It is not clear if the comments are on a Website itself or are merely about the Website.
If they are not on the Website, the owner of the site can disavow the comments.
If they are about the Website, the owner can just ignore the comments since they are not on the site, just as if they were on Facebook or Twitter. That is how some news sites hive off comments so that they do not have to deal with them.
If the comments are not a physical part of the Website, I do not see how they could matter, since the owner(s) of the site are not responsible for them.
That suit interfered in the politics of Indiana several years ago because he did not like how Hoosiers behaved and what they believed. Now he wants to interfere with the functioning of the walled gardens because he does not like how the human cattle within behave, even though it has been obvious for years how crap-strewn the gardens are. The behavior of the cattle has even been codified long ago.
Nothing is going to come of this because this will be a fight between that rag doll stuffed with hundred-dollar bills and an Ivy League graduate with more pull than the planet Jupiter.
Businessmen — the wealthy magnate kind — want extra time for their golf games and extra time to extract more work from their underlings. So they talked magic felafel to the politicians and, ta-da!, we're stuck moving our clocks every March and November for their benefit. (Hoosier politicians resisted the felafel until Someone Else's Man Mitch got it enacted in 2006.)
Kaspersky is still an excellent anti-virus software, and since I am nobody in the eyes of the nation-states, I will continue to use it. If it goes away, I will not switch to another anti-virus software: I will switch to DeepFreeze and revert to an original state of my computer whenever it is infected.
Cook does not say in what language, of which there are very many; or
that most of those languages use English words, meaning that you will still have to learn at least minimal English — especially if you write comments in your code; or
that his ultimate goal is to flood the market with programmers and thereby push down the average wage that they earn — which in turn will drive the truly talented to look for other careers.
This seems like Cook is looking to turn the States into a land of cheap programming labor, like those lands that corporate America enjoy today.
Blaming Google and Facebook for other people's lies is like blaming the builder of a perfectly good road for car accidents. Stop whining for censorship, O Atlantic, or it will come back to bite your ass!
Has anyone mentioned, that those corner stores provide taxes and license fees to the city governments where they are located? If this Bodega shuts them down, where will the taxes come from? If the cities try to extract them out of Bodega, it will dance so prettily in the courts to keep from paying them. Those two jerks do their target marks and their cities no favors.
I have already switched to Pale Moon for Windows. I also did the same for my Mac, even though Pale Moon is still experimental on macOS and I needed to do a long search for its latest version. (If you are interested, it is here.
It makes me wonder how Google manages to maintain itself technology-wise if it has no traditional hackers among its low-level workers? Traditional hackers tend to be libertarian, which Google may mistake for conservative. And Google tends to scare or insult such people away — it once offered programmer Zed Shaw a junior sysadmin position. Maybe Google is propelled by sheer inertia or is being propped by Wall Street to make Silicon Valley look like the place is still attractive. Who knows? It certainly can't be its technology when it is starting to look like a brightly-painted sunshine-and-fresh-air leftist version of IBM.
It does not seem obvious to anyone that colleges and universities define "critical thinking" in a way that is different from "critical thinking" defined by businessmen. Businessmen always ask for critical thinking skills in potential employees, cannot find it, and whine. Academia whines back, "But we are teaching them critical thinking, we are!."
In other words, "critical thinking" is nothing but a buzzword. The inabilities cited above are a product of that lack of knowledge for which American education is famous.
Cinema is a way for TED to preach its peach-and-civility message to the middle and upper-middle classes. However, it will not reach the mostly-white, poor and unchurched mob (read the Atlantic article for this: Breaking Faith) who fuel the angry political screaming, who ensured Trump's victory, and who neither go to theaters nor will listen to TED. In that way, TED's mission is futile.
I used to think that it was a privilege to serve people who also loved the idea of service
No, the open-source programmer does not make a program or a library or a toolkit in order to serve. They do that for pleasure or in order to prove to the world that they can. It is a distributed model (as opposed to a top-down model like Canonical's) that has worked well for decades. It has nothing to do with service. Maybe Shuttleworth should read The Cathedral and the Bazaar before equating open-source with service.
Pennsylvania sues IBM as Indiana sued it in 2009. I am still amazed how IBM can still milk the giant cow that is state government. I guess too many politicians, in Pennsylvania as in Indiana during the Mitch governorship, are so old that they can remember the days back before 1990, when IBM was the computer company.
I put Adium in the Dock of all the Macs that I tend to at work. I will not remove Adium because it supports other protocols like XMPP. I will not install a separate AIM app because in removing OSCAR, AOL is admitting that AIM is a futile exercise.
I do not care what the AP says. I will still use the words Internet and Web in caps, just as I use the term e-mail, just as use the word 'hacker' for a clever programmer and 'cracker' for losers who break into computers. Only a bourgeois loser takes journalists seriously anyway.
I should add that GenCon is so big, and the relocation of such convention take so long, that it would be more cost-effective to wait until the contract expires and make a new contract with another city (say, Seattle) ahead of time. Be patient.
I should also add that the type of businesses that were clammering for the anti-homosexual law — caterers and photographers — are not the same type as those that serve GenCon conventioneers. The law would not have an effect on conventioneers, anyway.
It will be sad to see GenCon migrate to Seattle, where it would be far more welcome than in Indianapolis. But the Indiana General Assembly's act of antagonism will cause a loss of customers and business, which should be enough cause for GenCon to claim breach of contract on the part of the Indianapolis Convention Bureau, even if it was not its fault. And the law itself will be litigated over. Lawsuits will be flying this summer in Indianapolis, not cosplayers flying to Indy.
I do not know how 'red wine' got inflated to 'any form of hooch', and 'resveratrol' to 'ethanol'. I guess it is typical human folly in which the red wine story was transmuted into an excuse to get totally wasted... with help from the 'alcohol industry'. (Since when do you need an industry to help you get drunk?)
It is the red wine, taken in moderation and with food, that is supposed to be healthful: Not Pabst nor Thunderbird nor Jack Daniels taken with the bottom of the bottle up in the air.
Using the comparison of cable television with the airline industry is foolish, as this Techdirt article reveals.
Efficiency (by which I assume they mean profitability) is irrelevant if the only customers the cable industry has left are the sports nuts. In this country, there should be enough of them to keep the industry going, I suppose.
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It is not clear if the comments are on a Website itself or are merely about the Website.
If the comments are not a physical part of the Website, I do not see how they could matter, since the owner(s) of the site are not responsible for them.
That suit interfered in the politics of Indiana several years ago because he did not like how Hoosiers behaved and what they believed. Now he wants to interfere with the functioning of the walled gardens because he does not like how the human cattle within behave, even though it has been obvious for years how crap-strewn the gardens are. The behavior of the cattle has even been codified long ago.
Nothing is going to come of this because this will be a fight between that rag doll stuffed with hundred-dollar bills and an Ivy League graduate with more pull than the planet Jupiter.
Businessmen — the wealthy magnate kind — want extra time for their golf games and extra time to extract more work from their underlings. So they talked magic felafel to the politicians and, ta-da!, we're stuck moving our clocks every March and November for their benefit. (Hoosier politicians resisted the felafel until Someone Else's Man Mitch got it enacted in 2006.)
Kaspersky is still an excellent anti-virus software, and since I am nobody in the eyes of the nation-states, I will continue to use it. If it goes away, I will not switch to another anti-virus software: I will switch to DeepFreeze and revert to an original state of my computer whenever it is infected.
This seems like Cook is looking to turn the States into a land of cheap programming labor, like those lands that corporate America enjoy today.
Blaming Google and Facebook for other people's lies is like blaming the builder of a perfectly good road for car accidents. Stop whining for censorship, O Atlantic, or it will come back to bite your ass!
Has anyone mentioned, that those corner stores provide taxes and license fees to the city governments where they are located? If this Bodega shuts them down, where will the taxes come from? If the cities try to extract them out of Bodega, it will dance so prettily in the courts to keep from paying them. Those two jerks do their target marks and their cities no favors.
I have already switched to Pale Moon for Windows. I also did the same for my Mac, even though Pale Moon is still experimental on macOS and I needed to do a long search for its latest version. (If you are interested, it is here.
It makes me wonder how Google manages to maintain itself technology-wise if it has no traditional hackers among its low-level workers? Traditional hackers tend to be libertarian, which Google may mistake for conservative. And Google tends to scare or insult such people away — it once offered programmer Zed Shaw a junior sysadmin position. Maybe Google is propelled by sheer inertia or is being propped by Wall Street to make Silicon Valley look like the place is still attractive. Who knows? It certainly can't be its technology when it is starting to look like a brightly-painted sunshine-and-fresh-air leftist version of IBM.
It does not seem obvious to anyone that colleges and universities define "critical thinking" in a way that is different from "critical thinking" defined by businessmen. Businessmen always ask for critical thinking skills in potential employees, cannot find it, and whine. Academia whines back, "But we are teaching them critical thinking, we are!." In other words, "critical thinking" is nothing but a buzzword. The inabilities cited above are a product of that lack of knowledge for which American education is famous.
FORTRAN IV. Yeah, I am that old.
Cinema is a way for TED to preach its peach-and-civility message to the middle and upper-middle classes. However, it will not reach the mostly-white, poor and unchurched mob (read the Atlantic article for this: Breaking Faith) who fuel the angry political screaming, who ensured Trump's victory, and who neither go to theaters nor will listen to TED. In that way, TED's mission is futile.
No, the open-source programmer does not make a program or a library or a toolkit in order to serve. They do that for pleasure or in order to prove to the world that they can. It is a distributed model (as opposed to a top-down model like Canonical's) that has worked well for decades. It has nothing to do with service. Maybe Shuttleworth should read The Cathedral and the Bazaar before equating open-source with service.
Pennsylvania sues IBM as Indiana sued it in 2009. I am still amazed how IBM can still milk the giant cow that is state government. I guess too many politicians, in Pennsylvania as in Indiana during the Mitch governorship, are so old that they can remember the days back before 1990, when IBM was the computer company.
I put Adium in the Dock of all the Macs that I tend to at work. I will not remove Adium because it supports other protocols like XMPP. I will not install a separate AIM app because in removing OSCAR, AOL is admitting that AIM is a futile exercise.
Why did Swift NOT have exception handling in the first couple of versions?
I do not care what the AP says. I will still use the words Internet and Web in caps, just as I use the term e-mail, just as use the word 'hacker' for a clever programmer and 'cracker' for losers who break into computers. Only a bourgeois loser takes journalists seriously anyway.
Agreed.
"went back in time 10 years"? No, for TIME, it would be "went forth in time to ten years ago", which is as close to modernity as TIME ever gets.
If they are going to do that, then why not have the United States apply to join the Commonwealth? We were part of the British Empire ... once.
That sounds like an old Twilight Zone episode. Suddenly the future does not seem so mysterious after all. Just kitschy.
I should add that GenCon is so big, and the relocation of such convention take so long, that it would be more cost-effective to wait until the contract expires and make a new contract with another city (say, Seattle) ahead of time. Be patient.
I should also add that the type of businesses that were clammering for the anti-homosexual law — caterers and photographers — are not the same type as those that serve GenCon conventioneers. The law would not have an effect on conventioneers, anyway.
It will be sad to see GenCon migrate to Seattle, where it would be far more welcome than in Indianapolis. But the Indiana General Assembly's act of antagonism will cause a loss of customers and business, which should be enough cause for GenCon to claim breach of contract on the part of the Indianapolis Convention Bureau, even if it was not its fault. And the law itself will be litigated over. Lawsuits will be flying this summer in Indianapolis, not cosplayers flying to Indy.
I do not know how 'red wine' got inflated to 'any form of hooch', and 'resveratrol' to 'ethanol'. I guess it is typical human folly in which the red wine story was transmuted into an excuse to get totally wasted ... with help from the 'alcohol industry'. (Since when do you need an industry to help you get drunk?)
It is the red wine, taken in moderation and with food, that is supposed to be healthful: Not Pabst nor Thunderbird nor Jack Daniels taken with the bottom of the bottle up in the air.
Using the comparison of cable television with the airline industry is foolish, as this Techdirt article reveals. Efficiency (by which I assume they mean profitability) is irrelevant if the only customers the cable industry has left are the sports nuts. In this country, there should be enough of them to keep the industry going, I suppose.