There is Gab, but because it's full of conspiracy theorists and Nazis it's not very popular. So essentially people are demanding to be on the popular services, they don't really care about freedom of speech.
I assume you mean "colluded"... But really Jones has been trying to get himself banned for a long time and given that he posts the same content on all platforms it's hardly surprising that they all banned him around the same time.
Getting banned helps him by fuelling his conspiracy theories.
I'm speaking of the original "Ghostbusters" My attic full of Ghostbuster toys
It was the 80s, they made Robocop toys and a cartoon... Despite the film being very much adults only. I mean, there was some pretty strongly implied oral sex at one point, and I remember how conservative ratings were in the 1980s US...
Well then, tell the moviegoing public which films that are allowed to see or not see and which ones the holder of penises are allowed to comment on.
Surely if they read the review and it was talking about how the movie was really relevant to black people they could just decide if that was something that interested them or not.
I think white men, critics would enjoy it, would enjoy my work, but often I think there is a critic who will damn it in a way because they donâ(TM)t understand it
She says there are white men who would enjoy it... And then you claim she is blaming the entire white race. That is not a logical chain of reasoning.
And really, she couches that statement is such soft language, and speaking off the cuff. You are reading a lot into it that isn't there.
Plagiarism is actually rampant on YouTube as well, and not just for game reviews. It's not uncommon for people to simple re-make other people's videos and hope they won't notice. Even worse some will see other channels talking about up-coming videos on Twitter and rush out their own version first.
Sometimes even whole channels get cloned. When the Hydraulic Press Channel became popular within a couple of days several clones appeared. Fortunately the original was able to survive by branching out into stuff other than just crushing things, amusing as that is.
It means that at very best that the reviewer must identify their sex in order to have their review validated as acceptable or not acceptable.
Only if you take it to an absolutely absurd extreme which is not what is being suggested.
Maybe when a critic notices that the movie doesn't seem to be aimed at them and realizes that they might not be the best placed person to judge its merits, they could decline to review it and let someone more suited do the job?
No "validation" or enforcement required, just a polite suggestion.
In the store the phone is active all the time, displaying those cheesy screensavers with the screen on max brightness. Heat generation for prolonged periods of time, 7 days a week will likely have a very negative effect on the battery.
They probably don't care about dead batteries in display models of course.
Back in the day laptops came with a removable battery and adequate charger. Many also came with an app that let you control the battery charging, e.g. setting "long life mode" which would maintain around 60% charge (95-100% degrades the pack much more quickly).
Nowadays you just throw the otherwise perfectly good laptop in the trash.
Aren't they mostly banned anyway? I see signs at airports saying you must remove the batteries from "smart" suitcases, no batteries over a certain size etc.
I wonder if they have them on aircraft now. I bet there is a fire-proof bag on long haul flights, especially now that charging and power outlets are quite common.
Infowar's pages were removed for repeatedly inciting violence with race war and deep state civil war conspiracy theories, and for trying to dehumanize transgender people.
You are right, other people did the same thing, but Facebook moderation reacts to reports rather than actively seeking out ToS violations. So naturally the pages at the centre of it all, the ones were there stories and memes being shared originate from, are the ones getting the most reports.
FB doesn't want to be the town square. It wants to be an addictive place to be for the vast majority of users, so it can harvest their personal data. FB's main concern is finding the balance between freedom of speech and removing really objectionable material that generates the most profit.
FB wants to be the shopping mall where people go to meet up, because there is no money in being the town square.
Are you backed up in duplicate on two, non co-located mirror servers or drives?
I am. One of the few upsides to the cloud is that reliable, distributed storage is very cheap now. Backup services like Spideroak use Amazon or Google clouds, which have geographic distribution and duplication built in.
I have local read-only backups of really important stuff too of course.
Years ago I switched phones and tried to reinstall a dictionary app I had bought. I couldn't, it was no longer available to download. I email them and they told me that their licence for the dictionary data had expired, so I asked for a refund and got it.
If the manufacturers lie about the MTBF they will get into legal difficulties as the regulators investigate them, and consumers will be able to make a good argument in small claims court that their product lasted much less time than one would reasonably expect.
And let us not forget that Ghostbusters was target at children.
Not really. Most of the jokes would have gone over the heads of kids. Like the original it was aimed at adults, with adult humour.
The concept of males "not understanding" is yet another sexist idea that some women have
It's not a question of "not understanding", it's a question of being the target audience and having experiences that make the movie relevant to you.
I'm a bit old for Disney movies these days. I do have a certain appreciation for the old Transformers animated movie though, because it was a part of my childhood. It's not that I don't understand Disney movies, or even don't enjoy them on a certain level, but I'm probably not the guy you want to ask for advice on if they are good or not. I don't really know if you kid will like them, because I don't have any experience of being a kid in 2018.
Of course it's not impossible for white male critics to understand these movies or even do excellent reviews of them, but if we go back to reality for a moment we find that in practice this tends not to happen. So asking for more reviews by people who are the target audience seems entirely reasonable.
there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie, and review your movie.
and you concluded
So now we have that Reviews are a make or break, and that "40 year old white dudes should not be allowed to make commentary upon those movies. This is obvious because these movies must make money to continue to be made. Bad reviews = no money. And bad reviews are apparently made by 40 year old "white dudes" that she doesn't need to hear form.
This is is leap of logic that makes no sense. She is clearly saying that the problem is the lack of reviews by women of colour, and the obvious solution is to publish reviews by women of colour. How does any of that require 40 year old while men to be banned from writing reviews?
It has, but you can easily see that isn't the case.
On IMDB the movie had lots of positive reviews. Then suddenly there was a flood of very similar negative ones. All making the same nonsense points, e.g. that the CGI was bad or the acting was bad (both of which recieved awards).
The trolls are not very sophisticated, but IMDB relies entirely on flagging and does nothing to stop mobs so they don't need to be.
Making a movie for women isn't sexist. It doesn't hurt men.
And the problem isn't white males. You even quoted the damn explanation of the problem but somehow saw the phrase "white male" and had some kind of Pavlovian response.
The problem is movies being reviewed almost exclusively by people who are not the target audience and who don't understand them.
Geeks should understand this very well. How often do critics slate great sci-fi movies that we love and which become cult classics? The views of sci-fi fan critics get buried by the ones who thought LaLa Land was better.
They haven't got rid of the star ratings though, so bad shows will still get low ratings. It's more likely that the cost of moderation vs the utility of the reviews made it not worth continuing.
The idea is to signal to the recipient that they should not forward or print the message. They can circumvent that with some effort but so can you easily copy documents marked "top secret" and "confidential". This feature prevents casual, thoughtless copying.
It depends what you use the bus for. If you just turn up randomly to go somewhere you have an average wait of 10 minutes, but if know the timetable or make the same journey every day you can get the wait down to nothing.
In some places like Tokyo the train/bus is often the fastest option.
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There is Gab, but because it's full of conspiracy theorists and Nazis it's not very popular. So essentially people are demanding to be on the popular services, they don't really care about freedom of speech.
I assume you mean "colluded"... But really Jones has been trying to get himself banned for a long time and given that he posts the same content on all platforms it's hardly surprising that they all banned him around the same time.
Getting banned helps him by fuelling his conspiracy theories.
I'm speaking of the original "Ghostbusters" My attic full of Ghostbuster toys
It was the 80s, they made Robocop toys and a cartoon... Despite the film being very much adults only. I mean, there was some pretty strongly implied oral sex at one point, and I remember how conservative ratings were in the 1980s US...
Well then, tell the moviegoing public which films that are allowed to see or not see and which ones the holder of penises are allowed to comment on.
Surely if they read the review and it was talking about how the movie was really relevant to black people they could just decide if that was something that interested them or not.
I think white men, critics would enjoy it, would enjoy my work, but often I think there is a critic who will damn it in a way because they donâ(TM)t understand it
She says there are white men who would enjoy it... And then you claim she is blaming the entire white race. That is not a logical chain of reasoning.
And really, she couches that statement is such soft language, and speaking off the cuff. You are reading a lot into it that isn't there.
Plagiarism is actually rampant on YouTube as well, and not just for game reviews. It's not uncommon for people to simple re-make other people's videos and hope they won't notice. Even worse some will see other channels talking about up-coming videos on Twitter and rush out their own version first.
Sometimes even whole channels get cloned. When the Hydraulic Press Channel became popular within a couple of days several clones appeared. Fortunately the original was able to survive by branching out into stuff other than just crushing things, amusing as that is.
Why do you give a free pass to anti-male stuff and call it "for women"?
What stuff specifically are you referring to?
Ah, I learned something. Thanks.
It means that at very best that the reviewer must identify their sex in order to have their review validated as acceptable or not acceptable.
Only if you take it to an absolutely absurd extreme which is not what is being suggested.
Maybe when a critic notices that the movie doesn't seem to be aimed at them and realizes that they might not be the best placed person to judge its merits, they could decline to review it and let someone more suited do the job?
No "validation" or enforcement required, just a polite suggestion.
In the store the phone is active all the time, displaying those cheesy screensavers with the screen on max brightness. Heat generation for prolonged periods of time, 7 days a week will likely have a very negative effect on the battery.
They probably don't care about dead batteries in display models of course.
Back in the day laptops came with a removable battery and adequate charger. Many also came with an app that let you control the battery charging, e.g. setting "long life mode" which would maintain around 60% charge (95-100% degrades the pack much more quickly).
Nowadays you just throw the otherwise perfectly good laptop in the trash.
Aren't they mostly banned anyway? I see signs at airports saying you must remove the batteries from "smart" suitcases, no batteries over a certain size etc.
I wonder if they have them on aircraft now. I bet there is a fire-proof bag on long haul flights, especially now that charging and power outlets are quite common.
Waymo's cars seem to work pretty well alone side human drivers. What makes you think they don't?
Infowar's pages were removed for repeatedly inciting violence with race war and deep state civil war conspiracy theories, and for trying to dehumanize transgender people.
You are right, other people did the same thing, but Facebook moderation reacts to reports rather than actively seeking out ToS violations. So naturally the pages at the centre of it all, the ones were there stories and memes being shared originate from, are the ones getting the most reports.
FB doesn't want to be the town square. It wants to be an addictive place to be for the vast majority of users, so it can harvest their personal data. FB's main concern is finding the balance between freedom of speech and removing really objectionable material that generates the most profit.
FB wants to be the shopping mall where people go to meet up, because there is no money in being the town square.
Are you backed up in duplicate on two, non co-located mirror servers or drives?
I am. One of the few upsides to the cloud is that reliable, distributed storage is very cheap now. Backup services like Spideroak use Amazon or Google clouds, which have geographic distribution and duplication built in.
I have local read-only backups of really important stuff too of course.
Did you ask for a refund for your lost apps?
Years ago I switched phones and tried to reinstall a dictionary app I had bought. I couldn't, it was no longer available to download. I email them and they told me that their licence for the dictionary data had expired, so I asked for a refund and got it.
If the manufacturers lie about the MTBF they will get into legal difficulties as the regulators investigate them, and consumers will be able to make a good argument in small claims court that their product lasted much less time than one would reasonably expect.
And let us not forget that Ghostbusters was target at children.
Not really. Most of the jokes would have gone over the heads of kids. Like the original it was aimed at adults, with adult humour.
The concept of males "not understanding" is yet another sexist idea that some women have
It's not a question of "not understanding", it's a question of being the target audience and having experiences that make the movie relevant to you.
I'm a bit old for Disney movies these days. I do have a certain appreciation for the old Transformers animated movie though, because it was a part of my childhood. It's not that I don't understand Disney movies, or even don't enjoy them on a certain level, but I'm probably not the guy you want to ask for advice on if they are good or not. I don't really know if you kid will like them, because I don't have any experience of being a kid in 2018.
Of course it's not impossible for white male critics to understand these movies or even do excellent reviews of them, but if we go back to reality for a moment we find that in practice this tends not to happen. So asking for more reviews by people who are the target audience seems entirely reasonable.
She said
there is an insanely low chance a woman of color will have a chance to see your movie, and review your movie.
and you concluded
So now we have that Reviews are a make or break, and that "40 year old white dudes should not be allowed to make commentary upon those movies. This is obvious because these movies must make money to continue to be made. Bad reviews = no money. And bad reviews are apparently made by 40 year old "white dudes" that she doesn't need to hear form.
This is is leap of logic that makes no sense. She is clearly saying that the problem is the lack of reviews by women of colour, and the obvious solution is to publish reviews by women of colour. How does any of that require 40 year old while men to be banned from writing reviews?
It has, but you can easily see that isn't the case.
On IMDB the movie had lots of positive reviews. Then suddenly there was a flood of very similar negative ones. All making the same nonsense points, e.g. that the CGI was bad or the acting was bad (both of which recieved awards).
The trolls are not very sophisticated, but IMDB relies entirely on flagging and does nothing to stop mobs so they don't need to be.
Making a movie for women isn't sexist. It doesn't hurt men.
And the problem isn't white males. You even quoted the damn explanation of the problem but somehow saw the phrase "white male" and had some kind of Pavlovian response.
The problem is movies being reviewed almost exclusively by people who are not the target audience and who don't understand them.
Geeks should understand this very well. How often do critics slate great sci-fi movies that we love and which become cult classics? The views of sci-fi fan critics get buried by the ones who thought LaLa Land was better.
My smart TV still has star ratings.
They haven't got rid of the star ratings though, so bad shows will still get low ratings. It's more likely that the cost of moderation vs the utility of the reviews made it not worth continuing.
It's probably due to trolling. IMDB is the same, certain movies are heavily trolled, e.g. Black Panther.
It's not supposed to be secure. The help page even tells you that: https://support.google.com/mai...
The idea is to signal to the recipient that they should not forward or print the message. They can circumvent that with some effort but so can you easily copy documents marked "top secret" and "confidential". This feature prevents casual, thoughtless copying.
It depends what you use the bus for. If you just turn up randomly to go somewhere you have an average wait of 10 minutes, but if know the timetable or make the same journey every day you can get the wait down to nothing.
In some places like Tokyo the train/bus is often the fastest option.