But the cablecos just made the Cablecards a pita to install (some requiring a technician to come out to your house to install a simple card), and making the slot so hard to implement that only a few companies like Tivo even tried to support them, then adding in shit like SJV to make them useless for certain channels, then charging RENTAL FEES for the cards. The rental fee was the ballsiest move of them all. And they got away with it too, of course, because lobbyists and campaign brib....contributions.
Now it's just a "I'm too lazy to register an account" thing.
No, it's more commonly used as a "I'm going to express an opinion that may be unpopular here and I don't want my karma kicked into the dirt for not agreeing with the majority" thing.
It's been my experience that the censorship on Reddit is what actually ENCOURAGES the trolls. A lot of posters start out with reasonable disagreements, then get so tired of getting moderated for simply disagreeing with the accepted narrative that they start to get pissed off and just start trolling in anger. It's a weird form of rebellion against Reddit's shitty system.
so the only reason not to attach your name would be if you were going to leave some inflammatory bullshit and you didn't want to harm your karma score.
Only if by "inflammatory bullshit" you mean "anything the majority on/. doesn't want to hear." Try criticizing some of the sacred cows around here without using AC and see how long it takes your karma to tank. Here's a hint: Not fucking long.
I used to avoid posting AC, until I got tired of dealing with having poor karma all the time just because I think FOSS is overrated.
Bullshit. Posting AC is the only way to keep your karma from tanking every time you disagree with the conventional groupthink on this site. Good luck keeping decent karma around here if you criticize OSS or Linux and can't post at least some of it AC. Too many people think a troll is anyone who disagrees with them.
Me too. Posting as AC is the only way a lot of posters can be honest without having their karma modded into the dirt by assholes who treat the troll mod as a disagree mod.
Any species with the level of technology needed to cross the vast distances of interstellar space would probably have very little reason to hide from us. We would probably be about as much a threat to them as ants.
the assassins at the CIA actually wander out into the real world and do things.
Actually, the CIA learned a long time ago that character assassinations work a lot better than the kind with bullets. Just ask the former head of the IMF, who dared to challenge the U.S. Dollar as a standard world currency.
I used to be fairly liberal myself, but the SJW's have driven me out of the movement. As a white, heterosexual male, I no longer feel welcome. It's the same hard lesson that Bernie Sanders is learning every time he tries to have a rally anymore. Poor Bernie hasn't realized yet that you can never appease a SJW, no matter how much self-hatred you express at you own evil-white-male-heterosexualness.
Salon seems to publish at least one a week bashing the ever hated white male.
Almost as bad as the weekly (sometimes almost daily) "How are men going to fix the problem of women not wanting to be programmers?" article on Slashdot.
I have an idea for starters. How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable?
How about for starters, we define clearly what does (and doesn't) constitute "sexual abuse and harassment?" Because in the United States, both are already considered not only social unacceptable, but also illegal.
The problem isn't in getting people to agree to the premise that "all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable." The problem is that SJW's would redefine both of those terms so broadly as to include almost all social interactions between men and women.
In Bruce's defense, the poor guy does live in Berkley. They probably make everyone out there report for a daily "White heterosexual males are the cause of all the evil in the world" brainwashing treatment. He probably just assumes that the rest of the world accepts that as a scientific fact.
WTF is "We should try to be nice to people" such a controversial position?
Because that's NOT what he's saying. He's not saying that everyone should be nice to everyone else. He's saying that this is a particular problem with men and in male-dominated fields, with no mention of the fact that women also have social problems and that there are also problems in female-dominated fields.
It's just a polite variation of the typical SJW "White heterosexual males are to blame for all the evil in the world" worldview. And a lot of us are fucking sick of hearing it.
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Remember all the SJW liberals who thought she was going to fix the company, based solely on the fact that she has a vagina?
You would think someone would have learned something from all the idiot companies who hired Ellen Pao.
Typo, meant SDV not SJV.
But the cablecos just made the Cablecards a pita to install (some requiring a technician to come out to your house to install a simple card), and making the slot so hard to implement that only a few companies like Tivo even tried to support them, then adding in shit like SJV to make them useless for certain channels, then charging RENTAL FEES for the cards. The rental fee was the ballsiest move of them all. And they got away with it too, of course, because lobbyists and campaign brib....contributions.
Now it's just a "I'm too lazy to register an account" thing.
No, it's more commonly used as a "I'm going to express an opinion that may be unpopular here and I don't want my karma kicked into the dirt for not agreeing with the majority" thing.
It's been my experience that the censorship on Reddit is what actually ENCOURAGES the trolls. A lot of posters start out with reasonable disagreements, then get so tired of getting moderated for simply disagreeing with the accepted narrative that they start to get pissed off and just start trolling in anger. It's a weird form of rebellion against Reddit's shitty system.
You don't need mods to call out the flat-earthers. That 's what the reply link and the sentence "You're an ignorant shithead" are for.
Amen. It used to be a lot better when modders could get called out for treating troll mods as their own personal "I disagree" button.
so the only reason not to attach your name would be if you were going to leave some inflammatory bullshit and you didn't want to harm your karma score.
Only if by "inflammatory bullshit" you mean "anything the majority on /. doesn't want to hear." Try criticizing some of the sacred cows around here without using AC and see how long it takes your karma to tank. Here's a hint: Not fucking long.
I used to avoid posting AC, until I got tired of dealing with having poor karma all the time just because I think FOSS is overrated.
Shit, I've been modded to -1 just for saying that FOSS isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Bullshit. Posting AC is the only way to keep your karma from tanking every time you disagree with the conventional groupthink on this site. Good luck keeping decent karma around here if you criticize OSS or Linux and can't post at least some of it AC. Too many people think a troll is anyone who disagrees with them.
Me too. Posting as AC is the only way a lot of posters can be honest without having their karma modded into the dirt by assholes who treat the troll mod as a disagree mod.
Would an apple trigger your hypothetical weak and fragile woman too, snowflake?
In a SJW world, women would get the first pick of the best bananas and get to skip to the head of the line at the produce store--because victim.
Any species with the level of technology needed to cross the vast distances of interstellar space would probably have very little reason to hide from us. We would probably be about as much a threat to them as ants.
the assassins at the CIA actually wander out into the real world and do things.
Actually, the CIA learned a long time ago that character assassinations work a lot better than the kind with bullets. Just ask the former head of the IMF, who dared to challenge the U.S. Dollar as a standard world currency.
In his defense, he's very drunk.
Can't block them all.
I used to be fairly liberal myself, but the SJW's have driven me out of the movement. As a white, heterosexual male, I no longer feel welcome. It's the same hard lesson that Bernie Sanders is learning every time he tries to have a rally anymore. Poor Bernie hasn't realized yet that you can never appease a SJW, no matter how much self-hatred you express at you own evil-white-male-heterosexualness.
Salon seems to publish at least one a week bashing the ever hated white male.
Almost as bad as the weekly (sometimes almost daily) "How are men going to fix the problem of women not wanting to be programmers?" article on Slashdot.
The melting pot concept is stupid
Yeah, except your own post demonstrates that it has worked just fine in the U.S.:
They used to be a separate city where non-Chinese would not enter.
Emphasis mine
I have an idea for starters. How about, to start, that all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable?
How about for starters, we define clearly what does (and doesn't) constitute "sexual abuse and harassment?" Because in the United States, both are already considered not only social unacceptable, but also illegal.
The problem isn't in getting people to agree to the premise that "all sexual abuse and harassment will be considered strictly unacceptable." The problem is that SJW's would redefine both of those terms so broadly as to include almost all social interactions between men and women.
In Bruce's defense, the poor guy does live in Berkley. They probably make everyone out there report for a daily "White heterosexual males are the cause of all the evil in the world" brainwashing treatment. He probably just assumes that the rest of the world accepts that as a scientific fact.
I wouldn't give a shit if Grace Hopper wrote it. It's still bullshit.
All this proves is that Bruce Perens lives in Silicon Valley, and that Silicon Valley has become absolutely infected with the SJW cancer.
WTF is "We should try to be nice to people" such a controversial position?
Because that's NOT what he's saying. He's not saying that everyone should be nice to everyone else. He's saying that this is a particular problem with men and in male-dominated fields, with no mention of the fact that women also have social problems and that there are also problems in female-dominated fields.
It's just a polite variation of the typical SJW "White heterosexual males are to blame for all the evil in the world" worldview. And a lot of us are fucking sick of hearing it.
Okay, Bruce, we get it. You've earned your White Knight cred for today. Go tell all your SJW friends that you've done your part to defend the realm.
Now can we please go back to discussing news for nerds, stuff that matters?