This is the typical slippery slope argument made by people who want to censor speech in order to benefit their own agendas..ie for the opportunity to spread their own lies without fear of contest.
1. trump and russia (even if it turns out being true, 40+ years of cold war soviet marxist apologetics makes this laughably hypocritical) 2. 1/5 (or was it 1/4?) rape statistics 3. 77/100 wage gap 4. class warfare/'oppression = power+privilege'/only whites can be racist/check your privilege propaganda 5. patriarchy theory 6. equivocating ideological disagreement with bigotry. 7. the 'noble savage' mythos 8. science "decolonization"
Well, nerds tend towards intolerance of irrationality, whether it's the religious right or the socjus left.. Nowadays, we've been getting a lot of hyper left SJW propaganda stories. I don't know whether that's what draws views or what rocks the editor's boats..
I'd say there's plenty of irrationality in politics to go around. I'd rather have a mix of perspectives posted as starting points for discussion. There's usually enough users along the involved spectrums to have lively ones, which are a hell of a lot more fun than the current trend where site mods impose ideological assumptions before said discussions even get off the ground.
All this 'hiding' is fucking stupid. It isn't just apple, either. MS is doing it, too, with their new UI garbage. If I wanted to play hunt the wumpus, I'd load it in an emu. I don't want to play it with my UI environment.
What is so terrible about having ONE panel per component (eg networking, display etc) with some tabs? Hint: if search boxes are needed on the UI to compensate for the layout, then the layout sucks.
Try adding a windows network shared printer to osx.. First, you have to hold down control and click on the add-printer dialog in order to add an 'advanced' button... seriously?
Then there's the removal of the 'hidden' SSID support. While it does nothing for security, it does keep phone calls from techno illiterates down as they won't try connecting to networks they don't see in the dialog. This allows the creation of 'infrastructure' networks not meant for BYOD.
hahahaha.. right so if some rightwing station neglected to follow procedure and bitched about being shut off, you wouldn't be all over them for not following the rules?
I deliberately phrased my descriptions from an American perspective to highlight how European politics as viewed by someone from the outside. A touch of hyperbole seemed appropriate.
In the EU, radical right means people who want minimal interference in their lives, the right to speak their minds, defend themselves, and the right to keep most of what they have earned.
Here in America, we used to call these people 'average americans.' Now, they're labeled 'conservative' by progressives masquerading as 'liberals' (another term tainted to the point of uselessness).
It works the other way too: Those who are on the center-left in the EU would be seen as a borderline communist fringe in the US. They support such ridiculous ideas as massive wealth redistribution and forced public education systems that impose whatever doctrines the most influential marxist factions want on children, both without any functional form of oversight. This leaves the average citizen without much to call his own while he must answer to a half dozen government entities, many of which are unelected. As we saw with the soviet union, the EU is well on its way towards its own collapse That stuff might fly in Europe, but over here it sounds like tyranny.
Folks here blow some companies' attempts out of proportion that want to bring more women and minorities into tech into this 'hate white male' attitude or something.
Nope. Folks here point out the obvious hypocrisy of such policies and left wing apologists make strawman arguments.
Many of you people need to get a grip and step out of your bubbles. Your perceptions are wrong.
Heh. Take your own advice. Who advocates for 'safe spaces'? Special exemptions from laws for certain classes of people? Who advocates for people based on divisive concepts like class in the first place? Which group prattles about diversity while downplaying and demonizing individuality, whether thought or action?
It's actually the previous leftist narrative pre-2005ish. They were pro atheist, pro science. Lots of slashdoters agreed with and probably still agree with that. The narrative has now shifted back to race with the evil white oppressors and everyone else. They're still anti christian but now pro islam and pro anything that isn't white.
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Ad hominem and sexism. Such fallacy and hypocrisy is not surprising at all.
This is the typical slippery slope argument made by people who want to censor speech in order to benefit their own agendas..ie for the opportunity to spread their own lies without fear of contest.
Not at all.
incomplete list that comes to mind..
1. trump and russia (even if it turns out being true, 40+ years of cold war soviet marxist apologetics makes this laughably hypocritical)
2. 1/5 (or was it 1/4?) rape statistics
3. 77/100 wage gap
4. class warfare/'oppression = power+privilege'/only whites can be racist/check your privilege propaganda
5. patriarchy theory
6. equivocating ideological disagreement with bigotry.
7. the 'noble savage' mythos
8. science "decolonization"
For some, though I question that premise.
what about idiotic left wing conspiracies? ..or are those considered "good and fair common sense" and therefore allowed?
Regardless of what bias they'll end up peddling, I'd rather not have Oracles of "good and fair common sense" controlling discourse.
How do you define "good and fair common sense"?
Less shitty moderation system than reddit too.
Well, nerds tend towards intolerance of irrationality, whether it's the religious right or the socjus left.. Nowadays, we've been getting a lot of hyper left SJW propaganda stories. I don't know whether that's what draws views or what rocks the editor's boats..
I'd say there's plenty of irrationality in politics to go around. I'd rather have a mix of perspectives posted as starting points for discussion. There's usually enough users along the involved spectrums to have lively ones, which are a hell of a lot more fun than the current trend where site mods impose ideological assumptions before said discussions even get off the ground.
apple fanboys have jimmies?
All of this may be true, but it has nothing to do with what either the GP insinuated or my response to him.
All this 'hiding' is fucking stupid. It isn't just apple, either. MS is doing it, too, with their new UI garbage. If I wanted to play hunt the wumpus, I'd load it in an emu. I don't want to play it with my UI environment.
What is so terrible about having ONE panel per component (eg networking, display etc) with some tabs? Hint: if search boxes are needed on the UI to compensate for the layout, then the layout sucks.
Try adding a windows network shared printer to osx.. First, you have to hold down control and click on the add-printer dialog in order to add an 'advanced' button...
seriously?
Then there's the removal of the 'hidden' SSID support. While it does nothing for security, it does keep phone calls from techno illiterates down as they won't try connecting to networks they don't see in the dialog. This allows the creation of 'infrastructure' networks not meant for BYOD.
Do not want.
ok, and so therefore?
hahahaha.. right so if some rightwing station neglected to follow procedure and bitched about being shut off, you wouldn't be all over them for not following the rules?
mainstream does not imply objectivity.
I deliberately phrased my descriptions from an American perspective to highlight how European politics as viewed by someone from the outside. A touch of hyperbole seemed appropriate.
It's relative.
In the EU, radical right means people who want minimal interference in their lives, the right to speak their minds, defend themselves, and the right to keep most of what they have earned.
Here in America, we used to call these people 'average americans.' Now, they're labeled 'conservative' by progressives masquerading as 'liberals' (another term tainted to the point of uselessness).
It works the other way too: Those who are on the center-left in the EU would be seen as a borderline communist fringe in the US. They support such ridiculous ideas as massive wealth redistribution and forced public education systems that impose whatever doctrines the most influential marxist factions want on children, both without any functional form of oversight. This leaves the average citizen without much to call his own while he must answer to a half dozen government entities, many of which are unelected. As we saw with the soviet union, the EU is well on its way towards its own collapse That stuff might fly in Europe, but over here it sounds like tyranny.
Folks here blow some companies' attempts out of proportion that want to bring more women and minorities into tech into this 'hate white male' attitude or something.
Nope. Folks here point out the obvious hypocrisy of such policies and left wing apologists make strawman arguments.
Many of you people need to get a grip and step out of your bubbles. Your perceptions are wrong.
Heh. Take your own advice. Who advocates for 'safe spaces'? Special exemptions from laws for certain classes of people? Who advocates for people based on divisive concepts like class in the first place? Which group prattles about diversity while downplaying and demonizing individuality, whether thought or action?
No such thing as 'baiting'. The commentary is valid or it is not. How you react is up to you.
It's actually the previous leftist narrative pre-2005ish. They were pro atheist, pro science. Lots of slashdoters agreed with and probably still agree with that. The narrative has now shifted back to race with the evil white oppressors and everyone else. They're still anti christian but now pro islam and pro anything that isn't white.
At least if they compile there's a chance that someone will submit a bug report..or even submit a patch to get it working.
There's a big difference between 1960s "we've learned not to fear words" multicultural trek, and today's socjus newspeak hypocrisy.
Try leaving the 1950s behind. Prerecorded material can be streamed on-demand. There's no need to 'broadcast' anything but live events.
So what SHOULD be used to access such sensitive databases?
Perhaps we should criminalize the warehousing of sensitive information.