First of all, the original isn't so much about the nazis (although they were the ones it was aimed at, true) but about how dangerous it is to just shut up while one small group at a time gets taken out of the equation.
Doesn't matter if it's a government or not. The fact is that anyone with an unpopular opinion can very quickly find it next to impossible to get anyone to hear that opinion. Leave it up to the listeners to dismiss it, don't duct tape the mouth of the speaker.
A better point might be to not have an elite team and a standard team, but to mix and match between the different shifts so there's always a couple of highly experienced guys around.
They don't even seem to check if people AGREE on the meanings of the emojis, as far as I can tell.
In my country we have a radio show on Saturday morning where people can write or call in with various dilemmas they face in their lives to get a small group of semi-famous people (authors, actors, politicians etc.) to brainstorm the problem and perhaps give a new point of view.
A couple of weeks ago, one of these dilemmas related to the asker's wife receiving a text message from her massage therapist about having found an open time slot for an emergency session - I don't remember why, it's not important to the story.
The therapist ended this text message with a kissing smiley, and apparently this was some massive faux pas in the eyes of both husband and wife. The panel of the day were rather split on how serious such a smiley was, exactly what it would symbolize in the context, and even whether it had been created as an auto-correct from a different intended smiley.
And we want to use emojis as if they have some kind of set-in-stone meaning? Not happening.
If the book is worth publishing, some publisher will pick it up. As an example, look at how many times J.K.Rowling had to submit Harry Potter before someone published it - but eventually someone did because they saw potential for earnings TODAY.
If the book is not worth publishing, waiting 20 years won't make it any more worth publishing - and comes with the constant risk that someone somewhere takes a chance on it first.
Publishing is a seller's market. If one publisher says no, you shrug and submit to the next one, and the next, and the next.
Might I suggest you try again in a few days, just in case your verdict is influenced by having a bad day? Goblins really is one of the best fantasy/RPG webcomics on the net.
While I enjoy the comic as well, the total annihilation idea isn't specifically Thunt's. I remember reading it in one of the later DragonLance novels a couple of decades ago, it was the ability of this once-sealed god of chaos. One touch, and all memory of your existence was wiped away.
Either the app tests it, in which case just the encrypted confirmation to the server needs to be broken, or the app sends tons of images to the server - and considering how big the images are on some cell phones, and only getting bigger, that'll eat through your data plan pretty quickly. Imagine having to upload 10 MB (maybe multiple times due to bad lighting, shaking hand or the like) just to log into Facebook.
And I would need you to be specific about what qualifies as Social Media.
Is it Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al? In which case sure, I use Reddit to check a few comments about computer games and Facebook for a comments-enabled version of one newspaper. I'll survive.
Is it all internet forums? Like Slashdot? Okay, gonna start getting a little boring.
Is it chatrooms where you hang out with your friends from around the world, eg. Discord? Now it's starting to get painful.
Is it all modern communications - internet, phones, anything that isn't face to face talking? Then we're screwed.
Not if this is a translation error. I don't speak Portuguese so can't go check, but is it possible the ISP is naming data cap tiers something like Messaging (200-500 MB/month), Social Networking (500-1000 MB/month) and Video (1 GB+/month)?
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Actually sounds more like the customers not fully understanding what it was they wanted.
First of all, the original isn't so much about the nazis (although they were the ones it was aimed at, true) but about how dangerous it is to just shut up while one small group at a time gets taken out of the equation.
Doesn't matter if it's a government or not. The fact is that anyone with an unpopular opinion can very quickly find it next to impossible to get anyone to hear that opinion. Leave it up to the listeners to dismiss it, don't duct tape the mouth of the speaker.
First they silenced the losers,
And I said nothing, because I was not a loser.
Then they silenced those with bad attitudes,
And I said nothing, because I didn't like their attitude.
Then they silenced the trolls,
And I said nothing, because trolls are bad, m'kay?
Then they silenced the guys with an actual, if controversial, point,
And I said nothing because I didn't notice.
Then ... You can see where this is going, right?
Are you quite seriously saying that if you're 'unimportant', other people and companies get to screw you over at their leisure?
A better point might be to not have an elite team and a standard team, but to mix and match between the different shifts so there's always a couple of highly experienced guys around.
Just pump several gigatons of sulphur into the atmosphere to counteract the warming of the carbon dioxide!
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!
They don't even seem to check if people AGREE on the meanings of the emojis, as far as I can tell.
In my country we have a radio show on Saturday morning where people can write or call in with various dilemmas they face in their lives to get a small group of semi-famous people (authors, actors, politicians etc.) to brainstorm the problem and perhaps give a new point of view.
A couple of weeks ago, one of these dilemmas related to the asker's wife receiving a text message from her massage therapist about having found an open time slot for an emergency session - I don't remember why, it's not important to the story.
The therapist ended this text message with a kissing smiley, and apparently this was some massive faux pas in the eyes of both husband and wife. The panel of the day were rather split on how serious such a smiley was, exactly what it would symbolize in the context, and even whether it had been created as an auto-correct from a different intended smiley.
And we want to use emojis as if they have some kind of set-in-stone meaning? Not happening.
If the book is worth publishing, some publisher will pick it up. As an example, look at how many times J.K.Rowling had to submit Harry Potter before someone published it - but eventually someone did because they saw potential for earnings TODAY.
If the book is not worth publishing, waiting 20 years won't make it any more worth publishing - and comes with the constant risk that someone somewhere takes a chance on it first.
Publishing is a seller's market. If one publisher says no, you shrug and submit to the next one, and the next, and the next.
Is this the new Moore's Law?
Or get the flu with accompanying shakes. Bye-bye access to your movie library while you're in bed!
At least the summary sounds like your finger is supposed to stay attached to you in order to work. That's better than MANY of the early versions!
And Europe changed back this weekend.
That's what Monster gold cables are for!
You mean the iPhone (X)?
Might I suggest you try again in a few days, just in case your verdict is influenced by having a bad day? Goblins really is one of the best fantasy/RPG webcomics on the net.
While I enjoy the comic as well, the total annihilation idea isn't specifically Thunt's. I remember reading it in one of the later DragonLance novels a couple of decades ago, it was the ability of this once-sealed god of chaos. One touch, and all memory of your existence was wiped away.
Either the app tests it, in which case just the encrypted confirmation to the server needs to be broken, or the app sends tons of images to the server - and considering how big the images are on some cell phones, and only getting bigger, that'll eat through your data plan pretty quickly. Imagine having to upload 10 MB (maybe multiple times due to bad lighting, shaking hand or the like) just to log into Facebook.
And I would need you to be specific about what qualifies as Social Media.
Is it Facebook, Twitter, Reddit et al? In which case sure, I use Reddit to check a few comments about computer games and Facebook for a comments-enabled version of one newspaper. I'll survive.
Is it all internet forums? Like Slashdot? Okay, gonna start getting a little boring.
Is it chatrooms where you hang out with your friends from around the world, eg. Discord? Now it's starting to get painful.
Is it all modern communications - internet, phones, anything that isn't face to face talking? Then we're screwed.
Not if this is a translation error. I don't speak Portuguese so can't go check, but is it possible the ISP is naming data cap tiers something like Messaging (200-500 MB/month), Social Networking (500-1000 MB/month) and Video (1 GB+/month)?
10 GB? WTF?
The highest data plan I've been able to find in Germany sits at 8 GB. The average plan is 500 MB to 1 GB monthly.
That domain name STILL looks like a scam site.
Somehow I doubt that's a requirement from the company that starts their product names with a lowercase letter, then capitalizes the second.
All of the venture capitalists around the world just had a collective orgasm.
Well done.
Yes, assuming it's true.
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
It's cute how Americans think tipping is a standard, socially required thing in the rest of the world.