It's unfortunate, then, that the products his company made were sold at far higher prices than they were actually worth. But I guess you sell at the price the idiots who buy into your marketing campaigns will let you.
False equivalence. The vast majority of the users of the roads are not criminals. It's easily shown that around 80-90% of the content on the Pirate Bay is violating copyrights.
They called themselves that. Doesn't mean they actually were. You assume think that China is really a "People's Republic"? They must be since they call themselves that, right?
Yes, and you and I agree. I was not claiming that anyone criticizing Card was a bigot nor was I saying his views should be tolerated. I in fact in my posts have stated the opposite repeatedly. You misunderstood what I was saying.
Some people have work to do and use their computers as tools to get shit done. Not all of us have time to continually waste re-learning the newest fad desktop paradigm pushed by UX designers who need to continually justify the existence of their jobs.
Did you have an actual argument or just some shitty name calling? Yes "people like Card" as in "religious bigots" who have numerous times staged widespread, public boycotts against people, shows, movies, books, etc. Then when the tactic is used against them they can't stop bitching about being persecuted. I have some sympathy for such shit heads.
Really? Because I pretty much found the Left conveniently silent when Bush sent our forces to war to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq - two groups that had SPECIFICALLY said they want to harm the life of Americans.
What I saw was the opposite. None of the "leftists" I know or ever talked to during that period were supportive of it and many were quite vocal in opposition.
Face it: both the Right AND Left are hypocrites, cheerfully campaigning on whatever issue suits their POLITICAL goals and clothing it in moral righteousness BUT likewise ignoring parallel situations in which that same logic might apply, but doesn't suit their political agenda.
Sure, both extremes are asshats and hypocrites. Either way, Card is just having his own tactics turned against him so I have little sympathy.
Seriously - asking the Left to be open-minded or tolerant is silly.
Tolerance does not mean you have to give pass to actions of others that seek to purposefully and negatively effect your life and those of others. Being tolerant and open-minded also have little to do with the fact that people can choose to or choose not to go see someone's movie.
We, society of the Oceanian province of Airstrip One, MUST punish anyone who does not believe in the same thing that we do, don't you know that?
*yawn* So no one can choose to not go see his movie because to do so is "punishing" him? Give me a fucking break... Oh and it's funny that you whine about this since tons of conservative groups do the exact same thing.
Freedom of Speech is not part of a Groupthink! Who do you think you are, Emmanuel Goldstein?
Freedom of Speech means that I am obligated to go patronize a movie? Since when?
Actively campaigned and funded groups seeking to deny rights to others. As such many people do not want to patronize a film that will give him more money to do so. He's more than free to say and do all he wants and he is not having his freedom of speech abridged because I and others choose not to go see this movie.
Funny since people like Card actively boycott all sorts of advertisers for sponsoring shows that might possibly show gay people in any sort of positive light. Yet they then come back and bitch about bein persecuted when their own tv show/movie/book gets boycotted because of their own views. He is a fucking hypocrite.
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It's unfortunate, then, that the products his company made were sold at far higher prices than they were actually worth. But I guess you sell at the price the idiots who buy into your marketing campaigns will let you.
Paying more for something means it's high end. Duuuuuuuh.
That's easy. For your convenience they will store the decryption key for you.
False equivalence. The vast majority of the users of the roads are not criminals. It's easily shown that around 80-90% of the content on the Pirate Bay is violating copyrights.
How is that phrase gibberish? It's quite clear what it means if you've ever used C++ and function pointers to implement callbacks for an object.
Assume = actually
They called themselves that. Doesn't mean they actually were. You assume think that China is really a "People's Republic"? They must be since they call themselves that, right?
Yes, it was the former. Thank you for getting my point.
Yes, and you and I agree. I was not claiming that anyone criticizing Card was a bigot nor was I saying his views should be tolerated. I in fact in my posts have stated the opposite repeatedly. You misunderstood what I was saying.
Some people have work to do and use their computers as tools to get shit done. Not all of us have time to continually waste re-learning the newest fad desktop paradigm pushed by UX designers who need to continually justify the existence of their jobs.
Some was supposed to be no.
Did you have an actual argument or just some shitty name calling? Yes "people like Card" as in "religious bigots" who have numerous times staged widespread, public boycotts against people, shows, movies, books, etc. Then when the tactic is used against them they can't stop bitching about being persecuted. I have some sympathy for such shit heads.
Really? Because I pretty much found the Left conveniently silent when Bush sent our forces to war to fight in Afghanistan or Iraq - two groups that had SPECIFICALLY said they want to harm the life of Americans.
What I saw was the opposite. None of the "leftists" I know or ever talked to during that period were supportive of it and many were quite vocal in opposition.
Face it: both the Right AND Left are hypocrites, cheerfully campaigning on whatever issue suits their POLITICAL goals and clothing it in moral righteousness BUT likewise ignoring parallel situations in which that same logic might apply, but doesn't suit their political agenda.
Sure, both extremes are asshats and hypocrites. Either way, Card is just having his own tactics turned against him so I have little sympathy.
One is not a bigot by calling out a bigot. That's ridiculous.
No, by "bigot" we mean the very dictionary definition of the word:
a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices;
The Nazis were not leftists.
Seriously - asking the Left to be open-minded or tolerant is silly.
Tolerance does not mean you have to give pass to actions of others that seek to purposefully and negatively effect your life and those of others. Being tolerant and open-minded also have little to do with the fact that people can choose to or choose not to go see someone's movie.
We, society of the Oceanian province of Airstrip One, MUST punish anyone who does not believe in the same thing that we do, don't you know that?
*yawn* So no one can choose to not go see his movie because to do so is "punishing" him? Give me a fucking break... Oh and it's funny that you whine about this since tons of conservative groups do the exact same thing.
Freedom of Speech is not part of a Groupthink! Who do you think you are, Emmanuel Goldstein?
Freedom of Speech means that I am obligated to go patronize a movie? Since when?
Actively campaigned and funded groups seeking to deny rights to others. As such many people do not want to patronize a film that will give him more money to do so. He's more than free to say and do all he wants and he is not having his freedom of speech abridged because I and others choose not to go see this movie.
Choosing to not see a movie is not denying someone their rights.
Funny since people like Card actively boycott all sorts of advertisers for sponsoring shows that might possibly show gay people in any sort of positive light. Yet they then come back and bitch about bein persecuted when their own tv show/movie/book gets boycotted because of their own views. He is a fucking hypocrite.
How many web hosts support it? That is why PHP still lives on.
Except the fault was Motorola's. But don't let facts get in your way.
It is both LGPLv2 and GPLv3.
Yes, which was my point. Laying all the blame on him is partisan bull. They are both shit bags and they both are responsible.