I pay.25 per kwh. Stop whining and chop some firewood.
How many houses, or apartments in say the GTA(roughly 1/3 the population of Canada) do you think have a fire place, and aren't heated with only electricity do you think? Not forgetting that if you live in the GTA the nearest woodlot for you would be at least 80km away. And the city has explicit bylaws against heating using wood.
Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards. Since Toronto stopped this in high crime areas, the crime rates are screeching ever higher now. Even went as high as the Supreme Court of Canada, that ruled that in particular circumstances such as high crime areas, it's an allowable behavior. It is a form of oppression, but here's what's weighted by the courts: "Does the action create a positive or negative effect for the community." This is weighted as societies rights to be safe vs the rights of the individual. This is a broader action then "detaining any 'close to' suspects in the case of an indictable offence(felony)." To give you another example, in Canada RIDE programs(anti-drunk driving) are a fundamental charter violation and an illegal search. The courts specifically stated that the rights of society to not be hit, injured or killed by the offender or possible offender outweigh the fundamentally guaranteed rights against an unlawful search.
Now to the article at hand, the entire premise of this is based on crime reduction. Let me give you an example, if you're living in Toronto(Ontario) you're more likely to be shot or stabbed then 10 years ago. Crime is a serious issue, more so that there are areas that are degenerating into ghettos ala the US type. In Regina(Saskatchewan), there are entire parts of the city that are ghettos. Crime is staggeringly high(for Canada), it revolves around a single group of people in most cases(aboriginals), this is similar in the US where cities have serious black crime problems in particular areas for example. Regina for instance, has(or had) the highest rape and murder rate in Canada with Winnipeg(Manitoba) catching up second or Toronto. In Winnipeg's case, similar problems similar groups of people, with similar issues leading to generational crime for instance. I.e. broken homes, no fathers, poor education, heavy substance abuse, etc.
That's nice, but you're shooting the messenger instead of actually looking to see whether or not the information presented is true or false.
To give you another example: Project Veritas does a video on ACORN. Progressives flip their shit and call it fake, it's not. They then try the same with Planned Parenthood illegally selling tissues, organs and bodies. They then most recently try with the facebook "deboosting" and targeting particular viewpoints to supress them. In all cases, the media poisoned the well. The information wasn't fake. People believe it, people then most likely refuse to look at a particular point of view because 'reasons' that sound good. In turn, people accept a falsehood because someone created a talking point that the truth was uncomfortable for "insert group."
If there is a conflict of interest, but the truth is being presented and not disputed. That doesn't make the truth any less noteworthy.
Strange because if we look at Gillette's share price it was unaffected by the ad, and Nike's went up adding six billion dollars to the value of the company.
Strange because share price doesn't reflect on the ground sales, go read their shareholder report. And do that again with Nike. I'll wait. Stock sitting in warehouses and not being shipped out because existing stock isn't selling, doesn't translate into "making money."
Also, fuck off with your sock puppets Mashiki.
Sorry, I don't need sock puppets. I realize this hurts your progressive ego, but maybe you should think a little bit. Then you can wonder why you've managed to piss so many people off because you're parroting the same bullshit that everyone is sick of.
To put it in a simple turn, that should make sense: "Your views are toxic and people fundamentally dislike them."
Q2. What exactly do you count as a disaster? I'd be interested to hear you say *in advance of its opening* what kind of metric you'd use to count whether it's a disaster. Please let us know whether we should judge disaster by its opening weekend (if so then what level counts as a disaster?) or its long-term take in the US (again, what level?) or its long-term take worldwide? or some other metric? I'm asking you to give a measure now in advance, to make sure there's no backpedalling. Here are some comparison numbers I found...
Disasters in film openings come from multiple things. Story, actors doing bullshit things, studios pulling bullshit things, these are all similar to 'product failures' depending on how bad of a screw-up there is, determines the level of the disaster. Let's look at Ghostbusters 2016 to start with. They hyped the piss out of it, kept hyping it up, kept hyping it up. Then released a shit trailer, and it killed the hype. Then when people started talking about it, the lead actors then started attacking the audience. This lead to multiple media outlets also attacking the audience. This lead to a disastrous turn-out for the movie itself and lots of empty theaters.
Now, let's look at the current state of Star Wars. The first movie was tolerable to most people. The second movie, the actors and publications started attacking the audience because the story became absolute shit. This lead to the famous "the last jedi deconstructs star wars, and this is a good thing" being the title or byline at 50+ sites. This further pissed people off, leading to a bad turn-around showing for Solo. Now, what's the focus groups and average people saying about the SW franchise? "Don't care, they killed everything."
These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.
They've been hyping the movie for the last 6mo, interestingly the mouse started telling the lead actress to shut the hell up because it looks like the crap she's spewing isn't matching well for focus groups at the moment. Not hard to figure out why either, that doesn't make it a coordinated action. Unless you're suggesting that various left-wing media sites which have been heavily promoting her bullshit are the actual source of the coordination, because it was them trumpeting it, then stating "she doesn't need to apologize for attacking men, or the audience!" Which led people to say "fuck that noise."
So just to be explicit, your suggested benchmark of "it probably won't clear $100m in its opening weekend" is tantamount to saying "it probably won't be one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time". Okay, given that it's a smaller movie about a character who's completely new to the film franchise, that sounds very reasonable. Are you expecting it to have an average opening compared to the other MCU openings? (and if it has an average opening, will you consider that a failure on par with GoG and DoctorStrange? or worse than them?)
MCU movies generally open "well" they don't decrease in terms of opening performance either. Downward trends and re-estimating a movie that was apparently to clear well over the $150m range on just a US release only isn't a good sign. Note that the numbers are a "western" release number, not counting SEA, China or Japan.
I'm sorry, I must have missed that sequel to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Really doesn't sound that wonderful, sequels REALLY seem to be going downhill.
Look, you can try the "but look...people funding" it's EEEEVVVVVVIIIIILLLLL. On the other hand, I can look from my own damn backyard and see the gigantic clusterfuck that "renewables" did to Ontario.
Right wing news? Sure. Centerist? That's not a problem either. How about far-left wing? Oh well what the fuck. How about the CBC? Well damn this is just great. This "unbiased assessment" from multiple media outlets here in Canada is pretty good at explaining just how much the entire thing "broke" Ontario's electrical system. This is the same bullshit now going on in multiple US states, the exact same shit. FiT(Feed in Tariff) programs, paying extremely high rates, with very specific companies who have/had an interest, causing the electricity price to go right through the roof. Oh and those "green energy jobs" that progressives, environmentalists and leftist cow on about? They don't appear. But boy oh boy do businesses flee. And of course Ontario isn't a on-off either, there's Germany, and Greece, and Spain, and Italy, and, and, and, and...
~10 years years ago, if you lived in the most populous place in Canada(between Windsor and Ottawa), you payed between 0.045 and 0.085kWh. Today you pay between 0.085 and 0.185kWh. Businesses fled. People fled. The electricity rate is so out of reach for the poor that they had to mandate under law no winter electrical disconnection just to make sure people wouldn't freeze to death. These rates for electricity hit the poor so bad, that a few years ago that charities ran out of money in December to cover heating costs. The winter period in Southern Ontario is generally late-October to as late as the end of May, you'll find that most people don't consider spring starting until the May 24 weekend, even then seeing 4C daytime highs happens often enough.
Look. Believe whatever you want about useful idiots, "because oil." Then dig your head out of your ass and then look to British Columbia. Same bullshit. Then look to Alberta under the NDP, same bullshit. Then look back to Ontario. 'Hey boys what happened to the Liberal Party of Ontario that held a majority status from 2003 to 2017?' Oh, they are no longer a recognized political party, and can fit in a 1986 Dodge Minivan? Well hot shit.
but I remember seeing a YouTube video where a guy trawled (not trolled) through alt-right forums and found a pretty significant effort to down vote, false flag and shit-post YouTube videos using bots. They make a game of it. The do the same in reverse for channels and things they like, so alt-right videos will often have a huge number of likes.
Oh, you mean like how downvotes and negative comments are removed from vids on youtube, Sometimes in blocks of 10,000 at a time when the actions of a company are stoking an anti-consumer mindset? Why don't you go troll through some alt-left, progressive, and communist forums and see what you find. It'll start with downvoting on sites that allow it, when it doesn't garner the next reaction, they start attacking people tied to the company including doxing. And if that doesn't work, they escalate to threats.
It's becoming harder to do. YouTube caught it and they've been implementing countermeasures but it went on for years. I wouldn't be surprised if now that their shenanigans don't work on YouTube (these aren't state actors, they're just bored, angry dudes) they're moving on to other sites for trolling and lulz.
Fun reminder, women are more likely to be engaging in trolling and attacks especially if the target is female.
Yes, it's very much the marketing strategy of Nike and Gillette and others now. Make an ad that most people will accept as a positive message, but which will trigger a significant minority, and watch as the outrage turns it into a viral sensation that people are still talking about weeks later.
You might have skipped that day in advertising and marketing class. But the generation of negative press doesn't win you likability or improve the chance someone will see it. It does the opposite. Gillette's ad appears to have cost them another 7% of the market share, with other companies like DSC taking a heavy 5% of that. Nike, short term bump, they're one several companies now holding onto large numbers of goods that aren't selling. What didn't hear about that? Their sale inventories went up by 23% - that means they're not selling product. And what they're manufacturing is sitting somewhere collecting dust.
Small dicks + raised as toxic macho assholes = army of neckbeards
I'm surprised you didn't put incel, neonazi, and alt-right in there. You could get all the progressive talking points in a row. It obviously couldn't be the lead actor spewing bullshit and attacking the core demographic for the movie. I mean, your and her methods seem to be the same, just like with ghostbuster 2016.
The Last Jedi making 1B doesn't mean it's a failure. The failure that people are talking about is the Last Jedi created a genuine trust and core-fan loss of the product.
Considering by your post, you don't understand why Captain Marvel is likely to be a disaster, I'll help you out. After 20 years of them trying to shove her into some type of hero-type body-of-situation, and it failing every time. They then made a movie, where the lead actor proceeded to pull an EA. In EA's case, that was a bold movie...and they seem to be having one hell of a run with commercial failures these days. ME:A, BFV, Anthem(it's already 50% off in some stores). Do you understand now, or would you like me to draw you a picture?
Oh, poor baby, did your Freeze Peach melt? Waa, f'n waa.
I'm not the one being or acting fucking stupid. But I'll bow before your obvious skill.
When a business decides that some use of their servers is a problem, POW, now you know that they decided it is a problem. Proof? What the fuck are you talking about, Homer? Why would you set their standard of proof? You do know who you are, right? You do know you're not Rotten Tomatoes, right? Right?? So why the fuck do you think you'd set the standard of proof? Because you shouted "freeze peach?" That doesn't confer ownership.
Oh, you mean a business who suddenly decides, that in a case with one movie, and an actor that was being a loud whiny douche waffle, that their best solution for people who said they "don't want to see it" is to turn around and remove people. Yes, that makes a lot of sense...doesn't it. Gee it's like there's this pattern of sites, that suddenly remove user rankings on a product because people say they don't want to see it.
Doing a bang up job on moving from stupid, into retarded. I'd suggest a mental health hospital, they can help special...cases like you're. But they're pretty much all shut down.
No, RT decided to start scrubbing long time accounts that were heavily active, and their "no interest" posts on billet page. What they're doing is removing "no interest" posts because it makes the movie look bad. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yeah well, this wasn't "freeze peach" the term used by progressives and authoritarians when someone calls them out on their bullshit. Don't let your stupid hurt you anymore then you just did with that post. There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case. Rather it seems to directly centered around the main actress(Brie Larson ) being a misandrist, and a racist, while engaging in over sexism towards the primary audience. Not the number of progressive fluff pieces that have ranged from "she didn't say anything wrong" to "she doesn't have to apologize for it."
So what's the real thing going on? People are simply saying that "they have no interest in it." Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun. So what's that really mean? RottenTomateos is removing and modifying it because of likely either the studio or the progressive sphere of influence so people can't say they don't want to see it. What's this similar to? When netflix removed the star rating system after people said that Amy Schumer's comedy special was absolute bullshit. Then they remove the downvote option from showing up outside of your own account. So now, netflix only upvoting - which everyone can see.
What does it appear to be that they're doing? Pushing user reviews out, and pushing critic reviews only. I'm sure that works out really well when you're in the league of fart sniffers.
Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend. Of course the 'you're a sexist, racist, nazi, misogynist, etc' because you don't want to watch the movie is already pulling it's bloated corpse through various left wing media sites.
Oh come on. Nobody even goes to raid smoke detectors for radioactive material, you can buy plutonium off the shelf and order deuterium oxide right from Canada. Pure do it yourself kit.
I'm pretty sure the do-it-yourself kit also includes radiation poisoning, shorter life span, and investigation by a nuclear regulatory agency since the persons involved would be glowing to the radiation detectors in pretty much any western city...especially since a simple radioactive dye will trip them.
If you only have a hammer, then you should use it until you get yourself a better tool. It's much easier to build a ML model to identify children in general than to identify children in potentially compromising positions, especially when you don't know what some freak might be turned on by.
So we wait another 5-10 years? Cause ML is a pretty shit solution in the short term.
I also don't see how this can be a slippery slope. Having separate platforms for kids and adults to post content on makes a lot of sense. There's a good reason why schools are segregated by age, not the least of which is the potential for abuse.
For one thing, there isn't a separate platform between the two. Second various laws in various countries require a minimum age, understanding of the agreement, and/or a parent/guardian to grant the account. Third, I'm not sure what school you went to, but most people on/. can probably point to a time when k-12 was a single school with a small number of students unlike the gigantic central-plex mega schools that have replaced them over the last 20 years. The school I went to was K-8, 9-13 wasn't very far down the road. You basically went to school with the same group of people for years and everybody knew each other. Even the country kids went to particular schools, while city kids went to another. The education taught at those schools was also focused around what they knew and the lessons formed around what they had learned.
One of the problems is, you can go back over say the last 5 years of court cases where that type of action shows a "pattern of behavior" of an individual who's been criminally charged with a sex crime against a minor, or trafficking in child porn. One of the problems is that kids see the attention they're getting then act out the things suggested, that *is* a problem. Said problem has multiple failures of multiple people at multiple levels. If you have kids, or nieces or nephews and so on. Especially kids in the 7-12 range and how they'll act in order to gain praise from an adult for whatever reason, doubly so in cases with an absentee parent i.e. a parent who uses TV, computer/etc as a baby sitting device. Then you shouldn't have any problems figure out why this is a problem. The fact that youtube already had a policy of restricting comment sections of minors because of comments that crossed the line, means that they already know that there's issues.
The thing you mention with trolls, well ask yourself. If law enforcement and the courts have been using a pattern of behavior in order to restrict people from being able to be near children, what are the chances that trolls have been doing this for years? Pretty low. Though with the recent stuff that's been written, you're likely to start seeing trolls going after people to try and get their comments shut down and demonetized.
That's not really true. Private members bills pass often enough in legislatures across Canada, the reason you don't think they do is because most often those private members bills are party-centric policy actions that the aligned party doesn't want to tie their name to for whatever reason. Keep that after ~15 years of the Liberal Party of Ontario being anti-business, pro-business killing regulations, pro-tax the hell out of everybody, and screw you peasants you'll like the $0.18kWh electricity rates, and FT jobs? You'll like your PT service industry jobs. There's a good reason why people elected a pro-business government that's quasi-populist, that believes that industry and FT jobs aren't evil.
But if you haven't really been paying attention to politics in Ontario, so far Ford and the conservatives have stuck pretty hard to their platform of helping people in Ontario. So the chances of this making into law are higher then average, but keep in mind that the bill itself will have to goto committee too. Ontario has a lot of things wrong with it, and I mean a lot. The liberals went out of their way to fuck up everything they could to pander to Toronto while screwing the rest of the province over.
And just a FYI for those that want to really get into the political corruption, money laundering and whatnot. You might have heard about the SNC-Laval corruption scandal currently running the federal Liberal Party of Canada hard. Well just go take a look at G.M. Butts, he's the same guy who was behind McGuinty(Ontario premier liberals) and Wynne's(same as McGuinty) political ideas. Enjoy the shitshow, because it gets more interesting when Canada was bared from all federal US infrastructure building, and a few days after that happened the Globe and Mail were the ones breaking the SNC-Laval scandal open.
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I pay .25 per kwh. Stop whining and chop some firewood.
How many houses, or apartments in say the GTA(roughly 1/3 the population of Canada) do you think have a fire place, and aren't heated with only electricity do you think? Not forgetting that if you live in the GTA the nearest woodlot for you would be at least 80km away. And the city has explicit bylaws against heating using wood.
Stop and Frisk in Toronto was one of the main drivers of crime downwards. Since Toronto stopped this in high crime areas, the crime rates are screeching ever higher now. Even went as high as the Supreme Court of Canada, that ruled that in particular circumstances such as high crime areas, it's an allowable behavior. It is a form of oppression, but here's what's weighted by the courts: "Does the action create a positive or negative effect for the community." This is weighted as societies rights to be safe vs the rights of the individual. This is a broader action then "detaining any 'close to' suspects in the case of an indictable offence(felony)." To give you another example, in Canada RIDE programs(anti-drunk driving) are a fundamental charter violation and an illegal search. The courts specifically stated that the rights of society to not be hit, injured or killed by the offender or possible offender outweigh the fundamentally guaranteed rights against an unlawful search.
Now to the article at hand, the entire premise of this is based on crime reduction. Let me give you an example, if you're living in Toronto(Ontario) you're more likely to be shot or stabbed then 10 years ago. Crime is a serious issue, more so that there are areas that are degenerating into ghettos ala the US type. In Regina(Saskatchewan), there are entire parts of the city that are ghettos. Crime is staggeringly high(for Canada), it revolves around a single group of people in most cases(aboriginals), this is similar in the US where cities have serious black crime problems in particular areas for example. Regina for instance, has(or had) the highest rape and murder rate in Canada with Winnipeg(Manitoba) catching up second or Toronto. In Winnipeg's case, similar problems similar groups of people, with similar issues leading to generational crime for instance. I.e. broken homes, no fathers, poor education, heavy substance abuse, etc.
Enjoy the shit show.
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That's nice, but you're shooting the messenger instead of actually looking to see whether or not the information presented is true or false.
To give you another example: Project Veritas does a video on ACORN. Progressives flip their shit and call it fake, it's not. They then try the same with Planned Parenthood illegally selling tissues, organs and bodies. They then most recently try with the facebook "deboosting" and targeting particular viewpoints to supress them. In all cases, the media poisoned the well. The information wasn't fake. People believe it, people then most likely refuse to look at a particular point of view because 'reasons' that sound good. In turn, people accept a falsehood because someone created a talking point that the truth was uncomfortable for "insert group."
If there is a conflict of interest, but the truth is being presented and not disputed. That doesn't make the truth any less noteworthy.
Strange because if we look at Gillette's share price it was unaffected by the ad, and Nike's went up adding six billion dollars to the value of the company.
Strange because share price doesn't reflect on the ground sales, go read their shareholder report. And do that again with Nike. I'll wait. Stock sitting in warehouses and not being shipped out because existing stock isn't selling, doesn't translate into "making money."
Also, fuck off with your sock puppets Mashiki.
Sorry, I don't need sock puppets. I realize this hurts your progressive ego, but maybe you should think a little bit. Then you can wonder why you've managed to piss so many people off because you're parroting the same bullshit that everyone is sick of.
To put it in a simple turn, that should make sense: "Your views are toxic and people fundamentally dislike them."
You missed a few things. I'll give you bonus points if you actually go look up why the press is defending her.
Q2. What exactly do you count as a disaster? I'd be interested to hear you say *in advance of its opening* what kind of metric you'd use to count whether it's a disaster. Please let us know whether we should judge disaster by its opening weekend (if so then what level counts as a disaster?) or its long-term take in the US (again, what level?) or its long-term take worldwide? or some other metric? I'm asking you to give a measure now in advance, to make sure there's no backpedalling. Here are some comparison numbers I found...
Disasters in film openings come from multiple things. Story, actors doing bullshit things, studios pulling bullshit things, these are all similar to 'product failures' depending on how bad of a screw-up there is, determines the level of the disaster. Let's look at Ghostbusters 2016 to start with. They hyped the piss out of it, kept hyping it up, kept hyping it up. Then released a shit trailer, and it killed the hype. Then when people started talking about it, the lead actors then started attacking the audience. This lead to multiple media outlets also attacking the audience. This lead to a disastrous turn-out for the movie itself and lots of empty theaters.
Now, let's look at the current state of Star Wars. The first movie was tolerable to most people. The second movie, the actors and publications started attacking the audience because the story became absolute shit. This lead to the famous "the last jedi deconstructs star wars, and this is a good thing" being the title or byline at 50+ sites. This further pissed people off, leading to a bad turn-around showing for Solo. Now, what's the focus groups and average people saying about the SW franchise? "Don't care, they killed everything."
Okay, but only once.
These numbers flat out don't make sense. I don't know much about MCU but my perception of the hype was that "DrStrange (47k), AntMan+Wasp (11k), CaptainMarvel (45k)" were all minor films about minor characters, while "GOG2 (54k), BlackPanther (34k), InfinityWar (11k)" are major films that were massively hyped.
They've been hyping the movie for the last 6mo, interestingly the mouse started telling the lead actress to shut the hell up because it looks like the crap she's spewing isn't matching well for focus groups at the moment. Not hard to figure out why either, that doesn't make it a coordinated action. Unless you're suggesting that various left-wing media sites which have been heavily promoting her bullshit are the actual source of the coordination, because it was them trumpeting it, then stating "she doesn't need to apologize for attacking men, or the audience!" Which led people to say "fuck that noise."
So just to be explicit, your suggested benchmark of "it probably won't clear $100m in its opening weekend" is tantamount to saying "it probably won't be one of the highest-grossing Marvel-movie openings of all time". Okay, given that it's a smaller movie about a character who's completely new to the film franchise, that sounds very reasonable. Are you expecting it to have an average opening compared to the other MCU openings? (and if it has an average opening, will you consider that a failure on par with GoG and DoctorStrange? or worse than them?)
MCU movies generally open "well" they don't decrease in terms of opening performance either. Downward trends and re-estimating a movie that was apparently to clear well over the $150m range on just a US release only isn't a good sign. Note that the numbers are a "western" release number, not counting SEA, China or Japan.
I'm sorry, I must have missed that sequel to "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". Really doesn't sound that wonderful, sequels REALLY seem to be going downhill.
South Park S10E02 will get that one for you.
Look, you can try the "but look...people funding" it's EEEEVVVVVVIIIIILLLLL. On the other hand, I can look from my own damn backyard and see the gigantic clusterfuck that "renewables" did to Ontario.
Right wing news? Sure. Centerist? That's not a problem either. How about far-left wing? Oh well what the fuck. How about the CBC? Well damn this is just great. This "unbiased assessment" from multiple media outlets here in Canada is pretty good at explaining just how much the entire thing "broke" Ontario's electrical system. This is the same bullshit now going on in multiple US states, the exact same shit. FiT(Feed in Tariff) programs, paying extremely high rates, with very specific companies who have/had an interest, causing the electricity price to go right through the roof. Oh and those "green energy jobs" that progressives, environmentalists and leftist cow on about? They don't appear. But boy oh boy do businesses flee. And of course Ontario isn't a on-off either, there's Germany, and Greece, and Spain, and Italy, and, and, and, and...
~10 years years ago, if you lived in the most populous place in Canada(between Windsor and Ottawa), you payed between 0.045 and 0.085kWh. Today you pay between 0.085 and 0.185kWh. Businesses fled. People fled. The electricity rate is so out of reach for the poor that they had to mandate under law no winter electrical disconnection just to make sure people wouldn't freeze to death. These rates for electricity hit the poor so bad, that a few years ago that charities ran out of money in December to cover heating costs. The winter period in Southern Ontario is generally late-October to as late as the end of May, you'll find that most people don't consider spring starting until the May 24 weekend, even then seeing 4C daytime highs happens often enough.
Look. Believe whatever you want about useful idiots, "because oil." Then dig your head out of your ass and then look to British Columbia. Same bullshit. Then look to Alberta under the NDP, same bullshit. Then look back to Ontario. 'Hey boys what happened to the Liberal Party of Ontario that held a majority status from 2003 to 2017?' Oh, they are no longer a recognized political party, and can fit in a 1986 Dodge Minivan? Well hot shit.
but I remember seeing a YouTube video where a guy trawled (not trolled) through alt-right forums and found a pretty significant effort to down vote, false flag and shit-post YouTube videos using bots. They make a game of it. The do the same in reverse for channels and things they like, so alt-right videos will often have a huge number of likes.
Oh, you mean like how downvotes and negative comments are removed from vids on youtube, Sometimes in blocks of 10,000 at a time when the actions of a company are stoking an anti-consumer mindset? Why don't you go troll through some alt-left, progressive, and communist forums and see what you find. It'll start with downvoting on sites that allow it, when it doesn't garner the next reaction, they start attacking people tied to the company including doxing. And if that doesn't work, they escalate to threats.
It's becoming harder to do. YouTube caught it and they've been implementing countermeasures but it went on for years. I wouldn't be surprised if now that their shenanigans don't work on YouTube (these aren't state actors, they're just bored, angry dudes) they're moving on to other sites for trolling and lulz.
Fun reminder, women are more likely to be engaging in trolling and attacks especially if the target is female.
When in doubt, double down on stupid huh? That's pitiful. That didn't work for EA, or the actors of Ghostbusters 2016 either.
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Sorry were you saying something to actually add anything intelligent, or just province that you really are moving from stupid to retarded?
Yes, it's very much the marketing strategy of Nike and Gillette and others now. Make an ad that most people will accept as a positive message, but which will trigger a significant minority, and watch as the outrage turns it into a viral sensation that people are still talking about weeks later.
You might have skipped that day in advertising and marketing class. But the generation of negative press doesn't win you likability or improve the chance someone will see it. It does the opposite. Gillette's ad appears to have cost them another 7% of the market share, with other companies like DSC taking a heavy 5% of that. Nike, short term bump, they're one several companies now holding onto large numbers of goods that aren't selling. What didn't hear about that? Their sale inventories went up by 23% - that means they're not selling product. And what they're manufacturing is sitting somewhere collecting dust.
Small dicks + raised as toxic macho assholes = army of neckbeards
I'm surprised you didn't put incel, neonazi, and alt-right in there. You could get all the progressive talking points in a row. It obviously couldn't be the lead actor spewing bullshit and attacking the core demographic for the movie. I mean, your and her methods seem to be the same, just like with ghostbuster 2016.
The Last Jedi making 1B doesn't mean it's a failure. The failure that people are talking about is the Last Jedi created a genuine trust and core-fan loss of the product.
Considering by your post, you don't understand why Captain Marvel is likely to be a disaster, I'll help you out. After 20 years of them trying to shove her into some type of hero-type body-of-situation, and it failing every time. They then made a movie, where the lead actor proceeded to pull an EA. In EA's case, that was a bold movie...and they seem to be having one hell of a run with commercial failures these days. ME:A, BFV, Anthem(it's already 50% off in some stores). Do you understand now, or would you like me to draw you a picture?
Oh, poor baby, did your Freeze Peach melt? Waa, f'n waa.
I'm not the one being or acting fucking stupid. But I'll bow before your obvious skill.
When a business decides that some use of their servers is a problem, POW, now you know that they decided it is a problem. Proof? What the fuck are you talking about, Homer? Why would you set their standard of proof? You do know who you are, right? You do know you're not Rotten Tomatoes, right? Right?? So why the fuck do you think you'd set the standard of proof? Because you shouted "freeze peach?" That doesn't confer ownership.
Oh, you mean a business who suddenly decides, that in a case with one movie, and an actor that was being a loud whiny douche waffle, that their best solution for people who said they "don't want to see it" is to turn around and remove people. Yes, that makes a lot of sense...doesn't it. Gee it's like there's this pattern of sites, that suddenly remove user rankings on a product because people say they don't want to see it.
Doing a bang up job on moving from stupid, into retarded. I'd suggest a mental health hospital, they can help special ...cases like you're. But they're pretty much all shut down.
No, RT decided to start scrubbing long time accounts that were heavily active, and their "no interest" posts on billet page. What they're doing is removing "no interest" posts because it makes the movie look bad. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yeah well, this wasn't "freeze peach" the term used by progressives and authoritarians when someone calls them out on their bullshit. Don't let your stupid hurt you anymore then you just did with that post. There's also no proof of review bombing despite all of the media outlets reporting that's the case. Rather it seems to directly centered around the main actress(Brie Larson ) being a misandrist, and a racist, while engaging in over sexism towards the primary audience. Not the number of progressive fluff pieces that have ranged from "she didn't say anything wrong" to "she doesn't have to apologize for it."
So what's the real thing going on? People are simply saying that "they have no interest in it." Before rottentomateos scrubbed it the main "not interested" group was made up of old accounts greater than 8 years. Feel free to look up the archived snapshots if you want, wayback, archive.co, whatever go have fun. So what's that really mean? RottenTomateos is removing and modifying it because of likely either the studio or the progressive sphere of influence so people can't say they don't want to see it. What's this similar to? When netflix removed the star rating system after people said that Amy Schumer's comedy special was absolute bullshit. Then they remove the downvote option from showing up outside of your own account. So now, netflix only upvoting - which everyone can see.
What does it appear to be that they're doing? Pushing user reviews out, and pushing critic reviews only. I'm sure that works out really well when you're in the league of fart sniffers.
Oh speaking of how well is the moving going to do? They've already revised the opening weekend downward twice, and now are expecting it to not clear $100m on opening weekend. Of course the 'you're a sexist, racist, nazi, misogynist, etc' because you don't want to watch the movie is already pulling it's bloated corpse through various left wing media sites.
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A: Assumptions just make you look stupid.
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And you forgot David Hahn?
Oh come on. Nobody even goes to raid smoke detectors for radioactive material, you can buy plutonium off the shelf and order deuterium oxide right from Canada. Pure do it yourself kit.
I'm pretty sure the do-it-yourself kit also includes radiation poisoning, shorter life span, and investigation by a nuclear regulatory agency since the persons involved would be glowing to the radiation detectors in pretty much any western city...especially since a simple radioactive dye will trip them.
If you only have a hammer, then you should use it until you get yourself a better tool. It's much easier to build a ML model to identify children in general than to identify children in potentially compromising positions, especially when you don't know what some freak might be turned on by.
So we wait another 5-10 years? Cause ML is a pretty shit solution in the short term.
I also don't see how this can be a slippery slope. Having separate platforms for kids and adults to post content on makes a lot of sense. There's a good reason why schools are segregated by age, not the least of which is the potential for abuse.
For one thing, there isn't a separate platform between the two. Second various laws in various countries require a minimum age, understanding of the agreement, and/or a parent/guardian to grant the account. Third, I'm not sure what school you went to, but most people on /. can probably point to a time when k-12 was a single school with a small number of students unlike the gigantic central-plex mega schools that have replaced them over the last 20 years. The school I went to was K-8, 9-13 wasn't very far down the road. You basically went to school with the same group of people for years and everybody knew each other. Even the country kids went to particular schools, while city kids went to another. The education taught at those schools was also focused around what they knew and the lessons formed around what they had learned.
One of the problems is, you can go back over say the last 5 years of court cases where that type of action shows a "pattern of behavior" of an individual who's been criminally charged with a sex crime against a minor, or trafficking in child porn. One of the problems is that kids see the attention they're getting then act out the things suggested, that *is* a problem. Said problem has multiple failures of multiple people at multiple levels. If you have kids, or nieces or nephews and so on. Especially kids in the 7-12 range and how they'll act in order to gain praise from an adult for whatever reason, doubly so in cases with an absentee parent i.e. a parent who uses TV, computer/etc as a baby sitting device. Then you shouldn't have any problems figure out why this is a problem. The fact that youtube already had a policy of restricting comment sections of minors because of comments that crossed the line, means that they already know that there's issues.
The thing you mention with trolls, well ask yourself. If law enforcement and the courts have been using a pattern of behavior in order to restrict people from being able to be near children, what are the chances that trolls have been doing this for years? Pretty low. Though with the recent stuff that's been written, you're likely to start seeing trolls going after people to try and get their comments shut down and demonetized.
That's not really true. Private members bills pass often enough in legislatures across Canada, the reason you don't think they do is because most often those private members bills are party-centric policy actions that the aligned party doesn't want to tie their name to for whatever reason. Keep that after ~15 years of the Liberal Party of Ontario being anti-business, pro-business killing regulations, pro-tax the hell out of everybody, and screw you peasants you'll like the $0.18kWh electricity rates, and FT jobs? You'll like your PT service industry jobs. There's a good reason why people elected a pro-business government that's quasi-populist, that believes that industry and FT jobs aren't evil.
But if you haven't really been paying attention to politics in Ontario, so far Ford and the conservatives have stuck pretty hard to their platform of helping people in Ontario. So the chances of this making into law are higher then average, but keep in mind that the bill itself will have to goto committee too. Ontario has a lot of things wrong with it, and I mean a lot. The liberals went out of their way to fuck up everything they could to pander to Toronto while screwing the rest of the province over.
And just a FYI for those that want to really get into the political corruption, money laundering and whatnot. You might have heard about the SNC-Laval corruption scandal currently running the federal Liberal Party of Canada hard. Well just go take a look at G.M. Butts, he's the same guy who was behind McGuinty(Ontario premier liberals) and Wynne's(same as McGuinty) political ideas. Enjoy the shitshow, because it gets more interesting when Canada was bared from all federal US infrastructure building, and a few days after that happened the Globe and Mail were the ones breaking the SNC-Laval scandal open.