"I vote on important things, not getting caught up on frat house jokes."
Yes, which is why we despair at morons like you worshipping at the altar who provides nothing else of value, while he's openly telling you that he's a con artist grifting you and the country for every penny.
Obviously, we can't change what Koby and the people on his side of things will misrepresent, but my understanding is that the objection to Malone isn't really that he presents an anti-vaxx position. The problem is that because he was involved in some very early mRNA research, that he's claiming to be the inventor of all modern mRNA vaccines and taking undeserved credit for the progress made by all the colleagues who came after him.
So, the problem isn't simply that he's spouting nonsense, but that Rogan and his parade of muppets are pretending that he has more credibility than other medical experts while asserting the opposite of modern medical advice. So, of course he's being kicked off sane platforms for such misrepresentation.
I was in a Reddit thread a few days ago where someone looked at the source from the front page and determined that it was from some right-wing focussed fork that's obviously trying to grift morons. But, I forget the name and when I tried to have a look myself earlier, apparently "Truth" is US only and I can't be bothered to use my VPN to jump through hoops to look again.
You're not even a reliable source for reality. We can't trust you to correctly identify anything that you've been asked about, so we will assume you are just as unreliable on the organisation that you claim to have worked for, and refuse to allow anyone else to verify.
Credibility is earned, and Wikipedia has way more than you have, unless you wish to supply evidence as to why whoever wrote the entry you're butthurt by (and would presumably be backed with a citation) is wrong.
Even then, your grasp on general reality is bad enough for anything you say to be taken suspiciously. Welcome to the grave you dug for yourself.
You're the one who regularly whines that Blender is a competitor who unfairly gets all the business, and now that it comes time to address why you refuse to supply what they do, you pretend they don't exist?
Very strange, but such delusional dishonestly is your raison d'être.
It's quite common for some people to assert that, despite the clear and obviously different positions on a number of political and social issues, both Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same because they're both bought by other people.
There is some small truth to that, but it's not really true in reality and you certainly won't change any of that if your reaction to that is to just not bother voting at all, as Dave just implied. If you don't vote, then you leave it to everyone else to make the decisions for you.
Or, to break it down for people who still don't understand:
Free speech: Rogan and his guests spouting bullshit
Also free speech: People calling them out on that bullshit
Also free speech: People deciding they don't want to support the platform that hosts the bullshit
Also free speech: People calling on others to join them in a boycott of the platform that's supporting bullshit
Also free speech (or to be more accurate, free market): Spotify siding with Rogan instead of the people demanding they cancel his contract (though it would also be free speech/market if they went the other way in response to the boycotts.)
Even if you're dishonest enough to pretend that people are saying what they're saying because they don't share the same political opinion as Rogan, rather than the more realistic opposition to spreading of outright lies (and how damning is it to modern discourse when basic medical information is now politically bipartisan?), there's nothing here that doesn't represent free speech. Unless, of course, you're also stupid enough to think that free speech means free audience or freedom from consequences. In which case, yet again, some people need to let the adults make the grown up decisions.
I'm saying that if you expect people to contact you to tell you that your software's so shit that they uninstalled it the moment your ugly UI appeared, and the only 21st century contact method you offer is blocked to the public, then nobody's going to bother.
Also, if you're demanding money to access your GitHub page, then you also fail in this regard since that demand is not mentioned next to the 404 link. All you provide is a dead link with an invitation to randomly call an idiot on the other side of the world. No thanks.
Such a demand would be a red flag either way, especially since all your competitors have their code available, but the fact that you failed to make the demand is the funny part.
I'd imagine that Mazda would be the ones taking the blame. It's unlikely that the radio station did anything maliciously by not formatting the files correctly. Even if they did, then the fact that no other manufacturer's cars were affected still puts the onus on Mazda for not having a way to record from the error or properly sanitise inputs.
"Given the timely example, there’d be hell to pay in class actions and corporate suits if TurboTax bricked systems with a bad icon."
It's again worth noting that from what I understand the car wasn't bricked, it's just that you'd have to drive it around as if it were a car from the 80s till it gets fixed.
"As a side pondering, what OS/CS bricks on a missing file extension?"
Lots of OSes, especially embedded ones, can be vulnerable to all sorts of things that were missed during testing or that some project manager decided to let slide to meet a deadline because they were unlikely to happen. Most of them aren't vulnerable to something as basic or from an FM broadcast, but there's a lot of things going on in all sorts of devices that make you wonder how anything actually works long term.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: One of the Black thugs you defend will assau
Fuck me, it took 6 weeks for that comeback, and all you managed to say is "yes, us racists are insecure pathetic children who cling to desperate fantasies to justify our own failures in life!"?
"See, you’re ignoring other media actions of the 2000-2010 era."
No, I've addressed them, but as usual you seem intent of ignoring the parts of the arguments you don't want to hear,
"Look at HD-DVD. Which on paper was generally superior and in future roadmap plans was factually superior. It out sold BD quite well at first."
FFS, yes I already addressed that. Players were expensive and when Blu Ray came along with greater support, being built into the PS3 and other advantages it quickly outsold competition. Spin it how you want, it was low sales that killed the format.
"A format will not survive on Hollywood alone. Nor can it survive with only independents."
Yes, that's the market talking, which you seem to intent on ignoring. VHS, DVD and Blu Ray were ultimately successful because they sold more. There have always been other formats, but they failed because they sold less. That's all there is to it.
"As such, I call distribution choices the ultimate deciding factor."
Yes, but formats also fail despite distribution choices. I remember seeing racks of MiniDiscs in record stores. How did that turn out in the long term?
No, but if you do if you have a multifunction device in the centre console that does things like GPS, phone syncing, display parking cams, and various other applications on top of just accessing an AM/FM broadcast.
But, this still has bugger all to do with the operation of the car overall. I'm sorry if your obsession over fixing the dashboard to a primitive state is confusing you when people are relating to new tech.
"It's like the Weather -- everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it."
Erm, what do you expect people to do about the weather? I assume from the rest of your comment that you somehow expect people to change it rather than just deal with the weather you get? That seems like weird criticism.
Unless I'm mistaken, Trump's Pravda (I mean really?) is based on open source code from elsewhere, so it's perfectly possible that Nunes and the other people he hired with such competence and attention to detail just copied the boilerplate and didn't actually read it.
Though, I expect this to be like any other right-wing grift platform - they'll have no qualms about banning people they disagree with and will have zero qualms about hypocrisy when they cite their own T&Cs. If you want to see actual "censorship", you don't go to Twitter, you go to one of the right's echo chambers.
"f run better than twitter, we could see another monopoly panic like the 2021 parker scare."
The panic where, after having given multiple warnings to get their act together in order to comply with the terms of service, Amazon were finally compelled to act after they were implicated during Jan 6th - and a bunch of people with the kind of smooth-brained intellect you demonstrate here decided that everyone reacting to the same event were in on a conspiracy?
Yes, I am actually sure that when Trump's new grifting scheme eventually collapses under the weight of hatred and incompetence, you people will come up with some conspiracy theory about how facts apply to reality and there are consequences for actions.
It doesn't matter if they're copyrightable, what matters is that you get someone to pay for the NFT. Then, the uniqueness and "protection" comes from its non-replicatable position on the blockchain rather than the content of the image itself.
In fact those comes even if you don't find a mark to pay for them, but they'll continue to be generated so long as someone does.
"I didn't see any wild overestimations of the death toll, and if there were any predictions that it would reach close to a million, they would be right."
It depends on what you mean by "wild overestimations", as well. This thread originally took place well before there was a publicly available vaccine, and many people thought it would be much longer to get one widely available than it was. Had a vaccine not been available, there's no doubt that the figures would be much higher than they are now, especially when the new variants started to appear (which mainly affected those who were unvaccinated).
If this person is claiming "aged poorly" to mean "the people commenting did not correctly predict the future based on new data we have now that was impossible to know at the time", then I suppose he has some kind of point. But, going back to 2 year old threads to lambast people for not being psychic isn't the best use of one's time.
"Ultimately: Spotify made a business decision. If you don’t like it go elsewhere."
Some people are, some people aren't. Young and others making more people aware of the reasons someone might want to leave is part of the process.
"All the hype around this is purely political."
...which is free speech.
What's happened here - Rogan has platformed some disgusting and dangerous misinformation that probably has already led to people dying. A group of scientists wrote an open letter to Spotify stating that he's playing a dangerous game. Young saw this, and threatened to leave if Rogan's content wasn't moved, then Spotify agreed to honour his request.
There is nothing wrong with the sequence of events, unless you're of the opinion that artists lose their right to political opinion when they sell a few records, that people only you think are relevant should have a voice, or that people should be forced to financially support a business they are opposed to.
You whining about how washed up Young supposedly is only highlights the importance of political discussion - if he's having such an effect, imagine if someone you think is relevant spoke out against propaganda.
"The very base of supporting free speech is not supporting what you agree with, but the right of existence for what you don’t."
Yes, but that doesn't mean you have to hang around with them, help pay for them or provide them your property to speak from.
I can support the free speech of Rogan and his disinformation crew, or the right for Nazis to speak their mind. I can also exercise my own right not to do business with people who support those things or frequent those premises.
There is no contradiction here. I'm not trying to shut them down, merely performing the equivalent of changing the channel if a TV show comes on that I don't like. I didn't oppress anyone's right to free speech by changing the channel.
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"I vote on important things, not getting caught up on frat house jokes."
Yes, which is why we despair at morons like you worshipping at the altar who provides nothing else of value, while he's openly telling you that he's a con artist grifting you and the country for every penny.
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Hmmm.. that doesn't ring true as being the one I read before. But, I have no doubt that there's probably a bunch of similar forks flying around.
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Obviously, we can't change what Koby and the people on his side of things will misrepresent, but my understanding is that the objection to Malone isn't really that he presents an anti-vaxx position. The problem is that because he was involved in some very early mRNA research, that he's claiming to be the inventor of all modern mRNA vaccines and taking undeserved credit for the progress made by all the colleagues who came after him.
So, the problem isn't simply that he's spouting nonsense, but that Rogan and his parade of muppets are pretending that he has more credibility than other medical experts while asserting the opposite of modern medical advice. So, of course he's being kicked off sane platforms for such misrepresentation.
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I was in a Reddit thread a few days ago where someone looked at the source from the front page and determined that it was from some right-wing focussed fork that's obviously trying to grift morons. But, I forget the name and when I tried to have a look myself earlier, apparently "Truth" is US only and I can't be bothered to use my VPN to jump through hoops to look again.
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"I'm more reliable source for the information"
You're not even a reliable source for reality. We can't trust you to correctly identify anything that you've been asked about, so we will assume you are just as unreliable on the organisation that you claim to have worked for, and refuse to allow anyone else to verify.
Credibility is earned, and Wikipedia has way more than you have, unless you wish to supply evidence as to why whoever wrote the entry you're butthurt by (and would presumably be backed with a citation) is wrong.
Even then, your grasp on general reality is bad enough for anything you say to be taken suspiciously. Welcome to the grave you dug for yourself.
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You're the one who regularly whines that Blender is a competitor who unfairly gets all the business, and now that it comes time to address why you refuse to supply what they do, you pretend they don't exist?
Very strange, but such delusional dishonestly is your raison d'être.
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It's quite common for some people to assert that, despite the clear and obviously different positions on a number of political and social issues, both Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same because they're both bought by other people.
There is some small truth to that, but it's not really true in reality and you certainly won't change any of that if your reaction to that is to just not bother voting at all, as Dave just implied. If you don't vote, then you leave it to everyone else to make the decisions for you.
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Or, to break it down for people who still don't understand:
Free speech: Rogan and his guests spouting bullshit
Also free speech: People calling them out on that bullshit
Also free speech: People deciding they don't want to support the platform that hosts the bullshit
Also free speech: People calling on others to join them in a boycott of the platform that's supporting bullshit
Also free speech (or to be more accurate, free market): Spotify siding with Rogan instead of the people demanding they cancel his contract (though it would also be free speech/market if they went the other way in response to the boycotts.)
Even if you're dishonest enough to pretend that people are saying what they're saying because they don't share the same political opinion as Rogan, rather than the more realistic opposition to spreading of outright lies (and how damning is it to modern discourse when basic medical information is now politically bipartisan?), there's nothing here that doesn't represent free speech. Unless, of course, you're also stupid enough to think that free speech means free audience or freedom from consequences. In which case, yet again, some people need to let the adults make the grown up decisions.
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I'm saying that if you expect people to contact you to tell you that your software's so shit that they uninstalled it the moment your ugly UI appeared, and the only 21st century contact method you offer is blocked to the public, then nobody's going to bother.
Also, if you're demanding money to access your GitHub page, then you also fail in this regard since that demand is not mentioned next to the 404 link. All you provide is a dead link with an invitation to randomly call an idiot on the other side of the world. No thanks.
Such a demand would be a red flag either way, especially since all your competitors have their code available, but the fact that you failed to make the demand is the funny part.
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Re: Weighted fault
I'd imagine that Mazda would be the ones taking the blame. It's unlikely that the radio station did anything maliciously by not formatting the files correctly. Even if they did, then the fact that no other manufacturer's cars were affected still puts the onus on Mazda for not having a way to record from the error or properly sanitise inputs.
"Given the timely example, there’d be hell to pay in class actions and corporate suits if TurboTax bricked systems with a bad icon."
It's again worth noting that from what I understand the car wasn't bricked, it's just that you'd have to drive it around as if it were a car from the 80s till it gets fixed.
"As a side pondering, what OS/CS bricks on a missing file extension?"
Lots of OSes, especially embedded ones, can be vulnerable to all sorts of things that were missed during testing or that some project manager decided to let slide to meet a deadline because they were unlikely to happen. Most of them aren't vulnerable to something as basic or from an FM broadcast, but there's a lot of things going on in all sorts of devices that make you wonder how anything actually works long term.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: One of the Black thugs you defend will assau
Fuck me, it took 6 weeks for that comeback, and all you managed to say is "yes, us racists are insecure pathetic children who cling to desperate fantasies to justify our own failures in life!"?
Well done, I guess.
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"See, you’re ignoring other media actions of the 2000-2010 era."
No, I've addressed them, but as usual you seem intent of ignoring the parts of the arguments you don't want to hear,
"Look at HD-DVD. Which on paper was generally superior and in future roadmap plans was factually superior. It out sold BD quite well at first."
FFS, yes I already addressed that. Players were expensive and when Blu Ray came along with greater support, being built into the PS3 and other advantages it quickly outsold competition. Spin it how you want, it was low sales that killed the format.
"A format will not survive on Hollywood alone. Nor can it survive with only independents."
Yes, that's the market talking, which you seem to intent on ignoring. VHS, DVD and Blu Ray were ultimately successful because they sold more. There have always been other formats, but they failed because they sold less. That's all there is to it.
"As such, I call distribution choices the ultimate deciding factor."
Yes, but formats also fail despite distribution choices. I remember seeing racks of MiniDiscs in record stores. How did that turn out in the long term?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Auto(lol)ated systems
"You need an OS for a radio?"
No, but if you do if you have a multifunction device in the centre console that does things like GPS, phone syncing, display parking cams, and various other applications on top of just accessing an AM/FM broadcast.
But, this still has bugger all to do with the operation of the car overall. I'm sorry if your obsession over fixing the dashboard to a primitive state is confusing you when people are relating to new tech.
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Re: "it's fairly inexcusable"
"It's like the Weather -- everybody complains about it, but nobody does anything about it."
Erm, what do you expect people to do about the weather? I assume from the rest of your comment that you somehow expect people to change it rather than just deal with the weather you get? That seems like weird criticism.
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Unless I'm mistaken, Trump's Pravda (I mean really?) is based on open source code from elsewhere, so it's perfectly possible that Nunes and the other people he hired with such competence and attention to detail just copied the boilerplate and didn't actually read it.
Though, I expect this to be like any other right-wing grift platform - they'll have no qualms about banning people they disagree with and will have zero qualms about hypocrisy when they cite their own T&Cs. If you want to see actual "censorship", you don't go to Twitter, you go to one of the right's echo chambers.
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"f run better than twitter, we could see another monopoly panic like the 2021 parker scare."
The panic where, after having given multiple warnings to get their act together in order to comply with the terms of service, Amazon were finally compelled to act after they were implicated during Jan 6th - and a bunch of people with the kind of smooth-brained intellect you demonstrate here decided that everyone reacting to the same event were in on a conspiracy?
Yes, I am actually sure that when Trump's new grifting scheme eventually collapses under the weight of hatred and incompetence, you people will come up with some conspiracy theory about how facts apply to reality and there are consequences for actions.
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It doesn't matter if they're copyrightable, what matters is that you get someone to pay for the NFT. Then, the uniqueness and "protection" comes from its non-replicatable position on the blockchain rather than the content of the image itself.
In fact those comes even if you don't find a mark to pay for them, but they'll continue to be generated so long as someone does.
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"I didn't see any wild overestimations of the death toll, and if there were any predictions that it would reach close to a million, they would be right."
It depends on what you mean by "wild overestimations", as well. This thread originally took place well before there was a publicly available vaccine, and many people thought it would be much longer to get one widely available than it was. Had a vaccine not been available, there's no doubt that the figures would be much higher than they are now, especially when the new variants started to appear (which mainly affected those who were unvaccinated).
If this person is claiming "aged poorly" to mean "the people commenting did not correctly predict the future based on new data we have now that was impossible to know at the time", then I suppose he has some kind of point. But, going back to 2 year old threads to lambast people for not being psychic isn't the best use of one's time.
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Re: A legal decision
"Ultimately: Spotify made a business decision. If you don’t like it go elsewhere."
Some people are, some people aren't. Young and others making more people aware of the reasons someone might want to leave is part of the process.
"All the hype around this is purely political."
...which is free speech.
What's happened here - Rogan has platformed some disgusting and dangerous misinformation that probably has already led to people dying. A group of scientists wrote an open letter to Spotify stating that he's playing a dangerous game. Young saw this, and threatened to leave if Rogan's content wasn't moved, then Spotify agreed to honour his request.
There is nothing wrong with the sequence of events, unless you're of the opinion that artists lose their right to political opinion when they sell a few records, that people only you think are relevant should have a voice, or that people should be forced to financially support a business they are opposed to.
You whining about how washed up Young supposedly is only highlights the importance of political discussion - if he's having such an effect, imagine if someone you think is relevant spoke out against propaganda.
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"The very base of supporting free speech is not supporting what you agree with, but the right of existence for what you don’t."
Yes, but that doesn't mean you have to hang around with them, help pay for them or provide them your property to speak from.
I can support the free speech of Rogan and his disinformation crew, or the right for Nazis to speak their mind. I can also exercise my own right not to do business with people who support those things or frequent those premises.
There is no contradiction here. I'm not trying to shut them down, merely performing the equivalent of changing the channel if a TV show comes on that I don't like. I didn't oppress anyone's right to free speech by changing the channel.
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