I can provide you with a long list of creators complaining about piracy, if you would like.
A list that includes *all creators* and authorizes you to speak for us? When you say:
Those of us who are creators are very alarmed by statements like this.
you're claiming to speak for a large group that holds a diverse range of opinions. Inflating your personal opinions by pretending you represent a huge group is just goofy.
Those of us who are creators are very alarmed by statements like this.
How many of us creators have you talked before making blanket statements about how we feel about things?
Though this incident did not impact me personally, I have experienced that remote news becoming a closer, more immediate tragedy. I always think about how you can't prepare for this kind of thing, personally. It just happens.
Oooh! A troll! I wonder if I can keep it as a pet.
I hope this helps you understand what the adults in the room are talking about, but I really don't hold out any hope.
Are you really claiming maturity in this or any other slashdot situations? I happen to agree with you on the use of the word "censorship", but your post (and most of your other posts on contentious points) is hardly stated maturely (let alone more maturely stated than JimmySlimmy's post). Be as childish as you want with your stereotypes, ad hominems and superiority dogmatism, but don't try to pass it off as grown-up.
Get healthy! I should go to a doctor soon too. I haven't been in years.
But, but... but they have different mascots! That means something, right?
Nah, slashdot is the home of ad hominem and foe anyone who disagrees speech. People (like you) who want to discuss things and don't automatically hate someone for disagreeing with them are the odd ones out.
Oooh, it's making a noise! It's pretending to talk!
While I appreciate your Tenth Amendment concerns, and am personally torn on the whole states vs. federal vs. local governance thing, you're operating from a very cynical viewpoint now. If the broadcast is, in your opinion, propaganda, you will have your vindication. But if it's not that, then you'll "be even more suspicious"?!
Oooooh! I found a troll!
Sitting presidents have always gotten a great deal of media exposure. This is nothing new.
Also, I think you should research propaganda before you use that word in reference to this situation. To be perfectly frank, you don't even know if this coverage will be biased towards the president's viewpoint, let alone getting to the level of propaganda.
And it's not a campaign. Plainly, the sitting president should not have to pull funding from a particular party to talk to the people who elected him. He's the president, and if the news wants to cover his events, they should be free to do so. No need for "balance" in the form of "opposition* party viewpoint". If the Republicans want to get their ideas out there, they will have to find an outlet that will promote them. The RNC seems to have missed the fact that the election happened and is now over.
* Because the Rs and Ds are really, truly opposites?
The Jim Darkmagic was a runaway winner for me.
Your signature is the height of irony at this point. There are a myriad of ways that jawstheshark's post could be interpreted, and you've chosen a handful of possibilities that put your "informational" post in a "good light", but what's this? Your post only said that stoolpidgeon was talking about a specific app and not the OS, which I think anyone who has had *any* technical conversation with jawstheshark would know that he knows. Sorry, you may be nerdier than jawstheshark (doubtful but possible), but you're not going to win a nerd-off over what he understood here.
An Ada exception is when a routine gets in trouble and says 'Beam me up, Scotty'.
