So basically, because this guy doesn't enthusiastically cheer for and support gays at every opportunity, he deserves the boot? Doesn't he have a right to express and support his values, too? As an atheist, I think religion is nuts, but the same rights that allow these gay employees to voice their displeasure in the first place, without being booted themselves, should protect him as well. There is no 'controversy' here.
Marriage, religion, and gay rights should have nothing to do with running a software company, which is what he was hired to do. Let him do it. If he sucks at it, then fire him. If he does a good job, then reward him. Part of being an employee is that sometimes you have to work with people you don't like, and this applies equally to him as well as to these gay employees. Apparently, these professional victims think that life lesson should not apply to them, only to their political enemies. Their crocodile tears on twitter do not impress, either, as they are acting like he victimized them just by taking the job at Mozilla. That's bullshit.
Workplaces should be amoral, apolitical places. You were hired to do a job, so was he. Do your jobs well and there'll be no time for stupid political wrangling from any side.
Interesting, because, to me, most movies that win lots of those awards are either overdone romance dramas or center left political propaganda schlock. Talk about formulaic and dull. They make those teen vampire serial shows passed off as 'science' fiction seem tolerable....for a moment...at a distance. Hell, these people think 'gravity' is good science fiction, so their opinions count for exactly nothing to me.
Yeah well, with consumer appliances and electronics designed and built in china, that is a bad assumption. Really, the answer is keep it simple stupid. If it's not needed, don't have it.
This crowd's been around the block enough times to know that liberty, privacy and control over one's domain are more important than trendy 'convenience.' Always connected appliances allow too many detrimental temptations for vendors and governments.
Wow, condescend much? It does NOT make sense to embrace something just because it's popular. Are you one of these post modern 'educated' 35yo adolescents? You know, the kind who think in blocks of 140 characters or less?
Smooth and safe? What does that mean? Safe for whom? None of these user-hostile technologies are designed to keep the user safe. They're designed to keep the user locked into 'service plans.'
If our ancestors worked to make life 'smooth and safe' we'd still be bowing and paying tax to the king.
But it will give bureaucrats the opportunity to set the thermostat to politically correct levels, and give the refrigerator and food vendors the opportunity to overcharge you for value added services, like 'pay us or it stops working'. Don't you want that?
1. dvds offer higher quality video and audio than most forms of streaming..even so called '1080p' streams are so bandwidth constrained that they do not really qualify as hd, even though the pixel resolution is 1920x1080. To use an audio equivalent, even 64kbps mp3 can be '44100hz stereo'. It still doesn't sound good.
2. dvds just work. Throw the disk in, hit play. No hidden fees, no drops, no lag, and no racking up bandwidth costs.. Most people do not have decent internet that operates reliably at rated speed, so in order to get quality streaming, 50Mbit+ or better is required even though the highest quality streams from netflix et al top out at 10Mbit.
3. streaming makes sense for rentals, but not for owning. The prices charged by amazon to 'buy' a streamed movie are high enough that it's better off to get the bluray or dvd. Then you own it for keeps.
Once again the foxes want to guard the henhouse after they're caught with blood on their faces and paws, and feathers all over the ground. Why the hell would we want the government to 'regulate' surveillance tech when it is the most abusive offender? The only thing that would come out of this would be that the tech ends up 'reserved' for them and banned from use for everyone else.
Win32 GDI? You mean like metro? At least kde is more usable than that. If you mean the win2k desktop, you might have a point there, but kde can be configured to mimic that.
No. They're filled with despondent middle aged guys who learned about marriage the hard way. These were the guys who thought they were hot shit in college because they were getting laid and foolishly thought that marriage was a continuation of that.
that's a stupid place to hide secrets.. I guarantee that nvidia has already reverse engineered the driver. open the code and put it under a license that prevents it being used with anything but a radeon graphics card, which is basically what's going to happen anyway. At least then the code can be built/rebuilt/ported/debugged with the rest of the system when needed.
Why choose intel? 1. better performance in just about everything 2. lower power consumption 3. more overclocking headroom 4. chipsets 'just work' and don't tend to have bizarre compatibility problems.
Yeah, but all that really does is ensure that, in the near future, NO front line characters will be straight white males, because this mania makes everyone run around trying to out-PC each other just to avoid lawsuits or attacks from masses of poorly informed, irrational people on the net.
This issue is solved by teaching people when they are children to grow a thicker skin and learn to deal with the fact that not everyone is going to like them. This life lesson would go a long way towards eliminating things like school shootings as well. This ultrasensitization of society is causing all kinds of spurious faux outrage.
Yeah well as the adult, it's your job to have the perspective to not let it bother you to the point where you want publishers (and possibly the government) to silence them at all costs.
I have an idea.. If you're gay, don't join the server called "Smear the Queer" and complain in the chat. You will get shit on and voted off the server. Better yet, if you enjoy the game, just play and don't use it as a platform to push your politics and no one will care.
Doesn't matter. Both groups want society to force their particular values on the population. Neither of them understand liberty, thus both are oppressive.
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So basically, because this guy doesn't enthusiastically cheer for and support gays at every opportunity, he deserves the boot? Doesn't he have a right to express and support his values, too? As an atheist, I think religion is nuts, but the same rights that allow these gay employees to voice their displeasure in the first place, without being booted themselves, should protect him as well. There is no 'controversy' here.
Marriage, religion, and gay rights should have nothing to do with running a software company, which is what he was hired to do. Let him do it. If he sucks at it, then fire him. If he does a good job, then reward him. Part of being an employee is that sometimes you have to work with people you don't like, and this applies equally to him as well as to these gay employees. Apparently, these professional victims think that life lesson should not apply to them, only to their political enemies. Their crocodile tears on twitter do not impress, either, as they are acting like he victimized them just by taking the job at Mozilla. That's bullshit.
Workplaces should be amoral, apolitical places. You were hired to do a job, so was he. Do your jobs well and there'll be no time for stupid political wrangling from any side.
only because people like you drive up the cost of drugs for a chance at finger wagging and sanctimonious preaching.
Btw, I bet I'm cleaner than you are.
Interesting, because, to me, most movies that win lots of those awards are either overdone romance dramas or center left political propaganda schlock. Talk about formulaic and dull. They make those teen vampire serial shows passed off as 'science' fiction seem tolerable....for a moment...at a distance. Hell, these people think 'gravity' is good science fiction, so their opinions count for exactly nothing to me.
Needless complexity can cause that in people, yes.
Yeah well, with consumer appliances and electronics designed and built in china, that is a bad assumption. Really, the answer is keep it simple stupid. If it's not needed, don't have it.
This crowd's been around the block enough times to know that liberty, privacy and control over one's domain are more important than trendy 'convenience.' Always connected appliances allow too many detrimental temptations for vendors and governments.
Use case without useless/dangerous/expensive internet connectivity
put turkey in oven
set delay timer to 4 hours
go to pub
have 20 beers
try to go home
voila turkey is your 3pm wake up call.
Wow, condescend much? It does NOT make sense to embrace something just because it's popular. Are you one of these post modern 'educated' 35yo adolescents? You know, the kind who think in blocks of 140 characters or less?
Smooth and safe? What does that mean? Safe for whom? None of these user-hostile technologies are designed to keep the user safe. They're designed to keep the user locked into 'service plans.'
If our ancestors worked to make life 'smooth and safe' we'd still be bowing and paying tax to the king.
The internet of things is not there to serve you. It is there to serve you to the customer: marketers and nosy government officials.
People who like imposing false scarcity to extract wealth, and those who get off on controlling others.
Soon it'll all be done over the cell net. You won't have a choice. No connectivity after a time? No 'service' from 'your' appliance.
But it will give bureaucrats the opportunity to set the thermostat to politically correct levels, and give the refrigerator and food vendors the opportunity to overcharge you for value added services, like 'pay us or it stops working'. Don't you want that?
1. dvds offer higher quality video and audio than most forms of streaming..even so called '1080p' streams are so bandwidth constrained that they do not really qualify as hd, even though the pixel resolution is 1920x1080. To use an audio equivalent, even 64kbps mp3 can be '44100hz stereo'. It still doesn't sound good.
2. dvds just work. Throw the disk in, hit play. No hidden fees, no drops, no lag, and no racking up bandwidth costs.. Most people do not have decent internet that operates reliably at rated speed, so in order to get quality streaming, 50Mbit+ or better is required even though the highest quality streams from netflix et al top out at 10Mbit.
3. streaming makes sense for rentals, but not for owning. The prices charged by amazon to 'buy' a streamed movie are high enough that it's better off to get the bluray or dvd. Then you own it for keeps.
Once again the foxes want to guard the henhouse after they're caught with blood on their faces and paws, and feathers all over the ground. Why the hell would we want the government to 'regulate' surveillance tech when it is the most abusive offender? The only thing that would come out of this would be that the tech ends up 'reserved' for them and banned from use for everyone else.
Win32 GDI? You mean like metro? At least kde is more usable than that. If you mean the win2k desktop, you might have a point there, but kde can be configured to mimic that.
No. They're filled with despondent middle aged guys who learned about marriage the hard way. These were the guys who thought they were hot shit in college because they were getting laid and foolishly thought that marriage was a continuation of that.
Well then you shouldn't read liberal blogs either as they're always trying to justify expanding the size of the state that those 'capitalists' use.
that's a stupid place to hide secrets.. I guarantee that nvidia has already reverse engineered the driver. open the code and put it under a license that prevents it being used with anything but a radeon graphics card, which is basically what's going to happen anyway. At least then the code can be built/rebuilt/ported/debugged with the rest of the system when needed.
To be fair, intel did try this, too (ia64). It was amd that extended x86 to 64 bit land.
Why choose intel?
1. better performance in just about everything
2. lower power consumption
3. more overclocking headroom
4. chipsets 'just work' and don't tend to have bizarre compatibility problems.
Yes, because anyone that dares question doctrine is a bigot who must be silenced, right?
Yeah, but all that really does is ensure that, in the near future, NO front line characters will be straight white males, because this mania makes everyone run around trying to out-PC each other just to avoid lawsuits or attacks from masses of poorly informed, irrational people on the net.
This issue is solved by teaching people when they are children to grow a thicker skin and learn to deal with the fact that not everyone is going to like them. This life lesson would go a long way towards eliminating things like school shootings as well. This ultrasensitization of society is causing all kinds of spurious faux outrage.
Yeah well as the adult, it's your job to have the perspective to not let it bother you to the point where you want publishers (and possibly the government) to silence them at all costs.
If they're a small number, why get your panties in a wad over them?
I have an idea.. If you're gay, don't join the server called "Smear the Queer" and complain in the chat. You will get shit on and voted off the server. Better yet, if you enjoy the game, just play and don't use it as a platform to push your politics and no one will care.
Doesn't matter. Both groups want society to force their particular values on the population. Neither of them understand liberty, thus both are oppressive.