You say that it like it is a bad thing... I disagree. I think it is a good thing. I think it is high time that they change copyright simply because they can not actually protect it like they used to. For much the same reason we should change drug laws. We can not stop it and, in some cases, the laws that are trying to stop it is doing more harm than good.
Meh... At least the judge looks smart in this case.
You don't think we're going to listen, do you? I am not even sure how they could stop international access. I have a radio in my pocket and can do things like dial long distance numbers. You could, in theory, stop that but it is going to take a lot of work.
I doubt we kill them in the third world countries - it would attract unnecessary attention. I suspect they are hog tied, put in a 120mm ammo crate, and kicked out the back of a C-130 somewhere over the South Pacific.
So I can be happy the rest of my life with my Pono Phone girl... My Pono Phone girl...
Hmm... Rocking in the free world?
There's a mobile phone on the road ahead. There's a streaming service that'd be better off dead. Don't feel like Satan but I am to them. So I pimp my Pono Phone any way I can...
Torrent my files in the free world...
See the woman in the night, with a phone in her hand. Under an old street light, with her ear buds in her hand. She hates compression and what it's done to it. So she puts the ear buds in and she's gonna hear my hit. That's one more sucker who's gonna buy my phone. One under-paid idiot taking out a payday loan.
Torrent my files in the free world!
Hmm... Sugar mountain?
Oh to live on, Pono Mountain. With the lossless bass that goes boom. You can't be streaming, on Pono Mountain. Is my joke a bit too soon? A bit too soon...
Hmm... How about an unknown legend?
I should probably work in a diner. Cleaning up dirty China. I made a phone and it's a bore.
I've been screaming half my life. Now I'm telling bullshit lies. I'll be an unknown legend in no time...
Hmm... Old Man might work.
Old Man take a look at my phone. It's a lot like useless. I need vindication. That is why I do this. Oh one look at my phone, And you can tell that's true. Give me more dollars. And please buy two.
Hmm... After the Gold Rush?
Well I dreamed I saw a Pono Phone in the yellow haze of the Sun. There were dollar signs flying and I was poor so I designed this one. There were engineers laughing and investors cracking but we finally got it done. We've got streaming services on the run in century twenty-one.
Hmm... I think I need to smoke less weed. Or more. Either way, I am actually a fan of his music. Anyhow, I am stopping.
Given the quality of their post, one can imagine the quality of their emails. There is probably a reason that they get called back. Does "u18?" mean 18 micrograms or are you asking my age?
Come quick, your mother is going to die! Sorry Dad. I am a doctor but not a medical doctor.
Oddly, I say this but I was actually there the night my mother passed. I was the one to attempt CPR (I am not really sure why but who was I to argue? She was quite obviously dead.) and everything. My grief would have been the same, I think, had I not been there as quickly. There was fuck-all I could do about it and, given the amount of pain she was in, fuck-all to really grieve about that is not entirely selfish. Not that I did not grieve - I still do at times, but this is one of those times where being dead is better than being alive given the massive amounts of pain she was in.
Did my ex-wife convince you that a pair of reasonably good looking children (one of each gender) belong to you? Or did my kids con you into thinking that you were their father? The daughter does not have this problem but the boy child will make more work trying to get out of work than he would have done had he just done the work. He might be improving.
Sound about right? Yeah, if so... Tell them bastards to call. Emailing is not contacting. I do not ask for much but I do pay a bunch. I am a dog, there must be a reward or I will shit the eaten newspaper on the floor.
Warning? That's what the ringing is. Unless it is a work phone, do not be a slave to your phone. Then, if it is a work phone, turn it off when not at work. I do not even use voicemail. I do not listen to nor leave any. You have Caller ID so you can see I called. If need be, I will call you back. I may not even call you back. You'll be okay.
They were on NPR yesterday and one of the things they discussed was the history. It was stated that they first heard about them as being used by airports - it seems that they keep the birds off. I have no idea if that is true or not but that was what the guy claimed. It was on that afternoon show with the older lady with a nasal voice - Diane maybe? I do not recall the name of the show and I am too lazy to look.
Which is why I have never actually really memorized how to use my watch's calculations. I can do most of it in my head faster than I could when I was learning how to use it.
I am told, by my daughter no less, that my tomato plants are "the bomb." (These may not be actual tomato plants and I am not a huge fan of tomatoes so I will leave that up to you to decide. I do have a lovely garden and it does contain real tomatoes.) So, if my tomato plants are the bomb then I must be a terrorist and, of course, a threat to national security. It is only logical, after all.
Seriously? Hmm... No. I will take the polonium now and happily (comparatively) live out my remaining time in a pure opiate bliss. Drug the fuck out of me and do not perform any life-saving techniques.
I will share what I feel are relevant (and rare-ish) Grateful Dead lyrics...
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. I wouldn't mind your hanging boys but, you wait in jail so long. Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
-- I've Been All Around This World
I worked at a detention facility and have spent a night in jail waiting to sober up so they could let me go. (I was still plenty drunk when I left). I would really rather be dead than spend my life in prison.
I can only assume that they were high when they posted it. Even before it was legal in my state there were people caught with POUNDS or THOUSANDS of plants who got a simple $1000 fine. It is not legal everywhere but it is decriminalized across much of the country. Also, you are pretty unlikely to die by a police officer's doing. That can (and does) happen but you usually have to go out of your way to do this. Note that that is usually. They may just shoot you for fun. *sighs* I do figure I might as well be honest. It is unlikely that they will but, well, they might. You're probably more likely to be shot by a criminal but the cops could, indeed, still decide to shoot you for no reason other than they decided they do not like you. Of course, I could decide the same thing and shoot you but I am unlikely to do so. You are far more likely to die on the toilet at home.
Nah, this predated that or at least predates its popularity. The worst part is I can neither remember the name or even what the icon looked like. It sat in the system tray, updated it's settings online once in a while, and was an application that enabled me to block specific images (at specific sites or by name or by size) or even block whole domains - I think. It even worked with sub-domains as I recall. This has to be nearly 15-20 years ago.
Excellent. I am glad to see you took a moment to reply though I can't help but notice your selective choice of replies but that is fine. Let's start at the top, shall we?
If someone were to ask me to not hug them I wouldn't. Not only that, I would not have initiated such a silly reply in the first place. The folks that I know who might would do so harmlessly and intending to convey thanks in their own awkward way.
Who gives a shit if they are going to complain - as you noted, they are going to get complaints regardless. They might just as well do the responsible thing and say, "Don't be an jerkoff and we won't have to be assholes." There. Done.
You do not need rules telling people not to be dicks. You need a rule, singular. Politicizing, grandstanding, and attempting to dramatize something that needn't be is a cure worse than the problem.
Really, and this may be complicated, I do not have any code on GitHub at the moment though I had intended to fork Opera and build in some new features from the Chromium source that they could then take (or not) back to their project. I will still do that, I will just host it locally because I can. I was going to use GitHub as it would give it more exposure and help more people but, meh...
The assumption that I am an MRA is absurd, at best, and deliberately obtuse at worst. You do not even believe that I am an MRA but you opt to throw it out there as if it is meaningful. I am not offended, not at all, I am empathetic. I truly am humbled by your inability and unwillingness to see what you are saying. I believe I understand why you say it. It is great, it really is, that you empathize.
Frankly, I see the MRA folk as being just as stupid as the so-called SJWs. I do not even hold an opinion about Gamergate (though I did read up on its history, oddly the best source of history was that Encyclopedia Dramatica site assuming you are willing to read through the nonsense in their editorializing). I think you're all being pants-on-head mentally handicapped. Yes, yes I did edit that out and put in 'mentally handicapped.' I am an asshole but not entirely a disrespectful asshole.
The drama, it is not worth it. It really isn't. All it does is increase the signal to noise ratio and encourage good sites to do stupid things in the hopes of appeasing a vocal minority from either end of this absurd spectrum.
The MRA folk have a right to be assholes. You have a right to be indignant and fight back. However, do it quietly in a corner somewhere and stop wrecking good things - both of you. We do not want it, we do not need it, and the vast majority of us are not really inclined to side with either of you.
Additionally, if GitHub were to be equal and honest (also I saw your "definition" of racism and I encourage you to buy a dictionary) they would have a policy of stopping all harassment. Instead they went out of their way to openly state that they will be accepting of certain types of harassment. Harassment is wrong, regardless of the source.
Fortunately they have backtracked on this, it seems, and have decided to redo their CoC. I am glad that level heads prevailed and that they have decided to take the time to decide what to do. However, I will not risk the project being associated with the drama.
Now, if it were my toy to play with, I would probably just deal with it by allowing folks to block other user's communications and telling them to sort it out between themselves if they can not figure out how to use the block user button. I suspect the rules would be, "Be legal and do not be an ass." It is not my toy so I do not get to make the rules there. I do not even try to influence them. I feel that my behavior is the moral high ground on this matter. I simply do not use their services and the project may suffer some because of it. That's okay too.
Stop poking the bee's nest and then bitching when you get stung. Ignore that shit. It is not hard. The evidence that good things are suffering is right there - look at the reaction to their CoC.
There is something to be said for a well tailored suit. I do not even mind a tie, I kind of like it. I am usually a cargo pants, moccasins, wool socks, t-shirt, and a long sleeve (unbuttoned) type of guy but I do love me a suit and tie occasion once in a while. What? Those guys have the best drugs. They won't share if you don't dress like them.
I have a nice Citizen that I like. I got it because I like it and I do not want to wind it or rely on a battery. The other neat thing is I can use the bezel to do some nifty calculations, theoretically. I sat down and learned every one of the calculations (I forget the name of the function/feature but it has a name) and promptly forgot. I could probably look and figure it out again but, really, I won't. I have a cell phone. I like watches because I like to know the time. I will carry my watch. I will not always carry my cell.
(I have seen threats of violence, but none that I ever considered to be serious).
You say that one more time and I am going to come to your house and kick your ass. Seriously... Alternatively, if you are ever in the neighborhood, you can stop by. I do not drink but I have a variety of very good beers and spirits on hand and I always, always, have awesome food. Then, of course, we can geek out for a while. After that though, I am seriously going to kick your ass - if you say that one more time!
Also, your father is a goatherd and your mother a mime! I will wine and dine them both, right after I kick your ass, seriously!
There was a time, on a more serious note, that you dialed into BBS systems that were local and had LUGs that you were a part of. You had your real name attached to some servers and email (which did not have an @ symbol) or you had a SysOp at the school's laboratory who knew the BBS SysOps and they would do things like revoke your privileges if you did stuff like threaten people with violence. Alternatively, you may have threatened violence back then and ended up with 20 pizza-faced geeks who found your address and decided to come burn your house down.
Long distance got cheap, blue and black boxes became available, we learned LOOP numbers, and all hell broke loose. Anonymity has done wonders but the sword is mighty and cuts both ways.
I should add, I do not expect you to agree with me - not at all. It would be against your very nature, you simply can not. I would like you to try to be objective and see where I am coming from. No agreements with my views are expected or required but an agreement to be intellectual honest and mutually understanding is appreciated.
I will stop here because I could, and would, go on for another novella. Unfortunately, I learned to type very quickly. I almost feel sorry for those who encounter me in the wilds.
No. We do not want there to be clear rules. We want you to toughen the fuck up AND or adapt to the situation while trusting us to do the same thing in a responsible manner. Stop knocking down strawmen, they do not help you do anything but convince yourself you're right. My contention, my only contention, is that none of those rules are required. If there is a problem then stop the problem. You do that by dealing with individuals and not with making absurd rules. It is a fucking neutral platform - not a sociology experiment.
Yeah, so I am thinking I am going to rant and write a novella. I expect you will not be willing to read it. I will get back to that. Kudos if you do read it even if you do not reply. Given what I am about to say and your usual behavior, I can assume you will not reply. That is fine and, again, I will try to touch on that later.
We're assholes. It is not personal and we do not give a shit what your gender, race, sexual preference, or religion is - we hate you all equally. No, we love you. But it is a love that you may not want to accept because we're also perverts who will try to touch you where you pee. Hell, at least a good half of us do not even care what your plumbing is, we will STILL try to touch you where you pee just to see what happens.
I do not hate you because you're a gay woman - that's fine. I hate you because you're a fucking meatstick. No, I do not really hate you. I do think you are an idiot, however. Hell, I am a black, native, and white man. I get no love. I did not ask for or want any. You are a random pixel amongst billions of pixels. We do not care.
Deal with the idiot racists. Kick the sexist pigs out. Do what you have to do but do it in moderation and only to ensure that you keep the rabble-rouser types away. There is no need for a safe space. Life will never be safe. In fact, we are all going to be harmed. Put your big girl panties on, undo the knots in your knickers first, and move the fuck along. I do not need your petty rules to tell me how to conduct myself. I can be a productive and polite member on my own or accept that I do not fit in and move along - on my own. I am aware of my surroundings enough to have never once been removed from any community and I have been "online" since the mid 1980s.
In short, get the fuck off my internet. Go back to Pintrest, Facebook, Reddit, or where ever you want but fuck off sideways and leave us be. Who the hell thought that GitHub, a fucking repository store, needed a code of conduct in the first place? What the hell??? Was someone triggered due to someone saying, "Thanks for finding my error! *hugs*"??? If so then, you know what, they should seek fucking psychiatric help and we should not pander to their illness. They are likely victims - go after the offender and not some random person who was legitimately grateful.
For fuck's sake - it's a neutral platform (or it should be). Feel free to kick me out if I did not take the hint - that is me being an asshole so kick me out, I deserve it. On the other hand, you're not my mother. Until I am an asshole, leave me alone and do not make up a bunch of silly rules that will do nothing to actually solve the problem. The problem is ignorant assholes who can not behave like humans and be respectful and attempt to educate themselves.
Hell, much of my real-life time is spent among the LGBTtrlwvwyorustTTrx community. Yes, the queer community. I love those fuckers. They are the greatest and most welcoming folks on the planet so long as you take a god damned minute to learn what they are about, why they feel like they do, and then are actually respectful about them personally. They also have the best "fag jokes."
I can be an asshole and still respect you as a person. I can still disrespect you as a person because I feel you are inferior due to your choices. Just because I think you are an idiot does not mean you get to claim that I think you're an idiot because you're a gay woman. No, I think you're an idiot because you have shared enough of your "wisdom
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You say that it like it is a bad thing... I disagree. I think it is a good thing. I think it is high time that they change copyright simply because they can not actually protect it like they used to. For much the same reason we should change drug laws. We can not stop it and, in some cases, the laws that are trying to stop it is doing more harm than good.
Meh... At least the judge looks smart in this case.
I get all my science from Ted Danson and Morgan Freeman. I am an expert!!!!
Dude... It was a Capri. I'd be surprised if you could start it at all.
You don't think we're going to listen, do you? I am not even sure how they could stop international access. I have a radio in my pocket and can do things like dial long distance numbers. You could, in theory, stop that but it is going to take a lot of work.
I doubt we kill them in the third world countries - it would attract unnecessary attention. I suspect they are hog tied, put in a 120mm ammo crate, and kicked out the back of a C-130 somewhere over the South Pacific.
So I can be happy the rest of my life with my Pono Phone girl... My Pono Phone girl...
Hmm... Rocking in the free world?
There's a mobile phone on the road ahead.
There's a streaming service that'd be better off dead.
Don't feel like Satan but I am to them.
So I pimp my Pono Phone any way I can...
Torrent my files in the free world...
See the woman in the night, with a phone in her hand.
Under an old street light, with her ear buds in her hand.
She hates compression and what it's done to it.
So she puts the ear buds in and she's gonna hear my hit.
That's one more sucker who's gonna buy my phone.
One under-paid idiot taking out a payday loan.
Torrent my files in the free world!
Hmm... Sugar mountain?
Oh to live on, Pono Mountain.
With the lossless bass that goes boom.
You can't be streaming, on Pono Mountain.
Is my joke a bit too soon? A bit too soon...
Hmm... How about an unknown legend?
I should probably work in a diner.
Cleaning up dirty China.
I made a phone and it's a bore.
I've been screaming half my life.
Now I'm telling bullshit lies.
I'll be an unknown legend in no time...
Hmm... Old Man might work.
Old Man take a look at my phone.
It's a lot like useless.
I need vindication.
That is why I do this.
Oh one look at my phone,
And you can tell that's true.
Give me more dollars.
And please buy two.
Hmm... After the Gold Rush?
Well I dreamed I saw a Pono Phone in the yellow haze of the Sun.
There were dollar signs flying and I was poor so I designed this one.
There were engineers laughing and investors cracking but we finally got it done.
We've got streaming services on the run in century twenty-one.
Hmm... I think I need to smoke less weed. Or more. Either way, I am actually a fan of his music. Anyhow, I am stopping.
Given the quality of their post, one can imagine the quality of their emails. There is probably a reason that they get called back. Does "u18?" mean 18 micrograms or are you asking my age?
Come quick, your mother is going to die!
Sorry Dad. I am a doctor but not a medical doctor.
Oddly, I say this but I was actually there the night my mother passed. I was the one to attempt CPR (I am not really sure why but who was I to argue? She was quite obviously dead.) and everything. My grief would have been the same, I think, had I not been there as quickly. There was fuck-all I could do about it and, given the amount of pain she was in, fuck-all to really grieve about that is not entirely selfish. Not that I did not grieve - I still do at times, but this is one of those times where being dead is better than being alive given the massive amounts of pain she was in.
Did my ex-wife convince you that a pair of reasonably good looking children (one of each gender) belong to you? Or did my kids con you into thinking that you were their father? The daughter does not have this problem but the boy child will make more work trying to get out of work than he would have done had he just done the work. He might be improving.
Sound about right? Yeah, if so... Tell them bastards to call. Emailing is not contacting. I do not ask for much but I do pay a bunch. I am a dog, there must be a reward or I will shit the eaten newspaper on the floor.
Warning? That's what the ringing is. Unless it is a work phone, do not be a slave to your phone. Then, if it is a work phone, turn it off when not at work. I do not even use voicemail. I do not listen to nor leave any. You have Caller ID so you can see I called. If need be, I will call you back. I may not even call you back. You'll be okay.
It would probably be cheaper to build a solar powered desal plant.
They were on NPR yesterday and one of the things they discussed was the history. It was stated that they first heard about them as being used by airports - it seems that they keep the birds off. I have no idea if that is true or not but that was what the guy claimed. It was on that afternoon show with the older lady with a nasal voice - Diane maybe? I do not recall the name of the show and I am too lazy to look.
Which is why I have never actually really memorized how to use my watch's calculations. I can do most of it in my head faster than I could when I was learning how to use it.
I am told, by my daughter no less, that my tomato plants are "the bomb." (These may not be actual tomato plants and I am not a huge fan of tomatoes so I will leave that up to you to decide. I do have a lovely garden and it does contain real tomatoes.) So, if my tomato plants are the bomb then I must be a terrorist and, of course, a threat to national security. It is only logical, after all.
Seriously? Hmm... No. I will take the polonium now and happily (comparatively) live out my remaining time in a pure opiate bliss. Drug the fuck out of me and do not perform any life-saving techniques.
I will share what I feel are relevant (and rare-ish) Grateful Dead lyrics...
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone.
Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone.
I wouldn't mind your hanging boys but, you wait in jail so long.
Oh Lord, I been all around this world.
-- I've Been All Around This World
I worked at a detention facility and have spent a night in jail waiting to sober up so they could let me go. (I was still plenty drunk when I left). I would really rather be dead than spend my life in prison.
I can only assume that they were high when they posted it. Even before it was legal in my state there were people caught with POUNDS or THOUSANDS of plants who got a simple $1000 fine. It is not legal everywhere but it is decriminalized across much of the country. Also, you are pretty unlikely to die by a police officer's doing. That can (and does) happen but you usually have to go out of your way to do this. Note that that is usually. They may just shoot you for fun. *sighs* I do figure I might as well be honest. It is unlikely that they will but, well, they might. You're probably more likely to be shot by a criminal but the cops could, indeed, still decide to shoot you for no reason other than they decided they do not like you. Of course, I could decide the same thing and shoot you but I am unlikely to do so. You are far more likely to die on the toilet at home.
I seem to recall that that user is not actually white. I am sure you will find another justification, however. *sighs* Save the drama for Reddit.
Nah, this predated that or at least predates its popularity. The worst part is I can neither remember the name or even what the icon looked like. It sat in the system tray, updated it's settings online once in a while, and was an application that enabled me to block specific images (at specific sites or by name or by size) or even block whole domains - I think. It even worked with sub-domains as I recall. This has to be nearly 15-20 years ago.
Excellent. I am glad to see you took a moment to reply though I can't help but notice your selective choice of replies but that is fine. Let's start at the top, shall we?
If someone were to ask me to not hug them I wouldn't. Not only that, I would not have initiated such a silly reply in the first place. The folks that I know who might would do so harmlessly and intending to convey thanks in their own awkward way.
Who gives a shit if they are going to complain - as you noted, they are going to get complaints regardless. They might just as well do the responsible thing and say, "Don't be an jerkoff and we won't have to be assholes." There. Done.
You do not need rules telling people not to be dicks. You need a rule, singular. Politicizing, grandstanding, and attempting to dramatize something that needn't be is a cure worse than the problem.
Really, and this may be complicated, I do not have any code on GitHub at the moment though I had intended to fork Opera and build in some new features from the Chromium source that they could then take (or not) back to their project. I will still do that, I will just host it locally because I can. I was going to use GitHub as it would give it more exposure and help more people but, meh...
The assumption that I am an MRA is absurd, at best, and deliberately obtuse at worst. You do not even believe that I am an MRA but you opt to throw it out there as if it is meaningful. I am not offended, not at all, I am empathetic. I truly am humbled by your inability and unwillingness to see what you are saying. I believe I understand why you say it. It is great, it really is, that you empathize.
Frankly, I see the MRA folk as being just as stupid as the so-called SJWs. I do not even hold an opinion about Gamergate (though I did read up on its history, oddly the best source of history was that Encyclopedia Dramatica site assuming you are willing to read through the nonsense in their editorializing). I think you're all being pants-on-head mentally handicapped. Yes, yes I did edit that out and put in 'mentally handicapped.' I am an asshole but not entirely a disrespectful asshole.
The drama, it is not worth it. It really isn't. All it does is increase the signal to noise ratio and encourage good sites to do stupid things in the hopes of appeasing a vocal minority from either end of this absurd spectrum.
The MRA folk have a right to be assholes. You have a right to be indignant and fight back. However, do it quietly in a corner somewhere and stop wrecking good things - both of you. We do not want it, we do not need it, and the vast majority of us are not really inclined to side with either of you.
Additionally, if GitHub were to be equal and honest (also I saw your "definition" of racism and I encourage you to buy a dictionary) they would have a policy of stopping all harassment. Instead they went out of their way to openly state that they will be accepting of certain types of harassment. Harassment is wrong, regardless of the source.
Fortunately they have backtracked on this, it seems, and have decided to redo their CoC. I am glad that level heads prevailed and that they have decided to take the time to decide what to do. However, I will not risk the project being associated with the drama.
Now, if it were my toy to play with, I would probably just deal with it by allowing folks to block other user's communications and telling them to sort it out between themselves if they can not figure out how to use the block user button. I suspect the rules would be, "Be legal and do not be an ass." It is not my toy so I do not get to make the rules there. I do not even try to influence them. I feel that my behavior is the moral high ground on this matter. I simply do not use their services and the project may suffer some because of it. That's okay too.
Stop poking the bee's nest and then bitching when you get stung. Ignore that shit. It is not hard. The evidence that good things are suffering is right there - look at the reaction to their CoC.
There is something to be said for a well tailored suit. I do not even mind a tie, I kind of like it. I am usually a cargo pants, moccasins, wool socks, t-shirt, and a long sleeve (unbuttoned) type of guy but I do love me a suit and tie occasion once in a while. What? Those guys have the best drugs. They won't share if you don't dress like them.
I have a nice Citizen that I like. I got it because I like it and I do not want to wind it or rely on a battery. The other neat thing is I can use the bezel to do some nifty calculations, theoretically. I sat down and learned every one of the calculations (I forget the name of the function/feature but it has a name) and promptly forgot. I could probably look and figure it out again but, really, I won't. I have a cell phone. I like watches because I like to know the time. I will carry my watch. I will not always carry my cell.
(I have seen threats of violence, but none that I ever considered to be serious).
You say that one more time and I am going to come to your house and kick your ass. Seriously... Alternatively, if you are ever in the neighborhood, you can stop by. I do not drink but I have a variety of very good beers and spirits on hand and I always, always, have awesome food. Then, of course, we can geek out for a while. After that though, I am seriously going to kick your ass - if you say that one more time!
Also, your father is a goatherd and your mother a mime! I will wine and dine them both, right after I kick your ass, seriously!
There was a time, on a more serious note, that you dialed into BBS systems that were local and had LUGs that you were a part of. You had your real name attached to some servers and email (which did not have an @ symbol) or you had a SysOp at the school's laboratory who knew the BBS SysOps and they would do things like revoke your privileges if you did stuff like threaten people with violence. Alternatively, you may have threatened violence back then and ended up with 20 pizza-faced geeks who found your address and decided to come burn your house down.
Long distance got cheap, blue and black boxes became available, we learned LOOP numbers, and all hell broke loose. Anonymity has done wonders but the sword is mighty and cuts both ways.
Wow. That was pithy.
I should add, I do not expect you to agree with me - not at all. It would be against your very nature, you simply can not. I would like you to try to be objective and see where I am coming from. No agreements with my views are expected or required but an agreement to be intellectual honest and mutually understanding is appreciated.
I will stop here because I could, and would, go on for another novella. Unfortunately, I learned to type very quickly. I almost feel sorry for those who encounter me in the wilds.
No. We do not want there to be clear rules. We want you to toughen the fuck up AND or adapt to the situation while trusting us to do the same thing in a responsible manner. Stop knocking down strawmen, they do not help you do anything but convince yourself you're right. My contention, my only contention, is that none of those rules are required. If there is a problem then stop the problem. You do that by dealing with individuals and not with making absurd rules. It is a fucking neutral platform - not a sociology experiment.
Yeah, so I am thinking I am going to rant and write a novella. I expect you will not be willing to read it. I will get back to that. Kudos if you do read it even if you do not reply. Given what I am about to say and your usual behavior, I can assume you will not reply. That is fine and, again, I will try to touch on that later.
We're assholes. It is not personal and we do not give a shit what your gender, race, sexual preference, or religion is - we hate you all equally. No, we love you. But it is a love that you may not want to accept because we're also perverts who will try to touch you where you pee. Hell, at least a good half of us do not even care what your plumbing is, we will STILL try to touch you where you pee just to see what happens.
I do not hate you because you're a gay woman - that's fine. I hate you because you're a fucking meatstick. No, I do not really hate you. I do think you are an idiot, however. Hell, I am a black, native, and white man. I get no love. I did not ask for or want any. You are a random pixel amongst billions of pixels. We do not care.
Deal with the idiot racists. Kick the sexist pigs out. Do what you have to do but do it in moderation and only to ensure that you keep the rabble-rouser types away. There is no need for a safe space. Life will never be safe. In fact, we are all going to be harmed. Put your big girl panties on, undo the knots in your knickers first, and move the fuck along. I do not need your petty rules to tell me how to conduct myself. I can be a productive and polite member on my own or accept that I do not fit in and move along - on my own. I am aware of my surroundings enough to have never once been removed from any community and I have been "online" since the mid 1980s.
In short, get the fuck off my internet. Go back to Pintrest, Facebook, Reddit, or where ever you want but fuck off sideways and leave us be. Who the hell thought that GitHub, a fucking repository store, needed a code of conduct in the first place? What the hell??? Was someone triggered due to someone saying, "Thanks for finding my error! *hugs*"??? If so then, you know what, they should seek fucking psychiatric help and we should not pander to their illness. They are likely victims - go after the offender and not some random person who was legitimately grateful.
For fuck's sake - it's a neutral platform (or it should be). Feel free to kick me out if I did not take the hint - that is me being an asshole so kick me out, I deserve it. On the other hand, you're not my mother. Until I am an asshole, leave me alone and do not make up a bunch of silly rules that will do nothing to actually solve the problem. The problem is ignorant assholes who can not behave like humans and be respectful and attempt to educate themselves.
Hell, much of my real-life time is spent among the LGBTtrlwvwyorustTTrx community. Yes, the queer community. I love those fuckers. They are the greatest and most welcoming folks on the planet so long as you take a god damned minute to learn what they are about, why they feel like they do, and then are actually respectful about them personally. They also have the best "fag jokes."
I can be an asshole and still respect you as a person. I can still disrespect you as a person because I feel you are inferior due to your choices. Just because I think you are an idiot does not mean you get to claim that I think you're an idiot because you're a gay woman. No, I think you're an idiot because you have shared enough of your "wisdom
I am pretty sure I know the answer to that...
I'll take In the Butt for 200 Alex.