It's the same shit that Greenpeace pulled. Apple gets attention, so they try to hijack that attention, even if they have no grievance at all against Apple, or try to pull on out of their ass the way that Greenpeace did.
I'd like to thank all the lawyers and accountants who work diligently to keep every dollar or euro out of the hands of those greedy bastards in Brussells.
why is it only the white man who gets the shit for it over 150 years after it ended?
That's a good question, and I think it's because guilt-peddling is lucrative when directed against whites, and completely pointless when directed against Arabs, Africans, or any of the other people who still practice slavery today.
I mean, imagine you're an SJW looking to get some ego gratification by denouncing someone for the crimes of their ancestors. Try it on a white guy, you've got a decent chance of him saying "oh, I'm so privileged and I feel so guilty that a century ago, someone who resembled me committed a crime against someone who resembled you! Here, tax me and spend the money to spread the guilt further!", whereas if you try it on some Wahabbi "princess", who gets caught keeping a slave in the USA, she'll just ask the Saudi Embassy for diplomatic immunity.
Am I the only one here who really doesn't give a shit how my profession is portrayed on film? I had a lot of fun and made a decent amount of money in the computer industry from 1982 up to a couple of months ago, but I don't think any of it really belongs in a movie.
If some writer who knows precisely fuck-all about what it takes to ship a product wants to imagine a hot chick in a tight skirt and a plunging blouse typing code while giving come-hither glances over her non-prescription lenses, it's no skin off my nose. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg".
I know Chuq. He's a good man and a world-class network engineer, and he's well respected by his former colleagues at Apple. He's wrong about the touch bar, but he doesn't deserve cheap shots like this.
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This whole concept of "cultural appropriation" is just ridiculous though.
Of course it is. Culture isn't property; it can't be "appropriated".
The term is just the latest pretext for the Perpetually Offended to bitch at people.
-jcr
You know, if you get your meds adjusted, you might not be so obsessive that you need to bitch about me signing my posts.
Good luck with that. Seriously, you need it.
-jcr
Umm.. Thanks, I guess.
-jcr
Meh. I couldn't care less if they piss off a pack of SJWs with the name, I'm just disgusted that they could get funding for such trivial shit.
-jcr
Oh, for fuck's sake. They got VCs to back this, too. Looks like it's bubble time again.
Hey, Josh Kopelman at First Round Capital, Kirsten Green at Forerunner Ventures, and Hunter Walk at Homebrew: you suck at your jobs.
-jcr
They've invented the Vending Machine! Stop the presses! This will change the world!
-jcr
..and you can set it to require your passcode after a certain time.
-jcr
real trade unions such as CWA do some real good.
Bullshit. They skim workers' paychecks to buy hookers and blow for mobsters and politicians.
-jcr
makes no sense to me for them to protest Apple.
It's the same shit that Greenpeace pulled. Apple gets attention, so they try to hijack that attention, even if they have no grievance at all against Apple, or try to pull on out of their ass the way that Greenpeace did.
-jcr
I'd like to thank all the lawyers and accountants who work diligently to keep every dollar or euro out of the hands of those greedy bastards in Brussells.
-jcr
Bitch about it all you want, sunshine. I'm not going to quit signing my posts.
-jcr
And more importantly, he didn't invent e-mail.
-jcr
animal-based food is fundamentally similar to slavery.
Oh, fuck off.
-jcr
I've seen so many girl or young black guy hackers in TV series that it's almost becoming a cliché.
Like the black plainclothes cop who's three days from retirement when he gets shot after saying "I'm too old for this shit"?
-jcr
why is it only the white man who gets the shit for it over 150 years after it ended?
That's a good question, and I think it's because guilt-peddling is lucrative when directed against whites, and completely pointless when directed against Arabs, Africans, or any of the other people who still practice slavery today.
I mean, imagine you're an SJW looking to get some ego gratification by denouncing someone for the crimes of their ancestors. Try it on a white guy, you've got a decent chance of him saying "oh, I'm so privileged and I feel so guilty that a century ago, someone who resembled me committed a crime against someone who resembled you! Here, tax me and spend the money to spread the guilt further!", whereas if you try it on some Wahabbi "princess", who gets caught keeping a slave in the USA, she'll just ask the Saudi Embassy for diplomatic immunity.
-jcr
Sounds like you're confusing Star Trek with the various porn parodies that are floating around.
-jcr
Barney Frank?
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Look at how many poor white men got conscripted and killed or maimed in that war.
-jcr
And make sparks jump out of his keyboard too!
-jcr
Am I the only one here who really doesn't give a shit how my profession is portrayed on film? I had a lot of fun and made a decent amount of money in the computer industry from 1982 up to a couple of months ago, but I don't think any of it really belongs in a movie.
If some writer who knows precisely fuck-all about what it takes to ship a product wants to imagine a hot chick in a tight skirt and a plunging blouse typing code while giving come-hither glances over her non-prescription lenses, it's no skin off my nose. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg".
-jcr
I know Chuq. He's a good man and a world-class network engineer, and he's well respected by his former colleagues at Apple. He's wrong about the touch bar, but he doesn't deserve cheap shots like this.
-jcr
Why is this clown getting any attention at all, let alone from /.?
-jcr
you have by default signed the contract
Bullshit.
sociopath.
Project much?
-jcr
social contract.
Fuck you. Taxation is theft.
The social contract is refraining from initiating violence, not acquiescing to a protection racket.
-jcr
Perhaps you can explain why the US dollar is now worth less than 4% of what it was when the Fed was incoporated in 1913, you lying putz.
-jcr