Does the meta narrative have a SJW theme all over it? Maybe.
I'd be willing to bet dollars-to-donuts that Patricia had a huge rule in convincing her father to do a 180 but I think we need more facts to determine that though. Speaking of facts, there are few that rather stand out to me after reading Tiago's perspective. Paraphrasing:
Interestingly enough Linus' daughter, Patricia Torvalds, activist of "Guerilla Feminism, supports the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto which was created by Stupid Juvenile Whiner Coraline Ada Ehmke, the latter who also created the Code of Conduct.
Ruby's CoC is simple and to the point. It is summarized as "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.
But Ruby's simply CoC "wasn't good enough" for Coraline though. After Coraline's attempted hijacking of Ruby's CoC was 100% shot down by Matz...
I hope it works. We may upgrade it if something happens.
Matz.
... Coraline continued being a shit stirrer. Notice how the community basically told her to "fork off". (Pun intended.)
Matz isn't alone. Other have voiced their criticism of her CoC:
Given a choice between only two extremes, I'd far rather have Linus Torvalds telling me I'm an idiot and my code is shit, then exist in an offense-taking culture where various forms of criticism are re-branded as "harassment."
Back in 2013 Stupid Juvenile Whiner Sage Sharp targeted Linus. Failing that, she is now targeting Ted Tso calling him a "rape apologist".
Funny how these people love to play Judge, Juror, and Executioner, all at once without any evidence, and want to their CoC to be inclusive even when they aren't, but I digress.
What do these examples have to do with Linux, Linus, and the CoC ?
Eric Raymond pointed the dangers of meritocracyback in 2015. with his Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs article. The example he brought up was about djangoconcardiff lying about patch rejection in the django community.
I noticed you have rejected some pull requests to add some good django libraries and that the people submitting those pull requests are POCs (People of Colour).
rosarior shut that down.
The pull request was rejected not the person. Of the people who did not had their patches accepted at least one submitted another pull request and was accepted or are contributors in my other repositories, disproving your basic premise.
There is no need for a code of conduct, there hasn't been a conduct related incident with the repository and nothing about a contributor comes into play when rejecting or accepting a patch (as proved above). An explanation is provided when a patch is rejected, and some have been left open to re-asses in a future time.
I'm not white and please don't make any other assumptions about me, they hold no relevance to the matter at hand.
Now I hate conspiracy theories with a passion but does the "recent" rash of CoC changes seem to be politically driven? Maybe. There SEEMS to be a larger narrative at play.
Regardless, I still think it is too early to tell but this inclusion of meritocracy is definitely something to keep an eye out for in the future.
* 2 billion mobile devices run Linux, and * 100% of the Top 500 super-computers run Linux... has ZERO impact on the total number of Desktops running Linux. "Funny" how this is the only "space" that MS can compete in. LOL.
This is because MS no longer cares about UI "Accelerators" aka hotkeys or shortcuts. Notice how there is no longer an "underscore" in menu items unless you specifically hit the ALT key. Although I see Firefox (v45) shows the underscore at all times.
I'm surprised they haven't broken the TAB key to move between UI elements. LOL.
I know that you can use a keyboard on the PS3 / PS4 for text input. Not aware of any games that supported the Keyboard + Mouse combo though.
It will be interesting if see if any FPS games on the console will finally take off the aim-assists now that you have a proper, high fidelity aim? One of the reasons cross-platform FPSs was declined was the excuse that it was "unfair." i.e. PC gamers with Mouse+Keyboard would completely destroy / wreck all the console gamers using the gamepad.
> I'd just like the game to be beautiful, relaxing, complex, and unbounded. > I couldn't find anything that seemed to come close to catering to my needs. If I missed something, I'd love to hear suggestions.
You don't say which platform but I'd highly recommend ALL of these (in alphabetical order):
Maybe its just me but I personally thought Myst was boring and over-rated.
* Took me two weekends to finish it off. I thought the puzzles were rather simple / easy.
* Story was meh -- I don't even remember it these days. Guess it was "that" good./sarcasm
* I didn't play it when it initially came out. I did a few years after when I was taking a break from my Quake / CTF / TF fix -- maybe ~1998 ? The entire time I was wondering "Why can't I look up/down?" Yes, I know the scenes were pre-rendered (looked good) and saved as static images but I wanted to _explore_ the world and not just in a "slide show" fashion.
> It's gonna be a UI design change (for the worse)
I hope not but knowing MS they will fuck it up.
The *only* positive I can see that on macOS you get BOTH the menu bar AND the ribbon bar -- at least on with the previous version 16.x. Did MS screw that up?
Fortune 500 companies are not homogeneous. They run Windows AND Macs. Having documents with cross-platform support is a no brainer requirement regardless of how bad MS enforces Stockholm Syndrome.
Because gamers are more interested in preserving our culture then draconian copyright laws that holds it hostage.
Seriously, are there ANY publishers making money from selling OLD classic arcade games like Marble Madness ??? No, then the copyright should revert to the public domain instead of being hoarded away for "some day".
Gee, someone dumb enough to fight another man's rich war pretends that this gives him a special privilege of understanding systems of government and the rest of the civilians are unable to understand this insight. Maybe you study history to understand WHY "The pen is mightier than the sword."
All you have done is traded one form of propaganda for another. But keep trying to justify that your immoral killing and archaic violence "magically" gives you a leg up to understand morality. What a fucking hypocrite.
I can understand Google and Fecesbook but why Twitter?
IMHO a better solution would be stop allowing "de facto" common platforms to censor people that goes against their political ideology. Business should be free from politics. (Yeah, I know, a pipe dream, but we need to start somewhere.)
Breaking them up won't solve anything. Your data will *still* be sold. Instead of 1 company selling it, it will be ~3x more.
But I guess it is easier to ignore the fact that the age of consent varies from state to state, country to country and try to trivialize the issue with a flippant sound bite then have a rational discussion if it is too low or too high.
> Someone of the age of 16 is not fully developed.
Devils advocate:/sarcasm As opposed to someone who is 18 years old?
Who determines what this "magic age" is? Because it certainly varies from female to female.
Define "fully developed". Do you mean biologically? Mentally? Emotionally? Because female teenagers mature faster then male teenagers.
In my limited experience I've known some teeagers who wise WELL beyond their years (behaved like a 40 year old), and known 30 year olds who behaved like dumb teenagers.
History and numerous civilizations has shown that "if she is old enough to bleed then she is old enough to breed" -- and while we can criticize this past mentality I'm not so sure there is an EXACT "magic" age that determines when a girl becomes a young woman and is fully cognant of the consequences of her choices. Hell, some *adults* aren't even!
This mentality of equating "16 years old female teenager is a child" depends LARGELY on social norms and subjective judgements. There is no "absolute" test you can do to determine if a female is a woman; it is a gradient.
That said, probably the *best* way to determine is to ask the father or mother: At what age of your daughter would you feel comfortable knowing she is having sex?
Slashdot Mirror
That would involve having a brain. These networks don't have a clue about good Sci-Fi -- they are constantly cancelling them.
/s I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you that Corporations hold culture hostage!
There is something wrong when companies see fans as competition instead of free advertising.
Obvious? No.
Does the meta narrative have a SJW theme all over it? Maybe.
I'd be willing to bet dollars-to-donuts that Patricia had a huge rule in convincing her father to do a 180 but I think we need more facts to determine that though. Speaking of facts, there are few that rather stand out to me after reading Tiago's perspective. Paraphrasing:
Interestingly enough Linus' daughter, Patricia Torvalds, activist of "Guerilla Feminism, supports the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto which was created by Stupid Juvenile Whiner Coraline Ada Ehmke, the latter who also created the Code of Conduct.
Ruby's CoC is simple and to the point. It is summarized as "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.
But Ruby's simply CoC "wasn't good enough" for Coraline though. After Coraline's attempted hijacking of Ruby's CoC was 100% shot down by Matz ...
Matz isn't alone. Other have voiced their criticism of her CoC:
Back in 2013 Stupid Juvenile Whiner Sage Sharp targeted Linus. Failing that, she is now targeting Ted Tso calling him a "rape apologist".
Funny how these people love to play Judge, Juror, and Executioner, all at once without any evidence, and want to their CoC to be inclusive even when they aren't, but I digress.
What do these examples have to do with Linux, Linus, and the CoC ?
Eric Raymond pointed the dangers of meritocracy back in 2015. with his Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs article. The example he brought up was about djangoconcardiff lying about patch rejection in the django community.
rosarior shut that down.
Now I hate conspiracy theories with a passion but does the "recent" rash of CoC changes seem to be politically driven? Maybe. There SEEMS to be a larger narrative at play.
Regardless, I still think it is too early to tell but this inclusion of meritocracy is definitely something to keep an eye out for in the future.
Linux runs on THREE types of platforms:
* Desktops
* Mobile
* Super Computers
The facts that ...
* 2 billion mobile devices run Linux, and ... has ZERO impact on the total number of Desktops running Linux. "Funny" how this is the only "space" that MS can compete in. LOL.
* 100% of the Top 500 super-computers run Linux
Sadly the masses don't care.
The data breaches and selling of their data isn't enough.
I don't know what will be the catalyst where they finally go "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore."
Ideas anyone?
> but ended up buying Roundup because it was on a special offer as a result of the negative press.
> For ONE billion dollars (much less 19) we'd all sell out pretty much anything or anyone.
First: You can't buy good morals, but you can sell bad ones.
Second: Uhm, no. Not everyone has an over-inflated sense of money as you.
Third: You DO realize that success means not just financial success, right?
Yeah, Firefox v45 is old. Don't feel like upgrading and breaking all my extensions. =P
Good to know the later version still shows the underscores!
Agreed. I wonder what time frame this changed?
This is because MS no longer cares about UI "Accelerators" aka hotkeys or shortcuts. Notice how there is no longer an "underscore" in menu items unless you specifically hit the ALT key. Although I see Firefox (v45) shows the underscore at all times.
I'm surprised they haven't broken the TAB key to move between UI elements. LOL.
I know that you can use a keyboard on the PS3 / PS4 for text input. Not aware of any games that supported the Keyboard + Mouse combo though.
It will be interesting if see if any FPS games on the console will finally take off the aim-assists now that you have a proper, high fidelity aim? One of the reasons cross-platform FPSs was declined was the excuse that it was "unfair." i.e. PC gamers with Mouse+Keyboard would completely destroy / wreck all the console gamers using the gamepad.
I seem to recall there was a lot of stupid "sweep the mouse across the screen in S shapes to find the hidden object" style puzzles.
Regardless, if you believe me, I found the puzzles boring compared to The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour.
Also see these old classics:
* The 7th Guest
* The 11th Hour
> The puzzle were challenging
Eh? I found the puzzles were boring and simple. Finished the entire game off in two weekends.
The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour had much better puzzles.
There is even a fan made re-make!
> I'd just like the game to be beautiful, relaxing, complex, and unbounded.
> I couldn't find anything that seemed to come close to catering to my needs. If I missed something, I'd love to hear suggestions.
You don't say which platform but I'd highly recommend ALL of these (in alphabetical order):
The Room
The Talos Principle
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
The Witness
Enjoy!
Maybe its just me but I personally thought Myst was boring and over-rated.
* Took me two weekends to finish it off. I thought the puzzles were rather simple / easy.
* Story was meh -- I don't even remember it these days. Guess it was "that" good. /sarcasm
* I didn't play it when it initially came out. I did a few years after when I was taking a break from my Quake / CTF / TF fix -- maybe ~1998 ? The entire time I was wondering "Why can't I look up/down?" Yes, I know the scenes were pre-rendered (looked good) and saved as static images but I wanted to _explore_ the world and not just in a "slide show" fashion.
Anyone else feel the same way?
Has anyone played realMYST ? How does it compare?
Preserving only the (subjectively) good ones would give a false impression.
It's not like they take up space to prevent others from being stored.
> It's gonna be a UI design change (for the worse)
I hope not but knowing MS they will fuck it up.
The *only* positive I can see that on macOS you get BOTH the menu bar AND the ribbon bar -- at least on with the previous version 16.x. Did MS screw that up?
One word: Enterprise.
Fortune 500 companies are not homogeneous. They run Windows AND Macs. Having documents with cross-platform support is a no brainer requirement regardless of how bad MS enforces Stockholm Syndrome.
Because gamers are more interested in preserving our culture then draconian copyright laws that holds it hostage.
Seriously, are there ANY publishers making money from selling OLD classic arcade games like Marble Madness ??? No, then the copyright should revert to the public domain instead of being hoarded away for "some day".
> Marijuana ... but it has never been part of mainstream society
Hmm, someone should of told the US Dept. of Agriculture that in 1942.
Video is: Hemp for Victory.
Rolling Stone has a great article: How America Lost the War on Drugs that briefly touches the history.
Gee, someone dumb enough to fight another man's rich war pretends that this gives him a special privilege of understanding systems of government and the rest of the civilians are unable to understand this insight. Maybe you study history to understand WHY "The pen is mightier than the sword."
All you have done is traded one form of propaganda for another. But keep trying to justify that your immoral killing and archaic violence "magically" gives you a leg up to understand morality. What a fucking hypocrite.
I can understand Google and Fecesbook but why Twitter?
IMHO a better solution would be stop allowing "de facto" common platforms to censor people that goes against their political ideology. Business should be free from politics. (Yeah, I know, a pipe dream, but we need to start somewhere.)
Breaking them up won't solve anything. Your data will *still* be sold. Instead of 1 company selling it, it will be ~3x more.
Found the ad hominem fallacy.
But I guess it is easier to ignore the fact that the age of consent varies from state to state, country to country and try to trivialize the issue with a flippant sound bite then have a rational discussion if it is too low or too high.
> Someone of the age of 16 is not fully developed.
Devils advocate: /sarcasm As opposed to someone who is 18 years old?
Who determines what this "magic age" is? Because it certainly varies from female to female.
Define "fully developed". Do you mean biologically? Mentally? Emotionally? Because female teenagers mature faster then male teenagers.
In my limited experience I've known some teeagers who wise WELL beyond their years (behaved like a 40 year old), and known 30 year olds who behaved like dumb teenagers.
History and numerous civilizations has shown that "if she is old enough to bleed then she is old enough to breed" -- and while we can criticize this past mentality I'm not so sure there is an EXACT "magic" age that determines when a girl becomes a young woman and is fully cognant of the consequences of her choices. Hell, some *adults* aren't even!
This mentality of equating "16 years old female teenager is a child" depends LARGELY on social norms and subjective judgements. There is no "absolute" test you can do to determine if a female is a woman; it is a gradient.
That said, probably the *best* way to determine is to ask the father or mother: At what age of your daughter would you feel comfortable knowing she is having sex?
I'm willing to bet most would say late 20s.
The word you are looking for is called: plutocracy
AKA The other golden rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.