Regardless, the point stands that it's really really hard to make minimum-wage in San Francisco, a place where most households make over 200 K. I hope she finds happiness elsewhere.
An improvement from several days later. Remember they're not a primary new source writing their own articles, so they have to wait until other articles are posted before they have something to link to.
the girl said she takes home $8.15 after taxes. part of the problem is the bay area is so stupidly expensive that I wouldn't want to be there if I made $100k, let alone $30k. Hopefully she takes this opportunity to move back whence she came, where she can find a better path to success and happiness.
the letter was heelarious by the way. I'm sure she'll find it funny after some years.
she also said she was spending $1200, or 80% of her take home, on rent. The sad fact of the bay area is that you end up living on somebody's couch.
I heard once that in a conflict zone a gallon of gasoline costs the military $400. This is because it has to be secured, shipped over there, etc etc etc whatever.
I think the trick to use ddg as the default, and when you need to jump the google, use the bang. So when I find I'm not getting the results I'm looking for, I add a "!g" to the search box and jump directly to google.
this is the problem with soft sciences. The article in the link talks about how the term fewer is falling out of favor in common vernacular in the educated population, when all he really means is he and his friends don't know grammar.
> There will be seven Google AdWords ads in total -- four above the search results and three below.
so now there will be 17 search results shown, ten of which are organic and seven of which are keyword-targeted ads. 59% signal to noise ratio, go google! keep up the stellar work! meanwhile i'll be at duckduckgo.com along with everybody else.
The 5c originally shipped with iOS 7, which apple can get into if they want. It will be interesting to see what happens. Maybe apples claims about being 'locked out' of iOS 8 is bunk. Maybe they didn't password protect their phone. Maybe apple can guess their iCloud password ('12345'?), or access their gmail and reset the password. Once they have the iCloud password, and if there's an online backup, they can restore the backup to another phone. There are plenty of options beside brute forcing that hardware. Maybe the fib just enters all 10,000 lock screen combinations (as long as the option to erase the phone after ten failed tries is not turned on).
if you read the article, you would know that the perplexity score is related to how perplexing something is, and the dataset is the number of examples of sentences.
what a fascinating post! you definitely know the subject very well and were clearly in on the ground floor. You're absolutely right, ethics in journalism is paramount, whether we're talking about AAA videogames or war in iraq. we rely on the free press to tell us what the world is like. This is why journalism is a "noble profession", and the history and ethics of that profession are what make it different than just being a blogger.
and I think you also make a good point that whatever organic movement was quickly co-opted by people who piled on just to make noise, on both sides, because they are professional agitators. And once this happened, the whole thing turned into a shizz show.
The only remaining question mark is you. If you feel passionately that game journalism has an ethics problem, why are you trying to make this point through the #gamergate platform? You must understand that many (I would say most?) people who would otherwise be open to your message just reject it out of hand because of all the baggage.
Surely there must be a more effective platform from which you can advocate for change.
Some indie game developer (who happened to be female) received a glowing review of her game from a game journalist. Said journalist was accused of being her boyfriend and demonstrating favoritism.
this is an important statement for two reason. First, it's notable that if the event were true, then the person who committed the ethics violation was Nathan Grayson, the writer for kotaku. Yet Zoe Quinn caught all the rage and hate. If #gg was all about ethics in journalism, why was Zoe demonized? This says to me that the movement is not in fact about ethics.
Second notable thing: your statement is false on its face. Nathan Grayson never reviewed Depression Quest. See this kotaku statement. If this is incorrect, please provide the link to the review. So the entire rage against Zoe and the entire genesis of #gamergate is based on a false premise. A good question, how could so many people get so upset about an issue that can be demonstrably proven false with a simple Internet search? This confirms to me that the whole thing is invalid and about hate for uppity women.
1) breitbart is a notorious troll right wing 'news' site. It is the Donald trump of news aggregators.
2) the article makes no sense. It says it's the media fault because a total 'blackout' of coverage led to interest and rage. Maybe they didn't think it was a story worth covering?
3) your justification doesn't explain all the Anita sarkeesian nonsense, which was clearly about a girl getting in the boys club.
I didn't look at the rest of the links, but undoubtedly there was all sorts of nastiness going around on all sides once the issue was raging. My point was that the original ignition and first blows were all done on the neck beard side.
OK, thanks for this insightful reply. I had never heard the term privelaged panic. I also appreciate you adding links for more information. tell me more about your perspective on gamergate? I think my understanding is pretty spot on. based on my understanding, the whole thing started when some women were making videogames that were outside of the mainstream and blurred the lines of what a game was. Other women were making cultural commentary videos about videogame history. I never saw any attacks on gamers or direct threats to people's identity. There was an unsubstantiated attack of an inappropriate relationship that led to favorable video game media coverage, but oddly this attack was not on the journalist who supposedly did an unethical thing.
the best way for NK to get invaded is to keep waving around nuclear war bluster. WWDTD? what do you think donald trump will do? maybe it's time for the US to be rash and unstable for a change, see how everybody feels about that. maybe people like kim il sung better start staying within the lines and stop causing problems.
"the quickest way between two points is a straight line".
-- Sun Tzu
If china wanted to attack / defeat the US, they would just find a way to do it directly, they woudln't play out a james bond supervillian complicated spy novel plot attack plan.
oh, I'm quite aware of identity politics. I see it all the time on fox news, hannity, and breitbart. "War on Christmas?" "Religious freedom"? "Feminazis"? It's all playing to hurt an indignation of white poor uneducated americans who feel left behind and carry a big grudge.
I'm familiar with gamergate as well. a reactionary neckbeard riot against people who were trying to challenge and expand what gaming meant, and who played games. "who let a girl into our basement?".
as for the negative consequences, maybe they didn't want a large industrial installation on top of what the local community feels is a natural resource? combine this with 14 years of construction, more traffic, anybody would protest it. it shure wouldn't get built in vermont, i'll tell you that much.
so maybe you should check your identity privilege before getting all butthurt about this.
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if they're looking for a massive weight, I know for a fact that your mom is free right now.
Regardless, the point stands that it's really really hard to make minimum-wage in San Francisco, a place where most households make over 200 K. I hope she finds happiness elsewhere.
An improvement from several days later. Remember they're not a primary new source writing their own articles, so they have to wait until other articles are posted before they have something to link to.
it's one thing to speak truth to power. it's another to spill your dirty laundry all out in public.
the girl said she takes home $8.15 after taxes. part of the problem is the bay area is so stupidly expensive that I wouldn't want to be there if I made $100k, let alone $30k. Hopefully she takes this opportunity to move back whence she came, where she can find a better path to success and happiness.
the letter was heelarious by the way. I'm sure she'll find it funny after some years.
she also said she was spending $1200, or 80% of her take home, on rent. The sad fact of the bay area is that you end up living on somebody's couch.
I heard once that in a conflict zone a gallon of gasoline costs the military $400. This is because it has to be secured, shipped over there, etc etc etc whatever.
I think high oil prices is the biggest factor driving this research.
I think they want automated whisper predator drones that can drop bombs from above while cruising for 48 hours without needing to land.
But those republicans are worser so we should support communism.
feeling the bern?
I think adblock doesn't box the search add inserts? It's just text and hyperlinks, so I don't see how adblock could identify it or cut it out.
I think the trick to use ddg as the default, and when you need to jump the google, use the bang. So when I find I'm not getting the results I'm looking for, I add a "!g" to the search box and jump directly to google.
this is the problem with soft sciences. The article in the link talks about how the term fewer is falling out of favor in common vernacular in the educated population, when all he really means is he and his friends don't know grammar.
A world with less lawers is a nicer world.
*fewer.
> There will be seven Google AdWords ads in total -- four above the search results and three below.
so now there will be 17 search results shown, ten of which are organic and seven of which are keyword-targeted ads. 59% signal to noise ratio, go google! keep up the stellar work! meanwhile i'll be at duckduckgo.com along with everybody else.
The 5c originally shipped with iOS 7, which apple can get into if they want. It will be interesting to see what happens. Maybe apples claims about being 'locked out' of iOS 8 is bunk. Maybe they didn't password protect their phone. Maybe apple can guess their iCloud password ('12345'?), or access their gmail and reset the password. Once they have the iCloud password, and if there's an online backup, they can restore the backup to another phone. There are plenty of options beside brute forcing that hardware. Maybe the fib just enters all 10,000 lock screen combinations (as long as the option to erase the phone after ten failed tries is not turned on).
Dayam I was gonna pose DJT but someone beat me to it.
if you read the article, you would know that the perplexity score is related to how perplexing something is, and the dataset is the number of examples of sentences.
what a fascinating post! you definitely know the subject very well and were clearly in on the ground floor. You're absolutely right, ethics in journalism is paramount, whether we're talking about AAA videogames or war in iraq. we rely on the free press to tell us what the world is like. This is why journalism is a "noble profession", and the history and ethics of that profession are what make it different than just being a blogger.
and I think you also make a good point that whatever organic movement was quickly co-opted by people who piled on just to make noise, on both sides, because they are professional agitators. And once this happened, the whole thing turned into a shizz show.
The only remaining question mark is you. If you feel passionately that game journalism has an ethics problem, why are you trying to make this point through the #gamergate platform? You must understand that many (I would say most?) people who would otherwise be open to your message just reject it out of hand because of all the baggage.
Surely there must be a more effective platform from which you can advocate for change.
a little more likely than the odds of Bernie Sanders defeating Donald Trump for the presidential election.
Some indie game developer (who happened to be female) received a glowing review of her game from a game journalist. Said journalist was accused of being her boyfriend and demonstrating favoritism.
this is an important statement for two reason. First, it's notable that if the event were true, then the person who committed the ethics violation was Nathan Grayson, the writer for kotaku. Yet Zoe Quinn caught all the rage and hate. If #gg was all about ethics in journalism, why was Zoe demonized? This says to me that the movement is not in fact about ethics.
Second notable thing: your statement is false on its face. Nathan Grayson never reviewed Depression Quest. See this kotaku statement. If this is incorrect, please provide the link to the review. So the entire rage against Zoe and the entire genesis of #gamergate is based on a false premise. A good question, how could so many people get so upset about an issue that can be demonstrably proven false with a simple Internet search? This confirms to me that the whole thing is invalid and about hate for uppity women.
Your thoughts on this?
1) breitbart is a notorious troll right wing 'news' site. It is the Donald trump of news aggregators.
2) the article makes no sense. It says it's the media fault because a total 'blackout' of coverage led to interest and rage. Maybe they didn't think it was a story worth covering?
3) your justification doesn't explain all the Anita sarkeesian nonsense, which was clearly about a girl getting in the boys club.
I didn't look at the rest of the links, but undoubtedly there was all sorts of nastiness going around on all sides once the issue was raging. My point was that the original ignition and first blows were all done on the neck beard side.
I shoudl add that I'm a gamer tool. Currently working my way through just cause 3. looking forward to uncharted.
OK, thanks for this insightful reply. I had never heard the term privelaged panic. I also appreciate you adding links for more information. tell me more about your perspective on gamergate? I think my understanding is pretty spot on. based on my understanding, the whole thing started when some women were making videogames that were outside of the mainstream and blurred the lines of what a game was. Other women were making cultural commentary videos about videogame history. I never saw any attacks on gamers or direct threats to people's identity. There was an unsubstantiated attack of an inappropriate relationship that led to favorable video game media coverage, but oddly this attack was not on the journalist who supposedly did an unethical thing.
where am I wrong?
the best way for NK to get invaded is to keep waving around nuclear war bluster. WWDTD? what do you think donald trump will do? maybe it's time for the US to be rash and unstable for a change, see how everybody feels about that. maybe people like kim il sung better start staying within the lines and stop causing problems.
"the quickest way between two points is a straight line".
-- Sun Tzu
If china wanted to attack / defeat the US, they would just find a way to do it directly, they woudln't play out a james bond supervillian complicated spy novel plot attack plan.
oh, I'm quite aware of identity politics. I see it all the time on fox news, hannity, and breitbart. "War on Christmas?" "Religious freedom"? "Feminazis"? It's all playing to hurt an indignation of white poor uneducated americans who feel left behind and carry a big grudge.
I'm familiar with gamergate as well. a reactionary neckbeard riot against people who were trying to challenge and expand what gaming meant, and who played games. "who let a girl into our basement?".
as for the negative consequences, maybe they didn't want a large industrial installation on top of what the local community feels is a natural resource? combine this with 14 years of construction, more traffic, anybody would protest it. it shure wouldn't get built in vermont, i'll tell you that much.
so maybe you should check your identity privilege before getting all butthurt about this.