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on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:35AM
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
from the will-they-crack-down-on-el-presidente dept.
Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Twitter has launched a new way to punish users for bad behavior, temporarily "limiting" their account.
Some users are receiving notices their accounts are limited for 12 hours, meaning only people who follow them can see their tweets or receive notifications. When they are retweeted, people outside their network can't see those retweets.
Some speculate these limitations are automatic based on keywords, but there is no hard evidence.
This would be fine if this was used uniformly to clamp down on harassment, but it appears to be used on people, simply for using politically incorrect language.
Source: http://heatst.com/tech/twitters-new-tool-to-crack-down-on-politically-incorrect-language/
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Life is not for everyone.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:12AM
Agreed. Perhaps a World-War III with mandatory drafts including college students will give the special snowflakes a real taste of anguish. The handicapped also no longer have an excuse to skate out of duty, for there are plenty of military jobs which can accommodate them.
Their pampered lives are so devoid of real problems such that they have resorted to inventing their own.
But I may disagree with you about principles. Idealism is about what the world should be, pragmatism is about how the world actually is. And the sooner idealists see how it actually is, the sooner they deviate from their principles.
(Score: 2) by Zz9zZ on Tuesday February 21 2017, @04:57AM
I don't think Trump and his supporters are young enough to server in the military though.
~Tilting at windmills~
(Score: 2) by Bogsnoticus on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:32AM
Their children and grandchildren are. Let them beon the front lines for "Operation Cannon Fodder."
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:50AM
Richard Bertrand Spencer is 38.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:22PM
I heard that Hillary is still only 29 years old, though... She could serve! :)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:42AM
Perhaps a World-War III with mandatory drafts including college students will give the special snowflakes a real taste of anguish.
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Perhaps, you particularly repugnant example of humanity! May you find you rectum prolapses in the near future! But even if your intended result occurs, and all those smart people encounter the grim and filth and degradation of your imagined (and I say this, because as someone who has experienced combat, I can quite definitively determine that you have never been in actual combat in your entire life, you wussy!) actual military situations, they will not in fact change their views at all. The reason for this is that they are correct, and you are wrong, you disgusting excuse for a human being.
Am I right in thinking that the only reason you have a job in the defense industry is that you are connected to someone in the chain of command? Oh, one of those! Well, we pass on. If only such "family benefits" were available to the general pubic! The purpose of the American military is to defend democracy, not practice it, and to defend capitalism, not practice it, either! Oh, the meritocracy and Ethanol_fueled. Perhaps he can justify himself?
And so my point is, it is very rarely that that average grunt, in experiencing war, realizes what has gone down, how he has been used and betrayed, and how the entire system is corrupt. I saw many career military realize this after the Iraq illegal invasion. Amazing how far you have to go to snap them out of their brainwashing. But you are right. It was the draft that put an end to the war in Algiers. Once ordinary citizens, instead of those who already sold their souls to the military-industrial complex, are brought into combat, it ends sooner instead of later. All hail the all volunteer Army serving in Afghanistan!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @11:08AM
Good morning, ikann!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday February 21 2017, @06:29PM
"The purpose of the American military is to defend democracy and to defend capitalism"
HAHAHAHA
For someone who says they have served, you really don't have a clue, do you? Just follow commands, like the Nazi lower command?
Defend democracy? Is that what they did in Iran/Iraq? And I thought that was about protecting the oil supply..... Silly me.
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday March 03 2017, @02:57AM
I wouldn't call Boston Dynamics part of "The Military Industrial Complex." Anymore, at least.
They had their shot. Sure, their robots look cool and yet creepy enough for the military, but after the shock and awe dissipated amongst the present pentagon and DARPA officials during the demonstration Boston Dynamics' robots were found to be remarkably inefficient and too loud (they utilized gasoline motors and later all-electric power but still sound like all the action of a chainsaw without all the wood). The primary application the military was looking for, from us, was that of an all-terrain mule which could carry gear through mountainous regions without toppling over, quietly, on strictly-human missions. The only (well, one of the only) problem(s) is that good LIDAR has to spin, and mechanically-scanned sensors are a high point of failure at the points involved in the rotation of mechanical scan. It can see wisely, but when that one motor fails, its over. In contrast, modern phased arrays can fail gracefully on an element-by-element basis.
As cool as my employers' robots are, at this point they are most science for science' sake. In other words, a cost center for Alphabet.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday February 21 2017, @05:49PM
Idealism is about what the world should be, pragmatism is about how the world actually is. And the sooner idealists see how it actually is, the sooner they deviate from their principles.
Is that a good thing?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:14PM
For him it is. He has no principles, and doesn't understand why anyone else does either.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @07:13PM
You first, Eth. Sure, they might have to crane-lift you outta yer momma's basement, but you just said handicaps aren't an excuse anymore. Drop and give me 20, butterball!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...