synth

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by synth 14y ago
I speak for myself alone, and the "we" was obviously rhetorical. The parent comment spoke of males in monolithic terms like "masculine identity", and I seized on that. I also never extrapolated my own personal experience onto anyone else, j
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by synth 14y ago
Race, gender, class, etc. are inextricably tangled up together. I'm not sure why you (seem to) think being underprivileged and Caucasian somehow means you will be trampled on or have your rights taken away. (How exactly?) These "wedges bet
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by synth 14y ago
To clarify, I don't object to the claim that people have wrongly used the "gender/race/etc card" when it isn't warranted. Of course this is disgusting. I take issue with the idea that, for example, if Obama were to play the race card, that
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by synth 14y ago
> What I get concerned with is that the implicit acceptance of this wider issue claim tends to paint the majority as collectively guilty of issues which should be identified on an individual basis, which leads to more of the "us vs them
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by synth 14y ago
INTERIOR, SOULLESS CORPORATE OFFICE. DUSK. A dark, sleek office room, filled with cigar smoke, expensive gadgets and designer furniture. The cigar smoke rises above Hollywood executive GOLDBERG like a whirlwind, framing his
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by synth 14y ago
Do you actually believe that calling someone a sexist (however 'careless' it might be) is an attack on the male gender as a whole? Really? Try swapping sexism with homophobia or racism, and see how ridiculous you sound. (Note: I agree with
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by synth 15y ago
If we put on our blinders and ignore the larger issue, asking an artist for free stuff is rather condescending. As Mueller says, why should magazines, advertisers, websites or corporations expect or ask for free work? (Let's not pretend it'
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by synth 15y ago
"I give my work away for free because it makes other people smile and I like that" is not a rebuttal to "people shouldn't be taking other people's work for free if the author doesn't want them to". If anything it's just a smug attempt at be
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by synth 15y ago
Wait, lawyers cost money and the legal systems of different countries aren't perfect in every way? Welp time to roll over and let other people take my work for free without incident.
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by synth 15y ago
"And what about when your camera floats around automatically getting every available shot, every available composition, framing, leaving you to just select the best?" Haha yeah, I guess if you disregard the context of time, weather, effort,
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by synth 15y ago
Just as stupid; to expect people not to sue you if you take someone else's intellectual property.
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by synth 15y ago
Do you know what lying under oath is? Do you know what libel is? Do you know what incitement is? What kind of idiot are you.
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by synth 15y ago
Well, if you subscribe to a solipsist, intent-is-everything idea of morality, then it makes sense to believe that the mere act of saying that women are hysterical bitches who need to get back in the kitchen, doesn't make you a misogynist. B
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by synth 15y ago
It seems "politically incorrect humor" has become the new code word for "racist jokes".
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by synth 15y ago
>Some of us actually appreciate being a life form, expiration date and all. Good for you. Some of us, however, think that people should be able to choose their own fates, time of death included. People are not defined by their expiratio
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by synth 15y ago
I can recommend the following to accompany Turing's paper. http://plover.net/~bonds/mind.html
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by synth 17y ago
I don't know where the idea comes from that academics value elegance in programming type problems more than businesspeople anyway. In my experience, academics are the ones who only care that it works. It might be an abstract thing that work