Don't underestimate the link between language and culture.
The French are probably doing the right thing here. (granted removing the invaders is probably a bigger concern; but one that takes a bit more political capital to make happen.)
wiling to bet that every single of bit of consumer electronics you own, have owned, or will own is made in very similar conditions.
Apple is not special in this case; they just make themselves an easy target by the price premium and dodgy tax shit they pull (which again, they are not special or unique in this regard)
Unfortunately; compared to the last 60 years, the chances of us getting to mars *at all* are appreciably better if left in the hands of billionaires vs scientists/government:(
The chances of NASA having the funding (political and financial) to do any kind of meaningful manned exploration of mars are nil.
China? maybe, but.. not sure if that's better or worse.
Police work should be a little difficult. That helps keep them in check. And they do need to be kept in check. If they really want something, there are ways to get it, but it has to be worth the effort. If there's no effort to getting what they want, they'll just want it all. The ability to automate collection leads naturally to mass collection and thus mass surveillance.
Apple could also at any point in time pivot and monetize their user base, just like Google. That they don't has nothing to do with ethics, or corporate philosophy, but because at this point in time it's not profitable enough.
Give it a few years of stagnate product offerings, and a diminished Apple premium, and I'd wager they'd pull the same kind of privacy raping shenanigans as everyone else.
Since 9/11, terrorism is what they've relied on for budgetary increases and gain new investigatory powers (at the citizenry's expense)
Theft and fraud doesn't have quite the same cachet. So rather than focus on threats that actually impact the every day American, they'll create scary Arabic bogeymen, and use that as the cudgel to serve their agenda.
If you were a baker, or web developer (pick a service industry gig, it really doesn't matter), and someone you knew to be a neo-nazi, antifa (Really, whatever your personal bogeyman happens to be) wanted you to do perform work for hire, for them -- would you tell them to fuck off?
(Even I get the difference between hateful/incendiary requests being in an altogether different vein. So for the above, pretend that what they were asking for wasn't intended to incite violence, wasn't outwardly vulgar or hateful, and by all measures was completely innocuous, other than the requester.)
Bear in mind, in none of my posts on this thread did i mention the plaintiff's sexual orientation or anything like that. My position is 100% about a private business being forced to perform a service (and I do think this is a distinction from a store selling goods, as well as offering a necessity like food or lodging. It's cake, despite being edible, it is hardly a necessity) The prostitution hypothetical is apropos though, it's still a person offering a service to the general public, and potentially choosing their clientele based on protected classes.
In all honesty though, the bakers should have just said "nope, we're booked solid" and then referred them elsewhere. The organized harassment the bakers pulled is a different kettle of fish, and sounds like a civil suit. A well deserved civil suit.
However! the precedence set by the initial ruling is the main problem.
I don't like the double standard that gets applied to 'progressive' causes at the expense of individual freedoms. That sets a horrifying precedent, as the definition of 'progressive' shifts over time. (for some reason the Ba'ath party comes to mind here. Besides If a KKK member walked into a bakery and wanted a cake... )
Bear in mind this was a *bakery* in Western Oregon. Not a hotel/apartment/home rental in 1960's Alabama. All that should have happened is that the bakery gets some bad press, the couple finds a different bakery, and life goes on. If it was truly about needing a cake, they could have gone to any one of hundreds of bakeries that would take their money. But no, the SJW mob finds a new call to arms and goes nuts.
In 30 years I wouldn't be at all surprised if standing up to pee becomes a massive faux pas as urinals become contraband.
Fun and jokes aside; I get the Jim Crow aspect of it, I do. But I think there should be an exemption for artisans -- if you're doing bespoke work, shouldn't you get to make the decision to take on a gig?
Thought experiment, in areas where prostitution is legal, should they have the right to refuse clients of certain race, ethnicities, genders, or body types? Where does the line get drawn?
A business owner, outside of a few essential things (like housing) should have the god damn right to choose to take on a client. It's a fucking bakery for Christ's sake, in western Oregon you'd have to *try* very hard to find a religious, conservative baker.
This was simply a case of someone who got butt-hurt over the business owner having the temerity to stand up for their beliefs, and decided to try to make an example out of the bakery. Essentially the outcome was that they lost their business, and have to pay around $100k in fines because they didn't want to bake a cake.
A sane, rational person would cowboy up, and find another bakery that would be happy to take your money. But nope, gotta make a court case out of it!
Fuck the plaintiffs. Seriously. Fuck Them.
How about going to a halal butcher with a pig and demand that they butcher it for you, religious beliefs be damned?
I'm hoping eGPU's start getting more adoption, because there's an option for a 3rd type of laptop Beefy CPU with integrated graphics while mobile, with the option to connect to an external video card for more performance when needed.
This would be perfect for a college kid for example. Light, portable laptop for going to class; but back in the dorm they'd just plug it in to an eGPU and it can be used for gaming.
Sad day when parental responsibility has eroded to the point that benevolent corporations such as Apple are tasked with protecting kids from themselves.
things like DUI checkpoints and implied consent laws started this bullshit trend years ago:(
in before the chorus of "but driving is not a right.. yadda yadda". That's a complete fig-leaf, and just opens the door to further encroachment on the 4th and 5th
"cold weather is intersectionally related to white supremacy and thus the patriarchy because cold weather is typically found in northern climes, where the white people are originally from. Therefore, cold weather = white people = racism = patriarchy"
as much as i hate silicon valley*, that scene was actually pretty funny.
*every single fucking episode: 1. dude comes up with a way to save the company 2. dude gets 90% of the way through succeeding 3. SURPRISE! it all blows up in his face.
You know, somewhere a lobbyist out there has a hungry Benz to feed, a trophy wife to clothe in Chanel, and a nose that needs constant powdering. Please, think of the lobbyists. Without these unsung heroes our nation would grind to a halt. For who else would write the legislation that keeps things humming along?
Whenever a lobbyist loses his job, an angel loses his wings? (Fucking grammar Nazi's)
(PS: Obduction was not a fun game. so much wasted potential.)
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i figured it was killed because spy satellites were faster, cheaper, and safer to operate?
kinda like how subs supplanted ICBM's.
Don't underestimate the link between language and culture.
The French are probably doing the right thing here. (granted removing the invaders is probably a bigger concern; but one that takes a bit more political capital to make happen.)
wiling to bet that every single of bit of consumer electronics you own, have owned, or will own is made in very similar conditions.
Apple is not special in this case; they just make themselves an easy target by the price premium and dodgy tax shit they pull (which again, they are not special or unique in this regard)
I've always thought that study, and the theory behind it is something cooked up by MBA types to justify not handing out raises/bonuses
"See, we'd pay you more -- but we care too much about you and your emotional well being to give you more money."
The corollary is that the C levels and board members are so lavishly compensated out of deep seated feelings of self loathing.
Unfortunately; compared to the last 60 years, the chances of us getting to mars *at all* are appreciably better if left in the hands of billionaires vs scientists/government :(
The chances of NASA having the funding (political and financial) to do any kind of meaningful manned exploration of mars are nil.
China? maybe, but .. not sure if that's better or worse.
Police work should be a little difficult. That helps keep them in check. And they do need to be kept in check. If they really want something, there are ways to get it, but it has to be worth the effort. If there's no effort to getting what they want, they'll just want it all. The ability to automate collection leads naturally to mass collection and thus mass surveillance.
Why is this only at +1?
10/10, would mod up.
Apple could also at any point in time pivot and monetize their user base, just like Google. That they don't has nothing to do with ethics, or corporate philosophy, but because at this point in time it's not profitable enough.
Give it a few years of stagnate product offerings, and a diminished Apple premium, and I'd wager they'd pull the same kind of privacy raping shenanigans as everyone else.
Since 9/11, terrorism is what they've relied on for budgetary increases and gain new investigatory powers (at the citizenry's expense)
Theft and fraud doesn't have quite the same cachet. So rather than focus on threats that actually impact the every day American, they'll create scary Arabic bogeymen, and use that as the cudgel to serve their agenda.
I fail to see how that's even approaching the realm of 'a bad thing'?
The god damn things are not made for your benefit!
If you were a baker, or web developer (pick a service industry gig, it really doesn't matter), and someone you knew to be a neo-nazi, antifa (Really, whatever your personal bogeyman happens to be) wanted you to do perform work for hire, for them -- would you tell them to fuck off?
(Even I get the difference between hateful/incendiary requests being in an altogether different vein. So for the above, pretend that what they were asking for wasn't intended to incite violence, wasn't outwardly vulgar or hateful, and by all measures was completely innocuous, other than the requester.)
Bear in mind, in none of my posts on this thread did i mention the plaintiff's sexual orientation or anything like that. My position is 100% about a private business being forced to perform a service (and I do think this is a distinction from a store selling goods, as well as offering a necessity like food or lodging. It's cake, despite being edible, it is hardly a necessity) The prostitution hypothetical is apropos though, it's still a person offering a service to the general public, and potentially choosing their clientele based on protected classes.
In all honesty though, the bakers should have just said "nope, we're booked solid" and then referred them elsewhere. The organized harassment the bakers pulled is a different kettle of fish, and sounds like a civil suit. A well deserved civil suit.
However! the precedence set by the initial ruling is the main problem.
well played =D
I don't like the double standard that gets applied to 'progressive' causes at the expense of individual freedoms. That sets a horrifying precedent, as the definition of 'progressive' shifts over time. (for some reason the Ba'ath party comes to mind here. Besides If a KKK member walked into a bakery and wanted a cake ... )
Bear in mind this was a *bakery* in Western Oregon. Not a hotel/apartment/home rental in 1960's Alabama. All that should have happened is that the bakery gets some bad press, the couple finds a different bakery, and life goes on. If it was truly about needing a cake, they could have gone to any one of hundreds of bakeries that would take their money. But no, the SJW mob finds a new call to arms and goes nuts.
In 30 years I wouldn't be at all surprised if standing up to pee becomes a massive faux pas as urinals become contraband.
Fun and jokes aside; I get the Jim Crow aspect of it, I do. But I think there should be an exemption for artisans -- if you're doing bespoke work, shouldn't you get to make the decision to take on a gig?
Thought experiment, in areas where prostitution is legal, should they have the right to refuse clients of certain race, ethnicities, genders, or body types? Where does the line get drawn?
As an Oregonian, that case really pissed me off.
A business owner, outside of a few essential things (like housing) should have the god damn right to choose to take on a client. It's a fucking bakery for Christ's sake, in western Oregon you'd have to *try* very hard to find a religious, conservative baker.
This was simply a case of someone who got butt-hurt over the business owner having the temerity to stand up for their beliefs, and decided to try to make an example out of the bakery. Essentially the outcome was that they lost their business, and have to pay around $100k in fines because they didn't want to bake a cake.
A sane, rational person would cowboy up, and find another bakery that would be happy to take your money. But nope, gotta make a court case out of it!
Fuck the plaintiffs. Seriously. Fuck Them.
How about going to a halal butcher with a pig and demand that they butcher it for you, religious beliefs be damned?
Yes, they are. It is illegal in the US to discriminate based on age, race, national origin, religion, gender, etc etc.
All the mental gymnastics in the world will not be able to rationalize how those rules should ONLY apply to women, gays, and minorities.
what was apartheid?
(no, you don't get to re-define 'majority' to fit your narrative)
no, but they do come with a pack of about 30 refugees looking for women to molest.
water vapor and methane do as well (and if i'm not mistaken, are much more potent greenhouse gases than CO2?)
Not to dispute AGW, but trying to reduce something as ridiculously complex as climatology to a single variable is disingenuous at best.
I'm hoping eGPU's start getting more adoption, because there's an option for a 3rd type of laptop
Beefy CPU with integrated graphics while mobile, with the option to connect to an external video card for more performance when needed.
This would be perfect for a college kid for example. Light, portable laptop for going to class; but back in the dorm they'd just plug it in to an eGPU and it can be used for gaming.
Because of mommy culture and people such as Nancy Grace convincing said mommies that there are pedo's lurking around every single god damn corner.
Sad day when parental responsibility has eroded to the point that benevolent corporations such as Apple are tasked with protecting kids from themselves.
things like DUI checkpoints and implied consent laws started this bullshit trend years ago :(
in before the chorus of "but driving is not a right.. yadda yadda". That's a complete fig-leaf, and just opens the door to further encroachment on the 4th and 5th
i'm sure it would go something like this...
"cold weather is intersectionally related to white supremacy and thus the patriarchy because cold weather is typically found in northern climes, where the white people are originally from. Therefore, cold weather = white people = racism = patriarchy"
as much as i hate silicon valley*, that scene was actually pretty funny.
*every single fucking episode:
1. dude comes up with a way to save the company
2. dude gets 90% of the way through succeeding
3. SURPRISE! it all blows up in his face.
rinse, repeat.
pass.
great, you'd get a few ms of reprieve until the fuckering happens!
if CA/NY implemented these rules all that would happen is that data centers would get moved out of state.
You know, somewhere a lobbyist out there has a hungry Benz to feed, a trophy wife to clothe in Chanel, and a nose that needs constant powdering. Please, think of the lobbyists. Without these unsung heroes our nation would grind to a halt. For who else would write the legislation that keeps things humming along?
Whenever a lobbyist loses his job, an angel loses his wings? (Fucking grammar Nazi's)
(PS: Obduction was not a fun game. so much wasted potential.)