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Mozilla 1.7, Firefox 0.9 Release Candidates Out
An anonymous reader writes "mozilla.org have released what are expected to be the final release candidates for their next versions: Mozilla 1.7RC3 (MozillaZine article; download) should iron out any final bugs in what will replace 1.4 as the new stable branch and Firefox 0.9RC (MozillaZine article; download) features the new default theme ported from Mac OS on Windows (though please bear in mind that the theme is nowhere near finished yet). The final releases of these versions are due very soon."
Very clean?
I just downloaded and installed Firefox and it has the ugliest theme and icons I have ever seen. It looks words than Nescape Navigator 2.0. Everything is a flat grey, then you have a big stupid two-dimenstional blue refresh button, grey left and right arrows, a stupid flat grey then red stop button and a "house" for "home" that looks like it came straight from MSIE.
Shouldn't we realize by now that people like applications that look snazzy? Firefox doesn't currently shout "modern, hip and slick". It shouts "flat, dull and 1997".
Anybody know if old bug of HTML Rendering Crashes IE still works on some IE/Windows. If you're very brave, you can test/crash your IE by going here
I know it's really cool to be politically incorrect these days. After all, political correctness is just over-sensitivity on the part of those minority types. Why do they always make us feel like everything is our fault? It's not like we're anti-semetic nazis or gay bashers or racists, right?
Most of us here on Slashdot are white, male, and in our mid-twenties. We're also (sad to say it, but it's true) not particularly socially inept and perhaps prone to putting our foots in our mouths in lots of relatively normal situations. So it seems perfectly reasonable that we gravitate towards the "politically incorrect" draw, where we ridicule sensitivity. I really, truly understand it.
But it's wrong.
You see, people that aren't white, male heterosexuals in their mid-twenties living in the US or Europe deal with a lot of shit. You probably have no idea how alive and kicking descrimination is today. I know, because I didn't either, and then I moved to Asia, and got to see what the other half feels like. It's not that the majority of the people mean it badly, either, even here. I'm sure the OP didn't mean to be homophobic in his usage of the word gay, which is probably why you are telling the GP to not be so over-sensitive. But understand that gay people get discriminated against every day, in many, many situations. It becomes tiresome, after a while.
The OP was pointing out the fact that people think a colloquial use of the word gay to mean something negative is acceptable, but that the same people would never use nigger or jew/kyke in the same way. This is because those groups (blacks and jews) have taken pains to educate the majority about the inpropriety of these terms, and how hurtful they can be. The N-word is possibly the only word in English today that most (non-black) people would feel uncomfortable about using. The thing is, if homophobia does as much damage as racism, why the double standard?
This only appears to you as over-sensitivity because you haven't been appropriately exposed to the damage this kind of thing does to gay people, who are trying as best they can to gain social acceptance.
This is a free country, thank goodness, so you're free to say kyke, nigger, faggot, and any other word you want, and by god I will defend to the death your right to use pejorative and descriminatory terminology in any way you see fit. But basically, I think the reason you accept the use of the word gay in this way is because you don't consider it a big deal. But it is a big deal. To gay people. If you don't care about them, that's your deal. But just make sure you don't use the term out of ignorance.
While his using the word gay to describe his impression of the theme may not have been politically correct, the term gay is 50/50 with homosexual. Gay evolved to include the meaning of queer, which is defined as:
queer (p) (kwîr) adj. queerer, queerest
1. Deviating from the expected or normal; strange: a queer situation.
2. Odd or unconventional, as in behavior; eccentric. See Synonyms at strange.
3. Of a questionable nature or character; suspicious.
4. Slang. Fake; counterfeit.
5. Feeling slightly ill; queasy.
6. Offensive Slang. Homosexual.
7. Usage Problem. Of or relating to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, or transgendered people.
Gay's offsnsive meaning (#6) is another way to say queer, which quite frankyly is definition #1, "Deviating from the expected or normal". Especially when throughout history, even those homosexuality may have been happening throughout the world, it certianly was not expected or normal and is seen as vile and sinful.
So while those that take offense when none is intended have certian issues with pride or being humble (which isn't a negative thing), your knee-jerk reaction to his comment certianly isn't helping your case either.
You know, that's actually a good post and you made a lot of great points. And it is true that I fall right into the "typical"
But the truth is, at least for me, I'll never be able to equate being gay with being born of a different race. I'm sorry, but one of these is closer to a 'choice' or maybe a 'disease' than the other. I don't want to get into here, but that's just the way I see it.
Now as far as words are concerned, I don't think we have anyone lobbying for the ban of the words 'drunk' or 'drunkard,' even though some people are alcoholics. Shouldn't we embrace alcoholism as a lifestyle that should be protected against persecution? Are 'dry' cites/counties constitutionally illegal? I mean, we alcoholics are being denied by the goverment the ability to live our lifestyles! We just want to gain social-acceptance!
So from now on, don't ever use the word 'drunk', as it may offend us alcoholics. Don't say 'nerd', as we mentally-superior, but socially-challenged people find it hurtful. Also, 'politically-incorrect' bother me as well. Stop using it. I also don't want anything to ever be called ugly, boring, weird, insensitive, smelly, slow, weak, goofy, or shy, as all these words might offend me. At one point, I or someone else who fit one or more of these descriptions has been discriminated against. Maybe even violently. Where's the push to ban these words from our day-to-day vocabulary? There's not one. Why is that?