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Comment Re:Long overdue (Score 1) 748

1. Censorship only applies to governments.

LOL!
What if I said "Racism only applies when the government does it."? Would you flip your shit at how absurd that is?
You probably would, and you still wouldn't see how absurd your own statement is.

Censorship occurs when things are censored, government or not.
1st amendment violations occur when the government limits or criminalizes speech.

Comment Re:Muh freedom of speech (Score 1) 748

You're a straight white male, aren't you?

You're a heterophobic, racist, sexist, bigot, aren't you?
You're literally dismissing someone's opinions, views, and experiences based on their sexuality, race, and gender, without consideration, simply because they differ from your own established views.
You're matching the exact definitions for these things, ignoring the whole hijacking of "phobic" that PC clowns like you pulled with "homophobic".

Comment Re:Sigh (Score 1) 748

there were endless posts about how "just not liking gays" was somehow a perfectly okay position to take

It absolutely is an perfectly fine position to take. People are allowed to like, dislike, hate, and love whatever they want, for whatever reasons they want. How they act on those feelings is a different matter entirely.
If people like you are FOR tolerance and acceptance as you always claim, why is it that you're always driving a hate train at anyone who disagrees with your views?
Why is tolerance and acceptance limited to the groups and opinions you like? If you were open-minded, tolerant, or accepting, you would abide the opinions and views of others even when you disagreed with them, and you would simply ignore those that you found offensive and instead focus on actual crimes, not your phony thought crime bullshit.

Comment Re: Amost sounds like a good deal ... (Score 1) 376

3 != 4.
A triangle is not a square.
Red is not blue.
Hydrogen is not helium.
A dog is not a cat.
If the coin landed heads-up, the coin did not land tails-up.
If someone was in location A at time T, they could not have been in location B at time T committing crime C.

That are some nice claims, can you prove any of them?
I bet that a lot of smarter minds than yours have tried to prove the first one and failed.
As for the others, a presumption of inequality is not proof.

They are all proven by their definitions, which are to the exclusion of the other possibilities.

Comment Re:Tor (Score 2) 376

If the ISP is redirecting every port coming from your IP, it doesn't matter what protocol you use. Instead of getting the "hotel" like page, you get nothing.

If the ISP is redirecting/blocking everything, there will be hell (and a lot of its lawyers) to pay the moment someone with VOIP tries to dial 911 after they were blocked.

If data of any form can get out of the pipe to a host not controlled by the ISP, then the blocking can be circumvented.

Comment Re: Amost sounds like a good deal ... (Score 1, Flamebait) 376

You cannot prove a negative.

Sure you fucking can. Anything defined in such a way as to exclude other possible definitions can have the latter definitions be proven in the negative just as surely as the former definition can be in the positive.

3 != 4.
A triangle is not a square.
Red is not blue.
Hydrogen is not helium.
A dog is not a cat.
If the coin landed heads-up, the coin did not land tails-up.
If someone was in location A at time T, they could not have been in location B at time T committing crime C.
You are not smart.

Comment Re:A lot of assumptions... (Score 1) 98

They're making wild assumptions about the genders of the backers and trying to drawn conclusions about that

No, they have a hypothesis that may one day be tested on the entire population in question, they formed their hypothesis on the basis of laboratory tests, Extrapolation is a perfectly valid method of making a prediction (and quite possibly the only useful method), corporations and political organisations all over the planet spend gazillions on the results of such "focus group" tests.

Of course nature is what it is and "the future" always reserves the right to to ignore our most confident predictions. In other words science is in the business of disproving its best answers by replacing them with better ones, it can never prove anything no matter how high you stack the data. If nobody has bothered with the question before then obviously the answer these people have is currently the best answer anyone has.

I was a teenager in the 70's, the social and behavioural sciences have come along way since Feynman pointed out their fundamental problem, the findings from the "Stanford prison experiments" during the same decade is an important, uncomfortable, and sadly underrated example of an early "law of human behaviour".

Uh, no. You can't extrapolate your lab setting to the real model when you don't have any info on the real model to base your lab setting on.
Even if they knew the gender distribution of backers, AND of all visitors who ended up not backing, they still wouldn't be representing the Kickstarter model of people coming upon a Kickstarter of their own volition and deciding to support it or not.

The ONLY way to get this data is for Kickstarter to provide it. The ONLY way to accurately approximate it is to replicate the conditions under which people visit and decide to support (or not support) a Kickstarter. Their scenario doesn't do that in the slightest. You can't even get accurate data on how often people fart in a lab scenario.

Comment Re:A lot of assumptions... (Score 1) 98

As I read the article, the researchers couldn't determine the sex of the contributors to the Kickstarter projects. But they did notice that tech projects started by women had more success getting funding. Their laboratory experiment indicated some women are more likely to support other women. So they conclude that the Kickstarter projects have the same causation.

I kind of wonder about that conclusion though. The type of person who would fund a Kickstarter project comes from a much different population than the (I assume) students they used in their lab. That said, it is a reasonable hypothesis. Obama certainly gets virtually all of the black vote, Hillary gets a lot of her support from women.

Yup.
They're making wild assumptions about the genders of the backers and trying to drawn conclusions about that. They simply do not have that information and cannot approximate it, especially when they're claiming that gender plays a role in funding.

Comment Re:It's not going to work (Score 1) 136

That's a roller-coaster chart. Two incidents of being propped up... then a solid downhill with a few bumps for the rest of the time. Wasn't this near a zero three years ago? Guess where it's headed back to...

It was near zero when it started out, it slowly but surely climbed, and then it sky rocketed once the frenzy started.
There's a lot of motion if you're a speculator looking to day trade, but if you're actually using Bitcoin then it's been comparable to about $500 for several months.
The current period is actually the longest, most stable one it's ever had since the masses learned of it.

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