It's not about stopping them using beautiful people... But I would point out that actually the UK has banned using beautiful people in some adverts, specifically those for alcohol. The current rules are that booze adverts have to use average looking people.
Interesting. There is an issue with the official remote (genuine) that makes it eat batteries. It's Bluetooth and the host has to put it into sleep mode, and even then it only goes a couple of weeks on cheap cells. Maybe there is an issue with the PC drivers not putting the gamepads to sleep properly.
I use the remote with Kodi on a Pi and had to change some settings to make it sleep IIRC.
Is there really no middle ground between "don't be a sexist asshat" and "everyone must wear a burka"?
If not I think we have bigger problems, because walking around naked in public is already illegal in most places and we must already be on that slipper slope. My god, they have already banned erect penises on British TV 60 years ago, it's no wonder it's now a Sharia hell-hole!
Who the hell are they to tell me what is and is not OK?
They are people exercising their right to free speech. If you don't like it, don't listen.
This entire issue isn't about people getting offended anyway. It's about people pretending to be offended so they can show everyone how upstanding and moral
End it there and you would have been absolutely correct. SWJ-outrage is the most popular form of virtue signalling.
Abandoning Debian over systemd I can understand, that's a technical issue and there is a reasonable argument to be made against it. I can understand not using non-free software on principal too.
But abandoning Debian over this trivial thing... What are you worried about, exactly? Getting cooties from SJW-infected software?
Also how come you are only just noticing? Debian has had this code of conduct for years and this isn't the first time it has been used.
In another thread you would be complaining about people boycotting stuff on principal and telling them to be more tolerant and just ignore stuff they don't like.
The basic principal at work here is that it's fine to use boobs if they are relevant to your product. Breast cancer charities, bras, that kind of thing, fine, go ahead. Even sexy poses for your push-up bra is fine, because it's designed to enhance sex appeal.
But if you are selling a chair and you decide to drape some boobs over it for your advert, that's just exploiting women's bodies to sell your presumably shit product.
Anti-harassment wasn't the reason. That group is there to administer the code of conduct as well as deal with harassment.
In this case the issue was that the package name didn't just contain "boob" as part of an acronym, the developers had deliberately gone out of their way to include it and then gone out of their way to name sub-mobiles so they could contain the word as well, even though it make absolutely no sense to do so. In fact it was fucking up their naming scheme and there is an open pull request to try to at least fix the binary names so they are somewhat consistent.
But neither of those things actually happened, did they?
There have been two attempts to remove swearing recently, one for the Linux kernel and one for JRE. First was completely rejected despite Linux having recently adopted what was supposed to be the worst possible SJW-infested Code of Conduct imaginable, and the JRE one was mostly rejected except for a few small changes.
In this case the decision was not in any way based on the package name having the word "boob" in it, as you would know if you had bothered to read the actual post on the Debian mailing list. In fact, other packages with "boob" in the name remain because they were not doing the thing that Weboob was doing which got their package removed.
It's not in their heads, the project itself went out of its way to get boobs into everything. Look at the official list of apps, half of them work "boob" into the title for no reason by dropping the "we".
It already had to patch out homophobic slurs from the output. Not a comment in the source, the output of the binary.
The principal here is outlined in this post on the Debian mailing list.
This whole discussion reminded me of a campaign by the German project pinkstinks.de called "Sexy yes, sexism no":
It's fine to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell women's underwear (left picture: "Bra 29 EUR"). It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair (and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw attention to the ad) (right picture: "Chair 199 EUR"). I think that explains the issue of objectification quite well.
Are they copies or are they just old? If they have been sitting on a shelf for years the lithium batteries might be quite badly degraded.
All batteries self-discharge slowly over time. If lithium cells get over-discharged they are damaged. So if you leave one sitting around for long enough it will kill itself with self-discharge.
A lot of phone batteries have this problem. Even if you manage to find a genuine battery for an older model it might be a dud by now anyway.
Amazon says first availability was September 2015, although it still on sale. Anyway, EU minimum warranty is 2 years, and most countries go further. In the UK goods must "last a reasonable length of time", and even if you were an early adopter 3 years is way too short for a product like this. Typically computers and TVs are minimum 6 years if it gets to court, more for expensive ones.
So let's say six years, an early adopter would get a 50% refund, people who bought this year would expect a full refund. The retailer is on the hook for this, not Logitech.
The iPad has a particular design flaw where the charge port and hole for the microphone are directly opposite each other, right on the centre line. That severely weakens the frame and makes it prone to bending alone that centre line.
It's extremely ironic that this happened to Apple, who previously enforced patents on bouncing when reaching the end of a scrolling list, on rounded corners and on a lack of adornments.
I'm surprised no-one bothered to patent the notification shade. When Apple ripped that off from Android I expected a lawsuit, but it seems that no-one is claiming to have invented it and unlike all this other nonsense it's an actually useful and slightly original UI element.
Maybe you should have gone all-in with the Paris Agreement then. Push hard for countries like China to clean up.
In fact China is doing a hell of a lot. Peak coal for China was passed years ago. Massive investment in electric vehicles, especially for public transport. A lot of the polluting factories were shut down years ago too, back before the Olympics even.
You could also just do what the EU does and require companies that outsource manufacturing to China to account for emissions over there in their environmental tax burden.
That's like claiming that if you do a public reading of a poem you wrote then reproducing or reusing that poem does not require authorization. It does, copyright does not get invalidated with the first public performance.
Stuff on Tumblr is still protected by copyright law and while you have been given the right to view it on Tumblr anything else is still at the discretion of the copyright holder.
Even if you ignore the problems with landfill, there are other issues.
Plastic waste gets into the food chain. It gets into places where animals live and kills them. A lot of it is simply not properly disposed of.
And even if we fixed that, it's better to recycle plastic than it is to create new plastic in many cases. Less energy and pollution required. It would be even better if we avoided creating some of that plastic in the first place, and make the stuff we did create easier to recycle (less dye, using the right kind of plastic etc.)
We could also get a hell of a lot more use out of what we have before making more. Plastic bags are the classic example, they can be re-used but it wasn't until shops started charging for them that most people make much of an effort.
On the one hand you complain about people calling you a Nazi, on the other you accuse people making a fairly reasonable and not without merit political argument of fascism.
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It's not about stopping them using beautiful people... But I would point out that actually the UK has banned using beautiful people in some adverts, specifically those for alcohol. The current rules are that booze adverts have to use average looking people.
(not that I suppose that, BTW)
Interesting. There is an issue with the official remote (genuine) that makes it eat batteries. It's Bluetooth and the host has to put it into sleep mode, and even then it only goes a couple of weeks on cheap cells. Maybe there is an issue with the PC drivers not putting the gamepads to sleep properly.
I use the remote with Kodi on a Pi and had to change some settings to make it sleep IIRC.
Is there really no middle ground between "don't be a sexist asshat" and "everyone must wear a burka"?
If not I think we have bigger problems, because walking around naked in public is already illegal in most places and we must already be on that slipper slope. My god, they have already banned erect penises on British TV 60 years ago, it's no wonder it's now a Sharia hell-hole!
The only witch hunt going on here is the anti-SJWs demanding that heads roll for this outrage.
Who the hell are they to tell me what is and is not OK?
They are people exercising their right to free speech. If you don't like it, don't listen.
This entire issue isn't about people getting offended anyway. It's about people pretending to be offended so they can show everyone how upstanding and moral
End it there and you would have been absolutely correct. SWJ-outrage is the most popular form of virtue signalling.
Just anti-China propaganda to drum up support for tariffs and other bullshit.
Remind me again what acts of terror the Debian anti-harassment group has committed?
Abandoning Debian over systemd I can understand, that's a technical issue and there is a reasonable argument to be made against it. I can understand not using non-free software on principal too.
But abandoning Debian over this trivial thing... What are you worried about, exactly? Getting cooties from SJW-infected software?
Also how come you are only just noticing? Debian has had this code of conduct for years and this isn't the first time it has been used.
In another thread you would be complaining about people boycotting stuff on principal and telling them to be more tolerant and just ignore stuff they don't like.
The basic principal at work here is that it's fine to use boobs if they are relevant to your product. Breast cancer charities, bras, that kind of thing, fine, go ahead. Even sexy poses for your push-up bra is fine, because it's designed to enhance sex appeal.
But if you are selling a chair and you decide to drape some boobs over it for your advert, that's just exploiting women's bodies to sell your presumably shit product.
Anti-harassment wasn't the reason. That group is there to administer the code of conduct as well as deal with harassment.
In this case the issue was that the package name didn't just contain "boob" as part of an acronym, the developers had deliberately gone out of their way to include it and then gone out of their way to name sub-mobiles so they could contain the word as well, even though it make absolutely no sense to do so. In fact it was fucking up their naming scheme and there is an open pull request to try to at least fix the binary names so they are somewhat consistent.
But neither of those things actually happened, did they?
There have been two attempts to remove swearing recently, one for the Linux kernel and one for JRE. First was completely rejected despite Linux having recently adopted what was supposed to be the worst possible SJW-infested Code of Conduct imaginable, and the JRE one was mostly rejected except for a few small changes.
In this case the decision was not in any way based on the package name having the word "boob" in it, as you would know if you had bothered to read the actual post on the Debian mailing list. In fact, other packages with "boob" in the name remain because they were not doing the thing that Weboob was doing which got their package removed.
By the logic used to reach this decision, no, man pages and engrampa are both quite safe.
It's not in their heads, the project itself went out of its way to get boobs into everything. Look at the official list of apps, half of them work "boob" into the title for no reason by dropping the "we".
It already had to patch out homophobic slurs from the output. Not a comment in the source, the output of the binary.
The principal here is outlined in this post on the Debian mailing list.
This whole discussion reminded me of a campaign by the German project
pinkstinks.de called "Sexy yes, sexism no":
https://pinkstinks.de/sexy-ode...
Summary in my words:
It's fine to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell women's
underwear (left picture: "Bra 29 EUR").
It's not ok to show a woman in underwear if you try to sell a chair
(and the scantily clad woman is just decoration / an object to draw
attention to the ad) (right picture: "Chair 199 EUR").
I think that explains the issue of objectification quite well.
Are they copies or are they just old? If they have been sitting on a shelf for years the lithium batteries might be quite badly degraded.
All batteries self-discharge slowly over time. If lithium cells get over-discharged they are damaged. So if you leave one sitting around for long enough it will kill itself with self-discharge.
A lot of phone batteries have this problem. Even if you manage to find a genuine battery for an older model it might be a dud by now anyway.
Local taxes are not tariffs, no.
Amazon says first availability was September 2015, although it still on sale. Anyway, EU minimum warranty is 2 years, and most countries go further. In the UK goods must "last a reasonable length of time", and even if you were an early adopter 3 years is way too short for a product like this. Typically computers and TVs are minimum 6 years if it gets to court, more for expensive ones.
So let's say six years, an early adopter would get a 50% refund, people who bought this year would expect a full refund. The retailer is on the hook for this, not Logitech.
The iPad has a particular design flaw where the charge port and hole for the microphone are directly opposite each other, right on the centre line. That severely weakens the frame and makes it prone to bending alone that centre line.
Can I patent the wheel, please? How about a box?
Didn't someone in Australia manage to get a patent on the wheel? Ah yes...
https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
It's extremely ironic that this happened to Apple, who previously enforced patents on bouncing when reaching the end of a scrolling list, on rounded corners and on a lack of adornments.
I'm surprised no-one bothered to patent the notification shade. When Apple ripped that off from Android I expected a lawsuit, but it seems that no-one is claiming to have invented it and unlike all this other nonsense it's an actually useful and slightly original UI element.
Maybe you should have gone all-in with the Paris Agreement then. Push hard for countries like China to clean up.
In fact China is doing a hell of a lot. Peak coal for China was passed years ago. Massive investment in electric vehicles, especially for public transport. A lot of the polluting factories were shut down years ago too, back before the Olympics even.
You could also just do what the EU does and require companies that outsource manufacturing to China to account for emissions over there in their environmental tax burden.
That's like claiming that if you do a public reading of a poem you wrote then reproducing or reusing that poem does not require authorization. It does, copyright does not get invalidated with the first public performance.
Stuff on Tumblr is still protected by copyright law and while you have been given the right to view it on Tumblr anything else is still at the discretion of the copyright holder.
Even if you ignore the problems with landfill, there are other issues.
Plastic waste gets into the food chain. It gets into places where animals live and kills them. A lot of it is simply not properly disposed of.
And even if we fixed that, it's better to recycle plastic than it is to create new plastic in many cases. Less energy and pollution required. It would be even better if we avoided creating some of that plastic in the first place, and make the stuff we did create easier to recycle (less dye, using the right kind of plastic etc.)
We could also get a hell of a lot more use out of what we have before making more. Plastic bags are the classic example, they can be re-used but it wasn't until shops started charging for them that most people make much of an effort.
Nothing compared to those ridiculous Toblerone though.
Environmental protection, public transport, women... I'm sure this will be a quiet thread, nothing controversial there.
On the one hand you complain about people calling you a Nazi, on the other you accuse people making a fairly reasonable and not without merit political argument of fascism.