If it matters, and you don't keep backups, you are an idiot. If it matters, and your only copy is on a free service like Twitter, you are an even bigger idiot, and deserve whatever misery you get, and more.
Valid case of what? Of someone relying on a free service ("If you're not paying for the service, you're not the customer, you're the product.") to act like a professional service (and you now, keep backups and shit) because they're clueless? Yeah, it's that.
If there were fewer obstacles to all pervasive surveillance, perhaps it would be more accurate.
Whatever problems exist, some hand-wringing outrage monkey with a book to sell using "GIVE ME MONEY OR YOU'LL DIE!!! AND DINGOS WILL EAT YOUR BABY!!! AND SOMEONE WILL KICK YOUR DOG!!!" isn't going to solve anything.
You're not important enough for the government to give a shit about your paranoid delusions, and burger flippers don't have enough disposable income for advertisers to care.
The only thing to be afraid of or alarmed over is the possibility of getting caught doing something illegal, unethical, or otherwise with negative consequences if people find out you're doing it.
Irritated, annoyed, miffed, yeah, sure, it's all those things. I make a point of avoiding companies to whatever degree I can, when they do things like that. But afraid? Alarmed? Hardly. Just another hand-wringing outrage monkey with a book to sell.
One of the reasons my phone is a flip phone. If I want to surf the web, I'll use a computer. If I want to surf the web while elsewhere, I'll use my laptop. In both cases, I control its ability to make sound.
You're right, it's not surprising at all that left wing web sites won't cover their own sins. Much like Antifa will violently attack anyone who tries to record video of their violent rampages.
What I was is a complete, comprehensive list of all features the browser supports, with check boxes to turn them off. I want a browser that will let me turn of text if I want. I want a browser where I can click once on "uncheck all," and render all web pages as completely blank. Then I can turn on what is actually useful.
It matters because bigotry, bias, racism, etc. can drive away contributors.
Codes of conduct are intended to drive away contributes who do not espouse the correct political values.
Open source is about encouraging contributors from the community, not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc.
And that is why open source is largely irrelevant, except where there's a single person in charge who won't put up with irrelevant bullshit. Software is about software, not politics.
. . . except white men. It is literally impossible for a white man to be a victim. If you kidnap a white man at gunpoint, torture him with barbed wire and stun guns, then light him on fire, it is his fault that you have PTSD from his screaming. He victimized you.
Sadly, there really are people who "think" that way.
Filing a lawsuit that goes to trial will cost at least $100,000 in legal fees. If there's an appeal, it can top $1,000,000.
In some states, there is a functional small claims court system that eliminates a lot of that, but generally, a company cannot be represented by a lawyer, or an employee whose job is to represent the company in small claims court. In short, someone who may or may not be able to string words together into complete sentences. And while they're at small claims court, they're not doing their actual job, which costs a lot in productivity.
So no, companies do not sue for $30. They might make a few harassing phone calls, they might ding your credit score, they might even turn it over to a collection agency (who will immediately relieve you of any responsibility to pay it by breaking the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act literally every time they contact you, usually more than once per contact), but they won't sue.
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Who do I root for? This is like having to choose whether to live next door to a child molester or a telemarketer.
If it matters, and you don't keep backups, you are an idiot. If it matters, and your only copy is on a free service like Twitter, you are an even bigger idiot, and deserve whatever misery you get, and more.
Valid case of what? Of someone relying on a free service ("If you're not paying for the service, you're not the customer, you're the product.") to act like a professional service (and you now, keep backups and shit) because they're clueless? Yeah, it's that.
I've said from the beginning that if you have something to say that can be said in 140 characters, you have nothing to say.
AI is a marketing term for vaporware. It's an important tool to sell stock options to investors.
Do you really still open your front-door for random non-appointment morons ringing the bell?
Of course you do. You don't want bullet holes in your door. It lets the rain in.
(Plus, of course, for them what can read, they're not talking about non-appointment visits.)
If there were fewer obstacles to all pervasive surveillance, perhaps it would be more accurate.
Whatever problems exist, some hand-wringing outrage monkey with a book to sell using "GIVE ME MONEY OR YOU'LL DIE!!! AND DINGOS WILL EAT YOUR BABY!!! AND SOMEONE WILL KICK YOUR DOG!!!" isn't going to solve anything.
You're not important enough for the government to give a shit about your paranoid delusions, and burger flippers don't have enough disposable income for advertisers to care.
Get over yourself.
Since I've never written a book, what would I sign? Your man boobs?
Paranoid dementia is often treatable.
The only thing to be afraid of or alarmed over is the possibility of getting caught doing something illegal, unethical, or otherwise with negative consequences if people find out you're doing it.
Irritated, annoyed, miffed, yeah, sure, it's all those things. I make a point of avoiding companies to whatever degree I can, when they do things like that. But afraid? Alarmed? Hardly. Just another hand-wringing outrage monkey with a book to sell.
If you don't, you're the fascist.
The only difference between the skin heads and Antifa is the flag they wave.
Antifa and the Alt-Right, Growing in Opposition to One Another
That's been my method since 30 seconds after the first web page made sound at me, many years ago.
One of the reasons my phone is a flip phone. If I want to surf the web, I'll use a computer. If I want to surf the web while elsewhere, I'll use my laptop. In both cases, I control its ability to make sound.
You're right, it's not surprising at all that left wing web sites won't cover their own sins. Much like Antifa will violently attack anyone who tries to record video of their violent rampages.
leaves the sound on be default? Not just in browser, but at the OS level. Too many programs make annoying, and utterly useless, sounds.
What I was is a complete, comprehensive list of all features the browser supports, with check boxes to turn them off. I want a browser that will let me turn of text if I want. I want a browser where I can click once on "uncheck all," and render all web pages as completely blank. Then I can turn on what is actually useful.
I don't care who is at fault, there is fault. If a web site doesn't work for shit, it doesn't work for shit.
A search for "CNN changes headline" produces nearly half a million results, mostly about that story. But since that's apparently beyond you:
CNN Changes Headline After Antifa Complains
CNN Changes Headline After Claiming Antifa Uses Violence
Seriously? CNN Changes Headline On Story About Antifa Because They Didn't Like Being Called Violent
UNBELIEVABLE: CNN CHANGES HEADLINE AFTER ANTIFA DEMANDS IT
CNN Changes Its Headline That Antifa Desires ‘Peace Through Violence’ After Antifa Objects
CNN Changes Headline after Antifa Complains
CNN Changes “Peace Through Violence” Headline After Antifa Objects
CNN article calls Antifa violent, but CHANGES headline when they WHINE about it
Read more: http://therightscoop.com/cnn-a...
This wasn't exactly an obscure story.
Rather like CNN's original headline in their profile of Antifa (before they changed it): "Peace through violence."
Literally Orwellian.
It matters because bigotry, bias, racism, etc. can drive away contributors.
Codes of conduct are intended to drive away contributes who do not espouse the correct political values.
Open source is about encouraging contributors from the community, not discriminating or disparaging contributors because they happen to be a different race, sex, etc.
And that is why open source is largely irrelevant, except where there's a single person in charge who won't put up with irrelevant bullshit. Software is about software, not politics.
Welcome to the world where everyone is a victim
. . . except white men. It is literally impossible for a white man to be a victim. If you kidnap a white man at gunpoint, torture him with barbed wire and stun guns, then light him on fire, it is his fault that you have PTSD from his screaming. He victimized you.
Sadly, there really are people who "think" that way.
Except those who fail the political purity test.
When you have two sets of contributors who refuse to work with one another, you cannot keep both sets. You can only choose between them.
Which you have. You don't get to pretend you're welcoming everyone after that.
When the political purity test is more important than the code, the project died a long time ago.
Filing a lawsuit that goes to trial will cost at least $100,000 in legal fees. If there's an appeal, it can top $1,000,000.
In some states, there is a functional small claims court system that eliminates a lot of that, but generally, a company cannot be represented by a lawyer, or an employee whose job is to represent the company in small claims court. In short, someone who may or may not be able to string words together into complete sentences. And while they're at small claims court, they're not doing their actual job, which costs a lot in productivity.
So no, companies do not sue for $30. They might make a few harassing phone calls, they might ding your credit score, they might even turn it over to a collection agency (who will immediately relieve you of any responsibility to pay it by breaking the Fair Debt Collections Practices Act literally every time they contact you, usually more than once per contact), but they won't sue.
You can always challenge the arbitration clause as unconscionable. Such challenged do sometimes succeed.