after years of abusing ads for profit, sites are now trying to act like innocent victims just trying to keep the lights on.
I see this type of comment fairly frequently, and I understand the sentiment, but what exactly do you propose that they do instead? Just go bankrupt? Can they somehow regain your trust by running non-abusive ads? (Whatever that means. How do you know which ads aren't abusive? Do you check every site or just run your ad blocker everywhere?) What if non-abusive ads aren't enough to break even? Micropayments?
Wired produces good content, so I'd hate for them to go under. I see other comments saying that you'll just get your content elsewhere, but that's just kicking the can down the road instead of solving the problem. The same problems apply to your new news source, which is probably going to ban ad blockers sooner or later too unless a long-term solution is found.
(Moreover, what exactly does "abusing ads for profit" mean? Are you faulting them for trying to make a profit using advertising? Is the complaint not the ads per se, but the ads that track your every move? If so, that's not at all clear from your writing.)
They could start by taking ownership of what they display. Host the ads first party, do some basic checking that the ads you're serving to your customers are at least legit on the surface. If there isn't enough revenue to keep them going how about a merger or something with any of the other shitload of tech/news/light entertainment sites and combine their pools of readership. There are plenty of ways for failing business' to get back on their feet, or so I'm told anyway.
OK so when you said "If it has not reached sexual maturity do not have sex with it, or fantasize about sex with it," you were wrong? Could you be more accurate about what types of "its" that have not reached sexual maturity is OK to depict in sexually explicit drawings, and what type isn't? Why are slugs OK, but non-human aliens are not OK? Say, if there was a story about humans that were genetically engineered for deep space exploration and reached full brain development by the age of 5 along with an accelerated education regime, but otherwise physically developed like normal humans, would it be OK to depict sexual acts between those people? Or how about if someone was having sex with a sexually immature slug, but then it turned out to be a human child disguised with a cloak that made them look like a slug later on? Or what if it was actually a sexually immature slug, but was disguised with a cloak that made it look like a child?
It's real simple. The kind of it I was talking about was kids. Human kids. Don't fuck 'em, don't think about fucking 'em, don't fantasize about fucking 'em because if you do that you're a pedo plain and simple. You can blur the lines all you want with drawings, similes that look like kids but aren't, slugs in disguise or whatever but if you are attracted to the idea of sex with children then you are a pedo and you need help. If you want to pretend you're not because they're drawings and no real kids are getting hurt then you're a pedo in denial.
You did. I wouldn't buy it because "it still doesn't take any of [my] shit". There is literally nothing you can say to a machine (assuming there are no people around) that's the slightest bit inappropriate, and I don't appreciate being subjected to amateur social engineering from the vendor of a product I paid for.
Why do you want to give it shit? It can't take it anyway, all it can do is recognise little bits of your shit and give a pre canned response. Do you just pull your phone out and go "hey siri, fuck off"
Similar to the arguments concerning video game violence, the matter is not settled and so merits both discussion and research.
That issue is about as settled as is films make you a violent, books make you a killer and rock 'n' roll makes you evil. Your first paragraph is even more bullshit.
They could put something a bit nippier than the mars rover in. What about tooling around mars in the batmobile or mad max's car? What about an F-14? That would be sweet!.
It's Europe. You didn't elect half your politicians to begin with, so why do you think you're going to be able to unelect them. How many Italian administrations consisted of unelected technocrats? What happens when the people actually express an opinion, like when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty (hint: they made the people vote again until they made the "right" choice) or when Greece decided against austerity (hint: that was just plain ignored)? The EU is even worse of a sham democracy than the US, and that's a pretty high bar to set for hypocrisy.
Bring on the fucking referendum I say. That is if Scameron doesn't change his mind because it looks like it might not go his way.
Obligatory car analogy: I buy a Ford F150 flatbed. Who are Ford to say I can't install an aftermarket roof over the deck of MY VEHICLE THAT I PAID FOR rather than pay over the odds for the stock one?
I guess they'd be as free to say it as MS are for their product leaving you just as free to ignore it as you are with MS.
Now you're just being pedantic. Fixing things is one thing, changing them is another. It's probably just as against the tos to fix it yourself as it is to modify an install. And anyway, just because something is technically illegal doesn't make it wrong. If you're able to go through the software, let's say win 10 in this case, and modify it so that you can install without the bits you don't want then more power to you. MS probably wouldn't like it but what are they going to do? All I was saying is buying some software doesn't make it yours, you are just buying the right to use the software as they sell it to you. Anything after that you're on your own.
when I buy a copy of said software, that copy is MINE to do with as I please. Not theirs, not the retailers, MINE.
It's really not though is it. It's yours to run as you bought it. Regardless of if you like each individual function or not. You're free to select whatever options they give you, and if you don' like that you're free to fuck off and buy some software that fits your needs more closely.
1)Mac/OSX and deal with everything that comes with that
2)PC/windows and deal with everything that comes with that
3)PC/some kind of linux or ubuntu and deal with everything that comes with that
4) Build your own hardware/program your own OS and deal with everything that comes with that
I don't know where it says they all have to have equal functionality before you can complain about one or the other. Granted there's not many choices and none are perfect but still, they're the choices you have.
What software do you think is missing from the other options? As far as I know you as far as win/mac goes there isn't really something one can do that the other can't.
There are 2 laptops in my house. Mine and the wife's. Mine I intentionally upgraded to win 10 a while back. I have no issues other than the start menu having massive lag sometimes (but that's a discussion for a different day) and it's all so well and so good. My wife's, which I never touch other than when I initially got it set up is still happily running on win 8.1. I haven't a clue what settings it's on and I know for a fact she doesn't. Yeah it pops up saying hey get windows 10 but that's it. If she can keep her computer as is then I don't know how you're all having such problems. The settings on her's would probably make it one of the first to go if it was going to. Maybe that time she rested it on the cooker and melted a big hole in the bottom helped?
The idea that Apple is mostly marketing comes from people that don't understand why most people consider Apple the best available tech products. Either the one they buy, or the one they aspire to buying. Because they don't understand it they assume it must be mostly marketing rather than technology. But it's neither, it's design.
No, that's marketing. Without the marketing, people will see the nice looking device in shops, notice it's practically twice the price of equivalent models and move on. Sure enough they would still get sold but nothing like the numbers they do. You'll notice a lot of iphone users aren't exactly the premium customer.
And as for peer pressure, you haven't seen anything until you work for a PC centric group that tries to force you onto Windows only solutions.
Until you go to work at a place that is 'mac' and they force you to use that above all else. The amount of times I've heard people say macs are better at... but no one can ever give a reason why.
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after years of abusing ads for profit, sites are now trying to act like innocent victims just trying to keep the lights on.
I see this type of comment fairly frequently, and I understand the sentiment, but what exactly do you propose that they do instead? Just go bankrupt? Can they somehow regain your trust by running non-abusive ads? (Whatever that means. How do you know which ads aren't abusive? Do you check every site or just run your ad blocker everywhere?) What if non-abusive ads aren't enough to break even? Micropayments?
Wired produces good content, so I'd hate for them to go under. I see other comments saying that you'll just get your content elsewhere, but that's just kicking the can down the road instead of solving the problem. The same problems apply to your new news source, which is probably going to ban ad blockers sooner or later too unless a long-term solution is found.
(Moreover, what exactly does "abusing ads for profit" mean? Are you faulting them for trying to make a profit using advertising? Is the complaint not the ads per se, but the ads that track your every move? If so, that's not at all clear from your writing.)
They could start by taking ownership of what they display. Host the ads first party, do some basic checking that the ads you're serving to your customers are at least legit on the surface. If there isn't enough revenue to keep them going how about a merger or something with any of the other shitload of tech/news/light entertainment sites and combine their pools of readership. There are plenty of ways for failing business' to get back on their feet, or so I'm told anyway.
No.
OK so when you said "If it has not reached sexual maturity do not have sex with it, or fantasize about sex with it," you were wrong? Could you be more accurate about what types of "its" that have not reached sexual maturity is OK to depict in sexually explicit drawings, and what type isn't? Why are slugs OK, but non-human aliens are not OK? Say, if there was a story about humans that were genetically engineered for deep space exploration and reached full brain development by the age of 5 along with an accelerated education regime, but otherwise physically developed like normal humans, would it be OK to depict sexual acts between those people? Or how about if someone was having sex with a sexually immature slug, but then it turned out to be a human child disguised with a cloak that made them look like a slug later on? Or what if it was actually a sexually immature slug, but was disguised with a cloak that made it look like a child?
It's real simple. The kind of it I was talking about was kids. Human kids. Don't fuck 'em, don't think about fucking 'em, don't fantasize about fucking 'em because if you do that you're a pedo plain and simple. You can blur the lines all you want with drawings, similes that look like kids but aren't, slugs in disguise or whatever but if you are attracted to the idea of sex with children then you are a pedo and you need help. If you want to pretend you're not because they're drawings and no real kids are getting hurt then you're a pedo in denial.
I suppose you could if you want but now your getting into some really specific kinks.
Sure, I can't possibly see any problems arising from that.
General rule for humans and aliens. If it has not reached sexual maturity do not have sex with it, or fantasize about sex with it.
You did. I wouldn't buy it because "it still doesn't take any of [my] shit". There is literally nothing you can say to a machine (assuming there are no people around) that's the slightest bit inappropriate, and I don't appreciate being subjected to amateur social engineering from the vendor of a product I paid for.
Why do you want to give it shit? It can't take it anyway, all it can do is recognise little bits of your shit and give a pre canned response. Do you just pull your phone out and go "hey siri, fuck off"
When drawings in a manga are considered child porn, expect anything.
If those drawing are of sex with children then...yeah.
Similar to the arguments concerning video game violence, the matter is not settled and so merits both discussion and research.
That issue is about as settled as is films make you a violent, books make you a killer and rock 'n' roll makes you evil. Your first paragraph is even more bullshit.
They could put something a bit nippier than the mars rover in. What about tooling around mars in the batmobile or mad max's car? What about an F-14? That would be sweet!.
It's Europe. You didn't elect half your politicians to begin with, so why do you think you're going to be able to unelect them. How many Italian administrations consisted of unelected technocrats? What happens when the people actually express an opinion, like when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty (hint: they made the people vote again until they made the "right" choice) or when Greece decided against austerity (hint: that was just plain ignored)? The EU is even worse of a sham democracy than the US, and that's a pretty high bar to set for hypocrisy.
Bring on the fucking referendum I say. That is if Scameron doesn't change his mind because it looks like it might not go his way.
Obligatory car analogy: I buy a Ford F150 flatbed. Who are Ford to say I can't install an aftermarket roof over the deck of MY VEHICLE THAT I PAID FOR rather than pay over the odds for the stock one?
I guess they'd be as free to say it as MS are for their product leaving you just as free to ignore it as you are with MS.
Now you're just being pedantic. Fixing things is one thing, changing them is another. It's probably just as against the tos to fix it yourself as it is to modify an install. And anyway, just because something is technically illegal doesn't make it wrong. If you're able to go through the software, let's say win 10 in this case, and modify it so that you can install without the bits you don't want then more power to you. MS probably wouldn't like it but what are they going to do? All I was saying is buying some software doesn't make it yours, you are just buying the right to use the software as they sell it to you. Anything after that you're on your own.
when I buy a copy of said software, that copy is MINE to do with as I please. Not theirs, not the retailers, MINE.
It's really not though is it. It's yours to run as you bought it. Regardless of if you like each individual function or not. You're free to select whatever options they give you, and if you don' like that you're free to fuck off and buy some software that fits your needs more closely.
The choices are there, plain as day
1)Mac/OSX and deal with everything that comes with that 2)PC/windows and deal with everything that comes with that 3)PC/some kind of linux or ubuntu and deal with everything that comes with that 4) Build your own hardware/program your own OS and deal with everything that comes with that
I don't know where it says they all have to have equal functionality before you can complain about one or the other. Granted there's not many choices and none are perfect but still, they're the choices you have.
What software do you think is missing from the other options? As far as I know you as far as win/mac goes there isn't really something one can do that the other can't.
There are 2 laptops in my house. Mine and the wife's. Mine I intentionally upgraded to win 10 a while back. I have no issues other than the start menu having massive lag sometimes (but that's a discussion for a different day) and it's all so well and so good. My wife's, which I never touch other than when I initially got it set up is still happily running on win 8.1. I haven't a clue what settings it's on and I know for a fact she doesn't. Yeah it pops up saying hey get windows 10 but that's it. If she can keep her computer as is then I don't know how you're all having such problems. The settings on her's would probably make it one of the first to go if it was going to. Maybe that time she rested it on the cooker and melted a big hole in the bottom helped?
Because it's MY MACHINE, perhaps?
So don't install THEIR software?
Sounds like a job for COMIC SANS!
The idea that Apple is mostly marketing comes from people that don't understand why most people consider Apple the best available tech products. Either the one they buy, or the one they aspire to buying. Because they don't understand it they assume it must be mostly marketing rather than technology. But it's neither, it's design.
No, that's marketing. Without the marketing, people will see the nice looking device in shops, notice it's practically twice the price of equivalent models and move on. Sure enough they would still get sold but nothing like the numbers they do. You'll notice a lot of iphone users aren't exactly the premium customer.
And as for peer pressure, you haven't seen anything until you work for a PC centric group that tries to force you onto Windows only solutions.
Until you go to work at a place that is 'mac' and they force you to use that above all else. The amount of times I've heard people say macs are better at ... but no one can ever give a reason why.
Blacks are certainly underrepresented in acting by population demographics, that's true.
Is that way Samuel L Jackson is in practically everything?
All apple ever really gave a shit about.
...my dick...it's just...tiny.... but hey, nobody's perfect.
Maybe they're clicking it wrong.
and it'll be twice as much work later on.