Am I alone in seeing the irony that the US government is the worlds biggest advocate for tougher "copy-write" and "IP laws" with larger fines yet gets sued for infractions?
Hey AC, care to put a name behind that opinion? I haven't heard anyone excited about or interested in the beta besides Dice and Slashdot employees, as well as one or two ACs who probably belong to the former group.
The bulk of the frustration seems to be that it's hard to get away from the new format.
The bulk of the frustration that started this week, spilling over into every Slashdot story, came because Beta isn't just a stupid curiosity anymore. Now we get reminders that Slashdot Classic will be going away soon and we will have only the horrid Beta interface.
President Obama is being criticized by the IOC for selecting three gay athletes for the Olympics, and now gay judges for the Olympic committee. Rightly so: it's well-known he did this as a political move against Russia for their anti-gay discrimination. Now whenever gays get into anything or win anything, it'll be "oh they're just gay, they get everything." We're paving the way for rationalized invalidation in a big way--anything this group of people accomplishes will be considered favoritism, thus invalid
I'm pretty sure the default assumption is that male gymnists and figure skaters are gay and always have been. Something I'm sure people in the field hate hearing.
I had never heard of Bruno Mars (since I live under a rock, apparently), but it was quite the entertaining show. I was joking with my wife that the solo drummer kid wasn't half bad, but he's no Niel Peart.
You are correct, many people think the halftime show this year was better than the game or the commercials. That wasn't the case for a good portion of the last decade -- 10 years ago was the infamous Timberlake/Janet Jackson nipple slip, and since then the NFL had chosen only the safest, most boring, most past-their-prime and irrelevant acts for the halftime show. Finally it's starting to get decent again.
A singer who can play an instrument! How novel! Amusingly, Justin Bieber is a decent drummer too, certainly better than as a singer.
...and yet, it could have been a nerd story, if only they'd have given up a bit of bias. I don't eat from the super bowl, but I'm lead to believe that Goldieblox advertised on it: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/...
The amusing thing is that I found the ad, and the product, to be a bit sexist itself, even while it aims for more gender equality. Part of a big problem is the notion that many boys and girls toys need to be different in the first place, and that you have to color a "boy's toy" pink before it becomes a "girl's toy." It didn't used to be that way, it's only in the last few decades that toy stores have been segregating the genders. I heartily recommonend this article, and while I don't agree with everything, it makes some good points.
It's easy for annoyance to start bordering on real dislike when you realize just how much of your time is spent on stupid commercials and how they interrupt, constantly, the flow of communication, whether it's breaks in sports (unavoidable), to interrupting a TV show, interrupting whatever it is that you're streaming, interrupting a discussion on the radio. It's only when you step back that you realize how insidious it is and how out of hand it is.
I'm done giving my time to advertising. No more commercial radio, DVRs to skip commercial TV, disc rentals and purchases otherwise.
I can only assume there were a bunch of quite cool ones I missed
Not this year!:(
Holy shit, no kidding. I can't think of a blander offering. The Scientology commercial (yes, there was one!) was even a repeat of what they'd already been showing earlier. The Superbowl isn't supposed to be a time for commercial reruns.
Good job on ignoring the "account post gets down modded, AC post doesn't" part of my comment.
I'll bet a lot of people probably browse at the default +1. Worse, they might be using Slashdot's ultra-shitty beta site now and not know how to view the entire article discussion, something the new Slash site seems take pains in hiding.
I'll bet the viewership numbers for the Superbowl of non-Americans would skyrocket if the fellow from Bad British NFL Commentary could provide commentary for an entire game.
The Broncos really need to draft defense and running backs.
Even Joe Buck remarked that it was rare to see tackling that bad, and if he's criticizing the teams, then you're really REALLY in trouble. That was not a playoff-caliber defense. Oi.
Businesses who adopt "antiworker policies" will lose them to companies with better policies. (Until the government starts demanding all kinds of regulations that drive out competitive behavior...)
Not that I'm a big fan of what unions turned into, but they arose precisely because the above is not what happened. Workers had no mobility at all, between jobs, between companies, they had no input on company rules, and that was the standard across industries. Feudalism is feudalism whether it's the lord that holds the reigns or the company.
So indeed, I thank God for the unions back in those days -- they defused the situation, made conditions better, and the collapse that Karl Marx anticipated did not happen in the US as it did in Russia and other countries.
All nations with police or intelligence agencies conduct surveillance on some part of their population. The thing that made the Communists, Nazis, and Fascists bad was that it wasn't for ordinary crime but for political control and to destroy the opposition to their one party rule.
This was different from the US? J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI for precisely that for decades.
Might want to read the wikipedia entry that was cited before running off. Issa increased the insurance on the bussiness 400% immediately before the fire, which was arson, and then when the insurance company offered a pittance of the full value he settled. Strangely, he removed the computers with sensitive information from the premises the day before, and the fire happened at a very convenient time for him. He was never charged because the insurance company wanted to settle not litigate.
Wait, what? That doesn't make sense either. Since when does an insurance company not want to litigate and nail someone they suspect of defrauding them?
From what I've read they -didn't- tell anyone his name, it was found on a contract. I think the second link specifies that, though giving them the contract in the first place may have been a mistake...
From thedailybeast.com article on the subject: "Cut to last year. Now separated, Bauer had lost her job, and Schreiner, who had carried the child, applied for public assistance to get their daughter health insurance. The Kansas Department of Children and Families agreed to help, but only if Schreiner identified the child’s father so that the state could get him to pitch in child support. Schreiner reluctantly gave them Marotta’s name."
Where is the GLBT community on this? If they remain silent here, not fighting (protesting) against this injustice, then they are simply hypocrites, wanting the benefits but not the full responsibility for their "rights".
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with GLBT issues. The ruling would have been the same if an infertile straight couple was involved, as it did not hinge on their legal married status. A Kansas law states that the only valid way to handle sperm donation is with through a licensed physician, which is the only way to transfer legal responsibility. You can't casually contract away your parentage rights, that can only happen under specific conditions. Those conditions weren't met, and they had a self-drawn contract which was automatically invalidated since it violated the donor law.
In fact, the professionals involved in this story have usually gone in another direction, saying that this is a cautionary tale, and people should really... really think carefully about the risks before deciding to be a donor:
“You can contract whatever you want, but you’re not contracting your way out of responsibility to any children you create,” said Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU Langone. Why should taxpayers be forced to pay child support if a noncustodial parent can foot the bill? “If your genes are there, the state is going to find the bank account linked to those genes,” said Caplan. “Having a genetic tie to a baby has a huge history in our country’s judiciary system and morality, and that’s not waived easily by a donor saying he signed a paper that let him off the hook.”
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Am I alone in seeing the irony that the US government is the worlds biggest advocate for tougher "copy-write" and "IP laws" with larger fines yet gets sued for infractions?
Rules are for the little people.
Also, lower-uids can distinguish because a long-time poster and a troll account with similar name created to mock him.
"Manuel, we have the peace agreement here for you to sign!"
It reads: "We're no strangers to love.." etc.
Beta doesn't have genitals—it's been neutered. Beta can only suck.
I think Beta screws over the commenting crowd pretty effectively.
Hey AC, care to put a name behind that opinion? I haven't heard anyone excited about or interested in the beta besides Dice and Slashdot employees, as well as one or two ACs who probably belong to the former group.
The bulk of the frustration seems to be that it's hard to get away from the new format.
The bulk of the frustration that started this week, spilling over into every Slashdot story, came because Beta isn't just a stupid curiosity anymore. Now we get reminders that Slashdot Classic will be going away soon and we will have only the horrid Beta interface.
We've been told this whole time that fracking uses some toxic unknown substance that causes water to burn and makes children possessed by the devil.
Now it's water?
It's water with additives, similar to how you are water with additives. The exact additives and the amounts are pretty important.
President Obama is being criticized by the IOC for selecting three gay athletes for the Olympics, and now gay judges for the Olympic committee. Rightly so: it's well-known he did this as a political move against Russia for their anti-gay discrimination. Now whenever gays get into anything or win anything, it'll be "oh they're just gay, they get everything." We're paving the way for rationalized invalidation in a big way--anything this group of people accomplishes will be considered favoritism, thus invalid
I'm pretty sure the default assumption is that male gymnists and figure skaters are gay and always have been. Something I'm sure people in the field hate hearing.
...it and football as a whole, honestly. IMO a big majority of football culture is that of ignorant and/or dumb, brutish people.
I've met enough dim nerds to say that culture isn't much better.
I had never heard of Bruno Mars (since I live under a rock, apparently), but it was quite the entertaining show. I was joking with my wife that the solo drummer kid wasn't half bad, but he's no Niel Peart.
You are correct, many people think the halftime show this year was better than the game or the commercials. That wasn't the case for a good portion of the last decade -- 10 years ago was the infamous Timberlake/Janet Jackson nipple slip, and since then the NFL had chosen only the safest, most boring, most past-their-prime and irrelevant acts for the halftime show. Finally it's starting to get decent again.
A singer who can play an instrument! How novel!
Amusingly, Justin Bieber is a decent drummer too, certainly better than as a singer.
...and yet, it could have been a nerd story, if only they'd have given up a bit of bias. I don't eat from the super bowl, but I'm lead to believe that Goldieblox advertised on it: http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/...
The amusing thing is that I found the ad, and the product, to be a bit sexist itself, even while it aims for more gender equality. Part of a big problem is the notion that many boys and girls toys need to be different in the first place, and that you have to color a "boy's toy" pink before it becomes a "girl's toy." It didn't used to be that way, it's only in the last few decades that toy stores have been segregating the genders. I heartily recommonend this article, and while I don't agree with everything, it makes some good points.
It's easy for annoyance to start bordering on real dislike when you realize just how much of your time is spent on stupid commercials and how they interrupt, constantly, the flow of communication, whether it's breaks in sports (unavoidable), to interrupting a TV show, interrupting whatever it is that you're streaming, interrupting a discussion on the radio. It's only when you step back that you realize how insidious it is and how out of hand it is.
I'm done giving my time to advertising. No more commercial radio, DVRs to skip commercial TV, disc rentals and purchases otherwise.
I can only assume there were a bunch of quite cool ones I missed
Not this year! :(
Holy shit, no kidding. I can't think of a blander offering. The Scientology commercial (yes, there was one!) was even a repeat of what they'd already been showing earlier. The Superbowl isn't supposed to be a time for commercial reruns.
Good job on ignoring the "account post gets down modded, AC post doesn't" part of my comment.
I'll bet a lot of people probably browse at the default +1.
Worse, they might be using Slashdot's ultra-shitty beta site now and not know how to view the entire article discussion, something the new Slash site seems take pains in hiding.
I'll bet the viewership numbers for the Superbowl of non-Americans would skyrocket if the fellow from Bad British NFL Commentary could provide commentary for an entire game.
The Broncos really need to draft defense and running backs.
Even Joe Buck remarked that it was rare to see tackling that bad, and if he's criticizing the teams, then you're really REALLY in trouble.
That was not a playoff-caliber defense. Oi.
I'm pretty sure BSD is dying.
Businesses who adopt "antiworker policies" will lose them to companies with better policies. (Until the government starts demanding all kinds of regulations that drive out competitive behavior...)
Not that I'm a big fan of what unions turned into, but they arose precisely because the above is not what happened. Workers had no mobility at all, between jobs, between companies, they had no input on company rules, and that was the standard across industries. Feudalism is feudalism whether it's the lord that holds the reigns or the company.
So indeed, I thank God for the unions back in those days -- they defused the situation, made conditions better, and the collapse that Karl Marx anticipated did not happen in the US as it did in Russia and other countries.
This was like a throwback story!
All nations with police or intelligence agencies conduct surveillance on some part of their population. The thing that made the Communists, Nazis, and Fascists bad was that it wasn't for ordinary crime but for political control and to destroy the opposition to their one party rule.
This was different from the US? J. Edgar Hoover used the FBI for precisely that for decades.
The concept of being "under oath" seems to escape you. Either that, or you are pretending to be a retard... I'm not sure which is worse.
Maybe many of us hold our Congressmen to a higher standard than "lying while not under oath is ok."
Might want to read the wikipedia entry that was cited before running off. Issa increased the insurance on the bussiness 400% immediately before the fire, which was arson, and then when the insurance company offered a pittance of the full value he settled. Strangely, he removed the computers with sensitive information from the premises the day before, and the fire happened at a very convenient time for him. He was never charged because the insurance company wanted to settle not litigate.
Wait, what? That doesn't make sense either. Since when does an insurance company not want to litigate and nail someone they suspect of defrauding them?
None of which would have happened if the child had been properly provided for, which it wasn't. Fuck the couple. They're trash.
Because the only couples that get a divorce are trash?
From what I've read they -didn't- tell anyone his name, it was found on a contract. I think the second link specifies that, though giving them the contract in the first place may have been a mistake...
From thedailybeast.com article on the subject: "Cut to last year. Now separated, Bauer had lost her job, and Schreiner, who had carried the child, applied for public assistance to get their daughter health insurance. The Kansas Department of Children and Families agreed to help, but only if Schreiner identified the child’s father so that the state could get him to pitch in child support. Schreiner reluctantly gave them Marotta’s name."
Where is the GLBT community on this? If they remain silent here, not fighting (protesting) against this injustice, then they are simply hypocrites, wanting the benefits but not the full responsibility for their "rights".
I'm not sure if this has anything to do with GLBT issues. The ruling would have been the same if an infertile straight couple was involved, as it did not hinge on their legal married status. A Kansas law states that the only valid way to handle sperm donation is with through a licensed physician, which is the only way to transfer legal responsibility. You can't casually contract away your parentage rights, that can only happen under specific conditions. Those conditions weren't met, and they had a self-drawn contract which was automatically invalidated since it violated the donor law.
In fact, the professionals involved in this story have usually gone in another direction, saying that this is a cautionary tale, and people should really... really think carefully about the risks before deciding to be a donor:
“You can contract whatever you want, but you’re not contracting your way out of responsibility to any children you create,” said Arthur Caplan, director of medical ethics at NYU Langone. Why should taxpayers be forced to pay child support if a noncustodial parent can foot the bill? “If your genes are there, the state is going to find the bank account linked to those genes,” said Caplan. “Having a genetic tie to a baby has a huge history in our country’s judiciary system and morality, and that’s not waived easily by a donor saying he signed a paper that let him off the hook.”