As I said, America (I speak of America because that's where the 77% and 93% figures come from) has an employment gap between the genders. Part of it is division based on traditional gender roles in employment, and certainly that should be addressed. Though certainly there's a mixture of self-inflicted and other-inflicted harm there.
But regardless, the ideal is still equal pay for equal work. This is an ideal that cannot be met if you get equal pay for different work. And if the world of corporate finance has taught us anything, it's that attempting to make special cases for things just creates loopholes that invariably get abused.
The real story here is that some people hold so much hatred for a specific group of people (bros) that the mere mention of that group of people is offensive for them, and they prefer to remove a common, innocuous word from the English language than to ever have to hear it in any context. I had to think a bit to come up with another case of this type of thing occurring: Nazis (oh yes, shit just got real!). Albeit it's not a perfect match. Nazi is a proper name that does not have any other function in the English language, while bro is a commonly used abbreviation of a common English word. So clearly people hate bros significantly more than they hate Nazis, which in itself speaks volumes about modern culture. But it's the best analogue I can come up with.
Ah yes. First came the sexualization, now you've injected race into the mix (and in a particularly derogatory manner, to boot). Do you ever think of anything other than race and sexuality? The topic of discussion is the Brotli file format, which is neither sexual nor racial. Can you please stop thinking about sex and race long enough for us to discuss technology? This is a news for nerds site, afterall.
If I saw an extension ".bro" there's a change I'd assume it was intentional (or at least they were aware of it) and I'd instantly get a mental image of the developers being a bunch of frat boys high-fiving calling each other bro.
I would too. And I'd laugh at the mental image before going about my business. If.bro is anything, it's funny.
You... you are being satirical, are you not? Your post sounds like you're bashing SJWs by pretending to be a particularly stupid one.
But assuming you're not, I'll address the topic of salary. The concept of the "wage gap" is widely misunderstood. The study most commonly cited as evidence (the 77% number) explicitely cautions not to misinterpret the number. The number is the ratio of all women in all jobs vs. all men in all jobs. More detailed studies that actually compare pay in the same job put the number at 93% at a minimum (there are additional variables that cannot be reliably controlled for, and may reduce the gap even further). In general there is not a wage gap but rather an employment gap. Women work fewer hours than men, are less senior because they've been with the company for less time, are more likely to be part time, are more likely to sacrifice salary to get better working conditions, and simply avoid some of the high-paying jobs like software engineering. Most but not all of these are probably related to motherhood, but the facts are quite clear: women make less than men on average because they do less work than men on average (or other things that if men did them they'd make less too). To expect equal pay for different work is a tautology of the definition of discrimination.
That said, what on earth does any of that have to do with the topic at hand? "Bro" is at worst misandric (and even that is questionable). You might have never heard of that word, but it means derogatory (possibly offensive) to males. And I think I speak for just about everyone when I say: we males do not need you to get offended on our behalf. We can take care of ourselves.
And it seriously didn't occur to them that "br" is ALSO an abbreviation of "brother"?
You know how a lot of people think "politically correct" or "social justice warrior" mean a person devoid of intelligence who goes out of their way to racially or sexually charge things that have nothing to do with race or sex to give them something to be offended about? Yeah, this is why.
Really I think the reason people are putting him down is because a lot of the maker community immediately jumped to his defense, then felt deceived when they learned he hadn't even made the thing himself. Of course this response is directed at the wrong party - the ones who were deceptive was not Ahmed but the media that blew the whole story enormously out of proportion and made him look like a boy genius. Nevertheless, feelz.
The article makes some good points and some not so good points. Here's the TL;DR version of this whole affair as best anyone can tell from the evidence so far:
- Ahmed brought disassembled clock to school for show and tell
- Ahmed never claimed it was a bomb
- Neither the school nor police actually thought it was a bomb (if they had, the entire event would have gone down much more dramatically)
- Given that, it's entirely possible the whole affair was racially motivated (or some idiotic zero-tolerance thing where they thought scaring him would teach him a lesson)
- Ahmed did not build the clock in question, he merely disassembled a store bought clock
- Ahmed is a fledgling tinkerer and may have a productive career in engineering when he grows up...if he doesn't crack from the pressure of being a world-renowned boy genius and shining jewel of Muslim-Americans
- Disassembling a clock at 13 does not a boy genius make. Even building a clock from a microcontroller at 13, while nothing to sneeze at, would fall short of the title of "genius".
- Obama's presidency will be ending soon, but the memories (and pictures/videos) of him inviting a kid that disassembled a clock to the White House are forever
Actually, he has the legal system to support his claim. Your entire position is based on the assumption that Valve CAN remove the DRM if they need to shut off their servers. This is incorrect. Many of the games on Steam are not owned by Valve, thus they would not have the legal power to remove DRM from third-party games without the publishers' consent (the very same publishers that fought tooth and nail to use DRM to begin with). Of course, this is assuming they can afford to remove the DRM before something like going bankrupt, to begin with (and good luck downloading games after their servers go down).
So yes, from the objective facts we have available, probability is strongly on the side of Valve NOT being able to meet your hopes. But this is a free country (assuming you live in the US); you're free to put your faith anywhere you like.
"I am still seeing people seriously discussing "mafiaa" association skymodded. I guess I am in the minority then.
Why is this association (RIAA - organized crime, criminals, etc.) stupid? I feel really stupid seriously considering this myself, but I guess I have to:
1. Organized crime deals mostly with illegitimate business, RIAA deals with a legit business. 2. Organized crime kills and maimes people, RIAA sues them for vast sums of money."
Fair enough. While there certainly is some hyperbole involved (and points of difference), there are some noteworthy similarities, which seem to be the focus of the moniker. 1. The RIAA has one and only one goal in their law suits: to rule by fear and intimidation. RIAA suits are neither intended to punish every pirate there is, nor are they finacially capable of doing so. Similarly, it's not financially possible for the RIAA to recover the alleged costs of piracy, nor does it try to. The RIAA seeks to create enough fear by publicly punishing a few people that everyone else will fall in line. The mafia doesn't need to kill everybody who can snitch; they only need to kill a couple in front of all the others in particularly brutal ways and everyone else will be too afraid to talk. 2. Willingness to take any and every action, including actions that are neither rational nor have the slightest proportion to the offense, to create examples out of those they choose. The mafia responds (stereotypically) by killing people who snitch against them; the RIAA responds by taking the home, car, and wiener dog of anyone who pirates a CD (a $15 theft). In this sense the RIAA is very much like a loan shark you're a few weeks behind payment to; say goodbye to your kneecaps, and possibly your legs (wouldn't you say your knees are worth about 925,000% the value of the loan?). 3. Total lack of humanity and morals. As one person joked in this thread, the difference between the Sopranos and the RIAA is that the Sopranos at least show signs of being human. The RIAA, for reasons which are probably financial, goes to great lengths to specifically target those most unable to defend themselves - those with particular financial states such that they cannot reasonably afford a lawyer, and so have no choice but to give in to the RIAA's settlement demands, regardless of whether they actually committed what they are punished for. Compare and contrast between the morals of the mafiaa and the RIAA reveals: little to no difference.
But part of what makes the MAFIAA moniker so apt is that you can make it out of the real names of the organizations with trivial sensible changes. Although that brings up the point that the MPAA isn't quite as bad as the RIAA, but that's a whole nother topic.
1. Get totally ineffective and largely unenforcible law outlawing theft of wireless access passed 2. File metric assload of file sharing suits 3. Testify that it's impossible for anyone's unsecured wireless networks to be hijacked to use P2P applications, because that would be illegal 4. Profit!
Actually, this digital age allows perfect copies to be made of content with 0 cost for the copy. Piracy, unlike counterfeiting, is not a zero-sum game like physical theft. Arguably piracy takes money away from produces, but the money does not actually go to someone else - the money merely stays with the pirate (or were you saying that everyone who pirates actually IS a terrorist, and you're doing nothing but preaching to the choir?). What this means is that there's no money in piracy to go to terrorism (or anything else, for that matter), making your claims mathematically impossible.
You'll have to pardon me if this response is needless. I'm having quite a difficult time determining whether your post was satire, and am writing with the assumption that it isn't (although I kind of suspect that it is).
I haven't. I don't watch movies that much, and download them even less (I think I've downloaded one movie to date, and it wasn't through P2P; and for that matter, I never did watch that). But there are an L, M, and N in Death Note. All three of theme are particularly cryptic, and enjoy mind games. In one particular scene that came to mind, N wore a mask when meeting with the main character.
Share about $30 of music CD files on P2P: $200k fine. Counterfeit $900 million in software: 4 years in prison.
Conclusion: if the RIAA comes after you for file sharing, tell them you'll happily do 2.1 seconds in prison for each CD, with no fine. And this punishment is Microsoft-approved for severity!
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm recalling this from a paper on Anthrax I did years ago for a class), but isn't the inhalation of 12 spores of high-grade Anthrax enough to kill someone? I'm not sure you can claim poetic license on "cut up a line and snort it".
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As I said, America (I speak of America because that's where the 77% and 93% figures come from) has an employment gap between the genders. Part of it is division based on traditional gender roles in employment, and certainly that should be addressed. Though certainly there's a mixture of self-inflicted and other-inflicted harm there.
But regardless, the ideal is still equal pay for equal work. This is an ideal that cannot be met if you get equal pay for different work. And if the world of corporate finance has taught us anything, it's that attempting to make special cases for things just creates loopholes that invariably get abused.
The real story here is that some people hold so much hatred for a specific group of people (bros) that the mere mention of that group of people is offensive for them, and they prefer to remove a common, innocuous word from the English language than to ever have to hear it in any context. I had to think a bit to come up with another case of this type of thing occurring: Nazis (oh yes, shit just got real!). Albeit it's not a perfect match. Nazi is a proper name that does not have any other function in the English language, while bro is a commonly used abbreviation of a common English word. So clearly people hate bros significantly more than they hate Nazis, which in itself speaks volumes about modern culture. But it's the best analogue I can come up with.
Ah yes. First came the sexualization, now you've injected race into the mix (and in a particularly derogatory manner, to boot). Do you ever think of anything other than race and sexuality? The topic of discussion is the Brotli file format, which is neither sexual nor racial. Can you please stop thinking about sex and race long enough for us to discuss technology? This is a news for nerds site, afterall.
If I saw an extension ".bro" there's a change I'd assume it was intentional (or at least they were aware of it) and I'd instantly get a mental image of the developers being a bunch of frat boys high-fiving calling each other bro.
I would too. And I'd laugh at the mental image before going about my business. If .bro is anything, it's funny.
You... you are being satirical, are you not? Your post sounds like you're bashing SJWs by pretending to be a particularly stupid one.
But assuming you're not, I'll address the topic of salary. The concept of the "wage gap" is widely misunderstood. The study most commonly cited as evidence (the 77% number) explicitely cautions not to misinterpret the number. The number is the ratio of all women in all jobs vs. all men in all jobs. More detailed studies that actually compare pay in the same job put the number at 93% at a minimum (there are additional variables that cannot be reliably controlled for, and may reduce the gap even further). In general there is not a wage gap but rather an employment gap. Women work fewer hours than men, are less senior because they've been with the company for less time, are more likely to be part time, are more likely to sacrifice salary to get better working conditions, and simply avoid some of the high-paying jobs like software engineering. Most but not all of these are probably related to motherhood, but the facts are quite clear: women make less than men on average because they do less work than men on average (or other things that if men did them they'd make less too). To expect equal pay for different work is a tautology of the definition of discrimination.
That said, what on earth does any of that have to do with the topic at hand? "Bro" is at worst misandric (and even that is questionable). You might have never heard of that word, but it means derogatory (possibly offensive) to males. And I think I speak for just about everyone when I say: we males do not need you to get offended on our behalf. We can take care of ourselves.
And it seriously didn't occur to them that "br" is ALSO an abbreviation of "brother"?
You know how a lot of people think "politically correct" or "social justice warrior" mean a person devoid of intelligence who goes out of their way to racially or sexually charge things that have nothing to do with race or sex to give them something to be offended about? Yeah, this is why.
Really I think the reason people are putting him down is because a lot of the maker community immediately jumped to his defense, then felt deceived when they learned he hadn't even made the thing himself. Of course this response is directed at the wrong party - the ones who were deceptive was not Ahmed but the media that blew the whole story enormously out of proportion and made him look like a boy genius. Nevertheless, feelz.
The article makes some good points and some not so good points. Here's the TL;DR version of this whole affair as best anyone can tell from the evidence so far:
- Ahmed brought disassembled clock to school for show and tell
- Ahmed never claimed it was a bomb
- Neither the school nor police actually thought it was a bomb (if they had, the entire event would have gone down much more dramatically)
- Given that, it's entirely possible the whole affair was racially motivated (or some idiotic zero-tolerance thing where they thought scaring him would teach him a lesson)
- Ahmed did not build the clock in question, he merely disassembled a store bought clock
- Ahmed is a fledgling tinkerer and may have a productive career in engineering when he grows up...if he doesn't crack from the pressure of being a world-renowned boy genius and shining jewel of Muslim-Americans
- Disassembling a clock at 13 does not a boy genius make. Even building a clock from a microcontroller at 13, while nothing to sneeze at, would fall short of the title of "genius".
- Obama's presidency will be ending soon, but the memories (and pictures/videos) of him inviting a kid that disassembled a clock to the White House are forever
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Actually, he has the legal system to support his claim. Your entire position is based on the assumption that Valve CAN remove the DRM if they need to shut off their servers. This is incorrect. Many of the games on Steam are not owned by Valve, thus they would not have the legal power to remove DRM from third-party games without the publishers' consent (the very same publishers that fought tooth and nail to use DRM to begin with). Of course, this is assuming they can afford to remove the DRM before something like going bankrupt, to begin with (and good luck downloading games after their servers go down).
So yes, from the objective facts we have available, probability is strongly on the side of Valve NOT being able to meet your hopes. But this is a free country (assuming you live in the US); you're free to put your faith anywhere you like.
Yes, you are. Note that they also demonstrated that Comcast sends reset packets during simple web browsing, as well.
"I'm... I'm blind!!"
I'd classify this under evidence there is a God
"I am still seeing people seriously discussing "mafiaa" association skymodded. I guess I am in the minority then.
Why is this association (RIAA - organized crime, criminals, etc.) stupid? I feel really stupid seriously considering this myself, but I guess I have to:
1. Organized crime deals mostly with illegitimate business, RIAA deals with a legit business.
2. Organized crime kills and maimes people, RIAA sues them for vast sums of money."
Fair enough. While there certainly is some hyperbole involved (and points of difference), there are some noteworthy similarities, which seem to be the focus of the moniker.
1. The RIAA has one and only one goal in their law suits: to rule by fear and intimidation. RIAA suits are neither intended to punish every pirate there is, nor are they finacially capable of doing so. Similarly, it's not financially possible for the RIAA to recover the alleged costs of piracy, nor does it try to. The RIAA seeks to create enough fear by publicly punishing a few people that everyone else will fall in line. The mafia doesn't need to kill everybody who can snitch; they only need to kill a couple in front of all the others in particularly brutal ways and everyone else will be too afraid to talk.
2. Willingness to take any and every action, including actions that are neither rational nor have the slightest proportion to the offense, to create examples out of those they choose. The mafia responds (stereotypically) by killing people who snitch against them; the RIAA responds by taking the home, car, and wiener dog of anyone who pirates a CD (a $15 theft). In this sense the RIAA is very much like a loan shark you're a few weeks behind payment to; say goodbye to your kneecaps, and possibly your legs (wouldn't you say your knees are worth about 925,000% the value of the loan?).
3. Total lack of humanity and morals. As one person joked in this thread, the difference between the Sopranos and the RIAA is that the Sopranos at least show signs of being human. The RIAA, for reasons which are probably financial, goes to great lengths to specifically target those most unable to defend themselves - those with particular financial states such that they cannot reasonably afford a lawyer, and so have no choice but to give in to the RIAA's settlement demands, regardless of whether they actually committed what they are punished for. Compare and contrast between the morals of the mafiaa and the RIAA reveals: little to no difference.
But part of what makes the MAFIAA moniker so apt is that you can make it out of the real names of the organizations with trivial sensible changes. Although that brings up the point that the MPAA isn't quite as bad as the RIAA, but that's a whole nother topic.
1. Get totally ineffective and largely unenforcible law outlawing theft of wireless access passed
2. File metric assload of file sharing suits
3. Testify that it's impossible for anyone's unsecured wireless networks to be hijacked to use P2P applications, because that would be illegal
4. Profit!
That was an amusing way of dispelling the ambiguity.
Actually, this digital age allows perfect copies to be made of content with 0 cost for the copy. Piracy, unlike counterfeiting, is not a zero-sum game like physical theft. Arguably piracy takes money away from produces, but the money does not actually go to someone else - the money merely stays with the pirate (or were you saying that everyone who pirates actually IS a terrorist, and you're doing nothing but preaching to the choir?). What this means is that there's no money in piracy to go to terrorism (or anything else, for that matter), making your claims mathematically impossible.
You'll have to pardon me if this response is needless. I'm having quite a difficult time determining whether your post was satire, and am writing with the assumption that it isn't (although I kind of suspect that it is).
"Well, we have appraisers (my gf is one) that can assign value to personal property based on past sales, market conditions, etc... etc... "
So, what are you worth to her, exactly?
If homosexuality is genetic... and RPGs have two fathers... wouldn't that make RPGs gay?
I haven't. I don't watch movies that much, and download them even less (I think I've downloaded one movie to date, and it wasn't through P2P; and for that matter, I never did watch that). But there are an L, M, and N in Death Note. All three of theme are particularly cryptic, and enjoy mind games. In one particular scene that came to mind, N wore a mask when meeting with the main character.
"Merry to meet you, I'm merely a man behind a mask with a mystifying moniker. I am M."
I don't suppose that's a Death Note reference?
Share about $30 of music CD files on P2P: $200k fine.
Counterfeit $900 million in software: 4 years in prison.
Conclusion: if the RIAA comes after you for file sharing, tell them you'll happily do 2.1 seconds in prison for each CD, with no fine. And this punishment is Microsoft-approved for severity!
Correct me if I'm wrong (I'm recalling this from a paper on Anthrax I did years ago for a class), but isn't the inhalation of 12 spores of high-grade Anthrax enough to kill someone? I'm not sure you can claim poetic license on "cut up a line and snort it".
I just need to make sure my sensors are calibrated properly. That was humor, with a bit of mockery of the parent, yes?
Hey, that was how I got my first job (when I was 13)! :P