throwawayknecht

You're so wrong about this that an organization representing 36,000 Canadian lawyers took the time to write a letter explaining you're wrong.

http://www.cba.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=be34d5a4-8850-...

> not NYT-standards behavior.

Are you kidding? Spin the bit about the border-crossing fixer into a homily about capitalism, italicize a list of the meats you ate, and you've got a Friedman column.

> Jordan Peterson - a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto who ended up as the focal point of a discussion on the use of 'gender-neutral' pronouns due to his refusal to use what he described as politically-motivated, state-mandated non-sensical words.

What he actually did was protest adding "gender identity or expression" to the CHRA. You can read the entire legislative change at http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-16/royal-as..., it's quite short, and completely unobjectionable to anyone who's not making a living protesting a "neo-Marxist" bogeyman.

There was no evidence.

BIOS and firmware viruses have been explored for a long time. That alone is not "BadBIOS" which was a claim about an novel C&C (or if you're extremely paranoid, infection) mechanism using the PC speaker, and an unrealistically robust infection potential. (And to be clear, "BadBIOS" does not exist.)

Intel ME was widely known of before BadBIOS. BadBIOS is still nonsense.

The norms of what administrations do changes over time in part because what administrations need to do change over time. It's obviously not helpful to contrast George Washington's executive behavior with George Bush's.

In particular, it's useful to draw a line pre- and post-USSR, as that was a sea change in executive policy. That means Bush 1 / Clinton onward. Other common markers are pre/post Great Society, pre/post WW2, pre/post New Deal, etc.

It's definitive that Thiel put Harder on retainer with a mandate to find people interested in suing Gawker. When the Bollea case proved promising, that got further support.

Regardless of whether Ayyadurai's cases got more support from Thiel, without Thiel Harder isn't there to do this in the first place.

> is there anyone who supports his claim other than him and his family? Is there anyone on his side?

The law firm backing him is the one that seems to have been founded / bankrolled by Peter Thiel primarily for the purpose of suing Gawker. And Ayyadurai was also suing Gawker, also represented by the same lawyer.

Techdirt also not having been particularly kind to Thiel, there's a good chance he's at least one supporter of Ayyadurai.

Reward card providers put cookie-matching code on their sites. If you log into to "check your points" or whatever, they send your reward ID to DMPs which you may already have cookies for, and those cookies in turn tie back to your web browsing history.

Credit card companies also do this, though I believe in the EU and even US there are stronger regulations around what exactly they can send (vs. rewards cards).

> increasing racism against Jews

This is true.

> Men usually wear a baseball-cap over the Kippah in public

But this is right-wing bullshit.

The rise in anti-Semitic crimes is used by Pegida to stir up fear of refugees, Muslims, and Islam, and it's also used by Netanyahu and the Israeli / Jewish right to encourage immigration to Israel.

The reality is that the rise in anti-Semitism begins in 2014, prior to the refugee crisis. It's tracked the Europe-wide rise of the right, not anything related to "Muslim integration" (which in turn is often a code-word for not letting other people wear other kinds of head coverings). Much of it is even linked to Pegida-adjacent groups or people.

The concrete claim by the parent is "nearly all of the racist scenarios were fabricated out of whole cloth." It's not a "discussion of what really happened," it's a flat-out attempt to minimize well-documented racist behavior and systems. This is as if someone watching a Ken Burns documentary complained the narrators were not the true primary source authors.

Most if not all of the discriminatory events in the film happened, just not in the same order or to exactly the same people. The major scenes that were made up whole-cloth were the ones with white people being anti-racist.

You're twisting Johnson's words to say she didn't feel it; she was able to use a "whites-only" bathroom and didn't experience as much direct personal animus from her co-workers. That doesn't mean she didn't feel it, only that it didn't take certain forms.

But twisting that is also to miss the entire point of highlighting this moment in history: She was great, but not singular - she succeeded in large part because she had a tremendously lucky break others were denied. Much like a poor person winning the lottery doesn't create upward economic mobility, a black women getting a good job doesn't end racism.

(I already wrote about this at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14482955 and I suspect there is some concerted effort to parrot talking points against the film as I've seen similar bizarre comments on many sites.)

Aside from the obvious answer that the current US president is one of the most openly racist in the past 40 years, there's a strong indication that white presidents fail to award black achievement, especially by women. Otherwise she would have been awarded the medal considerably earlier, given her retirement in 1986.

(The sample size is unfortunately limited; I recommend electing more black presidents to further test this hypothesis.)

Trump pardoned someone who bragged about his self-described "concentration camps" and policing practices targeting people of Latin American descent, then bragged about how he wasn't going to listen to judges who told him to stop doing it. (Among literally hundreds of other instances of corruption, cover-ups, civil rights violations, and humanitarian abuses.)

I don't know how much more explicit you expect his support of white supremacists to be. (Honestly, I doubt you're engaging genuinely at all.)

> Why stop at a nice looking HQ, why not create Castalia?

Castalia was an isolationist academy where young men spent all their time studying glass toys they falsely believed modeled all art and history, while the rest of the world slowly collapsed around it.

Apple's already built that.