"the internet is full of crazy people who post negative game reviews based on all sorts of things that have nothing to do with the actual game"
If the reviews are based on the company, then I still appreciate that. When I make purchasing decisions, the behavior of the company is as important as the quality of the product.
Was that the tag they used? If so, perhaps they got sued into nonexistence by Electrolux, who used to have the wonderful tagline "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".
Re: Re: Re: How EXACTLY does the comment by " JustShutUpAndObey" get the "First Word" linkage above when that person has no visible profile?
"I don't think the person making the comment has to be the person marking it as a highlight. IIRC, someone else can mark any random AC's comment as first or last as well."
That's right. I subscribe, and I get first/last word credits. And I use a couple of them a month on average. I've never used them on any of my own comments, and I think about half of the time I've used them on comments made by anonymous cowards.
Personally, I think that none of that is the objectionable part. The objectionable part is the proposal to make using a privacy proxy against the rules.
It's hard to understand what the legitimate reason for that proposal is. The reason for the inclusion of contact information is to allow people to contact the domain owner. Using a privacy proxy does not prevent that.
"To be fair, a lot of people develop weird beliefs when they're not properly educated."
As long as we're being fair, a lot of people develop weird beliefs when they are properly educated. But that's beside the point.
The point is, what is a "weird belief?" To my eyes, all religious beliefs are very weird -- and everyone should be able to have any weird belief that they wish.
It's not the government's place to declare that some beliefs are unacceptable and need to be expunged through therapy. Haven't western nations spent decades demonizing the USSR for doing exactly that?
Yeah, I love how they just say "commercial websites" as if that's some kind of definitive thing that is easy to determine. I suppose that in the eyes of the MPAA/RIAA, it is: they have long asserted that even a single ad makes the site "commercial".
Which is one of the many reasons why they have zero credibility.
"ny email that claims my lack of immediate action will result in some negative consequence is immediatly ignored and deemed phishing."
This. Also, any email that contains links is immediately suspected of being a phishing attempt -- but it's not a slam-dunk rejection like "you need to take action immediately" emails.
"If not this proposal then something else to free up parked domains."
How would this proposal address parked domains? If people are sitting on domains so they can sell them, then they're already telling people how to get in touch with them (how else could people make a bid?)
Also, not all parked domains go unused. I had a domain for years that was "parked" in the sense that it didn't lead to a website because it was solely for email purposes.
This might be something that depends on which registrar you use. I've never had a problem with modifying my whois records at all, but I avoid the big nasties such as GoDaddy.
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Re: Re: Re: People were killed?
To you, maybe. To most non-southerners (and an awful lot of southerners) it has always been a symbol of hatred and prejudice.
Nobody can dictate what a symbol means to anybody else.
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Re: Re: Go fuck yourself Bas Grasmayer
Yes, it got us a wider variety of better music than I have ever seen before in my life.
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Not surprising to me
I thought the author was a guy from the outset.
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Re: The Colour Purple
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If the reviews are based on the company, then I still appreciate that. When I make purchasing decisions, the behavior of the company is as important as the quality of the product.
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Re: Re: A few that come to mind
Was that the tag they used? If so, perhaps they got sued into nonexistence by Electrolux, who used to have the wonderful tagline "Nothing sucks like an Electrolux".
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Re: Re: Re: How EXACTLY does the comment by " JustShutUpAndObey" get the "First Word" linkage above when that person has no visible profile?
That's right. I subscribe, and I get first/last word credits. And I use a couple of them a month on average. I've never used them on any of my own comments, and I think about half of the time I've used them on comments made by anonymous cowards.
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I've taken a half dozen cab rides (not Uber/Lyft) over the past couple of months, and every one of them used GPS to determine the route!
Which I think is a great trend, actually.
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Re: Laws for profit...
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Re: Re: Re: Tourists
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It's hard to understand what the legitimate reason for that proposal is. The reason for the inclusion of contact information is to allow people to contact the domain owner. Using a privacy proxy does not prevent that.
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Re: Tourists
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Re: Re: Religious counselling??
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Re: Re: Religious counselling??
As long as we're being fair, a lot of people develop weird beliefs when they are properly educated. But that's beside the point.
The point is, what is a "weird belief?" To my eyes, all religious beliefs are very weird -- and everyone should be able to have any weird belief that they wish.
It's not the government's place to declare that some beliefs are unacceptable and need to be expunged through therapy. Haven't western nations spent decades demonizing the USSR for doing exactly that?
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Re: How to define commercial activity?
Which is one of the many reasons why they have zero credibility.
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This. Also, any email that contains links is immediately suspected of being a phishing attempt -- but it's not a slam-dunk rejection like "you need to take action immediately" emails.
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Re: Meh, it has some merit, well in theory
How would this proposal address parked domains? If people are sitting on domains so they can sell them, then they're already telling people how to get in touch with them (how else could people make a bid?)
Also, not all parked domains go unused. I had a domain for years that was "parked" in the sense that it didn't lead to a website because it was solely for email purposes.
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Re: What about correcting whois info?
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