a disease affects black people more than white people.

not just a social construct then, is it

 

[Kerozine]

I am in the market for an LCD monitor intended for gaming and web browsing. Is there a considerable difference between a TN panel and an IPS panel?

 

[Yared]

Except when a disease affects black people more than white people.

not just a social construct then, is it

You sure there aren't some white people who get affected by it, and some black people who don't get affected by those kind of diseases?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Because when people are divided up by their suntans, people who look the same breed together because they're divided up, and their genes get passed around and that's disease.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

You sure there aren't some white people who get affected by it, and some black people who don't get affected by those kind of diseases?

Yeah, genetic diseases can do that.

 

[GinandTonic]

Except when a disease affects black people more than white people.

not just a social construct then, is it

So does that make redheads a biologically separate race? Does that make my readhead mother a different race to me?

 

[MagisterCultuum]

I recall hearing that one of the most common "Black" diseases is much more prevalent in French Canadians than in non-Bantu blacks.