Oh, wait, identity-politics and capitalism shall never be questioned. Sorreh!

It wasn't Mozilla. It was the liberal-capitalist community that needed a good witch-burning to take well-meaning minds off real, general quality-of-life issues and onto specific quality-of-life issues. Since the bourgeois LGBT contingent has sold out the queers and other subaltern groups, they can easily be led (as we all can) to play LGBT Moral Majority for some other richie. Why, some day, they might be the richie leading the charge! But that's group dynamics for you: ideologies and religions require belief in some unprovable fact as the price of admission. Otherwise, they'd be all the same, and how would groups differentiate each other if they were all just human without pretense or artifice?

Anyway... the LGBT-and-allies community consists of a lot of people; they've got a powerful, established institutional infrastructure (see also Dan Savage, nouveau Democratic boss, quacking in time with the Adminstration about Russia in 2013); they believe they are motivated and informed by principles but in fact succumb to hermeneutics and peer pressure as they become insiders; they're broadly perceived as motivated by principle; they've had their morale managed over the past few decades to a just-sufficient level to stay hungry; they desire to be accepted as part of mainstream society; they're ignorant of what, who, where and why power (the ability to achieve planned outcomes) is; and they like all humans are easily led (the ones who think they're too sly for it are among the easiest).

So they're a natural, powerful and pre-paid covert militia for the business interests of the Democratic Party, playing the mirror role to Protestant Christians are the natural, powerful and cheap covert militia for the business interests of the Republican Party.

It's not safer, necessarily. The EME module is most likely delivered as a native binary; therefore the syscall interface is still available and the usual errors prevalent in dealing with structured data are still possible. To trust Adobe in any case is clear evidence of peasant desperation and/or paternalistic delusion.

When they come for the div tags, don't call me for help.

is not freedom." -Teller

You ate a lot of brightly-colored candies as a child, didn't you?

Someone else would have written some other C compiler in response to some other bureaucratic stunt. Maybe Mark Williams and Coherent would have taken off instead.

Whig history... you do speak it.

Good Americans don't pay attention to larger contexts. They pledge allegiance to princes and content themselves with the battle lines and Nerf bats their princes have conveniently provided for them.

Perhaps getting "more business-friendly leadership" at Mozilla was, in fact, the motive for ousting Eich. Identity politics, like any other politics, can be cynically exploited in the service of private interests at public expense. Anyone who's ever heard of WWII should understand that isn't just theoretical. Anyone who does not accept the possibility is a quisling for the empire who ought to be treated as an MSM outlet and forcefully excluded from the conversation.

You know, that identity-politics campaign to get rid of Brendan Eich is starting to take on a sinister note. Made in Hollywood, even.

Don't some video chips already honor watermarking in the stream? Sure, it can be stripped out well enough to appear unwatermarked, but can it be obscured completely enough for a computer forensics professional to not find your name in lights?

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Clearly that's why voting was restricted only to the landed gentry, and why the vote became even more decoupled from policy as the franchise was opened to more people.

Read Federalist #10. Do you have any credible evidence that the "minority" they were interested in protecting was any but the aristocracy, other than fairy tales and propaganda? Policies, not pacifiers.

Unfortunately, the general welfare consists of the political class, because any means by which recourse can be exerted against the rich or powerful have been systematically foreclosed. Why should an elected official represent any but their new friends if they can just move to Washington after screwing their beard-constitutents?

Also, rhetoric is meant to persuade, not inform.

Go follow @WilliamHogeland on Twitter. He'll put paid to your religion.

Why shouldn't they get more than they paid in? Why is only Wall Street allowed to be paid for not doing anything?

after the market cultists running either party ship all that cash off to Wall Street.

Well, actually, it already has been, but the mulligan on repaying it has yet to be given.

1) to control access to data the user cares about
2) to externalize the costs of controlling access to data the company cares about onto the user

123456, password, etc. are perfectly valid and rational user responses to the latter situation.