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  1. Re:There were no "coincidences" in Gate's life on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    are you an idiot, don't you understand the value of the NAME alone? she didn't have to know anything about the project. All that had to happen was for the NAME to be recognized.

    the NAME is how some kid of some business owner can keep getting loans to start up new businesses say like say an ice cream shop or sandwich shop or computer repair or web hosting even if those businesses keep FAILING

    And then say that fellow can run for mayor as a "Successfull businessman who says government should be run like a business"...and then his business fails...AGAIN. And then he quits being mayor when he figures out that it's a job that requires WORK, and decides to "Focus on his business and get out of politics" and then starts another business....and then later starts talking about entering politics...again.

    Spoiled dilettante brat....and that's not The Donald (though it describes him as well) that's someone local to me. That sort of asshat is COMMON, and they subscribe their "success" to "merit"

  2. Re:What is a meritocracy anyway on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    How do you respond to it is just the usual alt-right/libertarian tactic to delay doing ANYTHING.

    "Oh we have to figure out what to do but everything that we can do goes against my libertarian views because it gets government involved so we can't do anything."

    So guess what, we get the status quo.

    How about some affirmative action? Putting racist employers/HR people in jail instead of giving them slaps on the wrist. How about we get rid of the de-facto segregation that exists in society. How about we turn every high school in the nation, including the poor ones into New Trier High school in Winnetka.

  3. Re:Believing in meritocracy is bad for you on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe believing in Meritocracy makes you feel good about your own Libertarian or alt-right views. It makes you feel that you "earned" what you did. But we don't live in a Meritocracy. we live in a Plutocracy that sometimes says it is a meritocracy but isn't.

    For example, if an employer throws away the applications of minorities, then it's not a level playing field is it. And that HAS happened. Heck it's even been caught on camera. YOU just benefitted from racism. You didn't know it, but you did. And then if you say "I earned my sucess" you're wrong, you didn't earn it fairly. You didn't have to compete on a fair playing field. The deck was stacked in your favor, you were rolling attack rolls in the RPG of real-life with a D20 modified to roll 20's more often.

    say we're back in the late 80's Who do you think is going to get a bank loan to say start a computer repair business. Some kid who's parents own a construction company and bought him a vic20 in 82, a c64 in 83, an amiga in 85, and a DOS machine in 86, or some poor kid who's knowledge comes from books and who doesn't even OWN a computer.

    Sure, guys like you believe that we live in a Meritocracy, it makes you feel better about your selfishness, bigotry and racism: "Why those ghetto people are undeserving, they should do what I did. They're just lazy" But society as a whole was giving you XP boosts, extra loot, early access in the RPG of Life and you didn't even know it.

  4. Re:Believing in meritocracy is bad for you on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's not an example of meritocracy, it's one of nepotism.

    Which proves that true meritocracy is a pipe dream believed in by people wanting to ensure themselves they're smart or whatever and earned their success instead of benefitting from the status quo/race/family money

    Affirmative action is another.

    Say you applied for a job and the employer threw away the applications of minorities...which has been known to happen and has been caught on camera, YOU just benefitted from racism. You didn't know it, but you did. And then if you say "I earned my sucess" you're wrong, you didn't earn it fairly. You didn't have to compete on a fair playing field. The deck was stacked in your favor, you were rolling attack rolls in the RPG of real-life with a D20 modified to roll 20's more often.

    Sure, guys like you believe that we live in a Meritocracy, it makes you feel better about your selfishness bigotry and racism: "Why those ghetto people are undeserving, they should do what I did. They're just lazy" But society as a whole was giving you XP boosts, extra loot, early access, and you didn't even know it.

  5. Re:There were no "coincidences" in Gate's life on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    She was on the United Way board with John Opel of IBM. There is zero evidence that she knew anything about the IBM PC project or had anything to do with Bill meeting with IBM.

    She didn't have to. All she had to do was have the same name.

    "Aren't you Mary Gates boy?" THAT itself is a benefit.

    and then after Kildall blew it, all it had to be was "Let's go back to Mary Gates boy and see if he can come up with something"

  6. Re:What is a meritocracy anyway on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 0

    Maybe believing in Meritocracy makes you feel good about your own Libertarian or alt-right views. It makes you feel that you "earned" what you did. But we don't live in a Meritocracy. we live in a Plutocracy that sometimes says it is a meritocracy but isn't.

    For example, if an employer throws away the applications of minorities, then it's not a level playing field is it. And that HAS happened. Heck it's even been caught on camera.

    say we're back in the late 80's Who do you think is going to get a bank loan to say start a computer repair business. Some kid who's parents own a construction company and bought him a vic20 in 82, a c64 in 83, an amiga in 85, and a DOS machine in 86, or some poor kid who's knowledge comes from books and who doesn't even OWN a computer.

    It's easy to get a head start in starting a programming business for the newly minted microcomputers when you got early access to BASIC in High school when 99.9 percent of high schools didn't.

  7. Re:What is a meritocracy anyway on Is Believing In Meritocracy Bad For You? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Didn't you know? Bill Gates got EARLY access to computers at his high school. It's easy to get a head start as a programmer who later starts a business when 99 percent of high schools didn't have access to a computer.

    Also when he met with IBM, one of the IBM execs said to him: "Aren't you Mary Gate's boy?"

    Gates was appointed to the board of directors of the national United Way in 1980, becoming the first woman to lead it in 1983. Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed her son's company with John Opel, a fellow committee member and the chairman of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other IBM executives. A few weeks later, IBM took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.[2]

  8. Re: It's beyond impeachment, now it's the gallows. on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    Notice how I didn't say "fuck them". I called the poster out on hypocrisy and ignorance And by your sarcasm and homophobia, you are probably the poster.

    You want to debate, then login, coward. Its easy to be a bigot as an anonymous coward.

  9. Re:Hah on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the kids couldn't just use mibbit in a Chrome tab to log into an IRC server?

  10. Re:What is old is new again on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Emoji's have UTF codes, so all you'd have to do is send the Morse code equivalent of say: Emoji Code: U+1F913 The lameness filter is getting in the way of actually posting the morse.

  11. Re:Here's why: on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    with access to the internet and google where real 1337 hacker geniuses post simple guides to doing all their 1337 hacker st00f.

    This is why I have said for years that anyone can learn the basics of using a Linux system. Heck it's not that hard to even do a basic compile even if you're not a programmer. I'm not an IT professional or programmer and I learned how to use Linux from books and the internet when I got my first Linux system.

  12. Re:It's beyond impeachment, now it's the gallows. on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Big talk from a keyboard warrior,

    Likewise. You really think that your gun carrying rednecks with some rifles can stand up against airstrikes, armored vehicles, and everything else?

    What would happen when the groceries stopped being delivered, or all the telecommunications were shut down, or the electrical grid go down. Or your granny can't buy her medicine at the pharmacy.

    Most states besides the East and Left coasts are highly conservative.

    You're forgetting the upper midwest.

    Let's see... the military is a little over 1M people.

    Active duty perhaps, but that doesn't include reservists or Guard now does it.

    Not enough to round all us deplorables.

    No need to round you up, just cut off the infrastructure. Most of you good ol boys who think you'd be a "militia" are just as dependent on your ESPN, Internet, Grocery stores, pharmacies, etc as the "coastal liberals" are. Texas is arid, cut off the AC and Monday Night Football and you braggart Texan machismo would cave in,

    The left barely know how to use guns, let alone own them.

    And who says liberals don't know how to use guns? That's the same old argument you southern boys pulled off in the 19th century...when a bunch of yankee "shopkeepers, clerks and factory workers" defeated a bunch of squirrel huntin illiterates duped into fighting for a bunch of slaver plutocrats with logistics, technology and MASSIVE firepower.

  13. Re:It's beyond impeachment, now it's the gallows. on The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We're all tired of seeing women, homosexuals, and trannies in the spotlight.

    Women are 51 percent of the population. And what do you mean by spotlight? You're offended by the very mention of GLBT folks?

    America was at her apex in the 1950s.

    What? When there were fewer college graduates and goverment sanctioned racism?

    Integrated military now and we wonder why we've not won a war since WWII.

    you're complaining about racial integration?

    Won a war? Which wars are you saying we have lost?

    We don't even want to kill the enemy any more.

    Who says? What we want to do is kill enemies without antagonizing civilians we'll want to not attack in the future.

    When I was in school back in the 1970s, we celebrated the carpet bombing of Germany and the trashing of Japan.

    Celebrated? I wouldn't say that, discussed as necessary evils which were then followed up by the Marshall Plan, which REBUILT Germany and Japan so that they are now are friends.

    People now think flying the American flag is bigoted and wrong.

    Who says that? Some right wing pundit? Some Texan who full of Southern Partisan bragadoccio? Plenty of liberals fly the flag, they just won't fly the Confederate flag.

    We are not really even slouching towards Gomorrah, we're there.

    Bible reference, how funny. It's funny how you go on about military victories and smashing enemies when the Bible directly says: Thou Shalt Not Kill. It doesn't say "Hooo doggie, you can kill all the spics, nigras, sand nigras, indo-chimps, and Jew York City fags and trannies you want, jes don keel god-fearin Texans, YEE HAW, the south is goin to rise again"

    It literally says "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" and by going on about enemies and the military you are being a total hypocrite, just like most other Southern Evangelicals. You aren't really Christians, you're legalist "Paulians"

  14. Re:I don't know what to say... on Microsoft Now Lets You Stream PC Games To an Xbox One and Use a Controller (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    KB+M SUCKS.

    While I am generally pro-console and loathe the PC Master race asshats, I generally am mouse-tolerant.

    Keyboards on the other hand were designed to input text, they don't make good controls, especially not for movement.

    I used a gamepad for movement, crouching, and jumping. Gamepad in the left hand, mouse in the right. The analog movement is a huge advantage.

    Hybrid controls, I like using it in certain games, if it is supported. Played Quake II on the PSone with the PSone mouse that way, as well as Deus Ex and Half-Life on the PS2 with a USB mouse. I've used it in a few other games as well. You can even use it in FortNite.

  15. Re:I don't know what to say... on Microsoft Now Lets You Stream PC Games To an Xbox One and Use a Controller (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    KB+M is vastly better for virtually every genre of game except maybe platformers.

    The reason keyboard control became a thing for games is that early PC owners, having spent thousands on their setups...didn't have much left over for a joystick...so developers put in keyboard control schemes for those people who had a DOS machine, but no joystick.

    And they kept on having to do that even for games where keyboard isn't a very good control scheme.

    Would you want to play Elite with a keyboard? No Man's Sky? A Third person adventure game? A Diablo clone? A Racing game?

    Put a KB+M player up against a similarly skilled controller player in a FPS

    Ahh, I get it, you're a competitive FPS guy who doesn't play much other than FPS's. And I'd lay odds you haven't used a controller often enough to have any skill with it. So for "you", you can't use it well or accurately and you like the easy-mode that the mouse gets you.

    Yes, mouse-aiming is easy mode. That's what the first FPS players who had played games before mouse-aim called the games that had mouse-aiming.

  16. Re: I don't know what to say... on Microsoft Now Lets You Stream PC Games To an Xbox One and Use a Controller (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    How so? You can use the EXACT SAME wheel and pedals you use with a PC with a PS4.

  17. Re:I don't know what to say... on Microsoft Now Lets You Stream PC Games To an Xbox One and Use a Controller (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The refresh rate of gaming monitors is much higher than TVs with 120Hz to 144Hz or higher being common.

    TV's are available with 120Hz and 240Hz refresh rates. And what is up with PC gamers wanting 144Hz? Video content is either 24, 30, or 60 so you want a multiple of that

  18. Re:Welcome very late to the party, Sony on PS4's Remote Play Update Lets You Stream To iOS Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But it was hardly the first to do that, which was my point to begin with.

    Neither nvidia Gamestream (for the nVidia Shield) or Steam Link ( for your steam library) existed in 2006. Were you remote playing PC games on anything in 2006? And no, telnetting into a nethack server or BBS door game or MUD/MOO/MUSH/MUCK isn't what we're talking about. We're talking about remote playing a game running on your own machine, on another more portable machine.

    People were using remote play on PSP's before there were android phones, iphones, Steam Links, or nVidia Shields.

    Nobody who's not an aspie says aspie or neckbeard as an insult.

    Perhaps, but you've been spouting off plenty of PC Master Race bullshit lately. Maybe you don't like walled gardens...but Windows itself and Steam are also gardens. And considering how the masses have proven to be incapable of properly administering their Windows machines, perhaps they shouldn't play and be discouraged from playing games on a general purpose operating system with as many faults as Windows has.

    [CronoCloud@ ~]$ uname -a
    Linux 4.20.13-200.fc29.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 27 19:42:55 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    Lets just say I do not think very highly of self identified "gamers" on Windows, especially not the ones who take that "PC Master Race" bullshit seriously.

  19. Re:Welcome very late to the party, Sony on PS4's Remote Play Update Lets You Stream To iOS Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't be an asshat. Yes, Sony to Sony, but it was a technology that existed. And need I remind you that Steam Link is Valve to Valve.

    Also Remote Play DOES support more platforms now, which is what this article is about. You can remote play a PS4 from a Vita/PStv, iOS, Android (Sony/Samsung) and PC (Windows and Mac)

    So instead of going all "Sony users are sheeple" like a dumbass neckbearded aspie, perhaps you should be saying something like "better late than never Sony, but you can do better, how about opening up the Android remote play app to ALL hardware"

  20. Re:How to kill your own product... on Microsoft Rolls Out New Skype for Web; Does Not Support Firefox, Safari, and Opera (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The original Java-based Minecraft, the only one which works on Linux desktops, is currently the only one which cannot interoperate with handheld and XBox players...

    You're forgetting the PS3, Vita and PS4 versions, which also aren't the Bedrock the edition and can't interact with Switch, mobile and Xbox versions.

    This is not necessarily a bad thing, they altered the UI for Bedrock so it's not quite as good as the "classic console edition" in regards to UI.

  21. Re:Welcome very late to the party, Sony on PS4's Remote Play Update Lets You Stream To iOS Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    nVidia GameStream, Steam Link... as usual, the PC precedes the consoles in gaming features.

    You've fallen for the PC Master race bullcrap. Remote Play on Sony PlayStations, predates nVidia Gamestream AND Steam Link. Remember, you could use remote play on the PSP to connect to the PS3 and play PSone games and use media. It was a launch feature in 2006.

    Remote Play via the Vita and PSTV with the PS4, also predates the Steam Link and also nVidia Gamestream IIRC

  22. Re:Nice to have I guess; but why? on PS4's Remote Play Update Lets You Stream To iOS Devices (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    it's for use over local wifi(so 'use your home console when out and about' will be an unsupported hack at best;

    Remote play also works over the internet, not just your household wifi.

    and you are stuck on a small screen with the glories of touchscreen emulation of hardware buttons.

    The app for the Sony phones and tablets enables you to pair a DualShock4. the iOS app supports MFi controllers.

    The PC version of the app, also supports controllers.

  23. Re:$38 Million upgrade? on America's Cities Are Running on Software From the '80s (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Nice non-existent strawman there. Did you come up with it while mom was microwaving your tendies. Planning on reading r/braincels later while jerking off in your copies of Atlas Shrugged and Methuselah's Children?
    Does this guy look like he could be your twin brother?

    https://www.chicagotribune.com...

  24. Re:These projects get put off for "good" reason on America's Cities Are Running on Software From the '80s (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, Medicare. The people who have it don't want to get rid of it. And "government running healthcare systems" is how it works in places like Canada or the UK.

    Now you may be one of those libertarian rationalists, who worships the private sector and denigrates SJW's, "fee-fees" "emotions" and whatnot every chance you get:

    https://theoutline.com/post/70...

    But even with the faults it has, government works for the people. The private sector does not. People have died because a private sector insurance company denied to pay for a surgery or a medication. With a government run plan, at least you can talk to your representatives and try to eliminate gaps in coverage.

    With the private sector, the gaps exist because the private sector worships the God of the Bottom Line. Human Decency, is not part of that.

  25. Re:Exactly why RedHat is losing to Ubuntu on Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space (realworldtech.com) · · Score: 1

    http://nymag.com/intelligencer...

    His "evidence" was an IRC chat with an anonymous conspiracy theorist.