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Thanks To Apple's Influence, You're Not Getting A Rifle Emoji (buzzfeed.com)
Charlie Warzel, reporting for BuzzFeed News: Unicode, the technical organization in charge of selecting and overseeing emojis, debated and ultimately decided to remove a rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, according to multiple persons who attended its quarterly meeting last May. The decision was led and championed by one of tech's biggest companies: Apple. Apple is one of Unicode's largest member companies and not only has voting rights, but also holds considerable influence. Millions of people use emojis on Apple's software platforms. According to sources in the room, Apple started the discussion to remove the rifle emoji, which had already passed into the encoding process for the Unicode 9.0 release this June. Apple told the consortium it would not support a rifle on its platforms and asked for it not to be made into an emoji. "I heard Apple speak up about it and also Microsoft," one member present at the discussions told BuzzFeed News.
It actually makes sense not to have such an emoji, because it creates a dilemma whether someone using such an emoji in a message is making a threat, and whether the company, becoming aware of such a threat, has a duty to do something about it.
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Emoji are for idiots anyways. Intelligent people put on their big boy pants and use their grown up words to communicate.
the fits emoji and knife emoji to help perpetuate violence... Look at their keynote... they use emoji signifying a desire to punch hindi people!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
The destruction of words is a beautiful thing comrade Cook. This years unicode has 100 fewer symbols than 2015 it's doubleplusgood.
The world was once again safe from bad people who murder innocents with emojis.
Seeing as how the proposed images are primarily hunting rifles(1 is in fact a target shooting rifle and the other appears to be a Winchester-type lever action rifle which has historical significance and connotations), which are generally legal even in cities and countries with very strict firearm legislation, isn't this a bit of an overreaction? It is important to note that it appears to be in a set of Olympic-themed emojis, of which target shooting has been a participating sport for over a century. And of course hunting with firearms has been a hobby if not vital means of survival for centuries as well.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
...only outlaws will have codepoints.
Okay, and anybody who understands how to look things up in a character set.
There's already a gun emoji. Windows sidesteps the issue a bit by displaying it a cartoon raygun:
http://emojipedia.org/microsof...
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
These fucking idiotic emojis are the best argument against Slashdot ever supporting Unicode in comments.
The last thing an English-centric site like Slashdot needs is for comments that contain emojis or other fancy emoticons made using Unicode characters.
Just look at how awful YouTube and Twitter comments tend to be, and a big part of this is due to emojis being used instead of real words.
It's better for Slashdot not to support fancy quotes or other useful characters if it means keeping this site free from emojis.
Emoticons using common ASCII characters are bad enough. Emojis would absolutely ruin the commenting here.
If you can't express your idea using English words, then it probably isn't worth expressing here at Slashdot to being with!
There are emoji with different skin tones, they were added a while ago... That the author/editor of the article went with only white ones might say something about them but not about emoji in general.
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Another brutal attempt at gun control >:-)
And just when I thought it was impossible for me to hate Apple any more than I already do...they exceed my expectations and manage to make me hate them even more.
Really? "I feel like shooting something"? If you do then fucking _type_it_ instead of inserting a graphical symbol no one knows what it is supposed to represent and may look strange on the recipient(s) machine(s).
So when should we expect the "I stubbed my toe and want to comfort myself with chocolate ice-cream with opium topping to be washed down with vodka" emoji to appear?
is this something anyone should care about?
i mean, its a thing, and apple is involved, but really. did anyone know of or care about the existence of a governing body for emojis
...this will prevent further mass shootings in chat rooms.
Censoring an ideogram just because a few retards misuse it is the height of stupidity and Cowardice
tell us about your campaign to get the nazi swastika as a letter of the alphabet, how is it going?
A gay Muslim Democrat shoots up a Gun Free Zone.
It was obviously the fault of the straight kafirs who are pro-second amendment!
How do we get rid of the rest of the emoji?
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I don't know whether or not someone is threatening me with... safe sex or not?
Cars kill more people then guns yet we don't "ban" the pictograph of cars.
To be fair, cars don't kill people either. Whether it be guns, cars, or ham sandwiches, people are to blame for their accidental or intentional misuse that leads to the injury or demise of others. As long as we keep blaming inanimate objects for the damage caused, we will get NO WHERE. Gun deaths have been on a downward trend since the 70's, yet more guns are out there than ever, and many states have allowed concealed/open carry. Clearly, the lower number of deaths has nothing to do with removing guns from American's possession, so this needs to be explored as a social cause and see how we can reinforce it.
Apple could have just replaced them with walkie-talkies on iOS. :p
"There are people who do not love their fellow human being, and I _hate_ people like that!" - Tom Lehrer
May we have a politician-being-bribed emoticon?
Requiem for the American Dream
no one is banning anything, they're simply not ratifying a standard around it. they aren't taking anything away, they're choosing not to give you something new, something you were fine not having until someone pointed out you don't have it
As I understand it, Apple was lobbying for the "Vibrating Butt Plug" emoji.
And it wasn't the government, only Miami Vice.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"This is my rifle, this is my gun; this is for fighting this is for fun".
because bombing and killing 100,000 of thousands into democracy is ok. http://emojipedia.org/bomb/
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
How about they just stop putting all emjois in the damned character sets. I don't want 1GB of unused icons because someone somewhere thought it would be funny to have a choking-his-chicken emoji.
I guess the "designers" at Apple felt it would be redundant on their product.
You have a right to bear arms (U+1F4AA). And bare arms. So join a boxing club and put your fists (U+1F44A) to good use.
Insignia appropriated by National Socialism:
1) it's a bipod, not a tripod
2) a scope is a perfectly reasonable attachment for any 5.56/.223 rifle - effective range can go out to 100 to 200m, and a good scope is helpful at those ranges
3) whether or not it uses a drum magazine, or a simple double stack magazine, the weapon still functions like any other semi-automatic rifle -> one trigger pull, one shot.
Now, you can choose to define an "assault weapon" as something black and scary looking, but nothing you've pointed out is any different than the much kinder, gentler looking mini 14 (http://www.ruger.com/products/mini14/images/line-top.jpg). During the san bernardino terrorist attack, you can see LEOs using it: http://media.gettyimages.com/p... - it's functionally identical to the AR15 style weapons the terrorists were using, chambering the same round, firing at the same rate.
A common sense definition of an "assault weapon" is a fully automatic (not semi-automatic) belt fed machine gun...something like the m60 (http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/guns/images/5/58/M60.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20070330224515)
But you really weren't looking for the truth, now were you? :)
It's interesting. About twice as many people die from alcohol related issues than guns in the U.S. Per year, yet, the "socially responsible" people who have jumped in the anti-gun bad wagon do not utter one, single peep about this. They do not refuse to make emoji about the topic, and in fact, some seem to be there. Funny how that works. It almost as if there is a large group of people who want to appear to care about things, than really care. Almost...
Before I forget, here are the links proving what I said: http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fac...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_...
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http://chris.com/ascii/index.p...
Not sure how to get consistent spacing or I'd post some here.
Thankfully, one can put them in place of what does go in there.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
If you designed a car to kill people as its first priority, im pretty sure it would be illegal. Sure weapons are used to defend yourself, but if society has less weapons, then you will have less need to defend yourself with weapons.
"inanimate object" simplifies the issue far too much. No one picks up a gun and points it at someone without the threat of imminent death. It's animate in meaning all right.
Im just glad i live in a country where mandatory gun ownership is not necessary.
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Waiting patiently at the side until this emoji hype dies down when the current teens decide that they're no longer cool and someone at the Unicode consortium comes to work not on drugs that day and asks himself "why the fuck we did this?"
Can't wait to see the fireworks when we realize that it's not so easy to get rid of the shit.
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where is the emoji for that?
Here: U+1F988
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It's the new form of superstition.
"Guns are around bad things happening, therefore gun have evil spirits in them. Therefore if you have guns the evil spirits will get into you. So destroy all of the guns, and people that have touched them!!!"
Yeah, real smart... 8-P
When gun emojis are criminal, only criminals will have them! We law-abiding citizens must have a way to defend ourselves from those marauding criminals who send us rifle emojis from criminal platforms! Oh the horrors!
On the flipside, think of how many emoji-based mass slaughters that won't be happening...
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Apple has helped us decide who to vote for by not supporting Trump's campaign.
... which jobs we shall have ... where we can live. Just like the USSR helped people make these choices not long ago.
This helps because voters don't have to make their own choices and can't be misled.
Now Apple is helping us decide what kind of emoji's we can use and how we should think about guns.
These guys are just so helpful.
What will the future hold for us? We will soon have the luxury of having our clothes picked out for us
That the Russians/Soviets of old risked their lives to flee their collapsing country is, of course, highly irrelevant because there are some crucial technicialities they weren't following that makes the negative aspects unrelated to what is possible.
Yes, if you want a sad example, look at infant mortality. Some places don't (or at least didn't, at some point) count deaths under 1 year as infant mortality, they are considered "stillborn" and so they have less infant mortality than other places, but more dead babies.
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