Nobody is outlawing anything. This is an example of a business choosing not to publish something.
Yes but is there any discretion applied or is it a complete ban? Declining to publish a racing game with a car with a big confederate flag on it is one thing. Declining to publish a military strategy game that uses a historical setting like Gettysburg where Confederate troops on the field of battle are carrying a Confederate flag is something else.
In other words is there any consideration for historical context and historically accurate use?
If a business chooses not to sell something, there is no legal mechanism to compel them to justify their decision.
But my history teacher and wikipedia and civilwar.org say it's about the good guy northern states wanting to free the slaves from the evil southern racist bigots.
Are you saying that the actual facts are different from the fanciful tale I was indoctrinated with? Are you saying that I, as a typical young liberal, am fucking wrong as shit when I tell people to "get educated" on subjects such as these? Is my liberal ideology and education based largely on bullshit designed to get me to think and act a certain way? Would the government lie to me like that?!
Anyone who thinks that wikipedia is some sort of government mouthpiece is not just on a trial separation from reality, they've been through a messy and expensive divorce with it and have ended up losing everything.
Wouldn't the logical fallacy be "ad hominem", if anything?
But then again, if someone doesn't want to be called a racist who supports slavery, maybe they shouldn't write like someone who is racist and supports slavery.
Fortunately, society has moved away from pure capitalism in the last hundred and fifty years or so. Although it looks like Uber fanboys want to see us back in the Nineteenth Century.
Carpool clubs are personal arrangements involving no proft element. Uber enables people to hire out their vehicle/time for money, and is therefore a taxi service by any other name.
Personally I'm in favor of Uber over Taxis, if Uber stopped operating in my city, I would just buy a car and stop using ride services. Because Taxis are awful.
Wow, the Uber PR department is working overtime today.
Anyway, I don't care about welfare, corporate or otherwise, Uber or SJWs. It's just that if I have money to invest or choose a place to live, it is more likely to be somewhere companies like Uber are not hindered (or favored).
Progress also means a de-evolution of employment standards. People get to start a company and have associates by phone now. No obligation to the worker whatsoever. I can't wait until the company I work for picks up on this.
For the disruptive psychopaths here, things like employment or legal standards are just interference in the free market.
Protests in France? It must be one of the days of the week ending in Y.
I love how so many Americans here will mouth off about starting an armed uprising to protect their access to guns, but then moan about Occupy or trade unionists actually demonstrating against something important.
I don't really have very strong feelings in this debate, but that kind of protesting isn't acceptable. Standing outside a government building or your company's HQ to protest, that's perfectly fine. However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile. While I don't call for arrests like the other people who've posted ahead of me, I do hope the police force open the roads.
There is a word for societies which define and limit how and when people can protest, and it isn't "democracy".
That's not my point. It wasn't screened for until it was known about, which means many people contracted HIV through blood transfusions. The same thing can happen with another new disease that they don't know about, which in turn means they aren't screening for.
PS anyone interested in my revolutionary disruptive 3D printed cold fusion reactor? I'm selling 20% of the stock for only £10m to the lucky first ten applicants.
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Nobody is outlawing anything. This is an example of a business choosing not to publish something.
Yes but is there any discretion applied or is it a complete ban? Declining to publish a racing game with a car with a big confederate flag on it is one thing. Declining to publish a military strategy game that uses a historical setting like Gettysburg where Confederate troops on the field of battle are carrying a Confederate flag is something else. In other words is there any consideration for historical context and historically accurate use?
If a business chooses not to sell something, there is no legal mechanism to compel them to justify their decision.
But my history teacher and wikipedia and civilwar.org say it's about the good guy northern states wanting to free the slaves from the evil southern racist bigots. Are you saying that the actual facts are different from the fanciful tale I was indoctrinated with? Are you saying that I, as a typical young liberal, am fucking wrong as shit when I tell people to "get educated" on subjects such as these? Is my liberal ideology and education based largely on bullshit designed to get me to think and act a certain way? Would the government lie to me like that?!
Anyone who thinks that wikipedia is some sort of government mouthpiece is not just on a trial separation from reality, they've been through a messy and expensive divorce with it and have ended up losing everything.
But then again, if someone doesn't want to be called a racist who supports slavery, maybe they shouldn't write like someone who is racist and supports slavery.
Are you two different people copying from the same KKK website?
Just curious.
the civil was [sic] was about keeping North America free of the tyranny of the British crown
u wot m8?
Welcome to our world. Have some capitalism.
Fortunately, society has moved away from pure capitalism in the last hundred and fifty years or so. Although it looks like Uber fanboys want to see us back in the Nineteenth Century.
Ah, so you are one of those, "two wrongs make a right" people...
*takes several steps away from the loony
Oh, so you're one of those "you're not allowed to defend yourself if you're attacked" people?
*takes several steps towards the idiot and threatens him with a slap if he doesn't hand over his wallet*
Carpool clubs are personal arrangements involving no proft element. Uber enables people to hire out their vehicle/time for money, and is therefore a taxi service by any other name.
Personally I'm in favor of Uber over Taxis, if Uber stopped operating in my city, I would just buy a car and stop using ride services. Because Taxis are awful.
Wow, the Uber PR department is working overtime today.
Anyway, I don't care about welfare, corporate or otherwise, Uber or SJWs. It's just that if I have money to invest or choose a place to live, it is more likely to be somewhere companies like Uber are not hindered (or favored).
Translation: I am a rich sociopath.
Progress also means a de-evolution of employment standards. People get to start a company and have associates by phone now. No obligation to the worker whatsoever. I can't wait until the company I work for picks up on this.
For the disruptive psychopaths here, things like employment or legal standards are just interference in the free market.
In other words, "I'm getting what I want as cheap as possible, screw everyone else and damn the consequences."
AKA libertarianism.
Nobody is forcing you to use Uber. On the other hand, you are being forced to use licensed taxis. So much for freedom.
You are forced to tax and insure your car, and obey speed limits and traffic signals and parking restrictions in most civilized countries.
So much for freedom.
Any argument which puts Albania ahead of France in any way except alphabetically is simply ridiculous.
Protests in France? It must be one of the days of the week ending in Y.
I love how so many Americans here will mouth off about starting an armed uprising to protect their access to guns, but then moan about Occupy or trade unionists actually demonstrating against something important.
I don't really have very strong feelings in this debate, but that kind of protesting isn't acceptable. Standing outside a government building or your company's HQ to protest, that's perfectly fine. However, once you start interfering with other people's lives (who aren't involved in this at all), I view that as unacceptable and utterly puerile. While I don't call for arrests like the other people who've posted ahead of me, I do hope the police force open the roads.
There is a word for societies which define and limit how and when people can protest, and it isn't "democracy".
my few experiences with uber were way better than every experience I have ever had rding in a traditional tax
Thanks for the anecdote Mr Uber Shill.
Un bon mot ne prouve rien.
It's by Voltaire. Not racist though. But applicable to any quote used as if it is an argument or a self-evident fact. EVER.
The point of a quote is that it says something well and memorably, not that it is some eternal truth.
Only sheeple follow the law, right?
And so the flood of Uber shills starts...
Clearly fiction. No one on slashdot has or has had or will ever have a girlfriend.
American troll is American. The UK doesn't have a social security number (There's a similar concept, but it's called a National Insurance Number).
Maybe by "social" he meant "access to my social media account aka facebook". Or something.
That's not my point. It wasn't screened for until it was known about, which means many people contracted HIV through blood transfusions. The same thing can happen with another new disease that they don't know about, which in turn means they aren't screening for.
Yeah fuck it, let's just go back to leeches.
As someone who has climbed El Cap 4 times, I can say that it's not going to feel quite the same watching it in 3D than to actually do it.
As someone who has climbed El Cap 0 times, I can say that it's not going to feel quite the same watching it in 3D than to actually do it.
PS anyone interested in my revolutionary disruptive 3D printed cold fusion reactor? I'm selling 20% of the stock for only £10m to the lucky first ten applicants.