This is about feminist led SJW crusades spamming anti white male marxist tirades that we are being forced to accept because they come with a weak sci fi veneer.
You're a little late to this conversation. Were you busy yesterday at the march in Charlottesville?
I wrote "Spppaaaacee Acccce" (aka Space War) and got sued by Don Bluth for using the name (had no idea about the animated dragon's lair type game.
Thank you for your service.
I loved my Amiga, but now it's time for me to put aside childish things and have a computer that has more than 512mb of RAM. But I will forever remember fondly those days.
Agreed. When I have visited New York City (usually for work) I have been able to get by for a week by mostly walking around, taking the subway
I just came back from a visit to my hometown, Chicago. I went up there to visit some friends and take care of my daughter's dog while she went to an out-of-town wedding. She left me her (very nice) car, but I never took it out of the garage. Chicago has the finest public transportation system I've ever seen in a big old city. Airport to my daughter's house? Blue line and then a short walk. Ride down to see some friends and watch Muse at Lollapalooka? Blue line straight downtown. Drop in at my old martial arts school? Milwaukee Avenue bus. Everywhere else was a walk or bikeride away.
Here in Houston (I'm moving to California in a few weeks), I cannot go three miles without driving on a crowded, dangerous expressway. You cannot ride a bike from the Museum District to Midtown (3 miles) because they built highway 59 without allowing for any cross streets. No zoning laws whatsoever, a libertarian paradise, but if you want to go to the grocery store, you have to get on an expressway (and the grocery store is only about a mile away). Lots of expressways means that instead of neighborhoods, you get strip malls full of gun shops, pawnbrokers and Dollar Stores.
Public transportation and a little bit of smart urban planning is the way to go.
the unrealistically scrawny and weak female lead carrying a black dongstaff riding a speeder that looks like a dildo with the young black buck love interest adventure in their fight against the evil straight white man and being followed around by a small white cuck-bot the white male viewer is supposed to identify as while the hispanic fighter ace saves the day after being commanded to go in by the asian general and the only guy that dies is also a white male. convenient.
You watched Star Wars and that's what you came away with?
You might have bigger problems than the SJWs, my friend.
One guy called Baby Driver "a soundtrack with a movie attached".
I don't have a problem with that, actually. But I can see how some people might.
It's like the guy who complained about the entire Mad Max franchise just being made of movies that were "one long car chase". For me, that's exactly what made them compelling. It was cinema boiled down to its essence: moving light projected on a screen with sound. Pure action. Very existential.
Dunkirk wasn't bad, but I found it a little manipulative, like a Spielberg movie, where the audience is given cues regarding what to feel and when, and they're hammered over your head. It was skillfully made, though.
I saw Baby Driver a few weeks ago when I was in Chicago at the famous Logan Theater, which is a half-price, second run restored Beaux Arts movie palace on Chicago's Northwest side (that serves drinks!) It was a fun experience. Not a life-changing Oscar-worthy experience, but a good summer flick.
Sorry, I did not intend to say they did. We need the break, because of our modern luxuries and capabilities which allow us to overload ourselves with media. Our ancestors were naturally limited by lack of time and technology for such things.
I don't know. Maybe you're right.
I'm thinking about how for tens of thousands of years our ancestors would spend their evenings with nothing to do but look up at the stars. They told thousands upon thousands of stories just based on those little lights in the sky. They watched the sun come up every morning, and it was a story. They watched the sun's trajectory across the sky change over the months and it was...more stories. Stories upon stories. And when they started writing down stuff, it was even more stories. Stories about ancestors, about hunting, about having sex, about gods. Stories based on earlier stories, with the names changed.
Maybe the number of stories hasn't changed. Maybe what's changed is our willingness to tell stories to each other instead of having some centralized industry stuff them down the funnel into our throats.
Me? I like stories. Like to tell 'em, like to listen to 'em.
We're just getting way past the saturation point with entertainment and stories of every kind. We need a break, and then afterward we can go back to telling and hearing the same old tales again, just as our ancestors have done for millennia. Maybe we could even do something useful for a while. I have even been thinking about cutting the cord on my Netflix subscription......and I'm not any kind of anti-TV nutter.
When did our ancestors take a "break" from telling stories?
If he believes that empathy is a handicap and he argues that women have a biological tendency to fall victim to this handicap and need tools to compensate for it and argues that forcing everyone to have a handicap is not a solution, then firing him for saying such a thing, instead of engaging his argument, is tantamount to suppressing a voice which attempts to argue for solutions for a perceived handicap.
Don't you feel a little bit silly for typing that?
Do you understand that believing empathy is a handicap is known as sociopathy? Do you think you're a sociopath? Because I don't believe you are a sociopath. At worst, you're someone who is still dealing with scars from some earlier emotional injury, maybe not being able to get girls to go out with you or a mother who forced you to take diarrhea medicine. I understand it hurts, but staying in this perpetual state of adolescence is not an answer. I'm not trying to be flip or glib. You and James Damore were hurt somewhere along the line and now you believe women working in tech are to blame. Let it go. I'm being genuine with you here.
Women working in tech are not going to hurt you in any way.
That's not how it works. Political affiliation is not established solely through party membership.
I didn't say anything about party membership.
Espousing a point of view which is prominently a part of a certain political movement's platform is enough to create a perception of political affiliation.
So, to which "political movement" is James Damore affiliated? Why are you incapable of saying it?
discrimination based on political orientation
You understand the words "affiliation" and "orientation" are not the same, right? I'm curious about why you're not able to state James Damore's political affiliation or his political orientation.
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You're a little late to this conversation. Were you busy yesterday at the march in Charlottesville?
Thank you for your service.
I loved my Amiga, but now it's time for me to put aside childish things and have a computer that has more than 512mb of RAM. But I will forever remember fondly those days.
Both Leia and Padme show copious cleavage, which is tiddy enough for incel MRAs.
I hear they're going to call the next model the iPhone RAZR.
Unlimited and free are not the same thing.
I'm not doubting you, but do you have any sort of citation for that statement?
I remember the good old days, when only men, like James Tiptree, Jr., won Hugo awards.
For me, it was hiking the block and a half to the Italian beef stand. Had to take an Uber home, though.
I just came back from a visit to my hometown, Chicago. I went up there to visit some friends and take care of my daughter's dog while she went to an out-of-town wedding. She left me her (very nice) car, but I never took it out of the garage. Chicago has the finest public transportation system I've ever seen in a big old city. Airport to my daughter's house? Blue line and then a short walk. Ride down to see some friends and watch Muse at Lollapalooka? Blue line straight downtown. Drop in at my old martial arts school? Milwaukee Avenue bus. Everywhere else was a walk or bikeride away.
Here in Houston (I'm moving to California in a few weeks), I cannot go three miles without driving on a crowded, dangerous expressway. You cannot ride a bike from the Museum District to Midtown (3 miles) because they built highway 59 without allowing for any cross streets. No zoning laws whatsoever, a libertarian paradise, but if you want to go to the grocery store, you have to get on an expressway (and the grocery store is only about a mile away). Lots of expressways means that instead of neighborhoods, you get strip malls full of gun shops, pawnbrokers and Dollar Stores.
Public transportation and a little bit of smart urban planning is the way to go.
Citation needed.
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You watched Star Wars and that's what you came away with?
You might have bigger problems than the SJWs, my friend.
I don't have a problem with that, actually. But I can see how some people might.
It's like the guy who complained about the entire Mad Max franchise just being made of movies that were "one long car chase". For me, that's exactly what made them compelling. It was cinema boiled down to its essence: moving light projected on a screen with sound. Pure action. Very existential.
Dunkirk wasn't bad, but I found it a little manipulative, like a Spielberg movie, where the audience is given cues regarding what to feel and when, and they're hammered over your head. It was skillfully made, though.
I saw Baby Driver a few weeks ago when I was in Chicago at the famous Logan Theater, which is a half-price, second run restored Beaux Arts movie palace on Chicago's Northwest side (that serves drinks!) It was a fun experience. Not a life-changing Oscar-worthy experience, but a good summer flick.
I don't know. Maybe you're right.
I'm thinking about how for tens of thousands of years our ancestors would spend their evenings with nothing to do but look up at the stars. They told thousands upon thousands of stories just based on those little lights in the sky. They watched the sun come up every morning, and it was a story. They watched the sun's trajectory across the sky change over the months and it was...more stories. Stories upon stories. And when they started writing down stuff, it was even more stories. Stories about ancestors, about hunting, about having sex, about gods. Stories based on earlier stories, with the names changed.
Maybe the number of stories hasn't changed. Maybe what's changed is our willingness to tell stories to each other instead of having some centralized industry stuff them down the funnel into our throats.
Me? I like stories. Like to tell 'em, like to listen to 'em.
Baby Driver is good.
When did our ancestors take a "break" from telling stories?
Translation: "I can't believe Star Wars cast a woman in a leading role and didn't show off her tiddies."
Everybody already calls you Nancy.
Google stock price rose again today.
Don't you feel a little bit silly for typing that?
Do you understand that believing empathy is a handicap is known as sociopathy? Do you think you're a sociopath? Because I don't believe you are a sociopath. At worst, you're someone who is still dealing with scars from some earlier emotional injury, maybe not being able to get girls to go out with you or a mother who forced you to take diarrhea medicine. I understand it hurts, but staying in this perpetual state of adolescence is not an answer. I'm not trying to be flip or glib. You and James Damore were hurt somewhere along the line and now you believe women working in tech are to blame. Let it go. I'm being genuine with you here.
Women working in tech are not going to hurt you in any way.
Let's take a little poll:
Slashdot users: How bad are BMW drivers?
1) bad
2) really bad
3) terrible human beings that need a smack
4) fucking awful, they should all die in fiery wrecks.
Canadians are polite up to a point. Ask a hockey player. They're also prepared to brawl if the need arises.
Canadians are sort of like Australians with flannel shirts.
I didn't say anything about party membership.
So, to which "political movement" is James Damore affiliated? Why are you incapable of saying it?
You understand the words "affiliation" and "orientation" are not the same, right? I'm curious about why you're not able to state James Damore's political affiliation or his political orientation.
So, what is his political affiliation? Do you know? And was he fired for political affiliation? You don't seem able to come out and say it.
That's all fine, but it's not what I'm asking.
You said,
And I'm asking you what that has to do with James Damore. Was he fired for political affiliation?
You must not have been here long.