There are plenty of ways to frame fascism – just compare 1930s Italy and Germany to find sticking points – so we don’t really have a definition everyone agrees upon. I think one can argue that Iran has plenty of the hallmarks:
Fuck Brendan Eich, but he’s not been involved with Mozilla for 12 years, and JavaScript is open-source. There’s no reason to boycott either because of Eich.
You’re not alone. I went in expecting it to be high-quality based on comments similar to the above, then adjusted my sights for trite but entertaining, then realized I was only even entertained when John Noble was on screen (and to be fair, his performance was very fun).
I do recognize that it broke new ground and wasn’t as cliché when it originally aired, but it’s hard to imagine that it wasn’t just as hammy.
When Lucas first sketched one out to give early collaborators a sense of what he wanted to make, he wrote “TIE” next to it without knowing what it would stand for (or so the story goes). Crew speculated that he’d already thought it looked a little like a bow tie and he hadn’t found the right backronym yet; apparently concept artist Joe Johnston proposed “twin ion engine”.
In what way do you feel you’re helping or being constructive with this comment? Who’s it targeted at, and for what effect?
Na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, Bat Individual!
It’s also Microsoft’s get-out-of-jail-free card here; someone else ripped the ebooks, processed them, and uploaded them under a CC0 Public Domain license. “How were we meant to know the release wasn’t authorized?”
It’s satellite imagery, yes, but from an oblique (high off-nadir) angle. The imagery is from DigitalGlobe, who are now Maxar.
It’s Maxar satellite imagery with a high off-nadir angle. European Space Imaging use it as an example in this article about ONA.
I think the difference is the perception of whether a piece of Lego is “a Lego”; in Europe, that’s typically not the way the word is used.
I started writing a rebuttal that amused me until I noticed I’d misread your comment, and I don’t want to delete it, so despite being irrelevant to what you’ve said…
How many super glues do you use for a repair? Do you play on an astroturfs field? Are people carrying maces in their bag for self-defence? Do you eat Jell-Os and burn kerosenes?
The pun works verbally if a werewolf (literally “man-wolf”) is understood to be a hybrid of man and wolf during the full moon. Instead of changing form into a werewolf, he’s changed form into a warehouse.
Written down, if he turned into a half-man, half-house he’d be a werehouse, and if he turned into a half-man, half-warehouse he’d be a werewarehouse.
a duckhead?
Fair, but we’re into semantics at this point; there’s no benefit to anyone in debating that. What you’re describing is still an approach to what’s known as the Paradox of Tolerance.
So by “no” you mean “yes”?
…a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance. […] if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices.
Is this not just AFU? If so, the effect for a physical user is the same (needs the passkey), but encryption keys are still loaded.
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It would be really weird that it stopped exactly at the Kyrgyzstan border if it wasn’t because it’s another mountain range.