"The pound has basically recovered..." ? What are you talking about? The pound has not recovered. The FTSE100 is up BECAUSE the pound has not recovered. What is the matter with you. If you voted to leave, that's fine, it's your decision. But you have to own the consequences, and the consequences will be dire.
I got last year's model, which was sold with Windows-something. I didn't even bother to boot it - I just installed Mint 17.3. Everything except the brightness buttons works fine. I can still adjust the brightness, just not with the function keys.
Your analogy would work if Twitter's policies involved banning people for what they are (gay, black, republican etc). But they have no way of knowing that anyway. All they can do is police people's behaviour on their own site.
Twitter is a private business. What they allow on their service is entirely up to them. If they don't want to host somebody or some organisation, that's up to them. Not hosting somebody is not the same as censoring them and it doesn't impinge on that person's free speech.
It's a de-facto standard, to be sure. On my desk at the moment, I have Bluetooth speaker; bluetooth keyboard, a small "dye-sub" printer, a bluetooth mouse, my phone, a PS Vita, an NVIDIA shield tablet, the game controller for the tablet, and a charger for my camera's batteries. All of these devices are powered/charged by micro-usb. For the past several years, I have been trying to avoid devices that do not allow charging via micro-usb. I made an exception recently for a Pebble smartwatch - the "other" end of the charging cable is USB of course, so I don't need an extra wall wart for it.
In this very relevant prank, some jokers put a Koran cover on a bible, then read out various passages and asked random passers-by to comment on them. As I'm sure you can imagine, hilarity ensues
No, you do not get what I am saying. The vote was not "rigged". How could it be "rigged", as it's a distributed ballot? Your argument seems to be, "the number of voters was so small that the vote could have easily been rigged, therefore the vote was rigged". That's not an argument.
Voters voted for the works that had merit. In some categories, voters did not think any works had any merit, so the voters voted, "No award". You cannot presume to know why people voted the way that they did.
it was people like Mary Robinette Kowal and John Scalzi that urged the destruction of the Hugo's.
Citation needed. In fact, I can save you the trouble of linking to John Scalzi's view of the Puppies' stuffing of the nominations. That does not urge the destruction of the Hugo's. Actually, it states unequivocally that what the Puppies had done was fine and that there was no need to change the process
Don't be ridiculous. Anybody could have signed up to vote in the Hugos. You could have signed up if you wanted to. Of the people who signed up, the majority didn't want the sub-standard SP entries to win Hugos, so they voted "No award". It's not "bullying" if you lose a vote. It's democracy.
You can't have it both ways. The Sad Puppies were within the rules. So was the electorate in rejecting most of their nominations. You can't say that one side was "bullying" and the other was not if both "sides" followed the rules.
"shown that they will vote as an ideological block"
So people who vote for things that you don't like are "voting as an ideological block". What do you call people who vote for the things that you do like? "Fine, upstanding fans of sci-fi"?
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No she doesn't. And there are VERY good reasons for Germany to fear the reemergence of insane right-wing demagogues.
I think we can get along fine without lessons on democracy from the USA, thanks!
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"The pound has basically recovered..." ? What are you talking about? The pound has not recovered. The FTSE100 is up BECAUSE the pound has not recovered. What is the matter with you. If you voted to leave, that's fine, it's your decision. But you have to own the consequences, and the consequences will be dire.
I got last year's model, which was sold with Windows-something. I didn't even bother to boot it - I just installed Mint 17.3. Everything except the brightness buttons works fine. I can still adjust the brightness, just not with the function keys.
Your analogy would work if Twitter's policies involved banning people for what they are (gay, black, republican etc). But they have no way of knowing that anyway. All they can do is police people's behaviour on their own site.
Straw man much?
WTF? It is their site. Who else should decide?
Twitter is a private business. What they allow on their service is entirely up to them. If they don't want to host somebody or some organisation, that's up to them. Not hosting somebody is not the same as censoring them and it doesn't impinge on that person's free speech.
280 characters? That's crazy talk!
It's their site. They don't have to host you if they don't want to. There is nothing to stop you posting stuff elsewhere. But you probably knew that.
It's a de-facto standard, to be sure. On my desk at the moment, I have Bluetooth speaker; bluetooth keyboard, a small "dye-sub" printer, a bluetooth mouse, my phone, a PS Vita, an NVIDIA shield tablet, the game controller for the tablet, and a charger for my camera's batteries. All of these devices are powered/charged by micro-usb. For the past several years, I have been trying to avoid devices that do not allow charging via micro-usb. I made an exception recently for a Pebble smartwatch - the "other" end of the charging cable is USB of course, so I don't need an extra wall wart for it.
"...some university.. "? This is Aberdeen University. You know, the closest city to Trump's resort. His spokesman even talks about Aberdeen Bay.
In this very relevant prank, some jokers put a Koran cover on a bible, then read out various passages and asked random passers-by to comment on them.
As I'm sure you can imagine, hilarity ensues
How is Kluwe's article harassment?
Randi Harper's panel was about technology design to combat internet harassment. GamerGate was not mentioned.
What is this drivel? What has Kickstarter got to do with this?
So when someone votes for something you don't like, they have "dogpiled" the vote? Is that what you are saying?
No, you do not get what I am saying. The vote was not "rigged". How could it be "rigged", as it's a distributed ballot? Your argument seems to be, "the number of voters was so small that the vote could have easily been rigged, therefore the vote was rigged". That's not an argument.
Voters voted for the works that had merit. In some categories, voters did not think any works had any merit, so the voters voted, "No award". You cannot presume to know why people voted the way that they did.
Citation needed. In fact, I can save you the trouble of linking to John Scalzi's view of the Puppies' stuffing of the nominations. That does not urge the destruction of the Hugo's. Actually, it states unequivocally that what the Puppies had done was fine and that there was no need to change the process
Don't be ridiculous. Anybody could have signed up to vote in the Hugos. You could have signed up if you wanted to. Of the people who signed up, the majority didn't want the sub-standard SP entries to win Hugos, so they voted "No award". It's not "bullying" if you lose a vote. It's democracy.
You can't have it both ways. The Sad Puppies were within the rules. So was the electorate in rejecting most of their nominations. You can't say that one side was "bullying" and the other was not if both "sides" followed the rules.
So people who vote for things that you don't like are "voting as an ideological block". What do you call people who vote for the things that you do like? "Fine, upstanding fans of sci-fi"?