It's always also a sort of strange bewilderment on my part why you seem to think of Iceland as some sort of fictional place where nobody actually lives.
"It's fantasy, like Elves and Eskimos" - Homer Simpson
Who knows, maybe that's where they're going with Xamarin and official support of C# on Linux. Most MS-written stuff is C# these days. Who can they buy to get DirectX working well on Linux? That would get all the games too.
I always read that Microsoft had a policy of using its Own software
Fun fact: Azure storage runs on Midori, or at least did a couple years ago (I believe there's a new project now). Midori is the MS OS written in "Native C#". It had no threads, and no memory protection, and was rumored to be very fast as a result (though few have the skill to code for that kind of environment safely these days).
The current CoC doesn't mention any "special groups". Why do the detractors feel the need to lie about this thing?
Quoth the CoC:
age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
15 special groups right there. "Level of experience" seems inappropriate - if you're new to kernel coding, that is certainly relevant.
And we all know that while good coders disassociate their egos from code reviews, bad coders don't, and will view commentary on their horrible code as a personal attack.
And, really, Slashdot is the last place to use "incel" as a non-ironic insult. If you're not posting from your mother's basement while watching anime*, you're letting down the side.
There was a sonic level where he was chased by an angry 18-wheeler through the whole level, knocking down walls and whatnot. A lawnmower seems a bit anti-climatic.
If I remember correctly, US law differentiates between "unsolicited" visitors and "solicited" visitors. If the mailman, a "solicited" visitor, trips and breaks his leg on your doorstep . . . he can sue you.
I know someone who was successfully sued by a burgler who walked through a plate glass window and injured himself badly. There's no accounting for juries. Liability insurance is a must whether you rent or own.
otherwise they lose it and "star trek" becomes generalized (such as band-aid, velcro, thermos, dumpster, aspirin, etc.
The trademark to "Aspirin" was not lost due to "generalization" in the US: it, along with the trademark to "Heroin", was lost in the Treaty of Versailles as punishment to Bayer for making chemical weapons for the Germans.
Band-Aid is still a trademark, and I wouln't bet on its lack of enforceability. Velcro is still a trademark, and they made this hilarious video as part of defending it, and they definitely sue over it.
Loss of trademark due to "genericide" is incredibly rare - I think "thermos" is the only one on your list that is true.
SVN made it hard to get merges right before Git came out. Their official stance was against "hand holding" on merges.: if you didn't write down the branch number when you made a branch (or have a 3rd-party tool for that), that was hardly their problem. SVN also wasn't distributed, and sucked for cross-WAN traffic if you had remote teams.
When will media companies figure out that fan projects are good for them?
The more successful ones have. George Lucas was always OK with fan content, even very insulting fan content. The most striking is Jim Davis, owner of possibly the most financially successful modern IP, reached out to the creator of the "Garfield without Garfield" web site and, instead of a cease and desist, said "hey, want to publish a book".
Perhaps there's a reason those just made many billions of dollars.
Marvel is aggressive in protecting trademarks, but is otherwise surprisingly OK with fan content that doesn't get in the way of their merch sales. Heck, the Comics Explained YouTube channel is exactly the sort of thing that inept IP owners (including other parts of Disney) routinely shut down, and he probably makes more money from his Patreon than Marvel does from comic book sales these days.
I don't know if you understand the term. The "heckler's veto" refers to disrupting an event so that no speech can occur. Preventing speech is not free speech (what could be more obvious?).
Public universities are the government. Private universities are not, and retain their rights of association.
Depends how much government funding they take, but more generally "people with government-like power over you" need the same restrictions as government for our rights to be protected. Universities have fairly extreme power over their students, much more so than most other situations adults are likely to encounter (maybe airports, but hat's government now).
Your free speech rights do not trump other's rights of association. They have the right to exclude you from their club, even if said club has university approval.
Sure, but what does that non-sequitur have to do with "free speech zones", which prevent speech in common areas? I'll assume you also believe that clubs who host a speech by a free speech advocate have the right to exclude hecklers.
After all, you just launched the goalposts into orbit to avoid discussing.
To avoid discussing what? You haven't clearly explained the strawman that you want to argue against. My OP simply stated that suppression of free speech is bad, and that it's a sad state of affairs when college students, of all people, protest free speech.
It's not merely "not being arrested": the "hecklers veto" prevents free speech. Creating a "chilling effect" prevents free speech. If you ant to call someone an asshole, that's fine, that's alsomore speech, though actually presenting a rational argument might be more useful than name calling.
Violent protests to prevent speech from happening stand in the way of free speech. The government is supposed to have a monopoly on violence, and it's that threat of violence that makes government suppression of speech so bad, but any violent suppression of speech is bad, not only governments.
Also, universities might as well be the government for these purposes. Universities shutting down free discussion of ideas simply cannot end well. Restricting free speech to tiny "free speech zones" cannot be a good thing. Universities teaching, explicitly or by example, that free speech is bad needs to stop.
Small but noisy seems to dominate social media though, and Twitter lynch mobs have ended several people's careers.
Also, you can't really have free speech unless someone is free to argue that you shouldn't.
"Argue"? Of course. Riot through Berkeley smashing windows and starting fires? That's a different thing. And just in general, I'm not OK with public funds going to teaching that the US was never good, or that the basic rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights are a bad thing. If you want to make a career of teaching such things, just the hypocrisy alone of doing it with tax dollars is pretty bad. (Those are very different than criticizing the current state of the US, which is our national passtime.)
When "muh freeze peach" is being used by privileged white cishet males to silence women and people of color, you can bet we're going to rethink our values.
I am so very sorry that you're no longer allowed to abuse oppressed peoples with impunity and that those dirty women and inferior races are now being allowed into your privileged space... oh wait, no, I'm not sorry at all!
AC is just trolling, but I think there are people now who really believe it. Spend enough time where everyone around you repeats stuff like this, and it starts to sink in.
In an ideal world, Linus would have written such a code of conduct, one that mentioned no special groups, and it would have become an inspiration to other projects. But, hey, the man gave us Linux and Git, I'm certainly not going to criticize him for falling short!
It's sad, but really it was inevitable. The larger any organization, the shorter the half-life before corruption sets in, and the original goals begin to fade. I'm impressed Linus held it together as long as he did!
After all, the various Unices that Linux replaced were all originally focused on making a great kernel as well. Of course, being corporate properties, that didn't last nearly as long.
Surely no one believes that only nazis and fascists have a problem with this right?
I think progressives really do believe that. I've seen too many "free speech is hate speech" posters at free speech protests to think it'a all a sham. And how are protests against free speech even a thing at colleges?
We clearly lost the thread when it comes to basic freedoms in America, and it didn't happen by accident. Just like it's no accident that there are young people whose complaint about "make America great again" is "America was never great". It's pernicious education.
Who benefits from the suppression of free speech in America? People who imagine themselves your future rulers. People who want to achieve that "by any means necessary".
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I dunno, seems like he has a solid defense: "no reasonable person would believe anything I promise".
It's always also a sort of strange bewilderment on my part why you seem to think of Iceland as some sort of fictional place where nobody actually lives.
"It's fantasy, like Elves and Eskimos" - Homer Simpson
But come on people, get that price down! I've got dry powder and it's right before the Q3 deliveries numbers ;)
I was thinking the same. Personally, I wouldn't buy TSLA above 300, but I'd love a nice overreaction tomorrow morning.
Who knows, maybe that's where they're going with Xamarin and official support of C# on Linux. Most MS-written stuff is C# these days. Who can they buy to get DirectX working well on Linux? That would get all the games too.
Native Azure services are often running on Linux
I always read that Microsoft had a policy of using its Own software
Fun fact: Azure storage runs on Midori, or at least did a couple years ago (I believe there's a new project now). Midori is the MS OS written in "Native C#". It had no threads, and no memory protection, and was rumored to be very fast as a result (though few have the skill to code for that kind of environment safely these days).
The current CoC doesn't mention any "special groups". Why do the detractors feel the need to lie about this thing?
Quoth the CoC:
age, body size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
15 special groups right there. "Level of experience" seems inappropriate - if you're new to kernel coding, that is certainly relevant.
And we all know that while good coders disassociate their egos from code reviews, bad coders don't, and will view commentary on their horrible code as a personal attack.
Also worth linking: free-range parenting is the movement to push back on all this.
And, really, Slashdot is the last place to use "incel" as a non-ironic insult. If you're not posting from your mother's basement while watching anime*, you're letting down the side.
*Xena tapes are also acceptable.
That already happened. In 2008. Sheesh, does no one pay attention? The economy's been growing like mad since 2013 or so.
There was a sonic level where he was chased by an angry 18-wheeler through the whole level, knocking down walls and whatnot. A lawnmower seems a bit anti-climatic.
If I remember correctly, US law differentiates between "unsolicited" visitors and "solicited" visitors. If the mailman, a "solicited" visitor, trips and breaks his leg on your doorstep . . . he can sue you.
I know someone who was successfully sued by a burgler who walked through a plate glass window and injured himself badly. There's no accounting for juries. Liability insurance is a must whether you rent or own.
otherwise they lose it and "star trek" becomes generalized (such as band-aid, velcro, thermos, dumpster, aspirin, etc.
The trademark to "Aspirin" was not lost due to "generalization" in the US: it, along with the trademark to "Heroin", was lost in the Treaty of Versailles as punishment to Bayer for making chemical weapons for the Germans.
Band-Aid is still a trademark, and I wouln't bet on its lack of enforceability. Velcro is still a trademark, and they made this hilarious video as part of defending it, and they definitely sue over it.
Loss of trademark due to "genericide" is incredibly rare - I think "thermos" is the only one on your list that is true.
That's a very creative interpretation.
SVN made it hard to get merges right before Git came out. Their official stance was against "hand holding" on merges.: if you didn't write down the branch number when you made a branch (or have a 3rd-party tool for that), that was hardly their problem. SVN also wasn't distributed, and sucked for cross-WAN traffic if you had remote teams.
There's a reason everyone switched.
When will media companies figure out that fan projects are good for them?
The more successful ones have. George Lucas was always OK with fan content, even very insulting fan content. The most striking is Jim Davis, owner of possibly the most financially successful modern IP, reached out to the creator of the "Garfield without Garfield" web site and, instead of a cease and desist, said "hey, want to publish a book".
Perhaps there's a reason those just made many billions of dollars.
Marvel is aggressive in protecting trademarks, but is otherwise surprisingly OK with fan content that doesn't get in the way of their merch sales. Heck, the Comics Explained YouTube channel is exactly the sort of thing that inept IP owners (including other parts of Disney) routinely shut down, and he probably makes more money from his Patreon than Marvel does from comic book sales these days.
I don't know if you understand the term. The "heckler's veto" refers to disrupting an event so that no speech can occur. Preventing speech is not free speech (what could be more obvious?).
Public universities are the government. Private universities are not, and retain their rights of association.
Depends how much government funding they take, but more generally "people with government-like power over you" need the same restrictions as government for our rights to be protected. Universities have fairly extreme power over their students, much more so than most other situations adults are likely to encounter (maybe airports, but hat's government now).
Your free speech rights do not trump other's rights of association. They have the right to exclude you from their club, even if said club has university approval.
Sure, but what does that non-sequitur have to do with "free speech zones", which prevent speech in common areas? I'll assume you also believe that clubs who host a speech by a free speech advocate have the right to exclude hecklers.
After all, you just launched the goalposts into orbit to avoid discussing.
To avoid discussing what? You haven't clearly explained the strawman that you want to argue against. My OP simply stated that suppression of free speech is bad, and that it's a sad state of affairs when college students, of all people, protest free speech.
Twitter lynch mobs, like Stormfront, are both protected speech and a horrible social phenomena that we'd be better off without.
It's not merely "not being arrested": the "hecklers veto" prevents free speech. Creating a "chilling effect" prevents free speech. If you ant to call someone an asshole, that's fine, that's alsomore speech, though actually presenting a rational argument might be more useful than name calling.
Violent protests to prevent speech from happening stand in the way of free speech. The government is supposed to have a monopoly on violence, and it's that threat of violence that makes government suppression of speech so bad, but any violent suppression of speech is bad, not only governments.
Also, universities might as well be the government for these purposes. Universities shutting down free discussion of ideas simply cannot end well. Restricting free speech to tiny "free speech zones" cannot be a good thing. Universities teaching, explicitly or by example, that free speech is bad needs to stop.
Small but noisy seems to dominate social media though, and Twitter lynch mobs have ended several people's careers.
Also, you can't really have free speech unless someone is free to argue that you shouldn't.
"Argue"? Of course. Riot through Berkeley smashing windows and starting fires? That's a different thing. And just in general, I'm not OK with public funds going to teaching that the US was never good, or that the basic rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights are a bad thing. If you want to make a career of teaching such things, just the hypocrisy alone of doing it with tax dollars is pretty bad. (Those are very different than criticizing the current state of the US, which is our national passtime.)
When "muh freeze peach" is being used by privileged white cishet males to silence women and people of color, you can bet we're going to rethink our values.
I am so very sorry that you're no longer allowed to abuse oppressed peoples with impunity and that those dirty women and inferior races are now being allowed into your privileged space... oh wait, no, I'm not sorry at all!
AC is just trolling, but I think there are people now who really believe it. Spend enough time where everyone around you repeats stuff like this, and it starts to sink in.
In an ideal world, Linus would have written such a code of conduct, one that mentioned no special groups, and it would have become an inspiration to other projects. But, hey, the man gave us Linux and Git, I'm certainly not going to criticize him for falling short!
It's sad, but really it was inevitable. The larger any organization, the shorter the half-life before corruption sets in, and the original goals begin to fade. I'm impressed Linus held it together as long as he did!
After all, the various Unices that Linux replaced were all originally focused on making a great kernel as well. Of course, being corporate properties, that didn't last nearly as long.
Did you even read TFS? Linus adopted the CoC to avoid being called a Nazis.
I absolutely do not want to be seen as being in the same camp as the low-life scum on the internet that think it's OK to be a white nationalist Nazi
How do you feel about the "It's OK to be White" posters that were briefly put up as a few colleges as a prank? Do they trouble you?
Surely no one believes that only nazis and fascists have a problem with this right?
I think progressives really do believe that. I've seen too many "free speech is hate speech" posters at free speech protests to think it'a all a sham. And how are protests against free speech even a thing at colleges?
We clearly lost the thread when it comes to basic freedoms in America, and it didn't happen by accident. Just like it's no accident that there are young people whose complaint about "make America great again" is "America was never great". It's pernicious education.
Who benefits from the suppression of free speech in America? People who imagine themselves your future rulers. People who want to achieve that "by any means necessary".