What's wrong with a company being forced to do something other than being a psychopathic profit driven machine?
Nothing of course. But ask yourself why you'd want your company to start operating like Mizzou or Evergreen Collage. Then ask exactly how such environments are going to keep people happy and productive, when it degenerates into hostile cliques of people who witch hunt others because they're triggered.
At this point I can tell if trolls like this are American or Ukranian....
Would you be happier if I called them baizuo instead? By the way, it's a common term in Canada as well. Someone in the Ukraine would be more likely to use a local version of champagne socialist, noting the heavy communist influence on the country.
Wish I could.
Don't worry, one day you'll have learned enough of the world that it'll either drive you insane or make you a realist.
So I guess that means that, before all of these SJWs started creating work stoppages, there were no harrassers?
No, they existed. The difference between now and 20 years ago is that the "amount to be offended by" has increased to the point where air conditioning, smiling, small talk, and refusing to be baited by the crazy cat lady is claimed as sexist.
Boy, the 1950s must have been wonderful. Totally harassment free!
Well it was, especially if you were working a trade. Just remember that working in a switch office was considered one of the worst jobs for women because of the high levels of backstabbing and mean-girl cliques.
Yeah welcome to the world where something is always toxic to something. We're getting better, but I doubt we'll ever come up with a substance that doesn't have some issue with something. Best case is to limit environmental contamination when you do have to use it.
I would like to know when Google claimed they were a perfect company, rather than a company trying to do better, that has a ways to go in spite of their efforts so far.
In politics we call these people limousine liberals. The self-righteous, sanctimonious assholes that preach that they're better, their actions are better, and if you don't do what they tell you? You're a terrible person. This of course is while they're carrying on like normal or acting even worse then what they claim they're fighting for/against/etc.
It's really no difference then the old catholic indulgence system. All sins can be forgiven as long as you virtue signal hard enough, and throw enough money at *insert special/pet cause* showing how "woke" you are.
It's 3M's replacement for halon(aka halon 1301), it's also a HFC, doesn't do as much damage as CFC's, and doesn't cause ozone damage. It's toxic to aquatic life though and is known to cause long-lasting genetic problems in fish. You can read about it here or on 3M's website.
Companies like Amazon, Walmart, GM, Pioneer Seeds(du pont) and so on use 3rd party companies that hire or transfer a new person where thefts/IP-theft are happening, and the plant picks away until they're part of the ring itself. Then come either litigation and/or firings and/or both. You just don't hear about it much, outside of the "so-and-so worker/manager/upper-manager/production assistant/etc was escorted out of the building" with no reasons given and even the gossip queens have no idea why.
With all the hot air that comes out of your lying mouth im surprises your icrap still works.
Don't worry little troll, we all know why you posted without your username visible. My 'lying mouth' must be in much better shape then that raw nerve that got struck in yours.
So why would you use anything other than Nitrogen?
Cost, embargo, bean counter pinching pennies. Some components react to high concentrations of inert gases. Remember that inert systems aren't only used in an IT setting, but heavy industry, manufacturing, mining and so on too. Secondary byproducts from the fires can have unintended side effects with an inert gas making it no longer inert. One of the reasons halon was so popular is because it chemically disrupted the ability for a fire to burn. That's why there's a big boom in cabinet only fire suppression systems, and why stuff like NOVEC is becoming a popular choice for cabinet only use.
Because it is perfectly normal to walk around in a Helium-enriched atmosphere, given it's SOOO commonplace....
It's used in critical facilities for fireproofing. i.e. inert gas firefighting systems. The other options are argon and nitrogen. It's far more common then you'd think, especially since "inert gas" fire fighting systems have become the green choice instead of stuff like halon and it's derivatives. And also unlike halon, which can be mixed with a secondary to drive it through the system like with how a car airbag works, neutral gas system remain fully or partially pressurized. Especially those in closed rooms, those "check oxygen levels before entry" signs aren't for show.
You skipped psychology 101, and basics of human interactions in stressed environments. Try again without the word salad, and then back up assertions with fact, I'll wait for you to hit the brick wall in your reasoning.
I thought communism was supposed to be pro-worker.
It *is* pro-worker. It's work until you die, and maybe you'll get a chocolate ration this year or a bullet in the head, which will be billed to your family(if any are still alive). It's famously beside the "livestock belongs to everyone" and "throw them into a gulag for not giving enough to the state."
Well there's an easy answer for that one. Obviously they're paying the key actors $100m each, the rest is spent on hookers and blow. And when it crashes in the theaters and is out on the 4th week for something else, the answer is to blame the fan base.
Why does everything have to turn political here on/. when the article is not even remotely related?
Short answer: The people spouting "orange man bad" and the associated crap are so bent out of shape over Hillary losing, that they have to attach politics to everything in order to justify their support of her and their lack of support for him. That leaves you and me and everyone else three options:
(1)Ignore it. (2)Mock the piss out of them with a dose of reality. (3)Attempt reasonable discussion and hope they get out of their delusion. I prefer option 2, usually with memes.
Often on Twitter the best posts are replies, and you can see them as a thread with the original post and any subsequent discussion. The original poster can't bury them down down-votes.
Before or after Twitter was operating the word/phrase ban? Or before or after it actually started banning bots that would automatically dump replies, then favorite it so it gets to the top of the post?
The original poster can block a person replying, and that person shows up as "unavailable" in their feed. So they can indeed bury them.
It's almost like he's trying to completely dehumanize
Sorry, you don't get to play this game. After the last decade of labeling people sexists, racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, race traitors, uncle toms, house ni**ers, xenophobes, red necks, country hicks, and of course nazi's.
I hope you enjoy the rule set you've created. Or maybe it's because the NPC meme just strikes too close to home, and you know you're simply spouting garbage, devaluing words, and simply don't care. Somethingsomething groupthink.
Look at the NPC. It's almost like they don't have any other response to a story, except ORANGE MAN BAD.
To the article at hand though, I can see a lot of issues with this. People with chronic headaches and migraines, people with alzheimer's, especially early onset, people with MS. Those that have head injuries say from sports, since we know the damage is cumulative. That unique brain signature becomes more of an issue, and we haven't even started on stuff like dementia, schizophrenia, and so on.
Here's the problem with your idea though. It also doesn't give a barometer to how shitty a post/point/view is. So you get some feminist spouting "Kill all men" or some politician saying "Trump supporters are white hicks with no teeth(sic)." And you'll see plenty of likes, the dissenting posts will be buried(if they're not buried by bot posts/algorithm tampering), and the option to "vote down" those shitty posts which doesn't exist, really isn't showing that the person is out of their mind.
Rather it reinforces their echo-chamber because the only views they're getting are positive. It's only in the cases where outrage mobs show up that the person might have a clue they fucked up. Take for example Louis Farrakhan's "I'm not anti-semite, I'm anti-termite" aka Jews eat civilization from the inside out. Oh boy was there a lot of pro-support for that from progressives and communists supporting that. The people stating that it was antisemitic? Flagged so hard the posts were auto removed by the system itself.
The guy didn't hate Trump... you're wither a fucking idiot that can't read, or a fucking liar. He was upset with Trump because Trump hadn't gone far enough to get rid of all the Jews.
The guy openly hated Trump and *thought* the jews controlled him. Apparently the person who can't read is yourself. I'll wait for you to start protesting Louis Farrakhan now and his anti-semetic and anti-jewish rhetoric are directly responsible for this.
If you want to see what a malformed brain looks like get a MRI.
How is the fact that people are saying "we won't use you as an ad platform anymore" controlling someone's speech?
Let's look at this history of this shall we?
People are banned because of neboulous reasons, like posting milquetoast memes. Or for directly quoting 'blue checkmark' people who attack others race, spew open misandry, and promote open sexism. The original people who've posted this don't get even a slap on the wrist, the people who pointed it out - get banned. People get upset.
Progressives state: If you don't like it build your own platform.
People build their own platform, setup their own network, servers, get funding. More people flock to it instead of staying with a site while enforces rules in a non-competent manner. Site states that it has a "1st amendment rule" to protect speech.
Site grows
Site continues to grow big. Draws good people, bad people crazies from both sides.
Now progressives and leftists start attacking their payment processors, filing false complaints against upstream posts, colo's and so on. So much for that "build your own" idea.
One guy shoots up a synagogue. Progressives are chanting to shut it down. But happily ignore that the platform that they're already on openly support terrorist groups, those same misandrists and racists are still hanging out on their platform, but don't seem to have a problem with it.
And now we've reached this point. Now tell me, and everyone again why there's such a huge backlash against the left for being among the most shittiest of humans out there.
You don't like the situation created by the free market and want the government to step in and level the playing field?
The government already does this with entities that declare themselves the "new public square" such as Twitter, Facebook and Google have done. They don't get to pick and choose, the courts have already ruled on that one. There's another big case coming up in the SCC over it as well. The current argument being that "while the internet is a non-physical place, said companies have promoted themselves as the front for political discussion in the digital era."
If this was over healthcare rather than a perceived injustice against freedom of speech, this would magically become a "leftist" agenda.
Likely not. If you think so, then you haven't been paying attention to US politics since that abomination known as Obamacare became law.
It's snowflakes on both sides, and snowflakes all the way down...
You should avoid using memes you don't understand, it just makes you look stupid.
For many, it's a religious thing for bringing about the "end times" from the Bible's Revelations. For the end times to come, all the Jews have to go back to Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, before Jesus will come back for his second-coming.
Doesn't make sense. So that would mean that Obama was an Israeli supporters? Bush II? Clinton?
It's not that these religious conservatives like Jews or Israel in themselves. Supporting Israel is a means to an end, and they're gleeful at the idea of Jews (and all the rest of the heathens) being cast into lakes of fire if they don't convert to Christianity.
Strange, I'm having problems finding religious conservatives or even elevangicals that hold to this as any type of truth. That's in the mainstream branches of course, minus the tiny little sects of 20-30 people.
For the rest, it's a geo-political power play.
This is partially correct. Now ask yourself why Saudi Arabia has opened relations with Israel, signed a defense pact, and Qatar is under embargo. I'll give you a hint, but it has a lot to do with Qatar buying oil from ISIS(along with Turkey) and sending funds to the Iranian revolutionary guard and again to ISIS.
What is next? "Conservative" and "liberal" grocery stores? Conservatives banned from Whole Foods, and liberals banned from Walmart? Where will Libertarians shop?
Progressives already openly support segregation of students based on race. Seems to me the problem with extremism is fairly easy to find.
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What's wrong with a company being forced to do something other than being a psychopathic profit driven machine?
Nothing of course. But ask yourself why you'd want your company to start operating like Mizzou or Evergreen Collage. Then ask exactly how such environments are going to keep people happy and productive, when it degenerates into hostile cliques of people who witch hunt others because they're triggered.
At this point I can tell if trolls like this are American or Ukranian....
Would you be happier if I called them baizuo instead? By the way, it's a common term in Canada as well. Someone in the Ukraine would be more likely to use a local version of champagne socialist, noting the heavy communist influence on the country.
Wish I could.
Don't worry, one day you'll have learned enough of the world that it'll either drive you insane or make you a realist.
So I guess that means that, before all of these SJWs started creating work stoppages, there were no harrassers?
No, they existed. The difference between now and 20 years ago is that the "amount to be offended by" has increased to the point where air conditioning, smiling, small talk, and refusing to be baited by the crazy cat lady is claimed as sexist.
Boy, the 1950s must have been wonderful. Totally harassment free!
Well it was, especially if you were working a trade. Just remember that working in a switch office was considered one of the worst jobs for women because of the high levels of backstabbing and mean-girl cliques.
unless you're a fish...
Yeah welcome to the world where something is always toxic to something. We're getting better, but I doubt we'll ever come up with a substance that doesn't have some issue with something. Best case is to limit environmental contamination when you do have to use it.
I would like to know when Google claimed they were a perfect company, rather than a company trying to do better, that has a ways to go in spite of their efforts so far.
In politics we call these people limousine liberals. The self-righteous, sanctimonious assholes that preach that they're better, their actions are better, and if you don't do what they tell you? You're a terrible person. This of course is while they're carrying on like normal or acting even worse then what they claim they're fighting for/against/etc.
It's really no difference then the old catholic indulgence system. All sins can be forgiven as long as you virtue signal hard enough, and throw enough money at *insert special/pet cause* showing how "woke" you are.
Sorry, never heard of "NOVEC".
It's 3M's replacement for halon(aka halon 1301), it's also a HFC, doesn't do as much damage as CFC's, and doesn't cause ozone damage. It's toxic to aquatic life though and is known to cause long-lasting genetic problems in fish. You can read about it here or on 3M's website.
Companies like Amazon, Walmart, GM, Pioneer Seeds(du pont) and so on use 3rd party companies that hire or transfer a new person where thefts/IP-theft are happening, and the plant picks away until they're part of the ring itself. Then come either litigation and/or firings and/or both. You just don't hear about it much, outside of the "so-and-so worker/manager/upper-manager/production assistant/etc was escorted out of the building" with no reasons given and even the gossip queens have no idea why.
With all the hot air that comes out of your lying mouth im surprises your icrap still works.
Don't worry little troll, we all know why you posted without your username visible. My 'lying mouth' must be in much better shape then that raw nerve that got struck in yours.
So why would you use anything other than Nitrogen?
Cost, embargo, bean counter pinching pennies. Some components react to high concentrations of inert gases. Remember that inert systems aren't only used in an IT setting, but heavy industry, manufacturing, mining and so on too. Secondary byproducts from the fires can have unintended side effects with an inert gas making it no longer inert. One of the reasons halon was so popular is because it chemically disrupted the ability for a fire to burn. That's why there's a big boom in cabinet only fire suppression systems, and why stuff like NOVEC is becoming a popular choice for cabinet only use.
This is the company, that the company I work for uses.
Want some tasty data on the differences between non-conducting fluids, CO2, inert gas? 3M is there for you too.
Because it is perfectly normal to walk around in a Helium-enriched atmosphere, given it's SOOO commonplace....
It's used in critical facilities for fireproofing. i.e. inert gas firefighting systems. The other options are argon and nitrogen. It's far more common then you'd think, especially since "inert gas" fire fighting systems have become the green choice instead of stuff like halon and it's derivatives. And also unlike halon, which can be mixed with a secondary to drive it through the system like with how a car airbag works, neutral gas system remain fully or partially pressurized. Especially those in closed rooms, those "check oxygen levels before entry" signs aren't for show.
You skipped psychology 101, and basics of human interactions in stressed environments. Try again without the word salad, and then back up assertions with fact, I'll wait for you to hit the brick wall in your reasoning.
I thought communism was supposed to be pro-worker.
It *is* pro-worker. It's work until you die, and maybe you'll get a chocolate ration this year or a bullet in the head, which will be billed to your family(if any are still alive). It's famously beside the "livestock belongs to everyone" and "throw them into a gulag for not giving enough to the state."
Well there's an easy answer for that one. Obviously they're paying the key actors $100m each, the rest is spent on hookers and blow. And when it crashes in the theaters and is out on the 4th week for something else, the answer is to blame the fan base.
Why does everything have to turn political here on /. when the article is not even remotely related?
Short answer: The people spouting "orange man bad" and the associated crap are so bent out of shape over Hillary losing, that they have to attach politics to everything in order to justify their support of her and their lack of support for him. That leaves you and me and everyone else three options:
(1)Ignore it. (2)Mock the piss out of them with a dose of reality. (3)Attempt reasonable discussion and hope they get out of their delusion. I prefer option 2, usually with memes.
Says the guy who approves of the party of the MagaBomber.
You mean the guy who openly said he hated Trump. How's that reasoning working out for ya?
Often on Twitter the best posts are replies, and you can see them as a thread with the original post and any subsequent discussion. The original poster can't bury them down down-votes.
Before or after Twitter was operating the word/phrase ban? Or before or after it actually started banning bots that would automatically dump replies, then favorite it so it gets to the top of the post?
The original poster can block a person replying, and that person shows up as "unavailable" in their feed. So they can indeed bury them.
It's almost like he's trying to completely dehumanize
Sorry, you don't get to play this game. After the last decade of labeling people sexists, racists, misogynists, homophobes, transphobes, race traitors, uncle toms, house ni**ers, xenophobes, red necks, country hicks, and of course nazi's.
I hope you enjoy the rule set you've created. Or maybe it's because the NPC meme just strikes too close to home, and you know you're simply spouting garbage, devaluing words, and simply don't care. Somethingsomething groupthink.
Look at the NPC. It's almost like they don't have any other response to a story, except ORANGE MAN BAD.
To the article at hand though, I can see a lot of issues with this. People with chronic headaches and migraines, people with alzheimer's, especially early onset, people with MS. Those that have head injuries say from sports, since we know the damage is cumulative. That unique brain signature becomes more of an issue, and we haven't even started on stuff like dementia, schizophrenia, and so on.
Here's the problem with your idea though. It also doesn't give a barometer to how shitty a post/point/view is. So you get some feminist spouting "Kill all men" or some politician saying "Trump supporters are white hicks with no teeth(sic)." And you'll see plenty of likes, the dissenting posts will be buried(if they're not buried by bot posts/algorithm tampering), and the option to "vote down" those shitty posts which doesn't exist, really isn't showing that the person is out of their mind.
Rather it reinforces their echo-chamber because the only views they're getting are positive. It's only in the cases where outrage mobs show up that the person might have a clue they fucked up. Take for example Louis Farrakhan's "I'm not anti-semite, I'm anti-termite" aka Jews eat civilization from the inside out. Oh boy was there a lot of pro-support for that from progressives and communists supporting that. The people stating that it was antisemitic? Flagged so hard the posts were auto removed by the system itself.
The guy didn't hate Trump... you're wither a fucking idiot that can't read, or a fucking liar. He was upset with Trump because Trump hadn't gone far enough to get rid of all the Jews.
The guy openly hated Trump and *thought* the jews controlled him. Apparently the person who can't read is yourself. I'll wait for you to start protesting Louis Farrakhan now and his anti-semetic and anti-jewish rhetoric are directly responsible for this.
If you want to see what a malformed brain looks like get a MRI.
How is the fact that people are saying "we won't use you as an ad platform anymore" controlling someone's speech?
Let's look at this history of this shall we?
People are banned because of neboulous reasons, like posting milquetoast memes. Or for directly quoting 'blue checkmark' people who attack others race, spew open misandry, and promote open sexism. The original people who've posted this don't get even a slap on the wrist, the people who pointed it out - get banned. People get upset.
Progressives state: If you don't like it build your own platform.
People build their own platform, setup their own network, servers, get funding. More people flock to it instead of staying with a site while enforces rules in a non-competent manner. Site states that it has a "1st amendment rule" to protect speech.
Site grows
Site continues to grow big. Draws good people, bad people crazies from both sides.
Now progressives and leftists start attacking their payment processors, filing false complaints against upstream posts, colo's and so on. So much for that "build your own" idea.
One guy shoots up a synagogue. Progressives are chanting to shut it down. But happily ignore that the platform that they're already on openly support terrorist groups, those same misandrists and racists are still hanging out on their platform, but don't seem to have a problem with it.
And now we've reached this point. Now tell me, and everyone again why there's such a huge backlash against the left for being among the most shittiest of humans out there.
You don't like the situation created by the free market and want the government to step in and level the playing field?
The government already does this with entities that declare themselves the "new public square" such as Twitter, Facebook and Google have done. They don't get to pick and choose, the courts have already ruled on that one. There's another big case coming up in the SCC over it as well. The current argument being that "while the internet is a non-physical place, said companies have promoted themselves as the front for political discussion in the digital era."
If this was over healthcare rather than a perceived injustice against freedom of speech, this would magically become a "leftist" agenda.
Likely not. If you think so, then you haven't been paying attention to US politics since that abomination known as Obamacare became law.
It's snowflakes on both sides, and snowflakes all the way down...
You should avoid using memes you don't understand, it just makes you look stupid.
For many, it's a religious thing for bringing about the "end times" from the Bible's Revelations. For the end times to come, all the Jews have to go back to Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, before Jesus will come back for his second-coming.
Doesn't make sense. So that would mean that Obama was an Israeli supporters? Bush II? Clinton?
It's not that these religious conservatives like Jews or Israel in themselves. Supporting Israel is a means to an end, and they're gleeful at the idea of Jews (and all the rest of the heathens) being cast into lakes of fire if they don't convert to Christianity.
Strange, I'm having problems finding religious conservatives or even elevangicals that hold to this as any type of truth. That's in the mainstream branches of course, minus the tiny little sects of 20-30 people.
For the rest, it's a geo-political power play.
This is partially correct. Now ask yourself why Saudi Arabia has opened relations with Israel, signed a defense pact, and Qatar is under embargo. I'll give you a hint, but it has a lot to do with Qatar buying oil from ISIS(along with Turkey) and sending funds to the Iranian revolutionary guard and again to ISIS.
What is next? "Conservative" and "liberal" grocery stores? Conservatives banned from Whole Foods, and liberals banned from Walmart? Where will Libertarians shop?
Progressives already openly support segregation of students based on race. Seems to me the problem with extremism is fairly easy to find.