I personally won't care a whit about this one but more detailed ratings can only be a good thing. I envision an ecosystem of metadata ranging from "suitability for playing in a car on a laptop" to "power usage profile" It's not like the world is short on disk space.
You ignored the bulk of his comment for that cheap bon mot. He thinks cocoa beans (the stuff he buys) should be more expensive, and points out that the best way to make this happen is to buy expensive chocolate.
Of course the market will fix this problem in time whether or not you buy expensive chocolate, but the free market's solution may involve a higher price for chocolate then may otherwise be required.
GamerGate is not about harassment or women. Here is a statistical analysis of #GamerGate tweets. Here is a case of GamerGate tracking down a harasser, and Sarkeesian refusing to report him. Here is a timeline of the many grievances #GamerGate supporters have against gaming journalists. Here is the transparent, open place we track our emails to advertisers on corrupt sites. Here is a blog about the corruption. Here is a discussion of one of the scum at Gawker. Here is my earlier Slashdot comment on media bias surrounding GamerGate.
Despite the many, many articles putting the word GamerGate next to the words "misogyny", "wu", harassment" and the like there is no evidence -- No Evidence -- actually associating GamerGate with any of those things, save a very tenuous link related to how the hashtag was coined and some third party trolls who it turns out harass GamerGate supporters more than GamerGate opposers.
It's like Ford trying to make it illegal to build a trailer that can fit Ford trucks' trailer hitches or a transmission that can inter-operate with Ford cars. It's scummy and it damn well should be illegal.
When by "source" one refers to any number of articles that have published the word "GamerGate" beside the word "harassment"... citing instances of harassment that never even pretended to come from GamerGate... and when these sources completely omit mountains of evidence of corruption and collaboration in media whilst never provide a whit of actual evidence.... One would be wise to question them.
Here is a timeline of GamerGate. It includes most, but not all, of the grievances the diverse GamerGate community has. Here is a discussion of an email list wherein journalists colluded to spread a particular narrative. Some say it's "a few out of context emails". Those people are misinformed. Here is a discussion of the journalist who was fired for being too noisy. Here is a discussion of hidden conflict of interest. Here is another. Here is an upload from an indy developer discussing press collusion. Here is evidence of inappropriate promotion of Quinn's game.
I have more. GOD do I have more. You may have noticed conspicuously lacking from my post the following words: sjw, feminist, woman, female. That's because contrary to every major media piece ever written on GamerGate, it has not one fucking thing to do with feminism. Or harassment. or threats.
So ask yourself why someone interested in writing an article about GamerGate would completely ignore all of this and focus on the 1% of tweets about Wu, or on threats that never pretended to support GamerGate. Or on a very few very marginally related trolls. Hell, ask yourself why they would report only on threats against one side.
For my two cents people supporting GamerGate have a damn good reason to mistrust the media. So does anyone not supporting GamerGate.
I'm delighted to learn that a company has taken PC's from the era of the box shape. It's akin to the invention of the metal guitar. Alienware is WAY too expensive for the speeds they offer but this is real innovation and they deserve many kudos.
As far as I know they don't work well enough: They can't yet properly handle missing lane markers, snow, puddles in the road, temporary road signs, or hand signals.
It's stupid and counterproductive to blame the victims of a crime. That said, it's very useful to turn this into a fable to teach people how to prevent future occurrences. And the simplest way to explain it is to say something like, "They should have secured their data"
To dismiss that statement outright with the phrase "victim blaming" is to throw away the ability to learn from their experiences. If what you hear is "no crime occurred" you're reading into it something that was not said.
Most piracy does not represent lost sales, but sales that never would have happened. In fact I would bet that piracy tends to make money for less well-known producers of content.
It seems like a simple search through pictures of every item stocked and the way to grab it is sufficient to accomplish this, and that's well within the capabilities of existing industrial robots. Put Baxter on a line navigating robot and you're there. What am I missing?
The US government constantly abuses the law by ignoring it until a test case comes up and a judge says a particular method is illegal. The real harm is the creeping loss of rights as abuses become normalized by the time they make it to trial leading to more lenient judgements over time as judges try to match interpretation to "society's standards".
I urge you to write your congress-critter today and tell him or her that the constitution is too important to ignore in the name of safety and that "hard on crime" is an insult to your intelligence.
I just finished drafting the following email. Perhaps it will serve as a helpful template for those of you who want to send a message to your own representatives.
Honorable Mr. ,
Dear sir,
I recently read that speaking through the Attorney General the Obama administration is asking for new back doors in American electronics. The justification given is, in short, the protection of children.
Further impingement against my own and my childrens' privacy is not only distasteful, it's criminal. The forth amendment may allow "reasonable" searches but the definition of "reasonable" has already been stretched to the breaking point. My primary hope for my children is not their safety, but their freedom.
As your constituent it is my deep desire to see that you uphold the constitution: Every letter and every jot. Please reject any bill that further infringes upon the 4th, or any, amendment to the constitution. In particular in this case, please stand against further attempts to spy on Americans' electronic communications.
sincerely and with all faith,
These people can't afford the way they are living. They need to rejigger their lives.
The destitute don't have that choice between steak and ramen noodles. They can't save money by halting the data side of their cell phone plan. They can't cancel a subscription, put off a purchase, or call in a debt. In that situation "lower your expenses" would involve becoming homeless, not eating, or selling their only means of income.
The only reason politicians pretend to listen to arguments like Microsoft is making is the money passing under the table. The only reason Microsoft needs to argue this point at all is to present the pretense that politicians are uninformed, as opposed to corrupt.
You forgot to include the economic boost from the people now able to return to work faster/not dying/getting preventative care so they never get sick. Also the lowered cost of care for people who now can get treated before it becomes an emergency. Most of the cost of Obamacare is recognizing costs that were, until now, hidden.
Fingerpointing is more important than solutions. This is a common and deep-rooted problem in politics, one that crosses party lines without pause. We have to stop this incompetence... What's the best way to accomplish this? I know! Let's start bickering about whether the Democrats or Republicans are at fault!
If the only way to make your video more compelling is to jiggle it like a twelve year old with his first Penthouse maybe you should be using different subject matter. Not only has the video of 10,000 cuts been done a million times it wasn't that interesting in the first place.
As for the robot I couldn't judge. Maybe a video of it lasting more than two seconds would help.
>If everyone ran a linux desktop, they'd be forced to learn how computing works
And that is why we won't have the year of Linux on the desktop for a very long time, if ever. People don't want to spend their time learning new computing skills, especially esoteric ones. They want to do their work and play their games.
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I personally won't care a whit about this one but more detailed ratings can only be a good thing. I envision an ecosystem of metadata ranging from "suitability for playing in a car on a laptop" to "power usage profile" It's not like the world is short on disk space.
You ignored the bulk of his comment for that cheap bon mot. He thinks cocoa beans (the stuff he buys) should be more expensive, and points out that the best way to make this happen is to buy expensive chocolate.
Of course the market will fix this problem in time whether or not you buy expensive chocolate, but the free market's solution may involve a higher price for chocolate then may otherwise be required.
GamerGate is not about harassment or women. Here is a statistical analysis of #GamerGate tweets. Here is a case of GamerGate tracking down a harasser, and Sarkeesian refusing to report him. Here is a timeline of the many grievances #GamerGate supporters have against gaming journalists. Here is the transparent, open place we track our emails to advertisers on corrupt sites. Here is a blog about the corruption. Here is a discussion of one of the scum at Gawker. Here is my earlier Slashdot comment on media bias surrounding GamerGate.
Despite the many, many articles putting the word GamerGate next to the words "misogyny", "wu", harassment" and the like there is no evidence -- No Evidence -- actually associating GamerGate with any of those things, save a very tenuous link related to how the hashtag was coined and some third party trolls who it turns out harass GamerGate supporters more than GamerGate opposers.
It's like Ford trying to make it illegal to build a trailer that can fit Ford trucks' trailer hitches or a transmission that can inter-operate with Ford cars. It's scummy and it damn well should be illegal.
GamerGate is very serious, very real, and includes many thousands of individuals. What it isn't is anything related to harassment.
/r/kotakuinaction to take a look.
We're fed up with corrupt gaming media and we're doing something about it. I would encourage you to peek into
When by "source" one refers to any number of articles that have published the word "GamerGate" beside the word "harassment"... citing instances of harassment that never even pretended to come from GamerGate... and when these sources completely omit mountains of evidence of corruption and collaboration in media whilst never provide a whit of actual evidence.... One would be wise to question them.
Here is a timeline of GamerGate. It includes most, but not all, of the grievances the diverse GamerGate community has.
Here is a discussion of an email list wherein journalists colluded to spread a particular narrative. Some say it's "a few out of context emails". Those people are misinformed.
Here is a discussion of the journalist who was fired for being too noisy.
Here is a discussion of hidden conflict of interest. Here is another.
Here is an upload from an indy developer discussing press collusion.
Here is evidence of inappropriate promotion of Quinn's game.
I have more. GOD do I have more. You may have noticed conspicuously lacking from my post the following words: sjw, feminist, woman, female. That's because contrary to every major media piece ever written on GamerGate, it has not one fucking thing to do with feminism. Or harassment. or threats.
So ask yourself why someone interested in writing an article about GamerGate would completely ignore all of this and focus on the 1% of tweets about Wu, or on threats that never pretended to support GamerGate. Or on a very few very marginally related trolls. Hell, ask yourself why they would report only on threats against one side.
For my two cents people supporting GamerGate have a damn good reason to mistrust the media. So does anyone not supporting GamerGate.
Where does the math meet real-world engineering?
I'm delighted to learn that a company has taken PC's from the era of the box shape. It's akin to the invention of the metal guitar. Alienware is WAY too expensive for the speeds they offer but this is real innovation and they deserve many kudos.
As far as I know they don't work well enough: They can't yet properly handle missing lane markers, snow, puddles in the road, temporary road signs, or hand signals.
It's stupid and counterproductive to blame the victims of a crime. That said, it's very useful to turn this into a fable to teach people how to prevent future occurrences. And the simplest way to explain it is to say something like, "They should have secured their data"
To dismiss that statement outright with the phrase "victim blaming" is to throw away the ability to learn from their experiences. If what you hear is "no crime occurred" you're reading into it something that was not said.
Most piracy does not represent lost sales, but sales that never would have happened. In fact I would bet that piracy tends to make money for less well-known producers of content.
It seems like a simple search through pictures of every item stocked and the way to grab it is sufficient to accomplish this, and that's well within the capabilities of existing industrial robots. Put Baxter on a line navigating robot and you're there. What am I missing?
The US government constantly abuses the law by ignoring it until a test case comes up and a judge says a particular method is illegal. The real harm is the creeping loss of rights as abuses become normalized by the time they make it to trial leading to more lenient judgements over time as judges try to match interpretation to "society's standards".
I urge you to write your congress-critter today and tell him or her that the constitution is too important to ignore in the name of safety and that "hard on crime" is an insult to your intelligence.
Soap and ballot are still marginally viable. Let's not rush things. Words cannot express how undesirable the last box is.
I just finished drafting the following email. Perhaps it will serve as a helpful template for those of you who want to send a message to your own representatives. Honorable Mr. , Dear sir, I recently read that speaking through the Attorney General the Obama administration is asking for new back doors in American electronics. The justification given is, in short, the protection of children. Further impingement against my own and my childrens' privacy is not only distasteful, it's criminal. The forth amendment may allow "reasonable" searches but the definition of "reasonable" has already been stretched to the breaking point. My primary hope for my children is not their safety, but their freedom. As your constituent it is my deep desire to see that you uphold the constitution: Every letter and every jot. Please reject any bill that further infringes upon the 4th, or any, amendment to the constitution. In particular in this case, please stand against further attempts to spy on Americans' electronic communications. sincerely and with all faith,
These people can't afford the way they are living. They need to rejigger their lives. The destitute don't have that choice between steak and ramen noodles. They can't save money by halting the data side of their cell phone plan. They can't cancel a subscription, put off a purchase, or call in a debt. In that situation "lower your expenses" would involve becoming homeless, not eating, or selling their only means of income.
A very important and related topic is described in Three Felonies a Day
The only reason politicians pretend to listen to arguments like Microsoft is making is the money passing under the table. The only reason Microsoft needs to argue this point at all is to present the pretense that politicians are uninformed, as opposed to corrupt.
To be fair what would you expect Yelp to do if they were offering a discount for five star reviews?
You forgot to include the economic boost from the people now able to return to work faster/not dying/getting preventative care so they never get sick. Also the lowered cost of care for people who now can get treated before it becomes an emergency. Most of the cost of Obamacare is recognizing costs that were, until now, hidden.
So what you're saying is they should delay care until it becomes an emergency? Or are you saying if they don't get treated the problem will go away?
What you really want to say is that they don't deserve to be treated and should rot in the streets. Go on, let it out.
Fingerpointing is more important than solutions. This is a common and deep-rooted problem in politics, one that crosses party lines without pause. We have to stop this incompetence... What's the best way to accomplish this? I know! Let's start bickering about whether the Democrats or Republicans are at fault!
If the only way to make your video more compelling is to jiggle it like a twelve year old with his first Penthouse maybe you should be using different subject matter. Not only has the video of 10,000 cuts been done a million times it wasn't that interesting in the first place.
As for the robot I couldn't judge. Maybe a video of it lasting more than two seconds would help.
>If everyone ran a linux desktop, they'd be forced to learn how computing works And that is why we won't have the year of Linux on the desktop for a very long time, if ever. People don't want to spend their time learning new computing skills, especially esoteric ones. They want to do their work and play their games.
I want you to give me all your money. You want to give me nothing. Let's compromise. Give me what's in your wallet, then we'll both be happy.