These guys think the service they provide is so invaluable, so critical to the lives of their users, that they're betting on those users' willingness to shell out for the experience they're accustomed to.
It doesn't seem like a winning strategy but he's desperate to turn a profit off this thing and I don't think the long term is much of a consideration right now.
He sees big big dollar signs somewhere in this. No; he can not.
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Watching 14 years go as I write.
If you think a few decades of asking some institutions to diversify their population based on some criteria other than test scores has run its course and we're in a position to move on to some other policy, you're going to not only need to describe that policy going forward but you'll also have to explain exactly what makes you think racism in this country is sufficiently dead enough to justify that position.
Because from where I sit, racism and bigotry are very much alive and well in this country, and I have no reason to believe that things won't revert to pre-civil rights sentiment. In a lot of places, it already has. In others, that never went away.
That was true at one point, but a lot has changed since that time.
Like what? They stopped stacking black people like cordwood into boats and selling them like property? They stopped lynching black kids for looking at a white woman on the street? They stopped writing language into land deals that keeps black people out of the suburbs? They stopped dumping crack into black neighborhoods to keep them incarcerated? They stopped denying black people loans to build equity and wealth? They stopped unofficial policies about hiring whites over blacks? They stopped demonizing black culture? They stopped shooting black kids for being in the wrong neighborhood?
Please, do tell me that all these things are in the distant past, no longer relevant, and shouldn't be in the smallest way considered when admissions looks at thousands of perfect test scores and says "we can't fit them all in, so let's try to have a diverse group here to represent us and provide some much-needed opportunity for a historically oppressed people, in whatever small way we can."
Please, tell me that we are past affirmative action, and why.
This is what "to cut off your nose to spite your face" means. To the letter.
Affirmation action mandates a historically and currently racist society to demonstrate commitment to end subversive racist policies.
Declaring everyone equal under the law doesn't begin to put forth the required effort to actually make the country a more equitable place.
The facts aren't inherently ghoulish. The media attention to every macabre detail and society's hunger for such trivialities is.
Nothing in this story or series of details helps to further the case of negligence. It serves only to feed the rage and satiate morbid curiosity.
The wild part about this is that as much as I loved this app, and as much time as I spent on it, it was the experience with that I enjoyed. It wasn't reddit.
Based on the language from Valve, it sounds more like legal protection for themselves than a judgment from an ethical perspective.
Your question isn't a bad one, but the battleground over copyright ownership probably isn't one they're weighing in on here.
And what part of this particular piece of journalism do you feel assists us in that endeavor?
Seems natural if you're telling Paul's story.
I'd love to see his vision of Leto but I'll take what I can get.