Fortunately, the German for National Socialist German Worker's Party doesn't require an umlaut or eszet or anything that Slashdot can't display easily.
So what does one person's political orientation have to do with anything here? Both left and right have their share of unscientific people, just unscientific about different things. Unscientific right-wingers don't believe that AGW is going on and is serious, unscientific left-wingers don't believe genetic modification can be safe. (Anti-vaxxers can be found on both sides.)
I have never been more proud of never having had a Facebook login
I'd hope you've never been proud of it, because if you get your pride from not participating in something popular you must live a miserable life. Don't you have anything you've done that you can be proud of? You could be smug about it. That isn't great, but it's a lot better than being proud.
People can maintain contact with relatives and friends just as well through email, voice chat etc...
Some of my friends abandoned email in favor of Facebook. It's a lot easier to use Facebook than to use a slow and synchronous medium rather than a fast and asynchronous one. Some of my relatives post things on Facebook that I wouldn't get in other ways.
It's reasonable to differ with Apple's design choices, but they're valid. Apple had various choices about battery size, and made a decision you disagree with. Not being able to provide full power after two years is not a big deal.
Apple will replace your battery for you for $80, and you can get a battery replacement kit from iFixit for $25 if you want to go that way. The battery is very unlikely to need replacement more than every two years, so whether the battery can be easily replaced by the user is not that important.
I don't know what you mean by the CPU not running at its rated clock speed. I don't measure the usefulness of a phone by its rated CPU clock speed. I measure that it does what I want it to do fast, and my four-year-old iPhone 5S is doing OK. I'm thinking of replacing the battery, or maybe getting an SE. (I don't want a larger iPhone.)
After Apple confirmed last week that it reduces the performance of older iPhones to improve battery life
This is incorrect. It has nothing to do with battery life, and nothing to do with older iPhones per se. Put a new battery into an old iPhone and the slowing will go away. It's a matter of the battery degrading over time (which they do), and limiting the maximum power drawn from it. This means that the phone can't operate at top performance, since it can't get the power. The alternative was to risk the phone crashing at such times, not to let the battery drain faster.
Apple had the choice between limiting current draw, allowing the phone to crash, or changing the laws of physics.
National Socialism was right-wing after the left-wing elements were eliminated in the mid-30s. At that point, it defined its enemies by race and nationality, not class. Its economy was capitalist, and for the most part there were fewer controls on the economy than Britain or the US used during WWII. In these and other ways, it had the worst excesses of the right wing, much like Communism in the real world had the worst excesses of the left wing.
Would someone care to tell me what they thing the left-wing policies of the NSDAP were? When I've asked before, I've been told that authoritarianism was left-wing, which is stupid; authoritarianism is largely orthogonal to left-right.
Hitler was first tier. That's why we had to take him down before he could do as much damage as the second tier could do. The only other country to match Hitler was Japan, which we also had to take down. We could live with the second-tier atrocities.
There are people nowadays who consider themselves Nazis (ironic, since members of the NSDAP didn't), revere Hitler (referred to as "Him" and "He" in a neo-Nazi mailing list I was on for some time), and follow Nazi ideology. I consider them to be Nazis.
You know why they did more harm? They lasted longer. We had to take Nazi Germany and militarist Japan down fast and hard. We could live with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China around. My best estimates are that the Nazis and Japanese were murdering people at roughly twice the rate of the USSR and PRC. I'm unlikely to be off by a factor of two.
So, what are your sexual habits? If they're despicable, well, the fundies seem a lot more likely to excuse them than leftists are. If not, what's your problem? What do you think we want to do?
Does it actually hurt you when people of the same sex marry? Do you bleed when a transsexual gets gender conversion therapy? Is it an imposition to not harass women? What we want to do is give everyone the opportunities that cisgender heterosexuals have.
The current state of Islam is somewhere else. Muslims aren't a significant problem in the US. They aren't a major threat anywhere outside the Middle East.
I fail to see why Damore was responsible for a PR disaster. He put his essay on an internal forum that was supposed to host dissenting opinions. My opinion of his essay is that he's largely wrong, but appears to have been sincere. Somebody took that essay and leaked it publicly, and that person is responsible for the PR disaster.
As a left-winger who despises most of what the Nazis stood for, and all of what was distinctive about them, and who in addition has a personal reason to hate them, I have to say that Nazis have rights like the rest of us. They should be allowed to spew their hateful propaganda. While punching a Nazi has entertainment value as a fantasy, it should not be practiced in real life (unless punching would be called for based on the person's actions).
The wholesale rejection of Nazi websites was done by private enterprises in a competitive market with tons of alternative hosts. The only way to stop that would be to force people to host what they find hateful, and often in violation of their terms of service.
You did not use the correct terminology. You referred to members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party as "Nazis", a name they despised and did not adopt.
There are people today who self-identify as Nazis. They tend to be morally worse than the average National Socialist in Germany, since they're well aware of the atrocities and do not in general try to pretend they didn't happen.
Using "Nazi" for people you don't in general like is hollowing out the word. Using it for members of the American Nazi Party isn't.
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So, for most people, it's not hard to steal. Got it.
Not a plain idiot, a Nazi idiot. There's plenty of idiots who aren't Nazis, so we need to distinguish.
Fortunately, the German for National Socialist German Worker's Party doesn't require an umlaut or eszet or anything that Slashdot can't display easily.
There's a breed of cats called Russian Blue. What are the others hiding?
So what does one person's political orientation have to do with anything here? Both left and right have their share of unscientific people, just unscientific about different things. Unscientific right-wingers don't believe that AGW is going on and is serious, unscientific left-wingers don't believe genetic modification can be safe. (Anti-vaxxers can be found on both sides.)
I'd hope you've never been proud of it, because if you get your pride from not participating in something popular you must live a miserable life. Don't you have anything you've done that you can be proud of? You could be smug about it. That isn't great, but it's a lot better than being proud.
Some of my friends abandoned email in favor of Facebook. It's a lot easier to use Facebook than to use a slow and synchronous medium rather than a fast and asynchronous one. Some of my relatives post things on Facebook that I wouldn't get in other ways.
It's reasonable to differ with Apple's design choices, but they're valid. Apple had various choices about battery size, and made a decision you disagree with. Not being able to provide full power after two years is not a big deal.
No, they don't want the phone to crash hard and perhaps corrupt data, which it's likely to do with too much current draw.
Apple will replace your battery for you for $80, and you can get a battery replacement kit from iFixit for $25 if you want to go that way. The battery is very unlikely to need replacement more than every two years, so whether the battery can be easily replaced by the user is not that important.
I don't know what you mean by the CPU not running at its rated clock speed. I don't measure the usefulness of a phone by its rated CPU clock speed. I measure that it does what I want it to do fast, and my four-year-old iPhone 5S is doing OK. I'm thinking of replacing the battery, or maybe getting an SE. (I don't want a larger iPhone.)
Apple's not about allowing users to put their iPhones into configurations that are likely to crash, as that disrupts the user experience.
This is incorrect. It has nothing to do with battery life, and nothing to do with older iPhones per se. Put a new battery into an old iPhone and the slowing will go away. It's a matter of the battery degrading over time (which they do), and limiting the maximum power drawn from it. This means that the phone can't operate at top performance, since it can't get the power. The alternative was to risk the phone crashing at such times, not to let the battery drain faster.
Apple had the choice between limiting current draw, allowing the phone to crash, or changing the laws of physics.
Actually, not that many members of the NSDAP gassed Jews and other untermenschen. Most tried to pretend nothing like that was happening.
Ask me how I know you're white, or at least not black.
National Socialism was right-wing after the left-wing elements were eliminated in the mid-30s. At that point, it defined its enemies by race and nationality, not class. Its economy was capitalist, and for the most part there were fewer controls on the economy than Britain or the US used during WWII. In these and other ways, it had the worst excesses of the right wing, much like Communism in the real world had the worst excesses of the left wing.
Would someone care to tell me what they thing the left-wing policies of the NSDAP were? When I've asked before, I've been told that authoritarianism was left-wing, which is stupid; authoritarianism is largely orthogonal to left-right.
Hitler was first tier. That's why we had to take him down before he could do as much damage as the second tier could do. The only other country to match Hitler was Japan, which we also had to take down. We could live with the second-tier atrocities.
There are people nowadays who consider themselves Nazis (ironic, since members of the NSDAP didn't), revere Hitler (referred to as "Him" and "He" in a neo-Nazi mailing list I was on for some time), and follow Nazi ideology. I consider them to be Nazis.
I think you're painting too rosy a picture of how things used to be.
You know why they did more harm? They lasted longer. We had to take Nazi Germany and militarist Japan down fast and hard. We could live with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China around. My best estimates are that the Nazis and Japanese were murdering people at roughly twice the rate of the USSR and PRC. I'm unlikely to be off by a factor of two.
You know what Stalin and Mao liked? Breathing! I'm sure that you'll take the hint.
So, what are your sexual habits? If they're despicable, well, the fundies seem a lot more likely to excuse them than leftists are. If not, what's your problem? What do you think we want to do?
Does it actually hurt you when people of the same sex marry? Do you bleed when a transsexual gets gender conversion therapy? Is it an imposition to not harass women? What we want to do is give everyone the opportunities that cisgender heterosexuals have.
The current state of Islam is somewhere else. Muslims aren't a significant problem in the US. They aren't a major threat anywhere outside the Middle East.
I fail to see why Damore was responsible for a PR disaster. He put his essay on an internal forum that was supposed to host dissenting opinions. My opinion of his essay is that he's largely wrong, but appears to have been sincere. Somebody took that essay and leaked it publicly, and that person is responsible for the PR disaster.
As a left-winger who despises most of what the Nazis stood for, and all of what was distinctive about them, and who in addition has a personal reason to hate them, I have to say that Nazis have rights like the rest of us. They should be allowed to spew their hateful propaganda. While punching a Nazi has entertainment value as a fantasy, it should not be practiced in real life (unless punching would be called for based on the person's actions).
The wholesale rejection of Nazi websites was done by private enterprises in a competitive market with tons of alternative hosts. The only way to stop that would be to force people to host what they find hateful, and often in violation of their terms of service.
You did not use the correct terminology. You referred to members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party as "Nazis", a name they despised and did not adopt.
There are people today who self-identify as Nazis. They tend to be morally worse than the average National Socialist in Germany, since they're well aware of the atrocities and do not in general try to pretend they didn't happen.
Using "Nazi" for people you don't in general like is hollowing out the word. Using it for members of the American Nazi Party isn't.