Understand that modding "redundant" is the Slashdot SJW's way of saying, "Whuuut? How could so many people on Slashdot think differently from me? I'm too afraid to make an argument against them, but maybe if I mod 'redundant' I will scare off anyone else who wants to chime in with a point of view that makes me feel sad."
"Hate Speech" is Censor-able Speech. Whiny Millennials and their tweedy enablers in academia have made it clear they are happy -- even desirous -- to sacrifice overall Freedom of Speech for personal comfort. Words mean something. Names grant power. By giving the expression of those ideas that discomfort them a name, a sub-category, a pigeon-hole, they can then legislate against it (The words first; laws against the thoughts will come a little bit later on...) By making sure that the word chosen -- "hate" -- has vile and evil connotations, they are able to grease the rails for whatever legislative or societal quarantining they try to get away with. After all, who could possibly be in favor of something HATE-ful??
>>I don't think LinkedIn users are at all interested in any kind of media
No, but the narcissist C-suite "influencers" are, and that's who LinkedIn is interested in. (They're not interested in you and
me, as I am certain you are aware.) Who needs data mining? This gets the wealthiest 1% demographic among their user base
knocking on *their* door. Brilliant, but in a pathetic kind of way...
These'll be lapped up by the same Google-worshipping hipsters that we used to throw out of bars for wearing Google Glass. Unfortunately for Google -- and perhaps NYC, depending upon how they're used -- whatever kind of stats these things collect will really be skewed to the shallower end of the gene pool...
If it's a government entity, yeah, full disclosure, down to the last comma separated value. A public company? That's between them and the share holders. Private company, disclose whatever they want or not. In the end, there'll be some consumer watchdog outfit that will publish all the up and down time percentages and companies will reap their desserts. Unless they're calling me in to fix the problem, I don't care whether they were hacked or somebody's cat pissed on a circuit breaker, they're either up or they are down.
It absolutely was tongue in cheek. Trump deftly took the embarrassing story about the hacked DNC e-mails, blew another day's worth of life into it, and used it as a touchstone to circle back and remind everyone about that OTHER famous e-mail server. He did this by taking the EEEEEVIL boogeyman of THE RUSSIANS! which the DNC tried to use to deflect away from the *contents* of the hacked e-mails, and made it all about Hillary again, when yesterday it was about Wasserman-Schultz. Of course, those 30,000 e-mails he is referencing are the ones that were supposed to be about yoga pants and Chelsea's weddings plans. So if they are really a matter of national security and we don't want the Russkies to see them, why were they deleted...? "Thank you for playing, Mrs. Clinton."
It's brilliant political jiu-jitsu. The thing is, I get the impression he or his team doesn't stay up late and plan it out this way, it's just some kind of natural squirrely viciousness he possesses.
You're wrong. The hacker knows that every one of those hacked e-mails could be replicated somewhere else, on a device, downloaded to a laptop, whatever. The very moment a DNC staffer demonstrates that the text of just one e-mail was tampered with, the credibility of the whole cache would be discredited. The hacker dare not move one semi-colon, and he knows that.
Not surprising. Dig into some of the emails and you will find discussions among DNC staffers about various articles they have received from journalists for approval before they are submitted to their editors! The media is complicit and circling the wagons around their own.
There is no question that Netflix has to continue ramping up original production. Distribution is easy (sorry tech guys) but good content is hard. But "back in the day," there was a finite amount of space to fill with that original content. Once you reached X number of episodes for Y number of original series per annual season, you had obtained critical mass, and it was just up to the sales guys to make sure you were in as many homes and on as many platforms as you could be, and the programming guys to make sure the content was as good and innovative as budget allowed.
But Netflix pioneered "binge-watching." Exec-producing ten eps of Game of Thrones and dribbling them out no longer cuts it. We're now conditioned to watch 22 episodes of a new title as they all drop at once, gorging upon it all within a two week period lest we fall behind at the water cooler or in the online chatrooms.
Time (in a schedule grid) is no longer a constraint. Space (server/bandwidth capacity is cheap) is no longer a constraint. Only money is a limiting factor. How can they keep feeding that beast?
At one level, Netflix better hope that a lot of little competitors start popping up, because they will be able to sell them off-network rights to Daredevil and House of Cards et.al. and so subsidize their original production, much the same way HBO and video stores were first viewed as rivals to Hollywood, before Hollywood realized how much money it could make licensing to them.
Wait, are you serious? The Old Testament? No Christian sect of any size subscribes to that! It was all over-written by Jesus' teachings and the Mosaic antitheses from the New Testament. And yes, Muslims can choose to be moderate, but the point behind the stats quoted earlier is that a staggering (and growing) percentage are choosing the "let's stone the gays" flavor over the "religion of peace" flavor.
Hadd offences in Sharia law -- those for which there is no wiggle room for a judge in the assignment of penalty -- include amputation for thievery and stoning for adultery. If that's not evil, then at least admit is Medieval. Whether it is enacted upon Muslims or non-Muslims, who cares? It's downright barbaric.
Here's your link for the Islam numbers. Short version: The number of places under Sharia law is growing, and - more shocking -- the number of Muslims in western countries like the US and the UK who *wish* they were living under Sharia Law and would like to see their country change its legal system to one that was theology based is *growing.*
47 percent of all American Christians identify themselves as "Evangelical," although only 62 percent of those "Evangelicals" believe that abortion should be illegal in all states, so they're probably not what you would describe as a real Pokemon-fearing Evangelical. Link with stats
Look, I'm not here to do your homework for what is common sense to anyone who is not a dyed-in-the-wool Jihad apologist. Radical Islam is an existential threat to western civilization, and it's growing. Christianity is NOT an existential threat, and their numbers are diminishing. Get your head out of your ass and start doing some of the research yourself.
False equivalencies. What percentage of global Christianity believes that Pokemon is evil versus what percentage of global Islam is under Sharia law and/or believes that Pokemon is evil AND that women are second class citizens?
By the way... you know that when you use words like "Murica" you automatically lose any argument with an adult, right?
String theory, multiple universes, complexity, quantum teleportation... these are to Physics what Division I football is to college, which is to say, it sells tickets and opens purse strings. No one is going to buy a book on Newtonian physics and relive their junior year in high school. But let Brian Greene write something crazy and out there about a "Holographic Universe" or somesuch and the peeps will scoop it up, and maybe even decide to become physics and math majors, and there are lots of worse results than that. So let the alumni donate for the football team, and let the googley-eyed high schoolers all plan on high-paying and fulfilling careers as Quantum Mechanics. It puts butts in the seats...
Slashdot Mirror
Understand that modding "redundant" is the Slashdot SJW's way of saying, "Whuuut? How could so many people on Slashdot think differently from me? I'm too afraid to make an argument against them, but maybe if I mod 'redundant' I will scare off anyone else who wants to chime in with a point of view that makes me feel sad."
"Hate Speech" is Censor-able Speech. Whiny Millennials and their tweedy enablers in academia have made it clear they are happy -- even desirous -- to sacrifice overall Freedom of Speech for personal comfort. Words mean something. Names grant power. By giving the expression of those ideas that discomfort them a name, a sub-category, a pigeon-hole, they can then legislate against it (The words first; laws against the thoughts will come a little bit later on...) By making sure that the word chosen -- "hate" -- has vile and evil connotations, they are able to grease the rails for whatever legislative or societal quarantining they try to get away with. After all, who could possibly be in favor of something HATE-ful??
>>Athletes aren't usually renown for their brains and wits.
He's an "artistic gymnast," so this could have played out either way...
You left out "racist," "homophobe" and "islamophobe." Happy to help.
But thanks for playing, son. Here, have a cookie...
And the gin mill owner insists I be more sociable. How about you just shut the fuck up and pour me a pint, okay, "mate?"
>>I don't think LinkedIn users are at all interested in any kind of media
No, but the narcissist C-suite "influencers" are, and that's who LinkedIn is interested in. (They're not interested in you and me, as I am certain you are aware.) Who needs data mining? This gets the wealthiest 1% demographic among their user base knocking on *their* door. Brilliant, but in a pathetic kind of way...
These'll be lapped up by the same Google-worshipping hipsters that we used to throw out of bars for wearing Google Glass. Unfortunately for Google -- and perhaps NYC, depending upon how they're used -- whatever kind of stats these things collect will really be skewed to the shallower end of the gene pool...
If it's a government entity, yeah, full disclosure, down to the last comma separated value. A public company? That's between them and the share holders. Private company, disclose whatever they want or not. In the end, there'll be some consumer watchdog outfit that will publish all the up and down time percentages and companies will reap their desserts. Unless they're calling me in to fix the problem, I don't care whether they were hacked or somebody's cat pissed on a circuit breaker, they're either up or they are down.
It absolutely was tongue in cheek. Trump deftly took the embarrassing story about the hacked DNC e-mails, blew another day's worth of life into it, and used it as a touchstone to circle back and remind everyone about that OTHER famous e-mail server. He did this by taking the EEEEEVIL boogeyman of THE RUSSIANS! which the DNC tried to use to deflect away from the *contents* of the hacked e-mails, and made it all about Hillary again, when yesterday it was about Wasserman-Schultz. Of course, those 30,000 e-mails he is referencing are the ones that were supposed to be about yoga pants and Chelsea's weddings plans. So if they are really a matter of national security and we don't want the Russkies to see them, why were they deleted...? "Thank you for playing, Mrs. Clinton."
It's brilliant political jiu-jitsu. The thing is, I get the impression he or his team doesn't stay up late and plan it out this way, it's just some kind of natural squirrely viciousness he possesses.
You're wrong. The hacker knows that every one of those hacked e-mails could be replicated somewhere else, on a device, downloaded to a laptop, whatever. The very moment a DNC staffer demonstrates that the text of just one e-mail was tampered with, the credibility of the whole cache would be discredited. The hacker dare not move one semi-colon, and he knows that.
Not surprising. Dig into some of the emails and you will find discussions among DNC staffers about various articles they have received from journalists for approval before they are submitted to their editors! The media is complicit and circling the wagons around their own.
It's what's IN THEM that is the story behind the curtain nobody wants you to see
There is no question that Netflix has to continue ramping up original production. Distribution is easy (sorry tech guys) but good content is hard. But "back in the day," there was a finite amount of space to fill with that original content. Once you reached X number of episodes for Y number of original series per annual season, you had obtained critical mass, and it was just up to the sales guys to make sure you were in as many homes and on as many platforms as you could be, and the programming guys to make sure the content was as good and innovative as budget allowed.
But Netflix pioneered "binge-watching." Exec-producing ten eps of Game of Thrones and dribbling them out no longer cuts it. We're now conditioned to watch 22 episodes of a new title as they all drop at once, gorging upon it all within a two week period lest we fall behind at the water cooler or in the online chatrooms.
Time (in a schedule grid) is no longer a constraint. Space (server/bandwidth capacity is cheap) is no longer a constraint. Only money is a limiting factor. How can they keep feeding that beast?
At one level, Netflix better hope that a lot of little competitors start popping up, because they will be able to sell them off-network rights to Daredevil and House of Cards et.al. and so subsidize their original production, much the same way HBO and video stores were first viewed as rivals to Hollywood, before Hollywood realized how much money it could make licensing to them.
Wait, are you serious? The Old Testament? No Christian sect of any size subscribes to that! It was all over-written by Jesus' teachings and the Mosaic antitheses from the New Testament. And yes, Muslims can choose to be moderate, but the point behind the stats quoted earlier is that a staggering (and growing) percentage are choosing the "let's stone the gays" flavor over the "religion of peace" flavor.
Hadd offences in Sharia law -- those for which there is no wiggle room for a judge in the assignment of penalty -- include amputation for thievery and stoning for adultery. If that's not evil, then at least admit is Medieval. Whether it is enacted upon Muslims or non-Muslims, who cares? It's downright barbaric.
Edit: 47 percent of American *Protestants* identify themselves as "Evangelical." Big difference...
Here's your link for the Islam numbers. Short version: The number of places under Sharia law is growing, and - more shocking -- the number of Muslims in western countries like the US and the UK who *wish* they were living under Sharia Law and would like to see their country change its legal system to one that was theology based is *growing.*
47 percent of all American Christians identify themselves as "Evangelical," although only 62 percent of those "Evangelicals" believe that abortion should be illegal in all states, so they're probably not what you would describe as a real Pokemon-fearing Evangelical. Link with stats
Look, I'm not here to do your homework for what is common sense to anyone who is not a dyed-in-the-wool Jihad apologist. Radical Islam is an existential threat to western civilization, and it's growing. Christianity is NOT an existential threat, and their numbers are diminishing. Get your head out of your ass and start doing some of the research yourself.
>>Pat Robertson
1991 just called. It wants its Boogeyman back
False equivalencies. What percentage of global Christianity believes that Pokemon is evil versus what percentage of global Islam is under Sharia law and/or believes that Pokemon is evil AND that women are second class citizens?
By the way... you know that when you use words like "Murica" you automatically lose any argument with an adult, right?
Hey look, someone who hasn't spent very much time in rural America but has an opinion about it anyway...
...they first cause comment syntax to twist their panties into a bunch.
String theory, multiple universes, complexity, quantum teleportation... these are to Physics what Division I football is to college, which is to say, it sells tickets and opens purse strings. No one is going to buy a book on Newtonian physics and relive their junior year in high school. But let Brian Greene write something crazy and out there about a "Holographic Universe" or somesuch and the peeps will scoop it up, and maybe even decide to become physics and math majors, and there are lots of worse results than that. So let the alumni donate for the football team, and let the googley-eyed high schoolers all plan on high-paying and fulfilling careers as Quantum Mechanics. It puts butts in the seats...
He wants his Multiverse back.
>>They're basically Francis and Claire Underwood without the murders.
Give that just a little more time...