There's a generation of writers and editors today who believe that the inclusion of a boat-load of hyperlinks obviates the need to provide any background for the reader. Slashdot's cradleful of content-curators are among the worst offenders. They say, "I don't have to explain anything, just clink on the link and you'll understand!" I say, "Learn to write, you lazy sons of bitches, before I remind your ad sales guys that you are intentionally driving your readers off your site."
Straw Man. No political party is going to take away anyone's smartphone. The apps are the bread & circuses needed to keep the electorate amused and distracted, the rest of it is the key conduit through which they are surveilled.
Dude, it's Burning Man! You are paying someone to sit in the desert, discard your gadgets, and feel good about yourself! Not since Tom Sawyer tricked half his town into white-washing his fence for him has there been a bigger scam than Burning Man 2017!
Was clever and original enough when is started, for a few years, back in the 90s. Now? An over-priced Disneyland for Marketing Execs going through their second childhood or third divorce...
I would consider it a major achievement if Hollywood just acknowledged the difference between IT guys, software developers and cyber security specialists. Instead the tube is filled with Felicity Smoaks who alternate among hacking into metropolitan CCTV systems, writing applications to sift and parse through data they've just downloaded from a satellite (that they also hacked into) and re-wiring routers to transmit on a different frequency. These people don't exist in any race or gender in real life.
Do you really, really believe this "Russian Hacker" narrative? In which case your judgement on any and every other politically tinged story here is more than suspect. Or are you spreading this fake Russian news at the behest of a higher editorial dictate? I have slightly more respect for an unwitting pawn than I have for a fool. I think...
627 text editors written for Linux. More than half of them advertised as Clean! Simple! Is "the Community" supposed to cry and rally to the salvation of each one that finally meets its long, drawn-out demise?
That'd be great, if this was 1997. But given the digital diaspora of small screens and the websites, games and apps created to accommodate these, families don't gravitate to the living room anymore. That's where my dogs go, because it has the cushiest chairs...
You'd have a point if HBO was obligated to distribute their content to as many people as possible, if everyone had an inalienable right to electronic entertainment. But that's not the case. Get over your whiny sense of entitlement.
You're tedious and pathetic. You know as well as I do that if HBO offered files for sale, you'd complain about the encryption and your inability to "do whatever I want with what I purchased." Newsflash: HBO *has* opened for business in a "serious sense," it makes millions, while you're still living in some Napster time warp trying to rationalize your illegal and anti-social behavior. Get over yourself.
...this is meant to be part of what is promised as a long and whining "protest" over GoT's showrunners' next series, "Confederate," which imagines a modern world in which the southern states won the American Civil War.
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There's a generation of writers and editors today who believe that the inclusion of a boat-load of hyperlinks obviates the need to provide any background for the reader. Slashdot's cradleful of content-curators are among the worst offenders. They say, "I don't have to explain anything, just clink on the link and you'll understand!" I say, "Learn to write, you lazy sons of bitches, before I remind your ad sales guys that you are intentionally driving your readers off your site."
It's not. It's "Stuff That Matters." Please pay attention.
Feeding a vegan family of six, for starters.
Straw Man. No political party is going to take away anyone's smartphone. The apps are the bread & circuses needed to keep the electorate amused and distracted, the rest of it is the key conduit through which they are surveilled.
...only they'd be right, this time
Dude, it's Burning Man! You are paying someone to sit in the desert, discard your gadgets, and feel good about yourself! Not since Tom Sawyer tricked half his town into white-washing his fence for him has there been a bigger scam than Burning Man 2017!
You're damn right they don't! I catch Elon Musk getting drunk and playing with my kids I will shoot his mutant-looking ass!
Was clever and original enough when is started, for a few years, back in the 90s. Now? An over-priced Disneyland for Marketing Execs going through their second childhood or third divorce...
>>right?
Right. Next Question?
I would consider it a major achievement if Hollywood just acknowledged the difference between IT guys, software developers and cyber security specialists. Instead the tube is filled with Felicity Smoaks who alternate among hacking into metropolitan CCTV systems, writing applications to sift and parse through data they've just downloaded from a satellite (that they also hacked into) and re-wiring routers to transmit on a different frequency. These people don't exist in any race or gender in real life.
>>As a person with political opinions and a life philosophy considered "radical" by the mainstream
You must be a really, really cool guy! I wish I knew bad hombres like you in real life!!
No one person pays $100 for a boxing match just like no one person watches a boxing match by himself. It's a party thing.
It is fascinating how this story has triggered all the classist buffoons and brought them out on parade.
Bill Clinton is a Democrat
Do you really, really believe this "Russian Hacker" narrative? In which case your judgement on any and every other politically tinged story here is more than suspect. Or are you spreading this fake Russian news at the behest of a higher editorial dictate? I have slightly more respect for an unwitting pawn than I have for a fool. I think...
627 text editors written for Linux. More than half of them advertised as Clean! Simple! Is "the Community" supposed to cry and rally to the salvation of each one that finally meets its long, drawn-out demise?
Good.
...emails to a cousin in San Francisco reading "Get Me Outta Here! Get Me The Hell Outta Here...!"
Damn! I'm there! Sold!!
That'd be great, if this was 1997. But given the digital diaspora of small screens and the websites, games and apps created to accommodate these, families don't gravitate to the living room anymore. That's where my dogs go, because it has the cushiest chairs...
>>Never put a small-minded man in a position of power.
You'd have a point if HBO was obligated to distribute their content to as many people as possible, if everyone had an inalienable right to electronic entertainment. But that's not the case. Get over your whiny sense of entitlement.
You're tedious and pathetic. You know as well as I do that if HBO offered files for sale, you'd complain about the encryption and your inability to "do whatever I want with what I purchased." Newsflash: HBO *has* opened for business in a "serious sense," it makes millions, while you're still living in some Napster time warp trying to rationalize your illegal and anti-social behavior. Get over yourself.
...this is meant to be part of what is promised as a long and whining "protest" over GoT's showrunners' next series, "Confederate," which imagines a modern world in which the southern states won the American Civil War.
Ah, yes, "Cricket," where no bugs are used.