> Originally, Yoda had a very heavy and identifiable muppet accent.
Yes, and it's good they changed that, or they would likely have offended the muppets, who are often stereotyped as being small green wrinkled men.
I think you've made my point for me: it's possible and standard to come up with fictional accents without having to simply copy real world accents, especially on movies with actual budgets.
If a Christian says that you are non-Christian or not a Christian, that's one thing. If he calls you a "heathen", that's maybe got some more implications,right? If the Muslim says you aren't a Muslim, or follower of Islam, that's one thing, but if he says "infidel", that means something else, right?
> Unfortunately, that really limited the ability of the producers to pick inoffensive accents
Didn't stop them with Yoda.
Also, I guess someone should have mentioned that to the guys who did the Vulcan accent and speech mannerisms, the Klingon accent and speech mannerisms, and frankly almost every Star Trek race gets a speech pattern that is both distinct and not just a copy of something from Earth.
Also, there's a pretty big difference between "we chose an accent" and "we fitted a greedy merchant fly with a hat and a huge nose... you'll NEVER guess what accent he ended up with!"
Anyway, no, it being filmed in the real world didn't stop anyone from doing anything they wanted. This is obviously what they wanted, and it truly is a bit silly.
Anyone who has to make up a word for "someone who doesn't want to change their sex (with surgery/hormones and/or gender presentation (with behavior/dress/etc)" is pretty clearly demonstrating a rather fucked up brand of intolerance themselves.
Dude, it's a real world accent on a ludicrous creature, and we see at least three of those types of things in the prequels. Why use a real world accent at all?
You thought this because to you (and Lucas) no racism was implied or intended. It was just a silly accent.
But the fact is, it's an exaggerated Jamaican accent. The haggling greedy fly is mideastern, etc. They didn't go and make Klingon for these races, they just took something in the real wold and modified it a little to get their point across.
It's clearly not meant to be offensive but like... really, they couldn't do any better than that?
The issue isn't that they will ban encryption- they can't for physical / mathematical reasons. But they CAN fuck with anyone trying to both sell a product, and add freely available encryption to that product. That's their attack point. It could be trivial to turn on a well documented open source algorithm, but the government leans on them until they turn it off and remove all user hooks. Once only techies can encrypt, it becomes much easier to strong arm them based on their encrypted traffic sticking out, etc.
Zodiac has been attacked by seating patents by their competitors. This is probably a defensive patent, something vague enough to discourage future lawsuits. I doubt they are intending to go and hexagonify all the seating, but it is pretty lol.
Agree totally. The moment anything includes ads is the moment I stop paying for that thing.
The big problem is that the ability to encounter ads is forced as hard as they can.
"Ok before you can see whatever, watch this ad. Fast forward won't work obviously." -> adblock "Oh, I see you're using adblock, well whine bitch cry" -> greasemonkey to hide that I'm using adblock
Advertisers see no issue demanding that their clients try as hard as they can to subvert user control of their machine and time. Fuck that bullshit.
I don't think I see the "failed state" analogy. The federal government has a lot of overreach, particularly with income tax, into each and every state equally. There's nowhere in the US you can go and get treated dramatically differently as regards money, but in Europe that is not the case. Plus, I don't think any state in the US would be a failed state all by itself- some would be a lot poorer, but nothing (or not many) would be automatically full of corruption.
The point is it really is gold... if you are a fool. It is named this because it looks like gold, but only a fool would think that. Many other things have names that are references to what they look like: Lamb's Foot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) isn't a lamb or a foot, but it is named because it resembles one, Queen Anne's Lace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is neither a Queen, nor an Anne, nor any manner of lace, etc.
Toy car is really a *car toy*- a type of toy shaped like a car. A "dwarf planet" isn't a type of "planet" shaped like a "dwarf". Don't swap the adjective and noun just because the common nomenclature does.
The argument about "dwarf planet" is a good one. The entire thing is silly if you look at how it got "reclassified", and why do we take that one group's one vote one time for classification? Pluto is trivially a planet.
Not really relevant. "Playing the game" is going to a place of historical significance. The gameplay is a few buttons to "hack the portal". The actual point is that you are somewhere of interest, such as a museum. Given that memorials open to the public are unquestionably of historic interest, this is interesting.
Obviously they deleted them to avoid the bad press, but this sort of thing is sort of the point of Ingress- the places you go are ideally educational, beautiful, interesting, something. If you go to a portal at a museum, you spend a bunch of time travelling, several seconds pressing buttons on your phone, and then your day is "I went to the museum".
The game is to take you to a place, man. That's not stupid. It's not like you have to go sit in a museum and run a WoW raid or something. The gameplay is minimalistic on purpose.
Anywhere in Ingress you go, you press a few buttons on your phone for the gameplay. Because the actual point of the game is to get the out-of-game you to the place, this is pretty much the entire point.
Again from Wikipedia: Ingress portals are placed at: "The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of cultural significance, such as public art, landmarks, monuments, etc."
So yes, it sort of IS the university of human learning, if that means that almost every interesting place you might go to has portals all up in it. If you go to a portal, the game says, here's some stuff, but because you physically WENT there, the point is that you are somewhere of interest, such as a museum. It's not "just a stupid game", it's a stupid game with an excuse to go be somewhere interesting.
They didn't really "do" it, they just missed what it was when they approved it. And it should be pointed out that the whole point of locations is that they be basically what the death camps are today- aka, public places, museums, etc. It's entirely possible that they were not added to troll, but simply on the idea of "hey, people are around here to learn, lets put a portal here because it is interesting for the players who come here".
Again- Ingress portals are placed in historical and public areas.
It will take it being a serious campaign issue at the federal level for it to stop- and that's just the first step. Every toll road has a toll for X years. Then after X years... it keeps the toll. Every time, no one can turn the tap off. As a nation, we voted in a guy who was gonna close gitmo. 8 years later, still gitmo. As long as the red and blue teams can keep dangling the threat of losing personal freedom if the OTHER team gets in, it's essentially impossible to get policy level things changed.
It comes and goes. I consider it pretty rough right now, but I'm sure it depends on your searches. The value subtractors just have to mangle enough search to be profitable, but google (and others) has to handle all of their scramblings to be a good search engine.
At the start, Google was crap-free, because no one had figured out how to target them and the low-fruit approach didn't work on them. Obviously, there's always folks trying to break the system.
Google is still the best, but Bing is very good. Altavista lost (at least for me), because it was filled with corrupt results. There's plenty of malicious websites who only want to create spam, and if you make a search engine, they want you to deliver spam for them. Altavista couldn't get that shit out of there enough. The core initial assumption on search engines is that people would write a page with product, a message, people debating, or something factual, and this became "race to the top of the search engine". That was the #1 driver for me with Google- they immediately and aggressively fought that shit. The fact that they are losing ground on this today is sad, but I doubt they're anywhere close to done.
If Altavista could have just filtered those sites, they'd still be a solid engine, IMO.
I think you're generally safest accessing Bing search through duckduckgo (aka, just use duckduckgo- they pay Microsoft to use the Bing engine, but it isn't wrapped as lamely). The underlying Bing engine is definitely good.
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> Originally, Yoda had a very heavy and identifiable muppet accent.
Yes, and it's good they changed that, or they would likely have offended the muppets, who are often stereotyped as being small green wrinkled men.
I think you've made my point for me: it's possible and standard to come up with fictional accents without having to simply copy real world accents, especially on movies with actual budgets.
If a Christian says that you are non-Christian or not a Christian, that's one thing. If he calls you a "heathen", that's maybe got some more implications,right? If the Muslim says you aren't a Muslim, or follower of Islam, that's one thing, but if he says "infidel", that means something else, right?
> Unfortunately, that really limited the ability of the producers to pick inoffensive accents
Didn't stop them with Yoda.
Also, I guess someone should have mentioned that to the guys who did the Vulcan accent and speech mannerisms, the Klingon accent and speech mannerisms, and frankly almost every Star Trek race gets a speech pattern that is both distinct and not just a copy of something from Earth.
Also, there's a pretty big difference between "we chose an accent" and "we fitted a greedy merchant fly with a hat and a huge nose... you'll NEVER guess what accent he ended up with!"
Anyway, no, it being filmed in the real world didn't stop anyone from doing anything they wanted. This is obviously what they wanted, and it truly is a bit silly.
The trope is "Jews in Space" I believe, and yea. Like a middle-ages racist cartoon or something.
Anyone who has to make up a word for "someone who doesn't want to change their sex (with surgery/hormones and/or gender presentation (with behavior/dress/etc)" is pretty clearly demonstrating a rather fucked up brand of intolerance themselves.
Dude, it's a real world accent on a ludicrous creature, and we see at least three of those types of things in the prequels. Why use a real world accent at all?
You thought this because to you (and Lucas) no racism was implied or intended. It was just a silly accent.
But the fact is, it's an exaggerated Jamaican accent. The haggling greedy fly is mideastern, etc. They didn't go and make Klingon for these races, they just took something in the real wold and modified it a little to get their point across.
It's clearly not meant to be offensive but like... really, they couldn't do any better than that?
The issue isn't that they will ban encryption- they can't for physical / mathematical reasons. But they CAN fuck with anyone trying to both sell a product, and add freely available encryption to that product. That's their attack point. It could be trivial to turn on a well documented open source algorithm, but the government leans on them until they turn it off and remove all user hooks. Once only techies can encrypt, it becomes much easier to strong arm them based on their encrypted traffic sticking out, etc.
Zodiac has been attacked by seating patents by their competitors. This is probably a defensive patent, something vague enough to discourage future lawsuits. I doubt they are intending to go and hexagonify all the seating, but it is pretty lol.
Agree totally. The moment anything includes ads is the moment I stop paying for that thing.
The big problem is that the ability to encounter ads is forced as hard as they can.
"Ok before you can see whatever, watch this ad. Fast forward won't work obviously." -> adblock
"Oh, I see you're using adblock, well whine bitch cry" -> greasemonkey to hide that I'm using adblock
Advertisers see no issue demanding that their clients try as hard as they can to subvert user control of their machine and time. Fuck that bullshit.
I don't think I see the "failed state" analogy. The federal government has a lot of overreach, particularly with income tax, into each and every state equally. There's nowhere in the US you can go and get treated dramatically differently as regards money, but in Europe that is not the case. Plus, I don't think any state in the US would be a failed state all by itself- some would be a lot poorer, but nothing (or not many) would be automatically full of corruption.
...so by that logic, Jupiter is a dwarf sun, which makes it neither a planet, nor a sun. I guess it just defies classification...
The point is it really is gold... if you are a fool. It is named this because it looks like gold, but only a fool would think that. Many other things have names that are references to what they look like: Lamb's Foot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) isn't a lamb or a foot, but it is named because it resembles one, Queen Anne's Lace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ) is neither a Queen, nor an Anne, nor any manner of lace, etc.
Toy car is really a *car toy*- a type of toy shaped like a car. A "dwarf planet" isn't a type of "planet" shaped like a "dwarf". Don't swap the adjective and noun just because the common nomenclature does.
The argument about "dwarf planet" is a good one. The entire thing is silly if you look at how it got "reclassified", and why do we take that one group's one vote one time for classification? Pluto is trivially a planet.
Not really relevant. "Playing the game" is going to a place of historical significance. The gameplay is a few buttons to "hack the portal". The actual point is that you are somewhere of interest, such as a museum. Given that memorials open to the public are unquestionably of historic interest, this is interesting.
Obviously they deleted them to avoid the bad press, but this sort of thing is sort of the point of Ingress- the places you go are ideally educational, beautiful, interesting, something. If you go to a portal at a museum, you spend a bunch of time travelling, several seconds pressing buttons on your phone, and then your day is "I went to the museum".
The game is to take you to a place, man. That's not stupid. It's not like you have to go sit in a museum and run a WoW raid or something. The gameplay is minimalistic on purpose.
Anywhere in Ingress you go, you press a few buttons on your phone for the gameplay. Because the actual point of the game is to get the out-of-game you to the place, this is pretty much the entire point.
Again from Wikipedia: Ingress portals are placed at:
"The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of cultural significance, such as public art, landmarks, monuments, etc."
So yes, it sort of IS the university of human learning, if that means that almost every interesting place you might go to has portals all up in it. If you go to a portal, the game says, here's some stuff, but because you physically WENT there, the point is that you are somewhere of interest, such as a museum. It's not "just a stupid game", it's a stupid game with an excuse to go be somewhere interesting.
They didn't really "do" it, they just missed what it was when they approved it. And it should be pointed out that the whole point of locations is that they be basically what the death camps are today- aka, public places, museums, etc. It's entirely possible that they were not added to troll, but simply on the idea of "hey, people are around here to learn, lets put a portal here because it is interesting for the players who come here".
Again- Ingress portals are placed in historical and public areas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The gameplay consists of establishing "portals" at places of cultural significance, such as public art, landmarks, monuments, etc."
It will take it being a serious campaign issue at the federal level for it to stop- and that's just the first step. Every toll road has a toll for X years. Then after X years... it keeps the toll. Every time, no one can turn the tap off. As a nation, we voted in a guy who was gonna close gitmo. 8 years later, still gitmo. As long as the red and blue teams can keep dangling the threat of losing personal freedom if the OTHER team gets in, it's essentially impossible to get policy level things changed.
What's a superior DNS, in your opinion?
You are greatly simplifying the search process used by the other guys, but I think your overall gist is correct.
It comes and goes. I consider it pretty rough right now, but I'm sure it depends on your searches. The value subtractors just have to mangle enough search to be profitable, but google (and others) has to handle all of their scramblings to be a good search engine.
At the start, Google was crap-free, because no one had figured out how to target them and the low-fruit approach didn't work on them. Obviously, there's always folks trying to break the system.
Google is still the best, but Bing is very good. Altavista lost (at least for me), because it was filled with corrupt results. There's plenty of malicious websites who only want to create spam, and if you make a search engine, they want you to deliver spam for them. Altavista couldn't get that shit out of there enough. The core initial assumption on search engines is that people would write a page with product, a message, people debating, or something factual, and this became "race to the top of the search engine". That was the #1 driver for me with Google- they immediately and aggressively fought that shit. The fact that they are losing ground on this today is sad, but I doubt they're anywhere close to done.
If Altavista could have just filtered those sites, they'd still be a solid engine, IMO.
I think you're generally safest accessing Bing search through duckduckgo (aka, just use duckduckgo- they pay Microsoft to use the Bing engine, but it isn't wrapped as lamely). The underlying Bing engine is definitely good.
I should do no such thing lol