The idea that the Sun revolves around the Earth, particularly from our reverence point, is completely a valid and true observation. That is just not the best reference point if you want the simplest explanation/model. But just because it is simple does not make it any truer.
Which is splitting hairs. Demoted is very much the same as fired. If you cannot be fired for a political contribution, I guaranty you cannot be demoted/not promoted for that same reason.
"if people were free to choose to hire and associate with whomever they wish" than everybody would have to vote for the party their boss liked. Google cannot fire someone just because they want some promised Republican tax break, and Tom Smith in cubical 9B voted for Obama instead. And legally, I doubt they can encourage or even allow a corporate culture that punishes someone for voting wrong.
As it stands, I think he probably had a moderate chance of succeeding in a legal suit. At the very least he could of sued Mozilla over some workplace harassment law (not providing a safe workplace).
But with the quote from the Mozilla Executive Chairman: "'It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,' Baker was quoted as saying." I would say any legal action over discrimination against Mozilla is now in his favour. To me that says that only reason he was not fired, was because he was given the option to resign, before they fired him. And Mozilla would/will find it hard to explain to the court how firing someone who was unpopular because of a political belief is completely different than firing someone for a political belief. I am not saying it is cut and dry, but he definitely seems to have a case.
Did you even read the summery: "'It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,' Baker was quoted as saying."
So basically, the only reason he was not fired, was because he was given the option to resign, before they fired him. This is a quote taken directly from the mouth of the Mozilla Executive Chairman.
Also, it is LIQUID cooled, not water cooled. I am sure they find better liquids than water, bonus points for them if it does not conduct electricity and therefore will not fry your computer if you spill it all over it, and if they can make it evaporate without leaving a residue.
And why would you not use helium? They already seal the hard drives and it is just as easy and cheap to leave helium in the drive as some form of super clean air.
The witches in the Wicca religion are the witches the Christians burned. They might not have mystical powers but they have a lot of the same paraphernalia and rituals. The witches in our cultural memory are stereotypes aimed at these people. There is not two distinct ideas of witches, there is one real group of people called witches and the propaganda aimed at demonozing them. They might not really go around hexing our crops, but they very much are witches.
The point of school is it give people a background is solid useful skills and knowledge, not tell them what to believe. What is next, the pseudoscience of global warming? Why evolution have never been proved?
And Witches exist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It is a real religion with a large following that dates back many years. Just because the Christian church has replace publicly burning them for publicly denouncing their existent does not make it any less oppression.
How are you going to solve this problem with space exploration? Even if we assume Star Trek style technology (which is extremely unlikely to ever happen), and unlimited resources (an impossibility), you would still need a fleet of several thousand TNG Enterprises, used solely to bring people to other planets, to just keep up with daily births/deaths.
But this is not a keyboard/computer password. Allowances are made for less effective input devices. If extra spaces are a common problem when using Xbox text input, no one would think twice about it. Also, it is possible they just did not allow whitespace in a password, so instead of a warning they just removed it at creation and use (so it would work even if they thought your password has a space in it).
I wonder... Either this is some developer/tester login thing. Or the developer did something weird were he removed whitespace, and a "correct" match was found when the manipulated/tested string was length 0.
There is not a single law the preventives 16 yos in any society I have every heard of from having sex. It is perfectly normal and expected. 16 yo is almost certainly the most common marrying/child bearing age on the planet. And consent laws start at 12 around the globe. I do not have statistics but I believe 12 is likely the most common age of consent the world over (I know that is were it starts in Mexico [they have some gradient I hear]). It is only modern, radical Christian countries that TRY TO prevent people who are psychologically and biologically designed to have sex from enjoying a natural and necessary activity for half their lives.
The girls are already pregnant, and the show reduced future pregnancies. So I do not know what you are complaining about.
I had not heard anything about it being strictly out of wedlock, or course it is always a poor choice to get pregnant out of marriage. But 16 yo is not bad, she would already of been fertile for like 5 years.
I had never heard of that show, but I would say that is not at all the same thing. People want families, so that is a lot less horrendous then encouraging young girls to seek out pop star careers, or something else guaranteed to be a poor choice. And the end result was a reduction in teen pregnancy...
The idea in both cases of NASA and TV show is that the people dying do not actually want to die, they just want fame, by any means necessary. You are not going to find a suicidal astronaut, you are going to fine someone who wants the limelight, and does not think very far ahead.
And NASA has the exact same profit motive as the TV producers, and they have a lot more clout to back up their coercion.
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The idea that the Sun revolves around the Earth, particularly from our reverence point, is completely a valid and true observation. That is just not the best reference point if you want the simplest explanation/model. But just because it is simple does not make it any truer.
Call me when an organ regenerates inside of a dead animal.
A contract signed under duress and harassment is not necessarily legally binding...
Which is splitting hairs. Demoted is very much the same as fired. If you cannot be fired for a political contribution, I guaranty you cannot be demoted/not promoted for that same reason.
OH, so it is not discrimination if they has offered him a janitorial position?
"if people were free to choose to hire and associate with whomever they wish" than everybody would have to vote for the party their boss liked. Google cannot fire someone just because they want some promised Republican tax break, and Tom Smith in cubical 9B voted for Obama instead. And legally, I doubt they can encourage or even allow a corporate culture that punishes someone for voting wrong.
As it stands, I think he probably had a moderate chance of succeeding in a legal suit. At the very least he could of sued Mozilla over some workplace harassment law (not providing a safe workplace).
But with the quote from the Mozilla Executive Chairman: "'It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,' Baker was quoted as saying." I would say any legal action over discrimination against Mozilla is now in his favour. To me that says that only reason he was not fired, was because he was given the option to resign, before they fired him. And Mozilla would/will find it hard to explain to the court how firing someone who was unpopular because of a political belief is completely different than firing someone for a political belief. I am not saying it is cut and dry, but he definitely seems to have a case.
Did you even read the summery: "'It's clear that Brendan cannot lead Mozilla in this setting,' Baker was quoted as saying."
So basically, the only reason he was not fired, was because he was given the option to resign, before they fired him. This is a quote taken directly from the mouth of the Mozilla Executive Chairman.
I am assuming it means something similar to curb stomp.
Also, it is LIQUID cooled, not water cooled. I am sure they find better liquids than water, bonus points for them if it does not conduct electricity and therefore will not fry your computer if you spill it all over it, and if they can make it evaporate without leaving a residue.
At 1000 bits per square inch, to get 6TB you need about a third the size of Manhattan.
According to Wolfram Alpha at least:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/in...
And why would you not use helium? They already seal the hard drives and it is just as easy and cheap to leave helium in the drive as some form of super clean air.
Someone with a million or two to just throw out the window and a lifetime of freetime to spend.
The witches in the Wicca religion are the witches the Christians burned. They might not have mystical powers but they have a lot of the same paraphernalia and rituals. The witches in our cultural memory are stereotypes aimed at these people. There is not two distinct ideas of witches, there is one real group of people called witches and the propaganda aimed at demonozing them. They might not really go around hexing our crops, but they very much are witches.
The point of school is it give people a background is solid useful skills and knowledge, not tell them what to believe.
What is next, the pseudoscience of global warming? Why evolution have never been proved?
And Witches exist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... It is a real religion with a large following that dates back many years. Just because the Christian church has replace publicly burning them for publicly denouncing their existent does not make it any less oppression.
Beat me to it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And its time to stop ignoring and demonizing them just because of our historic Christian past.
How are you going to solve this problem with space exploration?
Even if we assume Star Trek style technology (which is extremely unlikely to ever happen), and unlimited resources (an impossibility), you would still need a fleet of several thousand TNG Enterprises, used solely to bring people to other planets, to just keep up with daily births/deaths.
But this is not a keyboard/computer password. Allowances are made for less effective input devices. If extra spaces are a common problem when using Xbox text input, no one would think twice about it. Also, it is possible they just did not allow whitespace in a password, so instead of a warning they just removed it at creation and use (so it would work even if they thought your password has a space in it).
I wonder...
Either this is some developer/tester login thing.
Or the developer did something weird were he removed whitespace, and a "correct" match was found when the manipulated/tested string was length 0.
Screw an SSD, just get 100 gigs of RAM and never turn your computer off.
There is not a single law the preventives 16 yos in any society I have every heard of from having sex. It is perfectly normal and expected.
16 yo is almost certainly the most common marrying/child bearing age on the planet.
And consent laws start at 12 around the globe. I do not have statistics but I believe 12 is likely the most common age of consent the world over (I know that is were it starts in Mexico [they have some gradient I hear]). It is only modern, radical Christian countries that TRY TO prevent people who are psychologically and biologically designed to have sex from enjoying a natural and necessary activity for half their lives.
"Free exchange of ideas"
I have never heard propaganda defined quite like that before.
The girls are already pregnant, and the show reduced future pregnancies. So I do not know what you are complaining about.
I had not heard anything about it being strictly out of wedlock, or course it is always a poor choice to get pregnant out of marriage. But 16 yo is not bad, she would already of been fertile for like 5 years.
I had never heard of that show, but I would say that is not at all the same thing.
People want families, so that is a lot less horrendous then encouraging young girls to seek out pop star careers, or something else guaranteed to be a poor choice.
And the end result was a reduction in teen pregnancy...
The idea in both cases of NASA and TV show is that the people dying do not actually want to die, they just want fame, by any means necessary. You are not going to find a suicidal astronaut, you are going to fine someone who wants the limelight, and does not think very far ahead.
And NASA has the exact same profit motive as the TV producers, and they have a lot more clout to back up their coercion.