Sometimes, people need to be told, bluntly, why their code is crap.
And the proper response to that is NOT "You're a NAZI!" or "You hurt my fee fees!"
And, if this crap is allowed to go forward, and developers have their projects essentially STOLEN from them because of this, you're GOING to see GPL copyright killswitchhes DEVASTATE the Linux platform.
If people want to see more women/minorities inclusion in the Linux developer community, STEP UP AND WRITE CODE! Don't like the rampantly meritocratic community?
TOUGH SHIT!
Most of the people agitating for this crap are people who simply see the Linux developer community as a source of POWER. Therefore, they MUST co-opt it. They don't give a shit about Linux, or code or any of that. They simply want control, and don't care what they destroy or whose careers they have to fuck up or which bodies they need to climb over to get it.
So, when someone starts bitching about CoC, tell them to go eat a bag of dicks.
Unless you're one of those deviants who's TRYING to push this CoC, intersectional social justice crap on a bunch of people who just want to be left alone to develop their projects and not have to put up with stupid people.
Again, I don't think breaking them up will help. They'll continue the bad behavior. But now they'll say "See! You have OPTIONS!" They'll all still be the same authoritarian sociopolitical monoculture behind the screen though. So NOTHING will change.
Instead of being booted from a dozen different platforms like Alex Jones, you'll be booted from TWO dozen, or maybe three dozen.
Some of JD's LOW END agricultural tractors START at $150,000.00 with next to no options. Some of their largest cost in excess of 3/4ths of a million dollars.
This is DEFINITELY *NOT* about being "cheap". And these are MAJOR investments for a farm. And downtime during their growing season, or having to ship the damn thing to a dealer to have it worked on is just not in the cards. Being told you need to buy another half-million dollar tractor after a couple of years because of changes in environmental regs, when the one you ALREADY OWN is perfectly capable of meeting said regs with minor software mods? Again, not in the cards.
If there were only a single manufacturer or small cartel
That's just it, there IS just a small cartel of players in the market. And they're all colluding to make it impossible to simply SELF-SERVICE your equipment, let alone REPAIR it.
Would YOU buy a car that you had to bring to the dealership simply to gas it up? And be charged $30/gallon for the "privilege"?
Eventually, weak sisters will die off and the remainders will agglomerate back into a whole.
A better option would probably be some form of Internet Bill of Rights, backed by outsized fines where the minimum amounts start at "ruinous" and move up from there.
He's not arguing against gun control. Gun Control is a dead issue. Anyone pushing revision of the 2nd Amendment has their career destroyed. Additionally, we have the ability to 3d print firearms. Sure, they're primitive and mostly useless. But their very existence is the death knell of the Gun Control issue.
And sorry if the availability of legal firearms offends you. It has exactly JACK SHIT to do with most shootings, which are overwhelmingly committed with illegally obtained firearms.
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If they go through this and I still have to grow up, some fuckers ARE GONNA DIE!
Yeah. The first people who get fucked like this will be stopping at these signs and demolishing them.
MORE SEXUAL DISCRIMINATION!
Who'd a'thunk it?
What about "transwomen"?
I mean, what if one of the people on the board "identifies" as a woman?
Pathalogical altruism...
Fuck logic, reason and equality! MUH FEELZ!
And we've now left the realm of "gender equality" and entered the realm of "female supremacy".
Just give them shit for an accident of birth...
Just so long as you're the first person to volunteer to live on the mountain of unrecyclable panels.
Nah. Because you're still stuck with megatons of landfill over time...
I'll wait until the research comes in.
Elon's going to crash a bunch of his own companies!
Why?
For shits and giggles! WHY ELSE?
Because it's not REALLY about sexism or racism. It's about power dynamics and control of the community.
This has the potential to outright destroy Linux.
Sometimes, people need to be told, bluntly, why their code is crap.
And the proper response to that is NOT "You're a NAZI!" or "You hurt my fee fees!"
And, if this crap is allowed to go forward, and developers have their projects essentially STOLEN from them because of this, you're GOING to see GPL copyright killswitchhes DEVASTATE the Linux platform.
If people want to see more women/minorities inclusion in the Linux developer community, STEP UP AND WRITE CODE!
Don't like the rampantly meritocratic community?
TOUGH SHIT!
Most of the people agitating for this crap are people who simply see the Linux developer community as a source of POWER.
Therefore, they MUST co-opt it. They don't give a shit about Linux, or code or any of that. They simply want control, and don't care what they destroy or whose careers they have to fuck up or which bodies they need to climb over to get it.
So, when someone starts bitching about CoC, tell them to go eat a bag of dicks.
Unless you're one of those deviants who's TRYING to push this CoC, intersectional social justice crap on a bunch of people who just want to be left alone to develop their projects and not have to put up with stupid people.
Now, as long as it makes them a buck and increases their huge cache of customer info, there's pretty much nothing they won't sink to.
Distrust of them is why I've avoided Chrome.
So trust the government to somehow manage your network for you?
Nah.
Someone may be that stupid.
But I can't imagine there's THAT many of them.
Complete and utter waste of taxpayer money.
Spend the same amount to increase their street level presence in bad neighborhoods and pull off the "DAS RAYCISS!" shackles?
MUCH better investment.
Then hold up his papers and yell "DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY!" before getting a bullet in the brainpan?
https://youtu.be/kwC_IaY3BmY
Again, I don't think breaking them up will help.
They'll continue the bad behavior.
But now they'll say "See! You have OPTIONS!"
They'll all still be the same authoritarian sociopolitical monoculture behind the screen though.
So NOTHING will change.
Instead of being booted from a dozen different platforms like Alex Jones, you'll be booted from TWO dozen, or maybe three dozen.
I don't think you quite understand.
Some of JD's LOW END agricultural tractors START at $150,000.00 with next to no options.
Some of their largest cost in excess of 3/4ths of a million dollars.
This is DEFINITELY *NOT* about being "cheap".
And these are MAJOR investments for a farm.
And downtime during their growing season, or having to ship the damn thing to a dealer to have it worked on is just not in the cards.
Being told you need to buy another half-million dollar tractor after a couple of years because of changes in environmental regs, when the one you ALREADY OWN is perfectly capable of meeting said regs with minor software mods? Again, not in the cards.
If there were only a single manufacturer or small cartel
That's just it, there IS just a small cartel of players in the market. And they're all colluding to make it impossible to simply SELF-SERVICE your equipment, let alone REPAIR it.
Would YOU buy a car that you had to bring to the dealership simply to gas it up? And be charged $30/gallon for the "privilege"?
It'll be like AT&T.
Eventually, weak sisters will die off and the remainders will agglomerate back into a whole.
A better option would probably be some form of Internet Bill of Rights, backed by outsized fines where the minimum amounts start at "ruinous" and move up from there.
Nope.
It wasn't Farage.
I dunno. How easy it is to stay away from the explosion of a truck bomb?
And if you wind up dead, regardless, do you actually give a shit HOW?
JOY!
Yet another reason to never give CrApple ANY money.
EVER.
Let me come at you with a prop knife or a baseball bat. Then tell me how easily you can stay away from me.
Let me chase you down the street in a car. Then tell me how easily you can stay away from me.
Try taking a course in self defense where they teach knife fighting.
I think you'll find it MUCH harder to stay away from some crazy with a knife than you'd ever imagine.
PC LOAD LETTER?
Why is someone who you disagree with a "nut"?
How is it a strawman? Dead is dead.
He's not arguing against gun control. Gun Control is a dead issue.
Anyone pushing revision of the 2nd Amendment has their career destroyed.
Additionally, we have the ability to 3d print firearms. Sure, they're primitive and mostly useless.
But their very existence is the death knell of the Gun Control issue.
And sorry if the availability of legal firearms offends you.
It has exactly JACK SHIT to do with most shootings, which are overwhelmingly committed with illegally obtained firearms.
Which is counter to normal firearm safety practices.