Go get 5 re-place-able and very opaque stickers for a $5 donation. I keep one on my webcam. To boot, it looks classier than a post-it; it lasts forever; and it advertises for the EFF -- a worthy cause.
Just like they insisted that USB was worth becoming the new standard, and were the first to produce computers with USB ports and no parallel or SCSI port?
Like Australia did then this is the next best thing. I don't think mental health services would have helped the shooter. It's been suggested he was a repressed homosexual taking it out on the night club attendees. That was likely due to his religious upbringing so It'd be hard to insert mental health services into that without at least the appearance of attacking his religion. America is big on hard-line religion. Basically take gun control and the prospect of mellowing out religion away and I can't think of any other tools. And when you're only tool's a hammer...
He was not Islamic, nor religious in any other form. We was raised in a religious family, but like many, many people, he dropped religion once he got out of the house, and started living on his own as an adult.
It's the noise, dummy...You cannot see the intelligence for all the noise.
Counting the 50+ deaths in Orlando as the act of an Islamic terrorist, which is at least debatable, there have been fewer than 100 deaths in the US since 2001.
This is not exactly the sort of threat that sane men forfeit their liberty for.
Wasn't Timothy McVeigh at least a self-proclaimed Christian? Why is he not referred to as a "Christian Terrorist"?
I am sick and tired of our elected representatives passing laws like this and the USA PATRIOT ACT, claiming they "make us safer".
It's easy to pass these, hard to repeal them. We as a country are going to be living with this erosion of our rights for years to come.
The USA Patriot Act had provisions that had "sunset provisions." That is, they were to expire after a certain number of years, variously. In subsequent years, Congress has renewed most of them when they were about to go out-of-force.
You are right about "easy to pass; hard to repeal," but that isn't even the case for the USA Patriot Act. It's worse.
I would actually argue that the problem with gaming isn't misogyny, it's that the entire culture is overwhelmed by a toxic minority. Women are an easy target for the mouthbreathers, but I gave up playing online FPSs simply because I was sick of constantly hearing the n word and other crap being spewed over voice chat. Yes, women do get singled out, but focusing on strictly misogyny rather than the culture as a whole will be less effective overall. Not only will women feel more welcome, but others will as well. As a straight male I'm not singled out, but I still quit online play. And LGBT individuals, at least in my experience, seem to attract more ire than women. The creeps aren't hitting on them, but they seem to ratchet the hate levels right up to Westboro Baptist levels almost instantly.
Good point. Your more general observation is probably the more general root-cause.
My solution is to play FPS or TPS games that require more than just trigger skills. That is, more than just an arena with re-spawning guns. Alternatively, games that require goal-based or team-based games---if you screw things up for the team, then you will get booted. Or I just do a LAN-host and play with my wife.
Try CS:GO on Steam. Teams are typically 5 vs. 5, making players less tolerant of the little potty-mouths who also tend to flub round for your team. "Vote to boot 14-tr-old-K1ll@h47?" The "yeses" will come in rather quickly, and the slot will be refilled with someone waiting to join a game before the next round (usually best out of 15, or best 15 out of 30 rounds).
If you want FPS or TPS games with reasonable female and male characters, and like squads of up-to-four characters killing zombies, then try "Left 4 Dead 2" or "Dead Island". Each of the 4 characters to choose from has their own specialty traits, too, so it's worth playing without regard to gender. They are both story-driven, with Dead Island being the most story-driven and open-world enough that you can easily stray too far and get yourself slaughtered if you're not careful.
Last, stay away from the latest, greatest titles, and stick to the ones a year or three back. The little griefers are always clamoring for the latest game, and will have left the "Eww, that game's like two whole years old!" types, from which you can choose the best by looking at reviews, and can also buy for cheaper.
True about 00000000, although I would recommend against ever citing The Daily Mail (Daily FAIL) as a source – which in its article cites a blog. Far better is Eric Schlosser's somewhat recent book "Command and Control." It's a scary read, detailing how close we were to accidental nuclear Armageddon, and many more times than you think. All in the book is thoroughly backed up by citations and de-classified documents.
Good, but sociopath is a bit more encompassing of the characteristics of a for-profit Corporation.
They're the new gods, replacing Hollywood stars – the original replacements. They're more powerful than most governments. They write the first drafts of many, many of the bills that become law. Taxpaying citizens pay to maintain the infrastructure upon which they rely, but do not pay for. Obey.
All of this is thanks to that stupid US Supreme Court Decision, so long ago, regarding railroad companies, but that made companies technically people under the law (only it's impossible to enforce the death penalty on one). That foothold in the US has allowed things to develop to the point where the world is today. (Gross over-simplification, but accurate enough for/.)
Ah, but note that for-profit Corporations cannot continue to exist without governments. Really. Onto what other bodies can the 'quarterly profit-chasing' Corps. externalize their costs? They need governments to collect taxes, to maintain infrastructure and order, so that they can exploit this for profit. Call them the sixth estate (after the Press and the Military Intelligence Community (or MIC+I), #'s 4 and 5), that are at the moment more powerful than the others. . . and continuing to gain it as time marches forward.
A good start would be a US Constitutional Amendment retracting the Citizens United ruling. Throw in the corporate person-hood while you're at it, as Constitutional Amendments require massive support to even make it to the floor, much less be ratified by the States. It's not just the US, of course, but the US is the only global Superpower, so things overall are unlikely to change until it happens in the US, no matter how progressive the entire rest of the world's governments might be.
Yeah, it's already too easy to make shit up, and it's the listeners who believe and act in bad faith that are to blame for making it so easy. Everybody is wagging the dog.
At least one other person has their eyes open. Thanks.
There are several more important female game developers that could serve as a model like Carol Shaw (probably one of the first female game programmers, that had to deal with the hell that is programming for the atari 2600) , Roberta Williams (Basically invented the point & click genre and had such influence on the gaming in general that PC gaming probably would not exist as it is today without her influence), Corine Yu (Worked directly on Direct3D, and its quite likely you're reading this text thru her work, given the fact windows aero uses D3D to compose the windows etc..)...
Roberta Williams! Absolutely! It all started with King's Quest, and expanded from there. She created not only the "point and click" genre, but also paved the way for story-driven 3D open-environment games, which started with Myst – written by two brothers, but she paved the way to a great extent.
Third Option: The physicians screwed up the circumcision, and instead installed an analogue vagina, prescribed life-long hormone therapy starting at the age of nine, and charged the parents for all of the "extra" work that the physicians themselves caused.
Fourth Option: She is a smart woman who does what she loves.
The gaming community is still disgustingly misogynistic. Women do like to play video games (my wife does), but it's hard enough to find one that isn't slanted, and harder still to find any multiplayer environment that isn't hostile (outside of a home-based LAN). My wife likes FPS games – killing people of zombies. But to avoid the trolls, we just play through the story-lines in co-op mode. It's almost enough, but we'd rather be social.
They upgraded my area almost exactly a year ago, I figured they'd be done with the rollout by now.
Apparently it helps a bunch to have Google Fiber as a competitor.
Oh yeah. Competition really helps.
I got Verizon fiber run to every unit in my condo complex (>70 units), to give Time-Warner some competition.
It took a couple of years, but it's working. And with Verizon selling its fiber-service to Frontier (in some States), prices are getting even better. So far, Frontier call-center staff have been very good. Frontier also provides un-bundled services for reasonable rates – unlike Time-Warner or Verizon.
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that the UK land-mass actually tore itself away from the European Mainland!
It's only a moratorium, not a ban.
There is a big difference.
You're delirious. A quick Google search would show you mass shootings HAVE been prevented.
And frequently by people who were not carrying a gun, but just tackled the shooter.
Yea, you know why nobody in the Pulse nightclub did that?
They weren't thinking straight.
Oh that's bad. Or, well, it is a good pun, but just a little bit too early.
I wasn't expecting FARK-style Comments...
Go get 5 re-place-able and very opaque stickers for a $5 donation. I keep one on my webcam. To boot, it looks classier than a post-it; it lasts forever; and it advertises for the EFF -- a worthy cause.
Go here to get your own set of camera covers.
Haven't used headphones in years myself. I bluetooth to my car stereo, or to my wireless speaker at home.
Analog speaker jack is very 20th century. Time to move on, like we did with physical media.
How do you think your internet gets across the Atlantic, Pacific, and other oceans? How does it get to your home?
Physical (wire/fiber) connections are the bedrock of communications, and will be for the next 30 years at the least.
I'll wager that you can't differentiate a 1968 Mustang from a 1969 Mustang at a glance...
If we could just wear pajamas at all times I'd be 100% happy.
Haven't been to Walmart lately, have you?
Not once for the last 20 years.
You?
Just like they insisted that USB was worth becoming the new standard, and were the first to produce computers with USB ports and no parallel or SCSI port?
Like Australia did then this is the next best thing. I don't think mental health services would have helped the shooter. It's been suggested he was a repressed homosexual taking it out on the night club attendees. That was likely due to his religious upbringing so It'd be hard to insert mental health services into that without at least the appearance of attacking his religion. America is big on hard-line religion. Basically take gun control and the prospect of mellowing out religion away and I can't think of any other tools. And when you're only tool's a hammer...
He was not Islamic, nor religious in any other form. We was raised in a religious family, but like many, many people, he dropped religion once he got out of the house, and started living on his own as an adult.
He was also an American-born American Citizen.
You're delirious. A quick Google search would show you mass shootings HAVE been prevented.
And frequently by people who were not carrying a gun, but just tackled the shooter.
It's the noise, dummy...You cannot see the intelligence for all the noise.
Counting the 50+ deaths in Orlando as the act of an Islamic terrorist, which is at least debatable, there have been fewer than 100 deaths in the US since 2001.
This is not exactly the sort of threat that sane men forfeit their liberty for.
Wasn't Timothy McVeigh at least a self-proclaimed Christian? Why is he not referred to as a "Christian Terrorist"?
I am sick and tired of our elected representatives passing laws like this and the USA PATRIOT ACT, claiming they "make us safer".
It's easy to pass these, hard to repeal them. We as a country are going to be living with this erosion of our rights for years to come.
The USA Patriot Act had provisions that had "sunset provisions." That is, they were to expire after a certain number of years, variously. In subsequent years, Congress has renewed most of them when they were about to go out-of-force.
You are right about "easy to pass; hard to repeal," but that isn't even the case for the USA Patriot Act. It's worse.
The Democrats want to take our guns (totalitarianism)...
Actually, that is not true.
I would actually argue that the problem with gaming isn't misogyny, it's that the entire culture is overwhelmed by a toxic minority. Women are an easy target for the mouthbreathers, but I gave up playing online FPSs simply because I was sick of constantly hearing the n word and other crap being spewed over voice chat. Yes, women do get singled out, but focusing on strictly misogyny rather than the culture as a whole will be less effective overall. Not only will women feel more welcome, but others will as well. As a straight male I'm not singled out, but I still quit online play. And LGBT individuals, at least in my experience, seem to attract more ire than women. The creeps aren't hitting on them, but they seem to ratchet the hate levels right up to Westboro Baptist levels almost instantly.
Good point. Your more general observation is probably the more general root-cause.
My solution is to play FPS or TPS games that require more than just trigger skills. That is, more than just an arena with re-spawning guns. Alternatively, games that require goal-based or team-based games---if you screw things up for the team, then you will get booted. Or I just do a LAN-host and play with my wife.
Try CS:GO on Steam. Teams are typically 5 vs. 5, making players less tolerant of the little potty-mouths who also tend to flub round for your team. "Vote to boot 14-tr-old-K1ll@h47?" The "yeses" will come in rather quickly, and the slot will be refilled with someone waiting to join a game before the next round (usually best out of 15, or best 15 out of 30 rounds).
If you want FPS or TPS games with reasonable female and male characters, and like squads of up-to-four characters killing zombies, then try "Left 4 Dead 2" or "Dead Island". Each of the 4 characters to choose from has their own specialty traits, too, so it's worth playing without regard to gender. They are both story-driven, with Dead Island being the most story-driven and open-world enough that you can easily stray too far and get yourself slaughtered if you're not careful.
Last, stay away from the latest, greatest titles, and stick to the ones a year or three back. The little griefers are always clamoring for the latest game, and will have left the "Eww, that game's like two whole years old!" types, from which you can choose the best by looking at reviews, and can also buy for cheaper.
Try them again!
the MAFIAA gets another digit of the nuclear launch codes
You mean 0?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...
True about 00000000, although I would recommend against ever citing The Daily Mail (Daily FAIL) as a source – which in its article cites a blog. Far better is Eric Schlosser's somewhat recent book "Command and Control." It's a scary read, detailing how close we were to accidental nuclear Armageddon, and many more times than you think. All in the book is thoroughly backed up by citations and de-classified documents.
In other words, it's a psychopath.
Good, but sociopath is a bit more encompassing of the characteristics of a for-profit Corporation.
They're the new gods, replacing Hollywood stars – the original replacements.
They're more powerful than most governments.
They write the first drafts of many, many of the bills that become law.
Taxpaying citizens pay to maintain the infrastructure upon which they rely, but do not pay for.
Obey.
All of this is thanks to that stupid US Supreme Court Decision, so long ago, regarding railroad companies, but that made companies technically people under the law (only it's impossible to enforce the death penalty on one). That foothold in the US has allowed things to develop to the point where the world is today. (Gross over-simplification, but accurate enough for /.)
Ah, but note that for-profit Corporations cannot continue to exist without governments. Really. Onto what other bodies can the 'quarterly profit-chasing' Corps. externalize their costs? They need governments to collect taxes, to maintain infrastructure and order, so that they can exploit this for profit. Call them the sixth estate (after the Press and the Military Intelligence Community (or MIC+I), #'s 4 and 5), that are at the moment more powerful than the others. . . and continuing to gain it as time marches forward.
A good start would be a US Constitutional Amendment retracting the Citizens United ruling. Throw in the corporate person-hood while you're at it, as Constitutional Amendments require massive support to even make it to the floor, much less be ratified by the States. It's not just the US, of course, but the US is the only global Superpower, so things overall are unlikely to change until it happens in the US, no matter how progressive the entire rest of the world's governments might be.
Yeah, it's already too easy to make shit up, and it's the listeners who believe and act in bad faith that are to blame for making it so easy. Everybody is wagging the dog.
At least one other person has their eyes open. Thanks.
There are several more important female game developers that could serve as a model like Carol Shaw (probably one of the first female game programmers, that had to deal with the hell that is programming for the atari 2600) , Roberta Williams (Basically invented the point & click genre and had such influence on the gaming in general that PC gaming probably would not exist as it is today without her influence), Corine Yu (Worked directly on Direct3D, and its quite likely you're reading this text thru her work, given the fact windows aero uses D3D to compose the windows etc..)...
Roberta Williams! Absolutely! It all started with King's Quest, and expanded from there. She created not only the "point and click" genre, but also paved the way for story-driven 3D open-environment games, which started with Myst – written by two brothers, but she paved the way to a great extent.
Third Option: The physicians screwed up the circumcision, and instead installed an analogue vagina, prescribed life-long hormone therapy starting at the age of nine, and charged the parents for all of the "extra" work that the physicians themselves caused.
Fourth Option: She is a smart woman who does what she loves.
The gaming community is still disgustingly misogynistic. Women do like to play video games (my wife does), but it's hard enough to find one that isn't slanted, and harder still to find any multiplayer environment that isn't hostile (outside of a home-based LAN). My wife likes FPS games – killing people of zombies. But to avoid the trolls, we just play through the story-lines in co-op mode. It's almost enough, but we'd rather be social.
AWS is HIPPA-compliant, which is why the company in TFA is able to use them at all.
Small correction: HIPAA, not HIPPA.
HIPPA is HR law.
HIPAA is medical privacy law.
We can all stop pretending we have any privacy. I like the idea of a doctor having access no matter where I am.
You've obviously never been a person randomly selected for a 'frame job'. They really do occur.
No.
This is entirely obvious to anyone not trying to sell "cloud services."
They upgraded my area almost exactly a year ago, I figured they'd be done with the rollout by now.
Apparently it helps a bunch to have Google Fiber as a competitor.
Oh yeah. Competition really helps.
I got Verizon fiber run to every unit in my condo complex (>70 units), to give Time-Warner some competition.
It took a couple of years, but it's working. And with Verizon selling its fiber-service to Frontier (in some States), prices are getting even better. So far, Frontier call-center staff have been very good. Frontier also provides un-bundled services for reasonable rates – unlike Time-Warner or Verizon.
So why do they send me a speed-upgrade offer in the USPS mail at least once a week?
Something is not clear to someone in their marketing department, or perhaps by the Poster in interpretation of the announcement.