Except in this case, the company Valve partnered with (HTC) is absolutely garbage and has the worse customer support to the point of being customer hostile. It would be a terrible decision to "partner" with HTC again.
Valve is doing a lot of good for linux gamers with Steam Play and employing WINE/DXVK developers.
The iMac Pro was great. The new Mac mini was fantastic.
They're overpriced and underwhelming, way more than before. I had one of the first intel xeon Mac Pros, and at the time if you tried to build or buy something similar it would be about the same price for the components. Now you're touting the new mac mini as being fantastic?
- The government is authoritarian enough that it will meddle. - There are no consumer protections for this kind of stuff in China - You have no recourse if a Chinese company steals your data
Whereas in the west we have consumer protections for it, and a judicial system for recourse. That said, western governments can meddle too, however it's much harder for them to keep it secret.
I love this show so much, and I'm happy Netflix picked it up. My only issue with streaming sites making episodic TV is that they release all the episodes at once, I binge them because I have no self control, and now I have to wait a year+ for more episodes!
It is a big deal. This is the first downward degree of a very slippery slope. This sets a precedent that everything must be whitewashed of any potential to offend anyone. The innocuousness of the so called "offense" should actually anger people.
Let me ask you: what happens when you whitewash the world? Is that the kind of world you want to live in?
As much as I'd like to shit on Bell for being all around dicks, this is not the case. Outside of large cities the population density in Canada is extremely low. So low that 20 years ago the area where my grandparents raised my mom and her 13 (!) brothers and sisters still used a party-line phone system. Keep in mind this is only a couple hours drive outside of Toronto.
I work for an MSP that does IT work for small/medium business in my area. A lot of our customers can't get internet connections faster than 5mbit/640k ADSL. Some can't even get that and have to rely on wireless point to point links. It's pretty terrible.
Something to keep in mind while listening: The investigation after the fact showed **no students actually complained** and the complaint was completely fabricated.
Yeah, nobody has gone to jail... yet... We just have university TA's being pulled into "diversity and equity" meetings because they didn't denigrate a certain side of a debate.
This is what you're not getting. Social constructs don't evolve naturally. You see the word "construct" in the term? A construct by definition isn't natural, it is deliberately created. That's like saying english is a constructed language because the words evolved over time. It's nonsense.
Beauty also is not a social construct. Preferences are not social constructs! There were no meetings held to decide what is and isn't beautiful.
This is what I meant when I said the "gender studies" professors in the 60s did a good job at duping everyone by trying to redefine words to suit their agenda.
You're still not getting it. Just because companies have marketed pink things to girls doesn't mean gender is socially constructed. It just means that parents have a preference for buying pink things for girls, and companies found out that if they color their girls items pink they will get more sales and make more money.
For something to be a social construct effort had to be expended to perform the construction. There were no committees who convened and decided pink was for girls and blue was for boys. No laws passed. No proclamations from any leadership. Fashion and preferences are not social constructs.
Uh, no. That's not what social construct means. Social constructs aren't simply preferences. This is how they've confused the meaning of the words to forward their position.
Concrete and undeniable huh? Well, I'm up to the challenge.
Today pink is considered a feminine colour. Girl's toys are pink, boy's toys are not. However, around a century ago that was not the case. Blue was considered a soft feminine colour and pink was for boys. Baby clothes for boys were pink, blue for girls.
That change is purely social. The time frame is too short for evolution or biological changes to account for it.
Everything you said is true, and none of it actually matters. The fact that people in a society associate certain colors, items, objects, or even words, with a certain sex does not mean that gender is socially constructed.
A social construct is something that was made up by a society and would not exist otherwise. Examples are: currencies and economic markets, political nations and states, marriage, and religion. Gender is not one of these. Gender is not constructed by a society. There were no meetings held to determine what female and male were. There were no laws passed to create feminine or masculine. They are a product of biology and would exist if society collapsed.
Infact, the word "gender" was synonymous with "sex" up until the mid 1960's, in which feminists and "gender studies" professors started to redefine it as something different in order to further their ideas that gender was "socially constructed" in some way. We've all be duped. Gender isn't socially constructed and shouldn't be thought of that way. They were successful in their attempts to change peoples perception of the word.
Or, if you used more than 15GB/mo, maybe you just downloaded Monster Hunter World (19.5GB), or Overwatch (15.7GB), or Rise of the Tomb Raider (22 GB), or Destiny 2 (80.3GB), like I did this past week.
Jesus, what's that. 137.5 GB. I don't stream music, I don't have a spotify account, any music I download is paid for on itunes or amazon or whatever web store is cheapest that day.
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Ok, but turn the radio all the way up and it's legal?
Except in this case, the company Valve partnered with (HTC) is absolutely garbage and has the worse customer support to the point of being customer hostile. It would be a terrible decision to "partner" with HTC again.
Valve is doing a lot of good for linux gamers with Steam Play and employing WINE/DXVK developers.
They're overpriced and underwhelming, way more than before. I had one of the first intel xeon Mac Pros, and at the time if you tried to build or buy something similar it would be about the same price for the components. Now you're touting the new mac mini as being fantastic?
You can build one for about half the price that's smaller and faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apple computers are not a compelling value.
.... a company actively wanting to pay women less, or women not asking aggressively for raises because they're more agreeable?
If it's the second option, whose fault is it?
Even though I get paid by a direct deposit, I still get a paper pay stub.
- The government is authoritarian enough that it will meddle.
- There are no consumer protections for this kind of stuff in China
- You have no recourse if a Chinese company steals your data
Whereas in the west we have consumer protections for it, and a judicial system for recourse. That said, western governments can meddle too, however it's much harder for them to keep it secret.
I love this show so much, and I'm happy Netflix picked it up. My only issue with streaming sites making episodic TV is that they release all the episodes at once, I binge them because I have no self control, and now I have to wait a year+ for more episodes!
I would rather live in a world where people are free to offend, then a world where everyone is scared to talk at all for fear of offending someone.
It is a big deal. This is the first downward degree of a very slippery slope. This sets a precedent that everything must be whitewashed of any potential to offend anyone. The innocuousness of the so called "offense" should actually anger people.
Let me ask you: what happens when you whitewash the world? Is that the kind of world you want to live in?
China has already retaliated:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...
... they should just stop trying to be the gatekeepers on speech, and let ideas live and die on their merits.
Don't be evil? How far Google has fallen. Google can't be trusted, yet look at how much power over the internet they have.
As much as I'd like to shit on Bell for being all around dicks, this is not the case. Outside of large cities the population density in Canada is extremely low. So low that 20 years ago the area where my grandparents raised my mom and her 13 (!) brothers and sisters still used a party-line phone system. Keep in mind this is only a couple hours drive outside of Toronto.
I work for an MSP that does IT work for small/medium business in my area. A lot of our customers can't get internet connections faster than 5mbit/640k ADSL. Some can't even get that and have to rely on wireless point to point links. It's pretty terrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Something to keep in mind while listening: The investigation after the fact showed **no students actually complained** and the complaint was completely fabricated.
Yeah, nobody has gone to jail... yet... We just have university TA's being pulled into "diversity and equity" meetings because they didn't denigrate a certain side of a debate.
This is what you're not getting. Social constructs don't evolve naturally. You see the word "construct" in the term? A construct by definition isn't natural, it is deliberately created. That's like saying english is a constructed language because the words evolved over time. It's nonsense.
Beauty also is not a social construct. Preferences are not social constructs! There were no meetings held to decide what is and isn't beautiful.
This is what I meant when I said the "gender studies" professors in the 60s did a good job at duping everyone by trying to redefine words to suit their agenda.
Nah, just anti-pseudoscience.
You're still not getting it. Just because companies have marketed pink things to girls doesn't mean gender is socially constructed. It just means that parents have a preference for buying pink things for girls, and companies found out that if they color their girls items pink they will get more sales and make more money.
For something to be a social construct effort had to be expended to perform the construction. There were no committees who convened and decided pink was for girls and blue was for boys. No laws passed. No proclamations from any leadership. Fashion and preferences are not social constructs.
Uh, no. That's not what social construct means. Social constructs aren't simply preferences. This is how they've confused the meaning of the words to forward their position.
Concrete and undeniable huh? Well, I'm up to the challenge.
Everything you said is true, and none of it actually matters. The fact that people in a society associate certain colors, items, objects, or even words, with a certain sex does not mean that gender is socially constructed.
A social construct is something that was made up by a society and would not exist otherwise. Examples are: currencies and economic markets, political nations and states, marriage, and religion. Gender is not one of these. Gender is not constructed by a society. There were no meetings held to determine what female and male were. There were no laws passed to create feminine or masculine. They are a product of biology and would exist if society collapsed.
Infact, the word "gender" was synonymous with "sex" up until the mid 1960's, in which feminists and "gender studies" professors started to redefine it as something different in order to further their ideas that gender was "socially constructed" in some way. We've all be duped. Gender isn't socially constructed and shouldn't be thought of that way. They were successful in their attempts to change peoples perception of the word.
... he would be suing, not asking for a retraction.
I do.
Because that's generally where the aspeed BMC is, which has access to everything. The BMC has a dedicated/shared ethernet port for remote management.
Or, if you used more than 15GB/mo, maybe you just downloaded Monster Hunter World (19.5GB), or Overwatch (15.7GB), or Rise of the Tomb Raider (22 GB), or Destiny 2 (80.3GB), like I did this past week.
Jesus, what's that. 137.5 GB. I don't stream music, I don't have a spotify account, any music I download is paid for on itunes or amazon or whatever web store is cheapest that day.
This is blank media tax all over again. Idiots.