As a white guy I'll take a crack at this (and likely be downvoted, but hey...):
I need you westerners to explain something about this feminism fart of yours.
Why is it, and everything along with it, lead by white women?
Most of the "-isms" we love to carry on about in the U.S. stem from some notion of a group of people being underserved or underrepresented in some way. Take a look at the racism/feminism allegations being thrown around in Silicon Valley.
White women are unarguably the most privileged class on this planet.
- Most prefer white women for dating as dating app surveys showcase.
- Most judicial systems are biased towards white women like no other race or gender on this planet.
- They are much more likely to get away with anything and everything than any other class.
Yes, the media-popularized form of beauty is largely "white woman", or with features similar to a white woman. There have been studies that show beautiful people are typically seen as more trustworthy, which may account for getting away with stuff.
I would have to see evidence of judicial systems biasing toward white women. I do know that in custody disputes, the law is typically on the Mother's side... But that's a gender focus, not a race focus.
- They have the biggest proportion of material wealth given to them for free/without work/without expended effort on this planet unlike any other class. Through history, most luxury resources, animal hides, bling, leathers, every-fucking-thing exploited from colonization, ended up in the rooms and on the bodies of white women.
Again, would need to see evidence of this. For every Paris Hilton there's thousands of "Women of Wal-Mart". The same is true for every Nicki Minaj.
- Is there a discussion being had among a diverse group of people? White women always get the lead.
Not always. Susana Martinez is Governor of New Mexico. Woman? Yes. White? No. Michelle Obama has started a great deal of public discussions about assorted issues. Another example of an extremely influential woman is Oprah Winfrey. One of the most prominent physicists today is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Musicians? Race and gender are all over the map, just depends on the style of music. Athletes? again, all over the map, but it depends on the sport.
- White women were never prosecuted for their gender alone, or their skin alone. They were never forced to wear veils, they were never forced to mutilate their clits, they were never hanged and burned for being women like homosexuals and blacks were for their sexuality and skin color respectively. The closest thing they ever got was witch burning, though that has nothing to do with gender but more individual questionable practices.
Now you are conflating foreign (from the U.S.) religious beliefs and cultural behaviors. Islamic women cover due to their faith, in certain parts of the world that faith is also the government (to a degree), so they will be punished for improper attire.
In some cultures women are mutilated as part of a right of passage. To say nothing about circumcision, some other modern cultures that will circumcise or mutilate a boy as part of his right of passage into manhood. When was the last time you heard of this happening in any first-world country?
White women did get prosecuted, for centuries. Just like women in every other patriarchal society. Women were bought and sold for their hand in marriage. Women did not have a voice in government. Women were used as a sort of parlay between kingdoms to promote peace and an alliance. Hell, women are considered unclean for 7 days a month according to the Bible.
What the fuck is the point of this social justice shit if justice is being defined by the most unjust privileged class in the world - white women?
Wait, so you're telling me that all the backlash towar
Or they can do what places like iPic do and upgrade the experience. It's nice to have a more comfortable chair, and better food. It's almost like going to Chile's or Applebees, with a recliner, beer, and movie.
I rarely go to theaters anymore unless it's with the Mrs to see a new Marvel or Star Wars movie. Neither of us like the gum-riddled floors and vomit-infused seats, so we pay a little extra to be in a better environment. I'd wager the theaters operating cost is not significantly higher since you aren't attracting the same clientele and won't get the same wear in the theater furniture (not that I've seen those replaced regularly...).
With thin enough phones, having them in your pocket *could* bend them. I know lots of people that keep their phones in their back pockets then sit down on them. With tight enough pants, even having the phone in your front pocket could bend it. It wouldn't even really take much to bend the exterior, after all they are typically aluminum and thinner than your average spoon.
I'm more amused by the bigfoot hunter TV shows talking like they know WTF this animal that's never been directly observed does. "'Squaches are known for their large nests consisting of..." and "A 'Squaches mating call sounds like..."
I knew a guy that removed his license plate from his sport bike and dropped trow before blazing by a speeding camera at 110 mph. Somehow I don't think that's quite what you mean.
Let me translate that: "Free" meaning "Give Facebook all your personal information and let us monitor everything you do."
... in exchange for a severely crippled internet experience where you can only browse a predetermined list of sites. "Welcome to the United States of the DPRK."
I don't think this can really be called theft, since those selling their phones and tablets did receive money in exchange. This is more of a bait-n-switch scheme done by a business. Businesses don't end up in prison, people do... and as others have said, businesses exist to shield people.
Like the bumper sticker says: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
I know! you'd think with all the ads they would be throwing in my face with my phone browsing they'd have a way to subsidize the cost a little bit.
I'm also a little skeptical about this "google assistant". It sounds one step removed from Clippy "It looks like you're trying to buy IED supplies, would you like me to find some local wholesalers and notify local authorities?"
Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
That means you don't use your iPhone a lot. If you use it heavily it will last 1 day max. I routinely wind mine down to near empty because I'm using it constantly. It's a rare day I don't dip below 50% charge at some point and I typically get to 20-30% with at least one mid-day recharge. I actually keep a charge cable in my car while driving. And in case you were wondering my battery works fine - I just use the phone a LOT.
You might think that, but I use my phone as an iPod most days. I've got it loaded up with assorted music and podcasts that I listen to throughout the 8-9 hour workday. If i'm not getting a lot of texts and don't bother with Waze, then I'll get by using only 15% of the battery over the day. Typically I'll be closer to 50% use during the day by browsing the web, checking email, answering texts... Even lower if I use Waze or Pandora.
This is one of my pet peeves with phones and one of the deciding factors about which one I go with. I'd gladly pay the same price or slightly more for a slightly thicker/tougher, longer lasting phone. None of this "bendgate" B.S., none of this race to paper-thin. If it fits in my pocket, can stand a couple drops from 3-4 feet and will put up with the occasional abuse from a kid, that's perfectly fine by me. As it is now, I have to get Otter cases for my phones for fear of them snapping or shattering.
The old nokia-style dumb bricks lasted forever. Sure, I couldn't browse the web but at the time I didn't care to. The early smart phones (android 1-2) were getting there, I had one that would last 3-4 days between charges. Then I had a Galaxy S3 (if I remember right) that barely lasted a day on a single charge. Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
It makes sense from a greed standpoint. Would you rather:
A) Bundle 10 channels and be guaranteed $10 per subscriber? or...
B) Go a la carte, find out that people don't give a shit about 8 channels and make $3 per subscriber?
You would think the realization that the market for some of those nonsense channels, like the dozen televangelist channels with the Pillsbury Dough-Nun that botched the story of creation, would be exceedingly small and not profitable. The production companies could then cut costs and focus on one or two exceptional channels. Taken to the extreme, that means 1 or 2 channels per company, or 2 dozen channels? give or take some one-offs like the WWE channel.
From my own experience:
Fedex - From Colorado to New Mexico via Chicago, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Dallas, and Cincinnati. My '5-day Ground' took near 3 weeks.
USPS - New Mexico to Texas in 3-4 days... but they put the key in the wrong post box so you gotta bug your neighbors to get your packages.
DHL - 3 weeks. Easy.
Amazon - I pay for Prime and select 2-Day. For some stupid reason that becomes 5-6 day, no rationale given, no way to question it directly, no way to "update shipping" and have it be correct. This happened for my daughter's birthday present of all things. Sure, I could have ordered sooner, but why exactly am I paying for Prime if I'm not able to get 2-day shipping?
UPS - Typically on-time, sometimes early. Rarely are boxes damaged. Maybe 1/50 chance of losing a box entirely.
None are perfect, some are more inept than others.
I'm sure there's gonna be flames in all directions for that comment... The guy can be fanatical, but he does have some good points about giving up our freedoms.
As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."
Now I don't feel so bad about my 4,672-step IKEA bookshelf.
So, wondering when the masses stopped caring at all about how the music sounded?
Somewhere around the time of the Loudness War when many recording artists stopped caring about dynamic range in their music and instead decided they liked the way that amplitude clipping sounded (~1994). As someone who has worked in pro audio stores, I appreciate high-quality systems and speakers. I listen to music encoded at least to 196k through Sennheiser headphones at work. Most of my friends are content with the label "Bose" or "Harmon Kardon". As long as the bass shakes them up a bit, they're happy. If it's any consolation, the tide seems to be returning to using more dynamic range in music... though maybe not for "pop music".
6 million Surface tablets, ~20 million XBox Ones, ~20 million Windows Phones (I thought that would be more like 20 total). That means a majority is desktop/laptop sales and "free upgrades".
The strange part is the 200 million in 6 months. I'm not entirely sure how that was done, nor do i have the time to really dig into it. Maybe ATM's and POS registers have been upgraded?
When your doctor treats you for an in-growling toe nail, do you berate him for not concentrating his resources on cancer patients who are in even greater need?
Here is something they can do something effective about immediately.
In-growling toe nail? I don't think that's something my primary care doc has handled before. I might need to see that podiatrist in the Congo. You know the one, with the shrunken head necklace, nose-bone, and jaguar hood?
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I need you westerners to explain something about this feminism fart of yours.
Why is it, and everything along with it, lead by white women?
Most of the "-isms" we love to carry on about in the U.S. stem from some notion of a group of people being underserved or underrepresented in some way. Take a look at the racism/feminism allegations being thrown around in Silicon Valley.
White women are unarguably the most privileged class on this planet. - Most prefer white women for dating as dating app surveys showcase. - Most judicial systems are biased towards white women like no other race or gender on this planet. - They are much more likely to get away with anything and everything than any other class.
Yes, the media-popularized form of beauty is largely "white woman", or with features similar to a white woman. There have been studies that show beautiful people are typically seen as more trustworthy, which may account for getting away with stuff.
I would have to see evidence of judicial systems biasing toward white women. I do know that in custody disputes, the law is typically on the Mother's side... But that's a gender focus, not a race focus.
- They have the biggest proportion of material wealth given to them for free/without work/without expended effort on this planet unlike any other class. Through history, most luxury resources, animal hides, bling, leathers, every-fucking-thing exploited from colonization, ended up in the rooms and on the bodies of white women.
Again, would need to see evidence of this. For every Paris Hilton there's thousands of "Women of Wal-Mart". The same is true for every Nicki Minaj.
- Is there a discussion being had among a diverse group of people? White women always get the lead.
Not always. Susana Martinez is Governor of New Mexico. Woman? Yes. White? No. Michelle Obama has started a great deal of public discussions about assorted issues. Another example of an extremely influential woman is Oprah Winfrey. One of the most prominent physicists today is Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Musicians? Race and gender are all over the map, just depends on the style of music. Athletes? again, all over the map, but it depends on the sport.
- White women were never prosecuted for their gender alone, or their skin alone. They were never forced to wear veils, they were never forced to mutilate their clits, they were never hanged and burned for being women like homosexuals and blacks were for their sexuality and skin color respectively. The closest thing they ever got was witch burning, though that has nothing to do with gender but more individual questionable practices.
Now you are conflating foreign (from the U.S.) religious beliefs and cultural behaviors. Islamic women cover due to their faith, in certain parts of the world that faith is also the government (to a degree), so they will be punished for improper attire.
In some cultures women are mutilated as part of a right of passage. To say nothing about circumcision, some other modern cultures that will circumcise or mutilate a boy as part of his right of passage into manhood. When was the last time you heard of this happening in any first-world country?
White women did get prosecuted, for centuries. Just like women in every other patriarchal society. Women were bought and sold for their hand in marriage. Women did not have a voice in government. Women were used as a sort of parlay between kingdoms to promote peace and an alliance. Hell, women are considered unclean for 7 days a month according to the Bible.
What the fuck is the point of this social justice shit if justice is being defined by the most unjust privileged class in the world - white women?
Wait, so you're telling me that all the backlash towar
Or they can do what places like iPic do and upgrade the experience. It's nice to have a more comfortable chair, and better food. It's almost like going to Chile's or Applebees, with a recliner, beer, and movie.
I rarely go to theaters anymore unless it's with the Mrs to see a new Marvel or Star Wars movie. Neither of us like the gum-riddled floors and vomit-infused seats, so we pay a little extra to be in a better environment. I'd wager the theaters operating cost is not significantly higher since you aren't attracting the same clientele and won't get the same wear in the theater furniture (not that I've seen those replaced regularly...).
With thin enough phones, having them in your pocket *could* bend them. I know lots of people that keep their phones in their back pockets then sit down on them. With tight enough pants, even having the phone in your front pocket could bend it. It wouldn't even really take much to bend the exterior, after all they are typically aluminum and thinner than your average spoon.
I'm more amused by the bigfoot hunter TV shows talking like they know WTF this animal that's never been directly observed does. "'Squaches are known for their large nests consisting of ..." and "A 'Squaches mating call sounds like..."
Yea, lets just spread the ignorance nationwide.
I knew a guy that removed his license plate from his sport bike and dropped trow before blazing by a speeding camera at 110 mph. Somehow I don't think that's quite what you mean.
Let me translate that: "Free" meaning "Give Facebook all your personal information and let us monitor everything you do."
I don't think this can really be called theft, since those selling their phones and tablets did receive money in exchange. This is more of a bait-n-switch scheme done by a business. Businesses don't end up in prison, people do... and as others have said, businesses exist to shield people.
Like the bumper sticker says: "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one."
"I just wanted to feel the power between my legs" - Guy that rode the Boeing rocket to Mars.
Then they'd interbreed and create a race of Darth's who come pestering us with bigass weapons.
I was picturing thunderdome with neckties and shredded suits.
In part it's an ignorant and entitled public who think they can act like little shits and endanger others because of feelings.
I'm not entitled... it's just that my feelings are more important than yours. ;-)
I know! you'd think with all the ads they would be throwing in my face with my phone browsing they'd have a way to subsidize the cost a little bit.
I'm also a little skeptical about this "google assistant". It sounds one step removed from Clippy "It looks like you're trying to buy IED supplies, would you like me to find some local wholesalers and notify local authorities?"
... And really no different than iOS, which forces all browsers to be cheap skins on top of Safari. So much for diversity.
Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
That means you don't use your iPhone a lot. If you use it heavily it will last 1 day max. I routinely wind mine down to near empty because I'm using it constantly. It's a rare day I don't dip below 50% charge at some point and I typically get to 20-30% with at least one mid-day recharge. I actually keep a charge cable in my car while driving. And in case you were wondering my battery works fine - I just use the phone a LOT.
You might think that, but I use my phone as an iPod most days. I've got it loaded up with assorted music and podcasts that I listen to throughout the 8-9 hour workday. If i'm not getting a lot of texts and don't bother with Waze, then I'll get by using only 15% of the battery over the day. Typically I'll be closer to 50% use during the day by browsing the web, checking email, answering texts... Even lower if I use Waze or Pandora.
This is one of my pet peeves with phones and one of the deciding factors about which one I go with. I'd gladly pay the same price or slightly more for a slightly thicker/tougher, longer lasting phone. None of this "bendgate" B.S., none of this race to paper-thin. If it fits in my pocket, can stand a couple drops from 3-4 feet and will put up with the occasional abuse from a kid, that's perfectly fine by me. As it is now, I have to get Otter cases for my phones for fear of them snapping or shattering.
The old nokia-style dumb bricks lasted forever. Sure, I couldn't browse the web but at the time I didn't care to. The early smart phones (android 1-2) were getting there, I had one that would last 3-4 days between charges. Then I had a Galaxy S3 (if I remember right) that barely lasted a day on a single charge. Now with the iPhone 6, I'm able to go a couple days between charges... Less if I'm looking at the thing a lot or streaming music. It's not great, but its acceptable.
It makes sense from a greed standpoint. Would you rather:
A) Bundle 10 channels and be guaranteed $10 per subscriber? or...
B) Go a la carte, find out that people don't give a shit about 8 channels and make $3 per subscriber?
You would think the realization that the market for some of those nonsense channels, like the dozen televangelist channels with the Pillsbury Dough-Nun that botched the story of creation, would be exceedingly small and not profitable. The production companies could then cut costs and focus on one or two exceptional channels. Taken to the extreme, that means 1 or 2 channels per company, or 2 dozen channels? give or take some one-offs like the WWE channel.
The UK has a nontrivial donor shortage for a reason;
is it because of their teeth? ;-)
From my own experience:
Fedex - From Colorado to New Mexico via Chicago, Cincinnati, Phoenix, Dallas, and Cincinnati. My '5-day Ground' took near 3 weeks.
USPS - New Mexico to Texas in 3-4 days... but they put the key in the wrong post box so you gotta bug your neighbors to get your packages.
DHL - 3 weeks. Easy.
Amazon - I pay for Prime and select 2-Day. For some stupid reason that becomes 5-6 day, no rationale given, no way to question it directly, no way to "update shipping" and have it be correct. This happened for my daughter's birthday present of all things. Sure, I could have ordered sooner, but why exactly am I paying for Prime if I'm not able to get 2-day shipping?
UPS - Typically on-time, sometimes early. Rarely are boxes damaged. Maybe 1/50 chance of losing a box entirely.
None are perfect, some are more inept than others.
You mean like Amazon Music?
Wait... RMS was right?
I'm sure there's gonna be flames in all directions for that comment... The guy can be fanatical, but he does have some good points about giving up our freedoms.
As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?" Edison replied, "I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."
Now I don't feel so bad about my 4,672-step IKEA bookshelf.
So, wondering when the masses stopped caring at all about how the music sounded?
Somewhere around the time of the Loudness War when many recording artists stopped caring about dynamic range in their music and instead decided they liked the way that amplitude clipping sounded (~1994). As someone who has worked in pro audio stores, I appreciate high-quality systems and speakers. I listen to music encoded at least to 196k through Sennheiser headphones at work. Most of my friends are content with the label "Bose" or "Harmon Kardon". As long as the bass shakes them up a bit, they're happy. If it's any consolation, the tide seems to be returning to using more dynamic range in music... though maybe not for "pop music".
Who comes up with these acronyms? That guy needs to get fired.
It should be a "loser pays all" system. That would stop a lot of frivolous suits. It could also end a lot of patent trolling.
6 million Surface tablets, ~20 million XBox Ones, ~20 million Windows Phones (I thought that would be more like 20 total). That means a majority is desktop/laptop sales and "free upgrades".
The strange part is the 200 million in 6 months. I'm not entirely sure how that was done, nor do i have the time to really dig into it. Maybe ATM's and POS registers have been upgraded?
When your doctor treats you for an in-growling toe nail, do you berate him for not concentrating his resources on cancer patients who are in even greater need?
Here is something they can do something effective about immediately.
In-growling toe nail? I don't think that's something my primary care doc has handled before. I might need to see that podiatrist in the Congo. You know the one, with the shrunken head necklace, nose-bone, and jaguar hood?