Holy shit, what is your problem? If you have actual evidence that I'm wrong about something, post it. Replying to every comment I make with disparaging yet empty rebuttals doesn't just make you look like a dick, it emphasizes the fact that you have nothing more substantial on your side.
stop quoting Wikipedia word for word, you're a douche for trying to pawn that crap off as your own.
On the off chance that you're not trolling me: I've never done that so any precise coincidence between my words and Wikipedia is a case of the information going the other direction. I'm not going to search for every phrase I've uttered recently but luckily I don't have to as you seem to be aware of the article in question. May I ask what article it is?
However GamerGate started it's continuation is fueled entirely by real proven instances of corruption and collaboration in the press. By pointing out over and over "the review never happened" opponents avoid the many, many legitimate complaints GamerGate has. After all that has happened it's almost disingenuous to point out that the review never happened, like a "white nationalist" pointing out minor arguments over how many thousands of Jews died in a particular camp.
It's true that review never happened but a good deal of favoritism did. More to the point GamerGate is about lies, blackballing of journalists, hiding of poor behavior, lack of enforced ethics policies, and other malfeasance. Wu and company are only relevant to the extent they are focused on to the exclusion of more important topics.
This isn't even the use of weasel words. The FBI is investigating *opponents* of GamerGate for lying about threats and third party trolls for making other threats while the summery claims the investigation is about threats made by proponents. I really, really hope whoever made the threats and whoever lied about them is caught. I hope this because I know damn well GamerGate did not make these threats.
The entire case against GamerGate is built of press pushing talking points off of empty claims made by professional victims. That's the start and end of the "threats and harassment" side of the story. Meanwhile a consumer movement against, ironically, corruption in the press is being libeled to suit political agendas.
I believe you would have extremely cheap goods except that various governments are taking and wasting unprecedented amounts of wealth. If I were wearing my foil hat I would say this is deliberate.
I can't see major manufacturers changing their recipes overnight but this is sure to bring an evolution in beercraft. The industry has already been shaken severely through vigorous competition. Major manufacturers will need to put out hundreds of candidate low-hops beers if they don't want to lose ground.
With massive proven returns on the dollar we need to more than double NASA's budget. I would rather see that extra money go to pure science but since that's just not going to happen at least put it where a lot of science is happening. I would suggest selling off 500 tanks and all the Warthogs and using the extra maintenance and upgrade budget.
The Swedish people must be delighted to know how much is directly and indirectly being brought to the table in the name of removing those evil and dangerous criminals at the Pirate Bay.
Sovereignty, reputation as a safe place to do business, a reputation for not being corrupt, and a long cultural history of preserving freedom and privacy are a lot to sacrifice but as long as a perfectly legal file sharing site can be brought to its knees for literally hours it's well done.
Furthermore I'm sure not a single penny has crossed the border from Hollywood, and no favors were exchanged with US politicians to make this happen.
The average consumer fills 10 - 20% of their drive capacity. Ever.
And most drive space owned by companies isn't used. If you're filling 80% of your drive you're starting to lose options. You're making tough choices about what data to keep. When I buy a computer I want a hard drive large enough for the great unknowns of the future. That way when a new game comes out, or I want to provide backup space to my friend, or when I want 100 GB of swap space for an unusual purpose it's there. My personal data takes up about 100 GB now. My OS and applications take up another 50 at most. If you would recommend me a 200 GB drive based on that data you would do me a great disservice.
Work free as a volunteer for any of the worthy nonprofits that need such help, and become known for your excellent work and professionalism. There's a good chance you'll get a recommendation that will drown out any doubts.
Chinese pundits frequently opine upun political matters with clever word play. It's much more difficult to use automated search for all the combinations of characters that can phunetically mean something political. Those seeking a "harmonious society" therefore hate the practice.
yeah! AI is completely useless except for image recognition, language translation, Chess, Go, trivia, driving cars, file organization, pattern finding, research, and repair optimization. And henceforth there shall be no further progress.
Think of a supergenius. He can write letters (or a book), play the stock market, hire people, start a company, bribe governments, crack into computers, create software, and otherwise wield immense power without ever leaving his chair. If he's sufficiently skillful and intelligent he can move armies, mountains, and governments.
The connection between real-world happenings and computer code needs to be drawn for every student. There's a world of difference between "I can make these words appear on the screen" and "I can let someone buy something" or "I can make a light turn on" or "I can tell a 3-d printer how to make a shape". Making real things happen in the real world is the spark of excitement that has brought many novices into the world of programming.
Yeah! I drive my car so I can feel superior to the bus-riding peasantry!
A month's groceries? Well I could easily just take two or three hour-long bus trips instead. Rain at the bus stop? Who cares, I like rain. Arriving at work soaked in sweat in the summer and stinking of the bus crowd? They'll adjust. Every disadvantage of riding the bus is minor. An extra 30 minutes per trip minimum? My time is free! No chance to have a cigar on the way? smoking is bad for you anyway. The only thing the bus can't give that my car can is that sweet, sweet feeling of being king as I slowly roll my 1986 Toyota wagon down the strip.
The fact that my car costs less for commuting isn't even a factor, I'm willing to pay more for the environment. Convenience? Who needs it! The bus would be the only way for me but for my damned ego. Alas. You've called me out, you have: taking the bus would be better in every other way.
What my car can do that a taxi can't is be right there outside my door within the minute it takes to get to it 100% of the time at no additional cost. It also is guaranteed to to have anyone else's detritus. It can also serve as a storage space or a place to sleep in a pinch.
That's just not true. If I were to, say, grow a forest and burn it for fuel (biofuel/biomass) I would be adding not a gram of net carbon to the atmosphere.
Right now the technology is well behind human cognition. It may say, "two men playing tennis" where a human would notice a few things, do some research, and say "Roger Federer practicing with his trainer for the upcoming Davis cup"
But the cool thing is that the machine will eventually reach, then surpass the human. The computer of tomorrow will say "Federer practicing for the David cup, but his injury will prevent a win. He also needs to start using a nitrogen fertilizer on his lawn."
>Only once did I get a letter saying that they would only do business if I accepted all terms.
My own story is that I get rejected more then half the time when I don't accept all terms.
I hardly know where to start. So I'll cover the whole of it.
One incident did define GG.
For a second time, that's simply not true. That one incident gave opponents of GamerGate a tenuous position from which to libel it. That's the start and finish of the way it "defines" GamerGate. There was a Reddit thread (since censored) before the incriminating tweet that was about ethics. The majority of tweets now using the tag are about ethics or explaining why it's about ethics.
A decent definition of the revolt will be about whose in it, what they are doing, and how they're doing it and by that much better definition GamerGate is a force for good. You're ignoring all of that to focus on one incident so distant from the concerns of the people in GamerGate that it may as well be entirely irrelevant.
And why focus on that one incident? I really want to know. Why is it important to you that a movement against corrupt journalists be stopped?
When they where shown to be the vile people they are
You're so very confident that GamerGate supporters are evil. Why don't you show evidence of that? Check in my own comment history for excellent proof of the good we're doing. I've shown you my evidence now show me yours. hint: "unsupported accusations" are not evidence no matter how many of them you have.
the narrative changed.
Again you're referring to one minor incident at the beginning and pretending it defines us. You are claiming ten thousand and more diverse people just got together to harass and threaten. And you're ignoring a large timeline of actions to do so. You're ignoring three months of letter writing, documentation, discovery of corruption, evidence of corruption, and on and on. The narrative changed because 1: GamerGate has had to spend so much energy debunking libel like your comment. 2: That libel has changed as it becomes more obviously dishonest. 3: more instances of corruption have been discovered. and 4: We've honed our tactics to select for the most effective ones.
Then people who didn't know the origin got fooled into thinking it was about journalism; which it is not about.
So all this fighting a dishonest media circus, the timeline of documented corruption, the letter writing campaign, the organization and efforts, it's not really about the things we are proven to be complaining about and working to fix? Your statement is preposterous on the face.
GG is a perfect example of why ignoring trolls does not work. It allows the to control the message.
The only controlling of our message that's going on is in posts like yours, distorting the open, transparent, and obvious truth of what we're accomplishing.
You can post your fallacious questions
the irony...
I was at ground zero, and I watched it unfold.
What a coincidence, so did I. So let's both show our evidence. Mine is in my Slashdot comment history with dozens more links in reserve. I'm still waiting for yours. Prove ANY of your libel against GamerGate.
I've seen those people attack to many women.
The fact is many people on both sides have been attacked. But the media has reported on only half of those attacks. The media has also pointed at many attacks that didn't even pretend to come from GamerGate, put them beside the name GamerGate, and let people draw the obvious and very wrong conclusion. I can name 20 GamerGate supporters who have been doxed. I can name four who have been attacked and two more threatened. But I won't. Because I'm not playing the victim Olympics. The reason I mention this is to point out just how distorted your half of the argument is.
Why would an honest person concerned about preventing threats and attacks only talk about one side being attacked, and do so with a distorted point of view?
Not that I want to get into it but #GamerGate is a backlash against many instances of corruption including favoritism ("the review" never happened but favoritism did) involving Quinn. To pretend that one incident defines the revolt is ignorant or disingenuous. So which of those are you?
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Holy shit, what is your problem? If you have actual evidence that I'm wrong about something, post it. Replying to every comment I make with disparaging yet empty rebuttals doesn't just make you look like a dick, it emphasizes the fact that you have nothing more substantial on your side.
stop quoting Wikipedia word for word, you're a douche for trying to pawn that crap off as your own.
On the off chance that you're not trolling me: I've never done that so any precise coincidence between my words and Wikipedia is a case of the information going the other direction. I'm not going to search for every phrase I've uttered recently but luckily I don't have to as you seem to be aware of the article in question. May I ask what article it is?
However GamerGate started it's continuation is fueled entirely by real proven instances of corruption and collaboration in the press. By pointing out over and over "the review never happened" opponents avoid the many, many legitimate complaints GamerGate has. After all that has happened it's almost disingenuous to point out that the review never happened, like a "white nationalist" pointing out minor arguments over how many thousands of Jews died in a particular camp.
It's true that review never happened but a good deal of favoritism did. More to the point GamerGate is about lies, blackballing of journalists, hiding of poor behavior, lack of enforced ethics policies, and other malfeasance. Wu and company are only relevant to the extent they are focused on to the exclusion of more important topics.
the old adage of "just ignore it" literally does not work anymore.
I'm not disputing this but I don't agree either. Can you provide evidence and supporting argument?
This isn't even the use of weasel words. The FBI is investigating *opponents* of GamerGate for lying about threats and third party trolls for making other threats while the summery claims the investigation is about threats made by proponents. I really, really hope whoever made the threats and whoever lied about them is caught. I hope this because I know damn well GamerGate did not make these threats.
The entire case against GamerGate is built of press pushing talking points off of empty claims made by professional victims. That's the start and end of the "threats and harassment" side of the story. Meanwhile a consumer movement against, ironically, corruption in the press is being libeled to suit political agendas.
Stop lying that lie. For everyone else, please look at my post history for evidence refuting it.
I believe you would have extremely cheap goods except that various governments are taking and wasting unprecedented amounts of wealth. If I were wearing my foil hat I would say this is deliberate.
I can't see major manufacturers changing their recipes overnight but this is sure to bring an evolution in beercraft. The industry has already been shaken severely through vigorous competition. Major manufacturers will need to put out hundreds of candidate low-hops beers if they don't want to lose ground.
With massive proven returns on the dollar we need to more than double NASA's budget. I would rather see that extra money go to pure science but since that's just not going to happen at least put it where a lot of science is happening. I would suggest selling off 500 tanks and all the Warthogs and using the extra maintenance and upgrade budget.
The Swedish people must be delighted to know how much is directly and indirectly being brought to the table in the name of removing those evil and dangerous criminals at the Pirate Bay.
Sovereignty, reputation as a safe place to do business, a reputation for not being corrupt, and a long cultural history of preserving freedom and privacy are a lot to sacrifice but as long as a perfectly legal file sharing site can be brought to its knees for literally hours it's well done.
Furthermore I'm sure not a single penny has crossed the border from Hollywood, and no favors were exchanged with US politicians to make this happen.
The average consumer fills 10 - 20% of their drive capacity. Ever.
And most drive space owned by companies isn't used. If you're filling 80% of your drive you're starting to lose options. You're making tough choices about what data to keep. When I buy a computer I want a hard drive large enough for the great unknowns of the future. That way when a new game comes out, or I want to provide backup space to my friend, or when I want 100 GB of swap space for an unusual purpose it's there. My personal data takes up about 100 GB now. My OS and applications take up another 50 at most. If you would recommend me a 200 GB drive based on that data you would do me a great disservice.
Work free as a volunteer for any of the worthy nonprofits that need such help, and become known for your excellent work and professionalism. There's a good chance you'll get a recommendation that will drown out any doubts.
Chinese pundits frequently opine upun political matters with clever word play. It's much more difficult to use automated search for all the combinations of characters that can phunetically mean something political. Those seeking a "harmonious society" therefore hate the practice.
yeah! AI is completely useless except for image recognition, language translation, Chess, Go, trivia, driving cars, file organization, pattern finding, research, and repair optimization. And henceforth there shall be no further progress.
Think of a supergenius. He can write letters (or a book), play the stock market, hire people, start a company, bribe governments, crack into computers, create software, and otherwise wield immense power without ever leaving his chair. If he's sufficiently skillful and intelligent he can move armies, mountains, and governments.
The connection between real-world happenings and computer code needs to be drawn for every student. There's a world of difference between "I can make these words appear on the screen" and "I can let someone buy something" or "I can make a light turn on" or "I can tell a 3-d printer how to make a shape". Making real things happen in the real world is the spark of excitement that has brought many novices into the world of programming.
Yeah! I drive my car so I can feel superior to the bus-riding peasantry!
A month's groceries? Well I could easily just take two or three hour-long bus trips instead. Rain at the bus stop? Who cares, I like rain. Arriving at work soaked in sweat in the summer and stinking of the bus crowd? They'll adjust. Every disadvantage of riding the bus is minor. An extra 30 minutes per trip minimum? My time is free! No chance to have a cigar on the way? smoking is bad for you anyway. The only thing the bus can't give that my car can is that sweet, sweet feeling of being king as I slowly roll my 1986 Toyota wagon down the strip.
The fact that my car costs less for commuting isn't even a factor, I'm willing to pay more for the environment. Convenience? Who needs it! The bus would be the only way for me but for my damned ego. Alas. You've called me out, you have: taking the bus would be better in every other way.
What my car can do that a taxi can't is be right there outside my door within the minute it takes to get to it 100% of the time at no additional cost. It also is guaranteed to to have anyone else's detritus. It can also serve as a storage space or a place to sleep in a pinch.
I personally think a lot of futurists want a world without private property, and getting rid of personal cars would be a step in that direction.
That's just not true. If I were to, say, grow a forest and burn it for fuel (biofuel/biomass) I would be adding not a gram of net carbon to the atmosphere.
Right now the technology is well behind human cognition. It may say, "two men playing tennis" where a human would notice a few things, do some research, and say "Roger Federer practicing with his trainer for the upcoming Davis cup"
But the cool thing is that the machine will eventually reach, then surpass the human. The computer of tomorrow will say "Federer practicing for the David cup, but his injury will prevent a win. He also needs to start using a nitrogen fertilizer on his lawn."
Insightful? This post is blatantly racist and sexist.
>Only once did I get a letter saying that they would only do business if I accepted all terms. My own story is that I get rejected more then half the time when I don't accept all terms.
I hardly know where to start. So I'll cover the whole of it.
One incident did define GG.
For a second time, that's simply not true. That one incident gave opponents of GamerGate a tenuous position from which to libel it. That's the start and finish of the way it "defines" GamerGate. There was a Reddit thread (since censored) before the incriminating tweet that was about ethics. The majority of tweets now using the tag are about ethics or explaining why it's about ethics.
A decent definition of the revolt will be about whose in it, what they are doing, and how they're doing it and by that much better definition GamerGate is a force for good. You're ignoring all of that to focus on one incident so distant from the concerns of the people in GamerGate that it may as well be entirely irrelevant.
And why focus on that one incident? I really want to know. Why is it important to you that a movement against corrupt journalists be stopped?
When they where shown to be the vile people they are
You're so very confident that GamerGate supporters are evil. Why don't you show evidence of that? Check in my own comment history for excellent proof of the good we're doing. I've shown you my evidence now show me yours. hint: "unsupported accusations" are not evidence no matter how many of them you have.
the narrative changed.
Again you're referring to one minor incident at the beginning and pretending it defines us. You are claiming ten thousand and more diverse people just got together to harass and threaten. And you're ignoring a large timeline of actions to do so. You're ignoring three months of letter writing, documentation, discovery of corruption, evidence of corruption, and on and on. The narrative changed because 1: GamerGate has had to spend so much energy debunking libel like your comment. 2: That libel has changed as it becomes more obviously dishonest. 3: more instances of corruption have been discovered. and 4: We've honed our tactics to select for the most effective ones.
Then people who didn't know the origin got fooled into thinking it was about journalism; which it is not about.
So all this fighting a dishonest media circus, the timeline of documented corruption, the letter writing campaign, the organization and efforts, it's not really about the things we are proven to be complaining about and working to fix? Your statement is preposterous on the face.
GG is a perfect example of why ignoring trolls does not work. It allows the to control the message.
The only controlling of our message that's going on is in posts like yours, distorting the open, transparent, and obvious truth of what we're accomplishing.
You can post your fallacious questions
the irony...
I was at ground zero, and I watched it unfold.
What a coincidence, so did I. So let's both show our evidence. Mine is in my Slashdot comment history with dozens more links in reserve. I'm still waiting for yours. Prove ANY of your libel against GamerGate.
I've seen those people attack to many women.
The fact is many people on both sides have been attacked. But the media has reported on only half of those attacks. The media has also pointed at many attacks that didn't even pretend to come from GamerGate, put them beside the name GamerGate, and let people draw the obvious and very wrong conclusion. I can name 20 GamerGate supporters who have been doxed. I can name four who have been attacked and two more threatened. But I won't. Because I'm not playing the victim Olympics. The reason I mention this is to point out just how distorted your half of the argument is.
Why would an honest person concerned about preventing threats and attacks only talk about one side being attacked, and do so with a distorted point of view?
Not that I want to get into it but #GamerGate is a backlash against many instances of corruption including favoritism ("the review" never happened but favoritism did) involving Quinn. To pretend that one incident defines the revolt is ignorant or disingenuous. So which of those are you?