If enough people are outraged by the Redskins or the Slants, their respective businesses will suffer and they will make a financially informed decision to make a change. If -- as we all know in our hearts -- only a very few loud, whiny SJWs even gave these names a second thought, their respective businesses will continue as normal. Good Job, SCOTUS.
Actually, my impression of the classist AC who started this thread was that he is some man-bunned Brooklyn Bubble-inhabiting pajama boy who wouldn't be caught dead in the same time zone with an evangelical Christian Republican.
But that summary is incomprehensible. In part, I suspect, because user #14,257 *IS* user "Robotech_Master," and the editor seemed to want to obfuscate that fact, which, though not critical, does certainly flavor the whole point of this posting.
It's only accepted if the author carves that out contractually. If a studio licenses your book and wants to kill off your protagonist in their movie version of it a third of the way in, he's theirs to slay unless there is language in your agreement forbidding it. Editing movies for time, or using time-compression technology, to shorten them to fit into specific broadcast slots is a tradition as old as TV, as is removing the naughty bits to make a film show-able on an airline. Directors have always groused about their "Art" being "butchered" for TV and airplane, and that's cute and all, but they take the paycheck nonetheless. This is another revenue stream for the studios, another "window," and they will cater to it. And the "auteurs" will make noise, because it makes them feel better about caving in to the Family Values crowd, but cave in they will. Everybody wants to be paid.
why he spells it with an "S" in the title and a "Z" in the summary? That's what we really want to know. Dual British/American citizenship? Or just lousy copy editing?
>>Buying groceries is one of the few things I prefer human interaction on.
Why? Human interaction on the grocery line?? My grandmother liked human interaction on the grocery line, but she was old and doddering, so we all kind of understood. My daughter was a cashier at a grocery store for one summer. People like you who try to strike up some human interaction scared the daylights out of her. I bought her a pepper spray canister, to keep in her apron. It made her feel safer.
Slashdot editors, I don't get the focused vendetta against Uber here. You really, really seem overwhelmed with butthurt on this topic. "Trump-style tactics?" Seriously?? I've never even used Uber, have no real dog in the race, but somebody clearly needs an intervention.
It was never meant to matter to you, just the rest of the entertainment industry. Same as the ten minutes of credits that roll at the end of the film. Of course, the need for the makeup artist to leave her thumbprint in the credits has long ago been obviated by internet sites like IMDB, but it's an inexpensive enough Union demand, so why fight that battle?
Google pays slashdot a fixed monthly fee to present 15 ads dressed up as legit articles each month. The monthly cycle rolls over on the 10th of each calendar month, whether Google has used their full 15 or not. So in the few days leading up to the 10th, they are in "use it or lose it" mode, which means you may see some 3rd and 4th tier products/initiatives touted here.
Fortunately for her she leaked against the Republicans and will likely just spend a lot of time in jail. Had she leaked against the Democrats, chances are she'd be shot on the street and the retribution made to look like a botched robbery...
>>When a neo-Nazi terrorist organization comes out in support of Bernie Sanders, you might have a point.
They're already out, and they're everywhere. They call themselves "Antifa." They cover themselves in black, KKK covered themselves in white, but otherwise their tactics, vitriol and collective IQ are about the same.
...somebody really needs to talk to these writers pimping the distros about appropriate language. Who unfamiliar with Linux would ever spend time with an operating system touting how much better its stability or font choices are now, compared to the previous release? It's like Ford saying, "Hey, get this new Camry, the brakes work pretty well now!" Or Chevrolet touting its new Silverado with "At Last! The radio stations all come in clearly! Yay, us!"
Again, I love Linux, and have been using it on my desktop since the 90s, but no one should ever wonder why it struggles to gain acceptance -- or, for that matter, why The GIMP will never get the traction of a PhotoShop.
But seriously, learn some math, or at least some statistics: 1.8 percent of MEN, i.e., 1.8 percent of 50 percent of the population, or just 0.9 percent of the overall population. 1.5 percent of WOMEN, same thing...
You must be new to this whole online forum thing, sweet pea. Read the whole thread through before you respond indignantly to just one post in it. Animojo and I covered the whole "gays-in-the-entertainment-industry" numbers in a later post.
You, like most Americans, overestimate the size of the gay population. This is not surprising, as gays have done an extraordinary job seeing to it that they are over-represented in pop culture (as I have indicated above). The Washington Post -- hardly a bastion of evangelical redneck conservatism -- reports that "More specifically, 1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual." So, yeah, 1-2 percent, like I said; less than half of the 5% you indicated. No where's near the percentage as portrayed in pop culture.
All that said, having worked in media and entertainment industries for my entire adult life, I would make an educated estimation that 25-30 percent of the "creatives" working professionally are openly gay (...and the remaining 70-75 percent are terrified of saying or writing something that will piss them off). So the fact that the "gay population" of pop culture characters skews so fabulously wrong is no surprise.
The History books were written by straight white Christian men; the Future History (science fiction) is being written by multi-racial gay people. Ironic...
94% straight? In other words, 6% gay. Which means that the show over-represents gays in the ship's population by a factor of 2x to 3x, compared to current conventional population stats. Congratulations! You are winning! In fact, you guys seem to have inflated media representation down to a science...
Would that the handicapped, obese, albinos, and indigenous peoples had the same clout in Hollywood as the gay community...
When China and India have enacted the same level of air and water pollution controls as the US does now, call us, and we'll discuss what, if anything is needed globally going forward. Until then, spare us the faux outrage over the EEEeeevil Polluter USA.
Actually, Microsoft won the desktop because Windows-only software -- and lots of it -- was first to market, not insignificantly in the area of games. Mac was the weapon of choice for graphics professionals, picking up the base that mismanaged Amiga squandered.
>> For some people success is being able to do what they want.
No question. And it is so, so much easier to do what you want when you are married to a very wealthy spouse. The suburbs around NYC are jam-packed with galleries and concert venues featuring the artwork and "one woman shows" created by happy, "successful" artists who are enabled to do what they want by virtue of the size of their spouse's paycheck.
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If enough people are outraged by the Redskins or the Slants, their respective businesses will suffer and they will make a financially informed decision to make a change. If -- as we all know in our hearts -- only a very few loud, whiny SJWs even gave these names a second thought, their respective businesses will continue as normal. Good Job, SCOTUS.
Actually, my impression of the classist AC who started this thread was that he is some man-bunned Brooklyn Bubble-inhabiting pajama boy who wouldn't be caught dead in the same time zone with an evangelical Christian Republican.
But that summary is incomprehensible. In part, I suspect, because user #14,257 *IS* user "Robotech_Master," and the editor seemed to want to obfuscate that fact, which, though not critical, does certainly flavor the whole point of this posting.
It's only accepted if the author carves that out contractually. If a studio licenses your book and wants to kill off your protagonist in their movie version of it a third of the way in, he's theirs to slay unless there is language in your agreement forbidding it. Editing movies for time, or using time-compression technology, to shorten them to fit into specific broadcast slots is a tradition as old as TV, as is removing the naughty bits to make a film show-able on an airline. Directors have always groused about their "Art" being "butchered" for TV and airplane, and that's cute and all, but they take the paycheck nonetheless. This is another revenue stream for the studios, another "window," and they will cater to it. And the "auteurs" will make noise, because it makes them feel better about caving in to the Family Values crowd, but cave in they will. Everybody wants to be paid.
why he spells it with an "S" in the title and a "Z" in the summary? That's what we really want to know. Dual British/American citizenship? Or just lousy copy editing?
>>Buying groceries is one of the few things I prefer human interaction on.
Why? Human interaction on the grocery line?? My grandmother liked human interaction on the grocery line, but she was old and doddering, so we all kind of understood. My daughter was a cashier at a grocery store for one summer. People like you who try to strike up some human interaction scared the daylights out of her. I bought her a pepper spray canister, to keep in her apron. It made her feel safer.
Slashdot editors, I don't get the focused vendetta against Uber here. You really, really seem overwhelmed with butthurt on this topic. "Trump-style tactics?" Seriously?? I've never even used Uber, have no real dog in the race, but somebody clearly needs an intervention.
It was never meant to matter to you, just the rest of the entertainment industry. Same as the ten minutes of credits that roll at the end of the film. Of course, the need for the makeup artist to leave her thumbprint in the credits has long ago been obviated by internet sites like IMDB, but it's an inexpensive enough Union demand, so why fight that battle?
Google pays slashdot a fixed monthly fee to present 15 ads dressed up as legit articles each month. The monthly cycle rolls over on the 10th of each calendar month, whether Google has used their full 15 or not. So in the few days leading up to the 10th, they are in "use it or lose it" mode, which means you may see some 3rd and 4th tier products/initiatives touted here.
Fortunately for her she leaked against the Republicans and will likely just spend a lot of time in jail. Had she leaked against the Democrats, chances are she'd be shot on the street and the retribution made to look like a botched robbery...
You would be making sense if it were the Red States planning to go rogue and throw in with the Paris Accords peeps, but look at that list again...
>>When a neo-Nazi terrorist organization comes out in support of Bernie Sanders, you might have a point.
They're already out, and they're everywhere. They call themselves "Antifa." They cover themselves in black, KKK covered themselves in white, but otherwise their tactics, vitriol and collective IQ are about the same.
>>Citation please was posted both as a funny comment
See, that's where you're wrong. When you feel the need to post a lengthy explanation for your "funny" comment, it's a tip-off that it never was.
...somebody really needs to talk to these writers pimping the distros about appropriate language. Who unfamiliar with Linux would ever spend time with an operating system touting how much better its stability or font choices are now, compared to the previous release? It's like Ford saying, "Hey, get this new Camry, the brakes work pretty well now!" Or Chevrolet touting its new Silverado with "At Last! The radio stations all come in clearly! Yay, us!"
Again, I love Linux, and have been using it on my desktop since the 90s, but no one should ever wonder why it struggles to gain acceptance -- or, for that matter, why The GIMP will never get the traction of a PhotoShop.
Yes! Mustn't exclude the trans population!
But seriously, learn some math, or at least some statistics: 1.8 percent of MEN, i.e., 1.8 percent of 50 percent of the population, or just 0.9 percent of the overall population. 1.5 percent of WOMEN, same thing...
Thanks for playing.
You must be new to this whole online forum thing, sweet pea. Read the whole thread through before you respond indignantly to just one post in it. Animojo and I covered the whole "gays-in-the-entertainment-industry" numbers in a later post.
You, like most Americans, overestimate the size of the gay population. This is not surprising, as gays have done an extraordinary job seeing to it that they are over-represented in pop culture (as I have indicated above). The Washington Post -- hardly a bastion of evangelical redneck conservatism -- reports that "More specifically, 1.8 percent of men self-identify as gay and 0.4 percent as bisexual, and 1.5 percent of women self-identify as lesbian and 0.9 percent as bisexual." So, yeah, 1-2 percent, like I said; less than half of the 5% you indicated. No where's near the percentage as portrayed in pop culture.
All that said, having worked in media and entertainment industries for my entire adult life, I would make an educated estimation that 25-30 percent of the "creatives" working professionally are openly gay (...and the remaining 70-75 percent are terrified of saying or writing something that will piss them off). So the fact that the "gay population" of pop culture characters skews so fabulously wrong is no surprise.
The History books were written by straight white Christian men; the Future History (science fiction) is being written by multi-racial gay people. Ironic...
94% straight? In other words, 6% gay. Which means that the show over-represents gays in the ship's population by a factor of 2x to 3x, compared to current conventional population stats. Congratulations! You are winning! In fact, you guys seem to have inflated media representation down to a science...
Would that the handicapped, obese, albinos, and indigenous peoples had the same clout in Hollywood as the gay community...
When China and India have enacted the same level of air and water pollution controls as the US does now, call us, and we'll discuss what, if anything is needed globally going forward. Until then, spare us the faux outrage over the EEEeeevil Polluter USA.
Seriously. What did they do? Specifically.
>> 'cause the language evolved since then
It's because, moron. Try to keep up.
No paywall on Axios?
Actually, Microsoft won the desktop because Windows-only software -- and lots of it -- was first to market, not insignificantly in the area of games. Mac was the weapon of choice for graphics professionals, picking up the base that mismanaged Amiga squandered.
>> For some people success is being able to do what they want.
No question. And it is so, so much easier to do what you want when you are married to a very wealthy spouse. The suburbs around NYC are jam-packed with galleries and concert venues featuring the artwork and "one woman shows" created by happy, "successful" artists who are enabled to do what they want by virtue of the size of their spouse's paycheck.
It's only news for nerds because her husband is a famous science fiction author, which again, puts everything else in a different context.