Just forget actually having anything make any sense. Just come up with something the bureaucrats will like and make it.
As to the cost... the best part is that apparently you can just add zeros to the end of your concept and the check will always clear because hey... its not really their money after all is it?
A comparable system could be built for well under 5k. That is including installation costs assuming you allowed people to bid on the contract rather then just handing it to the same people every single fucking time and assuming them to have competitive pricing when they know you never bother to even look at the invoice before signing it.
I have links for everything else if you want it. It is very easy to find if you look for it. The media is doing a complete snow job on the issue. It is so striking that we're seeing this:
That is colbert from the comedy central show basically giving her a puff piece. Now he isn't a real journalist but you can see the pervasiveness of the media blackout on the issue.
Note that comments are disabled on that video. Look at his other videos... comments are permitted.
This is what gamer gate is about to a large extent. Systematic media corruption and censorship. They're lying to everyone.
Does it matter? Is it a shit issue about a shit community that no one cares about? That is relative to you. However, they are doing it and there is nothing to stop them from doing it anywhere else.
They actually banned someone right in front of Julian Assange. Which had him join in the issue on our side as well.
Everyone that opposes, questions, or criticizes these people is labeled a bigot out of hand.
There are so many god damn links. If you are really curious, I can put you in touch with other people that will tell you themselves. No one in this is hiding. The media outright refuses to interview anyone but the anti side. And when we invite the anti side to come onto channels and talk to us they refuse.
They won't talk to us. They won't debate. They won't explain themselves.
All they do is lie, make threats, and trick idiots into backing them.
Many of the journalists and supporters of the anti GG side have doxxed people... with their main accounts in the clear. Not sock puppet accounts that could be anyone. But they did it directly.
I don't know why people keep bringing up harassment like this helps the anti GG side because the anti GG side has harassed far more.
Who said "we should bring back bullying" was that GG or anti GG? Anti GG. Every single fucking time.
So they have no moral high ground there and I just thought that should be made very fucking clear. To the contrary, it is they that should be apologizing and explaining their own behavior which has been far worse.
People prominent in GG have received death threats, have had people call their work and tell their employers they're pedophiles, have had things mailed to their homes like knives or syringes...
Sure, because Regan tried to socialize everything.
Explain to me what real liberal is please. Point to someone and say "that is a real liberal" I want to know what that means to you. Because your use of the term liberal is not the use that is used by... practically anyone else.
I'm not interested in your definition of liberal. It is moronic and not related to the way that everyone else defines the parties.
You might as well point at the sun and call it "dog" and then point at a daisy and call it "sun". You're just redefining things randomly for no reason.
By US standards, BO is extremely liberal.
What exactly in your mind makes me not liberal? And by liberal... I assume we're talking about socialism and communism. Because the people that really don't like hard core liberals being called liberals... are the people that classify mainstream liberals as posers... because they're the real communist thing.
Am I wrong? Tell me how you define these things and we'll see who winds up looking like the bigger fool when all is said and done.
So by your argument just because your side of the line had lots of people in it, it must have been a good society?
So... Egypt has more people then east germany... is that a well run society?
Do I need to reference north korea or other places with as many people but which we all understand to be jokes?
Point blank... your society was so shitty that they had to build walls around it to keep people leaving.
How many societies do you know of that are such garbage that they need to stop people leaving with walls and soldiers?
Seriously... think of an example.
We have north korea... and possibly Cuba?
I'm sorry you feel nostaligic for a failed society. I am not saying you personally are a joke or that your friends are jokes. I am not saying that the relationships you had were jokes. I am not saying your life is a joke.
I am rather saying that the soviet union was a joke. I am saying communism is a joke. I am saying east germany was at best a victim of the joke that was the soviet union.
The society you had... was a shadow of what you could have known had the soviets not stolen your freedoms from you.
And you sit here defending people that controlled your ability to speak? You defend people that gave you no political rights?
Fine... If that is the society you want to live in... if you want people to tell you what to say and when to say it. If you want to be told to shut up when you contradict the party line and then threatened with violence.
So be it.
As your first taste of that life you miss so much.
Shut up. I will tell you what to believe. Obey.
Or do you want to assert your right to freedom of speech now? A right you didn't have under the soviets.
I didn't say you were a joke. But right now you have two options.
1. Concede the point to me and admit I am right.
2. Render yourself ridiculous and a joke in fact.
Take your time with that little choice.
It is heads I win and tails you lose. Which is after all my favorite game.:-D
As to anita's videos, she doesn't play games and doesn't understand the medium. So she's about as relevant as an illiterate book critic. My mother who does not play video games was able to answer more questions about video games then Anita was when asked on Colbert. If that doesn't tip you off that there is something wrong then you're not paying attention. Anita is a con artist. She learned her media game from infomercial seminars. She's literally on record praising a few of the courses for giving her media savvy. She's so far conned about 200k out of various dupes. If you want me to prove she's a liar it is really really easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There she is admitting it. You now know she's a con artist and has no extensive knowledge of the medium. She came into it to attack and make a name for herself... apparently for money. That is all.
As to it not being a war on games, choose the word that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside... the medium was attacked by political activists using feminism as a shield to get away with radical politics, intimidation, and general character defamation of anyone that resisted them.
As to what you took from those sources, cognitive dissonance is a bitch and apparently you've got it bad. They literally had articles saying "gamers are dead". They made various racist and sexist comments. And then when called on it, they suggested that their opposition was like ISIS and that really this was evidence that "nerds" should be bullied and beaten to keep them in line.
This was from the "journalists". You want to shrug your shoulders and pretend that was nothing? Fine. Point at the sky and call it marmalade. I can't stop you.
Never mind that their people corrupted a CDC report that said that 1 in 5 women are raped in college. A number they got to by claiming any unsatisfying/regrettable sexual encounter was rape. And for men, the standard for rape was of course something completely different because by the same standards roughly the same number of men had regrettable sexual encounters.
They're liars, sophists, or just ignorant tools. Each and every one.
Women are as well represented in games as they are in any other art form.
Singling out games is the typical generational bigotry we've come to expect.
"You kids and your devil rock music" is what 95 percent of this crap boils down to.
What remains is parasites capitializing on what they see as political weakness. They just see a bunch of unsophisticated computer nerds with no political support. And so they attack the community with their political bullshit and assume they're just going to run things. Even though they don't understand games, even though they don't like games, even though they don't like the people playing games, even if they don't care if the medium lives or dies.
The problem you're saying needs to be fixed is an artifact of a political movement looking to justify its own existence.
Doubtless you'll point at something that you don't like... can you find the same in movies, books, plays, or any other art form? Yep. So explain to me why this matters in games but we're just okay with it everywhere else? It is because in other forms you'll be met by a wall of art critics, academics, and fans that will tell you that it is art and to leave it alone. In games, our wall was made up of corrupt hipsters that cared more about gaining street cred with the political invaders then about standing up for their readers.
Whatever. We crushed Jack Thompson. We'll crush this horseshit as well. We don't need MSNBC or the NYTs to agree with us. We have our own information systems and our own proclivities. If you want to win a public opinion war... you have to do it in our community. And good luck with that because this has been escalated so much that people are outright pissed at this point. Whole political identities are forming around this because it has been escalated so hard.
Think about that. That is how badly this has pissed people off in this community. If you want to have this discussion, we can have it. But don't presume to dictate the terms. It has gone too far.
All of that crap was part of a larger national "war on women" narrative to try and win the midterms.
It failed. It failed pretty much everywhere because women weren't really convinced by it and it made men outright hostile. The war on women probably made the midterms worse... not better.
And that is a problem for Hillary because identity politics will likely play a big part in her strategy to win. She's going to want to call anyone that disagrees with her a misogynist. Just her thing. But if no one is buying that... she's boned.
What we're also starting to see is some women finally standing up and making it clear that these people represent no one.
This needs to be independently evaluated. This big data shit is almost always some sort of logical optical illusion. Something that looks some way from the right angle but when actually examined is just smoke and mirrors.
I trust this not at all until they get it evaluated.
Do political activists exaggerate things for their own personal gain or simply to get people to take them seriously?
Yes I think that happens.
Do construction companies move dirt around when they build things? I imagine they have to do that, yes.
As to sand trafficking... I did just look it up and it seems to only happen around india for some reason. It isn't a global issue. As to why it is happening in india... I can't say. I assume it is more economic then anything else because from what I can see most people just buy the sand they need and don't resort to absurd sand stealing capers.
As to replacing sand lost to erosion, that is merely humanity trying to stop natural changes to our coasts to preserve property value. That isn't an environmental crisis. That is a real estate crisis... and only for the people that own that real estate.
If you're going to whine about the god damn oceans constantly then don't live by them. The tide comes in and the tide comes out... and it can sometimes add to a beach and it can sometimes remove sand from a beach. Notice how many people complain when sand gets added to a beach and the size of their property effectively increases? No one complains. But it does happen all the time.
Please stop being such a credulous idiot. This is the 21st century. We have very poor filters for twits in this millennia and it is incumbent on everyone to go out of their way to try to be slightly less stupid.
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Not sure what you are trying to say here. Please rephrase.
Remind me again what china gave up here? no more increases of emissions by 2030?... yippy.
... Government.
Just forget actually having anything make any sense. Just come up with something the bureaucrats will like and make it.
As to the cost... the best part is that apparently you can just add zeros to the end of your concept and the check will always clear because hey... its not really their money after all is it?
A comparable system could be built for well under 5k. That is including installation costs assuming you allowed people to bid on the contract rather then just handing it to the same people every single fucking time and assuming them to have competitive pricing when they know you never bother to even look at the invoice before signing it.
I haven't seen any of this; do you perhaps have a link?
easily found:
http://theralphretort.com/game...
Lots of information there. They're very brazen about it because no one in the mainstream ever calls them on it.
They don't even use sock puppet accounts. They do this under their own names.
I did see that one (only once though); at least the idiot in question apologised...
They only did that when it hit mainstream and there are so many other examples of the same thing I don't know where to start.
Do you have any links about these?
KingOfPol was sent a knife in the mail
http://www.reddit.com/r/Kotaku...
Milo Yiannopoulos was sent a syringe full of an unknown fluid
http://www.escapistmagazine.co...
I have links for everything else if you want it. It is very easy to find if you look for it. The media is doing a complete snow job on the issue. It is so striking that we're seeing this:
http://techraptor.net/content/...
You might also find this interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
They're lying.
Look at this in regards to Anita:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Then watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That is colbert from the comedy central show basically giving her a puff piece. Now he isn't a real journalist but you can see the pervasiveness of the media blackout on the issue.
Note that comments are disabled on that video. Look at his other videos... comments are permitted.
This is what gamer gate is about to a large extent. Systematic media corruption and censorship. They're lying to everyone.
Does it matter? Is it a shit issue about a shit community that no one cares about? That is relative to you. However, they are doing it and there is nothing to stop them from doing it anywhere else.
They actually banned someone right in front of Julian Assange. Which had him join in the issue on our side as well.
Everyone that opposes, questions, or criticizes these people is labeled a bigot out of hand.
There are so many god damn links. If you are really curious, I can put you in touch with other people that will tell you themselves. No one in this is hiding. The media outright refuses to interview anyone but the anti side. And when we invite the anti side to come onto channels and talk to us they refuse.
They won't talk to us. They won't debate. They won't explain themselves.
All they do is lie, make threats, and trick idiots into backing them.
Precisely. They're not under represented once you filter for skills.
Many of the journalists and supporters of the anti GG side have doxxed people... with their main accounts in the clear. Not sock puppet accounts that could be anyone. But they did it directly.
I don't know why people keep bringing up harassment like this helps the anti GG side because the anti GG side has harassed far more.
Who said "we should bring back bullying" was that GG or anti GG? Anti GG. Every single fucking time.
So they have no moral high ground there and I just thought that should be made very fucking clear. To the contrary, it is they that should be apologizing and explaining their own behavior which has been far worse.
People prominent in GG have received death threats, have had people call their work and tell their employers they're pedophiles, have had things mailed to their homes like knives or syringes...
There's no comparison.
If either side is a hate group, it is anti GG.
To avoid the lameness filter that was proccing for no apparent reason:
http://pastebin.com/ttH7qkSG
Good work Canadian police. You're now in favor policies advocated by every police state on the planet.
Sure, because Regan tried to socialize everything.
Explain to me what real liberal is please. Point to someone and say "that is a real liberal" I want to know what that means to you. Because your use of the term liberal is not the use that is used by... practically anyone else.
Sure... and 1+1=23.4
I'm not interested in your definition of liberal. It is moronic and not related to the way that everyone else defines the parties.
You might as well point at the sun and call it "dog" and then point at a daisy and call it "sun". You're just redefining things randomly for no reason.
By US standards, BO is extremely liberal.
What exactly in your mind makes me not liberal? And by liberal... I assume we're talking about socialism and communism. Because the people that really don't like hard core liberals being called liberals... are the people that classify mainstream liberals as posers... because they're the real communist thing.
Am I wrong? Tell me how you define these things and we'll see who winds up looking like the bigger fool when all is said and done.
I forgot... anyone that isn't a karl marx cosplayer is right wing.
... extremely liberal president favors the government taking over things... its just shocking. Who would have thought.
this explains why I need to stay in my hazmat bubble.
So by your argument just because your side of the line had lots of people in it, it must have been a good society?
So... Egypt has more people then east germany... is that a well run society?
Do I need to reference north korea or other places with as many people but which we all understand to be jokes?
Point blank... your society was so shitty that they had to build walls around it to keep people leaving.
How many societies do you know of that are such garbage that they need to stop people leaving with walls and soldiers?
Seriously... think of an example.
We have north korea... and possibly Cuba?
I'm sorry you feel nostaligic for a failed society. I am not saying you personally are a joke or that your friends are jokes. I am not saying that the relationships you had were jokes. I am not saying your life is a joke.
I am rather saying that the soviet union was a joke. I am saying communism is a joke. I am saying east germany was at best a victim of the joke that was the soviet union.
The society you had... was a shadow of what you could have known had the soviets not stolen your freedoms from you.
And you sit here defending people that controlled your ability to speak? You defend people that gave you no political rights?
Fine... If that is the society you want to live in... if you want people to tell you what to say and when to say it. If you want to be told to shut up when you contradict the party line and then threatened with violence.
So be it.
As your first taste of that life you miss so much.
Shut up. I will tell you what to believe. Obey.
Or do you want to assert your right to freedom of speech now? A right you didn't have under the soviets.
I didn't say you were a joke. But right now you have two options.
1. Concede the point to me and admit I am right.
2. Render yourself ridiculous and a joke in fact.
Take your time with that little choice.
It is heads I win and tails you lose. Which is after all my favorite game. :-D
... Communism then the need to build a wall to keep its own "lucky" citizens from fleeing their joke of a society to the west.
If communism were better, it would have been we that had to build a wall to keep our people from defecting.
As to anita's videos, she doesn't play games and doesn't understand the medium. So she's about as relevant as an illiterate book critic. My mother who does not play video games was able to answer more questions about video games then Anita was when asked on Colbert. If that doesn't tip you off that there is something wrong then you're not paying attention. Anita is a con artist. She learned her media game from infomercial seminars. She's literally on record praising a few of the courses for giving her media savvy. She's so far conned about 200k out of various dupes. If you want me to prove she's a liar it is really really easy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There she is admitting it. You now know she's a con artist and has no extensive knowledge of the medium. She came into it to attack and make a name for herself... apparently for money. That is all.
As to it not being a war on games, choose the word that makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside... the medium was attacked by political activists using feminism as a shield to get away with radical politics, intimidation, and general character defamation of anyone that resisted them.
As to what you took from those sources, cognitive dissonance is a bitch and apparently you've got it bad. They literally had articles saying "gamers are dead". They made various racist and sexist comments. And then when called on it, they suggested that their opposition was like ISIS and that really this was evidence that "nerds" should be bullied and beaten to keep them in line.
This was from the "journalists". You want to shrug your shoulders and pretend that was nothing? Fine. Point at the sky and call it marmalade. I can't stop you.
Never mind that their people corrupted a CDC report that said that 1 in 5 women are raped in college. A number they got to by claiming any unsatisfying/regrettable sexual encounter was rape. And for men, the standard for rape was of course something completely different because by the same standards roughly the same number of men had regrettable sexual encounters.
They're liars, sophists, or just ignorant tools. Each and every one.
Women are as well represented in games as they are in any other art form.
Singling out games is the typical generational bigotry we've come to expect.
"You kids and your devil rock music" is what 95 percent of this crap boils down to.
What remains is parasites capitializing on what they see as political weakness. They just see a bunch of unsophisticated computer nerds with no political support. And so they attack the community with their political bullshit and assume they're just going to run things. Even though they don't understand games, even though they don't like games, even though they don't like the people playing games, even if they don't care if the medium lives or dies.
The problem you're saying needs to be fixed is an artifact of a political movement looking to justify its own existence.
Doubtless you'll point at something that you don't like... can you find the same in movies, books, plays, or any other art form? Yep. So explain to me why this matters in games but we're just okay with it everywhere else? It is because in other forms you'll be met by a wall of art critics, academics, and fans that will tell you that it is art and to leave it alone. In games, our wall was made up of corrupt hipsters that cared more about gaining street cred with the political invaders then about standing up for their readers.
Whatever. We crushed Jack Thompson. We'll crush this horseshit as well. We don't need MSNBC or the NYTs to agree with us. We have our own information systems and our own proclivities. If you want to win a public opinion war... you have to do it in our community. And good luck with that because this has been escalated so much that people are outright pissed at this point. Whole political identities are forming around this because it has been escalated so hard.
We have people flipping their political affiliation because of this:
http://techraptor.net/content/...
Think about that. That is how badly this has pissed people off in this community. If you want to have this discussion, we can have it. But don't presume to dictate the terms. It has gone too far.
All of that crap was part of a larger national "war on women" narrative to try and win the midterms.
It failed. It failed pretty much everywhere because women weren't really convinced by it and it made men outright hostile. The war on women probably made the midterms worse... not better.
And that is a problem for Hillary because identity politics will likely play a big part in her strategy to win. She's going to want to call anyone that disagrees with her a misogynist. Just her thing. But if no one is buying that... she's boned.
What we're also starting to see is some women finally standing up and making it clear that these people represent no one.
Can't wait for this latest attack on games to collapse under its own incompetence.
Completely reasonable comparison... keep up that sharp logic you master of rhetoric you.
Erosion is natural... see the grand canyon... Hard to see why I should give even one fuck here.
it is crushed rock.... so are we running out of crushed rock?... no.
This is a company trying to sell their product.
This needs to be independently evaluated. This big data shit is almost always some sort of logical optical illusion. Something that looks some way from the right angle but when actually examined is just smoke and mirrors.
I trust this not at all until they get it evaluated.
Do political activists exaggerate things for their own personal gain or simply to get people to take them seriously?
Yes I think that happens.
Do construction companies move dirt around when they build things? I imagine they have to do that, yes.
As to sand trafficking... I did just look it up and it seems to only happen around india for some reason. It isn't a global issue. As to why it is happening in india... I can't say. I assume it is more economic then anything else because from what I can see most people just buy the sand they need and don't resort to absurd sand stealing capers.
As to replacing sand lost to erosion, that is merely humanity trying to stop natural changes to our coasts to preserve property value. That isn't an environmental crisis. That is a real estate crisis... and only for the people that own that real estate.
If you're going to whine about the god damn oceans constantly then don't live by them. The tide comes in and the tide comes out... and it can sometimes add to a beach and it can sometimes remove sand from a beach. Notice how many people complain when sand gets added to a beach and the size of their property effectively increases? No one complains. But it does happen all the time.
Please stop being such a credulous idiot. This is the 21st century. We have very poor filters for twits in this millennia and it is incumbent on everyone to go out of their way to try to be slightly less stupid.