Will the EFF be the ones who apologize to the families of those killed by attacks that could have been stopped?
Of course they won't. And they shouldn't. Because they know, and I know, that stripping an entire nation of its freedoms is not worth saving a few theoretical citizens from outside attacks.
Blu-ray is already a physical-media format that we don't need. The CD isn't obsolete simply because a higher-capacity disc came along to replace it; it's obsolete because there's a better way to music files: the internet. The DVD is on the way out for the same reason
Man, you really paint a dystopian vision of the future.:-(
For me, The Hobbit wasn't well-received because 300 pages of children's book does not equal three feature length films, and stereoscopic 3D is a detraction. The higher frame rate was in the otherwise barren "plus" column.
A big problem is that a set that can look "real" at 24fps can look cheap at 48 fps. It really does look like a "set" instead of a section in the world. The Desolation of Smaug suffered from this problem, the Lake Town interiors in particular.
Besides, a lot of more expensive TVs have an option for motion interpolation to turn 24 fps source into (artifacty) 120 fps
It's usually called "Motion flow" or "motion interpolation," and it usually makes the source material look much much worse. Home theater installers worth their salt know to turn it off. It may or may not be worth it for live sports.
Why do you equate gun-rights advocates with KKK members?
Probably because he believed that dumb South Park-like cartoon that Michael Moore put into Bowling For Columbine, which stated that since the KKK was outlawed close to the time that the NRA was founded, that the NRA was made up of klansmen looking for a new, legal organization.
What gets me, after reading the article is how the professor expected this not to come back and destroy what career he had left, He is or was rather, a respected MIT professor. Was it ego of the narcissistic abuser's mind compounded by the fact that if this had been a pattern with him throughout his career he had never been called on it or is this particular professor on the long slow slide into senility and dementia?
I am forced to wonder.
I think some people just can't handle the transition from physical to virtual space without maintaining the same level of civility and decency. Many a person who could be polite and respectable when you talk to them face to face become dickbags when they're talking online to people hundreds or thousands of miles away.
And this is why we still have problems because whiners take everything personally.
In this case, no one was saying that he should be ashamed of himself for harassing women. But to be fair, many of the stories posted here start from that assumption (IE, gamers have sexual harassment problems, gamers sexually harass women, gamers are fine with sexual harassment, etcetc) and only afterwards narrow the scope to the people actually involved. So a number of people are a bit touchy.
Unfortunately, their objections to those despicable tactics have gone too far as well, leading to, well, an overuse of some terms, like SJW. I used to think SJW was a good, accurate term to use against the people who go overboard in these types of disputes, but it's been so overused in every situation recently that it's become meaningless.
Why do you need his physical address? Do you want to step up and do more then mere words?
If you want to show how words hurt you can do that right here, in this thread.
So that maybe he can send some threatening or harassing words to the AC's home address, where his family will also see it.
See, the problem isn't that "he sent her some words." People do that all the time online, I close stupid spam IMs every week. What differentiates just regular words from situations like this is when one person does hold some power over another that makes it difficult for the harassee to avoid the harasser. Say, if your boss starts sexually harassing you, and you can't risk jeopardizing your job. Or your teacher starts to harass you, and you can't afford to fail the class. Sexual harassment isn't something you should have to suffer with, as the fault is always with the harasser, and our various harassment laws handle the cases of workplace harassment.
Yeah, but that's a logical outcome of the grandparent's assertion that foreign workers have fewer choices. Most companies will pay the lowest salary it thinks it can get away with, and it certain varies from person to person. Peoples' expectations on salary feed into what salary they will actually get, and it's one of the reasons why salary discussions at work are "taboo." It's another cause of the pay gap between genders, but that's another topic.
Your foreign worker is going to have lower expectations of salary, much like a new college graduate who is used to living like a starving student. Given that foreign workers also can't do much to jeopardize their immigration status, they aren't going to push as much for greater benefits. Businesses just don't have to pay as much.
Also, expose a buffer overflow vulnerability due to a missing curly brace.
Do you have an example? I've never seen a C file compile which has a mismatched number of bracers. Something that basic can be flagged as a syntax error.
He in turn posted a link to an article claiming that the Snopes article was a lie and that everything on the Snopes site was suspect and promoting a "liberal agenda".
This is pretty much the mindset that led to Conservapedia. There's a lot of cultural value to rewriting history to benefit your side.
Evangelical Christians who unfriend non-believers certainly haven't read the gospel they claim to want to preach
You should meat the Landover Baptists** then! They're good times: "We have a permanent injunction against all unsaved persons. If you are unsaved, you are not allowed within a 10-mile radius of our church, nor are you allowed on this website. Kindly leave, and be about the Devil's business, for you are not welcome here. Glory!
If you are interested in getting saved, and you are not joking around about it just to upset us, we ask you kindly to click on this link..."
I like Betty Bowers's "God told me to hate you" column.
It's not job done, because there's no indication as to why a comment is bad (or good) when those moderations are used. They simply should not exist at all. There are only two or three good reasons why a comment should be moderated down, and "I didn't like it" is not one of them — but that's precisely what you're saying when you moderate "overrated".
I use Overrated when something factually incorrect is posted, and a well-intentioned moderator mods it up without checking to see if it was true or not. I tend to only use Overrated on posts modded up as informative but they were not factually informative.
I never use it as "I don't like this guy's opinion."
IMHO, claiming that the Tenth Doctor isn't the all-time best Doctor comes pretty close.
I can't wait for the Great Whovian Wars when supporters of Tenant and supporters of Baker level the cities of the other side's adherents. I do not know how it will turn out, but I will certainly be wearing a scarf to show my support.
I think this is the most "Interesting" or "Insightful" comment I've seen yet in this (otherwise predictable) thread, yet it has gotten modded down to -1. By doing that, I think you're only proving his point.
It had been less than an hour since he posted it. Never ever complain about moderation until at least half a day has gone by.:-)
It's probably because these days more people log in as AC to troll without being tracked. Exploitation of the AC system is far more common than using it in the "trust no one" X-Files sense. It's a tool that's abused enough that you have to wade through a lot of shit to get to good comments.
That's why people look down at AC comments by default -- most ACs are completely full of shit. Seeing a good AC comment like yours is genuinely surprising when we find it.
Their only advantage is they were rich and paid for college. They are not any smarter than a guy working for $12.00 in a foundry fixing a welder.
Except for their experience. And perhaps the fact that they may have been smart enough to get into and pass medical school in the first place, while the welder might not have.
But then, we have need for all sorts of jobs and all sorts of skillsets.
"Non-profit" does not mean they're not paying their employees massive salaries, and never did. I don't know where people got the idea that non-profits had to pay their employees less.
People confuse "non-profit" and "charity" pretty regularly, and even charities have no guarantees of reasonable salaries.
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Will the EFF be the ones who apologize to the families of those killed by attacks that could have been stopped?
Of course they won't. And they shouldn't. Because they know, and I know, that stripping an entire nation of its freedoms is not worth saving a few theoretical citizens from outside attacks.
... I've often thought "I wish the content/story were better", but never "I need to see more pores".
Yeah, the people making the TVs can't doing anything about that either.
What they can do is make the things you're watching look better.
Blu-ray is already a physical-media format that we don't need. The CD isn't obsolete simply because a higher-capacity disc came along to replace it; it's obsolete because there's a better way to music files: the internet. The DVD is on the way out for the same reason
Man, you really paint a dystopian vision of the future. :-(
Is that because cable providers charge more per year for high-definition service?
This. Although HD antennas for over-the-air free digital broadcasts are pretty cheap.
If you don't care enough to make your vision a priority, why are you spending so much on what sounds like a rather expensive setup?
If your eyes make things a tiny bit blurry, and your display is a tiny bit blurry, the perceived image with be more blurry.
It might be cheaper than laser vision correction, which some of are still leery about.
For me, The Hobbit wasn't well-received because 300 pages of children's book does not equal three feature length films, and stereoscopic 3D is a detraction. The higher frame rate was in the otherwise barren "plus" column.
A big problem is that a set that can look "real" at 24fps can look cheap at 48 fps. It really does look like a "set" instead of a section in the world. The Desolation of Smaug suffered from this problem, the Lake Town interiors in particular.
I still think it's the only way to do 3D, though.
I thought The Hobbit was shot in high-motion
It was, but no one else seems to be following along. It also seems like 48 fps might hit an uncanny valley spot in the eye -- the better rate might be 60 or 72 Hz. (linked article is speculation, but interesting).
Besides, a lot of more expensive TVs have an option for motion interpolation to turn 24 fps source into (artifacty) 120 fps
It's usually called "Motion flow" or "motion interpolation," and it usually makes the source material look much much worse. Home theater installers worth their salt know to turn it off. It may or may not be worth it for live sports.
Obligatory Onion Article: Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television.
All in good fun!
I wouldn't call it rape, but it's pretty hard harassment. >_>
Why do you equate gun-rights advocates with KKK members?
Probably because he believed that dumb South Park-like cartoon that Michael Moore put into Bowling For Columbine, which stated that since the KKK was outlawed close to the time that the NRA was founded, that the NRA was made up of klansmen looking for a new, legal organization.
What gets me, after reading the article is how the professor expected this not to come back and destroy what career he had left, He is or was rather, a respected MIT professor. Was it ego of the narcissistic abuser's mind compounded by the fact that if this had been a pattern with him throughout his career he had never been called on it or is this particular professor on the long slow slide into senility and dementia?
I am forced to wonder.
I think some people just can't handle the transition from physical to virtual space without maintaining the same level of civility and decency. Many a person who could be polite and respectable when you talk to them face to face become dickbags when they're talking online to people hundreds or thousands of miles away.
And this is why we still have problems because whiners take everything personally.
In this case, no one was saying that he should be ashamed of himself for harassing women. But to be fair, many of the stories posted here start from that assumption (IE, gamers have sexual harassment problems, gamers sexually harass women, gamers are fine with sexual harassment, etcetc) and only afterwards narrow the scope to the people actually involved. So a number of people are a bit touchy.
Unfortunately, their objections to those despicable tactics have gone too far as well, leading to, well, an overuse of some terms, like SJW. I used to think SJW was a good, accurate term to use against the people who go overboard in these types of disputes, but it's been so overused in every situation recently that it's become meaningless.
Why do you need his physical address? Do you want to step up and do more then mere words?
If you want to show how words hurt you can do that right here, in this thread.
So that maybe he can send some threatening or harassing words to the AC's home address, where his family will also see it.
See, the problem isn't that "he sent her some words." People do that all the time online, I close stupid spam IMs every week. What differentiates just regular words from situations like this is when one person does hold some power over another that makes it difficult for the harassee to avoid the harasser. Say, if your boss starts sexually harassing you, and you can't risk jeopardizing your job. Or your teacher starts to harass you, and you can't afford to fail the class. Sexual harassment isn't something you should have to suffer with, as the fault is always with the harasser, and our various harassment laws handle the cases of workplace harassment.
Yeah, but that's a logical outcome of the grandparent's assertion that foreign workers have fewer choices. Most companies will pay the lowest salary it thinks it can get away with, and it certain varies from person to person. Peoples' expectations on salary feed into what salary they will actually get, and it's one of the reasons why salary discussions at work are "taboo." It's another cause of the pay gap between genders, but that's another topic.
Your foreign worker is going to have lower expectations of salary, much like a new college graduate who is used to living like a starving student. Given that foreign workers also can't do much to jeopardize their immigration status, they aren't going to push as much for greater benefits. Businesses just don't have to pay as much.
Also, expose a buffer overflow vulnerability due to a missing curly brace.
Do you have an example? I've never seen a C file compile which has a mismatched number of bracers. Something that basic can be flagged as a syntax error.
I'm a doctor, not a coder,
How often do you get to use that line, Bones? :-)
He in turn posted a link to an article claiming that the Snopes article was a lie and that everything on the Snopes site was suspect and promoting a "liberal agenda".
This is pretty much the mindset that led to Conservapedia. There's a lot of cultural value to rewriting history to benefit your side.
Evangelical Christians who unfriend non-believers certainly haven't read the gospel they claim to want to preach
You should meat the Landover Baptists** then! They're good times: "We have a permanent injunction against all unsaved persons. If you are unsaved, you are not allowed within a 10-mile radius of our church, nor are you allowed on this website. Kindly leave, and be about the Devil's business, for you are not welcome here. Glory!
If you are interested in getting saved, and you are not joking around about it just to upset us, we ask you kindly to click on this link..."
I like Betty Bowers's "God told me to hate you" column.
** (Obvious parody website)
It's not job done, because there's no indication as to why a comment is bad (or good) when those moderations are used. They simply should not exist at all. There are only two or three good reasons why a comment should be moderated down, and "I didn't like it" is not one of them — but that's precisely what you're saying when you moderate "overrated".
I use Overrated when something factually incorrect is posted, and a well-intentioned moderator mods it up without checking to see if it was true or not. I tend to only use Overrated on posts modded up as informative but they were not factually informative.
I never use it as "I don't like this guy's opinion."
IMHO, claiming that the Tenth Doctor isn't the all-time best Doctor comes pretty close.
I can't wait for the Great Whovian Wars when supporters of Tenant and supporters of Baker level the cities of the other side's adherents. I do not know how it will turn out, but I will certainly be wearing a scarf to show my support.
I think this is the most "Interesting" or "Insightful" comment I've seen yet in this (otherwise predictable) thread, yet it has gotten modded down to -1. By doing that, I think you're only proving his point.
It had been less than an hour since he posted it. Never ever complain about moderation until at least half a day has gone by. :-)
It's probably because these days more people log in as AC to troll without being tracked. Exploitation of the AC system is far more common than using it in the "trust no one" X-Files sense. It's a tool that's abused enough that you have to wade through a lot of shit to get to good comments.
That's why people look down at AC comments by default -- most ACs are completely full of shit. Seeing a good AC comment like yours is genuinely surprising when we find it.
Their only advantage is they were rich and paid for college. They are not any smarter than a guy working for $12.00 in a foundry fixing a welder.
Except for their experience. And perhaps the fact that they may have been smart enough to get into and pass medical school in the first place, while the welder might not have.
But then, we have need for all sorts of jobs and all sorts of skillsets.
Except when it turns out to NOT be unnecessary :\
So do you do ten unnecessary surgeries under the assumption one of them will turn out to be needed? Who pays, and where is the line drawn?
"Non-profit" does not mean they're not paying their employees massive salaries, and never did. I don't know where people got the idea that non-profits had to pay their employees less.
People confuse "non-profit" and "charity" pretty regularly, and even charities have no guarantees of reasonable salaries.