I'm deeply skeptical. It's obviously outside my personal experience, and this is the first time I've seen anyone report feeling unsafe because they were male -- terrified of... something?... roving bands of violent misandrists?
Well I wouldn't know, since I'm not white. I am male though. Then again I don't think I've said anything about being terrified over something, I'm sure some men are when they're suddenly ganged up on by 15 women who are all coming to the defense of another women because she claimed "xyz thing."
Are you also afraid of ghosts and UFO's?
No I'm afraid of rational things, like being jumped by some crazy SJW's partner or getting sucker punched(by the same group) because I said the wrong thing(in their eyes) in public.
Getting so it's not safe in public anymore. Forget the evening scene.
What? You mean you don't like being accused of rape after a one night stand and the women decides to try and say it wasn't consensual 9-15 months later, because she feels guilty.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the glares you claim to receive are completely unrelated to you being male.
Well if you're a minority, go walk out in Toronto with one of your white friends in one of the trendy hipster areas where the "social justice" brigades like to hang out. You'd almost think that they could hear some silent REEEEEEEEEEEEing going on. Because there's two different raced people walking around, and patriarchy...always patriarchy.
If you got all that from my comment, you're both paranoid and delusional. There's nothing I can do to help you. Good luck.
You missed the point of his statement? He's echoing that your views are just a long the lines of the regressive left, and those who believe "they can do no wrong because reasons." And if you want to find the actual sexists, and the actual racists, they're the ones spouting that people can't be racist or sexist because of bullshit reasons.
You haven't missed it. Nethemas the Great is simply so drunk on koolaid, they don't realize they've gone from simply being partisan to a political hack that never questions anything.
Wars were caused in the middle east because the current leaders are all idiots, not because of a religion....
Islam is not only a religious system and legal system, but a political system too. And many of the leaders in that region use it as justification for their actions, that includes the current, past, and terrorist groups. That's not propaganda, that's a combination of cultural and religious. That is your fundamental difference between your "it was 'jews, japanese, russians, chinese" bit. Judaism was a religious and political system, until it had it's reformation. Now there are only the die hard hold outs. Christianity never really was, neither paganism or orthodox christian were religious and political system. And neither is shintoism.
You're welcome to believe whatever you want though, but there's no xenophobia involved. And what islam needs to do is get caught up to the 21st century, and that means taking those religious scholars that say "making snowmen is idolatry," "women are inferior," "a man's testimony is twice that of a women's." That whole "it's just a propaganda problem" didn't fly during the middle ages, and it didn't fly in the 1980's either here in the west.
Can anyone justify this double standard as anything but extremely unfair?
Of course not. Islam is the media darling and can do no wrong because "islamophobia." Fun reminder, that at the extreme end of the media claiming islamophobia(a word coined by islamist extremists) and these things are problematic when people call out the BS. Then you'll see stuff like this and the media trying to cover it up, claiming that "the story needs more work."
Really, the whole idea behind it was to try and jump into the luxury watch market nothing more. Personally I don't have any desire to buy one, I haven't worn a watch in 20 years(habit from an old job). To me, it doesn't add anything and seems pretty damned useless from my pov.
I'm was never a fanboy or anything, but Apple really seems to have lost its way without Jobs.
Not the first time either, but last time they had the chance he would come back and fix their mistakes. This time, it likely won't happen and we'll see Apple decline into irrelevance again just like before, but no one will be around to bail them out from their own stupidity.
It has a lot to do with cities. Let's take Ontario for an example roughly 1/3 of the entire population of Canada lives there, roughly 13m people. Nearly 9m people out of that 13m live in an area called "the golden horseshoe" which is from Niagara through Hamilton up to Oshawa. That's an incredibly huge voting block, and it leads to policies that are for big urban areas only while leaving the rest of the province to suffer. That includes smaller urban areas and country areas.
It means that the golden horseshoe will get lots of infrastructure funding, lots of pet project money for hospitals and so on. While the rest of the province suffers at not having enough money and decaying infrastructure. Here's a good example, in Oxford County they had been trying to get a new hospital built since the 1970's. The new hospital was eventually built ~8 years ago, and was mainly built using private donations from people and businesses in the county. The old hospital had been built in the 1930's(on the site of the previous hospital from the 1800's) and had been renovated over and over again, and had problems ranging from serious roofing leaks and mold to asbestos everywhere in the building.
Roads, failing bridges, take your pick. The money to build new roads, bridge repairs and so on? Ear marked for that particular area. There are bridges in use along the 401 that have been there since the highway was built back in the 1960's and are in terrible shape.
Good luck. Live in Ontario or California, the major cities are effectively voting blocks that say "fuck you" to everyone else as long as they get what they want. Corruption? Don't matter, a dozen police investigations into the political party that's the front runner? Doesn't matter. Involved in several billion dollars of broken contracts and graft? Doesn't matter.
US, Canada, Europe. I can't speak for US or Euro ISP's but Rogers, Cogeco, and a couple of small ISP's(because of certification for Third Party Internet Acces-TPIA aka companies that buy last mile support) require this modem(or one of several others usually) for new customers. Last year for example on Rogers the SB6141 wasn't approved, this year it's approved. Though my SB6121 made ~4 years ago was approved, then unapproved 6mo later by Rogers.
Nope. I'm one of those people who talk about race because that's America today. As a white male conservative in a minority-majority state (California), I have no problems living as minority among minorities. My neighbors are black, Latino, Indian and Asian. We're all one people. We're Americans.
So which is it? You're one of those people who use the race card because "race is america today" or because you're all americans.
Well it's likely in the UK that only 10% or less of the content is legal. There's a huge gap between both countries in what is legal and illegal, including speech and things like pornography.
They're upset because he very well may have outsmarted them, and figured out a way for people to view ads. To be honest, if Brave is vetting ads, and paying me to watch them I'm likely going to give that a go, and with luck that'll be a perfectly fine solution to the current "OMG YOU'RE THIEVES" BS that sites are pushing, and the "OMG AD-BLOCKERS AM ARE THE DEVILS" that the advertising companies are pushing.
No people are just pissed off that it was a shitty game with all of the things that made previous Fallout games great. That includes: Removal of the karma system, streamlined leveling, non-shit writing, did I mention non-shit writing? Mediocre plot, and shit writing. On the otherside the whole base-building thing was pretty great, and so was the weapon mod system that they pulled from FO:NV. But overall it was a mediocre game, and would easily rate a 6/10 game on my scale. FO3 would be a 7/10, where at FO:NV would be a 9/10.
If one wanted to compare FO3 to FO4, FO3 is the superior game, and even at that the story writing was pretty damned bad.
Yes, up until Pao became CEO. Last year, when they suddenly decided that they'd ban people and subs to protect users feelings, even if the content wasn't illegal. Then they fully double down on the "reddit isn't about free speech." Even though it has self-styled ads to create your own subrredit like "....because everyone wants a voice" "...and for free speech" those are still out there to this day. Roughly two years ago they were shadowbanning users if they didn't believe in global warming.
The worst abusers of this are the powermods, those are the ones that moderate hundreds of subs. There's no shortage of them, and there's no shortage of subs that they've taken over either. It's very rare that a sub that gets someone like that in a position of power is able to recover from it either. The only one off the top of my head that has is/r/canada, and even at that it's still suffering from when DavidReiss666 was there.
What's funny is that the users that follow these power mods around have a huge overlap in very specific subs, and once the takeover is complete you have a userbase that posts in all the same subs, and the content and quality simply hits free fall and eventually dies as people move to less authoritarian subs.
Once upon a time maybe, back when you first joined. Now, I would guess that 3/4 of the users are spread evenly across the high schools in every state...
Speaking from first hand experience huh? Always good to know.
And there's the part where people point out that most of the world doesn't live in the US. In Canada, "Lifetime" means the ownership of the device as it's warranty clause, not the lifetime of the product and it's period of manufacture. Those are classified in Canada as "limited lifetime" warranties. Then again, there are US companies that follow that line of thought as well, a good example is EVGA. Any of their videocards that have Lifetime warranties, mean just that. Have a old 8800GT that died? Lifetime warranty? No problem, they'll send you a 660Ti or 770Ti as a replacement with the same warranty clause.
Dear Canucks, under your provincial consumer protection laws(varies by province) you are likely entitled to a full refund of the product price regardless of when you bought it. Revocation of a lifetime agreement, even when the company is bought out is considered a breach of said warranty and support agreement under the law, and you are permitted to a full refund. Remember, if refused it only costs $20-40 to file in small claims court over this, and you do not have to settle for arbitration in Canada, jumping through that hoop is not required.
But then I also thought that propping up GM was stupid.
Did you think it was also stupid to do the same for chrysler, toyota, mitsubishi, volvo, volkswagon and several other automakers? Never mind that they've all recovered and are making more money now then prior to the collapse and in turn paying more in taxes.
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I'm deeply skeptical. It's obviously outside my personal experience, and this is the first time I've seen anyone report feeling unsafe because they were male -- terrified of ... something? ... roving bands of violent misandrists?
Well I wouldn't know, since I'm not white. I am male though. Then again I don't think I've said anything about being terrified over something, I'm sure some men are when they're suddenly ganged up on by 15 women who are all coming to the defense of another women because she claimed "xyz thing."
Are you also afraid of ghosts and UFO's?
No I'm afraid of rational things, like being jumped by some crazy SJW's partner or getting sucker punched(by the same group) because I said the wrong thing(in their eyes) in public.
Getting so it's not safe in public anymore. Forget the evening scene.
What? You mean you don't like being accused of rape after a one night stand and the women decides to try and say it wasn't consensual 9-15 months later, because she feels guilty.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the glares you claim to receive are completely unrelated to you being male.
Well if you're a minority, go walk out in Toronto with one of your white friends in one of the trendy hipster areas where the "social justice" brigades like to hang out. You'd almost think that they could hear some silent REEEEEEEEEEEEing going on. Because there's two different raced people walking around, and patriarchy...always patriarchy.
If you got all that from my comment, you're both paranoid and delusional. There's nothing I can do to help you. Good luck.
You missed the point of his statement? He's echoing that your views are just a long the lines of the regressive left, and those who believe "they can do no wrong because reasons." And if you want to find the actual sexists, and the actual racists, they're the ones spouting that people can't be racist or sexist because of bullshit reasons.
If so, I must have missed it.
You haven't missed it. Nethemas the Great is simply so drunk on koolaid, they don't realize they've gone from simply being partisan to a political hack that never questions anything.
Wars were caused in the middle east because the current leaders are all idiots, not because of a religion. ...
Islam is not only a religious system and legal system, but a political system too. And many of the leaders in that region use it as justification for their actions, that includes the current, past, and terrorist groups. That's not propaganda, that's a combination of cultural and religious. That is your fundamental difference between your "it was 'jews, japanese, russians, chinese" bit. Judaism was a religious and political system, until it had it's reformation. Now there are only the die hard hold outs. Christianity never really was, neither paganism or orthodox christian were religious and political system. And neither is shintoism.
You're welcome to believe whatever you want though, but there's no xenophobia involved. And what islam needs to do is get caught up to the 21st century, and that means taking those religious scholars that say "making snowmen is idolatry," "women are inferior," "a man's testimony is twice that of a women's." That whole "it's just a propaganda problem" didn't fly during the middle ages, and it didn't fly in the 1980's either here in the west.
Can anyone justify this double standard as anything but extremely unfair?
Of course not. Islam is the media darling and can do no wrong because "islamophobia." Fun reminder, that at the extreme end of the media claiming islamophobia(a word coined by islamist extremists) and these things are problematic when people call out the BS. Then you'll see stuff like this and the media trying to cover it up, claiming that "the story needs more work."
Really, the whole idea behind it was to try and jump into the luxury watch market nothing more. Personally I don't have any desire to buy one, I haven't worn a watch in 20 years(habit from an old job). To me, it doesn't add anything and seems pretty damned useless from my pov.
I'm was never a fanboy or anything, but Apple really seems to have lost its way without Jobs.
Not the first time either, but last time they had the chance he would come back and fix their mistakes. This time, it likely won't happen and we'll see Apple decline into irrelevance again just like before, but no one will be around to bail them out from their own stupidity.
So do we get to undo all the stupid shit he did last year because it's no longer 2015?
No. He's going to tell us for the next 4 years how "2015 is best year."
I'm not sure that has much to do with cities.
It has a lot to do with cities. Let's take Ontario for an example roughly 1/3 of the entire population of Canada lives there, roughly 13m people. Nearly 9m people out of that 13m live in an area called "the golden horseshoe" which is from Niagara through Hamilton up to Oshawa. That's an incredibly huge voting block, and it leads to policies that are for big urban areas only while leaving the rest of the province to suffer. That includes smaller urban areas and country areas.
It means that the golden horseshoe will get lots of infrastructure funding, lots of pet project money for hospitals and so on. While the rest of the province suffers at not having enough money and decaying infrastructure. Here's a good example, in Oxford County they had been trying to get a new hospital built since the 1970's. The new hospital was eventually built ~8 years ago, and was mainly built using private donations from people and businesses in the county. The old hospital had been built in the 1930's(on the site of the previous hospital from the 1800's) and had been renovated over and over again, and had problems ranging from serious roofing leaks and mold to asbestos everywhere in the building.
Roads, failing bridges, take your pick. The money to build new roads, bridge repairs and so on? Ear marked for that particular area. There are bridges in use along the 401 that have been there since the highway was built back in the 1960's and are in terrible shape.
Stop voting the loons into office?
Good luck. Live in Ontario or California, the major cities are effectively voting blocks that say "fuck you" to everyone else as long as they get what they want. Corruption? Don't matter, a dozen police investigations into the political party that's the front runner? Doesn't matter. Involved in several billion dollars of broken contracts and graft? Doesn't matter.
Are these units mostly sold in the US?
US, Canada, Europe. I can't speak for US or Euro ISP's but Rogers, Cogeco, and a couple of small ISP's(because of certification for Third Party Internet Acces-TPIA aka companies that buy last mile support) require this modem(or one of several others usually) for new customers. Last year for example on Rogers the SB6141 wasn't approved, this year it's approved. Though my SB6121 made ~4 years ago was approved, then unapproved 6mo later by Rogers.
Nope. I'm one of those people who talk about race because that's America today. As a white male conservative in a minority-majority state (California), I have no problems living as minority among minorities. My neighbors are black, Latino, Indian and Asian. We're all one people. We're Americans.
So which is it? You're one of those people who use the race card because "race is america today" or because you're all americans.
There is child porn in the Dark Web, and drug selling, and murderers for hire, and more child porn.
All of that stuff is on the normal web too. Sometimes it's even more pervasive.
Well it's likely in the UK that only 10% or less of the content is legal. There's a huge gap between both countries in what is legal and illegal, including speech and things like pornography.
Other browsers have ad-blocker add-ons
They're upset because he very well may have outsmarted them, and figured out a way for people to view ads. To be honest, if Brave is vetting ads, and paying me to watch them I'm likely going to give that a go, and with luck that'll be a perfectly fine solution to the current "OMG YOU'RE THIEVES" BS that sites are pushing, and the "OMG AD-BLOCKERS AM ARE THE DEVILS" that the advertising companies are pushing.
No people are just pissed off that it was a shitty game with all of the things that made previous Fallout games great. That includes: Removal of the karma system, streamlined leveling, non-shit writing, did I mention non-shit writing? Mediocre plot, and shit writing. On the otherside the whole base-building thing was pretty great, and so was the weapon mod system that they pulled from FO:NV. But overall it was a mediocre game, and would easily rate a 6/10 game on my scale. FO3 would be a 7/10, where at FO:NV would be a 9/10.
If one wanted to compare FO3 to FO4, FO3 is the superior game, and even at that the story writing was pretty damned bad.
Has Reddit ever said anything like that?
Yes, up until Pao became CEO. Last year, when they suddenly decided that they'd ban people and subs to protect users feelings, even if the content wasn't illegal. Then they fully double down on the "reddit isn't about free speech." Even though it has self-styled ads to create your own subrredit like "....because everyone wants a voice" "...and for free speech" those are still out there to this day. Roughly two years ago they were shadowbanning users if they didn't believe in global warming.
The worst abusers of this are the powermods, those are the ones that moderate hundreds of subs. There's no shortage of them, and there's no shortage of subs that they've taken over either. It's very rare that a sub that gets someone like that in a position of power is able to recover from it either. The only one off the top of my head that has is /r/canada, and even at that it's still suffering from when DavidReiss666 was there.
What's funny is that the users that follow these power mods around have a huge overlap in very specific subs, and once the takeover is complete you have a userbase that posts in all the same subs, and the content and quality simply hits free fall and eventually dies as people move to less authoritarian subs.
Once upon a time maybe, back when you first joined. Now, I would guess that 3/4 of the users are spread evenly across the high schools in every state...
Speaking from first hand experience huh? Always good to know.
Lifetime of the product. Not of you.
And there's the part where people point out that most of the world doesn't live in the US. In Canada, "Lifetime" means the ownership of the device as it's warranty clause, not the lifetime of the product and it's period of manufacture. Those are classified in Canada as "limited lifetime" warranties. Then again, there are US companies that follow that line of thought as well, a good example is EVGA. Any of their videocards that have Lifetime warranties, mean just that. Have a old 8800GT that died? Lifetime warranty? No problem, they'll send you a 660Ti or 770Ti as a replacement with the same warranty clause.
Dear Canucks, under your provincial consumer protection laws(varies by province) you are likely entitled to a full refund of the product price regardless of when you bought it. Revocation of a lifetime agreement, even when the company is bought out is considered a breach of said warranty and support agreement under the law, and you are permitted to a full refund. Remember, if refused it only costs $20-40 to file in small claims court over this, and you do not have to settle for arbitration in Canada, jumping through that hoop is not required.
Used to work on a lot of stuff. Problem is many of those insects are immune, and have passed that immunity on.
But then I also thought that propping up GM was stupid.
Did you think it was also stupid to do the same for chrysler, toyota, mitsubishi, volvo, volkswagon and several other automakers? Never mind that they've all recovered and are making more money now then prior to the collapse and in turn paying more in taxes.
That doesn't happen. Nobody does that.
Bullshit it doesn't happen. It's happened in Seattle, and it's happened in Toronto Canada, and those are the two off the top of my head.