I mean, if you were more interested in delivering a just society rather than blunting the corners of the one from which you profit just enough to keep your position (and that of the downtrodden) secure within the correct order, your actions would be effective toward that end instead of the other, wouldn't it?

I'm grateful for what Firefox accomplished, but that doesn't mean we need it any more

And maybe we don't really need "progress" anymore, yet for some reason we seem to pursue it for its own sake. Some people seem to just live to put a coinbox between every itch and its scratch, and those people are tiresome.

In the aftermath of dotcom bust 1.0 I seem to remember Sun was buying UE2s back and grinding them just to keep them off the aftermarket and to keep from competing with themselves. Pretty much everything in their Ultra PCI range was simply uncompetitive with Linux PCs.

I note that shortly after Eich's departure, EME got waved through. If you think it's more important to respond to bourgeois dog-whistles and genuflect toward Values than to protect the ability of people to governed and not managed or ruled, you might want to re-evaluate your entire value system and see if you're not just a jackal yourself.

No, it's not distinct. That Sun is still alive is the sort of denialism I might have expected from the Nicean Council, not supposed rationalists -- well, rationalists being nothing more than non-practicing Judeo-Christians with a smug bourgeois paint-job, maybe I shouldn't be surprised!

Because, of course, any agent is entitled to have the label which one places on oneself accepted as incontrovertible reality, regardless of any facts to the contrary.

Gee, sounds like the Eich witch-hunt all over again (and y'all can stop pretending that because you enjoyed it it wasn't a witch-hunt.)

And that has what to do with JavaScript, exactly? Conveniently, whenever these SJWs score a tick in the W column, very shortly thereafter EME goes legit. I can't decide whether SJWs are being wittingly or unwittingly manipulated by corporate interests.

with the same obvious set of interests and the same payoffs for roughly the same people, the two-party system must never be questioned.

Seriously, you wannabe jocks are getting tiresome. He who struts shall be knocked flat on his face and humiliated until he cries. It works for everyone, if you can hold them in place long enough.

and your silly "competition" pablum. What we need is municipal utilities, which we would of course have if AT&T weren't at the vanguard of fighting against their existence.

before Mozilla and FDF combine in some way. They're made for each other.

Of course, the blame should be laid entirely at the feet of the SJWs who were willing to trade anyone else's community for the gracious permission of the elites to join white society and kick down as a married couple...

They jumped the shark when they fired the technical soul of the company because the Other Right Wing had a problem with his lifestyle.

The mysql module should have been shot before it was ever included. A database interface layer that doesn't support bound parameters is criminally irresponsible, and people who write such things should be held criminally responsible.

Pace of innovation? I can't understand you people who like to work 60 hour weeks just so the hamster wheel can spin faster. Get out more.

I've been thinking for a long time I could be in the wrong industry. I might be right. Y'all are nuts.

to them. If they can detect the sort of brain activity that correlates with intelligence, certainly this can be expanded to other brain activity. Throw a Union Jack on their screens and see how they respond. Boom, state loyalty tester. Throw two naked guys on their screen, boom, sexual orientation test. Throw scenes of snipers shooting civilians, boom, black ops aptitude test.

The cover story, as usual, doesn't matter.

It's what they did with Tor, isn't it? Separate the sheep from the goats (i.e. those who have no interest in hiding anything vs. those who do) and watch the hell out of the sheep?

The sheep are more responsive to mass propaganda. There's no need to watch them until they prove themselves goats.