It's going to lose a lot of money overspending for six years or so
I'm not sure about that. I'm more worried they're going to cut back spending on shows that make HBO worthwhile. They're going to destroy the brand chasing a fad du jour marketing metric.
But that's what they are. I'll call it as it is. If you think this is just some isolated event, without a wider context, then you haven't been paying attention.
If more people had basic humanity, they wouldn't get enraged all the time wishing cancer on people.
It's an insincere remark.
Mass murder and rape aren't remotely the same thing, but they're both wrong. I'm not here to justify someone celebrating the death of another. My point is that TotalBiscuit being dead or the cause of his death doesn't make his general attitude towards other any less revolting.
That's you're comparing flippant, insincere remarks with the truly revolting celebration of somebody who actually died from cancer shows that your own humanity isn't as virtuous as you presume it to be.
How is a streamer a parasite? Has he infected the host, and is taking value away from them? Or is he part of a larger community of fans?
A 'golden customer' who 'the staff' should not be allowed to displease.
The employees should not treat any of their customers that way.
Some beancounter must have done a study that showed that "Lottery Box" sales aren't impacted if people don't actually play the game.
Oh, I see, you think because people watch they won't play, as opposed to people who play and also watch, or people who started watching and became players. What a sad state of affairs.
People celebrate other people dying from horribly painful deaths all the fucking time.
It doesn't make it right, and it's generally reserved for the worst of people that have done actual harm. If a social "justice" idiot got cancer and died at a young age I would still feel sorry for them. Political disagreements is no reason to lose your basic humanity.
And, again, TotalBiscuit wished cancer on someone else. That he retracted it afterwards is great and maybe it shows that there was a level of decency to the man, but it doesn't really undo the real schadenfreude.
Yes, it does. Sniping at somebody in a moment of rage, which TotalBiscuit is known for, is not the same as celebrating somebody actually dying from cancer. The two are not even remotely close.
The social "justice" idiots that are for Political Correctness were never about civility. They reserved the right to be as uncivil as they wanted, while constraining their opposition with the most stringent edicts.
Right, there's a difference indeed â" one hurts someone, the other doesn't. Except perhaps posthumously self-declared advocates of the deceased
Like his wife or kid?
defending the desceased's misbehaviour against possibly legitimate criticism even after his death
Celebrating when somebody dies a horribly painful death from cancer at a young age is magnitudes more disgusting than whatever supposed "harm" TotalBiscuit did.
But some of them are a different kind of idiot, the kind happy to do something, anything, even if it doesn't make sense, in the hope of an upset.
So tell me what would have been better about a Clinton presidency. Would it have been Libya 2.0 in Syria? Staying with the joke that is the Paris Climate Accords? More Muslim immigration? More illegal immigrants? More Hillary hacking and coughing her way around the world, falling down some more stairs?
Oh, that's right, she would have been more "presidential".
Dr. Muller began the instrument record reconstruction project as a climate skeptic and as a result of his own research, changed his mind about AGW.
That's not quite the case. He was on board with AGW, but then when Climategate hit he saw some shoddy science that gave him pause for concern.
I was initially hopeful when he started his project, but I became soured when it became a giant fund-raising effort as well as involving nepotism (his daughter).
Also, glancing at the paper, is there an explanation that explains the temperature rise from the 1750-1850 temperature average to the higher temps in 1850-1950? Is that from carbon dioxide? If not, what is the explanation?
What caused the Earth to warm and sea levels to rise about 400 feet in the last 10,000 years?
Something else to consider: the predicted rise in temperature due to the direct effects of carbon dioxide is modest. Most of the rise is from hypothesized cloud formation, which is uncertain.
Even Stroustrup himself has been having second thoughts about building a time machine to go back and kill his own grandmother.
He said nothing like that in the article you linked. He was warning against feature creep and complexity. I've never seen an article where Bjarne expresses any regrets about creating the language.
But, creating yet a other language sounds a bit over the top.
I'm not against another language, but there's too much Not Invented Here. There are lots of languages that have been designed to be C++ replacements, and they all mumble the same things about being simpler and more expressive.
If we're going to do something about it now's the time. Now would be the time to establish a guaranteed quality of life for all human beings. Food, shelter, healthcare, Education, and transportation established as birth rights.
No, there is no such "right", because those things have to be provided by others. But hey, if you want all those "rights", you can find them in prison. You just won't have much need for transportation, though.
Providing a consistently nice response here is a challenge that mostly women are expected to be up to gracefully, delivering a response that acknowledges the individual's intellectual capacity, the same individual that denies this acknowledgment to the expert.
Oh please. She wrote fiction. She's not a rocket scientist. Furthermore, anybody is allowed their two-bit opinions to your public posts. If you don't like it, don't post publicly. The only person being sexist was Price.
Yes, Price was not exactly acting gracefully here but she was responding on her private blog
No, she lambasted the guy on Twitter and then took it to her blog. She was "verified" on Twitter because she worked for the company, which she listed in her profile. She was talking about her work for the company on Twitter. And then she had a meltdown because a fan of the game respectfully responded to her with a differing opinion.
She deserved to be fired. This is what happens when you hire social "justice" idiots.
Exactly. It's one thing to say something mean in the heat of the moment, it's quite another to dance on someone's fresh grave. This is the true face of evil behind the social "justice" mask.
Interesting, thanks. Based on that ruling, the Feds can't force cooperation. I know the Department of Justice recently sued California for its "sanctuary" laws. I wish I could find the complaint to see the detailed arguments, but all I could get were press summaries.
No law is above the Constitution.
In theory. In practice, the Constitution has been warped to support all manner of Federal powers.
Apparently you need a lesson in anti-pedantry. The debate about immigration/refugees extends by Europe, and when the poster I replied to says things like,
"Mass pardon does not exist in the legal systems of many countries. I can't name a single one that would be able do such a thing under normal circumstances. A special exception to the immigration laws would have to be created, but then that would violate the principle of equal treatment under law."
it would be myopic and a disservice to the larger debate to ignore what's going on in the United States. Furthermore, what's happened there has been exported to Canada and Europe. Mass migration and lawlessness is the order of the day.
"Obstruction charges may also be laid in unique situations such as refusal to aid a police officer, escape through voluntary action of an officer and refusing to assist prison officers in arresting escaped convicts."
"[Section] 507. Officers to make character known; assistance for officers[3]
(a) Every customs officer shall-- (1) upon being questioned at the time of executing any of the powers conferred upon him, make known his character as an officer of the Federal Government; and (2) have the authority to demand the assistance of any person in making any arrest, search, or seizure authorized by any law enforced or administered by customs officers, if such assistance may be necessary."
"In the United States, a customs officer is a federal law enforcement officer working to enforce customs laws as well as over 400 laws for other federal agencies. Customs officers enforce these laws for every person or thing that enters or leaves U.S. Among their many functions are detecting and confiscating contraband, making sure that import duties are paid, and preventing those without legal authorization from entering the United States. In the past, American customs officers were part of the Department of the Treasury, the oldest law enforcement agency in the U.S., dating back to 1789. U.S. Customs (CBP) is the second highest revenue collector in the United States through fines, collection of duties, and illegal money seized; only the IRS collects more money for the federal government. Every day, on average, U.S. Customs arrests 135 suspects of different crimes, seizes 2,313 pounds of narcotics, confiscate 196 firearms, intercept 210 fraudulent documents, prevents 54 criminal aliens from entering the U.S., and detains one suspected terrorist. Customs officers need no probable cause to search, detain, or seize anything or any person. Today customs officers work for the Department of Homeland Security within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations. They are present at every international airport, seaport, and all land border crossings."
Mass pardon does not exist in the legal systems of many countries. I can't name a single one that would be able do such a thing under normal circumstances.
Apparently you've never heard of the United States.
Of course medicine is subject to normal market dynamics just like any other industry. The laws of economics are not suspended just for medicine. It tends to be regulated precisely because of the ease with which price gouging can (and does) occur but supply and demand still applies to medicine. This very fact is why those who argue against government involvement in health care are so very wrong. Normal market dynamics work but they often function in a way contrary to the benefit of society and individuals.
You've got it backwards. The reason there's such a high price for medicine is because of the government-granted monopolies on drug patents. It's debatable whether the cost of patents are outweighed by the benefits of patent-seeking research.
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It's going to lose a lot of money overspending for six years or so
I'm not sure about that. I'm more worried they're going to cut back spending on shows that make HBO worthwhile. They're going to destroy the brand chasing a fad du jour marketing metric.
unnecessary bias tacked on at the end
But that's what they are. I'll call it as it is. If you think this is just some isolated event, without a wider context, then you haven't been paying attention.
Oversubscribed.
You didn't answer the question. What caused the Earth to warm? Saying it was the end of an ice age is just rephrasing the question as an answer.
The desire to truly wish cancer almost certainly wasn't.
That's what I mean by insincere.
It's a vile way of showing one's sadism towards other to revel in an attempt to hurt another.
Yes, after somebody actually died from cancer. Somebody with a wife and kid. Somebody who suffered. Somebody who had their life cut short.
You want to make it a judging contest or try to spin it towards me doesn't change things.
That's the game you're playing by defending the false equivalence.
If more people had basic humanity, they wouldn't get enraged all the time wishing cancer on people.
It's an insincere remark.
Mass murder and rape aren't remotely the same thing, but they're both wrong. I'm not here to justify someone celebrating the death of another. My point is that TotalBiscuit being dead or the cause of his death doesn't make his general attitude towards other any less revolting.
That's you're comparing flippant, insincere remarks with the truly revolting celebration of somebody who actually died from cancer shows that your own humanity isn't as virtuous as you presume it to be.
a parasite like a streamer
How is a streamer a parasite? Has he infected the host, and is taking value away from them? Or is he part of a larger community of fans?
A 'golden customer' who 'the staff' should not be allowed to displease.
The employees should not treat any of their customers that way.
Some beancounter must have done a study that showed that "Lottery Box" sales aren't impacted if people don't actually play the game.
Oh, I see, you think because people watch they won't play, as opposed to people who play and also watch, or people who started watching and became players. What a sad state of affairs.
People celebrate other people dying from horribly painful deaths all the fucking time.
It doesn't make it right, and it's generally reserved for the worst of people that have done actual harm. If a social "justice" idiot got cancer and died at a young age I would still feel sorry for them. Political disagreements is no reason to lose your basic humanity.
And, again, TotalBiscuit wished cancer on someone else. That he retracted it afterwards is great and maybe it shows that there was a level of decency to the man, but it doesn't really undo the real schadenfreude.
Yes, it does. Sniping at somebody in a moment of rage, which TotalBiscuit is known for, is not the same as celebrating somebody actually dying from cancer. The two are not even remotely close.
The social "justice" idiots that are for Political Correctness were never about civility. They reserved the right to be as uncivil as they wanted, while constraining their opposition with the most stringent edicts.
Right, there's a difference indeed â" one hurts someone, the other doesn't. Except perhaps posthumously self-declared advocates of the deceased
Like his wife or kid?
defending the desceased's misbehaviour against possibly legitimate criticism even after his death
Celebrating when somebody dies a horribly painful death from cancer at a young age is magnitudes more disgusting than whatever supposed "harm" TotalBiscuit did.
But some of them are a different kind of idiot, the kind happy to do something, anything, even if it doesn't make sense, in the hope of an upset.
So tell me what would have been better about a Clinton presidency. Would it have been Libya 2.0 in Syria? Staying with the joke that is the Paris Climate Accords? More Muslim immigration? More illegal immigrants? More Hillary hacking and coughing her way around the world, falling down some more stairs?
Oh, that's right, she would have been more "presidential".
Dr. Muller began the instrument record reconstruction project as a climate skeptic and as a result of his own research, changed his mind about AGW.
That's not quite the case. He was on board with AGW, but then when Climategate hit he saw some shoddy science that gave him pause for concern.
I was initially hopeful when he started his project, but I became soured when it became a giant fund-raising effort as well as involving nepotism (his daughter).
Also, glancing at the paper, is there an explanation that explains the temperature rise from the 1750-1850 temperature average to the higher temps in 1850-1950? Is that from carbon dioxide? If not, what is the explanation?
What caused the Earth to warm and sea levels to rise about 400 feet in the last 10,000 years?
Something else to consider: the predicted rise in temperature due to the direct effects of carbon dioxide is modest. Most of the rise is from hypothesized cloud formation, which is uncertain.
Even Stroustrup himself has been having second thoughts about building a time machine to go back and kill his own grandmother.
He said nothing like that in the article you linked. He was warning against feature creep and complexity. I've never seen an article where Bjarne expresses any regrets about creating the language.
But, creating yet a other language sounds a bit over the top.
I'm not against another language, but there's too much Not Invented Here. There are lots of languages that have been designed to be C++ replacements, and they all mumble the same things about being simpler and more expressive.
If we're going to do something about it now's the time. Now would be the time to establish a guaranteed quality of life for all human beings. Food, shelter, healthcare, Education, and transportation established as birth rights.
No, there is no such "right", because those things have to be provided by others. But hey, if you want all those "rights", you can find them in prison. You just won't have much need for transportation, though.
Seriously...leaving "us" behind?
Of course not. I'm sure we'll get a ride in Spaceship "B".
Providing a consistently nice response here is a challenge that mostly women are expected to be up to gracefully, delivering a response that acknowledges the individual's intellectual capacity, the same individual that denies this acknowledgment to the expert.
Oh please. She wrote fiction. She's not a rocket scientist. Furthermore, anybody is allowed their two-bit opinions to your public posts. If you don't like it, don't post publicly. The only person being sexist was Price.
Yes, Price was not exactly acting gracefully here but she was responding on her private blog
No, she lambasted the guy on Twitter and then took it to her blog. She was "verified" on Twitter because she worked for the company, which she listed in her profile. She was talking about her work for the company on Twitter. And then she had a meltdown because a fan of the game respectfully responded to her with a differing opinion.
She deserved to be fired. This is what happens when you hire social "justice" idiots.
Which he apologised for asap.
Exactly. It's one thing to say something mean in the heat of the moment, it's quite another to dance on someone's fresh grave. This is the true face of evil behind the social "justice" mask.
She's a social "justice" idiot. That's how they roll.
Now take a look at Printz v. United States.
Interesting, thanks. Based on that ruling, the Feds can't force cooperation. I know the Department of Justice recently sued California for its "sanctuary" laws. I wish I could find the complaint to see the detailed arguments, but all I could get were press summaries.
No law is above the Constitution.
In theory. In practice, the Constitution has been warped to support all manner of Federal powers.
Apparently you need a lesson in anti-pedantry. The debate about immigration/refugees extends by Europe, and when the poster I replied to says things like,
"Mass pardon does not exist in the legal systems of many countries. I can't name a single one that would be able do such a thing under normal circumstances. A special exception to the immigration laws would have to be created, but then that would violate the principle of equal treatment under law."
it would be myopic and a disservice to the larger debate to ignore what's going on in the United States. Furthermore, what's happened there has been exported to Canada and Europe. Mass migration and lawlessness is the order of the day.
Bullshit. Which law?
Obstruction of justice:
"Obstruction charges may also be laid in unique situations such as refusal to aid a police officer, escape through voluntary action of an officer and refusing to assist prison officers in arresting escaped convicts."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :
"[Section] 507. Officers to make character known; assistance for officers[3]
(a) Every customs officer shall-- (1) upon being questioned at the time of executing any of the powers conferred upon him, make known his character as an officer of the Federal Government; and (2) have the authority to demand the assistance of any person in making any arrest, search, or seizure authorized by any law enforced or administered by customs officers, if such assistance may be necessary."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :
"In the United States, a customs officer is a federal law enforcement officer working to enforce customs laws as well as over 400 laws for other federal agencies. Customs officers enforce these laws for every person or thing that enters or leaves U.S. Among their many functions are detecting and confiscating contraband, making sure that import duties are paid, and preventing those without legal authorization from entering the United States. In the past, American customs officers were part of the Department of the Treasury, the oldest law enforcement agency in the U.S., dating back to 1789. U.S. Customs (CBP) is the second highest revenue collector in the United States through fines, collection of duties, and illegal money seized; only the IRS collects more money for the federal government. Every day, on average, U.S. Customs arrests 135 suspects of different crimes, seizes 2,313 pounds of narcotics, confiscate 196 firearms, intercept 210 fraudulent documents, prevents 54 criminal aliens from entering the U.S., and detains one suspected terrorist. Customs officers need no probable cause to search, detain, or seize anything or any person. Today customs officers work for the Department of Homeland Security within U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Investigations. They are present at every international airport, seaport, and all land border crossings."
Mass pardon does not exist in the legal systems of many countries. I can't name a single one that would be able do such a thing under normal circumstances.
Apparently you've never heard of the United States.
but with word straight from the horse's mouth
Can't take anything they say at face value. They have to balance building hype versus not undercutting their current sales.
Of course medicine is subject to normal market dynamics just like any other industry. The laws of economics are not suspended just for medicine. It tends to be regulated precisely because of the ease with which price gouging can (and does) occur but supply and demand still applies to medicine. This very fact is why those who argue against government involvement in health care are so very wrong. Normal market dynamics work but they often function in a way contrary to the benefit of society and individuals.
You've got it backwards. The reason there's such a high price for medicine is because of the government-granted monopolies on drug patents. It's debatable whether the cost of patents are outweighed by the benefits of patent-seeking research.