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WCDT strips 4301-4305 (6th July to 10 July 2020)
cesium133:
--- Quote from: zmeiat_joro on 10 Jul 2020, 08:38 ---Can the trolls stop derailing our discussion about file formats? Do as I do and don't read their posts.
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Exactly. I tried bringing the topic back to PDF, but this thread keeps going down the toilet.
zmeiat_joro:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Jul 2020, 07:58 ---Bear in mind that the people who are decried by others as being SJWs don't in general call themselves that - the epithet is typically applied by others, so often misses the target.
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That's what people like these trolls often don't understand (or maybe they do, but don't care anyway): they've made up a label for "these people I don't like" (SJW), and then act as if there's an organized group of people who are out to be malicious to them, when in fact they're a semi-organised mob who intrude into other people's conversations with their rants.
dutchrvl:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 09 Jul 2020, 08:08 ---PDF is a proprietary standard that became popular then became an actual standard but is still largely run by the originating company for their own apps and is thus grossly inefficient and occasionally prone to breaking existing readers when new features are added. But it remains popular because only five people use XPS and no one knows DjVu even exists.
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I was interested in the DjVu format you mentioned, and was then rapidly disappointed to learn that it has basically died a while ago already :(
AH well, sticking to PDFs it is for now....My only problem with it really is the near-monopolistic position of Adobe when it comes to editing them
cesium133:
Back when I was in grad school, I was given a large collection of... less than legally-obtained... physics textbooks in DjVu format. It was a useful format, but even back then it was hard to find good software for that format.
Zebediah:
--- Quote from: HotDog_Meat_Mishap on 10 Jul 2020, 07:12 ---(big snip)
Are you proud of what you've accomplished?
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So you think that the goal of the BLM protests was to get all other social programs defunded?
Well, right now I’m sure that the people who defunded your program are very proud of what they have accomplished, which is to get you mad at the wrong people for the wrong things.
You’re treating social justice as a zero-sum game - more justice for some must necessarily mean less justice for others. Congratulations, you’ve walked right into their trap. Now you’re blaming people who just wanted the same rights as everyone else, instead of the people who actually looted your program.
None of this has to be zero-sum. Your funding didn’t have to be pulled to support BLM, and nobody in BLM was demanding that. A choice was made by people in power to execute this in such a way as to divide people rather than unite them.
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