EarlKing

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by EarlKing 5y ago
The OSI's position is particularly annoying since it's been proven over and over again that they didn't originate the term[1], they co-opted it from a pre-existing term and concept in the community to try to sell "free s
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by EarlKing 5y ago
...and that is why you never try to help businessmen. EVER. You just laugh and move on. At best you tell people privately not to do business with them, but you NEVER stick your neck out. There is absolutely no way this wasn't going to
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Because Google regards us as a resource to be exploited and we're just returning the favor? Class warfare really sucks when you're on the wrong end of it, huh?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Thanks. I just wanted to have you on record stating your naked bigotry for all to see. It's nice to know that if slavery were still legal today you'd be all in favor of that because black people wouldn't be a protected class.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Let me turn this around for you... > It sounds like "willing to work with all people" is a lie then. If you are making a wedding website for a same-sex couple, what kind of message do you think it will contain? Substitute &quot
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by EarlKing 5y ago
...which will promptly lead to militant vegans pointing out that life begins at conception, leading to howls of laughter from the back of the room and pro-abortion activists uncomfortably shifting their feet. Bring popcorn.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
There was far, FAR worse versions out there. The one that most stands out in my mind created an explosion of new pages, all of them loading the same sexualized images, at which point a WAV autoplays: "Hey, everyone! Look at ME! I'
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Before anyone gets too excited I'd just point out that all they have found is a rocky world within Proxima's habitable zone. That doesn't mean that world necessarily has a breathable atmosphere, water, sufficient gravity, a g
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Are you by chance in touch with the gentlemen behind DexEd[1]? I've been using the Windows port of it and some instruments don't sound right, so I imagine there are some details DexEd doesn't quite have right yet. -- [1] htt
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by EarlKing 5y ago
If you genuinely believe that people being able to engage in a frank exchange of views hasn't changed anything... how did Orange Man get elected? :D
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by EarlKing 5y ago
We had a society in which all media was controlled by a handful of corporations who dictated what people saw and thought. That is not by any means a free society. Then along came Bulletin Board Systems and then the Internet, and all that ch
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Having worked for Amazon before I'd say that's a fairly safe assumption.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
....and that is exactly why no one trusts institutional actors anymore. > I think your comic is referencing the political "left" vs "right" divide, you are part of "the right" That's a big assumption. I
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> The issue that plagues us is a lack of trust in long-standing societal authorities. Hmm. I wonder how we got there...[1] [1] https://i.imgflip.com/63b63m.jpg
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Corruption is endemic on both sides of the aisle. Please stop spreading bullshit.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
This has never been true and will never be true for one very important reason: limited attention span. No one has an infinite attention span, and there are many stimuli competing for our attention. Thus, when someone shows up looking like a
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> best of intentions .......what does Marcellus Wallace look like?
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Moreover, they regularly post over at https://www.reddit.com/r/uqm2/ and run regular development streams over at https://www.twitch.tv/pebby .
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by EarlKing 5y ago
In fairness, a big part of the soap-opera tier drama from the 90s emu scene was centered around one very big thing: ROM begging. I mean, you go through all the trouble of writing an emulator, you release it at no cost, and for your trouble
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> "Nun Beaters Anonymous" Go on. Give in to the urge. (Watch no one get that.)
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Yeah, kinda amazing they didn't cover that part, isn't it? :D That case was actually kind of groundbreaking since it came about in a time long before the Communications Decency Act and the Section 230 carve-out that we all know an
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> Turkmenistan > the ocean might be pretty far away That, sir, would be an understatement.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> I don't want to have to be remembering that this thing I learned from that book can't be used on these projects because I don't have the right kind of license. You don't have to. "This thing you remember"
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Anyone with a genuine interesting in seeing racism actually resolved.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
ahem https://archive.fo/8SZos
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> This only applies to the original works, and not to the subsequent adaptations and merchandise, which allows for Disney's incarnation of Winnie the Pooh to still be held under trademark by Disney. Oh bother.
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by EarlKing 5y ago
As someone who used both Telegard and Renegade... no. Just no. Renegade literally just lifted the Telegard 2.5i source code, added a few trivial changes, and made a few bugfixes. Disagree? Name five of these 'commercial features'
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by EarlKing 5y ago
> One of San Francisco's imports is food. Remember the part where I said, "The Bay Area is not San Francisco"? I don't live in San Francisco. I genuinely don't care what San Francisco produces for export. Also, y
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Stop buying all things Apple. That literally is the solution. Stop buying from them because their walled garden is an illusion as they do literally nothing to curate their app store. Stop buying from them because they're clearly OK wit
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by EarlKing 5y ago
Looks like it got hugged to death. It's 403'ing now.

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