There are counter-examples showing it applies more widely than just the original communities. Aboriginal women seeking to block construction of a bridge to Hindmarsh Island refused to participate in the government or legal process unless it could guarantee that that no males (judges, lawyers, witnesss, juries, clerks, public servants, etc.) would hear their case, known publicly as Secret Women's Business.
Recently the National Library of Australia consented to restrictions on who could view a photography exhibition that featured a sacred men's only tree.
The idea of culturally sensitive "DRM" isn't actually new. The University of Sydney's informatics department came up against the same issues when it tried to preserve indigenous languages in electronic form about 4 or 5 years ago. Unfortunately I don't know the details of what they developed to solve the issue.
An important context to this is the ongoing political and popular debate about cultural assimilation of migrants to "western style" rights and equality. Rightly or wrongly, the Australian media has frequently published attacks on Islam, and by extension Islamic immigrants, for not treating the sexes equally.
So breaching fair trading laws is the answer to a flawed business model?!
If you seriously believe that the Nth tier ISP is the loser in this situation, you either need to: 1. go back to college and learn a more robust business model; 2. campaign for stronger anti-monopoly laws among telecommunications infrastructure owners; or 3. get out of the ISP business.
Would it be that hard to develop a standard (perhaps much like meta-tagging), giving one set of data easily digestible by the bots (and not displayed to the human reader), while retaining an entertaining writing style for human consumption?
Like the keyword meta? It was a tag designed specifically so content authors could assist the search engines to classify the information easily, without poluting the readable canvas. Very useful in theory.
Search engines stopped using the keyword data as search engine optimisers (vile opportunistic scum that they are) abused the mechanism with words that weren't relevant to the page. Selfish human behaviour destroys another opportunity to make life better for everybody else. Personally I'd like to see them tacked on the anti-spam legislation.
"Please note the first three lines (usually omitted in the USA), and that there is no mention of homosexuals. Political correctness is one thing; rewriting history and literature is another."
Nobody's re-writing history by updating the argument to modern realities. Likewise nobody has attributed a modernised version of that line to the original author. We paraphrase all number of great authors who bespoke of dystopian futures to reflect that details change, but the fears are universal. Adding homosexuals to the argument is of far greater value to modern (American) readers than those who have never heard of the Social Democrats.
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There are counter-examples showing it applies more widely than just the original communities. Aboriginal women seeking to block construction of a bridge to Hindmarsh Island refused to participate in the government or legal process unless it could guarantee that that no males (judges, lawyers, witnesss, juries, clerks, public servants, etc.) would hear their case, known publicly as Secret Women's Business.
Recently the National Library of Australia consented to restrictions on who could view a photography exhibition that featured a sacred men's only tree.
The idea of culturally sensitive "DRM" isn't actually new. The University of Sydney's informatics department came up against the same issues when it tried to preserve indigenous languages in electronic form about 4 or 5 years ago. Unfortunately I don't know the details of what they developed to solve the issue.
An important context to this is the ongoing political and popular debate about cultural assimilation of migrants to "western style" rights and equality. Rightly or wrongly, the Australian media has frequently published attacks on Islam, and by extension Islamic immigrants, for not treating the sexes equally.
Thank goodness you warned me; I was under mistaken impression it was "web 2.0 olive".
So breaching fair trading laws is the answer to a flawed business model?!
If you seriously believe that the Nth tier ISP is the loser in this situation, you either need to:
1. go back to college and learn a more robust business model;
2. campaign for stronger anti-monopoly laws among telecommunications infrastructure owners; or
3. get out of the ISP business.
This being the case, birth defects are definitely not an acceptable consequence.
Tell that to the gay community.
Would it be that hard to develop a standard (perhaps much like meta-tagging), giving one set of data easily digestible by the bots (and not displayed to the human reader), while retaining an entertaining writing style for human consumption?
Like the keyword meta? It was a tag designed specifically so content authors could assist the search engines to classify the information easily, without poluting the readable canvas. Very useful in theory.
Search engines stopped using the keyword data as search engine optimisers (vile opportunistic scum that they are) abused the mechanism with words that weren't relevant to the page. Selfish human behaviour destroys another opportunity to make life better for everybody else. Personally I'd like to see them tacked on the anti-spam legislation.
"Please note the first three lines (usually omitted in the USA), and that there is no mention of homosexuals. Political correctness is one thing; rewriting history and literature is another."
Nobody's re-writing history by updating the argument to modern realities. Likewise nobody has attributed a modernised version of that line to the original author. We paraphrase all number of great authors who bespoke of dystopian futures to reflect that details change, but the fears are universal. Adding homosexuals to the argument is of far greater value to modern (American) readers than those who have never heard of the Social Democrats.