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Comment Re: "Inclusion" (Score 1) 62

Excluding exclusion is by definition inclusive. To be inclusive, you have to exclude exclusion.

Nope. The definition of "inclusion" in the current context is something like:
"the act or practice of including and accommodating people who have historically been excluded (as because of their race, gender, sexuality, or ability)"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Note the lack of exceptions, or any rationalization to exclude.

Comment Re: "Inclusion" (Score 0) 62

Excluding exclusion is by definition inclusive. To be inclusive, you have to exclude exclusion.

You are mistaken. The truly tolerant do not prevent speech. They actually defend speech they hate. The truly tolerant only act when there is an imminent threat of actual violence. Which is why many of the "faux tolerant" have had to define speech as violence, to rationalize their actions, their intolerance, their suppression of speech, of opposing voices. The truly tolerant invite opposing voices so they can publicly debunk the opposing ideology, to persuade others that the opposing voices are incorrect.

Comment Re: "Inclusion" (Score 0) 62

You are mistaken. You offer nothing more than one philosophers opinion. You are rationalizing, pretexting, your intolerance.

In reality, the truly tolerant do not prevent speech. They actually defend speech they hate. The truly tolerant only act when there is an imminent threat of actual violence. Which is why many of the "faux tolerant" have had to define speech as violence, to rationalize their actions, their intolerance, their suppression of speech, of opposing voices. The truly tolerant invite opposing voices so they can publicly debunk the opposing ideology, to persuade others that the opposing voices are incorrect.

Comment Re: "Inclusion" (Score 1) 62

No itâ(TM)s not - inclusion literally means to include everyone except for those who exclusionary.

Wrong. The definition of "inclusion" in the current context is something like:
"the act or practice of including and accommodating people who have historically been excluded (as because of their race, gender, sexuality, or ability)"
https://www.merriam-webster.co...

Note the lack of exceptions, or any rationalization to exclude.

Comment Re:All they need is peer-to-peer LAN-style gaming (Score 1) 47

And depending on the type of game, P2P networking is garbage. If the game is fast and competitive, host will have unfair "0 ping" advantage.

And the same will be true for the player running a standalone server at home if the game is still client-server. Their server and their game client will be networking directly over the same local subnet and not have to route over the internet.

Comment Forced disclosure of code and trade secrets ... (Score 1) 47

... so fans have made servers to support that earlier version (see Project 1999 for EQ or "Classic" WoW) ...

The problem with that those servers would have to distribute copyrighted materials, various downloadable artwork and in game content.

Note that "Classic" WoW is actually a Blizzard product. Homebrew WoW servers ran into legal problems as suggested above.

the client had to be open sourced within X months

Largely unworkable. The old and current versions of the client (and servers) most likely share code and trade secrets. It is an extremely high legal hurdle for a court to order (allow) forced disclosure.

Comment Re: 20% sounds inflated too (Score 1) 176

I'm basically imagining a flat curve, which more closely matches the traditional distribution of grades which aren't using a curve. Under the 60/70/80/90 system, it was generally the case that the number of C's matched the number of A's.

I'm familiar with that scheme too, again, 20% for A sounds inflated. Look at your example, doesn't 60% represent D, 70% C, 80% B, 90% A? Less than 60% F?

Comment Re: Trump also highly unlikely (Score 1) 179

Thank you for identifying yourself as a right wing extremist.

Nope. I'm actually an independent, sometimes leaning left, sometimes leaning right, it depends on the issue. I merely reject the far left misinformation and hate you offer. That does not make a person right wing nor extreme.

Making statements and then not being able to give one example to prove your point.

I did provide an example. I pointed out your misinformation and hateful speech.

Maybe what you perceive as hate is just the difference between what you understand and what the real world is.

Now you seem to be projecting. Your misinformation and hateful speech is based on your misunderstanding, the low information of your information silo.

And no, asking people to back up what they say is not "hate". Even if you are wrong and lose.

Your hate is embedded in your false portrayal of recent events. It's pure regurgitation of political propaganda, propaganda designed to manufacture hate. Reality is quite different.

Comment It was a different class of games .... (Score 2) 47

"A legal requirement to keep games playable indefinitely could place publishers in an impossible position..." Feels like I remember a time when indefinitely playable games was the default for publishers.

That was more for peer-to-peer games, and smaller scale client-server games where a peer would host a server, where the publisher didn't need to deploy any additional resources. However with the larger scale client-server games the publisher did need to invest heavily in server infrastructure.

Publishers should be able to comply with such laws by offering either peer-to-peer or peer-hosted, which are kind of similar. The latter requiring two computers, one running the server side and the other the client side. The former picking one peer to run both client and server software on the same machine.

Comment All they need is peer-to-peer LAN-style gaming (Score 1) 47

the bill would impose unreasonable expectations on publishers...

Too damn bad! They can sell/rent the license to somebody else. Compulsory licensing solves all problems.

For a client-server based game all they need to do is patch the game to add peer-to-peer networking support over TCP/IP. One peer system will act as the game server for this LAN-style game.

Comment Now... (Score 3, Insightful) 28

...if only our legal system was that stringent?

Ban on practicing law for a year if your submission to the court includes AI slop, how about that?
A second offense, disbarment.

(Personally I think disbarment should be a first-offense result for an ostensibly high-competence field like law, but our society has gotten away from "consequences" for "easily predictable results of ones actions" in general...)

Comment Ahhh the good ole days (Score 0) 42

Where you waited (usually) until after 7pm to make a "long distance" phone call. And when you received a long distance call from the operator, who would call you and tell you that you had a long distance call, you knew it was pretty bad if they "called long distance". Funny that you could make a "local" call in your neighborhood, but someone several miles away was considered "long" distance.

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