My favourite example of how no-one can agree what an SJW is would be this clip from Star Trek The Next Generation: https://youtu.be/Xn5-iG6FX58
It's from the episode "The Drumhead", in which an investigator comes to uncover a conspiracy on the Enterprise. She ends up turning it into a witch hunt, reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Picard shuts her down with a brilliant speech.
The title of the video is "Triggered SJW Attacks Picard, Instantly Regrets It". The person who posted it seems to think that the investigator is the SJW, but many of the comments think it is Picard. The investigator cares little for social justice, she just wants to root out enemies of the Federation. Picard wants to protect the mixed-race guy she picks on, and on the whole his character is known for wrestling with moral issues and having a strong commitment to justice.
So is an SJW just someone who annoys you, or an authoritarian, or someone acting unreasonably, or is there some set of qualities that defines them? And if the latter, how come it's nor Picard, a guy who literally fights for social justice at times?
The phrase is completely meaningless, but people think they know what it means so you can use it and expect your audience to nod along regardless of whether they actually agree with you or not.
This is a very common tactic in low quality opinion rags. The article is carefully worded to avoid specifics, so that the reader fills in the gaps themselves and thinks that it's about the people they personally dislike.
Another example of this is the phrase "SJW". No-one can agree on exactly what it means, which is why it's so successful. It means whoever the reader disagrees with and thinks is an idiot, basically a cheat code to make everyone agree with you.
Wouldn't it be great if people stopped inventing boogie-men and fake problems? No more ranting about SJWs, no more panic over which bathroom someone uses, no more gynophobia and being alone and angry...
But they won't, because inventing problems gives them someone to blame for the problems in their lives. Don't get me wrong, the deck is stacked, but inventing new problems isn't going to fix anything.
Is slashdot twitter now, with a bunch of outraged SJW mouthing off about things of which they have no ability to form an coherent opinion or logical train of thoughts?
Hold on. Silicon Valley is supposed to be full of SJWs, so surely this guy is an anti-SJW complaining about the SV SJWs..?
Or maybe the phrase is meaningless bollocks and this article is just another example of how most people seem to think they are the only ones with any common sense and everyone who disagrees with them is an idiot.
So, instead of all of the users suing, unly those in the EU suing.
Actually it wouldn't be up to individual users to sue Facebook. That's the great thing about it, the option is there to sue individually but there are also national watchdogs who will step in when it affects a lot of people, and for multinationals there can be an EU level investigation.
If the EU decides to take an interest they could be hit with those 4% fines. 4% of revenue, not profit.
Actually there was an investigation on NHK (Japanese national broadcaster) where they examined the "made in Japan" claims of several products. Many of them critical parts made overseas, e.g. a DVR with a Samsung hard drive or a TV with an LG LCD panel.
The problems with their economies are complex and, like in many other places, the financial crisis and wars in Syria and Libya have given politicians with a strong anti-immigration stance a boost.
For example, there is a labour shortage but the labour is not well paid. They could pay more, but it's cheaper to just get robots.
There is also a lot of frustration that it is taking a long time for those countries to build up to similar levels as the rest of the EU. Perhaps people had unrealistic expectations about how quickly it would happen, and again some politicians are using it to push their own agendas while also blaming the EU for the migrant problem.
Meanwhile many younger people are leaving the country to work abroad, and with the internet they can communicate how much better things seem in other places.
Those refugees could actually help solve all of these problems. Many of them are highly educated, highly skilled and ready to build new businesses and economic opportunities to replace what they lost. I remember a study (sadly can't find it now) that found that a disproportionate number of entrepreneurs were immigrants in the UK.
Yes, it's a standard technique for gathering information when writing a book. You hear that there are problems at Amazon, so decide to verify it for yourself and gain a greater insight than you can get just from talking to other people. It also gives you an opportunity to test the limits of the system, to ask for better conditions to see what the reaction is and so forth.
Having seen their hiring process and the kind of questions they ask during interviews, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work there for any amount of money.
I have a feeling it's actually a kind of age discrimination. Ask university exam style questions that no-one with a few years of experience remembers any more. Make the fresh graduates think they are good because they answered it, and then run them into the ground until they quit.
Should laws prohibit Facebook from carrying out their technically-legal but morally-dubious business strategy?
It probably isn't legal in many places. Building shadow profiles, for example, has been found to be illegal in some EU member states already and definitely will be in all of them from next month when the GDPR comes in.
Head over the Tesla Motors Club forum and look at the number of posts complaining about poor fit and finish. The new car checklist mentions checking it multiple times, many people say they either rejected cars immediately or made the mistake of believing that the service centre would fix it...
It's hard to make a complex car that all fits together perfectly. Other manufacturers have spent decades perfecting it. Tesla has some unique issues too, like the falcon wing doors on the X that have always had trouble closing properly, and where misalignment that would be cosmetic on other cars results in things like water pouring into the cabin when they open.
It's made worse by the fact that cars like the X start at 100k, so people expect 100k car quality. Or at least 30k car quality.
The joke was always that the best Mac was an Amiga, running Shapshifter and MacOS under an early kind of virtual machine. The Amiga was faster, cheaper, had better hardware and could also run all the Amiga stuff.
"can include" seems pretty straightforward to me. Here are some examples if things that can be part of sexual harassment. It doesn't state that any of them individually are (although some clearly would be if deliberate), just that sexual harassment can include such things those in the list.
At this point we are arguing over semantics. I think you would need to show that someone had actually been sanctioned for just licking their lips or winking and nothing else. Obviously I can't prove a negative.
I'll concede that perhaps some clearer wording might help allay some concerns, and that it could be misinterpreted.
In any case, the EU certainly protects consumers a lot more than the US. That's one of the major reasons why US companies find it so hard to sell stuff here, and the same in Japan where they can't meet the automotive emissions standards, for example.
Well European cars are selling really well in China. It's the biggest growth market by far for companies like BMW, Jaguar and Audi. Japanese manufacturers are making inroads too, despite the history of their two countries.
Chinese consumers love western brands too. They aren't dumb either, they know that fakes are fake, and value the real thing if they can afford it. Again, it's a rapidly growing market for Prada and Louis Vitton.
There are lots of other useful kinda-smart features. ARC is the obvious example, it allows a connected sound system to get the right audio as the TV switches source. It also allows for stuff like an external DVR to turn on the TV and tune to the right channel without a janky IR blaster.
CEC allows the remote control keys to be passed over HDMI too, so that a DVR or similar can use the main TV remote instead of needing a second one.
Built in media players that support USB are quite handy too. Sure, you can do better with Kodi or whatever, but the USB port is handy if your friend brings over something to watch.
What you don't want is network connectivity. As long as the other smart features like apps don't complain or get in the way, simply unplugging the ethernet cable and not connecting to wifi is adequate on most TVs.
Even the BBC started doing auto-play videos, although at least they don't follow you down the page and pause the audio when you scroll past.
I've been using Firefox on Android lately. It's scrolling isn't as smooth as Chrome but the fact that you can run ad-blocking plugins means it uses a hell of a lot less data. There are host based blocking solutions on Android like DNS66, but they are not nearly as good as uBlock Origin.
It's not even going to be a good smart TV. You would be much better off with Android TV, which supports everything rather than being locked in to Amazon's walled garden.
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My favourite example of how no-one can agree what an SJW is would be this clip from Star Trek The Next Generation: https://youtu.be/Xn5-iG6FX58
It's from the episode "The Drumhead", in which an investigator comes to uncover a conspiracy on the Enterprise. She ends up turning it into a witch hunt, reminiscent of the McCarthy era. Picard shuts her down with a brilliant speech.
The title of the video is "Triggered SJW Attacks Picard, Instantly Regrets It". The person who posted it seems to think that the investigator is the SJW, but many of the comments think it is Picard. The investigator cares little for social justice, she just wants to root out enemies of the Federation. Picard wants to protect the mixed-race guy she picks on, and on the whole his character is known for wrestling with moral issues and having a strong commitment to justice.
So is an SJW just someone who annoys you, or an authoritarian, or someone acting unreasonably, or is there some set of qualities that defines them? And if the latter, how come it's nor Picard, a guy who literally fights for social justice at times?
The phrase is completely meaningless, but people think they know what it means so you can use it and expect your audience to nod along regardless of whether they actually agree with you or not.
This is a very common tactic in low quality opinion rags. The article is carefully worded to avoid specifics, so that the reader fills in the gaps themselves and thinks that it's about the people they personally dislike.
Another example of this is the phrase "SJW". No-one can agree on exactly what it means, which is why it's so successful. It means whoever the reader disagrees with and thinks is an idiot, basically a cheat code to make everyone agree with you.
When I buy a new CPU, showing me ads for graphic cards rather than running shoes is sensible.
Remember the 90s when "targeted" meant that they displayed graphic card ads on sites related to computer stuff? And running shoes on Yahoo! Sports?
I'm fine if the targeting is not at individuals but at the topic of the site they are browsing.
TFA is misleading.
It was never a universal basic income, because it was never universal. Only unemployed people got it.
And it was less generous than the previous unemployment benefits, the idea being to "encourage" people into work.
Wouldn't it be great if people stopped inventing boogie-men and fake problems? No more ranting about SJWs, no more panic over which bathroom someone uses, no more gynophobia and being alone and angry...
But they won't, because inventing problems gives them someone to blame for the problems in their lives. Don't get me wrong, the deck is stacked, but inventing new problems isn't going to fix anything.
Is slashdot twitter now, with a bunch of outraged SJW mouthing off about things of which they have no ability to form an coherent opinion or logical train of thoughts?
Hold on. Silicon Valley is supposed to be full of SJWs, so surely this guy is an anti-SJW complaining about the SV SJWs..?
Or maybe the phrase is meaningless bollocks and this article is just another example of how most people seem to think they are the only ones with any common sense and everyone who disagrees with them is an idiot.
So, instead of all of the users suing, unly those in the EU suing.
Actually it wouldn't be up to individual users to sue Facebook. That's the great thing about it, the option is there to sue individually but there are also national watchdogs who will step in when it affects a lot of people, and for multinationals there can be an EU level investigation.
If the EU decides to take an interest they could be hit with those 4% fines. 4% of revenue, not profit.
Can't you just making it illegal to robocall people? Seems to have worked well enough in other countries. Robocalls aren't even a thing in the UK.
Actually there was an investigation on NHK (Japanese national broadcaster) where they examined the "made in Japan" claims of several products. Many of them critical parts made overseas, e.g. a DVR with a Samsung hard drive or a TV with an LG LCD panel.
Reminds me of that scene in Gran Torino, where Clint Eastwood is initially unwelcoming of his foreign neighbours, until he tries the food.
The problems with their economies are complex and, like in many other places, the financial crisis and wars in Syria and Libya have given politicians with a strong anti-immigration stance a boost.
For example, there is a labour shortage but the labour is not well paid. They could pay more, but it's cheaper to just get robots.
There is also a lot of frustration that it is taking a long time for those countries to build up to similar levels as the rest of the EU. Perhaps people had unrealistic expectations about how quickly it would happen, and again some politicians are using it to push their own agendas while also blaming the EU for the migrant problem.
Meanwhile many younger people are leaving the country to work abroad, and with the internet they can communicate how much better things seem in other places.
Those refugees could actually help solve all of these problems. Many of them are highly educated, highly skilled and ready to build new businesses and economic opportunities to replace what they lost. I remember a study (sadly can't find it now) that found that a disproportionate number of entrepreneurs were immigrants in the UK.
Yes, it's a standard technique for gathering information when writing a book. You hear that there are problems at Amazon, so decide to verify it for yourself and gain a greater insight than you can get just from talking to other people. It also gives you an opportunity to test the limits of the system, to ask for better conditions to see what the reaction is and so forth.
Having seen their hiring process and the kind of questions they ask during interviews, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to work there for any amount of money.
I have a feeling it's actually a kind of age discrimination. Ask university exam style questions that no-one with a few years of experience remembers any more. Make the fresh graduates think they are good because they answered it, and then run them into the ground until they quit.
How many Kickstarter scams have there been now and all of them seem to have gotten away with it. There is never any real come-back.
Should laws prohibit Facebook from carrying out their technically-legal but morally-dubious business strategy?
It probably isn't legal in many places. Building shadow profiles, for example, has been found to be illegal in some EU member states already and definitely will be in all of them from next month when the GDPR comes in.
Head over the Tesla Motors Club forum and look at the number of posts complaining about poor fit and finish. The new car checklist mentions checking it multiple times, many people say they either rejected cars immediately or made the mistake of believing that the service centre would fix it...
It's hard to make a complex car that all fits together perfectly. Other manufacturers have spent decades perfecting it. Tesla has some unique issues too, like the falcon wing doors on the X that have always had trouble closing properly, and where misalignment that would be cosmetic on other cars results in things like water pouring into the cabin when they open.
It's made worse by the fact that cars like the X start at 100k, so people expect 100k car quality. Or at least 30k car quality.
The joke was always that the best Mac was an Amiga, running Shapshifter and MacOS under an early kind of virtual machine. The Amiga was faster, cheaper, had better hardware and could also run all the Amiga stuff.
So what is a good alternative to OneNote? I've been using it for years to collect my notes, but it looks like I need to switch to something else now.
There is Google Keep and a bunch of other cloud services, but I'd rather have something that stores the data locally.
"can include" seems pretty straightforward to me. Here are some examples if things that can be part of sexual harassment. It doesn't state that any of them individually are (although some clearly would be if deliberate), just that sexual harassment can include such things those in the list.
At this point we are arguing over semantics. I think you would need to show that someone had actually been sanctioned for just licking their lips or winking and nothing else. Obviously I can't prove a negative.
I'll concede that perhaps some clearer wording might help allay some concerns, and that it could be misinterpreted.
The EU authoritarian? Okay buddy.
In any case, the EU certainly protects consumers a lot more than the US. That's one of the major reasons why US companies find it so hard to sell stuff here, and the same in Japan where they can't meet the automotive emissions standards, for example.
Apparently not. It looks somewhat impractical though, so hopefully they won't adopt it.
Well European cars are selling really well in China. It's the biggest growth market by far for companies like BMW, Jaguar and Audi. Japanese manufacturers are making inroads too, despite the history of their two countries.
Chinese consumers love western brands too. They aren't dumb either, they know that fakes are fake, and value the real thing if they can afford it. Again, it's a rapidly growing market for Prada and Louis Vitton.
There are lots of other useful kinda-smart features. ARC is the obvious example, it allows a connected sound system to get the right audio as the TV switches source. It also allows for stuff like an external DVR to turn on the TV and tune to the right channel without a janky IR blaster.
CEC allows the remote control keys to be passed over HDMI too, so that a DVR or similar can use the main TV remote instead of needing a second one.
Built in media players that support USB are quite handy too. Sure, you can do better with Kodi or whatever, but the USB port is handy if your friend brings over something to watch.
What you don't want is network connectivity. As long as the other smart features like apps don't complain or get in the way, simply unplugging the ethernet cable and not connecting to wifi is adequate on most TVs.
Even the BBC started doing auto-play videos, although at least they don't follow you down the page and pause the audio when you scroll past.
I've been using Firefox on Android lately. It's scrolling isn't as smooth as Chrome but the fact that you can run ad-blocking plugins means it uses a hell of a lot less data. There are host based blocking solutions on Android like DNS66, but they are not nearly as good as uBlock Origin.
It's not even going to be a good smart TV. You would be much better off with Android TV, which supports everything rather than being locked in to Amazon's walled garden.