When is the last time you applied for a job and WEREN'T asked for your race?
I'm mulatto. White father and Indian mother (feather, not dot). First, time I've even heard any inclination that the term might be racist.
We're kind of locked in a weird sort of identity politic world these days. The best example is the star of Captain Marvel, Brie Larson, making the trip from far left to racism and sexism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Too many white male critics, and repeatedly claims that she doesn't hate "White dudes"
In today's world, you are against racism and sexism by being racist and sexist. So my guess is if you are an SJW, the use of a race based word is fine.
Me? I just scrub my speech of as much language that can be connected to what we call "race" as possible. Not easy.
Pretty sure they were shooting for 'milado', i.e. mixed race, most often black/white, but not exclusive. Where I grew up it was not at all disparaging. No idea where it is on the PC scale these days.
Probably not super offensive, but certainly archaic, and stupid to use.
"Mulatto" may have its roots in "mula"... "mule" in English. Being the sterile offspring of a horse and a donkey and used as an often-overworked pack animal, it's not a complimentary term.
Yet today, wouldn't the offspring of a Horse and Donkey be a Honkey?
That's just a joke. But seriously IBM, who in the devil's hot stinking taint thought that "Mulatto" and "Yellow" were in any way appropriate?
Even if Mulatto was at one point an acceptable term, so were retard, idiot, moron, imbecile and cretin. We cant do much about slur creep, other than to pay attention and not use the particular words deemed offensive
Boomers lived the high life and are enjoying old age. You'll get none of that AND then old age. Enjoy living your good years in poverty, kid.
Exactly. "Push all the costs onto the next generation" only works once. We won. Millennials lost. We just need to make sure they earn enough to pay for our social security checks.
Kinda funny, kinda not. When My father passed away (part of "The Greatest Generation") he had a startling amount of money willed to me. I wish he had spent more on himself. But he never made more than me - even at my first job.
But when I entered the workforce, I was bombarded by the same thing - those old folks screwed up the world, there's no use in saving for retirement, because you won't be able to retire. The cancer on retirement was inflation then. Same old, same old with inflation and the old folks destroying the world. Whining about no possibility of retirement even back in the early 1970's.
Then he taught me something. "There will always be people claiming you can't save enough for retirement. But you'll be getting old before you know it, and if you haven't saved, your retirement will stink. And you will retire if your employer says so."
So many of my friends, some who made more than me, didn't heed that advice, and still can't retire. Meanwhile, I retired early, on what I was making while working.
If you plan on using SS as anything other than walking around money, you've already lost.
So the best advice I can give millenials is "listening to the people who say you can never retire will guarantee that you won't be able to retire.
Ever wonder why people consider you a nutcase? This isn't about America. It isn't about Apple, it's about Europe and it's about Huawei, a provider of known spyware. There must be some reason that Huawei is going to hold up 5G rollout.
People also seem to have forgotten (or not know about) Huawei's code theft from Cisco:
You're an idiot if you think speed is the only enabler of this technology and that "people" are the only target market.
I for one am looking forward to better battery life, seamless tower handover, and not having my phone drop off every time there's people watching a football game in the stadium next door.
It will be interesting for certain. As 5G works it's way upwards in frequency, the RF doesn't behave quite like people want it to. 24 to 40 GHz? I will be munching on popcorn, watching the increased Bandwidth - good - the radically shortened range - sometimes good, sometimes bad, and then there is the atmospheric effects. There are bandwidth tricks too, but while infinite bandwidth can be available at a given frequency - don't get excited - it takes infinite power long before that bandwidth is realized.
Digitally oriented people often have trouble understanding RF. And we are rapidly approaching saturation. The tricks to stretch bandwidth are pretty cool and clever. But eventually, the noise floor destroys the usefulness.
I have one of these hanging in my office for folks to find space for their digital RF dreams https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files... A pretty cool chart, but it shows what we are up against.
The firms at risk from slow expansion are not the ones responsible for the 4G network. They are the business customers served. Those with field offices and personnel scattered throughout the member nations and who rely on speedy data transfer for operations.
There ya go. The big problem is that business data access is exactly what is wanted.
Many Slashdot users seem to think that the backdoors and phone spying is all about espionage or finding kiddie porn on their devices. But knowing a competitor's business plans and decisions and data is the real pot o' gold.
To hold to that, they should also have banned the by for more problematic gear, made in USA, even worse than made it China, a whole lot worse.
Wow - three posts before someone sings the praises of Huawei, and makes this the fault of Evul 'Murrica.
Ever wonder why people consider you a nutcase? This isn't about America. It isn't about Apple, it's about Europe and it's about Huawei, a provider of known spyware. There must be some reason that Huawei is going to hold up 5G rollout.
You can collect your yuan now, and I'll stand by for your buds to mod me down to -1.
Rich folks are incented to protect their new (expensive) investments. Rich folks might want to donate them to museums for display in exchange for having their name next to the display.
After Mr or Ms Wealthypants passes on, or earlier even, the dino is almost certain to be given or permanently loaned to a museum somewhere.
In the meantime, new species are still being "discovered" in the warehouses stocked with fossils dug up by Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in the 1800's, like Tylosaurus kansasensis.
I'd suggest patience to the scientists. Dino has been sitting atound for millions of years, a few more decades won't matter too much.
Most of the problems with people being harassed by criticism are to do with monetization, which is not a free speech issue. They aren't being silenced, they are just not being paid to speak.
I can't see any way to force people to pay for stuff they don't want, that isn't ridiculously evil. Do we really want a Sargon tax?
Demonetization indeed. The concept isn't so much removing the ability to make money for radical and violent content, it is simply disagreeing with someone, and it is pretty simple to get them demonetized. Just like the new ability to cut someone off via posts on their comments line.
As far as Sargon goes - it's just a good example of how unsustainable the YouTube model is. There is noting violent or radically abhorrent to his vids, unless the offended person is like I described, unable to withstand views that differ with their own. The problem of course, is that some of the perpetually offended are of the mind to weaponize their outrage, and will attempt to demonetize anything they find not in lockstep with their ideology.
So of course, the "other side" gets in on the act. So then you have liberal channels like David Pacman being demonetized.
Then of course, the ideologues get advertisers in the mix.
The YouTube creator concept is fatally flawed in respect to making money, and I believe that once that it is smouldering ashes, the idealogues will start working on banning any subject matter they find not to their liking. Ideology never rests.
Yeah, but Chinese films have lots of American heroes: Ming-Na Wen, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, etc. We traded them for Bruce Lee! They weren't born here like Arnold, Van Damme, Bruce Willis, or Statham but all are American heroes. Thou some might consider them British due to when the actor was born.
Mostly White males. That's racist and sexist. BTW, Arnold at least was born in Austria.
While I'm in general agreement with your comment on the companies, I don't think public school teacher's email addresses should be private. They're paid for by our taxes, so unless there's a specific privacy/security concern, I don't think any government data should be kept private. Am I missing something?
It isn't a privacy issue, it is yet another way to aggregate data for darn near nothing. email addresses of individual teachers can be found on school web pages, no doubt all of their students and their parents hve them. But to en masse send them to billyboy, or you know many will be posted right to Twitter's toxic environment, this will be a problem. There are people in this world who don't like teachers for their political leanings (perceived or otherwise).
It's like my email address isn't any secret, but I'm not going to post it to Twitter with a note saying "Send bobs and vagene".
The UK could certainly do with some clear protections for freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is and will always be a problem. Some folks find that disagreement is harassing them. Some folks find that negative response to something they say or write is infringing on their free speech.
I've seen some pretty wild accusations over time, from people getting people kicked from AOL because of simple disagreement - just report them as spam - to whining about their free speech rights being trampled after making a threat against a public official.
To my thinking, we have a choice. We either grow a bit thicker skins, or prepare for the internet of no commentary.
We've been at war in Iraq since when, the sixties?
But we weren't sucking the treasury dry.
We didn't get here without going through there.
The family bitchfight that was the Dubya war, was pointless.
Every president for decades has bombed the shit out of Iraq. This is not about a "family bitchfight". This is about American imperialism. Reagan. Bush. Clinton. Bush. Obama. Trump. What do they all have in common? Military policy in the middle east.
Dearest Coward, you can get keys sent to you in the mail, you can even use your key with an app to unlock the scooter.
OK Grandpa. Why not start your own old-fashioned scooter rental business instead of playing armchair entrepreneur?
Y'all even know what a key is these days? many are just electronic devices you plug in or even wear. I can design a key that will record the speed, the location, calculate the cost and take payments. But it is on the key end, not something that might kill you like this system has come close to
Thats the awesome thing about you cowards - standing up for something that is obviously, provably, and in practice, dangerous.
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When is the last time you applied for a job and WEREN'T asked for your race?
I'm mulatto. White father and Indian mother (feather, not dot). First, time I've even heard any inclination that the term might be racist.
We're kind of locked in a weird sort of identity politic world these days. The best example is the star of Captain Marvel, Brie Larson, making the trip from far left to racism and sexism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Too many white male critics, and repeatedly claims that she doesn't hate "White dudes"
In today's world, you are against racism and sexism by being racist and sexist. So my guess is if you are an SJW, the use of a race based word is fine.
Me? I just scrub my speech of as much language that can be connected to what we call "race" as possible. Not easy.
Pretty sure they were shooting for 'milado', i.e. mixed race, most often black/white, but not exclusive. Where I grew up it was not at all disparaging. No idea where it is on the PC scale these days.
Probably not super offensive, but certainly archaic, and stupid to use.
"Mulatto" may have its roots in "mula"... "mule" in English. Being the sterile offspring of a horse and a donkey and used as an often-overworked pack animal, it's not a complimentary term.
Yet today, wouldn't the offspring of a Horse and Donkey be a Honkey?
That's just a joke. But seriously IBM, who in the devil's hot stinking taint thought that "Mulatto" and "Yellow" were in any way appropriate?
Even if Mulatto was at one point an acceptable term, so were retard, idiot, moron, imbecile and cretin. We cant do much about slur creep, other than to pay attention and not use the particular words deemed offensive
I'm sorry you were triggered. Here, show me on this doll where the leftists touched you.
You win the internet today, David. And you owe me a non-soda drenched keyboard.
However, I am quite upset that IBM doesn't recognize the ethnicity of "Kid, who grew up on a Polygamous Ranch".
I hope that was as much fun as it sounds like.
Q. What kind of music will the next generation of teens listen to? A. Whatever seems to be most shocking to the adults.
If they really want to fry our taters, they'll listen to old school Bluegrass.
Boomers lived the high life and are enjoying old age. You'll get none of that AND then old age. Enjoy living your good years in poverty, kid.
Exactly. "Push all the costs onto the next generation" only works once. We won. Millennials lost. We just need to make sure they earn enough to pay for our social security checks.
Kinda funny, kinda not. When My father passed away (part of "The Greatest Generation") he had a startling amount of money willed to me. I wish he had spent more on himself. But he never made more than me - even at my first job.
But when I entered the workforce, I was bombarded by the same thing - those old folks screwed up the world, there's no use in saving for retirement, because you won't be able to retire. The cancer on retirement was inflation then. Same old, same old with inflation and the old folks destroying the world. Whining about no possibility of retirement even back in the early 1970's.
Then he taught me something. "There will always be people claiming you can't save enough for retirement. But you'll be getting old before you know it, and if you haven't saved, your retirement will stink. And you will retire if your employer says so."
So many of my friends, some who made more than me, didn't heed that advice, and still can't retire. Meanwhile, I retired early, on what I was making while working.
If you plan on using SS as anything other than walking around money, you've already lost.
So the best advice I can give millenials is "listening to the people who say you can never retire will guarantee that you won't be able to retire.
Ever wonder why people consider you a nutcase? This isn't about America. It isn't about Apple, it's about Europe and it's about Huawei, a provider of known spyware. There must be some reason that Huawei is going to hold up 5G rollout.
People also seem to have forgotten (or not know about) Huawei's code theft from Cisco:
* https://blogs.cisco.com/news/h...
Isn't there some way this can be Google's fault?
Heaven forbid that they should put up a few more cells in places where their coverage is terrible.
Whooee, if they are reluctant to put up more towers now, just wait until they find out how many they have to put up for the higher 5G frequencies.
You're an idiot if you think speed is the only enabler of this technology and that "people" are the only target market.
I for one am looking forward to better battery life, seamless tower handover, and not having my phone drop off every time there's people watching a football game in the stadium next door.
It will be interesting for certain. As 5G works it's way upwards in frequency, the RF doesn't behave quite like people want it to. 24 to 40 GHz? I will be munching on popcorn, watching the increased Bandwidth - good - the radically shortened range - sometimes good, sometimes bad, and then there is the atmospheric effects. There are bandwidth tricks too, but while infinite bandwidth can be available at a given frequency - don't get excited - it takes infinite power long before that bandwidth is realized.
Digitally oriented people often have trouble understanding RF. And we are rapidly approaching saturation. The tricks to stretch bandwidth are pretty cool and clever. But eventually, the noise floor destroys the usefulness.
I have one of these hanging in my office for folks to find space for their digital RF dreams https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files... A pretty cool chart, but it shows what we are up against.
It's not about that. It's about the American intelligence agencies NOT having backdoors into the equipment. That, and racism.
Sigh...... Backdoors iz backdoorz. You find it, and you can use it. And really, finding backdoors is hardly rocket surgery.
We KNOW that the US and Europe cheats and spies too.
In fact so far no-one has managed to find a confirmed Chinese government backdoor.
Have you considered moving to China, Animojo? I think you would really like it there.
The firms at risk from slow expansion are not the ones responsible for the 4G network. They are the business customers served. Those with field offices and personnel scattered throughout the member nations and who rely on speedy data transfer for operations.
There ya go. The big problem is that business data access is exactly what is wanted.
Many Slashdot users seem to think that the backdoors and phone spying is all about espionage or finding kiddie porn on their devices. But knowing a competitor's business plans and decisions and data is the real pot o' gold.
To hold to that, they should also have banned the by for more problematic gear, made in USA, even worse than made it China, a whole lot worse.
Wow - three posts before someone sings the praises of Huawei, and makes this the fault of Evul 'Murrica.
Ever wonder why people consider you a nutcase? This isn't about America. It isn't about Apple, it's about Europe and it's about Huawei, a provider of known spyware. There must be some reason that Huawei is going to hold up 5G rollout.
You can collect your yuan now, and I'll stand by for your buds to mod me down to -1.
Rich folks are incented to protect their new (expensive) investments. Rich folks might want to donate them to museums for display in exchange for having their name next to the display.
After Mr or Ms Wealthypants passes on, or earlier even, the dino is almost certain to be given or permanently loaned to a museum somewhere.
In the meantime, new species are still being "discovered" in the warehouses stocked with fossils dug up by Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in the 1800's, like Tylosaurus kansasensis.
I'd suggest patience to the scientists. Dino has been sitting atound for millions of years, a few more decades won't matter too much.
None of them were born in the US. You sort of missed the joke there.
Whooshies for me! 8^)
Most of the problems with people being harassed by criticism are to do with monetization, which is not a free speech issue. They aren't being silenced, they are just not being paid to speak.
I can't see any way to force people to pay for stuff they don't want, that isn't ridiculously evil. Do we really want a Sargon tax?
Demonetization indeed. The concept isn't so much removing the ability to make money for radical and violent content, it is simply disagreeing with someone, and it is pretty simple to get them demonetized. Just like the new ability to cut someone off via posts on their comments line.
As far as Sargon goes - it's just a good example of how unsustainable the YouTube model is. There is noting violent or radically abhorrent to his vids, unless the offended person is like I described, unable to withstand views that differ with their own. The problem of course, is that some of the perpetually offended are of the mind to weaponize their outrage, and will attempt to demonetize anything they find not in lockstep with their ideology.
So of course, the "other side" gets in on the act. So then you have liberal channels like David Pacman being demonetized.
Then of course, the ideologues get advertisers in the mix.
The YouTube creator concept is fatally flawed in respect to making money, and I believe that once that it is smouldering ashes, the idealogues will start working on banning any subject matter they find not to their liking. Ideology never rests.
Yeah, we're supposed to be really surprised that Chinese movies have Chinese heroes, and be really appalled that American movies have American heroes.
Won't anyone think of the inclusivity? The alert has been sent to Brie Larson, and she's on the job to right this injustice!
Yeah, but Chinese films have lots of American heroes: Ming-Na Wen, Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen, etc. We traded them for Bruce Lee! They weren't born here like Arnold, Van Damme, Bruce Willis, or Statham but all are American heroes. Thou some might consider them British due to when the actor was born.
Mostly White males. That's racist and sexist. BTW, Arnold at least was born in Austria.
What??? Not a strong woman hero? Is there no Chinese Brie Larson available?
Sigh.... Racism, amirite? Why would they need to take a completely gratuitous snipe there?
It's a Chinese Sci-Fi movie for crissakes. It would be friggin' weird if the hero wasn't Chinese.
If we're playing identity politics, Garret Wang very often played the hero in ST-Voyager.
But of course, American media is consumed with racism and sexism in the guise of anti-sexism and anti-racism.
Now to the movie - I am pretty stoked to see a Sci-Fi movie from a different culture. It's on my must see list.
While I'm in general agreement with your comment on the companies, I don't think public school teacher's email addresses should be private. They're paid for by our taxes, so unless there's a specific privacy/security concern, I don't think any government data should be kept private. Am I missing something?
It isn't a privacy issue, it is yet another way to aggregate data for darn near nothing. email addresses of individual teachers can be found on school web pages, no doubt all of their students and their parents hve them. But to en masse send them to billyboy, or you know many will be posted right to Twitter's toxic environment, this will be a problem. There are people in this world who don't like teachers for their political leanings (perceived or otherwise).
It's like my email address isn't any secret, but I'm not going to post it to Twitter with a note saying "Send bobs and vagene".
The UK could certainly do with some clear protections for freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is and will always be a problem. Some folks find that disagreement is harassing them. Some folks find that negative response to something they say or write is infringing on their free speech.
I've seen some pretty wild accusations over time, from people getting people kicked from AOL because of simple disagreement - just report them as spam - to whining about their free speech rights being trampled after making a threat against a public official.
To my thinking, we have a choice. We either grow a bit thicker skins, or prepare for the internet of no commentary.
We've been at war in Iraq since when, the sixties?
But we weren't sucking the treasury dry.
We didn't get here without going through there.
The family bitchfight that was the Dubya war, was pointless.
Every president for decades has bombed the shit out of Iraq. This is not about a "family bitchfight". This is about American imperialism. Reagan. Bush. Clinton. Bush. Obama. Trump. What do they all have in common? Military policy in the middle east.
We'll just have to agree to disagree about the bitchfight https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Looks like the ads are coming in as stories.
Dearest Coward, you can get keys sent to you in the mail, you can even use your key with an app to unlock the scooter.
OK Grandpa. Why not start your own old-fashioned scooter rental business instead of playing armchair entrepreneur?
Y'all even know what a key is these days? many are just electronic devices you plug in or even wear. I can design a key that will record the speed, the location, calculate the cost and take payments. But it is on the key end, not something that might kill you like this system has come close to
Thats the awesome thing about you cowards - standing up for something that is obviously, provably, and in practice, dangerous.