michaelbuddy

Something is only hateful when it's actually said or done with hate. It actually requires hate. You can say you took offense to something, doesn't mean it was hateful. in this case it was an absurd joke for shock value. That's the opposite of hate.

He should have experimented with signs that said "Death to all Christians" and "Death to All Muslims" "Death to all whites" "Death to all blacks" and see which one would have gathered the most hostility or backlash.

When you've said every curse word under the sun, what's left in edginess but to make jokes about the protected classes of society. Nobody on here seems to be coming to Pewdiepie's defense even though, it's quite easy to compare his jokes here to the ones made by Sarah Silverman Jim Jefferies Louis CK, etc etc. And if Disney would have cancelled a Louis CK show because of a tasteless Jew joke (which he's done many) my bet is we'd see more people come to his defense on here.

Comedy is the delivery and recognition of the absurd. Jokes work best when the audience knows that the comedian says something they would never do that brings a shock.

Used to have an iranian neighbor, he had two really smart kids with a sweet mexican lady. Great people. I still support these temporary bans. And I would like to see more people complain about Obama admin sending iran 400 million cash secretly and then lying about it. Obama also gave or attempted to give 221 million to palestine in the last hours of his presidency. So many things wrong with that, frankly Obama admin simply couldn't be trusted for the safety of the U.S.

Given the origins of the term, Van Jones is definitely an anchor. He's a regular on the program(s) where the content (news) is ever changing. That's why they call them anchors. He's not a reporter, he's commentary. Most of CNN is commentary.

There's been a huge imbalance from where we've been getting immigrants from. Prior to what 1960s we got a good chunk of them from europe, and immigrants were admitted because of skill. After that it was all about numbers from Mexico and a lot of 3rd world locales. And any immigration work IS a zero sum game, so the highly educated western cultured people and their intelligent offspring who were destined to go on to do great things in industry were not admitted nearly as often.

The point of immigration is for future prosperity. And just because a quote on the Statue of Liberty makes it seem like the United States is supposed to be some kind of shelter for anyone the world regardless of background, doesn't mean that's the case.

agreed. Everyone in that company knows the responsibility of quality as the product leaves their hands. They know that they are building for the United States military and that those weapons are now apart of history. So it is in fact bigger than they are as individuals. It's also a polite way of speaking of appreciation when you know that others companies that also produce things of great quality weren't chosen and you were. It means you feel a bigger responsiblity to take on. And that's humbling.

man, the steam controllers shape, I just don't get it. I don't see how they landed on the shape of the handholds and all the angles in it. It's operation I'm happy with, though the dongle has proved to be easy to break.

I was bummed on the controller, till I saw you could aim by moving the entire controller around like an air mouse. That ended up being a fresh control scheme for me, though I know the PS4 controller can do it for on-screen keyboard use.

Would love to see some revised shapes to it. I really dig how it can move the mouse when the software is on even on the desktop. If you don't midn keeping steam running it's a fairly capable to surf with. Though admittedly I haven't done everything.

It took a long time for it to come out. I wonder if they are working on a new generation in secret because they know they might not sell as many right now.

I think it feels premium, but the shape is not ergonomic to me whatsoever.

It will serve you better to deal with the fear/reality that people are not equal and racial differences do exist, not just on the surface but they manifest in group averages of intelligence, performance. Group averages are not an individual.

If you can accept that there are people smarter and not as smart as you, more athletic or not as athletic, then you understand that people are different. The illusion that races aren't different is just part of a passing PC culture fad. Better to accept reality, better for everyone involved.

giving some alternative facts again are we?

Yes, let's not beat around the bush. You have NO insight on this matter, and your propaganda doesn't belong on this forum.

ask your local trustworthy agents and your local police whether you should buy.

Conservatives don't care about the ghetto? No they just run the stores and own the properties there. C'mon get real. You're also wrong about policing in ghettos in the 90s. Policing ghettos is different than suburbs. Because in ghettos people, potential criminals operate under different levels of deterrence. You have to dish out a lot more intimidation. Certain people need to be reminded that they don't run the show. It's a sort of street politics / dominance thing you develop a 'gut' about. I've seen it numerous times, it can be shocking and occasionally TV and movies get it right too.

He can try to drive that, he can attempt to lie about himself to seem human but he can't force anyone to use facebook for any extra minute that they don't want to. A trust / consent relationship only works if you have an account and use it. Otherwise he's got nothing and he knows it. Facebook can be another myspace. We've got linkedin, meetup, telephones, texting, insta-whatever and as soon as user engagement dips, advertisers make adjustments, shareholders start asking questions, finding out why and making demands for changes.

My personal experience says no to that claim. Atheists / agnostics are just as likely to be active on there. I would say that I think more women than men use facebook in my experience and I recall more women than men claim a religion.

Family has a way of making you want to make order out of chaos, to tie yourself to humanity of the past, to create and carry on traditions that were part of the formation in you. And you can understand this inside and from the outside and see it as a good thing. You see the benefits of religion and realize the futility of arguing the inconsistencies of any given holy book. Because real life will present you with even more of them on a weekly basis.

Sounds like you are offended by hearing something you don't like and projecting something worse upon a commenter. Just short of calling him violent. 2016!!!

Decoration because decoration. You don't decorate your house because your house is ugly without decoration. No TV means we want things to look at, appreciate including flourishes and complexity in our print, masonry wood work.

The problem is in the case of zero-sum thinking with quality. "Oh that's not Apple, well it's crap" is ridiculous a logical fallacy.

Apple being of whatever quality has no bearing on the quality of anything else. Not only do other companies match, many of them exceed quality of apple.

RetroUSB and the scene are all very well aware of this. Problem is emulating pixel blur and defect aren't accurate either. There will be no perfect "defects preserved" mode because people played them on a hundred or more different TV technologies from the '80s and '90s.

People after that old look, and the scanline mode the NES Classic have find that it's actually not that cool to have those running. Best to appreciate the game as it plays now. Purists who try to "replicate" classic gaming are trying to gobble up all the SONY PVM / BVM tube medical and broadcast monitors now. Unfortunately they are also wrong there too. No kid playing nintendo back in the day had that crisp of a monitor either.

This is futility played out in this hobby and it's better to look forward and appreciate the amazing color and pixel density of today's technology with the game scaled to the best of our abilities. Are we to try to add a front light simulated glare to the TVs as well so that we can see a fake reflection of the table lamp on our games as well. It's preposterous.

If people want a CRT to get a faster response time, good on them. and so you know this isn't emulation. So it's not 'forgoing' emulating artifacts, because that wasn't what the original systems did. This is the system running on a chip totally simulated with the same behaviors but with different output (HDMI).

Thing is in the case of a dell monitor, those are incredibly well built. Over built in some areas. I believe a sudden drop in interest in a product because its not a brand you expected despite clear positive qualities indicates a malformed attachment.

There's definitely a lot of institutional racism in academia. Outright favoritism for people of color for no other reason than their skin color. In Admissions programs, hiring practices, scholarships as well as many instances during normal campus life. Campuses go out of their way to not be racist to the point where they are racist. Absolutely ridiculous. And it really hurts the self-esteem of people to be given special treatment b/c of their color.

you forget given all the race mixing done during the period of slavery, there were plenty of people from the beginning of slavery that really just did these things because it was part of culture. Many many african americans have european blood in them. And many of them are descendents of people who were in loving yet secretive relationships.

It is undeniable that some slave-owners owned slaves in order to keep them as workers, and they weren't necessarily "mistreated" more like they were safer as slaves and couldn't be released anyway.

Wrong. Alt-right is a burgeoning group, AND what we are seeing is democrats are trying to strike early to get the "racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe" label associated with them. Basically alt-right is the same as "anonymous" people don't really know who identifies with x,y,z parts of it and it's just frightened democrats who are scared to death to have another group against them that they can't use their standard buzzwords to demean them. E.G. Obama with his "oke-dokes"

Wake me up when Twitter actually suspends demonstrably more toxic groups on the left. Those who have infiltrated and are even holding conferences on evils of "whiteness" and white-hating. So far, Twitter are showing they are biased censoring scared little puritans.

Yet another reason why Twitter will ultimately fail. Censorship of whoever you think are nefarious characters when purported "victims" can easily just block people is just plain silly. We already know there are block list services that will autoblock. So if anyone is getting trouble from troll / enemies or want to be their own echo chamber, it's easy to do all this stuff. Bye Twitter, hello Minds & Gab.

It'd be one thing if the product just came out, had a lot of media fanfare and sold out due to low volume. I mean that's reality right. But the fact that it appeared in weekly ads for stores all over the country. It's really expectation that hurts the most.

That's just causing hassle, distrust. Retail employees probably don't lke to get 50 extra calls a day for a product that will be in stock for 14 seconds. If I were a regional mgr I'd put VERY heavy pressure on corporate for say Target to NOT show ads for this product until reasonable levels of stock are guaranteed. Targets around the country got about 11 units. The one I went to only had 1 spare controller. Keep in mind that a good portion of the NES games are co-op.

There are 1800 target stores in the U.S. If they all got 11 units that means there were only 19,000 units for that store. I heard gamestops got about 5. Walmarts got about 6 units each.

So 6 units to walmarts 5229 stores is about 31375 unit. Gamestops 4,434 stores at 5 units each get 21700

Who knows what amazon stocked at. Would it be reasonable to say amazon got 10000 units? I mean they sold out in a minute. Maybe it was less than that.

So those totals add up to 82,075 units. Let's round up, not forgetting the Best Buys, Microcenters, mom-pop shops and The 800 Toys R Us stores in the U.S. and say the United States got maybe 112,000 units total for the release.

Microsoft doesn't care about privacy? They stood with Apple against FBI so you know. They are more reliably data protective than Amazon or Google in their agreements. They don't know what your data is on the cloud for example. Amazon stole Target's data and used it against them.

Except the most "reflective" areas get the least amount of sun per year anyway.

Telcom companies are actually given government incentives to provide servies in uncovered areas. Sadly they can also monopolize the way they get some of the incentives by applying for and thus blocking out other competitors from getting the same funds for the same areas. They also manage to tie up the gov't in application processes (or rather the the gov't allows itself to be tied up in these applicaion processes for incentives). It's true these companies would rather continue collecting more money for less services, increasing profits. Dosen't make capitalism so dark a concept. These are unique situations because telecoms get to operate within the framework where they can fight and get cancelled a homebrew ISP project in a community. Spending resources fighting rather than actually building services with their profits. Pretty sad.

Followed by a more expensive subpar service. I typically lean towards getting governmetn out of most business, but these muni ISPs have always struck me as more grassroots democratic very american bootstrap sort of thing and commercial ISPs who fail to serve their customers exhibiting very anti-american behavior.

Yup and another benefit is it will not set as many of our youth into debt just when they are enjoying freedom for the first time in their life.