Fuck that. You've paid to see an artist perform their material. In return, the artist expects some sort of feedback from the audience, it's a two-way thing.
The very least you can do is to be mentally present and engaged in what is happening, not staring into a screen wondering whether you've got the best angle for your crappy Facebook video.
Haha, you've never actually been outside, have you? You know, to an actual live show?
You're only ever getting your money back if the show gets cancelled in advance. Once you're in the door and your ticket is scanned, the ticket has been used, your money is forfeit, the artist is 100% free to stop the show after a single song.
Don't like it? You're welcome to moan and complain to the organizers, and say you're never going to another show. In turn, they will tell you to go piss up a rope and get lost. The ticket pays for entrance, it is not a guarantee of a full show being performed.
I've been to several shows where the bands didn't like photos/videos being taken for various reasons. For instance, the Scorpions and Manowar don't want anyone else but members of the press taking photos, and they'll have security walking around telling people to put their cameras away. I don't think they're hard on mobile phones, but anyone pulling out an SLR is pretty much going to be shut down instantly. I think that's a bit fascistic, especially coming from bands that claim to embody freedom (Manowar) and tolerance (Scorpions) in their lyrics.
On the other hand, I think it was Def Leppard who specifically asked for no flash photography because one of their members is photosensitive, and it can trigger epileptic fits and migraines. So they asked people not to snap photos while they were playing, and wait until the end of the show. That's a bit more reasonable, in my mind.
I really dislike the trend of trying to film concerts, especially on crappy phones and tablets. The resulting video is going to be shit anyway, and it's seriously annoying to everyone else at the show. Sure, snap a couple of quick photos as a memento, but don't start filming for minutes, or (gods forbid) the entire damn show. I also don't think a complete ban is the solution. The ideal solution would be to educate people, but we all know how well that works in the face of the "fuck you, I'm more important" attitude.
Dude, you're going to the wrong concerts. I've been to around 30 concerts so far this year, and most of them have been absolutely amazing, with bands at the top of their game and lively good-natured crowds. Sure, there have been a couple of weaker shows, but that's how it always is.
Granted, I mostly go to metal and hard rock shows, priced between $10-60, and held at venues with room for no more than ~1000 people. That's the sweet spot for me, and I've been having a blast. Some of the best shows happened with less than 100 attendees.
Go to smaller venues, avoid the huge expensive mainstream shows. Find the local music scene where you live. There are so many amazing live performances happening every single day.
And if you think it's too loud, wear earplugs. That's what I do. Bilsom 303s or 3M EARs are the best in my experience, both in comfort and attenuation level and evenness.
I clarified one ridiculous strawman, I didn't ask for you to spam us with even more of them.
You really seem like the type of person who just needs to calm down, take a deep breath, and look at how crazy you're acting. Obviously, some left-wing person has annoyed you at some point, or maybe several such persons. But you're conflating the actions of a very small group of people, to include everyone you disagree with.
Oh, so you could basically just have boiled it down to "it's a ridiculous strawman that I and my fellow alt-rightists scumbags have invented, in order to further our hateful agendas".
Your downloads are not realtime-sensitive, it doesn't matter if there's a bit of latency here and there, as long as you get your bits at the expected speed.
VoIP and other realtime-sensitive applications however, do care about latency and not so much about outright speed, as long as it's above at certain minimum.
But what if my ISP has a music streaming service that's free, as a part of the normal subscription? Should they charge data usage for that?
What if they offer a streaming content bundle, with HBO, Spotify and various online magazines, should they charge data usage on that, if they're already charging for the bundle? Couldn't the argument be made that data usage is included in the bundle price?
More popular channel subsidize less popular channels, in the bundled model.
Of course, you could argue that the unpopular channels should just have to compete on equal terms, and either shut down if they don't get enough customers, or change their content to chase the market. That's the free market approach, and it would ensure that only the most popular channels stay in business.
However, this really screws over people who have more specific non-mainstream interests, or who prefer their entertainment to be a bit more in-depth and less "reality TV".
That's why we need to have both a commercial TV market competing on market terms, with an a la carte selection, and a solid publicly funded network, where more in-depth, niche and alternative programming can happen, without having to compete in the popularity contests of the commercial programming market.
We have networks like PBS in the US, BBC in the UK, DR in Denmark, SVT in Sweden and countless others. Unfortunately, a lot of classical liberal and libertarian politicians are trying to defund them and make them compete on the same market as the commercial networks, which is just completely missing the point of why we have public networks in the first place.
Yeah, it's a bit naff, and obviously not their main focus. Luckily, there are tons of awesome monospaced fonts out there, and coding rarely needs full Unicode coverage.
I've been using the Noto font(s) for a while, they're installed by default in Linux Mint (probably Ubuntu and others, too), so I assume this is an incremental release, where they've finally achieved some semblance of full(ish) coverage.
While I have a couple of minor issues with the fonts design (the lowercase 'm' and 0/O distinction in Noto Mono are atrocious), the font is quite nice on the whole. And while I will never personally use all of the myriads of different scripts included, I whole-heartedly applaud the effort taken to produce a font family that finally covers East Asian languages in a sensible way. I have many colleagues from India (specifically Bengal) and China. It has been a real shitshow for them how the Unicode Consortium first completely neglected and then mishandled their languages.
We can blame Google for a great many things, but Noto is one thing they definitely got right, and I hope they continue to evolve and refine it, perhaps fix the small font design annoyances, even though they're relatively minor for what is an absolutely huge project.
I don't dislike Apple products, I think they're generally very slick and with very visually appealing and stylish UIs. I had an iPad Air for awhile, which was admittedly given to me. I used it for a while, and sold it off about a year later, because I just wasn't using it anymore. It was an extremely nice piece of hardware, very good battery life, fantastic screen, very slick UI. But it just felt so limiting and constrained, tablets in general are a compromised middle ground between smartphones and actual laptops/desktops. They feel limited in a way my Chromebook doesn't.
What I mostly dislike are some of the business decisions made by Apple, such as making the Macbooks borderline impossible to service or upgrade yourself, and the entire "walled garden" approach. I also seriously disliked Steve Jobs' personality, and I hate the "think different, therefore better than you" true believer Mac fanatics.
Could I be perfectly happy using a Mac? Well yeah, as long as I can have Chrome, some decent media players and a select handful of emulators and games, I could be happy on just about any OS. The necessary hardware is way too expensive and limited, though.
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Fuck that. You've paid to see an artist perform their material. In return, the artist expects some sort of feedback from the audience, it's a two-way thing.
The very least you can do is to be mentally present and engaged in what is happening, not staring into a screen wondering whether you've got the best angle for your crappy Facebook video.
Haha, you've never actually been outside, have you? You know, to an actual live show?
You're only ever getting your money back if the show gets cancelled in advance. Once you're in the door and your ticket is scanned, the ticket has been used, your money is forfeit, the artist is 100% free to stop the show after a single song.
Don't like it? You're welcome to moan and complain to the organizers, and say you're never going to another show. In turn, they will tell you to go piss up a rope and get lost. The ticket pays for entrance, it is not a guarantee of a full show being performed.
Good luck trying to reach for your Penis Size Compensator while you're in an armbar or a full bear hug from behind.
Hell, good luck even getting into any proper venue with that piece of shit on you.
I've been to several shows where the bands didn't like photos/videos being taken for various reasons. For instance, the Scorpions and Manowar don't want anyone else but members of the press taking photos, and they'll have security walking around telling people to put their cameras away. I don't think they're hard on mobile phones, but anyone pulling out an SLR is pretty much going to be shut down instantly. I think that's a bit fascistic, especially coming from bands that claim to embody freedom (Manowar) and tolerance (Scorpions) in their lyrics.
On the other hand, I think it was Def Leppard who specifically asked for no flash photography because one of their members is photosensitive, and it can trigger epileptic fits and migraines. So they asked people not to snap photos while they were playing, and wait until the end of the show. That's a bit more reasonable, in my mind.
I really dislike the trend of trying to film concerts, especially on crappy phones and tablets. The resulting video is going to be shit anyway, and it's seriously annoying to everyone else at the show. Sure, snap a couple of quick photos as a memento, but don't start filming for minutes, or (gods forbid) the entire damn show. I also don't think a complete ban is the solution. The ideal solution would be to educate people, but we all know how well that works in the face of the "fuck you, I'm more important" attitude.
Don't worry about him, he's one of those macho assholes who thinks a mosh pit is all about beating other people up or knocking them over.
Around here, he would be very firmly and sternly shown to the exit and told not to come back, or else.
The pit is for bouncing around off of each other, maybe getting a few bruises, but all in good fun. NOT for deliberately trying to hurt other people.
Dude, you're going to the wrong concerts. I've been to around 30 concerts so far this year, and most of them have been absolutely amazing, with bands at the top of their game and lively good-natured crowds. Sure, there have been a couple of weaker shows, but that's how it always is.
Granted, I mostly go to metal and hard rock shows, priced between $10-60, and held at venues with room for no more than ~1000 people. That's the sweet spot for me, and I've been having a blast. Some of the best shows happened with less than 100 attendees.
Go to smaller venues, avoid the huge expensive mainstream shows. Find the local music scene where you live. There are so many amazing live performances happening every single day.
And if you think it's too loud, wear earplugs. That's what I do. Bilsom 303s or 3M EARs are the best in my experience, both in comfort and attenuation level and evenness.
Ah OK, I see the problem now.
There's a gigantic stick up your ass, and you're so deep into it, that you don't even notice anymore.
As someone who emigrated from Europe
Good riddance.
I clarified one ridiculous strawman, I didn't ask for you to spam us with even more of them.
You really seem like the type of person who just needs to calm down, take a deep breath, and look at how crazy you're acting. Obviously, some left-wing person has annoyed you at some point, or maybe several such persons. But you're conflating the actions of a very small group of people, to include everyone you disagree with.
But what if the ISP is not just an ISP, but also a telco, cable TV provider and other things?
Would it not be fair for them to bundle their products?
Oh, so you could basically just have boiled it down to "it's a ridiculous strawman that I and my fellow alt-rightists scumbags have invented, in order to further our hateful agendas".
That would have made it so much clearer.
LOL if you really think people are going to stop talking to each other, in favor of text messages and email.
Cinnamon mostly hits the right spots for me.
99% of the configurability I needed/used in KDE, without the wonky stuff like Akonadi.
Call it "bulk downloading" above a certain file size, then.
Your downloads are not realtime-sensitive, it doesn't matter if there's a bit of latency here and there, as long as you get your bits at the expected speed.
VoIP and other realtime-sensitive applications however, do care about latency and not so much about outright speed, as long as it's above at certain minimum.
But what if my ISP has a music streaming service that's free, as a part of the normal subscription? Should they charge data usage for that?
What if they offer a streaming content bundle, with HBO, Spotify and various online magazines, should they charge data usage on that, if they're already charging for the bundle? Couldn't the argument be made that data usage is included in the bundle price?
More popular channel subsidize less popular channels, in the bundled model.
Of course, you could argue that the unpopular channels should just have to compete on equal terms, and either shut down if they don't get enough customers, or change their content to chase the market. That's the free market approach, and it would ensure that only the most popular channels stay in business.
However, this really screws over people who have more specific non-mainstream interests, or who prefer their entertainment to be a bit more in-depth and less "reality TV".
That's why we need to have both a commercial TV market competing on market terms, with an a la carte selection, and a solid publicly funded network, where more in-depth, niche and alternative programming can happen, without having to compete in the popularity contests of the commercial programming market.
We have networks like PBS in the US, BBC in the UK, DR in Denmark, SVT in Sweden and countless others. Unfortunately, a lot of classical liberal and libertarian politicians are trying to defund them and make them compete on the same market as the commercial networks, which is just completely missing the point of why we have public networks in the first place.
Because you would be running your network sniffer for a period of time, not just for 2 minutes. Come on, this is basic stuff.
Yeah, it's a bit naff, and obviously not their main focus. Luckily, there are tons of awesome monospaced fonts out there, and coding rarely needs full Unicode coverage.
I'm sure a lot of East Asian people share your annoyance
I've been using the Noto font(s) for a while, they're installed by default in Linux Mint (probably Ubuntu and others, too), so I assume this is an incremental release, where they've finally achieved some semblance of full(ish) coverage.
While I have a couple of minor issues with the fonts design (the lowercase 'm' and 0/O distinction in Noto Mono are atrocious), the font is quite nice on the whole. And while I will never personally use all of the myriads of different scripts included, I whole-heartedly applaud the effort taken to produce a font family that finally covers East Asian languages in a sensible way. I have many colleagues from India (specifically Bengal) and China. It has been a real shitshow for them how the Unicode Consortium first completely neglected and then mishandled their languages.
We can blame Google for a great many things, but Noto is one thing they definitely got right, and I hope they continue to evolve and refine it, perhaps fix the small font design annoyances, even though they're relatively minor for what is an absolutely huge project.
A lot of people have a hard time accepting that fact.
It's not about what you know. It's all about what you realize that you don't know.
His ass, obviously.
19"? Pish posh. 28" CRT, baby :-)
I don't dislike Apple products, I think they're generally very slick and with very visually appealing and stylish UIs. I had an iPad Air for awhile, which was admittedly given to me. I used it for a while, and sold it off about a year later, because I just wasn't using it anymore. It was an extremely nice piece of hardware, very good battery life, fantastic screen, very slick UI. But it just felt so limiting and constrained, tablets in general are a compromised middle ground between smartphones and actual laptops/desktops. They feel limited in a way my Chromebook doesn't.
What I mostly dislike are some of the business decisions made by Apple, such as making the Macbooks borderline impossible to service or upgrade yourself, and the entire "walled garden" approach. I also seriously disliked Steve Jobs' personality, and I hate the "think different, therefore better than you" true believer Mac fanatics.
Could I be perfectly happy using a Mac? Well yeah, as long as I can have Chrome, some decent media players and a select handful of emulators and games, I could be happy on just about any OS. The necessary hardware is way too expensive and limited, though.