fuck, man! the bible disagrees WITH ITSELF. have you not read it? google 'bible errancy' and you'll find more inconsistencies than you'll ever want to see.

really a piece of shit for writing and 'ethics'. do this and you should be stoned to death. do that and you should be killed. god gets pissed off at his own creations and decided to go all murderous on them, then decided to forgive them for following his wishes!

such bullshit.

no thinking person can read that and keep a straight face.

no thinking person would even try to compare this book of fiction with scientific concepts.

let me run that thru the jive translator:

"well, shit!" ==> "golly!"

how absurd.

the poor and 'non whites' are the ones who mow the lawns, clean the houses, cook their food, change their oil, etc.

they NEED a sub-class around to SERVE them. the sub-class dying out is a nightmare to the ultra rich.

bay area companies are now refusing to hire based on race.

I'm a white guy. I walk into a bay area company and everyone around me is indian or asian. I am given 'the look' and the interview process is mostly a formality. I'm given an excuse why I don't get the job and all along, I know what's going on. the hiring manager is indian, his workers are and he (and his group) do not want americans working there.

on my last job, I was the only american in the whole engineering dept. the only reason I was hired is that my specialty was needed at a critical time. that rarely happens and when it does not happen, I'm passed over.

I see TONS of discrimination going on. age and skin color, all are quite 'popular' right now in the silicon valley area.

its disgusting but it seems to be the new way around here ;(

just fyi.

we disapprove of an aspect of his religion and that's perfectly fine.

an aspect is quite out of place in modern society and its ok to have contempt for bigotry.

framed by a 'respectable relgion' still does not give moral legitimacy to discrimination.

the fact is, his religion tells him to hate gays (in so many words) and to deny them the same rights as heteros. no matter how you slice it, he's guilty of hate crimes and he lost any moral ground to be a ceo of ANY open-source style organization. he is anti-freedom and does not represent a progressive viewpoint. he does not belong in our circle, plain and simple. let him go to the deep south where his kind flourishes and finds other like-minded folk.

it works the other way and even more so!

how many times have you seen job applications that, eventually, came out and said 'you have to pee in a bottle to prove you're ok enough to work here'.

how is that not the same thing? its prying into the employee's personal life, mixing his recreational views with his 9-5 work day life and its not an indicator AT ALL of wrong-doing or incompetance for the employee. yet, its a filter mechanism that companies can CHOOSE to use to reject candidates or even working employees.

companies can even test for alcohol use and reject you based on that (not during work hours, but just having it in your system).

if a company can insist on all these unrelated things as a condition of employment, I don't see why we can't insist the c-levels also 'pass a test' (so to speak) before we grant them huge c-level powers and positions. and if you fail the bigot-test, you don't get the job!

Why is it OK to have a hate campaign against Eich and what he believed in?

because being a bigot does not get you moral relativism? and it does not give you a free pass to just 'believe what you want'. because the active suppression of others' rights is not OK in anyone's book?

does that answer your question?

you can already fire anyone if you dont want them around. there are so many ways, ALL the power is in the hands of the employer, these days.

layoffs are a perfect example. thru no fault of your own, you can be walked out on a moment's notice. 'we are not making our numbers, we have to get rid of people' is not all that different from 'we dont think you are a fit for the role'. that's just another way to say 'we dont like you'.

troll is trolling badly.

0/10 for you.

that protect ceo's and c-levels. the game is already stacked in their favor from the start. they can get away, almost literally, with murder in the US system. the world's tiniest violin is now playing for the poor little ceo's who didn't get everything they wanted.

its usually the other way around. you have to tip-toe around the c-levels so you don't offend them, lest you get handed your walking papers. they can hire and fire pretty much without challenge.

besides all that, though, he was not fired. he was asked to step down from the public and a percentage of the employees. no one in the company forced him to leave. there was no illegal act here.

God desires our love and obedience but it must be sincere.

if you act well, you still die and bad things still happen to you. and good things, too, sometimes.

if you act badly, you still die and bad things still happen to you. and good things, too, sometimes.

your god is a huge fucking NO-OP.

but of course, there is no good reason to assume or suppose that a god exists at all. we are not in the bronze age and we know why thunder comes, why nightfall comes, what the stars are, etc. we're not cavemen wandering in ignorance of the world. we simply have no need for various cultural myths, no matter which culture originates them.

I understand the desire to believe there is a reason for things; but there simply is no evidence of any 'controller' out there doing anything that we might call 'sentient'. to think that a bearded sky wizard is 'up there' is really a child like thought. you should abandon those thoughts as soon as you can. belief in fairytales is not something adults should be doing.

too much risk. that's it. he controls the healthcare that the corp would buy for their employees. he controls which things can be in the HC pkg and he controls costs. he can hire and fire. he can make company policy.

too much power for a bigot and an openly bigot at that.

we did well by removing such a person from power.

I could not have said it any better than your 2nd paragraph.

repeating:

n the wrong side of history. No one gives you credit for standing up for what you believe in, all they think about is how you're the kind of douchebag who would take away something that costs you nothing but makes so many people so happy.

pat 'the nazi' buchannon? not anti-gay? what planet are you on??

he's as republican as it gets. and yes, this is relevant as it speaks to eich's character. I was not aware he was a buchannon supporter. that's even WORSE than being anti-gay.

face he, he does not represent progressive attitudes, which mostly are what exists in the bay area for software and hardware folks.

his views are hateful and repressive and I'm glad he got kicked out on his ass. very glad when a bigot gets shown the door, so to speak.

easy to get around. you have supported (by amazon) formats and you have 'plugins' that users write to support, uhm, things amazon would get slapped down for, for supporting.

that way you have freedom.

if you insist, make the drm path not go thru the user plugins. fine.

but allow user plugins.

no user extension, no buy from me. I already went thru the popcorn hour (2 of them) years ago and got tired of the lack of user extensibility (in any true sense, since the decoder was hardware based and NOT open).