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Shame he didn't go further on Korwin. The guy deserves an entire episode devoted to his Hitler salutes, misogyny (actual one, not some PC "there's no wage gap" stuff /s) and blatant bigotry. English quotes are good, but even better are in Polish Wikiquotes. I think you will like this one:
> A woman seeps the views of a man she sleeps with. After all, Nature or God - we won't argue about that - hasn't constructed a male in a way in which hundreds of thousands of spermatozoids go to waste; they sink into a woman's body and remake her to the picture and the similarity of a man she belongs to.
I think I'm done, myself. It's not like the admins will care about a few people getting fed up with the rampant misogyny considering that's what drives countless teenage boys and man-children to the site, but I wonder if they are even bothered by just how hateful reddit is to women and minorities. Do they even care? Are they pushing it all to the back of their minds and replacing it with a big image of all their pageviews? Are they excusing it because once a year everyone donates a little bit of money to the exact type of person they hate the other 364 days?
Fuck. I just can't stand this place. And the sad thing is they're gonna make a bunch of money off it. They're making money off of bullying and harassment and shit.
The Men Who Built America, The History of US, Hatfields and McCoys, and Mankind all were about history and were, shockingly, on the History Channel. As much as I don't like shows like Pawn Stars and Ice Road Truckers, I feel as if the History Channel has realized that if it produces some half-ass shows to keep its channel running in between shows like Mankind, it can make a lot of money. Especially since the shows like Mankind bring in a lot of viewers to the History Channel. I think that Hatfields and McCoys brought in around 40 million views for all of the episodes combined(Here is an article that says they got around 14 million viewers for each night). That kind of viewership must bring in a crap-ton of ad revenue.
The funding does not matter, it's who carried out the poll that matters. It's Public Policy Polling (which does have a slightly blue bias, apparently).
Also, I'm inclined to trust Kos's polls. Remember that little scandal back in 2k10? Kos handled itself ok there, in my opinion.
Here is an ed-op from Yale that talks about how it's not really about free speech.
There are two issues at hand that touch on free speech; Halloween costumes and Erika Christakis' email.
The first issue is dumb. The email that was sent was reminding people to be sensitive toward others for their Halloween costumes-- essentially a public service announcement that some costumes can hit on racially charged lines and maybe worth a second thought. Christakis and her husband took the email as an affront to free speech (it really wasn't), and issued a defense of potentially offensive Halloween costumes in a very tone-deaf and over-privileged manner. Here is a point-by-point genius annotation that looks at the implicit biases and faults with the letter. The claim that discouraging shitty Halloween costumes prevents a creation of an "intellectual space" is a laughable claim, and should be ridiculed for the "freezepeach" defense of offensive speech that it is.
The second issue is the email itself. The email sent was taken poorly by Yalies, as expected. Many felt that the Christakis' had failed in their duty to provide a good learning environment for students of color. The email issued encouraged offensive Halloween costumes, ones that students of Silliman might not be happy with. As such, many people want them to step down/be sacked from their position as master, because they fucked up their duty to their residents, and instead pushed for some free speech ideal over the safety and wellbeing of their residents. And I can't really fault them for that. This again, isn't a free speech issue. The Christakis' can issue any sort of statement they want, but they don't deserve a position in charge of the wellbeing of students when they view that goal as secondary to providing an "intellectual space."
Please cite your sources if you're going to be making claims like that. From what I understand, most studies have found that marijuana does significantly impact your driving ability. Lots of researchers have done studies on accident rates, done testing in laboratory settings, and compiled lots of evidence to find that smoking marijuana does negatively impact your driving ability. The general consensus is that it isn't as bad as alcohol, but that doesn't mean that it's safe or acceptable.
Do you know if there's any particular reason that MFA hasn't chosen to opt out of inclusion in /r/all? The option was pretty much intended for this sort of "special interest" subreddits where the mass drive-by of /r/all is always a detriment.
Yep.
Remember when the admins introduced vote-count hiding, and everyone threw a fit and said 'don't be silly that doesn't happen you're just abusing your powers I want my karmas!'?
>MIT’s Sinan Aral, found that he could experimentally boost the popularity of articles 32 percent on a news aggregator, like Reddit.com, by posting them with an initial few likes.
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>Indeed, Internet users are so systematically optimistic that they tended to reverse the articles with initial negative ratings. Thus, while the Internet tends to exaggerate positively valued stories, the same bias does not afflict negatively valued stories.
Start a trend and it'll follow, but reddit is built to spawn hiveminds and circlejerks.
I wouldn't be shocked.
It's probably different than what you're thinking of, but I recall reading that ~half (at the very least 40%, probably closer to 45-50%) of all X-Box accounts are women as well, so it's not like every woman just plays Angry Birds and nothing else.
(On phone, so I don't have the number offhand)
EDIT: It's ~60/40.
Its the latest and greatest in really weird ironic meta-jerking. But according to the rules of the ProMemerLegaue, I must direct you to ask /u/K_Lobstah, who is the current Commissioner of Memes.
CloudFlare has denial-of-service attack protection. Normally that screen looks like this (I got that straight from the CloudFlare website as you can tell by the URL).
I've seen some websites use it. Voat was going down so much, I guess that's their solution.
Oh god the pedo apologia jerk.
Nothing will ever top this monstrosity though. That is the goddamn motherload.
It's funny because I remember seeing a report a bit ago saying that the breakdown of Xbox accounts is pretty close to 50/50, or at least, it's a lot closer than it sounds like here.
On phone, but I'll look for it when I have a chance.
>Cause if a bitch tries to diss me, while I'm full of liquor, I smack the bitch up and shoot the nigga that's with her" ~ Dr. Dre
>>Not to condone Dre abusing women but has anyone actually heard that song? The bitch in question is Eazy E
>>> I used to know a bitch named Eric Wright
>>We used to roll around and fuck the hoes at night
>>Tight than a motherfucker with the gangsta beats
>>And we was ballin' on the motherfucking Compton streets
>>Peep, the shit got deep and it was on
>>Number one song after number one song
>>Long as my motherfucking pockets was fat
>>I didn't give a fuck where the bitch was at
>>But she was hangin' with a white bitch doin' the shit she do
>>Suckin' on his dick just to get a buck or two
>>And the few ends she got didn't mean nothin'
>>Now she's suing 'cause the shit she be doin' ain't shit
>>Bitch can't hang with the streets, she found herself short
>>So now she's takin' me to court
>>It's real conversation for your ass
>>So recognize and pass to Daz
>>Edit: For those curious, the "white bitch" is Jerry Heller.
Huge upvotes for the wrong song. Nowhere is the 'full of liquor' quote seen. The real song is Findum Fuckum & Flee. It really is about beating women.
A slut etymologically is a women who is
> "a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman,"
Or, if you go by Reddit's more normal definition, it's a woman who has slept with someone other than the commenting Redditor.
Seriously, why are you judging someone for a totally private consensual sex act? It literally has no effect on your life; you could even talk to them without noticing. Presuming that it was consensual, private and safe, why does it matter how many people were involved?
This actually a gray area in US law right now. I completely agree that it's unethical, but that has nothing to do with the legality.
I know that several lawsuits have hinged on the definition "unauthorized access." Was the access unauthorized if no authorization was required? I think some cases have argued yes and others no. If anyone more knowledgeable than I am can expand on this, please do.
I get that it's fun to make fun of redditors, but they're really not being idiotic in this case. Lots of white-hat hackers regularly search the internet looking for exposed devices in order to inform the owners of them - should these hackers be arrested for their work? Probably not, which means intent comes into play, which makes the whole situation muddy. Given the existence of sites like shodan.io, most of the activity on /r/controllablewebcams is almost certainly not illegal, at least for now.
>it really is. to be honest i'm flitting around reddit these days desperately waiting for whispers of a new website that isn't full of tards. it's out there somewhere. >>http://hubski.com/ >>>i see potential, but the fourth post is a list of posts on reddit. is there escape? >>>>No
Hahahaha, literally Voat!
The oft-reprinted assertion that male homosexuals were called faggots because they were burned at the stake as punishment is an etymological urban legend. Burning was sometimes a punishment meted out to homosexuals in Christian Europe (on the suggestion of the Biblical fate of Sodom and Gomorrah), but in England, where parliament had made homosexuality a capital offense in 1533, hanging was the method prescribed. Any use of faggot in connection with public executions had long become an English historical obscurity by the time the word began to be used for "male homosexual" in 20th century American slang, whereas the contemptuous slang word for "woman" (and the other possible sources or influences listed here) was in active use. It was used in this sense in early 20c. by D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, among others. -Etymonline
What's with this "If Pitchfork likes it, it must be horrible" sentiment I see in pretty much every music forum? Score-wise they seem to have the most level-headed ratings (at least in the sense that they tend to fall in the median range of aggregate album reviews at metacritic) and at 5 album reviews a day they are probably the most active music review supplier on the market. Sure they do have the occasional overblown, overindulgent reviews but they are far-and-few between and are still usually fun to read anyways, like this one
I've just never seen the level of hate for Pitchfork directed towards any other review site, be it Spin, Rolling Stone, Tiny Mix Tape etc. and I don't understand why.
Plenty of companies have charity programs that aren't necessarily for profit either. For example, Morgan Stanley donated $55 million to charities in 2010 and Bank of America donated over $200 million in 2010 as well (source - http://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-10-most-charitable-companies-in-america.html). For-profit doesn't have to mean cutthroat business, despite what reddit thinks.
You could have at least pretended to read the article. Here's another one from 1985.
If I'm reading this correct, it could mean that the large number of new users are starting to tire of the same old shit over and over again.
For me it took about a year to see the repetitiveness of it all.
Blame the Supreme Court.
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Snyder_v._Phelps
All you have to do to get around fighting words is prove that there is a broader national discourse you're talking in the context of even if you're saying something like "God hates fags".
Oh, and Valve also has a lot of shit associated with them as well. It's not as bad as EA or Activision, but there are a lot of minor dumb things they do.
For example: Revelations 2012, a game made by a no-name dev team that currently has a 12/100 on Metacritic, got onto Steam with no problems. Meanwhile, Hard Reset Exile, an expansion to a very good game, has been delayed indefinitely because Valve isn't putting it on Steam.
Also: The Hammer Editor is really buggy and the UI is awful. Making a level from scratch with that editor is an exercise in patience.
/u/KaliYugaz recommended Hubski to me (http://hubski.com) in private.
You just saw the eugenics thread as well I take it, it's like pissing in the wind with these children on reddit. Unless you have lived with a special needs child you cannot understand what it's like. I would even go so far as to say you won't truly understand unless you are a parent. Therapists and whatnot don't even truly get it and they never will because at the end of the day when their work is done they get to give the kids back and go home, for them it's a choice for us it's our life.
Special needs children help you to see the world in an amazing way, they slow everything down and teach you to live in every moment. You can't go at a normal pace of life, you have to slow it all down while looking 3 moves ahead so you can avoid any triggers. My son hasn't had a major meltdown at home in a year just because we (he, I, and the therapists) have finally got to the point where coping strategies work. I didn't show a picture before, so sack it I'm going to show a picture now, just because. my kid getting more pleasure out of life than most of reddit
It's much more a criticism on Western capitalist countries rather than 1984 which was much more specifically about Stalinist Russia.
There are people skills. Control over what one says and how one says it is essential to developing them if they do not naturally have the inclination, which requires some (trivial) amount of discipline. How To Win Friends and Influence People has some great advice towards this end, namely "make the other person feel important". Really, all you need to do is make others feel good and they will want to be around you, but this requires that you watch what you say.
tl;dr- it's not the interaction itself that drives us to panic, it's the feeling of there being no escape if we need it.
I feel the same way as this guy does, but not because I dislike people or can't hang around them. I'm so introverted that even spending thoroughly enjoyable time with my best friend and most favorite person in the whole world (my fiance) takes a small and bothersome toll, but I still have many other friends that I spend time with, and I have made it a point to be able to befriend anyone at the drop of a hat (How To Win Friends and Influence People helps quite a bit). I just don't like club scenes or other significant massively-social commitments (mass dinners, parties, concerts, etc). The problem is that due to the constant interaction I begin to feel so tired that I get stressed, and in order to alleviate this stress I must go off by myself temporarily. This is impossible for me to do in such an extremely social situation without coming off as rude, and if I'm sharing a ride with someone then bowing out early in case of mega-drain is off the table altogether. Thus, I begin to panic as I realize that I'm going to be utterly drained and very, very tired by the time I get back home.
Now, if I'm not "supposed" to be having "fun", like if it's a business dinner or a study session or something, I can deal with it just fine. Whatever energy I lose due to social interaction is returned twice over by the act of working on the task at hand.
> I don't understand why juggalos get so much hate.
Because they stand out and receive a lot of bad press. Video's like this don't help:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/american-juggalo-documentary
> They will have to refine their criteria of what passes as a "terrorist" in their database. [X] Uses reddit [X] Has an opinion [X] Is brown [X] Can 360noscope [+82]
> Have you ever criticized the US government on reddit? Congrats, you are on the list! [+92]
Because Reddit is definitely a threat to the state.
"We regret to inform you that the NSA domestic surveillance system has been shut down. All those memes on /r/adviceanimals have forced us to stop spying on American citizens."
Reddit has one of the biggest egos for a site that's done so little. Reddit's only rank 54 globally and 18 in the United States. We have the power to maybe do something, but not the will. The 'resistance' to the NSA is a really angry comment and maybe a wallpaper change at most, yet Reddit feels like their backing the NSA into a corner. How many Redditors have been confronted by the NSA? My guess is not much. Also, it probably wasn't for that Confession Bear about hating the NSA either.
If you're using Chrome, install StayFocusd.
Another option is to edit your hosts file and add the following line:
www.lereddit.com www.reddit.com
then reboot.
The final option is simply to browse the new queue in /r/funny until you swear off the internet forever and seal yourself in a dark cave in a futile effort to shelter yourself from the horrors you've seen.
Right so your solution is to tell people to fuck off great thanks
You pretty much don't know that the ACA standardized and opened the individual insurance market because insurance companies didn't bother with it and would offer an expensive hodgepodge of shit that was state dependent.
You think ACA premiums suck? Before the ACA individual premiums for an "affordable plan" (basically ACA style catastrophic but worse) were around $650 a month and even so with cancer you could still be saddled with 100,000 of debt even though you had health insurance. Even with a catastrophic-level plan that literally cannot happen in today's world.
You literally know nothing about health insurance but you magically think it's all the government's fault.
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/11/health-insurance-before-obamacare/index.htm
Also individual mandate isn't actually a requirement to enroll, it's a insurance tax that's waived with insurance otherwise the Heritage Foundation wouldn't have thought of it. Because the idea is that if you don't buy individual insurance you probably will at one point in your life visit the emergency room uninsured the tax is to make a pool to even out taxpayer liability.
You don't have to buy insurance, it's just that most people choose to and waive the tax.
This is really random, but I just discovered that Zizek wrote copy for a 2003 Abercrombie catalog and thought you might enjoy it as much as I did (NSFW)
> I just don't understand how an old irrelevant game can appear on /r/gaming every single day.
Zelda certainly isn't irrelevant. That franchise is one of the most celebrated of all from Nintendo.
However, I do agree that the 'jerk factor concerning Zelda is off the charts. The reactions from gaming culture in general to reviews of that game series goes beyond fanatical. Anyone remember how much shit Tom McShea from Gamespot got because he "dared" give Skyward Sword a 7.5? If you disagree with his score, fine, but at least he justified it by explaining in great detail why he didn't like things like the predictable formula, the hours and hours of padding, and the finicky WiiMotion Plus controls. The fanbois can't even do that. They just scream "DAE ROSE-COLORED NOSTALGIA GOGGLES?!".
Being almost 30, I grew up with Zelda being a big thing, but I never really got into it. Ocarina of Time is the first one I ever played and actually enjoyed.
I guess what i'm saying is, i'm a strong, beautiful special snowflake who don't need no Zelda.
Same thing with furries really, which I always saw MLP as an extension of.
There's the normal dude who read a bit too much Redwall, has a preorder in for Overgrowth, and maybe anthropomorphizes his art a bit... Then there's the guy who has an account on furaffinity, is down to yiff and isn't afraid to let everyone know that when the veil is lifted, his otherkin form of a fox with two dicks who isn't completely socially awkward will finally appear.
The people that are vocal about the Modern UI are the same ones who are vocal about any other issue with anything else in the tech world. If I surveyed just what forum users and Reddit said about an issue, I'd have an awfully polarized world view.
I upgraded from W7 to W8 Pro and it was 15 dollars. That's if you bought a computer in the last 6 months with W7 on it. It's 45 dollars to upgrade from W7 otherwise until the end of Jan. Pretty good deal IMO.
Start8 is what I use, and it doesn't "remove" the Modern UI. I can still call upon it by a customizable keyboard shortcut (Which I do on occassion; I like the Netflix and weather apps). Stardock is the company that makes Start8. They've been making stuff for a long time (Windows XP) that modifies many aspects of the system. I really doubt Microsoft is going to step in and block Start8 from working. I guess that's the most assurance I can give you regarding that.
I know you're not into the idea of paying for something that should be included in the OS, but regarding the font/text color issue...
Yeah it's like that. I find those books cumbersome and kind of awkward to navigate but I've always been drawn to the notion of being able to explore a literary world in a non-linear way... I got into this through RPG gaming, and right now I use a program called Inform which makes writing it all really easy and fluid. They also have some good stuff on the whole philosophy of interactive fiction, history, some examples, etc. What I'm currently writing is going to be a standalone text-based RPG which will be playable in a web browser, and if I can manage to recruit some more people I would like to turn it into it's own RPG built in the Fallout game engine.
I only quoted it because it is a popular book that I thought circlebrokers would know. But the things I quoted from are hardly points of contention. Statistics are statistics. Did she read the figures from the reports wrong? And The Shock Doctrine is not regarded as pure fluff by historians. I know because I am one. It was on the sylabus when I did my master's and I put chapters on the reading list for my classes now. Yes, it is written in a journalistic voice- that's why it has been so popular and influential. I also find students actually read it, as opposed to academic journals.
Yep, it happened.
It smelled fishy to begin with, many places smelling a hoax right off the bat.
The same day, it would seem, they revealed it to be fake.
From their Facebook page (link in the second article):
>We've also learned that many of you need to be more critical. Even towards us. You can't seriously cheer the "fact" that we moved our servers to bloody North Korea. Applauds to you who told us to fuck off. Always stay critical. Towards everyone!
Here's a genius annotation about the letter. The letter came from a very tone deaf and dismissive place toward the concerns of the students.
Yes! :)
I fucking love etymonline. They've also got a really good page to link to when someone tries to sell you bunk about the etymology of "fuck" or "shit".
My personal favorite example of this is Gamespot's <em>Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney</em> review, which criticizes it for its lack of replayability. Corporate game reviews blow.
< Outspoken gay activist Michaelangelo Signorile wrote that HRC had clearly traded its early endorsement for “access to the White House” for its leaders. >
< Every major union or progressive organization that let its members have a vote endorsed Bernie Sanders.
Meanwhile, all of Hillary Clinton’s major group endorsements come from organizations where the leaders decide. And several of those endorsements were accompanied by criticisms from members about the lack of a democratic process.
It’s perhaps the clearest example yet of Clinton’s powerful appeal to the Democratic Party’s elite, even as support for Sanders explodes among the rank and file.>
Huh. I didn't think I'd ever hear about Lobsters on CB. Small world, or it's bigger than it appears. Probably the second one.
I was actually thinking about some stuff I've read on Lobsters while writing the OP. Irene's snark is stuck in my head.
I won't speak on behalf of either of them, but I was added by /u/syncretic about 3 months before he deleted his account.
If you click through you'll see when syncretic was added, and when the sub became a facebook screenshots subreddit. from there you'll see all the different moderators added afterwards, and the overall changes in rules/css.
>Did he revitalize the sub?
Yep.
>Do you think the sub would have taken a different turn had he not implemented the changes he did?
Somebody probably would've probably /r/redditrequest-ed it, and it wouldn't have been nearly as popular as it became.
"It seems you are possibly discussing piracy or piracy-related topics. Although this is neither against reddit's rules nor our own, it's important to remember to be responsible. Content creators can only create said content because they receive funding from you.
Piracy is an important freedom in our sometimes restrictive societies, and it's important to remember these things before you judge:
- Some pirate something that they already bought simply to remove the DRM.
- Some pirate to re-obtain something they already bought.
- Some pirate to try products before they make a financial commitment to them.
- Some pirate simply because they cannot afford it.
- Some pirate to get something that's no longer available.
- Some pirate because their country censors or doesn't import it.
- Some pirate from companies that they feel don't deserve their money
Lastly, here's a few tips: AdBlock is awesome for hiding fake download links. Deluge is an excellent open-source client that isn't in close cooperation with the MPAA (unlike uTorrent, uninstall it as soon as possible). Oh, and remember: torrenting in itself isn't illegal, and it's definitely not piracy! It's simply a method of transferring files.
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Everything is relative. Less than a week isn't long for, say, a normal person going through their 9-to-5. However, this isn't normal circumstances. According to Reddit Metrics, /r/TheFappening (the original sub) had 147k subscribers. From Sept 1 to 6, it was the fastest growing non-default sub for every day except Sept 5th. According to the newest update on this whole thing:
>I had to break /r/thefappening a few times to keep the site from completely falling over, which as expected resulted in an immediate creation of a new slew of subreddits. Articles in the press were flying out and we were getting comment requests left and right.
>[...]
>We hit new traffic milestones, ones which I'd be ashamed to share publicly.
>[...]
>As the week went on, press stories went out and debate flared everywhere. A lot of focus was obviously put on us, since reddit was clearly one of the major places people were using to find these photos.
The admins obviously knew about the "Fappening", knew that it was breaking the site with new traffic, and knew that it was all over the news. Despite this, they apparently were entirely willing to let this keep going on and it was only the child porn that made them finally ban it.
So, yes, I think that a week is a pretty long time when you've got one of the biggest sites on the internet cracking under the load of traffic it's getting because of one event and when the site you run is being mentioned repeatedly in the news in a really terrible light. Now, reading the latest update and reading about the little civil war the admins have going on, I can definitely see why they were so paralyzed by apparent indecision. I'd probably change my opinion from "upset" to "disappointed"( though using "disappointed" in regards to this is pretty patronizing. Even for circlebroke, I mean).
But I showed the article where now we know.
Here's a good example of what I was saying-
<The United Food and Commercial Workers didn’t take a public vote. “I don’t think they reached out to membership and asked their membership who they were willing to support,” complained UFCW Local 791 member Richard Poole. The UFCW’s board and its president then offered a surprising endorsement to Clinton. UFCW’s chief nemesis is Wal-Mart, a corporation on whose board Clinton sat for six years. >
Snip
< Many of the groups that did not hold an outright membership vote were not entirely transparent in disclosing how they endorsed candidates. Several cited membership surveys and focus groups but did not disclose how these other processes were weighted against the decisions of executive boards. >
In case you missed the source before- https://theintercept.com/2016/01/22/bernie-sanders-gets-group-endorsements-when-members-decide-hillary-clinton-when-leaders-decide/
They don't ban racist jokes IIRC. Also here's what their sidebar used to be
>Note: If you are offended by a joke, you have two options:
>* You can man up and understand this is a subreddit dedicated to jokes,
>OR
>* You can go to /r/shitredditsays and whine like the baby you are. Or the newly created /r/cleanjokes.
>If you want to be even MORE offended, try out /r/MeanJokes, the love child of /r/Jokes and /r/Imgoingtohellforthis. We aren't here to hold your hand, and censor you from anything offensive. If you want someone to do that, walk out of the basement and ask your mommy to install a net nanny. These are jokes. Some of them are old, and as such reflect the tone of the times. Some of them are new, and just as offensive. We don't care. Unless it's spam, it stays.
> Or I can try the game for myself and know whether I'm going to enjoy it. Both work.
Yes, you could break the law. Or you could not. I suppose the choice is ultimately up to you, just don't complain when more companies come out with always-on DRM.
> Except when they blame low sales numbers on piracy
And they will, so long as they see massive numbers of downloads for new releases. Look at this list of pirated games. When game producers see 4 million illegal downloads, they see 4 million lost sales, and they'd be stupid not to.
There's of course arguments that they should be more responsive to consumer demands, but seriously, it costs a lot to make games, and its completely ridiculous that people refuse to pay for them.
> Or perhaps supply and demand is telling us that producers of content need to rethink their business models in the wake of advancing technology, rather than using the force of government to restrict the spread of culture.
That culture costs money to make. Or are you suggesting that game producers should just give away their time for free so that others can avoid being too inconvenienced to achieve their own entertainment?
> A Youtuber doesn't have to charge their audience a single penny, and yet they can make a living out of creating content.
Because they're getting dosh from Youtube. If peeps only had patreon and donations to go on, then sure Jimquisition might do aite, but I somehow doubt as many folks would be making a living off it.
There are some links to threads here. What I find really funny is the tendency for people to take those posts as an indication that the gubberment is using Reddit to influence public opinion (c.f. this comment).
My current username is in part a reference to that particular paranoia-jerk. Plain old spammers seem like a much more plausible explanation to me.
No, many banks have much more cash than Apple. As you can see here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=AAPL Apple had around $11 billion in cash and cash equivalents whereas JP Morgan (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bs?s=JPM) had roughly $600 billion in cash and cash equivalents.
If you're talking straight etymology, then here's the etymology of the word:
>"people of common descent," c.1500, from Middle French razza "race, breed, lineage," possibly from Italian razza, of unknown origin (cf. Spanish and Portuguese raza).
>Original senses in English included "wines with characteristic flavor" (1520), "group of people with common occupation" (c.1500), and "generation" (c.1560). Meaning "tribe, nation, or people regarded as of common stock" is from c.1600. Modern meaning of "one of the great divisions of mankind based on physical peculiarities" is from 1774 (though even among anthropologists there never has been an accepted classification of these).
>"Just being a Negro doesn't qualify you to understand the race situation any more than being sick makes you an expert on medicine." [Dick Gregory, 1964]
>Klein suggests these derive from Arabic ra's "head, beginning, origin" (cf. Hebrew rosh). Old English þeode meant both "race" and "language;" as a verb, geþeodan, it meant "to unite, to join." Race-riot attested from 1889, American English.
So no, it's not a recent definition. That's sort of the origin of the entire word. It came from phenotypical and sociological differences rather than genetic.
Wow! You had to reach back a hundred years (give or take) to find anyone who agrees with you. These papers have been discredited and are no longer regarded as important or relevant for the study of biology or anything else. They are the remnants of a fake, discredited field of study that no longer exists in any meaningful way.
>I think we can all agree that not having a human trait like this is desirable.
We're not talking about preventing/curing diseases. We're talking about making a "better" society by influencing breeding. These are different things.
> it would be better if the average IQ was around 100 and not 60.
I don't agree with this. What do you mean by "better?"
>Also, please explain how intelligence is not an inheritable trait, knowing what we know about evolution, twin studies, and genetics.
I don't want to go over this again, because it's really tiresome.There are many factors that influence how well people do on IQ tests. Inheritance is one of them. Culture is another. Nutrition is another. Early childhood and prenatal factors are another. Etc.
I don't even know why you think it matters. Even if I agreed with you that Intelligence was an inheritable trait, so what? It doesn't change my argument at all. Even if Eugenics made it possible to create a "smarter" society, it would still be immoral.
> how can you argue that it's literally a crime against humanity
Because the International Criminal Court has declared that enforced sterilization (the most common implementation of Eugenics) is a crime against humanity. Literally.
>[Tor] was originally developed with the U.S. Navy in mind, for the primary purpose of protecting government communications. Today, it is used every day for a wide variety of purposes by normal people, the military, journalists, law enforcement officers, activists, and many others.
Source: https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en#inception
Still can't find the part about "providing complete protection against law enforcements [sic].
QED
>When they are both having sales at the same time, they are comparable during that time.
The sales did overlap, by several days in fact. Origin's sale was from the 23rd to the 7th. Steam's sale was from the 19th to the 3rd, which just means Origin's started 4 days later, and ended 4 days later.
>If they are on at different times then they are not similar enough to compare.
I stand by my previous points. It doesn't make sense to not compare sales in the same general timeframe, even if they weren't at the exact same time. Now if you're talking about the summer sale vs. Winter sale, sure, that makes sense. Discounts increase, prices drop, etc. In the Steam/Origin case, we're talking a matter of days. Not weeks. Not months. Days. It is perfectly reasonable to compare them in that timeframe.
>When the Steam sale was over your choices were to buy it full price, wait for the next sale, or buy it on Origin at a lower price.
Okay, and?
>Their sale prices are different but that doesn't mean the Origin sale was shit.
As I said previously, when you compare the two, it does in fact mean the Origin sale was shit.
>As an overall service, Origin does it's job. It isn't as good as Steam but it does it's job.
That isn't really saying much.
What are your opinions on the Pokemon's lawsuit against Ramar Larkin Jones for using a couple of copyrighted images of Pikachu and Snivy in a poster for his block party?
oh no someone on some small website doesn't like us
literally getting gassed
>reddit.com, 137th most popular website in the world, 67th in the US
>vice.com, 2,046th most popular website in the world, 1,459 in the US
I don't remember either, but that's because I wasn't there yet. The voting algorithm is just not good for a community that hasn't got a culture where high quality submissions are wanted. I would say that Reddit used be a lot better when I was not there, though.
> I've seen SRS network mods quote Sun Tsu, so these are people well-versed on the ancient, powerful, and potentially dangerous knowledge of how to help a crowd of people with similar cause to realize their goals
Oh lawd. This guy needs to actually read Sun Tzu. The Art of War isn't some secret manual to world domination. The Art of War is a collection of sayings, many of which are vague (and those which aren't vague are outdated, since they were made to be applicable to warfare in ancient China). These sayings are often very true and thought-provoking, but knowing them doesn't give me the ability to win over the public. Sun Tzu doesn't tell people any secret ways to manipulate the masses or any bullshit like that.
i remember reading it in this book, which is pretty fantastic all around! if you liked Lies My Teacher Told Me, it's in a similar vein but dealing with different aspects of world history rather than just american history.