I strongly suggest that, for anyone who doubts just how far the U.S. is willing to go to get Snowden (and Julian Assange too, for that matter), to just ask the President of Bolivia how far the U.S. is willing to go.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Bloodborne Fallout 4 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Ori and the Blind Forest Pillars of Eternity Rise of the Tomb Raider Super Mario Maker Tales From the Borderlands
Number of them available on Linux: 1 (Pillars of Eternity)
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
I don't know why MS is pushing this update so crazy hard. But it's made me NOT want to install it...not ever. I actually was interested in upgrading to Win10 at first. But seeing how aggressively they're pushing it has made me suspicious that something skeevy is going on here behind the scenes. No way am I going to install it now.
Those are only the ones hand-picked by the "victim," of course. How many others are reported every day for things like violating "safe spaces" (where any criticism is not allowed) or reasons like "Well, I perceived it as threatening" or "Anyone who disagrees with my position is obviously a racist/misogynist/homophobe," blah, blah, and whatever other such SJW silliness they've come up with today to silence dissenters? Twitter isn't saying.
Oh, and with regard to "the left's desire to treat people better" I would have no problem with that if it were true (what sane person would object to people treating each other better?). The problem that I have is that the SJW's who are infecting the left are warping "Let's all treat each other with respect and equality" into "All white male heterosexuals are evil!!!" I'm pretty sure that flipping the script on who gets oppressed and demonized wasn't what Martin Luther King, Jr. had in mind during those marches for equality.
Sadly, fascism is a potential problem on BOTH sides these days. It's just a question of what ideology they want to impose on us by force.
And the Christian bible-thumpers on the right don't scare me nearly as much as the Muslim-apologists on the left. I can deal with some douchebag bible-thumper yelling shit outside an abortion clinic a lot better than I can deal with some insane fuckwads who want to impose Sharia Law by force on every country in the world (and the SJW's who, bizarrely, apologize for them). In the 21st century, bible-thumpers don't generally blow shit up for their religion anymore or cut people's heads off for disagreeing with them. Koran-thumpers still do that--openly and with overt government sanction in mainstream Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. And SJW's in Europe are inviting them in, then trying to cover it up when (surprise, surprise) they bring their medieval religious beliefs and attitudes with them.
You SJW's really need your enemies to fit into the evil misogynist/racist/homophobe narrative don't you? Because I think Rey is a shallow, poorly developed character made to fit some unrealistic and weird politically-correct Wonder Woman archetype then it must mean I HATE ALL WOMEN, right? Because I think Finn is a boring shallow non-character constructed to be as inoffensive as possible, THEN I MUST HATE ALL BLACK PEOPLE!
Sorry, but Mary Sue Wonder Woman and Token Black Guy were shallow and boring as fuck. And I'm far from the first or only person to recognize it.
Just please remember that we come here for the technical knowledge of the user base. Don't be fooled by the joking around,/. still has one of the most well-educated and knowledgeable user-bases of any tech/science discussion site out there.
We also come here for the freedom to openly discuss controversial topics without fear of censorship. While your fellow users may treat the "Troll" mod as a "I disagree with this" button,/. is still famous for the fact that admins don't (or at least aren't supposed to) censor. It was such a famous policy from the beginning that it actually made news when Taco was forced to take down a Scientology post.
So if you come in here with a disregard for the user-base and the intention to start censoring or controlling the discussion, then you really just wasted your money. If the user-base leaves, you really just bought a bunch of empty servers.
If they wisely take a hands-off policy, great. If they come in here with a new hip flashy redesign and plans to start policing Slashdot for "hateful, triggering, problematic, LGBTTFPQR-unfriendly, or potentially offensive" speech--well, not so much.
Somehow, by law, he was supposed to simultaneously blow the whistle on criminal activity, not participate in criminal activity, and not break the confidence of his "client" who was engaging in said criminal activity.
Proving once again that a whistleblower is almost ALWAYS screwed over no matter how they handle it.
Or are you going to tell me, seriously, you thought Anakin Skywalker was a Mary Sue too
8-year-old pod-racing hero Anakin was one of my biggest objections to TPM, second only to Mitoclorians. I found it even more laughable than Jar Jar. And, yes, 8-year-old Annie was very much a Mary Sue of pod-racing as well. And, absolutely, an 8-year-old kid being allowed to compete in pod-racing (and winning no less) was fucking ridiculous. It was fucking retarded to put an 8-year-old kid in a role that should have been meant for an older teenager (it also didn't help that Jake Lloyd couldn't act worth a fuck and that his scenes with Padme were just pedo-creepy). About the only thing I can say is that, at least Little Annie was only laughably perfect at ONE thing. Mary Sue Wonder Woman was perfect at EVERYTHING.
Do you foresee MIT and other prominent colleges offering a wide range of affordable online-only degrees at any point in the future? Right now there are a few accredited universities offering online-only degrees in a number of fields (most notably, Western Governors University). But most fields of study at most major universities still require old-fashioned physical class attendance. Aside from a few token classes and maybe one or two fields of study, most universities still do classes the same way they've been done for hundreds of years (show up to this classroom at 10:30 a.m., good luck finding parking).
Do you ever see a future where a student could get a real degree from MIT in a mainstream major without ever setting foot on campus?
No, what makes them politically correct is the fact that the female is Wonder Woman (perfect in every way, and "empowered" in the only most brain-dead shallow manner) and because they work so hard to distance the black guy from any black stereotypes that he pretty much disappears as a real human being.
Princess Leia was empowered in a much better way than Wonder Woman. She was incredibly strong, but not in some shallow "She's a man, but with tits" kind of way. Leia wasn't jumping around beating down 250-lb dudes, flying ships that she had no way of knowing how to fly, out-showing every male character in every way at every turn, etc. She had strength of character, kept a clear head in a crisis, and was a natural leader. But she wasn't Mary Sue Wonder Woman. And she wasn't presented as perfect, flawless, and invincible.
And give me Lando any day over Token Black Guy. Lando actually was an interesting character--with his own agenda, guilt, and conflicted loyalties. Token Black Guy is so shallow that he could be CGI generated an no one would even notice.
That whole movie was just one giant gimmick., from the shameless degree of fan service to the breakneck-speed plot (no time for dialogue, MORE ACTION!!) to the politically-correct casting of Wonder Woman and Token Black Guy.
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If the U.S. controls French, Spanish, Italian, and Austrian airspace, I'm pretty sure they control UK airspace as well (Scotland or otherwise)
I strongly suggest that, for anyone who doubts just how far the U.S. is willing to go to get Snowden (and Julian Assange too, for that matter), to just ask the President of Bolivia how far the U.S. is willing to go.
IGN's games of the year, 2015:
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Bloodborne
Fallout 4
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Ori and the Blind Forest
Pillars of Eternity
Rise of the Tomb Raider
Super Mario Maker
Tales From the Borderlands
Number of them available on Linux: 1 (Pillars of Eternity)
AFAICT, the editors spent 90% of their time posting dupes of 2-week old stories and "Why Aren't There More Women in Tech?!?" articles.
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
I don't know why MS is pushing this update so crazy hard. But it's made me NOT want to install it...not ever. I actually was interested in upgrading to Win10 at first. But seeing how aggressively they're pushing it has made me suspicious that something skeevy is going on here behind the scenes. No way am I going to install it now.
Those are only the ones hand-picked by the "victim," of course. How many others are reported every day for things like violating "safe spaces" (where any criticism is not allowed) or reasons like "Well, I perceived it as threatening" or "Anyone who disagrees with my position is obviously a racist/misogynist/homophobe," blah, blah, and whatever other such SJW silliness they've come up with today to silence dissenters? Twitter isn't saying.
Oh, and with regard to "the left's desire to treat people better" I would have no problem with that if it were true (what sane person would object to people treating each other better?). The problem that I have is that the SJW's who are infecting the left are warping "Let's all treat each other with respect and equality" into "All white male heterosexuals are evil!!!" I'm pretty sure that flipping the script on who gets oppressed and demonized wasn't what Martin Luther King, Jr. had in mind during those marches for equality.
Sadly, fascism is a potential problem on BOTH sides these days. It's just a question of what ideology they want to impose on us by force.
And the Christian bible-thumpers on the right don't scare me nearly as much as the Muslim-apologists on the left. I can deal with some douchebag bible-thumper yelling shit outside an abortion clinic a lot better than I can deal with some insane fuckwads who want to impose Sharia Law by force on every country in the world (and the SJW's who, bizarrely, apologize for them). In the 21st century, bible-thumpers don't generally blow shit up for their religion anymore or cut people's heads off for disagreeing with them. Koran-thumpers still do that--openly and with overt government sanction in mainstream Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran. And SJW's in Europe are inviting them in, then trying to cover it up when (surprise, surprise) they bring their medieval religious beliefs and attitudes with them.
It's totally not about the social outcasts getting back at all the women who didn't and won't ever sleep with them, nope not at all!
And it's vicious hateful stereotyping like that that makes you SJW such epic hypocrites.
Only if by "spewing hate" you mean saying offensive things like "I disagree with you" or "I think the SJW argument is wrong."
You SJW's really need your enemies to fit into the evil misogynist/racist/homophobe narrative don't you? Because I think Rey is a shallow, poorly developed character made to fit some unrealistic and weird politically-correct Wonder Woman archetype then it must mean I HATE ALL WOMEN, right? Because I think Finn is a boring shallow non-character constructed to be as inoffensive as possible, THEN I MUST HATE ALL BLACK PEOPLE!
Sorry, but Mary Sue Wonder Woman and Token Black Guy were shallow and boring as fuck. And I'm far from the first or only person to recognize it.
Just please remember that we come here for the technical knowledge of the user base. Don't be fooled by the joking around, /. still has one of the most well-educated and knowledgeable user-bases of any tech/science discussion site out there.
We also come here for the freedom to openly discuss controversial topics without fear of censorship. While your fellow users may treat the "Troll" mod as a "I disagree with this" button, /. is still famous for the fact that admins don't (or at least aren't supposed to) censor. It was such a famous policy from the beginning that it actually made news when Taco was forced to take down a Scientology post.
So if you come in here with a disregard for the user-base and the intention to start censoring or controlling the discussion, then you really just wasted your money. If the user-base leaves, you really just bought a bunch of empty servers.
If they wisely take a hands-off policy, great. If they come in here with a new hip flashy redesign and plans to start policing Slashdot for "hateful, triggering, problematic, LGBTTFPQR-unfriendly, or potentially offensive" speech--well, not so much.
I just hope the new bosses aren't a bunch of Silocon Valley SJW liberals who come in here trying to ban "problematic or triggering" speech.
Apparently a bunch of nerds discussing tech and saying whatever the fuck they want didn't turn out to be the easy cash machine they expected it to be.
Somehow, by law, he was supposed to simultaneously blow the whistle on criminal activity, not participate in criminal activity, and not break the confidence of his "client" who was engaging in said criminal activity.
Proving once again that a whistleblower is almost ALWAYS screwed over no matter how they handle it.
Or are you going to tell me, seriously, you thought Anakin Skywalker was a Mary Sue too
8-year-old pod-racing hero Anakin was one of my biggest objections to TPM, second only to Mitoclorians. I found it even more laughable than Jar Jar. And, yes, 8-year-old Annie was very much a Mary Sue of pod-racing as well. And, absolutely, an 8-year-old kid being allowed to compete in pod-racing (and winning no less) was fucking ridiculous. It was fucking retarded to put an 8-year-old kid in a role that should have been meant for an older teenager (it also didn't help that Jake Lloyd couldn't act worth a fuck and that his scenes with Padme were just pedo-creepy). About the only thing I can say is that, at least Little Annie was only laughably perfect at ONE thing. Mary Sue Wonder Woman was perfect at EVERYTHING.
THAT'S why the Soviets didn't use pure oxygen.
Do you foresee MIT and other prominent colleges offering a wide range of affordable online-only degrees at any point in the future? Right now there are a few accredited universities offering online-only degrees in a number of fields (most notably, Western Governors University). But most fields of study at most major universities still require old-fashioned physical class attendance. Aside from a few token classes and maybe one or two fields of study, most universities still do classes the same way they've been done for hundreds of years (show up to this classroom at 10:30 a.m., good luck finding parking).
Do you ever see a future where a student could get a real degree from MIT in a mainstream major without ever setting foot on campus?
No, what makes them politically correct is the fact that the female is Wonder Woman (perfect in every way, and "empowered" in the only most brain-dead shallow manner) and because they work so hard to distance the black guy from any black stereotypes that he pretty much disappears as a real human being.
Princess Leia was empowered in a much better way than Wonder Woman. She was incredibly strong, but not in some shallow "She's a man, but with tits" kind of way. Leia wasn't jumping around beating down 250-lb dudes, flying ships that she had no way of knowing how to fly, out-showing every male character in every way at every turn, etc. She had strength of character, kept a clear head in a crisis, and was a natural leader. But she wasn't Mary Sue Wonder Woman. And she wasn't presented as perfect, flawless, and invincible.
And give me Lando any day over Token Black Guy. Lando actually was an interesting character--with his own agenda, guilt, and conflicted loyalties. Token Black Guy is so shallow that he could be CGI generated an no one would even notice.
That whole movie was just one giant gimmick., from the shameless degree of fan service to the breakneck-speed plot (no time for dialogue, MORE ACTION!!) to the politically-correct casting of Wonder Woman and Token Black Guy.
And have the action scenes serve the script, not the other way around.
Translation: While this is never going to happen
Truly driverless cars are at least a decade away, if they ever materialize at all (personally, I'm skeptical).