Amazon's had a growing problem for some time with astroturfed reviews. On products it's reasonably possible to get a feel for things even through that because of the sheer numbers involved, but for contractors and labor it's going to be a critical problem.
What even is an "anti-feminist"? Is Ayaan Hirsi Ali an anti-feminist? Is Karen DeCrow? What about Amanda Marcotte? Or Lindy West? The first two are diametrically opposed to the latter two, they're almost complete opposites. If you support Karen DeCrow and Ayaan Hirsi Ali you by definition vehemently oppose Amanda Marcotte and Lindy West.
"Anti-feminist" is a meaningless term, it's even more meaningless than McCarthy's use of "communist". It's impossible to NOT be an "anti-feminist" because of how absurdly over-broad it is.
The problem is their utter domination of academia and the media, and incredibly active base of zealots, gives them a profoundly disproportionate ability to control the narrative and wield political and social influence. It's easy to punch far above your weight when you can print off dozens of article saying whatever you want, woozle wikipedia into rewriting the truth to suit your politics, and then dump some screaming violent protestors on people that know they can even get away with assaults and other crimes. I still remember one video of a university protest where an SJW ran up to someone, started screaming accusing him of touching her breast to set him up (both of his hands were out in front of him in the air), and then shoved him off a ~5 foot ledge.
Could you imagine the media response if anyone did that to feminists?
Sounds a lot like what modern Social Justice does to women. Uses lies to spread fear stir up mass hysteria, then convinces people they can't live without it, and if anyone stands up for themselves or tries to leave they're either guilt-tripped or outright terrorized.
In fact women of great standing within tech have long said the exactopposite and that it's the constant lies and fearmongering from Social Justice types convincing people there's a wage gap that doesn'texist.
There's a word for when someone uses fear and lies to control someone else's behavior for their own gain. Generally we call that an abusive relationship.
The film industry also handles ratings internally and despite the bullshit brought to light by "this film not yet rated" is still largely doing an acceptable job of it. It's nonsense to take potshots at the gaming industry over this.
Or rather, its nonsense if you take it at face value. Really it's transparently obvious that this is just astroturfing. It's a sad attempt at appearing to care about "ethical" issues betrayed by their utter inability to drop the moralistic, censorious, and authoritarian Jack Thompson 2.0 rhetoric even for long enough to get one good lie out.
They'll drool all over it and then call the customers who have problems with it "entitled wailing hyper-consumers" for wanting a product that actually works and isn't a buggy piece of shit missing half the advertised features.
It's got nothing to do with your straw boogeyman and everything to do with the fact that when a majority of people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. Evidently you didn't learn this lesson from any of the many other violent revolutions against rich aristocracies in history.
That's the point everyone keeps missing. We don't need some high tech pod with a billion circuits and electronics, we need modular low-tech pods with diesel generators, solar panels, and sanitation facilities. People keep trying to throw technology at places like Africa... this isn't star trek. We don't have replicators and magic wave-this-to-fix-it beams that can maintain high tech stuff without any local support infrastructure. Anything going to something like the Ebola outbreak needs to be fixable with duct tape and wrenches.
We've had wiimote/nunchuck style controllers for VR going back to the bulky arcade VR systems of the mid-90s, accessories are really not the problem. The true killer here is the lag between input and render. For almost any PC game unless I'm getting unplayable performance the response time between me moving the mouse and my screen moving with it is effectively instant. Every VR system I've ever seen though has a substantial lag time between moving and your view updating. That's just not going to work.
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Case in point: Look at the religious hatred for "goto" that has no real technical basis anymore in modern languages.
Amazon's had a growing problem for some time with astroturfed reviews. On products it's reasonably possible to get a feel for things even through that because of the sheer numbers involved, but for contractors and labor it's going to be a critical problem.
Actually I just so happen to keep abreast of news regarding Ethical Concerns for other reasons.
From what I understand she just so happens to be suing someone else for exactly the amount of money they're in the hole for...
All those "that hold women's salaries back compared to men" like arithmetic and counting. Goddamn math is part of the patriarchy.
What even is an "anti-feminist"? Is Ayaan Hirsi Ali an anti-feminist? Is Karen DeCrow? What about Amanda Marcotte? Or Lindy West? The first two are diametrically opposed to the latter two, they're almost complete opposites. If you support Karen DeCrow and Ayaan Hirsi Ali you by definition vehemently oppose Amanda Marcotte and Lindy West.
"Anti-feminist" is a meaningless term, it's even more meaningless than McCarthy's use of "communist". It's impossible to NOT be an "anti-feminist" because of how absurdly over-broad it is.
The problem is their utter domination of academia and the media, and incredibly active base of zealots, gives them a profoundly disproportionate ability to control the narrative and wield political and social influence. It's easy to punch far above your weight when you can print off dozens of article saying whatever you want, woozle wikipedia into rewriting the truth to suit your politics, and then dump some screaming violent protestors on people that know they can even get away with assaults and other crimes. I still remember one video of a university protest where an SJW ran up to someone, started screaming accusing him of touching her breast to set him up (both of his hands were out in front of him in the air), and then shoved him off a ~5 foot ledge.
Could you imagine the media response if anyone did that to feminists?
Sounds a lot like what modern Social Justice does to women. Uses lies to spread fear stir up mass hysteria, then convinces people they can't live without it, and if anyone stands up for themselves or tries to leave they're either guilt-tripped or outright terrorized.
In fact women of great standing within tech have long said the exact opposite and that it's the constant lies and fearmongering from Social Justice types convincing people there's a wage gap that doesn't exist.
There's a word for when someone uses fear and lies to control someone else's behavior for their own gain. Generally we call that an abusive relationship.
In reality the actual difference is NIL, or within margins of error.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And does that seem like the kind of POS junker the GP was talking about?
Yes lets take inexperienced drivers and put them in an unreliable vehicle. What a BRILLIANT plan.
Any word on when we'll get a flatpanel that isn't like watching an oil painting smear around in realtime?
The film industry also handles ratings internally and despite the bullshit brought to light by "this film not yet rated" is still largely doing an acceptable job of it. It's nonsense to take potshots at the gaming industry over this.
Or rather, its nonsense if you take it at face value. Really it's transparently obvious that this is just astroturfing. It's a sad attempt at appearing to care about "ethical" issues betrayed by their utter inability to drop the moralistic, censorious, and authoritarian Jack Thompson 2.0 rhetoric even for long enough to get one good lie out.
They'll drool all over it and then call the customers who have problems with it "entitled wailing hyper-consumers" for wanting a product that actually works and isn't a buggy piece of shit missing half the advertised features.
No, it wasn't. At the time it had already been done almost a decade prior by Battlefield and Tribes.
Use of "statists" unironically...
Of course it doesn't. Just like the EPA has nothing to do with the environment, and the FDA isn't necessary at all for food safety.
If Uber were a food company they would be one of the ones written about by Upton Sinclair.
if their product is so superior they should have no problems complying with basic licensing requirements that exist for very serious reasons.
It's got nothing to do with your straw boogeyman and everything to do with the fact that when a majority of people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. Evidently you didn't learn this lesson from any of the many other violent revolutions against rich aristocracies in history.
That's the point everyone keeps missing. We don't need some high tech pod with a billion circuits and electronics, we need modular low-tech pods with diesel generators, solar panels, and sanitation facilities. People keep trying to throw technology at places like Africa... this isn't star trek. We don't have replicators and magic wave-this-to-fix-it beams that can maintain high tech stuff without any local support infrastructure. Anything going to something like the Ebola outbreak needs to be fixable with duct tape and wrenches.
It wants its projector/webcam games back.
We've had wiimote/nunchuck style controllers for VR going back to the bulky arcade VR systems of the mid-90s, accessories are really not the problem. The true killer here is the lag between input and render. For almost any PC game unless I'm getting unplayable performance the response time between me moving the mouse and my screen moving with it is effectively instant. Every VR system I've ever seen though has a substantial lag time between moving and your view updating. That's just not going to work.