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Comment Re:So Intel pulled out (Score 1) 724

That sounds like the type of decision that backfires on a company.

I'm having trouble thinking of any occasion where such a decision backfired on a company. It's hard to use as a rallying cry, "they don't advertise on websites I like! They try to avoid controversy!" Only the most hardcore believers get upset about that.

If you can think of a case where a company pulling their advertising from a website (or tv show, or whatever) created a boycott, I would be really interested in hearing it.

Comment Re:can relate (Score 1) 724

For the love of God, if you think your games (or any media you consume, frankly) don't have any politics in them then it simply means they have politics that you already agree with. The number of truly apolitical games out there is vanishingly small.

This idea of "just let games be about the games" is as bullshit as saying "why can't my music just be about the music".

Really?

Take the top 20 games from any app store out there and show me where the hidden agenda is behind that pointless drivel that turns the average smartphone user into a walking Candy Crush junkie.

I guess I'm struggling to see the pro-communist message in Flappy Bird. Or the feminist movement buried in that 3rd shuffle of Solitaire. If anything, we have MORE entertainment out there that is rather mindless and without a hidden agenda, not less.

Comment Re:its their own fault (Score 1) 280

voter id laws are in no way racist.

Except that people at the bottom of the economic ladder, which are disproportionately minorities, are much less likely to have a valid ID. They are also much more likely to vote Democratic rather than Republican. Politicians are well aware of this, so voter ID laws are passed with Republican votes, and volunteer ballot monitors checking for compliance are nearly 100% Republican. In a theoretical perfect world, voter ID laws would not be racist. In reality they are.

Comment Re:Not the remote exploit many are looking for (Score 2) 41

I find it amusing to see how hard some people will work to try to compromise my inconsequential system.

Lol, same here. The only thing of value on my file server is the stuff I'm sharing publically anyways. When I look through my logs at all the fancy attack vectors I think to myself they'd be better off pointing a web browser at index.html, it would sure save them a lot of trouble.

Comment Re:Update to Godwin's law? (Score 1) 575

The only answer is to vote 3rd party, otherwise you're just part of the problem by voting for a bad president. It doesn't matter if the 3rd-party candidate is destined to lose; it's that mentality that keeps the 3rd parties out of power, plus you can be held blameless for anything the president does if you didn't vote for him. If you vote for him and he's horrible, well you're to blame, and it's rather hypocritical to complain about him after-the-fact when you knew in the voting booth that he'd suck.

Comment Re:Update to Godwin's law? (Score 1) 575

I didn't call you a liberal. My post was directed at all the Obama fans, not to you. Since you were bashing Obama, you obviously weren't much of an Obama fan or a tow-the-party-line liberal.

As for 2012, the answer is yes. Vote 3rd party. It's the only thing that makes sense, even if it's destined for failure. If you vote for a bad president, then you're partly responsible for all his actions. If you vote for someone else, you're not. Out of all these people complaining about Obama, if they actually voted for him, they're hypocrites, because they enabled him by voting for him. I voted for Johnson, so you can't blame me for any of Obama's messes. If more people had voted like me, we wouldn't be having so many problems.

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