Do you think that foreign audiences are completely ignorant of the leftist activism that is turning campus spaces into riot scenes? That they do not see the viral videos, and that they have no access to news sources?
There is nothing to keep them from associating all American universities as hotbeds of political driven disorderly conduct where even freedom of speech is under constant assault. Why would they want to spend a fortune and risk wasting their kid's chance at higher education.
I'll blame the idiots that are actually ruining the once prestigious institutions of higher learning and making them something to be ridiculed.
Real intelligence contractor shills would probably at least be able to properly implement unicode, so that shuts down that theory. Or so the Russians would have us believe...
That said, the letter and spirit of the law matters less than your ability to pay for lawyers to defend you, and post bail. Thus a stupid kid gets tossed in jail for half a year for lack of understanding that using Facebook under your real name amounts to writing legal affidavits that can be used against you in a court of law, without consideration of the context or intent in which it was spoken.
Eventually it will be understood that the 1st is problematic and there will be a need to circumvent it for the greater good. "freeze peach" trolls will appear in forums everywhere, late night comedians will make snarky and deriding insults about free speech advocates to thunderous applause, and treacherous scumbags on/. will politely argue that allowing mega corporations to control even political speech and dictate the Overton window for what serves as the defacto public square is their right and that first amendment protections do no and should not apply.
In other words, we're not far behind ruining someone's life for posting a video about a nazi pug. So yes, we're on the same page. This is somewhat different for sending someone to the gulag for questioning Dear Leader, and the nightmare orwellian situation developing in China, but I don't see a bottom to our slippery slope either.
That's right, American exceptionalism does continue. We're so exceptional, that on the same day we celebrate the anniversary of freedom from a distant tyrannical government, we won't think twice about having to que up and have our genitals fondled or be digitally strip searched by federal agents just so that we can use modern forms of travel.
We're so exceptional, we'll send our kids to schools and expect them to conform to a daily ritual of pledging obedience and parroting a line of hollow dogma about liberty and justice, with the U.S. second only to some all-powerful imaginary spiritual being. Because it makes us feel so good and patriotic to do so.
Mass surveillance? Parallel construction? Secret courts and Star Chambers? Paramilitary police and for-profit prisons? Who cares? A lot of effort goes into us accepting the status quo. If you go pointing out hypocrisy don't be surprised when you get downmodded for it.
First amendment protections is just something we use to soothe our denial about the takeover by profit driven institutions of the public square. Your right to speech on the internet is limited to what corporations are willing to tolerate, not what is considered legal under the constitution.
If you don't like it, feel free to start your own platform, isp, domain registrar, and data exchange. If you manage to get that far, watch out for someone to nail you for 'hate speech' violations, or failing to censor thereof. Good luck.
'Trending' is whatever Twitter decides suits their sensibilities and therefore you should be allowed to see. So the signal to noise ratio is even lower than you think.
So even as a communication medium, Twitter is unreliable unless one has enough outside influence or political capital to make being deplatformed a hassle for them.
Sorry, I don't swallow the bandwagon fallacy from the left that Clinton was unfairly disadvantaged, when she was so unfairly advantaged to the point of possibly even having her political opposition wiretapped via abuse of the FISA courts. Looking forward to a special counsel on that.
Russian meddling that disadvantaged Clinton in favor of Trump is also an assertion without basis in facts, and no, the conclusion by those on the DNC payroll that the email server was hacked by Russians that started this narrative has no credibility whatsoever. Assange is more credible than the proven liars at the DNC when he states the source was not Russians.
I recognize that it was a close election. That it could possibly be a close election for the Dems against Trump, speaks volumes as to how terrible a choice it was to betray any integrity and confidence in their selection process. But then, they were't expecting to have their dirty secrets revealed, did they, and what a liability Anthony Weiner was that investigating his underage sexting would lead to more leaked classified emails. It was amusing to see them turn on Donna Brazil who finally confessed, though.
But go on, impress me by how 'reasonable' you are.
What does facts matter to those whose goal is to work backwards from the conclusion that Clinton could not have lost due to her unsuitability as a candidate. There's no need to rehash these details ad naeseam, as their significance is overshadowed by the Democratic Party's inability to live up to their own namesake.
Everyone who disagrees or does not march in lockstep with the image of Trump as an inflated evil monster and pawn of a foreign enemy, will likewise be branded a pawn of a foreign enemy. Thinking on part of the loyalists is no longer required.
It makes sense that pollution in the capital would be cleaned up first and foremost.
After all, those who benefit the most from China's economy would want to be far removed from the negative effects of a poorly regulated industrial society.
Is there such a thing as an internet forum where when a generally venerated public figure dies, there isn't at least a few detractors?
If the barbs and attacks were being highly modded up, I might have noticed them. I guess I've grown too thick a skin to be offended at a few posts criticizing Hawkings for his theories on AI, not conforming to the generally positive sentiment.
You're asking if/. is a microcosm representative of society, I'd say that the/. audience is not immune to the last decade of organized and well funded organizations working feverishly and using any means possible to polarize people into specific camps. There's also a younger audience for which internet communications has always been a part of their adult lives and thus culture has shifted towards being a bit more unrestrained. Just my opinion.
I'd been avoiding Ubisoft games for years because of their shitty DRM, but there was a Steam sale where they were practically giving away Anno 2205. I'm a sucker for city building games, so I took the bait.
I really shouldn't have to then use sysinternals tools to determine why the hell a game that's installed needs privileged access in order to run. I'm sure it has to do with whatever spyware DRM the game came loaded with, but at that point it simply wasn't worth it.
It's not like there isn't a million other games available from publishers that don't try to hijack your computer.
Actions speak louder than words, or whatever label you assign your group.
Actual antifascists don't attack peaceful demonstrators or make having a speaking event at a college require a large security contingent. Antifa at Kings College is just a recent example.
They are no more anti fascist than North Korea is an actual democratic republic.
The main issue I have with Slashdot's moderation is the lack of transparency when the editors exercise their use of unlimited mod points. I'm assuming Dice didn't change that policy when it took over, and given the editorial bias that gets called out on a fairly frequent basis, there exists the possibility that many comments on an article can have biased moderation.
To accept accountability would be to admit being terribly flawed, and invite reform. That will never happen for an organization that is this steeped in hypocrisy. Deny, and accuse others of which you are guilty.
So its Sander's fault, and Stein, and Comey, and deplorables, and now Russians with paltry advertiser spending. They have their own army of paid trolls and allied media to make any correlation a causation, and then an accepted narrative.
Free speech proves to be an obstacle for their gaslighting efforts, so now its in the crosshairs too. Critics and journalists and actual progressives will be shouted down or deplatformed for being Putin puppets.
If the FBI will knowing groom mentally disabled people into carrying out acts of terrorism, like they did with Jeremy Drake Varnell it also has to be considered if they allow acts to be carried out, or created a situation in which they lost control of.
It is difficult to have faith in congressional oversight, when partisanship is always the ultimate concern.
Not going to happen in a nation as stupid as america, you're a totally lawless nation and you worship corporations.
Lawless? There's so many laws that noone knows exactly how many there are.
Oh you meant lawless as in none are enforced? This is not true. The US has the largest prison population, as laws are rigorously enforced on peasants. I'm sure a for-profit prison industry has nothing to do with that.
Anyway, if you happen to be European, if you're accusing the US of being stupid and lawless, you can just go fuck off into one of your no-go zones or other culturally enriched area. Say hello to one of your friendly army persons keeping the peace that's posted on the street corner on your way there.
That retarded lack of functionality is why I really like the program Spacesniffer which graphs folders and files relative to their size within a plane representing the entire disk.
It is incredibly useful to quickly understand what is taking up the most space on a disk along with its folder structure.
Cell phone recordings of the alleged sonic attack were provided to an Associated Press reporter by an anonymous source in the State Department. But the sounds were identified by Yamile González Sánchez, an official at the Ministry of Public Health, and physicist Carlos Barceló Pérez, a professor at the National Institute of Hygiene, as those made by local insects, which they recorded on the scene. Moreover, the sounds, all in the audible range (about 7 kilohertz), would have overdriven the microphone—preventing it from recording—if they were loud enough to damage hearing.
So Wu was analyzing the sound made by cuban crickets.
A more accurate way to analyze the impact of violence is to look at this who purposely expose themselves to it. We now have professional gamers who play violent video games all day as a job, and yet we also find a massive void of murderers in that group.
There is a massive void of mass murderers among game developers as well, oddly enough. It would seem that a highly selective sample sidesteps the possibility of an effect amidst a wider, general population.
We can look at hardcore fans of graphic horror films, or creators and fans of heavy metal music, and find similar voids of evidence, and yet both have been blamed in the past for creating killers.
Well, we have a demographic which does have a culture that promotes street violence and glorifies criminality in the form of music lyrics, where an outstanding number of these artists die as a result of gun violence. Given that example, is it fair to say that there can be a context in which certain media can have a negative effect on impressionable minds to the point of increasing the likeliness of conducting violent acts?
D&D didn't turn me into a satan worshiper as some feared, but the two are neither related. Music that has expressions of conflict where gun violence proves ones virtue as a man has a more direct connection.
In a more general view, does a culture of violence among youth increase the odds of violence, especially when there may be factors that make certain individuals more susceptible to conducting violent acts.
The bottom line is we may never truly understand what creates a murderous psychopath, but constantly watching the media regurgitate the usual suspects every time a murderer pops up in society tends to get very old, particularly when violence in the world is so damn common, and murdering psychopaths are thankfully not. I still feel that more analysis needs to be done regarding psychiatric drugs (another common denominator among murderers). Start looking at physical impacts, and not merely the environment.
I agree that knee-jerk reactions are to be avoided. I also agree that complex matters cannot be resolved through simplistic means such as depriving adults of available choices, such as the ability to own and possess firearms or view certain content. I do not dismiss the potential influence of antidepressants as a factor, but neither do I dismiss the potential impact of youth being regularly exposed to realistic simulations of homicide. Many of these horrible situations may have been avoided simply if there were sufficient counseling and bullying prevention, so lacking a direct causation, many of these concerns should be addressed and not dismissed simply for not being the single obvious factor.
I appreciated the irony that GTA5 had the part of a father so frustrated with his violent game obsessed teenage son that he smashes the tv in front of the kid. The cultural commentary alone made the game worthwhile for me.
I'll agree that as a gamer myself, I would be much more inclined to inform myself of the content of what my kids are playing. I'd also expect game platforms to provide proper parental controls.
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Do you think that foreign audiences are completely ignorant of the leftist activism that is turning campus spaces into riot scenes? That they do not see the viral videos, and that they have no access to news sources?
There is nothing to keep them from associating all American universities as hotbeds of political driven disorderly conduct where even freedom of speech is under constant assault. Why would they want to spend a fortune and risk wasting their kid's chance at higher education.
I'll blame the idiots that are actually ruining the once prestigious institutions of higher learning and making them something to be ridiculed.
Tribalism and Pavlovian conditioning are a factor to be sure, but it also boils down to money. Trump is good for ratings.
Real intelligence contractor shills would probably at least be able to properly implement unicode, so that shuts down that theory. Or so the Russians would have us believe...
That threshold has already been defined. Libel, slander, incitement to violence, perjury, etc. are considered crimes to be considered in court.
You're correct that the US does have protections to free speech built into the constitution. Burning the flag is considered free speech, and the supreme court reaffirmed that there is no exception to the first amendment for hate speech.
That said, the letter and spirit of the law matters less than your ability to pay for lawyers to defend you, and post bail. Thus a stupid kid gets tossed in jail for half a year for lack of understanding that using Facebook under your real name amounts to writing legal affidavits that can be used against you in a court of law, without consideration of the context or intent in which it was spoken.
Eventually it will be understood that the 1st is problematic and there will be a need to circumvent it for the greater good. "freeze peach" trolls will appear in forums everywhere, late night comedians will make snarky and deriding insults about free speech advocates to thunderous applause, and treacherous scumbags on /. will politely argue that allowing mega corporations to control even political speech and dictate the Overton window for what serves as the defacto public square is their right and that first amendment protections do no and should not apply.
In other words, we're not far behind ruining someone's life for posting a video about a nazi pug. So yes, we're on the same page. This is somewhat different for sending someone to the gulag for questioning Dear Leader, and the nightmare orwellian situation developing in China, but I don't see a bottom to our slippery slope either.
That's right, American exceptionalism does continue. We're so exceptional, that on the same day we celebrate the anniversary of freedom from a distant tyrannical government, we won't think twice about having to que up and have our genitals fondled or be digitally strip searched by federal agents just so that we can use modern forms of travel.
We're so exceptional, we'll send our kids to schools and expect them to conform to a daily ritual of pledging obedience and parroting a line of hollow dogma about liberty and justice, with the U.S. second only to some all-powerful imaginary spiritual being. Because it makes us feel so good and patriotic to do so.
Mass surveillance? Parallel construction? Secret courts and Star Chambers? Paramilitary police and for-profit prisons? Who cares? A lot of effort goes into us accepting the status quo. If you go pointing out hypocrisy don't be surprised when you get downmodded for it.
At least Tank Man can be admired and respected in other countries for his bravery, as he deserves to be remembered. Thank you for mentioning him.
In the USA you can be charged and arrested for a felony for tasteless humor on Facebook. People overestimate their freedom of speech and face serious consequences surprisingly often.
First amendment protections is just something we use to soothe our denial about the takeover by profit driven institutions of the public square. Your right to speech on the internet is limited to what corporations are willing to tolerate, not what is considered legal under the constitution.
If you don't like it, feel free to start your own platform, isp, domain registrar, and data exchange. If you manage to get that far, watch out for someone to nail you for 'hate speech' violations, or failing to censor thereof. Good luck.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Your turn.
'Trending' is whatever Twitter decides suits their sensibilities and therefore you should be allowed to see. So the signal to noise ratio is even lower than you think.
And just in case something interesting does get said on Twitter amidst the bot spam and greasy food picts, it will be subjected to Twitter's political purity tests.
So even as a communication medium, Twitter is unreliable unless one has enough outside influence or political capital to make being deplatformed a hassle for them.
I'm not seeing the appeal at all.
The only way to win is not to play.
Sorry, I don't swallow the bandwagon fallacy from the left that Clinton was unfairly disadvantaged, when she was so unfairly advantaged to the point of possibly even having her political opposition wiretapped via abuse of the FISA courts. Looking forward to a special counsel on that.
Russian meddling that disadvantaged Clinton in favor of Trump is also an assertion without basis in facts, and no, the conclusion by those on the DNC payroll that the email server was hacked by Russians that started this narrative has no credibility whatsoever. Assange is more credible than the proven liars at the DNC when he states the source was not Russians.
I recognize that it was a close election. That it could possibly be a close election for the Dems against Trump, speaks volumes as to how terrible a choice it was to betray any integrity and confidence in their selection process. But then, they were't expecting to have their dirty secrets revealed, did they, and what a liability Anthony Weiner was that investigating his underage sexting would lead to more leaked classified emails. It was amusing to see them turn on Donna Brazil who finally confessed, though.
But go on, impress me by how 'reasonable' you are.
What does facts matter to those whose goal is to work backwards from the conclusion that Clinton could not have lost due to her unsuitability as a candidate. There's no need to rehash these details ad naeseam, as their significance is overshadowed by the Democratic Party's inability to live up to their own namesake.
Everyone who disagrees or does not march in lockstep with the image of Trump as an inflated evil monster and pawn of a foreign enemy, will likewise be branded a pawn of a foreign enemy. Thinking on part of the loyalists is no longer required.
It makes sense that pollution in the capital would be cleaned up first and foremost.
After all, those who benefit the most from China's economy would want to be far removed from the negative effects of a poorly regulated industrial society.
Is there such a thing as an internet forum where when a generally venerated public figure dies, there isn't at least a few detractors?
If the barbs and attacks were being highly modded up, I might have noticed them. I guess I've grown too thick a skin to be offended at a few posts criticizing Hawkings for his theories on AI, not conforming to the generally positive sentiment.
You're asking if /. is a microcosm representative of society, I'd say that the /. audience is not immune to the last decade of organized and well funded organizations working feverishly and using any means possible to polarize people into specific camps. There's also a younger audience for which internet communications has always been a part of their adult lives and thus culture has shifted towards being a bit more unrestrained. Just my opinion.
I'd been avoiding Ubisoft games for years because of their shitty DRM, but there was a Steam sale where they were practically giving away Anno 2205. I'm a sucker for city building games, so I took the bait.
I really shouldn't have to then use sysinternals tools to determine why the hell a game that's installed needs privileged access in order to run. I'm sure it has to do with whatever spyware DRM the game came loaded with, but at that point it simply wasn't worth it.
It's not like there isn't a million other games available from publishers that don't try to hijack your computer.
Actions speak louder than words, or whatever label you assign your group.
Actual antifascists don't attack peaceful demonstrators or make having a speaking event at a college require a large security contingent. Antifa at Kings College is just a recent example.
They are no more anti fascist than North Korea is an actual democratic republic.
The main issue I have with Slashdot's moderation is the lack of transparency when the editors exercise their use of unlimited mod points. I'm assuming Dice didn't change that policy when it took over, and given the editorial bias that gets called out on a fairly frequent basis, there exists the possibility that many comments on an article can have biased moderation.
To accept accountability would be to admit being terribly flawed, and invite reform. That will never happen for an organization that is this steeped in hypocrisy. Deny, and accuse others of which you are guilty.
So its Sander's fault, and Stein, and Comey, and deplorables, and now Russians with paltry advertiser spending. They have their own army of paid trolls and allied media to make any correlation a causation, and then an accepted narrative.
Free speech proves to be an obstacle for their gaslighting efforts, so now its in the crosshairs too. Critics and journalists and actual progressives will be shouted down or deplatformed for being Putin puppets.
If the FBI will knowing groom mentally disabled people into carrying out acts of terrorism, like they did with Jeremy Drake Varnell it also has to be considered if they allow acts to be carried out, or created a situation in which they lost control of.
It is difficult to have faith in congressional oversight, when partisanship is always the ultimate concern.
Not going to happen in a nation as stupid as america, you're a totally lawless nation and you worship corporations.
Lawless? There's so many laws that noone knows exactly how many there are.
Oh you meant lawless as in none are enforced? This is not true. The US has the largest prison population, as laws are rigorously enforced on peasants. I'm sure a for-profit prison industry has nothing to do with that.
Anyway, if you happen to be European, if you're accusing the US of being stupid and lawless, you can just go fuck off into one of your no-go zones or other culturally enriched area. Say hello to one of your friendly army persons keeping the peace that's posted on the street corner on your way there.
That retarded lack of functionality is why I really like the program Spacesniffer which graphs folders and files relative to their size within a plane representing the entire disk.
It is incredibly useful to quickly understand what is taking up the most space on a disk along with its folder structure.
In addition, the AP clip was debunked:
Cell phone recordings of the alleged sonic attack were provided to an Associated Press reporter by an anonymous source in the State Department. But the sounds were identified by Yamile González Sánchez, an official at the Ministry of Public Health, and physicist Carlos Barceló Pérez, a professor at the National Institute of Hygiene, as those made by local insects, which they recorded on the scene. Moreover, the sounds, all in the audible range (about 7 kilohertz), would have overdriven the microphone—preventing it from recording—if they were loud enough to damage hearing.
So Wu was analyzing the sound made by cuban crickets.
A more accurate way to analyze the impact of violence is to look at this who purposely expose themselves to it. We now have professional gamers who play violent video games all day as a job, and yet we also find a massive void of murderers in that group.
There is a massive void of mass murderers among game developers as well, oddly enough. It would seem that a highly selective sample sidesteps the possibility of an effect amidst a wider, general population.
We can look at hardcore fans of graphic horror films, or creators and fans of heavy metal music, and find similar voids of evidence, and yet both have been blamed in the past for creating killers.
Well, we have a demographic which does have a culture that promotes street violence and glorifies criminality in the form of music lyrics, where an outstanding number of these artists die as a result of gun violence. Given that example, is it fair to say that there can be a context in which certain media can have a negative effect on impressionable minds to the point of increasing the likeliness of conducting violent acts? D&D didn't turn me into a satan worshiper as some feared, but the two are neither related. Music that has expressions of conflict where gun violence proves ones virtue as a man has a more direct connection.
In a more general view, does a culture of violence among youth increase the odds of violence, especially when there may be factors that make certain individuals more susceptible to conducting violent acts.
The bottom line is we may never truly understand what creates a murderous psychopath, but constantly watching the media regurgitate the usual suspects every time a murderer pops up in society tends to get very old, particularly when violence in the world is so damn common, and murdering psychopaths are thankfully not. I still feel that more analysis needs to be done regarding psychiatric drugs (another common denominator among murderers). Start looking at physical impacts, and not merely the environment.
I agree that knee-jerk reactions are to be avoided. I also agree that complex matters cannot be resolved through simplistic means such as depriving adults of available choices, such as the ability to own and possess firearms or view certain content. I do not dismiss the potential influence of antidepressants as a factor, but neither do I dismiss the potential impact of youth being regularly exposed to realistic simulations of homicide. Many of these horrible situations may have been avoided simply if there were sufficient counseling and bullying prevention, so lacking a direct causation, many of these concerns should be addressed and not dismissed simply for not being the single obvious factor.
I appreciated the irony that GTA5 had the part of a father so frustrated with his violent game obsessed teenage son that he smashes the tv in front of the kid. The cultural commentary alone made the game worthwhile for me.
I'll agree that as a gamer myself, I would be much more inclined to inform myself of the content of what my kids are playing. I'd also expect game platforms to provide proper parental controls.