Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks women

Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by glangdale on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:02AM (#19142808)

I like the idea that the Peace of Westphalia somehow is endangered by Apple or Google deciding to make business decisions that pertain to Saudi Arabia. I'm also enjoying your Total Commitment to this principle, extending to guarded support for the hypothetical "Apartheid Black Management App".

The fact that you're talking in hushed tones of reverence about the glorious principle of sovereignty in a discussion of Saudi Arabia is really just the icing on the cake.

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by wongarsu on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @07:21AM (#19142904)

You didn't provide any actual arguments, instead just dismissing what I said out of hand (in a needlessly snarky way).

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by xkapastel on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @09:20AM (#19143622)

What exactly are you trying to say? This post is nothing but empty snark. For example, are you trying to say that Saudi Arabia is not a sovereign nation?

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by pvg on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:26PM (#19148283)

you don't seem to be able to read any meaning

The GP comment (about the Peace of Westphalia) is bananas and the dementors might be a little uptight when it comes 'snark' but you're way past snark - 'lol, reading comprehension much' is not snark it's just crappy namecalling. You should edit it out.

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by glangdale on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:42PM (#19148413)

I am not overly convinced that paraphasing what I said to be way snarkier than it is, then referring to it as "crappy namecalling" is entirely valid.

You have even truncated my original quote to make it seem snarkier:

"to the point that you don't seem to be able to read any meaning into anything that seems a little snarky" -> "you don't seem to be able to read any meaning"

What I find tiresome is the overuse of the word 'snark' on HN to mean 'you disagreed with me but didn't show my arguments the hushed reverence of the drawing room'. As a result, every conversation at HN rapidly silts up with people straight-facedly raising disingenuous absurdities. We didn't quite make it to the Nazis, but seriously? "Apartheid-era South Africa should have been left alone because something something Westphalia."

You are exactly right: the comment is bananas. It is past due that it should be allowed to call a comment 'bananas' on HN without people crying out for teacher to come Save Them From The Snark.

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by pvg on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:55PM (#19148526)

I'm not a huge fan of snark as a stand-in for everything non-bland either. But that's beside the point, when you start telling people how they are incapable of reading or absorbing your great insight (which is basically what both of your responding comments say), you're past snark and into snarl.

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Re:Apple, Google criticised for Saudi Absher app that tracks... by pvg on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @08:09AM (#19143143)

Maybe it's a LaRouche-ist.

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