Quoting: Cyba.CowboyMeanwhile, everyone conveniently "forgets" that Donald Trump, "Prince" Philip and Stephen Hawking (among others) have all been accused of associating with Jeffrey Epstein to some degree... Most of them on a close, regular basis and some of them - notably "Prince" Philip and Donald Trump - have repeatedly had accusations of sexual misconduct made against them, often in the company of or courtesy of an arrangement by Jeffrey Epstein.

I haven't read Stallman's latest comments personally, but my understanding is that one of the comments which got him in hot water was a comment that suggested some of these chicks went into these situations of their own free will... Which is a perfectly valid - and very likely accurate - point (like it or not, most 12+ year old children of both sexes have a much better understanding of sex than they should, at least these days!).

And why is no one asking where the parents were, when these "vulnerable" chicks were flying around the world screwing rich and powerful people / "royalty"? If my daughter was that age and was flying around with a "prince" ad some wealthy dude in a private jet, I'd expect people to be asking some awfully big questions!

Couple of corrections:
--It's not prince Philip. It's prince Andrew, the Queen's younger son, prince Charles' younger brother. His niche in the family seems to be operating as a sort of trade ambassador for Britain, hobnobbing with arms dealers and whatnot; I've always thought he was on the sleazy side.
--Your understanding of the comments is incorrect. The core one that got him in hot water has been quoted here a couple of times:

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him [Minsky] as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

I have now looked at the email chain some; he says further

We know that Giuffre was being coerced into sex -- by Epstein. She was being harmed. But the details do affect whether, and to what extent, Minsky was responsible for that.

So what he was saying was, it's likely a girl would have been faking being willing even though she most likely wasn't actually willing. He was not suggesting Epstein wasn't coercing them. To the contrary, he says flat out that Epstein was.

You do seem to be suggesting that; I don't agree. The way it seems to have gone is, this stylish obviously rich woman would find these dirt poor kids and recruit them on the basis of being basically eye candy/service staff. It's not like there aren't plenty of people who do that with no sex attached. Then once they were on sites, usually distant from their homes and isolated, they'd be expected to do what the other kids were doing; Darth Epstein would be, in a more jolly way than Vader, "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it any further." It's not that hard to pressure most people once they're cut off and alone, let alone kids.
Presumably most of them didn't tell their parents just what was going down, just that they were making good (by the standards of dirt poor families) money. It's possible some parents made a stink and successfully got their kids back. It's possible some parents tried and were stonewalled, and if you're a poor person how are you going to expect it to play out if you try to get the cops to go after a billionaire? But sure, some of those parents probably sucked. Some of those parents were probably in jail. Not sure what makes that relevant though--what, it's OK if bad things happen to kids as long as they have bad parents? Predators aren't culpable, it's their victims' fault for not having better parents to defend them? I don't get it.

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Quoting: sketchbeen playing this game, sadly is heavily unbalanced and too randomical. Roguelikes are way more fair than this game. devs are unrenponsive.

Roguelikes are way more fair than agriculture. Maybe we've gotten too used to these sweet farming sims that act like crafting, where you just put input A and input B into the ground and harvest C automatically comes into existence. My understanding is it Don't Work That Way.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOdd thing about Blade Runner: I actually have a different science fiction book by a different author, also called Blade Runner. It's about trafficking black market surgical supplies.

That would be the William S. Burroughs one, right? The movie actually lifted the name from that book and got permission from Burroughs to use it, even though Burroughs had in fact previously hoped to turn his "Blade Runner" into a film as well.
Fun stuff :)

Now to figure out how to run "Blade Runner" in ScummVM. I hope it works well as I've never gotten around to playing the game before and it's only marked as being "completable" on their wiki.

Nope. A different, different Blade Runner. Alan E. Nourse. It's not bad, but very different; it's about the impact of technology and politics on medicine, and a semi-street kid running surgical supplies to a surgeon (one of a small network of such) doing medical procedures for people who aren't supposed to be getting medical services, and what happens when a major epidemic hits, overwhelming the system that operates on the assumption that the excluded can be considered totally separate from the included. So it's called Blade Runner because the kid is literally running blades--scalpels.

. . . Looking at wiki, turns out we are talking about the same thing after all. Burroughs didn't write a novel, he wrote a screen adaptation of the Alan E. Nourse novel. I have this feeling the screen treatment would have been a lot weirder than the novel, which was pretty straightforward SF by someone with a strong medical background.

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Quoting: GuestOn the topic: I always really admired Stallman for what he did, and i think he is the single person whose work was invaluable for the free software community. However, I was schocked when i read up on this topic. Why would he go on commenting about this topic at all? It has nothing to do with his field, and given that, he still commented on it, even though he must've known this is a rather political and emotional matter and he and his movement can only lose on it.

Well, copyright itself is a somewhat controversial topic with a lot of vested interests wrapped up in it. If he was the sort to shut up when people wished he would, we probably wouldn't have Free Software today. A certain bullheadedness can be both a strength and a weakness.

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Quoting: iiariGame devs. Must. Sim. All. The. Things.

What hasn't been simmed yet that any of you would want?

I think they've already done both the "paint drying" and "grass growing" sims.

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I bet someone out there missed the "i" in "Terroir" and got something very different from what they were looking for. :D

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Quoting: dubigrasuHow can I filter out these kind of not (really) gaming related topics?

I filter out topics I'm not interested in by reading the article's title. Works pretty well.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: johndoe

Quoting: GustyGhostDon't be surprised if in the next few days, articles are published detailing: John Smith, CEO/PR Rep/Analyst/whatever of Microsoft has graciously assumed the role of president of the FSF.

This is exactly what I think, too.
There is a lot more going on behind the scenes.

I also read every day linux news form "lxer.com". There you can read some more "facts" what is going on at FSF - I really don't like it.
I simply can't understand how it is possible that such companies like MS or Apple can even get a seat at FSF?! Something bad is going on IMHO.

Frankly, I think that's tin-foil hat level stuff there.

Well, frankly Liam, I think if we'd told you a year or two ago that a respected tech billionaire who went around donating tons of money to science was a vicious pimp rapist who coerced children into sexual slavery and had bunches of the best and brightest going to his sex parties and they were all in on keeping it quiet, you'd have said that was tin foil hat stuff. But here we are.

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Odd thing about Blade Runner: I actually have a different science fiction book by a different author, also called Blade Runner. It's about trafficking black market surgical supplies.

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The trailer's version of that song is totally wimpy compared to the Pogues one:
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