Said something in the heat of the moment? Sure, but anyone who's immediate reaction without thinking go to exclamation is ni*ger is in the wrong. It's not just a generic "cuss word," it has a very specific meaning with a long nasty history and ongoing use today.
Just because it was a "slip" as you say doesn't excuse it, it just shows what kind of person he is. He has a history of racist comments, it's not like the backlash is out of nowhere.
The content owners of the games that he makes money off of have every right to not want their products associated with someone whose goto insult is some racist bullshit.
"Topping out at less than a third the power consumption of a 1080" yeah, except not. Normally I wouldn't even both correcting just another ransom person spouting completely wrong information. But you have been going on and on about it, talking about how you *refuse* to use something so power hungry and inefficient, and how you're so clever cause what you use is *of course* way better perf/watt.
That would be nice and all if it were true, but it's complete bullshit. TDP of a 960 is 120W, per Nvidias site. See for yourself:
https://www.geforce.com/hardwa...
The 1080 TDP is 180W, Nvidia significantly improved the power usage of the 10 series compared to the previous 900 series cards for equal or greater performance levels, like the 1080 vs 980 ti. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/g...
If you were actually right, your continued mentioning of it would be kind of annoying, but that's ok. But since you're actually not even close to right, it's just obnoxious to keep reading the same bullshit spewed out over and over again. So you aren't oddly principled about using only the best perf/watt components, you're just ignorant. Sorry.
Thank you. I see so many people saying "yeah, what did you expect? Intel always does this, not surprised at all," like that's the end of it.
Yes, they used to almost never give us 2 generations on the same socket, but that was when they were still on the tick-tock release schedule, when they were still aggressively pushing the advance of the process node size.
But that has slowed down now, as Coffee Lake is the 3rd chip on the 14nm process for the mainstream socket, in line with their new 3 step process upgrade system. So like someone said, this should have, and was expected to, still be compatible with the z270 chipset, the same way Devils Canyon worked on the Haswell chipset.
Oh and also, you're definitely right about the potential for big bucks if he was doing it with whatever game was hottest at the time. I played WoW from launch until like 4 or 5 after, and during the heydays, good characters EASILY went for well over 1k, some closer to 2k. Not to mention gold farming was very profitable.
Or like Diablo 2. Best in slot items for the closed, not widely hacked servers could sell for $150-200 easy, and there were a lot of them. It was definitely possible to make good money, if you were willing to stay dedicated to doing it, and following the crowds from hot game to hot game.
Yeah he could have definitely earned enough over 20 years to be able to save a sizeable enough amount to have some kind of "retirement" funds, if he was smart with his money.
Because while he declined in the article to say how he's made total over the years, he does mention one specific revenue stream. He said that in Everquest, he's sold around 100 player houses-apparently a rare thing with a limit on how many can be owned-in all, with am average price of $200000. So 200k from one single game, even if it was over the full 20 years (it doesn't sound like it from the article) is 10k a year from just that game.
He has been selling in most every big online game in the past 20 years, so if he did even half of what he did from EQ in other games, he was definitely making enough to have accumulated a pretty sizeable savings.
Oh really, japan's glorious train has top speed faster than 760 MPH? This is called a test, dip you understand the concept? In the real world, with difficult engineering projects, systems and components and everything is tested along the way. You don't just go from blueprints to full project completed without any testing along the way.
Surely you realize this, otherwise you'd have to be even denser than the average/. AC shit poster. But that is definitely a possibility.
You are at least the 4th or 5th person to say this, like you just shot down the entire project with your genius insight. But if you'd actually RTFA, or read any of the dozen plus articles here on/. In the last couple years, you'd realize the actual planned top speed is 760 MPH.
So tell me again about "lolz bullet trains OMG have been going this fast for years, Musk is such a retard looool!"
Either secure them properly, or don't own them? Yeah that's a great sentiment, but tell me, how are you going to enforce that? How is that any more likely to be a feasible solution than having some kind of smart gun?
Honestly that sounds a lot more like "take away their guns" than any of the suggested regulations are, so I don't see how you could possibly think that would ever work? How do you know who isn't securing them right? How do you know who has irresponsible gun handling and storage habits? The pro gun crowd is generally against even small things like requiring gun safety, firing, etc classes for ALL guns, not just hands guns, so you can't figure it out that way.
So when the super fun fanatics continually oppose virtually any type of regulation, then you'll continue to see ideas like smart guns attempted, because the NRA crowd seems to have an instant, knee-jerk reaction of NO, NO, NO to any gun laws whatsoever.
Yeah and the New England Journal of Medicine and Stanford are also just biased, gun hating shills for the BAN ALL GUNS zealots too, right? Get a fucking clue, not everyone who you disagree with is automatically an invalid source.
And a simple trigger lock can't be the same thing, just a MECHANICAL, as basic as possible guard, no electronics, computer chips, etc? Your strawman is completely transparent, that lame shit may work ranting on Breitbart article comments, but not here.
Your level of respect and caution is laudable, and the way you were raised concerning guns. But unfortunately, your experience is far from universal. I know way too many people and grew up with many kids for whom guns in their house were something "cool," forbidden and generally speaking something to get out without permission when the parents were gone, usually to impress friends.
And they are so easy to get, especially shotguns and hunting rifles, that plenty of people get them and have no or poor gun safety knowledge and just a lack of respect and the wrong attitude, IMO.
So I would say that given how ingrained the idea that guns are the natural, god given right of every American and ANY attempt at even minimal regulations is just the first step of them TAKIN ALL OUR GUNS!, that attempts at smart guns or things like it will continue.
If we aren't ever going to make proper handling and safe usage and ownership an ingrained part of gun culture for everyone, then I think you'll always have some group or people pushing for some kind of mitigation of irresponsible owners accidentally injuring or killing themselves and others.
I've seen every comment against smart guns so far only mention these radio signal, watch type systems, and seem to base their objections on that specific implementation. But is that really the only option?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I would think that maybe a finger print system would be a good solution. You wouldn't have to worry about ever losing the watch/ring/etc or not wearing it, using either hand would be no problem assuming you could have multiple approved prints stored in it, and it wouldn't be susceptible to this kind of hacking that intercepts, blocks or otherwise interferes with any kind of broadcast signal.
So the fact that this particular smart gun solution seems easily defeated doesn't look to me like any kind of definitive argument against the idea in general.
Agree with whoever said you must have wildly skewed priorities. I grew up in Atlanta, my patents made about $225k or a little more combined and I had 1 sibling. We lived in a nice, but by no means huge home, maybe 2500 sq ft, with a big yard, about a half acre. They had no problem sending us to college, getting us reasonable used cars at 16, going on at least 2 vacations a year, and having nice things, but by no means conspicuous consumption.
And this was not 40 or 50 years ago, my sibling and I are both around 30.
I'll take a guess that perhaps you are like my sister's best friends parents. They made a little more than half of my what my parents did, but just *had* to live in a brand new, not-quite-McMansion-sized home. As a result, yeah the kids had nice things, but the parents spent every last penny to do this, bought quite a bit more expensive and numerous things than us. The 3 kids were happy, but if either parent had to miss even a few days every couple months, the finances went into immediate crisis mode. Loans from the parents were a more than a one time thing.
It's all about living within your means and not chasing every new consumer obsession that comes along. Or do, and run yourself ragged in the process.
Definitely still the more expensive option, but AMD has put some pressure on them and forced them to be a little more price competitive.
This new x299 platform of Intels HEDT gives us an 8-core/16-thread at the $600 mark, with the 7820x. On the previous x99 platform the $600 slot was only 6 core; you had to jump all the way to the $1000 tier for 8 cores in the form of the 5960x and then the 6900k. So I am definitely happy about that.
Although being Intel, they're incapable of giving us something without us paying for it somehow. In this case, to get the full 44 PCIe lanes you DO have to go to the $1k tier, whereas on x99 only the very cheapest CPUs had the gimped 28 lanes, but they were only $350 processors. The $600 level or above got you the full 28 lanes.
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That part really irks me, and is making me not so certain I want that 7820x after all. I was 100% in for a 7820x on the nice new platform until I saw that. So for now I'm still considering my options. I really don't want or need 10 cores, and I'd much rather put the $400 difference towards multiple NVMe storage buys.
The quad channel memory most definitely will help, even more so than than on Intels new processors.
There are many reasons, but one crucial one is the very architecture of these new Threadripper CPUs. These higher core count processors are literally multiple lower core Ryzen chips in one die.
I won't get into any pros or cons of that aspect, but just mention it to explain the significance of the quad channel DDR4. The way AMD has designed these smaller "packages" to work together as one CPU is, to put it very simply, to have them communicate through the DDR4 bus.
This is significantly different than Intels so-called ring bus, or uncore. So it's a pretty big change for HEDT users who have essentially been exclusively using Intel since around 2007.
I don't claim to know every technical detail of TR/Ryzen, but I do know the end result of this is that your DDR4 memory speed with TR can have a large impact on performance. In particular, running higher than the official platform speed memory, or just overclocking above standard gives very nice increases in many scenarios.
I'm on mobile so I can't look it up right now, so don't hold be to this, but I remember what I saw being something like maybe 20-30%ish(?) improvement in some gaming benchmarks I believe. And there were a couple others that I only remember the numbers right now, but it was around 30% and 40% even in one case.
So I think that couple persuade a decent part of the HEDT community who isn't super hardcore, and probably games more or as much anyways as they utilize the massive multithreaded advantages of a HEDT platform. So I think that's pretty exciting, and gives TR at least a decent ranking in parts of the HEDT user base.
Thank you. I don't know why so many people seem to not grasp the reality of the situation. All these refugees are not coming so far and giving up everything on a whim. It is their last desperate attempt at having some kind of life worth living that isn't complete and total misery and suffering.
If even a significant minority of these refugees really had these nefarious intentions that so many claim they do, Germany and other countries would have long since fallen.
It's like someone else just said, it's akin to all the Jews trying to escape persecution in the 30s and 40s. Those who vilify millions of people fleeing hell on earth conditions will be rightly judged by history the same as those who refused the Jewish refugees of WWII.
Like you said, yes of course there are some with ulterior motives. But those are a tiny, tiny minority of the suffering masses.
They didn't threaten to do it and then he removed it and deleted all his posts. CNN found out who he was while investigating the source of the gif and other posts by the same person.
They then contacted him after they identified him, trying to get a comment. He was already in the process of scrubbing his post history after he realized hoe much attention he was getting. Then when CNN contacted him, that's when he told them how sorry he was, he isn't really racist, he regrets it, he's deleting all the other shit he posted, etc.
So CNN made a judgement call that since he seemed genuinely remorseful, they wouldn't reveal his name. He was already deleting it all. CNN had every right to publish the info they had collected, including his identity.
All these MAGA free speech warrior trolls do the EXACT same and much worse, regularly doxxing people for much less, and sending death threats when anyone makes even a slightly critical statement about them. He posted all that shit on a public forum, he posted stuff that identified him on those same forums. CNN didn't find anything any other person couldn't have found if they made the effort.
And free speech? Well that applies to the press and the people who work for the press. It does NOT in any way mean you are free from consequences of your speech. I don't know why so many people find that idea so hard to grasp.
Your 1998 emails available on request? Yeah, that's what everyone here has just been dying to do, read all your 20 year old emails. Thank you SO much for the opportunity! I love wasting time reading emails from a random stranger on the internet, how did you know???m
Have you actually read her blog post? If so, you seem to have missed the part where she spent a year "going through the right channels," attempting to handle it the right way.
She was beyond reasonable, and tried several times to address what she saw and her grievances within the company, without airing it all in public. And the guy who propositioned her to be his swinging partner on her *first* day of work was actively protected by managers and HR because he was a "high performer."
So she absolutely did try, repeatedly, to handle it like an adult. And in return, she was basically ignored and told to brush it off, despite the fact that there were other people reporting the same guy for the exact same behavior.
And.....que the rabid libertarians to fervently exclaim how the company and board members have an ABSOLUTE obligation to deliver continued increased profits, for ever and ever. Any other action is a betrayal of their sacred mission to procure massive wealth at all costs.
It's really not though, he isn't saying that's what won the election. He even explicitly states that it is *not* a large portion of the population, saying "the typical American isn't racist." But he points out, rightfully so IMO, that even a relatively small group can cause a lot of problems and really be toxic for society at large.
Not sure if you RTFA or not, but I'm guessing probably not given your question. I'm not disagreeing with your first paragraph when you say just searching "is he *race*" isn't necessarily a sign of any racism.
But the guy in the article is talking about much more, IMO, persuasive examples. For example, he talks about how after Obama was elected in 2008, 1% of all searches that contained the word "Obama" also included the search terms "KKK" or "n*gger." And he also mentioned searches for Stormfront and other white power/nationalist sites increased. I would consider that pretty unambiguous.
He also mentions he was surprised about how many searches there are for racist jokes, particularly about blacks. In regard to more recently, especially since the 2016 election season and now how there has been a rise in Muslim hating searches, specifically "i hate Muslims," "Muslims are evil" and "kill Muslims."
So yeah, while there is plenty of room for debate for what is bigotry and what isn't, that's not the focus of this guys research or claims. He's talking only about pretty blatant hate and bigotry, and even in that narrower focus, he stressed his surprise at how prevalent it really is.
Yeah, we're just looking for something to complain about, it's a total non-issue. We are talking about a desktop computer here, not a laptop. Never mind the fact that *every* PC desktop I've owned since '93 has at least had easily user upgradeable RAM, and CPU and HDD too if you wanted. Even the ones with terrible, non-standard custom motherboards were easy to upgrade RAM without voiding your warranty and having to literally cut through parts to access it.
But you're right, just a bunch of haters holding Apple computers up to some ridiculous, low end bog box store PC standard. Totally unfair.
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Said something in the heat of the moment? Sure, but anyone who's immediate reaction without thinking go to exclamation is ni*ger is in the wrong. It's not just a generic "cuss word," it has a very specific meaning with a long nasty history and ongoing use today. Just because it was a "slip" as you say doesn't excuse it, it just shows what kind of person he is. He has a history of racist comments, it's not like the backlash is out of nowhere. The content owners of the games that he makes money off of have every right to not want their products associated with someone whose goto insult is some racist bullshit.
"Topping out at less than a third the power consumption of a 1080" yeah, except not. Normally I wouldn't even both correcting just another ransom person spouting completely wrong information. But you have been going on and on about it, talking about how you *refuse* to use something so power hungry and inefficient, and how you're so clever cause what you use is *of course* way better perf/watt.
That would be nice and all if it were true, but it's complete bullshit. TDP of a 960 is 120W, per Nvidias site. See for yourself: https://www.geforce.com/hardwa...
The 1080 TDP is 180W, Nvidia significantly improved the power usage of the 10 series compared to the previous 900 series cards for equal or greater performance levels, like the 1080 vs 980 ti. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/g...
If you were actually right, your continued mentioning of it would be kind of annoying, but that's ok. But since you're actually not even close to right, it's just obnoxious to keep reading the same bullshit spewed out over and over again. So you aren't oddly principled about using only the best perf/watt components, you're just ignorant. Sorry.
Thank you. I see so many people saying "yeah, what did you expect? Intel always does this, not surprised at all," like that's the end of it.
Yes, they used to almost never give us 2 generations on the same socket, but that was when they were still on the tick-tock release schedule, when they were still aggressively pushing the advance of the process node size.
But that has slowed down now, as Coffee Lake is the 3rd chip on the 14nm process for the mainstream socket, in line with their new 3 step process upgrade system. So like someone said, this should have, and was expected to, still be compatible with the z270 chipset, the same way Devils Canyon worked on the Haswell chipset.
Oh and also, you're definitely right about the potential for big bucks if he was doing it with whatever game was hottest at the time. I played WoW from launch until like 4 or 5 after, and during the heydays, good characters EASILY went for well over 1k, some closer to 2k. Not to mention gold farming was very profitable.
Or like Diablo 2. Best in slot items for the closed, not widely hacked servers could sell for $150-200 easy, and there were a lot of them. It was definitely possible to make good money, if you were willing to stay dedicated to doing it, and following the crowds from hot game to hot game.
Yeah he could have definitely earned enough over 20 years to be able to save a sizeable enough amount to have some kind of "retirement" funds, if he was smart with his money.
Because while he declined in the article to say how he's made total over the years, he does mention one specific revenue stream. He said that in Everquest, he's sold around 100 player houses-apparently a rare thing with a limit on how many can be owned-in all, with am average price of $200000. So 200k from one single game, even if it was over the full 20 years (it doesn't sound like it from the article) is 10k a year from just that game.
He has been selling in most every big online game in the past 20 years, so if he did even half of what he did from EQ in other games, he was definitely making enough to have accumulated a pretty sizeable savings.
Oh really, japan's glorious train has top speed faster than 760 MPH? This is called a test, dip you understand the concept? In the real world, with difficult engineering projects, systems and components and everything is tested along the way. You don't just go from blueprints to full project completed without any testing along the way.
/. AC shit poster. But that is definitely a possibility.
Surely you realize this, otherwise you'd have to be even denser than the average
You are at least the 4th or 5th person to say this, like you just shot down the entire project with your genius insight. But if you'd actually RTFA, or read any of the dozen plus articles here on /. In the last couple years, you'd realize the actual planned top speed is 760 MPH.
So tell me again about "lolz bullet trains OMG have been going this fast for years, Musk is such a retard looool!"
Either secure them properly, or don't own them? Yeah that's a great sentiment, but tell me, how are you going to enforce that? How is that any more likely to be a feasible solution than having some kind of smart gun?
Honestly that sounds a lot more like "take away their guns" than any of the suggested regulations are, so I don't see how you could possibly think that would ever work? How do you know who isn't securing them right? How do you know who has irresponsible gun handling and storage habits? The pro gun crowd is generally against even small things like requiring gun safety, firing, etc classes for ALL guns, not just hands guns, so you can't figure it out that way.
So when the super fun fanatics continually oppose virtually any type of regulation, then you'll continue to see ideas like smart guns attempted, because the NRA crowd seems to have an instant, knee-jerk reaction of NO, NO, NO to any gun laws whatsoever.
Yeah and the New England Journal of Medicine and Stanford are also just biased, gun hating shills for the BAN ALL GUNS zealots too, right? Get a fucking clue, not everyone who you disagree with is automatically an invalid source.
And a simple trigger lock can't be the same thing, just a MECHANICAL, as basic as possible guard, no electronics, computer chips, etc? Your strawman is completely transparent, that lame shit may work ranting on Breitbart article comments, but not here.
Your level of respect and caution is laudable, and the way you were raised concerning guns. But unfortunately, your experience is far from universal. I know way too many people and grew up with many kids for whom guns in their house were something "cool," forbidden and generally speaking something to get out without permission when the parents were gone, usually to impress friends.
And they are so easy to get, especially shotguns and hunting rifles, that plenty of people get them and have no or poor gun safety knowledge and just a lack of respect and the wrong attitude, IMO.
So I would say that given how ingrained the idea that guns are the natural, god given right of every American and ANY attempt at even minimal regulations is just the first step of them TAKIN ALL OUR GUNS!, that attempts at smart guns or things like it will continue.
If we aren't ever going to make proper handling and safe usage and ownership an ingrained part of gun culture for everyone, then I think you'll always have some group or people pushing for some kind of mitigation of irresponsible owners accidentally injuring or killing themselves and others.
I've seen every comment against smart guns so far only mention these radio signal, watch type systems, and seem to base their objections on that specific implementation. But is that really the only option?
Maybe I'm missing something, but I would think that maybe a finger print system would be a good solution. You wouldn't have to worry about ever losing the watch/ring/etc or not wearing it, using either hand would be no problem assuming you could have multiple approved prints stored in it, and it wouldn't be susceptible to this kind of hacking that intercepts, blocks or otherwise interferes with any kind of broadcast signal.
So the fact that this particular smart gun solution seems easily defeated doesn't look to me like any kind of definitive argument against the idea in general.
Agree with whoever said you must have wildly skewed priorities. I grew up in Atlanta, my patents made about $225k or a little more combined and I had 1 sibling. We lived in a nice, but by no means huge home, maybe 2500 sq ft, with a big yard, about a half acre. They had no problem sending us to college, getting us reasonable used cars at 16, going on at least 2 vacations a year, and having nice things, but by no means conspicuous consumption.
And this was not 40 or 50 years ago, my sibling and I are both around 30.
I'll take a guess that perhaps you are like my sister's best friends parents. They made a little more than half of my what my parents did, but just *had* to live in a brand new, not-quite-McMansion-sized home. As a result, yeah the kids had nice things, but the parents spent every last penny to do this, bought quite a bit more expensive and numerous things than us. The 3 kids were happy, but if either parent had to miss even a few days every couple months, the finances went into immediate crisis mode. Loans from the parents were a more than a one time thing.
It's all about living within your means and not chasing every new consumer obsession that comes along. Or do, and run yourself ragged in the process.
Oops can't edit, but around 3rd paragraph, I meant on x99 the $600 tier got you the full 44 PCIe lanes, instead of the gimped 28.
Definitely still the more expensive option, but AMD has put some pressure on them and forced them to be a little more price competitive.
This new x299 platform of Intels HEDT gives us an 8-core/16-thread at the $600 mark, with the 7820x. On the previous x99 platform the $600 slot was only 6 core; you had to jump all the way to the $1000 tier for 8 cores in the form of the 5960x and then the 6900k. So I am definitely happy about that.
Although being Intel, they're incapable of giving us something without us paying for it somehow. In this case, to get the full 44 PCIe lanes you DO have to go to the $1k tier, whereas on x99 only the very cheapest CPUs had the gimped 28 lanes, but they were only $350 processors. The $600 level or above got you the full 28 lanes.
br I That part really irks me, and is making me not so certain I want that 7820x after all. I was 100% in for a 7820x on the nice new platform until I saw that. So for now I'm still considering my options. I really don't want or need 10 cores, and I'd much rather put the $400 difference towards multiple NVMe storage buys.
The quad channel memory most definitely will help, even more so than than on Intels new processors.
There are many reasons, but one crucial one is the very architecture of these new Threadripper CPUs. These higher core count processors are literally multiple lower core Ryzen chips in one die.
I won't get into any pros or cons of that aspect, but just mention it to explain the significance of the quad channel DDR4. The way AMD has designed these smaller "packages" to work together as one CPU is, to put it very simply, to have them communicate through the DDR4 bus.
This is significantly different than Intels so-called ring bus, or uncore. So it's a pretty big change for HEDT users who have essentially been exclusively using Intel since around 2007.
I don't claim to know every technical detail of TR/Ryzen, but I do know the end result of this is that your DDR4 memory speed with TR can have a large impact on performance. In particular, running higher than the official platform speed memory, or just overclocking above standard gives very nice increases in many scenarios.
I'm on mobile so I can't look it up right now, so don't hold be to this, but I remember what I saw being something like maybe 20-30%ish(?) improvement in some gaming benchmarks I believe. And there were a couple others that I only remember the numbers right now, but it was around 30% and 40% even in one case.
So I think that couple persuade a decent part of the HEDT community who isn't super hardcore, and probably games more or as much anyways as they utilize the massive multithreaded advantages of a HEDT platform. So I think that's pretty exciting, and gives TR at least a decent ranking in parts of the HEDT user base.
Thank you. I don't know why so many people seem to not grasp the reality of the situation. All these refugees are not coming so far and giving up everything on a whim. It is their last desperate attempt at having some kind of life worth living that isn't complete and total misery and suffering.
If even a significant minority of these refugees really had these nefarious intentions that so many claim they do, Germany and other countries would have long since fallen.
It's like someone else just said, it's akin to all the Jews trying to escape persecution in the 30s and 40s. Those who vilify millions of people fleeing hell on earth conditions will be rightly judged by history the same as those who refused the Jewish refugees of WWII.
Like you said, yes of course there are some with ulterior motives. But those are a tiny, tiny minority of the suffering masses.
They didn't threaten to do it and then he removed it and deleted all his posts. CNN found out who he was while investigating the source of the gif and other posts by the same person.
They then contacted him after they identified him, trying to get a comment. He was already in the process of scrubbing his post history after he realized hoe much attention he was getting. Then when CNN contacted him, that's when he told them how sorry he was, he isn't really racist, he regrets it, he's deleting all the other shit he posted, etc.
So CNN made a judgement call that since he seemed genuinely remorseful, they wouldn't reveal his name. He was already deleting it all. CNN had every right to publish the info they had collected, including his identity.
All these MAGA free speech warrior trolls do the EXACT same and much worse, regularly doxxing people for much less, and sending death threats when anyone makes even a slightly critical statement about them. He posted all that shit on a public forum, he posted stuff that identified him on those same forums. CNN didn't find anything any other person couldn't have found if they made the effort.
And free speech? Well that applies to the press and the people who work for the press. It does NOT in any way mean you are free from consequences of your speech. I don't know why so many people find that idea so hard to grasp.
Your 1998 emails available on request? Yeah, that's what everyone here has just been dying to do, read all your 20 year old emails. Thank you SO much for the opportunity! I love wasting time reading emails from a random stranger on the internet, how did you know???m
Yeah I'm sure that's what she told you, was probably afraid she'd bruise your precious little ego if you knew you weren't her first.
Have you actually read her blog post? If so, you seem to have missed the part where she spent a year "going through the right channels," attempting to handle it the right way. She was beyond reasonable, and tried several times to address what she saw and her grievances within the company, without airing it all in public. And the guy who propositioned her to be his swinging partner on her *first* day of work was actively protected by managers and HR because he was a "high performer." So she absolutely did try, repeatedly, to handle it like an adult. And in return, she was basically ignored and told to brush it off, despite the fact that there were other people reporting the same guy for the exact same behavior.
And.....que the rabid libertarians to fervently exclaim how the company and board members have an ABSOLUTE obligation to deliver continued increased profits, for ever and ever. Any other action is a betrayal of their sacred mission to procure massive wealth at all costs.
It's really not though, he isn't saying that's what won the election. He even explicitly states that it is *not* a large portion of the population, saying "the typical American isn't racist." But he points out, rightfully so IMO, that even a relatively small group can cause a lot of problems and really be toxic for society at large.
Not sure if you RTFA or not, but I'm guessing probably not given your question. I'm not disagreeing with your first paragraph when you say just searching "is he *race*" isn't necessarily a sign of any racism. But the guy in the article is talking about much more, IMO, persuasive examples. For example, he talks about how after Obama was elected in 2008, 1% of all searches that contained the word "Obama" also included the search terms "KKK" or "n*gger." And he also mentioned searches for Stormfront and other white power/nationalist sites increased. I would consider that pretty unambiguous. He also mentions he was surprised about how many searches there are for racist jokes, particularly about blacks. In regard to more recently, especially since the 2016 election season and now how there has been a rise in Muslim hating searches, specifically "i hate Muslims," "Muslims are evil" and "kill Muslims." So yeah, while there is plenty of room for debate for what is bigotry and what isn't, that's not the focus of this guys research or claims. He's talking only about pretty blatant hate and bigotry, and even in that narrower focus, he stressed his surprise at how prevalent it really is.
Yeah, we're just looking for something to complain about, it's a total non-issue. We are talking about a desktop computer here, not a laptop. Never mind the fact that *every* PC desktop I've owned since '93 has at least had easily user upgradeable RAM, and CPU and HDD too if you wanted. Even the ones with terrible, non-standard custom motherboards were easy to upgrade RAM without voiding your warranty and having to literally cut through parts to access it. But you're right, just a bunch of haters holding Apple computers up to some ridiculous, low end bog box store PC standard. Totally unfair.