Re: School Shootings In The US Are NOT Incredibly Rare
That Wikipedia page is the EXACT statistics I've been debunking in three straight articles now, and you went ahead and cited them anyway.
As far as NZ not having any recorded school shooting deaths:
A. I don't believe that zero statistic and B. Ignoring the obvious population and internal topology of the two countries is great if you want to boast about New Zealand but otherwise incredibly pointless...
"FUCK YOU, you bit-brained brainwashed asswipe... you are probably 1/3rd to 1/2 my age, but if you show your smarmy puss around me and say shit like that, YOU WILL BE KNOCKED OUT, wormtongued, human-shaped pile of shit that you are..."
Well, hey, at least you're being levelheaded, logical, and intelligent about, right? Threatening violence on someone for a simple one-sentence observational opinion is sure to win you sell-swords for your side of this fight you're making up in your own head, so keep on gettin' on, soldier!
"so, tell me, does my wife (a single mom for much of her adult life) hate wymns too ?"
No idea. Never heard you mother's words, so I wouldn't be so simple as to pretend to answer this exceptionally silly question.
"so, tell me, do my sisters (both working women who have worked longer and harder than any DOZEN useless pontificators like YOU) hate wymns too ?"
Whereas you'll feel free to just make up how long I've worked, how old I am, and what kind of work ethic I have as compared strictly to the female members of your family, because that's apparently important. I guess this is on me for arguing with a simpleton, but what can I say, I'm a sucker....
"so, tell me, does my bossy horselady neighbor hate wymn too ? because she thinks ALL you femtards are useless mouth-breathers and she has barn stalls to muck rather than contemplate theoretical prejudice of no consequence..."
Gamergate, everyone. Remember: it's all about journalistic ethics. It has nothing to do with women or feminism (eye-roll)....
"i've posted that email address enough that you should be able to find it if you wanted to, big boy... (you will not, JUST LIKE all the rest of the cowardly fucktards who do not back up their stupid shit...)"
And what am I supposed to do with this email address, exactly? Why would I communicate with you there when I can communicate with you right here? Are you...having a stroke or something?
"yet you only have enough testicular fortitude to throw out a nasty, personal comment in your private sandbox, instead of a real debate of some sort ? ? ?"
You thought THAT was nasty? Oh man, I'd be happy to have any kind of debate you'd like, but I fear your skin must be quite thin given the statement above....
"fuck you sideways with a pineapple, you dickless pinhead..."
Let's get the debate started here, then. What is it about sticking things up my ass and my being "dickless" that you think it's a great insult? What is it about people who don't have dicks that you find to be less than yourself? And why is it that you don't have anything against women, except all of your insults have to do with fucking people and the lack of male genitalia? I mean this question honestly, so please try to formulate your response with a complete lack of foam in your mouth...
That John Stewart bit was funny, but ultimately ironic. His chief complaint about Chicago stuffed pizza apparently consisted of his determining that it was more like a casserole than a pizza, then he proceeded to show us all how to eat a New York flaccid pizza piece like a burrito. I was more than a little surprised at the hypocrisy.
Plus, a Chicago style pizza actually has ingredients you can taste, whereas a New York pizza is fried flatbread with once-tasty but now rendered flavorless toppings....
There used to be an old joke floating around the NASA brass that if you took all the staff that worked on any Apollo mission, lined them up, and shouted "Zieg Heil!", roughly half of them would respond....
Re: Simple solution. Lower then speed limits and shorten the yellow light period
Lowering the speed limit doesn't do the trick. As long as we're only BARELY pretending that this isn't simply about revenue, why not go all the way?
The Dark Helmet City Beautification and Enrichment Proposal: variable speed limits! That's right, Mr. Mayor, we create a jobs bill based strictly off of replacing those old metal speed limit signs in the entire city with digital display speed limit signs. Then, we incorporate ASL into the mix: Adjustable Speed Limit.
Speed limits will change throughout the day in random intervals under the bullshit excuse that we're watching traffic patterns and making shit safer for puppies or whatever. What it ends up meaning is that you have no idea what the speed limit on your own block is day to day, or even minute to minute.
THINK OF THE MOTHERFUCKING REVENUE, YOU MANGLED-HANDED MONSTER!!!!
"I guess my first question to you is how we determine what this "best system" would look like."
You model which would result in the most economic and/or artistic output. You study different government's systems which will necessarily have different levels of protection and you measure their output per capita.
"What you think is best likely differs from what I think is best."
Output is the measure the framers were interested in. It's the entire point of copyright.
"I think the empirical approach raises more questions than it answers, and as far as foundations go, it's not a very good one."
Then we have nothing, because we're certainly NOT going to make good policy based on feelings and/or anecdotals.
Just want to point out that this is pure troll. AJ/antidirt was challenged to prove his statement with a citation. Instead of doing so, which would have vindicated him, he instead issues a counter-challenge that has nothing to do with his previous assertion.
1. It is possible to think authors generally shouldn't have exclusive rights to their works in the form of copyright and not "smear" them for standing up for those rights.
2. This one is easy. Techdirt lauds well-used trademark, for instance. I've written those articles myself.
"I am certainly welcome for you to provide how this would not be leftist in nature."
I've now read this sentence three times and I can't figure out what kind of English this is supposed to be. As for leftist/right-wing, this story is apolitical. I can't understand why anyone would think that the world needs to be divided into left/right on every last stupid thing....
"Last time I checked most people on the right do not flip out cause their kid drew a gun or bomb."
You're kidding me w/this, right? The right wing has multiple time lost their collective shit over anything to do w/Islam in schools, suggesting that it's linked to terrorism and whatnot. Terrorism = violence, by guns or bombs. You're wrong.
"Namely, The Fine Young Capitalists, a feminist group, was harassed by Zoe Quinn and it was not reported."
Because, in the context of the "mass" video game media, it's barely a story. I'm an AVID gamer, and I'd never heard of either Zoe Quinn or the FYC before this stupid "controversy" broke out. None of this matters. It's not worth the bandwidth the story would take up.
"Not by you"
You and I have been specifically discussing this in comments and in the chat room on an ongoing basis. Both are public forums. This bullshit about demanding that independent media outlets cover according to your demands is insane. Who do you people THINK you are?
"Further, you skipped right over how 32,000 comments were deleted from Reddit when they were talking about it."
Yes, that was bad, and shouldn't have been done. It also represents a big fat nothing with regard to the larger "controversy" GamerGate portends to be about. You people are all over the map, which is what I've been saying all along.
Your movement was hijacked from its onset, it has no clear and concise complaint, it often makes accusations that turn out to be blatant falsehoods, and it has allowed itself to be characterized by some of the most vile human shitheads I've ever heard about who think it's fun to threaten death and rape upon people who don't deserve it. It's broken, and it was NOT broken from the outside, so start it anew, make it make sense, stop bitching about tiny little sub-issues that don't mean anything in the larger context, and stop with the petulant demand that major and minor media outlets cover every story you seem to think is worth covering, and I'll get right on board with you. Gaming journalism is broken, but what you're talking about with the Zoe Quinn "scandal" is akin to the airplane being on fire and you're insisting we all talk about how it's made the soda cans too hot to drink. THE PLANE IS ON FIRE. Focus on that.
Are you KIDDING ME!??! The entire concept of her being "abusive" in her relationship is from a one-sided account. The late-comers might want to cry ethics, but this whole thing started because a bunch of people got upset at a woman in gaming who had a sex life.
For all I know, Zoe Quinn is a worthless person, a jerk, someone who I'd hate to spend time with. That still doesn't mean she isn't allowed to fuck dudes or make games, and I STILL haven't found where she received positive coverage on a game, or had a game pimped for her, due to her sleeping with someone. Despite all the fervor, STILL no evidence of that. Only a tiny mention in an unrelated article by a guy she is accused of banging AFTER the article came out.
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Re: School Shootings In The US Are NOT Incredibly Rare
As far as NZ not having any recorded school shooting deaths:
A. I don't believe that zero statistic and
B. Ignoring the obvious population and internal topology of the two countries is great if you want to boast about New Zealand but otherwise incredibly pointless...
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This is the best....
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Re: no, i hate everyone equally...
you are probably 1/3rd to 1/2 my age, but if you show your smarmy puss around me and say shit like that, YOU WILL BE KNOCKED OUT, wormtongued, human-shaped pile of shit that you are..."
Well, hey, at least you're being levelheaded, logical, and intelligent about, right? Threatening violence on someone for a simple one-sentence observational opinion is sure to win you sell-swords for your side of this fight you're making up in your own head, so keep on gettin' on, soldier!
"so, tell me, does my wife (a single mom for much of her adult life) hate wymns too ?"
No idea. Never heard you mother's words, so I wouldn't be so simple as to pretend to answer this exceptionally silly question.
"so, tell me, do my sisters (both working women who have worked longer and harder than any DOZEN useless pontificators like YOU) hate wymns too ?"
Whereas you'll feel free to just make up how long I've worked, how old I am, and what kind of work ethic I have as compared strictly to the female members of your family, because that's apparently important. I guess this is on me for arguing with a simpleton, but what can I say, I'm a sucker....
"so, tell me, does my bossy horselady neighbor hate wymn too ? because she thinks ALL you femtards are useless mouth-breathers and she has barn stalls to muck rather than contemplate theoretical prejudice of no consequence..."
Gamergate, everyone. Remember: it's all about journalistic ethics. It has nothing to do with women or feminism (eye-roll)....
"i've posted that email address enough that you should be able to find it if you wanted to, big boy... (you will not, JUST LIKE all the rest of the cowardly fucktards who do not back up their stupid shit...)"
And what am I supposed to do with this email address, exactly? Why would I communicate with you there when I can communicate with you right here? Are you...having a stroke or something?
"yet you only have enough testicular fortitude to throw out a nasty, personal comment in your private sandbox, instead of a real debate of some sort ? ? ?"
You thought THAT was nasty? Oh man, I'd be happy to have any kind of debate you'd like, but I fear your skin must be quite thin given the statement above....
"fuck you sideways with a pineapple, you dickless pinhead..."
Let's get the debate started here, then. What is it about sticking things up my ass and my being "dickless" that you think it's a great insult? What is it about people who don't have dicks that you find to be less than yourself? And why is it that you don't have anything against women, except all of your insults have to do with fucking people and the lack of male genitalia? I mean this question honestly, so please try to formulate your response with a complete lack of foam in your mouth...
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Re: entirely unrelated, but i'm just sick of this shit...
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Plus, a Chicago style pizza actually has ingredients you can taste, whereas a New York pizza is fried flatbread with once-tasty but now rendered flavorless toppings....
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They got us to the moon as well
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Re: Simple solution. Lower then speed limits and shorten the yellow light period
The Dark Helmet City Beautification and Enrichment Proposal: variable speed limits! That's right, Mr. Mayor, we create a jobs bill based strictly off of replacing those old metal speed limit signs in the entire city with digital display speed limit signs. Then, we incorporate ASL into the mix: Adjustable Speed Limit.
Speed limits will change throughout the day in random intervals under the bullshit excuse that we're watching traffic patterns and making shit safer for puppies or whatever. What it ends up meaning is that you have no idea what the speed limit on your own block is day to day, or even minute to minute.
THINK OF THE MOTHERFUCKING REVENUE, YOU MANGLED-HANDED MONSTER!!!!
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You model which would result in the most economic and/or artistic output. You study different government's systems which will necessarily have different levels of protection and you measure their output per capita.
"What you think is best likely differs from what I think is best."
Output is the measure the framers were interested in. It's the entire point of copyright.
"I think the empirical approach raises more questions than it answers, and as far as foundations go, it's not a very good one."
Then we have nothing, because we're certainly NOT going to make good policy based on feelings and/or anecdotals.
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1. It is possible to think authors generally shouldn't have exclusive rights to their works in the form of copyright and not "smear" them for standing up for those rights.
2. This one is easy. Techdirt lauds well-used trademark, for instance. I've written those articles myself.
But, as to AJ/antidirt's stupid little challenge, Techdirt HAS positively reported on people standing up for their IP when it's done well. For instance: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130214/11232521985/how-to-resolve-trademark-issue-politely-witho ut-legal-threats.shtml
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I've now read this sentence three times and I can't figure out what kind of English this is supposed to be. As for leftist/right-wing, this story is apolitical. I can't understand why anyone would think that the world needs to be divided into left/right on every last stupid thing....
"Last time I checked most people on the right do not flip out cause their kid drew a gun or bomb."
You're kidding me w/this, right? The right wing has multiple time lost their collective shit over anything to do w/Islam in schools, suggesting that it's linked to terrorism and whatnot. Terrorism = violence, by guns or bombs. You're wrong.
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Facepalm!
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Because, in the context of the "mass" video game media, it's barely a story. I'm an AVID gamer, and I'd never heard of either Zoe Quinn or the FYC before this stupid "controversy" broke out. None of this matters. It's not worth the bandwidth the story would take up.
"Not by you"
You and I have been specifically discussing this in comments and in the chat room on an ongoing basis. Both are public forums. This bullshit about demanding that independent media outlets cover according to your demands is insane. Who do you people THINK you are?
"Further, you skipped right over how 32,000 comments were deleted from Reddit when they were talking about it."
Yes, that was bad, and shouldn't have been done. It also represents a big fat nothing with regard to the larger "controversy" GamerGate portends to be about. You people are all over the map, which is what I've been saying all along.
Your movement was hijacked from its onset, it has no clear and concise complaint, it often makes accusations that turn out to be blatant falsehoods, and it has allowed itself to be characterized by some of the most vile human shitheads I've ever heard about who think it's fun to threaten death and rape upon people who don't deserve it. It's broken, and it was NOT broken from the outside, so start it anew, make it make sense, stop bitching about tiny little sub-issues that don't mean anything in the larger context, and stop with the petulant demand that major and minor media outlets cover every story you seem to think is worth covering, and I'll get right on board with you. Gaming journalism is broken, but what you're talking about with the Zoe Quinn "scandal" is akin to the airplane being on fire and you're insisting we all talk about how it's made the soda cans too hot to drink. THE PLANE IS ON FIRE. Focus on that.
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Are you KIDDING ME!??! The entire concept of her being "abusive" in her relationship is from a one-sided account. The late-comers might want to cry ethics, but this whole thing started because a bunch of people got upset at a woman in gaming who had a sex life.
For all I know, Zoe Quinn is a worthless person, a jerk, someone who I'd hate to spend time with. That still doesn't mean she isn't allowed to fuck dudes or make games, and I STILL haven't found where she received positive coverage on a game, or had a game pimped for her, due to her sleeping with someone. Despite all the fervor, STILL no evidence of that. Only a tiny mention in an unrelated article by a guy she is accused of banging AFTER the article came out.
You guys are amazing...
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