There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
nazis are one of the biggest lessons that have happened to mankind. if some bunch of idiots can not realize that there are places that this example should be recalled, then its not worth to waste words with them.
note that the knowledge of a sysadmin on whether the company is doing any evil or not would far surpass any other person's knowledge due to his/her access to the it infrastructure. there might be people on slashdot even, that are in this position in your company and knows your company is doing evil. thats of course if they are doing it.
What you say presumes that the people who are defending democracy will always be stronger and therefore democracy, freedom will not get abolished.
fallacious.
when one of the factions/ideas that seek abolishment of freedom gets the upper hand, if only slightly at any point in time, freedom will get abolished. thats exactly what happened on krystalnacht in berlin in 1933.
How about you be a black man during the Jim Crow era. Plenty of vigilanteism then. It didn't work back then, and it's not going to work now.
something havent worked in an occasion, or even most occasions does not mean that its not wanted, or its not right.
french revolution is a big heap of vigilanteism, as per your argument. if that hadnt happened, we were still subject to kings, and were below some aristocratic class.
imagine you are in 1788. imagine you are in france. imagine an aristocrat abuses and exploits you. imagine land of the law says it is god given right of the aristocrat to be higher than you, and have power on you. now go to the court of law.
there are times that laws are not humane or reasonable. there are even things that are not reasonable and illogical even in the best of laws too.
copy"right", patents, resulting exploitation and highway robbery along with repression side by side are such things in our day.
it doesnt require going to law school to be able to see whats wrong in those.
If your company does not do evil, you dont have nothing to fear from anyone from slashdot crowd.
whomever leaked those emails was probably someone with a clean conscience. if you do not want to hire people with clean conscience and does whatever is right, i wonder what kind of work your company is doing.
If it is a long hair working as a code grunt/sysadmin in their it lot, may god make his/her hair glitter with sunshine and rustle in gentle, warm winds.
this is not about extremism. and it doesnt effect anything whether there are good people within the extremist/religious crowd or not.
even if there are many good people amongst them, the radicals will just keep doing stuff like this, and eventually at some point will be requesting that science should be 'revised' because it contradicts 'the divine truth'.
the fact is, once you start to let ideas that are against reason and freedom, they keep asking for more. if you keep on caving in, you get to a point that the freedom of speech/thought concept starts to contradict itself.
it to mean that ideas, philosophies or thoughts that seek the abolishment of reason, freedom, democracy should be covered by it.
"creationism" seeks to set up a delusion that world have come to existence with some supernatural power's calling, and even 6000 years ago too. To the contrary of hard, solid evidence against.
Allowing that would in future would mean that same people will start to call for abolishment of certain sciences and procedures, because they would be continually providing evidence challenging the 6000 year old lie.
games dont have to be innovative. but they have to be not repetitive. this is the main issue. last 10 years, games have been repeating the earlier concepts, and without putting in anything too. just hash some old stuff with new graphs and sounds and put forward. aaah, also add multiplayer. voila - Dkanori Hexxen IIIV
it doesnt matter. not knowing better stuff existed does not change the fact that what someone is playing is not comparable to what has been. what you say is like drinking tea without sugar, not knowing sugar exists, and being happy with it. its ignorance, not bliss.
games are not about 'boundaries'. the 'immersiveness' you are portraying is totally offset by the declining gameplay and atmosphere quality in regard to storytelling and story's own quality. not to mention no new concept have been put forward.
Give or take 1 game what differs ? will you be able to count 20 major games that come out with novel and undiscovered concepts in the last 10 years ? do so.
the story told is something different than concept. there are zillions of novel stories in books, if you talk about them. we are talking about games. like how dune 2 was different when it came out, when diablo 1 made a real difference. not 'gears is what doom was to me then'
there has been no boundary pushed in the last 10 years.
oh come on now. the 'fun' of halo that you are trying to define is nothing comparable to someone laying his hands on dune 2 in 1992 for the first time.
Slashdot Mirror
/. handled it. thats much more important
if you are in such a position then, when you see that something there is wrong, by your clear conscience, you should act on it.
will not be allowed or tolerated by the hairy guys & gals community. you prominent figures should have known that.
There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress.
nazis are one of the biggest lessons that have happened to mankind. if some bunch of idiots can not realize that there are places that this example should be recalled, then its not worth to waste words with them.
note that the knowledge of a sysadmin on whether the company is doing any evil or not would far surpass any other person's knowledge due to his/her access to the it infrastructure. there might be people on slashdot even, that are in this position in your company and knows your company is doing evil. thats of course if they are doing it.
What you say presumes that the people who are defending democracy will always be stronger and therefore democracy, freedom will not get abolished.
fallacious.
when one of the factions/ideas that seek abolishment of freedom gets the upper hand, if only slightly at any point in time, freedom will get abolished. thats exactly what happened on krystalnacht in berlin in 1933.
something havent worked in an occasion, or even most occasions does not mean that its not wanted, or its not right.
french revolution is a big heap of vigilanteism, as per your argument. if that hadnt happened, we were still subject to kings, and were below some aristocratic class.
Security crowd had just got a phletora of new terms. like,
- Hey, if you blahbob this one, you are so out
- Man, your code is sooo blahbob
- Last night someone from sales pulled so bad a blahbob that i had to spend half of the night to fix it
- After his fifth blahbob, they decided he would be less harmful in customer service
imagine you are in 1788. imagine you are in france. imagine an aristocrat abuses and exploits you. imagine land of the law says it is god given right of the aristocrat to be higher than you, and have power on you. now go to the court of law.
there are times that laws are not humane or reasonable. there are even things that are not reasonable and illogical even in the best of laws too.
copy"right", patents, resulting exploitation and highway robbery along with repression side by side are such things in our day.
it doesnt require going to law school to be able to see whats wrong in those.
that there can be any debate as to the wrongness of what riaa stands for and their tactics.
they catch it. you thing long hair people are stupid ? noooo my friend. you are much in err.
If your company does not do evil, you dont have nothing to fear from anyone from slashdot crowd.
whomever leaked those emails was probably someone with a clean conscience. if you do not want to hire people with clean conscience and does whatever is right, i wonder what kind of work your company is doing.
maybe it wasnt blahbob and some long hair changed it and put it in the wild ?
If it is a long hair working as a code grunt/sysadmin in their it lot, may god make his/her hair glitter with sunshine and rustle in gentle, warm winds.
nothing can cover it up
this is not about extremism. and it doesnt effect anything whether there are good people within the extremist/religious crowd or not.
even if there are many good people amongst them, the radicals will just keep doing stuff like this, and eventually at some point will be requesting that science should be 'revised' because it contradicts 'the divine truth'.
the fact is, once you start to let ideas that are against reason and freedom, they keep asking for more. if you keep on caving in, you get to a point that the freedom of speech/thought concept starts to contradict itself.
If so, then riaa is in knee deep s*it
this is something big.
real big.
it to mean that ideas, philosophies or thoughts that seek the abolishment of reason, freedom, democracy should be covered by it.
"creationism" seeks to set up a delusion that world have come to existence with some supernatural power's calling, and even 6000 years ago too. To the contrary of hard, solid evidence against.
Allowing that would in future would mean that same people will start to call for abolishment of certain sciences and procedures, because they would be continually providing evidence challenging the 6000 year old lie.
games dont have to be innovative. but they have to be not repetitive. this is the main issue. last 10 years, games have been repeating the earlier concepts, and without putting in anything too. just hash some old stuff with new graphs and sounds and put forward. aaah, also add multiplayer. voila - Dkanori Hexxen IIIV
it doesnt matter. not knowing better stuff existed does not change the fact that what someone is playing is not comparable to what has been. what you say is like drinking tea without sugar, not knowing sugar exists, and being happy with it. its ignorance, not bliss.
games are not about 'boundaries'. the 'immersiveness' you are portraying is totally offset by the declining gameplay and atmosphere quality in regard to storytelling and story's own quality. not to mention no new concept have been put forward.
Give or take 1 game what differs ? will you be able to count 20 major games that come out with novel and undiscovered concepts in the last 10 years ? do so.
the story told is something different than concept. there are zillions of novel stories in books, if you talk about them. we are talking about games. like how dune 2 was different when it came out, when diablo 1 made a real difference. not 'gears is what doom was to me then'
there has been no boundary pushed in the last 10 years.
oh come on now. the 'fun' of halo that you are trying to define is nothing comparable to someone laying his hands on dune 2 in 1992 for the first time.
Couldnt play in a playground that is open eh ? Afraid of competition ? Eh ?