3:36 PM yesterday
also commented on Comics App Pulls Adult Content from Apple Store.
@8: You may want to re-read the article. You didn't understand it. This is Comixology proactively saying they will not make the content available because "they are afraid" Apple would reject. This is a PR stunt, pure and simple. Too racy for Apple! Get the content that Steve Jobs' corpse doesn't want you to see!
12:59 PM yesterday
also commented on Comics App Pulls Adult Content from Apple Store.
Can't blame them. The first publicity stunt was so successful in getting credulous writers to clutch their pearls over how dastardly and un-American Apple is... why wouldn't they do it again?
How long until Apple clarifies, just like last time, that the content is fine... and then Comixology can re-post the content and enjoy the boost in sales from their subequent "Apple caves to free speech!!!" press release? Maybe two weeks?
How long until Apple clarifies, just like last time, that the content is fine... and then Comixology can re-post the content and enjoy the boost in sales from their subequent "Apple caves to free speech!!!" press release? Maybe two weeks?
12:31 PM yesterday
also commented on Star Trek Releases Deleted Scene of Benedict Cumberbatch Showering to Counter Claims of Sexism.
@3: It's a celebration of sex-positive culture when done by a ragtag bunch of counter-culture iconoclasts. It's sexism when it's done in the mainstream. Duh.
May 20
also commented on Congress Calls Apple a Huge Tax Cheat.
Here's what I don't get:
Apple paid $6B in U.S. taxes in 2012, or 2.5% of all corporate taxes collected. This was on $42B in worldwide profit. Their effective tax rate was about 25%.
This compares to an average effective tax rate for corporations of 12%.
...which isn't to say Apple isn't cheating, gaming, or abusing the system. I'm sure they are. But is a company that pays disproportionately more in tax really the best poster child for corporate irresponsibility?
Apple paid $6B in U.S. taxes in 2012, or 2.5% of all corporate taxes collected. This was on $42B in worldwide profit. Their effective tax rate was about 25%.
This compares to an average effective tax rate for corporations of 12%.
...which isn't to say Apple isn't cheating, gaming, or abusing the system. I'm sure they are. But is a company that pays disproportionately more in tax really the best poster child for corporate irresponsibility?
May 13
also commented on The Billionaire and the Beasts.
Of course, if Allen had been taking lots of pics of people, Mudede would be going on and on about a rich white person documenting the "otherness" of poorer brown people.
It must be quite something to live such that literally everything you see confirms your deeply held worldview. Not a lot of room for learning anything, but maybe the smug satisfaction makes up for that.
It must be quite something to live such that literally everything you see confirms your deeply held worldview. Not a lot of room for learning anything, but maybe the smug satisfaction makes up for that.
May 9
also commented on "Tattoos Are the Ultimate Branding Statement".
It's no different than asking someone about their haircut, clothes, eyeglasses, shoes, whatever. People appreciate a small compliment and modest question, but if you try to trap them and ask for more personal info than they want to volunteer, it gets obnoxious and creepy. But again, no different than any other question of a random stranger.
May 1
also commented on Some May Day Drama May Be Brewing Outside Seattle Central Right Now.
"Hard left" is not synonymous with anti-government.
Apr 30
also commented on One Hundred Percent Men.
@22: Welcome to total reading comprehension fail. Like, a "I pushed the door because it said pull" level of trouble processing what words mean.
Apr 30
also commented on One Hundred Percent Men.
@14: Given your nasty personality, I am delighted that you misread my comment in a way that upset you. Please try to read something else into this one that makes you positively screaming mad.
My point: lists of things with no analysis or commentary are useless because they beg insinuation and just reflect the readers' own opinions back at them.
Not my point (but please focus on this and hopefully have an aneurysm, @14): the things on the list of male-excluded are just as good as the things on the female-excluded list so there is no problem here.
My point: lists of things with no analysis or commentary are useless because they beg insinuation and just reflect the readers' own opinions back at them.
Not my point (but please focus on this and hopefully have an aneurysm, @14): the things on the list of male-excluded are just as good as the things on the female-excluded list so there is no problem here.
Apr 30
also commented on One Hundred Percent Men.
Ugh. Stupid lists with no point, just insinuation.
You know what excludes men?
- Nunneries
- Women's restrooms
- Every child birth ever
- Every U.S. First Lady ever
- Disney Princesses
- etc
See? That exclusion of men proves... uh, wait. It proves nothing. It is just a list of things that exclude men.
Sexism is a real issue that can be constructively addressed. Talk about why you think it is changing (if you believe it is) or why it is not. Talk about what links the items in these lists together. Just please, dear God, add *some* value beyond "a list of things that are all on the same list."
You know what excludes men?
- Nunneries
- Women's restrooms
- Every child birth ever
- Every U.S. First Lady ever
- Disney Princesses
- etc
See? That exclusion of men proves... uh, wait. It proves nothing. It is just a list of things that exclude men.
Sexism is a real issue that can be constructively addressed. Talk about why you think it is changing (if you believe it is) or why it is not. Talk about what links the items in these lists together. Just please, dear God, add *some* value beyond "a list of things that are all on the same list."
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