A spokesman for GamerGate says "since there wasn't a women involved, we have no comment on this issue but as soon as we find a woman to blame you can be sure we'll hunt her down and dox her for our crazier members to deal with".

Shit that gets said on the internet, even "fighting words," is about the least threatening form of hostile human interaction possible. As soon as it crosses into the physical world, it becomes a different thing entirely.

actually, no. there's no way of telling whether someone making death threats on the internet is just a moronic blowhard like yourself or a lunatic stalker who can and will carry out those threats.

they may be making absurdist threats like "rip off their head and skull-fuck them" but it's impossible to tell whether they're just a teenage fuckwit over-compensating for having only a tiny penis or if they're seriously deranged and dangerous.

because of that inability to distinguish, threats of violence on the internet have to be taken seriously - and the overall effect is intimidation, which inherently crosses over into the physical world.

it IS a personal attack - their right to attack women is being questioned.

you can't put limits on someone's entitlements and expect them not to get pissed off about it.

that is complete bullshit.

i've watched most of her videos, and there's nothing in them that is in the least bit controversial - it's all blatantly obvious stuff that she's pointing out.

the misogyny in many video games is as obvious as the misogyny in american TV shows - and it comes from the same source: american culture is fucked up and misogynystic.

Example: Gnome. Why is gnome adding dependencies on systemd libraries ?

because RedHat wants to own Linux. The fact that they already own both gnome and systemd allows them to force systemd onto every distro that wants to support gnome.

you know, only spoilt white boys defending their priviledge talk about "reverse" racism or sexism.

it's self-serving bullshit that means "oh no! woe is me! there's a risk that someone else might get the scraps left over after white boys like me take nearly everything".

I wrote "spoilt" and i meant "spoilt'.

    spoilt
            adj 1: having the character or disposition harmed by pampering
                          or oversolicitous attention; "a spoiled child" [syn: {spoiled}, {spoilt}]

if you're going to be a spelling nazi, at least get a fucking clue first.

and WTF is this "Juan" shit? is that some lame attempt at a coded racist slur, implying i'm mexican or spanish or something? i don't even live in the police-state shithole known as the USA, i live in australia - mexicans are extremely rare here.

spoilt white boys often have a huge chip on their shoulder and are obsessed with denying their priviledge. it's why they make absurd strawmen and rant about them at any opportunity, regardless of whether it's relevant in context or not.

i.e. "white boys burden".

this particular spoilt white boy seems to be suffering from the idiotic meme that white males are really the oppressed victims in modern society.

as soon as they all get sold off for a fraction of their value, watch in amazement at the passing of new tough-on-crime laws that mandate 20 year sentences for jaywalking and other serious crimes.

And why did RedHat "choose" systemd? Because they had very little choice... udev has been eaten by it, and GNOME requires it.

No, it's exactly the opposite. RedHat owns systemd and gnome and udev. udev was merged into systemd and gnome depends on systemd because RH wants to own linux.

Why is everyone else joining them?

because they want to use udev and gnome and have little or no choice.

the law is even clearer than that - there's no such thing as "intellectual property". there's copyright and patents and even trademarks (and all three are completely different things with completely different laws), but "IP" doesn't exist.

one major problem with that is that you can't replace any of those 3-15 "modules" with something better (or just different) without replacing ALL of them.

this has an enormous chilling effect on innovation - the only improvements or changes permitted in any of those 3-15+ modules are those that are accepted by the systemd gatekeepers, who are not known for their acceptance of other people's ideas or code.

if systemd stuck to just being an init replacment, most people wouldn't have a problem with it. it's the fact that it's borging all sorts of other daemons that is the problem.

your sexist rant against singular "they" might have some validity if it wasn't for the fact that "they" has been used as a singular pronoun for at least 400 years (i.e. since approximately the beginning of modern english) and the fact that there are numerous nouns in the english language which can also be used as either singular or plural - "bacon" for example. it's not unusual.

in other words when using singular "they", the pronoun and antecedent *DO* match in number. No amount of ranting will change that fact.

no, it's convenient. and more secure.

I buy *all* of my steam games from my linux machine.

I play nearly all of them on my windows machine. I do not and will not ever use this machine for anything other than playing games - and certainly never use it for any purchases or financial transactions. neither my paypal account nor my credit card details will ever be used on this machine - windows is just too vulnerable and prone to malware to be trusted for that.

if i couldn't see windows-only games while logged in using a linux browser, i'd never be able to buy windows games.

That's not discrimination... that's just low tolerance for bullshit. It has nothing to do with the employee's own politics. Only with the fact that he was objecting -- publicly -- ABOUT his boss's politics, whatever they happen to be.

yeah, uppity employees need to be put in their place! can't have them expressing opinions that their bosses don't like, especially in public. they need to learn to shut up and keep their heads down. it's just a shame that it's not legal to whip them any more, all you can do these days is fire them.