That's the email-list you turd. Go one section down, where it says "additionally, [blank] will have perpetual and exclusive rights...". You're so willfully illiterate that you've apparently never came across the 'IANAL' acronym, instead clinging to a factionalist train-of-thought. And, the fucking irony of using a leftist (or tradcuck boomer) social construct in the same sentence of accusing of others of being commies.
Go find an aspie to detail how Crowder's situation isn't comparable to Kapernick's.
HR exists first because dipshit voters and politicians think you can legislate equity into the workplace.
If someone didn't like Oz, there's the option of leaving a section blank or voting third-party. That doesn't happen because unqualified democracy is about conforming rather than having a desired impact.
Way to give into subjective equivalency.
Additionally.... That's perpetual rights to Louder With Crowder, but IANAL. Elsewhere in the thread, you're regurgitating superficial fanboy arguments like 'hur-dur, Kapernick' so do the needful and expunge 'parroting' from your vocabulary.
Crowder also brought it up in the phone call, regarding up-and-coming talent; Boreing's hesitant, standoffish response was telling.
The Act Man made a better documentary 2 years ago. Some of his points and entertainment editorializing (presenting legalese at face value and acting shocked) I disagree with, but he's not shoving some DEI grift that a sane world would unperson you for falling for.
Also an exposition on flat hierarchies that doesn't mention Valve or the regurgitate takes on The Tyranny of Structurelessness essay.
As soon as he had to secure financing to purchase the inflated stock, any reform ambitions were knee-capped. Whether Musk a fraud or not, his judgement is unavoidably clouded by external market factors at odds with the product.
shitty anime subscriptions, and drugs…
hate various portions of humanity that aren’t like them…
Ah, the affable non-conformist.
I, for one, want 'the poors' to grok the magnitude of how little they make. There's a slightly greater chance they'd learn to individually and collectively negotiate, not vote for pro-dependency politicians, denationalize currency, and halt non-vetted immigration. The traditional taboo against talking salary was manufactured far beyond not being a blowhard or ruining parties. Conversely, not sharing specifics about earnings makes sense when volunteering such information can be used against you, as many lottery winners have found out.
Climate change is a cesspit of halfwits and perverse incentives. In grade school, we're taught the simplified model that plants photosynthesize, consuming CO2 and producing oxygen; while animals respire, consuming oxygen and producing CO2. Since the real world is governed by the Pareto Principle, meaning exponential complexity as you go deeper and edge-cases become significant, plants also undergo respiration and give off CO2. The high upper-bound of environmental science complexity is a perfect match for Dunning-Kruger. I was at least admit that I didn't have the competence to come to a conclusion on climate-change in high-school, and still can only come to conclusions on the socio-political factors surrounding such.
Laymen and non-market profiteers (govt. and legacy media backed climate research tied to approaching a predetermined conclusion) wind up in a negative feedback loop because of the combined general dearth of civic virtue, inadvertent indoctrination, and perverse incentive. Wanting to reduce pollution and have a healthy environment is a good thing, but the cognitive dissonance in disregarding trade-offs and real consequences is staggering. That it's socially favorable to not earnestly challenge folk on their shallow beliefs depresses me.
I wouldn't trust any stranger that hasn't gotten out of the coastal metropolises.
I'm not against one of the richest men in the world sharing anime memes and skirting the woke faction of the rich, but he's had so many explicit lapses in judgement.
Back in ye olde days, he wanted to replace Unix servers because M$ marketed towards non-technical managers, and had nicer GUIs for their dev and admin tools. Back in Y2k, Win OS/IIS web server was notoriously shittier than Unix/Apache, and Unix in general has always better than Windows NT for stability guarantees. Caveat; today MS is acceptable for for high-traffic websites and conventional enterprises that have an internal IT department, but still a terrible choice for mission-critical and embedded stuff.
Tesla supposedly has a spotty software engineering record(take the source with a grain of salt), but I'd wager that's somewhat consistent with Tesla/SpaceX culture of company kool-aid over employee individuality, and their dumb console having a touch screen instead of physical knobs. Less biased source
His marriage record is simply remarkable, plus he dated Turd. My sympathy for legit aspies.
How the fuck did a top-10 wealthiest tech executive not account for big software companies being overvalued? I'd expect a contrarian to understand the quality of the products he uses, and have a cursory overview of revenue model. Should have listened to Michael Burry before buying out Twitter. Eliza should be a consultant, not in charge of anything trust & safety. He's made other bone-headed business decisions too, like taking away remote work.
At least he was cool enough to post about Virtua Fighter on usenet.
The industry, from hospitals, insurance, and pharma is dysfunctional since Americans decided to listen to proggies and cronies instead of libertarians. Any public mandates should be rejected for pragmatic reasons, not just ideological sentiment. It's valid for schools to require vaccination, but not while compulsory schooling and public-schools w/o vouchers are a thing.
Oh, that's yucky; sounds familiar from his Lotus Eaters appearance. Don't court the approval of those that would see you fail.
Personally, I can't fault someone for coming up with a catchy soundbyte and headline. If only his argument didn't stick to 'only two tribes', whether it's learned behavior or intentional. I'd bet the majority of covid skeptics aren't against polio vaccination.
Just looked that up myself, my mistake was looking up "non-binding contract" yesterday instead of term-sheet, which is the phrase in Shapiro's video description.
Still, the proposal itself indicates a traditional command-and-control culture at Daily Wire, resulting in the ego driven and uncompromising character attacks from DW hosts (at least Owens and Shapiro). A metaphor borrowed from ThinkBeforeYouSleep is with Judo, where if to resist submissions you don't make any openings, your opponent is likewise going to stay on guard and you won't have any openings to exploit. If Shapiro, and Boreing could acknowledge some validity of the grievances, highlighted the status quo of big entertainment companies, and toned down the personality attacks, they would have looked better, strengthened the conservative movement, and preserved their relationship with Crowder.
If the DW business culture was more bottom-up and flexibly structured, a chiller approach to to this event would have occurred. Much more importantly for DW, their cinema venture is jeopardized if they don't have an unconventional M.O. able to tackle large, uncertain creative projects. Could be headed down the same ruinous path as Disney+, Paramount+, Netflix, et al, but without their incongruantly deep pockets.
Edit: Ben Shapiro being more humble in the past, which helped his reputation. Sargon had a good point about the BBC ordeal, that the host was barely discernible from shitlibs, regardless of the softball questions that flipped Ben out.
Between the egotistical and editorialized click-bait headline, and the intentionally misleading video description unexplained in the 12 minute clip, Shapiro can really persona non grata himself.
There might have been non-binding parts of the contract, and you might be right about penalties being de-facto voidable, but I don't think Shapiro had the latter part in mind when shaming crowder.
I went almost 3 years without listening to Shapiro, and I'm disappointed instead of angry. Can any lawyers clear up what made the contract non-binding?
There's an term, article, or comment I didn't save that precisely explained how powerful enemies can benefit off fighting each other (probably in the context of the Ukraine context or unusual American politicians), with the point of conflict of interest causing a feedback loop. In this case Daily Wire vs big tech, where DW justifies its business model by opposing the left side of the establishment, while between the lines being much alike to the establishment. Similar to but not kayfabe in that the enmity is genuine, and related to prospiracy.
My personal write-off for her was listening to her Sunday interview with Shapiro where she critiqued Shapiro's constitutionally based disdain for presidential pomp and circumstance. The premise itself was interesting, that casuals and normies don't relate to formalism and intrinsic virtue, but her tone and conclusion that such people should be catered to was fundamentally leftist in attitude and rationale.
Note: I'm reverse-steelmanning her as my description makes her argument appear more profound than it really was.
I have no problem with Klaven and Walsh. Knowles I've barely listened to. When Shapiro is off, it's in the manner of legacy media and a liability to heterodox movements.
We all knew about Candace since before KIA2 was active, but a normie coming across one of her clips shared on Facebook doesn't stand a chance. For clarity, I referring to Shapiro and Boreing (and any private investors I'm unaware of) when I said Daily Wire, not any of their other hosts or writers.
Daily Wire the business became suspect when Ben had blinders regarding the military industrial complex, promoted the vaccine (so I've heard, haven't listened for more than 4 minutes since May 2020), and provided risk-averse coverage of the presidential election and Jan 6; this recent event is just dramatic evidence. Similarly, every everyday Joe should have been outraged about potential govt. surveillance abuse before Assange and Snowden were breaking news, before the Patriot Act was a possibility.
Trust but verify, especially after all the publicized incidents of conservative grifters and lapses in judgement. And as you said, anyone that gets personally offended over recording legal business negotiations would make a very stupid and undependable business partner. Granted Daily Wire is being coldly methodological, as opposed to drama vortexes like Milo.
The damning part was that there was resistance on DW's side to the Crowders suggestion that the contract was out-of-touch and excessive with the brand and likeness in perpituity, and that up-and-coming talent should mentored. Reminds me of Steve Job's demeanor towards John Carmack. There wasn't a strong, explicit acknowledgement that the initial proposed contract was intended as a template instead of suggestion of leverage. Shapiro explained going into business with Boreing because some dinosaurs (probably Koch Brothers or Murdoch) were clueless regarding online mediums and younger audiences. DW isn't as stodgy and disconnected as legacy companies, but it's a shame they have the same top-down attitude that I presume was part of Shapiro's criticism.
In business it's okay to have a rider, like Van Halen's brown M&M clause, to make sure the other party is experienced and attentive to the venture. A shady example I've heard about personally is a independent owned establishment getting a contract from a management company that has the MC's revenue or profit share claimed before taxes, which wouldn't require MC to actually make net profit for the owners. Said management company (Destination Hotels, 5+ years ago) was being underhanded and subtle (hospitality is by and large a grimey, uninspired industry), while these indie networks are just strong-arming the desperate and impulsive.
Not only do other conservative media companies pull this crap, but it's standard in the entertainment industry in general. Machinima had such blatantly awful contracts that I don't feel sympathy for talent that negligently took shitty offers, but it's depressing how much Machinima hamstrung the golden age of Youtube content.
This sad state of affairs happened because hardware infrastructure costs were astronomical in the mid aughts, forcing the founders to take venture capital and/or get acquired. Once the non-founder MBA types are in charge, there was no hope for a back-boned owner to call the advertising hacks on their bluff, and get a better deal for Youtube and the content creators.
Edit: Examples from RTvee about other political media.
The bigger failure was the both the production company(s) not rigorously enforcing redundant safety standards (cast+crew double checking weaponry after the armorer), and crew not reporting unsafe conduct to a regulatory body or insurance company, if there was a mechanism with real consequences to do so. Frankly, the film industry should require firearm competence certification for anyone handling a gun or realistic prop. All the above are much more important than the 2nd rule by itself.
The first 2 years of activity of the reddit kia2 had higher quality discussion than both current iterations, but I find that parallel to a good multiplayer game having a better spread of players (smoother skill distribution) during its first 2 years and more willing to explore and experiment. This community still converses in good faith, with the exception of some misuse of the downvote button, but the reddit-like sorting mechanism just has its limits.
I'm mad that they Eternal September'd r/combatfootage. Used to be any war footage regardless of who was given the favorable spotlight.