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Comment Re:I care because he's a literal Nazi (Score 1) 410

Once again, Fuentes isn't on Twitter, despite you saying that he is. Milo Yiannopoulos is also not on Twitter, despite you saying that he is. Why did you think that they had come back? Did you just make up some lies and hope nobody would check?

You can't take the moral high ground on an issue by telling lies. I don't want that pair on Twitter either - and they're not. Try doing some research next time, instead of deliberately misleading people.

Comment Re:The famous ones are (Score 1) 410

I don't see any news about Milo Yiannopoulos's Twitter account. Are you sure his Twitter account has been reinstated? You got it badly wrong below regarding Nick Fuentes.

Perhaps you could post a link to the Twitter account in question, or a link to a news story regarding him being reinstated? Perhaps your statement will turn out to be true this time. It would be very disappointing if you were peddling falsehoods.

Comment Re:Musk let Nick Fuentes (Score 4, Informative) 410

Nonsense. He was never let back onto Twitter:

White nationalist Nicholas Fuentes was re-banned from Twitter on Saturday after he and other right-wingers jumped the gun by creating new Twitter accounts, hoping to return to the platform now owned by Elon Musk. Fuentes, who created the new account @spookygoblin8 earlier in the week, is the latest in a very long line of far-right users who have resurfaced on the platform, only to be tossed off again. Fuentes didn’t immediately return The Daily Beast’s request for comment.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

Comment Re: ... I don't understand ... (Score 1) 38

Well, you're entitled to your opinion about the quality of the films that Hollywood's "stars" produce. It seems a bit of a stretch to argue that films like Pulp Fiction (Jackson) and Fargo (Buscemi) are "dull, lifeless and formulaic".

"Personality" is active, aggressive, funny, neurotic, etc. whereas "persona" are voice, image, clothing, etc. So... what is it he won? His "personality" rights (so no more "psychopaths" are allowed or his "persona"?

You might not acknowledge that "The Rock" has a personality, but he certainly has a character that he developed during his pro wrestling career. He plays a version of his character "The Rock" in every film he appears in, mainstream audiences love him, so he's currently the world's best-paid movie star.

Many film stars have characters/personalities that transfer across multiple films, and as per "The Rock" have a commercial value. That's the basis of the article.

Comment Re: ... I don't understand ... (Score 2) 38

Who not coincidentally get paid tens of millions of dollars per movie. Why? Because they're stars. More people come to see an action movie starring Rock/Cruise than if they cast an unknown actor.

Well-known actors generally have a personality that they bring to any given role. Sean Connery played many different characters with aplomb, but it's unlikely that you'd mistake him for anyone else. Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Steve Buscemi, Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson - all excellent actors, all with a distinctive screen personality.

Comment Anyone heard of Five9? (Score 1) 5

Interesting that a company that doesn't even have a Wikipedia page can be "worth" $14.9 Billion.

For a comparison, BT Group (the UK's equivalent to Bell) is the UK's biggest telco with 18 million customers with revenues of £22.9B a year, and has a market cap of £15.85B.

Still, Dogecoin's current market cap is $26.8 Billion ...

https://finance.yahoo.com/quot...

Comment My Commodore Amiga doesn't need updates (Score 5, Interesting) 264

My SNES and PS2 don't need updates. And I'm not sure why the author of the article thinks his PSP still needs updates. Does it run his PSP games? I'm guessing that it does. He might want to install some homebrew software, or repurpose his gadget, but I'm guessing that 99% of PSP owners just want the games.

On a different tangent, I've got a Windows 7 laptop that I use for some gaming and internet use. The copy of Windows 7 dates back to 2010. I deliberately switched off all Windows updates just to see what would happen. Years later ... all my games still work. My laptop hasn't been infected by viruses, ransomware etc. I've taken no special precautions to shield it from the internet. Dumb? Probably. But my non-essential laptop seems to work fine on an EOL OS with no updates for 11 years.

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