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Dash_Harber posted...

Mead posted...

It is strange that the hurricane has dominated so much of the airtime and media outlets are barely talking about the massive wildfires in the northwest

Because we have wildfires here literally every year.

How often do you think hurricanes happen?

Tell your girlfriend to take a shower.

If race doesn't exist then racists don't exist.

It is strange that the hurricane has dominated so much of the airtime and media outlets are barely talking about the massive wildfires in the northwest

Dash_Harber posted...

Philoktetes posted...

how is making cartoons more valuable to society than mining coal?

In the long run? It's important to society to have culture and society, which sort of requires entertainment and art. It also can be monetized. It also doesn't leave as much pollution as coal and is another industry that can support an economy if coal suddenly bottoms out.

The industry media creates is far larger than the coal industry

Dash_Harber posted...

Also, didn't the Kyrptonians create Brainiac?

No. A Coluan did.

WoW is slowly killing itself with a disease known as Activision. If the game goes much longer, it will not be the WoW people have loved for an age now passed, but a den on tainted online crack that its consumers cannot drive themselves away because they are so unable, and Acti-Blizz knows this. They are counting on those people to give them more than every dime they have before the product is taken away, and all counterfeits made to suffer one way or another.

Like that private Vanilla server. For years Blizzard denied there would be interest in such a thing, but it happened by way of the fans. Rather than incorporate it into their fold as a way to make more money, they took the route of legal action to have it shut down.

Now I'm curious how long it will be before Acti-Blizz tries to sue every copycat MMO on the market. Because how dare anyone try to copy the success of their now dying game? It's THEIRS. They want all of the money that comes with it.

That or someone will manage to buy out Activision and immediately close the doors on it (and every company Activision ever acquired by extension). Whichever.

Dash_Harber posted...

Or, you know since they have the technology to shrink cities

They don't. Brainiac does.

And how do you figure that?

Couldn't they just take a yellow sun and push it near their home planet?

how is making cartoons more valuable to society than mining coal?

Pretty much all shows these days have critics no matter how good it is. Nothing is ever good enough.

Dash_Harber posted...

Mrs. Brown's Boys. Not sure why the critics hated that one, though.

That show is amazing.

If caffeine had been discovered in the modern era, it would be as tightly controlled as heroine.

Race has a similar problem, because scientists generally feel that trying to pidgeonhole the enormously large wealth of genetic diversity into just a few blurry categories is unhelpful. This is why people say it's a social construct, because being "black" has far more social meaning than biological meaning.

You aren't going to find any countries under perpetrator because that's not what terrorism is.

You ignored how I pointed out that your whole topic is wrong on every level and are now trying to derail the topic.

No, most of it happens in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, and Nigeria. And there have been multiple attacks every day for the month of September so far.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in_September_2017

Not calls to violence, nor direct death threats, or how to create weapons of mass destruction. Stuff like that I'm ok with censoring.

This is not a newspaper where things are "published" - this is a public form where things are discussed. If you put limits on that, undoubtedly you are providing censorship. You can keep screaming it is not censorship. But it will never not be censorship.

Yes it is, and for so very many reasons.

And it's still censorship.

Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light,[6][7] or intervene to prevent alternate offers from reaching public exposure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship#Rationale

Then I'm not being published.

make (content) available online.

Yes I suppose I am, and that's clearly unethical to publish my work and not pay me.

Irony posted...

Is TC in prison yet?

One could argue that existence in a world where the satire comedy movie Idiocracy is becoming a plausible documentary about the future as being a prison of sorts.

Because it would be unethical to make money off of my words and not pay me.

And what you seem to be claiming is that it's impossible for media companies to censor their products. Is it not censorship when curse words are bleeped out on music discs?

Publish? lol, where's my money for my posts?

Dash_Harber posted...

omnichaos posted...

It's still censorship guys.

As we all explained several times before, no, it's not.

I'm not going to search for your post, but I assume you're synominizing censorship with violations of the first amendment. Censorship is not only government silenced speech. Media organizations silencing speech is also censorship.

Snuggletoof posted...

A Netflix "Original" Series...

Lol I saw that too. Netflix redefining "original"

It's still censorship guys.

Again you're dodging that it is a moral question, not a legal one. We can all recognize that GameFAQs can legally do this. That's not what the question is. You are legally permitted to do all sorts of behavior that is immoral and wrong. The law and morality sometimes coincide, but not always.

It is not censorship for them to decide not to publish something. It is also not immoral because businesses that publish things are not morally compelled to publish everything put before them.

So it's a "not letting go of the past" thing?

I get it, I guess, but it doesn't seem like a good thing to keep doing.

Some of my ancestors here got exiled during a dictatorship, but I don't hold anything against the richer kids for something they had nothing to do with.

So you mean that it doesn't always satisfy the two conditions of linearity, e.g.,
F(x) is a linear map iff:
F(x + y) = F(x) + F(y),
F(ax) = aF(x)?

There are many things a person can do that are immoral that are not necessarily against the law. The law is not the same as morality.

He's well nourished and CE is skin and bone, I know that.

saspa posted...

Before it used to be ok to have sex with a goat and produce a satire, but now it's frowned upon in most societies, and outright illegal in others.

Monty Python has a lot to answer for.