I suspect it's because there are people arrogant enough to think they're smarter than others. They're the kind of people who assume the Rust Belt states are a lock, and that a casual spell-check error won't happen to them too.
People who prefer the Windows ecosystem that traces its roots to DOS don't want to interact with a "store" to get things done. Paint has been part of the default install longer than "app stores" have even been a thing. It's like vi on Linux.
This is a nice reply, and the only thing I can add is something I posted on Slashdot in 2012 in which I use a light-speed analogy for wealth accumulation.
I addressed this in another post. The value of Paint isn't so much in its functionality. It's in knowing that it will be installed on any random Windows box you come across. It's a rhetorical question.
So if I want to do something simple, like resize or crop, what am I supposed to do? Yeah, there are plenty of kitchen-sink tools that can do that too; but Paint comes up as soon as you click it. It's always there. It's become part of the expected function of the OS.
Although it apparently ended in 2001, Pittsburgh may still be benefiting from land value tax. Improvements were taxed less than land, which encourages development in the city. Even with that tax regime no longer in place, the building it encouraged will be there for decades. At some point, you have a glut of buildings perhaps; but then people find that attractive and move in. People have rediscovered the value of cities, and that helps too. Yes, the geeks and artists are there; but *why* did they start coming in the first place? Having CMU as an anchor certainly helps; but Boston has great universities... and housing that's way too expensive.
If the hyperloop tech fails, that straight shot alone would have value. Amtrak has to limit speeds because the old right-of-way is full of turns. Tracks were there over 100 years ago, when nothing went that fast.
I like that you didn't tell us the answer, and to me it's obviously D. Customer.
Here's my logic. Let's say you have a business plan. Great. You've got a plan to sell sand to Bedouin. It's not going anywhere.
Now let's say all you've got is B, an innovative new product or service. This one is tempting. You'd think the world would beat a path to your door... except when it doesn't. This happens more than some of us would like to admit.
OK, C. Capital. Surely that makes a business, right? Wrong. Any number of wealthy heirs are flush with capital, but not only do they not have a business, they don't even have sensible investments and they piss it away. Sometimes they piss it away on people who have a plan to sell sand to Bedouin using an innovative new service.
OK, E. Market presence. That implies a business, right? OK... once again, tempting; but you could have a fantastic presense, and a Superbowl ad, and just be pissing money away because you don't have enough....
C. Customers. They ultimately pay the bills. You can have none of that other junk, but if you have one fat customer (like a house you're trying to flip) or a bunch of customers, as in any retail business, then the rest follows.
It's an old familiar story, really. It's the mentality that killed Digg, and almost killed Slashdot. Death by redesign, or whatever you call it. It's like celebrity deaths. They don't really come in 3s. Humans just naturally find patterns. Famous people die all the time. UIs get ruined all the time. My local news outlet just ruined their web site like this. It's a sea of white space now, with so many scripts running that it jerks when I try to scroll. Until more people walk away, they're not going to stop doing this.
Summary says it lights up and plays music when you spin it. It must download songs via Bluetooth. Some redneck just needs to glue a boom-box and a flash-light to a lazy Susan. That'll do 'er.
The obvious solution is to keep adding protected classes. Of course the end result of that will be that everybody falls into a protected class, effectively making hate speech towards anybody off-limits. That means we'd all have to be nice to each other, or stop using FaceBook. Either way works for me.
We make continuous strides in pedagogy. Newtonian physics is so much easier to learn when you make a minor edit on page 341, and use a different artist for 6 graphs scattered throughout the text. It's well worth buying a complete new set this year./sarcasm.
If there isn't a consortium of Walmart's vendors, there should be. That seems like a logical direction for our progression of absurdity. "Corporations are people". Powerful "people". Powerful enough to form a union with which Walmart would have no choice but to sign a fair contract.
OK, not sure if you're truly confused or posing it as a rhetorical question. It doesn't matter too much I suppose. First, in this context "legitimate speech" isn't a 1A topic, because we're talking about what's allowed on Slashdot, which is a private forum.
Slashdot gives us pretty wide latitude, so if you're looking for a definition it's actually easier to define what's *not* legitimate. IMHO, serial trolling that uses the N-word isn't legitimate. It isn't even a clever troll after the first 500 bazillion times. It's just a waste of moderation resources. Private web sites that prune out trolls aren't infringing on the 1A. A broader definition of what constitutes illegitimate speech on Slashdot is harder. It's certainly a very narrow category; but I believe it exists.
This must be new. There was (is?) a long running and prolific troll that makes use of the N-word in subject lines and the body of the text. It's usually quickly modded down. I tried a google search, and the N-word isn't on slashdot unless you go to "past year" or longer time frame. So. Maybe they're censoring it now, which means Slashdot isn't pure free speech. We did just fine with the old moderation system--you'd never see those trolls unless you browsed at -1. As for the "why", well... "because". Because it dethroned "fuck" as most offensive word, and is only being used by trolls here. Not a lot of people quote lines from Twain novels with that word in it here, and if they need to do that they can do what you did to get your point across so there's a big troll reduction and no harm to legitimate speech.
If the government is going to issue trademarks, they have to issue them in a content-neutral way. Otherwise, the government is placed in the position of judging content, and the cases in which they can do that without conflicting with the 1st amendment are rather narrow, such as obscenity, child porn, and community standards for the FCC. Note that "community standard" has never actually put the government in the position of defining offense. I've actually heard "fuck" on my local community radio station because it was in a work deemed to have artistic merit, and broadcast at night. I know this would not fly in every part of the country.
1A cases can involve more judgement than we'd like to admit. It's always uncomfortable for one party or another. I think the court made the right call here. Since trademarks go everywhere, there's no local community standard. You can only reject or accept them for the entire country, and if you rejected on the basis of "offense" you'd have protest groups dictating national policy, potentially shutting it all down. Those groups are still free to act at the local level--e.g., protesting outside a club where The Slants is on the marquee, and then the owner of the club can decide whether or not they want to deal with it.
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I suspect it's because there are people arrogant enough to think they're smarter than others. They're the kind of people who assume the Rust Belt states are a lock, and that a casual spell-check error won't happen to them too.
People who prefer the Windows ecosystem that traces its roots to DOS don't want to interact with a "store" to get things done. Paint has been part of the default install longer than "app stores" have even been a thing. It's like vi on Linux.
This is a nice reply, and the only thing I can add is something I posted on Slashdot in 2012 in which I use a light-speed analogy for wealth accumulation.
I addressed this in another post. The value of Paint isn't so much in its functionality. It's in knowing that it will be installed on any random Windows box you come across. It's a rhetorical question.
Yes, we can and lots of people have. What we can't duplicate is "This is installed on every Windows box I might run across".
So if I want to do something simple, like resize or crop, what am I supposed to do? Yeah, there are plenty of kitchen-sink tools that can do that too; but Paint comes up as soon as you click it. It's always there. It's become part of the expected function of the OS.
Although it apparently ended in 2001, Pittsburgh may still be benefiting from land value tax. Improvements were taxed less than land, which encourages development in the city. Even with that tax regime no longer in place, the building it encouraged will be there for decades. At some point, you have a glut of buildings perhaps; but then people find that attractive and move in. People have rediscovered the value of cities, and that helps too. Yes, the geeks and artists are there; but *why* did they start coming in the first place? Having CMU as an anchor certainly helps; but Boston has great universities... and housing that's way too expensive.
If the hyperloop tech fails, that straight shot alone would have value. Amtrak has to limit speeds because the old right-of-way is full of turns. Tracks were there over 100 years ago, when nothing went that fast.
I'll just hook my iPhone up to this power outlet at the gas stat--BOOM! MacGruber!
In post-Soviet Russia, The East has moral panics.
I heard that if you spin them backwards, they play Stairway to Heaven.
Groovy, man. Where are my bell bottoms? Oh no...I left them hanging on the line for 40 years, and somebody stole them.
I like that you didn't tell us the answer, and to me it's obviously D. Customer.
Here's my logic. Let's say you have a business plan. Great. You've got a plan to sell sand to Bedouin. It's not going anywhere.
Now let's say all you've got is B, an innovative new product or service. This one is tempting. You'd think the world would beat a path to your door... except when it doesn't. This happens more than some of us would like to admit.
OK, C. Capital. Surely that makes a business, right? Wrong. Any number of wealthy heirs are flush with capital, but not only do they not have a business, they don't even have sensible investments and they piss it away. Sometimes they piss it away on people who have a plan to sell sand to Bedouin using an innovative new service.
OK, E. Market presence. That implies a business, right? OK... once again, tempting; but you could have a fantastic presense, and a Superbowl ad, and just be pissing money away because you don't have enough....
C. Customers. They ultimately pay the bills. You can have none of that other junk, but if you have one fat customer (like a house you're trying to flip) or a bunch of customers, as in any retail business, then the rest follows.
I have a most convincing proof of his thesis. I'll post it tomorrow.
It's an old familiar story, really. It's the mentality that killed Digg, and almost killed Slashdot. Death by redesign, or whatever you call it. It's like celebrity deaths. They don't really come in 3s. Humans just naturally find patterns. Famous people die all the time. UIs get ruined all the time. My local news outlet just ruined their web site like this. It's a sea of white space now, with so many scripts running that it jerks when I try to scroll. Until more people walk away, they're not going to stop doing this.
It's much better than talking through a boot. Just ask Maxwell Smart.
Yep. We have met the naive Savages who marvel at the White Man's magic, who form cargo cults, and make human sacrifices. We have met him. He is us.
Summary says it lights up and plays music when you spin it. It must download songs via Bluetooth. Some redneck just needs to glue a boom-box and a flash-light to a lazy Susan. That'll do 'er.
The Simpsons saw this coming years ago.
The obvious solution is to keep adding protected classes. Of course the end result of that will be that everybody falls into a protected class, effectively making hate speech towards anybody off-limits. That means we'd all have to be nice to each other, or stop using FaceBook. Either way works for me.
We make continuous strides in pedagogy. Newtonian physics is so much easier to learn when you make a minor edit on page 341, and use a different artist for 6 graphs scattered throughout the text. It's well worth buying a complete new set this year. /sarcasm.
If there isn't a consortium of Walmart's vendors, there should be. That seems like a logical direction for our progression of absurdity. "Corporations are people". Powerful "people". Powerful enough to form a union with which Walmart would have no choice but to sign a fair contract.
OK, not sure if you're truly confused or posing it as a rhetorical question. It doesn't matter too much I suppose. First, in this context "legitimate speech" isn't a 1A topic, because we're talking about what's allowed on Slashdot, which is a private forum.
Slashdot gives us pretty wide latitude, so if you're looking for a definition it's actually easier to define what's *not* legitimate. IMHO, serial trolling that uses the N-word isn't legitimate. It isn't even a clever troll after the first 500 bazillion times. It's just a waste of moderation resources. Private web sites that prune out trolls aren't infringing on the 1A. A broader definition of what constitutes illegitimate speech on Slashdot is harder. It's certainly a very narrow category; but I believe it exists.
Don't worry, you can just put a red hot nickle ball on the spinner, crush it in a hydraulic press, and toss the result into a blender.
This must be new. There was (is?) a long running and prolific troll that makes use of the N-word in subject lines and the body of the text. It's usually quickly modded down. I tried a google search, and the N-word isn't on slashdot unless you go to "past year" or longer time frame. So. Maybe they're censoring it now, which means Slashdot isn't pure free speech. We did just fine with the old moderation system--you'd never see those trolls unless you browsed at -1. As for the "why", well... "because". Because it dethroned "fuck" as most offensive word, and is only being used by trolls here. Not a lot of people quote lines from Twain novels with that word in it here, and if they need to do that they can do what you did to get your point across so there's a big troll reduction and no harm to legitimate speech.
If the government is going to issue trademarks, they have to issue them in a content-neutral way. Otherwise, the government is placed in the position of judging content, and the cases in which they can do that without conflicting with the 1st amendment are rather narrow, such as obscenity, child porn, and community standards for the FCC. Note that "community standard" has never actually put the government in the position of defining offense. I've actually heard "fuck" on my local community radio station because it was in a work deemed to have artistic merit, and broadcast at night. I know this would not fly in every part of the country.
1A cases can involve more judgement than we'd like to admit. It's always uncomfortable for one party or another. I think the court made the right call here. Since trademarks go everywhere, there's no local community standard. You can only reject or accept them for the entire country, and if you rejected on the basis of "offense" you'd have protest groups dictating national policy, potentially shutting it all down. Those groups are still free to act at the local level--e.g., protesting outside a club where The Slants is on the marquee, and then the owner of the club can decide whether or not they want to deal with it.