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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
I agree, they are using cosplay to give legitimacy to stripping, obviously. That's why it was considered a "nerd" activity till suddenly girls realized that they could use it as an excuse to strip. No question in my mind, the majority of cosplayers use the concept as a "cover" for their stripping. But that doesn't make it not cosplaying.
OK - well and with that, every post after this one is pointless - because well - we agree.
and that is also why I've always hated the term cosplay.
The shit thing about the term cosplay is the general public lumps anyone in a costume into that group. Stipping or not, money making or not - if a costume is involved - you're a cosplayer to a 'normal' person.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
and nearly no strippers do full nude.
This is not true, as was already covered.
While not most, as you are correct that most do not allow full nude, far from "nearly no" do actually do full nude.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
BECAUSE THE TERM WAS COSTUME PARTY.
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20 years ago Anime wasn't an prevalent as it is today either. Social norms changed and women are allowed to drive cars and have jobs.
Hell we even have a tangerine for a president. Talk about how progressive we are today.
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
I agree, they are using cosplay to give legitimacy to stripping, obviously. That's why it was considered a "nerd" activity till suddenly girls realized that they could use it as an excuse to strip. No question in my mind, the majority of cosplayers use the concept as a "cover" for their stripping. But that doesn't make it not cosplaying.
OK - well and with that, every post after this one is pointless - because well - we agree.
and that is also why I've always hated the term cosplay.
The shit thing about the term cosplay is the general public lumps anyone in a costume into that group. Stipping or not, money making or not - if a costume is involved - you're a cosplayer to a 'normal' person.
I'd also argue that it is so common that cosplay is what "normals" do. It can't be most people, but it's so many as to be absolutely mainstream in every way. Like being a fan of Seinfeld.
I think it's the other way... hard core costumers, like you, pre-date cosplay as it is today and pre-date the term (at least in English.) It's use in the US is more recent and really more tied to the stripping aspect I think than to the costuming portion. It's more that costumers want to be more mainstream and so have attached themselves to the cosplay culture.
This is just a hypothesis, but to me the logical and seemingly obvious thing is that cosplay came from stripping (or wanna be) culture... a desire to wear as little as possible and beaches being too few and far between.... and finding an outlet for it that has then causing costuming to be overshadowed and lost in the sea of cosplay.
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
Sadly - I'll agree with that last part as well. The crappy part is that cosplay - the term - has completely supplanted the term costumer. to normal people there is no difference.. so I get lumped in with all the stippers out there just looking to strip for cash.. yeah!
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
BECAUSE THE TERM WAS COSTUME PARTY.
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That's not quite the same thing. Are you thinking of a fancy dress party... basically Halloween at a different time of year?
That's pretty legit. England used to have those a lot, like in the 1970s. And they were decently risquee. But not serious.
Halloween changed a lot, too. If you think of Halloween as a root of cosplay ... Halloween changes for girls at least from predominantly about dressing up to predominantly about having an excuse to undress around twenty years ago. The culture of that changed completely directly coinciding with the cosplay world changing.
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
Sadly - I'll agree with that last part as well. The crappy part is that cosplay - the term - has completely supplanted the term costumer. to normal people there is no difference.. so I get lumped in with all the stippers out there just looking to strip for cash.. yeah!
Right. I totally get why it is different and why you get lumped in. But I think cosplay doesn't just include the stripper contingency, but essentially implies it. The term started being used at the same time that the trends changed.
There was a strong costuming culture well before the modern cosplay stuff started. Different groups of people, different reasons for doing it, different views from the outside world.
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
BECAUSE THE TERM WAS COSTUME PARTY.
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Costume play not costume party
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Also worth noting, while I'm sure most strip clubs involve live stripping, it's very common for clubs to not actually involve stripping but only dancing. It's a common thing for "strippers" to have undressed before starting work and to remain in their undressed state, whatever that is, for as long as they are working. Pre-stripped, if you will.
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Interesting tidbit from Wikipedia about Halloween in the west: "In contrast to Japan, the wearing of costumes in public is more accepted in the United States and other western countries. These countries have a longer tradition of Halloween costumes, fan costuming and other such activities. As a result, for example, costumed convention attendees can often be seen at local restaurants and eateries, beyond the boundaries of the convention or event."
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Cosplay is mostly just hot chicks dressing up like anime (or whatever) characters. Anything outside of that is... well..... kinda useless.
Most cosplay is just a bizarre pretense for semi-public stripping. Which is bizarre that society is so against stripping, but so okay with it when it gets weird.
Stripping? WUT? Cosplay is about wearing a costume. Not removing it.
Your limited cross section of the world leaves you missing a lot. It's about wearing as little of that costume as possible, just enough to qualify as a custome.
I have several friends that are cosplay profesisonals. That's how they make their living, even being on television and stuff.
Of course this is true - but this represents less than 1% of the 'cosplay' community, hell, probably less than 0.1%.
That's more than is used by research firms to get cross sections.
How many people have a greater cross section?
I don't get what you're trying to say?
You painted cosplayers as strippers - period. You didn't say a crosssection, you said cosplayers.
No, I said they were MOSTLY strippers. You can't take MOST to mean ALL, ever.
I take mostly to mean more than 50% - and i just told you that likely less than 1% actually strip.
so no, it's not mostly - not even close.Correct. Most means over 50%. Maybe in your world less than 1% strip. But you can't make that claim with any credibility without totally making my point that my cross section of it being the vast majority being credible. Because both is just our view of it.
I get that you are part of the 49% that don't strip. But that means that your view is much, MUCH more likely to see the non-stripping portion of the industry.
I suppose I can give you that your exposure to this is mostly on the stripper only side.
You hang out at a lot more bars than I do - but again I'll say, that those strippers you know that do this for a living, aren't real cosplayers, they are simply borrowing the term to give themselves legitimacy in their stripping. The borderline exception are your friends who are attending conventions in those costumes...That's not really fare. I get your point, but how do you define "real" cosplays versus the majority of people? As Jared says, the use of the language defines its use and you are using cosplayer to mean something different from most people.
You are using it different than most.
That it is used as you say was never a question. Just not most.
I'm using it the way everyone I've ever heard until this thread used it. You guys are clearly making a new use for it in an attempt to make something obviously true seem plausibly false.
Cosplaying does not require some pretext of seriousness to be "real". In fact, the term didn't even come into popular use UNTIL the skimpy costumes became the focus. Twenty years ago, when people dressed up far less frequently, extremely few people used that term.
BECAUSE THE TERM WAS COSTUME PARTY.
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Costume play not costume party
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosplay#CosplayWould people actually say "I'm going to a costume play" or "I'm going to a costume party"?
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@JaredBusch I know and understand where cosplay came from, but we were briefly discussing the general convention of getting dressed up and going out to a party.
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Sadly this means the Australian government will simply fine the user instead of the developer. But only after they've put the developer out of business in that country.
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Google Chrome wants to stop back-button hijacking
Chrome's back button will skip those shady redirects, actually go back.
A new commit on the Chromium source (first spotted by 9to5Google) outlines a plan to stop weird website schemes like this, with a lockdown on "history manipulation" by websites. The commit reads: "Entries that are added to the back/forward list without the user's intention are marked to be skipped on subsequent back button invocations."
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Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”
As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Ohio Congressman: We can fund border wall with “WallCoin”
As President Donald Trump threatened to allow a government shutdown if Congress did not provide funding for his proposed wall along the Mexican border, a Republican congressman from Ohio offered up alternative routes to getting the wall built: through Internet crowdfunding or through an initial coin offering.
Basically asking hard liner Republicans to fund the wall. Not a bad plan, other than environmental concerns, if people want to self fund the wall, go for it.
