How much geek cred do you get for having a machine and desk area covered with grease spatter?
There's a reason we have a separate room for cooking where surfaces are easily cleaned with a damp sponge and mop...
Why not, indeed.
Funny that it's a simple language label "Taliban" that these people use alarmist language and propaganda to fight. The "free speech is great when I agree with it" point of view is so convenient.
A small group of drama queens who get offended when people disagree with them makes a big deal and starts a reputation smearing campaign. For the corporations it becomes about marketing and public image.
Having won their battle, the drama queens feel validated and entitled to whine louder and more often. The politicians happily support them, as their cries about meaningless crap provide an ideal smoke screen for the violence and insanity that is politics.
Death Panels (the government will kill all your loved ones)
Death Tax (we're all hard working American Farmers whose children deserve to continue to till the same soil as us!)
Activist Judges (if they disagree with me, they're obviously radical domestic terrorists abusing their power!)
Support Our Troops (if you are against war then you obviously hate my American son and want people from other countries to murder him before he can keep their country safe by killing their civilians; plus if you disagree with me then you are the enemy)
Pro-Life (anyone who disagrees with me is pro-death for all babies! I'm also pro-Afghan and Iraqi fetuses, but not their parents.)
Once they've managed to take that inch, the mile inevitably follows.
Even if you start with the presumption that two spaces after a sentence is obsolete, that doesn't necessarily mean that people who are habituated to it need to drop it. qwerty is obsolete but people still use it. We all know it was designed to facilitate imperfect typewriter technology. What percentage of you are typing in dvorak right now, be honest?
We use it because we know it. It comes easily now that we've learned it so well.
While we're at it, how many of you fellow Americans are using the metric system by default in your everyday lives? Why not?
This isn't an argument about who's right or wrong. It's really just about who cares enough to inconvenience themselves to do things properly. If we really cared about stuff like this we ought to all have better penmanship too.
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How much geek cred do you get for having a machine and desk area covered with grease spatter? There's a reason we have a separate room for cooking where surfaces are easily cleaned with a damp sponge and mop... Why not, indeed.
A small group of drama queens who get offended when people disagree with them makes a big deal and starts a reputation smearing campaign. For the corporations it becomes about marketing and public image.
Having won their battle, the drama queens feel validated and entitled to whine louder and more often. The politicians happily support them, as their cries about meaningless crap provide an ideal smoke screen for the violence and insanity that is politics.
Once they've managed to take that inch, the mile inevitably follows.
Sure there is.... Why should I be ignored and listen to my teenager talk to her friends on the phone. ;)
Because
1. You have a teenager
2. She has a phone
QED
Even if you start with the presumption that two spaces after a sentence is obsolete, that doesn't necessarily mean that people who are habituated to it need to drop it. qwerty is obsolete but people still use it. We all know it was designed to facilitate imperfect typewriter technology. What percentage of you are typing in dvorak right now, be honest? We use it because we know it. It comes easily now that we've learned it so well. While we're at it, how many of you fellow Americans are using the metric system by default in your everyday lives? Why not? This isn't an argument about who's right or wrong. It's really just about who cares enough to inconvenience themselves to do things properly. If we really cared about stuff like this we ought to all have better penmanship too.