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04-03-2014, 07:03 PM
Quote: (04-03-2014 06:49 PM)Feisbook Control Wrote:
Was it even the gays though this time? It was probably a bunch of concern junkies, the equivalent of white knights. I think that's even worse.
I'll leave this thread with a quote by Voltaire:
"If you want to know who is in power, simply find out who you cannot criticize."
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Mozilla CEO fired for supporting Prop 8
04-03-2014, 07:17 PM
Quote: (04-03-2014 06:07 PM)scorpion Wrote:
The progressive cancer afflicting Western civilization is eventually going to be destroyed by a massive and concentrated dose of right wing chemotherapy, and the body (society) is going to suffer tremendously in the process.
I have been saying it as well that it will happen eventually. Eventually, I feel like I am going to be part of this brutal right wing rise because of my anger that keeps building within me. I am sure some people on this forum feel the rage build up within us. Eventually, us right-wingers will just get pissed off and go on a rage that will end up slaughtering left-wingers.
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04-03-2014, 10:07 PM
This forces people in Eich's position to pull a Michael Jordan "Republicans buy shoes too" move. Don't take sides, so to protect your money. And again, we aren't talking about free speech. We're talking about the consequences of speech when others don't agree, which is also free speech. Corporations are concerned about their money, so they react by firing, or asking the "offending" individual to step down. Some will sit back and wait to see if the bottom line is affected before acting, while others will panic and try to get ahead of it for fear that the bottom line will be affected.
Today I read Derek Sivers' "Anything You Want," and he wrote that in business, you can't try to be all things to all people. You can't be afraid to exclude. Now of course, he didn't mean you should go out and intentionally insult any group or individual, but you should stay true to whatever your mission is, and don't be afraid to lose someone along the way. It's difficult to be all things to all people, but it also depends on the business you're in. If you're in the software business, all kinds of people use your product, so openly stating a particular political/social stance is going to result in someone disagreeing or being offended in some way. You need to be REALLY committed to whatever position you publicly advocate, because there's going to be heat. I only wish more companies would simply take the heat. Sivers was unique in that all he really cared about was helping people (in his case, it was independent musicians), and only wanted to make enough money to continue doing that. Corporations care about profits, because they have to answer to shareholders, etc. and don't want to see even the smallest dip in profits. That's just the reality.
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Mozilla CEO fired for supporting Prop 8
04-03-2014, 10:52 PM
I may be mistaken, but didn't the political donation in question become public knowledge as a result of the (now long forgotten) illegal IRS disclosure of donors to conservative groups? If so, what has just happened is that a government organ (the IRS) outed Eich for "crime think" and he was subsequently destroyed. Scary shit and this is why I'm going back to Asia as soon as fiscally possible. Fuck this shit.
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04-03-2014, 11:38 PM
Was it ugly women or beta men that pushed to get the guy removed, or was it gay guys?
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04-04-2014, 01:21 AM
The thing that's forgotten, those in the "oppose gay marriage" crowd, generally take pride in opposing it.
If the opposition left it alone, then it would infuriate the liberals (they'd have no reason to act catty - they'd only be able to argue with themselves). The opposition doesn't realize it. They should.
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04-04-2014, 02:38 AM
I am not even suprised. Expect this shit to happen more and more.
Deus vult!
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04-04-2014, 02:48 AM
This is outrageous. What's more scary is tell this story to a 'normal' person and their reaction will be "good!".
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Mozilla CEO fired for supporting Prop 8
04-04-2014, 03:13 AM
This actually scares the shit out of me.
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Mozilla CEO fired for supporting Prop 8
04-04-2014, 05:40 AM
Just un-installed firefox. Now using Opera. I assume though that the developers of Opera (based in Norway) would prob launch a progressive inquisition too if their CEO wasn't toeing the party line, but until then, I'm using them.
Is TOR a browser or just a proxy?
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04-04-2014, 06:09 AM
What's funny is that when this guy gave money to oppose Prop 8 in California, Obama was still on record as being opposed to gay marriage.
No ideological consistency here at all. It's just an Internet mob looking for victims of opportunity.
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04-04-2014, 10:22 AM
Silicon Valley used to be about making new technology. It was about being able to innovate and produce. It is now all about PC-compliance, which will kill the real engineering culture.
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04-04-2014, 10:25 AM
It's been said before that the social media revolution was all about getting women to use computers.
If only you knew how bad things really are.
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Mozilla CEO fired for supporting Prop 8
04-04-2014, 10:49 AM
Quote: (04-04-2014 10:25 AM)RexImperator Wrote:
It's been said before that the social media revolution was all about getting women to use computers.
Interesting observation. And very true.
It wasn't that long ago that women shunned the internet. Now with social media and smartphones they seem to be more addicted than men.
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04-04-2014, 11:01 AM
Using Opera Browser at the moment. It's pretty cool actually. Chromium is another alternative(all the benefits of Chrome with privacy in mind)
Firefox has been having some serious memory leaks as of late. I'm not uninstalling just yet as I need to transfer my bookmarks first.
Yeah it's funny how the different sexes became interested in computers(phones, tablets, etc.).
It took video games which require thinking, fast reflexes, strategy, practice, etc. to get men interested.
It took attention whoring and demonstrating high social value on the interwebz for women to get addicted.
Hah.
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Mozilla CEO fired for supporting Prop 8
04-04-2014, 11:41 AM
Quote: (04-04-2014 11:01 AM)NY Digital Wrote:
Using Opera Browser at the moment. It's pretty cool actually. Chromium is another alternative(all the benefits of Chrome with privacy in mind)
Firefox has been having some serious memory leaks as of late. I'm not uninstalling just yet as I need to transfer my bookmarks first.
Yeah it's funny how the different sexes became interested in computers(phones, tablets, etc.).
It took video games which require thinking, fast reflexes, strategy, practice, etc. to get men interested.
It took attention whoring and demonstrating high social value on the interwebz for women to get addicted.
Hah.
Firefox has been a huge piece of shit for me lately as well. I get the memory leaks in addition to a lot of crashes brought on by Flash. Is it possible to switch to another browser and still import all my bookmarks and favorites?
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04-04-2014, 11:52 AM
The irony is that Mozilla may lose more customers from this firing than they would have had they kept Eich.
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