Not to be too cynical, but I don't suspect the company behind this app is so much a "moral company" as it is a front for a law firm(s). Not sure if it works the same in the UK, but in the U.S. at least, that kind of data would be very valuable to lawyers wanting to sue the city/state for damages; and it would also be very valuable as a way to connect with potential clients.
Still, your assertion that ALL predictions are wrong is a bag of knackers.
Sure, occasionally people get little things right. But there are VERY few predictions of any real significance, and certainly nothing systematic. Sure, some wanker in 1915 may have made small predictions that were based on things they already knew about ("There will be more automobiles in the future" or "They will still use dollars" or "They will have better aircraft" etc.), or obvious ("They will still elect a President" or "Congress will still bicker"). and occasionally some writer would get lucky and predict one small thing, though he might get a ton of other stuff wrong.
But you aren't going to find any economist in 1915 saying "in 2015, the economy will be based on a growing service sector as manufacturing declines, with a strong focus on the online technology sector." They would have been way more likely to think things like the gold standard vs. free silver issue or railroad robber baron controversy would still be having some huge impact 100 years later. And they would have been completely oblivious to the effects of two world wars on Europe, or the Cold War, or the advent of the internet economy, etc.
Predicting what the economy will look like in 2100 is beyond ridiculous. There are WAY too many unknown factors to even begin to hazard an educated guess at that. One war, or one technological development, or one social movement could change things drastically in ways you could never imagine and completely negate all of your contemporary concerns.
The Klan as a mainstream group, even in the deep south, peaked in the 1920's. It had a brief minor resurgence in the 1960's during the civil rights movement, but for the most part it's a fringe-of-a-fringe-of-a-fringe movement and has been for most of its existence. Exposing them isn't even fighting racism, since their membership rolls today are made up of a tiny handful of disenfranchised rednecks who don't have any power to oppress or intimidate anyone. Hitting them today is like stabbing Julius Caesar several decades after his funeral. It's a pointless feel-good exercise that doesn't help anyone.
Red flag #1. CBS sucks ass and they have 0 balls. If this show is anything like all the other bland shit that's on network TV these days, it will make even Voyager look good by comparison.
subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform, "All Access."
subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform, "All Access."
Red flag #2. Network doesn't even believe in it enough to put it on their regular broadcast channel. They're just using it to promote their shitty also-ran streaming channel. Hello, lots of low budget episodes.
The show will be produced by Alex Kurtzman
Red Flag #3. Let's get the fucktard behind those shitty action-movies-with-a-Star-Trek-skin to produce! He understands that REAL Star Trek ain't about all that thinkin' shit, it's about 'PLOSIONS!!!!
CBS is currently looking for a writer to helm the show.
Red Flag #4. CBS says "We don't even have a clue yet what it's going to be about, where we're going to go with it, or who's going to write it. But dammit, let's greenlight this thing! Just slap a Star Trek label on it and people will watch, right?"
If you want to see how well any given group or individual can predict events or outcomes 100 years into the future, just go 100 years into the past and ask yourself if anyone was predicting a future that looked even remotely like the one that actually happened.
Here is a hint, the answer is always "no".
And even when a lucky prognosticator does get occasionally get something right, it's usually either something pretty obvious or they got its context completely wrong. For example, a lot of idiots cite the Star Trek communicators as a "prediction" of modern cellphones. But this is way off:
1) The communicators used in Star Trek were more akin to military walkie-talkies, which had been in use for some time by the 1960's, than cellphones. 2) They were only used by the military. There is no evidence that civilians carried them. 3) They were short range. You couldn't use a communicator to just "call" someone anywhere. 4) Like walkies-talkie transmissions, communicator transmissions were apparently overheard by everyone (it's why Kirk always had to announce who he was and who he was talking to at the beginning of each communication). There is no evidence of characters making actual private one-to-one "calls" with communicators.
Assuming the service is good, there should be brand recognition among current customers.
Yeah, BAD brand recognition. When GoDaddy first came along, I used to recommend it to clients as a good cheap web host. But then they started running ads that made the company look more like some sleazy Hooters knockoff than an ISP, and I immediately stopped recommending them or even mentioning them to clients. I'm not sure the audience they were going for (maybe they wanted to be the ISP of choice for frat houses?), but I can tell you that they built a very sleazy reputation over many years that will be hard to shake.
If I were them the first thing I would do would be to change the company's name, and then fire all the marketing people who thought that commercials filled with half-naked skanks were the perfect way to sell an ISP.
Calling someone an SJW isn't "harassment." If someone is so thin-skinned that they can't handle being labeled themselves (even as they themselves attempt to attach much more virulent labels to their critics), then they have no place in the debate.
So you're accusing "SJWs" of bigger threats of actual violence than the ones that caused SXSW to cancel the panels in the first place?
Trolls have never once tried to pass legislation destroying the very foundation of free speech. They've never bullied a single university into kicking out students for daring to challenge the accepted liberal/feminist/race-hustling narrative. They've never threatened to alter the content of my videogames/movies/TV shows/etc. to portray some artificial liberal construct of "reality." AFAIK, they've rarely, if ever, drum-headed anyone out of their profession for saying the wrong thing.
They just occasionally shoot their virtual mouths off with hollow threats and juvenile insults.
So yes, SJW's are VERY MUCH so more of a threat to most us in our everyday lives than any trolls ever will be.
And how many of those 1500 are serious triple-A titles, compared to the 6464? Even with Valve's initiatives, you could probably count the number of newer triple-A titles released on Linux on two hands. 99% of Linux games are either small indie titles that no one gives a fuck about, or ancient AAA titles like Half-Life 2 (many of them released by Valve themselves). To argue that Linux titles make of 25% of the gaming market is ridiculous. It's comparing apples and oranges.
No it's not. Modern libertarianism is just a front for rich assholes who don't want to pay taxes and who want to be able to lord over everyone like gods with their wealth (without annoying laws that enforce any standards of basic decency). It's doesn't give anything more than lip service to civil liberties for non-rich people, and certainly doesn't believe in any kind of reasonable social safety net for the non-rich. A libertarian society is one in which the rich and powerful are gods, and everyone else is a slave. Anyone who isn't already rich and powerful who supports implementing that kind of system is either fucking retarded or insane.
When you write an academic paper or an article for an academic journal, your audience is other academics, with a certain baseline knowledge. So of course you're more inclined to use jargon and complex language.
When you're writing for a general audience, you're more likely to forgo the jargon and use more simplified language and explanations.
Translation: I don't like that the harassment campaign made her and her videos much more popular.
No. Translation: Anita Sarkeesian gets paid a lot of money for promoting herself as a victim.
Seriously the whole "professional victim" claims is just poop flinging by people (including you) trying to shout down opinions they don't like.
What an delightfully ironic charge, coming from a side that literally wants to criminalize any criticism of its own position.
It's not her fault, it's collectively your fault.
Oh, I'm used to it. I'm a white heterosexual male, so everything bad is ALWAYS my fault.
That also doesn't make her a professional victim
No, the fact that she gets paid to speak about her victimhood and actively publicizes herself as a victim in order to promote those paid speeches is what makes her a professional victim.
what a spoiled little child you are. How about you call your mommie and complain to her.
And this is exactly the kind of asshole response you get when you're a white heterosexual male and you dare complain about anything. Just another one of our wonderful PRIVILEGES.
You can buy train and air tickets in the U.S. without showing identification? And cops never ask for identification in the U.S., or detain criminals who refuse to show identification?
Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for educating me! My ignorant friends insisted that you had to show identification for all sorts of things in the U.S. and that you weren't even allowed to drive without a state-granted license there. I need to let them know that burbilog said that you can travel freely in the U.S. and never once have to break out any sort of ID, not for tickets or cops of for anything else. Land of the free indeed!
people are sick of the politically correct narrative and it is their way of rebelling
If I hear one more SJW complain about white heterosexual male privilege, I think I'm going to scream "FUCK YOU!!" right in their face.
Yeah, we have the privilege of having to go to work every day and work out asses off. We have to do that because we have to deal with the pressure to be the breadwinners. And, yes, people will hire us over people who they think WON'T work their asses off. And we don't (and can't) complain about having to work hard, because that's what expected of us. And that lack of complaining about it is another reason that companies want to hire us over the women and minorities who are going to run to HR, the EEOC, and a lawyer every time someone so much as tells a dirty joke in front of them (or complains about them not showing up to meetings on time).
We also get pulled over by cops too. Believe it or not, you don't get to just break the law because you're a white heterosexual male. You can't just act any way you want, pull out your white privilege card and have cops look the other way, you know. The reason we get pulled over less is because cops know that we're not the ones out there committing most of the crime. If one-third of all white males had spent time in prison during his lifetime (the actual statistic for black males, no joke), you can bet your ass the cops would be pulling us over more too. The only privilege we get there is one we had to EARN, by being mostly law-abiding citizens.
We also have the privilege of no one giving a shit about OUR problems. We have the privilege of having to pay for every date, having to financially support our family, etc. We don't get to sit at home watching soap operas all day, pretending that parenting is some huge "full-time job" ("Yeah honey, you had the terrible burden of having to make sandwiches for the kids' lunch, while I just had to WORK IN FUCKING COAL MINE FOR A 12 HOUR SHIFT"). We don't have any politicians or SJW journalists asking why there aren't more men in nursing and education, or why men make up the overwhelming percentage of the worst, most dangerous, and hardest professions in the country. No SJW's are out there complaining that it's men who suffer 93% of all workplace fatalities. No, we get to suffer almost all the workplace deaths and fatalities because we're so PRIVILEGED!
No, it's only women and minorities who have to suffer in this country. We white heterosexual males just get to kick back all day, show our white privilege card, and do whatever the fuck we want, while the rest of you poor souls are all being OPPRESSED.
Considering the number of incidents in the Cold War where a nuclear war was averted by cool heads, it makes me glad (as General Baringer would say) that our boys were in those silos, instead of a computer.
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Not to be too cynical, but I don't suspect the company behind this app is so much a "moral company" as it is a front for a law firm(s). Not sure if it works the same in the UK, but in the U.S. at least, that kind of data would be very valuable to lawyers wanting to sue the city/state for damages; and it would also be very valuable as a way to connect with potential clients.
Or with spending millions of $ acting as U.S. lapdogs.
Still, your assertion that ALL predictions are wrong is a bag of knackers.
Sure, occasionally people get little things right. But there are VERY few predictions of any real significance, and certainly nothing systematic. Sure, some wanker in 1915 may have made small predictions that were based on things they already knew about ("There will be more automobiles in the future" or "They will still use dollars" or "They will have better aircraft" etc.), or obvious ("They will still elect a President" or "Congress will still bicker"). and occasionally some writer would get lucky and predict one small thing, though he might get a ton of other stuff wrong.
But you aren't going to find any economist in 1915 saying "in 2015, the economy will be based on a growing service sector as manufacturing declines, with a strong focus on the online technology sector." They would have been way more likely to think things like the gold standard vs. free silver issue or railroad robber baron controversy would still be having some huge impact 100 years later. And they would have been completely oblivious to the effects of two world wars on Europe, or the Cold War, or the advent of the internet economy, etc.
Predicting what the economy will look like in 2100 is beyond ridiculous. There are WAY too many unknown factors to even begin to hazard an educated guess at that. One war, or one technological development, or one social movement could change things drastically in ways you could never imagine and completely negate all of your contemporary concerns.
The Klan as a mainstream group, even in the deep south, peaked in the 1920's. It had a brief minor resurgence in the 1960's during the civil rights movement, but for the most part it's a fringe-of-a-fringe-of-a-fringe movement and has been for most of its existence. Exposing them isn't even fighting racism, since their membership rolls today are made up of a tiny handful of disenfranchised rednecks who don't have any power to oppress or intimidate anyone. Hitting them today is like stabbing Julius Caesar several decades after his funeral. It's a pointless feel-good exercise that doesn't help anyone.
The first episode will air on CBS
Red flag #1. CBS sucks ass and they have 0 balls. If this show is anything like all the other bland shit that's on network TV these days, it will make even Voyager look good by comparison.
subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform, "All Access."
subsequent episodes will appear on CBS's online platform, "All Access."
Red flag #2. Network doesn't even believe in it enough to put it on their regular broadcast channel. They're just using it to promote their shitty also-ran streaming channel. Hello, lots of low budget episodes.
The show will be produced by Alex Kurtzman
Red Flag #3. Let's get the fucktard behind those shitty action-movies-with-a-Star-Trek-skin to produce! He understands that REAL Star Trek ain't about all that thinkin' shit, it's about 'PLOSIONS!!!!
CBS is currently looking for a writer to helm the show.
Red Flag #4. CBS says "We don't even have a clue yet what it's going to be about, where we're going to go with it, or who's going to write it. But dammit, let's greenlight this thing! Just slap a Star Trek label on it and people will watch, right?"
If you want to see how well any given group or individual can predict events or outcomes 100 years into the future, just go 100 years into the past and ask yourself if anyone was predicting a future that looked even remotely like the one that actually happened.
Here is a hint, the answer is always "no".
And even when a lucky prognosticator does get occasionally get something right, it's usually either something pretty obvious or they got its context completely wrong. For example, a lot of idiots cite the Star Trek communicators as a "prediction" of modern cellphones. But this is way off:
1) The communicators used in Star Trek were more akin to military walkie-talkies, which had been in use for some time by the 1960's, than cellphones.
2) They were only used by the military. There is no evidence that civilians carried them.
3) They were short range. You couldn't use a communicator to just "call" someone anywhere.
4) Like walkies-talkie transmissions, communicator transmissions were apparently overheard by everyone (it's why Kirk always had to announce who he was and who he was talking to at the beginning of each communication). There is no evidence of characters making actual private one-to-one "calls" with communicators.
Assuming the service is good, there should be brand recognition among current customers.
Yeah, BAD brand recognition. When GoDaddy first came along, I used to recommend it to clients as a good cheap web host. But then they started running ads that made the company look more like some sleazy Hooters knockoff than an ISP, and I immediately stopped recommending them or even mentioning them to clients. I'm not sure the audience they were going for (maybe they wanted to be the ISP of choice for frat houses?), but I can tell you that they built a very sleazy reputation over many years that will be hard to shake.
If I were them the first thing I would do would be to change the company's name, and then fire all the marketing people who thought that commercials filled with half-naked skanks were the perfect way to sell an ISP.
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Well, it's certainly a lot funnier than the labels that SJW's apply to their critics.
Calling someone an SJW isn't "harassment." If someone is so thin-skinned that they can't handle being labeled themselves (even as they themselves attempt to attach much more virulent labels to their critics), then they have no place in the debate.
So you're accusing "SJWs" of bigger threats of actual violence than the ones that caused SXSW to cancel the panels in the first place?
Trolls have never once tried to pass legislation destroying the very foundation of free speech. They've never bullied a single university into kicking out students for daring to challenge the accepted liberal/feminist/race-hustling narrative. They've never threatened to alter the content of my videogames/movies/TV shows/etc. to portray some artificial liberal construct of "reality." AFAIK, they've rarely, if ever, drum-headed anyone out of their profession for saying the wrong thing.
They just occasionally shoot their virtual mouths off with hollow threats and juvenile insults.
So yes, SJW's are VERY MUCH so more of a threat to most us in our everyday lives than any trolls ever will be.
And how many of those 1500 are serious triple-A titles, compared to the 6464? Even with Valve's initiatives, you could probably count the number of newer triple-A titles released on Linux on two hands. 99% of Linux games are either small indie titles that no one gives a fuck about, or ancient AAA titles like Half-Life 2 (many of them released by Valve themselves). To argue that Linux titles make of 25% of the gaming market is ridiculous. It's comparing apples and oranges.
So? What good does Steam market dominance do for Linux, when 99% of the games available on it are Windows or Mac only?
Yep! Good enough for my neighbor Skeeter, good enough for NASA.
libertarian. thats what you describe
No it's not. Modern libertarianism is just a front for rich assholes who don't want to pay taxes and who want to be able to lord over everyone like gods with their wealth (without annoying laws that enforce any standards of basic decency). It's doesn't give anything more than lip service to civil liberties for non-rich people, and certainly doesn't believe in any kind of reasonable social safety net for the non-rich. A libertarian society is one in which the rich and powerful are gods, and everyone else is a slave. Anyone who isn't already rich and powerful who supports implementing that kind of system is either fucking retarded or insane.
Can't we just agree that mean ole mister white man is the source of all evil in this world?
ole mister white heterosexual man, oppressor!
Maybe Johnny wants to choose his own fucking interests, instead of having them imposed by a corporate oligarchy only interested in cheap labor.
When you write an academic paper or an article for an academic journal, your audience is other academics, with a certain baseline knowledge. So of course you're more inclined to use jargon and complex language.
When you're writing for a general audience, you're more likely to forgo the jargon and use more simplified language and explanations.
Translation: I don't like that the harassment campaign made her and her videos much more popular.
No. Translation: Anita Sarkeesian gets paid a lot of money for promoting herself as a victim.
Seriously the whole "professional victim" claims is just poop flinging by people (including you) trying to shout down opinions they don't like.
What an delightfully ironic charge, coming from a side that literally wants to criminalize any criticism of its own position.
It's not her fault, it's collectively your fault.
Oh, I'm used to it. I'm a white heterosexual male, so everything bad is ALWAYS my fault.
That also doesn't make her a professional victim
No, the fact that she gets paid to speak about her victimhood and actively publicizes herself as a victim in order to promote those paid speeches is what makes her a professional victim.
what a spoiled little child you are. How about you call your mommie and complain to her.
And this is exactly the kind of asshole response you get when you're a white heterosexual male and you dare complain about anything. Just another one of our wonderful PRIVILEGES.
Oh, Anita Sarkeesian, is a victim alright--a professional one.
You can buy train and air tickets in the U.S. without showing identification? And cops never ask for identification in the U.S., or detain criminals who refuse to show identification?
Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for educating me! My ignorant friends insisted that you had to show identification for all sorts of things in the U.S. and that you weren't even allowed to drive without a state-granted license there. I need to let them know that burbilog said that you can travel freely in the U.S. and never once have to break out any sort of ID, not for tickets or cops of for anything else. Land of the free indeed!
people are sick of the politically correct narrative and it is their way of rebelling
If I hear one more SJW complain about white heterosexual male privilege, I think I'm going to scream "FUCK YOU!!" right in their face.
Yeah, we have the privilege of having to go to work every day and work out asses off. We have to do that because we have to deal with the pressure to be the breadwinners. And, yes, people will hire us over people who they think WON'T work their asses off. And we don't (and can't) complain about having to work hard, because that's what expected of us. And that lack of complaining about it is another reason that companies want to hire us over the women and minorities who are going to run to HR, the EEOC, and a lawyer every time someone so much as tells a dirty joke in front of them (or complains about them not showing up to meetings on time).
We also get pulled over by cops too. Believe it or not, you don't get to just break the law because you're a white heterosexual male. You can't just act any way you want, pull out your white privilege card and have cops look the other way, you know. The reason we get pulled over less is because cops know that we're not the ones out there committing most of the crime. If one-third of all white males had spent time in prison during his lifetime (the actual statistic for black males, no joke), you can bet your ass the cops would be pulling us over more too. The only privilege we get there is one we had to EARN, by being mostly law-abiding citizens.
We also have the privilege of no one giving a shit about OUR problems. We have the privilege of having to pay for every date, having to financially support our family, etc. We don't get to sit at home watching soap operas all day, pretending that parenting is some huge "full-time job" ("Yeah honey, you had the terrible burden of having to make sandwiches for the kids' lunch, while I just had to WORK IN FUCKING COAL MINE FOR A 12 HOUR SHIFT"). We don't have any politicians or SJW journalists asking why there aren't more men in nursing and education, or why men make up the overwhelming percentage of the worst, most dangerous, and hardest professions in the country. No SJW's are out there complaining that it's men who suffer 93% of all workplace fatalities. No, we get to suffer almost all the workplace deaths and fatalities because we're so PRIVILEGED!
No, it's only women and minorities who have to suffer in this country. We white heterosexual males just get to kick back all day, show our white privilege card, and do whatever the fuck we want, while the rest of you poor souls are all being OPPRESSED.
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Considering the number of incidents in the Cold War where a nuclear war was averted by cool heads, it makes me glad (as General Baringer would say) that our boys were in those silos, instead of a computer.