where is the retconning, exactly? thor falls from grace. new person gets hammer. it's a story arc. possibly permanent, possibly temporary, but there is no retconning happening here.

marvel is saying that thor is whoever's wielding the hammer. much like DC has said that batman/nightwing/robin is whoever's wearing the mask. how many robins have there been again, exactly?

nothing new to see here, move along.

dude, you lost the game as soon as you said feminazi.

seriously, if you think that casting a female as the new thor is somehow equivalent to "bowing down to radical feminism nazi shit" then you are a lost cause and should probably just eat a bullet.

it's also amusing that you are TOTALLY FINE with the fact that marvel has already changed the norse mythology WILDLY... turning thor into a friggin alien instead of a god. one who was a depowered crippled doctor for a long time. but when mjolnir gets passed on to a female character, you are all of a sudden outraged because it's not following the sacred mythology.

you DID read the fucking summary and see that this is a new character, right? they aren't just giving existing thor a sex change. thor is falling from grace and losing his powers, a new female character is being introduced and mjolnir is being given to her. but of course you already knew all that.

so its totally fine for a new person to take on the title of thor... as long as they are male? but passing mjolnir on to a female, that's somehow wrong?

would you also express outrage if mjolnir was passed on to a black person?

can you explain why on either count, without sounding like a bigot?

did you bitch and moan with equal fervor when batman/spiderman/antman/nightwing/robin/etc/etc/etc were portrayed by new characters?

smells like misogyny to me!

bruce wayne is a person. batman is a mask.

dick grayson is a person. nightwing is a mask.

i think you get the idea. thor is the person wielding mjolnir and busting asses.

if you had read the FUCKING SUMMARY you would see that this is a new character taking up the title of Thor. Thor is not getting sex change, mjolnir is being passed to a new person to wield it - and this new person will assume the name THOR.

this is not a new idea in comics - batman, spider-man, ant-man, nightwing, robin, and countless other superheroes have been portrayed by multiple characters, the torch being passed along.

Thor just so happens to be passing the torch along to a woman, and all of a sudden everyone is frothing at the mouth.

stinks of misogyny to me.

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big difference.

story is that one of juniper's major partners was underhandedly selling prerelease, demo, & beta products to cisco. while legal, it's shady as fuck, and is almost certainly something that would have pissed juniper off to the point of severing ties with the vendor.

you have a very narrow definition of what 'hacking' is. i disagree, and the mods seem to agree with me.

what these kids did definitely qualifies as hacking.

taking apart a transistor radio to figure out how it works, and putting it back together, is hacking.

talking someone into giving you their password over the phone, is hacking. (yes, it's social engineering. that's a form of hacking.)

there are very many other, very wildly different examples i could give if i had the desire.

it's an umbrella term. deal with it.

they were inquisitive, did some research, and experimented on a system, and succeeded in gaining unauthorized access. they then responsibly reported their findings to the device owner.

what these kids did, while perhaps not quite on par with hacking the gibson, still very much represents the (white hat) hacker ethos at work.

you, on the other hand, represent the asshat ethos, for downplaying what they did and trying to fiddle fart around with semantics.

then they're fucked.

seriously, what a terrible idea.

yes, all three substances affect the body quite differently if you take an up-close look at their chemical mechanisms. however that is completely tangential to the point i was making, or the post i was replying to.

read the post i was responding to again, and see if you can't grok my meaning.

let me introduce you to this little drug called 'alcohol', and his friends caffeine & nicotine

nah, the legs have great shock absorbers built in, i'm good.