injurai Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Well, if you'll pardon the euphemism, I have no skin in the game. It's not some political correctness or progressive agenda, it just seems polite to refer to people the way they wanted to be referred to. Agreed. I think the problem is when people try to speak on behalf of their identity and then make a suggestion that is equally wrong. There are more Inuit in Canada than Yupik so it's a safe bet, just shouldn't be a catch all nor is it a replacement for Eskimo. Inuit simply has a different scope. I also think Eskimo should not be projected as being a slur, given how that's not how it's typically used. It's been a few years now since the whole Eskimo debate seemed to have any flame behind it, so I think it's mostly tabled for now anyways. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexx Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 (edited) This is the first time ever that I see someone saying Eskimo is a slur. Edited August 7, 2018 by Lexx "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Then call me Mother. Yes, Mother. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00659 In this paper, we introduce a new defensive technique called chaff bugs, which instead target the bug discovery and exploit creation stages of this process. Rather than eliminating bugs, we instead add large numbers of bugs that are provably (but not obviously) non-exploitable. Attackers who attempt to find and exploit bugs in software will, with high probability, find an intentionally placed non-exploitable bug and waste precious resources in trying to build a working exploit. Novel approach but software companies are already implementing it. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00659 In this paper, we introduce a new defensive technique called chaff bugs, which instead target the bug discovery and exploit creation stages of this process. Rather than eliminating bugs, we instead add large numbers of bugs that are provably (but not obviously) non-exploitable. Attackers who attempt to find and exploit bugs in software will, with high probability, find an intentionally placed non-exploitable bug and waste precious resources in trying to build a working exploit. Novel approach but software companies are already implementing it. Like mini-honeypots. This is cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Council passes resolution seeking to remove Trump's star from Walk of Fame. Yass...let the righteous anger flow! Please, flying spaghetti monster, let this retarded decision get out of hand. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Abuse of political power. LMAO No better than Trump. Then again, it is Kalfornia, known for its racism, sexism, and pure hatred. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Oh how I hope they do it! The delicious pandemonium that will result in people dropping a duece on whichever actors star that they have a beef with will be worth it. Plus I love it when moronic plans explode in the face of the inceptor like Elmer Fudd. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Council passes resolution seeking to remove Trump's star from Walk of Fame. Yass...let the righteous anger flow! Please, flying spaghetti monster, let this retarded decision get out of hand. Entrepreneurialism: they'd make more money by holding a weekly auction to smash up Trump's sidewalk star. Woo-hoo! 1 "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 They don't actually have any power to change it, it's just a recommendation Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 'Reccmmendation'. Until they start using threats, bribes, in timidation, and other violent acts to get what they want. Look at what the idiot who damaged the star last time. He claims that the star's existence is a cause of violent confronation and that's why it should be removed. NO. Punks like him are the reason wnhy there's been violent confrontations. LMAO *HE* should be banned. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjjames Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 It's not even in their jurisdiction anyway. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/7/17660302/remove-trump-star-walk-of-fame-hollywood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agiel Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 As if a sign from the heavens I found this video while drinking some J&B Scotch. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blarghagh Posted August 8, 2018 Author Share Posted August 8, 2018 https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/musician-12-percent-43-billion-revenue/ The music industry made 43 billion dollars in revenue and musicians saw 12% of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 They should just produce and distribute their music themselves. Isnt that what TayTay did when she yanked her catalog off the regular streaming services? "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 They should just produce and distribute their music themselves. Isnt that what TayTay did when she yanked her catalog off the regular streaming services? That was more of her just getting leverage. Pretty sure Coffee Shop Joe & The Knees Bees won't have much sway. But you already knew that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 I think you are trying to say; not all artists are equally skilled? I agree. Just like AC/DC sells out stadiums and my dog leaves the room if I sing in the shower. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 More about bargaining power, nothing to do with skill. Taylor Swift's success ratio is more due to manufacturing exposure than anything. Milking the little guy gives music services their long returns, bargaining with the top 40 give them their quarterly returns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 But her bargaining power is directly related to her skill and success. "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 "More about bargaining power, nothing to do with skill. Taylor Swift's success ratio is more due to manufacturing exposure than anything. Milking the little guy gives music services their long returns, bargaining with the top 40 give them their quarterly returns." You make it sound like Taylor started from the top which we all know isn't true. Whether one likes her music or not, her success is 100% because of her. Just like other successful singers. DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Production & Distribution are expensive, self-investing doesn't make much if you don't have exposure either. Swift has bargaining power that goes beyond the sway her talent alone commands. This should be obvious. Her parents work in mutual funds and she could afford studio time, then she got picked up by a larger label and pushed into the public's eye. Of course she has put in work to continue climbing to where she is. It's the capital investment around her that holds all that bargaining power within the music industry to pull out of iTunes. Nobody ever starts from the tip top, this wasn't about denigrating her success it's about who has leverage in the industry. Some unknown cafe troubadour who dropped out of Julliard because her 2-year scholarship dried up won't influence anything by pulling out of existing distribution models. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volourn Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Dude. A certain Kanadian became successful by posting his music on the internet. LMAO DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
injurai Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 He was discovered through the internet, made his fortune by signing with major label. The argument was they should just produce and distribute for themselves and pull out of the extant streaming services. Lmao dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjjames Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Or maybe create their own streaming service? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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