Yes, we understand your political position. We hear it a lot. You might consider the consequences of allowing businesses to not serve people based on "politics", such as criticizing the current government. Which is what China is now doing.
A YouTuber I follow (Scottish - many Slashdoters will know who I mean) was just convicted for making a joke mocking Nazis. Hardly uncommon in GB where anything you say on the internet that can be twisted to be offensive can get you arrested.
No one said not to defend yourself. You're just deliberately conflating self-defence with guns. You don't need guns for self-defence.
I'm a classic Slashdot nerd. Defending myself against classic jocks (well, adults who fit the stereotype) went about as well as you'd expect. Meanwhile my mother is in her 70s.
You might consider that other people have different life circumstances.
It normalises and encourages people to own guns. It drives sales of guns, and helps the NRA. It's indirect but it's there.
You could argue that instructional videos improve gun safety, but are people really using YouTube for safety lessons and given the quality of content on there is that a good thing?
Right, it does good on multiple axes. But you don't even have the First Amendment, let alone the Second, so we'll understand that you're a bit behind and don't get it yet.
Defending yourself from what exactly? I'm 58 years old. I've never had to defend myself. Not here in the U.S. Not anywhere in Europe (I think I've been to pretty much every country in western Europe and a few in eastern Europe. I've been in Africa, India, and Japan..Never. Once. Needed. To. Defend. Myself. I think you live in some prolonged fantasy where you think you might be attacked and will be some sort of amazing Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry type who saves himself with amazing feats of marksmanship or something. Amirite?
So happy that you've led a sheltered life. You might consider that other people live in other circumstances. I've been robbed, mugged, assaulted by strangers, and generally developed a fine appreciation for defending oneself.
On the positive side, with Google turning YouTube into a children's only web site, it's the perfect opportunity for someone else to end Google's monopoly on user driven video sites.
Nothing would make me happier. YouTube is my final obstacle to living a Google-free life. Even with ad block, I feel guilty about giving YouTube my traffic, but there's just no credible alternative yet.
Several comments have been made about Watchmen in a similar vein, but I don't see it. It was my first graphic novel I read, in the late 1980s when I was aged 15 or so, and I managed just fine on the artwork and the story. I'll admit it was a couple of rereadings after that I got the whole deconstruction thing, but it's capable of standing on its own without needing the comic background.
You miss a lot of what's going on though. You'll get the story, but that's only half the content in the book. For example, the book challenges you to figure out why the Black Freighter stuff is shoved in there interspersed with the actual story, and figuring out the point of that seeming-distraction is a good part of the experience.
Also, I sure didn't notice the center chapter was a visual palindrome, and that's freaking awesome.
The european immigrants got them and we stole the land from the natives (which Mexicans technically are) so lets do more amnesty, just to make things kind of even.
The "Natives" stole it from the previous inhabitants through conquest, and those tribes stole it from earlier inhabitants, all the way back to when the land bridge was first crossed - only those guys didn't "steal" the land.
"Mexicans" are (mostly) the descendants of Spanish conquerors and the local tribes at the time.
It's turtles all the way down. Reparations are no answer.
I'd broaden that to "start with the classic Graphic Novels": Batman, the Dark Knight Returns V for Vendetta Watchmen
These are the books that started the whole "comics are for adults too" idea, and they're each great. All of them, along with Sandman, have more depth and play more with comics as an art, than the monthly superhero stuff. But don't start with Watchmen - it's as much about comics as an art as the story it tells, so it won't work if you haven't read a few other comic books.
What the fuck is ethical in avoiding hitting 4 people who cause an accident and hitting a bystander instead? You have some mental problems I think.
What is next? 4 sick old retirees versus a young pregnant mother?
No, if the car has to hit someone the software must be programmed to decide who. What is next is a realtime auction between the life insurance companies of the potential victims to determine who gets hit.
China doesn't need to invade other countries to hold the world record for deaths in war. Most people who have ever been killed in a war were Chinese killed in internal conflicts. Most people who have ever been killed by a brutal dictator were killed by Mao.
Your whataboutism fails to distract from the truth. Most people who have ever been killed by a government, either in war or in purges of undesirables, have been killed by the Chinese government. All other governments ever in the world combined have done less damage.
If the links are fake news created and targetted as part of a foreign sponsored propaganda campaign, then erm, yes.
Why would you think otherwise unless you agree with the goal of the disinformation campaign and want to try and justify it?
Damn right. We only want fake news created and targeted as part of an American-sponsored propaganda campaign round these parts. None of that foreign trash. Merica!
The market is working fine, the problem is we're the product. Facebook and Google compete with each other to sell us down the river, and I'm sure that keeps the pricing competitive.
Sadly, most people are content to be product. Government hasn't fixed this, but people aren't asking them to, and it's not obvious how to fix anything here (it's not like subscription-based social media would fly).
Sure that would be great, but someone has to figure out how to get there without *killing people*.
No, they really don't. People will be killed by cars. Period. If self-driving cars are safer than human drivers, that's a victory for everyone.
Testing at limited scale, high diligence all around, and stopping everything when there's an accident until root cause it know, that's the right process. Was the car even at fault? Could it possibly have stopped in time? We don't yet know.
Human driver or robot driver, don't step out in front of a car until you see it stopping for you. That's just basic "how to cross the street" we all should have learned by 8, but phone zombies have added to drunk pedestrians to swell the ranks of attempted suicides.
A good way? [Insert plentiful abuse about you're ancestry and personal habits here.]
Slashdot would become deadly boring if people actually had on-topic discussions about TFA. How tedious. Admittedly, I miss the days when a discussion about religion would end in a flamewar about text editors, but that wasn't exactly sticking to the topic either. What fun would Slashdot be if there were no risk in discussing the merits of ad blockers vs hosts files?
None of which has anything to do with his self-help book, which has as little to do with politics as any book about human behavior can reasonably be.
But, hey, if he disagrees with your deeply held beliefs about which Disney Princess cartoon is better, by all means condemn him as an evil blasphemer! I'm not trying to start a holy war about such important topics here.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm saying the distinction is arbitrary - politics needs to needs a protected class.
Yes, we understand your political position. We hear it a lot. You might consider the consequences of allowing businesses to not serve people based on "politics", such as criticizing the current government. Which is what China is now doing.
Most countries have bad parts of town, in some towns. People live there.
Well played, sir troll.
A YouTuber I follow (Scottish - many Slashdoters will know who I mean) was just convicted for making a joke mocking Nazis. Hardly uncommon in GB where anything you say on the internet that can be twisted to be offensive can get you arrested.
No one said not to defend yourself. You're just deliberately conflating self-defence with guns. You don't need guns for self-defence.
I'm a classic Slashdot nerd. Defending myself against classic jocks (well, adults who fit the stereotype) went about as well as you'd expect. Meanwhile my mother is in her 70s.
You might consider that other people have different life circumstances.
If an Islamic extremist wants to kill you with a truck, he'd do it while you weren't prepared.
Come to Texas, we'll show you a real gunman.
The decision to make gays a protected class is purely political, so it's equivalent.
It normalises and encourages people to own guns. It drives sales of guns, and helps the NRA. It's indirect but it's there.
You could argue that instructional videos improve gun safety, but are people really using YouTube for safety lessons and given the quality of content on there is that a good thing?
Right, it does good on multiple axes. But you don't even have the First Amendment, let alone the Second, so we'll understand that you're a bit behind and don't get it yet.
Defending yourself from what exactly? I'm 58 years old. I've never had to defend myself. Not here in the U.S. Not anywhere in Europe (I think I've been to pretty much every country in western Europe and a few in eastern Europe. I've been in Africa, India, and Japan..Never. Once. Needed. To. Defend. Myself. I think you live in some prolonged fantasy where you think you might be attacked and will be some sort of amazing Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry type who saves himself with amazing feats of marksmanship or something. Amirite?
So happy that you've led a sheltered life. You might consider that other people live in other circumstances. I've been robbed, mugged, assaulted by strangers, and generally developed a fine appreciation for defending oneself.
If someone is driving a truck at you, your puny weapons wouldn't do shit.
Come to Texas. We'll show you a man's gun.
Did you also quit Slashdot when they censored the n word?
I for one was really pissed that they crossed that line. But it's Slashdot's dying days, and I have this stupid nostalgia for what it once was.
Can you explain why it's so important to be on YouTube and Gab isn't good enough?
Market share. Why were people upset with Microsoft's shenanigans, when Linux was always an option?
Ha! Not a car analogy for once.
On the positive side, with Google turning YouTube into a children's only web site, it's the perfect opportunity for someone else to end Google's monopoly on user driven video sites.
Nothing would make me happier. YouTube is my final obstacle to living a Google-free life. Even with ad block, I feel guilty about giving YouTube my traffic, but there's just no credible alternative yet.
Ac recommends "Tank Girl", which I hear is great.
Several comments have been made about Watchmen in a similar vein, but I don't see it. It was my first graphic novel I read, in the late 1980s when I was aged 15 or so, and I managed just fine on the artwork and the story. I'll admit it was a couple of rereadings after that I got the whole deconstruction thing, but it's capable of standing on its own without needing the comic background.
You miss a lot of what's going on though. You'll get the story, but that's only half the content in the book. For example, the book challenges you to figure out why the Black Freighter stuff is shoved in there interspersed with the actual story, and figuring out the point of that seeming-distraction is a good part of the experience.
Also, I sure didn't notice the center chapter was a visual palindrome, and that's freaking awesome.
The european immigrants got them and we stole the land from the natives (which Mexicans technically are) so lets do more amnesty, just to make things kind of even.
The "Natives" stole it from the previous inhabitants through conquest, and those tribes stole it from earlier inhabitants, all the way back to when the land bridge was first crossed - only those guys didn't "steal" the land.
"Mexicans" are (mostly) the descendants of Spanish conquerors and the local tribes at the time.
It's turtles all the way down. Reparations are no answer.
I'd broaden that to "start with the classic Graphic Novels":
Batman, the Dark Knight Returns
V for Vendetta
Watchmen
These are the books that started the whole "comics are for adults too" idea, and they're each great. All of them, along with Sandman, have more depth and play more with comics as an art, than the monthly superhero stuff. But don't start with Watchmen - it's as much about comics as an art as the story it tells, so it won't work if you haven't read a few other comic books.
You might want to have the batteries replaced in your sense of humor.
What the fuck is ethical in avoiding hitting 4 people who cause an accident and hitting a bystander instead? You have some mental problems I think.
What is next? 4 sick old retirees versus a young pregnant mother?
No, if the car has to hit someone the software must be programmed to decide who. What is next is a realtime auction between the life insurance companies of the potential victims to determine who gets hit.
Now, off to patent that business model!
How many countries has China invaded?
China doesn't need to invade other countries to hold the world record for deaths in war. Most people who have ever been killed in a war were Chinese killed in internal conflicts. Most people who have ever been killed by a brutal dictator were killed by Mao.
Your whataboutism fails to distract from the truth. Most people who have ever been killed by a government, either in war or in purges of undesirables, have been killed by the Chinese government. All other governments ever in the world combined have done less damage.
If the links are fake news created and targetted as part of a foreign sponsored propaganda campaign, then erm, yes.
Why would you think otherwise unless you agree with the goal of the disinformation campaign and want to try and justify it?
Damn right. We only want fake news created and targeted as part of an American-sponsored propaganda campaign round these parts. None of that foreign trash. Merica!
The market is working fine, the problem is we're the product. Facebook and Google compete with each other to sell us down the river, and I'm sure that keeps the pricing competitive.
Sadly, most people are content to be product. Government hasn't fixed this, but people aren't asking them to, and it's not obvious how to fix anything here (it's not like subscription-based social media would fly).
Sure that would be great, but someone has to figure out how to get there without *killing people*.
No, they really don't. People will be killed by cars. Period. If self-driving cars are safer than human drivers, that's a victory for everyone.
Testing at limited scale, high diligence all around, and stopping everything when there's an accident until root cause it know, that's the right process. Was the car even at fault? Could it possibly have stopped in time? We don't yet know.
Human driver or robot driver, don't step out in front of a car until you see it stopping for you. That's just basic "how to cross the street" we all should have learned by 8, but phone zombies have added to drunk pedestrians to swell the ranks of attempted suicides.
This would end Slashdot as we know it!!
But in a good way.
A good way? [Insert plentiful abuse about you're ancestry and personal habits here.]
Slashdot would become deadly boring if people actually had on-topic discussions about TFA. How tedious. Admittedly, I miss the days when a discussion about religion would end in a flamewar about text editors, but that wasn't exactly sticking to the topic either. What fun would Slashdot be if there were no risk in discussing the merits of ad blockers vs hosts files?
None of which has anything to do with his self-help book, which has as little to do with politics as any book about human behavior can reasonably be.
But, hey, if he disagrees with your deeply held beliefs about which Disney Princess cartoon is better, by all means condemn him as an evil blasphemer! I'm not trying to start a holy war about such important topics here.