There is a "ceasefire" button. Right beside the "I´m an idiot" button.
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"I am down 5 pieces, my queen is hanging, and it is mate next move. I will push the ceasefire button and draw by force."
Hmm I did not know about the "I'm an idiot" button, do you have to make it optional in settings?
And yes the threatened and unstoppable checkmate in one would be a perfect situation for the compromise of the ceasefire button as opposed to the one-sided resignation button.
We should also stop calling it losses. How about "pseudo-wins"? One player wins, the other pseudo-wins. Everybody goes home happy. That's how it works, right?
Also I think it is a bit unfair that Carlsen is the ONLY World Champion... Shouldn't he share it with his deserving friends and colleagues Anand and Caruana rather than trying to "beat" them??
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I don't like to discuss about something I don't know anything about so I looked up the meaning and origin of the term "political correctness" in
WIKIPEDIA:
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Political correctness or political correctitude (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is the attitude or policy of being careful not to offend or upset any group of people in society who are believed to have a disadvantage. Mainstream usages of the term politically correct began in the 1990s by right-wing politicians.
In modern usage, the terms PC, politically correct, and political correctness are generally pejorative descriptors, whereas the term politically incorrect is used by opponents of PC as an implicitly positive self-description, as in the cases of the conservative, topical book-series The Politically Incorrect Guide, and the liberal television talk-show program Politically Incorrect. Disputing this framework are advocates for ending discrimination and scholars on the political Left who suggest that the term was redefined in the early 1990s by conservatives and libertarians for strategic political purposes.
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This in fact belong to this political strategy :
you create a monster for the mob to throw sticks and stones at. As soon as they hear or see "political correctness" the mob goes crazy - pull the plug out of any intelligent dialogue that deals with civil rights.
Same way as how they've successfully demonized the word "feminism" - pull the plug out of any intelligent dialogue that deals with women's rights...turn it into some sort of pariah.
Feminism is about women getting the right to vote, protecting them from getting raped by their own husbands, getting equal pay for equal work....but if you ask any woman today if they are a feminist...they say...no no no I'm not...even if they agree with all the above.
And when you own the media - it is very easy to do ...thousands of talking heads on primetime TV is not match for the few voices of reason.
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As defined by http://dictionary.reference.com
RACISM:
noun
1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others.
2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.
3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.
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If one subscribes to any of the above, as far as I'm concerned -he/she can proclaim his/herself to be a racist.The person has that right.
I don't have a problem with calling a spade a spade...
It is only when the racist acts on his "beliefs" - you know, like exterminating an entire race, or enslaving an entire race, or rabble rousing the mass to throw stones at his targeted group of inferiors...then we get into problems.
       A "cease-fire" button
? Â Â That's NOT politically correct. Â Â Soldiers wouldn't like THAT option.
BlackLeopard-1 wrote:
And when you own the media - it is very easy to do ...thousands of talking heads on primetime TV is not match for the few voices of reason.
Just for clarification - who do you think owns the media? Hint: it isn't "conservatives and libertarians"
         I think we need to ask Bill Mahar
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Timothy_P wrote:
BlackLeopard-1 wrote:
And when you own the media - it is very easy to do ...thousands of talking heads on primetime TV is not match for the few voices of reason.
Just for clarification - who do you think owns the media? Hint: it isn't "conservatives and libertarians"
6 corporations own 90%Â of the U.S. media, "232 media executives control the information diet of 277 million Americans"Â - know the political leanings of these people you will know what you are gorging down on a daily basis
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
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When I watch American news ...I just glean the facts and leave out the opinions of the talking heads...I know right off whether it is a left or right wing opinion
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In this politically correct age should we think of a less harsh word than resignation? For example, "... won by mutual agreement" or even better instead of winning by resignation, there could always be the option to automatically draw by "ceasefire"? I think it would hurt people's feelings a lot less if at least there was a ceasefire button next to resign and draw in live chess.