These conspiracy nutters have always existed and will continue to exist. The trick is to return them to the small pockets of fringe nutters they used to be, rather than allowing them the veneer of mainstream respectability that might trap otherwise normal people.
One way to do that is to ensure that when they're spouting their nonsense, gullible targets aren't able to turn on the TV and see the sources being presented as another news channel alongside actual journalistic outlets (as flawed as many of those still are on US TV).
Nonsense. It also has the philosophy that everything wrong with the world would be magically fixed if only they were allowed to return to the fantasy version of the 1950s they saw on TV as kids. The fact that it never existed to begin with, and that if it did it would be hell for anyone not a straight white middle-aged Christian male, is not to be discussed openly. Also, never mention what the tax rates were for the rich in the real timescale.
"While the game didn't invent the battle royale concept"
That's understating it, since everything from the basic concept to the name were taken from the manga/novel/movie from over a decade previous.
"PUBG also accuses Google of copyright infringement for hosting several YouTube videos that either show gameplay from Free Fire or fan-videos of live-action recreations of PUBG gameplay."
Which I hope Google respond to by waving fair use in their faces and reminding them that attacking people who are big enough fans of their game to try and recreate it in a physical setting at their own cost of time and money is really stupid.
"A once vaunted company that produced a popular and great game"
That's... overstating it. The company hired the guy who made the game during its beta phase, and while they certainly provided material support for it to get where it is now, it was already quite popular when they bought it. Hell, this game wasn't even the first attempt he made at the concept.
They deserve credit for allowing the game to become as huge as it is, but it was only ever a purchased asset, and this kind of stupidity is par for the course when a company that didn't creatively start a product decides they need to "protect" it.
You assume that they haven't already got their money's worth out of it. If the aim was to push right-wing talking points with a view to directing political outcomes, it did its job during the Trump era, especially when some viewers started flocking to it once they decided that Fox was becoming too "liberal" (read: inserting the occasional fact in between its opinion pieces). It wouldn't be surprising to find out that they were getting some financial benefit as well.
Fast forward to today - well, Trump failed to get re-elected despite the lies pushed about the election before and after, and they face potential legal consequences for doing so. With or without availability on DirectTV they're probably sunk to some degree, and the failure here might work to their advantage (the lawyers from Dominion and others might not be so eager to pick apart the corpse and follow money trails if it's already dead before they get to it).
The smart money is in investing in the next right-wing grift that will attract the displaced viewers who haven't worked out the con game yet, not in shedding tears about what happened with their last grift.
So, you've gone from rambling nonsense about people using mailing addresses that you find "suspicious" to... complaining about the specs on a site that gives you 5 physical retail addresses to visit in malls in Guatamala? All without ever linking to any of the supposed ads on Facebook you claim to have been triggered by.
Are you going to furnish us with your actual point here, because you've gone a long way from whining that Facebook aren't obsessing over Google Maps like you are.
"Half the local videos she tries to play in Media Player Classic won't play unless she reboots her system"
I know this is probably a big ask for her, but did she ever try VLC? A lot of legacy players have issues with codec files and the like but I don't think I've ever encountered a file that VLC chokes on. In fact, even if the file is partially corrupt it will often play a portion of the file, whereas other player would refuse to play anything.
The other 2 problems just sound like file problems unless she's really missed the obvious. Firefox still has the option to open links in windows (just uncheck the box in the general options section), while the autocorrect thing could just mean a problem with the local dictionary file. From memory I think you can get around this by creating a new custom dictionary file and setting that to the default, but I'm on a Mac so can't really give you step by step.
"Yes, because getting technology to work properly is more difficult task than you think"
No, because I didn't like the product, not because I couldn't get it to work. Not every piece of software is for everyone and "not for me" is a perfectly valid reaction to even the best designed, bug free application.
"You design what each part of the technology needs to do"
...then forget to create a UI that actually informs the user that it does those things. I don't believe you've ever fixed that issue after people laughed at you for having to provide usage instructions here because the keymapping required were not communicated by the UI or the surrounding documentation.
Well, chalk that down to just another way in which Americans are being fleeced, I suppose. I wonder - what's the actual benefit to the consumer for the number being portable in this way? I can port my number between mobile providers, to VoIP, etc., if I wish, free of charge, but there's no scenario I can think of where this would need to be done regularly. What's the excuse for treating it as if it is a regular thing there? I can maybe imagine that it's needed in rural areas where regular cell service might be spotty, but for the average city dweller?
Here in Europe, that would not only be expressly illegal but the company would also face severe penalties if you were to face an employment related consequences for not coming into work on your scheduled vacation time.
I'm glad you found something else, but it's obviously unacceptable that whatever poor soul replaced you might face the same problems. Although, if the company is badly enough run that there's only one single person who can fix a problem, and that person has to physically be there on site, then hopefully they stand to collapse at some point in the future where it's not possible for that person to be there.
The whole "latinx" this is weird because it seems to be largely an attempt to force gender-related political correctness where it doesn't belong. Spanish is a fundamentally gendered language, so I think it's less controversial among native speaking populations that you're assigning a gender to a person, when you also have to assign a gender to a chair and a loaf of bread. It's mainly people coming from non-gendered languages like English that have that problem. So, I can see why trying to force "latinx" could be seen as a backdoor attempt at colonialism and thus be deemed offensive in that way.
I'm not sure if I'm totally correct with that interpretation, but from what I've seen that's largely the conversation.
Well, if you think about it a certain way, the core of Pokemon GO is that you wander around looking for minority populations to attack until they submit to be taken into custody for an indefinite period of time.
"Because allowing customers to purchase the flights that meet their needs is a HORRIBLE thing and we should crush it."
Well, yeah. If a site is telling people that they can get the flights cheaper, then that disrupts the part of the business model that depends on subsidising those cheaper seats by fleecing those people through the normal channels. You can't base a business model on loading people with fees and forcing high ticket prices if someone else is there telling them there's a perfectly good seat at normal prices available.
More to the point, is there anyone who really considers the Washington Post a reliable resource since Bezos bought it? It strikes me as something along the lines of the Wall Street Journal - once great but after Murdoch got his fingers in it, well.. In both cases there seems to still be some value in their general reporting, but they seem to need a generous pinch of salt and their opinion pages can be safely ignored, and that colours the credibility of the rest of their content.
"There's actually 437 suckers who downloaded the product"
Downloaded, but you don't know if they ever used it and you didn't convert them into paying customers.
"we have over 400 people who got sucked into trying the offering"
Apart from the fact that referring to them constantly as "suckers" doesn't bode well, that's fairly meaningless. I've tried many products over the years that have been instantly deleted because they were not good. A download does not mean they actually used it once, let alone liked it, found it useful or loaded it again.
Meanwhile how many downloads do the competitors you keep comparing yourself against have? I know they have regular users, because I've used the products those users created with them. I don't recall seeing any product advertised proudly with "made with Meshpage" on their ad copy.
Also, 400 people over how much time? If that's the whole time you've been complaining here, it's nothing to boast about.
Enough people for it to be worth them continuing to do them. If there weren't profitable, the practice would stop immediately.
"Also they make it so obvious with calls from the most obscure places that I have no business dealings, friends, or potential people I know in those places."
Then, you're not the moron they're targeting. It's the same with spam emails - they deliberately put in spelling mistakes and other tells to ensure that they naturally filter out anyone who can understand they're being scammed upfront. They only want to stupid and the tech clueless because they'll be wasting their time trying to scam the others.
Only you could use "I have 2 paying customers over the decade I've been whining here" as some kind of flex about how you don't have literal zero customers...
"It's still significantly better than what you can do"
Maybe, but I don't go around claiming to have world changing software that would work if only all of my competition were made illegal...
"systems that are ready for customers"
You might want to advertise one of those systems, because they're not on meshpage.org...
"When exactly you got your systems ready to be used by real customers?"
Never. I provide infrastructure for a near 1 billion Euro company to run their software on, and for entertainment purposes I watch movies and play videogames created by people using your competitors. I've never claimed to be in the industry you have failed to participate in, I just trust the people who do.
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"Thanks for helping to prove the the censorship is real."
Still struggling with the meaning of that word, huh?
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These conspiracy nutters have always existed and will continue to exist. The trick is to return them to the small pockets of fringe nutters they used to be, rather than allowing them the veneer of mainstream respectability that might trap otherwise normal people.
One way to do that is to ensure that when they're spouting their nonsense, gullible targets aren't able to turn on the TV and see the sources being presented as another news channel alongside actual journalistic outlets (as flawed as many of those still are on US TV).
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Nonsense. It also has the philosophy that everything wrong with the world would be magically fixed if only they were allowed to return to the fantasy version of the 1950s they saw on TV as kids. The fact that it never existed to begin with, and that if it did it would be hell for anyone not a straight white middle-aged Christian male, is not to be discussed openly. Also, never mention what the tax rates were for the rich in the real timescale.
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"While the game didn't invent the battle royale concept"
That's understating it, since everything from the basic concept to the name were taken from the manga/novel/movie from over a decade previous.
"PUBG also accuses Google of copyright infringement for hosting several YouTube videos that either show gameplay from Free Fire or fan-videos of live-action recreations of PUBG gameplay."
Which I hope Google respond to by waving fair use in their faces and reminding them that attacking people who are big enough fans of their game to try and recreate it in a physical setting at their own cost of time and money is really stupid.
"A once vaunted company that produced a popular and great game"
That's... overstating it. The company hired the guy who made the game during its beta phase, and while they certainly provided material support for it to get where it is now, it was already quite popular when they bought it. Hell, this game wasn't even the first attempt he made at the concept.
They deserve credit for allowing the game to become as huge as it is, but it was only ever a purchased asset, and this kind of stupidity is par for the course when a company that didn't creatively start a product decides they need to "protect" it.
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Re: Ah sweet schadenfreude...
You assume that they haven't already got their money's worth out of it. If the aim was to push right-wing talking points with a view to directing political outcomes, it did its job during the Trump era, especially when some viewers started flocking to it once they decided that Fox was becoming too "liberal" (read: inserting the occasional fact in between its opinion pieces). It wouldn't be surprising to find out that they were getting some financial benefit as well.
Fast forward to today - well, Trump failed to get re-elected despite the lies pushed about the election before and after, and they face potential legal consequences for doing so. With or without availability on DirectTV they're probably sunk to some degree, and the failure here might work to their advantage (the lawyers from Dominion and others might not be so eager to pick apart the corpse and follow money trails if it's already dead before they get to it).
The smart money is in investing in the next right-wing grift that will attract the displaced viewers who haven't worked out the con game yet, not in shedding tears about what happened with their last grift.
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"My position is that all products on the planet are illegal in some ways."
You do realise you just included Meshpage in that comment, you little pirate you.
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So, you've gone from rambling nonsense about people using mailing addresses that you find "suspicious" to... complaining about the specs on a site that gives you 5 physical retail addresses to visit in malls in Guatamala? All without ever linking to any of the supposed ads on Facebook you claim to have been triggered by.
Are you going to furnish us with your actual point here, because you've gone a long way from whining that Facebook aren't obsessing over Google Maps like you are.
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Ah, you're still dealing with that? Damn...
"Half the local videos she tries to play in Media Player Classic won't play unless she reboots her system"
I know this is probably a big ask for her, but did she ever try VLC? A lot of legacy players have issues with codec files and the like but I don't think I've ever encountered a file that VLC chokes on. In fact, even if the file is partially corrupt it will often play a portion of the file, whereas other player would refuse to play anything.
The other 2 problems just sound like file problems unless she's really missed the obvious. Firefox still has the option to open links in windows (just uncheck the box in the general options section), while the autocorrect thing could just mean a problem with the local dictionary file. From memory I think you can get around this by creating a new custom dictionary file and setting that to the default, but I'm on a Mac so can't really give you step by step.
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"Yes, because getting technology to work properly is more difficult task than you think"
No, because I didn't like the product, not because I couldn't get it to work. Not every piece of software is for everyone and "not for me" is a perfectly valid reaction to even the best designed, bug free application.
"You design what each part of the technology needs to do"
...then forget to create a UI that actually informs the user that it does those things. I don't believe you've ever fixed that issue after people laughed at you for having to provide usage instructions here because the keymapping required were not communicated by the UI or the surrounding documentation.
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Well, chalk that down to just another way in which Americans are being fleeced, I suppose. I wonder - what's the actual benefit to the consumer for the number being portable in this way? I can port my number between mobile providers, to VoIP, etc., if I wish, free of charge, but there's no scenario I can think of where this would need to be done regularly. What's the excuse for treating it as if it is a regular thing there? I can maybe imagine that it's needed in rural areas where regular cell service might be spotty, but for the average city dweller?
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Here in Europe, that would not only be expressly illegal but the company would also face severe penalties if you were to face an employment related consequences for not coming into work on your scheduled vacation time.
I'm glad you found something else, but it's obviously unacceptable that whatever poor soul replaced you might face the same problems. Although, if the company is badly enough run that there's only one single person who can fix a problem, and that person has to physically be there on site, then hopefully they stand to collapse at some point in the future where it's not possible for that person to be there.
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The whole "latinx" this is weird because it seems to be largely an attempt to force gender-related political correctness where it doesn't belong. Spanish is a fundamentally gendered language, so I think it's less controversial among native speaking populations that you're assigning a gender to a person, when you also have to assign a gender to a chair and a loaf of bread. It's mainly people coming from non-gendered languages like English that have that problem. So, I can see why trying to force "latinx" could be seen as a backdoor attempt at colonialism and thus be deemed offensive in that way.
I'm not sure if I'm totally correct with that interpretation, but from what I've seen that's largely the conversation.
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Well, if you think about it a certain way, the core of Pokemon GO is that you wander around looking for minority populations to attack until they submit to be taken into custody for an indefinite period of time.
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"Because allowing customers to purchase the flights that meet their needs is a HORRIBLE thing and we should crush it."
Well, yeah. If a site is telling people that they can get the flights cheaper, then that disrupts the part of the business model that depends on subsidising those cheaper seats by fleecing those people through the normal channels. You can't base a business model on loading people with fees and forcing high ticket prices if someone else is there telling them there's a perfectly good seat at normal prices available.
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More to the point, is there anyone who really considers the Washington Post a reliable resource since Bezos bought it? It strikes me as something along the lines of the Wall Street Journal - once great but after Murdoch got his fingers in it, well.. In both cases there seems to still be some value in their general reporting, but they seem to need a generous pinch of salt and their opinion pages can be safely ignored, and that colours the credibility of the rest of their content.
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"There's actually 437 suckers who downloaded the product"
Downloaded, but you don't know if they ever used it and you didn't convert them into paying customers.
"we have over 400 people who got sucked into trying the offering"
Apart from the fact that referring to them constantly as "suckers" doesn't bode well, that's fairly meaningless. I've tried many products over the years that have been instantly deleted because they were not good. A download does not mean they actually used it once, let alone liked it, found it useful or loaded it again.
Meanwhile how many downloads do the competitors you keep comparing yourself against have? I know they have regular users, because I've used the products those users created with them. I don't recall seeing any product advertised proudly with "made with Meshpage" on their ad copy.
Also, 400 people over how much time? If that's the whole time you've been complaining here, it's nothing to boast about.
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You pay to receive calls?
I've seen that while roaming, but never while I'm at home. Is that really something you have to put up with?
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"Honestly, who falls for the scam ones?"
Enough people for it to be worth them continuing to do them. If there weren't profitable, the practice would stop immediately.
"Also they make it so obvious with calls from the most obscure places that I have no business dealings, friends, or potential people I know in those places."
Then, you're not the moron they're targeting. It's the same with spam emails - they deliberately put in spelling mistakes and other tells to ensure that they naturally filter out anyone who can understand they're being scammed upfront. They only want to stupid and the tech clueless because they'll be wasting their time trying to scam the others.
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Only you could use "I have 2 paying customers over the decade I've been whining here" as some kind of flex about how you don't have literal zero customers...
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"It's still significantly better than what you can do"
Maybe, but I don't go around claiming to have world changing software that would work if only all of my competition were made illegal...
"systems that are ready for customers"
You might want to advertise one of those systems, because they're not on meshpage.org...
"When exactly you got your systems ready to be used by real customers?"
Never. I provide infrastructure for a near 1 billion Euro company to run their software on, and for entertainment purposes I watch movies and play videogames created by people using your competitors. I've never claimed to be in the industry you have failed to participate in, I just trust the people who do.
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