This doesn’t make sense… you don’t do “negative testing” on customers equipment. It’s something you do in house so you can COLLECT the failure data as well as insure that the test was run correctly.
It doesn’t make sense to run down a customer’s device as your data will be automatically sus, let alone the legal ramifications.
Either the programmer got fired and is trying to (stupidly) smear the company or he’s misrepresented what he was ordered to do. I’ll go for the former.
You'd think that, as an author AND an atheist, he would well understand the dangers of cancel culture.
But it just goes to show that even self-proclaimed "free thinkers" like atheists - they're still culpable to the same zealotous religious bandwagon behavior. (Shun the non-believer! Shunnnn!)
To be fair - I don’t think this crime needed bail. (He didn’t assault/kill anyone - just stole some luggage and he should see some jail time for that - but I doubt he was going to skip his court trial) OTOH - he should be fired already if he isn’t.
The wokeness stuff has been around basically forever in some form or another. (See people worshipping a golden calf in the Bible - prohibition in the US, Stalinism in Russia, etc) The trend in cartoons started around the late 60s/early 70s as part of the hippie revolution. See Yogis Ark, the relaunch of Tom and Jerry as great friends. Watch the first Electric Company episode and see how its writing is right out of todays wokeness playbooks.
If anything the difference between then (the 70s) and today is the complete disconnect from reality and rational thought which is part and parcel of typical communist movements. The point is to destroy the known so that you can’t make moral decisions yourself but must rely upon “the elite” to tell you what to think.
Tim’s missing the point for the trees for what the fans are upset with.
It’s not that Tim won’t dogpile on Eliza because she had her on - it’s that Tim won’t come out against Eliza’s campaign to censor and sue everyone who disagrees with her.
Second if it’s “no big deal” to him then why block The Quartering for calling him out for not supporting the effort to get Twitter to restore the blocked accounts? Surely that fully legal issue is well within his realm of normally discussable topics.
The first problem could’ve been called out by saying it’s a professional stance to not be responsible for guests actions (true) and he wasn’t going to get involved.
But when he blocked the Quartering it proved that he was A: tacitly defending her and B: Cares about the culture wars because he was personally offended and can’t use the “professional stance” excuse.
I like beanie man, don’t get me wrong, but given the people he’s managed to get on his show and his success it calls into question if he’s actually leading - or being led.
You a youngling. I’ve been on slashdot since Bill Clinton was in office and it was the same with Bush Derangement Syndrome. Bush was Hitler trying to form an American Empire with his Iraq war and the US Government was EVIL and not to be trusted. Then Obama got into office and all was rainbows and fairy dust and the US Government was a benevolent entity that only served to help us.
Yknow … like now…
So uh… people with Frenchiness?
There’s a subtle bit of mind control here too and it’s no accident they included a nation state in the description.
The common rewording of “the French” will be “people who live in France” but that’s NOT the same thing. It allows the AP to further blur and mix illegal immigrants i with the actual citizens and furthers the global state religion.
I got report warned in a college town subreddit (which has daily reports about how open and welcoming their college town is to LGBTQIABCXYZ peeples) where somebody posted how his college town is not a welcoming place and hates those kind of people to a LGBTQIABCXYZ person asking it the college town was “safe” for LGBTQIABCXYZ peeples.
Reported the post for misinformation and was promptly reported by the troon mod for abuse because that was obviously a “factual” statement (except for all the times it isn’t - obviously they need to keep manufacturing victim status.)
While there's been a social attempt to eradicate the concept of "biological differences by genetic upbringing" (and one could posit that this current trend of 'genetic equity' is some pseudo-intellectual way of addressing that and thus "swinging in the other direction") The reality is that anybody that actually knew what was going on could see the problem but the faith/hope was that education and work could overcome the differences (and in a lot of cases it does).
The problem is that this isn't just "race" issue by color - The irish are not the dutch are not the italians are not the greeks are not the germans, etc; But that there's this inspid retarded notion by 'the elite' that it's all white vs black.
tl;dr - Yes Star Trek was showing an ideological narrative of the future where ALL THE RACES/NATIONS had come together in peace per humanitarian norms of the day. But I don't consider that woke by any stretch of the imagination - just a future where the world could work together in peace. By TNG this had been warped into the woke notion of social justice - because that's where Roddenberry had deluded himself into. (We DoNt uSe MoNeY bEcAuSe We SuRvIvE oN tHe GaS oF oUr OwN fArTs)
Right - I could see them wanting to implement a particular feature for some data collection that would drain the battery faster than normal. (EG like playing games on your phone does) But that's not illegal anymore than doing negative testing - though that would be a more ethical problem regarding the quality of software.
If anything I think that's what probably happened, the programmer balked, got fired and is trying to make a mountain out of a molehill. So long as the feature was legitimate and had a legit business use (even if data collecting) battery draining isn't illegal because you're using the device as intended. Now if they INTENTIONALLY were trying to drain the batteries for no other reason than to do so, that's at least vandalism and you've got a case on that. But I highly doubt that here.