Non-IT News Thread
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Hope none of them get pay or benefits for the duration of shut down or those who are forcing it i mean.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
Hope none of them get pay or benefits for the duration of shut down.
nah, they'll just all get a huge check for not working when they go back.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
Hope none of them get pay or benefits for the duration of shut down or those who are forcing it i mean.
Congress gets paid government open or not
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Kill cancer by starving it: http://flip.it/DG0we_
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German news being a bit hopeful and accidentally reported that Pence was now president.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
German news being a bit hopeful and accidentally reported that Pence was now president.
Freudian slip???
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@popester said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
German news being a bit hopeful and accidentally reported that Pence was now president.
Freudian slip???
Not quite.
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@minion-queen said in Non-IT News Thread:
TX. https://nypost.com/2018/01/26/escaped-inmate-caught-sneaking-back-with-booze-food/.
Well the county lockup isn't known for having a good selection in house.
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"Casa Grande, drinks and snacks!"
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Recently read about a company (ESL) that hosts DOTA2 tournaments issuing DMCA takedown requests for content they don't own (DOTA TV which they use to broadcast their matches is owned by Valve and the content shown is technically Valve's content.) ESL has also threatened lawsuits against anyone who would stream their tournament matches (again even though they don't own the content) as they have an "exclusive" deal with Facebook to stream the matches there.
Valve came in and said, "Hey this is our content and our game you have no legal authority to issue DMCA takedown requests in our name." Apparently Valve is also considering suing ESL (I doubt they will) for defamation.
The copyright of live streaming content is interesting. I don't find watching DOTA enjoyable but reading this whole thing was fascinating. It's on reddit in the DOTA2 subreddit on a number of posts.
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@coliver Apparently is an uproar within the community. I've played Dota since wc3. It's crazy what happens
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
Recently read about a company (ESL) that hosts DOTA2 tournaments issuing DMCA takedown requests for content they don't own (DOTA TV which they use to broadcast their matches is owned by Valve and the content shown is technically Valve's content.) ESL has also threatened lawsuits against anyone who would stream their tournament matches (again even though they don't own the content) as they have an "exclusive" deal with Facebook to stream the matches there.
Valve came in and said, "Hey this is our content and our game you have no legal authority to issue DMCA takedown requests in our name." Apparently Valve is also considering suing ESL (I doubt they will) for defamation.
The copyright of live streaming content is interesting. I don't find watching DOTA enjoyable but reading this whole thing was fascinating. It's on reddit in the DOTA2 subreddit on a number of posts.
That's what DMCA exists for, for stealing from people who actually own content.
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Founder of IKEA has passed away at 91.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Founder of IKEA has passed away at 91.
Yeah, but wasn't he a Nazi... really helped them out.
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@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Founder of IKEA has passed away at 91.
Yeah, but wasn't he a Nazi... really helped them out.
He was a fascist as a kid, but I'm not sure he "helped them out". The war was over by the time that he was 19, he and his Jewish business partner who was in Sweden with him as a refugee who has escaped the Nazis in Germany, were pretty busy building Ikea. That he was a member of a political party that was very popular all across Europe (and the US, Henry Ford was a member too) is cause for investigation, but I'm not aware that he in any way helped the German Nazis. Of course he might have, but if there was reason to believe that I think it would be more public. It's simply that he was a fascist sympathizer in an era when fascism was the flavour of the day, while being a teenage. He was also Swedish, a country that refused to stand up to the Nazis, but were willing to help save the Jews whenever possible. Fascist and National Socialists parties outside of Germany may have political ties to the Nazis, but the holocaust was unique to Germany (and German conquered territories, of course) and not something that spread abroad (there were other holocausts but they were not driven by Nazism). So even the concept of being a fascist or a national socialist in non-German Europe is a very different thing from being one in Germany. And even being one in Germany prior to rounding up the Jews was a very different thing than after.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@tim_g said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Founder of IKEA has passed away at 91.
Yeah, but wasn't he a Nazi... really helped them out.
He was a fascist as a kid, but I'm not sure he "helped them out". The war was over by the time that he was 19, he and his Jewish business partner who was in Sweden with him as a refugee who has escaped the Nazis in Germany, were pretty busy building Ikea. That he was a member of a political party that was very popular all across Europe (and the US, Henry Ford was a member too) is cause for investigation, but I'm not aware that he in any way helped the German Nazis. Of course he might have, but if there was reason to believe that I think it would be more public. It's simply that he was a fascist sympathizer in an era when fascism was the flavour of the day, while being a teenage. He was also Swedish, a country that refused to stand up to the Nazis, but were willing to help save the Jews whenever possible. Fascist and National Socialists parties outside of Germany may have political ties to the Nazis, but the holocaust was unique to Germany (and German conquered territories, of course) and not something that spread abroad (there were other holocausts but they were not driven by Nazism). So even the concept of being a fascist or a national socialist in non-German Europe is a very different thing from being one in Germany. And even being one in Germany prior to rounding up the Jews was a very different thing than after.
My wife sent me this article, which explains some things.
So, active Nazi.
You'll need to translate it: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article13515359.ab
Opening it in Chrome helps with that.
