Satire often takes the form if mimicking whoever you are mocking & amp it up to ridiculous levels. I'm a big fan of Tom Leher, the greatest satire singer ever. If you fail to see the mockery in his lyrics you you would conclude he hates blacks, he likes poisoning pigeons in the park, Praising Wernher von Braun for being a former Nazi who developed the rockets for the bombing of London, our military are all incompetent idiots, He loves hard core pornography, and many other horrendous viewpoints. Listening to his records you can hear the laughter from the audience so I don't think you could misunderstand but some automated bot would certainly flag him. Satirizing hate speech would have to contain some of that speech.
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Yeah, You're right. If I was going to start a nuclear war I would want more than 140 characters. If you want to know what Trump is tweeting, just watch Fox & Friends. He tweets about most things they say even before the show is over. Trump's approval ratings are dropping, but there are still millions of hard core supporters that will stay with him no matter how batshit crazy he gets.
You must of misunderstood. I agree they can go anywhere but most will stay with the winner of the day. I fail to see the appeal of Twitter is. Every time I tried to express anything meaningful I'm out of characters when I'm barely started. Things get so spread around there, who can keep up with it. I've kept my friends on Facebook mostly to people I actually know. When I keep seeing a friend of a friend posting things I enjoy I will friend them. I don't needs thousands of followers. On Facebook I get a constant stream of friend requests from people I have no clue who they are or ever read one of their posts. They just get their rocks off on bragging how huge their lists are.
Like it or not, for now Facebook has a huge share of that type of social media. I had no problem with MySpace. Don't even know why Facebook managed to take over. How was it any better? All I know is most my friends quit using it & moved to Facebook. In a few years Facebook could be the Betamax & another giant will arise.
So if these carriers can give you an "opt out" and go right on snooping? What if the 13 "privacy" screens in Windows 10 are just a facade and every extremely invasive default is still on (including your mike always being hot) and transmitting to Microsoft and god knows who else? I see nothing in the privacy agreement that lets you opt out of the part that you agree they can search your programs & private folders (looking for piracy?), read your emails & should they choose, rat you to law enforcement. That's why I am on Linux now took Windows 8.1 offline. I have some Windows programs I can't find replacements for. Some things are just easier to do in Windows. I know you can't never escape all snooping. It doesn't really bother me that I can buy an amp and when I go to Amazon the "items suggested for you" include speakers. I might want the speakers. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2750361/microsoft-win-watch-report-police.html
As my username says I'm an old geezer. In my youth I screwed up involving some recreational pharmaceutics and some stupid stuff I did while on them. Just misdemeanor crap, but that can still mean up to a year as a guest of the county. I didn't like the lawyer I hired much. He chewed my ass at everything I said. When my turn before the judge came and the prosecutor said "your honor, we would like this man to do some jail time to teach him a lesson" that lawyer gave the judge all the reasons I should get probation. I was glad I had done what he advised and was already in rehab and getting piss tested weekly. The judge hit me with a stiff fine but I got to go home. That was when I decided I kind of liked that asshole!
I remember seeing a program years ago where a task force was monitoring Craig's list for underage girls. They already had warrants to ID the pimps and were busting them at the same time they were rescuing the kids. If you have ever watched To Catch a Predator you know how valuable these resources can be. These crimes against children are going to happen. These kind of laws will just make the bastards harder to catch.
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Glad to see you truly believe in free speech and make an effort to permit opposing views. Someone can post that is 100% head up their ass wrong, but as long as they are not in violation of terms you allow it! :)
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Before I knew how the flagging was done I read a blocked post that was by a guy that usually wrote some pretty stupid drivel. This one was the exception. It not only was very insightful but I fully agreed with it. When I posted that the flag should be removed Mike replied that the staff has nothing to do with this process.
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I wasn't aware of that, but I have replied to more than one post on an article saying some of the same ideas with no intention of spamming. I had just skimmed through the earlier posts. I clicked to show and at least it wasn't that numb nuts that keeps posting that Mike hates copyright.
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While I didn't agree with any of this, the writer expressed his views coherently without being abusive. I thought this community promoted free speech. Many articles by the staff come out against efforts to stifle even offensive writings because well intentioned laws can backfire.
The electoral college made sense in colonial days. One reason it was put in place was there was so much inbreeding among royalty in the old world that a number of the old world monarchs were clearly insane. Don't know if it would have helped then since it didn't stop the nut case we have now even when he lost the popular vote.
Senator Warren would have soundly kicked Trump's ass. This "inventor of email" is just as full of shit. Sounds like a publicity stunt. Maybe he thinks if he can also claim to be a congressional candidate that will help his bogus defamation suits.
I don't think anything Trump tweets should be taken down. They are getting more bizarre all time and show his rapidly declining mental health. I don't want him impeached either. Pence or Paul Ryan could be worse. I just want him to be buried in so much scandal and lunacy that the republican agenda will be crippled. Don't you think a lot of republicans are aware we elected an idiot? At some point they will realize that if they ever want to be reelected they need to stop supporting him. Trump talks like he won by a landslide when he lost except for our archaic electoral system. If the democrats hadn't nominated a woman they should have known was widely hated Trump would have never stood a chance. If they wanted a female president, why not Elizabeth Warren?
When it already an established that this DRM can be completely removed from games why would anyone even want to generate a key that is supposed to appear real? The most recent cracker to put out a DRM free game that had this protection revealed that the latest desperate attempts by Denuvo has ramped up the phoning home checks into millions in a matter of minutes. Supposing your key could pass, who would want the horribly degraded performance when they could just get it without DRM? Key generators have long been used to spread viruses and trojan horses. Why trust this one?
I did some research on that and a lot of people said that Wine is somewhat limited on what programs you can run and for some of them it is buggy. The main programs I want to run is Vidcoder (based on Handbrake but with more options) and Xillsoft video converter. Vidcoder is the only converter I have found that reliably converts x264 to HEVC. Is also is the only one I have found that crops hard coded black bars from letterbox or 4:5 so you can either make it 16:9 or just hit C twice in VLC player to make it full screen. It uses every bit of CPU that is available so you are pegged out at 100% I tried the Vidcoder on my Win 7 Virtual box and it work OK but Virtualbox won't allow using more than about 45% of system CPU. Converting to HEVC is slow as it is but in virtual it takes nearly 3 hours to convert a 40 minute episode. Xillsoft is the best for clipping and joining videos accurately within 2 0r 3 frames. It can also crop but it won't remove hard coded black bars. It also pegs out your CPU if you don't use Nvidia hardware acceleration that won't work in virtual. I only bought one license for Xillsoft so if I install it on the virtual I will probably have to deactivate the other. I suppose I could find Linux programs that could do the same things but I tried many programs before these that just weren't as good as these two. Firefox is already on the Linux machine and all I had to do to have all my bookmarks and saved passwords is copy over the profile. We haven't installed Thunderbird yet but it is supposed to work fine in Linux. MkvToolNix has a Linux version so that is also no problem. Maybe I could just keep a second machine for offline Windows for the CPU intensive programs and run any other Windows program in virtual. I just don't trust Microsoft at all since they won't allow you to hide important updates. I was already having to hide telemetry updates so now I guess they are tracking everything I do.
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Another reason not to trust Windows 10
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I guess you got me on that point!!
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