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No, they're cheap because they're burning through piles of cash from their investors and a (limited, but still large) pool of drivers willing to work a few months before they realize they got a bum deal. Both will run dry, at which point the TNC experiment will end.

For a really good discussion on the economics from the driver's side, check out any of the recent reddit threads in Austin discussing Uber and Lyft's decision to cut off 10k drivers and split town. Here's one to get you started: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austi...

-Chris

This is true for a lot of people on wikipedia though. Hell go look through /r/wikiinaction the absolute depths that some of the editors go to to camp pages, and try to force their own point of view is literally insane. The only upside for this person appears to be they're trying to get out before they follow some of the more insane editors and have a total mental break that goes so deep that they get kicked off then run off to something like rationalwiki(where ideas go to die) where they also get kicked off because they've become so batshit insane.

You might want to look at the LBJ quote regarding certain minority voting DNC for the next 200 years.

You might want to look it up yourself.

It's widely discredited, and there's a matching quote in the reverse sentiment. Namely that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a Generation.

So which is it? Well, I will quote Abe Lincoln, and say, you should not believe everything you read on the Internet just because it has a picture next to a quote.

Or in this case, because somebody printed it in a book. I get it, you want to take a side. It's exactly what you want to believe. It makes you feel better at night.

Take a look at who ran on the GOP vs DNC for the ticket this year, four old white people vs a diverse group of 17, black, white and hispanic. But the GOP is racist!

Good idea, use the list of Presidential candidates to completely understand the political parties, man, your analysis is so deep and probing it can't possibly be questioned.

Why don' t you just pass around the chain letter where Charles Guiteau and John Wilikes Booth are both called liberals? Trow in a slice of whining about Robert Byrd, while never mentioning Strom Thurmond to make it really apparent.

I honestly don't get it, do Fauxbitarians like you fail to realize you're actually sucking the partisan teat, or are you just false-flagging to make your professed side look bad?

Wouldn't surprise me. /r/subredditcancer has been doing a pretty good job of tracking that over the last year and change.

I had completely forgotten that individual subreddits have CSS, but I made a new account the other day, and I visited a subreddit with annoying CSS for the first time in a few years this morning, so I promptly turned the option off (see below).

        preferences > display options > [ ] allow subreddits to show me custom themes

If AlphaBro is right, then I might be protecting myself by turning off subreddit CSS.

Really? Because reddit.com would seem to beg to differ.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...

Or maybe the mod from r/pics/ is in on the hit-piece too, is that it?

Really? Because reddit.com would seem to beg to differ.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...

Or maybe the mod from r/pics/ is in on the hit-piece too, is that it?

Really? Because reddit.com would seem to beg to differ.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gameo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOf...

Or maybe the mod from r/pics/ is in on the hit-piece too, is that it?

The parent is obvious flamebait, but I like history, so I'll share some here...

There was an interesting article in Foreign Policy a couple years ago (possibly paywalled link here) which argued that the Soviet declaration of war was what really prompted the surrender. The author bases this on several arguments, among them:

* The atomic bombing of Hiroshima did not particularly stand out in the context of a huge and destructive conventional bombing campaign.
* The Japanese Supreme Council did not discuss the Hiroshima bombing at all, and indeed, did not seem to care much about the destruction of cities.
* Soviet mediation was seen as the last hope for avoiding an unconditional surrender.
* Japanese forces were deployed to defend against a U.S. invasion, not a Soviet invasion from the opposite direction.
* Giving the atomic bomb credit for provoking the surrender was politically convenient for the emperor as well as the United States.

It's worth a read if you can actually get to the article. There's a comment on the AskHistorians Reddit about the article by Restricted Data (Alex Wellerstein), which gives the original source of this argument (Tsuyoshi Hasegawa), and offers some historiographical context:

Hasegawa's book is very well done. He has managed for the first time to really put together a cohesive, persuasive argument about the end-game machinations in Japan, the United States, and Soviet Union. The other historians of the bomb I know are pretty convinced at least to the point that the Soviet invasion was more influential on the Japanese than the bombs. Not all of them think the bomb was of no influence, or that it would have ended without using them, though Hasegawa himself is apparently convinced of this, from what I've read.

(Personally, I am on the fence to the degree that I just don't see how we can disentangle the atomic bombs from the Soviet invasion as fully as would be necessary to say this with authority, but I am convinced that the Soviet invasion mattered at least as much, if not more, than the atomic bombs.)

The same comment also points out an important aspect of the "moral" debate:

Note that the question of whether the bombs "worked" or not is a completely separate one from whether the people who used them were justified in doing so according to what they knew at the time. People tend to think that the former implies a moral argument about the latter, but it is an entirely separate issue regarding motivation and "the decision." (Note that even characterizing the use of the bomb as being the result of some large moral deliberation, or some sort of invasion vs. bombing tradeoff, is kind of anachronistic.)

He also has a related article here.

I don't have much of an opinion on whether the atomic bombing was "justified" or not. Large-scale attacks on civilians were common through the war in both theaters, so focusing solely on the atomic bomb seems rather limited to me.

The issue is quite old actually. Here's just "one" of the topics on the matter, listing other apps that do the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/andro...

> As an amateur OpenGL hobbyist I was shocked when they removed the fixed function pipeline - which is great in principle - but suddenly it was expected of me to write OpenGL shaders to accomplish the most elementary things such as moving or texturing an object.

What?! You're too lazy to write 2 _trivial_ shaders and setup code???

0. You could always ask Reddit's /r/opengl for help you know? I hang out there and on /r/gamedev.

1. You write the boiler plate to create/bind a shader ONCE:

* glCreateProgram(),
* glShaderSource(),
* glCompileShader(),
* glAttachShader(),
* glLinkProgram(),
* glGetUniformLocation() // for each uniform in each shader

My C++ code _with_ comments is ~400 Lines of code. Here's the initialize() function, using SDL. The "hardest" part is tracking down the function prototypes but a little bit of searching the OpenGL.h files makes that easy too.

// Shaders - Attributes
oglGetAttribLocation = (PFNGLGETATTRIBLOCATIONPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glGetAttribLocation" );

// Shaders - Buffers Create/Destroy
oglBindBuffer = (PFNGLBINDBUFFERPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glBindBuffer" );
oglBufferDataARB = (PFNGLBUFFERDATAARBPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glBufferData" );
oglBufferSubDataARB = (PFNGLBUFFERSUBDATAARBPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glBufferSubData" );
oglDeleteBuffers = (PFNGLDELETEBUFFERSPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glDeleteBuffers" );
oglGenBuffers = (PFNGLGENBUFFERSARBPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glGenBuffers" );

// Shaders - Compile/Link
oglAttachShader = (PFNGLATTACHSHADERPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glAttachShader" );
oglCompileShader = (PFNGLCOMPILESHADERPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glCompileShader" );
oglLinkProgram = (PFNGLLINKPROGRAMPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glLinkProgram" );
oglShaderSource = (PFNGLSHADERSOURCEPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glShaderSource" );

// Shaders - Create/Destroy
oglCreateProgram = (PFNGLCREATEPROGRAMPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glCreateProgram" );
oglCreateShader = (PFNGLCREATESHADERPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glCreateShader" );
oglDeleteProgram = (PFNGLDELETEPROGRAMPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glDeleteProgram" );
oglDeleteShader = (PFNGLDELETESHADERPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glDeleteShader" );
oglUseProgram = (PFNGLUSEPROGRAMPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glUseProgram" );

// Shaders - Debug
oglGetProgramInfoLog = (PFNGLGETPROGRAMINFOLOGPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glGetProgramInfoLog" );
oglGetShaderiv = (PFNGLGETSHADERIVPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glGetShaderiv" );

// Shaders - Uniforms
oglGetUniformLocation = (PFNGLGETUNIFORMLOCATIONPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glGetUniformLocation" );
oglUniform1i = (PFNGLUNIFORM1IPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glUniform1i" );
oglUniform4f = (PFNGLUNIFORM4FPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glUniform4f" );
oglUniformMatrix4fv = (PFNGLUNIFORMMATRIX4FVPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glUniformMatrix4fv" );

// Shaders - Vertex Attributes
oglEnableVertexAttribArray = (PFNGLENABLEVERTEXATTRIBARRAYPROC ) SDL_GL_GetProcAddress( "glEnableVertexAttribArray" );
oglVertexAttribPoi

So on one side, eating less actually is a viable option IF you eat less because you feel sated. If you eat less just because the scale says so, you WILL get cravings and your body WILL go into starvation mode and you definitely WILL NOT permanently lose weight.

... Unless you PERMANENTLY make lifestyle changes.

Diets aren't bandaids to fix a lifetime of horrific abuse of one's body. And make no mistake -- that's what obesity is. Healthy at Any Size is a myth created by entitled idiots on tumblr.

Taking the discussion of neuroscience and "starvation mode" (which is a myth) and the like out, this Aamodt's argument can be summed up as "Diets don't work if you don't stick to them." ... Well, no fucking DUH.

As someone who lives in Austin, I can confirm the bombardment in advertising. Over the last few weeks I got between one and four pro-Prop 1 mailers per day. My wife and I didn't get texts, and we don't answer unknown numbers so we don't know if they actually called us or not. They did call my mother-in-law twice. The first time, they deliberately lied to her. "They" never identified themselves, but I'm assuming it was Rideshare Works for Austin (the Uber/Lyft PAC).

RWA: Which way are you planning on voting on Prop 1?
MIL: I'm FOR fingerprinting.
RWA: Then you want to vote FOR Prop 1.
MIL: Are you sure? I thought I'm supposed supposed to vote against.
RWA: Nope, you're supposed to vote FOR it if you're in favor of fingerprinting.

We got at least four canvassers. The first guy asked us how we were planning on voting for Prop 1, and my wife replied that she was for fingerprinting. He tried to argue that fingerprinting wasn't necessary, so he was pro-Prop 1. I answered the door to another canvasser who was anti-Prop 1. My wife ignored the last two when she saw that they were carrying clipboards.

I ran into a pro-Prop 1 canvasser while out jogging with my neighbors. The canvasser got lost in our neighborhood, so we walked with her for a block. She tried to use some of the pro-Prop 1 talking points, but she admitted that she didn't really care about it, so she was probably paid.

On top of that, the internet was on fire. Here and here are two reddit posts just about the phone calls. Nextdoor threads were epic.

As someone who lives in Austin, I can confirm the bombardment in advertising. Over the last few weeks I got between one and four pro-Prop 1 mailers per day. My wife and I didn't get texts, and we don't answer unknown numbers so we don't know if they actually called us or not. They did call my mother-in-law twice. The first time, they deliberately lied to her. "They" never identified themselves, but I'm assuming it was Rideshare Works for Austin (the Uber/Lyft PAC).

RWA: Which way are you planning on voting on Prop 1?
MIL: I'm FOR fingerprinting.
RWA: Then you want to vote FOR Prop 1.
MIL: Are you sure? I thought I'm supposed supposed to vote against.
RWA: Nope, you're supposed to vote FOR it if you're in favor of fingerprinting.

We got at least four canvassers. The first guy asked us how we were planning on voting for Prop 1, and my wife replied that she was for fingerprinting. He tried to argue that fingerprinting wasn't necessary, so he was pro-Prop 1. I answered the door to another canvasser who was anti-Prop 1. My wife ignored the last two when she saw that they were carrying clipboards.

I ran into a pro-Prop 1 canvasser while out jogging with my neighbors. The canvasser got lost in our neighborhood, so we walked with her for a block. She tried to use some of the pro-Prop 1 talking points, but she admitted that she didn't really care about it, so she was probably paid.

On top of that, the internet was on fire. Here and here are two reddit posts just about the phone calls. Nextdoor threads were epic.

If you upgrade to Windows 10 Professional, you can control when and how you take updates. I do this, and it works just fine. You can find the instructions here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windo...

There are a dew distinct aspects to this (IMO):
- There's a fundamental difference between "police can hack into iPhones" and "Apple puts a backdoor into iPhones so that iPhones are trivially hackable by anyone with the key", because Apple's role in the process matters. If Apple's job is to make iPhones secure, the police (and criminals) can of course still hack phones, but any vulnerabilities are treated as bugs to be fixed, and the iPhone gets more and more secure over time. If the police can force Apple to put a backdoor into the iPhone, then when the key is leaked (which always happens, when you give a key to thousands of police departments and other agencies, their contractors and vendors, etc., just as happened with DVDs) then anyone who can get the key can hack any iPhone, rendering it fundamentally insecure, and because it's required by a law, Apple cannot make the iPhone more secure, forever.
- The iPhone will never be 100% secure, because there's no such thing as 100% secure - the goal of security measures is to increase the cost/time of a successful attack, but infinite money/time can always ultimately succeed. For example, AES 256 is quite secure, but that just means that brute forcing a key would take enough time and harder (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/theyd...) that it's not worth it - you'd have to be a government to have the resources to do so, and very few secrets are worth spending a building full of supercomputers to hack. Every so often new techniques or technologies emerge that can change the equation (quantum computing...) but the same is true of physical locks - if you can photograph a key you can 3D print a duplicate. So it's always been a game of "cat and mouse" between lock-makers and lock-breakers.
- Because encryption is software, which can't be controlled globally, any laws restricting encryption only limits what can be embedded in systems from US manufacturers. But it won't have any control over anyone with internet access, since the rest of the planet can (and does) produce uncompromised security systems with no backdoors, which anyone on the planet can download and use (including good open source, free tools). So any law against secure systems won't help against real criminals, because presumably they'll either avoid digital communications (i.e. what real terrorists do now) or use true end-to-end encryption, but it'll certainly make it easier to eliminate privacy for the rest of us. Compare, for example, how the data collected by the government's massive surveillance of phone calls and emails hasn't helped against terrorists at all, but has been used for other purposes, such as to allow a government agent to spy on his wife to see if she was cheating on him.

So the big news of the day is that Bitcoin's creator has stepped forward.

Let's nip it in the bud. No, he has not. A con man who was already outed half a year ago has made an elaborate stunt to try to convince people he's Satoshi. The stunt was quickly debunked.

For the technically minded: A cryptographic signature of text A will not be the same as the signature of text B, even if you use the same key. The signature Craig Wright claims is of text B has been found to be a known signature in the Bitcoin blockchain of text A.

Craig Wright is not Satoshi Nakamoto.

He's a con man: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
Re-used signature: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitco...

on Reddit's TIFU: https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/

I've never been able to understand how people can think Heinlein was a misogynist.

There is a regrettable modern tendency to try to exaggerate faults.

Looking at a woman when she doesn't want to be looked at? That's like "raping" her.

Writing "Trump 2016" on the sidewalk? That's "racist".

I think the above usages trivialize the real things. I'm pretty sure that actual rape survivors won't be pleased when a college student says "I feel like I've been raped because that boy looked at me." It's not even in the ballpark. And Trump is a buffoon, obviously unqualified for the job of President, but I haven't seen any evidence that he's particularly racist, so it's beyond ridiculous to say that advocating Trump for President is a racist thing to do.

The criticism I have seen of Heinlein with respect to females in his fiction: most of it seems to center around the fact that his females don't hate men, and many of them like having sex with men. (Obviously this complaint skews toward his later novels; sex simply wasn't shown in novels during the earlier parts of his career.)

But come on, people. The female protagonist in "The Menace from Earth" and the female movie star from that story were both lively and believable characters. Hazel Stone, Friday, the women who worked for Jubal Harsaw, the women from "If This Goes On--", Mary from The Puppet Masters... I could go on and on naming female characters that were far from tokens.

I don't know how much science fiction from the 1940's would pass the Bechdel Test, but Heinlein wrote some!

So yea it's unfair and stupid.

None of the above is to say that anyone has to like Heinlein or the way he wrote female characters. If you think his female characters are all unrealistic, if you hate his dialog, whatever, matter of taste, go for it. But words have meanings, and the meaning of the word "misogynist" is not a thing that applies to Heinlein.

P.S. Worth reading: https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/comments/2fwmhr/can_we_talk_about_misogyny_in_robert_heinlein/

i do not like limitations of ChromeOS but it is currently the ONLY way to get a haswell/broadwell/skylake laptop with linux with proper power management. i've yet to see a non-chromeos laptop that can enter a state lower than PC3 (package state, not core).

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

so I, for one, am interested in this new chromebook. i currently have a haswell chromebook with crouton installed and i have never experienced such battery life with a linux machine before (not even on dell sputnik). it's a crappy cheap machine but i'm finding myself using it almost exclusively these days. it's the first computer i can leave the house with while leaving the charger at home.

i do not like limitations of ChromeOS but it is currently the ONLY way to get a haswell/broadwell/skylake laptop with linux with proper power management. i've yet to see a non-chromeos laptop that can enter a state lower than PC3 (package state, not core).

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux...

so I, for one, am interested in this new chromebook. i currently have a haswell chromebook with crouton installed and i have never experienced such battery life with a linux machine before (not even on dell sputnik). it's a crappy cheap machine but i'm finding myself using it almost exclusively these days. it's the first computer i can leave the house with while leaving the charger at home.

If he's using a proper True Crypt volume, encrypted with AES-256, you're off by about 50 orders of magnitude. AES-256 will survive brute-force attacks until pretty much the heat death of the universe.

Nothing to hide == nothing to fear

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say," - Edward Snowden

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

Really? Tell us something that the average person doesn't know, and one of the reasons why if you go to school they will explicitly tell you not to trust wikipedia, not to even use it as a basis for research for furthering your topic. Never mind they've got their own problems, where wikipedia investigates wikipedia and finds no wrongdoing.

The "Rabid Puppies" and "Sad Puppies" have about as much to do with each other as "JavaScript" and "Java". That is, nothing but a confusing similarity of name.

Charges that Sad Puppies needs to control Vox Day are simply unfair. How are they supposed to do that exactly? Vox Day is an independent adult and there is no reason why the Sad Puppies would have the ability to control him. See above point.

Last year, the Sad Puppies pleaded with Vox Day not to burn the Hugo Awards to the ground. Then the science fiction fandom got really organized and burned the Hugo Awards to the ground. Vox Day got everything he wanted and they did the work for him.

The Sad Puppies have always been about recommending the SF works that you enjoyed the most. Sad Puppies 4 continues this tradition.

Rabid Puppies, on the other hand, seems to be a trolling campaign by Vox Day. (Vox Day seems to have a knack for saying things that are so beyond the pale that they literally enrage people. I suspect he's trolling because his statements are so perfectly calculated to enrage. And now "Space Raptor Butt Invasion"?)

One final point, submitted for your consideration: The novel Three Body Problem won a Hugo. It was Vox Day's favorite novel of the year, and had he read it a little sooner, he would have nominated it for a Hugo. It would then have lost the Hugo to "No Award" as the organized fandom was voting an "anti-Puppy" slate.

The organized fandom and their organized "No Award" campaign claimed that they had to award an unprecedented number of "No Awards" to protect the Hugo, but how would denying the Hugo to Three Body Problem have protected anything? What was protected when Toni Weisskopf was denied her Hugo? And here we are, with the Rabid Puppies causing worse trouble than ever, and some fraction of fandom repelled by the No Award and wooden asterisk plaque antics, and walking away from the whole thing.

Assuming you're prepared to believe this guy had a good enough grasp on all the physics involved, this was debunked ~8 months ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/EmDri...

i can play console games on the couch on a big screen tv with a well-made controller.

PCs have VGA and usually DVI or HDMI out; HDTVs have HDMI and usually VGA in. (HDMI is DVI-D with audio in the blanking period and a different connector.) Set the PC next to the TV, connect a well-made Xbox 360 or Xbox One controller to its front USB port, and play.

i'm not spending 1500 dollars on a gaming pc every few years.

The beauty of desktop PCs is that there are so many builds to choose from that you're more likely to find one to fit your needs. There are $500 builds that'll match any current console, and even the integrated HD Graphics in Intel Core i series CPUs is running games at lower settings nowadays.

you can't play nintendo games on a pc.

Or on a PS4 or Xbox One. Nor can you play Halo on PS4 or any Nintendo console. (On PS1 through PS3 you can make a joke involving the numbering system of Nine Inch Nails albums; PS4 dropped this capability.) But there aren't a lot of critical games that are on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 or both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One but not on Windows. In addition, a lot of especially indie games are PC-first or PC-only.

the wormhole stability was measured as lasting only .10717 seconds then to move a car 4.216 meters long (A DeLorean) through the wormhole before it closes you would need to be moving at 39.3395 meters per second or 88 MPH.

Their observation was within their error bounds, and massively contradicts well-tested theories. That's called, "back-to-the-blackboard" for the testing lab. It's not necessary for them to invent a new theory to cover their results (and note that McCulloch's theory can be safely discarded), but there's no point in anyone attempting to reproduce a non-result. Similarly, no one should feel compelled to believe in or reproduce over-unity devices, and any such claims should be treated with the greatest skepticism -- ditto for claims about faster-than-light neutrinos.

George_Ou is entirely correct: the burden of proof is on the person claiming a new phenomenon. So far, the evidence is distinctly lacking, and there's no reason to believe this will even pass peer review. It would be nice if this device worked; I want to go to Alpha Centauri too. However, anyone willing to throw out centuries of empirical evidence based on a single admittedly flawed test is entirely too credulous.

Given that the author appears to have unbounded ignorance of second-year physics, that seems to be a highly appropriate pulpit. When McCulloch has any idea that he is contradicting known physics, he gets very vague about how his theory does not contradict it. Apparently there are lots of unspecified errors in unspecified physics textbooks.

You were right the first time. The people testing the EmDrive were clowns, and Mike McCulloch should never have received a PhD. This reddit thread, which he participated in, should be sufficient to destroy his credibility.

I am incensed this made it to the front page. This is worse science than most climate deniers manage; they are usually a little less blatantly unphysical. The firehose needs a way to tag things as complete bullshit, preferably with the ability to submit a rebuttal link. There is no need for Slashdot to run hoax stories, terrible science, or anything else blatantly untrue.

this is why it won't work https://www.reddit.com/r/netse...

How is OS X FreeBSD-based?

The userland of Darwin is based on that of FreeBSD.

Moreover, there are far more AAA games for Linux than there are for Mac OS X.

As of April 2014, twice as many Steam games were available for OS X as for Linux. Is there a source for this having changed in the past two years? Which statistics should I be looking at, or which Google queries should I be using to find them?

Sorry, you're wrong. Aside from Bessel beams (which are unphysical), any wave is going to diffract at the edges, due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. See here and here. Frankly, that we stopped short on perfect lasers "just because" when even this article demonstrates the limitations, is an odd notion to take into your head.

Do you have a reference for that? I couldn't find anything, but then again I don't speak much French so it's hard to search.

It's hard to find a non-french reference, but here's a pretty detailed english explanation of *all* a child's paternal rights (not just the bit you wanted to know) - see link. Note that the link itself has a link to the original french document, but you'll have to use google translate on it.

Wikipedia also says "This is partially due to the official desire to "preserve the peace" within French families, with the French government citing psychologists who state that fatherhood is determined by society, rather than biology. "

"I mean I love my Apple Watch, but - it's taken us into a jewelry market where you're going to buy a watch between $500 or $1100 based on how important you think you are as a person. The only difference is the band in all those watches. Twenty watches from $500 to $1100. The band's the only difference? Well this isn't the company that Apple was originally, or the company that really changed the world a lot."

- Steve Wozniak

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...

http://www.gamespot.com/forums...
http://www.falloutfacts.com/ot...
(Doesn't say NV is better: http://forums.steampowered.com...)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallo...

So on so on. Google has the links.

The worst abusers of this are the powermods, those are the ones that moderate hundreds of subs. There's no shortage of them, and there's no shortage of subs that they've taken over either. It's very rare that a sub that gets someone like that in a position of power is able to recover from it either. The only one off the top of my head that has is /r/canada, and even at that it's still suffering from when DavidReiss666 was there.

What's funny is that the users that follow these power mods around have a huge overlap in very specific subs, and once the takeover is complete you have a userbase that posts in all the same subs, and the content and quality simply hits free fall and eventually dies as people move to less authoritarian subs.

It looks like they've updated a few things.
http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/di...

By the way -- I almost missed your reply. I also came across this while making sure that one can donate - you made me wonder if it had changed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space...

Sure - they are collectively claimed to be services (plural) by Oculus. In the singular, their claim makes the headset hardware either a 'service', or a 'service component'. That means the conditions in the EULA apply to it also. Especially these ones:

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF SERVICE, DO NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR SERVICES.
We reserve the right, in our sole discretion and where technically feasible, to disable your access to or ability to use Services that we believe present a health and safety risk or violate our community standards, agreements, laws, regulations or policies.

I personally think a change in the EULA will be shortly forthcoming. If not, consider the EULA below and consider how things have changed for the worse:

[DK2 EULA]
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculu...

OWNERSHIP. As between you and Oculus, Oculus shall own all right, title, and interest in and to the Firmware and any and all modifications or copies thereof or improvements thereto. You will have only the limited license to use the Firmware in accordance with these Terms & Conditions. As between you and Oculus, you shall own all right, title, and interest in any content that you create using the Product.

(Emphasis Palmer Luckey's)

And no - Apple does not sell you an 'iPhone service'. It sells you a tangible product (the iPhone), and licenses you software to use with it. Some aspects of phone functionality use online services (Apple iCloud, App Marketplace). But you don't lose the right to call mom if Apple 'in its sole discretion, and where technically feasible, disabled your access to or ability to use the iPhone service'.

The CEO of Microsoft appeared to me before from the future to bring the news to you infidels.

In 2018, Microsoft shall release the first ever Linux by Microsoft, called Microsoft Linux 9.

There will be various editions you'll be able to buy, here is a short list with a summary:

Microsoft Linux 9 Home - Just $120 Today!

You will be granted the privilege to boot into your computer and use Microsoft Updates on your computer. The linux terminal and any text editors will be disabled on the system and you'll be able to browse the internet.

Microsoft Linux Explorer(LE) 12 will be the default unmodifiable browser. You'll be able to use your browser to visit Microsoft and Trusted Partners' websites.

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What about cock protection? I mean, you've got two eyes, but only one cock.

But what I'm most confused about is what all of this has to do with Reddit robin. Why does the article talk about that, when it seems so irrelevant?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRe...

The idea struck me as funny and I found this today.

Reddit has also been censoring posts lately by removing them from various subreddits without explanation. Typically these are posts which go against it's leftist liberal views. One of the biggest examples was the Cologne sexual assaults, which were continuously removed over a 3-day period until finally being permitted. A more recent example can be seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4ctuew/found_this_on_rwtf/

This post refers to another post which contained a video showing a black woman assaulting a white man because he has dread locks. This post was immediately removed from /r/videos, /r/politics, and /r/wtf with no reason given several times (posted by several users). The removed post can be still be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/4cswsg/white_guys_cant_have_dreadlocks/

The worst part is you can't even link to the removed post on reddit, as it will automatically be removed as well. It appears this was easily circumvented by using a shortlink, however.

Reddit has also been censoring posts lately by removing them from various subreddits without explanation. Typically these are posts which go against it's leftist liberal views. One of the biggest examples was the Cologne sexual assaults, which were continuously removed over a 3-day period until finally being permitted. A more recent example can be seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/4ctuew/found_this_on_rwtf/

This post refers to another post which contained a video showing a black woman assaulting a white man because he has dread locks. This post was immediately removed from /r/videos, /r/politics, and /r/wtf with no reason given several times (posted by several users). The removed post can be still be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/4cswsg/white_guys_cant_have_dreadlocks/

The worst part is you can't even link to the removed post on reddit, as it will automatically be removed as well. It appears this was easily circumvented by using a shortlink, however.

You're absolutely correct: the first time a recipient of a National Security Letter can reveal is technically within the allowable classification of 1-1000 NSL requests.

This allowable action does give you a leg to stand on, legally, if the acronym people contest the warrant canary.

The only thing that they really messed up was the track gauge, not using the standard gauge but a more or less unique for the BART system.

That, and the cylindrical wheels which are much louder and need more maintenance, compared to the conical wheels used on most other railways.

The YOLO crew have been harping on about $SUNE for weeks, they went full tilt, off tap. Crazy times.
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GFY

Ah yes, claiming a win after an astonishingly thorough defeat. Reminds me of something:

So who were they defeated by? Looks like to me you're pretty damn salty that a leaderless grassroots revolt against shitty journalists that ran their own giant story/article writing collusion group akin to Journolist(which was called Gamejournopros). The leaks from that easily show exactly how much collusion was going on in that. And you're also very salty at just how these incestuous people were caught giving giving hand outs to their friends, people they were shacked up with, or fucking. Sure does speak a lot about people who don't give a shit that they're being lied to, and like it instead.

Like Gawker, right?

Well GG has never actually claimed for gawker, except costing them 7 figures in ad-revenue and showing people exactly how shitty they are. And showing advertisers exactly how shitty companies like Gawker are. You know, Gawker the same site that believes that bullying people is good. For a group of supposedly evil people though, GG's response was to donate to an anti-bullying campaign. But anti-GG? Oh they were right out there supporting what ol'Sam was saying. But other sites? Yep. Some are just significant drops in traffic, others have closed for good.

No, they just believe in "ethics" as defined by (a) making shit up about people, (b) doxxing them and (c) the hate campaign,

So who have they made shit up about? I'll wait. I'm sure you're going to try trotting out something on Quinn. You know, the same piece of shit that filed multiple false DMCA claims, and then slapped order against her ex because he pointed out that she was a domestic abuser, and was trying to warn others away from her. Also, who has GG doxxed? I'm sure they'll be forthcoming. I'll be happy to point out various anti-GG individuals who have openly doxxed people, and continue to do so to this day. Oh, like that prominent anti-GG person Graham Lineham. FYI, one of the most prominent anti-GG people was arrested a few months back for trying to tell a terrorist how to build a bomb. But they also wrote for big name progressive sites, and as a feminist too.

And what hate? Find it. Because I'll tell you something, anti-GG's have done a very good job of attacking anyone who refuses to fall in line with their group think. I think my person favorite is when anti-GGers decided the "if you're supporting GG, and you're a minority/women/etc., you're a racist/sexist/homophobes." But that's really all their arguments boil down to anyway, trying to claim that they're being harassed and screaming that people are racist/sexist/homophobes because they're losing an argument or being shown that they're actually the shitty people out there. I think my favorite out of all of that has been when Quinn and Sarkeesian ran to the UN crying about how demands for proof of their statements and criticism of their work was harassment.

The entire thing has done a wonderful job of proving how many people can't be bothered to actually read the news beyond what they're being told. Then again, I kinda like this bit too. Where people starting saying "muslims are terrorists," the media will start screaming "not all muslims are terrorists, you're just islamophobic!!!" But if one person in GG does something wrong, all of GG has done something wrong. Yep, no agenda there at all.

Funny, it doesn't look very defunct. Then again, it might look that way to an outsider, especially since it's basically won. Sites that were unethical, spouting garbage or running identity politics are either gone or suffering heavily financially. People who parroted those views have either quit or been fired, or moved down in the world to even worse sites. Not only can't you stop mentioning it, the media can't either. There's still 1-2 stories nearly every day about it. I think my personal favorite is how gamergate is now all the evils of the internet and worse then 4chan all rolled into one. Never mind of course that Weev was never a e-celeb or proponent. He was a successful troll in some aspects but that's it. Note how many articles there are spouting his pov...a whole not even one page of results from one of the main gamergate hubs. Yep, such a huge following, not only that but he's labeled as exactly who he is right off the bat. A member of GNAA, and his view points are spelt out right too.

One also can't forget that gamergate unlike those on the regressive left or regressive right doesn't believe in identity politics being the answer, rather that identity politics is cancer. Which means if someone has a good idea, it doesn't matter who they actually are. But, then again you've got all those people on the regressive left side of the spectrum that are pedophile defenders or openly pedophiles, that you like to rally around.