But once they have stolen it they then have - a Jeep.
I didn't know that Slashdot has the Ferd vs Chivvy crowd!
What are they going to do with it? Surely nobody sane actually buys those things?
Only in my area. Seems that Jeeps are maybe 1 out of every 4 vehicles. There's a reason for that. They have a marked tendency to simply go. Our weather is unpredictable, and as the typical weather changes, we have gone from snowstorms to ice storms. They are sure footed enough that they even got my wife to drive in the nasty weather, when at one time a threat of snow got me called out to pick her up. If you don't like one, don't buy one. I'm on my third, and put a couple hundred thousand miles on them before getting rid of them.
No, wait. There are apparently people in that country that actually plan to vote for a orange flavoured lunatic.
You're a touch smug aren't you? Well, your conflating Jeep ownership with being a Trump supporter only shows you are operating with the same sort of pre-judgement of people as BillyBob Smith putting on his Grand Dragon robe, gonna burn a cross tonight outlook.
Also, I'm a vegan don't know of any other vegans who stay on fake meat for more than a year or so as they transition. I completely agree with you though, that stuff is nasty.
Quick Question - Do you eat Seitan? I wish I knew about it when I tried vegetarianism.
Usually when people make comments like yours, they're rationalizing their poor life choices to themselves. Embrace the bacon and live happy, or clean up your eating habits and get to the gym.
Or experience. Most of our lifespan is based on genetics. I've seen people like my Mother in law, non smoker, non drinker get good exercise, and she died at 78 after 8 years of dementia in a nursing home. The men in my family from way back, tend to die at around 85, excluding those killed by accident or war. From great great relations, to modern day, when with exercise, excellent health care and maintenance meds, we still die at 85.
It's obvious that completely sedentary lifestyles and completely off the wall calorie consumption is bad for you - that's just neglecting/abusing the machinery.
But the concept of eating bacon being a poor life choice is just victim blaming. No one gets out of here alive.
Back in that time, it seemed even less likely that private companies would start space programs because everyone knew that Wall Street only looked ahead to the next quarter and that long-term thinking was for governments only.
Wall Street yes, but not Silicon Valley.
Wall street was quite a different place at that time. It wasn't until the late 70's that we became obsessed with short term profit over long term sustainability.
Sure, but who wants to get old just to torture himself?
Insightful question. If somehow it was found out that eating only tofurkey demonstrably added 10 years to a person's lifespan, I'd opt for eating what I do now, and gladly give up those years. Especially since those years are added to the old age part of life.
Do you have mental problems? Because you sure seem to like instigating conflict.
And yes, your posts in this thread do qualify as trolling.
No Coward. I'm just illustrating that when a person gets mail that shows a range war of modding up and down on his comments, that the person is on to something. That's just the nature of society.
People like you who like to pontificate from their ivory tower eventually get their comeuppance.
And those old dudes screaming at you to get off their lawns were once bright young folks like yourself.
The discussion and points related to "they have no money" had much more to do with the lack of good paying jobs, the lack of jobs period, and also the massive debt load for getting a college education. You sound like the guy who complained about Millennials and their PBRs and artisan tacos.
This is going to come as a shock, but did you know when I was a lad fresh out of school, people bitched about my generation? That we now olde fartes were often conscripted against our will to fight and die in weird ass wars? Everyone has problems But every young generation believes that they have it worse than any other generation
And yet, I still got laid - even when I was out of a job. Why? Because I wanted a relationship, and I enjoyed sexy time with the ladies.
Anyhow, My point is this. Millennials did not invent complaining about the old folks, Present day old folks did not invent complaining about millennials. This has been going on for some time, as in forever.
And unless millenials are so inculcated with materialism, where sex is not possible unless one feels they are wealthy enough, there is another problem that perhaps is worth looking into. I just do not think that is the problem.
I just think that the millennials have been sexually abused - without engaging in sex. And it isn't your fault at all, it is society and your parents. It is the self esteem movement that gave young people unrealisticly high opinions of themselves before they ever had any accomplishments. It is teaching young girls that can do anything a man can do - which in itself isn't bad, but it was coupled with a demeaning teaching towards males. The synergy of all this is that many of these young adults are just not interested in each other. The females think every male wants to rape her, and the male thinks that the female is way too dangerous to be around.
What I fear is that at some point, the biological drive to reproduce will kick in among the females, yet the males will still be disinterested.
In other words, this is a horribly, horribly failed social experiment.
Also it's hard to get laid when you live in your Mom's basement...
I came of age in the early 1970's At tht time, just after we exited Vietnam, we had inflation. We had preferential employment, and heaven help you if you were a single male. We had the 1970's version of peppers, with people hoarding food and weapons. And the big thing was that there was no point in saving money for retirement beause inflation was going to eat it up and it would be worth nothing. I spent a fair amount of time being laid off between then and 1976.
Yet my having little to no money did not stop me from dalliances with the opposite sex. Zero influence in fact. No - something else going on here.
I have my opinions, some based on polling results, some based on conjecture. Women have been trained to be men, and men have been marginalized. Hell if I was a young guy today, I would pursuea whole both of other activities besides women. The modern millenial female is not a particulaly pleasant person to be around. They come in to the room with more instilled prejudices than Beauregard J Piecost on his way to a KKK cross burning.
But hey - there is no doubt that men can be assholes as well. So at worst that is a wash. But I do know what society now thinks of men. And I have so many things to do that are more exciting than a relationship with someone who has been trained to believe I am a rapist. So no great loss - a Motorcycle ride or playing a good game of Ice Hockey or a hike or a good meal or a few beers with friends is much more pleasant and way higher on the priority list than a dalliance with danger.
Microsoft can never fail, only we can fail Microsoft, eh? Now the shills are standing up for purposeful deletion. I back up my files, and can recover all of them. That doesn't make this fuckfest that Microsoft is inflicting on people any less evil.
My mail runneth over with Troll and underrated for the post. Once again, proof of the truth. Mark this post as troll too, and do a two factor verification!
It is kind of hard to gauge your age, but end of life care is expensive. My dad's parents did 529 plans for all the grand-kids, but everything else from that generation got burned in end of life care. Assisted living for a year+ for both my grandmothers. The only way my mom's mom could get into a facility was to hand over the deed to her house. By the time Dad's mom ended up in a facility she didn't have any physical property. There wasn't much to inherit after either of them passed.
I suspect that in the not too distant future, a lot of us will opt for an early exit rather than the nursing home pecuniary extraction method our parents and grandparents went through. The incredibly expensive healthcare system for people in nursing homes has the ability to keep the oldsters alive until they've drained the estate. Amazingly, right after that, you get the phone call letting you know that they passed.
One of the less discussed aspects of the 'whole millenials are poor' debate is 'Where did the grandparents' money go?'
Where have you been? Trickle-down, supply-side economics has been destroying generational wealth of middle and working class Americans since Ronald Reagan took office. The grandparents can barely afford to die, much less leave their progeny money.
As well - what the hell kind of guys can't get a boner when they don't have money? The whole concept of cashless making for an inability to boink is silly.
Well, that makes their reluctance to engage in sexual activity quite understandable.
Maybe we should put them on a slippery slope?
I find the idea that lack of money makes people celibate rather odd. If that were hte case, the great depression of the 1930's should have made foro birth rates near zero.
You can google men giving up on women and get a hellava lot of links.
A big problem today is that normal males have been scared off from females. Sad to say, the bad ones haven't. But I watched a show recently where a group of young women were asked if being asked on a date by a man was sexual harassment. To a women, they said if you didn't want to go out with that guy, it was sexual harassment. Well now, isn't that cute?
That pretty much sums it up. Feminism has succeeded on a number of fronts, but ended up way over reaching. Normal males have been pretty well cowed. Most males would like a relationship, but when you can be committing a crime for the simple act of asking a woman out, you've lost from the start. Russian roulette. Perhaps a Pyrrhic victory?
Another woman in an NPR interview made the comment, when a friend went with her to a coffee shop in Seattle, and was reaking at the Butch women there. She told her friend Don't worry - These are just the women who have become men, because men won't. Deal with it.
Having married at a different time, to an alpha chick who has gone on to have asucessful career, the previous example of a liberated woman. we get along just fine, and as equals. But in today's atmosphere, where men are as likely as not considered public enemy number one, I can say that I would be one of the guys opting out of any relationship with women. I could spend my money on what I like, do what I want as long as I avoid women, and avoid all of the pitfalls of marriage and children and divorce and child support. It really isn't worth it.
It sounds terrible, but hey, in a country where all men are considered at best latent rapists and child molesters, who in the hell in their right mind would want to take a chance interfacing with the opposite sex?
And by the way - for people who want to claim that money = ability to engage in sex, my SO and I managed quite well when we had virtually nothing.
Where did I stand up for MS? I didn't even mention them, just passing on some good advice that all computer users should heed. Data loss is data loss, regardless of how it happens and having backups is the best way to protect yourself.
Now piss off, snowflake.
You kinda figure the world revolves around you Coward? Where did I call out some shitposting Anonymous Coward - I was just stateing the truth, dear chachalaca.
So you don't do regular scheduled backups? Let this be a lesson for you.
Microsoft can never fail, only we can fail Microsoft, eh? Now the shills are standing up for purposeful deletion. I back up my files, and can recover all of them. That doesn't make this fuckfest that Microsoft is inflicting on people any less evil.
its private property, the only right that exists here is the right for that owner to do this.
Well, no, being a business and a venue open to the public they have health and safety obligations, and must have liability insurance. The only effect I can see it having here would be the need to put up signage, so that if someone did have a medical emergency people wouldn't be wondering why they can't call 999 from their mobile. Just to cover themselves (and the insurance company).
You logic tells us that a battery manufacturer must make batteries that are always fully charge in case someone needs to call in a medical emergency. Or that cell providers mus provide 100 percent 4 bar coverage over the entire nation - you know, just in case.
How the *fuck* did we function during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s without mobile phones
Much better I would think. In the 80's, I owul dhop into my little Ford Fiesta, and disappear all day on the weekends without anyone having a second thought about it. Today, people freak at the idea of being out of cell phone tower range.
Why it's like the concept of constantly being a phone call away, "Just in case" has increased their fear level many fold.
Pssst..... everyone, it isn't "libtards against guns" - its liability. Sweet Jeebuz in a smartcar, when an emoticon becomes a second amendment flashpoint, perhaps it isn't the "libtards" that have a really big problem.
I really don't care what Apple does with its emoji. But do you seriously think it's going to make any difference in liability when students get kicked out of school for biting pop tarts to make a "gun" shape? Hoplophobia is out of control in this country.
I thohught it was fear of Pop Tarts - Hell you see what one of those does if you leave it in the toaster too long? But semi seriously, I Kellogs getting sued is far fetched. Or then again, maybe not.
No it doesn't. It argues against changing existing emoticons after they have been released, and your attempt to claim otherwise reveals your true intentions.
Seriously, if this raises your blood pressure because your rights as stated in the constitution are being egregiously violated, you should either take Apple to court, or find more productive things to do with your life. Like just about anything including trimming your nose hair. My limit of interest is just about exhausted, other than to point out that we might move the conversation to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It's just about that important. But hey, feel free to sue Apple for infringing on your first and second amendment rights.
So have fun, and be glad that emoji are on your outrage meter. That means you are living a pretty stress free life.
It really isn't that far fetched either. Someone sends a text message to someone with a gun emoji, and the other person decides it was a threat, so they pre-emptively kill the first person. In stand your ground states, that becomes a test case, and as likely as not, the killer goes free.
No, this isn't a test case for SYG laws. There are some legitimate issues about misuse of SYG, but your scenario is not covered under any state's interpretation of it.
THat's why I wrote that it was a test case. All it takes is a lawyer to present it, and a judge saying they will allow it. If you killed someone who texted you a message and it had a pistol in it, you would use every defense you were allowed.
But you have to remember, we never signed a contract with teh internetz that these folk have some sort of right to existence.
You signed up for a Slashdot account, and Slashdot is ad-supported.
And if Slashdot goes away? I have no contract with Slashdot, and if eventually they go away, I won't be pleased, but I can find other ways to spend my time.
In the meantime, if a site won't let me in, I just look it as if I caught a 404.
If I see such a "404" in a story or comment on Slashdot, should I report it in a reply, as I've done here?
I do have a good idea that the inability to get into the site it is of my own doing. That's a choice I made. I do know now to not bother going to a forbes link in here. But anyone else is welcome to take a hike if they block me.
I have long said that the model is wrong. A website like say Forbes signs up with an ad provider. The provider populates the site with ads. So far so good.
But who is the ad provider, and do they provide responsible ad links?
And Forbes is the specific case illustrating that this is not happening. They demanded people allow access to their ads, and promptly downloaded malware onto these people's computers.
I am not required to download malware period.
Websites using these ad providers may or may not be using a provider that is providing malware.
Therefore I will block all of them.
This is like going to bars, hooking up with someone, and having sex with them. That nice young lady probably doesn't have some STD, but then again she might. So I would take precautions regardless.
So I look at all of my blocking software and script killing software and flash blocking software as condoms for my computer.
The cure for this problem is not in my hands, it is in the hands of the ad providers and the websites that use them. They need to work together to provide vetted ads that are not installing ransomware and other malware on my computer. I can get along just fine without seeing another post from Forbes or any other site that blocks me from seeing their content. The ultimate price that I pay for allowing them to infect my computer is not worth the price of entry.
I don't really give a crap about emojis but it seems so asinine for them to waste thought and effort on something so totally meaningless. They're obsessed with triviality instead of actually doing something to improve their product.
It is neither trivial or meaningless. A gun emoji can be a liability issue in a civil suit. As far fetched as that might seem, we do live in the land 'o litigation.
It really isn't that far fetched either. Someone sends a text message to someone with a gun emoji, and the other person decides it was a threat, so they pre-emptively kill the first person. In stand your ground states, that becomes a test case, and as likely as not, the killer goes free. Then the civil suits start. And you can bet that a sympathetic jury will decide that Apple played a part in the process. Therefore, the deep pockets corporation gets to pay.
I'd never allow an emoji set to be produced with personal firearms in the first place, and I'm an owner and user of the devices. Being devices designed to kill, they are just too easy to turn into physical threats, real or imagined. And I'd sure as hell never put a firearm in a text, even if I was just saying I was going to the range for practice.
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But once they have stolen it they then have - a Jeep.
I didn't know that Slashdot has the Ferd vs Chivvy crowd!
What are they going to do with it? Surely nobody sane actually buys those things?
Only in my area. Seems that Jeeps are maybe 1 out of every 4 vehicles. There's a reason for that. They have a marked tendency to simply go. Our weather is unpredictable, and as the typical weather changes, we have gone from snowstorms to ice storms. They are sure footed enough that they even got my wife to drive in the nasty weather, when at one time a threat of snow got me called out to pick her up. If you don't like one, don't buy one. I'm on my third, and put a couple hundred thousand miles on them before getting rid of them.
No, wait. There are apparently people in that country that actually plan to vote for a orange flavoured lunatic.
You're a touch smug aren't you? Well, your conflating Jeep ownership with being a Trump supporter only shows you are operating with the same sort of pre-judgement of people as BillyBob Smith putting on his Grand Dragon robe, gonna burn a cross tonight outlook.
Forget what I said.
Forgotten, just like a fart in a pigsty.
Also, I'm a vegan don't know of any other vegans who stay on fake meat for more than a year or so as they transition. I completely agree with you though, that stuff is nasty.
Quick Question - Do you eat Seitan? I wish I knew about it when I tried vegetarianism.
Usually when people make comments like yours, they're rationalizing their poor life choices to themselves. Embrace the bacon and live happy, or clean up your eating habits and get to the gym.
Or experience. Most of our lifespan is based on genetics. I've seen people like my Mother in law, non smoker, non drinker get good exercise, and she died at 78 after 8 years of dementia in a nursing home. The men in my family from way back, tend to die at around 85, excluding those killed by accident or war. From great great relations, to modern day, when with exercise, excellent health care and maintenance meds, we still die at 85.
It's obvious that completely sedentary lifestyles and completely off the wall calorie consumption is bad for you - that's just neglecting/abusing the machinery.
But the concept of eating bacon being a poor life choice is just victim blaming. No one gets out of here alive.
Back in that time, it seemed even less likely that private companies would start space programs because everyone knew that Wall Street only looked ahead to the next quarter and that long-term thinking was for governments only.
Wall Street yes, but not Silicon Valley.
Wall street was quite a different place at that time. It wasn't until the late 70's that we became obsessed with short term profit over long term sustainability.
This doesn't seem out of line with other studies that link a more restricted caloric intake with youthfulness and better health.
This is great when the goal is to be the most youthful, and healthy person in the graveyard.
Sure, but who wants to get old just to torture himself?
Insightful question. If somehow it was found out that eating only tofurkey demonstrably added 10 years to a person's lifespan, I'd opt for eating what I do now, and gladly give up those years. Especially since those years are added to the old age part of life.
Well since you're supposed to get wiser with age, does this accelerate the wising-up process?
Just makes us wiseguys.
You seem angry.
Nah, I'm amused and troll for the lulz.
Do you have mental problems? Because you sure seem to like instigating conflict.
And yes, your posts in this thread do qualify as trolling.
No Coward. I'm just illustrating that when a person gets mail that shows a range war of modding up and down on his comments, that the person is on to something. That's just the nature of society.
People like you who like to pontificate from their ivory tower eventually get their comeuppance.
And those old dudes screaming at you to get off their lawns were once bright young folks like yourself.
The discussion and points related to "they have no money" had much more to do with the lack of good paying jobs, the lack of jobs period, and also the massive debt load for getting a college education. You sound like the guy who complained about Millennials and their PBRs and artisan tacos.
This is going to come as a shock, but did you know when I was a lad fresh out of school, people bitched about my generation? That we now olde fartes were often conscripted against our will to fight and die in weird ass wars? Everyone has problems But every young generation believes that they have it worse than any other generation
And yet, I still got laid - even when I was out of a job. Why? Because I wanted a relationship, and I enjoyed sexy time with the ladies.
Anyhow, My point is this. Millennials did not invent complaining about the old folks, Present day old folks did not invent complaining about millennials. This has been going on for some time, as in forever.
And unless millenials are so inculcated with materialism, where sex is not possible unless one feels they are wealthy enough, there is another problem that perhaps is worth looking into. I just do not think that is the problem.
I just think that the millennials have been sexually abused - without engaging in sex. And it isn't your fault at all, it is society and your parents. It is the self esteem movement that gave young people unrealisticly high opinions of themselves before they ever had any accomplishments. It is teaching young girls that can do anything a man can do - which in itself isn't bad, but it was coupled with a demeaning teaching towards males. The synergy of all this is that many of these young adults are just not interested in each other. The females think every male wants to rape her, and the male thinks that the female is way too dangerous to be around.
What I fear is that at some point, the biological drive to reproduce will kick in among the females, yet the males will still be disinterested. In other words, this is a horribly, horribly failed social experiment.
Also it's hard to get laid when you live in your Mom's basement...
I came of age in the early 1970's At tht time, just after we exited Vietnam, we had inflation. We had preferential employment, and heaven help you if you were a single male. We had the 1970's version of peppers, with people hoarding food and weapons. And the big thing was that there was no point in saving money for retirement beause inflation was going to eat it up and it would be worth nothing. I spent a fair amount of time being laid off between then and 1976.
Yet my having little to no money did not stop me from dalliances with the opposite sex. Zero influence in fact. No - something else going on here.
I have my opinions, some based on polling results, some based on conjecture. Women have been trained to be men, and men have been marginalized. Hell if I was a young guy today, I would pursuea whole both of other activities besides women. The modern millenial female is not a particulaly pleasant person to be around. They come in to the room with more instilled prejudices than Beauregard J Piecost on his way to a KKK cross burning.
But hey - there is no doubt that men can be assholes as well. So at worst that is a wash. But I do know what society now thinks of men. And I have so many things to do that are more exciting than a relationship with someone who has been trained to believe I am a rapist. So no great loss - a Motorcycle ride or playing a good game of Ice Hockey or a hike or a good meal or a few beers with friends is much more pleasant and way higher on the priority list than a dalliance with danger.
Microsoft can never fail, only we can fail Microsoft, eh? Now the shills are standing up for purposeful deletion. I back up my files, and can recover all of them. That doesn't make this fuckfest that Microsoft is inflicting on people any less evil.
My mail runneth over with Troll and underrated for the post. Once again, proof of the truth. Mark this post as troll too, and do a two factor verification!
It is kind of hard to gauge your age, but end of life care is expensive. My dad's parents did 529 plans for all the grand-kids, but everything else from that generation got burned in end of life care. Assisted living for a year+ for both my grandmothers. The only way my mom's mom could get into a facility was to hand over the deed to her house. By the time Dad's mom ended up in a facility she didn't have any physical property. There wasn't much to inherit after either of them passed.
I suspect that in the not too distant future, a lot of us will opt for an early exit rather than the nursing home pecuniary extraction method our parents and grandparents went through. The incredibly expensive healthcare system for people in nursing homes has the ability to keep the oldsters alive until they've drained the estate. Amazingly, right after that, you get the phone call letting you know that they passed.
Where have you been? Trickle-down, supply-side economics has been destroying generational wealth of middle and working class Americans since Ronald Reagan took office. The grandparents can barely afford to die, much less leave their progeny money.
As well - what the hell kind of guys can't get a boner when they don't have money? The whole concept of cashless making for an inability to boink is silly.
Well, that makes their reluctance to engage in sexual activity quite understandable.
Maybe we should put them on a slippery slope?
I find the idea that lack of money makes people celibate rather odd. If that were hte case, the great depression of the 1930's should have made foro birth rates near zero.
Another possibility is that many young men have checked out altogether. https://www.lifesitenews.com/n...
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/men...
https://www.quora.com/Are-men-... Men giving up on women pisses women off http://rense.com/general49/fal...
You can google men giving up on women and get a hellava lot of links.
A big problem today is that normal males have been scared off from females. Sad to say, the bad ones haven't. But I watched a show recently where a group of young women were asked if being asked on a date by a man was sexual harassment. To a women, they said if you didn't want to go out with that guy, it was sexual harassment. Well now, isn't that cute?
That pretty much sums it up. Feminism has succeeded on a number of fronts, but ended up way over reaching. Normal males have been pretty well cowed. Most males would like a relationship, but when you can be committing a crime for the simple act of asking a woman out, you've lost from the start. Russian roulette. Perhaps a Pyrrhic victory?
Another woman in an NPR interview made the comment, when a friend went with her to a coffee shop in Seattle, and was reaking at the Butch women there. She told her friend Don't worry - These are just the women who have become men, because men won't. Deal with it.
Having married at a different time, to an alpha chick who has gone on to have asucessful career, the previous example of a liberated woman. we get along just fine, and as equals. But in today's atmosphere, where men are as likely as not considered public enemy number one, I can say that I would be one of the guys opting out of any relationship with women. I could spend my money on what I like, do what I want as long as I avoid women, and avoid all of the pitfalls of marriage and children and divorce and child support. It really isn't worth it.
It sounds terrible, but hey, in a country where all men are considered at best latent rapists and child molesters, who in the hell in their right mind would want to take a chance interfacing with the opposite sex?
And by the way - for people who want to claim that money = ability to engage in sex, my SO and I managed quite well when we had virtually nothing.
Where did I stand up for MS? I didn't even mention them, just passing on some good advice that all computer users should heed. Data loss is data loss, regardless of how it happens and having backups is the best way to protect yourself.
Now piss off, snowflake.
You kinda figure the world revolves around you Coward? Where did I call out some shitposting Anonymous Coward - I was just stateing the truth, dear chachalaca.
So you don't do regular scheduled backups? Let this be a lesson for you.
Microsoft can never fail, only we can fail Microsoft, eh? Now the shills are standing up for purposeful deletion. I back up my files, and can recover all of them. That doesn't make this fuckfest that Microsoft is inflicting on people any less evil.
its private property, the only right that exists here is the right for that owner to do this.
Well, no, being a business and a venue open to the public they have health and safety obligations, and must have liability insurance. The only effect I can see it having here would be the need to put up signage, so that if someone did have a medical emergency people wouldn't be wondering why they can't call 999 from their mobile. Just to cover themselves (and the insurance company).
You logic tells us that a battery manufacturer must make batteries that are always fully charge in case someone needs to call in a medical emergency. Or that cell providers mus provide 100 percent 4 bar coverage over the entire nation - you know, just in case.
How the *fuck* did we function during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s without mobile phones
Much better I would think. In the 80's, I owul dhop into my little Ford Fiesta, and disappear all day on the weekends without anyone having a second thought about it. Today, people freak at the idea of being out of cell phone tower range.
Why it's like the concept of constantly being a phone call away, "Just in case" has increased their fear level many fold.
Pssst..... everyone, it isn't "libtards against guns" - its liability. Sweet Jeebuz in a smartcar, when an emoticon becomes a second amendment flashpoint, perhaps it isn't the "libtards" that have a really big problem.
I really don't care what Apple does with its emoji. But do you seriously think it's going to make any difference in liability when students get kicked out of school for biting pop tarts to make a "gun" shape? Hoplophobia is out of control in this country.
I thohught it was fear of Pop Tarts - Hell you see what one of those does if you leave it in the toaster too long? But semi seriously, I Kellogs getting sued is far fetched. Or then again, maybe not.
No it doesn't. It argues against changing existing emoticons after they have been released, and your attempt to claim otherwise reveals your true intentions.
Seriously, if this raises your blood pressure because your rights as stated in the constitution are being egregiously violated, you should either take Apple to court, or find more productive things to do with your life. Like just about anything including trimming your nose hair. My limit of interest is just about exhausted, other than to point out that we might move the conversation to how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. It's just about that important. But hey, feel free to sue Apple for infringing on your first and second amendment rights.
So have fun, and be glad that emoji are on your outrage meter. That means you are living a pretty stress free life.
It really isn't that far fetched either. Someone sends a text message to someone with a gun emoji, and the other person decides it was a threat, so they pre-emptively kill the first person. In stand your ground states, that becomes a test case, and as likely as not, the killer goes free.
No, this isn't a test case for SYG laws. There are some legitimate issues about misuse of SYG, but your scenario is not covered under any state's interpretation of it.
THat's why I wrote that it was a test case. All it takes is a lawyer to present it, and a judge saying they will allow it. If you killed someone who texted you a message and it had a pistol in it, you would use every defense you were allowed.
But you have to remember, we never signed a contract with teh internetz that these folk have some sort of right to existence.
You signed up for a Slashdot account, and Slashdot is ad-supported.
And if Slashdot goes away? I have no contract with Slashdot, and if eventually they go away, I won't be pleased, but I can find other ways to spend my time.
In the meantime, if a site won't let me in, I just look it as if I caught a 404.
If I see such a "404" in a story or comment on Slashdot, should I report it in a reply, as I've done here?
I do have a good idea that the inability to get into the site it is of my own doing. That's a choice I made. I do know now to not bother going to a forbes link in here. But anyone else is welcome to take a hike if they block me.
I have long said that the model is wrong. A website like say Forbes signs up with an ad provider. The provider populates the site with ads. So far so good.
But who is the ad provider, and do they provide responsible ad links?
And Forbes is the specific case illustrating that this is not happening. They demanded people allow access to their ads, and promptly downloaded malware onto these people's computers.
I am not required to download malware period.
Websites using these ad providers may or may not be using a provider that is providing malware.
Therefore I will block all of them.
This is like going to bars, hooking up with someone, and having sex with them. That nice young lady probably doesn't have some STD, but then again she might. So I would take precautions regardless.
So I look at all of my blocking software and script killing software and flash blocking software as condoms for my computer.
The cure for this problem is not in my hands, it is in the hands of the ad providers and the websites that use them. They need to work together to provide vetted ads that are not installing ransomware and other malware on my computer. I can get along just fine without seeing another post from Forbes or any other site that blocks me from seeing their content. The ultimate price that I pay for allowing them to infect my computer is not worth the price of entry.
Because the progressives don't make a big fuss over microaggressions, safe spaces, and trigger warnings.
The kook section sure does! And that is why I mentioned the RNC. Their fear is now codified as the position of the party.
Which is to say that the left wing kooks are a small portion of the Democrats. Noisy and obnoxious, acknowledged but not particularly powerful.
Which is to say the Right wing kooks now run the Republican party. Noisy and obnoxious, and in total control
Its why the Veterans of Foreign Wars are now your enemy, because a Gold Star mother is an acceptable target for your official kookiness.
I don't really give a crap about emojis but it seems so asinine for them to waste thought and effort on something so totally meaningless. They're obsessed with triviality instead of actually doing something to improve their product.
It is neither trivial or meaningless. A gun emoji can be a liability issue in a civil suit. As far fetched as that might seem, we do live in the land 'o litigation.
It really isn't that far fetched either. Someone sends a text message to someone with a gun emoji, and the other person decides it was a threat, so they pre-emptively kill the first person. In stand your ground states, that becomes a test case, and as likely as not, the killer goes free. Then the civil suits start. And you can bet that a sympathetic jury will decide that Apple played a part in the process. Therefore, the deep pockets corporation gets to pay.
I'd never allow an emoji set to be produced with personal firearms in the first place, and I'm an owner and user of the devices. Being devices designed to kill, they are just too easy to turn into physical threats, real or imagined. And I'd sure as hell never put a firearm in a text, even if I was just saying I was going to the range for practice.