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Steve Ballmer Responds to Discrimination Issue
sriram_2001 writes "In a long email to all Microsoft employees, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laid out the reasons for Microsoft changing its stance to neutral on the anti-discrimination bill. He explains that Microsoft wanted to focus on fewer legislations and that the anti-discrimination bill was one of the bills that they didn't have the resources to follow. Also, far from caving in to Rev.Hutcherson, Microsoft told him to take a hike when he asked them to fire 2 employees for testifying during the legislation consideration period. He goes on to explain how though he personally supports the bill, a lot of employees and shareholders don't. Finally, he raises the question on whether corporations should get involved in social issues."
What a crock of shit! You are making a horrible generalization. How about "arguing with a libertarian is always a waste of time" or "arguing with a senior citizen is always a waste of time."
Fine, so it's a generalization. Nothing is really black and white. But when a generalization is true 98-99% of the time, I'm willing to call it a fact.
There are other classes of people with whom I consider debating a waste of time. E.g. religious nutcases, senior citizens with dementia.
I know ten-year-olds who hold more intelligent opinions than many twenty-five year olds.
Fine... and those are probably some of the 25 year olds that I don't really want to talk with either.
-a