Do candidates commonly ride Greyhound to and from this second interview? Or should candidates expect to endure the sexual overtones of U.S. airport security theater such as Rapiscan and enhanced patdowns?
Flying is common for long distance travel because it takes less time.
There is no such thing as "copyright fraud". The term is "copyright violations". What happened was a few gamer-dudes got upset she used footage from their let's plays to point out the tropes.
Her use does qualify under fair use, fair use LIMITS copyright.
Because if you don't it's copyright fraud. Seriously, look it up. People were pissed.
Fair Use, do you know it?
This idiot doesn't even know what game she's playing half the time, never mind the finer points of distros, and I mean that literally.
Half the time? Really? Hyperbole much? And who says she doesn't know distros? Has anyone asked?
It's a common complaint among gamers regarding her "reviews".
She doesn't review, she does commentary on tropes. I've watched some of her videos, haven't seen any errors of that type, other than her using footage from multiple games at once and sometimes mentioning titles that might not be on the screen at the same time. But if that's what gamers problem is, that's just silly nit picking.
How embarrassing for you. I seriously have no idea how people can publicly call themselves feminists in this day and age, talk about a faux pas
Because I do. And it's not embarassing at all.
Ugh. Let's not invite that one to the next party.
What, are you stereotyping there? Do you think that all feminists go around talking about feminism all the time? Because they don't.
Really? If I go on my favorite message board and make derogatory comments at the owner and then my comments are deleted it's censorship? Really?
If you were to go to the YDL forum and flame YDL in every thread there and make huge posts about how changing one's hosts files would protect one from the evil of YDL, when people are wanting help....and if I had deleted your comments and banned you...that's censorship?
There are levels of trust, but you've given me no reason to distrust you on certain things. I think that might be called casual trust. Say if you were in Second Life and you IM'd me and said, "Hey can I borrow 100L$ for a few uploads until I can get my payment situation worked out. I'd hand you 100L$.
Or if we met at some fast food place to discuss Linux and you had left your wallet, I'd pay for your dinner. "My treat dude, you can get the next one if you want."
Then you haven't been a member for long enough (or you're hyperbolizing based on your subjective beliefs).
Perhaps a bit of both, but it is sad to me.
Because people are inherently greedy, competitive creatures.
We are? Are you sure? We "can" be greedy, but we can also be generous and empathic. How much greed is culturally taught?
When society is built upon the concept that one cannot succeed if another person does, it's only natural for those aware of the construct to be wary of the motivations of others.
Whose society? Yours? That's not mine, and if it is, I don't want it to be.
Ever played Rust? There's a valid allegory there.
Nope, console gamer, so none of those Zombies meets survival games...yet. H1Z1 and Dayz are heading to the PS4 eventually. But...in those games, wouldn't cooperating with others and forming communities together make the group so strong that the zombies wouldn't be a threat? Then you could form larger communites (counties? States? Nations) and utterly drive the zombies from the game? It's like a D&D party...they're sticks see. One stick is easily broken, but 8 sticks together, not so much. You rez in the game and kill everyone you meet as a threat...fine. Then who watches your back when you craft/sleep/eat? What happens if you find more good stuff than you can carry?
just because I don't trust you doesn't mean I'm going to be an asshole about it, or even let you know I feel that way.
Fair enough.
But I'm also not going to hand you the keys to my truck. Because only an idiot would do that.
Who says Hand over the keys? There's levels of trust. Say you walk up to my door with a minor injury...I don't need to hand you my keys, I can say "Hey dude, need me to call someone or do you need a ride?"
I know, it would probably be better to set up a cron job.... but I actually know very little about cron...think I've used it once or twice.
Sarkeesian is a gender studies maven
Not technically she isn't. Her bachelors is in Communications, Masters in social and political thought... NOT gender studies. Now she has an interest in it, of course, which leads to her videos, but she is NOT the "Gender studies major" that some people claim she is.
who stole much of her video material from other youtube channels.
Why re-invent the wheel? If I was doing commentary on video game tropes I would most certainly use what video footage that was already out there rather than waste time capturing my own footage of the same thing. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Hell when the Daily Show or Colbert do commentary on some political speech, do they send their own camera crew? No they pull footage from CNN/NBC/etc.
It's likely that she would believe Linux to be a brand of moistened paper towel.
My sister has a double major Bachelors degree in Social work and English (writing)....she runs Ubuntu LTS. I did not install it for her, I do not maintain it for her....in part because I run Fedora and know jack about Ubuntu.
So don't be to sure a supposed "gender studies maven" doesn't know about Linux.
Just as an aside, on my bookshelf with my various Linux books, there are copies of "The Beauty Myth" and "Fire with Fire" by Naomi Wolf, Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein, and Whipping Girl by Julia Serano. So you might call me an amateur gender studies maven.
But she's not even pointing the finger at gamers themselves, but game developers! Are all those guys being jerks to her, developers? No, they're just jerks upset because some woman dares to criticize tropes in their Beloved Boyz Club Hobby.
However, Sarkeesian conveniently forgets to mention that you lose points, you risk drawing attention and a whole slew of other things that misrepresent the situation.
Okay there are negative consequences....but did you kill the strippers anyway? Did you shoot cops or bludgeon people to death in GTA even though it could attract attention or raise your wanted level? Did you kill a hooker in GTA to get your money back?
Plenty of gamers ignore the negative consequences attached to less moral actions to do something they think is "cool"
Sarkeesian conveniently forgets to mention that the hole purpose is that the mission for the player character is to infiltrate and to dismantle the organization behind the mistreatment of women.
If a non law enforcement person knows the location of a human trafficking event, wouldn't it be smarter to stay outside and pull out that cell phone (Watch Dogs is phone centric game!) and notify the authorities without going inside?
There's a group called The Fine Young Capitalists that were trying to host a game jam specifically directed at female developers - the entire point was to promote women in gaming. TFYC were getting funding for it, and then Zoe Quinn stepped in and had them shut down, implying that they were being misogynists.
No, the Game Jam hired someone to run it...and THAT person shut it down. I do believe the participants all agreed to it. This whole fuss about it, is some whiner needing a scapegoat and knowing that some gamer geeks are quite willing to believe anything negative said about a woman...chose a woman.
but in this particular instance I'd like an explanation for this:
Perhaps the simplest explanation is the jerk on twitter uses a script to help him write multiple tweets rapidly to get past the 140 character limit so he can be a jerk to Ms. Sarkeesian?
What she said was she had no interest in first person shooters.
Then some guy who thinks the "Only True Gamers" play FPS's and that FPS's are the "Only Real Games". Goes off on the internet and says "She's not a real gamer."
Then guys like you take that statement and run with it without checking it out, because you're already predisposed against her. "Some chick dares to criticize our Boyz Only Club for their tropes? Burn her!"
Personally, I don't trust her, not because she's a woman or anything stupid like that, but rather because I don't trust anyone I don't personally know.
Geez dude, I had the impression you were a bit anti-social, but this takes the cake. That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen on Slashdot. Why not trust people until they've given you a reason not to trust them. Your way is likely to get a negative reaction from people, and thusly lead you to not trust people further.
The gaming community is being singled out for being misogynist, over the film/tv industry, over the music business, over religious groups, because they are a relatively easy target who won't put up as much of a fight.
She is focusing on the gaming community.... OTHER people focus on film, TV, music, other groups. The gaming community is NOT being singled out.
And then there was the whole calling herself a gamer when right before that she said she had no interest in games and would not want to play them.
What she said was she had no interest in first person shooters.
Then some guy who thinks the "Only True Gamers" play FPS's and that FPS's are the "Only Real Games". Goes off on the internet and says "She's not a real gamer."
Then guys like you take that statement and run with it without checking it out, because you're already predisposed against her. "Some chick dares to criticize our Boyz Only Club for their tropes? Burn her!"
That's no evidence of anything, any linux user could take a screenshot and upload it in a very short period of time. Hell, they could even script the thing to make it automatic.
#!/bin/bash while [ 1 ]; do
#create the filename with date and time
filename=browser-window-$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%T).png
#this brings Firefox to top so no other window obscures the screenshot
wmctrl -a Firefox
#use imagemagick import to take the screenshot
import -frame -window 0x3c0008a $filename
#upload to flickr
flickr_upload $filename
sleep 30 done
And your comment about censorship is correct. Anita practices it, instead of allowing comments on her videos she denies them.
Censorship is practiced only by governments. What she is doing is called "moderation", the same sort of moderation that has been done on USENET, mailing lists, message boards, and IRC by administrators of various types over the years. Their forum, their rules. Her channel, her rules.
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Yeah, it was mostly a joke. Sorry about that.
It's not what you "implied"
This:
human beings have proven themselves wholly untrustworthy to me.
Is more akin to "I don't trust anyone.", than "Trust is analog"
Do candidates commonly ride Greyhound to and from this second interview? Or should candidates expect to endure the sexual overtones of U.S. airport security theater such as Rapiscan and enhanced patdowns?
Flying is common for long distance travel because it takes less time.
There is no such thing as "copyright fraud". The term is "copyright violations". What happened was a few gamer-dudes got upset she used footage from their let's plays to point out the tropes.
Her use does qualify under fair use, fair use LIMITS copyright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
If her work wasn't Fair Use she could be sued...in court. Is that happening? No.
That tells me all I need to know you intellectual goatse! Don't let any flies in there,
Name calling undermines your opinions.
Trust isn't boolean true/false, it's analog.
For example, bank accounts themselves are based on a system of trust.
Because if you don't it's copyright fraud. Seriously, look it up. People were pissed.
Fair Use, do you know it?
This idiot doesn't even know what game she's playing half the time, never mind the finer points of distros, and I mean that literally.
Half the time? Really? Hyperbole much? And who says she doesn't know distros? Has anyone asked?
It's a common complaint among gamers regarding her "reviews".
She doesn't review, she does commentary on tropes. I've watched some of her videos, haven't seen any errors of that type, other than her using footage from multiple games at once and sometimes mentioning titles that might not be on the screen at the same time. But if that's what gamers problem is, that's just silly nit picking.
How embarrassing for you. I seriously have no idea how people can publicly call themselves feminists in this day and age, talk about a faux pas
Because I do. And it's not embarassing at all.
Ugh. Let's not invite that one to the next party.
What, are you stereotyping there? Do you think that all feminists go around talking about feminism all the time? Because they don't.
Really? If I go on my favorite message board and make derogatory comments at the owner and then my comments are deleted it's censorship? Really?
If you were to go to the YDL forum and flame YDL in every thread there and make huge posts about how changing one's hosts files would protect one from the evil of YDL, when people are wanting help....and if I had deleted your comments and banned you...that's censorship?
Or maybe criticising anything that makes the gaming community look bad earns the ire of the gaming community.
If a problem makes the community look bad, then perhaps the community needs to reduce the problem instead of shooting the messenger?
You default to trust, we default to don't trust.
Innocent till proven guilty. Do you disagree with that basic fundamental?
Your attitude will change with time kid.
I'm 47.
People in general are not trustworthy.
Some people are untrustworthy. Treating all people as untrustworthy would make ME the bad guy encouraging negativity.
Do you trust me? Why should you?
There are levels of trust, but you've given me no reason to distrust you on certain things. I think that might be called casual trust. Say if you were in Second Life and you IM'd me and said, "Hey can I borrow 100L$ for a few uploads until I can get my payment situation worked out. I'd hand you 100L$.
Or if we met at some fast food place to discuss Linux and you had left your wallet, I'd pay for your dinner. "My treat dude, you can get the next one if you want."
Then you haven't been a member for long enough (or you're hyperbolizing based on your subjective beliefs).
Perhaps a bit of both, but it is sad to me.
Because people are inherently greedy, competitive creatures.
We are? Are you sure? We "can" be greedy, but we can also be generous and empathic. How much greed is culturally taught?
When society is built upon the concept that one cannot succeed if another person does, it's only natural for those aware of the construct to be wary of the motivations of others.
Whose society? Yours? That's not mine, and if it is, I don't want it to be.
Ever played Rust? There's a valid allegory there.
Nope, console gamer, so none of those Zombies meets survival games...yet. H1Z1 and Dayz are heading to the PS4 eventually. But...in those games, wouldn't cooperating with others and forming communities together make the group so strong that the zombies wouldn't be a threat? Then you could form larger communites (counties? States? Nations) and utterly drive the zombies from the game? It's like a D&D party...they're sticks see. One stick is easily broken, but 8 sticks together, not so much. You rez in the game and kill everyone you meet as a threat...fine. Then who watches your back when you craft/sleep/eat? What happens if you find more good stuff than you can carry?
just because I don't trust you doesn't mean I'm going to be an asshole about it, or even let you know I feel that way.
Fair enough.
But I'm also not going to hand you the keys to my truck. Because only an idiot would do that.
Who says Hand over the keys? There's levels of trust. Say you walk up to my door with a minor injury...I don't need to hand you my keys, I can say "Hey dude, need me to call someone or do you need a ride?"
Without criticising your script,
I know, it would probably be better to set up a cron job.... but I actually know very little about cron...think I've used it once or twice.
Sarkeesian is a gender studies maven
Not technically she isn't. Her bachelors is in Communications, Masters in social and political thought... NOT gender studies. Now she has an interest in it, of course, which leads to her videos, but she is NOT the "Gender studies major" that some people claim she is.
who stole much of her video material from other youtube channels.
Why re-invent the wheel? If I was doing commentary on video game tropes I would most certainly use what video footage that was already out there rather than waste time capturing my own footage of the same thing. Nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Hell when the Daily Show or Colbert do commentary on some political speech, do they send their own camera crew? No they pull footage from CNN/NBC/etc.
It's likely that she would believe Linux to be a brand of moistened paper towel.
My sister has a double major Bachelors degree in Social work and English (writing)....she runs Ubuntu LTS. I did not install it for her, I do not maintain it for her....in part because I run Fedora and know jack about Ubuntu.
So don't be to sure a supposed "gender studies maven" doesn't know about Linux.
Just as an aside, on my bookshelf with my various Linux books, there are copies of "The Beauty Myth" and "Fire with Fire" by Naomi Wolf, Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein, and Whipping Girl by Julia Serano. So you might call me an amateur gender studies maven.
But she's not even pointing the finger at gamers themselves, but game developers! Are all those guys being jerks to her, developers? No, they're just jerks upset because some woman dares to criticize tropes in their Beloved Boyz Club Hobby.
Can't a person just not trust anyone by default without being accused of racism, or misogyny, etc?
You're lucky you're not being accused of being a sociopath.
Trust is the very center of society and civilization. If you can't trust, you're not going to be very good at getting along in society.
However, Sarkeesian conveniently forgets to mention that you lose points, you risk drawing attention and a whole slew of other things that misrepresent the situation.
Okay there are negative consequences....but did you kill the strippers anyway? Did you shoot cops or bludgeon people to death in GTA even though it could attract attention or raise your wanted level? Did you kill a hooker in GTA to get your money back?
Plenty of gamers ignore the negative consequences attached to less moral actions to do something they think is "cool"
Sarkeesian conveniently forgets to mention that the hole purpose is that the mission for the player character is to infiltrate and to dismantle the organization behind the mistreatment of women.
If a non law enforcement person knows the location of a human trafficking event, wouldn't it be smarter to stay outside and pull out that cell phone (Watch Dogs is phone centric game!) and notify the authorities without going inside?
Sure it's "justification"...but it's thin justification.
There's a group called The Fine Young Capitalists that were trying to host a game jam specifically directed at female developers - the entire point was to promote women in gaming. TFYC were getting funding for it, and then Zoe Quinn stepped in and had them shut down, implying that they were being misogynists.
No, the Game Jam hired someone to run it...and THAT person shut it down. I do believe the participants all agreed to it. This whole fuss about it, is some whiner needing a scapegoat and knowing that some gamer geeks are quite willing to believe anything negative said about a woman...chose a woman.
I think this slightly disqualifies you from commenting on things regarding fashion:
http://pineight.com/mw/index.p...
but in this particular instance I'd like an explanation for this:
Perhaps the simplest explanation is the jerk on twitter uses a script to help him write multiple tweets rapidly to get past the 140 character limit so he can be a jerk to Ms. Sarkeesian?
Your comment is Awesome and Full of Win.
What she said was she had no interest in first person shooters.
Then some guy who thinks the "Only True Gamers" play FPS's and that FPS's are the "Only Real Games". Goes off on the internet and says "She's not a real gamer."
Then guys like you take that statement and run with it without checking it out, because you're already predisposed against her. "Some chick dares to criticize our Boyz Only Club for their tropes? Burn her!"
Personally, I don't trust her, not because she's a woman or anything stupid like that, but rather because I don't trust anyone I don't personally know.
Geez dude, I had the impression you were a bit anti-social, but this takes the cake. That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen on Slashdot. Why not trust people until they've given you a reason not to trust them. Your way is likely to get a negative reaction from people, and thusly lead you to not trust people further.
The gaming community is being singled out for being misogynist, over the film/tv industry, over the music business, over religious groups, because they are a relatively easy target who won't put up as much of a fight.
She is focusing on the gaming community.... OTHER people focus on film, TV, music, other groups. The gaming community is NOT being singled out.
And then there was the whole calling herself a gamer when right before that she said she had no interest in games and would not want to play them.
What she said was she had no interest in first person shooters.
Then some guy who thinks the "Only True Gamers" play FPS's and that FPS's are the "Only Real Games". Goes off on the internet and says "She's not a real gamer."
Then guys like you take that statement and run with it without checking it out, because you're already predisposed against her. "Some chick dares to criticize our Boyz Only Club for their tropes? Burn her!"
That's no evidence of anything, any linux user could take a screenshot and upload it in a very short period of time. Hell, they could even script the thing to make it automatic.
#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
#create the filename with date and time
filename=browser-window-$(date +%d-%m-%Y-%T).png
#this brings Firefox to top so no other window obscures the screenshot
wmctrl -a Firefox
#use imagemagick import to take the screenshot
import -frame -window 0x3c0008a $filename
#upload to flickr
flickr_upload $filename
sleep 30
done
And your comment about censorship is correct. Anita practices it, instead of allowing comments on her videos she denies them.
Censorship is practiced only by governments. What she is doing is called "moderation", the same sort of moderation that has been done on USENET, mailing lists, message boards, and IRC by administrators of various types over the years. Their forum, their rules. Her channel, her rules.
A death threat isn't credible until an actual attempt has been made. And even then words are just words.
That's not how the law views it.