Or, you could just cite some supporting data for your original assertion. It's not my job to prove what you said is bullshit. It's your job to back up your claims with more than fantasy.
Just because Muslims are responsible for trade towers, doesn't mean we should hate or ban Muslims it is wrong and an overreaction. Same with free speech just because there are people out there that say stupid or racist things doesn't mean we should banning all speech that we disagree with.
"Banning" Muslims would be something government does. YouTube is not the government. If they don't want stupid or racist things on their site, they can do what they want.
Let the edgelords and the pornographers and everyone else the finger-wagging moral scolds hate have their place..
You have your place. Don't blame us if that place is far from the rest of us. You have basements, gab, klan meetings, CPAC, Zerohedge, Stormfront, 4chan, NAMBLA conventions. I could go on and on.
You don't get to demand a podium and an audience, especially when someone privately owns that podium. You don't get to demand an income stream. And by the way, I would like to see you make a case for how YouTube is a "common carrier".
There was a "spike" in 2016 but the increase came about because of increased hate crime against white people (marginal effect) and because of an increase of reporting agencies participating with the FBI to gather the statistics (big effect). Since after the election the trend has been going down.
There are four assertions in those two sentences, and every single one of them is a lie. Four out of four.
...hence the need for speech codes in places like university campuses**, right?
Gosh, you're so close to understanding my point. We get speech codes on campus because edgelords thought irresponsible speech was the height of cleverness and society will eventually say, "enough".
Speech codes are bad. But they are what society is going to do when people don't know how to fucking behave responsibly. If you want to be an edgelord, you have to be prepared to accept the consequences. But just be aware that everybody ends up paying for your fun, because when the suppression of speech comes, it comes for everyone. We all experience your consequences. Your running with scissors ends up with us all getting an eye put out.
And that if Carlin were alive today and did the same bits today he did then he would likewise probably be thrown in jail for so called "Hate Speech" right?
That's utter nonsense. You can find tons of comedians doing Carlin's act and even going further today and not being "thrown in jail for hate speech". You can't just throw nonsense like that out and not be challenged.
Do you really believe that "Count Dankula" is the equivalent of George Carlin?
A society that can't take edgelords in stride is pretty damn useless.
Oh, society can "take" the edgelords in stride, alright. It strides right over them. Historically, it's been done on a regular basis. It was done in the 1940s, and again to the KKK in the 1960s. And now it's your turn in the barrel.
Society interprets hateful edgelords as damage and routes around them.
Indeed. Which standard do you, gentle Slashdot read, want: * Videos that people want to put up, and that people want to see; or * A curated selection of videos that are best for you, as judged by your betters
See, but here's the thing. Irresponsible speech that promotes violence will always lead to suppression. You 4chan jackoffs knew this a long time ago, but thought that it was more important to be edgelords and have lulz than it was to be responsible. So now, you reap the whirlwind and spoil it for everyone. You think it's fun to talk about kids who are slaughtered being "crisis actors" and the height of irony to wear nazi uniforms and then you're shocked...shocked, I tell you...when society comes and slaps you the fuck down and tells you to sit down and shut up. Then, you feign surprise when the real sickos shout out your vidya heroes when they shoot up a church or murder a bunch of school kids like you didn't know it was coming.
I spend that much EVERY DAY on sodas and snacks. Who fucking cares about $7/month.
Brother, if you're spending $7 EVERY DAY on sodas and snacks, you may not live long enough to have to worry about replacing those Air Buds when the battery dies in six months.
I don't care about Google+, but I'm still broken up about the end of iGoogle. That was the best start page I've ever used. It had these widgets for Gmail and RSS and other good stuff so everything was in once place. Smooth integration with Google Calendar. I've been through every iGoogle copy, like start.me, and Chrome's Awesome New Tab extension and a bunch of others, and they're never good, or good for very long.
I've never really forgiven Google for killing off iGoogle. It was a tool I used all the time and now it's gone. Those bastards.
Universities make most of their money off of either contract research and social networking, and those areas may be where their biggest contribution to society is. If we need universities to focus on education, should we split the education function out from the contract research and social networking functions?
It is shocking what people who didn't go to university think goes on at a university.
There are pretty much two separate Universities in the same place. The one is the University of the people who are taking the majors that will allow them to have something of a skillset to support themselves. Engineering comes to mind.
Where did you get the idea that the purpose of a university was to give you a "skillset" so you could be a wage slave? You can go back in history and that has literally never been the purpose of a university.
The second one is degrees in subjects that mainly consist of people giving their opinion. The careers available for these majors are mostly replacing the present instructor or one at another campus.
That isn't a description of any system of higher education in the world, or any course of study.
I think you should talk to some people who have actually spent time at university.
...that solar isn't going to be replacing coal, but natural gas,,
Coal is disappearing all on its own. In 1997, coal accounted for 52.8% of the electricity generated in the US. In 2017, it accounted for 27.4%. The reason for the decline is that coal plants have been replaced by...natural gas plants.
And now, natural gas plants are being replaced by solar plants. You could correctly say that solar is generating electricity where coal once did. So, solar is replacing coal, but there is an intermediate step.
"Texas’s power grid operator has stressed the need for more electricity resources in the region to power oil and gas drilling operations."
So no, they're not closing fossil fuel plants in favor of this...and the reason they're building this is BECAUSE of fossil fuel efforts.
The fossil fuel plants they're closing are in Florida, not in Texas. Read the summary again.
Also,isn't it interesting that Texas power grid operator believes solar systems are the way to power gas and drilling operations? It's something of a significant admission, it seems.
They are what, $160? Assuming you use for 2 years, that is under $7/month.
For earbuds? $7/month is pretty expensive. They're bluetooth, so they don't sound all that good anyway. They actually sound worse than the $15 headset I've had since 2011, which have cost me about fifteen cents per month, and show no sign of wearing out any time soon.
And I don't have to charge them. Did I mention they sound better than the Airpods? They definitely sound better than the Airpods.
They banned plastic stuff in my part of California, and I have to tell you, nothing has changed except less wasted plastic. When you go to a restaurant or fast food, instead of dropping a straw in front of you that you ignore and ends up in the trash, you have to actually say, "I'll take a straw, please" (and the please is only required if you happened to have been raised right, which leaves out Trump voters, but to be honest, we leave out Trump voters generally here in California). It's absolutely no big deal and life goes on. So don't be such goddamn drama queens about it. You would think not automatically getting a straw is like being put in chains and forced to do manual labor for the collective. You'll live, you fat bastards, and you shouldn't be shoving that fast food down your neck anyway. Go home and cook yourself some vegetables.
Anyway, the biodegradable paper straws are far superior for snorting coke. Less waste all around.
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Or, you could just cite some supporting data for your original assertion. It's not my job to prove what you said is bullshit. It's your job to back up your claims with more than fantasy.
"Banning" Muslims would be something government does. YouTube is not the government. If they don't want stupid or racist things on their site, they can do what they want.
You have your place. Don't blame us if that place is far from the rest of us. You have basements, gab, klan meetings, CPAC, Zerohedge, Stormfront, 4chan, NAMBLA conventions. I could go on and on.
You don't get to demand a podium and an audience, especially when someone privately owns that podium. You don't get to demand an income stream. And by the way, I would like to see you make a case for how YouTube is a "common carrier".
There are four assertions in those two sentences, and every single one of them is a lie. Four out of four.
"by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @12:35PM "
Gosh, you're so close to understanding my point. We get speech codes on campus because edgelords thought irresponsible speech was the height of cleverness and society will eventually say, "enough".
Speech codes are bad. But they are what society is going to do when people don't know how to fucking behave responsibly. If you want to be an edgelord, you have to be prepared to accept the consequences. But just be aware that everybody ends up paying for your fun, because when the suppression of speech comes, it comes for everyone. We all experience your consequences. Your running with scissors ends up with us all getting an eye put out.
That's utter nonsense. You can find tons of comedians doing Carlin's act and even going further today and not being "thrown in jail for hate speech". You can't just throw nonsense like that out and not be challenged.
Do you really believe that "Count Dankula" is the equivalent of George Carlin?
Yes, but in both cases, the side that promoted violence ended up losing. You should have thought that through.
Does what say?
Oh, society can "take" the edgelords in stride, alright. It strides right over them. Historically, it's been done on a regular basis. It was done in the 1940s, and again to the KKK in the 1960s. And now it's your turn in the barrel.
Society interprets hateful edgelords as damage and routes around them.
See, but here's the thing. Irresponsible speech that promotes violence will always lead to suppression. You 4chan jackoffs knew this a long time ago, but thought that it was more important to be edgelords and have lulz than it was to be responsible. So now, you reap the whirlwind and spoil it for everyone. You think it's fun to talk about kids who are slaughtered being "crisis actors" and the height of irony to wear nazi uniforms and then you're shocked...shocked, I tell you...when society comes and slaps you the fuck down and tells you to sit down and shut up. Then, you feign surprise when the real sickos shout out your vidya heroes when they shoot up a church or murder a bunch of school kids like you didn't know it was coming.
Thanks for fucking it up for everyone.
Yeah, about that:
https://www.popsci.com/alaska-...
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
Brother, if you're spending $7 EVERY DAY on sodas and snacks, you may not live long enough to have to worry about replacing those Air Buds when the battery dies in six months.
Her collaborator in the study was Dr. Ivan Jaganoff.
I don't care about Google+, but I'm still broken up about the end of iGoogle. That was the best start page I've ever used. It had these widgets for Gmail and RSS and other good stuff so everything was in once place. Smooth integration with Google Calendar. I've been through every iGoogle copy, like start.me, and Chrome's Awesome New Tab extension and a bunch of others, and they're never good, or good for very long.
I've never really forgiven Google for killing off iGoogle. It was a tool I used all the time and now it's gone. Those bastards.
My mistake, Ol. I shouldn't have dismissed your criticism. That hasn't been my experience working in higher education.
It is shocking what people who didn't go to university think goes on at a university.
Where did you get the idea that the purpose of a university was to give you a "skillset" so you could be a wage slave? You can go back in history and that has literally never been the purpose of a university.
That isn't a description of any system of higher education in the world, or any course of study.
I think you should talk to some people who have actually spent time at university.
I agree. All electricity generation should be nationalized.
Coal is disappearing all on its own. In 1997, coal accounted for 52.8% of the electricity generated in the US. In 2017, it accounted for 27.4%. The reason for the decline is that coal plants have been replaced by...natural gas plants.
And now, natural gas plants are being replaced by solar plants. You could correctly say that solar is generating electricity where coal once did. So, solar is replacing coal, but there is an intermediate step.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs...
The fossil fuel plants they're closing are in Florida, not in Texas. Read the summary again.
Also,isn't it interesting that Texas power grid operator believes solar systems are the way to power gas and drilling operations? It's something of a significant admission, it seems.
For earbuds? $7/month is pretty expensive. They're bluetooth, so they don't sound all that good anyway. They actually sound worse than the $15 headset I've had since 2011, which have cost me about fifteen cents per month, and show no sign of wearing out any time soon.
And I don't have to charge them. Did I mention they sound better than the Airpods? They definitely sound better than the Airpods.
They banned plastic stuff in my part of California, and I have to tell you, nothing has changed except less wasted plastic. When you go to a restaurant or fast food, instead of dropping a straw in front of you that you ignore and ends up in the trash, you have to actually say, "I'll take a straw, please" (and the please is only required if you happened to have been raised right, which leaves out Trump voters, but to be honest, we leave out Trump voters generally here in California). It's absolutely no big deal and life goes on. So don't be such goddamn drama queens about it. You would think not automatically getting a straw is like being put in chains and forced to do manual labor for the collective. You'll live, you fat bastards, and you shouldn't be shoving that fast food down your neck anyway. Go home and cook yourself some vegetables.
Anyway, the biodegradable paper straws are far superior for snorting coke. Less waste all around.
Oh gosh. I'd had enough to drink to post shit, but not enough to get my usual clarity.
Thanks for the correction, brother.
So, 174% of Bangladeshi adults have toilets?
That seems a bit high, but I'll take your word for it.