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  1. Re:Not buying it on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They were fake news stories posing as true ones which I bet were paid by Russia

  2. Re:No Bias? on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Rejects Trump Bias Claims (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or maybe just maybe he cares about his freaking country enough to put politics aside to put an end to foreign interference and espianoge by a hostile government agaisn't his own.

    Is that so damned hard today to find someone who loves his country more than his or her candidate for office?

    I have seen pro Putin posts and polls among the right which I do not know if it angers me or saddens me more? If you support candidate and bias over country you are UnAmerican and a traitor! Case closed! I am left and make this a disclaimer but if Bernie or Hillary won and Russia had a role you bet I would support Zuckerberg and the GOP led investigation (as we know it's party first in this day and age).

    If Bernie had a son who met with Russia and used his free email accounts then I want that bastard impeached! I do not care about party first if a foreign entitty got involved. Why is it so damned hard to find any Republican who doesn't think like this or anyone rationally minded.

  3. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    History lesson: All the far right win democrats switched to the GOP. All but Byrd.

    The right wing were historically democrats before FDR. THe left and center were republicans. FDR ran as a liberal democrat to win the south (which at the time refused to vote for the party of Lincoln) and being liberal could win northern states. The 1964 Civil Rights act switched politicians to opposite parties as the south said screw the no party of Lincoln mantra we need to discriminate and keep white power and joined the GOP and supported Nixon in protest. Reagan took the rest over by 1980 as Jimmy Carter was too liberal for the south

  4. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 2

    Worse when you call it an illness rather than a disorder it implies something different medically and legally. If you view someone being mentally ill it gives a green light for HR to fire him or her and not worry about being sued as this person is a threat to herself and others and had to be eliminated etc.

    If it is a disorder then it is an acknowledgement that perhaps the brain is wired differently and now you can't fire someone from being trans or discriminate and need to make reasonable work accommodations.

    Last, it is frankly offensive to call someone mentally ill. I mentioned aspergers/autism in the thread here. I have a disorder. However, I am not mentally ill and would take great offensive if someone implied this or if I lost my job due to it and have no protection.

  5. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Be careful trying to play that word game. The main thing we're talking about here is DSM-V defined mental disorders (homosexuality is not one, but gender dysphoria is). If you want to say that's just a "disorder", then by psychological definition also realize that another "disorder" is pedophilia. Want to argue pedophiles aren't mentally ill because pedophilia is "just a disorder"? Or are you just completely untethered from any kind of formal definition used by mental health professionals and just asserting what you "feel" is a disorder or an illness, therefore that wouldn't be true. (This isn't meant to impugn trans- folks, I'm very pro-LGBT, it's just this guy is playing stupid word games)

    The implication is trans people are just crazy and need meds to get better and therefore do not deserve rights or be recognized as being wired differently than typical men. That is the problem and why it's being moved to a disorder which carries a different meaning than an illness which is a threat to him or herself or others.

    Calling someone mentally ill is very offensive and encourages prejudice and sexism. If you say oh that programmer needs to be fired as she is mentally unstable etc. A disorder is not someone unstable and an incorrect view re-enforces stereo types

  6. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    There is a difference. If I binge eat I am mentally ill? That is a disorder but it doesn't mean I am mentally ill. Homosexuality was once an illiness. Now a simple disorder

  7. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Women generally are not freaking out and making life miserable for trans ladies. It is men as we are taught as young boys to bully feminine boys as they are weak. We then grow up and do the same to other adults who are different.

    Ladies I talk to are mortified reading internet comments from guys. I guess feminine qualities are a virtue for them so they probably don't get it

  8. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 0

    Illness didn't show up in your citation. Disorder is not an illness

  9. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1

    Because having a screaming fit when your pencils are mixed up is definitely a self-diagnosed super-power! Or are you just deciding your 'on the spectrum' because you're awkward and socially inept?

    Only when I see people run bash.exe on Windows 10

  10. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    Aspergers no longer exists. It is now part of the bigger Autism label in the DSM

  11. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    No it's not a mental illness. No more than being gay by definition.

  12. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I didn't know I chose to be Autistic because it was trendy nor that the people who post comments like that know more than the psychiatrists?

  13. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 0

    The comments here say otherwise with +200 plus calling them men and tranees or mentally ill. Yeah it's very bad for a trans person from what I see

  14. Re: That gender fluid main character... on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Whatever it was, it was ugly.

    Well guess what uncomfortable men of slashdot?

    The spirit of Star Trek has always been quite radical since it's 1966 introduction. It had an African American woman playing. Many TV producers at the time refused to air series showing professional African Americans as it would offend white southern TV viewers. She was also a woman which back then was controversial as well.

    Star Trek also had the first interracial kiss which really shocked people the most as you could be beaten up and mobbed if you did this in the south back then. Martin Luther King was a Trekkie as it showed an alien, Russian, Chinese, and African all working together in harmony with racial differences involved. He even flew down to the set and pleaded with the actress who played Uhara to not quit and be an inspiration to both women and Black Americans.

    Transgendered folks as much as they make you uncomfortable are here. Star Trek wants to portray them in a future where we overcome differences which is the spirit of the series.

  15. Re:Binge watched anyone ? on Star Trek: Discovery Nearly Cracks Pirate Bay's Top 10 In Less Than 24 Hours (ew.com) · · Score: 0

    The second episode was better than the first, but this show feels like it's trying to hard to be multi-racial/gender-whatever friendly. Casting the Klingon as a race of bald dark-skinned creatures with a lone character outcast for having light-skin -- yeah, not being ham-fisted here at all with the metaphors.

    I don't know what the f**CK those things were but they were not Klingon. The ship doesn't look anything like the Star Trek TOS so it can't be true?! How unrealistic.

    FYI disclaimer I didn't watch but saw a few trailers and peeps on youtube. I was so mad at what Disney did to Star Wars. Now look at the Star Trek.

    My GOD what is an old nerd to do?

  16. It had DRM. Media experts at Hollywood specifically states this would not happen and made sure we passed the DMCA to make not using DRM illegal. This just can't be true.

    Maybe just maybe it is because Chrome and Edge do not support HTML 5 DRM EME yet? Yeah, that is it. We need to all give up our freedoms ASAP to protect all the lawyers in Hollywood. Please think of the lawyers!

  17. Re:Product Development isn't mathematical. on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Product Development isn't mathematical. on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude just ask a product manager

  19. Re:MBAs are killing Good Products, etc on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 1

    NO man just ask a product manager

  20. AGILE WORKS EVERY TIME on Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? (techbeacon.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoa man all the cool hip project managers Agile development as it solves 100% of the problems 100% of the time. It makes you grow a beard and transports you to a hipster Silicon Valley coffee shop with music playing that hasn't even been written yet complete with groupies watching you code.

  21. Re:Still sounds like the Outlook plugin on Microsoft Connects LinkedIn and Office 365 Via Profile Cards, Starting To Capitalize on $26B Deal (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    THe plugin is called CRM. They bundled it with an office 365 subscription.

  22. Re:One reason for Microsoft enthusiasm of WSL ??? on Richard Stallman vs. Canonical's CEO: 'Will Microsoft Love Linux to Death?' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    Google ActiveDesktop? This was enabled by default with Windows98. It does what Google Chrome and Cortana does when you type in search queries. That's all what Windows 10 does that people freak out about

  23. Re:This is the exact opposite of what they should on Microsoft Teams is Replacing Skype for Business To Put More Pressure on Slack (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah good luck with that. Companies are the biggiest MS fanboys who killed the superior Novell Netware, Unix, and other products to one unifying Microsoft solution hoping it would cut down on costs and save them money.

    Teams is Skype, Sharepoint, some chat application, and Slack?? I never even heard of it before. Has anyone else?

    It is not from Microsoft so it will be ignored by the enterprise since MS has a similar option. Everyone uses Teams and Planner is the new rage so far this year

  24. Re:Microsoft embraces Linux on Richard Stallman vs. Canonical's CEO: 'Will Microsoft Love Linux to Death?' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    I got it working fine last night after running sudo apt-get tasksel and installing it

  25. Re:MicrosoftLinux what does it even matter on Richard Stallman vs. Canonical's CEO: 'Will Microsoft Love Linux to Death?' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 0

    Which hysterically is much worse than Windows 10 which only gathering telemetry. Google admits your keystrokes are logged!

    But we gave it a free pass because Android is cool and based off Linux while Windows 10 is the devil because Windows 3.11 sucked