Keep in mind that reality show characters aren't the people who decide to produce the show, nor air it, nor are they the ones who keep the show on the air by tuning in each week by the million.
So basically, you just said that Hollywood TV execs and reality show viewers have a lower intellect than the characters on shows like "Swamp People" and "Honey Boohoo."
What about if the lock, upon installation, begins screaming "EVERYONE HAS A COPY OF THE DEFAULT KEY!!! MAKE A NEW ONE NOW!!!" But the person chooses to ignore it?
I honestly think that what they bring to the table is their cultural background, not their gender or race. If you take a team of all white males age 20 - 25, who grew up all around the world, you will get better results than a group of white males ages 20 - 25 from California.
Now see, that makes sense! Because you're talking about actual diversity and globalization, not some bigoted race-baiter's concept of it.
If the design team of Assassins Creed would have had more women in key positions, maybe they would have noticed having a female playable character is a good idea, before the game was released.
Also, a woman probably would have pointed out how ridiculous it is to pretend that palace guards can't tell the difference between a group of peasants wearing rags, and the huge guy wearing a finely crafted assassin's cloak standing behind them.
I wonder if there will be push back against the DMCA system now that it helped terrorists.
There probably would, if not for the fact that apparently the majority of American society consists of invalids with low brain functions, who only care about a single issue that doesn't even effect them.
If it doesn't have anything to do with what another person carries on or in their own bodies, I doubt more than a handful of people will complain.
Opposition to Medicaid expansion isn't always a result of "poor hating," you know.
I, for one, oppose the idea because I know that the federal government treats those programs like a crack dealer treats new customers: yea, the first taste is free, but once you're hooked and your state can't live without those federal tax dollars, suddenly you start seeing the strings come into view.
'Course, if we had real universal health care, this would be a non-issue.
Today in the world, most terrorism comes from the Muslim community.
Depends on whose definition of terrorism we're going by - if we use the US government's ever-changing definition (although they seem close to settling on "anyone who disagrees with us"), then yea, Muslims commit most of it.
However, if we are going by the actual dictionary definition, ie "using fear and threats of violence to coerce individuals into following a particular political ideology," well, nobody's a bigger terrorist than the governments themselves.
Personally, I've never seen a "Muslim terrorist." I have, however, seen US government agents threatening to take away people's freedoms, firing chemical weapons on civilians, and presenting an ominous and threatening presence in an attempt to force citizens to accept their rule.
Consider this - statistically, an American citizen is at least 10x more likely to be killed by their own government than a "Muslim terrorist." But yea, keep whining about what people half a world away choose to do within their own culture.
Yes, Muslims are horrible people who arrest individuals that disagree with them without charges, hold them indefinitely without trial, and torture them relentlessly in secret prisons, all in direct and blatant contradiction to the tenants they claim to hold dear.
Oh wait, that's MY countrymen who do those things.
Well, at least the US government would never intentionally harm it's own law-abiding citizens, right? Wrong.
Since religion is a big part of this thread, I have an excuse to bust out my 2 favorite Bible quotes:
"Judge not, lest ye yourselves be judged; for the manner in which you pass judgement on others, so shall you be judged."
"Why dost thou complain about the mote in thine brother's eye, when thou hast a plank in thine own? Hypocrite, first remove the plank from thine own eye, then thou will see clearly to remove the mote from thine brother's."
Regardless, having to suffer moronic and\or downright evil leadership, because the ignorant masses stay ignorant by choice, should get every thinking individual 'amped up.'
If youprefer to be part of them problem, a la my previous post, just say so. No need to be a smarmy little bitch about it.
Black people have exclusive skills and knowledge that whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc. don't?
Funny how the pro-diversity SJWs will make pretty much that exact claim, albeit in a roundabout sort of way, but if anyone were to point out a supporting observation (say, that black people tend to be better at running than other races), the same SJWs automatically label that person as a racist.
Hence the reason I tend to take first-worlder complaints of directed, personal oppression with a large helping of salt.
The few times I've tried alcohol over the past 10 years, I find it still tastes like medicine and don't get the appeal. "Can you taste the woodiness?" No, really it just burns and tastes like I'm trying to cure a cold.
[John]
Well, obviously the problem is that you're not drinking enough of it!
Kidding aside, I don't like beer; people always told me, 'oh just drink it enough and you'll develop a taste for it,' to which I always responded "why would I want to develop a taste for horse piss?"
The Ghost Gunner machine is designed to take so-called "80% registers" - incomplete lower registers that aren't legally considered weapons yet and therefore aren't tracked, numbered, or registered - and finish milling them to make them into functional components. Thus, it enables manufacture of the controlled component of an AR-15 without applying a serial number or doing any sort of registration of the weapon, allowing someone to create a completely unregistered rifle piece-by-piece.
Which is all perfectly legal.
Basically the guy made a machine that take the place of "me and my drill press." Not really sure what the hubbub is all about.
I wish people with this 'my side GOOD, yer side BAD' mentality would refrain from voting. Mainly because they're the dinks who keep electing the same D and R puppets, thinking that maybe this time things will be different!
Protip - if you're not voting for an independent candidate, you are part of the problem.
I mean, let's at least acknowledge the obvious alternate case: an internal lawyer raising liability concerns.
Perhaps, but the fact that he developed his reservations NOW rather than when they started doing business with Defense Distributed raises valid questions about his motives.
Although this does make me curious as to what other questionable products Stripe continues to process payments for, because the maker didn't piss off the wrong people in government.
I am of the opinion that I'm paying you for a service, not to spy on me and my clients on Uncle Sam's behalf.
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Keep in mind that reality show characters aren't the people who decide to produce the show, nor air it, nor are they the ones who keep the show on the air by tuning in each week by the million.
So basically, you just said that Hollywood TV execs and reality show viewers have a lower intellect than the characters on shows like "Swamp People" and "Honey Boohoo."
Can't say I disagree with that one.
What about if the lock, upon installation, begins screaming "EVERYONE HAS A COPY OF THE DEFAULT KEY!!! MAKE A NEW ONE NOW!!!" But the person chooses to ignore it?
The second one.
The first is a good way to die of justifiable homicide everywhere I've lived.
An internet-connected camera left on publicly known default credentials is nothing like an unlocked door.
Rather, it's like a wall-sized window on the first floor facing the busiest street of the busiest city on the planet, with the shutters wide open.
They run pawn shops, maybe the fact that firearms are only a portion of their sales has something to do with it.
I honestly think that what they bring to the table is their cultural background, not their gender or race. If you take a team of all white males age 20 - 25, who grew up all around the world, you will get better results than a group of white males ages 20 - 25 from California.
Now see, that makes sense! Because you're talking about actual diversity and globalization, not some bigoted race-baiter's concept of it.
If the design team of Assassins Creed would have had more women in key positions, maybe they would have noticed having a female playable character is a good idea, before the game was released.
Also, a woman probably would have pointed out how ridiculous it is to pretend that palace guards can't tell the difference between a group of peasants wearing rags, and the huge guy wearing a finely crafted assassin's cloak standing behind them.
I wonder if there will be push back against the DMCA system now that it helped terrorists.
There probably would, if not for the fact that apparently the majority of American society consists of invalids with low brain functions, who only care about a single issue that doesn't even effect them.
If it doesn't have anything to do with what another person carries on or in their own bodies, I doubt more than a handful of people will complain.
Youtube and other service providers have to accept it whenever they don't have proof if they want to be safe.
Well, that's a wonderful, just way to do things, isn't it?
"We can't prove you actually murdered your wife, Mr. AC, but we're going to execute you anyway just to be safe..."
Opposition to Medicaid expansion isn't always a result of "poor hating," you know.
I, for one, oppose the idea because I know that the federal government treats those programs like a crack dealer treats new customers: yea, the first taste is free, but once you're hooked and your state can't live without those federal tax dollars, suddenly you start seeing the strings come into view.
'Course, if we had real universal health care, this would be a non-issue.
Today in the world, most terrorism comes from the Muslim community.
Depends on whose definition of terrorism we're going by - if we use the US government's ever-changing definition (although they seem close to settling on "anyone who disagrees with us"), then yea, Muslims commit most of it.
However, if we are going by the actual dictionary definition, ie "using fear and threats of violence to coerce individuals into following a particular political ideology," well, nobody's a bigger terrorist than the governments themselves.
Personally, I've never seen a "Muslim terrorist." I have, however, seen US government agents threatening to take away people's freedoms, firing chemical weapons on civilians, and presenting an ominous and threatening presence in an attempt to force citizens to accept their rule.
Consider this - statistically, an American citizen is at least 10x more likely to be killed by their own government than a "Muslim terrorist." But yea, keep whining about what people half a world away choose to do within their own culture.
Yes, Muslims are horrible people who arrest individuals that disagree with them without charges, hold them indefinitely without trial, and torture them relentlessly in secret prisons, all in direct and blatant contradiction to the tenants they claim to hold dear.
Oh wait, that's MY countrymen who do those things.
Well, at least the US government would never intentionally harm it's own law-abiding citizens, right? Wrong.
Since religion is a big part of this thread, I have an excuse to bust out my 2 favorite Bible quotes:
"Judge not, lest ye yourselves be judged; for the manner in which you pass judgement on others, so shall you be judged."
"Why dost thou complain about the mote in thine brother's eye, when thou hast a plank in thine own? Hypocrite, first remove the plank from thine own eye, then thou will see clearly to remove the mote from thine brother's."
I don't drink coffee.
Regardless, having to suffer moronic and\or downright evil leadership, because the ignorant masses stay ignorant by choice, should get every thinking individual 'amped up.'
If youprefer to be part of them problem, a la my previous post, just say so. No need to be a smarmy little bitch about it.
Black people have exclusive skills and knowledge that whites, Asians, Hispanics, etc. don't?
Funny how the pro-diversity SJWs will make pretty much that exact claim, albeit in a roundabout sort of way, but if anyone were to point out a supporting observation (say, that black people tend to be better at running than other races), the same SJWs automatically label that person as a racist.
Hence the reason I tend to take first-worlder complaints of directed, personal oppression with a large helping of salt.
Pretty sure you just won the thread with that post.
The few times I've tried alcohol over the past 10 years, I find it still tastes like medicine and don't get the appeal. "Can you taste the woodiness?" No, really it just burns and tastes like I'm trying to cure a cold.
[John]
Well, obviously the problem is that you're not drinking enough of it!
Kidding aside, I don't like beer; people always told me, 'oh just drink it enough and you'll develop a taste for it,' to which I always responded "why would I want to develop a taste for horse piss?"
The Ghost Gunner machine is designed to take so-called "80% registers" - incomplete lower registers that aren't legally considered weapons yet and therefore aren't tracked, numbered, or registered - and finish milling them to make them into functional components. Thus, it enables manufacture of the controlled component of an AR-15 without applying a serial number or doing any sort of registration of the weapon, allowing someone to create a completely unregistered rifle piece-by-piece.
Which is all perfectly legal.
Basically the guy made a machine that take the place of "me and my drill press." Not really sure what the hubbub is all about.
My inlaws use Square, and they've never had a problem processing payments.
Sharing copyrighted material without permission is illegal; building your own guns is not.
Crap analogy.
Pretty sure OP is saying that intelligence and maturity aren't prerequisites of each other.
Pretty sure I disagree with that.
... especially considering that I've yet to see an Apple Pay terminal in my tiny third-largest-city-in-the-state.
Google Wallet, yes, but no Apple Pay yet.
I wish people with this 'my side GOOD, yer side BAD' mentality would refrain from voting. Mainly because they're the dinks who keep electing the same D and R puppets, thinking that maybe this time things will be different!
Protip - if you're not voting for an independent candidate, you are part of the problem.
I mean, let's at least acknowledge the obvious alternate case: an internal lawyer raising liability concerns.
Perhaps, but the fact that he developed his reservations NOW rather than when they started doing business with Defense Distributed raises valid questions about his motives.
Same thing can be observed with urban gangs too. A dozen people can terrify a neighborhood of thousands.
Especially if those dozen people have military hardware and government authority.
Although this does make me curious as to what other questionable products Stripe continues to process payments for, because the maker didn't piss off the wrong people in government.
I am of the opinion that I'm paying you for a service, not to spy on me and my clients on Uncle Sam's behalf.
Don't forget governments - Bin Laden received his initial funding and training from the CIA.
Every time a government agent points his finger, he's got 3 more pointing right back at himself.