In many ways Anita Sarkeesian is asking for what she's getting. The rape/death threats are uncalled for, but she basically goes around slapping the misogyny label on everything and anything, even when there isn't, and it's just fucking annoying.
For example, she railed against Fox for canceling Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles and renewing Dollhouse, when the first is supposedly empowering females and the later isn't. I'm a huge fan of the Terminator franchise, but that show was so lame I couldn't even watch past the first episode. The writing sucked terribly, and the actors totally failed to live up to their characters from the movies, making the show a total let-down, so how does that make it misogynistic to cancel it?
Further, this whole tropes vs women thing is super exaggerated. I remember one time looking at Japanese animation and wondering why all of the characters looked white and not Asian/Japanese. When you look at the history of it, you notice that it isn't because their culture favors being white (like China currently does in many places,) because it still looked that way even during the WWII days when Japan saw themselves as a supreme race/culture and the white people were just a bunch of incompetents that they'd easily conquer in the coming years. It turns out that all human beings draw a mental picture of what the "default human" is, and for Japanese cartoons the default human *is* Asian. So when they draw a cartoon, they don't put much thought into it other than to make it look like a person. Think like how the Simpsons draws their characters as yellow, but in your mind you're thinking "white family." Anyways to the Japanese, white people have big noses, so when they draw people who are supposed to be white, you always see pronounced noses in the artwork, because it's the token "white feature." It's not racist, it's just saying: See this guy? He's white, so you know, you now have a better mental picture of what kind of character he is.
Likewise, with just about everybody in the world, the "default human" is a male. This is even true of female gamers. So when the creator of Pac-Man wanted to show that Mrs. Pac-Man was a female, what does he do? Attaches a token of Japanese girls to her, in this case, a bow. The purpose of the bow is just to say: This is a female, so now you have a better mental picture of what kind of character she is. He had no intention at all of trying to be sexist. (And this isn't even getting into the limits of what you are able to do with those low resolution sprites.)
Even rotting food is nutritious... or so I am told
That depends on the food and how exactly it rotted. Normal molecular decay can yield certain nutrients in some cases that your body doesn't produce on its own, but in most cases existing nourishments are broken down. Bacterial consumption (i.e. biodegrading) typically results in a reduction in nourishment as well, depending on how (i.e. aerobic vs anaerobic, such as fermentation.)
Unfortunately eating right isn't as easy as not smoking.
Did I say it was?
It is easy to eat nothing but McDonalds and KFC, but that isn't eating well.
It isn't not eating well either. The mistake most people tend to make at places like these is they consume too many calories (the worst part tends to come from the beverages and oversized burgers) and not enough nourishment. One of the staple menu items at KFC for example is sweet corn on a cob, which isn't at all bad for you. The salads at McDonalds are healthy provided you don't go overboard with the saturated fats found in the dressings. Having a normal sized burger twice a week won't kill you either.
To eat right, one must search for fresh and natural foods. Trust me, it isn't as simple as "not smoking".
This is purely a religious statement as it has zero basis in empirical evidence. If you had just said "to live right, one must search for Jesus" you'd sound every bit as credible and sane.
In fact, prior to the existence of agriculture, "natural" meant whatever you could pick up off of the ground that doesn't happen to smell like ass yet, which is exactly what humans have evolved to live with. Fresh might taste better, but unless it's outright rotten, it hasn't lost its nutritional value.
Eating right means your immune system is able to fend off everyday environmental hazards. It isn't perfect, but it is better than the alternative (Starbucks n Krispie Kreame for every meal)
You could eat starbucks and krispy kreme as part of every meal so long as you included nourishment along with them, and then burned those calories off later with exercise, and it wouldn't negatively impact your immune system. The concern here is that the high quantity of sugar found in those donuts could lead to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which can lead to cirrosis, and the sugar could also raise your triglycerides and lower your HDL cholesterol, which can lead to heart disease, while the saturated fats would raise your LDL cholesterol.
However, your immune system would be fine.
And everything I said it based on empirical evidence, not superstition and guessing like the supposition you posted above.
You are absolutely wrong. Eating right does prevent some cancers, because eating right reduces the risk of cancer, thus can be said to prevent.
You're wrong at the worst, and splitting hairs at the best, and here's why: In order to increase your risk of cancer to begin with, you'd have to otherwise be doing something to put yourself at higher risk to it to begin with. What you said is tantamount to saying that not smoking prevents lung cancer. It's just a silly conclusion to draw.
Maybe not cure cancer, but almost certainly eating right can prevent it.
Wrong. Very very incredibly wrong. Substantially more than half of all incidents of cancer are the result of random mutation. No amount of "eating right" will change that.
Honestly I'm tired of this stupid fucking "eating right means you never get sick" religion that seems to be going around (spread by some stupid celebrities like Bill Maher.) Eating wrong can cause problems (most common of which would be liver and heart disorders caused by eating too many sugars or too many electrolytes, followed by undernourishment from not consuming enough amino acid groups) but eating right isn't going to guarantee you'll never get sick.
Oh, and by the way, the actual store "Whole Foods" promotes some of these snake oil ideals:
- They sell very expensive homeopathic medicines which are proven to be worthless - They maintain a list of banned foods that aren't harmful (glutamates, such as potassium glutamate) while including some foods that are known to kill some people (i.e. peanuts.) - They sell a LOT of junk food that is VERY high in sugar, but claim to be a health food store.
Honestly the sooner this organic foods/whole foods religion dies, the better.
it does show the contempt manufacturers hold their customers in these days.
I really don't think that's what's going on here. You've got to remember that this is the iFlock generation where if the device doesn't resemble something trendy and heartsy enough for a Japanese school girl, few people will buy it. This is because most people aren't like the geek crowd found on slashdot; they basically have this mindset that if something isn't built in, then it isn't possible to do.
Let me give you an example: About six years ago I worked at Staples, and I recall having a customer come in who said he already had a network wired printer, but he wanted to buy a new wireless printer so he could print from his laptop. It just totally never occurred to him that *any* networked printer could be used via wifi because it's likely that you at least have a layer 3 connection to it. Being non-commissioned, I simply told him this and explained (for free, and briefly) how to do that and didn't sell him a printer that day. However most sales people aren't as nice as I was when I did sales, and that's especially true of Best Buy.
Anyways many customers don't simply put two and two together that smart TV functions that you pay probably a few extra hundred for are easily replaced by a single hundred roku. Because of that lack of education, customers end up coming to the store asking for TVs that also include a kitchen sink as standard. Thus even the manufacturers that might not want to do this will have to follow suit, because the majority of purchasers aren't educated.
A brownout is often unobservable to people, however computer equipment is known to fail faster if it has to endure too many. California has generally had them every few years or so, lasting different variations, with the last one happening in 2013 for about 4 hours.
Either way California *could* stand to be a little more self sustaining. It doesn't seem California is able to supply their own anything. 25% of their electricity is purchased from Arizona, and even then they still have rolling brownouts because they can't meet the demand.
I disagree, I think healthy capitalism is where the competition is so strong that regulations aren't needed. When the forces of supply and demand (aka free markets) regulate the market, things have a way of turning out much better.
For an example, look at the net neutrality situation. Sure, the government can regulate that Comcast be fair when it comes to peering disputes, they might even be able to one day regulate Comcasts prices, but one thing they'll never be able to regulate is the fact that Comcast are total assholes to their customers. Comcast will always be assholes unless they have a competitor taking customers away.
I remember how during the 80's, the local phone companies had really asshole policies (Need to reconnect a phone line after you suspended it because you were leaving the country for 6 months? That'll be $300 please, or $700 in 2015 dollars) and they were HEAVILY regulated, both in terms of price and service. It wasn't until just about everybody could finally offer phone service that adding a new phone line became dirt cheap, and long distance became basically free.
Honestly show a sugar rich junk food commercial to a person on record suffering from type 2 diabetes and you should go to jail because you intent is to psychologically manipulate their choices to the point of self harm because GREED.
This is going to sound ad-hom, but I'll just be honest: You'd have to be incredibly stupid to believe that. In fact, the people who started that nonsense against McDonalds are incredibly stupid. It isn't greedy to, for example, sell lemonade, which is a very sugary drink that harms diabetics.
In fact, if we're going to start calling it greedy to sell any kind of food that harms any kind of person with any dietary restrictions, then we'll have to ban commercials that advertise the following foods, because in large quantities they cause problems with people who have any kind of kidney disease: (which includes a lot of people, especially diabetics, who often end up with kidney failure)
Legumes Beans of any kind Tomatoes Spinach Melons of most varieties Star fruit Milk Cheese
In fact while we're at it, let's ban every commercial featuring food that there's a known fatal allergy for, like all varieties of seafood, eggs, all varieties of fruit, and all varieties of wheat, and also all foods containing high amounts of vitamin k because it harms people taking drugs designed to fight thrombosis, so that means most green vegetables are out too.
I figured that he would be denied a heart transplant because of his bad criminal and academic history, until his mom and the popular media play the race card, and in a huge public outcry the medical team is forced to reverse their decision, and then not long afterwards he tries to rob an old lady, shoots at her, runs over a pedestrian, and then dies after he crashes into a very racist utility poll.
Having been stuck with a Lumia 521 for the past 4 days, I see exactly why Microsoft can't: It's just a watered down, crappy OS.
Its only positive side is that it runs fluid on older hardware, but other than that it just can't pull off shit. In the cases where the app you need is available for WP, the API features needed to support all of the same features it has on Android just don't exist. So nice apps I use like Endomondo are missing a shitload of features, and no amount of work on the part of the developer can change that. (A huge thing that is missing: Inter-app communication.)
Not only that, but the base OS itself is rather light on features. Little things, like for example you can't set custom tones for texts, emails, calendar events, etc.
Also the whole "live tile" system sucks ass. Live tiles aren't actually live (more like 15 minutes behind, where Android widgets ARE live) and for most apps, there's no point in the larger size, and apps that are best for lists (like a calendar agenda) work like shit compared to their Android variant because tiles can't display vertically like Android widgets can, so like the calendar tile only shows one event at a time. And then tiles that preview things (like email) flip through objects so unless you happen to look directly at it, you might not be seeing your newest email. Fortunately they (kind of) copied Android's notification system to address these shortcomings, but theirs is shitty in comparison (for example, no object grouping.)
Another thing is that the OS can't multitask for shit. If you download a file that is going to take a while, you can't do ANYTHING else, you just have to sit there and watch the progress bar. If you try to do anything else, it'll just stop the download.
It really is a lame OS. There really is no reason to use it as your daily driver unless you're just a big fan of Microsoft and/or you really hate all things Google.
Isn't Nokia running the mapping services that most Windows Phone users prefer? Apparently Bing Maps leaves a lot to be desired. It would probably be in Microsoft's interests to acquire it. Trouble is, it's a money loser, and so far everything Nokia has given to Microsoft is a money loser.
There was a book called "The Fall and Decline of Nokia" (didn't read it, but read a summary) which basically said that going with Windows Phone was a (and I quote) "catastrophic mistake". Apparently they went with WP because they were afraid of competing with Samsung. However it seemed that their only two entries into Android have done rather well so far (Nokia X and Nokia N1) so that was probably a mistaken opinion. The Nokia X line only stopped because Microsoft killed it after they owned it.
Betamax was inferior in one big way though: It only held up to an hour of video, meaning a typical feature length release had to be split across two tapes.
Granted they fixed this problem with a new higher capacity tape, it was only after VHS (which never had this problem) had already overwhelmed the market.
LaserDisc, which was superior to both betamax and VHS in terms of quality, also only held up to an hour of video, and thus it had the same problem Betamax originally had.
More than just lobbying. Factually, a heavily censored public communications network heavily favours authoritarian governments, which is exactly what every single for profit corporation is (an authoritarian privatised element of governance geared to favour a minority with majority share holdings).
I've never gotten that impression from the one I work for, which is publicly traded. Then again the one I work for uses worker empowerment as a management technique (i.e customers typically don't need to navigate through a bureaucracy to get resolution) so our customers prefer us over competitors. The ones you deal with may not do that, so YMMV of course.
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but you only become a hypocrite when you complain about personal attacks and then engage in them.
I don't recall complaining about personal attacks.
Which is it? Make up your fucking mind.
Are you just dumb or something? I said in many ways, which exclude only those two things. Everything else she's getting is definitely called for.
In many ways Anita Sarkeesian is asking for what she's getting. The rape/death threats are uncalled for, but she basically goes around slapping the misogyny label on everything and anything, even when there isn't, and it's just fucking annoying.
For example, she railed against Fox for canceling Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles and renewing Dollhouse, when the first is supposedly empowering females and the later isn't. I'm a huge fan of the Terminator franchise, but that show was so lame I couldn't even watch past the first episode. The writing sucked terribly, and the actors totally failed to live up to their characters from the movies, making the show a total let-down, so how does that make it misogynistic to cancel it?
Further, this whole tropes vs women thing is super exaggerated. I remember one time looking at Japanese animation and wondering why all of the characters looked white and not Asian/Japanese. When you look at the history of it, you notice that it isn't because their culture favors being white (like China currently does in many places,) because it still looked that way even during the WWII days when Japan saw themselves as a supreme race/culture and the white people were just a bunch of incompetents that they'd easily conquer in the coming years. It turns out that all human beings draw a mental picture of what the "default human" is, and for Japanese cartoons the default human *is* Asian. So when they draw a cartoon, they don't put much thought into it other than to make it look like a person. Think like how the Simpsons draws their characters as yellow, but in your mind you're thinking "white family." Anyways to the Japanese, white people have big noses, so when they draw people who are supposed to be white, you always see pronounced noses in the artwork, because it's the token "white feature." It's not racist, it's just saying: See this guy? He's white, so you know, you now have a better mental picture of what kind of character he is.
Likewise, with just about everybody in the world, the "default human" is a male. This is even true of female gamers. So when the creator of Pac-Man wanted to show that Mrs. Pac-Man was a female, what does he do? Attaches a token of Japanese girls to her, in this case, a bow. The purpose of the bow is just to say: This is a female, so now you have a better mental picture of what kind of character she is. He had no intention at all of trying to be sexist. (And this isn't even getting into the limits of what you are able to do with those low resolution sprites.)
This guy also says it pretty well:
https://youtu.be/v04IdNPuMlc?t...
SGX sounds like malware heaven. Who needs a rootkit when a normal process can hide itself in plain site? The NSA would have a field day.
Which by the way, that last part might be a good rallying point to nip that technology in the bud.
What they're saying is "If you want to enjoy your content unencumbered, it's probably best to just pirate it."
Even rotting food is nutritious ... or so I am told
That depends on the food and how exactly it rotted. Normal molecular decay can yield certain nutrients in some cases that your body doesn't produce on its own, but in most cases existing nourishments are broken down. Bacterial consumption (i.e. biodegrading) typically results in a reduction in nourishment as well, depending on how (i.e. aerobic vs anaerobic, such as fermentation.)
Unfortunately eating right isn't as easy as not smoking.
Did I say it was?
It is easy to eat nothing but McDonalds and KFC, but that isn't eating well.
It isn't not eating well either. The mistake most people tend to make at places like these is they consume too many calories (the worst part tends to come from the beverages and oversized burgers) and not enough nourishment. One of the staple menu items at KFC for example is sweet corn on a cob, which isn't at all bad for you. The salads at McDonalds are healthy provided you don't go overboard with the saturated fats found in the dressings. Having a normal sized burger twice a week won't kill you either.
To eat right, one must search for fresh and natural foods. Trust me, it isn't as simple as "not smoking".
This is purely a religious statement as it has zero basis in empirical evidence. If you had just said "to live right, one must search for Jesus" you'd sound every bit as credible and sane.
In fact, prior to the existence of agriculture, "natural" meant whatever you could pick up off of the ground that doesn't happen to smell like ass yet, which is exactly what humans have evolved to live with. Fresh might taste better, but unless it's outright rotten, it hasn't lost its nutritional value.
Eating right means your immune system is able to fend off everyday environmental hazards. It isn't perfect, but it is better than the alternative (Starbucks n Krispie Kreame for every meal)
You could eat starbucks and krispy kreme as part of every meal so long as you included nourishment along with them, and then burned those calories off later with exercise, and it wouldn't negatively impact your immune system. The concern here is that the high quantity of sugar found in those donuts could lead to Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which can lead to cirrosis, and the sugar could also raise your triglycerides and lower your HDL cholesterol, which can lead to heart disease, while the saturated fats would raise your LDL cholesterol.
However, your immune system would be fine.
And everything I said it based on empirical evidence, not superstition and guessing like the supposition you posted above.
You are absolutely wrong. Eating right does prevent some cancers, because eating right reduces the risk of cancer, thus can be said to prevent.
You're wrong at the worst, and splitting hairs at the best, and here's why: In order to increase your risk of cancer to begin with, you'd have to otherwise be doing something to put yourself at higher risk to it to begin with. What you said is tantamount to saying that not smoking prevents lung cancer. It's just a silly conclusion to draw.
Maybe not cure cancer, but almost certainly eating right can prevent it.
Wrong. Very very incredibly wrong. Substantially more than half of all incidents of cancer are the result of random mutation. No amount of "eating right" will change that.
http://science.slashdot.org/st...
Honestly I'm tired of this stupid fucking "eating right means you never get sick" religion that seems to be going around (spread by some stupid celebrities like Bill Maher.) Eating wrong can cause problems (most common of which would be liver and heart disorders caused by eating too many sugars or too many electrolytes, followed by undernourishment from not consuming enough amino acid groups) but eating right isn't going to guarantee you'll never get sick.
Oh, and by the way, the actual store "Whole Foods" promotes some of these snake oil ideals:
- They sell very expensive homeopathic medicines which are proven to be worthless
- They maintain a list of banned foods that aren't harmful (glutamates, such as potassium glutamate) while including some foods that are known to kill some people (i.e. peanuts.)
- They sell a LOT of junk food that is VERY high in sugar, but claim to be a health food store.
Honestly the sooner this organic foods/whole foods religion dies, the better.
it does show the contempt manufacturers hold their customers in these days.
I really don't think that's what's going on here. You've got to remember that this is the iFlock generation where if the device doesn't resemble something trendy and heartsy enough for a Japanese school girl, few people will buy it. This is because most people aren't like the geek crowd found on slashdot; they basically have this mindset that if something isn't built in, then it isn't possible to do.
Let me give you an example: About six years ago I worked at Staples, and I recall having a customer come in who said he already had a network wired printer, but he wanted to buy a new wireless printer so he could print from his laptop. It just totally never occurred to him that *any* networked printer could be used via wifi because it's likely that you at least have a layer 3 connection to it. Being non-commissioned, I simply told him this and explained (for free, and briefly) how to do that and didn't sell him a printer that day. However most sales people aren't as nice as I was when I did sales, and that's especially true of Best Buy.
Anyways many customers don't simply put two and two together that smart TV functions that you pay probably a few extra hundred for are easily replaced by a single hundred roku. Because of that lack of education, customers end up coming to the store asking for TVs that also include a kitchen sink as standard. Thus even the manufacturers that might not want to do this will have to follow suit, because the majority of purchasers aren't educated.
Um, rolling brown-outs? Not lately. We did have some of that early 2000's [wikipedia.org], because of a TEXAS business.
Don't confuse a blackout with a brownout.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
A brownout is often unobservable to people, however computer equipment is known to fail faster if it has to endure too many. California has generally had them every few years or so, lasting different variations, with the last one happening in 2013 for about 4 hours.
Either way California *could* stand to be a little more self sustaining. It doesn't seem California is able to supply their own anything. 25% of their electricity is purchased from Arizona, and even then they still have rolling brownouts because they can't meet the demand.
Ok what about this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Or this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apparently they're not hard to find, so probably more common than you think.
healthy capitalism is a strictly regulated market
I disagree, I think healthy capitalism is where the competition is so strong that regulations aren't needed. When the forces of supply and demand (aka free markets) regulate the market, things have a way of turning out much better.
For an example, look at the net neutrality situation. Sure, the government can regulate that Comcast be fair when it comes to peering disputes, they might even be able to one day regulate Comcasts prices, but one thing they'll never be able to regulate is the fact that Comcast are total assholes to their customers. Comcast will always be assholes unless they have a competitor taking customers away.
I remember how during the 80's, the local phone companies had really asshole policies (Need to reconnect a phone line after you suspended it because you were leaving the country for 6 months? That'll be $300 please, or $700 in 2015 dollars) and they were HEAVILY regulated, both in terms of price and service. It wasn't until just about everybody could finally offer phone service that adding a new phone line became dirt cheap, and long distance became basically free.
Honestly show a sugar rich junk food commercial to a person on record suffering from type 2 diabetes and you should go to jail because you intent is to psychologically manipulate their choices to the point of self harm because GREED.
This is going to sound ad-hom, but I'll just be honest: You'd have to be incredibly stupid to believe that. In fact, the people who started that nonsense against McDonalds are incredibly stupid. It isn't greedy to, for example, sell lemonade, which is a very sugary drink that harms diabetics.
In fact, if we're going to start calling it greedy to sell any kind of food that harms any kind of person with any dietary restrictions, then we'll have to ban commercials that advertise the following foods, because in large quantities they cause problems with people who have any kind of kidney disease: (which includes a lot of people, especially diabetics, who often end up with kidney failure)
Legumes
Beans of any kind
Tomatoes
Spinach
Melons of most varieties
Star fruit
Milk
Cheese
In fact while we're at it, let's ban every commercial featuring food that there's a known fatal allergy for, like all varieties of seafood, eggs, all varieties of fruit, and all varieties of wheat, and also all foods containing high amounts of vitamin k because it harms people taking drugs designed to fight thrombosis, so that means most green vegetables are out too.
Like this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apparently it's trivial to make an upper middle class income doing that:
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
So I ask, why does anybody give to them anyways? Many of them make more money than the people who give them money.
I figured that he would be denied a heart transplant because of his bad criminal and academic history, until his mom and the popular media play the race card, and in a huge public outcry the medical team is forced to reverse their decision, and then not long afterwards he tries to rob an old lady, shoots at her, runs over a pedestrian, and then dies after he crashes into a very racist utility poll.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/cr...
Having been stuck with a Lumia 521 for the past 4 days, I see exactly why Microsoft can't: It's just a watered down, crappy OS.
Its only positive side is that it runs fluid on older hardware, but other than that it just can't pull off shit. In the cases where the app you need is available for WP, the API features needed to support all of the same features it has on Android just don't exist. So nice apps I use like Endomondo are missing a shitload of features, and no amount of work on the part of the developer can change that. (A huge thing that is missing: Inter-app communication.)
Not only that, but the base OS itself is rather light on features. Little things, like for example you can't set custom tones for texts, emails, calendar events, etc.
Also the whole "live tile" system sucks ass. Live tiles aren't actually live (more like 15 minutes behind, where Android widgets ARE live) and for most apps, there's no point in the larger size, and apps that are best for lists (like a calendar agenda) work like shit compared to their Android variant because tiles can't display vertically like Android widgets can, so like the calendar tile only shows one event at a time. And then tiles that preview things (like email) flip through objects so unless you happen to look directly at it, you might not be seeing your newest email. Fortunately they (kind of) copied Android's notification system to address these shortcomings, but theirs is shitty in comparison (for example, no object grouping.)
Another thing is that the OS can't multitask for shit. If you download a file that is going to take a while, you can't do ANYTHING else, you just have to sit there and watch the progress bar. If you try to do anything else, it'll just stop the download.
It really is a lame OS. There really is no reason to use it as your daily driver unless you're just a big fan of Microsoft and/or you really hate all things Google.
Well in many ways, Scientology is like Nazism.
There, NOW we have gone full godwin.
Isn't Nokia running the mapping services that most Windows Phone users prefer? Apparently Bing Maps leaves a lot to be desired. It would probably be in Microsoft's interests to acquire it. Trouble is, it's a money loser, and so far everything Nokia has given to Microsoft is a money loser.
There was a book called "The Fall and Decline of Nokia" (didn't read it, but read a summary) which basically said that going with Windows Phone was a (and I quote) "catastrophic mistake". Apparently they went with WP because they were afraid of competing with Samsung. However it seemed that their only two entries into Android have done rather well so far (Nokia X and Nokia N1) so that was probably a mistaken opinion. The Nokia X line only stopped because Microsoft killed it after they owned it.
Betamax was inferior in one big way though: It only held up to an hour of video, meaning a typical feature length release had to be split across two tapes.
Granted they fixed this problem with a new higher capacity tape, it was only after VHS (which never had this problem) had already overwhelmed the market.
LaserDisc, which was superior to both betamax and VHS in terms of quality, also only held up to an hour of video, and thus it had the same problem Betamax originally had.
More than just lobbying. Factually, a heavily censored public communications network heavily favours authoritarian governments, which is exactly what every single for profit corporation is (an authoritarian privatised element of governance geared to favour a minority with majority share holdings).
I've never gotten that impression from the one I work for, which is publicly traded. Then again the one I work for uses worker empowerment as a management technique (i.e customers typically don't need to navigate through a bureaucracy to get resolution) so our customers prefer us over competitors. The ones you deal with may not do that, so YMMV of course.
When you look at things like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/01...
If Hillary did win the primary and it came down to a two person race, the November Surprise would be quite a fucking thing.