ComesInAnOldBox

ComesInAnOldBox t1_jeeqt4b wrote

When it comes to "cancel culture," most of the people doing the cancelling/boycotting are people who weren't consuming it, anyway. It's only a real problem for the person/act/show being cancelled when they get fired/lose their contracts, which only happens in instances where publishers/producers market to a wide-ranging audience and they're afraid that the cancelling/boycott will hurt their sales, like when Paula Deen lost book deals in 2013 because she admitted to using the N-word in the 80s. Her publisher didn't just publish her books, they also published things that pretty much covered anything and everything you could think of, and they decided there was a very real risk to losing more money to the impending boycott than they'd lose by not paying the publishing costs and just cutting her lose.

In South Park's case, the network knows full well what South Park is, as does their audience, and the show makes it obvious right up front that they're likely going to offend you. They took some real risks with the Scientology and Book of Mormon episodes, but the network itself is pretty well insulated from most of whatever legal action anyone can take (and Stone and Parker like it that way). Therefore, anyone getting upset at whatever they see there (and South Park has offended me more times than I can count, but I still watch it) have only themselves to blame for watching it in the first place, because that disclaimer at the beginning makes it clear that, "hey, we warned you." As a result, South Park doesn't lose a lot of viewers due to controversy.

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ComesInAnOldBox t1_j9vg2bm wrote

Today, sure, but the original use of binary in computer systems came from "powered or unpowered," and binary data is stored or transmitted in a variety of ways and represents two opposing states: on or off, positive or negative, up or down, high frequency or low frequency, 0 degrees and 180 degrees phase states, black or white, etc.

Binary arithmetic is what it does with the information, while the binary itself is how the data itself is represented.

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ComesInAnOldBox t1_j9v8gm4 wrote

It isn't actually 1 and 0. The 1 and 0 refer to whether or not a switch is open or closed, and therefore a circuit powered or unpowered. The symbols for closed and open circuits are | and O, the same as you've likely seen on your power switches. 1 and 0 just became the standard for typing.

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ComesInAnOldBox t1_j62hf2y wrote

Talking about the opulence of the Catholic Church versus the whole "easier to stuff a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man entering heaven" thing, especially some of their tombs.

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