What is this nonsense? They aren't trying to "curtail the freedom" of anyone.
Sure they are. They (and you) want to take away people's freedom to avoid actions that conflict with their religious beliefs.
Maybe you have a good reason for doing so, but don't pretend that there is no restriction of freedom here. There is.
No.
Gen Con should be (and are) permitted to take their business elsewhere, for whatever the hell reason they want.
But the narrative that is being pushed that they are standing up to racists or homophobes by taking this action is inaccurate. They're primarily trying to make life painful for people that largely agree with them in order to get them to curtail the freedom of people that don't agree with them.
Would you mind pointing me to the people that want the government to force the convention to stay in Indiana?
Because I haven't heard a single person advocate that.
The convention organizers aren't trying to punish those who are being homophobic or racist, though. They're trying to punish those who believe that homophobes or racists have that freedom.
This is a freaking 10th class test. It's inconsequential in every way.
If that were true, then there wouldn't be so many people trying to cheat.
Voter ID, a drivers license or state issued ID card, which I believe if you are over 18 it is against the law to not carry photo ID. I know in my state it is illegal to not carry a state issued ID.
You know incorrectly. There are no laws compelling you to carry a photo ID, although as you note not carrying ID can limit what you can do.
How do you know there isn't wide spread fraud?
Well, because one particular political party insists that there isn't.
It just so happens that that party is the one with the most to gain from voter fraud, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
How is it that we can put people to sleep every day by the thousands, cut them apart, sew them back together, and wake them back up -- and this is considered normal medical care -- but for some reason the same procedures aren't good enough for performing an execution?
I don't particularly like our implementation of the death penalty, but this aspect of the argument has just never added up for me.
I recommend you follow your own advice. Stop feeding the trolls.
no one company should own or control TLDs. This is for the root servers to control NOT fucking Goog.
That's a statement of your unsupported opinion, not fact.
It's you that's out of touch. So much so that I wonder if you're in marketing and thus feel somehow entitled to be dishonest. Just look at
On what planet is the branding power of any of those examples derived from a domain name?
You're missing the point of how powerful branding can be.
No, I'm not. But it's not the ".dev" TLD that makes the branding. You're making the assumption that having a ".dev" domain registered to yourself will transform into that branding without any evidence, and against all logic.
Tell that to every good developer who wasn't hired because some shitty developer with an MSDN certification and no experience got hired instead.
So what? Idiot hiring managers will do what they do, and there's a huge list of stupid reasons why they might refuse to hire somebody. The availability of
At first it's not going to be considered an exclusive requirement that good developers have
If Google was capable of doing this, then there would already be a perception that all good developers are Google developers. And that isn't anywhere close to true.
This isn't just speculation, either - the same thing can be seen in the computer world today (or at least recently) with the "XXX Certification" nonsense, be it A+ / MSDN / whatever. I've seen job hiring requirements that require certifications that are pointless to the job, or that focus more on certifications than actual job experience or ability.
Nobody but idiot managers think that not having a particular certification means that someone is a bad developer. This isn't a problem where general perception is concerned.
But why does that matter?
I really can't see any reason why this is any "worse" than a single entity owning, say, http://developer.com/. Domain names really aren't like real estate -- the namespace is so big that you're always going to be able to find an alternative.
If there's some group organization that feels strongly that there should be a TLD reserved for developers, then they should go ahead and register one.
That no non-Google developer can register a
This doesn't make much sense. No developers have a
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