Considering that China knows how valuable rare-earth materials are, I'd wager they would rather extract them on the moon and use / sell them for creating things off-world without incurring the gravity tax.
Vitals are so last millenium. Why not just build a new neural scaffold out of them, connect it to your brain, then by the time your organic parts are dead the non-organic systems will have expanded to contain redundant coppies of the old wetware architecture.
When you watched Star Trek I bet you wanted to be the Captain, or Bones, or Spock, etc. It never occurred to you that it would be far more enjoyable to be the ship.
It's times like these I like to put on a nice strong brew of Columbian roast, then just navigate to ~/with/great/power/comes/great/responsibility/ and admire the fact the black market doesn't contain these exploits.
You know, when it only takes one or two pinholes to get root on any system, and there are hundreds or thousands per OS readily available for the right price... Kind of makes folks like Theo seem a bit imbecilic.
Consider this scenario: You're about to connect to a resource, but the service says you need to authenticate. So, a browser native login box pops up. You enter your credentials and those are hashed with the session nonce to key the symmetric ciphers, the connection then commences since the server already has a shared secret with you. It's not like HTTP Auth doesn't exist, it's just that TLS is ignorant of HTTP. If you have a secret GUID on the system, you can hash the domain name of the server with it to produce a unique user ID for each server. Same goes for a master password: HMAC( MPW, Domain + Salt ) = Session generator. HMAC( gen, nonce ) = session key. There, now you don't have to create a new account everywhere you go. One login for everywhere, and the sites can associate a nickname with the UID code if they want. Change your salt and you change all logins everywhere without having to change your password. Only time public key crypto is needed is when you exchange the UID and generator, for everything else use symmetric encryption with the pre shared secret. The window is small enough that PKI is moot.
Besides all the browsers explicitly trust cert roots in known enemy states, so PKI is moot anyway. FF > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates > View Certificates > Hong Kong Post... They can create a cert for Google.com without Google's permission and if they're a MITM, you get a big green secure bar and everything. No one checks the cert chain every time (shouldn't have to), and even if they did the govs can compel the CAs to generate certs under secret orders, or just infect them with a zero-day and do it themselves. All your retard is belong to IETF.
Oh, hey, while you brilliant bastards are at it, why don't you give us salted hashes in the HTML tags that pull in external resources? This way the encrypted page can specify validation codes for the external cache-able content and we can be sure it's not tampered with. Let's end that whole "mixed content" warning bullshit by making HTTP and TLS minimally aware of each other. <img src="..." hash="SHA2/base64: SUVURiBpcyBhbiBveHltb3Jvbi4K" salt="..."> Wow! How fucking difficult is that! Oh, snap! There must be some kind of alien super intelligence infecting my brain, hide your kids, hide your whitepapers!
Oh, That's Right. TRANSPORT Layer security. Ah, gotcha. Sorry, wouldn't want to make you all look like a bunch of morons by suggesting that the layers are just arbitrary lines you don't let interactions across for no damn reason except to further ensure nothing on the net is fucking secure. You know, not like it didn't take me all of one session thinking about this while taking a shit to figure out how you ruined everything, IETF. Internet Eradication Terrorist Fucks? That's what it means, doesn't it?
Earth: The longest running case study in how not to advance as a space faring race.
Cybernetic Death -- Too much noise (entropy), not enough progress (signal) in the system.
I can think of a million reasons why the NSA has always been doomed to fail. Greed is the general answer.
We have an amazing array of spy satellites launched via the biggest rockets in the world. No terrorist or enemy could mobilize any real threat to the USA that we would not know about instantly. The big nations are no threat sine we have mutually assured nuclear destruction. The NSA couldn't be content with their awesome spying capabilities offline, and so they got greedy and tapped all civilian information even though there is no substantial threat: Every year Cars and Cheeseburgers kill four hundred times more people every year than a 9/11 scale attack. Such expense can't possibly be worth protecting us from 1/400th of the risk in driving to get a Happy Meal. It seems they're not trying to protect us at all -- It seems more likely they're trying to protect themselves from the people who, once they have seen the numbers, will decide we need a base on Mars and the Moon, and tastier health food, and a hyper loop instead of the NSA and DHS terrorist "protections".
If you ignore the scaremongering of how much Snowden "took" (it was still there after he "took" it, he didn't "take" anything -- a copy was made) -- If you dismiss the spin about Snowden, you'll realize that the NSA is admitting that they're letting the Chinese, Russian, Turkish, etc. spies get access to all of the information they've collected on the world and American citizens. If you can't even trace what was accessed, then you certainly can't prevent access. Snowden was a contractor, he's not amazing, any average fearless security researcher would have a field day with the NSA. They use MS Windows, FFS, ever since they ported Omnivore from UNIX to MS platforms to create Carnivore (away from Unix? Huh, yay MS license fee pork!) It's not amazing that Snowden got access. Hell, even if they use Linux there's zero day exploits for every known OS on the black market. Any state sponsored spy has even more access than Snowden dreamed of.
Congratulation should be awarded the National Security Agency for becoming the biggest threat to National Security the world has ever known. In becoming the greatest single point of failure, and failing, it is now their duty to extinguish themselves. In programming we call a system capable of completely internally representing and emitting copy of itself a Quine. In cybernetics I call this being alive. In government we call this SNAFU. Indeed the very nation's existence is owed to the cyclic redundancy error called revolution. Fortunately the founding fathers foresaw such eventuality and gave their people the ability to break the cycle of deadly rebirth without violence: To call an emergency session of congress and hold a vote of no confidence therein.
The whitehouse could have been a relief valve, but have come out in favor of letting the NSA run amok -- Hard choices indeed. Would you come out against the NSA who refuses to stand down, and thus prove the government is illegitimate, or would you align yourself with them and maintain the despotic peace a little while longer -- give up essential liberties for a little temporary safety? The longer the pressure builds, the bigger the collateral damage will become. The tech giants are injured yet oddly not nearly as reactive as you'd expect, by the time they decide to really push back it'll be too late, they'll have less power than the military industrial complex. If they realize the table is turning the big guys will all begin buying up defense related tech to try and ensure their future. It's almost as if the government wants the economy to be destroyed so that the people face bankruptcy, repossessions, and foreclosures and the corporations lose the money they use to maintain firm grips on the lobbyists. Afterwards they could simply blame those who spake out against them for holding different "destructive" economic ideals and put them in concentration camps until the scared public is cowed and accepts things the way it's going to be whether we the people like it or not. You could just avoid the internment altogether and just let the homeless remain effectively neutered. Why, if I didn't know better, I'd say everything was going according to plan.
Yes, women rule over us. That's why they make more money than men, dictate what men must look like with fashion magazines, hold 90% or more of the political positions, and head up most corporations.
Women are the primary writers for fashion magazines, and designers of fashion clothing and accessories -- The looks are due to the fact that women and men both concentrate on women's chests and waists (so much for "male gaze").
Women are not only the majority of voters, they are also the majority of swing voters therefore politics will bend over backwards to advance women's interests while leaving men and boys to tough it out on their own. That's why even though men are over 80% of the homeless and over 80% of the victims of violent crimes, there are a plethora of women's shelters and few if any for men. The corporations and politicians will bow to quickly dodge any accusation of sexism, even if unfounded; That's why affirmative action and title IX still exist even while women are the majority of graduates and degree earners and even the president has spouted the wage gap myth despite all evidence proving that it does not exist -- Women do have babies.
It's interesting you'd frame the issue as one of women ruling over men as being obviously farcical. Well, it is. Realize however, that the Patriarchy Theory is equally as moronic. No one is trying to say that women are holding men back, the men are clearly not holding females back either. Men and women value their time differently because men and women are different and make different choices at different rates, especially concerning risk taking. So, the more risky job paths that take you to the top of the market are occupied by primarily men, even though equal opportunity is given to both men and women. Likewise most risky low tier jobs like sewage treatment technician, garbage person, janitor, coal miner, construction worker, etc. are all male dominated jobs. Over 90% of workplace deaths are men... Should we be doing something to get more men and women in jobs they don't want? You want to write code? Sorry we need more women coal miners. You want to be an engineer? Sorry, we need more male romance novelists. If 25% of the applicants are female, you wouldn't expect 50% of the top positions to go to women, eh? 1 == 1; 50% == 50%; 25% == 25%; 10% == 10% This is equality. Proportional representation according to proportional effort and risk.
No one's saying women are ruling over men. We're saying that men have issues too. Women's rights are Human Rights. Men's rights are Human Rights too. Don't conflate Feminism with Equality. Feminism is an ideology. Rights activism doesn't need ideologies. Women's rights doesn't need feminism.
So, your stance is completely unfounded and wrong. Let me guess, a feminist told you those easy to believe lies?
"If you believe in being good, then you're a Christian!" Would you believe this crap? "If you believe in individualism, then you're a Satanist!" Would you believe this crap? "If you believe in racial equality, then you're a KKK member!" Would you believe this crap? "If you believe in gender equality, then you're a Feminist!" Why would you believe this crap?
Additionally: If you don't think companies don't break their necks to avoid feminist ire, then you haven't been paying attention to the fact that feminists petitioned Facebook to allow them censorship powers, Norton and other web filters have considered Men's and Father's issues websites to be hate-speech? I wonder where they got that idea? Certainly not from
Not to mention, as an indiegame dev who cares more about the game than the money and creates cross platform code using GNU/Linux, I might just say screw purchasing iHardware and lose the additional time sink of build/test on Win. There's a few other developers I know of similar mindedness, so if the audience isn't non-existant you may see Linux exclusive games too. In my instance I'd just concentrate on the Linux build to get it out the door (as I always do), but put the testing on other platforms off until interest/demand warrants it.
Since I started with an OS abstraction layer and use the GNU toolchain everywhere, there's no such thing as porting between platforms -- setting up cross compiling is a one shot deal; However, there's nothing like testing on the metal. Porting changes even without the cross compiler suite is just "git pull && make" on any platform GCC runs on; I could use LLVM, but the point is that I'm not compiling with multiple different compilers with their own quirks to work around; FLOSS means vendor lock-in isn't a concern there. It's a shame that Apple makes it illegal for me to install their OS on my superior yet cheaper hardware. I can't justify buying separate lower spec systems just for OSX gamedev given their market share, and even setting up the cross compiling from Linux is a bit questionable, so while it's doable I avoid it. Linux and Windows allow installation on whatever they'll run on, even VMs in most cases.
Now that consoles are basically just neutered PCs where the functionality is sold back to you at a premium: Fees for multiplayer & P2P chat? Charging for publishing i.e. making their platform valuable? While ads are on the dash, wtf? And considering that heterogeneous computing is coming to desktops, mobiles, etc. I think this last console generation was it for me. Upgradeable game system? Yeah, it's just a full featured personal computer. FINALY! One thing I don't hear many folks talk about is the huge potential for tons of actual user generated content with SteamOS (PC) games in contrast with consoles; Not just gloating over social media screenshots and vids of in-game footage... You really need a desktop interface to get down and dirty with some wicked modding;
As a modder from way back, all of my game dev efforts are mod centric. I have mods I made for games decades ago that still play great today. If we want gaming to be realized as the full expressive medium it can be, we need to stop the practice popular in the last decade of birthing games and giving them DRM death sentences. I'm less concerned about this aspect on SteamOS than a console. EG: My Xbox 360 can see my friend's console. We'll be connected and chatting with each other. The consoles both know we have the original Halo 2 in the tray, and all the game needs is to be given the IP of the other client to play online -- And yet you can't do this on XBL, they turned off the Halo2 server; You have to purchase a newly released version of the game. That's asinine. Fire up a VPN w/ system link (or XLink Kai), BLAM, online multiplayer without XBL. What the fuck, MS. Might as well not be paying for your planned obsolescence non-service.
One day the Halo 3 server will be cut off, and all of the Halo Tracks we modders spent lots of time building and playing for that game will be unplayable online. Without emulators, our hardware will crap out too. This kills the game. Game devs and players benefit most if games can run everywhere forever, but most console makers are directly opposed to the game industry's benefit: They benefit if games can only be played in one place for a limited period of time. I really hope SteamOS takes off and breaks the cycle of needless game death. Art should not have needless death sentences applied.
I have much experience in dealing with the topic at hand, and feel obliged to warn you of the inherent danger of your snack selection preference in this instance.
The social justice warrior will insist you be eating all the popcorn whether it pops or not. After all: Should not all the kernels be treated equally? You're not a popist cornsagonist furthering strict kernel roles, are you?
Others observant of finer detail than applying the label popist or not based on eating preference will note that all the kernels were treated equally: They were given a chance to pop, but some did not choose to be popped and digested by the system. Indeed there could be physiological predeterminations for the unpopped vs popped variety of kernel, and it would be equally wrong to pressure the eater to consume those that are incompatible with digestion as it's wrong to shame the unpopped kernels for not entering the food cycle; Certainly it would be moronic to claim the plight of the popped ones is a privilege.
The social justice warrior will then declare that the popped or not state can't be determined at kernel creation, it's the environment that has a bias for exactly what types of corn are suitable for popping and creates repressive constraints on which kernels are allowed to pop. They'll demand a more fair popping system be devised, but not actually outline any exact plans for such a system so you'll know when it has been achieved, and they'll ignore how the popping system may affect the popped corn itself.
Others with a knowledge of botany and thermodynamics will point out that kernels of certain genetic predispositions have known traits, and that there are many systems for popping, which all yield different types of popped corn and unpopped kernels. Air popping gives kernels more time to pop, but creates a drier popcorn that's not suitable for everyone's tastes. Kettle popping creates a more traditional flavour, and yields more unpopped kernels. The most unpopped kernels are produced via microwave environment due to the heat being applied to already popped kernels which limits the duration of popping time and kernel batch size, it's also more likely to produce artificial flavors; However, nuked kernels have utility in being compact and accessible to more eaters. It's too simplistic to blame the eater for the kernels or popping environment available, or the environment for the consumer's preference, or either of these for the physical properties of individual kernels or how the laws of thermodynamics and genetics work. Neither the eater nor the popper are being cornsagonist against kernels; To them all the kernels are given equal opportunity to pop and enter the digestive system.
At which point the social justice warrior will leverage a collection of statistics on the types of popping and evidence of past abuse of corn, burning, neglect, being feed to lesser animals, etc. They'll point to select occurrences of popping gone horribly wrong. If one's not careful to interject quickly it will turn into a gish gallop.
While admittedly the tragic popping can't be ignored, one must examine the frequency of such occurrence and the attention that society does give -- A slew of firemen may arrive to deal with a single bag of over nuked corn; It's clearly not cornsagony. The scientific minded observer will point out that past abuses do not reflect current corn popping culture and that anecdotal evidence is not really evidence; They'll note that the statistics only show a trend, not a causal link to cornsagony, and that sections of the studies have gone ignored: The uneaten popped kernels. If the study was performed by the social justice alliance you'll likely find a bias in the selection criteria (went looking for evidence for a preconceived kernel popping opinion) and there'll be no testing of the null hypothesis, or unequivocal evidence that the conclusion is correct, or that popping trends could not instead be formed by
Hmm, well, we tried searching for other bidders to fulfil the contract, but the only result was Google's products. We went to Bing, but it was the same, almost as if they're copying Google's results...
I prefer to imagine the robo-cheetah batting at a quadcopter while the herd of big-dogs watch from a distance and begin forming a protective circle. Whichever gets photographic proof of delivery earns the energy credit to survive. Let natural selection do the rest.
it's also kind of strange to see people using it when arguing against what they perceive as hysteria and fear, since the slippery slope is basically hysteria and fear instead of logic
Says the person arguing against perceived hysteria and/or fear...
One use of the slipper slope is to note where others are actually falling down it. Sort of like pointing out the slippery slope of a "war on terror" which leads to a despotic war against privacy in that it's an actual slippery slope one tends down if you are being an overly frightened hysteric absolutist.
i understand why the laws exist, as defined within a narrow scope. and i don't believe that scope will change, because i have faith in people's ability to think
Right, so I think you've missed the point of what we're talking about here. And that is: Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Now, you're saying that blah blah blah laws mean we can restrict speech. Meanwhile, all throughout history you'll find laws that were on the books which are evil and wrong, and had to be changed. In the USA freedom of the press and freedom of speech are seen as required for progress because progress frequently contains unpopular (thus offensive) speech. The civil rights movement was unpopular in many places. In the USA, Jim Crow (segregation) was a law... Fuck the damn laws and your speech code bullshit you moron. We didn't have something happen within the last 80 years? Eat a rancid dick you moron.
As someone who has spliced fiber: It's such a PITA, no wonder no one's buying it. I almost feel sorry for the NSA goons who had to splice all that fiber optic cable to create PRISM. A couple of days to restore operation is awesome. Kudos to Sky broadband workers who repaired the cluster fsck.
Paper bags are far more dangerous than the small animal. One can hit a small animal if swerving means too high a chance of injury to the car. I have personally broken a wheel and damaged the left front quarter panel and brake system by wrongly assuming that a paper bag is harmless. Due to the fact that malicious (typically juvenile) delinquents will put bricks in paper bags and leave them in road ways, the distinction between the bag and the critter is as moot as the distinction between paper and plastic bag.
It is high time you fire everyone in congress, and do not re-elect any who have been in office while your scaremongering polices have turned the world into an adaptation of 1984.
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mine and transport something back
Well, their little rover will be sampling soils.
Considering that China knows how valuable rare-earth materials are, I'd wager they would rather extract them on the moon and use / sell them for creating things off-world without incurring the gravity tax.
The wise try not to reason in absolutes; There are almost always exceptions...
x ray vans.
Vitals are so last millenium. Why not just build a new neural scaffold out of them, connect it to your brain, then by the time your organic parts are dead the non-organic systems will have expanded to contain redundant coppies of the old wetware architecture.
When you watched Star Trek I bet you wanted to be the Captain, or Bones, or Spock, etc. It never occurred to you that it would be far more enjoyable to be the ship.
It's times like these I like to put on a nice strong brew of Columbian roast, then just navigate to ~/with/great/power/comes/great/responsibility/ and admire the fact the black market doesn't contain these exploits.
You know, when it only takes one or two pinholes to get root on any system, and there are hundreds or thousands per OS readily available for the right price... Kind of makes folks like Theo seem a bit imbecilic.
No. Most of our votes don't mean shit thanks to Gerrymandering.
Educate yourself, fool.
Back then "Don't Be Evil" was more of a slogan than a PR statement.
Why? If TFA is anything to go buy you'll be changing the flag soon anyway... right?
And my Axis!
If you get to be Argon, I get to be Gimble. Legos anyone?
Have any evidence to support your hypothesis that the big bang is just a theory?
According to my parents I am direct evidence the big bang,
and my hair and skin are different than theirs due to the uncertainty principal.
Three Words: No True Scotswoman
Consider this scenario: You're about to connect to a resource, but the service says you need to authenticate. So, a browser native login box pops up. You enter your credentials and those are hashed with the session nonce to key the symmetric ciphers, the connection then commences since the server already has a shared secret with you. It's not like HTTP Auth doesn't exist, it's just that TLS is ignorant of HTTP. If you have a secret GUID on the system, you can hash the domain name of the server with it to produce a unique user ID for each server. Same goes for a master password: HMAC( MPW, Domain + Salt ) = Session generator. HMAC( gen, nonce ) = session key. There, now you don't have to create a new account everywhere you go. One login for everywhere, and the sites can associate a nickname with the UID code if they want. Change your salt and you change all logins everywhere without having to change your password. Only time public key crypto is needed is when you exchange the UID and generator, for everything else use symmetric encryption with the pre shared secret. The window is small enough that PKI is moot.
Besides all the browsers explicitly trust cert roots in known enemy states, so PKI is moot anyway. FF > Preferences > Advanced > Certificates > View Certificates > Hong Kong Post... They can create a cert for Google.com without Google's permission and if they're a MITM, you get a big green secure bar and everything. No one checks the cert chain every time (shouldn't have to), and even if they did the govs can compel the CAs to generate certs under secret orders, or just infect them with a zero-day and do it themselves. All your retard is belong to IETF.
Oh, hey, while you brilliant bastards are at it, why don't you give us salted hashes in the HTML tags that pull in external resources? This way the encrypted page can specify validation codes for the external cache-able content and we can be sure it's not tampered with. Let's end that whole "mixed content" warning bullshit by making HTTP and TLS minimally aware of each other. <img src="..." hash="SHA2/base64: SUVURiBpcyBhbiBveHltb3Jvbi4K" salt="..."> Wow! How fucking difficult is that! Oh, snap! There must be some kind of alien super intelligence infecting my brain, hide your kids, hide your whitepapers!
Oh, That's Right. TRANSPORT Layer security. Ah, gotcha. Sorry, wouldn't want to make you all look like a bunch of morons by suggesting that the layers are just arbitrary lines you don't let interactions across for no damn reason except to further ensure nothing on the net is fucking secure. You know, not like it didn't take me all of one session thinking about this while taking a shit to figure out how you ruined everything, IETF. Internet Eradication Terrorist Fucks? That's what it means, doesn't it?
Earth: The longest running case study in how not to advance as a space faring race.
Single Point of Failure.
Diminishing Returns.
Planning Fallacy.
Cybernetic Death -- Too much noise (entropy), not enough progress (signal) in the system.
I can think of a million reasons why the NSA has always been doomed to fail. Greed is the general answer.
We have an amazing array of spy satellites launched via the biggest rockets in the world. No terrorist or enemy could mobilize any real threat to the USA that we would not know about instantly. The big nations are no threat sine we have mutually assured nuclear destruction. The NSA couldn't be content with their awesome spying capabilities offline, and so they got greedy and tapped all civilian information even though there is no substantial threat: Every year Cars and Cheeseburgers kill four hundred times more people every year than a 9/11 scale attack. Such expense can't possibly be worth protecting us from 1/400th of the risk in driving to get a Happy Meal. It seems they're not trying to protect us at all -- It seems more likely they're trying to protect themselves from the people who, once they have seen the numbers, will decide we need a base on Mars and the Moon, and tastier health food, and a hyper loop instead of the NSA and DHS terrorist "protections".
Well, I think I've discovered how to defeat PRISM. All you have to do to remain off their radar is work for the NSA!
If you ignore the scaremongering of how much Snowden "took" (it was still there after he "took" it, he didn't "take" anything -- a copy was made) -- If you dismiss the spin about Snowden, you'll realize that the NSA is admitting that they're letting the Chinese, Russian, Turkish, etc. spies get access to all of the information they've collected on the world and American citizens. If you can't even trace what was accessed, then you certainly can't prevent access. Snowden was a contractor, he's not amazing, any average fearless security researcher would have a field day with the NSA. They use MS Windows, FFS, ever since they ported Omnivore from UNIX to MS platforms to create Carnivore (away from Unix? Huh, yay MS license fee pork!) It's not amazing that Snowden got access. Hell, even if they use Linux there's zero day exploits for every known OS on the black market. Any state sponsored spy has even more access than Snowden dreamed of.
Congratulation should be awarded the National Security Agency for becoming the biggest threat to National Security the world has ever known. In becoming the greatest single point of failure, and failing, it is now their duty to extinguish themselves. In programming we call a system capable of completely internally representing and emitting copy of itself a Quine. In cybernetics I call this being alive. In government we call this SNAFU. Indeed the very nation's existence is owed to the cyclic redundancy error called revolution. Fortunately the founding fathers foresaw such eventuality and gave their people the ability to break the cycle of deadly rebirth without violence: To call an emergency session of congress and hold a vote of no confidence therein.
The whitehouse could have been a relief valve, but have come out in favor of letting the NSA run amok -- Hard choices indeed. Would you come out against the NSA who refuses to stand down, and thus prove the government is illegitimate, or would you align yourself with them and maintain the despotic peace a little while longer -- give up essential liberties for a little temporary safety? The longer the pressure builds, the bigger the collateral damage will become. The tech giants are injured yet oddly not nearly as reactive as you'd expect, by the time they decide to really push back it'll be too late, they'll have less power than the military industrial complex. If they realize the table is turning the big guys will all begin buying up defense related tech to try and ensure their future. It's almost as if the government wants the economy to be destroyed so that the people face bankruptcy, repossessions, and foreclosures and the corporations lose the money they use to maintain firm grips on the lobbyists. Afterwards they could simply blame those who spake out against them for holding different "destructive" economic ideals and put them in concentration camps until the scared public is cowed and accepts things the way it's going to be whether we the people like it or not. You could just avoid the internment altogether and just let the homeless remain effectively neutered. Why, if I didn't know better, I'd say everything was going according to plan.
Yes, women rule over us. That's why they make more money than men, dictate what men must look like with fashion magazines, hold 90% or more of the political positions, and head up most corporations.
Well, Never married women have earned more than never married men for decades.
Women are the primary writers for fashion magazines, and designers of fashion clothing and accessories -- The looks are due to the fact that women and men both concentrate on women's chests and waists (so much for "male gaze").
Women are not only the majority of voters, they are also the majority of swing voters therefore politics will bend over backwards to advance women's interests while leaving men and boys to tough it out on their own. That's why even though men are over 80% of the homeless and over 80% of the victims of violent crimes, there are a plethora of women's shelters and few if any for men. The corporations and politicians will bow to quickly dodge any accusation of sexism, even if unfounded; That's why affirmative action and title IX still exist even while women are the majority of graduates and degree earners and even the president has spouted the wage gap myth despite all evidence proving that it does not exist -- Women do have babies.
It's interesting you'd frame the issue as one of women ruling over men as being obviously farcical. Well, it is. Realize however, that the Patriarchy Theory is equally as moronic. No one is trying to say that women are holding men back, the men are clearly not holding females back either. Men and women value their time differently because men and women are different and make different choices at different rates, especially concerning risk taking. So, the more risky job paths that take you to the top of the market are occupied by primarily men, even though equal opportunity is given to both men and women. Likewise most risky low tier jobs like sewage treatment technician, garbage person, janitor, coal miner, construction worker, etc. are all male dominated jobs. Over 90% of workplace deaths are men... Should we be doing something to get more men and women in jobs they don't want? You want to write code? Sorry we need more women coal miners. You want to be an engineer? Sorry, we need more male romance novelists. If 25% of the applicants are female, you wouldn't expect 50% of the top positions to go to women, eh?
1 == 1; 50% == 50%; 25% == 25%; 10% == 10% This is equality. Proportional representation according to proportional effort and risk.
No one's saying women are ruling over men. We're saying that men have issues too. Women's rights are Human Rights. Men's rights are Human Rights too. Don't conflate Feminism with Equality. Feminism is an ideology. Rights activism doesn't need ideologies. Women's rights doesn't need feminism.
So, your stance is completely unfounded and wrong. Let me guess, a feminist told you those easy to believe lies?
"If you believe in being good, then you're a Christian!" Would you believe this crap?
"If you believe in individualism, then you're a Satanist!" Would you believe this crap?
"If you believe in racial equality, then you're a KKK member!" Would you believe this crap?
"If you believe in gender equality, then you're a Feminist!" Why would you believe this crap?
Additionally: If you don't think companies don't break their necks to avoid feminist ire, then you haven't been paying attention to the fact that feminists petitioned Facebook to allow them censorship powers, Norton and other web filters have considered Men's and Father's issues websites to be hate-speech? I wonder where they got that idea? Certainly not from
Not to mention, as an indiegame dev who cares more about the game than the money and creates cross platform code using GNU/Linux, I might just say screw purchasing iHardware and lose the additional time sink of build/test on Win. There's a few other developers I know of similar mindedness, so if the audience isn't non-existant you may see Linux exclusive games too. In my instance I'd just concentrate on the Linux build to get it out the door (as I always do), but put the testing on other platforms off until interest/demand warrants it.
Since I started with an OS abstraction layer and use the GNU toolchain everywhere, there's no such thing as porting between platforms -- setting up cross compiling is a one shot deal; However, there's nothing like testing on the metal. Porting changes even without the cross compiler suite is just "git pull && make" on any platform GCC runs on; I could use LLVM, but the point is that I'm not compiling with multiple different compilers with their own quirks to work around; FLOSS means vendor lock-in isn't a concern there. It's a shame that Apple makes it illegal for me to install their OS on my superior yet cheaper hardware. I can't justify buying separate lower spec systems just for OSX gamedev given their market share, and even setting up the cross compiling from Linux is a bit questionable, so while it's doable I avoid it. Linux and Windows allow installation on whatever they'll run on, even VMs in most cases.
Now that consoles are basically just neutered PCs where the functionality is sold back to you at a premium: Fees for multiplayer & P2P chat? Charging for publishing i.e. making their platform valuable? While ads are on the dash, wtf? And considering that heterogeneous computing is coming to desktops, mobiles, etc. I think this last console generation was it for me. Upgradeable game system? Yeah, it's just a full featured personal computer. FINALY! One thing I don't hear many folks talk about is the huge potential for tons of actual user generated content with SteamOS (PC) games in contrast with consoles; Not just gloating over social media screenshots and vids of in-game footage... You really need a desktop interface to get down and dirty with some wicked modding;
As a modder from way back, all of my game dev efforts are mod centric. I have mods I made for games decades ago that still play great today. If we want gaming to be realized as the full expressive medium it can be, we need to stop the practice popular in the last decade of birthing games and giving them DRM death sentences. I'm less concerned about this aspect on SteamOS than a console. EG: My Xbox 360 can see my friend's console. We'll be connected and chatting with each other. The consoles both know we have the original Halo 2 in the tray, and all the game needs is to be given the IP of the other client to play online -- And yet you can't do this on XBL, they turned off the Halo2 server; You have to purchase a newly released version of the game. That's asinine. Fire up a VPN w/ system link (or XLink Kai), BLAM, online multiplayer without XBL. What the fuck, MS. Might as well not be paying for your planned obsolescence non-service.
One day the Halo 3 server will be cut off, and all of the Halo Tracks we modders spent lots of time building and playing for that game will be unplayable online. Without emulators, our hardware will crap out too. This kills the game. Game devs and players benefit most if games can run everywhere forever, but most console makers are directly opposed to the game industry's benefit: They benefit if games can only be played in one place for a limited period of time. I really hope SteamOS takes off and breaks the cycle of needless game death. Art should not have needless death sentences applied.
I have much experience in dealing with the topic at hand, and feel obliged to warn you of the inherent danger of your snack selection preference in this instance.
The social justice warrior will insist you be eating all the popcorn whether it pops or not. After all: Should not all the kernels be treated equally? You're not a popist cornsagonist furthering strict kernel roles, are you?
Others observant of finer detail than applying the label popist or not based on eating preference will note that all the kernels were treated equally: They were given a chance to pop, but some did not choose to be popped and digested by the system. Indeed there could be physiological predeterminations for the unpopped vs popped variety of kernel, and it would be equally wrong to pressure the eater to consume those that are incompatible with digestion as it's wrong to shame the unpopped kernels for not entering the food cycle; Certainly it would be moronic to claim the plight of the popped ones is a privilege.
The social justice warrior will then declare that the popped or not state can't be determined at kernel creation, it's the environment that has a bias for exactly what types of corn are suitable for popping and creates repressive constraints on which kernels are allowed to pop. They'll demand a more fair popping system be devised, but not actually outline any exact plans for such a system so you'll know when it has been achieved, and they'll ignore how the popping system may affect the popped corn itself.
Others with a knowledge of botany and thermodynamics will point out that kernels of certain genetic predispositions have known traits, and that there are many systems for popping, which all yield different types of popped corn and unpopped kernels. Air popping gives kernels more time to pop, but creates a drier popcorn that's not suitable for everyone's tastes. Kettle popping creates a more traditional flavour, and yields more unpopped kernels. The most unpopped kernels are produced via microwave environment due to the heat being applied to already popped kernels which limits the duration of popping time and kernel batch size, it's also more likely to produce artificial flavors; However, nuked kernels have utility in being compact and accessible to more eaters. It's too simplistic to blame the eater for the kernels or popping environment available, or the environment for the consumer's preference, or either of these for the physical properties of individual kernels or how the laws of thermodynamics and genetics work. Neither the eater nor the popper are being cornsagonist against kernels; To them all the kernels are given equal opportunity to pop and enter the digestive system.
At which point the social justice warrior will leverage a collection of statistics on the types of popping and evidence of past abuse of corn, burning, neglect, being feed to lesser animals, etc. They'll point to select occurrences of popping gone horribly wrong. If one's not careful to interject quickly it will turn into a gish gallop.
While admittedly the tragic popping can't be ignored, one must examine the frequency of such occurrence and the attention that society does give -- A slew of firemen may arrive to deal with a single bag of over nuked corn; It's clearly not cornsagony. The scientific minded observer will point out that past abuses do not reflect current corn popping culture and that anecdotal evidence is not really evidence; They'll note that the statistics only show a trend, not a causal link to cornsagony, and that sections of the studies have gone ignored: The uneaten popped kernels. If the study was performed by the social justice alliance you'll likely find a bias in the selection criteria (went looking for evidence for a preconceived kernel popping opinion) and there'll be no testing of the null hypothesis, or unequivocal evidence that the conclusion is correct, or that popping trends could not instead be formed by
Hmm, well, we tried searching for other bidders to fulfil the contract, but the only result was Google's products. We went to Bing, but it was the same, almost as if they're copying Google's results...
I prefer to imagine the robo-cheetah batting at a quadcopter while the herd of big-dogs watch from a distance and begin forming a protective circle.
Whichever gets photographic proof of delivery earns the energy credit to survive. Let natural selection do the rest.
it's also kind of strange to see people using it when arguing against what they perceive as hysteria and fear, since the slippery slope is basically hysteria and fear instead of logic
Says the person arguing against perceived hysteria and/or fear...
One use of the slipper slope is to note where others are actually falling down it. Sort of like pointing out the slippery slope of a "war on terror" which leads to a despotic war against privacy in that it's an actual slippery slope one tends down if you are being an overly frightened hysteric absolutist.
i understand why the laws exist, as defined within a narrow scope. and i don't believe that scope will change, because i have faith in people's ability to think
Right, so I think you've missed the point of what we're talking about here. And that is: Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Now, you're saying that blah blah blah laws mean we can restrict speech. Meanwhile, all throughout history you'll find laws that were on the books which are evil and wrong, and had to be changed. In the USA freedom of the press and freedom of speech are seen as required for progress because progress frequently contains unpopular (thus offensive) speech. The civil rights movement was unpopular in many places. In the USA, Jim Crow (segregation) was a law... Fuck the damn laws and your speech code bullshit you moron. We didn't have something happen within the last 80 years? Eat a rancid dick you moron.
As someone who has spliced fiber: It's such a PITA, no wonder no one's buying it. I almost feel sorry for the NSA goons who had to splice all that fiber optic cable to create PRISM. A couple of days to restore operation is awesome. Kudos to Sky broadband workers who repaired the cluster fsck.
Paper bags are far more dangerous than the small animal. One can hit a small animal if swerving means too high a chance of injury to the car. I have personally broken a wheel and damaged the left front quarter panel and brake system by wrongly assuming that a paper bag is harmless. Due to the fact that malicious (typically juvenile) delinquents will put bricks in paper bags and leave them in road ways, the distinction between the bag and the critter is as moot as the distinction between paper and plastic bag.
Hello, this the reality calling to remind you that Flight 93 happened.
It is high time you fire everyone in congress, and do not re-elect any who have been in office while your scaremongering polices have turned the world into an adaptation of 1984.
Forgive the misspeelings, should have coffee before advocating freedom from tyranny. If they ever attack our caffeine, we are doomed.