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    Oh sorry, is eating meat bad for the planet? I didn’t know.

    Thanks for this article, I will make sure that I eat 4 x the amount of meat that I did previously. How dare you push an agenda that eliminates animals, if you want to reduce the amount of animals "destroying" the Earth I am ok if you want to remove yourself from it! p.s. One more bullshit...
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    NYT: Chinese and Russian spies routinely eavesdrop on Trump’s iPhone calls

    Does it really matter if the mobile is secure or not, even if foreign governments are listening in, provided the phone isn't being used to transmit classified or other secure information what's the harm.
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    Alex Jones permanently suspends from Twitter after latest violations

    Really, like really? Do you actually think that the reason that basically every major social media company simultaneously kicked him off their platforms is because he is an asshole who threatens and harasses people (talk about remarkable timing that they all came to the same conclusion at...
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    Alex Jones permanently suspends from Twitter after latest violations

    Sure, but thinking strategically, say you want to get rid of Jones/Infowars off your platform but know when the other social media companies do it that you are due shortly to testify to Congress (which Twitter likely knew, whether they knew for certain or only by rumour), you would wait until...
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    Alex Jones permanently suspends from Twitter after latest violations

    I agree in principle with what you are saying, private companies should have the right to decide what they choose to allow with their products/services (which is why net neutrality shouldn't be legislated), saying that they shouldn't be allowed to moderate their platform and still have the...
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    Alex Jones permanently suspends from Twitter after latest violations

    Yeah maybe they did, then again from what I understand Jones's conduct yesterday is no worse than what he has done previously (actually I think it is much less worse than some of the things I have heard that he has done previously).
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    Alex Jones permanently suspends from Twitter after latest violations

    I find it interesting that Twitter suspended the accounts pretty much straight after Dorsey testified to Congress, at least this way Dorsey doesn't need to answer questions from Congress about banning Jones/Infowars...
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    Valve’s “Steam Play” uses Vulkan to bring more Windows games to Linux

    I am a Windows gamer. I tried dual booting Linux but found it a hassle swapping back and forth all the time, and I really can't be bothered wasting time configuring games individually - I just want it to be easy and just work. Saying that, if Steam can make gaming on Linux work for the...
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    New York City imposes temporary cap on Uber, Lyft vehicles

    Off Topic: yeahyeahyeah, are you fax's newly established alt account? You both write basically the same and say the same thing, so I am guessing you are.
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    New York City imposes temporary cap on Uber, Lyft vehicles

    Yes it would be my stupidity if I enter into a contract which provides for the nursing home to only change bed pans monthly if I expect that the nursing home would do it more frequently. Not sure how you raising the contra proferentem doctrine adds anything to your argument? If the vehicle...
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    New York City imposes temporary cap on Uber, Lyft vehicles

    That may be the case and it is unfortunate but they made a conscious decision to enter into the lease with the terms known to them (if the terms weren't known to them because they didn't read the documentation, then that is their own stupidity at work) That the risk taken didn't play out...
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    Vaccine-refusing community drove outbreak that cost $395K, sickened babies

    Provide evidence that this actually happened, otherwise I am calling bullshit.
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    Star Wars: Episode IX will star Carrie Fisher as Leia, using older footage

    My main objection to TLJ is it is generally a poor story in the total plot and its characters. The other part that really pulls it down for me is that it just doesn't feel 'real' (yes I know it is a sci-fi space opera) in that the First Order don't feel threatening like the Empire was in the...
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    Zuckerberg: Facebook will host fake news as long as it doesn’t cause “real harm”

    Yes but you seem to fail to understand that while they support net neutrality (which is the same argument but they don't like the outcome if NN isn't allowed) it is completely different in the case of Facebook because they don't like the 'dangerous' words and want them to be taken off the...
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    Zuckerberg: Facebook will host fake news as long as it doesn’t cause “real harm”

    Well of course you would be a fascist, these days anyone a person disagrees with is labelled a fascist (or a nazi, etc) - the funny part is that the term fascist would more likely apply to the person slinging the hate.
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    Zuckerberg: Facebook will host fake news as long as it doesn’t cause “real harm”

    Yeah that is kind of the point I was getting at, if it has been censored how do we know about it or that it was a good thing (admittedly there are examples of where censored things later come to light). In relation to censorship by newspaper, radio, and TV, they certainly have done so through...
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    Zuckerberg: Facebook will host fake news as long as it doesn’t cause “real harm”

    Aurich, given that you say that intentional censorship happens "all the time, daily, across the internet" can you please provide some examples (preferably with links) of where censorship by governments or large corporations (such as Facebook, Google, etc) has occurred and worked out well?
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    Judge denies class-action status to women in Microsoft discrimination case

    Have you got links to the studies to back up those claims? I would be interested in reading them.
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    Judge denies class-action status to women in Microsoft discrimination case

    Really, they are doing pretty much all the work and taking on pretty much all the risk (assuming they will get paid only if they win) in running a class action...
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    Half of women in science face harassment; policies and institutions fail them

    Sure I can agree that it might make people uncomfortable, and I agree that it is probably not appropriate at work, but at no time have I argued in support of either of those things. My point is simply that the use of the words is not gender harassment. The inclusion of this in the report is a...