I used to be an avid gamer during the first 3-4 console generations, but when I see what they're trying to push nowadays (less freedom/revenue for consumerls and SMBs, more control and profits for the most useless parts of the chain (distributors), I can't believe that people continue buying this stuff. Get yourself a few good emulators for SNES/GBA/PS1/PS2/N64/GCN and you've enough old-school gems to stay entertained for the rest of your life. If you want new games, buy PC games and join kickstarters.
I hope the younger generations still hasn't and won' get used to such a blatant rip-off.
If I were Mozilla I'd look into suing for defamation, more specifically libel. If you have been libeled, you don't even need to prove damages, at least in the US, according to this website: http://www.wikihow.com/Sue-for-Defamation
At least the environmentalists in your country get up from their ass and try to improve SOMETHING. You can't really expect them to move to China in a completely foreign environment to protest coal plants there. What are you doing, except sitting on your ass working, consuming and trying to get everyone into the same hopeless and jaded state of mind that you are in? Congratulations, genius!
This is confusing because it feels like sarcasm, yet in the larger context of your comment, it seems like not-sarcasm. Obviously, every country should be criticized for its faults, recognizing the difference between the governed and those who govern. Even in first world democracies, it is _not_ easy to say that the government represents the people's wishes. It is easy to say that the government represents what a majority see as the least worst options for public office, which is not a distinction without a difference.
Agreed. Not all governement officials are democratically elected, only a tiny part of them is actually. The CIA, FBI, FCC, IRA, the police system, the school system, the prison system, the army, etc. All people employed by these entities are public officials. Only a handful are actually elected officials. They are simply the scapegoats who bear the brunt of the popular anger.
Taking care to be aware of one's own sins, is the first step in helping others improve themselves without at the same time, sounding like a completely self-ignorant twit. Further, such self-awareness can be very valid as a basis for an argument about why certain actions are unwise, and thus may form part of a non-fallacious argument.
Wrongs should be openly and vehemently critisized, irrespective of one's own past "sins". By the hand, those "sins" you're talking about aren't mine, and if you aren't part of the people making the decisions which lead to pollution (in this particular case) they aren't yours either.
Apathy never gets anything changed for the better, but often allows change for the worse. Views like this should be challenged, not least of all because without expectations that an entity can do better, there is a great likelihood it won't. I'm not sure how this is a fallacy of any kind, because a fallacy requires some argument. This is a "give up" attitude, and attitudes aren't arguments, thus can't be fallacies.
What the GP is trying to say is that such statements are worse than useless and contribute nothing to the discussion.
While we may have no right to intervene, there is no reason we cannot judge China's wrongs, just as others, and ourselves, should feel free to judge and point out our wrongs. Without feedback on how you're screwing up, the process of improvement is prolonged. This I could see as a fallacy because it is used as argument against even comment, when really, it should apply only to intervention.
Do you think the chinese governement is reading slashdot? How old are you? (I'm late 20's btw).
I'm not really sure what you want to see in a discussion of this type of news. A bunch soviet russia jokes? Beowulf clusters? A few links to goatse or tubgirl? A wide-ranging, on-topic discussion is actually healthy, not something to be sneered at.
It's exactly because a wide-ranging, on-topic discussion is actually healthy that the type of comments that the GP has mentioned aren't welcome...
ROFL. So you really think having schools full of "new blood" teachers with less than 5 years experience is preferrable to having experienced teachers who know what they're doing? Teachers get better at their job through experience. Making them work in such terrible conditions that most leave in the space of 5 years so you can re-hire inexperienced teachers at starting pay grades are the kind of penny-pinching savings that will destroy an education system. Nevermind we could just tax the top 1% capitalists a few more percent or reduce permanent war spending and the whole budget problem wouldn't exist.
So I guess if somebody would agree to do your work for 40 times less cash (assuming you never chat with coworkers and are a bumbling workaholic), you should starve too?
Overwork-conditioned moron...
The truth hurts?
Is that why everyone is in denial about the simple fact that over 90% of the population are slaves?
Everybody is having grandiose fantasies after watching too many Hollywood movies and thus unable to face the hard, cold truth?
Of course, if everybody would cooperate in ousting the masters the whole charade would be over in one day.
Of course, divide-and-conquer has proven to be super-effective since the dawn of humanity...
Don't worry, technological advances will soon make this CEO dream come true and allow workers to work remotely, effectively acting as an egalizer between western countries and the rest of the world and thus demoting everyone from the status of spoiled slave/worker to the status of "frugal" salve.;-)
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I used to be an avid gamer during the first 3-4 console generations, but when I see what they're trying to push nowadays (less freedom/revenue for consumerls and SMBs, more control and profits for the most useless parts of the chain (distributors), I can't believe that people continue buying this stuff. Get yourself a few good emulators for SNES/GBA/PS1/PS2/N64/GCN and you've enough old-school gems to stay entertained for the rest of your life. If you want new games, buy PC games and join kickstarters.
I hope the younger generations still hasn't and won' get used to such a blatant rip-off.
The two parties may argue a lot, but almost only about strawman arguments.
False flag? At least now we know what the governement had in mind with this whole "cyberwar" gibberish and the hiring spree...
Nice post, but the article is about WD, not Seagate....
Dem 'Mericans be craaaazy....
If I were Mozilla I'd look into suing for defamation, more specifically libel. If you have been libeled, you don't even need to prove damages, at least in the US, according to this website: http://www.wikihow.com/Sue-for-Defamation
This scum must get sued into the ground. What a disgusting company.
When that happens they should look into getting a .bit TLD, a potential solution to DNS cencorship: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
At least the environmentalists in your country get up from their ass and try to improve SOMETHING. You can't really expect them to move to China in a completely foreign environment to protest coal plants there. What are you doing, except sitting on your ass working, consuming and trying to get everyone into the same hopeless and jaded state of mind that you are in? Congratulations, genius!
Agreed. Not all governement officials are democratically elected, only a tiny part of them is actually. The CIA, FBI, FCC, IRA, the police system, the school system, the prison system, the army, etc. All people employed by these entities are public officials. Only a handful are actually elected officials. They are simply the scapegoats who bear the brunt of the popular anger.
Wrongs should be openly and vehemently critisized, irrespective of one's own past "sins". By the hand, those "sins" you're talking about aren't mine, and if you aren't part of the people making the decisions which lead to pollution (in this particular case) they aren't yours either.
What the GP is trying to say is that such statements are worse than useless and contribute nothing to the discussion.
Do you think the chinese governement is reading slashdot? How old are you? (I'm late 20's btw).
It's exactly because a wide-ranging, on-topic discussion is actually healthy that the type of comments that the GP has mentioned aren't welcome...
Pepople like you just don't get it. More than Google Glasses it's people like you that are making me afraid of the future...
So we should participate in your race to the bottom, is that it?
ROFL. So you really think having schools full of "new blood" teachers with less than 5 years experience is preferrable to having experienced teachers who know what they're doing? Teachers get better at their job through experience. Making them work in such terrible conditions that most leave in the space of 5 years so you can re-hire inexperienced teachers at starting pay grades are the kind of penny-pinching savings that will destroy an education system. Nevermind we could just tax the top 1% capitalists a few more percent or reduce permanent war spending and the whole budget problem wouldn't exist.
So I guess if somebody would agree to do your work for 40 times less cash (assuming you never chat with coworkers and are a bumbling workaholic), you should starve too?
Overwork-conditioned moron...
Addon-breakage hasn't been a major problem for many months...
The truth hurts?
Is that why everyone is in denial about the simple fact that over 90% of the population are slaves?
Everybody is having grandiose fantasies after watching too many Hollywood movies and thus unable to face the hard, cold truth?
Of course, if everybody would cooperate in ousting the masters the whole charade would be over in one day.
Of course, divide-and-conquer has proven to be super-effective since the dawn of humanity...
Nobody is saying that capitalism is good for the country. It only profits the capitalists. Nationalism is hopelessly outdated.
Dont let your mind get imprisoned in the two party political system framework that being pushed on us.
Don't let your fantasy/mindset get imprisoned in the 2 party system political framework that being pushed on us.
Don't worry, technological advances will soon make this CEO dream come true and allow workers to work remotely, effectively acting as an egalizer between western countries and the rest of the world and thus demoting everyone from the status of spoiled slave/worker to the status of "frugal" salve. ;-)
It's commercial break time on slashdot!
The US still hasn't had it's revolution (since it's establishment after the seccesion from the British), I guess it's really about time!
I would prefer to make my living as a traditional prostitute than to work at one of the companies you describe, prostituting my mind and "soul".
TL;DR Lying is A-OK if you're a businesman trying to make money. ???
Is this cowboy mentality? Just wondering, when I was a kid I always thought cowboys were cool...