That's great, but what is fine in some library can become anticompetitive when a massive monopoly does it.
If you make Qbert's own video site slow on Firefox, nothing much changes. If you make your own browser (with a high usage share) and make one of the largest websites in the world much worse on a competing browser when you've already been levering other monopolistic advantages to squeeze out the browser then yes there is a problem.
No there is no systematic attack, this is simply the result of ongoing public scrutiny.
As for gamers, it turns out that public scrutiny looks down on the kind of shit that Anita Sarkeesian had to endure, especially as critics don't generally like it when people try to silence one of them. I can't imagine why!
As for that link: the forum has no credibility so nothing there can be taken as correct or even likely without full scrutiny. That means I would essential have to do research to validate your point, which is not how it works.
Yes I saw it. A great stride for gender equality because it shows that women are every bit as good as men at making mediocre, pointless reboots. And that was the problem really, it had no point.
I didn't hate it, and it had it's moments, but far too few because it basically was stunningly mediocre. Very much a 2* film (there are much much worse films deserving of 1*). Would not watch again.
Oh good grief youtbe links. No thanks. I've sat through far too many videos by the sort of people who complain about SJW back in the gamergate days and without exception they were awful and a colosal waste of time.
Even conservative publications it appears don't agree with your description of the situation:
Something that readers clearly want is being denied to them by the SJW cancer in the industry.
It got funded on indegogo. I'm sure theycan manage to print and distribute to the funders. I've seen successful campaings do that without ever engaging a publisher.
We saw a huge fan revolt with Star Wars - Solo. And the weird Disney response was it was the fault of White males. https://www.tigerdroppings.com... Original article was on Forbes - they provide link but Forbes won't let me in.
Troll harder.
There's nothing I could see about the disney response in the article you didn't properly link to. It seems to just be a random trollish opinion piece of Forbes. It actually answers the question as "no" then for no particular reason says "yes" at the end.
Presumably to get a rise out of people like you. Well, I guess it worked.
Remember all the stuff written about choosing to not go see Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Wrinkle in Time, and others.
No. I've never even heard "Wrinkle in Time", let alone read any commentary on it. Ghostbusters, I seem to recall got very lukewarm reviews, though I did see it.
I think there is at least some credence to the idea there is a systemic and concerted attack on a lot of geek culture.
Welcome to the big leagues, boyo!
Here's the thing: it's not a systematic attack. Previously geek culture was basically a rather niche things, which means no one outside the niche cared about it, or had any desire to comment on it. Now it's about the most mainstream of mainstream culture.
This means you have the full weight of all of the critics (and others) bearing down on it. And it will continue ot do so just like more or less everything else in the main stream. It is not a systematic attack, it's part of the burden of being popular. Critics tend to exist in the mainstream, subcultures tend to be pretty much critic free.
Not all of the criticism will be fair, not all of it you will agree with. Some of it you might strongly dislike (but kind of know it is true anyway).
Concerned somene will motice? Swap a section or two around.
Yes that doesn't work. It's usually blindingly obvious when the student has copied a source (paragraph swapping not withstanding) because 99 times out of 100 the writing is far more coherent.
You think you're pulling a fast one, you're not. You probably got away with it because it's extra paperwork for the professor and hey it's your education.
Yeah joke's on you because most of the crap classes I had to write research papers in have zero bearing on what I'm doing today.
Wait so the joke's on them because you spent your money and got a narrower education than you could have done. Har har har! So funny! lol.
It's like they looked long and hard at Android, found the part that sucked least then decided to reimplement that.
On the other hand they barely use Linux anyway, preferring instead to reimplement everything poorly three or four times before they reach marginal utility. Yay API churn!
There was some dude for ages here who had that quote about refreshing the tree of liberty in his signature. You should realize that the reason is not even slightly clear it was a joke is that far too many people actually seem to think like that.
Now a sensible person might respond "oh looks like I've been a victim of Poe's law", but angry condescending posts work well too.
Good point! Mistakes have been made in the past therefore we can't criticize anyone ever for anything.
I mean it's totally the same, persecuting someone who quietly wants to worship different god and not paying to provide a platform to someone advocating genocide. Absolutely the same yes.
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I've noticed that much of the world stopped laughing at the USA now that Trump is in the Oval Office.
Um, I think the noticing lobe in your brain mighthave stopped working.
That's great, but what is fine in some library can become anticompetitive when a massive monopoly does it.
If you make Qbert's own video site slow on Firefox, nothing much changes. If you make your own browser (with a high usage share) and make one of the largest websites in the world much worse on a competing browser when you've already been levering other monopolistic advantages to squeeze out the browser then yes there is a problem.
Google are behaving like the bad old Microsoft.
Even the TGV which is a normal rail train has hit 360mph in an experimental configuration.
My advice is you don't post links to places with no crediblity and act like you have actally made a case.
If you're too lazy to find proper sources then it is not my job to prove your poit for you.
No there is no systematic attack, this is simply the result of ongoing public scrutiny.
As for gamers, it turns out that public scrutiny looks down on the kind of shit that Anita Sarkeesian had to endure, especially as critics don't generally like it when people try to silence one of them. I can't imagine why!
As for that link: the forum has no credibility so nothing there can be taken as correct or even likely without full scrutiny. That means I would essential have to do research to validate your point, which is not how it works.
Yes I saw it. A great stride for gender equality because it shows that women are every bit as good as men at making mediocre, pointless reboots. And that was the problem really, it had no point.
I didn't hate it, and it had it's moments, but far too few because it basically was stunningly mediocre. Very much a 2* film (there are much much worse films deserving of 1*). Would not watch again.
I think the best bit was the apology he issued: "sorry you shot me in the face".
I live in central London. The best I can get in my building? ADSL, 15Mbps up / 1Mbps down. No cable, no fiber.
Sounds legit. I was on 4mbit until about a year ago when they finally got round to instaling fiber. Also a London dweller (Zone 2).
Yes, we'll "deal with it". Many of us "geeks" couldn't give one fuck about what other people think of us.
Good! So, er, why the huge screeds of hatred to the critics then.
Quite so!
SJW screeching will put that genie back in the bottle.
Oh so you do care what other people think aof you and say about you. Otherwise you wouldn't be using what you clearly think of as insults.
What I want to know is why you are reluctant to admit you care.
Universities are run by their football departments and Gender studies departments.
Universities being run by the small department with no money! That's one of the most charming things I've heard on slashdot today.
After an extremely successful IndieGogo campaign,
That's great! They're successful independents. They got enough money to do the thing they wanted to do.
eftist comic book stores colluded to refuse carrying Jawbreaker
Sounds like you're saying "I got money you have to like me now!!!"
Those "leftist" comic book stores can carry whatever they like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh good grief youtbe links. No thanks. I've sat through far too many videos by the sort of people who complain about SJW back in the gamergate days and without exception they were awful and a colosal waste of time.
Even conservative publications it appears don't agree with your description of the situation:
http://thefederalist.com/2018/...
Something that readers clearly want is being denied to them by the SJW cancer in the industry.
It got funded on indegogo. I'm sure theycan manage to print and distribute to the funders. I've seen successful campaings do that without ever engaging a publisher.
We saw a huge fan revolt with Star Wars - Solo. And the weird Disney response was it was the fault of White males. https://www.tigerdroppings.com... Original article was on Forbes - they provide link but Forbes won't let me in.
Troll harder.
There's nothing I could see about the disney response in the article you didn't properly link to. It seems to just be a random trollish opinion piece of Forbes. It actually answers the question as "no" then for no particular reason says "yes" at the end.
Presumably to get a rise out of people like you. Well, I guess it worked.
Wow you don't actually understand what any of those words mean do you?
Remember all the stuff written about choosing to not go see Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Wrinkle in Time, and others.
No. I've never even heard "Wrinkle in Time", let alone read any commentary on it. Ghostbusters, I seem to recall got very lukewarm reviews, though I did see it.
I think there is at least some credence to the idea there is a systemic and concerted attack on a lot of geek culture.
Welcome to the big leagues, boyo!
Here's the thing: it's not a systematic attack. Previously geek culture was basically a rather niche things, which means no one outside the niche cared about it, or had any desire to comment on it. Now it's about the most mainstream of mainstream culture.
This means you have the full weight of all of the critics (and others) bearing down on it. And it will continue ot do so just like more or less everything else in the main stream. It is not a systematic attack, it's part of the burden of being popular. Critics tend to exist in the mainstream, subcultures tend to be pretty much critic free.
Not all of the criticism will be fair, not all of it you will agree with. Some of it you might strongly dislike (but kind of know it is true anyway).
But this is life in the mainstream. Deal with it.
Concerned somene will motice? Swap a section or two around.
Yes that doesn't work. It's usually blindingly obvious when the student has copied a source (paragraph swapping not withstanding) because 99 times out of 100 the writing is far more coherent.
You think you're pulling a fast one, you're not. You probably got away with it because it's extra paperwork for the professor and hey it's your education.
Yeah joke's on you because most of the crap classes I had to write research papers in have zero bearing on what I'm doing today.
Wait so the joke's on them because you spent your money and got a narrower education than you could have done. Har har har! So funny! lol.
Surely being wreckless is the ultimate goal!
So Pretty much: someone I don't like got involved therefore Nazis don't exist.
Wha ton earth are you talking about? Just trying to crapflood with bullshit so people don't notice the actual nazis really advocating real genocide?
Why does this bullshit keep getting modded up.
The EU regularly fines the crap out of EU companies, including Volkswagen.
That doesn't take into account the payroll taxes, Medicare taxes and income taxes of their employees.
that's deeply disingenuous. companies that pay a higher rate of corporation tax ALSO have to pay those taxes.
Realistically, corporate taxes don't make sense.
I disagree: if that happens more investment will be done through corporate vehicles and so never get taxed.
Tax the investors -- they can't move overseas.
The big ones can.
It's like they looked long and hard at Android, found the part that sucked least then decided to reimplement that.
On the other hand they barely use Linux anyway, preferring instead to reimplement everything poorly three or four times before they reach marginal utility. Yay API churn!
There was some dude for ages here who had that quote about refreshing the tree of liberty in his signature. You should realize that the reason is not even slightly clear it was a joke is that far too many people actually seem to think like that.
Now a sensible person might respond "oh looks like I've been a victim of Poe's law", but angry condescending posts work well too.
Good point! Mistakes have been made in the past therefore we can't criticize anyone ever for anything.
I mean it's totally the same, persecuting someone who quietly wants to worship different god and not paying to provide a platform to someone advocating genocide. Absolutely the same yes.
"France has no need for chemists"
They murdered one of the greatest scientists of all time in their zeal, Lavoisier.
How about we have same laws rather than shit laws interspersed with brief periods of mass murder.
You say "apparently" like it's not well known as an extremely popular meme with three current crop of neo Nazis. Just like Roman salutes.