I'll fight censorship by your side but this isn't censorship.
This isn't SJWs forcing their tastes and opinions on others, they're petitioning to preservce the OPT-IN service. It's post-distribution, the original distro is untouched, the individual gets what they want without compromising everyone else.
Maybe your post was simply lazy can't-RTFS ignorance, but hey, maybe it was cleverly orchestrated, maybe you deliberately posted something thick so everyone (incl myself) would come out and make the distinction.
OnTopic: If there's really such a Family Viewing Act that explicitly protects bowdlerizing, Disney&c's lawyers probably know it and this is probably intimidation/cashbleed tactics.
>staff asked to grade each other throughout the day using a ratings system called "dots."
Incentivizes socializing, charisma, elbow-rubbing more than anything related to productivity or success.
I see them everywhere, but the worst offender of encouraging people to game things is our obsession with metrics and poorly-equated conclusions.
Reduce people to a number and they will immediately look for the levers that manipulate it. Which is to say, surprise surprise, they won't immediately go out and do/improve the thing you hoped for. If it sees gains, they were indirect. Which is the intended design, sure, but your design an shit. Now I'm ALL about chatting fantasy football or flappy bird and bringing in bagels for everyone. Thought I was wasting time on socnets before? Now I'm elbow rubbing everyone's shit on the clock.
>The new policy comes as Washington tries to improve its ability to spot and deny entry to individuals who have ties to terrorist groups like the Islamic State.
C'mon. Just say it.
We have a lot of brainwashed, but the real influences are behind closed doors. I'm sure some idiots in the UK swallowed the noise about the snooper's charter (mostly those who believe in the terrorist boogeymen) but they're not the ones who pulled the strings. I pity their population, not mock it for "doing it to themselves".
>No wonder you are being replaced by more "efficient" robots.
Obviously your perk-blessed workers will evaporate even faster, as your corporates decide to take the plunge and buy machines that don't demand meal breaks.
Middlemen and rent-seekers rolled into one. And now they want to shotgun copyright claims carte blanche.
In fact, they might use less than zero criteria - since there's no drawback, they have incentive to aim for "inflated" numbers, so they can report We Save You $2,500,000 In (potential) Losses! to the studios/labels they bait into contracts.
It actually reminds me of the people who live in the house at the geographical center of the USA, the zero-zero coordinates that some geoIP location DBs/trackers point towards (they shouldn't) when they actually got an LOL I DUNNO result.
They put up a sign with THE DEVICE ISN'T HERE FUCK OFF explanations and such because law enforcement kept showing up.
But hey the copyright mafiAA says it's totes here, so we're instantly authorized and indeed legally obligated to kick down the door and drag them out protesting. We don't even have to find the device, "totes" means "proof".
They already weed. They intentionally squeeze everything out of their fodder, because there's plenty more desperate proles lined up outside. Unreasonable demands and conditions are optimal for this scenario, ignore turnover. The margin is happy.
Minimum wage is even more fragile. Try to pressure Amazon into paying a livable salary and they'll just proportionately shift towards automation. Or find a country of even more desperate peasants. Bleeding GDP doesn't matter, the margin is happy.
Both are tunnel runners that have existed since the crudest of UIs, where your floating dot (could be anything, a car) cruised through an increasingly narrow channel ("cave").
This is what mobile casual is. Rehashed flash from 20 years ago. Monochrome from 30. So ancient people think CANABALT is original. This is where the gaming industry is moving. It's not their fault, they obey the shareholders, the margin God and His son, Capitajesus.
Now get me another dozen interns. I want another 50 shovelwares and clones out this weekend. Tthere's no rhyme or reason to the critical winners, so montecarlo it.
It's not the consumers, it's the headlines. When a tech rag has 60 seconds to examine a maybe-functional prototype at an expo/con they're going to write about garbage. They're going to write about how firm and clicky the buttons are (with up/downspin vocuabulary, either is easy), they're going to write about what the texture of the back plate feels like, they're going to write about the physical appearance (!) of the camera module. They're going to fill a whole fucking paragraph about thinness, if they can.
Consumers inhabiting reality don't give a flying fuck. They want to know how well it handles scratching/dropping/bending. They want to know how long the battery handles the actual OS/software bloat in real-world conditions. They want to know if said bloat boots/runs stuff slowly, despite N specs. They want to know how it literally handles - how long takes a robotic hand on average to drop it, during randomized clutching gestures.
But none of that is in the RSS feeds. Only "7.93mm*!" or "Curved screen!" or "Thinnest bevel ever!"
Gee, no bevel. Anyone going to stick THAT in your jeans without a case? Anyone? Show of hands? Surely some of you can afford to be careless with devices racing to break $1000.
Talking to shareholders: "We had our trash stolen."
Talking to courts: "Millions of dollars of cash munee."
Seriously, if you're claiming "Billions in losses" to a jury Because Pirates then why are they mysteriously absent from your quarterly earning statement to your investors?
Do what you can to throttle it. Avoid the "center ring" socnets. Mod your browser to prevent pages from loading up the various facebook microphones (no, not literal audio mics). Tell friends and Normals who take photos you're included in not to tag you. Have at least one throwaway email address.
Last I heard they've been doing this all along. They'll swap in characters that sound or look the same, or use "referential" ones. Their ideograms often have multiple meanings and "readings" (pronunciation) allowing an extra layer of subtlety.
I suppose you said "A Modest Proposal didn't sound modest at all!" too?
Admittedly, text isn't a good medium for performing Alternative Sincerity. Context will rescue most folk if it's a MarkTwain-length essay, not so much if it's a three word sound bite.
At least the shouter makes your brain say "That's dumb." and maybe, just maybe, apply a brief moment of critical fucking thinking as your recall why - exactly why, objectively why, deductively why, using logic and reason and established data that leads to a conclusion- it's dumb. Even if it's only "Torture is bad, making humans suffer is wrong." you cement your morals.
It doesn't matter what specific advocation Franklin was calling; the arrangement of words is a succinct, useful one.
Useful to help others to realize, to help drop the scales from their eyes, to help them see that we are being told the bogeyterrorist will eat us if we don't go to bed on time.
It's not like it's a well-kept secret, they only need the inclination, the curiosity to turn their head and wonder about the man behind the curtain. Their exact deductions and conclusions don't mater; as long as they're (finally) applying basic critical thinking about overt motives and questioning who actually stands to benefit from claims and changes and circumstances, they'll be close enough.
Pick a "new phone/flagship" review at random. The prelaunch kind, where they're at an expo/con and examine a unit.
Right-hand-to-God they will, without fail, waste your time babbling about how hard the buttons press and click, about how the "texture" feels, about the physical appearance of the camera. Naturally they're eager to fill at least one paragraph about the exact thinness, and will secrete various sexual fluids about a curved screen.
This is to be expected when you leave your decision-making about a device you'll have for two years (less if we can help it!) to a guy who is going to superficially examine it for two minutes.
On the other end of the spectrum are those who will look for videos of people dropping it, bending it, scratching it. Will look for actual performance benchmarks, clocking boot times and software (sorry, "apps") launching/running. Will find a third party's battery report.
I'm hoping they come out with a robot hand that performs random clutching and we put a phone's AHUD right next to thinness - Average Handling Until Drop.
>The Home Office says Because Terrorism
Stopped reading there. Partly because my bullshit meter overflowed and needs to reboot.
Okay it's online again. It should be fine until someone pretends the golden DB will be safe from hackers. The previous exposure should insulate it when the next member of the Ministry of Truth says Because Thinkofthechildren or Because Illegaldrugs.
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I'll fight censorship by your side but this isn't censorship.
This isn't SJWs forcing their tastes and opinions on others, they're petitioning to preservce the OPT-IN service. It's post-distribution, the original distro is untouched, the individual gets what they want without compromising everyone else.
Maybe your post was simply lazy can't-RTFS ignorance, but hey, maybe it was cleverly orchestrated, maybe you deliberately posted something thick so everyone (incl myself) would come out and make the distinction.
OnTopic: If there's really such a Family Viewing Act that explicitly protects bowdlerizing, Disney&c's lawyers probably know it and this is probably intimidation/cashbleed tactics.
"I've got mine screw you."
>staff asked to grade each other throughout the day using a ratings system called "dots."
Incentivizes socializing, charisma, elbow-rubbing more than anything related to productivity or success.
I see them everywhere, but the worst offender of encouraging people to game things is our obsession with metrics and poorly-equated conclusions.
Reduce people to a number and they will immediately look for the levers that manipulate it. Which is to say, surprise surprise, they won't immediately go out and do/improve the thing you hoped for. If it sees gains, they were indirect. Which is the intended design, sure, but your design an shit. Now I'm ALL about chatting fantasy football or flappy bird and bringing in bagels for everyone. Thought I was wasting time on socnets before? Now I'm elbow rubbing everyone's shit on the clock.
>The new policy comes as Washington tries to improve its ability to spot and deny entry to individuals who have ties to terrorist groups like the Islamic State.
C'mon. Just say it.
>The new policy comes Because Terrorism
We have a lot of brainwashed, but the real influences are behind closed doors. I'm sure some idiots in the UK swallowed the noise about the snooper's charter (mostly those who believe in the terrorist boogeymen) but they're not the ones who pulled the strings. I pity their population, not mock it for "doing it to themselves".
>No wonder you are being replaced by more "efficient" robots.
Obviously your perk-blessed workers will evaporate even faster, as your corporates decide to take the plunge and buy machines that don't demand meal breaks.
Middlemen and rent-seekers rolled into one. And now they want to shotgun copyright claims carte blanche.
In fact, they might use less than zero criteria - since there's no drawback, they have incentive to aim for "inflated" numbers, so they can report We Save You $2,500,000 In (potential) Losses! to the studios/labels they bait into contracts.
It actually reminds me of the people who live in the house at the geographical center of the USA, the zero-zero coordinates that some geoIP location DBs/trackers point towards (they shouldn't) when they actually got an LOL I DUNNO result.
They put up a sign with THE DEVICE ISN'T HERE FUCK OFF explanations and such because law enforcement kept showing up.
But hey the copyright mafiAA says it's totes here, so we're instantly authorized and indeed legally obligated to kick down the door and drag them out protesting. We don't even have to find the device, "totes" means "proof".
No it won't, IPs reflect reality perfectly.
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They already weed. They intentionally squeeze everything out of their fodder, because there's plenty more desperate proles lined up outside. Unreasonable demands and conditions are optimal for this scenario, ignore turnover. The margin is happy.
Minimum wage is even more fragile. Try to pressure Amazon into paying a livable salary and they'll just proportionately shift towards automation. Or find a country of even more desperate peasants. Bleeding GDP doesn't matter, the margin is happy.
Both are tunnel runners that have existed since the crudest of UIs, where your floating dot (could be anything, a car) cruised through an increasingly narrow channel ("cave").
This is what mobile casual is. Rehashed flash from 20 years ago. Monochrome from 30. So ancient people think CANABALT is original. This is where the gaming industry is moving. It's not their fault, they obey the shareholders, the margin God and His son, Capitajesus.
Now get me another dozen interns. I want another 50 shovelwares and clones out this weekend. Tthere's no rhyme or reason to the critical winners, so montecarlo it.
It's not the consumers, it's the headlines. When a tech rag has 60 seconds to examine a maybe-functional prototype at an expo/con they're going to write about garbage. They're going to write about how firm and clicky the buttons are (with up/downspin vocuabulary, either is easy), they're going to write about what the texture of the back plate feels like, they're going to write about the physical appearance (!) of the camera module. They're going to fill a whole fucking paragraph about thinness, if they can.
Consumers inhabiting reality don't give a flying fuck. They want to know how well it handles scratching/dropping/bending. They want to know how long the battery handles the actual OS/software bloat in real-world conditions. They want to know if said bloat boots/runs stuff slowly, despite N specs. They want to know how it literally handles - how long takes a robotic hand on average to drop it, during randomized clutching gestures.
But none of that is in the RSS feeds. Only "7.93mm*!" or "Curved screen!" or "Thinnest bevel ever!"
Gee, no bevel. Anyone going to stick THAT in your jeans without a case? Anyone? Show of hands? Surely some of you can afford to be careless with devices racing to break $1000.
Nah, it's easy if you're as smart as I am.
Talking to shareholders: "We had our trash stolen."
Talking to courts: "Millions of dollars of cash munee."
Seriously, if you're claiming "Billions in losses" to a jury Because Pirates then why are they mysteriously absent from your quarterly earning statement to your investors?
Do what you can to throttle it. Avoid the "center ring" socnets. Mod your browser to prevent pages from loading up the various facebook microphones (no, not literal audio mics). Tell friends and Normals who take photos you're included in not to tag you. Have at least one throwaway email address.
Last I heard they've been doing this all along. They'll swap in characters that sound or look the same, or use "referential" ones. Their ideograms often have multiple meanings and "readings" (pronunciation) allowing an extra layer of subtlety.
We have always been at celebrations with June4th!
I suppose you said "A Modest Proposal didn't sound modest at all!" too?
Admittedly, text isn't a good medium for performing Alternative Sincerity. Context will rescue most folk if it's a MarkTwain-length essay, not so much if it's a three word sound bite.
They won't let it hit your feed.
At least the shouter makes your brain say "That's dumb." and maybe, just maybe, apply a brief moment of critical fucking thinking as your recall why - exactly why, objectively why, deductively why, using logic and reason and established data that leads to a conclusion- it's dumb. Even if it's only "Torture is bad, making humans suffer is wrong." you cement your morals.
It doesn't matter what specific advocation Franklin was calling; the arrangement of words is a succinct, useful one.
Useful to help others to realize, to help drop the scales from their eyes, to help them see that we are being told the bogeyterrorist will eat us if we don't go to bed on time.
It's not like it's a well-kept secret, they only need the inclination, the curiosity to turn their head and wonder about the man behind the curtain. Their exact deductions and conclusions don't mater; as long as they're (finally) applying basic critical thinking about overt motives and questioning who actually stands to benefit from claims and changes and circumstances, they'll be close enough.
Answer to both: Headlines
Pick a "new phone/flagship" review at random. The prelaunch kind, where they're at an expo/con and examine a unit.
Right-hand-to-God they will, without fail, waste your time babbling about how hard the buttons press and click, about how the "texture" feels, about the physical appearance of the camera . Naturally they're eager to fill at least one paragraph about the exact thinness, and will secrete various sexual fluids about a curved screen.
This is to be expected when you leave your decision-making about a device you'll have for two years (less if we can help it!) to a guy who is going to superficially examine it for two minutes.
On the other end of the spectrum are those who will look for videos of people dropping it, bending it, scratching it. Will look for actual performance benchmarks, clocking boot times and software (sorry, "apps") launching/running. Will find a third party's battery report.
I'm hoping they come out with a robot hand that performs random clutching and we put a phone's AHUD right next to thinness - Average Handling Until Drop.
You waste our time with your technobabble, terrorist. Those corporations could be smuggling drugbombs.
I mean, they'll still smuggle them, and they'll still communicate. We'll just spend millions (your millions) slowing them down slightly.
>you actually do something
lol, like we'll wait until you murderrapebomb innocent children, terrorist
TFA preemptively showers you with superfluous examples and you're still spouting apologist harder than a broken sphincter.
Wipe up that mess with this old fanboy rag: "The istore is screened, safer, and superior"
Once it's in the trash you're allowed to wear the "It's unavoidable" shirt.
...they said to each other while both mud slinging.
>The Home Office says Because Terrorism
Stopped reading there. Partly because my bullshit meter overflowed and needs to reboot.
Okay it's online again. It should be fine until someone pretends the golden DB will be safe from hackers. The previous exposure should insulate it when the next member of the Ministry of Truth says Because Thinkofthechildren or Because Illegaldrugs.