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masquenox , to news in ‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

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    masquenox , to technology in Russia continues work on homegrown game console despite technology and scale issues

    stuff is just worse blatantly reverse engineered copies

    The reason they only had reverse-engineered copies is because the bigwigs at the CPSU decided that the workers didn’t need personal computers, despite the fact that all the computer research facilities in the USSR (of which there were plenty) recommended that they do.

    If the USSR had thrown it’s weight behind personal computing we could have had some interesting shit.

    masquenox , to news in ‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

    Probably not, but it would help him beat Trump.

    I doubt that… Biden in up against more than just Trump. He’s basically been painted into a realpolitik corner - and, to be fair to Biden, it isn’t even really Biden’s fault.

    masquenox , to news in Men-Only, Christian-Only Secret Society Gets More Secret

    The thing that amuses me about a ‘secret’ society like this is that they are entirely made up of people whose political positions are worn on their red hats- and their cars- and their lawns- etc.

    It’s not so much secrecy as just plausible deniability - the same way we know nine out of every ten old white guys in the US political establishment are white supremacists but are given the benefit of the doubt by the media because they don’t use the n-word in public.

    masquenox , to news in Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports

    They vote too you know.

    Yeah… with “donations.”

    masquenox , to news in ‘This will not be 1968.’ Chicago police prepare for DNC as whole world watches once again.

    Has anyone thought of maybe getting Biden to open a dialogue with protestors?

    And the protestors are just supposed to fall for that?

    masquenox , to nostupidquestions in When a magazine goes out of print and/or out of business, do the original 'master files' for each issue still exist somewhere?

    Thinking about the gaming magazines I used to read as a kid in the '90s.

    I remember those fondly.

    It would be an insanely short-sighted practice to not keep masters of these publications forever, no?

    You’re talking about capitalist organisations here… there’s nothing about them that isn’t short-sighted.

    The raw files probably take up a few CDs’ worth of space for the entire run of the magazine.

    Nope… just one cover page probably takes something around 300mbs at a minimum and could be a whole lot larger depending on the quality of the imagery used (if I remember my time in the printing/publishing industry correctly) Storage of already printed material in those days was always an afterthought.

    Do they retain the files forever?

    Highly unlikely - a lot of the storage just got dumped at one point or the other since there was really little reason (profit wise) to return to anything at all. There might still be an old Mac sitting around somebody’s garage or backyard which still contains the stuff, but I won’t be holding any hope out for that. There’s always the chance that some employee still has the disks somewhere (you’d be amazed at how necessary it could be have proof that you actually did work somewhere and actually did work on this or that specific thing - the bosses were notoriously petty), and I suspect that’s how a lot of stuff ends up on places like archive.org.

    The corporates themselves don’t give a shit - as soon as the profits roll in, it’s all expendable as far as the overpaid geniuses in the fancy offices are concerned.

    masquenox , to news in House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft

    Something tells me fragging (the original kind) might have a chance of becoming de rigueur again.

    masquenox , to news in House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft

    Why do they always send the poor?

    Because we are expendable.

    masquenox , to cat in This person's grandfather is WILD

    If you really want to give your cat dairy as a treat, give them yoghurt - actual yoghurt, not the sugary garbage masquerading as yoghurt.

    Just warm it up to room temperature before you do, and don’t overdo it.

    masquenox , to news in Over 50,000 Palestinian children require treatment for acute malnutrition, says UN agency

    AND Hamas.

    And who is going to put up a finger of resistance against your precious genocidal white supremacist settler colonialist project, liberal?

    You?

    masquenox , to news in Over 50,000 Palestinian children require treatment for acute malnutrition, says UN agency

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    masquenox , to news in Over 50,000 Palestinian children require treatment for acute malnutrition, says UN agency

    Oh look… the hasbara has shown up.

    masquenox , to news in Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

    They don’t target population centers, they target military bases that always happen to be near a population center.

    That’s exactly the excuse they used to justify every aerially-delivered atrocity from Hamburg to Hanoi. Britain was routinely doing it in the middle-east nearly a decade before the Nazis did it at Guernica.

    If you don’t want to believe me, you can believe Curtiss Le May himself.

    There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn’t bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.

    The mass-slaughter of civilians was the point then, it’s the point now - the nuclear ballistic missile is simply the logical conclusion to this. It literally allows for mass-murder at the push of a button.

    You need to stop confusing the propaganda with the actual reasons.

    masquenox , to retrogaming in How Sierra On-Line and a Disgraced Cop Made the Most Reactionary Game of the 90s

    Considering the routine fake heroics ascribed to pig both in games and in movies, you’d really have to go out of your fascist bootlicking way to get your game called “most reactionary.”

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