The problem with identifying something somebody says as "hate speech" is that it doesn't really have a well defined boundary as to what is off limits and what isn't, meaning that it's basically up to somebody's interpretation and context as to whether or not something is effectively benign by that standard. This inevitably means that the rules will be selectively enforced.
If social media continues down this path, then it's likely to just become even more of an echo chamber than it already is. Fortunately "generation Z" seems to be eschewing social media so far, and their reasoning tends to be that they want to avoid having their every move traceable by their parents.
You can argue that there are "plenty" all day long, but when the typical user wants a smartphone, chances are that a windows phone doesn't have the applications that he wants to use.
Besides, the windows phone UI is ugly as hell. You basically have to be a Microsoft fan to actually want to use it.
Only if it's in an AD environment and joined to a domain controller, and even then the domain administrators have control of your updates, not you. Otherwise for home users it just starts automatically; the only requirement is for the machine to be turned on so that it can apply a new update. And that's the whole point of this: If the NSA (or whoever) wants to eventually decrypt your bitlocker encrypted HDD without any need for brute force tactics, all they have to do is wait for a new major patch from MS (which at the current rate happens about every 6 months) and they have a perfect opportunity to decrypt your entire HDD. That's well within the statute of limitations for ANYTHING they'd be interested in nailing you for, even for petty crimes like shoplifting.
BTW that's an interesting way for a GNAA post to be upmodded.
So next time somebody talks about how wonderful Steve Jobs was, you can tell them to lay off the drugs, and still mean it both figuratively and sincerely...and hell...probably literally too.
You think you have protection from warrantless searches and seizures today? You think you have a right to privacy today?
While it is somewhat debatable, overall I'd say yes on both counts, even compared to most other first world countries. Most of Europe, for example, requires your internet providers to log most of the stuff you do, which also extends to VPN providers. Countries in Europe that do not do this are a minority.
And those 10 have been getting chipped away at, with increasing frequency. As Snowden remarked today, "the FBI is now openly issuing the general warrants that, in 1760, led John Adams to first dream of independence."
Really? Seems to me that their scope has been improved in a really big way. Namely, they all originally only applied at the federal level. Your state at the time was still able to have an official religion, was allowed to censor speech, you had no right to privacy, protection from warrant-less searches and seizures, and basically everything else.
There's no point. You didn't bother reading the article. Who has time right? But you did have the time to share your ignorance. If you didn't want to read the article fine. However, you didn't read it, launched into your opinions then seem upset that I won't "debate".
Meanwhile, I like how you just glossed over your own article's comments on individuality.
You call me ignorant, yet you are so ignorant that you don't even know what your own argument is.
First rule of product design: Fail fast, fail often. Companies that understand this are the ones that bring the 'must-have' products to market. This is true in the modern era too.
That's generally a good idea, but we now live in a generation of snowflakes.
Namely, look at the public outcry over Virgin Galactic's crash on October 2014. People all over social media and in newspapers were basically telling Virgin Galactic to stop entirely because the loss of even a single life is just not worth trying anymore. Thankfully, Virgin Galactic is continuing anyways, but this gives you an idea of just how increasingly difficult it is to accept failures.
Didn't anyone alert their marketing department that it doesn't really matter what device you are on.. and that the goodness is whats ON the Internet? A Belchfire 2020 running latest software from Frobnitz company sees the same CNN.com feed. Viewing platform is no longer relevant, as it was.
That's precisely why Android alone is already seeing WAY WAY more use than Windows is, and it and iOS are killing Windows among regular users. However if somebody buys a PC, then they likely have a specific use case in mind that is specific to windows.
In fact I'm of half of a mind to suspect that Android (in the form of Andromeda) will eventually replace Windows for regular desktop users, though I don't have a crystal ball. If that does happen though, then indeed, Linux will dominate the desktop.
Honestly, I don't read literally every super long article that every person links in every online discussion that I have, and I guarantee that you don't either. You'd have no time for anything except babysitting the internet if you did that.
Likewise, try debating the point I made instead of just lobbing a general accusation of ignorance. I think I laid it down pretty well: Fascism and individualism are completely incompatible with one another. Hell, don't take my word for it, look at the meaning of the word fascism. In fact, I'll tell you what, open your first link and search for the word individual. Notice what he says about how fascism treats the individual (yes, I found this without reading the whole thing.)
That alone should already tell you that your second link is reaching pretty far up its own asshole to make quite a stretch of all definitions.
Same reason nobody uses the windows store: Few developers write applications for it.
If you want to write a desktop application (which few people do anymore; it's all about web applications these days) win32 tends to be your best target.
Meanwhile, if you want to write server side application, Linux tends to be your best target.
Not exactly. Soda doesn't have anything in it that you won't find in a number of other foods that a lot of people would say are "natural" (and I use that term loosely because practically nothing that anybody eats is truly "natural", even if you eat organic fruit/vegetables, as practically all of them have been selectively bred to bear almost no resemblance to the wild vegetables that they came from, which as it turns out, our bodies can't digest the "natural" ones very well to the point that we'd likely starve on them.)
That includes the much lauded sodium benzoate, which is also found in cranberries and apples in quantities not far off from the FDA maximum for packaged food. Also, fruit juices (especially grape juice) have basically the same amount of sugar as a typical soda.
What kills you is having excess macronutrient beyond what you metabolize. And yes, soda can easily contribute to that as it is very high in calories, but this is true of many things. Personally, I work out so much these days that I've actually been calorie deficient at times, and sometimes I'll have a regular soda. The metabolic syndrome so far has not returned, and isn't showing any signs of returning (my employer does annual screenings in exchange for a discount on health insurance.) And in fact, I've gained weight while having very obvious loss of body fat.
I didn't read your article because to be honest, it's quite long which means it's inevitably going way beyond what fascism actually is. Remember that fascism was a term coined by Benito Mussolini, and to a lesser degree it was inspired by his wife, who was a practicing Jew. And among other things, Mussolini thought racism was a distraction, and he was pushing for things like the right of women to vote.
When a lot of people say fascism, they tend to think of Nazism. Nazism is where all of the racial identity, brown shirt tactics, etc all come from. Trump certainly doesn't qualify there.
But anyways, back to what fascism actually is: The word brings images of a bunch of smaller sticks making a stronger bunch, and as such, it puts a MASSIVE emphasis on community and completely takes out the individual. This component is not optional for fascism; the entire ideology falls apart without it. Trump just doesn't do that, and in fact focuses heavily on the individual. Does Trump share a few commonalities with fascism? Yeah, but so do a lot of political views that absolutely are not fascism. For example, the democratic party doesn't like individualism very much, and likewise favors things like taxes and social programs and some aspects of socialism (and yes, fascists also liked socialism, just not communism -- these are very different things.) Does that mean the democrats are fascist? Certainly not. But in this respect, it's my opinion that it's much easier to call Hillary a fascist than Trump. But still, calling either one a fascist just doesn't work. As far as I know, the only practicing fascist politicians in the world are in Europe and South America.
And, when I call somebody a fascist, it's usually because that person has demonstrated a relatively extreme desire to take away personal liberties for the purpose of improving the greater good. Case in point:
Believe it or not, I would like it if more people donated organs, I'd like it if more people vaccinated, etc. But, I think taking the choice away is wrong. Besides, on that first point, I would prefer if technology can make organ donation irrelevant. I personally am on the kidney transplant list, and the thing is, organ transplantation sucks. It's not at all a cure for anything, it's only purpose is a form of treatment to extend your life by about a decade, and everything I've been made to understand about anti-rejection drugs makes me not look forward to it.
Yeah, at least anecdotally, I'm a little skeptical of these findings because I had metabolic syndrome at one point, (I was even on 40mg of lovastatin at one point just to control blood cholesterol) and it went away when I switched from regular soda to diet soda. While that doesn't mean that this study came to a wrong conclusion, I'd like to see this researched in humans rather than mice.
Something is worth whatever somebody will pay for it. Most people do pay $50 for these shirts, though even at that amount, these are by far NOT the most expensive work shirt you can buy. But to me, they are the most comfortable work short you can buy. And I've tried other (cheaper) brands made out of the same material, and they just don't feel as good, and/or the collar curls (a peeve of mine with polo shirts) and/or the buttons take a little more work to button. So yeah, I think it's worth it. Besides, you can't get these shirts for this price even on ebay.
So let me get this right - you paid ONLY one-third the normal price for the 'privilege' of allowing Nike to use your body as a walking billboard? Good for you my man - way to grab a bargain! I suppose it never occurred to you that if you were advertising for Nike on a building you own or a magazine you publish, THEY would pay YOU for advertising for them.
Why should plastering a company's logo on your body cost YOU money?
I don't care whose logo is on it, they're just really nice shirts. I've tried the other brands, and they're just not as comfortable or as cool to wear. And I'm in Phoenix, Arizona where being cool matters.
Nonsense. In homeopathy they just put 1/100000000000000000000000000th of an onion in water, and the cold is guaranteed to be gone in a week. It just costs $200 a bottle, and is every bit as good as somebody putting their energy up your spirit.
Let me put it this way. The opposition to Hitler accepted his electoral victory in 1933 even though the Nazi party had used voter intimidation and minority baiting to win. They felt it would help democracy and they could always come back in the next election. Most of them died in gas chambers. There are some elections you should not accept else you are writing your own death warrant. Trump is not a normal politician.
First of all, while I'm not a Trump supporter by any stretch, that's a pretty low blow.
Second of all, this isn't Germany, and we don't have a history of supporting military dictators, nor do we have any kind of suppressed desire to do so. (Yes, Germany is both, even to this day.)
Third of all, if you're worried about democracy going wrong, your sights should be placed firmly on Europe. Why Europe? Well, the EU parliament has fascists -- yes, actual self proclaimed fascist politicians -- holding many political offices. A whopping 25% of the population of France and Denmark, and a slightly lower percentage of the population of about 15 other European countries are voting for their country's fascist party and electing fascist MPs.
Trump doesn't even begin to fit that description, and any US politician who exhibits even a hint of that these days typically ends up handing in their letter of resignation in very short order, and their career is basically finished at that point. This even happens if one of them makes a joke that is in some way interpreted as racist (For example, George Bush was often compared to a chimp, and yet when some politician back east made a similar comparison about Michelle Obama on facebook a week ago she ended up being forced to resign.)
Finally, how would you even know what kind of politician Trump is? Hell, he isn't even a politician yet; he is and always has been nothing more than a pundit (granted, that will most likely change as of next year.) So far he's gone back and forth on so much shit, it's anybody's guess (even his, I'll wager) what he'll actually do once in office.
And no, I'm not defending Trump, rather I'm taking an "I'll believe it when I see it" approach with regard to Trump's "make America great" promises, same as I did with Obama's "change you can believe in" promises. Speak of which, how did that turn out? I honestly don't think Trump will be any better, but I don't have a crystal ball.
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Ton of em, really. Especially apps that suddenly go viral, like pokemon go for example.
It is equally hard to identify what is sexual harassment and what isn't. Yet having sexual harassment laws isn't an issue.
Really? You've never heard of donglegate I take it.
He overall does have a point.
The problem with identifying something somebody says as "hate speech" is that it doesn't really have a well defined boundary as to what is off limits and what isn't, meaning that it's basically up to somebody's interpretation and context as to whether or not something is effectively benign by that standard. This inevitably means that the rules will be selectively enforced.
If social media continues down this path, then it's likely to just become even more of an echo chamber than it already is. Fortunately "generation Z" seems to be eschewing social media so far, and their reasoning tends to be that they want to avoid having their every move traceable by their parents.
You can argue that there are "plenty" all day long, but when the typical user wants a smartphone, chances are that a windows phone doesn't have the applications that he wants to use.
Besides, the windows phone UI is ugly as hell. You basically have to be a Microsoft fan to actually want to use it.
Only if it's in an AD environment and joined to a domain controller, and even then the domain administrators have control of your updates, not you. Otherwise for home users it just starts automatically; the only requirement is for the machine to be turned on so that it can apply a new update. And that's the whole point of this: If the NSA (or whoever) wants to eventually decrypt your bitlocker encrypted HDD without any need for brute force tactics, all they have to do is wait for a new major patch from MS (which at the current rate happens about every 6 months) and they have a perfect opportunity to decrypt your entire HDD. That's well within the statute of limitations for ANYTHING they'd be interested in nailing you for, even for petty crimes like shoplifting.
BTW that's an interesting way for a GNAA post to be upmodded.
Or favorite sports teams, or social movements, or fandoms, or whatever else makes people tick.
Yep, exact same regions of the brain in fact:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10...
So next time somebody talks about how wonderful Steve Jobs was, you can tell them to lay off the drugs, and still mean it both figuratively and sincerely...and hell...probably literally too.
You think you have protection from warrantless searches and seizures today? You think you have a right to privacy today?
While it is somewhat debatable, overall I'd say yes on both counts, even compared to most other first world countries. Most of Europe, for example, requires your internet providers to log most of the stuff you do, which also extends to VPN providers. Countries in Europe that do not do this are a minority.
In other words, you're the one who didn't read and understand your own damn source while trying to hold me to it.
And those 10 have been getting chipped away at, with increasing frequency. As Snowden remarked today, "the FBI is now openly issuing the general warrants that, in 1760, led John Adams to first dream of independence."
Really? Seems to me that their scope has been improved in a really big way. Namely, they all originally only applied at the federal level. Your state at the time was still able to have an official religion, was allowed to censor speech, you had no right to privacy, protection from warrant-less searches and seizures, and basically everything else.
You mean to say "Freemium isn't free."
There's no point. You didn't bother reading the article. Who has time right? But you did have the time to share your ignorance. If you didn't want to read the article fine. However, you didn't read it, launched into your opinions then seem upset that I won't "debate".
Meanwhile, I like how you just glossed over your own article's comments on individuality.
You call me ignorant, yet you are so ignorant that you don't even know what your own argument is.
Remember, only YOU can refuse a job offer from Amazon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
First rule of product design: Fail fast, fail often. Companies that understand this are the ones that bring the 'must-have' products to market. This is true in the modern era too.
That's generally a good idea, but we now live in a generation of snowflakes.
Namely, look at the public outcry over Virgin Galactic's crash on October 2014. People all over social media and in newspapers were basically telling Virgin Galactic to stop entirely because the loss of even a single life is just not worth trying anymore. Thankfully, Virgin Galactic is continuing anyways, but this gives you an idea of just how increasingly difficult it is to accept failures.
Didn't anyone alert their marketing department that it doesn't really matter what device you are on.. and that the goodness is whats ON the Internet? A Belchfire 2020 running latest software from Frobnitz company sees the same CNN.com feed. Viewing platform is no longer relevant, as it was.
That's precisely why Android alone is already seeing WAY WAY more use than Windows is, and it and iOS are killing Windows among regular users. However if somebody buys a PC, then they likely have a specific use case in mind that is specific to windows.
In fact I'm of half of a mind to suspect that Android (in the form of Andromeda) will eventually replace Windows for regular desktop users, though I don't have a crystal ball. If that does happen though, then indeed, Linux will dominate the desktop.
Fine, stew in your ignorance.
Honestly, I don't read literally every super long article that every person links in every online discussion that I have, and I guarantee that you don't either. You'd have no time for anything except babysitting the internet if you did that.
Likewise, try debating the point I made instead of just lobbing a general accusation of ignorance. I think I laid it down pretty well: Fascism and individualism are completely incompatible with one another. Hell, don't take my word for it, look at the meaning of the word fascism. In fact, I'll tell you what, open your first link and search for the word individual. Notice what he says about how fascism treats the individual (yes, I found this without reading the whole thing.)
That alone should already tell you that your second link is reaching pretty far up its own asshole to make quite a stretch of all definitions.
Same reason nobody uses the windows store: Few developers write applications for it.
If you want to write a desktop application (which few people do anymore; it's all about web applications these days) win32 tends to be your best target.
Meanwhile, if you want to write server side application, Linux tends to be your best target.
Not exactly. Soda doesn't have anything in it that you won't find in a number of other foods that a lot of people would say are "natural" (and I use that term loosely because practically nothing that anybody eats is truly "natural", even if you eat organic fruit/vegetables, as practically all of them have been selectively bred to bear almost no resemblance to the wild vegetables that they came from, which as it turns out, our bodies can't digest the "natural" ones very well to the point that we'd likely starve on them.)
That includes the much lauded sodium benzoate, which is also found in cranberries and apples in quantities not far off from the FDA maximum for packaged food. Also, fruit juices (especially grape juice) have basically the same amount of sugar as a typical soda.
What kills you is having excess macronutrient beyond what you metabolize. And yes, soda can easily contribute to that as it is very high in calories, but this is true of many things. Personally, I work out so much these days that I've actually been calorie deficient at times, and sometimes I'll have a regular soda. The metabolic syndrome so far has not returned, and isn't showing any signs of returning (my employer does annual screenings in exchange for a discount on health insurance.) And in fact, I've gained weight while having very obvious loss of body fat.
Yeah I caught that too. Phenylalanine is in a LOT of things, including some fruits (I know for example that bananas have it.)
Trump doesn't even begin to fit that description,
Yes he does. Here's what fascism looks like:
I didn't read your article because to be honest, it's quite long which means it's inevitably going way beyond what fascism actually is. Remember that fascism was a term coined by Benito Mussolini, and to a lesser degree it was inspired by his wife, who was a practicing Jew. And among other things, Mussolini thought racism was a distraction, and he was pushing for things like the right of women to vote.
When a lot of people say fascism, they tend to think of Nazism. Nazism is where all of the racial identity, brown shirt tactics, etc all come from. Trump certainly doesn't qualify there.
But anyways, back to what fascism actually is: The word brings images of a bunch of smaller sticks making a stronger bunch, and as such, it puts a MASSIVE emphasis on community and completely takes out the individual. This component is not optional for fascism; the entire ideology falls apart without it. Trump just doesn't do that, and in fact focuses heavily on the individual. Does Trump share a few commonalities with fascism? Yeah, but so do a lot of political views that absolutely are not fascism. For example, the democratic party doesn't like individualism very much, and likewise favors things like taxes and social programs and some aspects of socialism (and yes, fascists also liked socialism, just not communism -- these are very different things.) Does that mean the democrats are fascist? Certainly not. But in this respect, it's my opinion that it's much easier to call Hillary a fascist than Trump. But still, calling either one a fascist just doesn't work. As far as I know, the only practicing fascist politicians in the world are in Europe and South America.
And, when I call somebody a fascist, it's usually because that person has demonstrated a relatively extreme desire to take away personal liberties for the purpose of improving the greater good. Case in point:
https://slashdot.org/comments....
Believe it or not, I would like it if more people donated organs, I'd like it if more people vaccinated, etc. But, I think taking the choice away is wrong. Besides, on that first point, I would prefer if technology can make organ donation irrelevant. I personally am on the kidney transplant list, and the thing is, organ transplantation sucks. It's not at all a cure for anything, it's only purpose is a form of treatment to extend your life by about a decade, and everything I've been made to understand about anti-rejection drugs makes me not look forward to it.
Yeah, at least anecdotally, I'm a little skeptical of these findings because I had metabolic syndrome at one point, (I was even on 40mg of lovastatin at one point just to control blood cholesterol) and it went away when I switched from regular soda to diet soda. While that doesn't mean that this study came to a wrong conclusion, I'd like to see this researched in humans rather than mice.
Something is worth whatever somebody will pay for it. Most people do pay $50 for these shirts, though even at that amount, these are by far NOT the most expensive work shirt you can buy. But to me, they are the most comfortable work short you can buy. And I've tried other (cheaper) brands made out of the same material, and they just don't feel as good, and/or the collar curls (a peeve of mine with polo shirts) and/or the buttons take a little more work to button. So yeah, I think it's worth it. Besides, you can't get these shirts for this price even on ebay.
So let me get this right - you paid ONLY one-third the normal price for the 'privilege' of allowing Nike to use your body as a walking billboard? Good for you my man - way to grab a bargain! I suppose it never occurred to you that if you were advertising for Nike on a building you own or a magazine you publish, THEY would pay YOU for advertising for them.
Why should plastering a company's logo on your body cost YOU money?
I don't care whose logo is on it, they're just really nice shirts. I've tried the other brands, and they're just not as comfortable or as cool to wear. And I'm in Phoenix, Arizona where being cool matters.
Yes you do, just not in the context of a domestic government.
Actually that is quite true.
Nonsense. In homeopathy they just put 1/100000000000000000000000000th of an onion in water, and the cold is guaranteed to be gone in a week. It just costs $200 a bottle, and is every bit as good as somebody putting their energy up your spirit.
Let me put it this way. The opposition to Hitler accepted his electoral victory in 1933 even though the Nazi party had used voter intimidation and minority baiting to win. They felt it would help democracy and they could always come back in the next election. Most of them died in gas chambers. There are some elections you should not accept else you are writing your own death warrant. Trump is not a normal politician.
First of all, while I'm not a Trump supporter by any stretch, that's a pretty low blow.
Second of all, this isn't Germany, and we don't have a history of supporting military dictators, nor do we have any kind of suppressed desire to do so. (Yes, Germany is both, even to this day.)
Third of all, if you're worried about democracy going wrong, your sights should be placed firmly on Europe. Why Europe? Well, the EU parliament has fascists -- yes, actual self proclaimed fascist politicians -- holding many political offices. A whopping 25% of the population of France and Denmark, and a slightly lower percentage of the population of about 15 other European countries are voting for their country's fascist party and electing fascist MPs.
Trump doesn't even begin to fit that description, and any US politician who exhibits even a hint of that these days typically ends up handing in their letter of resignation in very short order, and their career is basically finished at that point. This even happens if one of them makes a joke that is in some way interpreted as racist (For example, George Bush was often compared to a chimp, and yet when some politician back east made a similar comparison about Michelle Obama on facebook a week ago she ended up being forced to resign.)
Finally, how would you even know what kind of politician Trump is? Hell, he isn't even a politician yet; he is and always has been nothing more than a pundit (granted, that will most likely change as of next year.) So far he's gone back and forth on so much shit, it's anybody's guess (even his, I'll wager) what he'll actually do once in office.
And no, I'm not defending Trump, rather I'm taking an "I'll believe it when I see it" approach with regard to Trump's "make America great" promises, same as I did with Obama's "change you can believe in" promises. Speak of which, how did that turn out? I honestly don't think Trump will be any better, but I don't have a crystal ball.