I did notice that the shield had pictures of fasces on them. Ie, the symbol of the original Italian fascists. But here on Slashdot we have all sorts of people spouting off that fascists are really leftists. Other people were using Nazi swastikas, and we've been told on Sladhdot that Nazis were leftists. So does this make the "Unite the Right" people leftists?
Oh no, I think many people want him to get a fair trial, so that the courts can repudiate whatever repugnant defense he comes up with. He can get such a fair trial without needing a crowdfunding site to do so. He's already going to be getting much more money in donations than the vast majority of people who appear before the courts.
They also have terms of service that customers have to agree to. They can go and use the crowdfunding site for anything they want that does not violate the terms of service. The people are not being discriminated against, it is the stuff they are raising money for that is.
Yes, the baker has the right to refuse service to anyone in my view, no matter how inane their rationale. You can be 100% against gay marriage but still be incredibly stupid to think that your holy scripture forbids selling a wedding cake to gays, and hypocritical if you think it's ok to have been selling all sorts of baked goods with a smile to the same gay couple earlier. I've read their holy book, cover to cover, studied it, discussed it, memorized many verses from it, and know what it says. And it does not support their opinion, so if they want to make a political point then they're lying by saying that they're merely following what that book says.
They can raise money if they like. They can't however force others to go along with them, and they can't force independent web sites of supporting their cause. I hear there are several organizations sympathetic to his "plight".
As for rights, who in their right mind thinks this guy is innocent? It's caught on film, it was clearly not a case of mistakenly getting a foot caught in the accelerator. Want a lawyer - get a public defender! If a public defender is not good enough, then perhaps they'll consider how unfair it is for poor black people to be stuck with incompetent public defenders.
But never mind, this guy will get his day in court and be treated more fairly than is deserved because that's how we do things in the US.
They've been taught this is just heritage. Historically this is not true. Heritage came about later as a response to reconstruction and as a way to redeem their ancestors. Slavery was the primary reason for the war, and no amount of revisionism changes that. The North wanted to preserve the union as their main reason, but the South wanted to preserve slavery. It was not because of tariffs, and the only states rights they wanted was the right to own slaves. If there were no slaves then the civil war would never have taken place.
The leaders of the confederacy did not talk about preserving their heritage but about preserving the system of slavery. The vice president of the confederacy, Alexander Stephens, gave a speech that the immediate cause of secession was the issue of slavery. Further, he stated,
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
Not every soldier necessarily supported the slave system. But not every soldier fighting for Germany in WWII was a Nazi either, but in Germany you don't see statues of their WWII generals (Japan is a different story). If someone wanted to memorialize the confederate war dead then they can find a way to do that without glorifying evil men like Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Note that some of these landmarks were erected bore plaques that made clear that these weren't just for heritage, but for celebrating white supremacy. In New Orlean's Libertay Place the original plaque read in part, "... national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South..."
The main cause of the current state in the South I believe was the terrible reconstruction. Against the wishes of Lincoln and in defiance of Johnson as successor, the Union engaged in a lot of repression in the south. So instead of re-unifying the country it entrenched the divisions and let resentment fester.
Also when people had 4GB RAM max on their computers there was no advantage of a 64bit OS. The 64-bit applications are larger and they are not faster. If the 32-bit version of Firefox crashes more then it's because they aren't spending as much time maintaining it.
Those were the communists who were in power, although they weren't really communists they also had a very distorted view of socialism too. Blame stalinists, maoists, etc.
Monument wasn't that historic. It was added less than 100 years ago. There were memorials added right after the war ended, but the majority of the larger monuments were added a generation or two later. The confederates lost the war, if there are to be memorials to the war dead then it should be for all soldiers with no emphasis on the losing side that was unambiguously on the wrong side of history.
i am a white male, and I condemn those racist bastards, neo nazis, KKK holdovers, white surpremacists, etc. The color of who's being condemned is utterly irrelevant. They are the ones condemning people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, or place of birth; I don't see any groups condemning whites as a race.
That's politics in a nutshell, for any party. Getting votes is more important than anything else, whether than be through pandering, gerrymandering, offering favors for campaing donations, etc. With the primary process that often means only pleasing 10% or less of the population in a district because it's all about getting past that hurdle.
No, Democrats became Republicans! These were mostly the pro-segregationist southerners. Big example being Strom Thurmond, who had short stop as a Dixiecrat before becoming Republican. Some segregationists however remained conservative Democrats who softened their stances over time, such as George Wallace.
This is in recent memory, we remember this happening. Do you remember the Dixiecrats? The southern democrat segregationists who abandoned the Democratic party after it passed civil rights legislation, but who refused to become republicans. Others did just switch to be republicans. Nixon had a "southern strategy" explicitly designed to pick up disgruntled white voters. This causes a distinct shift in political alignment on social issues, whereas previously the biggest differences in the parties were over economic stances.
I certainly hope we all remember when people from different parties could be friends, attend the same churches, marry each other, etc. Today too many people treat one party or the other as an enemy of the country. That's certainly a major shift in thinking.
White privilege is subtle. Clean yourself up in a clean shirt and no one's going to blink at you walking through a department store, they won't suspect you of being a potential shoplifter, you stand a better chance of being hired, etc.
It is true, these extremist groups are often ignored. They're not in the medias' reporting cycles. You can go years before you hear a big story about the KKK, at which point someone says "they're still around?" Of course, every year there's some group or the other that manages to make the news. And they will talk with each other, any counter culture group will have a self supporting community via forums, meetings, etc.
Twenty and thirty years ago the disparity was much less. I also see better representations of female programmers in some fields, like medical systems. It's not an unachievable goal.
Fundamental problems exist though, and they have fixes. First, allow the device to rollback to previous firmware, or allow a reset to original firmware/configuration. That's almost mandatory for serious companies selling to serious customers, but it's often treated as unnecessary by silly companies selling to the consumer market.
Second, put the customer in charge of when upgrades happen. The device belongs to the customer unless you're merely leasing it. Again, this is mandatory for serious companies selling to serious customers (and sadly, Microsoft isn't in this category anymore)
Finally, always test any change, no matter how innocuous, do not ever believe the developers when they say the last minute change is safe. If you're the CEO of a company you do not want to put your company's fate into the hands of an underpaid and overworked low level manager or developer. Sadly, serious companies for serious customers screw this up all the time, but they can recover from the disaster because of the first two guidelines.
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I did notice that the shield had pictures of fasces on them. Ie, the symbol of the original Italian fascists. But here on Slashdot we have all sorts of people spouting off that fascists are really leftists. Other people were using Nazi swastikas, and we've been told on Sladhdot that Nazis were leftists. So does this make the "Unite the Right" people leftists?
So you're saying that only some of the white supremacists are pretty damned hateful?
Oh no, I think many people want him to get a fair trial, so that the courts can repudiate whatever repugnant defense he comes up with. He can get such a fair trial without needing a crowdfunding site to do so. He's already going to be getting much more money in donations than the vast majority of people who appear before the courts.
They are refusing to allow crowdfunding for the purposes of promoting hate speech or abuse, which sounds like a very non-political stance to take.
They also have terms of service that customers have to agree to. They can go and use the crowdfunding site for anything they want that does not violate the terms of service. The people are not being discriminated against, it is the stuff they are raising money for that is.
Yes, the baker has the right to refuse service to anyone in my view, no matter how inane their rationale. You can be 100% against gay marriage but still be incredibly stupid to think that your holy scripture forbids selling a wedding cake to gays, and hypocritical if you think it's ok to have been selling all sorts of baked goods with a smile to the same gay couple earlier. I've read their holy book, cover to cover, studied it, discussed it, memorized many verses from it, and know what it says. And it does not support their opinion, so if they want to make a political point then they're lying by saying that they're merely following what that book says.
Apparently nobody could get lawyers in the days before crowdfunding sites.
They can raise money if they like. They can't however force others to go along with them, and they can't force independent web sites of supporting their cause. I hear there are several organizations sympathetic to his "plight".
As for rights, who in their right mind thinks this guy is innocent? It's caught on film, it was clearly not a case of mistakenly getting a foot caught in the accelerator. Want a lawyer - get a public defender! If a public defender is not good enough, then perhaps they'll consider how unfair it is for poor black people to be stuck with incompetent public defenders.
But never mind, this guy will get his day in court and be treated more fairly than is deserved because that's how we do things in the US.
They've been taught this is just heritage. Historically this is not true. Heritage came about later as a response to reconstruction and as a way to redeem their ancestors. Slavery was the primary reason for the war, and no amount of revisionism changes that. The North wanted to preserve the union as their main reason, but the South wanted to preserve slavery. It was not because of tariffs, and the only states rights they wanted was the right to own slaves. If there were no slaves then the civil war would never have taken place.
The leaders of the confederacy did not talk about preserving their heritage but about preserving the system of slavery. The vice president of the confederacy, Alexander Stephens, gave a speech that the immediate cause of secession was the issue of slavery. Further, he stated,
"Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."
Not every soldier necessarily supported the slave system. But not every soldier fighting for Germany in WWII was a Nazi either, but in Germany you don't see statues of their WWII generals (Japan is a different story). If someone wanted to memorialize the confederate war dead then they can find a way to do that without glorifying evil men like Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Note that some of these landmarks were erected bore plaques that made clear that these weren't just for heritage, but for celebrating white supremacy. In New Orlean's Libertay Place the original plaque read in part, "... national election of November 1876 recognized white supremacy in the South ..."
The main cause of the current state in the South I believe was the terrible reconstruction. Against the wishes of Lincoln and in defiance of Johnson as successor, the Union engaged in a lot of repression in the south. So instead of re-unifying the country it entrenched the divisions and let resentment fester.
This sounds like marketing. What particular features of 64 bit applications make them "more secure"?
Also when people had 4GB RAM max on their computers there was no advantage of a 64bit OS. The 64-bit applications are larger and they are not faster. If the 32-bit version of Firefox crashes more then it's because they aren't spending as much time maintaining it.
Those were the communists who were in power, although they weren't really communists they also had a very distorted view of socialism too. Blame stalinists, maoists, etc.
Any evidence that Obama did this?
Monument wasn't that historic. It was added less than 100 years ago. There were memorials added right after the war ended, but the majority of the larger monuments were added a generation or two later. The confederates lost the war, if there are to be memorials to the war dead then it should be for all soldiers with no emphasis on the losing side that was unambiguously on the wrong side of history.
i am a white male, and I condemn those racist bastards, neo nazis, KKK holdovers, white surpremacists, etc. The color of who's being condemned is utterly irrelevant. They are the ones condemning people on the basis of their race, ethnicity, or place of birth; I don't see any groups condemning whites as a race.
So you voted for entertainment purposes?
As for Obama, you need to listen more, as there were many complaints against him from across the political spectrum.
That's politics in a nutshell, for any party. Getting votes is more important than anything else, whether than be through pandering, gerrymandering, offering favors for campaing donations, etc. With the primary process that often means only pleasing 10% or less of the population in a district because it's all about getting past that hurdle.
No, Democrats became Republicans! These were mostly the pro-segregationist southerners. Big example being Strom Thurmond, who had short stop as a Dixiecrat before becoming Republican. Some segregationists however remained conservative Democrats who softened their stances over time, such as George Wallace.
This is in recent memory, we remember this happening. Do you remember the Dixiecrats? The southern democrat segregationists who abandoned the Democratic party after it passed civil rights legislation, but who refused to become republicans. Others did just switch to be republicans. Nixon had a "southern strategy" explicitly designed to pick up disgruntled white voters. This causes a distinct shift in political alignment on social issues, whereas previously the biggest differences in the parties were over economic stances.
I certainly hope we all remember when people from different parties could be friends, attend the same churches, marry each other, etc. Today too many people treat one party or the other as an enemy of the country. That's certainly a major shift in thinking.
White privilege is subtle. Clean yourself up in a clean shirt and no one's going to blink at you walking through a department store, they won't suspect you of being a potential shoplifter, you stand a better chance of being hired, etc.
It is true, these extremist groups are often ignored. They're not in the medias' reporting cycles. You can go years before you hear a big story about the KKK, at which point someone says "they're still around?" Of course, every year there's some group or the other that manages to make the news. And they will talk with each other, any counter culture group will have a self supporting community via forums, meetings, etc.
Have they hurt anyone? No. There is no moral equivalence here.
Twenty and thirty years ago the disparity was much less. I also see better representations of female programmers in some fields, like medical systems. It's not an unachievable goal.
Fundamental problems exist though, and they have fixes. First, allow the device to rollback to previous firmware, or allow a reset to original firmware/configuration. That's almost mandatory for serious companies selling to serious customers, but it's often treated as unnecessary by silly companies selling to the consumer market.
Second, put the customer in charge of when upgrades happen. The device belongs to the customer unless you're merely leasing it. Again, this is mandatory for serious companies selling to serious customers (and sadly, Microsoft isn't in this category anymore)
Finally, always test any change, no matter how innocuous, do not ever believe the developers when they say the last minute change is safe. If you're the CEO of a company you do not want to put your company's fate into the hands of an underpaid and overworked low level manager or developer. Sadly, serious companies for serious customers screw this up all the time, but they can recover from the disaster because of the first two guidelines.
Yup, the lock is owned by the customers, the customers should be told that there's an upgrade and then they apply it themselves.
Also, there must always be a rollback mechanism, or a reset to factory settings.
Personally, I like the Thumb2 architecture in ARMs.
And the bad vaccines do less damage to the world than the lack of vaccines.