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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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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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.
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Facebook apologizes again, new photo bug affects millions
Another day, another privacy issue with Facebook.
The company announced Friday morning that a photo API bug might have resulted in millions of people having their private photos become improperly accessible by up to 1,500 apps for a period of 12 days in September 2018. -
WallCoin would almost certainly funnel a massive amount of US money into Mexico as Americans voluntarily pour money into building a wall that will be certainly, at least partially, be built by foreign companies and/or labour. LOL
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FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
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and just like that, netflix raises prices everywhere
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
That's something new?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
FCC panel wants to tax Internet-using businesses and give the money to ISPs
A Federal Communications Commission advisory committee has proposed a new tax on Netflix, Google, Facebook, and many other businesses that require Internet access to operate.
If adopted by states, the recommended tax would apply to subscription-based retail services that require Internet access, such as Netflix, and to advertising-supported services that use the Internet, such as Google and Facebook. The tax would also apply to any small- or medium-sized business that charges subscription fees for online services or uses online advertising. The tax would also apply to any provider of broadband access, such as cable or wireless operators.
TL;DR FCC wants to tax Americans to fund private companies.
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Report: FBI opens criminal investigation into net neutrality comment fraud
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the use of stolen identities in public comments on the government's repeal of net neutrality rules, BuzzFeed News reported Saturday.
The investigation focuses on "whether crimes were committed when potentially millions of people's identities were posted to the FCC's website without their permission, falsely attributing to them opinions about net neutrality rules," the report said.
But they aren't investing Pai and his claims?
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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."
Speaking of that - a friend attended the Star Wars Con in Tokyo about 8 years ago - He said from the outside - you had no clue there was a convention going on, let alone a Star Wars one happening.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Good - kill SMS and any other carrier based messaging!
Good lucking getting them to get tax info for the likes of What's App or FB Messenger.
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The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is now fully available—for “advanced” users
The rollout of Microsoft's beleaguered update will become a little faster now.
Microsoft is saying that this upgrade route is for "advanced" users. Everyone else should wait for the fully automatic deployment, which doesn't seem to have started yet. That'll have its own set of throttles and perhaps even new blacklists if further problems are detected. A number of the remaining compatibility problems are more likely to strike corporate users, as they involve corporate VPN and security software. Companies will need to apply the relevant patches for the third-party applications before they can roll out the Windows 10 update.
