And even then, you must consider that Netflix doesn't actually give a flying fuck about geospoofing as long as the number of people doing it consistently remains small and those people remain paying customers...
The most telling part of this whole saga is that the content providers themselves don't seem to have caught on to a basic economic detail: if people are consuming the content through the likes of Netflix, bypassing region restrictions, they (the content providers) get some money.
If they manage to get Netflix to clamp down on out-of-region customers then those people will become former customers and will go back to piracy and the content providers will get no money at all.
It is in the interest of the content providers to do away with region restrictions but they just can't see this because thats how stupid they are.
I love how an AC came out of the woodwork to illustrate my point.
I very rarely post as AC. My point is just that slashdot is not particularly hostile and if you think it is then your experience outside of slashdot must be pretty limited.
Humans ARE fundamentally good. The good outweighs the bad by a huge margin or there wouldnt be 7 billion of us. That doesnt mean that the good can 100% suppress the bad. We are still part beast, and are often driven by base animalistic desires. Until we admit that, there will be little progress in this area.
If 'good' means doing what it takes to get ahead. Humans, like all living things, depend on such qualities as greed and selfishness to survive and reproduce. Survival and reproduction are at a meta-level, beyond good and evil.
Yet, at the same time, the human race is on a journey from the bestial to the superhuman. But I don't think that the superhuman will be quite as altruistic as you might like... They will be to us as we are to the apes. We will be an embarrassment to our descendants.
If you say stupid shit here, it gets culled or refuted and then buried pretty quickly...
Hahaha! Bull. When one says stupid shit here they, more often than not, fight to the end to save face. Either they come up with some weird rationale that backs them up or they try to change the topic so they can fight over there instead. At least on social media someone will back down if they're clearly in the wrong, not wanting the stink of that to tarnish their name. Here on Slashdot there's nothing to lose but pride, that's why this place is so hostile.
It reminds me of something I've argued with creationists.
Surely God could have created a world with an infinite past? Theres no reason to suppose that the universe had a moment of beginning when God created it.
Usually their heads explode. Because they want to believe God is that powerful but they also want to believe that the world is 5000 years old.
card counting isn't actually cheating, its just smart game play. Its only a bot if it makes the decision and plays for you, a tool that simply does math for you and remembers things for you is not, in any way, cheating.
Smart game play is illegal in the casinos. Only stupid people are allowed!
No , but theres a cutoff point of low speed where traffic really does start backing up. Obviously its dependent on the road layout and traffic density but I think its fair to say that driving at 20mph on a clear road is not a way to traffic harmony.
IIRC, 'studies have shown' that its fluctuations in speed that cause traffic to get backed up; when people slow down to accept a merging car or on lane changes. This has been shown to produce waves of 'slow-down' that travel along the traffic stream often getting slower and slower until a car has to actually stop. The point where a car stops is often miles from the point where the wave started.
The best thing for traffic *flow* is just that; flow. The actual speed doesn't matter as long as its fairly constant and there is enough buffer between each car to absorb any speed fluctuations.
Wow, that sticker thing is a great idea. I wish we had something like that here. In my city in the states, we don't get paper recycling (we can only do cardboard and bottles free), and our trash costs $5 a bag. So not only do I not have a choice about getting unsolicited bulk paper advertisements, I have to pay the city a premium to get rid of them. It blows.
Write 'Moved' on the "unsolicited bulk paper advertisements" then take it to the mailbox and throw it in there. Now its the post offices problem.
After all, it wasn't addressed to you, so you aren't the lawful recipient so its your duty to write 'moved' on it and put it back in the mail system. I'm sure it'll go to the right place.
It's logical to presume that our universe did not create a demon with horns that tortures "bad" people for all of eternity at the whim of a bearded white man sitting on a throne atop a cloud, with his spirit on one side and his son on the other side. The universe is far greater than that, whether it was created by the word of God that gave birth to the universe, or an initial vibration that set off a massive expansion and standing waves that led to the formation of matter when things cooled down.
Also the modern Christian 'devil' is just that; very modern and did not exist in Judaism nor even European paganism (eg Norse, Celt, Germanic, Greek nor Roman).
They have to continuously crank up the extremes of zero tolerance for anyone who deviates from their ideas...
What I find really interesting and strange is that the very people who are most in favor of 'zero tolerance' policies would most likely say that they believe in a tolerant society, that people should be tolerant. Its got to be cognitive dissonance driving them insane.
"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.
I'm guessing you're not a Muslim.
"Until our elected representatives can figure out what the FUCK is going on."
I think he's being reasonable. I'm not even American nor even in that country, nor would I ever go to that country. But I think Trump is the president the USA *DESERVES*.
He's also very popular so thats got the SJW's fucking terrified, that their minority rule will come to an end.
Except he didn't say 'hostile countries' he said 'Muslims' he wants to ban one third of the worlds population based upon the religion they practice, that is very much hate speech because yes, it is utterly bigoted.
[quote]"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.[/quote]
I think it is. His words imply that muslims (a very very diverse group of people) are the sole cause of the problems he wants figured out. He tries to paint muslims as terrorists.
The Grand Mufti in Saudi Arabia just issued a fatwa against the game of chess. He has yet to issue a fatwa against suicide bombing or terrorism in general. I think this speaks volumes about the official Islamic line on terrorism.
Did a libtard SJW submit this story? They really hate free speech.
Free speech becomes hate speech. Speaking your mind becomes frowned on.
And this is bad because...? Welcome to life dude. Yes, speaking your mind becomes frowned on. Does that stops you from speaking your mind as a matter of principle? You need to really live in a state of repression to understand how precious it is to speak your mind, even if everyone else frowns on you.
Yes, in the USA thats what 'free speech zones' are for!
Instead of shutting down accounts, twitter should enable people to subscirbe to blocklist maintainers - "twitter editors." Just like AdBlock has a bunch of block lists you can subscribe to, Twitter should let people subscribe to whitelists and blacklists.
New accounts default to a blacklist equal to what twitter already disables. Let there be a kid-friendly white-lists so your kid will only see tweets from vetted kid-friendly twitter feeds. For super religious people, you can sign up to a blasphemy blacklist, etc. But if you want the full asshole experience you can unsubscribe from all lists and get the raw untreated sewage.
People could even make money charging for access to their white/black list services.
Why does Trump get a privilege (in fact a right enshrined in the constitution) that I don't just because he's a candidate?
The thing is, this isn't even true:
Donald Trump spews forth a trolling stream of hate and other abuses that would cause any average Twitter user to be terminated in a heartbeat.
The kinds of things he comes out with are nowhere NEAR hate or abuse. Its all in the imaginations of the people who fear him. To describe it as hate speech is ludicrous and dilutes the whole concept of 'hate speech'. Which can't be a bad thing, IMO.
"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.
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And even then, you must consider that Netflix doesn't actually give a flying fuck about geospoofing as long as the number of people doing it consistently remains small and those people remain paying customers...
The most telling part of this whole saga is that the content providers themselves don't seem to have caught on to a basic economic detail: if people are consuming the content through the likes of Netflix, bypassing region restrictions, they (the content providers) get some money.
If they manage to get Netflix to clamp down on out-of-region customers then those people will become former customers and will go back to piracy and the content providers will get no money at all.
It is in the interest of the content providers to do away with region restrictions but they just can't see this because thats how stupid they are.
I love how an AC came out of the woodwork to illustrate my point.
I very rarely post as AC. My point is just that slashdot is not particularly hostile and if you think it is then your experience outside of slashdot must be pretty limited.
Humans ARE fundamentally good. The good outweighs the bad by a huge margin or there wouldnt be 7 billion of us. That doesnt mean that the good can 100% suppress the bad. We are still part beast, and are often driven by base animalistic desires. Until we admit that, there will be little progress in this area.
If 'good' means doing what it takes to get ahead. Humans, like all living things, depend on such qualities as greed and selfishness to survive and reproduce. Survival and reproduction are at a meta-level, beyond good and evil.
Yet, at the same time, the human race is on a journey from the bestial to the superhuman. But I don't think that the superhuman will be quite as altruistic as you might like... They will be to us as we are to the apes. We will be an embarrassment to our descendants.
If you say stupid shit here, it gets culled or refuted and then buried pretty quickly...
Hahaha! Bull. When one says stupid shit here they, more often than not, fight to the end to save face. Either they come up with some weird rationale that backs them up or they try to change the topic so they can fight over there instead. At least on social media someone will back down if they're clearly in the wrong, not wanting the stink of that to tarnish their name. Here on Slashdot there's nothing to lose but pride, that's why this place is so hostile.
slashdot is 'so hostile'??
You don't get out much...
Just remembered from CD classes long time that this is Unix start time. Wonder if this is related
CD classes? Is that for cross-dressing? Or compact disks?
good luck proving this isn't true.
It reminds me of something I've argued with creationists.
Surely God could have created a world with an infinite past? Theres no reason to suppose that the universe had a moment of beginning when God created it.
Usually their heads explode. Because they want to believe God is that powerful but they also want to believe that the world is 5000 years old.
card counting isn't actually cheating, its just smart game play. Its only a bot if it makes the decision and plays for you, a tool that simply does math for you and remembers things for you is not, in any way, cheating.
Smart game play is illegal in the casinos. Only stupid people are allowed!
No , but theres a cutoff point of low speed where traffic really does start backing up. Obviously its dependent on the road layout and traffic density but I think its fair to say that driving at 20mph on a clear road is not a way to traffic harmony.
IIRC, 'studies have shown' that its fluctuations in speed that cause traffic to get backed up; when people slow down to accept a merging car or on lane changes. This has been shown to produce waves of 'slow-down' that travel along the traffic stream often getting slower and slower until a car has to actually stop. The point where a car stops is often miles from the point where the wave started.
The best thing for traffic *flow* is just that; flow. The actual speed doesn't matter as long as its fairly constant and there is enough buffer between each car to absorb any speed fluctuations.
Wow, that sticker thing is a great idea. I wish we had something like that here. In my city in the states, we don't get paper recycling (we can only do cardboard and bottles free), and our trash costs $5 a bag. So not only do I not have a choice about getting unsolicited bulk paper advertisements, I have to pay the city a premium to get rid of them. It blows.
Write 'Moved' on the "unsolicited bulk paper advertisements" then take it to the mailbox and throw it in there. Now its the post offices problem.
After all, it wasn't addressed to you, so you aren't the lawful recipient so its your duty to write 'moved' on it and put it back in the mail system. I'm sure it'll go to the right place.
How about those pricks disarm and reduce their military to 1/10th the size, stop toppling governments because they don't like them etc?
Why should we? It's not like anyone can make us, is it?
Trump will! How do you think you are going to pay for fixing all the pot holes?
Did you think it was *your* phone?
Its an 'i, my, phone' isn't it?
Much like Microsofts 'My Computer'. Mind you I often wondered if that actually translated to "My, Bill Gates', Computer'.
It's logical to presume that our universe did not create a demon with horns that tortures "bad" people for all of eternity at the whim of a bearded white man sitting on a throne atop a cloud, with his spirit on one side and his son on the other side. The universe is far greater than that, whether it was created by the word of God that gave birth to the universe, or an initial vibration that set off a massive expansion and standing waves that led to the formation of matter when things cooled down.
Also the modern Christian 'devil' is just that; very modern and did not exist in Judaism nor even European paganism (eg Norse, Celt, Germanic, Greek nor Roman).
They have to continuously crank up the extremes of zero tolerance for anyone who deviates from their ideas...
What I find really interesting and strange is that the very people who are most in favor of 'zero tolerance' policies would most likely say that they believe in a tolerant society, that people should be tolerant. Its got to be cognitive dissonance driving them insane.
It's pretty well known what is going on, Trump is the ignorant one.
Just because you don't like what someone says, doesn't make it 'hate speech'.
"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.
I'm guessing you're not a Muslim.
"Until our elected representatives can figure out what the FUCK is going on."
I think he's being reasonable. I'm not even American nor even in that country, nor would I ever go to that country. But I think Trump is the president the USA *DESERVES*.
He's also very popular so thats got the SJW's fucking terrified, that their minority rule will come to an end.
What's so difficult to understand, he doesn't want Muslims in the country regardless of whether or not they are terrorists, how is that not hateful?
What if he said no black people in the country, would you be OK with that too?
re Muslims, still not hateful. Just very cautious. Remember, he said "Until our elected representatives can figure out what the FUCK is going on."
So let him dig his own grave via Twitter. If you want the world to see how unviable a candidate he is, why censor him?
Because they are afraid that Trump actually represents a majority of Americans.
Except he didn't say 'hostile countries' he said 'Muslims' he wants to ban one third of the worlds population based upon the religion they practice, that is very much hate speech because yes, it is utterly bigoted.
I don't think you understand what 'hate' means.
[quote]"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.[/quote]
I think it is.
His words imply that muslims (a very very diverse group of people) are the sole cause of the problems he wants figured out.
He tries to paint muslims as terrorists.
The Grand Mufti in Saudi Arabia just issued a fatwa against the game of chess. He has yet to issue a fatwa against suicide bombing or terrorism in general. I think this speaks volumes about the official Islamic line on terrorism.
Did a libtard SJW submit this story? They really hate free speech.
Free speech becomes hate speech. Speaking your mind becomes frowned on.
And this is bad because...? Welcome to life dude. Yes, speaking your mind becomes frowned on. Does that stops you from speaking your mind as a matter of principle? You need to really live in a state of repression to understand how precious it is to speak your mind, even if everyone else frowns on you.
Yes, in the USA thats what 'free speech zones' are for!
Instead of shutting down accounts, twitter should enable people to subscirbe to blocklist maintainers - "twitter editors." Just like AdBlock has a bunch of block lists you can subscribe to, Twitter should let people subscribe to whitelists and blacklists.
New accounts default to a blacklist equal to what twitter already disables. Let there be a kid-friendly white-lists so your kid will only see tweets from vetted kid-friendly twitter feeds. For super religious people, you can sign up to a blasphemy blacklist, etc. But if you want the full asshole experience you can unsubscribe from all lists and get the raw untreated sewage.
People could even make money charging for access to their white/black list services.
yeah a 'protect me from the nasty words!' list!
I just looked at his twitter postings. They're hardly hateful at all, though sometimes mocking.
Who posted this article, another SJW?
Obviously 'hate speech' is being used politically.
Apparently being bigoted means enforcing current immigration laws and being more cautious about importing people from hostile countries.
No, thats hate speech. Apparently
Did a libtard SJW submit this story? They really hate free speech.
Free speech becomes hate speech. Speaking your mind becomes frowned on.
Huh, wut?
Why does Trump get a privilege (in fact a right enshrined in the constitution) that I don't just because he's a candidate?
The thing is, this isn't even true:
Donald Trump spews forth a trolling stream of hate and other abuses that would cause any average Twitter user to be terminated in a heartbeat.
The kinds of things he comes out with are nowhere NEAR hate or abuse. Its all in the imaginations of the people who fear him. To describe it as hate speech is ludicrous and dilutes the whole concept of 'hate speech'. Which can't be a bad thing, IMO.
"We should stop Muslims coming into America until we can figure out what the hell is going on." is not hate speech.