no such thing as "fighting words" on the internet. fighting words is speech that can lead to violence or harm in the near future. no violence ever came of arguing on the internet.
. What's the difference between "a safe space for women" and "a safe space for white supremacists"? And who in their right mind can think it's a good idea to have a DNA profile online? Even if set to private, it's begging to get hacked.
What's the difference between a safe space for white supremacists and a safe space for native americans? its the difference between a majority and a minority in an area where the majority enjoys the balance of power.
one benefit is severing the umbilical cord to your phone. on my watch I get to see text message notifications, email notifications. I can reply if needed with simple responses or voice (which works pretty good). I can take a call if needed. but there's not the temptation of surfing facebook or Slashdot or playing candy crush or whatever. it as a small footprint in my life, filling the basics but freeing me to focus on other things. it's kind of the same argument as a laptop vs. a desktop and a phone vs. a laptop.
I'll go out of my way to not buy a watch. It's uncomfortable to have something around your wrist. What the heck are you doing all day that you constantly need to know what time it is? A a pocket watch will tell you the time. Telling me what time it is before I need to know just makes me worry about what's coming up instead of focusing on what's going on right now.
Nuts to that. Less is more.
maybe it's helpful for you that I edit your response and show what a nonsense argument it is.
actually, my battery lasts a really long time. definitely full day, and often two days in the instances where I forgot to charge. although that gets a little dicey towards the end.
The thing is great for the reasons that you mention. I also like how it shows my next appointment right on the watch face. but all the apps have been stoopid. I have yet to find any benefit of the apps that outweight the inconvenience of taking the phone out of my pocket.
things will change as the watch becomes untethered from the iphone. first, over wifi, and then with a cellular connection. that's when the benefits really grow.
i think he knows he has no power and doesn't want to take a stand on something lest it blows up in his face. so he strokes his chin and intones that something is "troubling". There is a p-word I use in different company.
There was a thing here in LA where a wildfire burned up to a major freeway then jumped the freeway, setting on fire a couple cars stuck in traffic. Imagine if the road itself caught on fire?
Mbps get 9 hours battery life. You can get infinite hours of life using an external battery, so it's not a good measure. With flash storage it blows this away.
My mbp has 9 hrs battery , retina 15" display, discrete graphics chip, pcie flash storage and multitouch trackpad which is way better than ur little nub.
. Short version: the Sun on Pluto is 250 times brighter than a full moon is on Earth.
thank you. since outdoorsy people know that it's perfectly feasable to get around in the light of the full moon, the sun on pluto should be enough for a pic.
So... a virtual lynchmob went after Pao because they decided she must be an "SJW" because she once sued a former employer for sexual harassment. They interpreted a closure of a subreddit that was harassing people in real life as being content based, and by Pao, because they assumed that was what a straw-SJW would do. When a popular employee was subsequently fired, Pao's attackers assumed it must have been her that did it, because the previous day there'd been a not-terrible-pleasant IAMA with Jesse Jackson, and as a straw-SJW, Pao would be very upset that Reddit might have possibly offended Jackson. This theory made no sense whatsoever, but the virtual lynchings got worse anyway.
First of all, old SF stuff tell us more about the time they were written in than about the actual future. And with Star Trek, We're talking about about Space race and cold war here.References and stereotypes from those subjects are kind at least understandable, like Stepin Fetchit movies (heard the first time of him today) told us about the actual racism in his time.
I think this statement is dead on. I would broaden it to say that all creative works say a lot about the time and context in which they were produced. Stepin Fetchet, amos & andy, and similar works say a lot about race relations at that time.
If a cartoon character is shown with some possibly racist traits, this is simply sloppiness. Laziness to invent some actual accent, unthoughtfullness of noticing it how the characterizatzon and accent match a stereotype (it probably would have been noted if the role was casted with an actual black actor instead of blue-greyish a computer animation) and general cluelessnes of pushing that lazy, clumsy nuisance into the viewers field of vision at all.
absolutely true. As you said, it's easier to fall back on stereotypes than invent something new. Jar-Jar could have been something unique and new, but Lucas was lazy and cribbed shorthand from cinematic history instead.
the issue at hand is he chose to fall back on these old characterizations that were created for the biases of the day. The old attitudes about race are now considered inappropriate, and I believe rightly so. most people would agree that these characterizations belong where they are, in the past.
The fact that Lucas dug these up for his shuck-and-jive jar jar character reflects not only laziness but a boneheaded indifference to the context and historical baggage of the references he was using. It's this indifference that (many) people are reacting to. He should have known better.
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no such thing as "fighting words" on the internet. fighting words is speech that can lead to violence or harm in the near future. no violence ever came of arguing on the internet.
. What's the difference between "a safe space for women" and "a safe space for white supremacists"? And who in their right mind can think it's a good idea to have a DNA profile online? Even if set to private, it's begging to get hacked.
What's the difference between a safe space for white supremacists and a safe space for native americans? its the difference between a majority and a minority in an area where the majority enjoys the balance of power.
Maybe it runs on a NES.
one benefit is severing the umbilical cord to your phone. on my watch I get to see text message notifications, email notifications. I can reply if needed with simple responses or voice (which works pretty good). I can take a call if needed. but there's not the temptation of surfing facebook or Slashdot or playing candy crush or whatever. it as a small footprint in my life, filling the basics but freeing me to focus on other things. it's kind of the same argument as a laptop vs. a desktop and a phone vs. a laptop.
I'll go out of my way to not buy a watch . It's uncomfortable to have something around your wrist. What the heck are you doing all day that you constantly need to know what time it is? A a pocket watch will tell you the time. Telling me what time it is before I need to know just makes me worry about what's coming up instead of focusing on what's going on right now.
Nuts to that. Less is more.
maybe it's helpful for you that I edit your response and show what a nonsense argument it is.
that would be awesome if you excused yourself from a meeting at work because you got a shapchat message.
actually, my battery lasts a really long time. definitely full day, and often two days in the instances where I forgot to charge. although that gets a little dicey towards the end.
The thing is great for the reasons that you mention. I also like how it shows my next appointment right on the watch face. but all the apps have been stoopid. I have yet to find any benefit of the apps that outweight the inconvenience of taking the phone out of my pocket.
things will change as the watch becomes untethered from the iphone. first, over wifi, and then with a cellular connection. that's when the benefits really grow.
You can do that if you want but he's not getting nominated. his numbers are terrible.
Well you know whose numbers are also looking terrible these days? Freedom. I'm voting for freedom and I'm voting for rand.
im voting for rand paul
If you only vote for people with D's after their name, then here are your POSSIBLE chances at the white house in 2016:
Hillary Clinton
Martin O'Malley
Elizabeth Warren!
i think he knows he has no power and doesn't want to take a stand on something lest it blows up in his face. so he strokes his chin and intones that something is "troubling". There is a p-word I use in different company.
I almost did a woosh!
There was a thing here in LA where a wildfire burned up to a major freeway then jumped the freeway, setting on fire a couple cars stuck in traffic. Imagine if the road itself caught on fire?
I thought it was the humans who polluted the skies in an ill-fated attempt to cause solar-powered machines to fail.
You're thinking of The Matrix.
Or am I? Unfortunately, no one can be told what the Matrix is about. You have to see it for yourself.
Or it could cook the planet by dumping CO2 and Methane into the atmosphere, rendering the planet uninhabitable for any life other than machine life.
I thought it was the humans who polluted the skies in an ill-fated attempt to cause solar-powered machines to fail.
Mbps get 9 hours battery life. You can get infinite hours of life using an external battery, so it's not a good measure. With flash storage it blows this away.
My mbp has 9 hrs battery , retina 15" display, discrete graphics chip, pcie flash storage and multitouch trackpad which is way better than ur little nub.
. Short version: the Sun on Pluto is 250 times brighter than a full moon is on Earth.
thank you. since outdoorsy people know that it's perfectly feasable to get around in the light of the full moon, the sun on pluto should be enough for a pic.
So... a virtual lynchmob went after Pao because they decided she must be an "SJW" because she once sued a former employer for sexual harassment. They interpreted a closure of a subreddit that was harassing people in real life as being content based, and by Pao, because they assumed that was what a straw-SJW would do. When a popular employee was subsequently fired, Pao's attackers assumed it must have been her that did it, because the previous day there'd been a not-terrible-pleasant IAMA with Jesse Jackson, and as a straw-SJW, Pao would be very upset that Reddit might have possibly offended Jackson. This theory made no sense whatsoever, but the virtual lynchings got worse anyway.
this is the best summary I've seen of the events.
> boy's club
Incredibly ironic, since briana wu aka john walker flynt is actually a man.
[citation needed on this one]
First of all, old SF stuff tell us more about the time they were written in than about the actual future. And with Star Trek, We're talking about about Space race and cold war here.References and stereotypes from those subjects are kind at least understandable, like Stepin Fetchit movies (heard the first time of him today) told us about the actual racism in his time.
I think this statement is dead on. I would broaden it to say that all creative works say a lot about the time and context in which they were produced. Stepin Fetchet, amos & andy, and similar works say a lot about race relations at that time.
If a cartoon character is shown with some possibly racist traits, this is simply sloppiness. Laziness to invent some actual accent, unthoughtfullness of noticing it how the characterizatzon and accent match a stereotype (it probably would have been noted if the role was casted with an actual black actor instead of blue-greyish a computer animation) and general cluelessnes of pushing that lazy, clumsy nuisance into the viewers field of vision at all.
absolutely true. As you said, it's easier to fall back on stereotypes than invent something new. Jar-Jar could have been something unique and new, but Lucas was lazy and cribbed shorthand from cinematic history instead.
the issue at hand is he chose to fall back on these old characterizations that were created for the biases of the day. The old attitudes about race are now considered inappropriate, and I believe rightly so. most people would agree that these characterizations belong where they are, in the past.
The fact that Lucas dug these up for his shuck-and-jive jar jar character reflects not only laziness but a boneheaded indifference to the context and historical baggage of the references he was using. It's this indifference that (many) people are reacting to. He should have known better.
obvously, minorities would get much more respect if only they stayed in their place
what???? yes, if the character had been played by a live-action black man, yes, people would have had big-time problems.
If you're European then you can ignore all of this American cultural baggage and enjoy classic star wars moments like when he steps in poop. Epic!