Comment Re:Is this a dupe (Score 1) 17
Dirt collected from Easter Island led to the development of an anti-rejection drug.
Dirt collected from Easter Island led to the development of an anti-rejection drug.
What made national news during the Super Bowl was the fact that the state was snowed under. That's what a lot of people were expecting with the last winter storm because they've never experienced blackouts from winter weather.
Storms during hail and hurricane season tend to cause much more predictable carnage.
A winter day in West Texas is a lot like a balmy summer day in Denmark looking out onto the North Sea.
Facebook does the opposite of Slashdot moderation. They promote the trolls ensuring that signal is lost in the noise. They aren't a passive part of the problem. They actively contribute to it.
The whole point of running monopoly ware is the idea that it supports everything. Get rid of that and you might as well buy a Mac or run Linux.
Doesn't matter what the Lemming excuses are.
The platform that is supposed to "support everything" is trying to treat you like a Linux user.
The idea that not being able to censor my speech is compelling speech from a platform owner is Orwell on steroids.
Punishing someone for violating government approved group think is across the line even for someone that identifies as a publisher NOT protected by Section 230.
If you think we need a registry, you don't really "believe in the science".
> The job market isn't a free market, coercion is involved.
Sure. Because FB employees are such an oppressed underclass that they can be bullied by an employer.
> Thus, if you are a diamond hard US constitutional literalist
That means that your freedom of speech is limited to technologies available in 1783.
There are guys like Mandela in the Knesset.
Genocide liquidates entire families wholesale. What's going on in Judea, Samaria and Gaza don't even come close.
FB is ideologically aligned with the pro-palestinian crowd. The idea that they would be censoring those people is typical unhinged conspiracy nonsense.
Your "source" is utter garbage.
Why trust any of them?
Why trust some rando from the ether that you don't know?
Any of them could be equally bogus.
This goes for people on either side of the narrative.
This article looks like something that came out of the way back machine.
The DOS advantage is the same as it ever was. The perception that it the monopoly product. That drives 3rd party support for devices and applications.
Nobody has ever really cared about the "quality" of Microsoft's direct contribution. Regular people are far more concerned if "random app" is supported or not.
There was nearly a mass revolt of rubes over Ribbon.
The idea that "professional" implies good or suitable is too laughable for any real computer expert to take seriously. Computing in particular is an engineering domain where the self trained regularly make "professionals" look like trained chimps.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky