More specifically for Slashdot, a Republican right-winger who cost the taxpayers of Rhode Island millions when he got a sweetheart loan to move his company, 38 Studios, there, at the urging of the then Republican governor: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...
Fucking hypocrites.
Most people don't care about encryption but the ones that do, do.
I'm willing to bet if you polled all the people that use email, a significant majority would prefer that their email couldn't be spied on by governments or other snoops. If it was an easy default hardly anybody would turn it off. The problem is that while people care, they don't care enough to make an effort, especially when it requires effort on the people you are communicating with.
Ellen Pao looks very average to me, and I'm partial to Asians too. But whatever floats your boat.
The trap isn't suing over patents. The trap is getting you to depend on a stack that Microsoft controls. It's something they've always done, in one form or another. Embrace, extend, extinguish. In this case, they're asking others to embrace
I sold my car on Craigslist. Guy came to my home with his brother, test drove the car, and paid cash. The end.
She oscillates between fighting back and playing the victim. All you really need to know about her is that she's a compulsive liar: https://thezoepost.files.wordp...
Well I see Anita's recent efforts as being a lot more expensive than her earlier work.
Going on a professional victim tour to raise more money for herself? Yeah, very expensive.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, it uses the threat-of-rape trope, another of Anita's targets. But yeah, no prostitutes! You really are bad at this.
It isn't gaming culture as a whole, which is 50% female these days.
Same old bullshit. Including in those stats are people who's extent into gaming is buying Angry Birds on their smartphone or playing Farmville. Those women in general don't play shooters, don't buy the next gaming console, don't update their PC to play games, and don't read gaming journals. Anita is critiquing games that are catered to men, because that's their demographic. And she does so in completely unequal fashion, having no qualms when men are portrayed in sexists ways.
She is, of course, just a con artist riding the wave of feminism and video games while reading scripts for McIntosh. That was Jack Thompson's biggest mistake, not getting a female spokesperson.
Of course it doesn't have to be - look at games like The Last of Us.
Uses the zombie trope. Uses the young-girl-in-distress trope. Uses the poor, innocent daughter gunned down trope. Wow, I'm so glad we have you and Anita to save us from all these horrible, gritty, sexist tropes.
If you look at the responses on YouTube very few of them actually critique her arguments. One of the closest is Thunderf00t's
So Thunderf00t's videos went from being "particularly bad" to "one of the closest [that actually critique her argument]?
It's a classic mix of ad-hominem and straw man attack
You should know all about that, as the last time you argued this with me you were full of them: http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
Source?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
"So far, no one has been able to provide a compelling answer to why climate change seems to be taking a break. We're facing a puzzle. Recent CO2 emissions have actually risen even more steeply than we feared. As a result, according to most climate models, we should have seen temperatures rise by around 0.25 degrees Celsius (0.45 degrees Fahrenheit) over the past 10 years. That hasn't happened. In fact, the increase over the last 15 years was just 0.06 degrees Celsius (0.11 degrees Fahrenheit) -- a value very close to zero. This is a serious scientific problem that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will have to confront when it presents its next Assessment Report late next year."
The referenced article this quote was taken from:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
Another important topic the climate scientist mentions:
"Temperature increases are also very much dependent on clouds, which can both amplify and mitigate the greenhouse effect. For as long as I've been working in this field, for over 30 years, there has unfortunately been very little progress made in the simulation of clouds."
Keep this in mind the next time you hear, "The science is settled."
Before making vague bullshit claims about the models, two things:
Apply it to yourself. You have said nothing beyond what I said, except to claim the contrary.
You're being pedantic.
I'm not. It's a garbage word. There are plenty of garbage words that stick around for no reason other than that people like to use them in place of simpler words.
You mention "style".
You used the word. Why did you use it? Because it's simpler and conversational and came naturally to you. People don't generally go around using the word paradigm.
I also used the word "model". Try this: The object-oriented programming model. Gee, does that not get the point across?
And there's nothing vague about simpler words and more common words versus less common words that have come into vogue. Nobody needs a clarification when you use those simpler words. I'm willing to bet at one point you said, "What the fuck's a paradigm?"
I'm not the anon, but yeah, what he said. There are a myriad number of ways to screw up memory in C and C++. But if you want to look like a moron and pretend the vast majority are just null pointers, be my guest.
And yet you instinctively fell into "style" later on, and nothing was lost by using that word. Instead, you gained in clarity of communication. You could also say "model" and it would have the same meaning. "Paradigm" is a fancy buzzword.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
