They won't have many users at all if they piss off the extension developers sufficiently. The whole reason FF got the uptake it did was because of the very evangelizing users who care about extensions. I know of dozens of people who would not have ever had Firefox but for me.
The fact that this isn't even realized is sad, but understandable. The reason FF is losing users now can be traced to many things, but any road to recovery is being hindered by pissing off the precise people that got them to where they were.
The problem with this approach is that the Unix paradigm of handling multiple processes is so good that anything new would tend towards the derivative rather than an actual improvement. For a long time after I was first exposed in the early 1990s, I wished for a simpler system that was more DOS-like. Finally realizing the power of the tools and structure changed my view - I no longer wished for a protected mode DOS with preemptive multitasking.
The concentration camp atrocity pictures were revealed pretty much as soon as they were discovered. Unfortunately, the first one was only truly found in August, 1944 - Majdanek. There was a conscious program to eradicate evidence of the camps, but the Soviet Bagration offensive caught the Germans off guard and overran the camp before it could be cleaned up. Later on, the Western Allies found camps, but only in the last three months of the war. Those films and photos were instantly available. So your first argument is entirely specious.
The purpose of the camps varied by camp, but in general the priorities were "seed fear in the population of going to one", "imprison enemies of the state and get work out of them" and "extermination of undesirables". In light of that, the big difference between the camps and this ISIS action is that ISIS is interested in foreigners, while the Germans were focused on their own population. That's not a good enough excuse to hide their atrocities.
The FBI watching MLK and Lennon seemed entirely logical in the context of the time. They found dirt on MLK. They found little to none on Lennon. They determined that the two of them were not particularly dangerous subversives and backed off.
I wish our security apparatus were as reasonable as that now.
OK. Explain the doctors - both GPs and cardiologists - who have been demanding people switch to high carb low fat diets for 40 years plus. They are unscientific? The layperson who visits one should make independent judgements about the diet advice offered by a supposed expert?
The "historian" who wrote your link is a left wing ideologue.
"Professor Ensmenger is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University. He specializes in the social and labor history of computing, gender and computing, and the relationship between computing and the environment."
As such, he ignores Bletchley Park and other early computing sites where guess what, the coders weren't all women. He's misleading people and is full of shit.
You realize that what you described was actionable reverse discrimination, right?
It's silence in the face of that, that allows it to flourish.
On another note, some post-racial (gender-neutral, not ethnically biased...take your pick) society. Imagine that happening in a lot of places simultaneously. You might encourange a bunch of redneck racists with that. And the cycle perpetuates...
I'd also make the point that the use of Quenya by the Numenoreans was very limited. By the Sindarin almost absent, ditto the Silvan. The Noldor were the only people who made much use of it, and only amongst themselves. So you'd be far more likely to hear Gorthaur than Sauron.
Sauron (actually Gorthaur) was a Maia under Melkor's domination, but retained free will and was able to modify his own behavior. The Valar had the choice on several occasions (the Chaining of Melkor and the breaking of Thangorodrim at the end of the First Age, at the very least) to mete out the punishments alluded to. The Valar chose not to punish him. So blaming Eru for this is rather shortsighted. He _never_ punished his Ainur. The Valar did hand out judgements, however. Eonwe specifically chose not to take any action, simply suggesting that Sauron come back to Valinor and abide the Valar's judgement. They let him walk free otherwise, to the detriment of the world.
It's because the vast majority of the statists are on the left. Bottom line, that's why the idea of a right can't get a fair hearing on that side. Far more important for the state to dictate what you can and can't do than it is for people to have intrinsic rights.
Why would I want to celebrate the exact same kind of idiocy that resulted in thousands of years of despots and monarchs ruling through martial prowess? The leaders of that era were by and large bad people, and so are the sports stars of today. A bunch of druggies and cheaters, in addition to the other more usual human vices.
The hero worship of demonstrably bad people because they could swing a sword better than others was stupid back then and it's stupid today, whether we talk of footballs of any variety or any other sport implement. Moreover, it is totally deserving of being called out, despite the fact that a lot of people who think they are intelligent are fully engrossed in it.
Rummy has been demonized, and there's no question but that he's a dick and steamrolls people, but he's always been a pragmatist and relatively non-ideological. He always gets conflated with neocons, but he is not one of them.
I don't think he'd argue all that much with your characterization.
Economics is already taking hold. The discount is already built in (ever seen what most games go for on Steam?) and most importantly, the boxes aren't moving off the shelves for most titles. All the MBAs trying to extract every iota of marginal demand by these tactics are instead driving stakes into the heart of their business.
That said, a new generation in school today is learning the same idiocy by rote.
I'm sure you'd like to believe this, but it isn't true. There are introspective people from all walks and everywhere on the spectrum, but most people are captives of their own echo chamber and don't want to hear a word otherwise. Leftists do not have any special properties in this regard. They are just as eager to squelch speech as any other government, when in power.
Bad form (replying to myself) but, I imagine many readers weren't even out of diapers when the last EISA system shipped. EISA slots supported ISA cards as well - the slots were dual use and had special keyed connectors that reached down lower in the slot when operating in 32-bit EISA mode. To an 8 or 16 bit ISA card, the slots were standard ISA slots for all intents and purposes, except that you had to run the EISA config utility (kind of like a BIOS config, but software rather than firmware) to get the system on board with what you were doing.
AC, the Compaq Deskpro line implemented EISA. While these systems rarely saw use in homes, banks were full of the things as were other firms. Deskpros were built like tanks up until about 1996. I installed lots of EISA NICs, in particular.
My point is that there were more of these systems out there than you think.
I mean I know people running criminal enterprises aren't all that bright usually, but you'd think the smart play would be to avoid obvious telltales like an overlarge amount of shipments to your house.
The right way to do this would be to open up a shell storefront and conduct a legitimate trade for its cover value, and get your shipments there. How about one of those mailbox places?
The fact that most women have trouble getting along with other women is not my problem.
The fact that a significant percentage of women are also offended by male-dominated social environments is also not my problem.
I can speculate on the reasons why both of the above are true, and even come up with ways to fix it, but as stated, not my problem.
The majority is not going to change for a minority, no matter how many laws are passed. Sporadic enforcement is the rule. Eventually, they'll be rolled back. In the meantime, resistance is the rule. SJWs, like you, are to be taken out using any means available.
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They won't have many users at all if they piss off the extension developers sufficiently. The whole reason FF got the uptake it did was because of the very evangelizing users who care about extensions. I know of dozens of people who would not have ever had Firefox but for me.
The fact that this isn't even realized is sad, but understandable. The reason FF is losing users now can be traced to many things, but any road to recovery is being hindered by pissing off the precise people that got them to where they were.
The problem with this approach is that the Unix paradigm of handling multiple processes is so good that anything new would tend towards the derivative rather than an actual improvement. For a long time after I was first exposed in the early 1990s, I wished for a simpler system that was more DOS-like. Finally realizing the power of the tools and structure changed my view - I no longer wished for a protected mode DOS with preemptive multitasking.
If I were running a criminal enterprise via my computer, wtf would you go out in a public place and do so? At least sit in your car or something.
Why would I have a facebook account?
Why would I be advertising on facebook for people to join my enterprise?
Why would I keep logs of any sort?
There is so much stupid here, it hurts. Some "Dread Pirate" he turned out to be.
This is the Lebensborn program. Nothing like you describe, and your dates are all off
I'm not going to refute the rest except to indicate that it has no relationship with reality. If you're trolling, it's a shitty troll, also.
We still use CDs. They are compatible with more systems than USB sticks or memory cards.
Work will make you free.
The concentration camp atrocity pictures were revealed pretty much as soon as they were discovered. Unfortunately, the first one was only truly found in August, 1944 - Majdanek. There was a conscious program to eradicate evidence of the camps, but the Soviet Bagration offensive caught the Germans off guard and overran the camp before it could be cleaned up. Later on, the Western Allies found camps, but only in the last three months of the war. Those films and photos were instantly available. So your first argument is entirely specious.
The purpose of the camps varied by camp, but in general the priorities were "seed fear in the population of going to one", "imprison enemies of the state and get work out of them" and "extermination of undesirables". In light of that, the big difference between the camps and this ISIS action is that ISIS is interested in foreigners, while the Germans were focused on their own population. That's not a good enough excuse to hide their atrocities.
The FBI watching MLK and Lennon seemed entirely logical in the context of the time. They found dirt on MLK. They found little to none on Lennon. They determined that the two of them were not particularly dangerous subversives and backed off.
I wish our security apparatus were as reasonable as that now.
OK. Explain the doctors - both GPs and cardiologists - who have been demanding people switch to high carb low fat diets for 40 years plus. They are unscientific? The layperson who visits one should make independent judgements about the diet advice offered by a supposed expert?
This is "blame the victim" mentality at its best.
The "historian" who wrote your link is a left wing ideologue.
"Professor Ensmenger is an Associate Professor in the School of Informatics and Computing at Indiana University.
He specializes in the social and labor history of computing, gender and computing, and the relationship between computing and the environment."
As such, he ignores Bletchley Park and other early computing sites where guess what, the coders weren't all women. He's misleading people and is full of shit.
You realize that what you described was actionable reverse discrimination, right?
It's silence in the face of that, that allows it to flourish.
On another note, some post-racial (gender-neutral, not ethnically biased...take your pick) society. Imagine that happening in a lot of places simultaneously. You might encourange a bunch of redneck racists with that. And the cycle perpetuates...
I'd also make the point that the use of Quenya by the Numenoreans was very limited. By the Sindarin almost absent, ditto the Silvan. The Noldor were the only people who made much use of it, and only amongst themselves. So you'd be far more likely to hear Gorthaur than Sauron.
Hmm, I was unaware of that printed document until I just looked it up. Touche.
Sauron (actually Gorthaur) was a Maia under Melkor's domination, but retained free will and was able to modify his own behavior. The Valar had the choice on several occasions (the Chaining of Melkor and the breaking of Thangorodrim at the end of the First Age, at the very least) to mete out the punishments alluded to. The Valar chose not to punish him. So blaming Eru for this is rather shortsighted. He _never_ punished his Ainur. The Valar did hand out judgements, however. Eonwe specifically chose not to take any action, simply suggesting that Sauron come back to Valinor and abide the Valar's judgement. They let him walk free otherwise, to the detriment of the world.
They were really crappy guardians, truth be told.
It's because the vast majority of the statists are on the left. Bottom line, that's why the idea of a right can't get a fair hearing on that side. Far more important for the state to dictate what you can and can't do than it is for people to have intrinsic rights.
Why would I want to celebrate the exact same kind of idiocy that resulted in thousands of years of despots and monarchs ruling through martial prowess? The leaders of that era were by and large bad people, and so are the sports stars of today. A bunch of druggies and cheaters, in addition to the other more usual human vices.
The hero worship of demonstrably bad people because they could swing a sword better than others was stupid back then and it's stupid today, whether we talk of footballs of any variety or any other sport implement. Moreover, it is totally deserving of being called out, despite the fact that a lot of people who think they are intelligent are fully engrossed in it.
Rummy has been demonized, and there's no question but that he's a dick and steamrolls people, but he's always been a pragmatist and relatively non-ideological. He always gets conflated with neocons, but he is not one of them.
I don't think he'd argue all that much with your characterization.
Economics is already taking hold. The discount is already built in (ever seen what most games go for on Steam?) and most importantly, the boxes aren't moving off the shelves for most titles. All the MBAs trying to extract every iota of marginal demand by these tactics are instead driving stakes into the heart of their business.
That said, a new generation in school today is learning the same idiocy by rote.
I'm sure you'd like to believe this, but it isn't true. There are introspective people from all walks and everywhere on the spectrum, but most people are captives of their own echo chamber and don't want to hear a word otherwise. Leftists do not have any special properties in this regard. They are just as eager to squelch speech as any other government, when in power.
You're wrong.
Bad form (replying to myself) but, I imagine many readers weren't even out of diapers when the last EISA system shipped. EISA slots supported ISA cards as well - the slots were dual use and had special keyed connectors that reached down lower in the slot when operating in 32-bit EISA mode. To an 8 or 16 bit ISA card, the slots were standard ISA slots for all intents and purposes, except that you had to run the EISA config utility (kind of like a BIOS config, but software rather than firmware) to get the system on board with what you were doing.
AC, the Compaq Deskpro line implemented EISA. While these systems rarely saw use in homes, banks were full of the things as were other firms. Deskpros were built like tanks up until about 1996. I installed lots of EISA NICs, in particular.
My point is that there were more of these systems out there than you think.
I mean I know people running criminal enterprises aren't all that bright usually, but you'd think the smart play would be to avoid obvious telltales like an overlarge amount of shipments to your house.
The right way to do this would be to open up a shell storefront and conduct a legitimate trade for its cover value, and get your shipments there. How about one of those mailbox places?
Q. How, precisely, do you stop bullying short of creating a police state with constant surveillance?
A. You can't.
This is a form of confirmation...
The fact that most women have trouble getting along with other women is not my problem.
The fact that a significant percentage of women are also offended by male-dominated social environments is also not my problem.
I can speculate on the reasons why both of the above are true, and even come up with ways to fix it, but as stated, not my problem.
The majority is not going to change for a minority, no matter how many laws are passed. Sporadic enforcement is the rule. Eventually, they'll be rolled back. In the meantime, resistance is the rule. SJWs, like you, are to be taken out using any means available.